#TO AN EXTENT SO LARGE

[lovingempress]

It’s only been a few days and not only is “gaslight gatekeep Goncharov” already a recommended tag on Tumblr,

There are 225 works on AO3, with the first published work there only happening TWO DAYS AGO (Nov 19, 2022)

SOMEONE ELSE MADE A TRAILER????

Y’all are monsters (affectionate) LOL

#unreality #goncharov #gaslight gatekeep goncharov #the only unreality of this post is the idea that goncharov is an actual film #y’all are amazing #i can’t stop laughing #tumblr collectively went- you know what would be funny? #what if we gaslit the Internet about goncharov #and then you COMMITTED #TO AN EXTENT SO LARGE #I CANT EVEN #the saddest part of all this is that goncharov isn’t real #because some of the stuff that people are creating of this is just so so so good #the fanart?? #the introspections?? #the literary dissections?? #this is absolutely the fanfic experience oh my gods #peak tumblr #tumblr culture

[s-aint-elmo]

no thoughts head empty the oppressive stagnancy of legacy in ever after high dragging me round the block yet again

it's such a shame that we get so little explanation about the actual mechanics of destiny, which is the entire premise of the show, bc it's so juicy. like what power does destiny hold when you rip away milton's lies and centuries of assumptions and traditions. esp bc despite raven signing herself as the evil queen in the real storybook of legends, when the snow white fairytale actually happens in dragon games she's playing one of the seven dwarves and her mother has reprised her role. like how much of that was because of the characters' actions and how much was destiny pulling on old, familiar threads. keeps me up at night.

a lot of this is probably just like, plot holes and writer hot potato but i like making it that deep, that's half of the fun. my personal interpretation is that fate is a wild thing that desires repetition and they developed the system of fairytale legacy bloodlines to keep those repetitions predictable and contained, instead of wreaking havoc whenever and wherever they please. 

which lends itself to some really juicy exploration of how legacy is a duty as much as it is a privilege, and how to be a princess or a witch or a hero or a dragon is to be the same thing in the end: the lamb destiny slaughters on the altar to sate the ever-ravenous narrative. to keep the flock safe. keep the unknown that prowls beyond the beaten path at bay. because if a there is always a mother who will be cruel, or a maiden who will fall into a sleep like death, or a child who will become a bird, isn’t it better to know who, and how, and when? isn’t better if it’s you, who has known your whole life that you must be eaten, be poisoned, be stripped of your humanity, rather than anybody else, who wasn’t raised to see it as an honour instead of a great and terrible injustice?

#ever after high #mine #remember when apple asked snow white for advice on yester day and she had nothing useful to say? bc all the problems in her life were #solved by a smile a friend and true love's kiss? #and apple got to experience being disappointed by the parent she placed on a pedestal for the first time ever? that was really fun #don't even get me started by how the class of classics are all called by the names of their roles that is sooooo fun and fucked up #the mantle of your legacy is so large and so heavy that it swallows you up entirely #ik it's for convenience's sake but simply imagine with me. surrendering your true name once your tale begins to bind to the retelling #more strongly. invite the eye of the narrative to fix on you. set destiny on its well-worn tracks and drive it smoothly #to happily ever after #i love the idea of the retellings being ritualistic to an extent. there is so much you could do w destiny #how destiny is a crutch too that prevents u fr growing as a person bc there is nothing life can start that u haven't already seen finished

[horizon-penblade-art]

has anyone done this yet

[image ID: drawings of gem versions of the hermitcraft recap team. pix is a dumortierite, sloy/zloy is an unakite, and lyarrah is an anyolite.]

#hermitcraft recap #gemcyt #pixlriffs #sloyxp #zloyxp #lyarrah #whyy did i decide to make all three of them gems that didn't actually appear in the show lol #i just based their designs on vaguely similar ones #pix is heavily based on zircons and to an extent the rutile twins #sloy is based on a jade bc for the first few iterations i had him *as* a jade but unakite fit the color scheme better #as well as jasper #and the gem-being-the-top-of-the-tie thing comes from the zircons as well #and lyarrah was one of the more interesting ones in terms of inspo bc the thing is. #IRL anyolite is just a less-often used name for a mix of ruby and zoisite #so i couldn't decide whether or not anyolite could only be a fusion #but the fusion of ruby and zoisite would definitely be an anyolite #and we know from garnet and the homeworld garnets that fusions look similar to the standalone gems of the same type #SO ly's design is largely based on garnet and rhodonite #(both fusions involving a ruby and 1 other gem) #whether this particular anyolite is a fusion or not is kinda open to interpretation #if she is then the zoisite gem is on the back of her neck and it's covered by her hair #i have seen variations that pix (and presumably the rest of the recap team) would be humans studying the gems #and as much as i love that idea i also want a team recap fusion so #gem designs :)

[daily-hanamura]

#do you guys ever think about how yosuke is always the one that proposes their outings #yu is the catalyst that brings them together but yosuke is the glue that helps hold them there #thinking about his shadow's comment about how yosuke needs to surround himself with as many people as possible to stave off the loneliness #and to a large extent it kind of still holds true here (and theres nothing wrong with that!) and not only does yu know that #yu doesnt judge him or tease him for it. and like for all the things that yu (or anybody else) teases him about #THAT is not it #Yukiko calls him well connected and friendly aaaaah i cannot get that out of my head ever #and it's also in how his proposals are received by the others - everyone else is always genuinely excited to participate in it #like the motorcycle license and the beach holiday is all your friends can talk about for the days after that #i think its one of those things that imo really add to that... very organic friendship dynamic that the IT have compared to the SEES #or even the PT to some extent #(listen i love the PT dont get me wrong but the IT just have a Something to them) (and i think a lot of it is driven by Yosuke) #his friends rib and tease him because hes so bullyable but they are always always so willing to jump in when he suggests something aaaaaah #and he knows this!! he may not have realised it at first but he does eventually!!! #yosuke truly my beloved my absolute number one love

[fumbles-mcstupid]

BUT HONESTLY

the narrative significance

of two pairs of people:

who both, having once had a close, trusting relationship:

becoming, at some point (past or present), divided:

with one having saved others and risked their life only to sway precariously from a height:

while the other watches and believes them to be dead:

only to learn they are alive:

and warmly reconcile their differences:

one is a clear romantic pairing and the other is...?

also a romantic pairing, that’s what

#Alan x Billy #billyalan #Alan Grant x Billy Brennan #Jurassic Park III #JP3 #otp: I rescued your hat #they are in fact parallels to each other #to a fairly large extent when you look closer #sure each of their journeys take different amounts of time #but they are essentially the same #and I think we can find the root of this in the original script #because even though Billy didn't make it out alive in that one #everything else holds true #right down to both Billy and Paul hanging from objects #which I think is the clearest and most obvious (visual) parallel #so with that #and with all those parallels to the other movies #(lucky strap/bag/photographer/etc.) #what I'm saying is #it was written pretty gay in the first place #and Alessandro and John August just piled on #and improved it #what a beautiful masterpiece

[captainbuzzard]

was clearing out my phone's gallery and once again realized how much art i never posted here, so here's a stijn strongbody!

[ID: a digital line drawing of Stijn Strongbody, a middle aged Japanese man with four sheep's horns, and, barely visible before the canvas cuts off, four arms. he holds a pencil in one hand as he looks off to one side with a good-natured, contemplative expression.]

#q #blaseball #tokyo lift #never was a stijn fan per se but i always thought he was kinda fascinating. he definitely had Plans for the lift #the extent of which only started to be uncovered by his successors after his death. #it left yusef wondering how much he had actually predicted and planned for. how much the lift was continuing along a track he had set. #what were his plans? the only person who knew (original elwin) got alted and stijn never trusted the plans to another person afterwards #it's likely whatever plans he set failed anyways without having anyone to keep course after he died. but there's always that doubt. #did stijn know this would happen. did he predict the things that would happen. did he predict gerund's death #idk idk his death was just so neat because it left all these questions that could never be answered. #also he was Science Gay with a interdimensional fungus inhabiting a large dead bug until it used their joint research #to hop dimensions again without saying goodbye and pulled some unwilling alternate version of itself to take its place #so there's also that lol #my blaseball art #buzzart #anyways yeah might be posting some more old art

[dawnthefluffyduck]

hey that's not supposed to be out there (uploaded wrong version at first haha whoops)

#not supposed to be that color either #i wonder who that belongs to #i had a very vague meaning for this in mind but saying it would spoil the fun #christ this took me forever #i wanted to do a quick project to give myself a break from my final #but accidentally made an entirely new kind of nightmare #BUT i can proudly say that i am very proud of this despite how long it took me #alrighty this blog is all about tracking progress so my thought on this; #it's not really as energetic as i had hoped to make it so i think that's the biggest technical issue i have with this #i'll try to get back to doing more gestures soon as a way to help with that #i think my shadows are a bit confusing too #i'm looking at it now and his glasses kinda taper off into the void of his fur bc i didnt mark the shadow along the left of his ear #but the thought of digging back through layers to fix it and blending that mess in is giving me a headache so i'm content with leaving it #i think i learned a lot about light and reflections though #my shadows aren't the greatest but i had so much fun rendering the glasses #and the glow of the soul pushed me to think about bounce light a lot more #figuring out how to make the colors look like they were glowing was a whole separate issue #i did it in the last big ralsei drawing i did but not nearly to this extent #i won't be doing something this large for a while after this but i'll keep trying to work on the things i didn't like about this #i think i'm gonna start putting my self-crit in the tags from now on #it really does bulk up the posts and it's hard to scroll past #i like reflecting on my work like this though #i've been able to draw a lot more since i've started doing it because it helps me create specific goals for myself #lets me keep pushing myself while still having fun with my art #ralsei #deltarune #deltarune fanart

[sugaploom]

"saltburn doesnt have any messages its just a wacky movie" its literally about how one mans lust and obsession for something and someone out of his grasp cause him to commit horrible acts to an entire family. he forfeits everything that he Is and becomes something crazy and new and fucked up in order to accomplish this goal. whats not clicking

#saltburn spoilers #saltburn #it has a LOT of meaning...... just not what knives out was about #it isnt so much a class conflict movie (it is but not to the knives out extent) #but it IS about obsession in several different ways #how much oliver wants this rich life #how much oliver wants felix but is never able to be satisfied #so he ends up in a large mansion thats empty. no one but him and his thoughts #his desires were empty #it was about power #i could write an entire essay on this but im not an english major #so it will stay in my head #but theres so much to dissect about thsi movie

[apollos-boyfriend]

clockwork is like. super overly protective of the younger girls btw. sally especially for obvious enough reasons. for the same reason she initially has Really rocky relationships with ben and semi-jeff especially, bc they’re the ones that play with and look after sally the most. it takes a while for her to let her guard down when it comes to them

#icarus speaks #creepyposting #ask to tag #<- bc of the Implications #she’s protective of nina as well though not to the same extent #nina doesn’t have a little sister-like relationship w anyone (so far) #plus nina is a Little older and can fully take care of herself #sally reminds clockwork too much of herself. the same brown hair and bright green eyes #oh yeah btw again on the track of me hating random transformations #natalie always had green eyes lmao #i think the surgery just fucked w her vision. she’s largely blind in her remaining eye

[autogeneity]

hmm. there is an ML masters program. part time. whose applications close today. they require a CV, letter of motivation, and statement of research interest. I'm not even too sure what their research focus areas are. a CV usually takes me like a week. it is 17:30. am I to make bad life decisions

#m #costs money to apply but like $6 or something. so technically not much to lose #but also this is very impulsive idek if I want it #I found it while looking at their bioinformatics and computational biology program #which is ALSO open. until March actually weirdly #but appears to be full time. idk if I can ask #not even 100% sure I qualify for that one tbh #also the part time classes would happen in another city. not far if I could drive. but I cannot. #I think really if I want to do this I should be contacting the guy who agreed to supervise me like 3 years ago lol #but to a large extent I am simply embarrassed about doing that #which is a stupid reason for life decisions

[pastafossa]

Not an ask or a request - just wanted to send some love your way. I’m on my third reread of TRT and I’m so excited for new stuff but I’m also loving everything you’ve written so far. Thank you for giving us a window into characters and a world that lives off the page. Hope you are having a wonderful spring.

Love from NYC!!

Thank you so, so much anon! 😭 I'm so happy you're enjoying it. I love widening the world, delving into all the chaos and adventures going on in this universe just outside of the canon narrative POV. There's just so much to explore, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of it. I'm just as eager to get back into it, and I feel like I'm getting there, but the patience is still VERY much appreciated. Things were rough for a bit, but spring is definitely feeling like an improvement. <3

Much love back from my cold little city!

#one thing i really wanted to do is show how like #all the stuff that happens on the Grand Scale TM with the Avengers #and even to a certain extent the things Matt does that affects the city at large #kinda snowball into all these things on street level #on top of those decisions tipping dominoes elsewhere #like White Coat's connection to Stryker #it's something i always liked about DD (and the other defenders) being a balance to the Big Guys #i like seeing all this stuff at street level where to a certain extent they're all down in the muck #DD did a lovely job of building that world and fleshing that out #and so it felt natural to do the same thing and take that *further* in TRT #we flesh the Kitchen out even more #here are the people who trust DD and the little churches dealing with rising tensions over enhanced people #here are the scrappy little runaways that don't trust SHIELD after DC and the little criminal fishes who just want to avoid Fisk #here's a SHIELD agent too low on the totem pole to be one of Coulson's and here's Jane whose best defense is literally running away #I LOVE being able to run all this alongside canon #ANYWAY #thank you so much for dropping this in my box #it made me so so happy! #the red thread

[rowenabean]

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#just saw a post that was like 'if you have religious or moral objections that stop you from providing certain types of medical care maybe #you shouldn't work in healthcare' (paraphrased) and... #what a way to look at the world tbh #like. they're talking about me i think - i am a conscientious objector when it comes to euthanasia #(which granted has come up exactly twice and both cases in a theoretical capacity only this is not a frequent request to me) #and... i am also a good doctor #last week i told someone that her weight doesn't matter to her health with receipts to prove it and she cried #no one had ever told her that before #and that was something that came from me specifically. that was something i would not trust all of the GPs in my practice - a practice of #excellent and compassionate GPs! - to say #i am verifiably doing good in my job that is coming from specifically who i am as a person #i cannot put that down when it comes to issues i care deeply about #fundamentally the fact that i cannot put it down is what makes me a good doctor #i think that's what i'm trying to get at #the reason that i do well by my patients is that i practice out of my values and my ethics #if i did not stand on that core i would not stand at all #so you can't have it both ways. you can't have engaged and active and compassionate healthcare providers without sometimes those engaged an #active providers having things they do not feel comfortable doing #and it is to everyone's service if they are up front about it and do not try to hide (i am suspicious of people who try to hide this) #i am literally figuring this all out as i type hence the v long tag ramble and also being nowhere near the post that started this train #(honestly in med school we talked so much about ethics as like. abortion! euthanasia! trans rights! and the ethics in practice is the littl #things. do you apologise when you mess up. how do you manage a consult with your patient with paranoid dementia and her child in the same #room at one time - or one by one bc that's fraught too. (that one's on top i had one of those today.) how do you act with grace when #you're a bit stressed and your patient is a bit stressed and the nurse wants to add five more things to your book. the day to day ethics is #SUCH a bigger thing when you come to actual practice.) #this is obviously entirely about me and leans on the fact that i largely do think i am doing a good job i am really feeling my own way #to a Thought. but i think to a certain extent it is generalisable

[definitelyuseless]

its literally so extreme how much more popular characters are on here when theyre in a popular gay ship, like it can make them take up basically the whole tag like literally just based on that one thing

#i dont just mean the shipping stuff though thaats obviously a large part of it #but i mean also individually they get way more popular #and like having seen different fandoms its so obvious its just that and nothing else #not that theres necessarily like anything wrong with liking characters for shallow reasons #but it is a bit annoying something i guess when theres nothing about other characters #especially when the popular ships like two side characeters not even the main character its so noticable #jujutsu kaisen #bungou stray dogs #why does fandom spell it like that i know its a more accurate transliteration but it makes less sense in english #bbc ghosts #well not a popular ship an actual gay character but the prinicplies the same to a lesser extent #star trek #good omens #well they are the main characers in that one but there were others in the book and series 1

[iriscasefiles]

a word of advice to anyone writing sci-fi or fantasy for the first time: take it from me, maybe don't come up with key worldbuilding details on the basis of making obscure jokes that are literally funny to you and only you

#yes i am subtweeting myself here #brian describing ferin as dwarnian hannukah i could kick myself! #literally my thought process was 'it would be funny to subvert the concept of likening extraterrestrial holidays to christian ones' #except i didn't think about it hard enough to remember that Hannukah isn't an important religious day to Jewish people #(and to the extent that it is culturally important as i understand it this comes largely from the fact that #gentiles assume since Hannukah is a winter-y holiday with some gift-giving it is Jewish Christmas) #so either ferin isn't a big deal at all #or krejjh is from some minority dwarnian subculture that has different holidays and ferin's been culturally given some outsized importance #i could have opened wikipedia and in FOUR SECONDS found a holiday that wouldn't have put me in this bind #or i could've not tried so hard to be clever #i have been turning this over all morning and i 1000% did this to myself #gahhhh

[haunthouse]

would love to do research into just how much of an uptick theres been in haunted house horror content since the pandemic started, like, numerically

#kaylee.txt #like obviously it makes sense bc. a large percent of the population being stuck in their houses in quarantine + a general sense of #paranoia and fear = perfect recipe for thinking a lot about haunted house stories #(i am obviously not exempt from this lmao i was obsessed w haunted houses pre-pandemic too but not to the same extent) #but im so curious what the numbers are for like. what % of horror books/movies released in a given year are haunted house-related #and if thats changed a significant amount #bc it FEELS like it has. i went to barnes and noble yesterday and there were no less than 4 haunted house books on the new releases display

[stellamancer]

actually imagining imaginary friend au with gojo is funny to me because like if it were me, if he were annoying me i would simply get a whole cake and mock him by eating it in front of him knowing full well that he wants some and can't have any.

#nikuniku fic spam #oh but he would be so annoying the most annoying #i did come up with some au mechanics regarding becoming real and the extent that the 'imaginary friend' can interact with the world at larg #reverse isekai is fun #i think it would also be fun to do that and fuck up the world lmao