#theme: saving yourself

[lucidloving]

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

[wordswithloveee]

You either play the game or let the game play you.

[neuromessy]

I'm sorry if I ate with no crumbs, but he had to go for me to have what I deserve: self-love

[saturdaysky]

SOMEbody failed his wisdom save to resist unlimited tadpole power, and that somebody is definitely my tav Mayhew. a WIP:

mindflayers are incredibly fun to draw fwiw, do recommend

[crehador]

risky move for mahoro to be hiding in here tbh. how much king frottage activity has she inadvertently witnessed already

[turnaboutsisterzarchive]

birdlike in nature

[seventeendeer]

I can't articulate this very well right now but. listen to me. rgu and pmmm, the tv series, are parallel stories. an echo. two versions of the same event. and their respective movies-

adolescence of utena is the happy ending, where the abandoned girl lays down her sword and finally leaves behind her flawed "hero" role so that she may go to the outside world and be with her beloved again. rebellion is the tragedy, where she is unable to let go and takes her old role to its logical conclusion, destroying herself and her relationship with her loved one in the process while convincing herself that she's doing what's best for the girl she loves, even if it means taking away her right to choose for herself.

do you see it. do you understand. there are layers to this !! different takes on the same subject !!! the contrasts also between the main pairs and how they're played !!!!! oh fuck and the deconstructive AU potential is off the chartsssss oh no

[thetismcave]

The phantom thieves are very mcr for some reason, and the combo gives me feelings

[mariakannon]

[mechieonu]

back in my sonelise feelings and smth that makes me so viciously ill is how sonic IMMEDIATELY INSTINCTIVELY puts himself between elise and the slightest hint of danger

[willosword]

it just hit me that they made you slowly crawl towards sephiroth in the nibelheim flashback to parallel cloud crawling towards zack at the end of crisis core and now i'm literally crying over it

[wordswithloveee]

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

[casiavium]

rereading the hunger games as an adult, after all the movies are out, remembering reading the books and waiting with my friends for the next movie and wanting to be the girl on fire, dressing up as her for Halloween, having heard the techo hanging tree remix on the radio and bought it for $1.29 on iTunes.

knowing how the way the movies were advertised made us into the Capitol, the book into the love triangle when Katniss really didn't like either of them, people having new 'hot takes' about how Gale is danger and Peeta is safety and it should never have been a choice it was always Peeta, but that's still the love triangle. Katniss feeling safe enough to have kids at the end was important, yes, but like. It shouldn't matter so much to argue about with who.

but also how Katniss is the face of teenage revolution. She's cited as this girl boss fire is catching we burn with it figure, but she never wanted to revolt. In Catching Fire she's so against it, she's doing everything she can to avoid it. People telling me I reminded them of Hermione Granger has definitely had a negative lasting effect on me (I'm not like other girls no make up to can't leave the house without pipeline) but maybe people telling me I reminded them of Katniss, their Katniss who was purposely rebellious, was just as bad.

We joke about "they created the Torment Nexus from the book 'Don't Create the Torment Nexus'", but like. wow. they really did.

It hurts, man. I genuinely believe the Hunger Games is up there with books like Lord of the Flies and should be taught in English literature to (usamerican at least) high schoolers. But like, if you still think the curtains were just blue then nothing is going to teach you media literacy

[gender-luster]

these three pieces of media are in my brain, holding hands and dancing and making out sloppy style

[aeirithgainsborough]

people who talk in their meta defending tlou2 about how joel was selfish and took away ellie’s choice and say he was morally reprehensible and massacred an entire hospital (no he did not lmao) so ofc he should have died he had it coming and it was deserved and made narrative sense are the ones who don’t understand nuance, actually. that whole prologue is a manipulation you know that right?

[a-very-fond-farewell]

it’s bloodwork day so I cannot eat until my appointment later into the morning (close to lunch, so I can eat smth afterwards), but boi if it isn’t stressful looking at crackers ang go 👀. and they aren’t even good crackers to begin with! time to write the hunger away.