#I love me some symbolism

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Yes this is heartbreaking as a concept but its also a really good answer - because it is exactly what I had hoped and wanted the case to be for Buck and Chris and their relationship. Because casue everything about Buck in 8a makes so much more sense if this is the state of things for Buck!

Buck going on a baking spiral makes a lot more sense if you add the idea that he is struggling with the Chris of it all. The baking as a response to a relationship that the show put next to zero effort into fleshing out and developing - but Buck is supposedly so broken up about it that he cant stop baking things! I never brought it up- even with the first mlm relationship of it all.

The clinging onto Tommy and clinging onto that relationship after it has ended makes som inch more sense when you think about the fact Buck is already in his abandonment spiral - that the spiral started with Chris leaving to go to El Paso.

Chris is someone Buck is super close with - someone who Buck is playing a parental role towards - someone who he regards as almost a son (even if he won’t admit that to himself). Eddie turns to Buck for help multiple times in s7 (and before that but especially in 7) - and Buck helps and failing to convince Chris to stay in LA - failing Eddie in his time of need - that is the beginning of Bucks abandonment spiral started- not the break up with Tommy.

And what have we seen Buck do when he is feeling abandoned - cling to things he shouldn’t - things that aren’t working. So Buck clings to Tommy as a coping mechanism - he can’t talk to Eddie about any of this - Bucks feelings about Chris are irrelevant and insignificant in relation to Eddies and Buck needs to be there for Eddie - to support Eddie. So he clings onto a relationship that is stale and uninteresting because it is a distraction from the feelings he isn’t supposed to have (in Bucks head) and therefore doesn’t actually look at the reality of it - he can convince himself that all is good and he can then be there for Eddie and follow Eddies lead

Then because he’s already partly in an abandonment spiral - finding out about the Abby of it all knocks him further into said spiral and bucks response is as we’ve seen before - to cling harder and be impulsive - so he jumps to asking Tommy to move in with him - tries to cling to that one bit of stability he thinks he as - becasue boring is stable right!

Then we have the fact he says he sees Tommy as this confident and comfortable person - and that’s what Buck wants desperately to be - the person he has never felt he is and that’s is nothing to do with him being bi and only just discovering that part of himself, its everything to do with the fact that Chris is a massive and missing part of his world and that is making him crumble a bit inside. It’s not about him actually having feelings for Tommy it’s him trying to “become Tommy” (which is why I remain convinced of my assertion that Tommy is meant to be a version of Buck!).

We’ve been given context clues that also play into and emphasise the Christopher leaving of it all - the party for Chris’s birthday in 801 - being shown Buck rearranging the lettering of CHRISTOPHER on the banner - a play on the fact Buck has been rearranged by Chris choosing to leave - that Buck is trying to cling on - but in the background - he is after all behind the couch - hiding - waiting behind Eddie - at Eddies shoulder - following Eddies lead - rather than being next to Eddie on the couch. We’re being shown where Buck thinks his place is rather than where his place actually is - on the couch next to Eddie - a place where he will end up.

That’s also why showing Buck and Eddie on the couch together at the end of 806 is so important - an episode called confessions - its a silent confession to the audience that Buck and Eddie are meant to be next to each other - meant to be equals - we’re only shown them from the waist up in the final shot - both drinking beer and both dressed - we cannot see the fact Eddie is not wearing pants - visually they are equals in that moment - and as it is the first and only tine we have seen them on the couch together ever - it is very telling and important.

So his reaction to being dumped by Tommy isn’t about being dumped by Tommy as much as it’s about not having that one boring thing that provided him some semblance of stability to cling onto any more, that thing that was helping him ignore his feelings of abandonment that had once more risen to the surface. So he starts baking - an aspect of cooking that he hasn’t really explored yet. And Cooking is all about family - and Chris is the part of his family that is missing - so maybe if Buck bakes and gets good at it - Chris will come back. So Buck channels all his energy into something that is heavily connected into family and the concept of building a family - the show has literally shown us Buck progressing form breakfast through to main meals as his family has grown and become something secure for him. So baking makes complete sense for Bucks character development.

Baking specifically is something kids tend to do with their parents or grandparents as a fun activity - and that plays into the childhood Buck didn’t get - because a child he views as a son abandoning him is bringing up a lot of the buried issues around Daniel - al this things Buck hasn’t dealt with. It’s why the show choosing to show him baking with Jee-Yun is so important - it’s a callback to Buck cooking with Chris (the steaks in s6) and ties into the family aspect very clearly. It’s also why Eddie being shown as the only one to actually eat and enjoy Bucks baking is important - again emphasising the family aspect of it all.

And now Eddie is also leaving - and as much as buck has been supporting Eddie - being there for Eddie in Eddie’s time of need - he was also doing that because Eddie was his rock to cling onto in the sea of his inner turmoil - Eddie has been his lighthouse and his one super stable thing - its the perfect example of them needing each other in such a deep and meaningful way that it cannot be expressed and doesn’t need to be.

And I’m not trying to say that Bucks first queer relationship hasn’t had a big impact on him and that it isn’t part of his baking spiral etc, just that the reason we’ve been shown Buck struggling to deal with this break up far more loudly than any of his other breakup ups (including the Abby one because that wasn’t really explicitly shown as a struggle for him - it was just lurking in the background until Buck chose to move on) is because it is about multiple factors being at play - because it is about the break up of his family and his queer awakening is an important part of that because it puts a different slant on the family Buck has been building and is seemingly losing.

[momos-servants]

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[chalkrub]

dinosaur in a lab coat - would you trust her with operating the centrifuge

[hinamie]

corvidae

[thebiggestmenace]

One thing I loved about the show was the subtle symbolism. I’m pretty sure in every episode there was at least one scene where Joel was standing in the dark and then there was light shining on Ellie.

woah! I noticed it at the beginning, but not throughout! I know in ep2, they had a scene where Ellie was fully basked in light, Tess was right in the middle of being basked and being in the dark, and Joel was completely in the dark. that screenshot means so very much to me. gonna have to rewatch it again, aw, shucks!

but yes, I love the subtle symbolism, too! like the butterfly flying over Ellie in ep2 for Sarah? chefs kiss. I wonder if they're gonna have moths scattered throughout the next seasons for Ellie? cause they did plenty of wolves and mooses (I want to call them meese lmao) in the second game for Joel. I wonder if they'd do moths. also for Abby? would she get any subtle symbolism, or is it the wolves for her? I do not know

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

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[lazycranberrydoodles]

everybody go home. this is my magnum opus

[kathaynesart]

TMNT AU COMPETITION - CONTEXT COMICS: COMIC 1 - COMIC 2 - COMIC 3 - COMIC 4 - COMIC 5

Don't mind, Omega. He's just being dramatic. Thank you so much @abbeyofcyn and @thegunnsara for pulling me into this hilarious mashup as well as @kittynomore @tapakah0 @hylwicks and @isaacz for letting their characters be a part of it! Figured I would use this opportunity to do my Replica introduction as well!

The @tmntaucompetition has barely even started and I am already overwhelmed by the amount of asks and support I've received! Thank you everyone! There are so many things I want to respond to, but I just don't have the time!

However I am so excited to get to interact with some of you! I'll be sure to respond to a few more that reference Omega directly when I can (looking at you @intotheelliwoods and @karonkar )!

Also, please don't destroy my asks trying to offer chew toys to Donnie... it's too late. His fate has been sealed. He's in autistic robot hell now. Goodnight sweet prince.

Also also, uh... THAT one image? Don't think about it too hard. :)

[avloki-pal]

Hello ISATblr, love to see you thriving

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Have a doodle dump of all ISAT art I've made so far, including some Im not really satisfied with, and some ISATsonas, because it's my art and it's ISAT and we have fun here

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[redwyvernan]

something something something neve’s hat covering her face and some of her eyes in the default outfit and in both of her hero of the veilguard outfits she doesn’t have one. her face is clear. she’s not hiding anymore. something something something the hat and lackthereof being a symbol of how she has come to trust rook and herself and is starting to open up more and be less afraid of feeling. something something something justice is blind but not unfeeling or unflinching

[lotus-pear]

rewatched madoka magica again today bc i fucking hate myself and to absolutely no one’s surprise i went through all five stages of grief in a single evening

[tubbytarchia]

Somewhere in the woods, a moth tires of seeking light

[from-the-dead]

Red Death has come to take what is rightfully his own.

Version without wings under the cut:

[mummer]

just saw asteroid city last night, pls explain the proposed significance of the kiss!!

answering this publicly hope thats ok! cant do a readmore im on mobile *****asteroid city spoilers below beware*****

i dont remember anyones names so this is gonna sound partly unhinged. okay so the edward norton playwright and jason schwartzman actor (not character, in the black and white parts) are lovers right. tbh i thought this was kind of a gag and forgot about it. but later we find out that the playwright died 6 months into the production. i didnt make the connection that THAT’s why the actor-jason has to suddenly leave the stage and freaks out backstage about how he’s not sure he’s Doing it right. hes not talking about acting!! because he himself is literally grieving his lover while he’s playing a character who’s grieving his wife written by his lover so obviously it’s too much!!! actor-jason is trying to find meaning in his death through his writing but there isnt any meaning in death [gerris drinkwater voice] which is what the play is trying to say anyway. he doesnt think he’s performing grief right even in his own life!!! (and tbh it’s the 50s so he wouldnt be able to perform grief publicly anyway!!!!) the play starts with a car accident… anyone would search for some hidden meaning there, some sign…. so when he talks to margot robbie outside it’s not really about finding the CHARACTER’s motivations it’s about the actor himself being able to process the playwright’s death! and adrien brody director was probably also dealing with that too (him and norton seemed to be good buddies) so the whole “sleeping backstage” thing gets a bit sadder maybe? maybe everyone else got this in the theatre and im just stupid lol but crazy making stuff to me!!! the whole story is about sublimated gay grief that cannot be expressed?!?!

the tweet that caught me onto this was here which posits that the playwright’s death was a suicide but i think that’s pretty stupid and unnecessary because the whole thing about the play asteroid city is that death is random and meaningless. im pretty sure that’s what the alien represents— a shocking and absurd event that isnt outright evil or menacing, not something anyone can predict or make sense of, it’s just a thing that happens to you out of nowhere, it doesnt mean anything. he’s a little black figure, he’s death! giving and taking! aagh

[turtleblogatlast]

“Haven’t You Noticed (I’m a Star)” from Steven Universe works so ridiculously well for Leo

[accidentallyadoptedbybatman]

"The new Supermans too bright its too colourful"

shut up SHUT UP SHUT UP HES THE SYMBOL OF HOPE AND THE SYMBOL OF HOPE ISN'T GOING TO BE SAD AND DEPRESSING THIS AIN'T A REALISTIC UNIVERSE HES FLYING FOR CRYING OUT LOUD LET MOVIES BE COLOURFUL AGAIN I'M SICK OF THE BLANDNESS AND HAVING TO SQUINT AT EVERY DARK SCENE AND LASTLY ONCE AGAIN

HE'S THE SYMBOL OF HOPE LET THE SYMBOL OF HOPE BRING LIGHT AND COLOUR TO DARK TIMES