#beautiful metaphors

[jaymang0]

Such a sweet chapter omg. 🥹

Tin Lover - Ch. 15

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Tags: ZoSan, LawLu, Modern AU, From Sex to Love, Rough Sex, Fake Relationship, Angst with a Happy Ending, Character Study, Humor, Friendship, Trauma

[cortex-rampage]

I find the way that BBC Merlin set up Merlin's powers in the first episode to be quite funny. I mean, we see this sort of lanky guy and it is established that he is Merlin and (according to our own common knowledge) therefore he is the most powerful warlock ever. Okay, cool. One might assume that he has come to Gaius to develop his powers, that maybe he's only in the beginning of his magical journey. But instead the exposition shows Merlin, in the pilot episode of this 5 series show, stop time and employ levitation to save someone's life with magic, and then it is announced that prince Arthur is essentially his soulmate, and their joint power will create the most glorious age Camelot has ever seen. Quite an exciting set-up. And then for the rest of the entire show this man who we know possesses TIME-ALTERING POWERS mostly uses them on-screen to do common chores and annoy and prank THAT SAME Arthur. Like that one post said, "All of it's destiny and all of it's his fault." :p

[fan-a-tink]

the case of the very long stairway as small gif moments because apparently I like pain. let's get into it

Charles' expression pre-flashback vs. post-flashback

and the literal last moment of his life

some adorable edwinisms

I've always been obsessed with the way Edwin runs around the corner in this shot

these two just break me. every time.

this next one is a moment I'd been wanting to turn into a gif for a while. Charles is about to say "hi" before Edwin pulls him down and covers his mouth, but in this moment he's just so purely happy to have found Edwin again and there's the hint of smile on his lips

one of the most gorgeous shots of the show

and finally, this one, so that it's not all gloomy

other episode gif sets: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 8

[sensorydephrivation]

That “compare hand sizes” question from the preshow… we say that dnp are testing boundaries with their audience but never has there been a more direct and obvious example than that moment. Dan asks the audience why they screamed for it, he proposes several ideas (that it represents dick size, that it’s a fetish thing, something about furries), gets the answers “it’s cute” and “flirty”, and then ends up doing it anyway despite not having a better answer than it being a “they touched” moment. What a clear example of trying to find out what kind of freaks (not negative lol) we are and then deciding they don’t care what we think, yet doing the thing anyway.

[fittlebottom]

who gaf abt alucard when this diva is right here

[ghostdrinkssoup]

dorian only thinks his portrait is beautiful because he sees it as a depiction of his fleeting youth and identity, but the truth is the portrait is actually a reflection of basil, the artist, who put too much of himself in it. it’s not dorian who is beautiful, but rather basil’s pure love for him, which in turn is a reflection of basil’s soul and true nature. by loving dorian, and embracing his love through art without shame, basil has created the most precious thing, even if it is fleeting. much like romance, all art is quite useless, but it touches the human spirit nonetheless, and that’s important

[vintagerobin]

Not to harp on about this all the time but I really think that what people are looking at and seeing as Dick having been parentified by Bruce most of the time is actually a mixture of survivor's guilt, codependent tendencies and issues that started with having been a child athlete/star.

Like, for example, taking Bloodborne as an example of the effects of parentification does not make sense to me, because the whole premise here is that Bruce is taking extreme pains to not burden Dick with his own problems. And Dick is insisting on taking on that burden alone without being asked - after having been told not to - despite how it harms him. Which is textbook codependency, not parentification. Even the metaphor of the blood transfusion lends itself to codependency far better than parentification - if it was parentification, it would make more sense for Bruce to be the one administering the transfusion, to be the active party. But Bruce is utterly and absolutely passive in this comic to the point that he essentially only exists within the narrative as an object to be acted upon by Dick.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#The Plant Being A Metaphor To Embrace Their Unexpected Relationship

[cowboy-caboodles]

get yourself a man who will clean your wounds after you get caught in another street fight with the Delancey brothers!!!!

rest of the comic here (ignore me misspelling Delancey)

[notbecauseofvictories]

the thing that always surprises me about plants is when I go to re-pot one, or sometimes just loosen the dirt---there's a moment of almost-shock when I pull it up and see the roots, a lattice of white tendrils forking and twining, doubling-back and knit together. Even though I've been staring at these exact plants for years, there's always more to it than I'm expecting, and mixed in with the surprise is a sort of disgust, or maybe disdain. As thought the plant has somehow lied to me by not being beautiful all the way through.

But isn't that the difference, how you know something is truly and properly alive? Icebergs are ice (and microscopic particles, and dirt, and small sleeping microbes, etc.) all the way through, no matter how deep into the ocean they go. But a plant is a completely different thing above the surface and below it. I think there's a metaphor there.

[shallowseeker]

Dean, who sometimes fantasized about being admired, about getting real meaningful attention, like how in Tall Tales he romanticized a love interest saying: “looking at you is like staring into the sun”

God I mean

no one talks like that outside of cheap romance novels probably but but but—

If Cas did get flowery

if he did happen to break out the poetry

Or words like beautiful

Dean would’ve never recovered

[smallpox-juicebox]

[mynqzo]

Why do you like vampires specifically, what do you like of them?

the sucking and fucking

[anetherealpoetess]

me: can you believe sauron pinned galadriel against a wall and thrust ... me: ... me: ... me: ... me: ... me: ... me: ... me: ... me: ... me: ... me: ... me: ... me: ... me: ... me: ... his crown into her you: bitch

[deoidesign]

Thinks about my next series again... I drew the icon for it!

I'm planning to have it launched within a year! I'm hoping for summer 2025. I want to make a prelaunch page before Time and Time Again ends so people can subscribe if they're interested, but I'm worried the series return would be too early...

[bakudekublogblog]

izuku didn’t just have to see katsuki’s dead body, he also had to see the fucking all might card right next to him. physical proof that katsuki always had a tender spot in his heart for izuku and their childhood together. evidence that katsuki fucking LOVED HIM THIS WHOLE TIME and now it’s TOO LATE. it’s actually so devastatingly romantic and fucking tragic. izuku really only finds out katsuki loved him all along when he thinks he’s lost him forever.