#girl in front of the mirror

[woman-in-front-of-mirror]

Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won't lie about that...

Alía Bhatt

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The girls are here!!!

[peaceinthestorm]

Christian Emil Rosenstand (1859-1932, German) ~ Ung pige foran spejlet, 1901

[allgremlinart]

Im still so fucking fascinated by this phenomenon of Azula woobifiers... like yes she's a complicated character, she has trauma. she also grinned at her brother being disfigured and tried to murder multiple people I promise you these two things can coexist sdhshs

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Budkin Philipp Osipovich (Russian, 1806-1850) Girl In Front of a Mirror, 1848 Belarusian National Arts Museum

[lumaxramblings]

never gonna shut up abt how it's the same dead stare.

[stuck-in-jelly]

Maybe I’m delusional but I cant be the only one who believes that the “Rise Again” short story is a parallel to what must’ve happened when Lisa realized what Viren “had to do” to save their son.

Pretty consistently we see that Claudia is a parallel to her father meanwhile more subtly we see Soren as a parallel to his mother.

I believe it is strongest in the scene where Soren makes the decision to runaway and he tries to ask Claudia to come with him. Claudia shakes her head overwhelmed with whats going on and begging Soren to not make her choose between him and their father, much like when their parents asked her to choose which parent she’d stay with.

And so, just like their mother, Soren chooses for Claudia. Telling her goodbye.

I feel like it is especially reinforced with these images.

With that established i want to clarify my thoughts on exactly what happened to Soren when he was a kid.

I know a lot of people believe Soren didn’t actually die and instead was just really sick and about to die but between the symbolism of being turned to stone=death and how whatever spell he did crossed a line even his Mentor wouldn’t to the point of getting into a physical altercation I believed Soren actually died.

It seems to me that to at least to some degree this was resurrection. But why it didn’t require a blood of his child?

Soren was young and small and probably not dead for very long unlike Viren who had been dead for TWO YEARS.

But now onto ‘Rise Again’.

Of course the spell Claudia used wasn’t as strong as bringing something to life. She didn’t actually bring back a dead cat she was just animating cat ashes into the form of the cat she loved but regardless other she and Soren treat it as if the ashes were truly the cat and not a puppet Claudia made. But these snippets stuck out the most to me

If we take this short story as a parallel of their parents after Soren’s death/near death I feel like the language paints a good picture of how it went:

Viren:

“- I know but I fixed it.”

“It wasn’t fair that [he] died. [He] wasn’t even that old.”

Lisa:

“We had a little ceremony remember?”

“Because [Soren] died.”

But I think the biggest one is this scene:

[xtraxtraxtra69]

[blueskittlesart]

someday traditional art profs are gonna give up their war on photographs

[ickypuppi3]

“billy’s scary”

and then this is how he talks

[satans-knitwear]

Mirror Mirror...

Treat me ~ Tip me

[woman-in-front-of-mirror]

"The person in the mirror is your only competition".

♡

[p3xxie]

So I tried pigtails 🩷

But also my mirror broke 💀

[plural-culture-is]

questioning plural culture is having two male brain friends when you're afab (assigned female at birth) and spending so much time talking to them---and probably having them fronting without realizing it because you're still questioning, lol---that when you look at yourself in the mirror you see a boy even though you're very obviously a female

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[abadbadbrujah]

straight guys who go to the gym and have no ass, what are you doing?! why are you here if not for a fat ass? you want the v taper physique but where will that v lead to? to your gluteus minimus? you want the abs but where do they need to? to the quads of a chicken? you've been going to the gym for years 6 days a week 3 hours a day and yet i'm doing more weight on the abductor/inductor machine than you after my 6 months 3 days a week 1 hour a day?

girls like a fat ass and big thighs I can promise you that, more than they like abs, GROW YOUR ASS BOY!!!

[rottiens]

...stepmom yuki 😞

Ok now,,,,, are you coming for my head by chance? Why do you want to attack me like this