#Coming-of-age tale

[joncronshawauthor]

The Long Night: A Fantasy Adventure of Courage & Betrayal | Free Audio Story | Audiobook

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[horror-aesthete]

Over the Garden Wall, 2014, dir. Patrick McHale

SE01E001 The Old Grist Mill

[pettson]

i could make a comment on how tess being overlooked in the tlou fandom is because of the misogynistic views on older women we have in this society where any woman over 35 is not considered sexy anymore and therefore loses her worth, but do i want to

[allieinarden]

The generation that grows up with Over the Garden Wall will never understand how funny it was watching like 70% of the base flip from Team Beatrice to Team Sara when they watched it a second time.

[diazmaximoff]

“We are the reluctant heroes in tales of loss, our youth the price paid for the safety of souls too tender for the world’s harsh embrace.”

[third-doctor]

Greg Universe is transmasc now I don't make the rules. He literally ran away from home, changed his name, and started a career as a rockstar. Pretty much any other male character with these traits would have a hundred transmasc headcannons. Also 19 year old bisexual transman egg me watched this show, looked at him, and went that one. I want to be THAT ONE. I love Greg Universe so much.

[vaguely-concerned]

Origins is of course the DA game most closely in conversation with and playing around with Tolkien (right down to the walking talking poetree haha) -- and even more so than most works in the larger western fantasy tradition derived from Tolkien's work that DA:O also hails from and owes a lot of its Stuff to, what makes the game so great to me is that it's doing so very deliberately, and is subverting and deconstructing those tropes and entrenched ideas in some very interesting ways without at all denigrating what it's commenting on. (it doesn't have the almost disdainful undertones of the vein of fantasy that seeks to make the world more 'realistic' ala the more tedious reactions to G.R.R.Martin's work, for example, despite having the darker fantasy bent to it.) among other elements it adopts, what I find the most fascinating is the choice to use the same literary device/conceit Tolkien did in ostensibly only having in-universe biased sources and works to deliver the world through (which I feel is an underappreciated thing about his approach but is part of what makes his world so enduringly compelling and real-feeling -- the feeling of real scholarship devoted/applied to a made-up world. the grounding effect of a good diegetic footnote about source criticism, truly).

many things to be said there, and I'm glad each following game has taken on different perspectives and lenses and traditions to view the world of Thedas through because if you stick with that one too closely for too long I fear we could teeter precariously close to Pratchett's famous and bitingly accurate accusation of most modern fantasy of that era just being about rearranging the furniture in Tolkien's attic lol. and while you could accuse DA2 (my perfect wife who has never done anything wrong in her life to be clear) of many things, that's not one of them, they are pulling on some completely different strings for that one and both the game and DA overall is better for it, to my mind. as so many things in this series: worth staying with and exploring for an installment even if it might get stale if all of it was like this! people are understandably sad about the elements from previous games that they liked which were lost along the way, but that capacity for reinvention is to my mind a huge strength of dragon age as a whole.

(I think Veilguard is coming in as a close second in Tolkien conversation-ness if only in outlining/revealing the worldbuilding that indeed may have been planned since DA:O around the animosity that SHOULD by all rights exist between dwarves and elves in this universe (as per Tolkienesque tradition standards). but doesn't really because you see: politics and the many pitfalls of conservation of knowledge over the ages. our ancestral enmity got semi-intentionally lost between the floorboards of history and you know what. maybe for the best. the humans are already up to so much shit you gotta keep your eyes on them at all times you can't be brawling with each other in the deep roads while they're still around getting up to their nonsense or they'll just pile up even more of it)

[presiding]

humansider by @lapinneok

[mayonnaise8995]

I love when my mum is cringing at age gap relationships in Hollywood, and I'm just sat there knowing I'd marry 90s Robert De Niro in a heartbeat.

[hotheadedhero]

Okay, so, I have very much been enjoying tottmnt but I have to say I'm a little bit peeved

Spoilers ahead

I've only just finished the first arch with the mechazoids and Bishop and beautiful! Very nice. Me likey

The reason I'm peeved is because the whole thing they did with the bots targetting mutants, and targetting Rod because of his mutation... is kinda what I had planned for something I've been working on for a while now

Brilliant minds think alike and whatnot but now I'm just- Do I change it? What do I do?

[honeyxmonkey]

I had a rather shocking realization about Carter and Douxie today

Seeing as they're both eternally 19 & 20, that means that neither of their frontal lobes are fully formed??? Who the fuck is leaving them in charge of protecting the world!?

Who the fuck saw these two babies and thought, "yes they seem mentally and emotionally mature enough to be left in charge of defending the world from magic threats"

[noknowshame]

hello- on your jesus birthday post you said The Child Is The Price. What does that mean?

Okay THIS one I will answer. this is a reference to Roberte Icke's adaptation of Aeschylus' tragic play(s), The Oresteia. simplifying as much as possible, the story begins by following Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army during the Trojan War. the winds he needs to sail his army to Troy have not been blowing, and Agamemnon receives a prophecy/instruction on what is needed in order to return the winds. the prophecy states "The Child is the Price". this phrase is repeated throughout the play, and what it is asking him to do is make a human sacrifice of his young daughter, Iphigenia. eventually, he goes through with it, and the winds do indeed return.

In the original plays by Aeschylus, the actual death of Iphigenia has already happened and is referenced as something the audience should already know all about. Icke chooses to add an act to the play that allows us to linger on that decision much longer. As a whole, the play deals heavily with themes of the nature of sacrifice, narrative inevitability, and cycles of guilt and violence.

When I was drafting my... infamous christmas post, I was trying to think of the story of the birth of jesus like a greek tragedy, involving very similar themes. factually, in a textual sense, jesus is the sacrifice. his death is the price paid for - according to christianity - absolution. and what I was attempting to point out is that we spend so much time celebrating jesus' birth as this wondrous arrival of the savior that we don't stop to meditate on exactly how bloodily that saving is going to play out. it's the exact same thing: The Child is the Price.

As a last note, many many many people have told me in the tags that me saying "Mary did you know? that your womb was also a grave?" is stupid because "all babies are born to die, Jesus isn't special" ...but there is a Very important difference I'd like to point. yes, all babies will die eventually. but NOT all babies are born to die. Jesus was. it was God's plan from the start for him to horrifically die on the cross, and it was inevitable as soon as Mary agreed to give birth to him. I feel that is an important part of the story. The Child is the Price.

(...anyway go read Robert Icke Oresteia and also watch Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) while you're at it)

[luciddaydreamingworlds]

A bit of a sketch dump, featuring a new Oc, more Clem and Crystal, and Mikhail and Raz. The lanky af dude is Cleff Foote, Clem's uncle.

Cleff is a Psychonauts agent, and he used to be a field agent, but a recent-ish injury got him pulled from field work. Which, honestly, is alright by him. It gave him more time to sort out legal matters and pull himself together enough to take in his nibling.

Also starting to try sketching in coloured pencil on paper. I looove the fact that it doesn't smear, omg-

[94badbye]

people will say you can't turn everything you read or watch into a coming of age story, especially if it has anything to do with the plot whatsoever, but WATCH ME. watch me as i create a coming of age plot to this random fantasy tv show.

Watch. Me.

[horror-aesthete]

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, 2022, dirs. Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson

[hollowaluminumvessel]

I would just like to say. Since I cannot find a Canon age for either character, Echoes of Wisdom Zelda is 17 and Link is 12. I don't make the rules except I do and I made these ones