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X-Files Parallels | S04E04 'Unruhe' vs S05E11 'Kill Switch'
For @azure-firecracker: "It’s the calling out for each other while on the brink of death in a trailer for me"
#your throwaway line of conversation is my command bestie#this is such a good parallel too!#i dont know how i missed it#also i tried a new captions technique and i think i like it?#thoughts anyone?#x files parallels#x files#the x files#the scientist speaks#my gifs#s04e04#unruhe#s05e11#kill switch#david duchovny#fox mulder#gillian anderson#dana scully
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Parallels - Good Omens Seasons One & Two - Part One
Links to [ Part Two ] [ Part Three ] [ Part Four ] [ Part Five ]
#still gotta finish part two#there are sooooo many#and they're all gorgeous#(but some are sad)#good omens#good omens season 2#david tennant#michael sheen#ineffable husbands#crowley and aziraphale#goodomensedit#good omens spoilers#couldn't bring myself to do wall-slam vs. EVERY just yet#maybe in part two#I'm too emotionally damaged#crowley#aziraphale#stuff i posted#goParallels#parallels
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Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?
you say you don’t want a boyfriend, but you know that’s not true - Charlotte Green/the voice - Anaïs Nin/the unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath/tolerate it - Taylor Swift/the unabridged journals of sylvia plath - Sylvia Plath/the unexpurgated diary of anaïs nin - Anaïs Nin/ @treebloods/@lovebeing-a-girl/@ sanwtch on instagram/ @onlyanothermundane/@tullispink/I am an observer, but not by choice - @fatimaamerbilal/the prophecy - Taylor Swift/criss cross - Lynne Rae Perkins/Vladimir Mayakovsky in a letter to Lili Brik/what I could never confess without some bravado - Emily Palermo/little weirds - Jenny Slate
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#I know I’m on a hiatus ok#shhhhhh#this was too good to not make asap#lilly’s weaves#poetry parallels#web weaving#quotes#web weave#poetry#book quotes#charlotte green#anais nin#sylvia plath#Taylor swift#Lynne Rae Perkins#vladimir mayakovsky#Emily Palermo#the unabridged journals of sylvia plath#tolerate it#the prophecy#the unexpurgated diary of anais nin#on feeling unloved#on feeling unloveable#on loneliness#on yearning#requests#little weirds#jenny slate#on wanting love#on wanting
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I love the pale garden and how it's like a parallel to dark forests. I love how the two divert expectations.
Dark forests, despite their name, are saturated and full of life. Even compared to regular forests, there's a lot more biodiversity than many of the "basic" biomes. There's three whole different trees found there, giant mushrooms, and plenty of flowers. They're one of the biomes capable of spawning a lush cave underneath it. It has its dangers just like any other overworld biome, obviously, but it's nothing overly more than anywhere else. Traversing it can be tricky sometimes and illagers may take residence in the biome's woodland mansions, but it's ultimately a very colorful and lively environment.
Opposing it is the new pale garden. Usually white and light colors are seen as pristine and good, but the pale garden takes it the opposite direction and goes right into uncanny valley territory. It has none of the color of dark forests, none of the biodiversity, none of the liveliness. It has trees and moss that look familiar, but something is off. It has a signature mob, but even the creaking is just a puppet of the trees, not really sentient, not really even plotting against anything. There's "life", but, once again, it's wrong.
I think the pale garden is a wonderful addition to Minecraft's world building as it is, but the deliberate parallel to dark forests? Delicious.
#minecraft#mineblr#minecraft live#minecraft live spoilers#<<(just in case!)#I've seen some people saying the pale garden is lazy or too modded looking but there honestly looks like so much thought went into it#Reblogged a post before this where the person mentioned how it almost feels like a callback to the emptiness of early versions of the game#Which I think is a wonderful observation because it does encapsulate that stillness that's not quite foreboding but still very noticeable#Another parallel to be found could be between the pale garden and the deep dark#Which could be a whole post on its own lmao#But there's so much depth and parallels in this drop that are relatively easy to overlook at first but once noticed are so intriguing imo#Lore enthusiasts are eating GOOD
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RHAENYRA TARGARYEN + her coronation outfit Season 1, Episode 10, "The Black Queen" Season 2, Episode 4, "The Red Dragon and the Gold"
#mine*#rhaenyra targaryen#rhaenyratargaryenedit#house of the dragon#hotdedit#hotd spoilers#tvedit#targaryensource#dailyhotdgifs#gameofthronesdaily#userbecca#tusererika#tusereliza#useraish#mialook#userhella#tuseraixa#userlenna#ughmerlin#tuserabbie#userzaynab#this parallel was soooo good like her crown being too big for her head#she was just a baby!!!!
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Colin's smile:
More like Pen : 'Okay you win, I will do whatever you want'
#i was going for words too#but everytime i start a parallel i find another#and then i don't know if they good enough#sorry#polin#bridgerton s3#bridgerton#bridgerton polin#bridgerton spoilers#nicola coughlan#luke newton#colin x penelope#penelope bridgerton#penelope featherington#colin my wife bridgerton#colin bridgerton
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I really do love the fresh take on the dead wife aspect in scavengers reign like. She didn't die in some terrible accident or at the hands of an evil third party, she died because of you. Because of your ambition and carelessness and because you didn't prioritize her enough to even look for her as the ship was going down. You will carry this guilt for the rest of your life. She will haunt you forever. Pray that her ghost is enough to change you for the better.
#i just think the parallel of azi still running to mia's pod even though theres no way she can get her out in time#just some girl she barely knows & had a one night stand with and she still thinks of her first#vs kamen just going to argue w/ sam & fully buckling himself in to the escape pod before he even thinks about his fucking WIFE#kamen is such a good character (derogatory) like hes not cruel hes just so self centered and he doesnt realize it until its too late#AND THEN HIS PUNISHMENT IS TO. LOSE ALL SENSE OF HIMSELF. TO BECOME A PSYCHIC SLAVE TO THE MEMORY OF HIS WIFE. GOD#this show is so fuckin brutal man. oough.#scavengers reign
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OK correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like the main 'yin/yang' parallel with Atsushi and Akutagawa is not something like 'this one is bad but secretly has a good side and this one is good but secretly has a bad side'.
I feel like it's more about 'who they are at their core vs who they choose to be'.
At his core Akutagawa is kind and at his core Atsushi is not. But despite this Atsushi tries every day to make the kinder choices and I love him so much for it. He has to work so hard to be good.
He wants to be a bitch SO bad I know he does but he tries his best to help people and be nice (sometimes he fails but that's OK <3)
Atsushi doesn't always WANT to help people, a lot of the time he's selfish and scared, but he does help people anyway. He keeps helping people over and over again. There's still some selfish motivation to it, and his initial motivation for helping people was because the headmaster told him that's all he was worth, but overall he does care about the people he helps and it weighs on him if he fails to save them. And of course, as the series goes on he starts helping people more because he can rather than because he feels like he needs to.
In Akutagawa's case, he's still capable of being kind but his environment led him into being someone who chooses to hurt people. But he's always been a protector at heart. In the start he was bad compared to Atsushi because he was choosing to hurt people and keep the cycle of abuse going. Just like how Atsushi developed in why he saved people, Akutagawa starts to get redeemed when he chooses to not just act on his rage. Not only does he start to spare people, but he speaks more kindly to them (apologising to Higuchi and telling Kyouka he's proud of her). It all culminates into the moment he chooses to help Atsushi and sacrifice himself for him, going back to his core value of being a protector. Even when he's finally revived, he keeps this role in his new position as Aya's Knight.
I kind of see the streaks of white in Akutagawa and the streaks of black in Atsushi not as their 'hidden sides' but as their fundamental selfs. That's who they are at their core, and their main colours (black for Akutagawa and white for Atsushi) are how they're presented to everyone else and how they try to have people see them as.
#I'm just spitballing half of this but these are also my genuine thoughts on these two and their yin/yang parallels#I'll never get over Akutagawa being a protector at heart and getting that side of him buried with rage from growing up in the PM and-#-Dazai's old teachings#also Atsushi being selfish at his core is very important to me. He's not a typical 'kind hearted' shonen protagonist. He's kind not because#-that's how he’s always been but because that's how he chooses to be#I think that kind of character is even more admirable to me#it also fits well with Dazai being his mentor. Since Dazai also doesn't have that initial desire to save people just out of kindness.#He saves people as a promise to his dead friend that wanted him to live a good life#in fact that actually fits with Jouno too#now that I think about it quite a few bsd characters fit into that 'not kind because they were born that way but because they chose to be'-#-archetype#hell yeah. That's kinda cool I like that#bsd analysis#Akutagawa#atsushi#akutagawa ryuunosuke#atsushi nakajima#sskk#shin soukoku#<- Not a ship post but adding this tag since I consider that their duo name too#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bungobble my post
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y’all- it’s the SAME FACE as 1967
excuse me while I never recover from this…
#when i get you michael sheen when i get you#i’m SORRY#ik i just posted the one photo#but damn had it not been bugging me where i see that face before#same framing too#i’m sure he also makes this face in 1862 as well#good omens#good omens 2#aziraphale#crowley#aziracrow#ineffable husbands#ineffable spouses#aziraphale x crowley#good omens parallels#final 15#good omens 1967
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God loves you, but not enough to save you.
Based on this scenario!
#juddrawing#as i said i have big emotions and thoughts about jesus in the context of good omens and i think he can be such an interesting character#he parallels aziraphale perfectly#a character that needs to discover free will and that he is more than God's pawn#i need a confrontation to happen too...#good omens#crowley#ineffable husbands#aziraphale#good omens fanart#aziracrow#good omens 2#ceo jesus#comic#good omens 3
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Stop fighting me and together, let us fight them.
#ropedit#tropedit#rop spoilers#rings of power#the rings of power#ringsofpowerdaily#ringsofpowersource#halbrand#galadriel#sauron#isildur#estrid#haladriel#rop s1#rop s2#rop 1x05#rop 2x04#parallels#quote#*#isildur with the reassuring response trying to overcome estrid's attempt at distancing herself#galadriel and halbrandron meanwhile on a whole other path of feeling cast out together and relating through that#(i didn't include the brimby scene when sauron is like “she cast me out when she discovered the truth” bc it didn't fit the vibe of the set#(but that's the endpoint of manipulation and using shared ostracization as a means of us vs the world)#(in a way i wonder if galadriel planted that idea in sauron's head since she's the one who first roped him into a 'partnership')#(how much of an actual one is up to interpretation)#(brimby isn't head first running towards a suspect individual like galadriel did (lbr) he's just pure and utter confusion)#(complete good faith like yeah okay i'll receive you with an open heart my friend why would anyone cast you out idgi)#(i could write an essay clearly i'm thinking about this way too much lol)
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I like to think that Curly and Jimmy had parallel lives on earth.
That Curly was an only child and his parents died shortly after he became a captain. They got to see his biggest accomplishment but he had no one to really celebrate it with after. Jimmy has siblings and his parents and they didn’t care when he got the co-pilot job cause he’s just the back up. Sure they’re happy for him but no reason to celebrate.
They could both barely afford rent. That’s how it is that late in capitalism and the world the live. The difference is Curly could down size, Jimmy would end up down on the curb. Jimmy had flings and Curly had partners. Both fleeting but Curly pulled away and they left Jimmy.
I like to think they lived parallel to each other in a way they both noticed. Curly felt a kinship and Jimmy felt resentful. Curly worked to make a good deal with what he had and Jimmy scorned his dealt cards and wanted the hand he thought Curly had made.
#this is like purely headcanons#I like to think where Jimmy sees Curly as being ungrateful and undeserving for what he has#he misses all the reasons why Curly may be unhappy or dissatisfied or stressed#Curly gets patted on the back and lorded by superiors not knowing they grip his shoulder and breath down his back#Curly gets a nice promotion and is stuck with a company that would send him on a death mission for mouthwash time and time again#Curly gets to steer the ship and he sits bored imagining all the fun the captains having while Curly is painfully aware one wrong move and#they all die. Jimmy says his friend is living the life and Curly can’t see the life he’s lived#but he smiles anyway cause hey atleast hes got a good friend in it…#this is not to be taken as ship I just think they have a codependent relationship based on Curly having this fear of change and acute#loneliness that Jimmy doesn’t take seriously but does take advantage of cause he’s lonely in a parallel way#like I think a big point in the game is that Curly is too good a friend and colleague to Jimmy n not enough of a friend and Captain tz#to Anya but also that Jimmy is an awful friend to him before hand and he takes it cause he has like this mindset#I hate them together but they won’t let go of each other but at different times#mouthwashing#Mouthwashing game#curly mouthwashing#captain curly#jimmy mouthwashing
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We aren't so different after all.
#Yami Marik and Kaiba's parallels are something that I think about way too often for my own good.#This is a form of an interaction I wish I got from these two.#Yami Marik does his typical trauma speech and Kaiba relating a biiit too much with his words. Uh oh!#i need more people to hop on this ship#yugioh#yami marik#seto kaiba#hubrishipping#dangershipping#whatever it's called now#yugioh dm#marik ishtar#ygo#gummy draws#my art
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Strength of their relationship you say??!!!
Difficulties coming up??!!!
Tested in different ways??!!!
before the break you say??!!!
#it’s just so feelings realisation coded#it’s Chris coded too#it’s family coded#I love that we’re gonna put them under a big of strain - that’s so so good for the buddie of it all#like the way that is coded to parallel bathena and madney and the early days of their relationships#it’s so loud!#911 spoilers#eddie diaz#evan buckley#911 abc#buddie#Oliver stark#interview
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Crowley vs. The Tenth Doctor - Parallels Good Omens Season 2 - Part 4
Season Two’s [ Part One ] [ Part Two ] [ Part Three ] Season One’s [ Part One ] [ Part Two ]
#sorry I can't help myself#Having too much fun making parallels posts#david tennant#michael sheen#quelin sepulveda#doctor who#good omens#ineffable husbands#goodomensedit#doctorwhoedit#GOvsDWparallels#john simm#billie piper#catherine tate#freema agyeman#nina sosanya#maggie service#stuff i posted#penelope wilton#ty tennant#adjoa andoh#i wonder what season 3 is going to do to me#happy that I managed to get rose martha and donna in this one#plus the master for good measure
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The Final Fifteen is about Terry Pratchett's Death
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The final fifteen is obviously a major plot point, and serves a role in a story that was written long before Terry Pratchett was ever diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. But the scene itself wasn’t written until just a few years ago, during the writing of Season 2. In fact, the scene came about during a park bench conversation between Neil Gaiman and John Finnemore.
Others have noted that the non-romantic kiss that signals the story moving into the third act is a Neil Gaiman staple. The function of such a kiss, from Gaiman’s perspective, is to communicate.
In 2023 we are seeing a lot of stories written by men, for men, about men who are best friends and discover that their friendship can go deeper than the norms of society would usually allow; that platonic and romantic love are not so far apart, and perhaps the better word for a relationship that can be described this way is intimacy.
Neil Gaiman has made it clear in interviews that his friendship with Terry Pratchett was deeply intimate. They began collaborating on what would become Good Omens in the 1980’s, endured a tumultuous experience together through the first publication, wherein Neil offered to martyr himself on behalf of Terry if the book failed, and then spent the better part of two decades touring the world, meeting the people who loved their work. Neil would even off-handedly remark that Terry’s fans were so cheerful, and Neil’s seemed like they were ready to kill themselves; wouldn’t it be nice if they got married? From the outside, it looks very much as if Terry was Aziraphale-coded, and Neil was Crowley-coded, working together in an unexpected partnership to make the world a little bit more tolerable for the humans inhabiting it. I am not conjecturing that Neil and Terry had romantic inclinations the way their fictional characters do, but I think it is fair to say that their opposites-attract intimacy became an important part of who each of them were.
In 2007 Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer’s. As the disease progressed, he began to lose himself, and knew that the person he used to be was slipping away. He wanted to end his life on his own terms, and die as himself, but England did not and still does not allow for voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide. He advocated for the right to die but never achieved it, and ultimately succumbed to the disease in 2015. Neil Gaiman has spoken a lot on the topic of death, and one answer of his that resonated with me reads:
Mostly it feels terrible. It even feels terrible when it’s someone who has been in a lot of pain for a long time or has not really been there for a long time and you know that Death has in some ways been a blessing: suddenly you are mourning the whole person.
It doesn’t get easier as you age. It gets stranger. The point where you realise how many people you used to know and like who aren’t there any longer, and you cannot talk to them or see them or laugh with them is painful in a way that I had never expected. The first time that someone you had a romantic relationship with dies and you realise that there had been moments both of you shared and now you are the sole custodian of those moments and one day you will be gone and they will be lost forever is peculiarly strange and hard.
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The entire show is seeded with references to Terry Pratchett, but the most important one is the one that’s missing. Neil Gaiman cameoed as a sleeping moviegoer in S1E4, but a long time ago, he and Terry had discussed cameoing as sushi restaurant-goers, because sushi was weirdly prominent in the book. That cameo would have been in S1E1. But when it came time to do it, Neil couldn’t. Not without Terry.
Neil: I was gonna say our location is a Chinese restaurant we’d had turned into a sushi restaurant. So Terry and I, Terry Pratchett and I, had a standing… not even a standing joke, just a standing plan, that we were going to have sushi - there was going to be a scene in Good Omens where sushi was eaten and we were gonna be extras, we were gonna sit in the background, eating sushi while it was done. And I was so looking forward to this and, so I wrote this scene with it being sushi, even though Terry was gone, with that in mind and I thought: Oh, I’ll sit and I’ll eat lots of sushi as an extra, this will be my scene as an extra, I’ll just be in the background. And then, on the day, or a couple of days before, I realized that I couldn’t do it.
Douglas: You never told me this before either. I might have pushed you into doing it, had I known. I think you were right not to tell me.
Neil: I was keeping it to me self ‘cause I was always like: Oh, maybe I’ll be… this will be my cameo. And then I couldn’t. I was just so sad, ‘cause Terry wasn’t there. And it was probably the day that I missed Terry the most of all of the filming - it was just this one scene ‘cause it was written for Terry and all of the sushi meals we’d ever had and all of the strange way that sushi ran through Good Omens.
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In the Final Fifteen, it is clear that Crowley and Aziraphale want to stay together. They love each other. They each know that the other loves them. There’s nothing that needs to be said, no convincing that their bond is true and real and precious.
But Aziraphale has to go to Heaven, and Crowley cannot follow him there.
I cannot speculate what it must have been like for Neil to endure losing a friend who, though I’m sure he desperately wanted to still be in his life, he also knew that life had become a burden to him, and grieved that Terry was not able to choose the time and manner of his departure from this Earth. This sort of complex grief, we fan-ficcers know, is the kind that is often best processed through story-telling.
I think that what we see Crowley going through in the Final Fifteen, alongside its importance to the story arc of Good Omens overall, is Neil processing his grief at losing his friend Terry Pratchett, and even the kiss, that violent, terrible, awful kiss, was the symbolic representation of Neil saying goodbye.
#neil gaiman#terry pratchett#aziraphale#crowley#good omens#good omens 2#good omens meta#ivoc#this meta ended up being only about 2/3 the length of my usual metas and somehow that feels appropriate because Terry's life ended too soon#and the jarring brevity of this piece parallels that feeling of sudden unexpected loss#for me anyways I don't know about you guys#if this made your eyes even slightly moist you are obligated to reblog to help someone else feel their feels#I don’t make the rules#but them is the rules#blessed by Beelzebub
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