#its nothing groundbreaking

[shellfishlord]

it is criminal how slept on wynonna earp is

#wynonna earp #wayhaught #jeremy chetri #doc holliday #like almost every character is either explicitly queer or queercoded to within an inch of their life #they get married ffs #plus it has some of the most consistent writing ive ever seen #the character growth is fantastic #all around just a happy go lucky show #bit cringe and the cgi is questionable sometimes #its nothing groundbreaking #but still an absolute banger of a show that should rly be more appreciated than it is

[craqueluring]

i want to talk about randall tier

hannibal draws a lot of inspiration from manhunter (1986), which was the first film adaptation of the hannibal books, and i want to talk specifically about the scene where randall crashes through will's window, because it derives from a scene in manhunter. i am going to compare these two scenes, and use this to further my discussion of hannibal, which will be the focus of this. (there is a TLDR at the end of this!)

in manhunter, at the end of the movie, will runs and crashes through dolarhyde's window, shattering it and directly jumping into a fight with him. now, there is a copious amount of imagery in manhunter depicting will talking to his reflection in glass, windows, etc as if his reflection is dolarhyde. we get the sense that dolarhyde is inside of will’s head, and they start to blur as will has to relate and empathize more and more with dolarhyde to catch him. 

will crashing through the window is him meeting the darkest parts of himself face-to-face – now, he and dolarhyde are on the same side of the glass. will kills dolarhyde, which represents will overcoming (or, at least, suppressing) his violent urges and the turmoil that comes with understanding killers so deeply.

so, will crashing through the glass to meet dolarhyde is him meeting the ‘bad’ part of himself, the part that understands killers and lets them inside of his head, and by killing dolarhyde, he defeats this darker part of himself. will graham, in typical 80s fashion, ends the movie stable in his morality and can return to his heterosexual family life and watch the sunset with his wife and child.

the scene in hannibal is a bit different. instead of the identity parallel being between will and dolarhyde, it is between will and randall tier. randall is (if i am not mistaken) the first patient of hannibal’s we meet that has undergone his “therapy” and is considered a success. this is when we fully start to grasp what it is that hannibal does with his “therapy.” and what will could Become if he accepted hannibal's guidance.

instead of solely will’s violent urges, like dolarhyde represented in manhunter, randall tier represents, in a way, what will could be: a 'balanced' person who embraces his violence and becomes one with it. randall tier has the same violent urges and the dissonance in his identity that will has, but he accepts it, embraces it, and revels in what he is. 

so, when randall crashing through will’s window, will not only comes face to face with himself, but the Higher Self that hannibal is guiding him to Become. this is why randall is depicted as the raven stag, and then the stag man: will is forced to come face to face with who hannibal is guiding him to be, hannibal's influence, and has to confront how to handle his violent urges once again by being forced to kill in self defense. however, his fight with randall does not represent him overcoming these violent urges, as was in manhunter. the fight does actually facilitate will’s Becoming. will throws his shotgun away and chooses to use his hands to kill randall, as hannibal suggested. through Will’s fight with and murder of randall tier, he actually becomes closer to his Higher Self and his Becoming.

this is furthered by will's choice to make randall tier into a tableau. will’s first tableau. in will’s pendulum conversation with randall, it is made even clearer: will says “you forced me to kill you” and randall replies “i didn’t force you to enjoy it.” !!!!!

TLDR: in manhunter, will crashes through the window to meet a man who represents the darkest parts of himself. by killing dolarhyde, will defeats this dark part of himself and fortifies his sense of morality. hannibal flips this completely around. in hannibal, randall crashes through will’s window. will comes face to face with him, who, in a sense, represents his Higher Self and who will could be if he accepted hannibal's guidance. his fight with randall marks the start of him beginning to embrace this intimate violence hannibal has been talking about. by killing and displaying randall in a tableau, will revels in his violent urges by killing him with his hands and enjoying it and becomes closer to his Higher Self and his Becoming. instead of will overcoming his violent urges through this fight between a him and a representation of his violence like in manhunter, will killing randall fuels these urges.

#i feel like it is quite obvious that will was lifted closer to his becoming by killing randall #so i know this isnt really anything groundbreaking #but i really really wanted to compare the window crashing scenes #and how hannibal differs from its source material and the adaptations it drew inspiration from! #comparing them can highlight aspects of the plot that otherwise might not be considered in this way #i hope if nothing else my discussion of parallels & symbolism was insightful :] #pluto analyzes #nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #hannibal #will graham #hannigram #mine #hannibal meta #hannibal analysis #shiizakana #naka choko #hannibal 2x09 #hannibal 2x10 #francis dolarhyde #randall tier

[nerves-nebula]

*voice of exhaustion* you guys are like, so moronically white

#nnstuff #rambling #this is about the murderbot fandom. dont talk to me about it but y'all annoying as hell sometimes #but im black what did i expect #had one critical thought about murderbot casting #and then decided that its actually groundbreaking that its being played by a white man because... why exactly? #thats literally seen as the default. there's nothing challenging about a white man playing a characater who has no gender #white men have played all kinds of characters including women and minorities #specifically because being a white man is seen as the default experience. so of course a white man can play a genderless robot #its not groundbreaking. no one is gonna be shook by a white man playing a robot saying that it has no gender #you guys are sooooo easily swayed its embarrassing #you know what would've been really cool and played into the themes of un-personhood within capitalism? #a trans black person. or even just A Black Person #a black man would've been doubly good imo because black men are seen as hyper masculine and aggressive #so it having no gender would push against that #and a black women could make the audience think about what traits they see as gendered #and both would make u think about how race plays into being owned under capitalism #and why it would unexpected to see that kind of face on a badass security construct #that would've been something at least

[eld0ts]

*cuts to the crew absolutely Decked Out in pride merch*

#ITS DONE #AT LONG LAST #i put all my effort into the groundbreaker ads and nothing else can you tell #im an artist not a writer if i had to look at this so do yous #BUT WAHEYYYYY I MADE AN ACTUAL COMIC I LOVE THOSE EVEN THOUGH THEY TAKE AGES AAAA #for someone actively overthrowing the entire government tracey sure does love pride month #they’re from terf island leave them alone fjjfjfjfj #my art #the outer worlds #captain tracey #felix millstone #pride month #pride art #spacers choice #martin callahan #show your pride with spacers choice

[francy-sketches]

I'm gonna have to work on my final project non stop for like a month straight bc I procrastinated on it too much fuck my stupid baka life

#.txt #also I have to do a movie pitch for it bitch it's an amv with intentionally one dimensional characters 😭 tf do I even say about it #at least the characters are like. knockoff jaime and tommen so its almost like im drawing asoiaf fanart #unfortunately I've come to hate them. the knockoffs I mean #I wanna change the designs a bit so they dont resemble my blorbos as much. i think im gonna give the kid darker hair #ok well discount jaime just looks like him with 2 hands and a blue cape 💀and I cant change him atp #my worst mistake was giving him like. a solid metal skirt armor thing bc its a pain in the ass to animate #at the start of the year I had the most work done out of everyone how did this happen #its bc they started nitpicking the story and I kinda lost motivation to work on it lke this shit is stupid. and cringe #by they I mean the extra screenwriting teachers we had a couple lessons with which like. this is an animation course not a writing course #I'd get it if it was like. a full time school but we have 2 3 hour classes a week we dont have time for this shit man #ig my mistake was that my idea didn't start from the story it started from the song I wanted to make a cool music video for it #its not that the story is nonsensical or anything its just a very basic fairytale esque thing nothing groundbreaking #'but you're not SAYING anything with this' I'm not trying to omg just let me make my little amv :( #does everything need a plot twist or to subvert expectations is it not enough that it looks cool #there's a couple people who are worse off than me in terms of how much they've done but also theres a couple that are nearly done #looking at them like god I wish that were me..... #and also I think I accidentally overwrote a shot I worked on for 3 hours. killing myself #maybe I can restore a previous version but its on the school computer and the school is closed for a week so im not gonna know until then

[madamlava]

Its Still You - Sketch

#I know its nothing groundbreaking but this is one of many lines from the game spinning in my head at dangerous velocity right now #undertale #ut #undertale fanart #sketch #its still you #its you #chara #chara dreemurr #frisk

[cutemeat]

i need Sunny’s women like i need blood in my veins

#its carnal at this point its alarming #yeah im thinking abt maureen #dennis didnt know what he had #queen of manipulation high maintenance catgirl with no job thats the fucking dream #maureen was litrlly the only person who could beat him at his own game thats why he went back to mac #‘some people just find the middle of the woods romantic i guess’ she implication’d your ass but alright sure #hes a fag thats the real problem but ofc he’ll never admit that #cuz again to glenn the only thing funnier than a fag is a closeted fag so we’ll just have to deal until the show croaks #sorry ik ive said nothing groundbreaking im just bored and overstimulated at work need the outlet #tw f slur #in tags

[llitchilitchi]

:/

#vent incoming #id really appreciate it if my ex uhhh respected my boundaries #like its nothing groundbreaking #but she likes to go out with people drinking and whenever she does shes very unfocused when responding to my messages #(we have lengthy conversations about stuff and she keeps them going despite hanging out with people which no comment there) #and I always get overwhelmed and anxious when it goes on for a long while because I cant make sense of the conversation n stuff #so i tried to push the conversations into a lull whenever she was out #and last weekend i kinda lost my patience with it and told her directly that i dont fuck with this anymore and i refuse to do this #we can have a few 'hi how are you where you at how you doing whats up' kinda stuff going but never the in depth stuff we talk about #she was whiny but eventually just let me have my way because i wouldnt entertain the rest #and today she was responding kinda funny and i wondered if its just me being bad at talking again or if shes busy with stuff #no :) she went out and didnt tell me :) and she just slipped up because she was frustrated about her friend getting drunk :) #i shouldnt even be posting this but ugh I am just. so tired #i get it she missed me cause i was away for most of the day and wouldnt even respond cause i dont use data when im out #but pulling this is just not it

[toestalucia]

(finished the event story) i rly have to make that post i thought about making during anni (in pain)

#stardust speaking ! #theres one line in there that im like. oh that was not great for my lil gran #ill make a post this wknd or something ohhh immmmmm..........................its nothing groundbreaking its just lines that are very #specifically 'oh no' for me

[sad--tree]

kinda assumed ppl were overstating the drums or w/e being Like That on st anger but. oh my god no they. they really are very very much Like That

#idk Music WordsTM but this does not sound. right. help. its so intrusive. #i dont even think the songs are bad! is this what ppl mean when they talk about bad production on an album??? #watching some kind of monster did not prepare me for how these songs actually sound..... #i thought the snippets u hear in the doc sounded fine..... #whats up yall month number two (2) of my mental metallica lockdown :( finally branching in2 some other albums.... #incidentally i enjoyed 72 seasons actually #like. theres nothing really uhh groundbreaking? in it but it was enjoyable! i like it! esp you must burn! and inamorata #my friend said he thought it sounded 'overproduced' and tbh i have ZERO idea what that means when ppl use that as a descriptor for any music #like ive heard plenty of stuff id maybe call UNDERproduced but over?? some1 explain #same friend said he thought james hetfield 'hasnt aged well' and good god if he saw the old men i wanna fuck..... #this friend is Older tho so i dont like. make those kinda comments with him lol it would maybe. be Weird. #anyways i should look up live versions of the st anger songs i wonder if they sound different/better ?

[phoenixcatch7]

Having been on several fanfic sites for several years, I can hands down GUARANTEE you that anything 'classic media' has done, fanfic has done better.

#This is not hyperbole I am 100% serious #“I wish there was a book or show where *insert thing that happened in a fanfic I read at midnight*” #Anything. Anything from weird puns to comprehensive and in depth analyses of the human condition #I see people gushing about the 'groundbreaking ideas' and 'awesome concepts' they read about and I'm just like #Do you want that with a dash of gay found family hurt/comfort or a heaping of misogyny #Once I read some shmancy prim article discussing the use of themes in some famous classical text I'd read and like. #Off the top of my head I listed three fics that had done it without the unexpected and unappreciated assault scene partway through the book #At least fic authors TAG #Ao3s filter system and the increasing lack of blurbs on books has ruined me for normal reading activities #I get a book for Christmas or something and I look at it and there are no archive warnings or desc or additional tags #No word count chapter count nothing #Anyway this is about how fanfic is a superior media to the competitive publishing industry of today and if a fic makes enough readers cry #It should get automatically added to the literary canon #Makes one feel more emotion than I did with the school assigned reading and there's SIGNIFICANTLY LESS chance of untagged 18+ stuff #ao3 #Long tags #I did my final project of the concept of the literary Canon and its requirements and LET ME TELL YOU #Fanfic absolutely counts the higher ups are just cowards #'this book is a literary masterpiece it breaks down the human understanding of the future and our capabilities of distinguishing reality #From fiction and how one might develop detrimental coping mechanisms to handle it that leads to almost self destructive behaviour due to a #Self enforced blindness that renders one an outsider in their own life and by the way its all a metaphor for the oversaturation of media #Accessible at a young age leading to Youths Of Today absorbing negative traits unrelated to their environment through escapism ' #Great I can list ten self insert fanfics with that exact premise I can just read them for free #And I can guarantee no racism or Victorian era style sexism

[narwhalandchill]

Finally got around to finishing up the teal mask story (im lying im still not completely done but anyway) in scarlet after procrastinating on it for all this time and like. everyone and their mom has inevitably voiced the sentiment multiple times over but god i will kill for ogerpon

#its not like its that groundbreaking of a storyline or anything but 😭😭😭😭 #has done nothing wrong ever in its life etc etc etc #honestly i rly do like this more story centric approach to legendaries it makes catching them feel less ethically dubious than just #catch god for dex collection purposes HSJSJSKDJAKDL #(treasures of ruin have left the chat) #rambles #pokemon

[maliciousalice]

OKAY WHATEVER!!!!

#yeah im in love sue meeeee #this movie was so hard to find god #thankyou baylardo for sharing it with me #i want a copy of my own but its nearly impossible to find a hard copy #maybe...maybe i can see her returning as admiral janeway #her acting and the costumes were lovely #super quaint movie nothing groundbreaking but i love that

[vexx-the-egg]

I liked the barbie movie but I really wish it was as cool as Conservatives make it out to be.

#' THE GAY TRANS MINORITY BRAINWWASH MOVIE AHHHH' <- god i wish it was #but its just. hey maybe sexism is bad. let this white perfect beutiful women feel beutiful. and let her deal with the death of childhood #which is good its a good movie. i did actually cry watching some of the parts #but its not. its not groundbreaking or nothing

[hyperfixation-or-death]

idk maybe I'm just an aroace who likes to overthink tv shows, but nothing is ever going to top the scene in Parallels where they do the trope of "flashbacks to affectionate moments/realization of feelings montage" and the trope of "it was always you, always us. and that hasn't changed." and the trope of "oh. you've always been here. and you're still here, even after everything." and the trope of "everything I feel for you is reciprocated and that fact is just now occurring to me" and the trope of "whether or not there's any way to fix what just happened, I still need to somehow communicate that I love you." and the trope of "character is brought back from their lowest point because of how absolutely loved they are" AND!! the show does it platonically.

victor and romane's friendship is given a level of significance that disney often only applies to romantic relationships. and the friendship of all four kids gets affirmed in that same scene. there is a romantic subplot, but it's so understated, because it's not the point. and the show is aware that it's not the point! the show takes themes about friendship and family and how the love we have for our childhood/teenage friends can be so enduring and powerful, and it carries out these themes with such a genuine sincerity that i lose my mind a little every time i watch the show.

and maybe i just have low standards from being bombarded with forced romance plots in everything i watch! i don't know! but Parallels on disney+ gives me a lot of thoughts as an aromantic person! and this scene in particular unlocks bonus levels of emotion in my head!

#parallels #disney parallels #paralleles #disney paralleles #parallels disney #aromantic #tropes #BUT MAYBE THAT'S JUST ME. I LITERALLY DO NOT KNOW. #the age old question of “is this show legitimately groundbreaking? or do i just not watch anything else and have nothing to compare it to?” #i'm just sitting here tenderly holding my silly little disney time travel comfort show like its my pet cat

[mushroomteddy]

as soon as i saw who was representing sweden i knew there was no point in watching it this year cause it was a dead given they'd win

#sweden? winning eurovision?how groundbreaking #and this is nothing against the singer its just #it was obvious as always