#Applications and Interpretation

[iridescentgleam]

you ever read an interpretation of your favorite ship(s)/character(s) that is just so contrary to what you believe and/or canon that you can't help but read more bc it is just so fascinating how wrong a person can be?

[roguetelepaths]

gotta admit, as a certified mostly-recovered Moral OCD Haver™ who also identifies... quite a fucking lot with Enjolras, the idea of Enjolras having moral OCD doesn't sit well with me at all. Which isn't me saying people can't have that headcanon, don't get it twisted — I just know what I acted like when it was worse vs. what I act like now, and the headspace I inhabited back then was not one I would associate with strident commitment and single-minded purpose. To me, saying Enjolras has moral OCD simply because "activist" is one of his main personality traits feels like saying that activism itself is a mental illness.

(In reality, I would go as far as to say that a person with moral OCD would not be nearly as put together while engaging in activism as Enjolras is. I TRIED being involved in activism while having unmanaged moral OCD. At one point I had an hour long breakdown because I thought wearing blue jeans in April meant I was betraying the Autistic community. It wasn't even for symbolic reasons I just didn't have any other clean pants.)

You know who I can see having moral OCD, though? And who I can see a lot of my own experiences in?

Fucking Grantaire.

Grantaire who has been involved in activist efforts for a long time and is severely burnt out by the highly triggering environment that it is for him, who tried so hard to keep up with the unceasing demands his mind put on him in the name of being A Good Person™ but just can't do it anymore.

Grantaire who, at some point, figured out that heavy drinking was the only thing that could reliably shut up his ruminations.

Grantaire whose cynicism about the cause he fights for is a thought-stopping technique that worked a little too well but then became a compulsion in itself.

Grantaire who idolizes Enjolras — who seems to not just do well in that environment but thrive in it like a duck in water — but knows that spending too much time with him will make the bad thoughts creep back in and maybe this time he won't be able to stop them, so he sabotages any opportunity to actually get closer to the man he holds in such high esteem.

I don't know, man, I just got here. Maybe this is nothing.

[nothinggold13]

Standing // Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"I haven't come to take your place, you know, but to put you into it." ~ Peter Pevensie

[floralfaced]

i will bring back frisk and asriel/flowey content if i have to. i'll DO IT!!!!

[mewkwota]

After looking over various artworks, I've come to understand that it's possible Volnutt's waist could still be tiny even in his more-organic body. While I've always drawn his body shape as looking more straight in casual attire, I think I found a way to work this realization without changing a thing (it's not a form-fitting shirt).

Plus a bonus thing I did following this post to further drive my point.

[anonymouslyel]

one thing i like about this sambucky lover's quarrel era is the slowly growing amounts of sambucky art/posts/fics(?) with bucky in every level of breaking down just to try and talk to sam. tearing up? check. tears falling down on his cheeks as he tries to convince sam to talk to him? check. crashing out in front of the thunderbolts*? check. yelena being so done with him? check. full blown sobbing and crying his eyes out and kneeling? havent seen one yet, but im sure there'll be one.

i am just a sucker and a huge fan of any of my fave characters crying tbh. any reason. the biggest and most serious reason up to the most cringe and petty reason. i like my faves crying <3

[princesssarisa]

The way Kai changes is how boys often change as they grow up and are indoctrinated into the patriarchy. As small children, they're not so different from girls, and can easily be close friends with girls and enjoy the same things. But as preteens, they learn to dismiss those things as childish and inferior, and they become aggressive (Kai kicking over the roses), tease and bully girls (his treatment of Gerda), disrespect women (interrupting and mocking Gerda's grandmother), care only about showing off their strength (tying his sled onto the Snow Queen's sleigh) or their intellect (his obsession with math), and lose touch with their emotions (his indifference to the cold). The solution is for Kai to reunite with his feminine side, embodied by Gerda.

A more gender-neutral viewpoint is that it's less about masculinity and more about growing up. The glass shards make Kai see only the flaws in everything, which corresponds to the moodiness of adolescence, and/or to losing childhood innocence, becoming more aware of the world's flaws, and becoming jaded as a result. He also becomes too eager to be seen as "mature," dismissing anything "childish" and caring only about "smart" and "important" things. Gerda, by contrast, is able to grow up without losing her childhood idealism, faith, or sense of wonderment, and in the end she helps Kai to be "young at heart" too.

It might also be just a story of "heart" vs. "mind" and the importance of uniting them. Gerda represents the heart, with her roses, storybooks, spirituality, and affection, while Kai represents the intellect with his mathematical and scientific knowledge. At first they're happily united, as they should be, but then the mirror shards cut Kai off from his emotions and make him nothing but a cold, mocking intellectual. Thus the point of the story is to reunite the mind with the heart to restore balance.

It could also be a metaphor for toxic perfectionism. The glass shards amplify Kai's sense of all the flaws in the world, and he only finds beauty in the geometrical perfection of snowflakes and of the Snow Queen's ice palace. Yet in the end, thanks to Gerda, he realizes that "perfection" is cold and lifeless, and that flawed though humans and living things may be, it's only in them that warmth and vitality are found.

Last but not least is the mental health interpretation. The effect of the mirror shards is like depression. Kai sees only the negative in everything, loses interest in everything he used to enjoy, and finally, in the Snow Queen's palace, he loses his ability to feel anything at all. His rescue by Gerda can represent the healing from depression that loved ones' care and support can bring.

Which of these interpretations is your personal favorite? Or if you think of another, please share it!

[rabbiteclair]

do other fields have this thing where 80% of people who are, in theory, mid-career experienced professionals are barely capable of performing fairly basic tasks without personalized guidance, or is software development just suffering under the curse of an entire generation being told to go into the field if they want to earn enough money to pay rent

[evilkitten3]

i know it's been said before but it's still startling every time i get the reminder that apparently a lot of young people think "gay panic" is "getting flustered by having a gay crush on someone" instead of. y'know. a legal defense for a homophobic hate crime

[ahopefulbromantic]

wait do you believe in hell as eternal conscious torment? (im curious bc that debate has been a crux of my own journey w faith & christianity)

I believe in hell as eternal disconnection from God or more precisely as defined by the Catechism a "state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed" (CCC 1033). How that would look like i have no idea but i do know that tearing yourself apart from the one and only source of life, love, happiness, fulfilment, goodness, and everything that is good would absolutely be the worst torment imaginable, or rather well, unimaginable. And i do know God would hate to have His beloved children be in this state. I hope with all my heart that hell is completely empty, i wouldn't wish it upon anyone and i mean anyone

Oh and since you mentioned a debate, can you tell me more about it? Cause i'm not sure what you're refering to and i'd love to learn more! God bless you anon and best wishes for your journey with faith!

[fallenclan]

What are Bearspring's top relationships?

she doesn't seem to be close to much of anyone! ...until you look at her relationship with starclan cats and see how close she was to her mother

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

I think I'm gonna apply to college today :)

[firestorm09890]

“Dear Diary”. Zexion’s Mystery Gear. “A weapon that draws forth its wielder’s personality.” Sleek and cold and gray exterior, decorated only by the symbol of the Organization. A tool with access to more information than a normal book can grant, and capable of holding more secrets than a normal book could store. But then, open it up- the wallpaper is an eyesearing red, so vivid in shade that it leaves afterimages. Something you wouldn't be able to see when the laptop was closed unless you used it for violence.

Mystery Gear weapons are designed for being overanalyzed as symbols. This thing represents Zexion. What’s the red wallpaper imply then, huh? Mr. “Intellectual with no room for feelings”?

[lilythelitten]

If I had to pick a song that perfectly encapsulates Irratino’s feelings about the aftermath of SoM (at least, in my HCs), I’d pick this one.

[daydreamerdrew]

The Incredible Hulk (1968) #297

[theatticosm]

love kinning characters who people draw as very pasty and pale. I’m drawing him with olive skin and moles.