#desire sanders

[agentravensong]

mark meta (and also a little bit of helly meta because i can't help myself) inspired by this post from @stewy referring to mark's grief as selfish (severance spoilers through s2 ep2)

outie mark says that only his grief counts, and as far as he’s concerned the matter has been dead and buried for some time now. devon saying they could get gemma back is an insult to her memory. she was a person (an extraordinary one); she was his wife; she died. that’s all there is to it. (all there can be to it, if he doesn’t want to be choking on her ghost for the rest of his life. he has to be able to exist without her.)

innie mark spends the first half of s2 ep1 saying that only his pain matters. he believes that life in hell is always better than no life at all, that there is always a life to be had, but he cannot bear hell without his team. the idea that they can just cease to be at the whims of their outies, that that's perfectly fine, is an insult to them. and so he exhumes them from their graves (and throws three other innies he didn't even attempt to get to know into the empty coffins). they’re people (not parts of people); they're his friends; they deserve to exist. that’s all there is to it. (he cannot exist without them.)

the fortunate thing for mark s. is that he doesn’t have to bear the (full) weight of the potential guilt from dragging them back into hell because the innies are then given the choice to stay or not. and he doesn't have to face irving's resulting crisis — that he in the throes of his own grief would rather not exist than continue on down here without her burt — because dylan takes care of that for him :)

the unfortunate thing is that. the one who’d probably be least happy to be stuck here for the foreseeable future (even if a part of her was hoping to see him and the others again) is the one who wasn't (and won't be) presented with that choice. whose return, when it occurs, will be purely because other people (helena and/or the board, but only after hearing and folding partway to mark's ultimatum) decided that for her. in fact, considering that her response to cobel’s threat in the s1 finale — “you’ll be long gone, but your friends will be kept alive, in pain” — was to still go through with revealing the truth…

(yes, she was okay potentially resigning her friends to an existence of suffering as well. but, even subtracting that they all understood the risk of an outcome like that going in, at least the pain they might have suffered would have been a sacrifice in service of the cause. that’s more noble. and thereby, more forgivable.) (right?)

...

looking at it this way, “no one is entitled to (this) pain but me” is the natural other side of the coin to “none may atone for my actions but me”.

[semioticapocalypse]

Wim Wenders and Otto Sander on the set of 'Wings of Desire' (1987)

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[tls123]

Wings of Desire (1987) — dir. Wim Wenders

[let-roman-bite-someone]

oh don’t mind me, just thinking about how roman probably internalized this and decided that his goals and dreams would just be detrimental for thomas.

[chimonystack]

I have been re-binging the Sanders Sides series lately and I cannot stress enough how absolutely incredible it is; it genuinely is astounding how it manages to blend entertaining story with very real topics about mental health and self-love, and is all portrayed perfectly by one person doing a huge majority of the acting

[mobymartin]

[asingerofdreams]

Just noticed that in "Working THROUGH Intrusive Thoughts", when Thomas leaves and we get the shot of Logan looking around the space, the lyrics from the song in the dance scene which had been appearing throughout the rest of the episode ("We Could Fly" by Sam Sparro) are, "stop trying to hold the world"

IM SO UNWELL

[yaoiadderall]

ok i’m gonna be real here. i don’t get people who vehemently hate the mcelroy brothers and everything they’re associated with. it’s one thing to just not enjoy their content/humor/media presence but ive seen so many people go full on “these guys suck so bad and anyone who enjoys their stuff is an idiot and they’re cringe losers.” a lot of times its former fans. and it just makes me think about how deeply sad and insecure that person must be, to be so desperate to feel superior to random people who find joy in something ultimately harmless.

[cinemaastimegoesby]

Wings of Desire (1987). dir. Wim Wenders

[desire-mona]

look i dont watch the guy anymore but thomas sanders IS in my dream blunt rotation

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

Wim Wenders and Otto Sander on the set of 'Wings of Desire' (1987)

" Yeah, to be able, once in a while, to enthuse for evil "

[lil-toastie-boi]

BREAKING NEWS: Thomas Sanders attempts murder on his own fans with Logan Sanders skirt photoshoot! here is an interview with one of the victims!

*news transition*

p..preby..aaaaaaaaa

[thermodynamic-comedian]

do i really want to write sanders sides fanfiction. or do i just want an excuse to come up with silly nicknames full of niche references to call all the characters

[vietgiorgio]

"Time heals all, but what if time itself is the disease?"

Wings of Desire (1987)

Director: Wim Wenders

Cinematography: Henri Alekan

[pencilpat]

Angsty Roman Sanders PMV with Mirror Man from Jack Stauber's Opal. Does this interest anyone.