#hunted by the narrative

[wildwren]

hunted by the narrative

hares on the mountain, traditional folk song // art by jen mazza

sparrow for a heart, abigal lappell // art by barbara bokoto-tomala

newcastle, traditional folk song // artist unknown

if i was a painter, lisa o'neill // art by claudia barbu

ashamed, deer tick // art by nicolas samori

i wish my baby was born, traditional folk song // artist unknown

hard wired, shakey graves // art by miles johnston

[lotus-pear]

intertwined fate

[yashley]

vex & pike in c3e112

[robo-milky]

Rookugoka!

[L -> R]

Rakugo (落語, literally 'story with a fall')[1] is a form of Japanese verbal comedy, traditionally performed in yose theatres.[2] The lone storyteller (落語家, rakugoka) sits on a raised platform, a kōza (高座). Using only a paper fan (扇子, sensu) and a small cloth (手拭, tenugui) as props, and without standing up from the seiza sitting position, the rakugo artist depicts a long and complicated comical (or sometimes sentimental) story.

[Comments]

Just like our lovely Cloche here, pLEASE READ “AKANE-BANASHI” !! This manga about Rakugo is what inspired this short and I am BRAINROTTING WITH A RAKUGOKA AU- (unfortunately with Rollo cause it’s so different from his usual personality)

This year, I AM HERE TO RECLAIM MY TITLE AS ROOK’S TROPHY WIFE— …or not ahaha- Rook is still my type but Rollo’s taken more of mind lately 😔 Anyways— back to my doujin era for y’all!

[the-magpie-collective]

Thinking about how when Wyll killed the cultists of Tiamat to save Baldur's Gate that was probably the first time he ever killed anyone.

[shinelikethunder]

it's so cute that 6x05 had soulless Sam standing there salivating over Dean getting force-fed vampire blood in a barely-metaphorical back-alley rape scene, then went "it was a strategic-value boner. he was hard enough to pound nails for entirely calculating reasons. what reason could Sam possibly have for not being normal about Dean 'panic room detox' Winchester getting corrupted into monsterdom by some sexually predatory creep dripping blood into his mouth?"

("hahaha what subtextual implications about soullessness as a response to trauma and moral injury. a wizard did it and now Sam can't feel feelings, and if we filmed it like he was standing there jerking it then no we didn't." oh season 6, your sickodom is iconic and your deniability is barely even plausible anymore and i love that for you. keep doing hot girl shit forever.)

[lunarharp]

shirahama-sensei reminded me she has a thing for the teacher from pokemon s/v so i randomly went off on an au where qifrey is the professor. etc

[the-star-rigel]

SAPNAP: I genuinely respect you. May the best man win.

SHADOUNE: I’m glad you’re here at the final with me.

-

SHADOUNE: Sapnap! We fought, together-

SAPNAP: -we die together!

[persephoneism]

Breaking: Guy known as the Father of Gods and Men fathers gods and men

[sammygender]

i’ve never been as angry on behalf of a character as i am for sam winchester

[s0fter-sin]

rewatching s1 and in ep2 w*ndigo, dean makes a joke about not bringing provisions into the woods just to pull out a bag of peanut butter m&m’s and stick with me here, it’s why the later seasons’ “goofy dean” loses me

this moment is clearly a joke but if you think about it too much, it also makes some sense; a family size bag of peanut m&m’s is calorie dense and even the high sugar is good to keep you moving which they need on an overnight hunt. it also shows how due to their upbringing, they’ve had to eat lower quality food, things they always had access to that was cheap and also in bulk

what does dean eating ghost pepper jerky then tipping water on himself exist for other than to be a cringy joke? what does smelling old chinese food, testing to see if it's still good then shaking his head with cabbage hanging out his mouth when it isn't serve? it's just to make him look stupid and contrast sam's healthy/clean diet (and superiority but that’s another conversation) which has always existed but it used to be nuanced and natural

we see dean as a child give up the food he wanted to eat so sam could eat it. (“i’m sick of spaghetti-os,” “you’re the one who wanted them,” … “i want lucky charms!” “… there’s only enough for one bowl and i haven’t had any yet!” proceeds to give them to sam, 1x18) we know he hustled and stole food to ensure sam ate. (“so, what’d he take?” “get this- peanut butter and bread.” 9x07)

we also see throughout the early seasons dean teasing sam about his salad or healthy choice while he eats some form of burger or other fast food (or notably, cheerfully eating prison food that sam won’t touch, 2x19). it's typical sibling teasing but it also shows that it isn't new for sam to eat like that and for dean to know he eats like that

sam being picky isn't just a character trait they chose for him, it's a result of how dean raised him; he raised him to like and want healthy food and be food secure enough to reject food he didn't want

but dean eats anything he is given and seeks out unhealthy - cheap, plentiful, filling - food

he is the opposite of picky to the point of it being a consistent bit; they show him multiple times eating when it's socially frowned upon to do so eg. questioning a grieving victim when they're trying to be discreet (1x14, 2x15, 2x18)

a similar moment to the chinese food is in 4x19; dean wakes up in the car while sam brushes his teeth outside and is hungry. sam says there's a sandwich in the backseat, dean smells it and recoils bc it's an old tuna sandwich. the moment is funny on its own but it also exists as a comparison of their lives to adam's; he has a loving mother, goes to school and importantly, a steady stable childhood

it’s a joke with a purpose

it also supports dean's food insecurity; he wakes up and is immediately hungry, enough to complain about it and seek out food before anything else

dean is always hungry bc he never has access to nutritionally rich foods bc he got used to using the money he earned to buy sam's more expensive food. he got used to his cheaper, denser foods and grew up with (and continues to live with) intermittent access to said foods. think of how long it takes to drive from one state to another; how many hours it can take to see another town that offers food, if you arrive at a reasonable enough time for anything to be open. also think how they can’t keep any food beyond what fits in an esky; nothing that needs defrosting, nothing can be heated up. it’s bags and jars and take out for as long as they can trust it

then they get the bunker which has its own kitchen

dean even describes himself as "nesting" when he decorates his room, something he hasn't had since he was four years old, and he uses said kitchen to cook a burger from scratch that he is proud of. he is food secure for the first time in his life and it shows in how often he cooks for both himself and sam

so these moments where they have him acting goofy regarding food are no longer character driven and only exist as a joke which is why they come across as cringy and out of character compared to similar earlier moments

a lot of my issues with dean's characterisation started when they introduced the bunker. the argument can and is made that the reason these jokes happen is bc he feels safe in the bunker, that bc he now has a home he can relax and unmask but that still doesn't feel sufficient. they crank up these sillier moments for both of them, giving them a sort of playing house comedy vibe of two roommates with completely different personalities but it doesn't feel like an authentic progression. it feels forced; an attempt at humour for humour's sake

food stopped being an informed part of their characters and their trauma and instead became flanderised; sam is the judgy vegetarian health nut and dean is his borderline slovenly carnivore counterpart

[cana-banana]

Before Veilguard came out, I had this image in my head as something that could potentially happen. Didn't turn out that way, but I liked the visual nonetheless

Mythal'enaste

[hyohaehyuk]

Source: Bustle - Jacob Anderson Isn't Playing On Interview With The Vampire and People - Jacob Anderson & Sam Reid talk season 2 of Interview With The Vampire!

[curseddistinguishedly]

Idk man there’s just something inherently inhuman about the way False lies directly into the viewers face and remodels the narrative to fit her agenda. Like the narrative that could have been a journey to healing for E!False becomes doom looming over her in HC!False’s hands, like a hammer ready to strike down, and it only stops being that after HC!False leaves the Empires along with other hermits. There’s a relief like she has finally stopped keeping it in her firm grasp you know?

[thornedarrow]

i chose by my own will to stand next to the captain, yet all you can say to change my mind is "justice"?

[post-it-notes7]

so based on the 'dmk poking mir falspar' comic there, can falspar actually Feel through those pauldrons around the cracks at all or did he just notice dmk prodding him through the contact the armor has with his arm and that was enough to set him off? It certainly seemed to hurt him when he put on a new pauldron that one time and it shattered, could he actually feel it break or was he reacting to something else? Loving the comics as always btw being so normal about these funny little guys and their funny little problems~

Oho, an interesting question!

Mostly, he's reacting to the noise. Reflections who have shattered before tend to be more sensitive to the sound of something breaking, particularly mirror-adjacent material, like glass, and thats only more unsettling when it appears to be coming directly from you.

Mir Falspar can't feel his armor breaking, but he can feel when his shoulder itself is getting worse, which usually results in more extreme breakage in whatever is connected to it—which in-turn stresses him out even further, and can occasionally lead to a feedback-like loop where he's stuck there, gripping his arm, trying to ride it out. (Comicwise, Mir Falspar noticed his pauldron was nudged and flinched away as soon as he saw it was DMK who was prodding.) No one has really witnessed the full extent of this, as Mir Falspar will hide himself away the moment he suspects he's going to seize up, and if he truly can't escape in a situation, then he will grit his teeth and force his way through it as if nothing is wrong, blazing denial until the end.

And at last, for some inside knowledge (things Mir Falspar won't admit aloud), when his shoulder starts acting up, he begins losing the sensation in his left arm. It's harder to grip things in that hand and it could become a liability in a fight for either being a) unable to strike/guard with like he normally would, or b) too numb for Mir Falspar to tell how much strength he's putting into it, resulting in causing much less or much worse damage than he intended. It looks painful, and can be, but usually stays in line with a feeling of intense pins and needles.

(the kind where it's almost a little too hard to breath, though)