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THE BOYS (2019 —) | Butcher's glowing eyes.

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🩸🩸🩸

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sorry I beat the shit out of you I have a really big crush on you and I got nervous

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cosplay-！

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you know what its actually really cool to surrender to your rage and to have your heart fill with savage power. Violent revenge is really the answer

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anyways αὐτόχειρ is such an incredible word. being killed by a kindred hand is lexically indistinguishable from dying by your own. you cannot kill your brother in a way that does not also kill you

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Happy Halloween!

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bleeding is the most fun a boy can have without taking his clothes off

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was thinking about the bodily fluids/humors symbolism in succession and realized how much of that is also in the boys. i might be reaching cause this series makes me autistic but like ok hear me out, there’s blood (lot’s of it) which in humorism is the source of energy for the body/soul, but is also related to spring (sharing characteristics with the season via being wet/hot). spring itself represents renewal in a way i always associated with the death tarot card, making way for change and all that. when characters are covered head to toe in blood (homelander, hughie, a-train, etc.) it seems to be indicative of a major change/renewal in that persons life (a-train killing robin subsequently changed both his and hughie’s life forever, homelander taking revenge on those who tortured him as a child, when hughie killed translucent, etc.).

now onto yellow bile which is vomit. yellow bile in humorism is choleric and an excess of it would cause emotional irregularities such as increased aggression and irrational behavior. this comes to mind specifically when both butcher and hughie are experiencing side effects form V24. both of them giving into their aggression and frustration, making irrational and short sighted decisions in order to satisfy that anger inside of themselves

this also leads into black bile, the melancholiac humor, both depression and cancer are attributed to an excess of black bile specifically in a concentrated area. this obviously correlates to butcher and his tumor, with him bleeding black blood and the color of his tentacles (also butcher’s signature color for outfits as well <3)

lastly, phlegm which is described as reserved or isolationist in nature, which of course consists of white or colorless secretions of the body. in this case i’m making regarding semen and milk. this leads me to talk about homelander and his isolating moments. the first and most important one that comes to mind is when he’s masturbating on top of that building in s2 finale, it’s of course a very private and emotionally lonely moment for him, an attempt to grasp at some form of control in his life. the first time we see him drink breast milk specifically is in another scene all on his own, another private moment in madelyn’s old office. in s3, in a fit of stress, he isolates himself again when drinking that cow’s milk. but what i’m trying to get at is the inherent loneliness all of this brings, the reservation of himself and feeling of wanting control over these moments of isolation.

another thing i’d like to point out with phlegm is this quote by a french physiologist “…where is it? Who will ever see it? Who has ever seen it?” i feel as if characters have seen homelander but do not know what to do with what they have seen and therefore that knowing but lack of action leads to a type of isolation all itself, leading to an ostracizing existence

this is not to say that every depiction of the four humors is indicative of literary significance, they’re not, these just came to mind and if anyone has any other examples i’d love to hear :)

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plane pals

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god grant me the strength to write my weird porn, the serenity to write my weird porn and the wisdom to write my weird porn

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you want to die by his hand so bad it makes you look stupid

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my wife,,

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