#recurring shots

[misspoetree]

You know what I've been thinking about?

The recurrence of this treat shot and its multitude of flavours.

[raviposting]

@pscentral event 26: minimalism @lgbtqcreators bingo: colour

SEVERANCE + OPENING SHOTS

[poirott]

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT 1x06 "Triangle at Rhodes"

[moash]

prayer circle for moash interlude next week 🙏

[s3lkieboy]

I wholeheartedly believe dazai survived that gunshot point blank to the head, not because I'm a dazai stan coping, but because that mf cannot and will not die. He wants to die so bad that it has basically made him immortal. I refuse to believe that mf is even capable of dying at this point. The gods won't let him out of spite.

[mo-ok]

TokuxSpring Day Five

🐂 favourite animal themed suit 🐂

[toastedclownery]

I DIDN'T KNOW VICTOR AND VALENTINO WENT SO HARD???

[setmeatopthepyre]

So one thing I think is interesting in the whole Eddie and Christopher situation is that we never get to hear how Christopher feels about living in Texas vs LA. Or how Eddie's parents feel about it, for that matter. There's no conversation between any of them about how Christopher feels about living in El Paso (or even broaching the reason Chris wanted to move). All we know is what Eddie assumes to know, and is scared of: Christopher is more settled and is having more fun in Texas. That's why he's looking at houses in El Paso.

We see Chris have his birthday party with a bunch of new friends, and that he's enjoying swim club, but we don't know if he misses his friends in LA. We don't see Eddie ask about that either (not that there's much of an opportunity for it in that one video call).

It's implied that Eddie's parents are thinking about putting in a pool of their own because they expect Christopher to want to stay with them long-term, but Eddie never asks.

Eddie knows Christopher thinks trick-or-treating is cringe now, but is it because he feels like he's too old for it, or does he not want to be trick-or-treating with his grandparents? Maybe it's making him miss his dad, his family, his friends, so he rather just.. not? We don't know. Neither does Eddie.

When Christopher asks if Eddie will send him Brad's autograph to put in his room, Eddie says he was actually thinking about his room in LA, but doesn't wait for Chris to react to that, to clear up confusion, just says, yeah, he'll send it. He assumes that the fact that Christopher asked him if he'd send the autograph, means Chris has no thought of leaving Texas anytime soon. Does it? Or did Chris assume Eddie meant the room Christopher was talking to him from at that moment, the room in Texas?

Eddie doesn't ask. Is it because he's afraid of the answers? Is he scared to look this thing he fears, this potential loss, in the face because that's what makes it real?

Shannon didn't just die. She told Eddie that she wanted a divorce. She said, out loud, that she had to live her life without him.

Maybe he can't bear to hear Christopher tell him the same thing. So it's better not to ask.

[bonefall]

Would Midnight be patient with my fellow discalculia girlies... I love her but am So So Pathologically Bad at math

Midnight teaches advanced algebra to cats, you'll be fine. She'll conjure up a fractal for you, color each part of the equation, show how each part interacts and what it looks like when you change it

She'll take you out to the beach and explain the wind and the tide, compare them to each axis on the formula she showed you, and modify one factor. The wind dies down and the sea becomes as smooth as glass.

"Smoothness for the-waves you-see?" She waits for you to nod, never rushing you along, even the most casual questions are genuine, "Excellent! For this is example of maths I-teach. Nature it-will-happen. Simpleness it-being. You-will-understand."

[akkivee]

i think it’d be very fun if a reason we got kuukou juto and dice paired up was because they have a side of themselves they keep hidden from others lol

[saints-who-never-existed]

Ooh actually one more relevant wee detail I noticed from the Episode Five script:

As they're readying the cannon, they realise they don't have the proper wadding material to ram into it - it's been lost in all the destruction - and it's specifically both Crozier and Tozer who sacrifice their mittens to be rammed into the cannon instead.

[chiropteracupola]

another frisbee au scribble! @seaglassandeelgrass suggested that a passion for metal-detecting might be a suitable equivalent to Hagman's skulking-and-lurking poacher ways — what do you think they've discovered?

[muninnhuginn]

So, going to link a couple of things before I start with this.

Firstly, the new MV for the Vortex/Overthink/Tides medley which is going to form the basis of my observations.

Secondly, this post, which makes a strong argument that Link Click is deliberately drawing from other time travel media. In this case, the 2002 version of The Time Machine. Also, a fun fact not mentioned in the linked post, but that I recently discovered is that the name of the girlfriend the time traveller is constantly trying to save is *Emma*.

Now that I've linked these two, I just want to say that this rest of this post is me having fun and I would love for these to be deliberate references, but let's be real, a lot of time travel media understandably shares a lot of visual language. Hourglasses, butterflies, and clocks are all fairly recurrent themes.

Click the read more for a mix of potential references to other time travel media and screenshots of specific details of the new MV I found interesting:

Left: Link Click (note the photo reel design). Right: Doctor Who (specifically one of the intros for the Twelfth Doctor)

And to add to the photography aesthetic present throughout, the photo reel clock resolves itself into a camera lens:

Next, we have a main character centred within a clock. In both cases, the character casts multiple shadows that resemble clock hands.

Left: Link Click. Right: Steins;Gate

The shot where Qiao Ling is stood still amongst a moving crowd is neat for two reasons. First, the people she's surrounded by seem to be those related to the cases CXS/LG have taken on. You can see Emma just behind in the above screenshot. And the other thing is that the first time this sequence plays the moving characters are too blurry to easily make out. When the sequence reverses however, and the lyrics speak of "pausing" the scene actually freezes with all the characters clear for a tiny bit. (I didn't screenshot purely because it was a pain to get the exact moment but you can check this if you want)

Upper left: Link Click. Upper right: Higurashi Gou/Sotsu. Bottom: Steins;Gate 0.

Next up: fragments! This one is honestly a real stretch, but hey, there are at least two other time travel adjacent shows that use them as visuals in their openings. I would really like the use to be similar to in Higurashi (the example screenshot is from the anime sequel Gou/Sotsu but the sea of fragments is present in the og too). In Higurashi, each time "loop" is actually an alternate timeline (wherein events would differ slightly even without intervention) and so each fragment represents another timeline. For Steins;Gate, it's more a visual that exists purely in the opening sequence to play into the whole shattered clocks aesthetic.

Left: Link Click. Right: Steins;Gate.

This one is inspired by me watching the opening only to go "Okabe Rintaro????" when Qian Jin showed up. But also. We can clearly see some of Qian Jin's scars in this shot. There appears to be one on the back of his neck and two over his left shoulder. These have to be relevant and obviously his eye colour has me side-eyeing but I don't think we have all the pieces for this character yet. (Him being a former cop with a connection to both of our focus cop characters though makes me think)

And a final one with generic anime trope no 58382929:

Left: Link Click. Right: Steins;Gate

I know, I know. This is typical anime/donghua. But! It's deliberately a shot in Steins;Gate that returns again and again throughout the series. It's also very associated with the character of Mayuri so take that as you will.

Bonus whatever this is:

Multiple Cheng Xiaoshis in different states of doing badly. I wonder if the centremost one is the one Lu Guang appeared to be thinking of in episode 1? Possibly another "fragments" situation or if not then it may be various things Cheng Xiaoshi will go through in this season

Anyway, the Steins;Gate opening visually has a lot of similarities and of course a lot of it is natural overlap because they're both time travel series. And they both draw inspiration from The Time Machine (especially Steins;Gate's sequel, Steins;Gate 0). But I find it pretty neat how all these series from different times and places do have these recurring themes.

[designernishiki]

nishitani really did live, serve cunt, and die didn’t he

[juanitasupreme]

You put the name of a woman on this damn app and all you get first is topless pictures and cleavages shots

[ria-the-camel]

I don't know how coherent this post will be, but god, the relationship Imogen and Laudna have with power is so interesting

Imogen got cursed with powers that only brought her pain for most of her adult life, nearly breaking her. And then she learns she can use them to her advantage, she learns to control them, and she leans into them. And then she finds out her mom had the same powers, and she left her to deal with them alone. And that these powers are linked to something uncomfortably big and hungry. And Imogen doesn't know if she wants to feed it. Her friends want to destroy it, it must be bad. But if they destroy it, what happens to her powers? What will she be if she looses them? Will any of it had been worth it? Maybe she doesn't wanna get rid of the fucking moon.

Laudna on the other had was born magical, we know less about how her innate magic influenced her childhood, we know she was bullied for being weird, but it feels like she did like having those little bits of power to herself. It still didn't really matter when she got killed though, her powers probably attracted Delilah's attention and caused her to choose her. And when she came back, she had new powers, and new reasons to be shunned by others. And after a bit Delilah shows up, and starts teaching her new things, starts giving her new gifts and raising her magic.

She's horrible but she's useful, and she acts kind, the manipulative bitch. And she shows up to claim credit, in keeping Laudna going, in keeping her safe, although really who knows. And then Laudna dies again, and comes back without her. It was what she'd wanted, and her powers are still with her. Maybe she truly didn't need her after all? But could it be more? One of her most powerful abilities, Hunger of Shadows, is directly linked to Delilah, it feeds something through Laudna (I wonder if her absorbing the gnalrock was similar, since she felt the heartbeat then too) and it feels like control, like power. But whose power? When Laudna used it again, she didn't hear D, but she heard the heartbeat. It's great power, but does she need Delilah to reach it? Can she finally be the one to use her instead?

The way they talked about harnessing it this ep, how tempted are they? The get that control over everyone and everything that wronged them; at the price of their friends however. But together, always.

Bad end imodna would be terrifying