#has this discussion come and gone

[swagspren]

“The King was Dalinar’s Tien” in WoR is truly such a ???? line/ moment . That realization is given so much gravitas but it’s like actually what are you on about that makes no sense

[littlespoonevan]

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[lovereadandwrite]

my bby has done nothing wrong ever in his 1000 years of life THIS IS SLANDER !!!😩😬

[irellia]

are people aware of the fact that Mizu is not canonically in any way shape or form.............. queer....bi.....

(quick note here because reading comprehension stays dead and people may not read the tag novel: I want bi Mizu! I hc her as sapphic! I love sapphic Mizu)

[paint-it-dead]

comrade have u ever thot abt What an interaction between griffith and gambino would look like. under any magical circumstance or au just the image of the two of them trying to have a conversation or accidentally pulling into the same parking spot and invariably being introduced by guts at a buc-ees or some other completely average tuesday evening thing.. the two arguably most impactful characters for guts and the tallest looming shadows to guts' arc up to present time meeting through some freak accident and the profound and earth-shattering mundaneity their meeting ends up having. gambino instantly hating and honestly probably being unpleasantly attracted to griffith's stupid ass. guts having 10 different mental breakdowns watching the guy who created gravity and the guy who hung up the sun in guts' worldview meeting and griffith who just,, already wrote off This Random skinny drunkard with a dog and a bad leg somewhere in the neat filing cabinet in his mind of things he does not give a shit about as soon as he entered his peripheral vision. i feel like it would be interesting to see griffith sort of be introduced to the concept that somebody so important and steadfast as guts is in his mind could be so affected by a person griffith wouldn't usually consider capable of any noteworthy damage to him and anybody under his wing by extension. and for guts who up until golden age and beyond still navigated the world and his relationships as an ineffectual unworthy kid, with a big sword where any acknowledgment or affection comes from an angry man you're fighting an uphill battle against Suddenly being thrust into a completely different perspective where, yes, he is a 20-something man this time with a friend who loves him, talking to this old scrawny man he hasn't seen in like ten years. would it be painful or comforting seeing somebody who caused so much damage in your formative years turn out to be absolutely nothing next to the person who freely acknowledges you and who you're equals with now. would it be insane to have come so far running from the whole ass monster from your youth to come back now and see him as this bitter and dreadful but overall average person while you yourself are now complicated and capable of causng your own damage to people weaker than you. that's the monster and that's the love of ur life who trusts you to defend him from exactly that on the battlefield. that's gambino and your friend griffith who still laughs freely like a kid. that's commander griffith and a weak old soldier he's talking to. that's old gambino, your foster father, and that's your first best friend. thats nobody and that's the guy who sees you. wouldnt that be fucked up. wouldnt that be insane.

ANYWAY sorry for yapping a lot op, and i hope you manage to be ok and stay safe despite the results of the election in your country (i think that's your country?) i love you

WHY HAVENT I SEEN THIS UNTIL NOW??? WHO ARE YOU??? SHOW YOURSELF!!! SHOW YOURSELF I NEED TO TALK TO YOU I NEED TO TALK TO YOU PLEASE. PLEASE PLEASEE SHOW YOURSELF. SHOW YOURSELF TO ME!!!!!

ok but i read all of that. all of it. what could i possibly add to it you said it all. i had never thought about this. actually now im mad that i didnt think about this.

now i cant help but imagine their first meeting. guts by griffith's side, then this old disabled man appears. to griffith it doesnt register as anybody important, but definitely as someone dangerous. still not worth paying any special attention to anyways. but then he notices guts flinching, face pale, the look in his eyes... griffith has never seen that look in his eyes. for all these years that he has known him, this is the first time griffith looks at him and thinks that guts seems small. so now he looks back at the man and sees that, no, actually, he is more important than he initially thought. this might be the most important man that he has met yet. the truth of his past that guts keeps locked away, hidden from everybody, from griffith, from himself, maybe this man is the key to uncovering that. so griffith smiles, beckons him closer, greets him like an old friend and guts is just frozen in place the entire time. gambino recognises the white hawk, would do anything to get into his good graces, tries to appease him but ends up making a remark that feels crude to griffith and like a backslap to guts. and right then and there its decided: Griffith is going to destroy this man.

by the way i aint american😭😭 just live a country that is very heavily influenced by american politics (like most of the world🙄)

[clownsalot]

im very normal about fuuta in general but i dont think im ever going to emotionally recover from his fire motif and what it represents for his character and how he reflects the greater theme of justice so that means i must rant about it

(more under the cut because this got longer than i expected whoopsies)

so anyway fire is pretty obviously supposed to be symbolic of his passion for justice right? that fire is all over the place in bring it on. he's wielding it to take down enemies, his signature weapon is a flaming sword. it's what he uses to lead the campaign against the people he's after, the people he's deemed in the wrong.

it's a fucking flaming sword, it's badass as hell!!!! it's what a hero of justice, a knight, would use!!!! it's cool as shit, it's his symbol of justice.

that's how he sees his justice in trial 1.

he's righteous, he wants so badly to believe he was a hero, he was doing it all for a good cause, for justice. his passion for justice was a tool he used to meet those ends, to be a hero, to wave it valiantly in the face of enemies.

the fire, however, is conspicuously absent once he's noticed the blood on his hands

interestingly, despite backdraft as a song title being much more related to his fire motif than bring it on, fire is actually surprisingly absent from the mv's visuals. fire, as in actual orange burning fire, doesn't show up much at all in backdraft except for when both fuuta and his victim begin turning to ashes, and a short bit near the end right after the last chorus when the spraycan explodes in fuuta's face. you know what the mv does show a lot of though?

smoke. and ash. the byproducts of a fire, the byproducts of fuuta's passion for justice.

bringing it back to firefighting for a moment: as many people have already pointed out, backdraft as a firefighting term refers to when a fire that has consumed all available oxygen suddenly explodes when more oxygen is made available, such as when a window or door breaks. the thing about fire hazards, though, is if the fire and the heat don't do someone in, usually it's the smoke. the smoke inhalation causes breathing difficulties and suffocation, making it even more difficult for a person to escape the fire.

in backdraft, instead of fire itself, what we're shown is these byproducts of a fire. the smoke is damaging to human health, and the ash shows that the fire has burned things up and caused destruction, in this case killing someone. all we're shown is the negative results of a fire, in sharp contrast to its badass, positive portrayal in bring it on.

hell, even fuuta himself starts turning to ashes and the spraycan explodes in his face, showing how even he is experiencing the negative results of a fire that has gotten out of his control, how even he has gotten burned by his passion for justice. or, is it es' desire for justice?

translation of fuuta's t2 vd by onigiriico

Me, too! I was like that, too! I also didn't think it'd turn out that way!

You and I are exactly the same breed! The only difference between us is the clothes we're wearing.

fuuta's justice and es' justice, it's all the same in his head now, he directly tells es that they're the same, that we're the same. it's all the same hunger for justice that ends up causing harm even if that wasn't the intention.

you know that saying that fire is a good servant but a bad master? i think that's pretty applicable to fuuta's situation. his passion for the pursuit of justice was great when it was still a tool, a sword he could wield, after all he did manage to shed light on some people's wrongs and bring them to justice. but once it exploded, when it became a backdraft that even he could no longer control, it did more damage than he intended.

it burned even him, it killed a middle schooler. and he recognizes that in backdraft. he only shows us the ways fire that becomes a hazard can go wrong.

translation of fuuta's t2 vd by onigiriico

What did I do? All I did was say that what's wrong is wrong! I was just going off at a bad person online!

I didn't think they would die! I just thought that wrong things are wrong, and that a crime is a crime! You get that, don't you? See? Aren't we the same?

it's just. fire is such a good metaphor for the message of fuuta's character and his arc. it's an amazing illustration of how dangerous it is when you feed a desire for justice too much, when you forget to put a boundary on how you handle that fire. eventually the fire spreads just like how passion for justice becomes zealotry, until more and more things fall under what you consider to be 'punishable' by your standards and goes out of control to hurt people that probably didn't deserve it. it's a warning to set proper boundaries on our own definition and desire for justice and what's 'right' so the good intentions doesn't spiral into harm. it's a reflection of our attitudes towards milgram as the audience responsible for their justice and forgiveness. it's amazing i love it i love fuuta's fire symbolism i love fuuta's character arc and i love milgram's writing so so so much

[kyouka-supremacy]

DELACROIX SPOTTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hechose]

'lestat crossed an ocean to save claudia and louis from the paris coven!!!'

..... im gonna hold your hand while i bash you over the head when i tell you this,,, that mans went to paris to be healed by armand,,, that mans went to paris to punish the people he abused for daring to fight back,,,

[alittleemo]

the lord is going to need to send me four different blessings to balance out the way this week is going 😍 like one is not enough brother

[carefulfears]

thinking about how expectant of her own death scully always was, but how completely struck by shock she was in mulder’s, despite how clear it had always been that he would one day die for the cause. tragedy in the x-files as something you should have been prepared for, but never could be, in scully standing at a funeral, as her mother had stood at her father’s, and barely being able to speak. she should be able to do this? bred to be a war widow, attached to an endless line. but no matter how many times she saw him put that gun to himself, or run off in front of another, she really did believe that he would always come back. she really did believe that there would never be a day where he didn’t just appear in the doorway again.

[voidscreamns]

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[graff-aganda]

I keep thinking about this (and it's not exactly a high bar to reach or anything) but the way Biosphere handled the gender/sex stuff was like the perfect blend of in character for two middle aged cis dudes (from the story perspective) and also being mindful/aware/respectful of transgender people (from a more meta perspective, though somewhat in the story also) and it honestly just kind of impressed me.

[kveom]

so I saw people on reddit talking about the woozi situation (and this was specifically about woozi since it was in the seventeen sub) and I'm just????? people are calling it a non-issue because censorship, you don't know how much he's watched etc. and I understand not labelling him as a p*dophile but you can't just call it a non-issue because of all those ^ things because maybe he didn't watch the censored version?? Maybe he finished it and enjoyed it?? AND a big 'get a fucking life' to those people who think this is just some personal unwarranted hate towards woozi. "Ur not a real carat the boys told us to trust them!!!!!" NO

[tardis--dreams]

Feeling homicidal at work today ♡

[dreamsy990]

fuck akuroku as a ship btw not only because its pedophilic because thats obviously a huge issue. but also i think we should be able to have platonic relationships with the same amount of devotion as any romance. not everyone who loves each other is in love DEREK.

[thedreadvampy]

oh boy the depression hole is deep and it is muddy

hahaha I fell into the classic trap! overidentify with your job and considering leaving it will trigger an existential crisis!!!!