#Parallel Paradise

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Parallel Paradise

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LET DOWN

Something something parallelograms

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Jim Kirk + Loneliness in Star Trek: The Original Series

Dagger of the Mind, The Conscience of the King, This Side of Paradise, And The Children Shall Lead, Requiem for Methuselah, Mark of Gideon

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Tick tock!

Leverage S05E14/The Librarians S01E07/Almost Paradise S01E01

[starlightwayfinder]

My collection of Xehanort & Strelitzia friendship propaganda:

[oplishin]

In both 2022 and 2024, you can see the exact moment Roman throws logic out the window and decides to hit Seth with the chair again

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DOES IT EVER DRIVE YOU CRAZY, JUST HOW FAST THE NIGHT CHANGES 🫂🤍

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(Chapter 127 | Chapter 141 | x)

[therandomfandomme]

The way open and closed eyes are used in Epic is so interesting to me, because yeah there is the 'The Underworld' and 'Love in Paradise' parallel, but it already starts in 'Just a Man' when Odysseus tells the infant:

"Close your eyes and spare yourself the view How could I hurt you?"

In that moment, he believes that if Hector's son just closes his eyes, he won't witness this horrible thing Odysseus is about to do to him, that he can be shielded from all the bad Odysseus has done.

So, in Odysseus mind the closing of eyes is a reprieve of the horrors, which is interesting when he comes to Aeolus with the wind bag. Specifically, Aeolus in 'Keep Your Friends Close' telling him:

"Just keep your eyes open."

This kind of echoes that messaging of him having to do this hard thing - stay awake so the wind bag doesn't get opened and he doesn't have to kill his crew - and then he'll be home. He has to do the hard thing, witness it and then he'll be home. The moment, he takes a reprieve from witnessing the bad, it goes wrong. Then we get to 'The Underworld' where we get:

"All I hear are screams, every time I dare to close my eyes"

Odysseus can't get that reprieve of closing his eyes anymore, he tries to look away from all the bad that has happened, the bad he's done, but he can't escape it anymore, it follows him every time he even dares to think of turning away from his past, his actions.

Which to me makes 'Love in Paradise' all the more horrifying, because then we get Odysseus on the edge of the cliff, saying:

"Let me close my eyes"

He's begging to escape having to witness the bad that is happening to him. He knows that closing his eyes won't let him escape his own actions, that he'll still hear the screams, but he's still desperate to close his eyes. He is now the infant, wanting to spare himself the view of what is being done to him. He would much rather be held company by his own actions, than Calypso's. And that is just terrifying to me.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Die Hard | Paradise 1x6

[sookja]

engfa waraha as mo

the paradise of thorns (2024) dir. naruebet kuno

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does your 4 recall anything from being parallel cannon? did being controlled affect them? I know they submitted to order so she could be "better" but still

“It was bliss, I was plunged in the sweetest dream. Until….”

[greenqueenhightower]

A Paradise Lost Reading of the Alicent x Aemond and Helaena x Aegon Scenes in 2x05:

As Gwayne and Criston parade Meleys' head through the streets of King's Landing, Alicent and Aemond are high up on the Red Keep's walls. The scene is infested with religious imagery. Satan took Christ up to "a pinnacle of the temple" in Jerusalem during his temptation (Matthew 4:5). As the shot gradually zooms in to Alicent and Aemond looking down on the parade, it reminded me of a passage from John Milton's Paradise Lost, where Archangel Michael (Christ) takes Adam on top of the "Hill of Paradise" to reveal the aftermath of his sin to mankind.

"So both ascend in the Visions of God: It was a Hill Of Paradise the highest, from whose top The Hemisphere of Earth in clearest view stretched out to amplest reach of prospect lay." [Book XI, 376-380]

From this elevated vantage point, Adam, much like Alicent, was offered a panoramic view of his son's body, Abel's, who lay slain in a pool of blood. Alicent gets to glimpse her son Aegon's body as he is laid in a horse carriage covered with rags and brought back to her.

"Adam, now open thine eyes, and first behold th' effects which thy original crime hath wrought [...] from that sin derive Corruption to bring forth more violent deeds." [Book XI, 423-428]

The angel beckons Adam to open his eyes and comprehend the act of violence before him. Alicent does the same. She examines Aemond's face for answers. Has he become the embodiment of violence to the extent that he would burn his own brother to achieve his ends? Have her own actions somehow led to this? Is her original crime of wanting Aegon on the throne being retributed through her sons' rivalry?

As she surveys Aemond's countenance, she is worried about any future escalation of brutality and violence. Does she expect more atrocities to come her way as a form of punishment?

"These two are Brethren, Adam, and to come out of thy loins; th' unjust the just hath slain, for envy" [Book XI, 444-446]

Alicent quickly discerns Aemond's possible involvement in whatever predicament has befallen her other son. As she watches Aegon and Aemond, does she wonder how their contention was germinated? Did she who gave birth to both, also give birth to their fate?

Aemond stands beside her, a saint or a devil in disguise, dressed in his Green Hightower outfit, his brother's dagger on his waist. Like Cain, Aemond yearns to please his mother and seeks to claim what belongs to Abel-Aegon. He has already managed to salvage and claim something from the pyre and that wasn't his brother's body, but his dagger. Cain was moved by envy for his brother's privileges. Is the same force now guiding Aemond?

"Much at that sight was Adam in his heart dismayed [...] Is Piety thus and pure Devotion paid?" [Book XI, 448-452]

Alicent takes a closer look at the carriage bearing Aegon's body. There is fear and uncertainty in her eyes, while Aemond appears composed. Is he wearing his poised assuredness as a facade to conceal his growing distress?

Alicent's dejected expression reveals her inner turmoil. Much like Adam, she too is dismayed by the possibility that one of her sons is dead, and the other is responsible. How did a life of duty, sacrifice, piety, and devotion lead to this? How wasn't she able to prevent it?

"Alas, both for the deed and for the cause! O sight of terror, foul and ugly to behold, horrid to think, how horrible to feel!" [Book XI, 461-465]

Alicent gives one last glare to Aemond before she departs. She is afraid of him and what he has become: another dangerous and violent man in her life. Does the sight of him so much repulse her or does she find the mere thought of him as a kinslayer unbearable?

As Alicent leaves to tend to Aegon whose life might be over, Aemond is left alone on that vantage point. His battle impulses having cooled down, does he now perhaps get to see the bigger picture of what he attempted to do? Does he feel some remorse over the act that he buries deep within because it is too horrible to feel it, too foul and ugly to let it show?

"Death thou hast seen in his first shape on man; but many shapes of Death, and many are the ways that lead to his grim Cave, all dismal" [Book XI, 466-469]

The coffin that carries Aegon like Death that carries Cain in Paradise Lost, is transported through various rooms. As he is being slowly led to the King's room that will soon become his reclusive cave, Aegon's ascension up the stairs mirrors Helaena who climbed them up in 2x02, after Jaehaerys' funeral. At that time, they did not speak but exchanged a glance of mutual understanding. This time, it is Aegon who finds Helaena at the top of the stairs, waiting for him.

"Yet to sense more terrible at th' entrance than within. Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die, by Fire" [Book XI, 470-472]

Did Helaena foresee Aegon's predicament in one of her many visions? Has she penned his new deformed shape in one of her sketches on the walls? Without uttering a word, Helaena understands what befell Aegon. She knows he has been burned by dragonfire. Once again, words are redundant; just a look is enough.

"So must thou live, till like ripe Fruit thou drop [...] in thy blood will reign a melancholy damp of cold and dry to weigh thy spirits down, and last consume the Balme of Life" [Book XI, 535-546]

And yet, as she stares at Aegon who is taken into the King's chamber, Helaena offers a small glimpse into her psyche. She cannot help but worry for him, but maybe she already knows that his life is not in danger. Maybe she already knows that he will survive longer than her. Will his maiming further contribute to her melancholy and spiral her to madness? Will she completely break an already frail Aegon to pieces when she takes her own life?

One thing is certain: he and she will never be the same.

Her whole family has been abruptly kicked out of the Garden of Eden, and the pangs of suffering have begun. Any Paradise they could have had is lost forever.

And she knew this was coming all along.

[akkivee]

ghost ichiro being borne from ichiro’s ego!!!!!!!!!!!!! ichiro is strong so therefore, ghost ichiro is strong!!!!! and ghost ichiro being so cocky and condescending about his ability to do anything ichiro can comes from ichiro’s reliance on himself, on ichiro’s need to do everything by himself!!!!!

ghost rio being borne from rio’s due diligence!!!!!!! rio himself had chosen to be alone if that’s what it takes to complete his mission and the ghost rio that didn’t hesitate to threaten murdering a civilian is exactly who rio would have become had he not had his team!!!!

ghost gentaro was borne from gentaro’s desire to expose the truth!!!!! he wanted to expose chuuoku’s crimes as retribution for putting his brother in a coma!!!!! and the irony is that ghost gentaro put somebody in a coma for exposing the truth!!!!!!

ghost kuukou was borne from kuukou’s belief that humans are weak!!!!! but whereas kuukou does whatever he can to help them find the strength within themselves to keep moving forward, ghost kuukou tried to keep them by his side to hide them and protect them from that world!!!!!

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

The Librarians S02E03/Almost Paradise S01E07/Leverage Redemption S02E06.

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DIP Camille Bordey Meta

I realized the reason that I don’t like Camille/Humphrey in later season is because my girl loses the light in her eyes. Which there is a more obvious reason why, but I just missed when she was having fun and bringing the best out of Richard. Like, they really brought the best out of each other and were written in many ways to be the perfect partner for each other.

It’s nasty work that Camille hears Richard’s voice when she can’t figure something out because he rarely did that, if at all when they were together. They didn’t exactly agree on many things but they learned to listen to each other and try to connect their separate pieces together.

For example, in S2 E3 Camille is explaining to Richard how she heard that Mrs. Dupree might’ve been having a “lovers tiff” with one of the other guests, specially Paul Vincent, he asks her if she believes him. Almost as if, “what is your gut telling you” and you can tell that she’s thrown off by the question but he doesn’t say it in a negative way. Like, Richard has grown to trust her instincts and navigates it in a way if they should follow that lead any further.

Even in S2 E5 when Camille is clearly distraught by her friend’s death, she calls herself “useless” and is automatically reassured by Richard that she’s not. (I have so much more to say about this in terms of confirmation of Richard’s feelings but that’s a different post, if anybody even wants to read it).

TLDR; Richard and Camille were written to bring out the best in each other and when they tried to do the same with Humphrey, it made CamiChard all the more lovable.