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bixels · 7 days ago

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The final TF2 issue really got to me. Spoilers, but it’s the reveal that all of this suffering and murder and war over gravel and shitty land was for nothing but senseless, bottomless hatred. That the administrator can’t even remember where this revenge plot started as she flashes through different false memories of her parents’ deaths. There was never a tragic backstory or justification, only terrible people doing despicable things. And despite how crass and stupid and unserious TF2 is, the story subverts every expectation by showing the survivors and inheritors willingly breaking the cycle. Ms. Pauling lies to the administrator and chooses not to save her, and finally lets her die. (Hurts even more if you read into the subtext that Ms. Pauling is in love with the administrator.) She lets the final cache of Australium go and walks away from the burden and legacy of a century-old bloodfeud. Hale lets Gray’s daughter go and live her life freely. Spy is the first to arrive at Scout’s house and meet his big family, finally takes off his mask, and helps with the kids. Even Merasmus exhaustedly makes peace with himself and Soldier and chooses not to curse him or something. There’s nothing to finish, no promises to keep, and no one to avenge. The only thing to do is break the cycle and walk away.

It feels odd how happy and warm everything is, but it feels so right and earned. These bloodthirsty, awful, violent men were expendable cogs in a machine of endless violence, and they found a way out. It’s a genuinely great message about letting go the past that burdens you and finding the will and a way to hit the bricks, change, and be happy. Maybe they don’t technically deserve happiness, but they’ve got it nonetheless, and they’re not gonna let it go to waste. They’re still all crazy and violent, but on their own terms now and with people who love them! Smiles.

#tf2 #rant #personal #the stuff with the administrator reminded me of the ending of breaking bad #except the admin isn’t as self aware as Walt lol #that there was never a sympathetic reason or justification to fall back on #all of this was done simply because they were sadistic people #I really appreciate the writers avoiding the expected trope of the administrator dying and #Ms Pauling taking the mantel and becoming the next administrator. both as a either a girlboss empowerment thing or a sad but realistic end #like nah they’re happy and doing well. we won’t torture these characters any more and doom them to continuing the cycle #they’ll be happy and you’ll be happy for them

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rainbowpopeworld · 1 year ago

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This is a big thing that I continue to work on unlearning/relearning

#care tasks #self care #cleaning is a process #a never ending cycle #judgement makes it harder #morally neutral #spoons #spoonie #disabled #nd things #neurodivergent #cleaning #oh no it's queue

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drdisasterarts · 1 month ago

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stardust to stardust // inspiration -> "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt

edit: reblogs r appreciated plsplspls😖💕‼️

#my art #arcane #arcane season 2 spoilers #arcane act 3 #jayvik #jayce talis #viktor arcane #jayce x viktor #arcane spoilers #spoilers #was it casual when we cannot exist without the other when we are both the beginning and the end ?#WAS IT CASUAL WHEN YOU PRESSED UR FOREHEAD TO MINE AS WE BECAME ONE WITH THE COSMOS AND ENDED THE CYCLE WE STARTED #WAS IT CASUAL #WAS TI????#WAS IT CASUAL WHEN MY PRIMARY MOTIVATOR WAS YOU AND ONLY YOU?#fuck bro #jayvik fans how are we feeling #this was driven by pure love for yaoi. i wasnt listening to any music while making this.#just the distant sounds of the tv playing some basketball game idgaf about

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quixoticprince · 4 days ago

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Remember how Miss Pauling said she'd spent her whole life to help the administrator....

She didn't even know what she was helping with, but she wanted to be by her side, until she learned how deeply personal and self destructive the whole thing was... and in the end there never was going to be a 'place' set for her :^(

I'm so sorry Flo 😭

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #miss pauling #flo pauling #hell yeah full name time #I know she grieved real bad after all this #well i mean duh that was... a lot #and she was tempted to restart that cycle too #i was sad to not see her at the party at the end of the comic :^(((#that found fam saved all those mercs from the cycle and not seeing P there was harddd #comic seven my beloved #you were not what i expected but i was so glad for you

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valtsv · 1 year ago

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btw if you're going to go down the route of "everyone lives happily ever after, by which i mean gets married and settles down and plenty of kids" at the end of your story then the ONLY right way to do it is to give the villain character a kid as well and have these descendants meet and become best friends before the sins of their fathers inevitably come back to haunt them and turn their innocent childhood friendship into a nightmare psychosexual rivalry in which people are killed

#🐉#i still dont care for 'lets get married and have kids' endings but if the kids go on to repeat the cycle? that fucks

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walkerrenee · 2 months ago

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sometimes i randomly remember how insane maggie stiefvater was for making ronan lynch—a man that can create reality—a man of god, when he himself is a god of a man. then to take this man and have him be not only in love with, but a literal soulmate of a man named adam. parrish. adam parrish. who, mind you, lives above ronan's very own place of worship. and is the namesake of the first of mankind that the bible says god made from the literal dust of the ground (adam parrish: comes from nothing, hair "dusty" in color) and appoints him to care for the garden of eden (adam parrish: sacrifices himself to ronan's sentient forest). then has adam viewing ronan as a god and ronan saying "maybe he dreamt (created)" adam???? like who just fucking writes that and goes about their life?

#if i think about them too long i start going actually insane #maggie pay for my therapy bills please #me and my ignored religious trauma are literally have never been able to handle it #the raven cycle #pynch #ronan lynch #adam parrish #and the fact that i read the series pretty soon after i realized that pretending i believed in god was doing more harm than good and left #i was still a kid and had very bad undiagnosed ocd that made my implusive thoughts surrounding hell and eternal damnation and the end days #and it terrified me so much as a queer trans kid to realize i didnt believe but still had thoughts of that in my head and then to read this #series like a year or 2 later was brain altering for me #anyways where was i going with this #ahahahha #im having a moment #adam's last name is pretty self explanatory too like....miss girl

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that1overthere · 1 month ago

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BACK AT IT AGAIN O7 KEEP DRAWING STARSCREAM PRIVATE MARTIAN!!!!!!

And my lovely fanart of him

#transformers #tf skybound #tf skybound spoilers #tf #transformers skybound #starscream #private martin #LOOK AT HIM #HE LET HIM LEAVE JUST TO DRAW HIM #starscream ending the cycle of violence with more violence #yeah thatll work

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the-star-rigel · 3 months ago

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pjo/hoo/toa + the cycle

The Lightning Thief / Growing Sideways, Noah Kahan / Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Ilya Repin + Saturn Devouring His Son, Goya + Saturn, Rubens / The Blood of Olympus / The Family Jewels, MARINA / The Last Olympian / The Sea of Monsters / The Family Jewels / Orestes Pursued by the Furies, Bouguereau / The Hidden Oracle / Apollo and Marsyas, Manfredi / In The Blood, John Mayer / The Sea of Monsters / The Combat of Ares and Athena, Jacques Louis David / The Family Jewels / Mark of Athena / The Combat of Ares and Athena / The Lightning Thief / Family Line, Conan Gray / Cronos and Rhea, Schinkel / The Lightning Thief / The Blood of Olympus / In The Blood / The Last Olympian / Chronos and His Child, Romanelli / Desireé Dellagiacomo / The Lightning Thief / Family Line / The Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel + The Last Day of Pompeii, Bryullov / The Blood of Olympus / The Outcast, Botticelli / Glass, Irony and God, Anna Carson / House of Hades / Family Line / The Last Olympian / The Lament for Icarus, Herbert Draper + Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Roman School + Minerva and Arachne, Houasse + Venus Induces Helen to Fall in Love with Paris, Kauffmann / The Last Olympian / Hadestown / The Lightning Thief / apple, Charli xcx / The Last Olympian / I Would Leave Me If I Could, Halsey / The Sea of Monsters / ? / LET YOUR DAD DIE ENERGY DRINK, Lavery and Corrigan / The Last Olympian / Eat Your Young, Hozier / The Last Olympian / Orpheus and the Bacchantes, Lazzarini / The Blood of Olympus / Susan Smith, wych elm / Orpheus and the Bacchantes / The Burning Maze / ? / The Tyrant’s Tomb / Perseus Freeing Andromeda, Veronese / Abduction of Psyche, Bouguereau + Bacchus and Ariadne, Van Loo / The Tower of Nero / The Tower of Nero / The Tower of Nero

#I didn’t put the cycle ends here picture because I think this whole ww implies it (also it’s overused and I already had too many overused #quotes here)#but fun fact for those interested: the four paintings are meant to represent horrible things the gods have done such as Iphigenia’s #sacrifice demanded by Artemis and Aphrodite essentially starting the war of Troy #The Bacchantes painting was bc I couldn’t find a painting of this one story where a mother participates in the worship of Dionysus and ends #up killing her own son which you know. That’s the cycle etc etc #and the of course Perseus & Andromeda (the one hero that was happy) and Cupid & Psyche and Dionysus & Ariadne (which are considered to be #happy endings for two Greek lovers)#enough yapping #web weaving #pjo hoo toa #lester papadopoulos #percy jackson #annabeth chase #jason grace #luke castellan #frank zhang #hazel levesque #reyna ramirez arellano #clarisse la rue #trials of apollo #percy jackon and the olympians #tw graphic #tw blood

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sarcastic-clapping · 5 months ago

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LET YOUR DAD DIE: IT'S FINE IT'S FINE IT'S WHAT HE DID TO HIS DAD.

Lestat + Claudia: Patricide & The Cycles of Violence - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022) - Catherine Lacy, "Cut" (2019) / Anne Rice, "The Vampire Lestat" (1985) / Anne Rice, "Interview with the Vampire" (1976)

#iwtv #interview with the vampire #the vampire chronicles #lestat de lioncourt #claudia iwtv #claudia eparvier #claudia de pointe du lac #claudia de lioncourt #web weaving #i know there are 14929825 lestat/claudia comparative posts but i needed this one. for me.#does this make any sense outside of my head #like it's the cycles of violence and abuse and control (obviously)#but also lestat fantasizing/dreaming about killing his dad but not being able to in the end #she did something he always wanted to but never could and he respected her for it. he didn't have it in him but she DID #the lesdaughter of it all #also can we talk about how they both made louis finish the job agahajaj #evil of my evil

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cilibi · 1 month ago

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Something something- Grian getting the most questions wrong about his own series.

Something something- Grian being the first winner and exposed to the Watchers the longest.

Something something- the Watchers take more and more from the players each cycle and still, they only get hungrier.

#watcher grian #eyesandears #life series #wild life smp #trafficblr #slay the princess #the long quiet #I think grian works as the long quiet #a bird-like eldritch entity doomed to never ending cycles of blood death and betrayal #“the princess” is every friend and ally he'd had in the series #because Grian's curse is to bring death to those he loves #grian fanart #wild life fanart

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riverwithoutbanks · 1 year ago

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#but now things never truly end do they?#never ending cycle #rogue translator my beloved #spn #destiel #supernatural #destielgate

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lucabyte · 8 months ago

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i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

#[isabeau voice] am i insane or does sometimes loop talk like they might have killed their whole family. is that just me? just checking.#nille design highly inspired by @kiwibrain's since its the one that imprinted in my mind. liberties taken since i didnt look @ reference #anyway i have a lot more thoughts on this? i guess ill hide them in the tags...? scroll down i suppose.#isat #in stars and time #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat loop #isat siffrin #isat bonnie #isat nille #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #doodlebyte #----------------------------------------------------------------------#anyway the extra thoughts. are literally just my general thoughts on postcanon. (and thus are the context for all of my postcanon doodles!)#which is i think nille joins the party before loop reappears for a start (either from a period of nonexistence or just wandering around)#and that like. i think the party should be able to integrate loop as a completely new person. because they are! the secrecy isn't great but #They and Siffrin shuffle into different ecological niches in the party (eg. i think sif is more squeamish after it all but loop isnt)#and while it's not *exactly* what Loop wanted they get that beggars can't be choosers. and its pretty good #(i am glossing over how i think loop's reappearence drags both them and siffrin into a massive behavioural backslide and is likely a bit #distressing to watch go down. cycle of argument -> lovebombing -> normalcy -> repeat. etc etc. but since they are no longer literally #stewing in the worst pressure cooker of all time they do resolve it via productive conversation on their own time. its fine)#the party well-meaningly tries to deduce things from loop's vagueries and are able to pin down the DEAD FAMILY vibe pretty quickly.#but eventually the question of their prior identity falls by the wayside because well! they're just their friend loop! (also change belief)#as for how The Truth Come Out... this is what i mean by The Isabeau Torment Nexus(tm). which is that i think... isiloop should almost occur #BEFORE isabeau knows who loop is. he's just genuinely charmed by them eventually and tries to close the open end of the polycule #which FREAKS LOOP THE FUCK OUT because thats just too genuinely sick and wrong. and obviously w emotions high its not a great confrontation #ANYWAY told u i had more thoughts. if i were normal itd be a text post but.

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pillsopa · 5 months ago

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BLUE!!! blue my favorite ant…

#eek I had forgotten to post this here #she was a fun design to figure out :]#like ok I'm still figuring her out and by the end of this i might have 3 different designs that i'll shuffle through but still #oh that shirt was definitely a gift from mr gray btw #blue sargent #trc #the raven cycle #my art

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metanarrates · 5 months ago

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what I find very interesting about the narrator's choice of reward - ie. an eternity of supposed bliss inside the cabin - is that while it seems on its surface just another instance of him projecting his desires onto you, it actually isn't. he himself probably thinks that he would desire an unchanging eternity like the one in the cabin, but...

when he is talking about his reasons for wanting to remove death from the world, his focus is almost entirely on connections to others. he talks about the greater good, having loved ones, wanting better for them. it's those connections that drive him to submit to death in the hope of defeating it. he is definitely selfish, but if he was totally selfish, he wouldn't have been able to do that. he believes his own death is a worthy sacrifice for the continued existence of his world. his vision of an ideal eternity, as he describes to you, is one where connections are endlessly and joyfully rediscovered.

in his ideal ending, you've killed off the only being you could ever meaningfully connect to. and this is one of the main reasons his plan dooms itself. who could bear the weight of an eternity alone? not him, certainly.

#narrates #slay the princess #found this one in drafts...#btw this is why i think of the time loop ending as actually the closest to the narrators vision! despite him clearly not liking it #an eternity of forgetting and rediscovering connections. a cycle of perpetual motion that always ends at the same place anyway #of course. its horribly painful. because that type of existence would have to be. but hes never been able to grasp that.#the pain is also what makes it meaningful! if he could grasp that though he would not be the narrator

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adamprrishcycle · 3 months ago

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My favourite thing about the trc fandom is that collectively, we’ve never moved on from anything ever

#we’re like the fish in the harbour at the end of finding nemo #now what??#and we never figured that out #so we’re still here #and always will be #trc #the raven cycle #adam parrish #ronan lynch #gansey #blue sargent #noah czerny #text

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aglionbyacademia · 3 months ago

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reread trc -> reread aftg -> reread trc -> reread aftg -> reread trc -> reread aftg -> reread trc -> reread aftg -> reread

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