#because cards are so... vague...

[dailyharuka]

haruka symbolism... planes... the sky... what does it mean...

yap session ahead!!! (i just point out the obvious)

dont we also got a cover where its space themed?? thats gotta mean something right..

she sings in ai no material "Suddenly, I feel lonely to the point my chest tightens. /Today, too, the skies hid away the stars." and thats the ONLY time the sky is mentioned in the song

yes stars are brought up again (two times) by airi but that is the only time the sky which she always reaches for in mvs and stuff is brought up

btw im not even analyzing these lyrics im just reading them because i wanted to know what they meant in english

im looking through IF and lowkey that song is kinda... sad but its inspirational

idk if it counts but theybring up weather which can tie back into the whole sky symbolism because you usually have to look up to see the weather and you also have to look up to see the sky

and yk... she looks up and reaches towards the sky... a lot...

maybe not a LOT but its enough to be noticable

ok now im looking at float planner

flying/getting higher seems to be a common theme in the songs (cuz its mentioned a few times in ai no material)

theres also more mention of weather in float planner

"I look out over the blue scenery, dear planner!" SKY MENTION

wait what if its like just big open spaces in general

because in the main story its all "the ocean this" "the ocean that" and you know what the ocean is?? BIG. VAST!!! AND BLUE!!!!

you know what the SKY is??? BIG VAST AND BLUE

i also find it a little funny cuz weather affects how a plane can fly yada yada yada idk something

thats gotta mean something but my thoughts rn are so incoherent i will not even ATTEMPT to make them make sense

but its all sky related

maybe ill analyze the haruka comm songs another day

this whole yapsession is just me going "LOOK DICTION!!!" (btw diction is words)

guys thats so crazy!!! there are WORDS in the song!!

im a little disappointed there wasnt anything about planes because all the trained cards for hrk3 are all planes related

i am also NOT going to analyze the cards because how am i supposeed to analyze caards where they dress up as silly little waiters (hrk1)

jk maybe ill analyze it another day

confession: the only hrk focus ive read was float planner... ill read it eventually... when i remember (i have very bad memory)

[escyn]

Old Wounds Reopened[flood]: Kyoshi Warrior Sokka | Blue Spirit

Zukka Week Day 3 (id in alt)

+some close-ups bc I love them so

other things from ZW2024: Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7

[annasofthe11thdimension]

Pictured: Loop being extremely normal as they lay in their shallow (homemade) grave as they meditate on existence and also if they have annoyed the Researcher enough THIS time for her to murder them and bury them alive.

(Spoilers - they did not annoy her even CLOSE to that much.)

And there is the required reverse image of Odile arriving - she's had a LONG day (i.e. previous loop), and due to this it will take ten minutes before she even acknowledges the shallow grave Loop is laying in, as she was distracted complaining about what Siffrin just did to annoy her.

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I'd say there's context for all of that, because like...there IS context? Here's the link to the series of fics that HAS that context even! But also...even with context...can't say that it's going to make any of this less weird.

Mostly Odile is looping because due to Loop's wish the universe got rewritten to make Siffrin's repression and emotional issues (the ones bad enough to get him stuck in a time loop in the game) 'someone else's' problem...or at least that's Loop's best theory atm!

Regardless, context or not, I'm quite happy with how the pics came out, and figured I might as well post them here too.

[off-the-rails-raccoon]

Romantic or platonic cclingyduo?

Donnttt make me do this Cupid, I struggle with this question enough as it is !!!!!

Because while I do love the idea of romantic cclingyduo and every post about them, I find it a bit difficult to imagine; somehow.

Platonic cclingyduo is much easier (in what way? I don't know) plus I feel like it has a lot of potential for pushing the idea of "deep and complex relationships don't have to be romantic (or familial)" and I always loved the relationship dynamics that could come from cbeeduo being together as a couple and cTommy being their mutual friend.

But cclingyduo being in a romantic relationship together just Makes Sense because of course they are!! It's cTubbo and cTommy! The two who stuck around each other no matter who tried breaking them apart. The two who were always by the other's side no matter how far away they were. The two that started it all and the two that ended it all. They were soulmates I tell you. SOULMATES. And sure it wasn't easy, it wasn't easy at all, but that didn't stop them. The miscommunication, betrayals, stress, trauma, and everything else didn't stop them from finding their happy ending together. I think that deserves some recognition, and also I think they should be able to kiss. As a treat.

A romantic relationship would not only be an easy way to portray that but it would also be what they deserve I think. But the reason I believe it's so hard to imagine is because I find it unlikely they would both be able to agree to being in a relationship. They both have very different coping mechanisms and overall personalities if you look at the details and the amount of things that are misunderstood or simply go unsaid makes it difficult to see them officially together. And I can imagine they'd pull the whole "our relationship is so fragile as it is, if i propose this idea it may make me lose one of the people most important to me and I don't know if it's worth that risk."

Anywho, I like best the idea that either one of them did (or still do) have romantic feelings for the other but it was never acted out on (except for a kiss at LEAST once) and their relationship and dynamic is so odd and Quirky that they single-handedly blur the line separating romantic and platonic in a way that confuses anyone but them.

[enjoyvoidblack]

our big post was getting long and it won't let me message so I thought I'd just come bother you here asldkfjsad I am like. so 1000% certain there is mention in the text that the initial purpose and efforts of Jonah and the Institute were to research the fears and prevent their many catastrophes, and that somewhere along the line he came to the conclusion that this wasn't viable, that the world and the fears simply didn't function in a way that was conducive to meaningfully stopping them from doing anything. which was how he settled into the position of 'well then I am going to use the instruments of power to save ME and build a ladder to free myself personally from their clutches forever' I def don't know when he started to turn from that, but i'll have to go back through the transcripts and find it again.

I do get that the narrative is written with Jon as the focal point, and that doesn't leave a lot of room for Elias to be sympathetic--he certainly doesn't make himself sympathetic TO Jon, or any of the Archives crew (beyond what I find to be an interesting amount of patience, understanding, and restraint he shows for them), but I still think like. Part of the beauty of Jonny's storytelling is that there is a kernel of completely understandable humanity to most everyone that's presented with any depth in the series, even the people we DON'T like. The "people here don't have excuses, they have causes" is again really excellent wording. There isn't really a lot of the usual karmic style reasoning or justice in this series; it isn't about Good People doing Good Things or Bad People doing Bad Things, it's just. People Doing Things, while under the influence of powers that are at once cosmic and beyond us, and inherently OF us.

adsfkjas this is getting long too I'm so sorry you activated a trap card here but idk. He absolutely is both manipulator and victim. He did all that shit, and all the while it's being done TO him, and he's walking this incredibly razor thin line between feeding his god/being empowered by it, and bc of it's nature knowing in intimate detail every nasty thing that awaits him should he fail (and I think being deathly afraid of it). That gif from Knives Out lmfao, compels me.

(apologies this probably isn't hugely coherent but there we are)

Thank you I am chewing on this ask violently. You Get It.

Unfortunate that tumblr killed your paragraph breaks, because I now can't find the section easily, but that thing about Jonny's character work in this series entirely consisting of aspects of "completely understandable humanity" is SO deeply how I feel about it. This is part of why I love horror of this kind so much. The horror being the fact that no one can really do anything to stop it opens up a space where the characters don't need to be presented along clear lines of good and evil, or even helping a cause or hurting it. It's a lot closer to how real people react in a natural disaster, if anything. There is love and selfishness and incredible acts of violence and cruelty and understandable failings and greed and fear, and pretty much all of it has a root that you can see, if you know enough about the people doing it and the circumstances to really feel where their mindset must be. I'd say Elias is functionally the closest thing TMA has to a narrative scapegoat, but that doesn't mean he is one. I almost feel like he's there as a pressure valve for the story, to be a villain if people need one to make sense of what's going on without having to constantly confront head-on the horror of the way the setting traps everyone in it. He can be made that kind of scapegoat, but only really by ignoring the parallels to Jon and the letters sent to him in older statements, and the way both show how the Fears drive the people who learn about them into more and more desperate straits.

It's kind of like that with all the older avatars. Simon Fairchild throws people off of stuff for a joke, because he's had more than 400 years of being steeped in the knowledge that humanity is both insignificant in the span of the universe, as well as utterly incapable of stopping the course of the Fears as they exert whatever influence they will by the force of sheer bulk. Peter Lukas never had a chance - he was born into this, isolation was his family and religion and paradoxically from childhood his only possible road to belonging. Adelard Dekker thought he was helping, as did Gertrude, even as they both fed the things that claimed them alongside those efforts. Nikola Orsinov was so far away from having an identity anymore that she couldn't go back if she wanted to, if she had even had enough left to want. Her world would have just been a home that was more like herself, and who hasn't wanted that? They're easier to vilify because their outlooks are harder to understand until the very end of the series, but looking back it's so clear that they were also just people once, and the writing never really lets you forget that.

If I said I'd tried to make all of these replies short, you probably wouldn't believe me. And Yet. I am not NORMAL about this show and the way Jonny writes people.

[lesbiangiratina]

Testament’s secret attack. They Nest

[your-local-uwu-artist]

sleepover~

had a lot of fun with this, I wanted to practice poses, character interaction, and composition: + I wanted to try out a softer color scheme ...well as soft as my endless love for super saturated colors allows

[dropespeon]

thinking about the theory/essay i wanted to write about the inevitability of change re: leveling up in isat compared to the stagnancy of sasasap (despite the presence of a leveling system) pre-isat release. it aged both very well and not at all

[meetmeintheyard]

finally watching the gamer ranking. i wonder if they'll do a type of guy that includes the man in a cape who told me about his beyblades while i was at a gaming store trying to buy magic the gathering cards

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than functionally no rares

Made some Duskmourn cards and also thought about the upcoming set currently known as "Death Race" and got in a vehicle mood

[demodraws0606]

Me looking at Tumblr : Transfems and Transmascs at each other's throats and being vile to one another.

Me an AFAB nonbinary person who doesn't plan to transition who would be eradicated if I spoke my opinion :

[thegreatyin]

situationship is such a beautiful word. it describes so many beautiful things. the world is so beautiful.

[mantisgodsdomain]

we all know what you hate that wasn't elaborated in bugfables (every. Thing) and which the fandom ignores.

Therefore, 21, exclusively for canon and not fanon

(Choosing Violence)

21. part of canon you think is overhyped

Elizant's whole... thing honestly felt kind of poorly executed and, like... excuse-ish for us? Sure, she has a nice sob story, but we had already read the Ladybug lore books, like, in Chapter 2 or so, and we were already really inclined to agree with Leif on this new queen rubbing us the wrong way with just about all of her actions leading up to this point, and "i'm under a lot of stress" rang incredibly hollow as a result.

Sure, she's stressed. She's a queen, there's stress in that job. However, as someone who has felt the pressure to live up to expectations before, we really don't think that the pressure to live up to her mother's legacy actually excuses any of that and it makes everything the game tries to throw at us regarding "but it was okay because she felt bad about it and she's trying to fix everything" honestly feel just... incredibly shallow. Maybe it would be different for someone who didn't read the Lore Books at the first available opportunity. For us... it really makes everything regarding her sudden heel-turn into a Sympathetic Character feel pale and overhyped.

[amugoffandoms]

first time i'm taking creative liberties on a (milgram) fic, i usually stick to very canon-ish but i said fuck canon for a moment

[meat-pvppet]

Actually no im not going to bed just yet im being plagued by funger sona (who will probably end up just turning into an oc heavily based on myself) thoughts

[warabola]

yes it's late and yes i already said it in tags. but i really do want to emphasize that tie-ins can be so subtle. a Nemesis player recognizing what the cycle of grief and vengeance looks like in another is so good. Lightfingers' cards at zee are small and sweet reminders. please.