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warmth; or the meaning thereof by Anonymous Pairing: Gen, Severitus Rating: T Word Count: 5k Podfic available here Read by: Anonymous Length: 0:33:40 āIs that yourā¦ father?ā the red-headed boy asks, frowning slightly as the train pulls away from the station. Other parents are waving on the platform, bright smiles and tears on their faces; a red-headed girl with the same pointed nose as the boy in the seat across from them is chasing the train, laughing and crying all at once, until she canāt keep up anymore. In the distance, and only because he cranes to see it, Harry can just make out a still figure in black, billowing robes, his hands tucked into his pockets. āThe closest thing I have to it,ā Harry says, turning back to the boy. āMy foster father. Severus.ā āHe seemsā¦ā The boy pauses, his frown deepening. āKind of cold.ā āThereās more than one way to be warm.ā Harry smiles, not expecting this other boy to understand. āThereās more than one way to show care.ā
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Average historian denies all gay relationships statistic false!
No-Lesbians Ruth Franklin, who lives in an archive and denies any possible sapphic interpretation of Shirley Jacksonās work 50 times a day, is an outlier adn should not be counted
#biography#Shirley Jackson#seriously āa rather haunted lifeā it is so good in most ways#but this woman seems to be like. Personally offended that anyone could possibly read anything sapphic into any of Jacksonās novels#I get it; she wrote that whole document freaking out that someone interpreted Hangsaman as#āabout lesbiansā#but still there are a number of things she wrote where it takes an incredibly stubborn reading to not at least see that interpretation#(And Iām not fully sure that document was so much about objecting to Sapphic interpretations of her work#(as it was being upset at the idea of her central theme is not coming across in favor of other themes sheās considered less important#(besides which it gets into some incredibly interesting introspection about why she is āafraid of a word [lesbian]ā#in ways that have a lot of people saying āthe lady doth protest too muchā
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trying to explain to my best friend that while aftg is a mafia book, the mafia isn't even the most prevalent theme and how really it's a love story at it's core but not in a fairytale way rather in the way horror movies are love stories
#does this make sense?#I've tried explain to her the books so many times and have done it zero justice#yet somehow her biggest argument is that she doesn't like mafia books#and im like babe no#it's not a cool hot sexy mafia book#its āoh no these people are actually going to kill me but a random 5 ft nothing blonde kid promised to keep me aliveā#i could write an introspective essay on aftg and it's themes#as well as a character analysis to go with it#aftg#the foxhole court#all for the game#andreil#tfc#andrew minyard#neil josten#nora sakavic
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tall shadows line of "she was only a kittypet" kinda reminds me of the line "they were only slaves" from the prince of egypt.
What kills me about it is that like, at that point in the movie, the Pharoah Is Bad. Him saying that a billion babies where fed to crocodiles is A Bad Thing. It's the point where Moses realizes he can't be part of the royal family without being complicit.
But Tall Shadow says "calm down, Bumble was less than human anyway" and Gray Wing nods along (complete with the jiggly clicking noise that comes with shaking a can of spraypaint) and this is an example of them being reasonable. Level-headed, even, not getting swept away by the passion of the angry mob.
There are so many levels to how fucked up the Bumble Debacle is that you can't explore every floor all at once. It is an onion. It has layers.
#I don't take potshots at liberals too often but like. I have to here#Because GOD they are bad at defending their positions#They can't defend nonviolence because they don't actually believe in it#They believe in STATUS QUO#They're not antiracist. They're just pro-decorum and being racist/xenophobic/bigoted is rude#Very very rarely do they reach their position through introspection and thinking through their beliefs#So you see it in their art.#Unable to examine WHY bigotry is bad or what's so insidious they just repeat it#Or try to justify it#She was too fat/useless/not part of Our Bonds and thus her life is lesser#And thats why they have the theme of predestination making everything forgivable imo#And it not actually mattering what you did#It's the ultimate status quo. Change doesn't ACTUALLY happen because of people or our actions it's all just fate.#And this ironically makes them very susceptible to smooth-talking fascists#...also my lover told me im Bumble's Lawyer and made me an AA style talk sprite so I've got that going for me now
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Metallica, 1986.
#Metallica 1986.#Metallica#Cliff Burton (R.I.P. 1986)#lars ulrich#kirk hammett#james hetfield#Genre: Thrash Metal#Themes: Introspection Anger Corruption Deceit Death Life Metal Literature Films#USA
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ā...Wrong? Why would anything go wrong?ā
Without further ado, a stimboard for @ask-the-biggering-onceler!
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#TADAAAA :D#ohh there's SO much going on here#the first one is interesting bc i tried to avoid gifs of the outside#but this one strikes me as a moment from before the blog started#a brief moment of introspection and dwelling on the past as he looks out at the dwindling remains of the forest#though to him iām sure any second thought about what couldāve been is a second wasted and he snaps himself out of it shortly after#THE BEAR THE TEDDY BEAR#it's a foreboding reference to the barbaloots it's a representation of the past it's everything to me :D#the spotlight for being the center of attention and scrutiny alike; loud and flashy juxtaposed with the softer candles on the other side#the gears are for the factory but note how clean it looks#showing his desperate attempts to keep his reputation intact and insist that absolutely nobody has died within the walls of this place#the velvety red fabric resembles both theater curtains (performance and the blog) and the curtains in his office#and theyāre positioned opposite to the one glimpse we see of the outside world calling back to that one scene in the 1972 version#a camera for both his surveillance over thneedville and the press plus a reference to that old photo of him before his business days#the entire middle column is a brief glimpse into all the good intent that got soured along the way#while the right column represents his success and splendor#alternatively the bear and the camera could reference that one scene in hbcib with pipsqueak!#and that last one is for the extravagance of the ball!#you could say it being next to the camera means heāll be keeping a close eye on partygoers >:3#i actually steered clear of stuff like sewing and other such manual work to show how he stands at the very top#arghh i could go on about every little part of the layout and how the different themes connect and oppose each other it's so fun!!!!! :D#anyways i hope ya like it ouo!!!#biggerler#ask the biggering onceler#stimboard#my nonsense
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Why are Marakasā lips so hard to draw from the side???
#my art#art#dbh#detroit become human#dbh fanart#dbh markus#listening to his theme as I sketch#so thereās this introspective enigmatic piano happening while broās entire mouth looks like someoneās pinching it closed#Iāll get there eventually dsgfhfds
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does anyone want an analysis on a light or somethin because its been on fuckin repeat since the day I first listened to warriors and now swercy is all I can think about. also I feel obligated to tell you that Julia and Jazzy call it swercy too and I'm not kidding just look at their IG comments they use the hashtag and everything
#but really a light or somethin is VERY fun to think about because um#outside of call me mercy#its the only introspective song in the fucking musical#which i get because the girls are very much focused on getting home alive#the typical introspection musical songs simply dont befit the setting or the theme#so its interesting how much characterization was like jampacked here#because obviously the story has to keep on pushing towards the end so they gotta put the emotional dynamics somewhere specific so woo#anyways brb#warriors album#also swercy is a funny ship name gjcjsfjdjd im sorry it just IS#warriors musical
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A Comic about my Dissatisfaction
#This stemmed from me trying to develop a character and getting frustrated#kylekreepart#existential themes#introspective art#comics#artists of tumblr#tumblr art#tumblr comic#art#poetic themes#executive dysfunction#introspection#comic formatting#self awareness#lazy art
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Do you think she said/he heard something funny enough that got him to smile/laugh and look away for a fraction of a second. Do you think she felt enamored and secretly tried to get him to laugh again. Because in midst of chaos she's never really seen him simply laugh and rarely seen him smile.
"You always take me to such nice places," she remarks. It's half-sarcastic (the body of the Jackal they'd ambushed is floating down the creek at the bottom of the ravine) but there's an undercurrent of sincerity to it - it is a nice little place. Leaf-filtered light dapples the grass under John's boots. High overhead, the glittering curve of Delta Halo's alien landscape fades into a cloudless blue sky. Her sensors pick up birdsong; she runs a quick comparison scan through her database...no match to a familiar species. Interesting. She files the call under a new entry.
A nice place indeed.
John shoots two more Jackal snipers off their perches, sending them sprawling limp against the rocks. Shouts echo up the cliff walls from somewhere beyond the range of both sight and sensors; Unggoy cries of alarm, silenced by a swift Sangheili command.
"Seems like we've crashed our own surprise party."
John drops from the ledge and hits the ground running, clearing a gap in the rocks around the waterfall with the effortless grace of a jungle cat. Cortana swears she can feel the mist swirling past his shields. He meets the oncoming Covenant as he always does, a wall of metallic green titanium, an unstoppable force and an immovable object all, somehow, rolled into one.
The next thirty seconds are a blur of bullets, brutality, and blood. Cortana wanders. A frog, an unremarkable little brown thing only a few inches long, launches itself from the bank of the creek, kicking through the water to the safety of a submerged rock. A dragonfly as dazzlingly blue as Cortana herself alights on the flowering stalk of a reed. A lizard with a brightly-colored tail three times the length of its body skitters up a nearby tree. A shiny black beetle, unperturbed by the chaos around it, trundles under a clump of fallen leaves.
This ring is alive in a way so different from the first, with an entirely separate ecosystemā "Wait." She folds in on herself, collapsing back into the confines of the Mjolnir, pressing at the barrier separating herājust barelyāfrom the electrical storm inside his brain on the other side.
He stops.
"...I wonder if there are fish in that creek."
A mixture of amusement and confusion splashes up against the barrier, but he humors her curiosity without a word, picking his way over the rocks, deeper into the ravine.
Sure enough, there they are. Tiny silver things wriggling at the edges of stones and within the stands of reeds, breaking the surface tension to swallow up pinprick-small insects resting on the water, leaving behind perfectly round, glistening bubbles.
She relaxes again, swelling outward, soaking in everything she can touch. The rocks here are slick with waterfall mist; moss grows in the crevices, lush tracks of green and pink. Somewhere close, another frog croaks. Insects buzz. Leaves rattle in the breeze. There's no gunfire. No alien shrieking. No radio chatter. It's serene.
"Hard to believe these were built to be weapons," she muses, focusing on a miniscule spider as it climbs across a branch over their head. His head. She had to stop doing that. "...we should keep going. Regret has to be close. Sorry about the detour."
Calmness and nonchalant acceptance greet her from John's side of the neural barrier when she tucks herself back into the nooks and crannies of his armor. Part of herāa rather loud part of herāwants to stay and analyze the intricacies of this halo's flora and fauna and how it had all developed and fit together, but...they have work to do.
She can't resist one last quip as John navigates through the winding cavern out of the ravine. "On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate this date?" She's not expecting a response, but he surprises her. It's nothing more than a huff of air and a low sound in the back of his throat, but Cortana feels the chemical-electrical rush of amusement behind it and knows what it's supposed to be.
And in spite of the frogs and insects and birdsong, it's the sweetest sound she's heard since they landed.
#this turned into a cortana introspection piece#instead of the vibe the prompt was implying#but. i go where the words take me#and lately they haven't been taking me anywhere#so i'm grabbing what i can get#halo#my writing#johntana#kinda#vaguely#i have another prompt sitting in my inbox that's more valentine's-themed than this one#but i need to do more groundwork for that#and i don't have that in me right now#so you get this one instead#i've been listening to both versions of 'in amber clad' on a loop this whole time#you guys know this ravine
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A survey of 100 authors from 54 countries named "Moby Dick" asĀ one of the 100 best books of all time... But public opinion was very different 161 years ago. When "Moby Dick" debuted in 1851, reviewers trashed it.
The book sold fewer than 4,000 copies in total (fewer than 600 in the UK), prompting Melville to have serious doubts about his future writing career.
Given that The Beetle was very popular for several years since its publication (and had outsold Dracula six times over) I am once again judging
#whale weekly#moby dick#the beetle weekly#apparently the book got recognition decades after his death#kind of like how dracula only got recognition after nosferatu#also the reasons critics hated moby dick are so dumb#you read the first chapter and expected adventure times of no introspection and dark themes?
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The Beginning of a Century (A Short poem)
I had a DVD player once
That stopped reading discs
Like
It forgot to do its job
A relatable feeling
But inconvenient and annoying
Itās a beautiful day in the Cyberhood
It would have been betterĀ
To have slept and dreamedĀ
Than to watch a full moon passĀ
Do not be afraid of your own tearsĀ
The rain seduces and brings out poetsĀ
If I die you should write a poem about me
I am permanently banned
From the county fairĀ
Lightning breathes life into me
I attract bolts of energy
Rain, fog, and grey tufts of cloud
So itās not my faultĀ
That I canāt keep any job at all
Never put me in a casket
Melt me down into stones, pebbles
Chisel me into a Notre Dame gargoyleĀ
My lips will float to Godās ear
#creative writing#my poetry#surreal poetry#cryptidcore#oddcore#weirdcore#introspection#american gothic#southern gothic#mentions of death#small town horror#small town gothic#religious gothic#religious themes
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knives r such a recurring theme in mp100 dont be surprised when i write smthing for shou & u find them there..
#I DID ONCE LIKE A YEAR AGO it was a Toichiro introspective oneshot thing. i lost it in the void eeuuuggghhh sjdgjsgs#im gonna try rewriting that someday but yeah.#āYou don't point knives at peopleā will always be one of my fav mp100 themes. i love this anime sm. goes insane#ššššš ; ooc.
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Metallica (1985)
#Metallica#Metallica (1985)#80s#80's#1985#james hetfield#kirk hammett#lars ulrich#cliff burton#Themes: Introspection Anger Corruption Deceit Death Life Metal Literature Films#thrash metal era#USA#Genre: Thrash Metal
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Every time you tell someone who wants to get into Assassin's Creed to just skip the first game and start with the Ezio trilogy, a kitten dies.
#assassins creed#hot take#the first game is essential#it establishes the core themes and conflict#and also#its actually really good?#honestly i wish /I/ had started with the second game#bc then I wouldn't have imprinted on Altair and the introspective storytelling of the first game in 2008#and would've been able to just appreciate ezios deep neckline and his slutty little necklace like everybody else#and also wouldn't constantly feel gaslit bc both ubisoft and the players pretend the first game doesnt exist
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I can't articulate this very well right now but. listen to me. rgu and pmmm, the tv series, are parallel stories. an echo. two versions of the same event. and their respective movies-
adolescence of utena is the happy ending, where the abandoned girl lays down her sword and finally leaves behind her flawed "hero" role so that she may go to the outside world and be with her beloved again. rebellion is the tragedy, where she is unable to let go and takes her old role to its logical conclusion, destroying herself and her relationship with her loved one in the process while convincing herself that she's doing what's best for the girl she loves, even if it means taking away her right to choose for herself.
do you see it. do you understand. there are layers to this !! different takes on the same subject !!! the contrasts also between the main pairs and how they're played !!!!! oh fuck and the deconstructive AU potential is off the chartsssss oh no
#deerchatter#i think i may have just realized the underlying reason i hate rebellion so much#homura in rebellion is like if utena never realized how inherently cruel and dehumanizing it is#to cast yourself as the hero of someone else's story without asking them what they want#madoka in rebellion is like if anthy's perspective was given no depth and left unexplored to make more space for utena's introspection#if she only existed to be utena's unobtainable bride that she failed to save.#rebellion is a beautifully written and executed movie that fucking sucks plot- and theme-wise#adolescence of utena is a wonky silly experience that nonetheless works SO well as a finale to the series bc of theme resonance and payoff#head full of thoughts. lesbian animes in there. phew#revolutionary girl utena#puella magi madoka magica
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