#its evocative

[nails-teeth-neck]

I dont know how to say this in a way that doesn't make me sound evil but I like it when they do fantasy discrimination... like yeah people would be fucked up cunts about elves and magic have you seen us

[ellowynthenotking]

Love and your world ending feel just the same don't they?

Join me while I sit upon my rooftop as the world crashes and burns. The flames won't reach us from up here, and I'll hold your hand if you want.

[pa-rou]

always within

[bigskydreaming]

Imagine looking at a character whose entire premise is that in every stage of his life, he's made every version of himself into someone that inspires people to such a degree that EVERY SINGLE VERSION OF HIM has people wanting to literally follow in his footsteps in some way or another.....

And coming to the conclusion that like.....the most important things about him are the sum of all his trappings. His entirely homemade developed from scratch could not exist if not for what he already was and brought with him BEFORE crafting this newest version of himself trappings, with his greatest trait throughout all of it being his adaptability; his ability and willingness to roll with the punches and not try to simply weather any opposition or changes to his life but instead reshape himself as needed to better fit INTO whatever new shape his life and the world around him takes. All while managing to carry the most innate, fundamental and necessary aspects of himself from one version to the next. Thus every single version of himself is different but simultaneously every single version of himself is also undeniably the same person.

The strength of this character, to me, will always be that he can be so many versions of himself, he can become so many things, all without ever actually losing or discarding any of the aspects of himself he considers most essential, the things he's not willing to lose or give up just to keep going. Finding that road not taken by most, usually because most never even think to look for it as an option. But one that he's always able to find because the one trick he's mastered in his tumultuous life is threading that needle of not just digging in his heels in an unproductive way but rather being selective about when and where he makes a stand and decides "this is not a thing I'm willing to compromise about" but here are places and ways I can and will change and evolve and adapt in order to make it possible for me to hold onto these parts and keep them as they are.

And that's why its always so mind-boggling to me that so many writers can't seem to think of anything else to do with Dick Grayson other than invent some new reason for him to just....not be that person, or to like just take the character whose most basic fundamental trait he's NOT about to compromise on is willingly giving up his spot in the driver's seat of his own life.....and make him just a passenger in his own life and stories.

Dick Grayson at age nine....at age nineteen...at age twenty nine....the one core thread running through all versions of him is the only way he's standing back and letting you call the shots for him or putting him on the sidelines in some way is over his dead body.

HOW he goes about that, what that looks like, who he becomes and what aspects of himself he plays up at some times and what traits he lets fall by the wayside at other times when they offer less in service to his primary goal here....that changes constantly. He changes constantly.

But those changes are almost always (or at least they used to be/should be IN MY OPINION) made with the intention of keeping certain things about him or his life as consistent as possible.

That's the duality of Dick Grayson that I'm here for. The inherent contradiction of him that COULD allow for endless conflict and breaking new narrative ground in all sorts of ways if mined properly:

His eternal willingness to compromise....but only ever in pursuit of doubling down on the ways he's not willing to compromise.

Forever walking that tightrope in ways that only a kid born and raised in a circus could ever hope to.

[deoidesign]

If William had to fall in love with ONE cursed pirate, who-

uhmm, I guess Scrappy and Big are pretty busy being lesbi- GOOD LORD WHAT IS HAPPENING OVER THERE

[weirderscience]

it's you! / despite everything, it's still you.

[girlfictions]

Hayan Charara, from Mother and Daughter

[aroanthy]

of all the things one can say about episode 33, one ive been thinking about a lot recently is disrupted sleep. like, the day/night cycle and character's sleep schedules alike are being messed with here. akio's fucked up endless highway is perpetually night, so that certainly contributes to it, but i just think-- there is something so viscerally upsetting to me about spending the day at an amusement park, going to bed in a hotel, and being driven home from that hotel when it is still dark. you know? i thought about anthy's disrupted sleep in the black rose arc too, and how akio wakes utena in the car by brushing her cheek. that idea of being in and out of sleep, of not getting enough of it... and then the (family) day-out nature of this trip to the hotel, the way utena is so thoroughly positioned as a child in this episode. what if i got stabbed to death by some swords real quick

[wiltking]

trans artists are so cool

[bumbleboyart]

some wirt warmups lmao look at him go

[hideyseek]

bro .... fuck me up ... the fucking lyrics to 记忆商店 ... the swingset motif ............ 妈妈我想飞得高点 and then just one line later 妈妈我想落到地面 ........ AAAAAAAAAAAAA PAINNNNNNNNN wanting to go back and wanting immediately to turn back again ... the entire premise of the song .... ... HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS ???? the way it just ends on 没什么 要明白 没什么 要勇敢 荡啊荡啊荡个秋千 ... im gonna explode !!!????

[doloresdisparue]

I’m like Dolores—when she says she’s ‘Only a picture painted on air.’ ”

“Never could finish that novel—much too pretentious.”

- Ada or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov

[milfygerard]

my advice to ppl who feel angry or doomer-y when frank iero opens his big fat mouth without thinking to think back and consider: do you trust gerard ways artistic integrity and instincts for mcr? Bc thats why i pretty much never react to the band being quiet or weird announcements or whatever. Gerard takes the integrity of the art and performance of mcr very seriously, if they were in it for the money they never would have broken up mcr at all, they wouldn't've bothered with the swarm tour, and they wouldnt have made the TBP tour as unmarketable and confusing to the general public as they could get away with. To be blunt, if this was some artless sellout we would have had an album by now and it would have been good if not disappointing and derivative. Gerard is very obsessive over the integrity and honesty of the art they create sometimes to a detrimental and obsessive degree, and does not take something like My Chemical Romance lightly or cynically.

ALSO we wouldnt have gotten two high quality high concept clearly expensive highly enigmatic promotional videos with bizarre extremely hostile fascist imagery along with promotional imagery and posters that don't even have the bands acronym on them in a readable text. TBP tour is clearly going to not just be Something but is going to be Something Very Big.

[nyxi-pixie]

writing advice accounts when you tell them hyperbole is a literary tool used intentionally by writers: 😦😧😧😥😢😣

[bmpmp3]

post ankle-twisting clarity