#examples off the top of my head:

[joyfuladorable]

Mikey has good ideas most of the time! ...He just tends to execute them before explaining 'em to anybody else, lol

[legitimatesatanspawn]

Me as a kid watching a superhero cartoon: "Why are all these ladies working for this one lady? She's a super villain. Is it an Evil Lady Gang?"

Me, watching it again as an adult and taking note of the skimpy costumes and casual touches: "... There's absolutely no straight reason for this."

[hballegro]

they're leaving room for jesus via the width of a single communion wafer

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[fluentisonus]

one thing les misérables does so well but can be so agonizing to read is the extent to which certain things are just (deliberately) never resolved or left with their potential unable to be realized -- e.g. jean valjean never sees or hears from his sister or her children again (we're told this straight out) and has to spend the rest of his life half wondering. likewise his sister (presumably) never knew what happened to him. marius takes a diligence the morning after getting the letter instead of the night of & so misses any chance of seeing his father alive & anything they might have said or clarified to each other is just gone. nobody in the book ever understands javert's ultimate character growth or motivations for suicide (none of them even know his backstory!) & in fact they actively misunderstand it. the two little boys who get lost never find their way to where their mother told them to go and never find gavroche again after he dies and maybe never see their mother again. gavroche never makes the connection between the man he saw lecture montparnasse and the man he gave his letter to at the rue de l'homme armé and the man at the barricade. javert never realises that jean valjean was the man at the gorbeau house or how he got away into the convent. jean valjean never finds petit gervais again & can never make up for what he did. fantine dies with javert's revelation that madeleine is jean valjean but without properly knowing what that means or who he is. jean valjean's gravestone is written in pencil that eventually washes away, fantine's grave is never marked, there are bits of the story even the reader never gets to know

[alleycatchitchat]

did anyone else notice how physically protective shadow was in this episode

[sonknuxadow]

always thinking about how many scenes there are where sonic or knuckles is attacked or gets hurt or something and the other immediately rushes in to protect them or make sure they're okay like Ohhhh .... you care about himmmmm ... <3

[tiredcowboyy]

I can only conclude that the reason arthur was so blind to merlins magic was because he couldnt actually have a coherent thought around him because he was so besotted and distracted by him

[yeetus-feetus]

dark/edgy/grumpy/misunderstood/brooding character with parental issues/trust issues x adorable bisexual with who follows them around like a lost puppy despite their arguments both pining hardcore over each other, is the perfect ship.

It works for everything! Every genre! It's fucking perfect and so tasty. So Good I'd inject it into my veins if I could!

Even better if they're both a little insane but one of them is better at hiding it.

[foundfamilywhump]

the brief and instinctive touch when a whumpee wakes up following being unresponsive or revives after resuscitation - the moment when the person there who cares about them is just so relieved that they’re alive, that they’re responding, that they just can’t help clasp them in a tight hug, or cup their cheek, or kiss their head. that nonverbal you’re still here, i got you, thank fuck you’re alive.

[parme-san]

"squidward doesn't like hearing spongebob cry" is something that i don't think is ever explicitly said in the show but i feel like it's one of those things where once it's pointed out to you you can't miss it. i feel like it's probably called back to repeatedly because of pizza delivery, not only because the climax of the episode is so iconic but because as the first episode centered around squidward and spongebob interacting it serves as a kind of blueprint for their relationship.

[whattraintracks]

I'm thinking about siblings and sons and legacies again. Raph's "ugh, I sound like Leo" and Mikey's "my father taught me better than that" and Splinter's oft-repeated "he who lives without honor, ends without honor." I'm thinking about how Raph sounds like Leo and Donny and Mikey who sound like Master Splinter who sounds like Hamato Yoshi, and this legacy of what it means to have honor/be honorable/act honorably. Not as a teaching of ninjutsu but of the Hamato Clan. I'm thinking about how this family's legacy is one of teaching its sons about honor.

[bardace]

Anime/manga fans when an anime/manga does the bare fucking minimum (not oversexualizing the female characters, not making bipoc characters racist caricatures, drawing people with different body types normally, and just generally being normal about characters that aren’t cishet able-bodied men)

[potatoesarecheese]

hot take but like. I don't like the idea that characters will name their children after someone that died during the story. I've seen people head cannon Nina naming her son Matthias or Kaz and Inej naming their daughter/son Jordan and like...

I dunno it feels weird.

Why would you hold your child to this impossible standard of Someone Long Gone?? In a story about dealing with the past and learning to grow beyond your Trauma™️ why would you name your child after someone in their past?

Let them have their own identity and be someone completely new. There are other ways to honor someone's memory!!

[dykekarkat]

the fact that neil is an extremely jealous person at his core...one day i will write an essay about how neil's most prominent emotions are fear and jealousy and his growth over the series as he moves away from that...

[ghostinthegallery]

Reading IDW Transformers comics (which is a trip don't do it but also definitely do it pain is weakness leaving the body amirite?) and it's giving me even more feelings about Ratchet. Like...everyone has been at war for millions of years. War for even a few weeks fucks up your head so do that for millions of years yeah that's fine. So everyone has to cope. And thus almost everyone is insane. Charming insane! Except Ratchet doesn't get to be charmingly insane. We know what happens when the medic goes "charmingly" insane. You get Pharma and nobody wants Pharma as their doctor (poor little meow meow? Fine. Healthcare professional? No.) No, Ratchet doesn't get violence or faith or obsessive loyalty or any of the other copes, he forces himself to be as present and "realistic" as possible. And this isn't just the comics, he's always the grumpy adult in the room because he has to be because if he isn't on his game, people die. His friends die. Even if he is on his game, people die, and he forces himself to experience every single second of that. No dissociation, no quirks, no nothing. For MILLIONS IF YEARS.

Yeah. Yeah I'm super normal about this. When does rationality and "sanity" loop back around to become the most insane reaction possible? When are you fundamentally unwell because you've had to be the "most well" person in the room for so, so long?

How do you retire from that?