#the parallels sicken me

[disaster-fruit]

And since everything that happens there happens here two years later heres to six more years in hell

[blossoms-phan]

has this been done yet

[aloneonceagainaspredicted]

There's just something so fucking great about the concept of characters like Zeke Banks and Peter Strahm having this complicated relationship to serial killers while having such a strong urge for justice and finding the truth???

Specifically, I love to think about how in the middle of their games of cat and mouse, or at those moments they inevitably share as they sharpen their knowledge on each other and get close enough to bump, when their intentions get a lot more nuanced as they insist on combing through them later again and again... that connection and obsession shoves everything else to second place. Seeing one another tunnels their vision, and their actions will follow rules made on the spot.

But then the world keeps on turning around them when they leave the crime scene with blood on their shirts and a gun that may or may not have been pointed but never used, piles of mangled bodies from 'collaborative traps' and distorted audios calling the remains of another horror story a chance for 'redemption' never stop being found; survivors slam doors in their faces when they come for statements and sob their hearts out at their closed off support meetings— suddenly, it's their place to show remorse, perform the respect and compassion that's lacking in their lovers... and how it impacts them to carry that burden they, against their own better judgement and all good reasoning, carry because they only give this much of a tangible fuck when they're put face to face with that damage.

It's just breathtaking, to wonder how ignorance is bliss and they cover themselves in it for the sake of something they want so badly. The guilt that comes when the blanket slips right off, yanked back by their lovers. Maybe even by themselves, punishment for their own broken vows. Weakness.

[daylighteclipsed]

Did y’all notice Astarion and Cazador have the same idle animation where they examine their nails or whatever. I’m gonna throw up

[baeshijima]

rewatching the road not taken animated short on the train was a bad idea

[chronicowboy]

the bathena/buddie parallels in survivors go so hard but the most insane one by far is that athena and bobby have that conversation about her being attacked in the same episode eddie gets shot in front of buck, almost a whole season after it happens, talking about how they'd live without the other and what athena's trauma did to bobby when buck is breaking down in christopher's arms and saying i think it would've been better for him if i was the one who got shot and eddie tells buck about the will to make him believe that his life is just as valuable—

[cashmere-caveman]

Christian Wiman, Darkness Starts | S1E6, Bad Moon Rising | S2E8, All God‘s Children | Ian Strange, Suburban Intervention | S1E6, Bad Moon Rising | S1E3, Ghost Town | Christina Marie Brown, Ghost I

[b0ytemper]

also somehow the finale didn’t make me cry but episode seven did, and what did it was seeing MYLO AND CLAGGOR

[blackcurrant-juice]

i might be slow but i only realized her fes hairstyle is based on her childhood a few hours ago

[butchdykekondraki]

mind and soul rambling about things to heart which is forced to just be like ‘STOP SAYING THIS SHIT’. comparable to heart and mind thinking violence as intimacy is totally normal and soul is just sitting there. tortured. ‘this isn’t normal’. (tortured with jealousy also)

also the heartsoul and heartmind relationships are comparable because heart is the one forcing them to intimacy and mind/soul like putting their hands in hearts organs

the mindsoul parallels are killing me rn

YES EXACTLY. nothing to add this is so true & real.

[blood-ology]

I’m quite new to the topic so I have to say my knowledge of it is very limited right now, but the way that Weimar cabaret in it’s blatant sexuality and queerness, and the way that its’ becoming more integrated into “regular” society was a factor in the rise in reactionary views in the late 20s and early 30s kind of feels disturbingly similar to what’s happening now with drag shows?

Like I know it’s commonly known that Germany and Berlin in particular had a large and more openly queer community than in most places at the time, but I was just looking into cabaret specifically because I find it interesting and it was pretty eerie to hear that in the late 20’s before everything started going to shit, it had actually began to be a thing for cishet people to go to queer cabaret and nightclubs because some of the venues were so well known. Like to the point that they were mentioned in “things you should do in Berlin” type of newspaper articles and tourists would come to see them.

Idk about everyone else but that sounds so much like how going to drag shows became a semi-popular and cool thing for some cishet people for awhile, only then for the reactionary conservative views to rear their ugly heads and start not only trying to tear down drag shows and paint them as immoral, but trying to do that to actual trans people, drag performers, etc. as well.

[lesbiandonnanoble]

on s4 e5 in the nuwho rewatch all i can say is there’s something in the donna 10 arc paralleling the jamie 2 arc like even down to the pacing. in one moment i’ll make a smart big post about this

[ilostyou]

I just wanna bring this to your consideration...

THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT TO MY ATTENTION THIS HURT MY FEELINGS

[vanillajunmyeon]

went to a friend's birthday today and it made me soooo aware of the fact that yeah i got some big friendship damages i don't think i can fix (nor do i believe it is up to ME to fix it tbf)

no bc there was a girl who used to be my friend too there but we did not keep in touch (and not for like. not good reasons, there were many things that i just couldn't handle at the time with her behavior, i don't think we were meant to stay friends)

but i saw how my friend (who had her bd) and that old friend acted and i know we don't act that way (and i don't act that way with a lot or any friends at all) and i was like damn i miss it, i miss being close to my friends

but then came the bitter reminder that yeah. part of the reason why I'm like this (keeping people at a distance) is 1) ok sure burning myself out in engineer school and never getting any support from the ppl i was supporting myself 2) my mom (who is kind of a whole thing by herself) AND 3) big reason actually that time when a friend molested me (like sure short time nothing that bad except i was kept in place and asked to stop and i was tearing up; maybe laughing but to appease at the same time but i felt dirtied all the same) in front of 2 others and they did nothing but watch did not stop the friend let me go through that

and i'm still friends with 2 of those ppl (the person who molested me and 1 of the witnesses) and the witness was the bd girl and i was just like I'm in a prison of my own making i need other friends but i can't make them bc i keep everyone at a distance and while getting to know people is fun keeping in touch tires me and so on.

genuinely a prison of my own making istg

[billy-royalton]

afterburner by dgd is the best post hardcore album of the last decade nothing is gonna top that masterpiece

[m00ngbin]

My mom makes me cry sometimes