#GUYS I’M CONNECTING THE DOTS.

[ricoelpobre]

Watching Prisoners rn :0!

[fullmooneverynite]

“dirty heart”

- digital (procreate), 2023

frankenstein burakhovsky au save me…frankenstein burakhovsky au…save me burakhovsky frankenstein au

[sleepyskeleton-0]

SPOILERS FOR STH 3!!!

Scene analysis (heavily focused on Knuckles).

So there’s this scene in Sonic 3 in London where Sonic decides that despite their initial intentions to never use the master emerald anymore, he insists on using it for vengeance (after Shadow hurts Tom).

In this scene Sonic and Knuckles stand head to head and get worked up to the point where they’re charging up their powers, (Tails in kinda in the middle trying to calm them both down).

I got emotional in this scene, like full on tears in my eyes for a split second. Let me tell you why:

This is the scene that shows Knuckles’ endless patience for Sonic and Tails.

We know as an audience that Knux is always eager to go into battle, perhaps even too eager, but when it comes to his siblings, he’s always patient. So when Sonic tries to start a fight with him, he gets riled up at first but then takes a moment to calm himself down.

He refrains from hurting his brother and instead tries to talk to him calmly, to reason with him.

And if that’s not an oldest sibling strait I honestly don’t know what is.

I don’t think some people realise how hard it is to stay calm when your younger siblings are angering you. Like not teasing but properly pissing you off, especially if your sibling is a younger teenager (think 11-14 or 15).

At some point, you as the oldest have to realise that you have to be the calm one because naturally, teens are hormonal as shit and they can’t really help it (sometimes). We’ve all been there and we all know what it feels like to get wound up easily as a kid, and as an oldest child, you didn’t have someone who would calmly deal with you. Your parents would just get angry or chalk it up to a phase, so it’s either too much discipline or none at all for their first kid, then leave them to deal with the others when they grow up (obviously this isn’t the case with the trio here bc they were all taken in as teens so it’s different - the attention Tom and Maggie would’ve shown to them as babies and children are being shown now that they’re actually a family).

So shout out to all my oldest siblings out there, including Knuckles, because it’s like constantly taking punches to the face and actively remaining steady on your feet without letting your anger get the best of you.

This especially goes for a traumatic or high anxiety situation, like Tom’s injury. Sonic’s love for him and his worry and regret is consuming him in this moment and throwing him into a blind rage. Tails is also really worried, and as the youngest, it goes without saying that you try to cushion any pain as much as possible, so he’s not gonna be expected to help. Who’s left then? To help deal with Sonic? Knuckles.

He realises Sonic’s having a hard time, knows what it feels like to lose loved ones, understands the worry of “will they return home?” and how the reality of the situation can hit at any moment and how crippling it can be.

So Knuckles swallows his pride and tries to reason with Sonic.

And it’s really fucking hard to do that. Especially when being put in this position.

This rant feels repetitive but I have to get it out there just how hard it is to do this. At the end of the day, even if we are the oldest sibling, even if we have an obligation to be the bigger person, we still have feelings. All this emotional burden is gonna build up. It’s not anyone’s fault, it’s just the position we were born in. It’s our job to be that pillar of strength for our younger siblings, but if you keep throwing small stones at a pillar, eventually it’ll start to chip and crumble. So to have the strength to remain steady is the real superpower.

Like holy shit, talk about dual burden. Knux is also feeling the pain of potentially losing Tom, but he’s still there to comfort and protect his family and also shoulder his own difficult emotions. Because no one was there to do that for him when he needed it the most. He may never have anyone to protect him quite like that, and an older sibling will protect their younger ones even if it means making sacrifices. Remember that parents don’t have the same effect as siblings. Adults can only have so much understanding, but growth moves with the times, and each coming generation develops in unique ways, so grown ups will never grasp the full extent of the younger generation’s struggles, just as us younger people will never understand what they went through and how they dealt with it.

So props to Knuckles, he really is 1000000% muscle, and his most important muscles, his heart and brain, work together incredibly well. He doesn’t have to be book smart, his emotional intelligence makes up for that.

(Disclaimer: this is just my interpretation so just take it with a grain of salt, also sorry for this utterly incoherent rant, I have feelings about this movie- and this silly little echidna.)

[monkeychief1904]

I am so close to making a Freehoun discord server I need more people to talk to PLEASE

Also more people who wanna talk about Half life’s themes stories and characters in general.

[blackh0urglasssand]

More Wild Life Finale Spoilers cause sometimes you just have to scream into the void

Uh so Scott got out tenth this season…the first time he’s been out of the top 5 since 3rd life…and do you guys know what he got in 3rd life?

10th. He got 10th. Both times he got out before 4th he got 10th. And it was in the first life series and the latest one (not that I think it’ll be the last, but for now it is). Are you guys picking up what I’m putting down??? Do you see the cinematic parallels??? Like I’m gonna be honest this is probably just a lot of nothing but I just think it’s such a cool coincidence and like…surely someone can make something awesome out of this right? Right???

this fucking block series is going to be the end of me I’m telling you.

[luna-the-cretar]

Wait. Wait wait wait guys. Guys the Bullywugs that work for Garou (the ones following the Krew at the beginning of episode 1) are called “The Grinning Sinners”

One of the bosses in the Crooked Moon—who I think is supposed to be based off of Briggsy—is called “The Grinning Sinner”

I. Am I connecting dots that weren’t there? Am I over here connecting dots from 2 separate puzzles? Or am I actually a genius?

[v7n5]

I’m trying to say something that I shan’t say…

No no, I know for a fact that Lalo and Howard took a risk in providing Nacho and Kim with mentorship because they both needed competent people whom they could trust and control at the same time. NO. Argue with the wall.

And the fact that both Nacho and Kim made them regret ever making that decision…

Rocking back and forth and gnawing at the bars of my enclosure. Wanna hear another insane thought? I believe that if Howard and Lalo hadn't been offed, they would have gone on to live with the sentiment that there would never be another Ignacio and another Kimberly like the ones they took under their wings. Guys I wish TV shows weren't real.

[serikatz]

some of danonation piss me off im sorry but what are we doing sexualizing his roles where he was a child/portraying a child? And just being overly sexual towards paul himself 😭 some of you guys please get a grip. it’s weird sorry, I just had to say it. Like I physically couldn’t contain this any longer please get a GRIP!!!! LIKE UR WEIRD.

[theteapotofdoom]

Thinking about the early days of MHA and Tomura’s first appearance at USJ, and I’m kind of flabbergasted when I remember all the "man child" comments from the UA teachers because my boy was literally 19 at the time so like … yeah.

[thomaskong]

utsukushii kare 🤝 love for love’s sake

shared conflict over the main character’s inability to reciprocate love properly due to a major lack of self esteem, the message of the narrative being that one must first be able to accept others’ & their own love for themselves in order to equally love others

[apollos-boyfriend]

i’m not done with it yet but the new hbomberguy video just reminds me of this 2 hour long evangelion vid i watched once that said it’d explain human instrumentality but instead 95% of the video was regurgitated lines about philosophy and psychology that barely attempted to tie into and explore evangelion and human instrumentality itself. it just felt like the guy REALLY wanted to flex on all the research he’d done without taking into account the fact he actually needed to expand upon it and apply it to the media he claimed to be analyzing

[theridgebeyond]

… hands of the emperor thoughts

[ssreeder]

Is Bato a therapist?

haha if he, is he’s not a very good one, ,, sorry bato I love you. But I think Bato is just doing his best to help the boys given the horrible situation they’re in… but he shares a lot of opinions on things and is very emotionally invested in the boys relationship so sometimes I feel like he projects onto them a bit, so no I wouldn’t call him a therapist, but a very caring uncle figure whose here to lend advice maybe?

*shrugs*

I think Jee thinks he is a therapist though.

[harapeveco]

If I had a nickel for every time a stoic guy asks himself what the hell is wrong with his boyfriend I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[danothan]

walk me thru the vision bc i’m not seeing what you’re seeing

[orions-garden]

DROSSELMEYER was in the caravan and now CLARA the horse and they’re in the SNOW and the PEOPLE are TINY and