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[proudsnackeezowner]

Hey by the way I NEVER STOPPED THINKING ABOUT THIS and I have more lyrics to shove in your face. THE DAN AND GEORGE MICHEAL PARALLELS ARE RENT FREE BUZZING AROUND IN MY HEAD AT ALL TIMES.

Look ill try not to do a full essay level breakdown but the line:

"All we have to do now is take these lies and make them true somehow" is so deeply related to how dans coming out took the assumptions and speculations being thrown around and said YES. But it's MINE and IM CHOSING TO TELL YOU. Take these lies, make them true.

ALSO: "All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me" is about dans relationship to his fans. This is so crazy to me because it applies so well.

Next one:

"What a kick, just a buddy and me. We had every big shot goodtime band on the run, boy. We were living in a fantasy". About how he and phil blew up, and basically were at the peak of their careers. Tatinof time, big boom of britcrew and yt in general, their most "successful" time. They were making a killing! No one coukd compete with their level of popularity! Just a a buddy and me, every big shot on the run, we were living in a fantasy. It's almost too on the nose.

Then the next one, the real kicker:

"But today, the way I play the game has got to change, oh yeah. Now I'm gonna get myself happy." DO I NEED TO SAY ANYTHING HERE. He literally could not continue being online anymore! He needed to live authentically. The game has got to change.

I won't circle back and breakdown that old post. But I definitely could. But I won't. And I won't add more but. BUT THE BRIDGE TOO. LISTEN TO IT. And we won't talk about the "freedom" chants the choir does during the chorus bc that's self explanatory. ANYWAY no one else cares about George micheal but you should ! Because he's great and super cool but also because the dan parallel is insane.

Ok fine I'll contribute to the #phan movement and ramble !!! Time to talk my obscure phannie shit

Freedom '90 by George micheal is so thematically similar to Basically I'm Gay. This has been a thought in my head for a long time (I'm a big George micheal fan lol) and no one will understand this reference BUT LISTEN TO THE SONG AND YOU WILL UNDERSTANDDD

Oh for context, freedom '90 was basically George micheals coming out song duh :)) and it SLAPPPSSS HARD

[shattersstar]

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[xxplastic-cubexx]

you open my Super Important Documents and its just pictures of charles xavier

[peacheenie]

pov u r going to comicon in a few months so u went charity shop hunting for a cosplay and found half of it in a singular day :)

[reblog-house]

Some things can change.

[bitegore]

if your ocs were bosses in a video game, what do you think their boss fight would be like?

[hypervoxel]

I've seen a couple different people now complaining about the plethora of fics where Vox leaves an abusive Valentino and finds refuge and a healthy relationship in Alastor... Which just makes me want to write a story where Vox leaves an abusive relationship and Alastor takes in Vox but instead of rescuing him, he is instead just as abusive and manipulative albeit in different ways. Trading in sexual abuse for a different kind of toxic relationship.

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

This big boy took almost 14 hours (!!) which I think is about the longest I've spent on an art piece

[goldkirk]

as I'm going back over my past history and items and journals and years, I come across all sorts of things, like the pencil I saved from that so-precious memory from second grade, and a pair of flip flops I've been missing for two years, and [checks notes] the modern-high-school-AU-kidnapped-by-a-serial-killer story I wrote in late high school jdfsjdfsjkjlksfd

[vincent-sinclair-deserved-better]

hm

thinking of my blorbos but not in a "i love you you love me all is well" way but a "i love you hope you kill me" way lol

[sylcries]

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[arttsuka]

Ok bear with me here because I can't explain it well.

I really don't like when (in movies or books or whatever) they make them specifically about a topic but instead of having it imply the message it is the message.

Like how elemental (2023, disney) was supposed to have the theme of racism and migration by having the fire people be outsiders. I specifically remember a part of the film where they didn't let the protagonist and her father go in a botany garden(?) because they were afraid it might cause a fire. And it was this big part of the movie etc but like, wasn't it a valid concern? Not that they'd do it on purpose but accidents happen? The same way it would be a valid reason to not let either fire or water people in a library for example. I get where the movie was coming from but by embracing this message as a core plot line of the film is really weird? I don't know, probably only me.

What I'm trying to say is, when they try to pass a message by making it an actual plot instead of an allegory, they usually fail (at least in a world with fantasy elements)

[cuteniaarts]

Greyscale Midori sketch because I’m low-key artblocked

[netherdevil]

unnormal vivilly dweller thoughts in my head

[the-commonplace-book]

Replying to @lesbiansforboromir's comment on this post about LDS (Mormon) dog whistles in Season 2 of Rings of Power.

I've only watched the first two episodes so far (watching episode 3 tonight), but here's what me and @runawaymun have picked up on so far:

Sauron in a stigmata position with a halo of blood after his Caesar-style execution

Sauron turning away from what he believes to be his calling and attempting to flee in the opposite direction via boat, only to be intercepted by a great sea creature/storm and subsequently the very attempt at escaping his calling resulted in him falling directly into it. Jonah symbolism all over that thing

Sauron and Gandalf being presented as a false savior and a true savior, the show cutting back and forth between Sauron as The Deceiver and Gandalf as the real deal. The particular way that the show cuts back and forth between Sauron performing false miracles meant to bring himself glory and then cutting to Gandalf performing true miracles in humility. Sauron wanting to do things his own way and fix the world through totalitarian control. Gandalf trusting the Valar and following in their esoteric plan. (more on the Valar later). One of the most blatant examples of this is cutting from a Sauron scene directly to Gandalf in the desert and going to draw fruit from a barren tree (big Jesus thing). This is rather distinctly LDS. In mainstream Christianity Jesus is God and Satan is a fallen angel (honestly small potatoes). Not even remotely on the same playing field. In LDS theology Jesus and Satan and both sons of God and Satan's folly was trying to be a false savior for the world because he believed he knew better than his dad and wanted to eliminate free will.

The Annatar reveal scene (stunning for the most part but...) with that one goofy shot of him with the golden clouds on the mountain peak. Straight up Lucifer imagery. Though also has some strange commonalities with paintings of Moroni and LDS Jesus

Re: the golden clouds. This was also evident in season 1 with the representation of the gates of Valinor being so intensely similar to LDS depictions of the gates of Heaven

The particular wording in the way Gil-Galad talks about Sauron's particular form of manipulation, the fear of letting him in even the smallest bit because a little evil paves the way for total corruption, is precisely the kind of LDS teachings that are used in regards to the perils of sin

Cirdan telling Elrond to simply trust in authority and trust that the "one who judges" will judge those over him is so very very LDS

The Valar being treated as gods who are worshiped within the narrative and, again, the whole treating Sauron and Gandalf as a kind of false savior and true savior of unspecified divinity. Rather than the Valar being deities-of-sorts who are tangible in the word and oversee various aspects of nature. With Tolkien explicitly saying on multiple occasions that there was no religion around them (except for Morgoth but that was part of his problem). And the Maiar being essentially angels.

I'll see if there's more as I watch more episodes. I would see a lot of this as the showrunner's worldview coincidentally seeping into their interpretation of the text, except that they explicitly said back before season 1 that they believe there were a lot of similarities between Tolkien's work and Mormon theology. That's not to discredit the parts of this show that are good! Again, I do love this show. The costumes, sets, and music are stunning. The actors are all perfect. The production overall is stunning and the writing even has its shining moments. It's just unfortunately also chocked full of LDS religious allegory if you are familiar with LDS theology (which I am, despite not being Mormon myself)

[ntaras]

ik i’ve said before but it kind of (not kind of it really does) agitates me how people talk about mk12 kuai liang because it really does show that people want nothing but to baby him. like, people don’t really anything interesting to say about him besides he’s a good guy. yes he is a good guy. but is he not more? i get mk12’s story does write to be THE good guy to be bi-han’s foil, but i keep on thinking about how kuai liang was going to kill bi-han but no one really cares about discussing that as a part of kuai liang’s character in this story.

i’ve also said before that kuai liang and scorpion clash as characters and fit together well as separate characters, not as one character, but scorpion kuai liang could have been a somewhat good character and i do think that scene of him almost bashing bi-han’s head in with his chains shows potential in something interesting. kuai liang’s story is a struggle against the old lin kuei, but couldn’t it also be a struggle against himself? couldn’t it be a proper clashing of his self-control and the urge to act on only emotions?

seeing kuai liang keep a hold on himself until the reveal of their father’s death is (well not is but could’ve been) a fascinating flaw of his character. i think we should’ve actually seen a build up of his frustration towards bi-han growing over the course of the story, but keeping a cool head until he finally snapped.

but there really isn’t talk about that scene. there isn’t any care about his negative traits. there isn’t any care about him besides the want to just call him traumatized.