#they are literally two sides of the same coin

[radioactive-earthshine]

I'm still not over how both Kon and Bart were literally brought into the world instilled with only a fantasy version of what the world was like and had to pantomime their way through the real world based on their limited understandings and just had to figure it all out.

Bart drew the larger straw when he got mentors that generally had his best interests at heart, but none of them ever really understood him and he was expected to just get being 'normal' when he would never be normal.

Kon had a tougher time being groomed + exploited by numerous people all within a few weeks of his life but he had an advantage over Bart by having a better idea of what the world was supposed to look like and had the ability to adapt to things quicker than Bart.

They are literally two sides of the same coin - born at a terrible disadvantage while the world demanded from them conformity that neither could possibly ever give.

#konbart #bartkon #superpulse #kon el #conner kent #bart allen

[lukecastellanshandholder]

On today’s episode of "posts from PJO fans with absolutely no media literacy that made me want to pull my hair out":

I just saw someone on TikTok say "ok but why is he (Percy) always getting compared to Luke? It’s like they (the fandom) want him to be Luke."

Like… tell me you read the books with your eyes closed without saying it. It’s not just the fandom who has made up this "trend" of comparing them to one another, it’s literally something that happens in the books! It’s a main plot point to their character development! They are two sides of the same coin. Their lives are pretty much running in a parallel line next to each other!

Just… how can you have the answer right there and still manage to get the question wrong? I just…

I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed 😭💔

#hmm I wonder why the two characters who are exactly alike are being compared to one another?? #things that really make you go hmm #i hate it here #percy jackson #luke castellan #pjo

[deathsbestgirl]

So Never Again. Just saw this post and the way she looks up at him there is on a level with Mulder’s famous Fallen Angel eyes and his reaction to her? He doesn't melt? He chooses violence and being a dick? Please tell me why.

i LOVE this question because it is so easy to see it from scully's perspective. it's her episode. but you really have to think about mulder's perspective.

for mulder, this seems out of nowhere, and in his mind she was extremely inattentive with his informant on a case he's taking seriously. he doesn't understand what she's really asking or what the problem is, and a big part of that is she doesn't exactly either. it's almost like she's blaming him for the stand still in her life, but at the same time wants to be seen & appreciated (in a way that she understands, can feel, can see). and i don't think she could have figured it out the way she needed to with mulder. she needed the safety of talking to a stranger, someone inconsequential to her life. (like there's no way she could have that "other fathers" conversation with him lol) so ed jerse is the one to give her that. (she does with ed what she can't yet do with mulder. something neither of them are ready for and she isn't brave enough to do yet. and like. idk i just think she needed this! regardless of mulder lol)

like: "this isn't about you. or maybe it is, indirectly. i don't know." the one thing she got right is "i don't know" lol so of course mulder is confused!!

if you place leonard betts first, she's contemplating what she's leaving behind. has she had any impact working on the x files? on mulder? who is going to remember her? what evidence of her life will be left? in that office...it looks like she's had very little effect. (but i do not subscribe to this one.)

if never again is first, which i like better lollll (it makes more sense to me. i understand why people like lb first, it's more clear cut. it puts a reason behind her behavior. but i just don't think it quite fits. scully literally doesn't know what's wrong. if she was already worried about cancer, i think it would come across differently. but she's frustrated & confused and she wants for something she can't admit, express, pinpoint, articulate? idk what word i'm looking for lol) scully's just hit that point in her pattern again, her cycle...it took her four years, and after some rough cases (paper hearts – she couldn't help mulder despite how she tried, el mundo gira – a dead end. and idk, so many of their cases. and she's always wrong, he always does the crazy thing, he's always hurt)...well anyway, at the end he's still asking "all because i didn't get you a desk?" he still isn't quite understanding, until she says it's her life and he almost says "yes but it's become mine." he doesn't say it, they sit in silence, and in leonard betts, he tells her she did a good job & should be proud. all his little jokes like he's trying to make her laugh, to get back to their usual banter. because he wants to make her smile. so he understood at least a little by leonard betts. but they also come to a silent understanding. i just love the way kae talks about it. and i think the end is kind of the explanation for the beginning. the end is the real answer to the whole episode, and what it took to get there...and this post here, kae just understands him and talks about him in a way that i feel. it's exactly what i see in a way i could never articulate. (and she does my favorite thing!!! connects different moments. the characterization is so good.) and she has such a special insight to both of them, different patterns, but to me two sides of the same coin.

and so, either way, at the beginning of never again, he's completely thrown because he doesn't know. this is when their bad verbal communication and personal issues/insecurities/fears take hold. they're both so good at taking too much responsibility.

we're seeing into scully's mind a bit, but we aren't really seeing into his. but he's afraid, he doesn't want her to leave (something he's feared for a long time), he thinks space is the answer to whatever's going on. but he's also kinda needy and he can't just say that. so he calls her and they misunderstand each other again and she makes a date. he isn't trying to be an ass but he's scared & defensive, and he gets like that when she makes him nervous. like whenever she believes (beyond the sea, revelations, all souls, en ami). it feels like that to me. he's afraid, but this time he thinks he's the problem, their work is the problem. and he kinda said the worst thing he could say to her at that moment. "you were just assigned" — he has no idea how she understood that, how it hurts her. (and she's not thinking about how he means it, what he thinks/feels/fears.) and really, it's because she sucks at just saying the thing as much as he does. it takes them a long time to work out their direct communication. their unspoken communication, the way they work on their cases doesn't translate to their personal relationship. as intimate as their partnership is, working through their own issues takes time and it's those things that hinder them moving forward for so long. ya know?

i think @randomfoggytiger talks about it beautifully here — in depth essay on never again. here they touch on mulder's fear/walls & scully's insecurities/needs. it's a journey!! which they talk about here. and i forget what this one was (lol) but i'm sure i saved it for a reason: a little master post. i love the way foggy breaks things down, especially visually. it's something i could never do.

i also reblogged some other never again posts. not completely on topic but it's all connected!! (you can definitely go through my never again tag to see more probably too!)

#calimanc #asks #never again #dana scully #fox mulder #LITERALLY I DONT SAY ANYTHING #READ THE LINKED POSTS #lmaooooooo #my brain is an ouroboros tbh #mulder and scully #the x files

[opencommunion]

"Throughout much of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries the terms Zionist ‘colonisation’ and Jewish ‘colonies’ in Palestine were proudly proclaimed and universally used by Zionist leaders and writers. Benjamin Lee Gordon’s New Judea: Jewish Life in Modern Palestine and Egypt, published in Philadelphia in 1919, a typical Zionist publication of the period, uses terms such as ‘Jewish colonies’ and ‘Jewish colonists’ in Palestine dozens of times throughout the book, systematically and as a term of endearment. The same colonialist methodology and terminology are found in the 1950s in the publications of Israeli diplomat Yaakov Morris — the father of Israeli historian Benny Morris — including his 1953 book Pioneers from the West: History of Colonization in Israel by Settlers from the English-speaking Countries, just one example of this proudly colonialist Zionist tradition. In Zionist writings the Hebrew words for Moshava and (plural) Moshavot were synonymous with Jewish ‘colony’/‘colonies’ and Jewish colonists. Indeed ‘Moshava’ and ‘Moshavot’ were coined as a literal translation of the English terms ‘colony’ and ‘colonies’. This proudly trumpeted colonial legacy of early Zionist colonists and pioneers has been suppressed or deleted from memory in recent Zionist historiography, including the writings of the Israeli revisionist historians.

... The first Zionist colonies ... were universally described as ‘colonies’ in both Zionist and professional literature of the time. Their economy was based on agriculture, and, like all European colonies, they exploited cheap indigenous labour. ... Also, crucially, these early Jewish colonies were preceded by and modelled on the German Christian Templer colonies established in Palestine in the middle to late nineteenth century — with farmhouses of one or two storeys and with slanting tiled roofs and shuttered windows. Interestingly even today the ‘German Colony’ south-west of the Old City of Jerusalem, established in 1878 by members of the German Templer Society (Tempelgesellschaft), is known in Hebrew as Hamoshava Hagermanit. Earlier in 1868 the ‘German Colony’ in Haifa was set up by the Templers. This was followed by another six German colonies. ... For the Templers colonising Palestine was part of their faith: the Holy Land had to be prepared for the Second Coming of Christ. Secular Zionist historiography depicts mid-nineteenth-century German colonists as forerunners of the Zionist movement, and early Zionists themselves adopted them as a ‘model to be emulated.’ In Zionist writings the Templers were considered to be responsible for bringing technology to Palestine, in architecture, agriculture and industry, and as a symbol of progress and modernity. In Yehuda ve-Yerushalayim, the newspaper of Yoel Moshe Salomon, he himself wrote about the Templer colonies:

‘We have also noticed the colonies established over the past few years by the Germans from Wittenburg (not of our people) and their homes are built in good order, as in all the cities of Europe, with wide streets and magnificent buildings, so that anyone who walks along their streets will forget that he is walking in the country of the soul, and will feel as though he is in one of the populated cities of Europe.’

... Following in the footsteps of the German Templer colonists, the ‘American Colony’ was established in Jerusalem in 1881 by members of a Christian messianic society. A neighbourhood and a famous hotel in East Jerusalem are still known by that name. Today the side streets of the former ‘German Colony’ are named by Israel after Christian Zionists and European imperialists, including South African prime minister Jan Smuts, British prime minister David Lloyd George, British Labour Party leader Josiah Wedgewood, and Sir Wyndham Henry Deedes, a Christian Zionist British general, who was also the chief secretary to British High Commissioner of Palestine Sir Herbert Samuel from 1920 to 1922. Deedes represented a British Christian Zionism which was deeply entwined with Western Christian imperialism in the Middle East. This Christian Zionism, represented then by the British Empire and now by the American empire, is deeply rooted in the politics of uniqueness and exceptionalism and the supremacist biblical theology of the people of God, ‘elect nations’ and ‘chosen peoples’, nations which are the heirs of God’s election of the biblical Israelites. This Christian Zionist imperialist mission includes a duty to patronise the ‘Jewish people’ by ‘restoring’ them to their ‘ancestral homeland’ in Palestine, backed by a global Christian empire, then British and now American."

Nur Masalha, The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory (2012)

#palestine #zionism #colonialism #imperialism #history #library

[v1ckymult1fand0m]

Ξαναείδα πρόσφατα το επεισόδιο 20 και είμαι πεπεισμένη ότι όταν η Αγγέλα έλεγε στον Φώτη για την Ντάλια, που μπορεί να πληρώσει και μετά να εξαφανιστεί, έκανε χοντρό projecting. Σκεφτείτε το: η Αγγέλα δεν θα πλήρωνε και εκτός της 5αδας δεν έχει κανέναν που να την κρατάει στην Αθήνα. Το Τσακάλι δεν ήξερε τίποτα για εκείνη πέρα από το μικρό της οπότε δεν θα μπορούσε να την απειλήσει. Και το πιο βασικό κομμάτι είναι μερικές ατάκες που λέει: "Έχει μείνει πολλά χρόνια απομονωμένη, δεν της είναι δύσκολο να διαλέξει ξανά την απομόνωση", "Μπορεί να πάει οπουδήποτε για να γλιτώσει". Η Αγγέλα ταιριάζει και με τις 2 αυτές ατάκες. Ζει εδώ και 10 χρόνια χωρίς καθόλου στενές σχέσεις και έχει την τάση να το σκάει όταν τα πράγματα ζορίζουν. Πιστεύω πως σε εκείνη την σκηνή η Αγγέλα βρισκόταν σε εσωτερικό δίλημμα καθώς το ένστικτο της έλεγε να φύγει και να γλιτώσει το τομάρι της ενώ η καρδιά της έλεγε να μείνει μαζί με την 5αδα και να μην ξαναπαρατήσει όλες της τις σχέσεις.

#Ντάλια Χατζηαλεξανδρου #para 5 #παρα 5 #στο πάρα 5 #στο παρα πεντε #Αγγέλα Ιωακειμίδου #sto para 5 #sto para pente #τα παραλελς ανάμεσα στην Αγγέλα και την Ντάλια είναι τόσο subtle αλλά και τόσο εμφανή ΑΑΑΑΑ #Ειχαν και οι δύο κυριως σύντομες ερωτικές σχέσεις που δεν κατέληξαν πουθενά #(Λευτέρης / Ο Βέλγος πρώην αρραβωνιαστικός της Νταλιας / ολοι οι γκόμενοι της Αγγέλας) #έφαγαν και οι 2 μπουλινγκ στο σχολείο #οι γονεις και τον 2 δεν ηταν ιδανικοί #Έζησαν ενα παρα πολυ μεγάλο κομματι της ζωης τους στην απομόνωση με ελάχιστα κοντινα πρόσωπα #they are literally two sides of the same coin #μα το θεό θα μπορούσα να γραψω εκθεση για αυτές τις δύο

[nowihatemyself]

fearless & red being the only albums that have been re-recorded and the fact that fearless & red taylors fought in the lwymmd music video and the lyric “how can a person know everything at eighteen but nothing at twenty-two?” etc.

#they are literally two sides of the same coin #m* #//

[maxellminidisc]

Idk if you just can't face the fact that the apartheid state of Israel that you're in support of is inherently violent in not only literal violence by inacting a genocidal war against an entire people, but in its very foundation as a settler state that forcibly displaced people using international law, military power, etc, and then spent decades of time and money to further dehumanize said people so you'd be ok with the socially engineered violence so that it has a right to exist in your eyes, than yeah you're STILL supporting zionism lol all zionism is inherently wrong and it is violent!!

#like cant believe i have to say this but 'literal' as in physical violence and social violence are what? EQUALLY violent #especially as tools of colonialism #there is no distinction theyre just two sides of the same coin...

[katabay]

ANDREY STAMATIN

Keep a close eye on Peter. You'd become desperate and turn into a villain without him.

I spend a lot of time thinking about daniil and peter, but something just clicked into place for me with andrey. so!

I am. currently untangling this thread of thoughts about the stamatin twins and daniil and this kind of. triangle that's happening. a three fold bullet for sure, the kind of recognition-awareness-understanding where three people become one, but to step back from that. when daniil and andrey talk, there's a specific shape of peter that stands in his conversational absence. so: triangle formation. it's opposite-adjacent-complementary to daniil and peter's conversations. it all goes back to that first conversation you have with andrey. it's giving knife. love it!

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

#OBSESSED WITH HIM #like i was Intrigued by him but i think re reading girard made me go OH i understand you now #wild that i never connected dots between daniil 'Defeat Death' dankovsky and andrey 'Sentenced To Death In Four Countries' stamatin #the transgressive aspect to andrey was like. yeah buddy. you and daniil are reflections in that way of course. but now im like. #oh. okay! got it. #andrey was always harder for me to get a grasp on because i work better at analyzing character pairs but you cant do andrey #without some version of peter and that's three people (debatably four). thankfully. AW2 has me thinking thoughts about #characters in stacks of 5. so now i get to think new thoughts about this game #pathologic #andrey stamatin #shdhghgh classic patho dialogue with patho 2 character designs. i will do it again until we get the bachelor's route #ehdhghgh i wanted to talk about girard's triangle that's happening too but it's not quite. right. #because daniil is the mediator but the thing desired is an abstract-literal thing that all three of them are reaching for #but are unable to conceptualize without the other two in place #i'll get back to this thought later. but its like. the twin dialogue of pulling in opposite directions. but now 3 sides of the same coin #coherent recognition is achieved with. daniil. and also transformative violence as a catalyst.

[fluffydice]

Lol I wonder if Kusuo lost that final little bit of self worth once he stopped the volcano. Like that was his whole life goal all those years. He didn’t even give himself time to think of a future beyond that. And once he stopped it, what was there left for him to do? He’d served his purpose.

I genuinely think losing his powers at his young age wasn’t really a good idea. All of his worth is conflated with his powers, both in his own mind and in others. Think of how excited Toritsuka and Kusuke were that he was getting them back, regardless of how anxious it made Kusuo. Accepting them as part of himself was a good step in the right direction, but he needs to learn how to acknowledge that he is a person who has value beyond what his powers can do. It’s something I think that can only come with age for him. He needs time to unlearn everything he’s grown up believing.

#the rest of his self worth comes from that almost defensive ego he has whenever he’s trying to distance himself #his god complex is so fucked up because he hates himself for it #god he should be more like teruhashi…not the way she literally runs herself into the ground trying to perform #but the way she is so confident that she IS all that and that it’s a good thing #it reminds me less of two sides of the same coin and more of the tragedy comedy masks #idk just thinking #saiki k #fluffy writes an essay

[tuppaware-art]

✨ you are two sides of the same coin ☀️

#bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #king arthur #merlin fanart #merlin fandom #merthur #merlin emrys #two sides of the same coin #they’re literally soulmates let them kiss #i had the idea for this at like 3am

[whataboutthreateninganass]

Merlin and Arthur's prophecy:

“The Golden Age is promised. The Great King will come, born in love and death. He will be a miracle, Blessed by the Religion itself. The Great Purge of his Kingdom will follow. Dragon will slay dragon. Flame will die in flame. The kin of the Isle will burn. And from the ash, The Great Sorcerer will come, born in death and love. He will be Divine, Blessed of the Religion itself. They will mend the chasm. They will unite Albion. Two Dragons will rule the age of prosperity. They will come. It is promised.”

#screaming because they're LITERALLY PARALLELS IN EVERY WAY #TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN #AND THEY WERENT FUCKNG JOKING #Merlin is because Arthur is #like #anyways #from a fic I'll never finish #lol #prophecy #merlin emrys #bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin bbc #merthur #merlin and arthur #emrys

[dirtytransmasc]

Alicent and Aegon are so Virgin Mary and Jesus coded, in a sick and twisted way that it barely makes sense, but at the same time just... does.

a mother and her child born damned from the start, yet she loved him to her core, accepting her fate, accepting she would lose him and then herself.

she carried him, birthed him, raised him, loved him, devoted her very being to him... she lost him, grieved him, lost her mind in his absence. the gods her only respite, yet, when she needed them most, when she needed them to protect her son, her baby, her reason for being, where were they?

#the catholic guilt and angst is getting to me #the mommy issues I used to project on The Mother Mary are now being projected onto Alicent #Aegon and Jesus are literally the same person but also not and they parallel one another perfectly but its also an insult to say they do #two side of the same coin??? #two sons damned by their fathers two mothers damned by their sons both only having each other #maybe #I don't know anymore #it just feels right in my gut #and I'm so tired and just feeling... things... and this post was born #aegon ii targaryen #aegon targaryen #alicent hightower #pro alicent hightower #pro team green #hotd #house of the dragon #tw religion #tw religious themes #tw religious imagery

[sle3pyc]

A bit of an analysis on q!slime as a character throughout Purgatory

So q!slime obviously lost his mind and was the first to lose himself (changing skin, gas mask cult) he also found himself a family that he never really had before. Even before quesadilla island he was alone and then on the island he forced himself into isolation because he blamed himself for tilín.

during purgatory he learned that he didn’t need to have JuanaFlippa around to be happy, he even had a second chance with q!Marianna. But he had a family, one that was brought together by their struggles and they all needed each other.

But then, when they were all together facing down the eggs he was the first to step back and look at what was happening. And you could see that he realised he was losing his family, that they had more important things to worry about now. So as soon as he could, he ran and made his way to the boat because he HAD to get back to JuanaFlippa because he needed her again.

Anyway his character is so tragic and I need more people to be interested in his lore because he’s excluded from so many things for some reason

#qsmp #slimecicle #charlie slimecicle #qslimecicle #i love his character #literally so tragic #and don’t get me started if the scu is apart of it at all #and also the las nevadas #like if the code somehow corrupts his memories and he gets them back #him and Quackity are so tragic I need them both to get their memories back #two sides of the same coin

[spinaholi]

someone play the moon will sing by the crane wives i’m thinking about cassandra and her wife rn

#i can’t believe they married each other theyre literal opposites two sides of the same coin type deal #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #d20 #fhjy #cassandra #spina speaks

[scattered-winter]

the fascinating thing about the maze runner books vs the movies is that they're both tragedies, but just...different kinds. in the books no matter what wicked did, they never got close to a cure. it was all for nothing: all the torture, all the death, all the money and effort spent trying to cure something that was just unstoppable. the world burned while a few hundred immunes survived, and there was no other way the story could have gone.

but in the movies they were so close. thomas was the cure. they had it in their hands and could have saved everyone, but they were just too late. wicked was destroyed, the last city fell, and with it the world's last hope for a cure. they almost got the cure in time. they almost made it in time to save newt. they almost won.

#tragedy where it was all inevitable vs tragedy where victory was within reach but it was just too late for everyone. fight. #anyway i am insane about this tonight. good day #just watched the death cure deleted scenes for the first time and man...................................................................... #the way all the complexity to gally's character was practically left out of that movie. what if i explode. #also the way everyone hates teresa for LITERALLY no reason like girl........god forbid morally gray women do anything. #honestly while we're talking. thomas is morally gray too. #he's choosing himself + his friends over the entire world. while teresa is sacrificing her friends to save the world. #two sides of the same morally gray coin etc etc. i will defend teresa until the day i die btw. #not idly do i choose my blog title. #but anyway it's just insane to me how much moral complexity and nuance there is in these books/movies #and how much of it was left OUT of the movies too. litcherally insane. #oooough.....role reversal au.................. #tmr mutuals here's some food. i havent maze runner posted in ages but the brainworms are coming back #winter speaks #the maze runner

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

Another L for the Max hating Seb girlies, we love to see it! <3

#f1 #formula 1 #formula one #max verstappen #sebastian vettel #seb texting him congratulations for winning and telling him that he's got to do it #ie break Seb's record #my heart!! #but like if you remember or liked red bull era seb i don't get how you can vehemently hate max so much #because they're two sides of the same coin #and the things people hate max for seb did it first and was 10000 x worse about it lmao #the golden boots? Seb was wearing them at toro rosso i think even before his first race win #no.1? seb after the rule change was the first driver eligible to use it and did #like seb was the og kid derogatory the same way max was when he started #Seb got nicknamed the crash kid and max got called crashstappen when they were literally rookies and learning!!! #let's not forget multi 21 and the psychological torture he put Webber through lmfao #and like even at Ferrari let's not forget that time Seb on the radio told the race director to fuck off #even fucking marko went “too far” and it's helmet Marko ffs lmao #the grid dad propaganda was too successful and Ferrari+ Aston not providing good strategy & competitive cars defo didn't help #but like people who hate max but say they would've supported seb at red bull... #you wouldn't have #do not cite the deep magic to me witch i was there when it was written #seb red bull we were HATED and booed #hey history is a circle #and if you don't remember it you're doomed to repeat it