#the narrative is going in circles

[caffeinatedlovergirl]

Philadelphia always at the crime scene of a tragic love story 👀

(tweet not mine but yeah)

[pokimoko]

haunting the narrative -> haunted by the narrative -> haunting the narrative -> haunted by

[ef-1]

If I think about the double standard and the disparity with which the media handled Daniel in comparison to everyone else I may lose my mind.

[morningfangirl]

The Room Where It Happens absolutely gutted me emotionally. I went from screaming laughing about Ian saying he could get Poppy pregnant to sobbing just a couple minutes later.

Poppy avoiding the hard conversations under the guise of wanting to set her boundaries. Ian not understanding how what he did was selfish and genuinely thinking he was doing a good thing for Poppy. Ian knowing he doesn't fit in (like Poppy struggles to fit), but not caring because he thinks Poppy will always be there, and begging to do anything. Poppy not throwing Ian's own family in his face because she doesn't want to hurt him, but she also fully realized how Mythic Quest limits her instead of just wanting power and control like seasons 1 and 2.

Contextualizing this episode within everything we know about canon digs even deeper. Poppy doesn't know adulthood (and really doesn't know life in America) away from Ian's influence. She dropped out of MIT at nineteen to be Ian's programmer. They've been working together for a decade and a half, and Poppy has only been given somewhat of a platform to be Ian's equal for roughly a third of that time.

In terms of writing I loved it, character growth is an important aspect for most types of stories, but also I like Poppy and Ian's toxically co-dependent queer platonic relationship.

[initial-lime]

This may be me reading into things or just being slow to realize, but I feel like the 5 seasons of TMA pretty accurately follow the 5 stages of grief?

S1 is all about Jon’s denial, he believes in the fears but denies it at every. possible. step. To an almost ridiculous degree

S2 has is definitely anger, Jon starts being paranoid as well as really angry at the others, he yells at Martin, he dismisses everything with some fit of anger wether passive aggressive or outright.

S3 I’m unsure if bargaining is a stretch but I still think it holds, Jon is on the lam but he’s starting to be sorta open about the whole fear thing, although while still not being particularly happy with it, I definitely think Tim also plays into this a lot, with the whole Sasha situation and all, he flips a lot between anger and the bargaining though.

S4 very depression!!!! Jon wakes up after his coma, Tim is dead sasha is gone, Martin won’t talk to him, there’s an air of loneliness and sadness over the whole damn thing

And then s5 where everything is at it’s worst, the overall story is about coming to terms and accepting everything that’s happened, Basira has to own up to the fact that she knows what Daisy’s been doing this whole time, Jon and Martins conversations are almost always centered around “yeah this sucks but it’s the way it is” until it all culminates in Jon dying and them going somewhere else.

So yeah. That’s my case, I think this is pretty neat. In all honesty I don’t really watch the extra material very much so I don’t know if the writers have ever said they where doing this on purpose or if it’s just a really convenient fit, but I do think it all lines up pretty perfectly and I think it’s a really fun way to read the events of the story.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I don’t understand it when people say that Carrie was also the problem bc she was anxiously attached bc like …. maybe she had a moment or two but for the most part it was absolutely Big being such a selfish prick and then justifying it w “ohhh I have commitment issues bc my last marriage fell through” umm ur a 45 year old BABY actually

[902186]

thinking about kurapika and chrollo and parallels and this circle of horrors where they are the victims AND the tools of their fates.

they both think they are neither or more like they don't care about it at all. they don't see themselves as victims, and they see absolutely no other way to live other than this role they took upon themselves. kurapika had such a strong sense of identity and what he wanted to do with his life and understands himself perfectly at all times. he was a part of his clan, but he was more an individual than anything else. kuroro, on the other hand, never knowing, never thinking what his motives are, deliberately not understanding himself and desperately holding on to the spider. he can't be an individual but with others, he can be the spider.

and for both of them, it all started on vengeance. kurapika abandoned himself in order to become a tool, a weapon, to avenge his clan, and to collect scarlet eyes. he stopped being himself and became his people. kuroro didn't know his family, didn't know where he actually came from, didn't know who he was or what he was supposed to be. so growing up in meteor city, he held on to his people strongly. and in order to avenge and protect his people, he would become a tool, a weapon, he would give himself to them. he started being himself as he became his people.

kuroro could be something for his people. and kurapika could be nothing for his people.

kurapika took on the role of judgement for vengeance. kuroro took on the role of villain for vengeance. kurapika acted his part by diminishing everything he was, and kuroro acted his part by filling up his identity with it.

but one thing stays clear and fixed with them throughout it all. they would do anything for their people. for whomever they consider their people. "he'll put his friends before his mission." a weakness kuroro sees in kurapika so quickly and so easily. but the same thing he considers a strength in himself. "i am not your top priority. it is the spider that must be kept alive." as long as his people are alive, his identity will live on. and as long as kurapika is alive, his people’s identity will live on.

"now you will get to experience the pain of losing your home." kuroro (and the spiders) killing the kurta clan set this parallel in motion for himself as the circle began for kurapika. and (speculatively) kurta clan hurting his people was what set the circle in motion for kuroro, too. now thinking about where they are in the story and how their end could be, it is very clear that they are finally ending up in a place where they mirror each other (as they have from the beginning) and they can recognise it in each other and themselves. kurapika ending up empty after his mission and kuroro ending up empty after losing spiders. both of them purposeless and with no self left outside of it. in a way, this is how the circle ends. "i can hear that he accepted death." they walk with death every day with no fear and full acceptance and after losing the only thing they live for, not even something they hold on to because they don't see a point in being alive outside of the fact that they must keep going for their people, for their purpose, and if not then there's no reason to exist, they are meaningless.

kuroro's vengeance left kurapika all alone, with everyone he knew dead, and feeling hollow at the end. by fate, he ended up all alone, with everyone he knew dead and feeling hollow at the end.

and at that point, they will have to start a new page and build a new self for themselves.

[weabooweedwitch]

"Democrats lost because they didn't appeal to enough men and made them feel isolated" ah yes, such as compared to the Republicans who constantly go out of their way to be quite vocal about their respect and admiration for women and trying to appeal to them, right?

[kirkwallguy]

still can't stop thinking about the fact that they have demigenders in tevinter but if you're in ferelden you're still using medieval euphemisms for being gay. there are some extremely funny situations to put several characters in

[tsukana]

i keep looking at critblr tags bc i cant help it but man. ppl pressed abt vaxleth coming back can die mad abt it because ngl this is obviously something that matt was angling for not necessarily wholly for a narrative reason but bc its somrthing anyone with fucking eyes can see that marisha his WIFE has been vocal abt making her sad for like. ages. like how hard is it to comprehend that this is not a story built around a need to satisfy viewers but rather a way for them to enjoy themselves and find ways to make each other happy as friends and ppl who love each other.

[finelythreadedsky]

trapped in the narrative <<< trappING the narrative

[bakedbananners]

I think any criticism you can apply to Jason being a boring main character could just as easily be applied to anyone else in the Seven because the entire Heroes of Olympus series lacks a strong definitive narrative voice in general

[sforzesco]

you know that post about how scholars talk shit about each other when they write the phrase 'one might be tempted to assume,' or however it went. the entirety of crassus scholarship is like this.

[charles-leclerc-official]

And of course on this blog we will return to the weekly deconstruction of British bias in this fuckass sport

[definitelynotshouting]

HI. HELLO. SORRY. i heard we’re talking about hunger au + the others finding out about fucked up stuff that grian’s doing

i’m obsessed with the potions. in order to die (which he doesn’t even *want*, or at least doesnt think he wants, he just believes it’s the safest option) he has to corrupt his friends’ attempt to help him. healing potions have been like. the only thing he’s conceded on for his own comfort. tango is super excited when he learns about them bc 1. it’s something actionable and immediate thatll directly help, and 2. grian gets noticeably… not hopeful, exactly, but definitely more responsive the few times that they’re talking about the potions. which. i’m sure tango will feel really good about after the fact (assuming the plan happens).

and then mumbo overextended himself making a *gold farm* entirely for potions and pearl “got carried away” collecting netherrack. it’s so clearly a priority for them. how are they going to react when grian hurts himself using them?? when they find out that they don’t do anything notable in the first place *except* give him a way to hurt himself?? after potions almost killed him the FIRST time??????? augh. i think about it so much

(also i heard we could pick emojis so im picking 📞 ty <3)

You're more than welcome to pick an emoji!! :D i honestly love it, i love seeing regulars in my inbox its like having people wave at me from across the street whenever they send in asks hehe :]

Man, the potions..... yeah the potions are crazy dude, i can see why everyone is obsessed with them. I havent exactly made a post on this yet, but healing potions don't actually do anything for a Watcher's structural code (theyre designed for Player surface code specifically, so they arent even fully compatible with Watcher surface code), which makes him conceding on them even more painful, because the others are latching onto this single one opportunity to help and its not even actually helping. Its being used, in fact, to eventually hurt him. Nobody is gonna like that.

Im really glad how everyone's desperate attempts at getting the potion ingredients are being picked up on in fic, especially since those references been sorta randomly sprinkled in throughout the chapters (usually through dialogue). Yeah they are.. thats gonna be Fun when they find out the truth on that one >:] ive had the scene for that in mind for AGES and i cannot WAIT to finally get it out there for everyone to see, because man. Its gonna be visceral, i'll tell you that

Im so so glad you like what im doing here enough to be rotating it in your brain like this!!! :D i shake your hand we sit and spin the potions like rotisserie chicken

[good-wine-and-cheese]

The other half of Star Trek AU! Ochanomizu (ft. mind meld with Tenma)

I thought about putting him in science division but I like the idea of Ochan having a background in communications tbh. I feel like he would be really interested in that.

He grew up hearing about the development of the world's first "positronic brain" - supposedly a piece of technology that would enable humans to create life forms with true Artificial Intelligence. However the research was shelved and left incomplete, leading Ochanomizu to take interest in conducting his own work on the subject. This gets him scouted by Starfleet, with promises of ample resources and a retinue of colleagues with the varied skills offered within the Federation; and while it was never his intention to join Starfleet, he could hardly resist the opportunity.

This eventually lands him leadership of a research initiative whose aim was to continue the research done into the positronic brain, hoping to create the Federation's first truly self-determining AI android. It's three years into his efforts that the outpost gains its first representative of Vulcan's own science institute, though it could be argued he's much less of a "help" than he is an annoyance; Tenma does not make a strong first impression with the human crew he so derides. Though he's proficient as an engineer, it'll certainly take time for the two to warm to each other in any capacity.

Ochanomizu, outside of his primary research, loves Tribbles! He is a licensed caretaker and helps educate people about them. He has a Tribble nursery on the outpost, much to Tenma's chagrin.

Also, even though he's at the rank of captain, he has never sought out his own command. He likes what he has on his little research outpost and doesn't really have the itch for space cowboyisms.