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Alicent misunderstanding Viserys…. Aemond not meaning to kill Lucerys…. Daemon not actually telling B&C to go after Helena and the kids….
#I suppose this could be commentary on how fire & blood and history in general doesn’t allow for nuance#and with certain things I can understand that#but also#misunderstanding is such a frustrating and frankly annoying trope#I would’ve preferred Alicent say fuck Viserys and that’s why she made the choice she did#or daemon actually making that choice#obviously I have to wait to see how it all plays out on screen#but just generally a little irked with that reoccurrence#a lack of agency#alicent hightower#house of the dragon#hotd#hotd spoilers#season 2 hotd
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so john has complete control of arthur’s left hand, yeah?
#hey john i think i have a solution for your feelings of lack of agency#idek i was bored at a market today. here’s this#amazing how i was able to draw him looking like a different guy in each of these#has someone done this before? they must have#malevolent#malevolent podcast#arthur lester#john doe#oscar malevolent#procrastinating animating… i need to finish wolf animatic
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someone’s hands have always been inside of you
#bioshock#what a nightmare torment nexus of a relationship dynamic. love it!#(john wolfe did a re play thru of it and it brought back a lot of memories lmao#I have code yellow illustration I want to do and maybe try out some body horror with Jack since agency and the lack there of is#a theme so why not go full tilt with it)
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always the pawn in someone else’s game. ♟️
#persona 5#shuake#goro akechi#akira kurusu#takuto maruki#oof my art I guess#HAPPY 2/2 EVERYONE ‼️‼️‼️‼️#wasn’t sure what I was gonna do this year and then this idea hit me like a bolt of lightning#i love you chess imagery 💕💕💕#this being said I know nothing about chess so uhh if the board setup makes no sense (likely) no it doesn’t#idk nothing really concrete to say about this other than goro akechi and his lack of agency make me crazy#I enjoy that he’s always under someone else’s control until 2/2#and even the choice to die is under someone else’s whims#idk he’s just sooooooo#this piece sits in a limbo between the ideal and true endings which I think is fun#is the shattering of Leblanc in the background the breaking of the false reality? or is it the ability to choose falling away from him?#you decide I guess :))#anyways enough rambling from me I am almost late with this lmao#hope y’all had a good shuake holiday
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Haha what? Of course I slept! No, don't look at the time, check out this cool thing I made
#i have been severely lacking in the monty fanart department#how is he one of my favorites and ive only sketched him like.... once.......#the balance is off in the universe or something idk#anyway. the glowup my art gets when i use my drawing tablet.......#he's a little crosseyed but im done messing with it im going to sleep#dead boy detectives#dbda#dead boy detective agency#monty finch#monty the crow#monty dead boy detectives#monty dbda#snail.scribbles
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three specific kinds of terror, jacob geller / working for the knife, mitski / the magnus archives, ep. 92 "nothing beside remains"
#i'm soooooo normal about the theme of choice and how a lack of agency is terrifying but free will is perhaps an even greater burden#web weaving#parallels#quotes#jacob geller#mitski#working for the knife#tma#the magnus archives#magnuspod#mag 92
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also ive been rotating how Gideon absolutely considered Wake to be her MOTHER before having that fantasy ripped away from her and like, that experience of learning the bedrock of your existence is a lie and the person who made you did not love you and did not want you and what do you do with that when you did not ask to be born. and also of course Wake's own experience as someone who likely never saw herself as a mother and whose only claim to the title is the result of a hail mary pass so desperate that it wasn't even a choice at all. something about directly contradicting agencies creating a tangle of tragedy...... Gideon cannot have a mother who loves her because Wake was not a mother but at the same time Wake can never escape the fact that Gideon is a child that she created
#tlt meta#harrow the ninth#the lack of agency redheads.#gideon learning that the woman who listened to all her 14 year old bullshit and helped her survive the hellhole of the 9th never existed#tamsyn muir queen of portraying such specific tragedies#trb.txt#tlt thoughts
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sooo derap vodwatching means he knows where zams base is (presumambly).. and like, idk it kinda makes me a little sad. its only thing that honestly belonged to her at the end of the day
#its the lack of agency that gets me i think#lifesteal spoilers#and like#maybe derap already knew from previous streams but idk#paddy.rambles#i lowkey might just be overexagherating lmao
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MYTHAL as JUDAS ISCARIOT
"You have murdered me! You have murdered me!"
Dragon Age The Veilguard | Jesus Christ Superstar
#mythal#solythal#solas#evanuris#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age#datv#“so solas is jesus christ despite all that?” YES. yes. please see my vision. it's about playing roles to your destruction and death.#it's about the lack of agency. it's about the cycle of violence. it's about being completely blinded by ideals.#as is the case for most of the story of dragon age. when do ideals go too far? how can anyone choose who lives and dies?#i LOVE you judas characters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#ALSO the lyrics are in the image description as well as the titles for the songs used!#...would people be interested in a solas-specific jcs edit too? i have ideas. i could finally use other murals >>#THIS ALSO ISNT EVEN MY ONLY MUSICAL SOLYTHAL THOUGHT. i have another more prominent one to do. but this was haunting me.im infected.
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this is relevant to a lot of fanspaces, but I'm feeling it most with CritRole C3 right now, though it applies to a lot of other works too: I feel like a lot of fans mistake "the work had the potential to expound on XYZ themes and tell a narrative about such-and-such with these particular building blocks" for the work actually telling that narrative and working with those themes
the building blocks merely existing in a text does not necessarily mean that the text has that particular narrative at all, let alone is telling that narrative well. a lot of the time, a text has the potential for it but is not using those elements to actually tell that story and is just plain ol' missed opportunity
#I feel this way whenever people talk about C3 as about lack of agency in the face of being acceptable to power and respectability politics#or about C3 as like a narrative about The Grotesque as beloved and hard emphasis on “our weirdness is what makes us right”#or about like hegemony of religious power and historiographies and the keeping of secrets and information as a means of power#or a dozen other things that are being spun and have been spun throughout the campaign that I don't feel like summarizing rn#Sure this COULD have been a story about any of those things. There's stuff and elements you CAN use TO tell that story if they wanted.#But I don't.... actually feel like they told that story. The mere existence of the pieces doesn't mean that is the story being told.#Critical Role things
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#my thang#beznaia#mb72#pb63#fb63#7263#i want to say lack of art is because i was busy with work.#But thats not true i havent gone in for like a week#I was too. Enveloped in pete alonso free agency
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Fascinating to me that Hunter in the owl house not only fills the “child soldier of the villain who switches sides” archetype but if we are going through the tropes of fairy tales that The Owl House likes to play with, is a little bit the princess in the tower??
#the owl house#hunter#hunter toh#idk I have a few thoughts on how the archetype kind of fits on to hunter but can’t quite articulate them properly yet#something something complete lack of agency and complete lack of proper understanding of the outside world as it truly is#but he’s also the created monster with something something having to not only fight for his own personhood#but discover that personhood is possible for him at all something something
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Thinking about the headcanon of T'Pol as a transwoman and how that'd interact with her continually being confronted by biological children she didn't have a choice in making which die or disappear. Inspired by this post by @cmdrtpol [Patreon | Commissions]
#T'Pol#comix page#Elizabeth Tucker#Elizabeth T'Les Tucker#Elizabeth is beginning to cry/grow more distressed because she's sensing T'Pol's lack of calm#I haven't watched enough ENT to do any kind of analysis but this thought stuck in my brain SO!!!! -cartoon guy smile and shrug-#bea art tag#ent#st ent#Horror & Mixed feelings#T'Pol (a woman who seemingly eventually wants children) being confronted with a child she didn't have a choice in making whose other parent#is the man she's in love with but not actually with(?) and then the child dies and also the child was named after her mother who died and#his sister who died and now T'Pol hasn't even been with Trip REALLY but they had a baby together and she's dead too and then#he's dead. So. What did all of that mean?#OH IT MIGHT NOT BE CLEAR!! The child with the babydoll is Kid T'Pol#agency over your body as a woman - as a trans woman...#I can't cook yet I haven't read the whole list of ingredients (watched enterprise) but once I do I'll be back#trans T'Pol#mtf star trek
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i’ve said it three million times but i will always be obsessed with ‘ventus’ on @projectdestati ‘s darkness album bc of the way the drum improv section in the second half of the track makes it sound like a march. like that’s one of my favorite things about ventus- he’s a victim of horrible circumstances, for sure, but also he’s always been notable for how much agency he has in the face of all this
ven chooses to stand up to the darkness that used him and to absorb it once more, he chooses to take down vanitas even if it means taking himself down too, etc. ven marches headfirst into the tragedies that befall him. he repeatedly willingly volunteers himself as a sacrificial lamb. his story is sad, bittersweet like a lullaby, and his original theme reflects that really well. but this arrangement being split into two parts- one more like the tragic original, and one reflecting the moment he gets up to make a resolute decision- more fully captures his character i think. he is so strong and so brave and so determined AUURHHGH i love him
#it’s what makes him very different from a character like roxas#who is characterized by a lack of agency#roxas fights and fights and fights but his fate is sealed and he can’t do anything about it and he hates it#ventus acknowledges the sad truth and faces it head on with quiet bravery#could there have been another way? maybe. we don’t know. but ven isn’t going to take that chance#kingdom hearts#khux#ventus#khposting
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honestly??? i still dont know what to do with the idea that there might be a bunch of clone fords out there???? it honestly makes me so unhinged??????
#i'm guessing that they'd be.... hamster like consider how the sev'ral timez clones turned out#gravity falls#ford pines#stanford pines#but honestly if this becomes a thing#then that means stan is the only one without a duplicates story lmao#stan: ....huh. never thought you'd be a deadbeat dad at the age of 18#ford: i'm disowning you.#(something something ford seeing versions of himself lacking any type of agency at all#.....probably would be further convinced that hes cursed somehow tbh :///)#.....oh hey theyd probably can settle the whole 'are they identical or fraternal' debate by having a clone with 5 fingers lmao#altho... how fast do they develop in the tubes#would they appear to be the same age as the stan twins anyway lol#(....would the artists forget that their hair wouldnt floof upwards cos thats a portal incident thing lol)#also is ford's stripe of white hair considered to be a side effect of his metal plate surgery#its a lot paler than stan's hair colour im pretty sure#would the clone fords be hyperobnoxious considering the doc hyping up their talents???#they wouldnt have ford's crippling insecurities and they wouldnt have a stan to help ground them#but they probably wouldnt have ford's fascination with weirdness either#how many other clones are there in general?????#(also rip mabel and the girls not really solving the whole 'that boy band producer is#just gonna keep making more trapped clones to replace em' problem)#truly the ethical problems of this kids tv show skgdgkhfhk#......everyone's reaction to a clone stan really would be 'tHIS IS WHAT YOU SOUND LIKE IF YA DIDNT SMOKE???'#guy who clearly started smoking when he was like 13 lmao
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I’ve been thinking about Mark trying to take agency over his body.
The show tackles abuse of power—sexualized, racialized... violence against children too. But with enough distance that it’s not unbearable to watch for victims of these things. A recognition and reimagining of harmful power structures, not a direct reenactment.
Mark is both Frankenstein and the monster, both Orpheus and Eurydice. Created without his permission though a new science. Half way suicidal, living half a life, finding his dead wife... And finding love in that afterlife...He calls his sister Persephone, it's really him! Helly/Helena is Hades. One of the gods, going among them in disguise.
So Mark, ends up in the passive "feminine" role. Getting pulled along by the people around him. Caught in these strange, gendered/class narratives—Treated as a vessel for other people’s plans. "pregnant” not physically but narratively. He's a child, a bride and a surrogate.
#severance#lack of agency#mark scout#mark severance#mark s#severance season 2#severance spoilers#severance s2#severance season two
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