#aligory

[jaredthebc]

Once again in that mood where I randomly think about how MHA had such a cool concept at the beginning but then sqashed it 3 episodes in to give Deku a quirk like W H Y

[theshaddowedsnow]

All spider people are trans. I don't make the rules. They took up such a good allegory for trans people that's on them

[smax-maxs]

i think after a certain extent of suffering whatever bad karma you’ve accumulated from the bad you have done will all go away. as you’ve paid the price by way of being cut down so much you become a doormat that people walk on or use to scrape the dirt off their shoes. perhaps you can grow back to where you used to be but with that comes the fact you may end up hurting someone and be punished for it by bring cut down again. it’s a cycle that only ends when you end, and maybe with all of your moral debt taken care of. all the good you’ve done may led you to heaven.

but death isn’t a goal you should aspire towards. living the best that you can is. you may be chopped down but that doesn’t mean you can’t grow back, you’ll always be able to. it is just your choice to grow.

[sukibenders]

"why are the x-men woke now? they weren't that way before-" my guy, are you sure that you're an x-men fan? like absolutely sure? if you're just looking for something to complain about then just say so, but let's not lie. the x-men have always been "woke". are you just mad because now you can't be a bigot publicly without being called out?

[eleviathan]

Narcissus rejected everyone due to being arrogant about his beauty, and was enamored/feel in love with his reflection at looked at it until he died.

Nartranssus desired love and would take basically anyone, but they felt they were too ugly to love. They avoided their reflection at all cost as they only saw the face of a disgusting monster.

But a god comes along and finds them, sobbing. The god with divine knowledge, knows that the "monster" was just a mask that was forced upon Nartranssus at birth. The god helps them remove the mask, it's agonizingly slow, but the god reassures them that the result is worth it. Eventually the mask comes off, and after some hesitation, Nartranssus sees their true face. And after truly seeing themselves for the first time, they finally know why people like looking at themselves in the mirror.

Narcissus never ascended to become Nartransssus. Narcissus died incomplete.

[araeoframblings]

Highkey annoyed that the balders gate 3 Fandom has made any discussion on Mystra absolutely fucking terrible to sit through, because the games very OOC writing of her is now the most popular depiction of her. So anyone who tries to talk about how the writing of BG3's mystra makes no sense gets dogged on, and anyone who tries to talk about Mystra within the FORGOTTEN REALMS outside of bg3 always has the conversation go back to the game. Or people pulling out the same 2 stories written by a misogynist as an excuse to write off a goddess who's not just supposed to be a good aligned goddess, but can very easily be read as a r*pe victim aligory in the VERY STORY that BG3 pulls from (Karsus' Folly)

Like I get that BG3 exploded outside the d&d player base, and even then not everyone who plays d&d cares about the lore or reads the forgotten realms books- it's just annoying that it's impossible to talk about one of my favorites figures in the mythos without everyone shouting about her being a groomer now bc Larian decided to fucking dog on her and EVERYONE acts like that completely erases her existence outside of this one game

[heaven-knowss]

Pieces of media that remind me of audio dramas:

Welcome to Night Vale is basically Gravity Falls

Wolf 359 my beloved is basically Among Us

Want content that is a thriller about a society with magic creatures that have a non-magic organization claiming to help them but actually just keeps them separated from the rest of society because of internalized fear and lack of magic insight? And its all a big aligory for albeism/racism????? Well:

The bright sessions (podcast), i rate it 10/10 It's a queer classic

Not even bones (book and webtoon), i rate it 25463521/10 really gory but so smart and actually realistic

The House In The Cerulean Sea (book), i rate it 8/10 queer and cozy its like a blanket

MALEVOLENT SPOILERS AHEAD‼️‼️💥

• Oh so your favourite piece of media is a slightly horror-sureallistic story about a depressed middle aged private investigator in the near past whose both parents died at age 9? And he gets dragged into the story by investigating the death of a blonde woman whose whole life was a mystery?

So do you mean the Rusty Lake games or Malevolent podcast?

Might add more

[callmecash1]

I think Allen and weird barbie are trans aligorys

[ermine-57047]

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HEYYYY ITS MAN FROM THE FLASK INFODUMP TIME YIPPEEEE THIS IS GOING TO BE INCREDIBLY LONG AND KINDA INCOHERENT!!!

SO! Homunculus first. He's basically like,,,, OKAY i am GOING to need to explain something else before getting to him. And that is:Nightfalls.

Basically in the setting of MftF, there are these creatures called shadows, and they are like normal shadows except, they are alive. They can move around at night but are rendered immobile when day comes. They do minor damage and are kinda easy to dispel, however they tend to mindlessly 'hunt' in groups. However, if they come across something inorganic that has been imbued with magic (also known as AMM, abiotic magical material), they tend to get amalgamated a bit. See, the shadows are not creatures, they're more like the closest thing anyone has ever gotten to creating life solely out of AMM, so they're essentially clouds of VERY fine black powder. Cool? Cool.

Anyway when they come across more AMM, it kinda fucks with their magic and fuses them together. This is what is referred to as a nightfall. The AMM that fused them together is absorbed and stored at their center, most of the time, and is referred to as their core. Damage the core enough and you defeat the nightfall.

Homunculus was originally created with material from the body of a dead nightfall(they get a more physical form when fused together, they actually have 'flesh' of sorts that's kinda like putty but more gooey). A character called the Unnamed Alchemist is the person who took the material, and decided to try to mix it with plant matter and his own blood and meat/bones from livestock and hunted creatures, since organic material is inherently imbued with magic.

The experiment was carried on in secret for months, the Unnamed Alchemist knowing that if his mentor found out what he was doing, he'd go off on his whole spiel of 'how he was young and a prodigy at alchemy but that doesn't mean he should go against the rules. No making things alive(It's what originally created the shadows--which are huge pests-- and in turn, nightfalls-- which are VERY dangerous since they hunt down everything that moves with shocking speed) and'- you can see why he wouldn't want to get this lecture all over again. So he continued 'feeding' the flask of nightfall-flesh-plant-stuff. The... homunculus :)

Eventually, he became more and more obsessed with it and more and more paranoid that he'd be found out which CAN'T HAPPEN I'M ON THE PRECIPICE OF A HUGE ALCHEMICAL DISCOVERY OR SOMETHING HERE!! But eventually he just decided FUCK IT IM LEAVING I'M IN TOO MUCH DANGER. (he wasn't. literally no one knew about any of this. to everyone else, he was just losin it for SEEMINGLY NO RWEASON AND PUSHING EVERYONE AWAY WHY-)

So, one stormy night, he left. Climbed out of the window of his little dorm at the house he lived in with his mentor and just- left, in too much of a paranoid rush to bring anything with him other than the clothes on his back and the sealed flask containing his homunculus. In his rush away into the forests of the foothills where he used to live, he slipped on some mud and took a bit of a tumble to the bottom of it.

But, by the time he was at the bottom of the hill, a few seconds later, he was no longer human.

The flask that carried the homunculus was a strong tempered glass, but by the time these events took place, the material in the flask had actually eaten away at the glass, making it fragile. So, it shattered, and the Unnamed Alchemist was engulfed by his creation. This is the event that led to Homunculus(the character) forming in the first place.

Homunculus is an entirely new creation. He doesn't really have any memories of his past life as the UA... except what he sees in his dreams and nightmares. He knows that he wasn't like this, like his current body and self before he first woke up as himself. He thinks that the UA did this to him intentionally and doesn't have the full story. So, he sets out on a journey to try and find him through hints given to him in his hazy dreams.

However... you know how the homunculus(flask) was made from material from a nightfall? Material that is only "alive" and moving through AMM? And how nightfalls have cores that form around the magic that fused the shadows it consists of together? Well, Homunculus(character) has a core of flesh, both because of the things the flask was fed and because the flask homunculus engulfed the UA because, at its core(hah), it was a nightfall. Well... turns out that the mixture of AMM and organic material is unstable, and does not really mix. The only reason the stuff in the flask existed for so long was because of the enclosed space of the flask itself.

Anyway, over the course of the story, Homunculus deteriorates. First, it manifested as his dreams slowly becoming more distressing(and uncovering more of the truth about his existence), then as him physically deteriorating. By that I mean he uh. Let's just say He didn't know he actually had any sort of blood in his head until it came leaking out of his face as it started to fall apart and melt. Like he knew he got a soft skeleton and some dysfunctional organs in the rest of his body. But he thought his head was just. Blobby stuff. ANyway. He sticks around long enough to find out his own backstory and it's like severely scarring and stuff on him but ye!.

This is already suuuper long so I'll have to cover Wirm in another infodump so ye!!!!

Oh btw Homunculus pronouns is he/they <3!

WOWOWWWWWWEWOIEUADJWD

[dangerous-tangerine]

so... i just watched S6 ep 19 of the X-files "the Unnaterual" and that was deffo a queer aligory right? like.... it felt like it was extremly queer coded

[theshaddowedsnow]

There is absolutely no way Across the Spiderverse isnt a queer aligory omfg

[kingoftherose]

This is a really good aligory for big companies donating to charity.

Imagine if Radiation man saved the day and u go up to thank him and then you die due to radiation poisoning because he’s Radiation man

[luciddripx]

Splashing out. not full size #abtractpainting#abtractart#aligory#artattack#artathome#artatack#splatterpaint#splatter#splatterart#digitalart#digitalartists#digitalartwork#desingart https://www.instagram.com/p/CUztRiVr4o5/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jewishdainix]

so was the frog racism a thing in this world before leifs betrail or was it made up then because of that betrail

[thesadnightchannel]

Media takes for today

Ring fit adventure is fun i want to play more.

Bridget is now trans we can't change that, yes before strive she was kinda a transphobic stereotype, yes we diserve trans women in media that are better representation, but i will not turn away trans rep because it's not the best. I understand that Bridget's backstory kinda makes it seem like she was groomed into things like feminine dress, however being trans is more than feminine dress and she diserves to live her true self.

Frag Christopher Paolini, I don't care eragon should be trans. In fact i am going to think of eragon as both a trans aligory and is now a trans story.

[fruitwanderer]

yo i’m watching the first episode of sonic the hedgehog (1993) and why is it so dystopian?

Yooo you found SatAM?? That's neat!

Okay so like the main premise of the series mainly in the early 90s, and what started the series, was actually environmentalism about protecting animals! In SatAM (called that by fans to not confuse with other stuff called that in the franchise) he's fighting with the Freedom Fighters to reclaim their home from Eggman who stole it from the Acorn Kingdom.

As a small summary: Egg bitch stole Sonic's home when he was 7 and now he's pissed cus mobians (animal aligory for the show) are being used as a source to make machines.

Sadly this whole entire storyline and all original characters tied to it got abandoned in 2017 when SEGA stopped working with Archie. If you do like the story, then reading Archie might be a good idea but just know it is a comic from the 1990s and early 2000s written and drawn almost exclusively by white men, so best girl Sally Acorn is done dirty MULTIPLE times ;o;

Another character done dirty (/hj) was best villain ever Eggman, but to be fair this was before he got his gayness or sometimes (sometimes) caring for other but in the most selfish ways possible.