#good parallel

[screechingfromthevoid]

FEARNE AND DORIAN GIVING THEIR RESPECTIVE PERSONS OF INTEREST "SEE YOU LATER NOT GOODBYE" KISSES ON THE FOREHEAD INSTEAD OF KISSES KISSES WILL SHATTER ME

[junaip3r]

Good Omens + Parallels

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

I would put that on my cv

[xserpx]

The thing I would be most heartbroken to lose if tumblr were the close are gifsets. Nothing recommends a show to me better than a gifset. Nothing lets me appreciate a show like a gifset. The minute facial expressions, the colouring, the set design, the dialogue, the gif maker's own twists and artistic additions, I love it all so much and you just can't get it anywhere else.

[mizgnomer]

Parallels - Good Omens Seasons One & Two - Part One

Links to [ Part Two ] [ Part Three ] [ Part Four ] [ Part Five ]

[sketchy-scribs-n-doods]

the four horsemen of Queer Agony

[rogerdeakinsdp]

CINEMA'S BEST SWEATERS — Part 1 (Part 2)

Basic Instinct (1992) · Let's Make Love (1960) · Scream (1996) · The Big Lebowski (1998) · Lucky Number Slevin (2006) · A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) · The Holiday (2006) · The Devil Wears Prada (2006) · While You Were Sleeping (1995) · Home Alone (1990) · Good Will Hunting (1997) · 21 (2008) · Sweet November (2001) · Knives Out (2019) · How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) · Ocean's 8 (2018) · The Matrix (1999) · Mystic Pizza (1988) · Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) · Clueless (1995) · House of Gucci (2021) · The Lighthouse (2019) · When Harry Met Sally... (1989) · Awake (2007)

[causalityparadoxes]

The Moon and the President's Wife // BOOM

Bonus:

[saltair-and-webweaves]

Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?

you say you don’t want a boyfriend, but you know that’s not true - Charlotte Green/the voice - Anaïs Nin/the unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath/tolerate it - Taylor Swift/the unabridged journals of sylvia plath - Sylvia Plath/the unexpurgated diary of anaïs nin - Anaïs Nin/ @treebloods/@lovebeing-a-girl/@ sanwtch on instagram/ @onlyanothermundane/@tullispink/I am an observer, but not by choice - @fatimaamerbilal/the prophecy - Taylor Swift/criss cross - Lynne Rae Perkins/Vladimir Mayakovsky in a letter to Lili Brik/what I could never confess without some bravado - Emily Palermo/little weirds - Jenny Slate

requested here

[neversetyoufree]

C'mon y'all help me out with this one. As a certified Scum Villain and VnC enjoyer, I can promise you that Vanitas is fundamentally a lot more doomed than Binghe is.

Scum Villain is the story of a man that falls madly in love with Luo Binghe and rewrites his entire narrative/reality and saves him from a life of abject misery just by being kind and loving him. The whole plot is the story of a guy un-dooming his narrative.

The guy that falls madly in love with Vanitas is, uh, not going to do that.

The entire point of The Case Study of Vanitas is that Vanitas is doomed. He's maybe the most doomed by the narrative that a character has ever been.

The first chapter ends with the announcement that he's going to die. He's named after a famous quote and art movement that are meant to show the fact that death is inescapable and living pleasures are meaningless in its face. He constantly wears an hourglass whose sand has already run out. The entire story is a memoir written by the other main character in the future as he mourns his death.

Like I said, the whole thing about Scum Villain is that Luo Binghe is a character in a story who is doomed to a life of violence and hollow misery. Then somebody loves him so much that he rewrites the entire plot and un-dooms him. The whole point of Scum Villain is that Luo Binghe wasn't doomed to commit atrocities and be miserable after all; he just needed someone to love him.

The whole point of The Case Study of Vanitas is that this is impossible. There is no re-writing here. The story only exists in the first place because Vanitas dies. The other main character desperately wants to save him, but he can't (or at least cannot save him from death).

Noé shows Vanitas love and kindness. Noé becomes the first person in years that Vanitas can really open up to and rely on. Noé changes Vanitas for the better like Sqq changes Binghe, and the fundamental tragedy of VnC is that we know it doesn't matter. The first chapter promises us that no matter how close they get and how much Vanitas grows, he's going to die anyway. There is no escape.

He's doomed because the narrative opens with the announcement of his death. He's doomed because, in-universe, the narrative only exists because he dies. You can't get more doomed than being the titular dead man in a series called "A Case Study of How Death is Inescapable and Renders All Else Meaningless."

Binghe goes thru it like no one else, but this isn't about who's suffered most. It's about who's most doomed. (And honestly, I think Vanitas is maybe the only character that could give Luo "four tragic backstories at once" Binghe a run for his money in terms of suffering lmao).

You simply cannot let The Doomed By The Narrative Manga be eliminated in round 1.

Doomed by the Narrative: Side B - Round 1

[phantasmatoucan]

INVERTED PARALLELS

[fadedkat]

where are these ideas coming from? who are you working with?

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YOUTUBE LINK BELOW!!

[grayeet]

I love the pale garden and how it's like a parallel to dark forests. I love how the two divert expectations.

Dark forests, despite their name, are saturated and full of life. Even compared to regular forests, there's a lot more biodiversity than many of the "basic" biomes. There's three whole different trees found there, giant mushrooms, and plenty of flowers. They're one of the biomes capable of spawning a lush cave underneath it. It has its dangers just like any other overworld biome, obviously, but it's nothing overly more than anywhere else. Traversing it can be tricky sometimes and illagers may take residence in the biome's woodland mansions, but it's ultimately a very colorful and lively environment.

Opposing it is the new pale garden. Usually white and light colors are seen as pristine and good, but the pale garden takes it the opposite direction and goes right into uncanny valley territory. It has none of the color of dark forests, none of the biodiversity, none of the liveliness. It has trees and moss that look familiar, but something is off. It has a signature mob, but even the creaking is just a puppet of the trees, not really sentient, not really even plotting against anything. There's "life", but, once again, it's wrong.

I think the pale garden is a wonderful addition to Minecraft's world building as it is, but the deliberate parallel to dark forests? Delicious.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[bluenoisen]

plunged into the deep end

[bairdthereader]

There's one in every friend group (and we love them).

Bonus--Confused Nick is confused: