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"You have your best friend."
(understand, misunderstand, accept, and let go.)
#mug draws#until then fanart#until then#until then game#mark borja#nicole lacsamana#YPU DONT UNDERSRANF HOW THIS GAME CONTINUES FO STAB ME IN THE HESRT FOR NO REAOSN ‼️‼️‼️‼️#AAUUEURJGJFUAUEUEJD#drawing wise i cant tell if it's obvious but#nicole is more red to signify her anger while mark is blue to signify his fear/slight sadness#the eyes on nicole killed me btw#UH also yes it's nicole's shadow on mark#trying to get that imposing figure to get him to listen bjt also that#they parallel in many ways#the text making nicole's area feel cramped while the texf making mark's feel isolated is intentional#the belief that nicole thought he'd understand but maybe he didnt actually and she's the only one who is grieving in this way
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#id in alt text#I'm always surprised by the way many aroallo's experiences parallel my alloace experiences#like you'd expect them to be opposites#aroallo#alloaro#alloace#aceallo#asexual#aromantic#ace#aro#aphobia#acephobia#arophobia
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let her go
#homestuck#vriska serket#terezi pyrope#vriska#terezi#vrisrezi#mic_art#screencap redraw of that one utena scene woohoo#vrisrezi and utenanthy dont share many similarities but there are some interesting parallels that can be drawn#like theyre all characters who are devoted to the respective roles they think they have#utena needs to be a prince and vriska needs to be a hero#terezi needs to cast vriska as the villain so that she can be the one to bring her to justice while anthy#is resigned to her role as the rose bride and is cast as a witch by others (and herself in a way...) to justify her suffering#im too tired to put into words all the other shit rattlign around in my brain but something something vriska society violence princes utena#something interesting to note is that in the rgu stabbing scene utena is walking to the left while is hs vriskas walking to the right#which i think is mostly a cultural difference due to english being read left to right while japanese is read right to left#changing which direction is percieved as forward#which could be read further into but could also just be the natural flow of the scene or whateevr#idk i need to peruse ohtori.nu again i looooove reading utena essays
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You know why these boys brought you in? 'Cause I f*cked up a poor, defenseless gang-affiliated organ dealership? Yep. Mm.
#cooper howard#lucy maclean#fallout#fallout prime#walton goggins#ella purnell#there's so many layers to this ahhhhhhhhh#this also parallels maximus wholeheartedly believing cooper was the one who chopped off wilzig's head off... not lucy#cooper himself believed it... he just found it absolutely fascinating#and in the end the difficult lesson she learned from cooper helped saved her life#but she still held on to her own rule and did it her way... by saving his life instead of killing him#this damn relationship is so FASCINATING im rattling my cage#fallouttvgifs#ghoulcy
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S04E05: Buck Begins // S04E14: Survivors
#911#911 abc#911edit#911 parallels#evan buckley#evanbuckleyedit#eddie diaz#taylor kelly#margaret buckley#<- the way i had to double check her name lmaooo#i have so many thoughts about this#also this has been sitting in my drafts for so long bc i couldn't decide if the scene with taylor adds to this or not#but i've decided it's staying ig#neptune gifs
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Rin, smiling, and nagging
Rinsha Fana’s character is summarized in a couple facts thrown here and there. Because she worries for him, she follows Kabru to help his cause and protect him, and to nag him. She’s a grumpy angry tsundere, but it seems not only rooted in her attitude but on a deep rooted physical level, to the point where any intense emotion she feels will make her frown and scowl even if it’s genuine joy. Her childhood was half spent ostracized in the tallman community her family lived in and half with the elves, where she’s said to have been treated like an animal.


We don’t know how she was raised exactly or who it even was, but knowing she was "treated like an animal" by the elves taking care of her…
Elves are shown to have a highly hierarchical society, not only with their concern with status such as nobility and the purity of bloodlines but also reflected by its social culture imo. They have high society and etiquette, upmost devotion to the queen, very role-oriented, like cogs in a machine, and as such, it’s a bit skewed since most of what we see of the elves is in a military context with military people but they seem to value having emotions under lock and key to be efficient and not bring dishonor, Flamela is an interesting character on this. Don’t be a bother and do your job until you’re called on, fulfill your role, everything else is extra at best inconvenient at worst.
Personally I do think the canaries kept Rin, it’d make sense that whichever canaries got stuck with the job at the headquarters would be barebones with her and treat her like an ‘impounded article’, they couldn’t find another place for her and this way they can get her report on the events whenever she can speak again in however many years, and this way it makes sense that she could keep in touch with Kabru too. They’re used to prisoners, not kids. Being raised in a military context rather than at some orphanage would shape her further.
All of this to say…




She’d already seen the world’s harshness to those who don’t conform in her hometown, but with the elves? Her disdain for those who had formal education at a magic school?
Wouldn’t she become very concerned with proving she is not an animal, proving that she’s smart and skilled in her own right on her own merit, even without schooling. And to do this she nitpicks and nitpicks, because even being pristine isn’t enough to be respected, but at least it’s not giving others reasons to disrespect and dehumanize her. Learning to school her emotions, to scowl as a defense mechanism because anything else makes her vulnerable, because they don’t care about her as a person with feelings, because showing other expressions was dangerous or punished in some way: because it was fit in or don’t fit in and that’s the difference between having your house burnt down and being tolerated, between getting her food or having her questions answered and being yelled at to shut up… Because all her life she’s been surviving in hostile social environments and at the mercy of others, but unlike Kabru she doesn’t become a people pleaser but becomes very self-reliant and wary of socializing.
So she nitpicks and nitpicks and nags, because she’s worried. Because flaws are dangerous. So she has a hard time smiling and laughing, because it’s dangerous to allow yourself to feel safe in being authentic.

It would be nice…

Is my red, red enough? I'm waiting for your teeth at my throat. It’s only good manners. -Stephanie Valente
#Dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#rinsha fana#rin dunmeshi#character analysis#Kabru and rin have many parallels where they kinda take opposite routes on the same problem#Rinsha fans how are we feeling#Theory/speculation#Overcompensation i love you……… god she’s such a survivor. The refugee trauma i 😭#Is my red red enough is her blood human enough i’m gonna walk into the ocean#Wether or not her nagging actually promotes upstanding demeanor is another topic but I do think this is why she DEFAULTS to nag n scold#I don’t think she’s self-aware about her thinking like this. It’s all just the obvious way to be for her
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05.07 / You are so brave and quiet.
#ACGAS#ACGAS 2020#All Creatures Great and Small#Siegfried Farnon#Audrey Hall#Siegfried x Audrey#I can't! I simply can't#How many times have I watched this small moment?#throughout the episode he has tried to give her space#has never invaded her space#waited for her to open up to him#and then Jamie gives us a parallel to the Helen + James scenes from the first christmas special?!?!?!#yes it is not a hug or a kiss or a first name but gifuigsdfgwofuwegu#the way he smiles at her#the way he cares and it so gentle#HE HAS STAYED WITH HER ALL NIGHT! ON THAT CHAIR!
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I don’t write cheater stuff because it doesn’t really do anything for me, but the angst of a POV story from Cheater!Ghost’s perspective after you transfer to KorTac and some months later he sees you hanging off of Nikto’s arm has me going hmmm
#I would’ve said König as everyone knows my bias#but something about Nikto being standoffish like Ghost is a parallel that scratches my brain right#like I definitely think Simon cheated and felt immensely guilty but I think his mentality was#”I have a good thing going and something is going to ruin it” so he fulfilled the self prophecy and ruined his own good thing#and then Simon sees you with Nikto and in so many ways they *are* similar#but Nikto fully cherishes you without batting an eye like he’s had such a shit life and he somehow got you?#Nikto is sinking his teeth into your shoulder and holding you close so you can’t go anywhere#was that too much for 10:30pm on a Thursday afternoon#cod#cod thoughts#call of duty#hit post#nikto#nikto cod#nikto call of duty#ghost#simon ghost riley#simon riley#ghost cod#ghost call of duty
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hot take maaaybe but imo the core tragedy of satoru is that he’s not a god, he’s literally just a normal guy who got godhood pushed onto him by other people . a god would be able to handle eternal solitude no problem but satoru isn’t one so he suffers for it
#which is an interesting contrast to geto who /wants/ non-sorcerers to view him as a god-like figure#i could talk for hours abt their parallels they really are sooo similar and so different all at once#but yeah … satoru is Just Some Guy to me <3#i don’t even think he’s really that freaky or feral#he just enjoys the thrill of battle but that’s the standard of living in the society he was born into#you know ?#like . yeah#sorry i woke up thinking abt him today#it’s such a delicate balance bc i doo think he’s uncanny in many ways but all of that is related to his powers#that are basically just family heirlooms he was born wearing#at his core satoru is just a normal man and i think that’s absolutely soulcrushing#anyway that’s all </3 i miss my husband#ari noises ✩#meta ✩
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Mal's Avatar: The Last Airbender rewatch: The Crossroads of Destiny 2.20
#atlarewatch#avatar the last airbender#atla#aang#katara#kataang#gifs#avatarthelastairbenderedit#atlaedit#aangedit#kataraedit#kataangedit#useramys12#tusersimone#userthing#userotp#smallscreensource#has one part of YOUR otp brought the other back to life? didn't think so#love how they keep subverting gender roles in so many ways#the way katara holds aang in the bridal position before this#also love how this parallels their first meeting#on another note i hate how i haven't giffed azula yet#i love her so much but all of her best moments so far has been in episodes with way more important moments for me to gif#she's in season three even more though so i surely will have before this series is over
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banking on your daughter to make a different choice
also the slightly shaky cam in the last scene as he watches havers wave and fade away i didn't even notice until i made the gif but it adds SO MUCH to his emotions at this moment. like taking a shaky breath. him still grieving over it, but learning to suppress that emotion from a life+death time of experience, so it only comes out as a shiver. ben wilbond truly put so much thought into this character; the captain is the Most Character to ever Character
edit: also just another parallel I noticed but his face is lit up similarly??? half light/half dark tenebrism that subtextually calls back to this scene of choice??? kitty in the shadows because she chose selfishly, the cap in the end a mix of both to reflect the nuance and complexity in his decision??? one shadowed by sunlight the other by the moon, present and memory, action and reflection, how one is affected by another, etc etc
#ghosts bbc#bbc ghosts#the captain#kitty#bbc ghosts captain#bbc ghosts kitty#kitty higham#katherine higham#the captain and kitty#when keeping him here and letting him be happy might have been one and the same#I have many reasons to love their dynamic. not the least of which is that kitty is the captain's golden retriever daughter to his stern#schnauzer terrier who forgets he is also a dog and loves to frolic and run and spend the day doing nothing but watch clouds go by#sniffing the flowers#yet she is not like him and he can bank on her being true to herself and make the choices he wanted to. not like him in ways he wanted to b#be the ghost meta you want to see in the world#parallels#ghosts parallels#ghosts gif#gif#meta#ghosts meta#give me your THOTS and FEELINGS in the TEXT or TAGS give me dem THOTS!!!!1!!!
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Do yall think Silco gave Jinx that hairstyle or it just kinda happened and he went “oh lmao I did that too”
#like they had the same overhanging bang. come on now#also seeing young silco was so interesting#Jayce and Viktor and Vander and Silco parallels hello???#except who’s going to end up like Silco and who’s going to end up like Vander#because young Silco and pre-hexcore Viktor are giving me the same vibes#yknow.#with their best friends (👀) being in the spotlight for all the good they’ve brought to their communities#even though they had the same exact dream and drive and they aided in so many ways#and them being pushed to the side#but that’s for another post#my thoughts#arcane#arcane season 2#arcane season two#arcane jinx#arcane silco#silco#jinx#silco and jinx#silco arcane#jinx arcane#so many tags
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Criminal behaviour to start CoE episode 4 with Ianto holding dead Jack in his lap and ending the episode with Jack holding dead Ianto…
#they knew what they were doing the bastards. what kind of awful parallel foreshadowing…#Jack has died so many times I suppose he knows the best way is in the arms of someone you love#torchwood#children of earth#captain jack harkness#ianto jones
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What do you think about Sunday and Aventurine? and their interaction in 2.1, I know Sunday did what he had to do but I just have a strong dislike for him ever since. He is an interesting character though.
I mentioned on a previous ask that I wanted to talk about narrative foils/character parallels, and that ask mentioned Aventurine being similar to Robin and a little to Sunday. But I thought I'd combine that character foils idea with this post about Sunday because...
Aventurine and Sunday are Near Perfect Character Parallels
(Also sorry to Youtuber Fayato who I screencapped this image from; I literally couldn't find a single other good image of Aventurine and Sunday in the same frame!)
In media, the concept of the narrative foil refers to a character who contrasts another character; by setting the two characters and their plots side by side, the audience is better able to understand the traits of the central character.
And by setting two surprisingly similar characters in opposition to each other, it becomes very clear how even those facing similar circumstances can take diametrically opposed paths in life.
First, let's start with the basics:
Aventurine and Sunday are both characters whose real fathers were never in the picture, and who lost their mothers right in front of their eyes to traumatizing events.
They both experienced the violent deaths ("death" in Sunday's case) of their sisters.
They both were "rescued" by people who intended to use them by growing them ("grooming them" in Sunday's case) into a figure of authority.
They were both told they were "chosen ones" growing up. And yet ultimately this status as the chosen one is in doubt: Aventurine isn't sure if his family's faith is real, while Gopher Wood tells Sunday that Penacony's chosen should have been Robin all along.
They both became self-sacrificial, Aventurine through his obvious willingness to throw his life away, and Sunday through his plan to remain outside the sweet dream to be its keeper while everyone else got to live in "paradise."
They both are trapped by their situations, Sunday by his inability to leave the cage, Aventurine by his inability to accept the life he isn't able to throw away.
They both became the "villain" of their respective patches and both faced "death."
Personality-wise, they both strongly favor being in control, to the point that their scene together is an aggressive power struggle over each other.
This is how the "future" Aventurine describes himself:
Does it sound familiar? It should, since that's exactly how people describe Sunday.
But they also both prioritize their families, and they are equally altruistic at the core while seemingly self-centered on the exterior.
They both, of course, have the blessing of an aeon.
And here's where I'm going to take a massive tangent, but it's important: I do tend to be among those who think there is at least some connection between Ena, the Order, and Gaiathra.
I've heard all sorts of reasons that they can't be two different concepts for the same being, from the whole "Gaiathra is a goddess of trickery and that's not related to order" to the whole "the Order's followers worship with song while Gaiathra's followers specifically don't," but I think something that has been missing from the discussion of Ena and Gaiathra's possible connection is that "Order" as a concept has entirely different definitions depending on which cultural context you approach it from.
The most mainstream modern concept of "Order" is something that is imposed: A power from on high descends to quell the chaos of the mortal world, to "bring order" through guidance to humanity. This is very Abrahamic, very modern Christian, and that is reflected in the imagery surrounding Sunday. Sunday, as a manifestation of the Order's power, believes he will be able to uplift Penacony from the mire, free people from their unfulfilled desires and confusion, and bring about perpetual peace by enforcing his understanding of harmony on the populace trapped in the dream.
Sunday's Order is not the natural state of the world but something that must be carefully cultivated and maintained, a constant battle against the chaotic forces of life and its temptations. This type of "Order" promises an idyllic future, but at the cost of the present freedom of everyone who submits to the law, who must surrender their original fate for a structured sweet dream.
We understand this concept of "Order" because at its core, it's the one that modern societies largely embrace--ruling authorities establish laws that must be followed at all costs, even when they risk the freedoms of individuals, because they ultimately (supposedly) support a greater good. A majority of society adheres to the laws handed down from on-high, and life functions relatively stably.
Yet this conception of "Order" is predicated on the idea that the course of people's lives is decided first and foremost by the people themselves--which is why they can make mistakes, go astray, and need to be shepherded in the first place.
Without imposing structure through authoritarian power, this type of "Order" will crumble away in an instant, because this view assumes that rightness can only created by humanity, and that chaos--not order--is the natural state of existence.
Ena, who holds worlds tidily contained in her hands, who is tangled in puppet strings, who wears a hood like a nun or the Virgin Mary, and who is haloed like a Christian angel, clearly represents this definition of "Order" to a T.

But... this is not how humanity has always defined "Order."
It was not always taken for granted that people had the power of self-determination, and in fact, for many centuries and across many cultures, the concept of "the order of the world" was tied directly to the concept of destiny. Whether a volcano would explode and destroy your entire civilization, whether floods would swallow your city, whether the crops would grow or fail all depended on the pre-made decisions of supernatural powers, who were in turn often personified concepts of the natural world itself. What happened to any given individual, what twists and turns their life would take, whether they would achieve their dreams or not--all these aspects were also predetermined, decided not by the actions of the individual but by fate itself.
Thus, the world and everything in it has a natural order. Things may seem chaotic, they may even seem unbelievably horrible, but all events in existence unfold as they should. We may not understand why, but everything occurs in due course, woven into an endlessly repeating pattern on the fates' loom--spring becomes summer, life becomes death, disasters happen and are healed from, children are born and grow old. If it is your fate to die, you will. If it is your fate to fight and live, you will. To reject this natural order would be as futile as telling the sun not to rise.
The words "order" and "ordained" have the same origin.
Enter Gaiathra. First of all, she is the Star Rail equivalent of a pagan goddess--her worship exists separate of the confirmed existence of aeons, by an uncontacted and non-space-faring race. Even her description, being triple-eyed, evokes other "triple goddess" figures across history, both in modern interpretations (the triple goddess of Neopaganism) and in ancient mythologies (the three fates of Greece, the Tridevi of Hindu culture, etc.).
She is strongly associated with the natural world: The planet of Sigonia is said to be a manifestation of her very body, the rain is her blessing and acknowledgment, and she goes through a yearly cycle of death and rebirth (calling the cycle of the seasons to mind). She is said to be a goddess of both fertility and travel (likely in the sense of nomadic wandering by the time Aventurine was born). Avgin worship of the goddess manifests in the form of sacrificial cyclic knots.
Which might call to mind another pagan culture well-known for their cyclic knots: the Celts, whose famous Celtic knots represent cycles of eternity, unity, and the interconnected nature of life itself.
The Avgin prayer to Gaiathra focuses on elements of a person's life that all might be determined by "fate"--will your blood keep flowing, will your journey be peaceful, will your schemes stay hidden? It hopes that things will be as they should, that the future ahead of you is predetermined to be a good one, and that the cycle of life decided by the goddess will be in one's favor.
But while the Avgin hope for good things, they also strongly espouse embracing the reality of one's life, with suffering and hardships seen as manifestations of fate that should be accepted as facts of life. It is said that any society blessed by the Order ultimately falls--is it not the natural fate of all societies to one day fall? For mankind to return to the dust and be reborn anew?
Whatever will be, will be.
There is a reason--a logic--an order--to everything that happens.
I hope you can see where I'm going with this: While Sunday and Ena represent the concept of "Order" as a result of self-determination, a power "the strong" can wield to overcome the inherent chaos of reality, Aventurine and Gaiathra represent a different, older concept of "Order" (I can't help but see the entirely separate eye lurking behind Ena?): existence is not inherently chaotic but instead is foreordained, following endless orderly cycles life and death, weal and woe, rise and fall.
PHEW! Okay, so all of that to say Aventurine and Sunday make perfect parallels through a mirror darkly, even when it comes to the blessings they've been granted: One imposes order from on high; one continually rolls the dice despite knowing the inevitable outcome.
Both of their stories are entirely intertwined with the concept of fate, whether by opposing it...
Or accepting it.
And even at the end of Penacony, we leave both Sunday and Aventurine in precarious positions. Aventurine, while ostensibly "victorious," faces another roll of the dice immediately after Penacony, when his future as a Stoneheart is called into question. Yet "fate" comes through for him again--his bet, as always, comes true. His future isn't in question--it is the question itself. What's next? He finally wants to live to find out.
Sunday, meanwhile, ends Penacony's arc in a truly difficult place. He's virtually exiled from the only home he's ever known, a flightless bird tossed out of his cage into cold hard reality. He has to find an entirely new way forward and may even be forced to reckon with an entirely new definition of "Order" itself.
The parallels between these two characters are entirely intentional and very, very blatant, and I am exceedingly interested in seeing whether their paths diverge or continue to reflect similar fates moving forward.
So uhhh... that's what I think of Sunday? 😂
#honkai star rail#aventurine#sunday hsr#gaiathra#ena the order#character analysis#hsr meta#listen#these two characters have so many parallels and obvious comparisons#like I didn't even bother to get into the bird imagery#Sunday is the Aventurine who didn't lose his sister#and didn't have to deal with the thought of being an entirely failed chosen one#until recently#AND NOW HE IS#because they're pretty much the same character into two different shades lol#which I do think is interesting#because people love and empathize with Aventurine so easily#while way more people struggle with seeing Sunday as a victim
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Cain being disappointed in teenage Bruce and telling him "if only I'd gotten hold of you sooner" because he wanted to train an unbeatable warrior who communicates flawlessly through violence and then specifically raising Cass from infancy for that purpose...DAVID CAIN WHEN I CATCH YOU
#also it's the way Damion Scott makes Bruce LOOK like David while Kelley Puckett's writing parallels him with Cass!!!!!#there are so many layers here!#bruce wayne#cassandra cain#david cain#dc comics
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All Out 09.06.24 // Collision 01.18.25
#AEWedit#AEW All Out 2024#AEW Collision#hangman adam page#adam page#swerve strickland#christopher daniels#my gifs#marie#emi tag#it's about the PARALLELS#I don't think you guys comprehend how insane this whole thing has made me#this vision has plagued me since i woke up this morning and i genuinely.#something about how this match was the final nail in the coffin for both men involved#yes it was cd's retirement from in ring action but also?#it was hangman solidifying his madness. his insanity. his anger#the match with swerve he did out of necessity that was revenge that was making swerve pay for what he did#but cd? it didn't have to go like that and cd KEPT saying it didn't have to be that way#but hangman was so intentional in everything he did to cd. he wanted this man and everyone else out there to know that#he's not playing around anymore. he's never going to let himself be that man again#him stopping at the top of the ramp and choosing to go back to the ring#WHILE THE CROWD SCREAMED IN TERROR TOO BTW#whereas in the swerve match he stops himself???#god. ohmygod i'm insane i'm so sick over this match#literally been screaming crying throwing up all night over this#blood tw#cw blood#how many sets can i make out of one match??? the answer may shock you!
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