#but a tragedy nonetheless

[catalvarezs]

oh god oh god ted telling trent to not be the 'laugh police', telling him to back off, telling him their chats are over, telling him he's leaving and trent interpreting it as exactly this i don't know what to call the finale if not a tragedy

[aroanthy]

i genuinely can’t think about nanami and akio for too long or i do think i will keel over and die but the thing is. when he drives his car into the kiryuu mansion before her car sequence (‘it’s time for your ride’, akio says when he would ordinarily say nothing at this point), nanami says ‘it’s you’. it’s you. obvious interpretation here is ‘you’re end/s of the world’, and that’s certainly part of it. but i think it’s more so like. It’s You. as in, you’re everywhere. you have a hand in everything. you brought me into your home under the guise of protecting me, and in doing so traumatised me, and harmed me, and now you’re in my home, and everyone i have spoken to about you loves you, wishes to protect you, sees no issue with the things that you do. of course it’s you. as much as touga might try to resist nanami’s attempts to sincerely understand him, this moment gives her the first real opportunity she’s ever had to do that. here is a sliver of the ‘real’ version of her brother, in proximity to and aligning himself with this man. it’s you. it’s you. i feel like a rabid dog rn

[coldalbion]

Empathising too hard with Jod again.

[duncanor]

Vash fighting all his very long life for Love and Peace and ending his story having lost both in Trimax is making me want to end it.

Like yeah, he stopped knives but he's being hunted down by the entirety of humanity now.

Like, yeah he survived, but the person he wanted to spend his tomorrows with didn't.

I know I'm being unfair because, ya know he still got friends, and he still has his blank ticket for the future and all. But it is still so tragic to me that even when he won he didn't.

[fluffypotatey]

alright so:

secret life smp is the latest installment in the life series, a series of minecraft death games where everyone has three lives, and people on their last (red) life become hostile. (this series is commonly called some variation of the "traffic light/life" series as each life corresponds to a color: green, yellow, or red.) after you lose your last life, you are out of the game and your series ends.

each iteration of the life series (its official name) has a different gimmick, and secret life's is twofold: 1), instead of having the normal row of ten hearts, everyone starts with 30 hearts- however, their health does not regenerate, and 2) at the start of each session (they play for 3 hour sessions all together once per week), everyone is assigned a secret task, which they must complete. they regain hearts by completing their tasks successfully, and (usually) they don't lose anything by failing.

that's the background context

and now we get to the actual character this is about

lizzie (channel name LDShadowLady) seemed to be starting off the series generally well- she completed her first task (write a poem about someone on the server and recite it to them) pretty easily, but then basically the rest of her series was just Struggle After Struggle

it was like murphy's law. everything that couldve gone wrong for her did. for the next several sessions, she ended up just getting terrible tasks (for example, one of them was "get the entire server to sleep through the night." do you know how hard it is to get 16 adult minecraft players to do Anything).

generally, these servers split up into factions pretty quickly, and this one was no different. lizzie, though- she didn't end up in one. she was alone against the world (which, when you play minecraft with the energy of an extremely paranoid, sopping wet bichon frise (<- literally googled "most anxious dog breeds" to get the vibes for that one), is not great). the closest thing she had to an ally was her husband joel (who was 1: mainly loyal to his own faction, and 2: accidentally caused 2 out of her 3 deaths.)

during week 5, she held a slumber/birthday party at her base, and invited the entire server to come to it (this was her trying to get everyone to sleep through the night). only one person showed up (it was her husband again). she failed her task because of this, and decided to invisibly ride around the server on a skeleton horse with no armor to sulk. which ended in her death, and put her on her last life

the very next session, she tried her best to kill people (her job as a red life), and to get revenge on those who had wronged her (so, everyone). it didnt go well, and with her own bad luck, she died falling into the void

she didnt have to die. her death was a direct result of her trying to do a favor for her husband, and there were so many moments where it could've been avoided. but it wasn't. she was the first to lose her last life and get eliminated from the series

the only person to even mourn her was joel. more people celebrated her death than mourned it. and im just supposed to be Normal about that

hey what the fuck

[static-radio-ao3]

thinking about a story that starts at the beginning again. Or maybe one that starts with a ghost. Or one that starts with a gun. Or a story that does not start at all because it loops and curves and twists and turns. I am thinking about it a lot

you know what fra... you're so real... because, like most stories, this one is hard to forget. or maybe it is hard to remember. or maybe it is not a story at all, but a memory of a dream...

by which i mean!! i think about them an unhealthy amount <33

[starbuck]

What I’m learning from the tragedy post is that “catharsis” means many different things to many different people, but when i made that post i was specifically thinking of that little moment at the end of a tragedy, it could be a wordless shot or a single line, that makes your brain go DING! and that’s it. that’s the culmination of it all. the last word, all-encompassing. the reason for and result of everything that has happened. the moment that releases both the audience and the characters simultaneously. it is finished. and it was perfect. 

[davyjoneslockr]

Having Fugonara thoughts again.

[yonemurishiroku]

Google the Greek myth Selene and Endymion and you'll understand. And yes it's completely fucked up. But I find it romantic. In a very fucked up way.

fucked-up romance my jam

[subsequentibis]

MAN i like fun might be my favorite tmbg album

[teknikolor-walters]

I think we need to do more with the fact that flinchite mantis is flinchite cicada's replacement. Enough forcing flinchite cicada to kill those they love how about forcing (not even forcing really) flinchite mantis to kill those he loved in another life

[chamerionwrites]

What I need the tragedy dislikers to understand about me as a human being is that my version of fully leaning into the ice cream+romcoms as comfort cliche is to put a heavy dash of extra yellowbird in my habanero salsa and watch the rsc do Julius Caesar

[essektheylyss]

[Ruin by The Amazing Devil playing softly in the background]

showed up to this d&d game to deal AOE psychic damage to every member of the party and then mySELF

[anguilliforme]

when a song i voted for doesn’t get into the hottest 100 it’s clearly an incredibly under appreciated song and you’re all fuckin idiots for not voting for it. when a song i voted for gets in though clearly it should be higher and you’re all fuckin idiots for not voting for it.

[corujalesbica]

Every time someone new follows me, I check their blog, and then usually follow them back and go Yes!! New moot for my collection >:)

[ardenrosegarden]

Got any headcanons for Julius Caesar (the play)?

Oooh yeah!

One of my pet hc's in terms of appearance, is that Cassius is one of the more fashion-sensitive of the conspirators, so I tend to draw him dressing a little sharper than his colleagues

In a bit of a contrarian streak, when I started drawing them in high school, I made Cassius pretty short and Brutus pretty tall. Probably not historically accurate, but now it's ingrained itself in my personal canon so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

sort of forming out of a joke with my mutuals, I now imagine Casca as a sort of cat collector. One of those cats might be an opossum, but then again, what are possums if not weird cats?

the portia/brutus/cassius dynamic makes me soft. thank you fic writers, for saving my life

I'll be honest, most of the "headcanons" I have about JC beyond how characters look are how I interpret line delivery and blocking, etc. E.g.: