#the eclipse lb

[deliriousblue]

the eclipse, episode 12 (previous)

sometimes i do like to see a little wildly explicit homophobia in television ! and it does feel right to have had the school’s rules of order be this background malevolent force for the entire show, operating as a metaphor for heteronormativity and homophobia that isn’t necessarily quite made explicit, and then have it made very explicit here and now.

i'm going back and forth on how i feel about the meta element here. it does broadly work for me as a throughline in the show about the power that fiction holds but i don't totally get what they're going for now that it's so directly explicit and built off the literal characters (e.g. akk and ayan's scene at the beginning being the same dialogue as khan and thua's at the beginning of the show)

at the same time the contrast between wat talking about accepting who you are in the context of their characters vs akk still unable to quite reconcile everything within himself is compelling....

also don't really get the eleventh hour rules revision.... wouldn't she know this already? chadok leaving makes sense but honestly Eye was half expecting him to take responsibility for akk and thua's actions and get fired/resign for it. i admit it’s arguable whether that’s actually any less of a deus ex but he DOES bear partial responsibility and it would allow him to gain a bit of redemption by doing now for akk what he couldn’t for dika. but that’s just my opinion......

did make me crack up. aye folding instantly like a wet paper towel.

and also really love the way that despite being soooo annoying [affectionate] this is one of the first times — aside from episode six — that we've seen akk actively initiating affection between them without aye directly prompting him first. and aye's expression like he doesn't know quite what to do with it but certainly doesn't want it to stop.....

<33333333333

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Poor Little Meow Meow - Loser's Bracket Round 6: Akk (The Eclipse) vs Zongzheng Huaien (Meet You at the Blossom)

[Submitted Reasons Under Cut]

Akk: He’s just a little guy. I mean, sure there was a bit of what could be construed as attempted vehicular manslaughter, and a bit of arson, and threats that if the “irregularities” continued that someone would die of the curse. Akk is the curse so, you know, threatening there. But he’s just so sad with all the internalized homophobia inside him that is the curse…you just want to cuddle him and make him feel safe. Which is exactly what Ayan does so…

Zongzheng Huaien: This feral cat went from pushing his excitable puppy boyfriend away to nearly razing a brothel to the ground because his beloved was there. He got his poor naive boyfriend to agree to forgive him for any misdeed, then promptly knocked him out, kidnapped his adopted sister, got him and his parents arrested and nearly executed, enabled a spiteful frenemy to torture said boyfriend and hit him with a curse so devastating it is literally killing him from the inside out, then shows up wearing the jewelry he pretended to hate when it was given to him expecting to kiss and be loveydovey. He has said that he will have Xiao Bao no matter what, willing or no, and he will torch the earth otherwise. He is a beautiful idiot who was abused by the man who brought him up and never knew love; now that he has fallen ass over teakettle in love he is going to make it everyone else’s problem. I love him so much.

[patrice-bergerons]

Not sure what exactly was going thru the NESN admins mind but I am here for this

[dawnlotus1]

Sun yum yum yum

[morphomixz]

Eclipsed (Miraculous Ladybug x Reader) Masterlist

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[sea-buns]

I'm so deep in these missing Orym hours, man.

I wanna see him get mad for the group.

I wanna see him get mad for himself.

I wanna see him blow up and disappear like Fearne and Laudna have.

I wanna see more of the dad-behavior that comes out of Chetney wherever Orym is concerned.

I wanna see Fearne take in Orym's behavior and have no clue on how to help.

I wanna see him begin to lose faith in having Ashton at his back in battle.

I wanna see him call people out on the streaks of self-sacrificial BS. And I wanna see it get thrown right back at him.

I want to see him make people worry.

I want to see him get worse and I want it to show.

[qtoosh]

q!quackity and q!roier are really best friends at the end of the day

[confusion-is-wonderful]

Glad I get to experience this while listening to a group of construction workers down the street chanting moon, you are valid and the only eclipse party I want to be a part of

[their-name-is-fake]

Ok but why does Eclipse kinda sound like Chat Noir????

[deliriousblue]

the eclipse, episode 3

thinking about akk being given all the pressure of maintaining order for fear of nebulous but terrifying harms. and the way there are two narrative threads, one about queerness and one about the rigidity of the school and the people in power, that both mirror one another.

akk getting the explicit instruction of maintaining order alongside the implicit instruction of being Normal (straight). ayan (/the protestors) is queer which is in part a metaphor for him acting outside the Rules. the strictness of the school is a metaphor for the rigidity of heteronormative expectations and queerness is a metaphor for following what you believe is right rather than doing what you’re told.

also the curse is a metaphor for homosexuality but i mean.

other thoughts in no particular order:

really funny to have wat instantly clock khan feeling some sort of way about ayan whispering to thua and completely miss akk having his own emotional crisis a foot to the left.

🥺🥺🥺🥺:

the song playing over this^ scene too. i know it's the title theme but i didn't catch what the lyrics were saying until now and they're really So.

the way akk is — not a different person, but different with his friends vs when he's at school. something something public vs private self. simply can't express what his silly little dance is making me feel.

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Most Unhinged - Loser's Bracket Round 1: Akk (The Eclipse) vs Charlie (Pit Babe)

[Submitted Reasons Under Cut]

Akk: none submitted

Charlie: "“joking” about getting your man pregnant and introducing the mommy kink seconds after officially becoming boyfriends is one way to go I guess"

"he realized the human trafficker he'd escaped was trying to get another escapee back and he decided the best way to help was to become the escapee's boy toy, without telling him anything about the situation offered to die for his lover unprompted so he could give him back the powers that caused more problems than anything. when the lover's reaction was "never say that again", didn't come to the conclusion his lover wouldn't like him dying his seer brother had visions of a bad car accident so he decided to provoke the accident on purpose with himself in it and use it to fake his death without telling his lover because he thought it might help get the trafficker off their back??? (unsurprisingly, it… didn't work) thinks he can take on a billionaire human trafficker who has been at it for decades with exactly one (1) ally, his 18-year-old brother. his incredible abilities in this task includes knowing how to fight, editing videos, looking cute and keeping secrets Anyway, my boy is completely unhinged, he's just really good at looking cute while he's doing unhinged shit, and the mommy is the least of it"

[dawnlotus1]

Looks like a cheese wheel. :] Phone photo isn’t very clear. Stripes are from the glasses

[tanevcolton28]

I LOVE HOW HES THE MEME OF THE SEATTLE KRAKEN😂😂

this is the best hockey one yet

[confusion-is-wonderful]

[black-rose-writings]

Also, the contrast against the royal family's servants who wear white with gold accents.

The Grand Palace is gaudy, in colors that need to be constantly maintained to keep their shine, staff included.

The Little Palace is more earthly, more natural - the walls paneled in carved wood or painted with natural motifs, ceilings painted to resemble the night sky, and even the more gaudy parts have a rough finish to them.

The Grand Palace servants are meant to blend in with the perfect white furniture, with the unnatural and fake, but forcibly maintained spotless image.

The Little Palace staff are meant to blend in with the shadows.

LB put so much visual and other symbolism into the books and then did jack shit with it (and the show shat on it all).

Remember oprichniki- the Darkling's ignored otkazat'sya guard?

They're wearing charcoal corecloth uniforms.

Shadow and Bone- Chapter 3

Why is that interesting?

A beauty, isn't she?

Wiki describes the colour as "dark grayish blue". Wanna make it even more simple? What is grey?

Variations of gray or grey include achromatic grayscale shades, which lie exactly between white and black, and nearby colors with low colorfulness.

So charcoal is basically a light black with a bit of (Summoners') blue. (I'm not sure how intentional was that, but it's rather poetic, isn't it?)

The Darkling gave the normies constantly tailing him slightly lighter shade of his own colour on coats made of one of Grisha's treasured inventions.

And that's not all. You know, who else got the same (likely minus the corecloth part)?

The Little Palace staff!

Shadow and Bone- Chapter 5

Ordinary maids and cooks and grooms, all the little people he's not supposed to see wear a colour a few shades from his own in the world that's carefully colour-coded.

[deliriousblue]

the eclipse, episode 2

oh they really are hitting “akk is a Repressed Homosexual” HARD right out of the gate. we're an all boys school who would i date here ? i'm here to study, of course i'm not going to go on a date with a girl. and the sense you get that he doesn't Know but he knows something is Wrong.

meanwhile ayan using sexuality as a shield and i do wonder if he already sees what akk can't or won't admit even to himself to know exactly where to cut.