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n0bluev · 3 months
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THEM THEM YJEM THEM TEMM my session is almost over, just gotta do a last little (VERY VERY BIG FAST STRESFULL-) push and then schools done ^^!!!! AND SO HERES SOME SATOSUGU SKETCHES FROM A COUPLE DAYS AGO (i hadnt planned what i was going for in the drawing cuz it was just supposed to be a little brain empty sketch (cough, to procrastinate, cough, sorry teach TT), so ive got a bunch of different gojo attempts with different vibes lol (i couldnt just,,, not give geto his other half,, TT) -- none of them passed, i prolly wont finish this drawing -- ILL MAKE OTHERS INSTEAD DURING WINTER BREAK !!!! >:DDD) ---> im posting this now to give my official hello to JJK TUMBLR, HI! MY BRAIN HAS BEEN GOING VERY VERY FAST WHENEVER ITS ABOUT JJK (esp satosugu) FOR A WHILE NOW AND I JUST HAVE TO CONSUME CREATE EXIST IN 'BE' JJK SO UH.. yep
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thepariahcontinuum · 4 months
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Sophia/Shadow Stalker's Trigger Event definitely involved her running for her life.
Having little Miss "You're either a predator or you're prey" have gotten her superpowers whilst being the prey and keeping that as a dirty little secret that she would rather die than admit to anyone just feels absolutely perfect.
It makes her just another traumatized teenager using her powers to take back some semblance of control over her life in a world that is objectively nuts. It also fits with her relationships with a few different characters.
Emma: Sophia has no friends outside of Emma, even Madison is more "Emma's other friend who's around sometimes" and they meet during what would have been Emma's Trigger event if she was a Cape....Sophia is, in a messed up way trying to be the person she never had in her own life; revealing that there's something more to her under all of that anger and cruelty.
Brian: Shadow Stalker wants Grue to be her nemesis so hard it hurts and honestly, if Brian "I'm going to lie about my Trigger Event" Laborn is going to have a nemesis then making it a Sophia who is similarly hiding her own insecurities and refusing to show weakness or vulnerability in front of anyone is just perfect, it makes them narrative foils.
Taylor: Remember the line where Sophia sees that Taylor took up running and loses her shit about it "You wanted to be strong so you copied me by running" or something to that effect....Gives it new context doesn't it?
Imagine:
You're on the track team in junior high.
The fact that all you can do is run is what saves your life.
You get superpowers designed to help you escape and still you refuse to ever be the victim or run away again.
You're forced to stay on the track team in high school just to keep up appearances.
The girl you've been bullying finally gets a bit of a spine, she's finally getting stronger.
She did it by taking inspiration from you..... By running
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anthurak · 7 months
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So after my last post on the topic, I’ve been doing more thinking on the potential dramatic fallout of Blitzo acquiring an Asmoadean Crystal at the cost of I.M.P.’s use of the Goetic Grimoire, and with it, his relationship with Stolas. Particularly how it could also potentially ripple out to create a major blow-up with Loona, since with an Asmodean Crystal, Loona’s actual job at I.M.P., using the Grimoire to portal the imp crew to Earth and back, would be nixed and leave her with nothing to actually do at the company.
And I just had WILD idea as to where this could end up leading.
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Imagine if Loona’s anger at Blitzo effectively trading I.M.P.’s use of the Grimoire for an Asmoadean Crystal isn’t just about Blitzo unwittingly taking away probably the one thing Loona felt useful doing at the company, but also because Loona doesn’t have access to the Grimoire anymore?
What if Loona has actually been secretly using the Grimoire without Blitzo’s or the M&M’s knowledge? Maybe she’s been operating her own business routing to Earth on the side? Maybe she’s been taking her own assassination contracts without Blitzo’s knowledge? Or perhaps Loona has simply been using the Grimoire as a retreat, a way to get away from her problems in hell for a while by just hanging out on Earth?
Whatever the reason, Loona wants or even needs the Grimoire that Blitzo has now ensured they won’t be able to use anymore. Not that she really lets this slip to Blitzo or Moxxie and Millie during her big fight with her father. Instead, we learn about it through more non-verbal means.
Imagine if after her fight with Blitzo and storming out of the I.M.P. offices, we see Loona pause, and draw a large circle on the wall. Placing her paw in the center of the circle, Loona’s eyes glow with magic, making it clear she is attempting to open a portal herself. But alas, she cannot. Further angered and frustrated (and perhaps punching the wall), Loona pauses to weigh her options, and then storms off down the street. A helpful camera pan-up revealing the Goetia manor far-off in the distance in the direction Loona is going.
I imagine this is starting to sound familiar to some people…
After this, Loona proceeds to break into the Goetia manor in an attempt to get the Grimoire back… and ends up running into Octavia.
At this point I imagine this is sounding VERY familiar to some people.
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In short, what ensues is a meeting between Loona and Octavia which both heavily parallels and heavily contrasts the reunion between Blitzo and Stolas that we saw in flashback during The Circus.
Just like her father before her, Loona is trying to steal the Goetic Grimoire for her own use and is found by Octavia, just like her father before her.
But whereas Blitzo and Stolas spent their reunion on entirely different pages as to what the other actually wanted, Loona and Octavia are VERY much on the same page as to what’s going on. In contrast to her father, I imagine Loona would immediately come clean to Octavia as to why she was there and what she wanted the Grimoire for. If for nothing else than to simply vent her frustrations after the fight with her father.
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Because unlike their respective fathers, Loona and Octavia are actually already pretty close after Seeing Stars and actually understand and relate to each other on what is likely to be a close, personal level. So rather than some awkward interaction while not really understanding (or caring in Blitzo’s case) what the other wants or expects, Loona and Octavia have an open and genuine heart-to-heart and bond over the problems they’re going through. This could show a natural follow-up and role-reversal to the pair’s previous meeting, now with Octavia being the one to hear out and provide emotional support and closure to Loona.
And to further the contrasts, this whole scene ends with Loona and Octavia establishing a kind of ‘contract’ of their own. Not one based on some weird, vaguely defined transactional relationship and sex acts like their fathers did.
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But simply one based on them being friends.
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This is really one of the big reasons I’m so interested in where the show will be taking these two, and why I think much of the fandom’s fixation on Loona and Octavia simply being ‘sisters’ is really selling these two short.
Because ironically, I think it’s very easy to envision a scenario wherein Blitzo’s and Stolas’s relationship falling apart actually brings Loona and Octavia closer together. We already saw in Seeing Stars that Loona and Octavia deeply relate to and empathize with each other over their respective struggles with their fathers. So as Blitzo’s and Stolas’s relationship continues to deteriorate, which in turn ripples into causing problems with their other relationships, namely with their respective daughters, I think it’s all too probable that Loona and Octavia would turn to each other for understanding and support.
Whereas Blitzo’s and Stolas’s relationship has been this messy, vaguely and ill-defined fling based on transactional sex for favors wherein neither are open about how they actually feel about each other, I think it’s all too likely we’ll be seeing Loona and Octavia develop a platonic, emotionally-intimate friendship based on their relating to each other.
In other words, I think Loona and Octavia may very well become a VERY interesting platonic foil to Stolitz.
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winter2468 · 1 year
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Ooh, thinking about Edmond Dantes as an Odysseus figure. A man is forced to leave his home and loved ones, sails home twenty years later to find his home and himself deeply changed. He tells lies to everyone on the way, be they ally or enemy. He has a great capacity for love, but he is also vengeful and takes his vengence too far at times.
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sir-adamus · 2 years
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something something Yang, Cinder and Pyrrha are all fire-themed, associated with gold, the strongest members of their teams and are all taken out of commission in some regard at the end of volume 3 something something
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as8bakwthesage · 2 years
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Now that I think about it, the Bad end nighT series is actually pretty fitting for The Stanley Parable
“Will you follow the script or need a full rewrite?”
“So then what kind of ending do you have in mind?
“Don’t you know its yours to decide?”
“And with one easy swing of the knife I found-
“I was simply having so much fun here!”
“Simply follow the script as it was written for you.”
“The show must still on go!”
“History repeats itself- I found the end.”
“The story controls us to the core.”
“Repeating again, the last performance, the encore holds the end-“
PLAYLIST TO THE SONGS (Ignore Sister’s mercY and Vampire’s pathoS)
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deuxaeonn · 2 months
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I love foils. So, here's a collection of similarities between Vox and Alastor!
The classic angry table clawing - everyone knows that one:
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Smiling for heightened control and influence (and smiling through annoyance):
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The [demonic shock] [slow head turn] [extra filtered voice] "haha, what did you [just] say?" scenes:
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These scenes, at the beginning and end of Stayed Gone:
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Depicting themselves as a member of a religious institution to vie for the audience's trust:
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citroncynique · 5 months
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If you cannot break from the eggshell, the world is naught but a prison where you are blinded and confined.
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undersomeonesbed · 3 months
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I am so sick of people repeating the untruth that tolerate it is about Taylor’s relationship with her dad— if that’s how YOU feel about YOUR relationship with your dad I feel for you, valid interpretation— but how does someone hear Taylor say over and over that she has an excellent father who she loves and trusts and then physically see the guy show up to her concerts grooving and supporting her and bonding with the bf and handing out picks and go “yeah that’s a guy who just tolerates his kid, couldn’t care if she lived or died”
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opheliasam · 4 months
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among the grating cesspool that is spn youtube clips comment sections… found some peers.. academics.. people who get it if u will
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dmbakura · 5 months
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It's actually very manipulative to talk shadowheart out of killing the nightsong and becoming a dark justiciar. She's always been loyal to shar and forcing her to betray her and send her into a crisis of faith is borderline abusive. And shar punishes her for it so it's clearly a bad choice <- what "ascended astarion is actually the good ending because its what he wants" copium sounds like to me
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aquapede · 6 months
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well i could have given celebi eos an interesting backstory. maybe even given her a body count. AND survivor's guilt
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reunitedinterlude · 5 months
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seasons change but... (1, 2, 3, 4)
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daylighteclipsed · 6 months
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Y’all ever think about if Sora falls to darkness that inside his heart will look like the Destiny Islands falling again
#i do a lot#kingdom hearts#one of the biggest reasons i think we’ll see something like this in canon. briefly at least#not only would parallel ddd w ven’s heart/armor no longer there to protect sora#and roxas and xion gone from sora’s heart too. so sora would be alone#and actually there as opposed to in the RoL/awake when riku dives in#but also there is no way nomura’s gonna pass up the chance to bring us full circle like this. he loves making his characters revisit/relive#worlds and memories like this to make a point. and sora’s heart was sunset in ddd… following kh1 the dark and stormy night comes next#The thought of sora and riku reaffirming their love and friendship here when it broke the first time the islands fell#both of them having to in a way relive this horrible night for the final time#but riku doing the total opposite of last time. trying to save sora trying to stop the darkness from consuming everything#being totally honest with sora. reaching his hand out for sora but this time he’s not being consumed by darkness.#he’s become the light in the darkness. and they finally reach each other they finally grasp hands. I’m chewing on glass#i don’t think sora would ‘fall’ to darkness in the traditional sense#thematically i think it makes more sense for him to be faced w another martyr choice#though his own negative feelings would still be tangled up in there. and this would parallel kh3#and if sora chooses to let darkness into his heart to save others it’d also parallel kh1 w riku choosing to open the door/let the darkness#into destiny islands at the risk of others#god it’d be just like kh1 but we’d be playing as riku and he’d be the one looking frantically for sora#a reversed dynamic. but now they understand each other’s pain and feelings so they can reach each other#figuratively and literally#i love parallels i love symbolism i love themes kick my ass !!!!
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melianella · 10 months
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This is living rent free in my head
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metanarrates · 2 months
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its interesting to me that the common sentiment appears to be that han sooyoung intended for jang hayoung to be trans. I think there's room for multiple interpretations, but I view being trans in orv as being inherently tied to the themes of self-actualization, as well as the idea that a narrative is unable to be fully defined by either author or reader. put more simply, jang hayoung is trans regardless of either kim dokja OR han sooyoung's intentions in creating her, or in how they each interpreted her. maybe the version of her in the novel was meant to be something else, but in the reality of this world, she is a trans girl. han sooyoung's intentions kind of don't matter there because the text has moved beyond its author
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