#Tales From the Dark Side

[whitecappslll]

[alicenpai]

the girl from the other side ✨ this series gave me hope a million times but simultaneously shattered my heart into the same amount of pieces </3 (flower symbolism under cut)

sticker sheet for anime north 🍀🥧🖤🤍

SPOILERS AHEAD

forget me not - obvious reference to the Black Children and how they eventually forget who they are as they near the end of their "life cycle".

white clover (in coffin) - white clovers typically symbolize innocence.

4 leaf clover - like I wrote in a previous post on my Witch Hat Atelier seasons piece, the 4 leaf clover symbolizes luck and good fortune. Like Coco, Shiva to her loved ones is a symbol of fortune, though to the Inside Kingdom, a symbol of misfortune.

sunflower - typically symbolize strength and warmth, a fitting flower for Shiva, the light illuminating Teacher's dark past.

nasturtium - another flower symbolizing strength, and has strong ties to the "victory" after battle. apparently soldiers used to don them as a sign of a long battle won. fun fact they are also edible (don't take my post for nutritional advice please) (ill probably write a bit more on this topic when my head is more clear)

[meandmyechoes]

"Always with the criticism, Master. Never really believing in me, trusting me."

The Clone Wars 2.06 Tales of the Jedi 1.05

[mokeonn]

I think that the 2010's media landscape of Buzzfeed articles about plotholes in disney movies, Cinemasins critiques, and Watchmojo Top Ten scenes in movies that make no sense has truely ruined a lot of media. People are afraid that their work will be torn down if they dare leave a single thing up in the air, if they dare ask their audience to suspend their disbelief.

All too often nowadays I see stories (especially fantasy), take the time to explain how every small aspect of the world works and how it all logically makes sense. The constant time stopped to explain why an event happened, how this object works, or why this is important to the characters. It's just really not needed and it honestly makes a lot of stories worse.

I am of the opinion that the best stories truly just drop you into their world and explain nothing. They just take you through the story of this world and you just have to accept it and continue on. "When he became king, the land became barren." I don't want the story to stop and explain why this is, or how it happened, I want us to move on so we can just assume that the king has such rancid vibes that everything died.

[mortifry]

Not very many people live long enough to tell the tale of how they’ve come face-to-face with the Grimm Reaper. No, nobody ever gets a chance to talk about just how devilishly handsome he looks right before he ends their lives, nor do they get to tell anybody about how he favors the old pistol hidden in his well-worn, brown leather jacket, rather than a scythe. Nobody ever gets that second wind on him—nobody ever gets a chance to fight for their life.

Sure, there are stories about him that float around in an endless game of telephone—rumors that could ruin another man’s life, but nobody ever gets the smaller details right. Nobody talks about how he likes his coffee with a pinch of sugar and half a cup of whiskey. Nobody ever mentions how unflattering the color yellow looks on him, even though that’s his go-to. They’d prefer to paint him in black with a halo of gold. Nobody says anything about the photograph of his daughter that lies face down on his desk, covered in a layer of dust for who knows how long. They don’t talk about how his mitch-match eyes pierce through even the darkest rooms, like stars millions of light-years away, and that meeting his gaze makes you feel like you’re farther from home than you’ve ever been.

No, nobody ever gets that close. Nobody ever gets to stay around long enough to see the way he looks when he stares out the huge window in his office as the purple glow from Pandora dances off his hard features, making him look softer and smaller than he’s been made out to be. They don’t see him as he looks past the planet he hopes to conquer—past the people he’d step on just to do it—nobody sees how solemn and empty he looks when he thinks he’s alone.

Perhaps there’s a reason nobody ever gets to see the man under the mask as the person he is, rather than the image he’s made for himself. But for that reason, I will never know.

[dnangelic]

the hollow nonviolence but nevertheless heavily palpable longing and empty vastness of daisuke's heart. post

[onigiram]

TAGS. i didn't like the other ones asjbfjbsdjgb

[tales-from-the-frame]

Howl's Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki (2004)

[tyrannuspitch]

re: discussion of anti-imperialism in ragnarok: something i think is pretty striking about t3 in contrast to previous thor films (and avengers 2012) is the total absence of the perspective of any victims of asgardian imperialism.

those three films give us a variety of perspectives, including but not limited to:

jane, a human, as a main character and love interest, and thor beginning to overcome his anti-human prejudice as key to his redemption

jotunheim initially depicted as monsters, but then revealed to be victims, and their demonisation to be part of their victimhood

loki as both victim and perpetrator of imperial violence; a stolen child who was groomed to redirect his self-loathing onto others, now doing exactly that

humanity defending against invasion as protagonists and (in the avengers) the majority of the cast

malekith as both victim and perpetrator of imperial violence; a brutally defeated rival of asgard's returning to exact revenge both on asgard and on the universe they were competing to control

and like, these films are definitely not perfect. but there is always at least one major character for whose life asgardian imperialism has ruined or could ruin during the course of the film.

whereas in ragnarok...

the jotuns, the dark elves, and all of asgard's other rivals and victims are absent - except a brief appearance of surtur, who is treated straightforwardly as a dragon to slay.

one human (bruce) is there, but his humanity, iirc, goes basically unremarked upon, and earth is not important.

loki is still there, but his past is brushed under the rug.

hela is a thematic focal point, but, unlikely loki (who she's clearly meant to mirror), she's only a victim of interpersonal abuse, not of imperial violence, because she's just asgardian royalty and nothing else.

valkyrie is a new character who was traumatised by hela's imperialism... but only because she was a soldier of asgard at the time.

like... do you see the void? the whole film is about how asgard's imperial past impacts the royal family and citizens of asgard. we're told ABOUT violence in a distant, almost mythical past, but we don't witness it. we're told to associate that dark past almost exclusively with hela; we're led to exonerate odin as a good king who learnt from his mistakes; we're introduced to val as a warrior from that exact era without the matter of her participation EVER coming up; and we're almost retconned into believing that thor and loki *didn't* participate in asgardian imperialism (outside of loki's villain arcs) even though that's exactly what we saw in thor 1.

the one group of victims we *do* see are the victims of the *grandmaster's* tyranny, a category which includes thor, loki, bruce and val to various extents... but again, isn't that odd? we see asgardians as victims, but we don't see the victims *of asgard*?

i'm not saying this is necessarily Evil or whatever, just poorly thought-out. but still... once you see it, it's a pretty glaring oversight, isn't it?

[timey-fandom-stuff]

... I really gotta stop coming up with wildly ambitious AU ideas.

[alaricseer]

my problem with almost all fae fiction I find, esp the adult or new adult kind, is that it expects me to believe that its 99% straight, cis beings. 

Hey now you might even get a few gays in the sidelines, as a lil treat, but you will have to sit through straight girl love triangle to get that.

[jackklinemybeloved]

if u were to make a character for neverafter what fairy tale would u base it off of????

Oooo this is such a good question. I’m not super familiar with the original source material of a lot of fairy tales and I wasn’t super into the genre as a kid, so I don’t know a ton of characters that I would be really drawn to.

The first thing I thought of when I read this question was the velveteen rabbit? Which I know isn’t a fairy tale, but it was the first children’s story I read as a kid and remember going “oh this is pretty messed up and horrifying and sad.” And I think there’s horror potential in the kind of body horror of being an inanimate object that was worn down and nearly burned alive, and then coming alive. And while it has horror potential, that story and that character have a lot of heart, and I think that would make for an interesting character dynamic. Plus fucked up little guys with hearts of gold are one of my go tos when picking my fav d20 characters

Either that or Robin Hood because eat the rich.

[shermerclassclown]

Today’s horror movie--Tales from the Dark Side. It was scary as FUCK! And with good reason--I had to fast forward through some parts. I nearly barfed up my popcorn watching this. Lots and LOTS of WHAT THE FUCK moments. 

It was a great movie. But I’m not going to watch it again any time soon in the future. 

[dumbassacademia]

you like to say you’d help the old woman in the ones who begs for just a moment’s rest at your fire, and perhaps just a morsel of food, if you could spare it, she can’t pay you back with money nor jewels but it would be awfully kind if you wouldn’t mind

you like to say that you’d be the one to help her, to split your sandwich in half, but that is because you already Know that she is the witch or the fae or the empress or the goddess in disguise and you know that at best you’re getting a pretty sweet gift out of this encounter, and at worst things could go Very wrong for you if you are not polite at least, you and i Know this already and so we say that yes, yes, of course we’d be the one to help, of course we wouldn’t make the mistakes of the stories because we wouldn’t be cruel, it’s about mercy really, helping a person in need if you have enough, that is merciful

but did you have this same mercy when you lit ants on fires with magnifiers and stomped on their castles (hills) with bare feet on hot summer days, did you have this mercy for the roach in their motel (prison) who’s family lineage probably has more generations who’ve called that place home than you, did you have the same mercy for the hornets who’s apartments (nest) you drenched in poison in the wee morning hours, when you couldn’t even face them with dignity?

did you?

i didn’t think so

[sylvans-sketchbook]

I opened an old notebook I haven't touched since I worked at Discover Card, 2020

And found some doodles! I made these on sticky notes while I was bored at work