#doomed narratives my beloved

[galdrgobrrr]

I’m paraphrasing a little but Eden’s “I will forever be a part of her, isn’t that the most romantic thing?” Will never not hit me square in the side of my head

[marlasomething]

I listened for the first (certainly not last) time to the new Merrily We Roll Among album (after the UPTEENTH Hadestown relistening bcs I LOVE PAIN) and God, currently heartbroken

[monarch-ambrosia]

none of the oiar employees know they’re in a horror series except alice. who spends every day desperately trying to change the genre to office comedy

[swordsandflowercrowns]

I'm absolutely LIVING for the increase in luke and percy parallels, but something that's been rattling around my brain since I last listened to the lightning thief musical is that without luke, percy WOULD become him. I think that it's seeing the example of the cruelty and betrayal in luke that prevented percy from following the same path. he's horrified at how luke betrayed his friends, but luke believes he's doing it for the good of the demigods, just as percy would believe he's doing it for the good of his friends. percy is regularly disloyal to the gods by being loyal to his friends. he is saved from luke's fate simply because he came second and watched it unfold before him. I'm so sorry luke but you really are doomed by the narrative. you were always going to turn against the gods, even it it wasn't you. it had to happen.

[lizard-queen-izzy]

Thinking about Agnes Montague, Gerard Keay and Jonathan Sims. All chosen ones, in their own way. All intended by those who decided they were a chosen one to bring on the end of days. Or die trying. Or die while succeeding. They were only as valuable as their potential. Only worth what they could give.

And death was their only escape from those expectations.

Agnes had her church hang her.

Gerry died and then had Jon burn his page.

Jon had Martin kill him.

I just think there's something about them. Something about them all being doomed in such similar ways.

[nell0-0]

I just wanna see him be happy :,D

[pecan-jelly]

Lucy Frostblade; She’s been dead since the beginning

[1-jar-of-stars]

The Stages of the Umbrella Academy.

homer, the iliad / Road to Hell, Hadestown Original Broadway Cast / Alan Moore, Watchmen / Disco Elysium / Matthew Stover, Star Wars Revenge of the Sith

[finnbin]

"Sorry"

ok let me just die a little on the inside

[wolfienation]

rhaenyra and alicent haunting each other while still being alive, existing as phantoms just out of each other's reach i prayed for times like these

edit:

"rhaenyra yearns for the comfort she can get from alicent" "rhaenyra haunts the corridors of alicent's mind" are you JOKING

[adhd-merlin]

[annie-handholder]

The Burning God (rin pov) :

The Drowning Faith (nezha pov):

[applepixls]

theres a relatively small scene in grian's episode 4 of secret life where he's caving and accidentally breaks a stalactite that hits him in the face and he expresses a large amount of grief over losing silly hearts. later in the episode he crawls home after nearly starving in the mines and finds scar in his egg to which he sorta chases him out and then decides to go try to make friends and regretfully goes to his neighbour who's also not got really any friends.

i drew a small comic about it in November but there are a few parallels there between secret life and double life. first of all, grian reveals that they're bonded at the end of the first episode by dropping a stalactite on scars head at which point they share the damage and scar realizes they're soulmates. additionally, a smaller piece, many double life pairs were incredibly concerned about starving because of how much food they were constantly using because it was so easy to lose hearts and kill both yourself and your partner. then there's the grian chasing scar out of his flammable newly built base, this time without the jellie pandas

the premise of my mini comic what the idea that in getting hit in the head with the stalactite c!grian sort of flashed back to double life and then with all the time to ruminate in it as he was crawling back from the mines he realized it was kind of messed up what he did to scar back then and was going to try to make friends with him again (all the art I've seen of grian asking scar to be friends again with a bouquet of sunflowers genuinely breaks my heart a little bit each time with all the parallels between that and 3rd life-)

[swordsandflowercrowns]

luke is such an empathetic character because uncle rick just gives us a boy who's grown up feeling abandoned by his father, who he also deems responsible for essentially losing his mother. he loses one of his best friends because her very birth is seen as a mistake to the gods, and the very best zeus can do for her as she gives her life for her friends is to turn her into a tree. he becomes the best swordsman at camp, he successfully completes his quest, he's good, he's a good kid, and STILL he doesn't get so much as an acknowledgement from his father. he may be 19 during tlt but he has been a KID throughout all of this and he is desperate. of course he made the choices he did. it was ALWAYS going to happen.

[somebluemelodies]

q!Jaiden and Bobby are together now but at what cost

[goopiesglorp]

RAGATHA LOOK OUT THERE’S SOMETHING BEHIND YOU!!!!

i’ve spent my day pondering how doomed by the narrative she is and i had to draw my feelings. this was really fun i love messing with lighting :D also i think i finally landed on a ragatha design i like so expect her to continue looking like this in the future.

the speedpaint of this will be up on my instagram under the same name!