#mirrors everywhere

[fantascia]

Stop.

Vegaspete trying to hurt each other but hurting themselves. Toddblack trying to hurt each other and hurting themselves.

#vegaspete #kinnporsche #not me #if they could finish the job then the other wouldn’t be standing there in front of them. but they can’t. #their other halves are the same yet opposite #mirrors everywhere

[entertainment]

By popular demand (a reblog from @doodleswithangie) we present the ✨Concussion Cut✨ of Ben Schwartz's (@rejectedjokes) Renfield (@i-am-renfield) Answer Time interview with @overchers.

#renfield #renfieldat #ben schwartz #concussion cut #PSA please be careful of mirrors and glass walls #and brita filters #and refrigerators #they are everywhere #and they are dangerous

[ladyofthecreeddraws]

It's self care to submerge yourself in a tub full of blood you didn't even work for and absolutely do not need, all inside a room full of wall-length mirrors. Obviously.

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion #you know. bathory style #well except for the mirrors but u get it #went full middle school edgelord on this one tbf #blood fuckin everywhere because it's fun #btw listen to Villain by K/DA for this one. it fits. anyway #fanart #m'art

[saikkunen]

The diver was a beloved character I played in one of my films.

#bitch looks in the mirror and sighs dreamily #what was that hercules quote again #''I haven't seen this much love in a room since Narcissus discovered himself.'' #an inspiration to clonefuckers everywhere #alan wake #alan wake 2 #alan wake 2 spoilers #thomas seine #thomas zane #tom zane #zane #ilkka villi #remedy #remedy entertainment #my edits #gif

[newvision]

half the credit goes to my bestest of all friends, @maysthoughts <3 she made me ponder ordinary love

U2, Ordinary Love // Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory // La Dispute, Woman (In Mirror) // Everything Everywhere All At Once // @bicarusgf

#mine #on ordinary love #ordinary love #web weaving #webweaving #intertextuality #someone who will love you in all your damaged glory #raphael bob waksberg #u2 #everything everywhere all at once #la dispute #woman (in mirror)

[kelvingemstone]

always thinking about young cersei lannister in casterly rock! the walls the same colour as her hair. her eyes the same colour as the hangings on the walls. her golden lannister mother dead and the only people left her golden lannister family. the bards playing the rains of castamere every other month under her windows. the crest embroidered into her clothes and stamped into the doors and engraved into the pommels of her guards. the sandstone building up on the hill looking down at its people and sandstone cersei never emerging from it -- golden bird in golden cage becoming golden cage...her blood the same colour as her house!!!!

#got #asoiaf #cersei lannister #having a lot of feelings about her out of nowhere #i just knooooow she's on that jes chastain in crimson peak shit #i just Know tywin had mirrors everywhere in her quarters. i know that the house was made so that it reflected the children back at them but #jaime was always in the training yard and tyrion was never the correct reflection so all that was left was her! #and why should she not think of herself as heir then!!! she was the only one there!!!! #of Course she hates tyrion. she could never fit him in! tywin would never have allowed it #god its so funnnnnn. miss herrrr

[justveeing]

I have had less than 15 minutes of SNW's Jim, and I already did this. What does this say about me.

#James T. Kirk #James Kirk #Jim Kirk #strange new worlds #star trek #star trek fanart #star trek strange new worlds #mirror!Jim #In this universe you only get that necklace when you fight to the death for your vulcan #that prop is so pretty too #see i can sneak spirk EVERYWHERE #lordrawstrek

[specks-of-time]

just thinking about how in Waymond's laundry & taxes speech, the source text of "in another life" is "如果有来生," which is more literally translated to "if we got to live life again" and i'm

#eeaao #everything everywhere all at once #waymond wang #evelyn wang #michelle yeoh #ke huy quan #stephanie hsu #also in the final title card only the O is left unstretched because bagel and #the RACCOON FIGURINE by the mirror in the first karaoke scene!!!

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Flash back, fast forward.

Crozier/Tozer

Nod, shoot.

Shoot, nod.

#the terror #the terror amc #jared harris #david walmsley #my edits #my gifs #my stuff #francis crozier #solomon tozer #parallels mirroring everywhere

[thedawner]

I have this odd fear that, should Too Human ever be re-made, they will change/adapt Midgard and Asgard to the current standards of what cyberpunk aesthetics are aka put giant neon eye strain billboards everywhere.

There was some sort of concept art that sort of veered into that direction at the time though it's a more pleasant kind of neon graphics:

This was an early idea of the Aesir airport, which got cut out from the game or modified to be smaller.

#commentary #too human #this thought was triggered by watching a mirror's edge 1 ambience video and noticing how much more pleasant the city's skyline looked #compared to the second game which also looks wonderful but at the same time the fancy modernized visuals... #... with bold shapes and screens everywhere are a bit too much for my eyes

[velvetjune]

that moment when saga fights against the darkness in her mind place and opens the door to leave and it starts to pan out—showing nothing but stars just like the Night Springs intro before she appears in the dark place’s new york. Traversing the void in between worlds just like her dad. cinema!!

#it’s also creepy. the implication that the dark place is either this other world/entity or something between worlds #it’s huge and nothing but (possibly) was shaped through contact by Zane/alan/artists #I can’t remember exactly the words but that one manuscript with Alan’s scratched out edits #where he called Cauldron lake a black mirror #that just by looking at it you’d know it was ‘too late’ #the mountain being the site of a caldera. as casey says the opening to hell #anyways it’s very existential and terrifying #alan wake 2 #saga anderson #ahhhghghhhhgghh I can’t stop thinking about the ending of this game #saga being an Anderson and a Door. being a seer and maybe even having the ability to traverse worlds. #door being everywhere and in between. all at once. fascinating #I don’t even know if this is the takeaway for that scene. the resemblance to night springs just intrigues me esp since the door manuscript #shows up right after this

[diiin]

J'ai préparé un projet un peu spécial pour la Y/Con, j'espère qu'il rendra bien une fois imprimé... Avant d'en parler plus, quelques extraits 😌 (DES MEUFS. QUI S'AIMENT.)(et des fleurs)

#no fanart no life #Y/Con 2023 #LESBIANS EVERYWHERE #yuri #ruphire #Ruby x Sapphire #Steven Universe #bubbline #Bubblegum x Marceline #adventure time #Kelly x Yorkie #San Junipero #Black Mirror #Sailor Uranus x Sailor Neptune #Sailor Moon #dessin #artists on tumblr #digital art #procreate

[sunkissedpixieee]

I def have a typeee 😮‍💨😮‍💨

#selfie #me #hi #I’m actually a nerd myself #alr posted this everywhere #dirty mirror lol #fave shirt tbh

[divinekangaroo]

i might be super late to the party but i was lurking in he tags and: i would LOVE some more explanation/in depth study of what was going on with Tommy and Finn, especially in the last season. I am still, not confused per es, but just wondering alot about some of the choices

This is so interesting, isn't it, particularly when you look at it comparing what 30yo Tommy says to 11yo Finn in S1 versus what 43yo Tommy says to 25yo Finn in S6.

I will warn this isn't coherent in ANY WAY as my infant is being grumpy, but here's a lump of things which struck me as worthy of indepth consideration:

-S1 Tommy telling Finn "don't be me" versus S6 where Tommy basically forces Finn to break his promise to his wife and drink, a mimicry of all the things Tommy has done (go abstinent, fall off the wagon, break promises to his wives).

-Finn being present at all the various violences the Shelby brothers commit, including as a child picking out his own machete (!!!) for one of the mob battles (think it was Epsom?); doing this well enough that he had a reputation -- Songbird Lady in S5 knew enough about the Shelbys to name her new Songbirds 'Tommy, Arthur and Finn'.

-Accidentally or deliberately, Tommy having set up Finn to develop Tommy's vices - cigarettes, drinking, drugs, whoring - pretty much all by the time Finn turned 16. But S5 Tommy nevertheless being very opposed to Finn developing Tommy's vice for violence and risk-tasking, albeit framed as 'we're too high in criminal hierarchy to do grunt work now' not 'you of all of us never have to risk yourself'

-Finn being involved in and integrated into all their illegal business but as a sort of free labour, gopher ('go for'/fetch like an apprentice, or a squire to a knight) - manning the door, bringing around the car, etc

-Finn seeming to hero-worship Tommy, but actually having a brotherly emotional relationship with Arthur. Tommy to emulate, Arthur to actually be a brother.

-Finn and Arthur being the only ones willing to entertain a conversation with their father on his return - Finn trusted Arthur not Tommy, Finn had no father figure, and Tommy did not fill this father figure space or Finn never would have gone with Arthur.

- Tommy brokering Arthur, John and Polly's marriages, and endorsing Ada's partnerships before the family accept them (and Tommy doing what he likes with his own marriages). Then, this way S6 Finn asks Tommy about marrying a girl 'who likes the life' and Tommy telling him no, 'find a girl who doesn't like the life'. And then Finn marries Mary with Tommy's endorsement to the family, and Mary tells Finn not to drink until after 6pm. I did wonder if Mary was the first girl, or was Mary a different girl that Tommy found/endorsed? Because Mary doesn't seem like a girl who likes the life if she's setting limitations on drinking time?

- Finn was effectively raised by Polly. The Shelby mother and father were gone by the time he was 1. Arthur and Tommy (and John) were gone to war by the time Finn was 5, and only returned at when he was 10. Finn had no father figure, ever.

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So there's this odd push-pull where Finn is clearly one of the Bad Shelby Brothers, because at that time, having him integrated and present in their business was likely the best and easiest way to signify he was protected as well as keep an eye on him. They also used him very much like a squire to their knights, doing the labour and supportive chores and shitty jobs in order to learn the higher level jobs. But then those many conflicted occurances where it seems that Tommy wishes Finn wasn't so involved? Tommy wishes in many ways Finn was less invested in the business so Finn could be released from it? But maybe he doesn't, because Tommy in multiple circumstances challenges Finn with presentation of a vice and Finn always, always indulges -- even if that time, Tommy said don't rather than do?

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Then we have this interesting symbolic thing happening in S6 between Duke and Finn and Tommy, all revolving around watches.

Duke steals Arthur's watch -- 'I can tell the time' - and in S5, Michael's supposed takeover piece has this strong sense of time -- time for the next generation to step up and time for old men like Tommy to step off the stage and Michael fully brings Finn into it (with Finn's consent/support, or unexpectedly??) and the camera focuses on Finn. So, linked to Michael's failed takeover via the motif of time, Duke can also tell it's time for the next generation, demonstrated by getting one over on ol' Arthur?

Then, Duke only believes Tommy is his father after Tommy explains about Duke's mum's watch that actually, Tommy stole in his youth; and Tommy's brought Duke into the fold so preciptiously because Tommy's (due to terminal diagnosis) running out of time to tidy up his family's loose ends and has to do this now. But also, Duke is symbolically returning time to Tommy that Tommy otherwise wouldn't have by bringing back Tommy's decades-old stolen watch?

Then Tommy has that explosion at Finn about drinking when he wants to and uses Finn's watch to make his point: that says Shelby and you're a Shelby so you tell the watch what time it is. Behind all that is this sense that I bet Tommy wishes he could control time, too, because he'd love to wind it back right now that his time is running out, but also, Finn is a young Shelby and could determine it's time for himself to step up if he simply stopped doing what Tommy kept telling him to do?

In a world where Tommy wasn't running out of time and/or Duke didn't appear, I imagine Finn may have been brought to one side for a quiet chat about Billy Grade and his role in Polly's death. I imagine Finn would have been absolutely destroyed that his sole true caretaker figure was dead because of his loose tongue. I imagine he would have killed Billy, or at least supported Billy being executed. But in this world, Tommy is dying and running out of time, and Tommy is delegating many of his painful tasks to others to do because he can't do everything right now, and why not test both Duke and Finn? Test this next generation as to their readiness to take his place? And who's left in the next generation but for Finn and Duke given Michael's proven himself unsuitable and Charlie is far too young? (I'm sure Uncle Charlie probably had some secret remit to re-home Duke if Duke failed in that scenario too)

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And I also find it a super interesting parallel that Tommy forces Finn to demonstrate Shelby family loyalty by shooting his best friend, an act Tommy himself did with shooting Alfie for Alfie's betrayal that nearly killed Arthur. In this instance Arthur only almost died so Alfie only almost died - whereas Billy had to really fully die.

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I mean, none of this gets to a satisfactory conclusion, it's just a bunch of conflicted threads/thoughts. I feel Tommy was vaguely treating Finn like a squire in a faint anticipation of one having Finn step up and take over the business from him, there's a near 20-year age gap between them, but Tommy was always conflicted by this because 1) he didn't really want his littlest brother to have to do the same shit he did, and 2) Finn was not leadership material, smart or cunning in any way, he was really just a consumer of the Shelby proceeds and always obeyed and never really acted to assert himself in the hierarchy. This faintest possibility of Finn taking over was then derailed heavily by Michael who was smart so Tommy dropped those vague unformed thoughts about Finn, but after Tommy knew Michael would be out of the picture in some way in S4 when suspicions start to rise? Finn starts to show up again in Tommy's arc in a very different way, and is put under various levels of pressure, right up to this S6 contrived scenario between Finn and Duke.

I get a sense that over time, Tommy challenged Finn repeatedly with situations of vice, corruption, conflict, difficulty, in the hope Finn would demonstrate enough strength to push back against Tommy instead of performing the vice. But Finn never did, and even when he fucked up, it was a silly mistake not worthy of any respect, not even in the way Michael is worthy of the respect of being killed; and so he is always framed in Tommy's mind as the weak one. There's a clannish behaviour (where clans are about constantly fluid status, not granted/earned and static rank) where you only get status if you behave in a way that already is of that status. Finn never, ever did this. Tommy then contrives a situation of extreme pressure as a last ditch effort to see if Finn will stop being that squire, weak one, or will he finally act according to the status he should be able to claim.

It's also this working class thing of dumping shit and abuse on your sons until your sons are strong enough to force you to stop. Finn's not a son, but that mentality...

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I'm sorry this is so rambly, one of those fun things that it takes more time to be brief and succinct than just word-vomit on a screen XD Post S6, I have only two fic concepts in my to-write list, and one of them is 100% about Finn, trying to reconcile all of the above. I think Finn's actor did an amazing job of packing so much pain into that final scene it'd be a disappointment if any eventual movie doesn't give him a heavy arc.

#finn shelby #fannish thoughts #peaky blinders #tommy shelby #one of the more complex relationships because it feels so inconsistent #and there's parallels or mirroring going on everywhere #a finn who's gone through wwii speaks to a tommy who's gone through wwi on a very different level #give me 1940s fic between them #michael-tommy makes sense #finn-tommy is so fraught #finn-tommy is like the lizzie-tommy equivalent in terms of fascination for me because so much is left to subtext and matters offscreen

[starheirxero]

brief break from the lord eclipse posting for some nice eclipse posting:

I rediscovered this song “you smell of dead flowers” and the last few lines immediately reminded of solar and his sun and I just grgrhergraragh!!!!!

“You smell of dead flowers / I smell of the sewer I rot in” has the vibe of solar thinking back on his sun, who maybe once had a sweet scent to him but the memory has since been tarnished and twisted with grief that dead flowers are the only thing that come to mind. that, paired with the next line, gives the impression that he puts himself below his sun; that he is something that rots and pollutes(“because if I wasn’t, my sun wouldn’t be dead, right?”).

The next lines hammer that in some more, with “I’m ashamed of all I am now / and all I am now / is painful” really cementing the vibe of his low self worth and I just. I just!!! Idk!!! It makes me terribly emotional to think of their dynamic and how solar could harbor a lot of grief, regret, and self hatred because of what he “did” to his sun and i’m just. ueueueue,,,,,

#xero says things #xero thoughts and rambles #angst #THEY MAKE ME SO SAD. THEY MAKE ME SOOOOO FUCKING SAD #I don’t think about them /that/ often but when I do I feel my bawling my eyes out everywhere forever (like now) #his passive suicidal behavior could b linked 2 a lot of that grief for his sun too…… #do you think he looks in the mirror sometimes and thinks it should have been him who ‘died’ in the transfer? #do you think he looks at our sun and has this idea that he can make up for lost time- #-but also is too afraid to get close because what if he does it again? #what if his existence harms another lovely person who doesn’t deserve that? #what if that’s how he feels about lunar too? #what if he is just the saddest guy ever :( #sun and moon show #the sun and moon show #tsams #sams solar #solar sams #nice eclipse sams #sams nice eclipse #solar

[stormyoceans]

shots to feel clinically insane about

#looking at this is unlocking something primal in me idk #it may just be that my brain is fried because of the heat and the insomnia but like #THE RANGE THE TALENT THE ACTING THE TENSION THE CHEMISTRY THE FLAVOUR #MIND BLOWING LIFE ALTERING GROUND BREAKING MOMENTS IN TELEVISION HISTORY WHO IS DOING IT LIKE THEM NO ONE #don't even let me start on the mirror with puentalay and the painting with morkday #SYMBOLISM. SYMBOLISM EVERYWHERE #vice versa #last twilight the series #puentalay #morkday #m: txt