#potent relationship

[banefort]

It’s always surprising that Larycent only really exists on the fringes of the HOTD fanbase when it’s easily one of if not the most compelling and complicated relationships. The erotic overlap between love and violence, his near-primordial compulsion to service her and win her affection despite recognizing that she fears him in the same instinctual way that the fly fears the spider. Not to mention its capacity for discussions of class dynamics, ability/disability.

Matthew Needham’s explanation for the SA scene, that Larys seeks to wrest her bodily autonomy from her through making her own limbs part of the crime, deliberately targeting her traumatic sexual history and conscience-stricken disposition is such an interesting concept. He seeks to invoke a disconnect between her and her feet, symbolically and literally disabling her. In his eyes, the only way for them to truly identify with one another, or for her to love him, is for them to share in their bodily trauma together.

It conjures the image of a rabid animal willingly and devotedly infecting another.

[herecomestheluc]

rereading dungeon meshi and I didn't notice this detail the first time because i was binging

Itsuzumi wiped marcille's face, which is pretty obvious, but she also

wiped the rest of their faces, as noted by the fur on everyone's face

she might not realize it consciously, but she cared about all of them, even after an argument, even while not being able to fully understand them, even while finding them annoying, and inconvenience and damn that's

that's something

[coquelicoq]

we get a lot of really great stuff in system collapse about murderbot's relationships with ART and ratthi, which makes sense, because it spends almost the entire book with them. but i also love how even though mensah isn't there for most of the story, other people keep reminding mb of her:

chapter 2, page 25: “From ART’s personnel file, she [Karime] was older than Mensah and she didn’t look like an intrepid space explorer, either, even in the protective environmental suit.”

2, 27: “It took Karime three seconds to process the abrupt statement. (She was almost as good at not looking annoyed as Mensah was.) She kept her expression neutral and patient.”

2, 28: “In the underground colony room, Karime lifted her brows. ‘Another occupied site?’ I thought she was being careful not to show too much reaction. It was the way Mensah would have played it.”

4, 70: “Iris looked at me and I saw her hesitate, because her hesitation looked a lot like Dr. Mensah’s hesitation. And I realized I really didn’t want to go down there.”

5, 104: "Iris has that same thing as Dr. Mensah, the thing where she’s able to look and sound calm under circumstances where shit is possibly about to go down.”

it's spent so much time with her and it knows her so well and respects her so much that she's the model against which it compares all other humans. it thinks about her when they're not together. it's protective of her. it has such total faith in her competence. it (non-romantically) loves her and doesn't want to not see her again. idk man, it just gets to me! and they were teammates (oh my god they were teammates!!)

bonus:

I said, aloud, "You have to be kidding me." (ch. 2, p. 28)

seven pages later, in reaction to the same thing:

Mensah had had time to review the feed video. She muttered, "Oh, you have to be kidding me." Yeah.

twinsies 🥰

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

~ inseparable opposing images ~

[invasive]

Labru (shrug) I just might like it

[thats-my-passion-right-there]

I finally saw the mean girls musical (the movie one) I have so many fucking thoughts oh my god

[morgynamber]

so maybe the fact that i draw them all the time has completely rotted my head but nahyuta and simon are so narratively similar to one another that the relationship (in any different scenario) just makes a lot of comical sense to me. they're in very similar stages of their life, went through very similar experiences of being puppeted to protect someone who's innocent, and immediately match each other's negative energy within 2 minutes of being in the same courtroom. they are on equal levels of status within the prosecutors office and intelligent and persecutory and condescending and pretentious and would either get along like a house on fire or kill each other within minutes and that wildly entertains me

[8cfc00]

who up feeling INSANE about hermie and scary like hermie's hall of batman villains vs scarys hall of mirrors. scary saying she noticed hermie. they See each other, you get me. self recognition through the other (but in denial about it) the mASKS THEY PUT ON. the PERSONAS with sharper edges than they truly have. LITERALLY.

[pebblezone]

🧍‍♂️

[fromtheseventhhell]

Was working on a meta about Arya and her Direwolf/Pack foreshadowing but it's quickly just turning into a quote compilation post cause the lines from the book are so meaningful, they speak for themself🤷🏾‍♀️

[lit-in-thy-heart]

[ID: the hard to swallow pills meme. The pills are labelled as follows: 'sometimes you're going to have to cut and rewrite a scene because it feels off'. End ID.]

[roobylavender]

i also went and reskimmed the last ep of season two and i think something tsitp is really good at portraying is that like. esp when you're a child love can be very selfish. you want to love back the person who makes you feel wanted and needed because that's what you need in your life. i don't think belly intentionally plays games with the brothers but her feelings and stance do shift dependent on where she is the most reciprocated and i honestly think that's a very normal response for someone her age to have. taken out of isolation it's not fair to everyone per se but it's a reality. love at that age isn't possessive of much dimension and it's rare for you to love someone without having immediate and tangible expectations of them because the world that both of you inhabit is presumably very small. when the scope of your world expands and you're willing to deliberate more on your interactions with someone you love and how all external factors impact them and what their words mean on their face versus under the surface is when you become an adult. not because love between mature people is supposed to be hard but because being an adult requires you to recognize that people don't always act the way they should and if you move through relationships with the expectation that they will then it makes committing to anything very, very hard

[br1ghtestlight]

we need more gene-focused episodes that are about his relationship with tina and louise i am no longer asking!!!! he gets episodes so rarely and even when he does they always protray him as annoying and needy (which he is) but i think characters like him lend themselves best to plots based on their relationships and how they bounce off other people vs just being by themselves which can sometimes be overwhelming for viewers bcuz of the comic relief aspect of their character

[abyssalpriest]

oh and in case it isnt clear, i dont necessarily blame anyone on this plane for believing the stuff i said in the first posts tags? like. eve if youre an incarnated "demon" like i am as much as eh yeah im sick of that term like. its hard to get info across from fuckin anyone, but you add to that how their/our plane works requiring so much damn energy to get up here..... Its hard. yes.

HOWEVER. the fucking "demons" coming here being like. well. this

and fucking talking about how all evils are Actually (chrxstian and ''angelic'') and we're soooooo good and innocent like. you know what youre doing. i see you. shut the fuck up

[larnax]

i will say incorrect quotes blogs are Just annoying more often than they are racist. just like statistically bc most of them only acknowledge white characters exist. but it is KIND of inevitable that if you literally just have the same list of quotes that have had their punchline reduced to the most basic possible character archetype, at some point you will manage to make an in-context totally harmless joke extremely racist by making the wrong nonwhite character the punchline, even aside from all the "incorrect quotes" that are from ORIGINALLY dogshit sources. same as the "what do you fucking mean you didnt think that the 'this is a ____ neighborhood keep moving' meme might be racist" problem, incorrect quotes blogs encourage you to divorce a Funny Template from its original source so hard you don't often think "hang on when was the last time i actually read the novel this quotes. do i fully understand the context this is being said in and who it's being said by". and like on a more general scale this impulse to divorce things from their context is what lets you unironically argue that the pale king is a communist in supposedly serious media analysis

[cartoonrival]

diversity loss. naruto and sasuke r bi aroace and gay aro (respectively) but in kuwtu theyre just bi and gay and the reason for this is well i dont have to tell you what reality tv is like