#different selves

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Throughout our lives our identity is constantly fractured and shifting; our different selves rise to the surface and fall away, surge forward only to be repressed, or come into conflict with each other in the ebb and flow of psychological and emotional experience.

from the Introduction by Peter Collier to In Search of Lost Time, Book 6: The Fugitive by Marcel Proust

[nenoname]

[qvert]

Another one for @lunamonroeao3 and her AU ‘Heavy is the Crown’

Which is absolutely mind blowing btw just in case I hadn’t mentioned that before

Link and stuff below the cut

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Maybe we never had a chance.

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[leaderincrows]

No one asked but LADS as furries

Ft. The booty shorts their in game character models wear

Zayne is a snow leopard

Sylus is a [redacted] [[he just lies]]

Xavier is a jack rabbit, he keeps his ears pinned so you think he’s a lop

Caleb is a German shepherd, literally every furrys type

And Raf is a sea otter!

[ludinusdaleth]

i can't rewatch c1 because i see young little matt and then my mind flickers to aabria embracing him and saying "look at what you've created" and i start crying

[acrid-wondrland]

"Would you still love me if I turned into a worm 🥺?"

[eru-iru]

how much longer can you keep this up?

[findmeinthefallair]

Mindscape, based on this post I made weeks ago

The yellow light is Flapjack's life force 😭😭😭😭

[curseofhyperfixation]

"Look what we'll become"

[irvingbb]

Maybe my way of thinking about the innies vs outies isn’t how the show intended it to be interpreted but tbh I don’t think that the innies and outies are different people in any significant way.

Like people say “Helly is who Helena would’ve been if she hadn’t grown up as an Eagen” but like I don’t think that’s true. I think Helly is the way she is specifically because of who Helena is. When Helly first wakes up, her personality is immediately front and center. She does NOT act the way Mark and Irving were expecting her to, which kind of freaks them out. Helly bangs on the door, initially refuses the survey, shouts to be let out, throws a speaker directly at Mark’s head, etc. etc. Helena is the one who developed that personality throughout her life. The difference is that Helly isn’t making a conscious effort to control herself to try to live up to the role that she is supposed to fill.

If the innies truly were different people, then they would start out as completely blank slates and develop a personality from there. The innies and outies would be like twins separated at birth, similar in appearance but entirely different people with personalities formed through their different lives. But the Innies and outies demonstrably aren’t entirely different people. Their personalities are consistent. Dylan loves his wife as both an outie and an innie. Irving longs for connection with Burt as both an outie and an innie. Mark grieves Gemma as both an outie and an innie, although he doesn’t know what it is when he’s an innie. The real difference is only what specific knowledge they have available to them. The difference in knowledge between innies and outies is what shapes the differences in their behavior.

the innies aren’t the outies minus their life experiences, they’re the outies minus the conscious memory of their life experiences. But their lives in the outside world absolutely shape who they are both in innie and outie form, because they are one person. At least that’s how I view it anyway.

[bklily]

If I have to read another fucking comment about how "marichat is better than ladrien because in the former they can be their true selves with each other" I'm going to commit a federal crime with violent repercussions.

Ladrien is another peak side of the love square and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.

[anticidic]

gonna be sick thinking of this Mori and Dazai parallel of their canon selves vs BEAST selves and how their roles flip in Beast and Mori's the one in the light

Beast Mori's actions took a turn for the better as he now manages an orphanage and takes in Atsushi under his wing. He feels and expresses remorse over what happened to Dazai and wishes to not have it repeat, so he takes care of Atsushi. It's very human.

And then Beast Dazai's actions took a turn for the worse even if his overall goal was a good one, he still did it very questionably. Dazai's tormented by visions that aren't even his own, the friendships he formed and memories he made belong to someone else in an entirely different universe, but he's consumed by them. He took up being the boss at eighteen and made enemies out of everyone in order to do what needed to be done, and he didn't even want to be boss, but someone had to be.

Like, there is clearly a certain pull of darkness associated with being in charge of the Port Mafia, and I think there's something to be said about necessary evils and what it does to the soul of someone who manages the night. Each boss became a slave to the mafia, to the night, to the city. There is no them, their selves are consumed and what's left is a puppet to do what needs to be done.

[brokenrefraction]

willow but he's forced to deliver shitty greasy pizza

[piratespencil]

I’ve never played League so I only know about their LoL dynamic second-hand but it is SO funny to me that Arcane took these two characters whose whole shtick is being enemies and hating each other, and said what if we made them cosmically intertwined soulmates who love each other so so much and never once hate each other, even when they are fighting over the fate of reality??? Jayce was screaming/crying/throwing up/etc while forcing himself to kill Viktor and he only did it because an alt version of Viktor made him promise to. Every time Machine Herald Viktor saw Jayce it was all hi Jayce I’m so pleased to see you. Hi Jayce let’s be partners again. Join me Jayce.

And it was beautiful and deeply romantic and also it was still these two guys who are basically video game Megamind and Metro Man.

[nellasbookplanet]

That post I reblogged about Imogen '8 strentgh' Temult being fanonized as burly is mostly lighthearted, but it also reminded me how the fanon depiction of Imogen has shifted. Earlier in the campaign, when Laudna was perceived as the stronger of the two, the one who took care of poor little innocent, anxious, migraine afflicted Imogen, fanon-Imogen was this short, round, soft looking person. Now, as canon has made it very clear that Imogen is the (mentally) stronger of the two, the one who's trying to stop Laudna from spiraling, her fanon self has shifted into something more traditionally masculine, leaning into the farmgirl aesthetic of pants and cowboy hats and muscles, even as her canon design has only gotten more feminine with sheer dresses and skirts.

And I'm not one to pass up on fun fanon designs; I've certainly reblogged my fair share of muscly Imogen because I'm only human and Imogen with muscles hot. I don’t think these designs are done with any larger motive than 'she looks good like this'. But I also kind of think we need to have a conversation about how fandom keeps trying to slot these two characters in a non-heteronormative relationship into heteronormative roles of (feminine) soft, weak, innocent person to be cared for/saved and (masculine) strong, heroic, saviour taking care of them, however unconsciously it’s done.