#AND THEMATICALLY

[abysskeeper]

I could talk about how Oscar's entire scene was a direct conversation with Ruby, where he addressed her as having 'left' and not 'died' (a fascinating dichotomy to Nora's 'we buried our friends today' opening). I could talk about the implications of how he lost his certainty and hope when he lost her, and the fact that Oz can't provide him with any substitution in her absence (Oz has no answers for anything, and I think that is the better choice...disregarding what I may have written for fic in the past).

I could even talk about how his mannerisms and vocabulary are mimicking Oz more and more in his own narration (is it similar souls and too much time spent with Oz in his head? Or is it the merge they're both desperately fighting off?)

But what I can't get over is that they really did just have that wide-shot of Oscar backlit by the orange of the rising sun. Orange...his color, not Oz's. And the sun, his half of the dichotomy he's been blatantly sharing with Ruby for a while now. Also, the sunrise, a common rhetoric for new hopes and the promises of better tomorrows (and the other character to share the sunrise in the epilogue being Qrow, who is actively speaking of those things).

And what I really can't get over is that at his lowest point, when the magic hits him again and we transition to Ren? The note is sunrise turns to nighttime. I know part of that is for the visual effect, but also feels symbolic that it really is Oscar's lowest point. A literal dark point, but also the time when he quite literally cannot shine. There is no sunlight at night, and now that he doesn't have his moon at his side, all he can do is fall to the ground.

My point? Rosegarden stays winning in the worst ways possible.

[wandringaesthetic]

I have a self indulgent theory based on Julia and Juste's.... eyebrow shape.

Because you see

That is a very particular eyebrow shape.

So I am guessing Alucard had a child with someone (Greta?) and they or their offspring eventually married a Belmont and those bloodlines converged. OR (probably less likely) Alucard had at least one child with Sypha but the whole family went by Belmont because of reasons.

Either way, poetic that all the existing Belmonts should be descended from Dracula.

[nulltune]

LETTTTTTSSS FACKINGGGG GOOOOOOO HAKUNO CONTENT AAAAAAAAA 🥹🥹🥹🥺😭😭🙏🙏😩😩🙌🫶🫶💖💖💕💞❣️💝 THEY LOOK SOOOO GOOOOOD IM ABT TO PASS OUT IM SO IN LOVE WITH THEMMM TEHM THEMM I NEEED TO SEE THE HQ VERSION .. ASAP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 (i used google translate but) male!hakuno's is called box of repentance while fem!hakuno's is called labyrinth of lingering flowers and i'm gonna pass out fr . IM GONNA PASS OUT FR

[platyroonism]

but if I'M a traumatized kid and YOU'RE a traumatized kid... who's playing the game!?

[verflares]

NOW SPELL: ANGEL Z-E-L-D-A WRONG! TRY AGAIN.

[blessyouhawkeye]

it's been years and it's still genuinely crazy to me that the first two seasons of stranger things had this throughline where all the bad things that were happening in hawkins were directly caused by the us government and that they were excusing the awful things they were doing to their own citizens (children!) through cold war/red scare reactionism. and then in season three there was a secret russian base under the town mall.

[desolationlesbian]

still the funniest plot point in all of pmmm that Homura Akemi is a 14 year old magical girl who realized that her sparkly transformation sequence did not come with a cutesy custom weapon like everyone else's so she just went online and googled "how to build a bomb"

[chongoblog]

To this day, I think my favorite film theory that I accept in my mind as canon is the theory that Shrek literally came up with his own name on the spot as he first meets Donkey

[visenyaism]

correct me if i’m wrong cos i don’t watch dune.. but i’ve seen people call paul a tragic character. except isn’t he a whole white coloniser tricking indigenous poc into believing he’s a prophet to serve his own interests? that’s inherently evil that cannot be a tragic character imo

so yes that is correct that is what happens. the tragedy is that he is a sixteen year old boy who gets a vision of this happening and he is TERRIFIED and absolutely does not want this to happen at all. He does not want the holy war he does not want to be the chosen one he initially very much wants to fight alongside the fremen as equals trying to liberate themselves from their current colonizer without becoming the messiah because they have common political cause.

And then the entire second half of the first book (and the second movie) are about the concessions he makes to himself bit by bit by bit (well it’s the only way to save his mom and sister. well it’s the only way to prevent nuclear war. well he does want his revenge. well maybe he IS special.) Until by the end he has lost 100% of his humanity, fully wants to be the messiah and is willing to manipulate people into thinking so, and has declared himself duke of arrakis in his father’s name and made a play for the imperial throne.

you’re right that it’s evil. the book and these movies agree with you. the tragedy is watching a child who desperately wanted to avoid this slowly completely lose himself to it anyways. i don’t think “tragic” and “evil” are inherently mutually exclusive.

[paxopalotls]

stressed about chem exams so I did a ghost king doodle to cope

[hrokkall]

Totality

[mag200]

"chester"

ko-fi

[mipexch]

I WAS MADE FOR YOU // YOU WERE MADE FOR ME

[sysig]

Permission to headbutt: Granted (Patreon)

[sanctus-ingenium]

let's see how YOU like it

[horreurscopes]

ELEKTRA: I am the shape you made me. Filth teaches filth.

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