#beat loop

[nidbaesenpai]

i fear an ISAT rhythm game would dig its claws into me and never let go

[mari-lair]

Mirror Pictures

[nacora-najita]

RAAAAAAAA he's so cool im going insane

commission me if you can!!!

[another-ninjago-person]

People were knocking on Kai’s characterization in DR but I don’t see what’s the problem?

He comes off as one of the wisest of the old gen ninja and is easily able to connect with new kids without the baggage of being a legend by meeting them at their level. By being a little silly.

It helps that we’ve passed the point of retreading old ground for the sake of drama: “i’m a hothead and family is danger so i’m going to do something incredibly risky that’s going to mess things up.” or “why i am unworthy/inferiority complex.” They’re finally letting him progress in the spotlight. No longer trapped in the character progression loop!

And because other characters run through his old beats he gets to bestow his wisdom. Telling them he was in their position and respecting where they come from. This happens with Wyldfyre and Cole (and lowkey Nya) and it works so well because Kai gets to be competent. And if there’s one thing I thank DR for is balancing Kai’s silliness and competence.

[lucabyte]

you dream of devouring your friends whole

[vellichorom]

you sick little animal, even death itself pities you.

[chimerafeathers]

Loop’s dialogue has so many facets and potential interpretations…when they are talking about or to Siffrin, exactly how much of it is a direct reflection of how they view themself, either now or in the past?

how much of it is it a deliberate projection—things they wish they had been kinder to themself about and make an effort to verbalize now that they have this external perspective, or things they still hate themself for and can’t help but deride when it’s thrown in their face by this copy—and how much is subconscious, an instinctual reaction to seeing their own traits in “another”?

and conversely, how much of what they say is an attempt to draw a hard line in the sand between them, this is you and this is me, the success story and the discarded failure? coming from the same origin point but diverging beyond reconciliation, the differences cementing their stations as the favored and the forgotten?

they were they same but they aren’t anymore but they are still but they’re different now but they are and aren’t and are and aren’t—

how often do they feel like they’re talking to a mirror, a glassy, empty reflection of their own flaws and mistakes, rather than a whole and complete person who shares their love and pain? how much does the line between those perceptions blur and shift from moment to moment, how much do they let themself be aware of it, how much do they agonize over it?

they’re just. such a mess of contradictions and complications. i need to lie down.

[cent-scratchnsniff]

lady binah

[oxygen-stealer]

Sad and gross scriddler

Made vaguely thinking about codotverse. I desperately need Ed to finally have a breakdown this season I'll beat him up myself if i need to boy you gotta let that shit out

[gardensnakie]

"I'm your consolation prize"

"But I didn't win anything though?"

"That's right, you didn't win! So here I am~"

"???"

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here's Loop as the glittery, rainbow dragon plush I won at an arcade once!!- aren't they cute?? EXPLODES

They have sequins on their stomach, the kind that changes color when you swipe your hand across it (teehee) - the real plush is below cut

the beastly beast...

[egregiousmeme-art]

iSaT Daily Doodle until I post my fucking animatic™: Day 14

Now with more Loop! Loop! Loop! Loop!

[artilite]

i keep forgetting to post when i draw OOPS so here's a doodle dump !!!!

[destinyesque]

[gothicrepetitions]

“The greatest weight.-- What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!" Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Supernatural (2005-2020)//True Detective (2014-)//Time and Personal Identity in Nietzsche’s Theory of Eternal Recurrence, Scott Jenkins//Purgatory with Color TV: Motels Rooms as Liminal Zones in Supernatural, Lorna Jowett//Yellowjackets (2021-)//Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997)//Quote by Guillermo del Toro//One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Marquez Garcia//Trauma Reenactment in the Gothic Loop: A Study on Structures of Circularity in Gothic Fiction, Andrea Juranovszky

[grandadtwelve]

doctors 1, 3, and 9-15 + text posts I’ve reblogged onto my main blog 🫶🏼

[alexakakarumi]

Y'know what fuck it

*Humans your Loop*

This is just a Sketch btw but yeah have it I'm not finishing it and I am proud of this Loop so Yeah