#show parallels

[heretherebedork]

The parallels between Tong and Ter are just getting to me, y'all.

It's about using people who love you and dangling a carrot in front of them to get them to help you through emotional manipulation and knowing that you're doing it.

It's about turning them down (heck, dating their sister) but still expecting them to do things for you and save the day when you can't because love is entirely conditional on your whims and your needs.

It's about flirting because you know he wants you to and smiling at him but always prioritizing the rest of the world in the end because he loves you but you don't love him and all you need is him on just enough string to dance.

It's about asking for a favor, telling him to help you, saying that this time it'll be what you truly need and it'll save you and it'll be the right thing this time, won't it, shouldn't he be happy for you?

It's about Dee growing more and more obsessed with the scholarship because Ter turned him down and then asked him for a favor at the same time and how much this need to win will hurt Yak in the end because he's struggling with his own sudden negative feelings towards love.

It's about how Ming is so damaged and toxic that he kidnapped Joe on Tong's whim and destroyed his future because the only love he understood or knew was Tong's damaging actions and choices and his own guilt over his sister's illness.

It's about using love like puppet strings for your own benefit and how it hurts the other person more than it hurts you, how it can damage so many people in the end and yet the strings keep those hurting hands clean and they never get blamed for the supposed choices of others that they orchestrated.

Dee and Ming has both carried love in their heart for men who could never appreciate them, could never love them, and what was done to them will now hurt the men that they can love because they're still clinging to the idea of love they first discovered rather than what is waiting for them, what is right in front of them.

And Yak and Joe will pay the price for what Ter and Tong have wrought on Dee and Ming.

[slimmwrites]

No one asked for this but here are some You and YOUng Royals parallels I noticed👀

1. The main character in both series FINALLY got the sense to buy curtains

2. There's a scene where one supporting character is wearing that hat which has African uncles in a chokehold... with a gun in the vicinity

[seamayweed]

EMMA D'ARCY as RHAENYRA TARGARYEN & OLIVIA COOKE as ALICENT HIGHTOWER HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 2.06 Behind the Scenes // 2.06

[riickgrimes]

I know who you are. You're Fire and Ice, right? Which one's which?

CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[generalized-incompetence]

Not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing (drift compatible)

[bluenoisen]

plunged into the deep end

[readrantannotate]

IN EP 1 SALLY WAS SMILING WHILE IN THE RAIN

IN EP 7 IT RAINS RIGHT WHEN POSEIDON COMES TO ANSWER SALLY’S CALL

THE RAIN COMFORTS HER BC IT REMINDS HER OF WHEN POSEIDON CAME TO COMFORT HER

[botlabyrinth]

HELLO HOW did i never pick up on the fact that annabeth gives percy her camp necklace for good luck in the lightning thief. and in the battle of the labyrinth when she kisses him, percy considers it a good luck kiss. and then OBVIOUSLY, in the last olympian: “don’t i get a kiss for luck? it’s kind of a tradition, right?” HOW DID I NEVER REALIZE

[logray]

Anakin's behind-the-back lightsaber twirl in:

OBI-WAN KENOBI (2022) ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2002) REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005) AHSOKA (2023)

[mydairpercabeth]

I would've worshipped Athena forever that way, in silence.

Then he came

And I felt like he saw me in a way l'd never been seen before.

[written-in-the-stars06]

“She decided i had to be punished. Not him. 𝑴𝒆. ”

“-She said, my impertinence had wounded my mother's pride"

-But 𝑰 sent it. 𝑰 signed the note"

-But I didn't stop you, I have embarrased her and now she's angry”

“I wasn’t like you sweethart, 𝒊 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖.”

This parallels KILL ME.

[wowsillies]

I WISH Jorge had referenced the part of Luck Runs Out where Odysseus tells Eurylochus to be quiet because I feel like that’s an element missing from a lot of Eurylochus interpretations.

“I need you to always be devout and comply with this /Or we'll all die in this” is important because Eurylochus fails to do it by questioning Odysseus’ words (the bag is NOT treasure, it’s storm) and opening the wind bag and his actions lead directly to the facilitation of the death of most of the crew. I hesitate to say he’s to blame because, well, Poseidon is taking revenge due to Odysseus’ decision, but Eurylochus handed him means and perfect opportunity to do it.

So, after that, Eurylochus obeys everything Odysseus says to do. He takes men to explore Circe’s island. He stays put instead of running when Odysseus goes to rescue him. He follows intl the Underworld despite the fact that “hey this witch is helping us now by sending us to death’s realm, this is definitely not a trick” probably raised some questions. He doesn’t (or at least we don’t see) stray or talk to the souls in the Underworld even though Odysseus ends up doing it. He traps and kills the sirens.

He lights and gives out six torches.

So, if devotion to Odysseus wasn’t enough to save them? If Odysseusnis now using that devotion and trust to get them killed as long as he gets to make it home to his wife? What is he meant to do now?

Eurylochus doesn’t sound… fully there, during the second half of Mutiny. Whether there was divine intervention pushing him or madness or simply the pain of it all, he’s not acting rationally. He just saw six of his trusted men brutally murdered, asks Odysseus to lie and say it was a trick, and can’t even kill him when the truth comes out. Odysseus’ wounds are bandaged! (I’m not sure that he doesn’t actually know where Helios’ statue is from btw, both due to the melody and bc it seems outrageous)

We’re all talking about Odysseus pleading for Eurylochus to stop before killing the cows, but Eurylochus is pleading too. He asks how much longer is he expected to suffer, to push through doubt, to follow the orders. And Odysseus’ first plea is “I need to get home” (later “we can get home”). Let’s not forget Odysseus is selfish and Eurylochus knows that, maybe even loves that, but he’s not just hungry, he’s tired.

When Polites gets the location of the sheep cave from the lotus eaters and takes the men to it, he leads several of them to death and himself to his doom. When Eurylochus stumbles upon the cows, does he remember that? Does he deliberately invoke it?

Killing the cows isn’t about the hunger, not really. It’s about the devotion that was asked of him, the price he paid to learn that lesson, and the pain that silence put him through anyway.

[waltricia]

Janeford ~ Saying “what” 💜

[vaggieslefteye]

YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE, BITCH! ⇌ WELCOME TO HELL, BITCH!

[birdy-babe]

I’m sick to my stomach

[tinkkles]

I really do love the fresh take on the dead wife aspect in scavengers reign like. She didn't die in some terrible accident or at the hands of an evil third party, she died because of you. Because of your ambition and carelessness and because you didn't prioritize her enough to even look for her as the ship was going down. You will carry this guilt for the rest of your life. She will haunt you forever. Pray that her ghost is enough to change you for the better.