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shuffleoflove · 1 year

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one day i want to make a really in-depth post about the film posters on tao's wall but for now i just wanna point out that the in the mood for love poster was NOT there in season 1 and that film is notoriously about falling in love and the pain of loss... jesus christ tao that's the one thing you're sensitive about

#the symbolism is certainly there #of course tao is the type to watch movies he knows will hit him right where it hurts most #that's such cinephile behaviour #and of course he would love wong kar-wai his movies are peak pretentious filmbro shit (complementary)#tao xu #taoelle #<- tangentially and also target audience #heartstopper #hstv #heartstopper spoilers #heartstopper tv #heartstopper netflix #heartstopper s2 #heartstopper season 2 #hstv season 2 #hstv s2 #lova's terrible posts

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bixels · 1 month

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I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

#personal #delete later #no patrick. “black washing” is not as harmful as white washing.#come on guys get it together #seeing people in my reblogs talk about “reverse racism” and double standards is genuinely hypocrisy #say it with me: white washing is intrinsically tied to a historical and systematic erasure of poc figures literature and history.#it is an inherently destructive act that deplatforms underrepresented faces and voices #in favor of a light-skinned aesthetic hegemony #redesigning characters as poc is an act of dismantling symbols of whiteness in fiction in favor of diversification and reclamation #(note that i am talking about individual acts by individual artists as was the topic of this discourse. not on an industry-scale)#redesigning characters as poc is not tied to hundreds of years of systemic racism and abuse and power dynamics. that is a fact.#you are not replacing an underrepresented person with an oft-represented person. it is the opposite #if you feel threatened or upset or uncomfortable about this then sorry but you are not aware of how much more worse it is for poc #if representation is unequal then these acts cannot be equivalent. you can't point to an imbalanced scale and say they weigh the same #if you recognize that bipoc people are minorities then you should recognize that these two things are not the same #while i agree that “black washing” can lead to color-blind casting and writing the behavior here is on an individual level #a black artist drawing their favorite anime character as black because they feel a shared solidarity is not a threat to you #i mean. most anime characters are east asian and i as an east asian person certainly don't feel threatened or erased. neither should you.#there's much to be said about the politics of blackwashing (i don't even know if that's the right word for it)#but point standing. whitewashing is an inherently more destructive act. both through its history of maintaining power dynamics #and the simple fact that it's taking away from groups of people who have less to begin with #if you feel upset or uncomfortable about a fictional white character being redesigned as poc by an artist on twitter #i sincerely hope you're able to explore these feelings and find avenues to empathizing with poc who have had their figures #(both real and fictional) erased; buried; and replaced by white figures for hundreds of years #i sincerely hope you can understand the difference in motivations and connotations behind whitewashing and blackwashing #classic bixels “i'm not talking about this chat. i'm not” (puts my media studies major to use in the tags and talks the fuck outta it)

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phoenixcatch7 · 7 months

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I get that calling white lotus lbh a sticky little 'sheep' is a canon translation and stuck in the fandom now anyway, but I do feel the intended spirit of the original word wasn't the sheeple/dumb herd animal that's more common in the western world, but instead something actually conveying sweetness, innocence, purity and youth - lamb.

Famous for being utterly adorable and following around their mothers, gambolling in sunny meadows, curly white wool shining.

And NOW we can talk about black sheep/wolf in sheep's clothing metaphors.

#Picturing Sqq sweetly calling lbh a little lamb 🥺#Him calling lbh a sheep never felt quite right but LAMB???#And lbh following him around all bright and gangly and moon eyed ToT #Did you know the phrase originates from the wool of black sheep being much harder to dye and thus being undesirable in the wool industry?#That's why sheep are white and not like. Tan or brown or w/e like more natural colours.#But the black fur gene still pops up sometimes so you get white wool parents and siblings and a tiny black lamb trotting along #Who's wool you can never sell and who can't risk having offspring of their own #Also where the baa baa black sheep rhyme comes from! The wool was often sold at a very cheap price because it was so undesirable!#Ngl if someone called me their lamb idk what I'd do. Something desperate for sure #Theyre also sometimes a symbol for Jesus especially around Easter. So. That's a. Thing. That Sqq would most certainly read far too deep int #svsss #mxtx svsss #scum villain #luo binghe #luo bingge #luo bingmei #scum villain's self saving system #scum system #bingqiu #bingyuan #Idk but considering I'm talking about their pet names I'll count it #Gosh lbh calling Sqq shepherd in response... Crook around his neck metaphor I'll go wherever you lead us my guiding star mmm #Sleepy? Yes. Right? Also yes

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harrietvane · 13 days

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Doorway onto the Renaissance spiral staircase in the Château Royale, Blois

#architecture #blois #renaissance #seeing this building with francis I’s salamander symbol all over it makes Ever After a bit funny in hindsight #bc they certainly use that exact dragon lizard image in the movie costuming #like we’re making a movie and the king is francis (check) and it has da vinci (check) and we mention divorce in england (check)#and his son is called henry (check) and like we’re putting salamanders of the EXACT same type on all the pages outfits (check)#like this is DEFINITELY the actual historical henry son of francis and i guess it’s OK we say henry marries a commoner in the movie #as long as she’s not like super well known i guess #(consults notes) oh he married CATHERINE DE MEDICI #cool cool sure #i mean ok in other news henry DID technically marry a commoner? if you want to get technical?

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revoevokukil · 19 days

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I appreciate the Finns having tried to give shape to Avallac'h's signature; this is the first time I've seen this done seriously. And I'll add my own mishappen attempts at calligraphy in their image 🫣

#the witcher books #witcher #avallac'h #sneaking in the infinity symbols in the shape of a dragonfly is certainly something #oh fire of vanity #all is vanity #this is writing trying to imitate a dragonfly whereas it should be writing seeming like dragonfly & i think an artist could fix this

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blackhholes · 2 months

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teen wolf meme: [3/5] motifs -> resurrection

It's different now. I think dying did something to him. It did something to me, too. But none of it was good.

#teen wolf #lydia martin #kate argent #tracy stewart #scott mccall #peter hale #jackson whittemore #derek hale #hayden romero #twedit #twgifs #mine #my gifs #twmeme #yes i'm aware that it can definitely be argued whether resurrection is a motif in teen wolf or just a recurring plot device #and while it's certainly not a symbolic motif like fire and water was previously #the way it's utilized within the show does make me read it moreso as a motif than just plot #like water it's used to communicate an internal change but the ways it differs from water is that it usually occurs at the end of a #narrative arc whereas water typically appears at the beginnings #water is used to signify a character's beginning descent into something new and the resurrection is once that change is completed #jackson's arc in season two is started with his submersion in water and it's ended with his resurrection #and lydia's arc in eichen house in 5b is much the same with her in the river in her mind at the beginning and then her dying and coming bac #at the animal clinic #even lydia's arc in season two can be read within these parameters #it begins with her in the hospital shower as she digs hair out of the water and ends when she resurrects peter #so while yes there is a reversal there and lydia isn't the subject of the resurrection she is the agent of it #which honestly the same can be said for theo in 5a #basically what i'm getting at here is that my reading of the resurrections in teen wolf as a motif is very valid and you should all agree #also i completely forgot about jackson's resurrection until i was literally writing these tags so i had to go back and make a gif for that

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purpleleafsyt · 7 months

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{What will it be? It's your choice.}

Inspired from this fic, this scene would be in chapter 13, below the cut is some of the writing that inspired this :D

#purplearts #chonny jash #chonnys charming chaos compendium #cj soul #cj mind #cj heart #<- tagging the other two for the rope symbolism #silly writing with silly guys #i say inspired because I changed the general scenery by adding the sun-moon #and I used my Soul design #so not a direct recreation of the scene by any measure but certainly inspired #augh i love this fic though I think about and reread segments all the time

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knight-of-aether · 2 months

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Hyrule's gilded hero (who are you, really?)

Happy 10th anniversary to the most insane LoZ game ever conceived ⚔️✨

(shoutout to @crazylittlejester - your warriors stories and headcanons have fueled my mental illness for the blorbo in so many ways, this is dedicated to you <3)

#hey nintendo. what if your beautiful youthful eternally reborn hero was an object of the gods' desire #a war across the ages fought against his will. not just for the power of the triforce that claimed him. but for his very being #proclaimed a hero overnight by forces beyond his control. and just as suddenly damned for it #what if he was pursued by sorceresses and toyed with by great fairies. while soldiers by the masses fell beside (because of) him #the face that launched a thousand ships #and his ego grew beneath the pressure. yet he could never speak his mind except through another #what if he literally wore a symbol of the kingdom that adored him wrapped around his neck. what then #koei tecmo was so wild for their funny hack n slash crossover game actually #it may not have been that deeply thought out. but the implications. the undertones. man #hyrule warriors could be a greek epic. and it certainly is to me <3 #my art #digital art #blood #cw blood #the legend of zelda #hyrule warriors #hw link #hero of warriors

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apocalyp-tech-a · 6 months

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Eye of Sauron Vibes?

Perhaps representing Hemlock's use of the operative as 'eyes and ears.' Perhaps it's more like a goggle lens, representing CX-2's intelligence and power. Don't we know someone else who is very intelligent and kind of overpowered and has eyes that are often alluded to? 🤔 Not over this dude until we find out who it is and if it's who I think it is, I will never be over him.

#tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #cx-2 #tech the bad batch #possibly #eye of sauron #star wars #the bad batch #symbolism #the bad batch season 3 speculation #clone x #clone assassin #lotr #tech lives #maybe not in canon but certainly in my head

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frogoru · 5 months

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do u think aubrey from omori gets religious guilt. i do not think about her canonically being christian a lot because i forgot about it but with the whole church fight scene and everything woah that is surely something that happensyeah... i wonder what her take on it would be. like. if she's fully into the faith or if she goes out of desperation for some semblance of a support system. oh oh oh also veering away from aubrey, i think basil would be atheist 100%. he'd probably be the type to look at all of the tragedy in his life and have the mindset of god not being real/not caring about him if he is

#3 am posting #i'm pretty sure religious guilt is canon for sunny #the religious statues in faraway having the “you feel as if it's judging you” description #yeah #sorry for posting about religious guilt stuff here every 5 seconds it is quite a topic in my mind!!!!#jk it's not that much but certainly a little notable #i don't think there's a grand amount of religious imagery in omori but i like looking at the little bit there is #religious imagery in horror games or like ahhh not even just horror games like like like ANYTHING i love seeing religious symbolism #even before i embraced being faithful i thought religious imagery was the coolest shit ever #shoutout to god fr

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dailypearldoodles · 11 months

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Day 520

Ok i finally succumbed to the brainrot and threw Pearl into FMA because. because.

yeah anyways I wanted to focus more on her terraforming skills and named her the Shifting Earth Alchemist! She specializes in earth alchemy and has exceptional range with her transmutations, so she's able to transmute large plots of land at a time. Her transmutation circles are made up mostly of the Earth symbols and also a bit of water, and theyre tattooed onto her palms. She also has little earth symbols tattooed onto her face because. I needed to keep the little markings i give her somehow. They dont do anything except look kinda cool

#daily pearl doodles #pearlescentmoon #fullmetal alchemist #mod morph #i spent a lecture figuring out what the circle symbols mean #and then creating a circle for her #that was fun #anyways uhhh i dont really know what her role in the story would be #i mean yeah shes a state alchemist #not sure if i want her to be involved with ishval #although her skillset would. certainly be efficient towards that cause #anyways this was entirely self indulgent thank you for reading

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delawaredetroit · 3 months

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I appreciate that this is one of the few moments where Izuku isn't prioritizing someone else's needs above his own.

He acknowledged Bakugou wanted to vent, but above anything else Izuku wanted to beat him. He wasn't pulling punches in this supposedly purposeless fight either. Dude was planning to kick Bakugou in the head with the brand new 8% Full Cowling that he had never used on a person before. He wasn't playing around.

Izuku's motivation was entirely about his own goals here. What it came down to was "All Might chose me as his successor so I must win to prove myself and overcome this wall in front of me". Izuku believed Bakugou was one of the hurdles he must overcome in his path to become the next symbol.

It's one of a handful of moments where Izuku doesn't go out of his way to humanize his opponent, and really the only time he doesn't when his opponent was another hero hopeful. Whether that's because of the bad blood Bakugou caused between them over a decade, the inherent objectification in viewing a person primarily as a symbol, or some combination of the two, it's an interesting moment of characterization for Izuku.

#bnha reread #bnha 120 #bnha #midoriya izuku #bakugou katsuki #not really criticizing izuku for thinking of bakugou in this way #bakugou certainly dehumanized izuku first and in a much worse way #and quite frankly if izuku didn't view him as a goalpost/symbol ie viewed him actually as a person his narration would be 10x more negative

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ilynpilled · 1 year

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I like Jaime appears as face glowing with light in Bran's dream and then a lot of Bran's arc is him using darkness as a tool to hide and develop his powers

I don't think it's a bad thing for Bran's arc, I like how GRRM is trying to subvert the light=good darkness=bad trope and show it's more complicated than that and this is also obviously shown with the Kingsguard wearing bright white armor but obviously not being the super honorable knights everyone thinks they are.

half the cast laying eyes on jaime

#ye i agree that he’s deliberately playing with color symbolism and dark and light #in some subversive ways #like its not as simple as inverting it either obv but its certainly more complicated #i think it’s similarly approached as fire & ice is #ask

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daisybell-on-a-carousel · 5 months

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It had started because some people had misheard something Phantom said. One singular letter was responsible for the mess he was in right now.

They thought Phantom had said "Dad"

He had not, not this time at least, he was, admittedly, rather prone to accidentally calling Jack "Dad" because the man actually was. Though those moments were nothing compared to this.

It had spread like wildfire throughout the school, and then the city as a whole. Phantom had a dad, a dad who was visiting next week. That's what they knew, and theories and questions were already abound. Was Phantom's dad alive? Or dead too? What was their relationship like? Was this mysterious dad Phantom's blood (ectoplasm?) father? Or was Phantom adopted? How similar were they?

Dan just laughed at Danny over the phone when he tried explaining the situation to his older self before he came by to visit.

#danny phantom #i was going to make a proper fic but um. i couldn't choose a direction to go in with it. so heres just me writing down the concept ndksnsks #i just think Dan pretending to be Danny Phantom's dad would be really funny #obv they look similar. maybe people'll assume the DP logo is some sort of family symbol lol #honestly this could work post or pre agit. though the bit here is written as post #pretending not even necessary people could just assume. the “family drama” thatd ensue from a pre agit Dan who is Very Much trying to kill #would be very fun i think #and he'd most certainly play along if he was aware of the assumption #anyway daisybell stop making dp posts at midnight am to inevitably wake up and hate how they're worded challenge impossible

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triangular-dude · 23 days

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Everyone's favorite catboy!

I cannot express how mindblowing it was seeing them live!

Bonus Twentyone Pilots related doodles and stuff underneath.

Since I want to talk a bit about some of these.

(Clancy) I dunno, I used the "seizing" look for that vulture and I thought about Paladin Strait.

(Vulture) Vultures are cool, what else to I need to say. It was also part tester for a jacket design I want to do.

(Torchbearer, Clancy era) Well, they're a pair, right? Can't go separating them! That and despite Josh being one of the biggest reasons I do the drums I still don't draw him as much as I do Tyler. I dunno, maybe he needs to get a catboy mask as well?

(No effect 1) I liked how I rendered it.

(Black and white Tyler) I had just wrapped up a round of anatomy practice and wanted to draw something that actually meant something to me. So, "anime eye" Tyler was created.

(Doodle page) I went to one of the concerts recently, it was really fucking awesome by the way, but anyways, some highlights! Piano cat Tyler, Jay and Cole from Ninjago dressed like a ton of the couples I saw (yes, it did rain) and ClancyBearer confirmed meme pertaining to the running gag of them walking down the aisle, Ty said "I do" though, does that usually happen in this era's shows?

(sketch) well, it’s Clancy.

(Kai) Uhhhhhhh. I like Ninjago and it fits.

This section will probably kill the algorithm favor, but who cares!

Also, Balu Brigada is good. If you're going to a show then actually cheer for them, my show-goers hardly did!