#the complexity.... the subtlety.....

[midnight1nk]

Hi!

I've seen a few of your posts mentioning a speech color theory and I really wanna know what it's about cause it seems very interesting!.. Hey hey can you tell me more? 🥺...

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Hello, anon!!

Alright, for those who don't know what anon's referring to, after the review I've done for the latest episode, I mentioned the "3's Color Text" theory. Here I'll leave the links to the OG

I'll leave links for the OG post from Shay [X] and one from Funkii adding on to it [X], with some screenshot examples for the visual people. A bit of a disclaimer, this isn't my theory, and I wanna give the proper credit, so please check these posts out!! Share some love and be mindful to not spam likes.

I'm merely just a theorist and certainly not the only one, but I do wanna give my two cents on this. I'll go ahead and sum it up for yall:

For context, the color outline used for 3's subtitles has been inconsistent. Now, the possible logical answers would be that each of the editors used a different shade of blue, or it's just so 3's black subtitles could be seen against the video itself. Clear visual contrast is certainly a priority for any production. Within a fandom, it is speculated that the color determines how much 3 is willing to show his true self; the lighter and brighter the blue it is, the more genuine he is being, which usually is when he breaks out of his "evil" persona and/or out of his own will.

I think it's fun theory, considering how I love that kinda shit. We're all aware of 3 and how he tries to keep up with appearances, we know that he actually cares for the Crew. Strong fronts and all, so I think it's absolutely brilliant that we're able to tell the difference through speech if it was intentional. His words absolutely matter, especially bc of his redemption.

Here, I picked out some example screenshots from the latest episodes (and well, whatever I got on my desktop). I tried the best I could to align the colors from "persona" 3 to true 3:

And uh. y'know me *cough cough*

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It's probably the editor option realistically, I'll admit, but it's kinda like a fun game when you're looking back at previous episodes. Gotta love 3 for being a trouble maker with a hidden heart, he cares deep down. Truly the type of guy that would stand by "be gay, do crime >:)"

thanks for the ask, anon!

[that-ineffable-devil]

I've praised George Rextrew a lot for the emotion he put behind various actions, and I stand by that.

But I also want to take a moment to appreciate Jayden Revri's ability to handle Charles' more explosive emotions.

In the Devlin house, you watch his anguish and anger build in equal measure. Unlike the characters, we get to see the build-up to the outburst that leads to him getting stuck in the loop. The first time he sees that man murder his family he wants to look away, he tries to look away. You can see how much it hurts him, but he turns back and watches anyway--and the horror turns to rage.

When the Night Nurse comes, he fights her off--very aggressively yes, but they didn't see what he did when she took him into his memories--and everyone looks at him like...like he's a bomb that may go off again? Like they've never seen him before?

The boy's just been through some of his most traumatic memories and committed an act of violence that probably only made that experience worse, and he sees his friends looking at him the way he'd always feared they would--like he's a bad guy. And Jayden portrays that grief and pain so beautifully.

And when he gives that little "no" while he's crying and jerks away from Edwin's outstretched hand?

My heart feels like it's been squashed and wrung out.

[citrus-cactus]

Watching Awakening Parts 4 & 5 is mostly just me waiting for my favorite failwoman to have a bazooka-assisted meltdown on national TV

[gouinisme]

idk if it's fair to blame the chronically online brain (or the expectation thereof from writers) for recent movies being as subtle as a sledgehammer to the temple but i will either way. first the substance and now mickey 17 seem to have absolutely no faith in their audience's comprehension skills and just, hand you the metaphor and then make sure you got it about 80 billion times. maybe it's good to have such an obvious message in these times, especially given people's habit to interpret satirical characters as role models, but when your main antagonist looks about 2 foundation shades away from an snl trump impression it feels like you're just making bad art

[leojurand]

you need so much brain power to read dunnett in part because you're constantly trying to figure out why characters are doing whatever the fuck they're doing. this information will not be presented to you in a clear and concise way. sometimes the characters themselves don't even know the reason they're doing those things, so you have to figure out things that are hidden from you by the author, and from the character because repression/self-denial/trauma/etc. sometimes they know exactly why they're doing all of that, but they have so much more information than you do, so you're at a disadvantage still. if you're lucky you'll be following a character who is honest and open about their feelings... but this is a dorothy dunnett novel so those characters are 1 out of a 100.

and i wouldn't have it any other way!! i can imagine how these books would be written by someone who didn't love subtlety as much, or someone who didn't trust their readers enough. they'd be so, so much worse, that's for sure

[bithand]

I'm always amused by the "x's politics are more dangerous than y's" arguments. It's comparing apples and oranges.

[13thpythagoras]

Even most atheists still have a spirituality...

Do atheists bury their dead? Why? ... clearly there is something immaterial to be celebrated there, a spirit (?), when the dead are being cared for and respected in any way.

Yet I myself might be the most atheist person in any given room, I turned my back on religion after some of my family got killed, and that is a stone hard place of atheism to be in. Yet I have seen a sprite, I've seen it with eyes in flesh, I recall this memory daily, often, I'm lucky in the sense I've seen what many only ponder, so that means I may still be argued back into atheism because it requires no faith to see something material. It becomes an odd atheist argument to argue that at times, in odd situations, the spiritual becomes material. I have a bridge here, I'm the hardest core atheist you will meet yet I have knowledge of the spiritual, beyond just faith which is what Christians ask for.

Can a spirituality be based on knowledge and still validly call itself a spirituality?....

[diamondnokouzai]

notes from the burning age was good inthat claire north is a genius but bad in that claire north worldbuilding is not very good

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

Idk why Tumblr thinks that couples that have absolutely everything in common means that they have "more depth" and are "more well-rounded" than couples that are not.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Monstersona

YA sci-fi/romance/thriller

a girl who’s moved across the country after her parents’ divorce, to a small town home to the HQ of an international tech company

when she wakes up to find the labs blown up, town on fire, and her mum likely dead, she, her dog, and a classmate drive across the country to find her dad

but quickly realise they’re being chased by dangerous agents, and there might be something different about the girl she’s traveling with..

explores grief, bi MC & LI

[angel---eater]

funky little graphic for my splitmates subsystem and how they affect each other

[calugaritsa]

stop putting that stupid ass vladimir nabokov rereading lecture on my dash 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

"one cannot read a book, one can only reread it" SKILL ISSUE!!!!!! I READ THEM ALL THE TIME!!!!

[waugh-bao]

Keith: “Suck On The Jugular” is Mr. Watts again. I mean, it's all drums. The arrangement is all to do with the drums. Charlie laid down that beat and I said, 'Well, if you can keep that up for several minutes, we've got a track. 'Hey, no problem.' And he always makes it look like it isn't.

Charlie: It used to be called 'Holetown Prison' and we did that in Barbados near Holetown. That's what we would loosely term a groove song; I like those a lot. We did a whole bunch of those type of songs, but a lot of them didn't get on the record because it wasn't the right time to use them. I like those songs more than our ballads.

(1994)

[leojurand]

dorothy really had a gift when it comes to telling you things in a way that you know what you're being told is significant to the character in some way, but you're not directly being told how the character feels, and so you want to stop and analyze each word and go back to reread the other scenes being mentioned. and put everything and everyone under microscope

[stewykablooey]

if you had the chance to include one of stewy’s deleted lines (from the scripts) in the show, which one would you pick. I would pick the one from the pusilanimous fools gold scene, when stewy asks kendall how logan got at him and mentions money, drugs and sex as some of the things they like. That line alone makes kenstewy undeniable.

tbh id only do the funeral scene, just because we deserved to see more than 3 times in the season, but more than that it really made sense for him to be there (plus the way we have it in the script was a run in at the hotel after the funeral, but we know arian and jeremy shot something solo on a rooftop so i know there’s still a lot there that we missed out on)

everything else in the scripts (besides the character traits that were thankfully cut like stewy being a dad) i feel still showed up in the subtext or wouldve been too in the face if they’d kept it in. i agree tho that the implications of them keeping that line in would have been absolutely insane, but i still think it worked better without it. succession is very much a less is more kind of show and everything they cut worked best to that regard

[ancientroyalblood]

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