#also i talk abt the pair's parallels but what abt the characters?? i immediately liked jon when i started tma bc

[taniushka12]

W359 JONTIM AU HELLO????

dfgdfg its from a Loose and only Flavored w359 au/crossover but yeah! thinking about the parallels between jon & tim and minkowski & eiffel the question was What if jon and tim had the space and circumstances that made minkowski's and eiffel's bond so tightly yknow? what if they were the ones stuck together in a crumbling spaceship while one of their friends is offline and the other lost in space? what if they learned to rely on each other and jon did everything on his power to keep tim alive and, fuck, succeeded?? (at least at first but yknow) what if tim managed to make jon laugh? 😭😭😭😭😭

anyway i made some silly art of it back in 2019! but i really should do more Q_Q

[magicalwastelands]

byler

byler is almost always paralleled to romantic couples and not paralleled to friendships. i was thinking about this the other day and turns out you guys voted for byler on the poll so HERE IT IS :)))

minor spoiler alert for: heartstopper, harry potter, stranger things

i'll be talking about how byler parallels to:

romantic pairings in stranger things

romantic pairings in other shows/movies (ive posted a more in-depth post about taoelle [romantic pairing in heartstopper] and byler being similar - if u want you can go check that out!!)

NOT friendships in stranger things (how it rarely parallels to other friendship pairings in the show compared to romantic ones)

romantic pairings in stranger things

jopper (joyce / hopper)

a. jopper has some scenes that parallel byler (this is just one example):

"I think we make a pretty good team." "I think it'll be easier if we're... we're a team."

b. also this music (you might know this already lol but this is just SO CRAZY LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN "oh, it's joyce and hopper" AND THE SAME SUBTITLES ARE SHOWN DURING SCENES WITH MIKE AND WILL???!? WHAT?????????????????????) [ website ]

[tender, emotional music swells] [tender, emotional music playing]

rockie (robin / vickie)

a. robin is the only confirmed gay character other than will and her crush on vickie is being shown as possibly reciprocated in the last ep of s4

[tender, emotional music playing] --- also another example of these subtitles

b. vickies relationship with her boyfriend is similar to mikes relationship with el (btw i loooove el im not saying shes similar to that guy, just talking about her relationship with mike and the love triangle imagery)

then theres these scenes of them being DIRECTLY positioned between established couples like.... these scenes are too crazy

2. romantic pairings in other shows/movies - this is strange because why would their dynamic be so similar to couples dynamics? if theyre just supposed to be friends???

harry potter - ron and hermione (I DO NOT SUPPORT JK R*WL*NG)

a. best friends to lovers trope / slowburn trope

in the final harry potter movie, ron and hermione have their first kiss. in the final season of stranger things, mike and w-

b. these scenes...

c. love triangles - ron thinks hermione likes harry over him (similar situation with will but mike and el are actually dating)

Heartstopper - nick and charlie

a. blue and yellow

b. this in the actual books - nick is the heart of the rugby team and mike is the heart of the party:

"You're the heart and centre of this team, Nick." "You're the heart."

c. bonus: i recently bought the heartstopper colouring book (its suuuper cute btw love it) and theres this???? is it giving paladin and cleric vibes???????

3. friendship pairings

lucas and dustin (im only gonna talk abt them for examples of friendship pairings)

a. season 1 - last ep, mike is super worried about will and immediately jumps up to see and hug him (he says that will is awake 3 times), while dustin and lucas are asleep

[snoring] "Guys. Guys, he's up. Will is up. Guys, Will's up."

also omg in this scene dustin calls her a "wizard" and then mike CORRECTS HIM SAYING SHES MORE LIKE YODA I CAN'T... CAUSE WILL IS THE WIZARD NOT EL..... ALSO BRO YODA??? THAT GIRL YOU KISSED AND ARE GOING TO DATE FOR LIKE A YEAR AND SAY YOU LOVE HER IS LIKE YODA???????

"She's basically a wizard." "More like a Yoda."

like bro... THIS UR GF???? LOVE OF YOUR LIFE???????????? YOUR LIFE STARTED BC OF HER?????? (feat. will being the wizard el can't replace in mikes head...)

b. different reactions to will's "body" being pulled out of the lake

lucas says that it must be will. mike doesn't accept the body being will's. (NOT LUCAS SLANDER DON'T WORRY I LOVE HIM)

shocked, has to lean on the truck to calm himself down, gets mad at el because she couldn't help him save will, is in tears, doesn't care about eleven in this moment because he's so sad that will is "dead"

(also sorry for the bad vid quality)

mike is obviously the most affected one by the "body" being found.

c. whenever something happens with will and mike, the others know they shouldn't interrupt, like this (lucas knows not to follow mike out):

and this (they're walking behind the others, having their own private conversation):

and also this (max doesn't get it but the others know mike and will want to be alone):

d. if mike, will, dustin and lucas are all just friends, and mike also said this to dustin (talking about lucas at first) ...

(Mike: He's not my best friend. [sighs] I mean, he is, but so are you. And so is Will.)

... then why is the relationship between mike and will so different and singled out to the relationship between ANY OTHER PAIRING BETWEEN THE FOUR if lucas, dustin and will are all supposed to be mike's best friends??

[vigilskeep]

For the Top 5 ask: What are your top five favorite Dragon Age ships? Including OCs as well as any other characters from the franchise

1. as you can see from my url i’m a little obsessed with zevran/surana rn... the parallels between zevran being taken into the crows and surana being taken into the circle are so interesting, the questions of freedom, the assumption in both kinloch and the crows that every relationship is brief pleasure to take where you can but love is unthinkable, zevran not fearing surana but saying dangerous and exciting as reasons they interest him, zevran being someone who will canonically argue for the lives of mages he doesn’t know even at risk to himself, this is becoming incredibly long but i’ve nearly finished my replay and i’m a little crazy rn

2. the red hawke/anders playthrough i’m doing rn is REALLY good so far and has immediately become my current canon hawke. nothing fucks with my baby etc. i don’t play completely red when i’m talking to him bc wizard boyfriend brings out a bluer side, but red dialogue also is sometimes the only way to take his fears seriously and it lets hawke match his intensity in a fun way. lets anders be the funny one too. enjoying that a lot

3. i still haven’t decided what i’m doing for inquisition but my first inquisitor concept was for a male mage trevelyan who would romance josie and i’m still obsessed with it. circle mage getting the fairytale romance he always dreamed of is good. circle mage idiot not thinking anything through and having to duel some guy with a sword for his beloved is even better. i imagine him stumbling and laughing as he tries to lift her up and swing her around and it cures me

4. hmm what else. i find mage hawke/isabela really compelling and i’m excited to do that playthrough sometime. her love of freedom and independence paired with her eventually standing beside you to protect the freedom of those like you... superb

5. struggling to think of a good number five. a lot of the npc x npc ships are like... they’re good but i haven’t seen a lot of them in game yet so i can mostly take or leave them depending on who’s writing. uhhhhhhhh. oh i care a lot abt malcolm and leandra i’m so interested in different versions of them

[fangirlsovertoomanythings]

Abt the ask game: talk abt ur newest babygirl, Majima

I'm on it, boss

GORO MAJIMA

Favorite thing about them: He may be morally reprehensible and have the looks of a sewer rat but his slutoutfit is sublime. Jokes aside, though, I really like that he seems to be playing a persona most of the time and I really enjoy characters that just pretend It's All Cool I'm Having A Good Time I Am Having A Good Time. Also his weirdass moral compass. And the silly

Least favorite thing about them: WHY DOES SEGA MAKE HIM AND KIRYU CARE FOR EACH OTHER AND THEN NOT CARE IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS?? "Oh, Kiryu-chan died! Sad!" MF WHAT?? REACT AND GRIEVE

Favorite line: "How the fuck should I know how this tangly-ass rainbow shit works!?". It's not deep, it's just funny. He was trying to defuse a bomb btw

brOTP: I haven't seen enough of Saejima to know for sure, but yeah. Yeah

OTP: I,,, don't know? I think whatever the hell he has with Kiryu is super fun to explore, but also whatever he has with Makoto makes my heart bleed; they could even be used as foils to each other in some regard, to the point where the two of them, if paired with him, would eventually just parallel the other; but unlike the Watson situation, I can't pair them all together into one huge fuckpile though and that upsets me.

nOTP: Haven't been around long enough to know which ships there are but for the love of GOD if anyone thought about Shimano I am biting your ankle

Random headcanon: His Family has actual business that actually work that keep the money coming so they can spend it annoying Kiryu or running away from his problems, it's just that they're not relevant to the plot okay I saw them with my two own eyes when I went to Kamurocho

Unpopular opinion: His hairstyle. It's not good

Song I associate with them: This is Gospel - Panic at the Disco

Favorite picture of them: SUNAO NI I LOVE YOU-

[ IMG ID: A screenshot of Goro Majima, from the Yakuza game series, in an idol outfit. / END ID ]