Maybe this is a hot take, but as someone who literally went to a film school for a masters degree and is an avid video game fan, I feel like there’s just too much media out there that uses things like flash warnings to cover their ass for effects they like, don’t even need?
Like, every music video does not need strobe lighting. Games with blinding effects don’t need that effect to be bright fucking white. I’m sick of living in a world where giving a warning is enough to lock an entire group of people of enjoying art and stories for the fucking aesthetic. There are other ways to make things visually interesting I swear.
Infinity Train Book Two took a full rewatch to grow on me but it grew on me a LOT
let's just say that the mental process it took for me to love Lake and want to protect them at all costs is the same process it took for me to be able to think back to myself as a teenager, aka an edgy little jerk who either wants to die or burn down the whole world, and say "well, that was a kid, don't judge your kid self as you would an adult" instead of wanting to strangle my 14 y.o self
anyway here's a slightly older Lake wearing punk outfits including my own leather jacket
so what about one of those "jon was in the mechanisms in college and martin is currently a huge fan" jmart fics except we have an alternative/punk martin and for whatever's reason wore his battle vest/jacket to the archives and jon is so close to reprimanding martin for "inappropriate workplace attire" (the hypocrite) but then he sees the extremely detailed and lovingly hand-made mechanisms backpatch as the vest's centerpiece and he just,,, freezes and walks back to his office.