#intended parallels

[un-intended-parallels]

The Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza, 1850s

THIS MAN by J x W (Seventeen) promotional posters, 2024

[technically-human]

St. Hilarion's ghost story

[saryasy]

And I'm sure you don't want to hear it. I do want to hear it. All right, you're living it, and I want, I want you to talk to me.

[theejael]

am i makin' you feel sick?

—

yeah, okay, the ghoul's kinda cool.

[sabertoothwalrus]

sometimes I think the trans kabru headcanon is more “there’s nothing in canon disproving it” (+ a bit of “it compliments his character arc well”) than people looking for intentional subtext but. wow Kui sure did put these pages back to back huh

[midweastindigo]

AND NØW I JUST SIT IN SILENCE

[fairyroses]

— SMALLVILLE, "Tempest" (1.21) & "Fragile" (5.18)

[group-dynamic]

*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.

[suzalulusource]

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[justatoast]

MIRROR BOYS 🌊|🔥

I made this drawing several months ago, I didn't publish it bc I'd lost motivation to draw... But now I want to start sketching again :)

Anyway enjoy the boys ✨

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Cannot Unsee. Cannot Unknow.

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[un-intended-parallels]

어젯밤 by JxW (Seventeen), 2024

Take on Me, A-HA, 1984

[sandwichsapphic]

“an exceedingly pleasant and amiable young gentleman but… mentally he is negligible - quite negligible” is the Jeeves and Wooster equivalent of “she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me”

[delawaredetroit]

It's probably a joke, but the contrast in how Toga said she wanted to see Izuku and Overhaul hurt is interesting.

Toga wanted to see Izuku all beat up because (1) her quirk makes her desire blood as a form of connection with others so she wants to see his blood and (2) she likes watching a person who gives his all like Izuku fight for his convictions. Toga enjoyed seeing Izuku all beat up because she liked him, but it wasn't for the purpose of seeing his suffering. This is why she looked sincere and without malice when she described her desire to see Izuku all beat up.

For Overhaul, Toga wanted to see him suffer and struggle in pain because she wanted revenge for Magne's death. It's clear from how her face was drawn shadowed and full of hate when speaking about Overhaul in pain.

[taylortruther]

even if it's a stretch, i'm compelled by this thought. like, a song about love being so pure - because of your youth and innocence, but also because it's a memory of warmth and care. the face of that love doesn't even matter when the feeling that lingers, the innocence, becomes its legacy. your braids like a pattern, love you to the moon and to saturn, this love lasts so long.

and then consider how, twenty years later, as an adult, you feel like you get older but never wiser, so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. you're so far from the child you were, and you have so little to show for it but scars and fear of ghosts. then you find that warm pure love again, in a person who makes you feel safe, like the child you used to be. just being in their arms takes you back to that time when you were fierce and unapologetic, you hadn't been hurt, you weren't caught up in your own web and afraid of making the wrong move again and again. been sleeping so long in a twenty year dark night... it's nice to have a friend.

[raayllum]

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