#foreshadowing huh?

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[garden-bug]

Is being critical of Sabine’s force sensitivity ‘gatekeeping’ the force or it is about how it undermines the established magic system and was not well written?

I’ll give you a clue it’s the second one.

[froggydoddles]

So let’s talk about No Longer You from Epic: The Musical

I just finished listening to The UnderWorld Saga from Epic and even though it’s the shortest saga out of the musical the amount of lyrical symbolism and foreshadowing from this saga is incredible but I specifically want to talk about No Longer You and how this song uses foreshadowing to its advantage but also to show the inevitable character growth and development that Odysseus will actively go through in Act 2. Tiresias, when Odysseus first meets him and gets his prophecy pretty much not only tells Odysseus how his journey will end but how to do it. First is, ‘’I see portrayals of betrayal, and a brothers final stand’’ now to Odysseus this seems like he is going to lose another member of his already dwindling crew however to the audience and those who know of the myth know that this is to show Eurylochus’s mutiny that will/is happening, its hinted at in the opening verse of Puppeter that Eurylochus was going confess to Odysseus that he’s the reason why the wind bag was opened, so this was pretty much a warning by Tiresias for Odysseus to be very careful of those around his crew, so this might come into play in Act 2 about Odysseus being a little more apprehensive around Eurylochus and his crew. Second is, ‘’I see you on the brink of death. I see you draw your final breath. I see a man who gets to make it home alive but it’s no longer you’’, these lines are the most important in the entire musical cause it show that at some point on Odysseus’s journey back home he will go through such a change that the ‘’final breath’’ is to show that the Odysseus we knew since the beginning of the story will ‘’die’’ and a new Odysseus will emerge to do what ever is necessary to get back home and will accept ruthlessness, I also find it interesting that Tiresias says the exact same words to Odysseus when he first got his prophecy it’s as if Tiresias is almost telling him ‘hey, this is what’s going to happen to the exact dime, change your way of thinking now or you will not live long enough to get back home’ and in Monster, Odysseus finally accepts ruthlessness and at this moment I believe is the old Odysseus’s ‘’last breath’’ and in Act 2 we will see how this new Odysseus will use what ever tools he has to get back to Penelope and Telemachus. No Longer You is an excellent use of foreshadowing and how it can be used to show a character’s growth and development and this song should be studied for writers to help better use clever foreshadowing in there stories just, aaarrrghh it’s so good!

[goosewizard]

thinking about best girl in the world nanami kiryuu and the horror of adoring an older male figure in your life and then coming of age and finding out they expected something from you. thinking about her looking back and wondering if it was all in preparation. if any of it was real. thinking about how empty the love she surrounds herself with is. how she adores and adores and expects to be adored in return but it’s all empty. none of it is love. thinking about how she realizes that this is it, this is all that’s for her at ohtori academy. that she’s supposed to be docile and accepting and a pretty face to swoon over and be used by the men (even her brother). thinking about how she sees anthy and akio and she’s so scared. she’s pissed and tired and so terrified. because that could’ve been her. thinking about how she’s never been afforded real comfort, so all she can do is put up walls and live in an empty fortress. thinking about how she’s been raised as a calf to slaughter. thinking about her.

[rhymaes]

The Untamed, Ep. 11 // The Untamed, Ep. 48

[jurdanhell]

Surely you have noticed that since his reign began, the isles are different. Storms come in faster. Colors are a bit more vivid, smells are sharper. But all that was done without trying. I am certain he didn’t notice the land altering itself to better suit him. Look at them all, your subjects, he’d said to me at a revel months ago. A shame not a one knows who their true ruler is. (The Wicked King, Pg. 291)

okay i’m on my regular twk reread (therapy) & i can’t be the only one who thinks the closeness of these two recollective quotes is… interesting.

[denkies]

Binge read all of vanitas no carte in like a day and a half. Gay ppl are literally insane. I always thought the ever-famous "I'll never set you free!" line was like... something to do with a binding contract or something. I didn't understand the hype about it, I was always like "Okay it's kind of cute that he's never gonna let this contract go, but it's not inherently romantic. What are you guys even talking abt right now."

But then you read it and there is SO MUCH romantic subtext, and even moments that are explicitly romantic between Vanitas and Noe.

And when Noe says "I'll never set you free!" it wasn't about a contract, it was him promising to never leave Vanitas. Vanitas saw total isolation and abandonment as "freedom," and Noe said, "As long as I'm here, you won't ever have that brand of freedom. I will never let you feel alone again. I promise to always be by your side, I promise to never abandon you. I promise to stay."

[yardsards]

the fact that i was born physically missing my wedding ring finger and grew up to be aroace will never stop being funny to me

[egginfroggin]

Crowned.

This was supposed to be significantly simpler, but then backgrounds and crowns happened.

Frankly, I rather like how it came out, excessive effort aside.

Anyway, I hope you all have a very good, blessed night. <3

(Program: Krita; time taken: about 2 hr 45 minutes)

[dishsaop]

UH OH.

[amusingmusie]

THE FLOWERS FROM CHAPTER 22 SO CLEVER! THE FORSHADOWING. Btw I love this fic <3. I keep rereading it because it’s so good 🥹

:)

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[marlenacantswim]

“Oi, what is this? Why the hell are we even here?”

“We are here to get annihilated.”

Death Foreshadowing in the Cornetto Trilogy: The World’s End

(Shaun of the Dead) (Hot Fuzz)

[quackle]

i love the tiny detail that raj cannot watch certain opposing forces face against one another. he just. he covers his eyes to hide from the mere tension of it all. even a coin flip is too much for him.

[sassyfever]

I already pointed this out on discord but I'm still going insane at the potential implications of this panel

[idanit]

I love how the Letters Regarding Jeeves and My Pal Bertie emails complement each other today. Bertie from the earlier story bets on the wrong horse and questions Jeeves’s sartorial decisions, but Bertie from the later one knows better that that. And he's nothing if not consistent in musing about how perfect Jeeves is.