#Like I think the parallels are kind of insane
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can we talk about how Tim meets himself as gun batman who's entire philosophy is that sometimes you have to take extreme measures and the only way to stop crime is to kill. And then literally a few months later Jason shows up and the red hood operates on the exact same philosophy but in a more morally ambiguous way (re: not being a facist dictator tyrant)
#Like I think the parallels are kind of insane#also i think it makes the line tim says when red hood shows up at titan's tower that much more significant#“You've been doing things the easy way”#aka the way gun batman prefers#its just very interesting to me#lena speaks#batman#dc comics#tim drake#batman and robin#robin#jason todd#gun batman#red hood#Jason Todd's attack on Titan tower
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to add to the angst of thriller bark zolu, I keep thinking 1) of the parallel between zoro's words to luffy when he agrees to join him and his sacrifice 2) of sanji's words in the aftermath of TB and 3) the consequences of zoro's sacrifice bearing weight in sabaody.
1) while zoro choosing to pretend nothing happened at thriller bark makes sense, since he's not the type of character who'd go boasting about this sort of thing, it also makes even more sense when you think of this,
in the context of this other bit:
zoro, who believes and proclaims his dream of becoming the world's greatest swordsman is all he has, accepts to become part of luffy's crew on the sole condition that he'd never make zoro abandon that dream - otherwise, well, he says it. it's not gonna be pretty. luffy proved he understood the significance this held for zoro later at baratie, to the point he stopped johnny and yosaku from interfering in zoro's duel against mihawk, even though luffy himself was greatly upset abt mihawk hurting him.
overall, luffy is someone who places great importance in ppl's dreams and is willing to go through yet greater lengths to protect those he cherishes and befriends, especially his crew. this is an aspect of luffy's character that shines through in pretty much every arc of the story and something that zoro himself knows well since he's been with luffy the longest. which brings me to,
2)
to say luffy wouldn't have reacted well to zoro's deal with kuma is an understatement. imagine if monkey d. "I won't lose a single member of my crew even if it kills me" "defies the world government itself to save his friend/crew member" luffy were to find out that zoro willingly cast aside his dream and life for him, putting luffy's own dream and safety above his. bc to zoro, as the story progresses, his own ambition means nothing if he can't protect/save luffy, his captain. just imagine.
worse, if we take into account that:
3) thriller bark is the reason why zoro was significantly vulnerable at sabaody. even back before they arrived at the archipelago, zoro was visibly exhausted and injured, which brook notices:
and while zoro fights to the most he can despite the circumstances, his injuries after absorbing luffy's pain eventually leave him open to both kuma and kizaru.
now considering this is how luffy reacts to the whole ordeal when zoro's life is in danger and gets sent away by kuma,
just imagine how luffy would feel if he knew it was zoro sacrificing himself for his sake, which is already painful in itself, that led him to be so much weaker and vulnerable here. oof.
#zolu#tp#long post#yes I'm still thinking abt it no I will never recover from thriller bark#on a less angsty note there's still more to find out abt what roger and ray's relationship was like but#the parallels between ray and zoro are kind of insane actually that was good#anyway back to suffering through impel down#jay reads op
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Friends, tonight's Hero Forge theme is betrayal, heartbreak, and having entirely too many dogs.
Companion to this.
#kaesa op#mcyt#3rd life#ethoslab#tangotek#impulsesv#skizzleman#bigbst4tz2#(w/scar cameo)#jimmy solidarity#scott smajor#flower husbands#smallishbeans#hero forge#trafficshipping#(it was really hard to figure out who to put in the betrayal scene for BigB#the thing I am actually kind of insane about is the blue sword boys#like. grian and martyn parallel each other SO WELL. all in on their particular path.#and then there's bigb who's just playing minecraft survival like a normal dude#and every time he comes out of the ground shit's gotten weirder???#he's like I was just trying to build a zombie airbnb and I got drafted into a war and my cookie stolen DURING A TRIPLE HOMICIDE???#what I'm saying is he's an incredible foil to both of them#everyone could've just played normal survival! no one HAD to kill each other#but grian is a pyromaniac gremlin and martyn gets so carried away plotting backstabbing that he forgets to actually stab#but bigb. he just wants to live in peace in his cookie house.#in the end his membership in the red army does him no good#and grian rules-lawyers out of the situation like “aw this is awkward we can't kill bigb so we'll just watch you do it”#anyway you cannot put 3 humanoid figures into a heroforge mini#so I decided to parallel the map from the early-game figure w/the no-kill pass#because. bigb please do you really think scar wouldn't kill someone just because he said he wouldn't kill them???
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honestly I think that whatever the Winter King did to transfer his insanity was an accident. not necessarily something that came out of nowhere, but more… he was trying to do one thing and then suddenly he felt a lot more clearheaded
#I've seen speculation that he used the same kind of spell that was used in the main timeline to create Ricardio and I dig it#but yeah I think narratively the insanity transfer is supposed to parallel the dum-dum solution#where like. Bonnie didn't Do Anything except defend herself but she also didn't look into reversing it#and I can't really blame her for being afraid of what might happen if she did! she was little and didn't know anything#and similarly I can't really blame him for not wanting to go back to being the Ice King!#Fionna and Cake#Adventure Time#Winter King#Princess Bubblegum#original#text#gen
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Spinel.
#hghh. spinel#cannot believe this man is an anpk character that i get to enjoy actually.#like. he is such a specific character.#catered to a specific audience (which i'm part of ww)#his design. his voice. his everything.#like. they know exactly who they are catering to with him ww i love it#he is such an unexpected character to have in this show... very thankful that i get to witness this#he is messy and actually interesting... not the kind of villain who makes me yawn#there are things to explore and i need that to enjoy a character#he even has plenty of parallels and neat contrasts with so many characters.. ohh i am so spoiled#i missed him. and his voice#the situation was so dire i had to start the shoushimin anime because his VA is in it :/#good seasonal anime btw ww his VA has a good voice but i wanted the spinel voice specifically though#so it's a good thing he came back. so i get to listen to him#i really enjoy his line deliveries...! the さあ、どうする is in my mind#thinking about that thing with love and how loving him and being involved with him comes with its own kind of pain#and a specific emotional baggage that you have to carry etc#this stuff is soo compelling. of course i'd go insane over it w#anyway. i've been rotating him in my mind. he is so.#spinel#hz064#character notes#episode notes
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That different people can engage with the same piece of media and come out of it with wildly different interpretations is a testament to the evolutionary miracle that is the human brain. It is also very annoying.
#but i'm gonna mind my own business.#like the point of saw and luthen's characters TO ME isn't 'Both Sides Bad' it's 'revolution is ugly beyond belief and#if you make it out alive it won't be with clean hands EVEN IF your cause is just and the alternative (fascism) is unbearable.#i think the audience is meant to be disturbed by their accelerationist tactics we are meant to think about whether the ends really justify#the means we are meant to think about whether 'good' is something you believe or something you do or something in between.#we as the audience of a prequel series also have the benefit of near-omniscience bc WE know that while saw and luthen are poking the bear#and playing with human lives like they're chess pieces the empire is actively building a weapon capable of blowing up entire planets#and mass-murdering billions which they will later use without hesitation. saw and luthen DON'T know that which complicates things further.#collapsing all that nuance and reducing it to Both Sides Bad is. well. reductive. but like i said i'm gonna mind my own business (lying).#btw i say all of this as someone who studied real-life parallels of these kinds of things extensively in school and had to stop because#i was too much of a kumbaya pacifist and it quite literally drove me insane.#so if anybody came out of that show saying Both Sides Bad it should've been me. and yet. like idk man at the end of the day#there is a difference between a rebellion using violence to claw back an imperfect democracy and a brutally repressive empire.#sorry i promise i'll stop talking about this show someday but ummm that day is not today. apparently.
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thinks about metatron referencing god only talking about amara when he was drunk and the direct parallels that then draws to john’s relationship to mary’s memory after she died, and hey that was a fucking insane line to put in their show right.
#never not thinking about that. fellas you ever build the whole fucking universe on a foundation of your sister imprisoned because you fucked#up so bad and now you can’t ever acknowledge or admit it or it all falls apart. but you WILL make ur kids act the whole fucked up mess out#again to try and justify your actions to yourself. (or watch. and hope that they’ll get it right? but maybe that would be worse. prove that#you could have. but not anymore. you can’t face that mistake anymore. rewind the story with another pair and watch it go horribly wrong.)#the show is not subtle at all about amara-mary being parallels. and it was never subtle about john being their dad who is god. and now god#of course. is kind of like their dad. but it is also insane. they did not have to do this. no one forced their hand and made them make amara#his sister. instead of his wife. but. well!!!!#i mean!!! more for me!!!! but holy shit insane tv show!!!!
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something that i think is really interesting about billy's view of flint in s3 is that he thinks flint's death (if it's in a self-sacrificial way) will not absolve him of his sins in life but that it will make up for the hurt he's caused. or at least that billy wants it to. he pushes flint to take the maroon queen hostage so that flint will die, but flint will die for the crew. billy says in s3e6 "with all the shit that he's done, the things he's gotten away with, [flint dying to free them from the maroons] would have been fair. that would have been right" and that he wants to see "the moment the world finally catches up to [flint]" if/when he dies dueling teach. billy has a very simple idea of justice - he wants flint to die for the death and destruction he has caused, no matter how. that will make the world right, that the narrative will be balanced again.
but what billy doesn't know, and what makes me INSANE about this show is that the full quote from billy is is "I think part of the reason I've been able to stand by his [flint's] side is that I wanted to make sure I've got a good view of the moment the world finally catches up to him... and this story starts to make sense again." but to flint, what he has done is in service of his own justice. justice for the deaths of thomas and miranda and james mcgraw, for the theft of his home in london and again his home in nassau. but to billy, HIS narrative identifies flint as the villain. as the monster. for billy to get justice, flint must die. but it's SUCH a good line, because it also prompts the viewer to think - in OUR narrative, which follows flint and silver mostly, flint must succeed. we want him to beat teach and take the fleet back and overthrow the british empire. flint is shown to be a murderer but he is also shown to be deeply deeply human and we are set up to sympathize him. but it makes you consider what other voices we aren't hearing. who else has been hurt by flint's actions? what narratives have flint as the villain ? none of the characters in black sails are the heroes in every story - but to who are they the villains?
#idk this SHOW MAN. the rewatch is going quite well. makes me INSANE#'yes yes flint is billys england weve all seen it' IT JUST MAKES ME SO RABID !!!!!!!!!#the flint billy parallels make me climb walls bro#like. flint wants freedom from a colonial monarchist rule and becomes a pirate. which were famously democratic. and yeah sure hes not NOT#elected for his position - but black sails goes out of its way to show in s1 the kinds of subterfuge going on about the voting.#flint does NOT keep his position as captain fairly until silver. and even then we arent shown the voting but silver clearly keeps his#constituents happy somehow. idk the ship politics are soooo interesting to me!!!!!#i also think theres something deeper in black sails in general about leaders/followers. in terms of like. flint proposing his plato-based#philsopher-king bullshit. and his disregard for 'the men' as people beneath him... but ALL the captains do this. there's not a single#instance of a crew member whos given much agency or who makes a bid for leadership and isnt punished (singleton dusfrene billy even)#there is only the Leaders - flint silver charles vane rackham teach - and the Followers - the variable number of walrusmen that changes#based on the ship theyre on lol - the men on the ranger and the colonial dawn#granted some of this is just due to narrative reasons i think. but in a show thats so deliberate. its worth considering.#black sails#canis watches black sails
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the sexy brutale's portrayal of what disability is like is so wild.
you ask your good friend, as an architect wheelchair user, if you can build a lift into his mansion, both to give him more space in the basement, and generally as an accessibility feature.
he says "oh, yeah!!! sure man!!!"
and you say "great, where can i build this?"
and he says: "yeah, in the furnace!"
and you say "...hm?"
and he says "yeah man, just build it in the furnace!"
and you say "but won't i burn to death if anything goes wrong with the power?"
and he says "yeah, sorry...... yeah sorry the only place we could put it is the furnace...... sorry......"
and then he unlawful act manslaughters you in an entirely unrelated arson.
#the sexy brutale#tsb#thanos gorecki#lucas bondes#genuinely insane how negligent lucas was#like i do think the end of the game is generally good and lucas hating himself forever will do nothing#and certainly won't bring anyone back#but it was only a matter of time before someone died or got seriously injured at one of his parties#even if the arson never happened#he kept dangerous exotic pets in unsecure enclosures with no warning signs#he kept a practice stage separated from a fifty foot drop with a flimsy glass pane#he put on dangerous magic shows with little to no safety precautions#he actively poisoned people at his bars!!!#while the ways the guests died in his mind were a little over the top#they weren't far off what could have actually happened had the mansion continued on#i do like the thing about him looking at his hunting trophies to remind himself what kind of person he was#yet continuing to act in ways overtly dangerous to his best friends' lives for no reason other than his own entertainment#it parallels with how he replayed all his friends' deaths in his mind yet never really changed or got better#lucas does have this habit of doing things thoughtlessly#hurting people#and then torturing himself without actually fixing his behaviour#he is constantly berating himself but in doing so almost absolves himself of the responsibility to do better in the future#because if you're inherently an evil person#no one can expect better of you#not even yourself#anyway i liked this game if you couldn't tell
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To be clear, I'm sending this ask not to start an argument but because talking about S/amson's morality as a subject interests me. This is all intended politely, though I am bad at tone. While my personal thoughts on S/amson's stuff in act 3 are a little complicated (shit of him to do, and they have him be excited about the annulment on the templar route, the latter of which I do have to wonder if they did simply bc the writers hate addicts (they do) or not. Still it did happen and it IS odd when people try to act like he had less part in the attempted genocide of the gallows than C/ullen, who was way more hesitant than S/amson), how did you come to the conclusion that he was purposefully throwing mages at slavers? He says pretty explicitly that he didn't know and was trying to get mages out of Kirkwall, are you assuming he's lying or is there some extra information I'm missing? I guess I could see why he might lie here if that was his intention, but I don't… really think he is? there's nothing to point to it? I see "he gave mages to a slaver" as a point a lot in the S/amson discourse, but I don't know how people are coming to the conclusion that he wasn't genuinely doing the best with the no resources he had at that moment, and the smuggler he was using ended up being a slaver without his knowledge. This being said, the fandom posing him as super good compared to C/ullen is really weird, and while I understand why it happens, it is frustrating seeing people ignore his blatent flaws.
do i think he deliberately gave mages over to slavers? no, i don't think that. i also don't think a lack of deliberateness absolves him of blame. k/irkwall is notorious for slavers - how many do we kill in game? we find a bunch just hanging out in lowtown, and the docks, and near the wounded coast. but the guy who lives on the edge of the docks never suspects that the man taking runaways for free is a slaver?
with regards to f/eynriel, s/amson is very explicit about how he didn't help f/eynriel as much as possible because he didn't have money. instead, he directs f/eynriel to a ship captain he knows. he knew the slaver, and he sent both o/livia and f/eynriel to him. when h/awke says "of course your friend's a kidnapper", s/amson quickly says r/einer's not a friend, but someone who "isn't scared to try out this business". but what business is he referring to? f/eynriel doesn't have coin, that's the entire reason s/amson turned him away. what other reason does a ship captain in kirkwall HAVE to take people on for free? s/amson deliberately sends f/eynriel to someone else to deal with. and when he heard rumours that person was selling people, what did he do? nothing, until h/awke comes looking.
#asks#i think he wants to think he's a good person who is trying his best to do good and be good#and so that's how he defends himself and the harm that comes as a result of his actions#and in THAT way he parallels c/ullen actually#but. even as far back as act one. his ambient dialogue already indicates that he's mostly extremely bitter abt being kicked out of the orde#he has dialogue that's like 'people wouldn't treat me like this if i was still in the order'. the nerve of saying this to a FERELDAN REFUGE#and keran exists RIGHT THERE as a counter-example for the quest in act 3. s/amson straight up BETRAYS THE MAGES TO THE TEMPLARS#keran fucking LEAVES THE ORDER bc he refuses to be part of that kind of violence anymore. samson betrays the mages and then will GO BACK#if you advocate for him.#he likes to think he's a good person. that doesn't mean he is one.#i think he THINKS he's very sympathetic to the mages. but then you get that line in act 3 that's like 'but at the end of the day they have#options we don't' which is yknow. an insane take. to go from 'mages deserve to be free and live unafraid'#to 'maybe i WILL rejoin the police state currently trying to g*nocide them'. like that's a HUGE LEAP that doesn't come out of nowhere.#anti chantry#fandom critical#samson critical
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Straight up kinda thought they were about to kiss here is it really possible for a gear and a forbidden beast to fall in love
#machine translation can not parse most of what eddie is saying. but testament certainly says some insane shit to him#they like. empathize with him to the point where they dont understand why he wants to stay alive so bad LOL?#like ‘yeah being an artificial lifeform with opposing wills (human memories vs gear instincts) fucking sucks. why dont YOU want to die .’#thats crazy. mostly because this was written like. just going off their win quotes lol??#and yeah those definitely acknowledged their connection perhaps even parallels + testament’s empathy for him#it didnt really get expanded on til ac+ Like a year after this doujin was published#SORRY FOR LIKE. GOING NUTS OVER WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY 2007 FANFICTION#i jjust think testament and eddie are interesting. also the art in this chapter is gorgeous shoutout UHHHHH#soutetsu. they did not put any kind of link in their comment space :( oh well it wouldve been dead now anyway.#the kat goes meow#gg#totentanz
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THEY ARE STUNNING THEY ARE EVERYTHING THEY ARE THE FUCKING MOMENT
#HOLY FUCK!!! HOLY FUCKKKKKK!!!!!!!#oh my god they look so good!!!! they did not disappoint im freaking tf out#tbh akito’s new fit my be my fave… HE DOESNT HAVE THE UGLY LAYERS ANYMORE 🎉🎉🎉 the layering actually looks good I LOVE THE SWEATER AND JACKET#and an. ANNNNN SHES STUNNING SHE IS SO PRETTYYYYY IM OBSESSED!!!!! OBSESSEDDDD! the top and pants combo is such a slay omfg#kohane’s oufit is soooooo fawking cute like im gonna cry 😭😭😭 the sweater over the collared shirt is such a nice look for her#and touya… okay maybe his is the one i like the least but i will not deny he is looking very stylish…#the turtleneck (??) is rlly nice and the jacket keeping the dermond branding is so cool to see (touya moon parallels 🥹)#not a fan of the ripped shirt or whatever thats hanging down tho… like it looks fine but id prefer the design without#AND MIKU… holy fuck??? kind of an insane looking design but i genuinely love it!! she looks so cool and i absolutely adore the coat#also her tie?? is so weird looking?? but i think it works? somehow????#<- i am feeling very normal about these designs. i like vbs a normal amount.#project sekai#proseka
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fan design for johnny truant house of leaves. yea.
normally johnny's the kind of character i'd prefer to leave designless, but its difficult to do silly joke stuff with a character that doesn't look like anything lmao. my sort of compromise between the two is limiting his palette to the book colors
#house of leaves#johnny truant#mark z danielewski#the internal battle between ''i think it adds to the unreality of the novel to keep johnny ''faceless''''#and ''i can't put a guy who doesnt look like anything in tomodachi life.''#also some notes on teh design:#im a sucker for the parallels between johnny and the ~~minotaur~~ (or the idea that they are one and the same)#hence red eyes. however also red eyes are just fucking cool#thats actualy also why i gave him a nose ring bc minotaur -> bull -> nose ring lol#also i just find it hard to imagine a guy who works as a tattoo assistant having No piercings#side note idk if i'd actually think of him as having black hair but limited palette yaknow#also i have. NO idea how to draw burn scars Least Of All how johnny's burn scars are described#but. purple bc pelafina#aside from that i just kind of winged it with the design so its not very complex LOL. i just like talking#realizing while typing this btw that johnny as a tumblrina would have absolutley insane tag rambling skills#ok thats all i'll stop talking now.
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“billy tried to hit the kids with his car”
that’s boring why don’t we talk about fred benson fully leaving another kid to die during that car crash
#now if you wanna talk about road safety…#the amount of characters who’ve actually done the things people accuse billy of is WILD#boy just went home and never spoke about it again like#insane plot point#one thing i actually didn’t see coming i can’t lie#also this is absolutely because i#saw a fred post with like 400+ notes being like#why does no one appreciate him#and no one brought up the whole car thing#like idc what charcaters people like#love him hate him you do you#but the irony of it all is insane#like#i’d get less heat for saying fred did nothing wrong#vs a billy post ??#might as well dig my own grave rn#you know?#kind of a funny parallel when you think about it#that ‘well it’s not travis’ audio but it’s just#some of us say slurs [looks at steve and hopper and whoever else]#some of do whatever that was [looks at fred]#most of the characters in st: is it me?#‘well it’s not billy!’#people remember billy’s not-crimes the most because he’s pretty and interesting and the best#i don’t make the rules
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just watched challengers at the cinema w my little sister. it was so intense wtf
#i was like grabbing onto my scalp just yanking my hair in the last 5 mins and at the end i yelled (quietly) LOVE WINS!#bc there were only 4 other ppl in the cinema lol#its so fucking stupid on the surface like ok complicated polyamory and also insane obsession with a sport bc that is what makes these people#who they are; as in the sport IS their identity as individuals that's what fills the void that lies underneath skin and bone etc.#blah blah basic shit about messy relationships with the self and romantically with others#but it's also so profound because despite the many obstacles and personality differences. they all love one another and the sport so much.#it's so weird it's twisted in a sense because it's like they only have one another and then obviously tennis (bc tennis is the bridge)#it's very.. codependent#i can't believe my little sister understood like not in a condescending way i cant believe she got it but in a “oh i didnt know you watched#stuff with this much emotion and that you cared enough to critique media“ since she doesn't usually tell me about what shes watching#and when she does she tells me about sitcoms ..#so yeah it was nice that we watched it together but also kind of weird bc#well surface level: the make out scenes were just us giggling awkwardly#and on a deeper level when i was watching it. i couldn't help but think about how#patrick at some point turned into an observer; he stopped being a part of the art tashi patrick trio (and tennis!) and turned#into a spectator#despite very much still being a fellow player#and then tashi became a spectator of the sport despite very much being absorbed in it all and in love with art (?)#i dont know what else to call it but her need to control him came from a place of some kind of care ... albeit manipulative and self serving#so Patrick and tashi are almost parallel lines if that makes sense#theyre kicked out of “the club” whatever the club may be (for Patrick he's no longer in the trio) and for Tashi once the trio is long gone#she's no longer a competitor bc of her injury#and then art is just in the middle of it all#and he'd always followed Patrick's lead in the past and then he started thinking for himself until he became so taken by Tashi#and then he just became her little follower#he just wants to be loved and told what to do because he doesn't know how else to live. im projecting? im projecting. anyway!#the ending. god. the ending sums up their whole past dynamic:#patrick is petty. art is irritated. tashi doesn't get their little dynamic. patrick loves art. art is forgiving. tashi loves the sport#(and maybe she loves them both in her own fucked up control freak way)#z.post
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No normal way to say you want someone to scroll through the pinterest boards you put your blood sweat and tears into making for your own characters. Like I need you to understand my love for this little guy. What do you mean a picture of a tree doesn't convey his thoughts and ambitions. It does to me
#Keeping up motivation for my passion project because I KNOW tumblr will eat that shit up when I can get it published#But like they mean sm to me how do 8 convey that to others#ranting about my work rq ->#yall will eat it up.#it's queer. It's themey as fuck. It's insane#The main characters receive the powers of gods and have to deal with the corresponding ramifications#the main character is the kind of girl who has definitely lived on tumblr. She's mean she's feminine. Maybe a tad insane. Loves fiercely th#The main love interest is a pathetic wet cat of a man who talks with Death himself regularly#The best friend is a catholic guilt-centered sun-coded man of color who is openly bisexual and effeminate and has insane ADHD#There are so many religious themes#I love religious parallels ngl#like Death is referred to only as He or Him and the catholic character can turn into a snake#I hope to explore the separations between human/animals and human/divinity and how they define and limit humanity as a concept#through 4 dumbass teenagers ofc#Anyways hmu if you wanna hear more or wanna be on the look out when I finally finish the books I will always yap abt them#sk#ocs#my ocs#chaotic is thinking again
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