#They are so two sides of the same coin coded

[cowinthestars]

first day in waste management

i've been brainrotting about tfone for so long, literally since it came out but the thing that got me to get off my ass and start doodling some stuff from the movie was watching it again but this time with my dad and some of my best friends!!

anyway happy holidays, and there will be more tfone doodles coming soon cus i got a few more ideas i wanna share :D

[froggerland]

Hello team I made a character playlist ahshhshs

I was sorting my 163518 spotify playlists and decided to pick out some songs that are kind of edward and solomon coded (the lyrics not the genre/vibe of the song necessarily)

This is just me killing time on the drive to visit family for Christmas so I'll probably tweak it and it's not the most accurate depiction of them as characters (it's 90% mitski but they're are so mitski coded to me!! And a lot of songs are in both playlists bc duh they are two sides of the same coin tbh)

(Just hit shuffle its not in a specific order)

[mudinyourshoes]

having now finished the drama, i have now read these additions! love them and all and I can say that

a) I absolutely agree that Yuanzhi is spoiled and exploited by Shangjue. I think that at the beginning of the drama the "spoiled" and the "exploited" are two sides of the same coin in that relationship, in the same way that Yuanzhi's total worship of Shangjue is the flip side of his venomous attitude towards everyone else.

b) I actually think he would pass all three trials (tho, yeah, they need to be changed now). A lot of the drama was about the Gong family coming together and learning to protect and trust each other. Yuanzhi works with Xue Chongzi several times in the last few episodes and the whole point of the ending is that anyone who wants to "protect the family" is family and anyone who's more interested revenge than in protection is an outcast. So, there's not way Xue Chongzi is going to let Yuanzhi die, even if he hates him, which I doubt he does anymore, and Yuanzhi has presumably also absorbed this lesson - protect the family above all else - which will be important for the second and third trials

The second trial, yeah, he definitely passes but maybe for the wrong reasons.

The third trial, he doesn't kill anyone because he recognizes that it would be the wrong thing to do, not necessarily according to his own morals but according to the family code and to Shangjue and Ziyu's morals. He's very fixated on molding his worldview to match Shangjue's because Shangjue is the person he loves and I think at the very end of the drama we see him expand his ability to both receive and give love to include all the living family members (notably, the tea scene with Ziyu, giving Chuyun Chonglian to Ziyu, and receiving the glove from Zishang). So I would guess he's going to change his behavior and expand his worldview to match this new reality - not enough to be, you know, normal and well adjusted but enough to pass the three trials

Gong Yuanzhi and Gong Shangjue are soooo weird and emotionally codependent. I'm not done with the drama, but I feel like together they make one whole person and individually...not so much. Yuanzhi is the id -- all impulse and immediate need -- and Shangjue is the superego -- all control and standards.

I mean, the way they talk with Yuanzhi constantly saying what Shangjue is thinking but can't or won't say and Shangjue either tacitly encouraging his didi's bad behavior or reining him (often by humiliating him, which is a whole other can of worms my god). Shangjue has done his best to strip his life of all personal preferences, but he indulges Yuanzhi's desires to the point of breaking social norms and spoiling him (it appears to be standard that he makes and pours tea for his didi! Let's him eat first and whatever is best?! smirks when Yuanzi is a rude loud mouth for no reason? hello?!). And think of the way they are filmed. Their often blocked one right in front of the other and the camera will slide in and out of focus between them. What am I supposed to make of that?!

[kandelia-mangrove]

Can we talk about how in the show Lestat and Armand are framed as narrative foils. Armand and Lestat who are both so aggressively theater kids, but Lestat who acts, who draws in the attention and holds it, and Armand who directs, who shapes and manipulates the narrative. Armand and Lestat's obsession with Louis and his love and frustration with his melancholy over Lestat and Claudia respectively. Who both felt second in his heart. Who fear loneliness above all else. Lestat taking what he wants to excess - no impulse control, and Armand letting things happen to him and trying to manipulate situations to get what he wants but never taking it. Armand, who even in the end, so much more powerful, never physically imposes himself on Louis. Armand who seeks complete control in subtle insidious ways. Lestat who seeks control in the physical. Armand and Lestat brought into vampire life in horrifying ways tangled up with SA. Armand who still talks about his maker with reverence, Lestat who hates his maker. Armand who pours all of himself into his partner, willing to shape himself into what they desire but ultimately needing control to feel safe. Lestat who pours all of his love into his partner but unwilling to change himself and ultimately cedes control in moments to maintain the relationship. Armand who clings to his breaking apart relationship for 77 YEARs, Lestat who let Louis go. Lestat and Armand who watch Claudia die, but one as a father and one as a murderer. Lestat and Armand so intense in their love but Lestat so painfully external and Armand so painfully internal as characters. Both constantly acting and putting on a face. Lestat as Mozart and Armand as Salieri (in the flashback scene!). Armand who loves routine and structure and repetion, Lestat who craves change and excitement. The calling cards are echos, who learned from who. Armand teaching Lestat the vampire gifts, Lestat teaching Armand a new way to live. on and on....

[nenoname]

Details in Stan's letter that still haunt me

(how long will I continue thinking about a two page letter that's technically not even that long because Stan's handwriting is fricking large? .....you don't need to worry about that.)

The bro code only shows up in the Lost Journal pages, and to me Stan's message feels like it purposely echoes Ford's "miss you" in the college photo (and for some reason the message doesn't appear in the website version of the photo?) ....or alternatively Stan simply noticed how distressed Ford was about this entire thing and wanted to support him in a way so he can be sappy but without the kids knowing, or both!

Stan's claim about the Oregon lottery contradicts what the Lost Legends website said about Tate McGucket's ability to predict the winning numbers!! ...but also breaking into the Lottery HQ is definitely a very Stan thing to do and it's not the first time small gags have been retconned

Despite spending most of his letter nonchalantly destroying him, the taunt about ripping a dollar bill in half is the only part where Stan is directly responding to Bill. Maybe it's the two of them having similar ways of thinking but it's rather specific considering Bill taunts the reader about it...

And after Bill spends an entire book calling Ford Sixer despite normally using a pretty wide range of nicknames for him, Stan then spends his letter mainly referring to Ford as Sixer, even though post-Weirdmageddon he tends to use a mix of nicknames. And it's not like he'd gotten to see Bill himself for long, let alone see him steal that childhood nickname (that is only used twice in the actual show btw!). Did Ford tell him what happened or...?

With all this and the website's "still on your mind" message, what I'm getting at is my tinfoil hat theory of Stan somehow seeing some of the pages the irl readers saw, even when it should be personalised to the specific reader, and he's been lying about it for some reason. Considering that the book flat out doesn't make an attempt at convincing Soos, I find it a stretch that whatever Bill was telling Stan via the book was an attempt to convince him either.

Wouldn't be the first time Stan's skimmed through a book and lied about what it meant to him.

(...Now I kinda wanna see a story about the family reading their versions of the book and making fun of it while Stan is improvising every single one of his pages and blatantly ignoring Bill's attempts to mock and taunt him)

But also I'm fascinated by the letters that only showed up on the website (aka the Soos+Wendy+McGucket+Pacifica ones). I'm assuming that Mabel had stuck them on after Stan's letter... but they were basically eaten by the book itself because seeing Stan's letter kick-started Bill's breakdown which takes up the rest of the book

[sle3pyc]

A bit of an analysis on q!slime as a character throughout Purgatory

So q!slime obviously lost his mind and was the first to lose himself (changing skin, gas mask cult) he also found himself a family that he never really had before. Even before quesadilla island he was alone and then on the island he forced himself into isolation because he blamed himself for tilín.

during purgatory he learned that he didn’t need to have JuanaFlippa around to be happy, he even had a second chance with q!Marianna. But he had a family, one that was brought together by their struggles and they all needed each other.

But then, when they were all together facing down the eggs he was the first to step back and look at what was happening. And you could see that he realised he was losing his family, that they had more important things to worry about now. So as soon as he could, he ran and made his way to the boat because he HAD to get back to JuanaFlippa because he needed her again.

Anyway his character is so tragic and I need more people to be interested in his lore because he’s excluded from so many things for some reason

[narutosux]

i want to talk about the frank castle, mr The Punisher, of my dreams

the version of the punisher that is canon to me in my heart and idgaf about reality because men wrote him anyway and i dont respect men in general. im also going to talk a tiny bit about daredevil because to me they are literally two sides of the same coin they're literally bbc merlin and arthur and im this woke ass dragon going "two sides of the same coin go freaky on each other"

In my heart of hearts, Frank Castle is an anarcho communist. He is a hardcore anti-establishment commie who believes that revolution cannot come without bloodshed. He respects and cares about the wellbeing of Daredevil, Matt Murdock, and other heroes who have similar goals, because they do want revolution and change, but they don't have the balls to actually kill wholesale like Frank. Frank sees himself as the only one willing to actually get shit done, and he's okay with being an attack dog. He's used to it, because its what the US government used him as when he was a Marine.

The concept he would ever respect the police, a violent force used to oppress lower classes and protect capital, is LAUGHABLE. It's foolish. I ignore iterations of the Punisher who is fine with killing drug addicts because they're "breaking the law", and I believe in versions of Frank Castle that kills CEOs of pharmaceutical companies for pushing opioids as harmless drugs. I think the Punisher of the 80s might focus on street level drug offenses, however I think he would learn that the problem is systemic and tearing the leaves off a tree won't kill it, you have to attack it at the root.

I believe that he would work willingly with Daredevil A LOT... Obviously, Frank Castle is more than capable of doing investigative work on his own, and he's great at planning, however I think that both men recognize their ability to work well as a team and function together. Frank is willing to work with him on jobs where he can admit that killing isn't NEEDED, even if it would do things a whole lot faster.

Frank Castle, without a single doubt in my mind, HATES the US Military Industrial Complex, and the enforcement of violence. He accepts violence because it's all he's ever known. He's a good trained attack dog, and it's where he feels comfortable, but he's both a dog and his own master, and he feels he can only make up for the attrocities he's helped commit by righting the wrongs he's done. He's single-minded, headstrong, focused on his goals of destroying in order for rebuilding a better version of the world. Allowing people to take time to change means they can fuck up and harm others in the meantime. He's not willing to risk that.

Another piece that I did like from the version of him where he was the leader of the Hand, I really liked the idea that Maria was planning to divorce him right before his family was slaughtered. I think it would make him recognize just how little of life he had, and it would make him even more angry at him failing to protect them and failing to be a genuinely good husband. But, he also recognizes that it was never love, it was a role he thought he was supposed to fill. I just don't think he really loved her. Love doesn't look like what he put Maria through.

He knows how to fill roles, but he doesn't know who he actually is. Something quite similar to Matt Murdock, who feels he's the Devil, but also doesn't know who he is when he's Matthew. They're both constantly trying to fill roles in other people's lives, or fill the roles they think that they're supposed to be in, but they don't actually know who they truly are as people.

I think that's so powerful, for these two men who are so full of conviction and so firm in their beliefs but when it comes to thinking about who they are as people, they don't know themselves. But, they know each other. I think they know each other better than they know themselves, but they don't recognize that it's because they see so much of themselves in the other man.

Sorry, but you can't convince me they aren't completely fucking obsessed with each other. Daredevil sometimes wishes he could be the Punisher. He wishes he could just kill the evil he has had to hear for years and years and years and years of his life. But he knows it would never solve anything, it would only make him as bad as the evil around him. The Punisher wishes he could see a world where redemption is possible, he wishes he had that scrap of humanity left in him still. I think when he works with Daredevil he feels himself growing weaker and he has to run away and can't stay with him long, because it makes him recognize that he might not have the resolve to kill. He also fears he might taint Matt Murdock. He might eventually actually convince him to kill. And that scares him. Frank Castle taints everything around him, even his bloodsoaked, mangled children. Even his wife Maria, brought back from the dead, still covered in bullet wounds and beautiful as ever. He drove her to kill.

One day he might ruin Daredevil like that too, and the only saving grace of that moment would be that Daredevil would finally put down the sick dog that is Frank Castle.

[mossterunderthebed]

i think there is a part of me that died at seventeen. of course, this also means there is a part of me that will live forever at seventeen.

[streets-in-paradise]

Troy is for the straight girls who like x reader, while TSOA is for the straight girls who prefer yaoi fics of canon characters.

[lessnearthesun]

Thinking about The Goldfinch and literally EVERYONE is wrong about Kitsey but me. You all just don’t understand her and hate to see a hot girl winning

[veerbles]

more kanej parallels because I love pain: kaz's rebirth scene in the harbour vs. inej's rebirth in the incinerator shaft.

both nearly died burning - kaz of the fever of firepox, inej of the hot coals. both resurfaced in water - kaz swimming back to shore, inej climbing up in the rain. both found their purpose in vengeance - kaz deciding to become dirtyhands to take down pekka, inej deciding to captain a ship to take down slavers.

both were hopeless and aimless until they were reborn in pain and struggle, and maybe they came out a little bit angrier, but both had found their path.

[littlematchagirlll]

an old friend and i met up in person and wound up talking about good omens (ofc). they listed a few reasons why they are just like crowley, and i listed a few reasons why i am just like aziraphale, and then i noticed...

they were wearing all black. black shirt, black pants, black docs, black hair. the only exception was their grey socks, which had a giant, green letter C on them.

i was wearing a beige corduroy sweater over a white turtleneck, jeans, beige socks, white shoes, blonde hair.

we laughed so hard when we realized we even dress like them on accident

[leslieseveride]

they're so fucking chenford it's actually stupid.

[madefate]

i'm in my blitz and striker feels again ... like i called it how important harvest moon festival was to blitz's plot in my s1 analysis, but like - to date, one of the only genuine compliments blitz has ever received in the show was striker complimenting him on his business - the thing he built in spite of everything working against him as an imp - and then the betrayal of that ?? followed by blitz's failure to take him out ?? i think that single handedly kicked his self image even further into the grave

[skeleticals]

ok so we are basically certain that codeflippas one and only mission is to corrupt slime like a virus infecting him day by day.

[purple-mushroom-cap]

actually, yeah, let's talk about how frustrated I am about bbc merlin's execution of their plot. let's talk about how the concept of magic was heavily queercoded and everyone in turmoil about the magic didn't have satisfying endings or even a happy one. let's talk about how incredibly queer coded morgana was. let's talk about how bbc's solution to avoiding the queerbaiting "bury your gays" trope was subverted by burying every character. let's talk about merlin losing every single fucking person he loved and then killing off arthur right after merlin "comes out to him."