#IT BE THE UNRELIABLE NARRATORS

[fluffypotatey]

Hold up ✋ were we ever told what happened when Wukong lost to the Jade Emperor? Did the Brotherhood know what happened afterward? About Wukong being sealed underground (which looks like he was caught in as he tried to run, based on how he’s standing) I often see it that he surrendered to save the Brotherhood, but Wukong is so salty about being left to suffer during that battle, combined with how Macaque got Team Monkie away from Possessed Wukong, I wonder if he teleported the Brotherhood out of there, really leaving Wukong to his fate and adding to that feeling of abandonment, and I wonder if Macaque would have done it because Wukong still cared about the Brotherhood regardless of how Macky himself felt about him prioritizing that over his promise of forever. Just for that extra kick of miscommunicated intentions.

oh but that’s the best part

they don’t know

[tentacleteapot]

your unreliable narrator fucking bit me

[starzovermarz]

stupid

[orange-sora]

Mr. Impassive Aloof Poker face

Mr. Definitely into Girls

[yunisverse]

it had no choice

it needed to blast its cache

[you-askedforthis]

I think Katniss plays down her own beauty.

She tells us she takes after her father and Prim takes after their mother (who was once quite beautiful).

You can’t convince me Katniss isn’t the pretty version of her dad. She has the seam look but she absolutely inherited her mother's beauty.

During his interview in THG Peeta says something along the lines of "a lot of guys at school like her" and that could have been a lie but it also might not be. Katniss wouldn't know but Peeta whose been in the boy's locker room would know.

She often attributes looking beautiful to Cinna and her prep team but they’re stylists not wizards.

Katniss bffr you don't got two boys chasing after you because you're plain looking.

[wordybee]

My summary of The Murderbot Diaries so far, three books in:

Murderbot: I can’t believe I have to keep these humans from getting themselves killed. Everywhere I go, there are humans who need protecting and this cuts into really valuable media consumption time. This is so annoying.

Everything in the universe, including Murderbot’s own presumably unprecedented free will: You could just not protect the humans.

Murderbot: … No.

(And it’s great.)

[the-neil-jos10]

There are three kinds of AFTG narrators: unreliable, unavailable, and unabashed:

Neil is an unreliable narrator. He tells us plenty about his past and his surroundings, but his view of things is often altered by how he perceives the world, which is not always accurate. It means that, while we may understand Neil, we often don’t have a correct view of what’s happening around him at all times.

Jeremy is an unavailable narrator. He doesn’t tell his friends or himself/the reader the truth about very important things, which doesn’t make him unreliable, but does mean we get far less personal information than with Neil. Jeremy can tell us accurate information about the world around him, but he withholds important things about himself, making him emotionally unavailable as a narrator.

Jean is an unabashed narrator. He’s just trauma dumping on everyone everywhere lol there’s no way we don’t know what’s going on with him or the world around him.

I love them all.

[joejhang]

obsessed with how neil and jeremy are both unreliable narrators but in vastly different ways. neil gives the reader all of the information he considers important and quite literally nothing else. so you get play-by-play recounts of exy games, gruesomely detailed descriptions of his trauma, live-commentated accounts of his conversations with andrew but you have no idea what his real name is. or what he looks like. or what any of the characters look like, for that matter. most of his narration is literally just internal monologue and like 20% of it is actually what's going on in real time. jeremy, on the other hand, only gives the reader unimportant information. hell, not even unimportant just blatantly obvious. it's like you're just standing right next to him as the events are happening cos you have no fucking clue what's going on in his head. he'll comment on jean's good looks, team relationship dynamics, give exact replays of conversations, tell it like it is except you have no idea like the context of any of it. like he recounts his conversation with his sister word-for-word and you still have no idea what any of it means cos he just says that she tells him he ruined her family and then doesn't bother to elaborate at all. iconic behaviour.

[sunniethunder]

lil jinshi and maomao doodle while i listened to the new spiritbox album!!!!!

[eggsplice]

cant help but think of everytime i failed you

[redacted-metallum]

"You can rely on me," I promised. "Not like that other narrator."

"What?"

"Nothing."

[callmeizukunotdeku]

Jason starts working with the Bats and he feels guilty. He is guilty.

Sure, he wasn't in his right mind during the Tower incident, not entirely, but he was in his right mind when he was planning it. The Pit could only take over for so long.

So maybe, when things start to get better between him and the bats, he takes up a case with Robin.

It's an easy case, but he's still impressed by how quickly Robin solves it.

Maybe Tim smiles when he solves the case and Jason ruffles his hair and tells him he did a good job--because god, Tim's just a kid; how could he not?

And maybe Tim keeps coming back after that.

Maybe Tim keeps solving all of Red Hood's cases before Jason can. Maybe Tim keeps taking over for Jason and maybe Jason starts to feel less guilty and more pissed off because he knows that he never fully thought things through as Robin and he knows that Bruce took on Tim as Robin because he did. He knows Tim is the smart Robin, but Tim has neither the right nor reason to rub it in his face, so maybe he snaps at Tim--tells him to get the fuck out of sight, tells him that he might not be the smartest person in the room but he's not some fucking idiot, tells him that he knows what he's doing and he doesn't need some fucking kid just going around solving his cases for him. Maybe, Jason tells Tim that he's not needed.

And maybe the guilt comes back when Tim leaves with tears in his eyes.

But, Jason thinks, all the guilt in the world isn't enough to override the anger and let Tim back in, not after he called Jason an idiot with everything but his words.

And then, maybe Jason is working a case and it expands past his territory and he finds himself in the cave, working with Batman. Maybe neither of them can solve it and Tim walks in, excitedly talking to Dick about something. (Jason isn't listening too closely.)

Maybe Bruce calls Tim over and Jason flinches--he didn't remember Bruce ever being that harsh when he was Robin.

Maybe Tim solves the case and Bruce turns back to Jason and starts planning their next step without so much as a thank you.

Maybe it's odd, to Jason, how Bruce and Tim don't act like a Batman and Robin to each other, and that thought sticks with him, bugging him whenever he has a quiet moment, so maybe a week or two passes before he asks Dick about it.

Maybe Dick's smile is sad when he explains how they've always been like that. Tim, always striving for attention, Bruce never giving it. Maybe Bruce's standards rose above what was physically possible in the wake of Jason's death and maybe Dick sobs himself to sleep every once in a while because that hasn't stopped tim from trying.

Maybe Tim was okay for a bit whenever Dick was in town because he could help Dick on cases and Dick would smile and applaud every little thing he did, but Dick lived in a different city, so Tim couldn't help as much with Dick's cases as he could with Bruce's.

Maybe, Dick says something under his breath--a passing comment about how surprised he is that Tim didn't come to Jason and try to solve all his cases just for a kind word or two, hoping that maybe the Red Hood's love of kids and their happiness would extend to him.

Maybe Jason feels his stomach drop as the final piece of the puzzle clicks in place--how at first, Tim came with cases every so often, smiled and leaned in whenever Jason said a kind word to him, and how, when Jason started thinking that Tim was doing this to spite Jason was when he stopped giving that praise to Tim, which had the boy solving more and more cases for him, working harder and harder without being asked just so that maybe--maybe Jason would tell him he did a good job. Jason wondered just how far Tim would go if someone promised him a smile.

Maybe the guilt is too much for him and he pushed it down, only saying, "I don't think he'd risk it--not after the Tower."

Maybe Dick has something sad in his eyes when he says, "He's done more for less."

Maybe Jason tries again to bring Tim into his cases, but Tim refuses, promises not to intrude, promises he learned his lesson, and maybe Jason cries because Tim has never asked for an apology after Titan's Tower, but one hint that he's overstepped and Tim begs forgiveness.

Maybe Jason focuses a little too much on how to bring Tim closer--make him feel loved again and make it clear that Jason just didn't understand what Tim that Tim was trying to help--make sure Tim knew he was welcome.

But maybe Tim refused.

And maybe, Jason got so focused on Tim that he stopped focusing on patrol and got over his head. Maybe, just on pure happenstance, Tim was nearby that night and he couldn't let anything happen to his Robin.

Maybe Tim swooped in to save the day and Jason grabbed onto his wrist when he tried to leave.

Maybe Tim apologized but Jason just pulled him in and hugged him--a full hug, one arm around Tim's back, the other, tucking Tim's head into his chest, and maybe Jason said, "Thank you so much, Robin. I needed you to save me."

Maybe Tim cried when it happened. Maybe, under his mask, Jason was crying as well. Maybe, they got closer after that, Jason, needing to be trusted to care for something and Tim just needing to be cared for.

And it takes time, but maybe there comes a day when Jason looks Tim in the eye and tells him that he's important and valuable and incredibly loved regardless of whether or not he's needed. Maybe it take a few years before Tim believes him, and when he does, he hugs Jason and cries into his arms, but it's okay because Jason knew it would happen sooner or later, and it's okay, it's okay, he has tissues.

Maybe Jason apologizes for what happened at the Tower and Tim admits that he forgave him for that a while ago.

Maybe.

Maybe.

Who could say for sure?

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

Interview With the Vampire is like...

Here is our protagonist hes going to tell you a story. But some of it he's remembered wrong -- was it raining that night? And some of it he's obfuscating or skirting or deliberately lying about. He's admitted the first time he tried to tell this story was a performance. Also he hallucinates, sometimes. Oh, and there are characters who can erase and alter memories. When does he mix up a detail? When is he lying? When is he telling what he thinks is the truth but he's just wrong or being lied to himself?

Here's Claudia's diaries. The written word, in her own words. Surely we can trust them! Except she knew her diaries were being read by her fathers/brothers/jailors. She had reason to present her life in a certain way in those writings, reasons to not write down everything. And same as any other person,even if she was writing the truth, she was limited by her perspective of what that was. Here are her diaries but some of the pages have been ripped out, censored by other people.

Here is Rashid. Except no, he's really the vampire Armand. He can erase memories. He was pretending to be someone else. His name was never Rashid. It isn't really Armand either, he doesn't even know his own name, or all of his own story, Armand will do.

Here is Real Rashid. Even Rashid isn't what he appears to be. He works for a shadowy organization.

Here is Daniel Malloy, our journalist, our interviewer. It is his job to ask questions, provide evidence reveal the truth. But even he can't trust his own altered memories. He has time he can't account for, gaps in his memories from years of drug abuse and one bad trip from a week of drug AND vampire abuse. He is not an objective observer, he too is a part of the story he is trying to tell.

Here is Lestat de Lioncourt. Except not really. maybe once at the end. Here he is through memories, and other peoples stories and hearsay. Here is the seducer, the boogieman, the abuser, the victim, the Vampire. He haunts the narrative, and starts the narrative, and is, in many ways, the bleeding heart of the tragic narrative and he never tells his own story in his own words.

Here is a trial. Except its a play--prewritten, rehearsed! the accused can barely speak for themselves. The audience has no choice but to laugh along to the story being shoved down their throats. its only a story. You can see the fake limp rope, when that one vampire 'flies' - its all pretend, its all a show...right?

[onnahu]

Shen Qingqiu is so weird, bc he always tries to excuse every even remotely nice thing he does as selfish - saving Liu Qingge in the Lingxi Caves? He does that, and after he just goes 'and i did it only to get him to protect me from lbh in the future. Not bc i saw someone in need of help, not at all.' And it's so easy to belive him! The way he says 'yeah i have to cling to protagonist's golden thighs' but almost everything he does for him is so not to just make Binghe like him, he just wants to do that bc he cares about him.

Also the self-destruction? He tries so much to make himself believe it was done only bc he had a back-up body and actually it was easier to kill himself to get into the mushroom body. Like, no bitch? Even without backup you'd propably do it!

That man is insufferable. Unreliable narrator Shen Yuan how i love you.

[theclowngod]

Hot take (???)

My favorite thing within the beast yeast storyline is how much of a unreliable narrative Elder Faerie Cookie is and no one knows that

How Elder Faerie cookie said that “they were corrupted by the power given to them” when it’s far more complex for that

Mystic Flour corrupted because of Other’s taking advantage of her wishes and becoming greedy

Burning Spice was getting tired of a endless cycle of civilization dying and rebuild to the point it became meaningless to him

According to the “Beast Raid” seems like Shadow Milk Cookie held knowledge for others yet has no knowledge of himself (Noting even knowing his own desires) only for the cause to turn on him when everyone denies his knowledge and turned to lies

Sure, they are selfish and evil but it’s clear that they didn’t corrupted themselves just because of power, they had reasons UNDERSTANDABLE REASONS to why they are who they are now. AND I LOVE THAT SO MUCH :DDD

Love this wonky storyline lmao