#he CHANGES THE NARRATIVE.
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god I love men. Specifically taka. Taka I know you’re single just one chance PLEASE !!!
#so fucked up that this isn’t a dating sim actually I should be allowed to go up to him and propose on the spot I think#I was gonna say hj but no. I can’t lie to myself. it’s full serious. taka if you’re out there#rbp#westalk#<- in tags#I cant explain how much I like him.. he’s given up but he’s never stopped. every step forward is taken nonetheless#he wants to fight and he does eventually. every timeline has at least a single mark in the sand where he tried down to his soul#he CHANGES THE NARRATIVE.#every world he inhabits he’s changed deeply just by his existence and he doesn’t even know#he wants to LIVE and he shapes the world for it whether for his detriment or not#and if he gets the chance he changes the /rules of the game/ for himself just so he can try again#TAKA. TAKA ALCANTARA…
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None of our hands are clean
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#jin guangshan#mianmian#The secret meaning behind one of the jin members scuttling off is:#I couldn't make three people work out in the remaining panels and per my rule of '3 attempts and take a different approach' he had to go.#Sometimes there are meaningful reasons why something happens in the background. And sometimes it is like this.#Let's just say he saw what was about to happen and got out of there before mianmian started throwing hands.#Okay no more delay. The sheer boldness to call WWX a killer in a room full of people who wear their war body count as a badge...#It's about hypocrisy yes - but it is also about how the narrative shifts on the same action depending on the frame.#Because at the end of the day...the blood on our hands is still blood on our hands.#Both the deaths on the battlefield and the deaths of the Jin's abusing the Wen remnants are still deaths caused by another.#They are also deaths that - depending who holds the frame - are noble acts to protect others.#But it isn't supposed to be about who was right and who was wrong.#It is about the need to be seen as the victim to avoid culpability.#Because if you aren't responsible you don't have to be held accountable. You don't have to grow or change.#If someone takes all the blame then there is no need to reflect on your own faults.#We have to protect our fragile ego from the mirror lest it shatter and we have to remake it anew.#Horrifically enough...even if WWX spared the Jin guards or even never ran into Wen Qing#He wouldn't have been able to escape being the scapegoat. He downfall was set into motion a long time ago.#My goodness...What a deliciously tragic story Wei Wuxian's first life was.
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[Abandoned by the Lightners, his heart became cracked with hatred.]
Hitting a lil' too close to home?
#junie art post#ink sans#error sans#utmv#errorink#implied. but yea not the focus#this has been turning around in my mind for quite some time. im glad to finish it lmao idk if my ramblings make sense even.#so like listen. do you ever think about how similar the function of the utmv is to the dark worlds in deltarune.#in a meta narrative to fandom sense? idk the word#we are making exaggerated expanded worlds of the ordinary tools and entertainment of the real world and make it into something more#isnt that very very interesting?#and we explore every sort of possibility in that creation. both good and bad#and when all is said and done. every possibility found and the entertainment and secrets has all run out#we put it away. abandon and leave it behind#what is left? what happens to the world and characters we have created? can it sustain without us?#what of the ones left in the dark?#idk if yall saw me a few months ago but i reblogged comyet's old post of ink begging us not to leave him alone and to keep creating#yea that never left me#and seeing exactly THAT SCENARIO in deltarune made my brain iTCH#imagine an ink in King's position.... wait isnt that just underverse#mmmmmmm. darkner ink.....#also error is here too. not just for errorink or that i can't separate these two to save my life#but error is also one of the few people to be able to GET IT?? he can hear the creators too. ink cant#but hes pretty much programmed himself to avoid having a mental break down to this via reboot memory loss.#and ink has his own internal coping mechanism (hooray for short term memory loss)#these two idiots will do anything but confront truths lmfao#ahhh my favorite idiots. never change#mmmmm#deltarune
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People being like “oh well Max didn’t complain last year🤪🤪” He literally said the first half of the race was boring??? And then we literally chaos last year???? Rain??? Sliding??? Poor decisions??? PIT STOPS???
Didn’t realize max is the only driver who isn’t allowed an opinion and at least he doesn’t change his opinion when it suits him like other drives😎
#he’s always had the same opinions about racing#Monaco isn’t good unless there is rain and quali#he’s always said the cars are too big#max literally is the only driver who wants good racing with smaller cars#doesn’t change his opinion when it doesn’t fit his narrative unlike two drivers#rambles#max verstappen#f1#formula 1#red bull racing
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personally I think this segment is a prelude of the entire book and it hurts a lot more upon reread
#few men more doomed by the narrative than jude st francis. im sorry she never intended it to get better for you man#but she gave you friends and family to stay with you for a little while. to make it not be so lonely#i only wish hed held out his hands to them too and realize he didnt hve to go through it alone#a little life#jude st francis#willem ragnarsson#in the end its fine. i learned from all this suffering. this book changed me#sorry you didnt have to be alone my guy. it didnt have to be so lonely
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my friend showed me some ivantill art earlier that really made it click for me that like. dude. round 6 was the good ending, as tragic as it was. or at least it was supposed to lead up to the good ending. whatever it might've awakened in him afterwards, TILL NOT RECIPROCATING in that moment was super important. and ivan's final decision was as much about till as it was about himself; it was both the only way to ensure that till kept moving AND a violent, blatantly honest act of self-expression for ivan, one that he's been waiting desperately to let out. this was supposed to be a consequence-free dramatic finale for both of them because ivan was SOOO SURE that this wouldn't affect till the same way he always knew sua's death would affect mizi.
because can you IMAGINE? if till HADN'T tried pushing him away??? can you imagine if this immediately gave him sparks and made him return ivan's feelings?????? it would've been horror!!!!!!!! it would've made everything ivan has done up until this point meaningless! all the times he had to physically and emotionally restrain himself for till's sake! how the hell would ivan react in that situation? it would already be too late!! because they would still be facing each other in the competition and one of them would still have to watch the other die!!!!! and that would probably have made things EVEN WORSE in the final round, regardless of who survived!!!!!!!!!!!
CONCLUSION: ivan was always right about everything ever EXCEPT for the fact that till very much cared about him, a misunderstanding that falls on both of them for lack of communication in the end. but also luka is a little bitch. godspeed. i feel ill
#leo.txt#the true ivantill angst doesn't come from it being 'doomed'#it comes from missed opportunities that only came back to bite them when it was too late to change anything#like yes they Were doomed from the start. and ivan knew this. and he still tried to make the most of it anyway#but the truth is that they were doomed by a narrative of their making. from the moment they chose to never get more attached than necessary#the only way they could've ever fully avoided this is if they'd kept running that one night. god. god. god.#ivantill#alnst#alien stage
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I don't think this contains spoilers but if you don't want to hear any book references or season 3 speculation be warned.
Reading the interview clip where Sam Reid said that Lestat is ripped from the stage by Magnus is wild because we know he knows the books, that's not how it happens there, so he's maybe let Rolin's version slip. Which, if holds true, would be a seismic change. Instead of being torn from Nicki's arms while they sleep, Lestat would be taken during a performance, in front of an audience. Surrounded by humanity, by those he loves, but not a soul can save him. The one place that brought him joy would now be connected to the trauma of Magnus and his turning. If he truly is going to be the catalyst for the theater becoming hunting grounds in the show, for better or worse, it would seem to be related to this change as well. Also, his rockstar moment would have a desperation to it that reflects the books but is tragic in its own way. It would all become devastating in a subtly different way than how Rice wrote it. Even events that only happen in the show would have a different impact. Like Armand first approaching him telepathically while he was on stage would now seem cruel and calculated, and later choosing to put the trial on stage. Sorry about the ramble but it blows my mind how much a small change, changes so much. The murder of the opera singer...the mocking of the Dracula film...the baby on the Mardi Gras float...would all feel different.
#iwtv#interview with the vampire#amc iwtv#lestat de lioncourt#louis de pointe du lac#armand#iwtv rambles#oh my god him first telling Louis he most fears being alone while they're at the theatre#the look the gentle reach for Louis hand#I guess the stage & acting was already connected to Magnus and his turning what with the stalking it would just have a very#different emotional subtext having the abduction happen in front of a crowd vs from his bed#half-asleep even Nicki wasn't sure what had happened in the book#but now it would become a public horror and not a private one.#where in the book he hides what's happened here he would have to immediately perform “human” because everyone would've seen something#or completely embrace being a monster and so maybe the creation of the tdv becomes his idea#maybe it wouldn't change the narrative much but at the least the emotional/psychological ripple to me seems seismic#it touches everything
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I've been following you for years, and I love your art. Seeing you repost your older art pieces reminded me how much I loved the angry, bitter, miserable Machete art and how it resonated with me... but a part of me is also so happy to see the current art of him being happy. Cute art of him as a unicorn, or chilling in a bathtub with Vasco. Like, we're all growing and healing :')
#thank you!#he's been angry and bitter and miserable for so long it feels nice to give him an ounce of happiness for a change#some reasons to live besides spite and sense of duty#answered#anonymous#I always saw him as a character who's unsalvageable corrupted and doomed by narrative#and that the only way out of his miserable existence was a well deserved death#it sounds extremely cliche but I genuinely had no idea it would be so cathartic to view him through a lens of like#hope and healing and being worthy of love and saving despite your evident flaws and failings#unplanned redemption arc kapow#Vasco really just sauntered in and flipped the whole situation on it's head#sorry folks he has a boyfriend and gets regular pets and hugs and kisses now
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Whatever you do, don’t think about how happy Sifo-Dyas must have been that last time with Dooku on Serenno. He’d been fired as a Seeker, lost his seat on the Jedi Council, had the worst rounds of visions of his life, and finally, finally, someone is listening to him, someone believes him, someone gets it.
He’s back with his best friend who promised to help him save the galaxy, like the two of them were made to do together. Like they always knew they were going to do.
#dooku's life is a series of moments where it seems like he is posed to make a narratively heroic choice that brings everything back together#and then instead he does the moral equivalent of falling down a flight of stairs and landing on his stupid face#but really this shit keeps me up at night#I mean the fact that Sifo-Dyas even went back to Dooku AGAIN after the finale of Dooku: Jedi Lost is kind of remarkable#remarkably dumb I mean godbless but that's a different post#I really want to write their last meeting as a happy fic where nothing changes in the plot it's just happy and then it ends#dooku#sifo dyas
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Will haunting the narrative as both the innocent who was wrongfully destroyed AND the one that got away.
Season 2 Will impacting everything Mike does from that point forward just as much as Will's death impacts everyone.
El thinks of him when she confronts Brenner about the mind flayer, we know things like that. But Mike also thinks of him when he tells El he loves her.
They're all thinking of him. The last time they saw him.
The way he was never the same.
But Mike is thinking about the last time he saw him.
Losing him.
The way they were never the same.
(The way he can't get him back)
Yes, Will's disappearance changed everyone's trajectory forever. But he also changed Mike. He also made Mike's personal and romantic life impossible to return to after him.
He haunts more than just the people who mourn his death.
(The sole purpose of Mike's season 2 separation from El in the first place is so that he can never truly go back after Will)
#you know what they say: once you go [will byers] you never go back#the queer experience of not knowing you're settling until you do and being unable to return#mike wheeler contrasts#mike wheeler#would you hate it if i said i thought of this deep cool interesting post because i was listening to taste by sabrina carpenter#will byers#the power you hold#the way it's an ensemble cast so will can't be the main character#but to the character THEMSELVES he is#living rent free in everyone's minds 24/7#It may be an ensemble cast he may not be able to be the main character of Stranger Things#but he's the main character of the party#he's the main character of Hawkins#byler#byler season 2#mike wheeler is queer#season 2 byler irreversibly changed the trajectory of mike's narrative#byler timeline#the way#finn playlist#corroborates this with the songs about like not being over your ex or something if i recall from a rundown i read#the most you had was eye contact and one one-way hand hold#but ok go off king#break up with your girlfriend of 3 years for him bet#do you
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[DC] doodled these two a lot this week
#clam draws#dc#kon el#kontent#Conner kent#superboy#cassie sandsmark#wonder girl#this started bc I was thinking about how they have similar outfits and parallel journeys to like masculinity and femininity I think#and part of it is due to the differences in 2000s and 90s culture but also I think this is geoffs fault#like perhaps Cassie does get euphoria from presenting more femme but it’s written by men who just didn’t find her appealing before#and kon well he already lost the jacket and had designs changes before tt03 but there’s still a noticeable difference I think in the way#he presents himself demeanor wise after johns#and ofc johns meant none of this but I like a silly spider am crawling over it and just making my own narrative threads p#as in like oh they’re in a new stage in their life and they have to wrestle w their identities as one does#but like eventually find a new middle ground?#like yeah I can make a narrative#but if I haddd to choose what they’d do instead like if I were in charge of tt03 and told to make them fit 2000s culture I would have at lea#at least made them grunge or smth idk .#what am I even saying#dc clamics
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*SCREECHING*
I was watching this lovely, bittersweet edit highlighting the short, tragic friendship between Celebrimbor and Elrond as they're portrayed in the Rings of Power, and it got me reflecting (as many of us have) on the prophesy, "My father foresaw that one day Celebrimbor's life would be in my hands" and how it's too bad there wasn't anything that felt like a weighty resolution to that thread. Like, to have a prophesy directly from the foresight of Eärendil that's first mentioned in season one and invented for the show feels so significant to be used merely as a device to compound Elrond's failure, you know? The prophesy works well as foreshadowing and elevates the tragic impact of Elrond's role as commander and his inability to defend Eregion, but that feels so distant to the idiom "life in his hands." Especially since Elrond isn't even in sight of Celebrimbor's death, so how could his life really be so directly in his hands--
IT'S THE RING.
THE RINGS.
Elrond's only direct acts related to "saving" Celebrimbor on screen is trying to save his records and his city, aka the lore and legacy around him. And that fails. The records are burned, the city is reduced to rubble, the smith's greatest achievements are corrupted and certainly going to be twisted further to some evil purpose in Sauron's hands.
And Elrond's been so certain that those rings are corrupted, including the elven rings (which for a while are the only rings the Lindon elves know of in the show). But then suddenly those elven rings are all that's left of Celebrimbor's legacy and in the first and last episode of the season they're LITERALLY in Elrond's hands. When he jumps from the cliff trying to keep them from his friends, and when he finally picks one up and uses it for good--for its intended, healing purpose. I mean, Elrond future lore master has Celebrimbro's life story in his hands. He has Celebrimbor's life's work in his hands, and all the parts of himself and his craft he poured into those rings.
And one day Elrond will literally be one of the bearers and wielders of Celebrimbor's life work and legacy. Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhh==
"His life in his hands" indeed.
#rings of power#celebrimbor#elrond#trop#and don't get me started on how the show thematically is leaning into the idea of Sauron as a wannabe / would be healer#and the thematic (though not narrative) parallel that this sets up for Elrond who is the future greatest healer in middle earth#something about wanting or not wanting power??#By the waaay the original prophesy as stated by Celebrimbor in season 1 was#He had that way of seeing far off. . .one day he said to me#That my future would be in his son's hands#anywho I'm exhausted and I don't care if the show intended this meaning or not it's my meaning now and no one can take it from meeee haha#Also fun to interpret through a psychological lens of why Elrond changed the wording of the prophesy to take further direct responsibility
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Aldrich, devourer of gods
Pre-sludge
I’m cooking up a comic for him, I have many narrative ideas about my favorite darkmoon and my favorite man eater.
#dark souls#dark souls 3#aldrich devourer of gods#dark sun gwyndolin#I forgot I changed Royce’s design#he had a narrative shift don’t look at me#these are my canon OCs#no one can tell me I’m wrong except Miyazaki himself and even then I wouldn’t know because I don’t speak Japanese#so basically I’m untouchable#arttag
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Lil Jason doodle :)⚡️
#my art#pjo#heroes of olympus#the trials of apollo#jason grace#jason grace fanart#pjo fanart#hoo#pjo hoo toa#drawing that lightning was so fun#I will never forgive Rick for killing him#even if narratively speaking it was very very powerful#I KNOW that it converts a troubling truth in the lives of demigods for Apollo and the reader to process and thus further change#BUT AUGH#MY BOY!!!!#he is so beloved#Jason grace you will always be famous#Romano draws
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About the older clover au wouldn't asgore know about this and tell the royal guard to look for clover or he just give up looking for them?
I answered another ask about Asgore here, but to summarize, Asgore (and Undyne and the Royal Guard by extension) don't know with 100% certainty that there's a human living in secret in the Underground. After all, Martlet obviously didn't report Clover in when they decided to live there! There were rumors spread throughout the Underground, though, that a human child was briefly spotted before "disappearing", leading to an official Royal Guard investigation.
Asgore. of course, ordered an investigation into these rumors, but nothing turned up. So he continued to wait in his castle, assuming perhaps that the rumored human died alone somewhere or perhaps never existed. Clover and their family still remain vigilant, though, knowing that it'd take only one sighting or reporting of them for the Royal Guard to come and try and deliver their soul to the King....
#undertale yellow#uty#undertale#ut#asgore dreemurr#clover#clover uty#lucky clover au#the cowboy hat draws#In a weird way Asgore kind of looms over the narrative of Lucky Clover AU. In a sense#But luckily by the time Undertale Pacifist ending rolls around he and Undyne have changed their minds so it's all cool#Still shocking for them to learn a human lived in secret in the Underground though!
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3 days and 2 nights in San Myshuno!
Thank you for accepting out invitation to showcase your work at our Gallery. The Airbnb we've set up for you and your family is in convenient walking distance of the Gallery and several local attractions! We can't wait to see you at the showcase.
-Casbah Gallery
#ts4#ts4 gameplay#sims 4 gameplay#postcard legacy challenge#postcard: gen4#queue#little andrew dealing w the anxiety of being with the family#from having no one to havinf everyone all at once#in game he's going through “the distant” phase which i think works so well narratively#adrien's hair has more greys but i didn't realize i had accidentally changed it 🧍🏽♂️#ama standin front and center of that bug ass screen#BACK UP!!! rua for damn sure didn’t work in a glass factory#the message from the gallery is so lame ngl i didnr have any inspiration for this and just wanted something to put out#i imagine the letter would be much longer#i guess#ANYWAY you know who else is in san my 🫂 ART!!! he’s so handsome y’all
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