#pattern recognition go brrr

[starry-eyed-psychopomp]

My favorite thing to do with MXTX series is to look at her books in the context of her previous works

Liu Qingge mourning for five years and taking in a disciple that Shen Qingqiu recommended feels like it eventually snowballed into Lan Wangji adopting A-Yuan

Xiao Xingchen is just the beta version of Xie Lian

Moshang’s ADHD/Autism, “oh my god he hates me”/“why is he not responding to my proposals :’(“ dynamic is a significantly more comedic version of Wangxian’s dynamic and the “come back to Gusu with me” miscommunication

Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian are the fucked up, irreconcilable precursor to the Xianle Trio and the main way MXTX made their relationship fixable was by inverting the class difference

If we were going further with the Xianle Trio comparison, Xie Lian is basically Mu Qing and Feng Xin’s Jiang Yanli

Shen Jiu and Wei Wuxian have immensely similar methods of dealing with their trauma. I.e., repressing it to the point that the worst of it can’t even be viewed in flashbacks, and deliberately allowing everyone around them to think the worst of them. They both have specific traumas (SA and forced cannibalism, respectively) that are never explicitly confirmed in the text, but are heavily implied by their actions after the fact. You could also draw a parallel between Shen Jiu only feeling comfortable around women in brothels and Wei Wuxian preferring to spend his time with the dead (and specifically his ghost jiejies).

This form of repression as a response to trauma is shared by Xie Lian and Wei Wuxian, and contributes to their being unreliable narrators, but weirdly doesn’t apply to Shen Yuan. Shen Jiu is the one who gets the treatment that would eventually be reserved for MXTX’s protagonists

Wangxian in general has elements of Qijiu in their dynamic, with the aforementioned trauma, as well as classism and INSANE MISCOMMUNICATION, but Wangxian, for their part, have much stronger moral backbones and are actually absurdly good with kids. That difference is probably why Qijiu is more often thought of in the same vein as Xiyao, since Xiyao is the fucked-up parallel-and-foil to Wangxian within MDZS

Not only are the books all about the inherent value of kindness, but MXTX often has her stories’ morals be stated by children (the Juniors in the Second Siege of the Burial Mounds, the little kids playing Sunshot Campaign, the merchant boy in the Banyue arc defending General Hua), the idea being that children generally have a purer view of the world, not yet overtaken by the cynicism and mob-mentality common among the adult characters

[bridgeoverstrawberryfields]

Pls tell me I’m not the only one who hears the similarities…

Countdown & Thunderbolts*

(Pls don’t repost)

[lemondoddle]

i don't know what it means but i think it means something

[I.D. a line graph with three marks and characters drawn over each mark. starting on the far left of the line is jane prentiss from the magnus archives, in the center is the spot from across the spiderverse, and on the right is slenderman. end I.D.]

[spacevulpix]

autistic pattern recognition go brrr

[wedding-funeral-waitress]

THIS is unironically the best fucking take on gender.

Because I'm trans I was often asked the question "So how many different genders are there?" as if I was a genius on the topic, which I am because I am a genius on everything; who also happens to be an idiot most times.

Regardless, my best response was always rebutting with "Well how many people are there?"

Because if we really really think about it; yes I am a woman. but what makes me a woman? Do I feel the same about my womanhood as all other women? Would it change if we asked different trans women? How about multitudes of cis women? Or even if we ask men, if I were to ask my boyfriend or my dad who are both cis men to describe their gender; I'd get different answers.

There would be similarities and that's why there's like- groupings of genders. I feel different about my gender than other women (trans or cis) but we probably would have some similarities. But STILL, there are gonna be differences!

The amount of genders is equivalent to all the people on earth, if you want to change my mind I implore you 'cuz I adore this topic.

can’t stop thinking about my friend’s cishet partner who said last night that he doesn’t think anyone is the same gender. god-tier take.

[gulyas069]

Judith Butler's concept of performativity ... Richard Dawkins' memetics ....... pattern recognition go brrr

[darth-shado]

At the beginning of season 1 of the Bad Batch I had a theory regarding whose inhibitor chip would activate next, but after episode 7 (when they removed their chips) this theory became irrelevant until the finale of the second season.

In season 1 episode 1 Omega meets the Bad Batch during that scene (I think) she says that she knows them and starts saying their names.

Which order might seem random but after s1e3 (when Wrecker's chip starts to activate) I was quite sure it wasn't.

In reverse order of how Omega says their names, first one would be Crosshair.

Who was the first one to execute order 66, and then left the Bad Batch.

Following, there is Wrecker who's chip started activating in s1e3 and in s1e7 it fully activated and by the end of that episode, was removed.

This was the moment I metaphorically threw this theory away but with the end on second season it is still somehow possible.

As we know Tech died in the last episode, and he (according to my theory) would be the third one whose chip would activate.

Meaning as the order would follow, Echo would be next, so far we don't know what might happen to him but I'm pretty sure it won't be anything good.

[moch-ila]

i love when scar is all like 'trust me trust the process this will look good eventually' BESTIE i would trust you with my life???

[browniefox]

Pattern recognition go brrr(d)

[charhounds]

FORGOT ABOUT GOD TAMER

im trying the 3rd pantheon again i wanna see if zote is actually as bad as i remember