#WHAT HAPPENED TO NARRATIVE PARALLELS

[fizzyfishepicgaymer]

going on here again just to complain about how better sethno would have been written and how much it pains me

[maunsi]

the fucking implications of porter (in the finale preview) talking abt how the bk were screwed over by aguefort while in front of the rat grinders. like one of these groups he somewhat likes and the other are disposable pawns. the tragedy of the rat grinders are that for everything that they stood for (equity/equality) is still not on their side in the end!! they haven't become the heroes, they've become the goon squad to the major BBEG!!!

[rotzaprachim]

If andor season 2 wanted to explore genocide I think one of the most haunting notes it could have struck is to have an entire arc set in Alderaan that was not actually about Alderaan. It could have shown the markets, the schools, the students arguing about whether or not it’s a waste of four more years of their life to do a masters, the brewers and vintners proud of their wines aging in their casks and the builders planning new housing developments and the conductors and writers creating new art. It could have been about the flowers alderaanians are growing in their gardens and the fancy cocktails they mix up in shakers and sip on garden terraces and it could have been about Alderaanian school children in their uniforms with space!backpacks bouncing on their back racing to class and teenagers skipping school and coughing over their first death stick, about fishermen and farmers, bored bureaucrats and irritable divorcees and pie in the sky poets writing terrible poetry and people who were self absorbed and ordinary and human. It could have been about the rings on their fingers and the shoes on their feet and their holy books and comic books and the tiles on their floor and the five billion people who lived there.

and then the camera backs away. Back to the war. Back to the violence. Nothing more said. On his final mission to the rings of cafrene cassian wants to steady his nerves, turns on the radio to a jolly alderaanian bolero, the announcer cuts off to announce the quarterfinal results of the Alderaanian junior sabacc championships, with the semifinals in a week, the finals in another, the winner (sponsored by Fraank’s Longaniza Factory) will receive as 2000 credit voucher to a fencing company. Anyway here are the names of the competitors ranking eight we have raool farias age seventeen ranking seven we have kmala hanian age sixteen ranking six we have maraa tchana….

the rings of kafene come into view, cassian shuts the transmission, the story continues without anymore being said

(The thing that Andor could have said about the victims of genocide is that they were not invented in the moment of the genocide nor in the moment of the murder nor in the memorialzation after. They were killed. They lived.)

[ravenlilyrose]

I have had A Thought.

Dick/Tim/etc. time travels and has to decide whether to save Wayne parents: really angsty and ethics-y, and complicated time-space continuum-y.

Dick/Tim/etc. time travels to directly after Wayne parents are already killed and can comfort the scared little boy that Bruce never really stopped being: still a little angsty, but more hurt/comfort, more sweet, more opportunity for reflecting on relationships & giving back what was given to them. Can go home feeling a little bittersweet but like they did something important.

[radioactive-yuri]

young nihil being tormented with confusing visions of the future....perpetua being tormented with confusing visions of the past....u undertand

[seaside-hysteria]

What is it with fantasy high and girls dying before their lives ever began. How we can never really know who they are, or who they could’ve been. Brennan Lee Mulligan I will find you

[solarisburns]

"Narcissa your exhausted, why don't you take a nap?"

It was Regulus, but that wasn't right-

"Seriously Cissa, your exhausted, I'll take Draco for a bit and you can relax at the very least."

Then her baby cousin was coming out from behind her and taking the fussy toddler into his arms. Regulus, with an ease she never expects from the younger boy, starts bouncing and cooing at the blonde bundle in his arms.

Draco was nearly two now but was still so clingy, he would grab onto anyone he could and just hold on for hours. Normally it was just about Narcissa's favorite thing but her and Lucius have been fighting lately and she's just been so alone and-

She must doze for a while because when she wakes she sees her two favorite boys playing out in the garden. Regulus sweeps a giggling Draco up into his arms and swings him around. The youngest Black brother smiles more these days and always has a grin around his godson and Draco always smiles back at him. He sets the little boy back on his on two feet, the tot manages to stand on his own for a moment before collapsing into a pile of giggles.

Dropping to his knees Regulus blows bubbles into the squirming toddlers stomach, making a real show of it to. Draco all flying limbs and clumsy fists but still manages to escape his laughing uncles clutches and starts sprinting towards the house screaming "Mummy uncle Reggie is mean! MUMMY-"

And then Narcissa wakes up.

Draco is still screaming, Lucius is nowhere to be found, and Regulus is dead.

[hottestthingalive]

mickey smith my beloved... local man keeps getting dragged into alien bullshit against his will because of he cares so much about his childhood best friend/situationship/girlfriend/ex and her mom that he can't let them deal with it alone. he's also full of enough spite to power a small city-state. he's a mechanic. he's a murder suspect. he's fought aliens. he was in a band. he's hacked into government databases. he runs a conspiracy theory website with the widow of the guy who told rose about the doctor. he plays the bass guitar. he's canonically bisexual or gay in at least two alternate universes. he's frenemies with his (ex) girlfriend's mom. his cabinets contain enough pickled goods to stock a fallout shelter. he successfully infiltrated a top-secret government organization pretending to be a scientist. his girlfriend left him for a shapeshifting alien. he's legally dead in two worlds. he saved the universe multiple times. he's a tin dog

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

i know that ep12 with its sunbathing scene at the market place is known as one of the most romantic scenes in the show and i dearly love it too BUT HAVE U EVER LAID EYES UPON THE RIVER SCENE AT THE START OF EP12 BECAUSE AAAA

[gumclones]

honestly I think that whatever the Winter King did to transfer his insanity was an accident. not necessarily something that came out of nowhere, but more… he was trying to do one thing and then suddenly he felt a lot more clearheaded

[amelikos]

Episode 100.. soon.

[quatregats]

Thinking about Marie Ladon (under cut for major spoilers through Lord Hornblower)

Contemplating Marie as proxy for what couldn't be with Bush/Hornblower trying to understand his own emotions towards Bush. It's unclear to me what parts of Marie are real and what parts are not; the entire sequence at Graçay is dreamlike to begin with, and the second time Hornblower visits, in Lord Hornblower, it feels equally so. Marie is also a deeply idealized character who seems to understand Hornblower's every need and meet his every want; but we know not to trust the internal monologue at all, and when Marie does actually break through it in a few rare moments, she does seem to be a very different sort of character - the same is also true of Barbara, but Forester is a bit more obvious about it. The thing about Marie is that not only does she only appear in these out-of-the-world, in-between spaces in the narrative, often in a very overly-perfect way, but she also appears at points where Bush and Hornblower's relationship has taken significant turns and Forester only partially elaborates on it. In particular, Bush and Hornblower become very close on the way to Graçay, and appear to have grown even closer upon leaving it (and there are distinctly romantic-adjacent comments on both sides of this sojourn), while on Hornblower's second trip to France, he has lost Bush and clearly been deeply affected by the loss - in fact, it causes a rift between him and Barbara which he deepens by seeking out Marie. There are parallels there in death as well, with both characters dying in the same book - Hornblower lives out death first with Bush at a distance, then again up close with Marie. They move in odd tandem with each other, and while Marie often appears out of nowhere and takes center-stage, Bush always looms large in the background with a longer, more emotionally-wrought storyline that can never quite come to fruition.

I wonder, then, if there is something to be said for Marie as a sort of narrative device for Hornblower's relationship with Bush. She's not that relationship directly, but instead almost a way of processing it - processing the raw desire in Flying Colours, or processing death and grief and a lost illicit relationship which might be far happier than any legally-sanctioned one. She stands in for what Hornblower can't say, and she lets him process and fail to process his ghosts. I'm not quite sure where to go from there, but I think that it's interesting how she serves to act out the things which Hornblower otherwise doesn't dare to say; in Marie there are the echoes of what Hornblower and Bush are, or could be.

[bluebellplayinggames]

allow me to ramble for a second. just finished playing resident evil revelations 2 and i have some Thoughts

i think a lot of this game was what re6 wanted to be. i like the progression of the plot and the fact that the story is told from two perspectives at two different points in time.

i REALLY liked claire's campaign over barry's tbh. barry felt like more of a flat character, although i may be a little biased from playing through re2 remake many many times.

i also am not a huge fan of how claire kinda felt like she was just. there? like i would say that the two protagonists are claire and barry, but barry felt like he was more important to the narrative than claire was. i think it's a similar problem that the original version of re4 had, where leon felt like the guy you played as and less like the main character. the remake fixed this a LOT though, and i hope if they do remake revelations 2, they integrate claire into the narrative more

[wormonastringtime]

[actualhumancryptid]

So yeah I realise that Holland is some kind of megalomaniacal psychopath. A Machiavelli ‘ends justify the means’ dictator. But he better have some other kind of ‘I hope they all die’ motivation, because his logic of ‘we have to restore order!’ by just murdering everyone and doing all he can to sew chaos and start riots makes him look incredibly stupid. Please let him not be an idiot.

[syncogon]

hibike euphonium s3 ep 12 - HOLY SHIT

i was doing the "can i guess who's who" and from both narrative and sound editing and in-universe-vote perspective i was pretty sure kumiko was the second player so when rEINA PICKED THE FIRST-