#parallel evolution

[rawrrpurruwurawr]

Look they're copying each other's eye spots now to confuse predators 🥰💕

[thebctman]

I’m going feral over how Mel and Viktor’s parallels with eachother are rooted in magic. Both saw magic as their salvation and their prayers.

Mel is born with magic whereas Viktor sought it artificially. Mel is from privilege and born in wealth. She could see the sky as easily it was to breathe. She grew up in a culture that emphasized on physical strength. Viktor was born in poverty and Zaun’s inability to breathe set his life with a countdown. Zaun also valued adaptability and intellect instead. Mel and Viktor casted aside the mentalities set upon them by their mentors to fight for their own.

Both desired and dreamed to create their own paths with their own ambitions. Both saw and used Jayce as their way to do so.

[tampire]

"There is beauty in imperfections."

[secriden]

ok i can't sleep until i do this but. the parallels and juxtaposition between fadelstyle's storeroom scene vs the forest scene:

The person who "confesses"

The person who initiates

The way it's Fadel this time that barely dares to touch (also: note we have hand on neck again but in reverse!!!)

The way the last time was established to be purely physical, but this time it's there's an acknowledgement that this involves their hearts

The constant, straight on, full and INTENSE eye contact vs the snatches they took because Fadel was so quick to turn Style around and wasn't ready to look him in the eye as he fucked him

The way they both stay fully clothed but this time its so much more intimate and tender and emotionally resonant than it was when they were naked.

Also fuck but Joong and Dunk really both brought their all to this scene. I'm so appreciative of the ways you can see Style's desperation to communicate his genuine feelings in the forest scene vs the storeroom scene. And the way Fadel is so shaken, because this time this time, he's finally ready to acknowledge that his heart is alive again.

[yolothh]

Viktor really meant the "in all timelines, in all possibilities" line BECAUSE IT'S OUR TIMELINE TOO! THEY EXISTED!

Please take a moment and let me introduce you to: Giacomo Leopardi and Antonio Ranieri's partnership.

Leopardi was an italian poet, author, philosopher and philologist. He is an important figure in Romantic literature (albeit, he did criticize the Romantic worldviews).

All throughout his life he suffered from a debilitating chronic illness (juvanile ankylosing spondylitis) that had him suffer horrendously from a young age, until it eventually took his life in 1837, when he was 39 years old.

He dedicated most of his life to studies, translating old tomes, writing poems and treaties diverting on humanity's degeneration from our glorious past to our suffering present. He exhorted modern folks to take action against the unjust present, aiming to a revolution of our pitiful condition.

In 1827 Leopardi meets Antonio Ranieri a young man that is described (verbatim) as a "very young and handsome in person and spirit".

Ranieri had been exiled from his city during his youth, because of his excessively liberal views in regards to politics.

The two become very close friends, but it's in 1830 that their "partnership" (literally, not making this up, Ranieri himself wrote a book about it if you care to check it out "Seven years of partnership with Giacomo Leopardi") starts. They move together from Firenze to Naples and Ranieri attends to Leopardi's every wish (noted that this man was a fanatic for sweets) paying with money from his own pocket.

Now, friendship at the time was different than what it is now, and they might’ve been very close friends, yes. But I'll give you some words from their letters and what Ranieri wrote down in his book and leave it to your judgment.

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Ranieri, Naples, 1833:

"I- left my own bed- used to sleep in a room that was not mine (scandalous at the time) to sleep by his side"

Leopardi, Florence, 1832-33, from when they got separated because Ranieri needed to tend to some family issues:

"My Ranieri, you will never abandon my side, nor will your love for me grow colder. I don't wish for you to sacrifice yourself for me. In fact, before anything else, I strongly wish for you to take care of yourself first: whatever you choose to do, you will do it so because we live for one another, or I know that I do for you; my last and only hope. Farewell, my soul. I keep you close to my heart, which in both possible and impossible occurrences, will forever be yours"

Leopardi, Florence, 1832-33, on someone making a joke out of Ranieri for staying by Leopardi's side:

" [...] Oh, my Ranieri! When will I get you back? I won't stop trambling until I'll recover this immeasurable love, until I know it's true. Farewell, my soul, with all my spirit's strength. Don't get bored of loving me"

And more:

"Ranieri of mine, I need not say that in every way you wish, I will be there with you (...). My resolution has been so for a great time now: that I will never be parted from you. Farewell"

In 1833, Ranieri sends a letter where he says he intends to set off to get Leopardi and go live together in Naples, to which Leopardi answers:

"My Ranieri, will this [letter] reach you in Naples still? I must warn you, I cannot live without you no longer, I'm overtaken by a morbid impatience to see you again, and that I am sure that if you will be late, I will die from the malencholy of not having you still. Farewell, Farewell"

Ranieri, on the landlady that took them in in Naples:

"She revealed this: that I had introduced a consumptive in the house: that, loving him so much as to stay up at night by his side, there could be no reason I could not do that as well in mine own house"

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So now, take it as you will- because maybe I am way too much of a nerd about this stuff- but I can't read ANYTHING Leopardi and Ranieri related without seeing Viktor and Jayce. I will gladely add more in the future.

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Addition! If you want to watch/read on them (but mostly Leopardi, which is a catch) I STRONGLY advice you:

Leopardi. Il poeta dell'infinito - I don't personally love it but if you want more on them, thats the place

Il giovane favoloso - AMAZING movie

Canti - by Leopardi, it is a collection of poems he wrote and I think it is absolutely useful to understand his marvelous mind and character

Sette anni di Sodalizio con Giacomo Leopardi - the one I mentioned before, written by Ranieri on his time with Leopardi

[wistfulwatcher]

3.18 The Crossing | 17.04 Kingdom of the Blind

[merrycatblackwood]

"lovers spend years denying what’s ill fated. resentment rotting away galaxies we created, stars placed and glued meticulously by hand next to the ceiling fan. tried wishing on comets. tried dimming the shine. tried to orbit his planet. some stars never align. and in one conversation, i tore down the whole sky. spring sprung forth with dazzling freedom hues, then a crash from the skylight bursting through."

space-themed imagery from lover onto ttpd

[sersi]

I grew up in apocalypses, Loki. I've lived through enough of them to know that sometimes it's okay to destroy something. If... If there's a hope you can replace that thing with something better.

[theflyingwolf]

I can’t stop thinking about parallels. Do you think Gojo first saw Itadori and saw Riko’s death sentence? Remember how he was too weak to save her but maybe he’s strong enough to save him? And do your think he thinks of Geto when he sees Itadori want to help the ordinary, and he remembered the Geto that would never leave him (until Geto did), you think he saw Haibara’s brightness and never ending enthusiasm.

all I can think of is how Itadori encompasses all the good that was in the people Gojo lost

[fratricideation]

i'll just keep drawing horses.

emma hunsinger, "how to draw a horse" // 5x04 the end // 5x14 my bloody valentine // 6x20 the man who would be king // 7x02 hello, cruel world // 7x17 the born-again identity // 8x07 a little slice of kevin // 8x17 goodbye stranger // 9x18 meta fiction // 9x21 king of the damned // 10x09 the things we left behind // 11x03 the bad seed // 11x23 alpha and omega // 12x19 the future // 12x01 keep calm and carry on // 13x05 advanced thanatology // 14x08 byzantium // 15x18 despair

[easilycherished]

I'm trying to puzzle together the significance of the rollercoaster parallel in this episode please tell me someone smarter than me has already done it!!

[reineyday]

i watched the time quangle before i watched neverafter and i remembered how pinocchio hinted he might have a bit of a crush on red, so i was looking for it during the campaign.

and there are a lot of really good moments you can build on, but i found a lot of it really was just from pinocchio's side as he seems to point out how cool ylfa is a fair amount: he says more than once that one of the first things she ever did was save his life, and after the jester bit he does, she makes that buoy of destiny joke and pinocchio talks about how much funnier she is than him. in return though, ylfa doesn't seem to really consider him overly much, always more preoccupied in her spare moments with authority figures or awestruck by older women like rosamund, or the princesses, or the baba yaga, or the fairy with the orange hat.

and then for her to drop in the very last five minutes of the entire campaign that she had a lil diary where she wrote "nocchi" in hearts around the name, and everyone had to take a moment to realize she meant pinocchio and not like, gnocchi the pasta or something, was hilarious. peak moment. perfect way to end it tbh. 😂😂 what a great campaign!!!

[pheracy]

Arcane detail 🔍 Not only we can see how the souls of the people Viktor helped hatching out of their husks but also emerging or teleporting directly from the acceleration rune to the astral realm where Jayvik were. What do you guys think this means/represents? 🤔

[wistfulwatcher]

13.15 Annihilator | 17.06 Message in a Bottle

[reunitedinterlude]

dan: oh sakura, yes okay i know this one (2016 // 2023)

[lemoncattea]

Arcane 4am Rant season2 act 3 SPOILERS

Its like 4 in the morning and I'm losing it!

I just finished arcane act 3 season 2 and fuck I don't have friends to talk to this about so...

tumblr rant

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!!

SEVIKA

Sevika being around and present for Piltover because of the connection she and the other zuanites have to their home and just the show of there compassion but also they only want those who are willing and not just those who have fighting ability. But seeing they care for their own; sending mothers and children away for safely. Makes you wonder if Jinx told her what happened to Isha.

Also love the fact she takes up the mantle of being a symbol of Zuan after jinx but also because she's seen each side Vander's (Peace) but only for some parts as that all he could do. Silco's (Power) causing infighting and sacrificing the weak and those out of his control and the one jinx made by accident (Hope) for life without the grey and enough food for everyone and one where everyone is equal topside or the undercity. Then Sevika left with a chair at the councillor's table now a leader for the Zuan taking up where jinx left she's hope but also remembrance of what divide can cause.

JINX RANT part

Jinx cutting her hair and finally letting go of all of her past and moving forward for her sister and the world. Lovely to see her grow and change this past season. It destroyed me which the fact we know that had she not died along side Vander. She could have had a life with Ekko and her sister. Also her and Vander's death were a great parallel to her death of powder and Isha. Being the death of innocent and agape. Also been loving the people who also noticed the parallels of jinx and Viktor being brought back from the dead pretty much by someone who cares so deeply for them. Their crazy smart minds and suicidal tendencies, their self worth issues and the fact the go out with someone who cares for them.

Jayce Viktor part of rant

Getting to see what Jayce saw destroyed me and the way Jayce said he never viewed Viktor's illness and disability has something to be a ashamed of but rather a part of Viktor that he admired as it made him who he was.

It's a confirming how much Jayce cares for Viktor. Then when Jayce shows Viktor that he was mage and the one to send back to stop himself. The fact that he was the mage was a theory I had but the fact he lead there to the hammer because what Viktor did resulted nothing but loneliness and destruction. Also when Viktor said in all timelines and all possibles only you can show this.

Also just the way he held Viktor's hand to help him contain the rune. But more than once they were separated and the fact at the first few times Viktor reached out to Jayce but stopped reaching out in the same way he stopped reaching out to Jayce in the first season when was getting sicker and changing himself with the shimmer and runes. It a great parallel of that but also it reflected the fact that he felt like he shouldn't reach out but each time Jayce comes to him like he's done time and time again.

You can see it in Viktor's eyes he's nervous and frustrated then for finally time Jayce's hand comes in wrapping around Viktor's. The way he place his other hand on Viktor's neck and they let the foreheads touch. They are so cannon!

Then they turned to dust and returned the world to normal together and then disappeared together that was Affection LOVE *cough cough* that held them together but seriously arcane took doomed gays ideas and did well like.. together then drifting apart, separated, enemies, friends to lover again to only be returned to dust as if they never existed but forever together. Its sweet and well written like a hozier lyric