#subtlety with love

[martymeministry]

Small Business. MartyMeMinistry. ↥.

My business in Jesus’ name for God.

Business Professional. Sinai French, Haitian, SDA Church. Young Adult. 28. 4.

🔱 = Sinai French SDA Church 🌺➰⛑️+🗿•🛑➿🍊🌈

Sinai Haitian SDA Church•💛

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Active public name change.

‘Out’ by God.

Rooted from Earth’s crust.

A ‘Life Journey’ of sacred spirit work, light work, influence, and leadership toward world peace in Jesus’ name as a business professional.

All body chemistries will be in sync with The Holy Trinity and there will be one energy of the three in Jesus’ name tuned to the frequency of heaven; as a priestess-pastoress, family head, and influential figure who has to atone for my family, former acquaintances, & church family in a galaxy wide issue featured in history as prototype SDA 2π who has had my own dream. And the vision is clear. I stomp with grace, heavily, lightly.

My experience with my walk with the lord isn’t everyone’s business.

Positivity. Character. Growth. World Peace. Cosmic Peace. Heavenly Peace. 🕊️

Iron Seaweed Nebuchadnezzar. ⚓️

Do NOT call me Marty or Marf

It MUST be clear ‘common knowledge’ isn’t the same for all.

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[sheikfangirl]

Food is Link's love language ❤️🥹

Cheers!

[luthqrs]

EMILY PRENTISS staring at and JENNIFER JAREAU in CRIMINAL MINDS 13x07 | 'Dust and Bone'

[worldsokayestmagicalgirl]

Ayyyyyye so… once again @demoncow97 breaks my SVSSS art block.

I’m so normal about them I swear 🫠 their reunion was everything I wanted it to be & I’m obsessed with this version of them 💕

Anyways go read What Is Found Behind Broken Walls . Do it. You won’t regret it.

Anyways Bonus image✨ :

Poor Yue Qingyuan…

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride…

[couch-house]

Listen to Me When I Say: I Don't Care What You Think

I wrote more :) Actually wrote this one before the other one (and it takes place before the other one), it just needed some extra editing time (thank you @gourde !). Shadow helps Rouge recover from her top surgery, and works through some feelings on friendship, suffering, and girls.

[ladysatoru]

the average incel dudebros will never understand sanji's depth because only REAL yearners know wassup with him he cared for Luffy so much that he hurt lu cz he wanted to save lu from his baggages and Luffy understood it too that's why he'd said that "no matter how many times you kick me, you're the one that gets hurt" part because Luffy understood that sanji's helplessness and emotional pain was much more intense than whatever physical pain luffy was feeling at that moment

[blackwaves]

reading into irl ichiyo higuchi and dwelling on the statement that ichiyo was bound by the structure of acceptable writing for female writers at the time — having to recreate a performance of feminity which contradicted and moved around the actual way women spoke, & which notably did not come naturally to her — but managed to make it her own + express assertiveness within it nonetheless.

anyway this is all just to say that i'm so fond of the bsd higuchi-centric chapter which says she's not naturally suited the port mafia, but that she stays and tries anyway. the way she gains respect via throwing herself into a fight she expects to lose from the motivation of her love/loyalty for akutagawa. thinking primarily of ch.77 where tachihara's suitability to the mafia is defined in his recklessness, passion, and bravery— there is something to me there about how she makes those traits her own.

[ultravioletbrit]

“trousers” - Jegulus microfic - @into-the-jeggyverse - 342 words

Regulus has his head resting on James’ chest as James runs his fingers through Regulus’ curls. They’re both blissed out and sated and enjoying the post haze quiet. The peaceful moment is abruptly interrupted when they hear the front door open and close.

“James?” Sirius’ voice calls through the flat. “You home?”

Regulus and James stare at each other for one panicked moment before scrambling out of bed. They frantically search for their clothes and haphazardly throw them on before stumbling out of the bedroom.

They compose themselves as best they can before rounding the corner to find Sirius and Remus at the kitchen counter.

“Hey, James.” Sirius greets then his eyes shift to Regulus. “… and Reggie.”

“Hey.” “Hi.” Regulus and James mumble.

“What were you guys up to?” Remus asks with a smirk.

“Studying.” “Painting.” Regulus and James say at the same time. Regulus turns and gives James a look that clearly says ‘Painting? Really?’

“Painting? Really?” Sirius voices Regulus’ thoughts.

“Yup. Painting.” James tries to maintain his lie and fails miserably.

“Interesting.” Sirius muses and focuses on Regulus with a shit-eating grin. “Reggie, your shirt’s on backwards.” He tells Regulus and his eyes slide over to James and dip down slightly with a very confused look. “And James, your… trousers are on backwards? How does that even happen?”

Regulus can’t help but close his eyes and sigh. Really? I had to fall in love with this idiot? Regulus thinks.

“Really? You fell in love with this idiot?” Okay, Sirius really needs to get out of Regulus’ head.

“You know?” James shouts.

“For quite a while now.” Sirius nods.

“How?” James asks.

“You guys are not subtle at all.” Remus tells them.

“And James is the worst liar I’ve ever met. You should have heard some of his excuses.” Sirius adds with a laugh.

Regulus turns to glare at James who just shrugs slightly with a guilty smile. Regulus rolls his eyes and leans up to kiss him.

“Go fix your damn trousers, idiot.” Regulus tells him fondly and pushes him out of the kitchen.

[cake-emu]

"I'm really sorry to have to be the one to-- My colleagues have found a body near the hospital. They think it might be Rob."

Coronation Street | Carla Connor + Lisa Swain (12th March 2025)

[nuwance]

Hans & Henry nodding to each other to give/acknowledge consent when they have sex for the 1st time.

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Can't see it? Let's break it down!

Hans:

He nods as soon as his eyes are out of the frame.

He nods twice.

Henry:

He only nods once.

He nods as soon as Hans' 1st nod ends (when Hans' 2nd nod hasn't even started yet).

He nods only when his chin is obscured by his left arm.

It could just be rendering/animation issues, motion-capture pick-up, wishful thinking, etc. However, the subtlety, the subtext, the implications, & the nuance of their nodding is much more important than what was originally intended! A lesson to be learned about consent. A person's interpretations of fleeting moments promote the growth of understanding, to things similar as such or not; Art is just the exact medium for that~

[perrybearwaks]

[lokimobius]

"Listen. That wasn’t tactical. I lost it." LOKI S02E02 “Breaking Brad”

[lornaka]

My five cents on Tech’s fate in TBB

It’s been over three weeks since the show ended and I’ve been writing this in my head ever since, mostly to have it summed up in one post for posterity lol. I considered letting it go at this point but I know it’ll drive me crazy if I don’t get it out of my system so might as well.

So here we go, some of my rambly post-finale thoughts on Tech’s death (and a few other issues) under the cut!

Disclaimer: while this post is in critical spirit (because that’s how my brain works), I want to make clear that I have nothing but respect and gratitude towards everyone who’s worked on the show. My criticisms are of the final story as a whole as I interpret it (art is art, everything is subjective, you know the drill), but one never knows what goes into the process of making it behind the scenes, so I’m not holding anything against the creative team. I love this show dearly and am in awe of how good it is at its best, despite certain things I wish they did differently.

To begin, if I had to sum up the biggest problem that TBB writing suffers from, it would be lack of closure, and too many red herrings. Not just for Tech, but many things. Major plot threads as well as little character moments are cultivated or thrown in just to never culminate in anything or to be immediately discarded after serving the plot, some of them incredibly misleading. Some of the top examples:

- Crosshair’s chip. We never get an exploration of how the trauma of his chip activating and being left behind not only affected his motivation and choice to stay with the Empire, but his relationship with his brothers. While it was made fairly obvious, if subtly, that Crosshair became free of the chip’s influence after getting hit by the ion engine on Bracca, the narrative treated this change as if it didn’t matter at that point, while it obviously mattered a lot within the context of Crosshair’s character. Add to that all these little details with him clutching his head in s1 finale, Omega expressing her disappointment in him, and Tech’s comment on how “it is just his nature” (as if it matters!!! See what I mean about the narrative treating Cross’s chip as if it didn’t play the key part in his trajectory? They throw in this line, like we are supposed to take away that it’s simply Crosshair being Crosshair and not like, the results of brainwashing and abandonment), Wrecker blaming Crosshair for not going back to them, all while we as the audience have been shown and told repeatedly how these chips work (and so were the Batch), we ended up with an incredibly confusing situation with lots of mixed signals from the writers. And once Crosshair makes his choice to stay with the Empire in s1 finale, his chip and the confusion it brought to his relationship with his brothers is never brought up again, because the plot simply moves on.

- Cid’s betrayal. After her being a major character for two seasons with a continuous relationship build-up with Omega in particular, she is discarded as soon as her betrayal serves the plot, with all that character development getting thrown out of the window. You can be mad at Cid all you want, but to me it’s incredibly weird and wasteful to end two seasons worth of build up on that note without it having any closure for the characters, especially Omega whose whole theme is trusting people and bringing out the best in them. It’s fine if they decided to make Cid exactly what she appeared on the surface (untrustworthy and self-serving) after playing around with her potentially growing through her fondness of Omega, but then at the very least the betrayal should’ve had an impact on the characters, Omega most of all. Even just one casual line from Omega in s3 about how Cid’s betrayal impacted her emotionally, however minimally, would have solved that problem. And no, CX-2 mentioning how he extracted info on Phee from her off screen absolutely doesn’t count as closure, because I’m talking about emotional closure for the main pov characters as well as the audience. Cid had a presence for two seasons, then as soon as she executed her role as a traitor to further the plot, she was discarded like she was a random extra.

- Emerie’s relationship with Hemlock. We are led to believe that he basically raised her, instilling in her the idea that she had no chance without him and owed her purpose and “safety” to him. You can’t tell me that this didn’t deeply affect her struggle and eventual decision to break away from all that and choose to help the kids, basically betraying Hemlock. I get that the show only had so much screen time and Emerie is a supporting character in season 3 at best, but common, she has more tension with Dr. Scalder than Hemlock while the potential for this rich deep conflict between them is right there.

I can probably list more smaller examples but this is getting long and I don’t want to go on any more tangents, so, finally, the biggest example of lack of closure and tendency of TBB writing to display foreshadowing that leads nowhere:

Tech’s death.

First of all, I’ll die on the hill that it wasn’t denial or delusion that led to such a big portion of the audience to believe that Tech didn’t really die in s2. If we look at the facts:

- there was no body

- it’s the finale of season 2 out of 3, pretty early for one of the main titular characters to get killed off

- the only/last character to allegedly see Tech after his fall is a villainous scientist who is known to experiment on clones specifically

- not a fact but: the whole scene with Hemlock presenting Tech’s goggles to Hunter was incredibly suspicious. In hindsight, I think the whole purpose of it was so that the Batch got Tech’s goggles back in their possession as a memento (and to show how evil Hemlock is to rub it into Hunter’s face like that) but it was executed in a way that read as something much more. It read as if Hemlock was going out of his way to convince us/Hunter of Tech’s death, but with us knowing who Hemlock is, his background in experimenting on clones, everything screams at us to not trust a word he says. Is it really so surprising that so many of the viewers immediately jumped at the conclusion that something more was going on there?

- Hunter’s (lack of) reaction/immediate narrative fall-out. More on that later as I address lack of emotional impact of Tech’s death in s3.

- it’s Star Wars. And there was no body.

So yeah, to me, it is completely justified that so many people read that whole thing as open to speculation at the very least, foreshadowing Tech’s survival at most.

Personally, I was 70% sure Tech was truly dead prior to s3, but not because the text told me so, but because at that point I was used to the show’s writing regularly sending out mixed signals, and a part of me was resigned to Tech’s death becoming another example of the writer’s intent clashing with their accidental empty foreshadowing.

As season 3 aired and the whole CX-2 plot was unfolding alongside continued lack of closure for Tech’s fate, my hope for Tech Lives reveal grew and grew, but in the end my initial doubt was proven right, unfortunately.

Oh, CX-2.. what a mess. You can’t tell me the creators went over all of these scenes, all of these lines, looked at the whole picture and *didn’t* see how it was incredibly easy to interpret CX-2 as potentially being Tech with all these little potential parallels. “Domicile” alone.

If they didn’t want us to entertain the idea that it could be Tech, they could’ve done it differently, but for some reason, they chose to leave that space for speculation. My question is, why?

If they truly wanted us to believe Plan 99 was it, Tech’s Noble End that we were supposed to take as this dramatic super emotional ultimate sacrifice and all that, then why would they not make it clear that CX-2 couldn’t be Tech? Why breed confusion? And breed confusion they did. It’s hard for me to believe they didn’t foresee the “ohh is it Tech?” speculation.

When so many members of the audience immediately and individually jump at a theory or have the same take away from the story they are being told, yet the authors say it wasn’t meant to be taken that way, something went seriously wrong with the writing.

I don’t like to speculate on such things because we will probably never know for certain, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they had at some point considered CX-2 being Tech or at least something more for the whole CX plot thread, but changed and reshuffled things at the last minute for whatever reasons.

Which is fine and understandable. But it brings me to the heart of my biggest issue with how Tech’s fate was handled:

lack of impact and closure.

Let’s disregard all the Tech Lives theories for a moment and focus on what we did get: Tech, one of the main characters, getting killed off at the end of s2 out of 3, for stakes and consequences and NOTHING else. When I say nothing, I mean nothing.

Imagine, for a moment, he survived and stayed with the Batch. Nothing would have changed, in the grand scheme of things. Nothing. We wouldn’t have had a few obligatory “Tech mention, everyone feel sad now” throwaway lines/goggle shots and whatnot, sure, but that’s it.

Tech dying didn’t change the trajectory of the plot in any way, nor did it affect any of the other characters in a way that changed their trajectory. And anything less is simply not enough to justify killing one of your main characters. Stakes and consequences ain’t it.

Consider Mayday, for example: a supporting character, but his death in s2 affected Crosshair in such a way it completely redirected his journey, AND in s3 we got an episode that cemented the impact Mayday had on Crosshair and provided emotional closure for them. That’s a narratively meaningful death.

Tech’s death was not meaningful to the narrative beyond removing him from it. That’s why so many Tech fans insist he deserved better treatment: not only was he not present in one third of the show physically, but he lacked any sort of presence even in death. His absence was never processed or grieved by any of the main characters and so by extension by the audience.

And before anyone starts with the whole ‘they are soldiers/they had no time to grieve/etc’ arguments, it is the responsibility of the writers to provide the space for all of that emotional impact. It they don’t, there is no impact.

A few reactions here and there, moments of missing Tech as a person and a brother, not an asset, anything would have made this whole thing easier to accept.

The lines that we did get, from Omega mentioning the stuff Tech taught her to Echo commenting on how decryption would be easier if Tech was with them to “Clone Force 99 died with Tech” from Crosshair - each and every single one of those lines linked to Tech’s functions as part of the squad, his usefulness, but we didn’t get a single line in remembrance of him as a person of his own, no one missed or remembered him for himself or his personal impact on them.

Just one line from Omega about how he taught her about change being a constant part of life or whatever, or Wrecker making a comment on how Tech used to info dump about stuff, anything would have instantly provided that much needed sense of “he was here, he was a person and is still a part of us”. Instead, Tech was killed off to show that messing with the Empire is dangerous and risks are real, I guess, and immediately lost any and all presence within the story.

We never even got to see Crosshair’s or Phee’s reactions to losing him.

Speaking of Crosshair, that’s a whole other example of complete lack of closure: they never closed the loop on the family being reunited again after initially leaving Crosshair behind, and with Tech dead, it’ll forever stay broken.

They could’ve given this a bittersweet yet meaningful spin if they developed the angle of Tech dying on a mission to bring Crosshair home, making a sacrifice so Crosshair had a chance.

Instead, the moment Tech dies, we get Hunter (and through him, the narrative) immediately abandon the idea/plot thread of going to rescue Cross all while saying “let’s not waste Tech’s sacrifice”. Sacrifice for what? Clearly Hunter doesn’t see it as a sacrifice for Crosshair’s sake, so, what, to make sure the rest of them makes it from the mission? The mission to save Crosshair. That mission. Right.

I see people talking about Tech’s noble sacrifice that ensured his family got to live and eventually have their happy ending, but all I can think about is how the creators chose to have him die on a mission that was immediately abandoned and the only take away from that whole sub plot was Tech’s own demise.

And after Crosshair is back with the Batch, his reaction to Tech’s death is never explored at all.

So yes, to me Tech deserved so much better. If you are going to kill off a major character, it must be necessary to be compelling. The way I see it, Tech’s death was not necessary at all because it didn’t change anything. And if it was meant to, the creators failed to communicate that by choosing not to explore the emotional impact of it and not structuring certain story beats in a more precise manner.

To wrap this up, if the way Tech’s death was handled was satisfying for you, that’s valid and I’m glad for you. For me, unfortunately, it’s completely the opposite and will forever remain the biggest and most unfortunate low point in the story.

And while I welcome anyone to share their own perspective if they wish, please don’t take this post as an invitation for debate, since there is no one right or wrong way to interpret or be affected by art.

[sevastiel]

Assorted Darius doodles with the Hex and more Chanho/Sol! (Belonging to @doggojin and @thatfluffyboi respectively ofc)

[scootkiddo]

Ellie's line of "But I'm still me, he's still Joel, and we-" and the implied "love each other" at the end of that sentence actually KILLS me. I know part of the game fandom doesn't like (and didn't like it in s1) when their dynamic is actually spoken about and not just implied, but i love it so much. it's actually something i wanted more of in the game. it makes everything more painful, but i still love it.

no bc same!!

I think if done in the right dosage verbose love can be just as impactful as implied. even if it’s a bit on the nose there’s a beauty to love that is more outwardly expressed. one of my favorite interactions between joel & ellie in the first season is “so time heals all wounds, i guess” “it wasn’t time that did it.” it perhaps lacks subtlety but still registers on SUCH an overwhelming and emotional level. imagine getting to know someone who’s been emotionally dormant, just broken for twenty years….and you were the one to help put them back together. that is a serious thing and something I do think would realistically be communicated

I see admission of love like this as less reiterating the obvious to an audience and more so as two people comfortable talking about how much they love one another ❤️ it feels organic to me

[turtleplushi]

I need to stop drawing them my god