#at least thematically

[thoughtlessthinkythoughts]

On why protocol is all about change:

So far, the tags for the voiced cases have been transformation, reanimation, and infection.

Now, we know the OIAR's logo has a ton of alchemy symbols, and alchemy is all about change. How can one substance be turned into another? (Lead into gold). How can change be avoided or delayed? (philosopher's stone/elixir of life).

I think all of our "real" cases will be categorized according to the kind of change they produce.

"But wait!" you might say. "We know there are categories like dolls, zombies, and vampires. How do they fit?"

That's true, but we also specifically had those types of categories rejected. Gwen specifically said don't use zombies, use reanimation. Maybe there's a bigger reason than just trying to pick a subcategory of zombie.

It's early. We only have three episodes to go on. But it will be interesting to see if the trend continues, and if it does, it's also an intriguing insight into the possible motivations behind the system.

#the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #tmagp #I'm no good at decoding the numbers and codes #but I think this may be more important #at least thematically

[vivitheanimaxen]

You know, something that might be interesting in secret life, especially as things go on, is the players getting touch starved.

Normally in life games people will punch each other or playfully fight or 'high-five' or crit-scare someone or just-- touch them, you know?

There's none of that in secret life, not when every half-heart is precious. Not when every touch has a chance of hurting. Everyone is hyperaware of doing damage to someone else. Even though there's the once a session free gift heart, it wouldn't be enough to recover anything more than two punches.

Not to mention the dripstone literally EVERYWHERE underground. Is someone gonna harvest a bunch and put it around their base as a protective wall? After all, as we've seen in decked out 2, dripstone is so so so deadly for even just trying to path over and around.

Take the avians for instance. They could let someone help him preen their feathers and give comfort, but all it would take is one wrong move and whoops! no flight. Or imagine cuddling with someone or sleeping in the same bed, and BAM-- you've lost a heart to being accidentally punched or kicked during the night.

Most everyone, if they have a house, all sleep in separate houses, unlike a lot of past series. There's a distance there. A sort of-- keep two blocks away please.

As time wears on and the trust between everyone crumbles, it'll be interesting to see how thinks change.

#vivirambles about #secret life #life series #traffic life smp #fandom meta #dont mind me #its almost like elantris #at least thematically #where any pain aquired will stay #indefinitely #until you lose a life or get it back from the secret keeper

[girlboysollux]

desert song vs the ghost of you

#i feel like desert song could be kind of like. a continuation of the ghost of you #at least thematically #or am i just crazy #mcr

[griseldabanks]

35. Spoil something inconsequential from your WIP.

At one point, Steve has to sew the head back onto Jake's stuffed lion! :O

#100 days of wip #writing #fanfiction #whole shards #take me in #steve rogers #jake rogers #i mean...it's a LITTLE consequential #at least thematically #(steve putting broken things back together with the strength of his love for his son) #but yeah

[arithmonym]

re-reading the locked tomb, and i'm thinking about how harrow identifies alecto as a "girl" rather than a "woman."

obviously, john had other sources of inspiration... but did you know that the original barbie doll was only supposed to be nineteen years old?

#given that tamsyn says she writes books for angry girls and her seventeen-year-old self: it feels VERY thematically relevant #i’m kicking myself a little for not picking up on it earlier!!! #also: contextualizes john and alecto’s relationship Differently to say the least. sidenote: everyone should read the magician’s apprentice #(the 2013 short story by tamsyn muir) #the locked tomb #tlt #tlt meta #alecto tlt #john gaius

[ingoodjesst]

have you put the pieces together yet, detective

#goro akechi #akechi goro #persona 5 #persona 5 royal #p5 akechi #p5 spoilers #persona 5 fanart #jesst some art #i may have worked on this for... just under two weeks? i had like. so many fckgin thoughts i might make a process/concept breakdown post #it's honestly just for my own peace (haha piece) of mind because i overthought about. SosoooOoOo many motifs and symbols and i just wanna #idk PUT EM ALL somewhere........ maybe it'll become its own jessay of mine. god. who can say. #also DUDE tumblr rly does crunch up quality wow ouch #unironically a core thematic inspiration for this piece is a quote from the folding ideas' video 'the nostalgia critic and the wall' #'it doesn't all make sense or resolve or coalesce because we don't all make sense' #'everyone is the illusion of order constructed brick by brick out of chaos' #i've watched that video essay through at least. a dozen times at this point. everything about it. yeah. it's good. #this piece initially went many different directions and i have realized ah yes to fully explore just THESE themes that i'm interested in as #they relate to goro akechi i will need to draw. at least two more pieces. sdlfhsdlkfjsd

[karnalesbian]

i get all giddy and kicking my feet with glee when I think about how fucking good the 'AI' in AI: The Somnium Files is. pun that works on several layers across two languages ohhhh that's the good shit

Aiba is an AI eyeball aibou (相棒, lit. 'partner') who loves you (ai; 愛) (she does. regardless of what she says). Beginning of the title can read as 'A. I.' or 'love' or 'eye' or 'I' (i.e. self-identity) and all of them are equally central elements of the story

#MULTIPLE THEMATICALLY FITTING PUNS IN EACH LANGUAGE IT'S SO SATISFYING #AITSF #i dont think this is like. spoilers in any way or at least i hope not #shout out to henry btw ive thought abt this for years but you posting abt Date again reminded me to finally post it

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

INTERRUPTED (Parts I & II)

A short two-part comic (total of 20 pages + 8 extras) by me! (for me lol)

Fandoms: Ninja Showdown (Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja x Xiaolin Showdown)

Ship: My Immortal Soul (First Ninja x Chase Young)

A comic where nothing really happens! But it contains a lot of half-naked men. So like, kids avert your eyes and adults don’t open it at work or whatever. ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

thanks for checking it out <3

#ninja showdown #my immortal soul #first ninja x chase young #first ninja #rc9gn first ninja #chase young #rc9gn #xiaolin showdown #randy cunningham 9th grade ninja #long post #i mean sorta! just be aware if you accidently click read more #CACKLING HOLLERING FUCK YE IM DONE WITH MY SHITTY SELF INDULGENT COMIC now i wanna slurp some coffee&sleep #this is for me myself and I and like 11 people who i seduced into this ship. hope you all enjoy this meal boos <3 #my goal is to make at least one other person to go awooga about at least ONE image here ;3 hope someone can enjoy the bois #fun fact! In second week of me drawing this we got hit by an earthquake at like 1am so strong our building wobbled for like solid minute+ #&aftershocks (which is a lot for my region) and I legit for a second expected that the last thing I ever drew would be Chase's tiddies lol #fun fact 2! i planned to finish this much earlier but i got hit with a killer migrain and than decided fuck it we postponning til 14th #it will make it ~thematic~. sorta. i guess? romance is only implied in this ship lol there is more tension here

[thecryptidbard]

Losing it over the fact that the latest episode started with Laszlo (seemingly) completely dejected and despondent, everyone in the house individually convinced that it’s all their fault, and then halfway through dropped Nadja’s detached “maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad thing if we ended up dying?” like a fucking brick but then devoted the final part of the episode to showing that despite the monotony and endlessness inherent to their lives, these weirdos all have so much care and love and devotion for one another even when it’s in spite of themselves, that they all derive so much meaning from their relationships with each other, choosing to end on the note of the Baron’s “I suppose with the right company, it can be beautiful, this eternal existence.” Screaming crying throwing up et cetera

#wwdits #wwdits season 5 spoilers #the roast #I think this ep was thematically very similar to A Farewell #but to me at least the narrative arc worked even better in this one #it speaks

[daylighteclipsed]

Y’all ever think about if Sora falls to darkness that inside his heart will look like the Destiny Islands falling again

#i do a lot #kingdom hearts #one of the biggest reasons i think we’ll see something like this in canon. briefly at least #not only would parallel ddd w ven’s heart/armor no longer there to protect sora #and roxas and xion gone from sora’s heart too. so sora would be alone #and actually there as opposed to in the RoL/awake when riku dives in #but also there is no way nomura’s gonna pass up the chance to bring us full circle like this. he loves making his characters revisit/relive #worlds and memories like this to make a point. and sora’s heart was sunset in ddd… following kh1 the dark and stormy night comes next #The thought of sora and riku reaffirming their love and friendship here when it broke the first time the islands fell #both of them having to in a way relive this horrible night for the final time #but riku doing the total opposite of last time. trying to save sora trying to stop the darkness from consuming everything #being totally honest with sora. reaching his hand out for sora but this time he’s not being consumed by darkness. #he’s become the light in the darkness. and they finally reach each other they finally grasp hands. I’m chewing on glass #i don’t think sora would ‘fall’ to darkness in the traditional sense #thematically i think it makes more sense for him to be faced w another martyr choice #though his own negative feelings would still be tangled up in there. and this would parallel kh3 #and if sora chooses to let darkness into his heart to save others it’d also parallel kh1 w riku choosing to open the door/let the darkness #into destiny islands at the risk of others #god it’d be just like kh1 but we’d be playing as riku and he’d be the one looking frantically for sora #a reversed dynamic. but now they understand each other’s pain and feelings so they can reach each other #figuratively and literally #i love parallels i love symbolism i love themes kick my ass !!!!

[theneighborhoodwatch]

i think there’s something very funny (and exciting) about the fact that i have seen Insanely in-depth arguments for both “the WHRP isn’t real and it’s just wally/the puppets putting up a front to get people to listen to them” and “things like the guestbook doodle aren’t actually from wally and it’s just the WHRP roleplaying as him to get people’s attention.” that’s one hell of a coin toss.

#public notice #welcome home #wh speculation #personally im of the opinion that the WHRP is real but wally/Someone from home is the one sending the envelopes #and wally Is actually fiddling with the site #which may not be very exciting but it makes the most sense on a thematic level To Me. at least until we get a clearer idea of what’s up

[goldenchocobo]

It's Sora, Riku and Kairi's turn for pigeons.

They live on a (implied) tropical island chain, so the pigeons should be 'tropical'. Victoria Crown Pigeons for Sora, African Green Pigeons for Kairi, and a Luzon Bleeding Heart Dove for Riku.

#Kingdom Hearts #KH #Sora #Riku #Kairi #Destiny Trio #Kingdom Hearts Bird Saga #Pigeon #Birds #Goldenchocobo's Art #While the Wayfinder trio didn't have much of a 'theme' and the Seasalt's were just 'orange birds' #I tried to be more thematic with the Destiny Trio #There's at least three themes here- one for each. I'm not going to tell them :) #Also Riku is trying to pet the bird but it looks like he's scolding it instead haha

[valeriefauxnom]

Dragalia's Knights of Glory art

Now, it's been gone over how Dragalia Lost actually used quite a bit of inspiration from one of Cygames' previous works, Knights of Glory, for anything from character designs to dragons.

Of course, this showed up quite literally with characters like Lea when they quite literally just had the "Knights of Glory" showcase, but it also showed up in characters ranging from Jakob to Mikoto to Jurota (also showcasing the alighting butterfly blade, also in Dragalia):

However funny it is to see who we came to know as different characters in a different media, though, the dragons are 10x funnier to look at.

You see, it seemed that Knights of Glory had a certain 'evolution system' to dragons, where they'd develop and grow more fancy, if they weren't inexplicably transforming into an attractive humanoid woman because of course-

And oh boy, we can kinda see alternative evolutionary paths for the Greatwyrms.

There's Midgardsormr, who seems to most closely resemble the fully evolved form from the start...(he also gained an element, as this dragon line apparently has no element!)

Mercury, who is in her middle phase:

Imagine a hydra Mercury!

...Brunhilda? Not very sure on this one. She might just be a new design, but here's my best guess for what dragon they might have been inspired from:

Of course, in her 'final form' if this was a dragon they used as inspiration.

Jupiter, whom I'd almost put in his middle stage for closeness of design:

Last but not least, poor Zodiark, who really got hammered with the skeletal dragon design and is also in his middle stage and is also drooling 24/7:

Where is his stomach? Where are his organs? Why is he bipedal?? He lost some bulk in his transition to Dragalia, too. Honestly, I like Dragalia Zodiark more than his inspiration here.

That's enough of full evolutionary trees for now, though.

Some other funny ones to me include:

-Silke turning into a skeletal horse on her final evolution:

-Baby Leviathan going :-D all the time:

-Baby Poseidon (honestly a lot of the babies are funny since we only knew their final forms, typically);

-Possibly Cat Sìth inspiration???

-Baby Zephyr:

-Baby Nidhogg, sitting all prim and proper and ready to watch Euden die still:

-Teenage...Satan? Having a evil little :) face going on there...

Speaking of, quite a few of the dragons were actually repurposed into bosses, as with Satan above, like everyone's favorite:

(We must not let Phraeganoth be revived! ...Until Bondforged Zethia's story, at least).

Might be a stretch here, but maaaaaybe a bit of Kai Yan in here?

The Hypnos/Thanatos/Mega Monarch Emile line's general design:

This is getting long enough as it is, but if you want to see a mix of some old with a lot of new art that they might have used as inspiration for more dragons/adventurers, here's the link I used to the collections of KoG artwork that people were able to preserve:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DragaliaLost/comments/9rtlnz/knights_of_glory_albums/

Hopefully you find it just as interesting and funny as I did perusing the old art!

#dragalia lost #dragalia #knights of glory #Sylvia is also unfortunately one of the ones to be hit by the 'inexplicably now a humanoid woman' for her final alas. #At least Dragalia even vaguely tried to balance it out with quite a few male humanoid dragons? #A different artbook but one of Dragalia's earlier drafts for Mars was a cool more salamander-esque dragon. Almost sad they didn't go with #...that one instead of Red Midgardsormr (he really does look like Red Mids underneath all that!). Yeah sure maybe thematic symbolism #representing the clash of ideals between Leonidas and Euden but still!

[mellowthorn]

the fact that fitz more or less stops aging after tawny man. like. everyone else gets to grow old and move on, but fitz remains literally, physically stuck in the past. he tries to hide it with a beard and lets himself go out of shape a bit, but ultimately he does not really age or change during that time. just like despite pretending to be all fine and happy, he can not truly bring himself to move on from the fool.

#like yeah lore-wise he doesn't age because of the skill healing #but thematically (to me at least) its about him being stuck in the past and refusing to let go #especially considering that the other major character who actively prolongs his age with skill healing is chade #who is constantly trying to make up for all the time he lost after faking his death and hiding in the walls #the difference is that chade actively longs for it and acts younger than he is #while fitz (as always) tries to pretend it isn't happening #rote #fitz and the fool spoilers #fitz and the fool #realm of the elderlings #rote spoilers

[twelvemonkeyswere]

one thing no adaptation of Peter Pan ever does is give Wendy Darling her pet wolf. in the novelization at least, the kids have Neverland full of stuff they imagined into being while playing at their home on earth, and the one thing Wendy has is a pet wolf. It's a fully wild wolf but he's friendly and loyal only to her. and nobody pays attention to her so they didn't notice, but she did notice, and she was happy that the wolf found her to say hi and play. Wendy Darling was a wolf girl but no adaptation ever has captured this, and I think we should give it some focus next time

#she was busy taking care of her brothers and being the more grown up so it's easy to overlook the ways she actually plays when she plays #at least when she plays by herself #and the loyal wolf felt like such a thematic and realistic depiction of a girl such as Wendy was #peter pan #wendy darling #my thoughts this morning

[goldensunset]

a rather heavy destiny for someone so small, isn’t it?

#kingdom hearts #kh #sora #kh sora #sora kh #kingdom hearts sora #sora kingdom hearts #kh1 #kingdom hearts 1 #i have lotsa feelings about the way sora wasn’t very enthusiastic about his role as hero at first… #like the way it just seems like one huge burden to him and he’s just so racked with anxiety about his friends the whole time… #Ough and the way that like. kh1 era sora is the most expressive of his negative emotions but also has the least of them at that moment #while by like kh3 sora is running on fumes emotionally but has learned how to smile through it all #it’s crazy frfr #my art #mine: kh #i have never properly drawn any sora before that needed to change #also if you happen to know where i stole this pose from i’m shaking your hand. no you don’t #but it’s also thematically relevant so y’know