#being shot at multiple times

[dinitride-art]

“Now I just want you to watch.”

El saw what Henry did to everyone in the lab. She didn’t die, but she had to watch it happen.

Max saw Billy die in front of her. She wasn’t the one in danger, but El was. And she watched her abusive stepbrother die in front of her.

Dustin saw Eddie die. He didn’t go back towards the bats. The bats didn’t hurt him. But he watched Eddie die in his arms.

Hopper didn’t die because of his exposure to the chemicals he was mixing. He watched his daughter die in a hospital bed.

Lucas wasn’t being targeted by Vecna. He wasn’t the one floating in the air, his bones weren’t snapping. But Max’s were. And he watched it happen.

Nancy wasn’t the one who died in the Upside Down, alone in Steve Harrington’s pool. That was her best friend, and Nancy had to watch it all go down. Had to see everyone unfold.

Mike didn’t get possessed. Or kidnapped. Or burst into particles. Mike didn’t die. Or almost die. He watched Will screaming like he was being burned alive. He watched his best friend nearly die and he watched as every adult around him was unable to help him. He watched Will bike away from his house before he disappeared. He heard his mom talking to Joyce the next day. He heard Will on the radio. He saw Will’s body in the water. He heard Bob die. He saw El die. He saw Will dead. He watched a man get shot trying to protect him, Will and Jonathan. He watched him die while putting pressure on the wound.

Mike was shot at.

He was told that he was wrong for trusting El. That Will wasn’t alive.

He had to run for his life because his friend’s body was taken by a being from another dimension that sent creatures to kill him and everyone around him.

He was knocked out by Max’s possessed brother.

He was shot at again in the desert, trying to rescue El who was taken by the government.

He’s been bullied his entire life.

And he did almost die.

Mike jumped off a cliff.

Dustin and El had to watch.

#mike wheeler #byler #I definitely could go more in depth with every other character here #and even some that aren’t here #but my point is #is that Mike has been going through it since season one #and that watching something terrible happen to someone you know and care for #is a thing #and having El watch max die was one of the worst things Henry could do to her #but then mikes also been through a lot of stuff that’s just him #jumping off a cliff for starters #being shot at multiple times #running from the government #being knocked out by billy and generally being in his path in season three #El has to save mike in the sauna #and Will screaming that he’s lying in season two #even though it wasn’t Will it was still his voice and his body #mikes been through a lot #but unlike Will and El he doesn’t have people to talk to about it #or anyone who looks at him and notices he isn’t okay #even though he commonly parallels what they think is happening with Will #like jumping off a cliff or ptsd #everyone’s quick to call Mike an asshole rather than asking him if somethings wrong

[dykedvonte]

Ulysses obsession with the Courier is a special type of sad to me cause the Courier’s part was so important but so unwitting. They had no idea what was in the package they delivered and neither did he. Neither had an idea of what it could’ve done and the Courier was only caring out their job (mind you the Courier could be killed via notes in the express contract if they don’t). To them it was just another regular delivery to the divide and one that they likely thought would help, just like all the ones before.

It’s so tragic for Ulysses to hold so much ire to the Courier when it really was the case of it could’ve been anyone. Anyone could have delivered that package but they did and so he focused the blame on them and it destroys what he is trying to instill in the courier on a fundamental level.

#like yeah the courier delivered the package but in the end that’s a job #any random courier could’ve delivered it especially since we know in the past the factions were farther apart and this travel was a smidge #safer but courier six got it and this Ulysses blamed them #like I don’t care much for Ulysses because I think lonesome road embodies don’t shoot the messenger at it core #and what people focus on doesn’t focus on the fact that in the bigger picture #everything went wrong because two factions were at war and at some point the codes would have been delivered #and the divide destroyed cause with how close it is to NCR territory it would of been found #like there is an inevitable and too many people treat Ulysses as if he knows more or is more aware of the idiosyncrasies of conflict #when he’s like fundamentally flawed just at the standard of being a legion apologist STILL and just how focused he is on one persons #involvement cause yeah choices matter even the small one but I think Veronica’s quest says it best with a line from the courier #you can’t control what they do #like the courier couldn’t and can’t control what they deliver and yet it’s got them in hot water multiple times #like do you think they enjoy being shot or knowing they are indirectly responsible for activating the annihilation of a community #to me it’s hypocrisy to be willing to end the world or one world to prove a point and whatever argument made that only military factions #suffer forget there are innocent civilians suffering that had no part and Ulysses is no better than the Courier #I don’t like devils advocate and a lot of the dlc just feels like that but idk I know people love it but the depth is just not there for mr #ulysses fnv #fallout #fallout new vegas #courier six #the courier #lonesome road #the courier has very little personality outside what we give them but some lines and delivery paint a picture #like uhhhh undertale deltarune rules ig

[lesbiradshaw]

every day i wake up and remember steve quite literally asked bucky to kill him. like he actually told bucky to finish it because he was with him until the end. he acknowledged it was the end. he stopped fighting back for the first time in his life. he finally threw the shield down after years of doubting his purpose as captain america because he didn’t want to have to hurt bucky. he begged bucky to not make him have to fight him at all because he couldn’t let people die but as soon as he’d saved everyone else he gave up on himself and was planning on going down on the helicarrier with bucky. he freed bucky from being trapped under the wreckage even though he knew bucky was still going to try and kill him. he decided he’d rather let himself die at bucky’s hands than live in a world where bucky didn’t remember him. like. what the hell.

#stevebucky #i feel ill a little #like. letting someone you love kill you so you dont have to live without them? #WHAT THE HELLLLLLLLLLLL #like. he had to have been hoping bucky would remember him and not go through with killing him #but also he’d been shot multiple times in the stomach and shoulders and had his face beaten in #so it being the End was a real possibility and if it was the end. at least he spent it with bucky #man

[pcktknife]

there goes my bi monthly stress dream in which I am tortured and die

#this one was bad i was shot multiple times. at least 5 ^^' #it was honestly very merciful that i was left to lie where i was #anyways i got up found a phone gave my mom my final goodbyes and tried to escape some facilitt or whatever #i probably escaped but the stress of being chased down and personally SHOT very fun and cool 👍🏾 #okay going back to bed now gnite 😊 #kae.txt

[ink--theory]

if you have any, what are your reasons for your favorite salmon map to be well, your favorite?

and i'm talking about every map added since 2, not just the ones in 3

#last night me and some friends were talking about our favorite salmon maps and for what reasons we liked them #for example mine is salmonid smokeyard #I like how quickly you can get to point A to B and the multiple ways you can get there + escape routes (high tide being an exception) #spawn points for new enemies such as fish stick and big shot are pretty tame compared to the other returning s2 maps + luring is stupid ez #plus other reasons that are too long to explain here in the tags #it feels compact without feeling too overly cramped y'know? #now is it on par with the newer maps? mmm debatable #cause it at times does suffer with some of the same problems I have with bay and grounds #fighting the kings esp on high tide is...an experience... #but other than some gripes I still love it and it's still my fave <3 #splatoon #splatoon 3 #salmon run #salmon run next wave #you can also put your least fave if you want to :]

[muninnhuginn]

So, going to link a couple of things before I start with this.

Firstly, the new MV for the Vortex/Overthink/Tides medley which is going to form the basis of my observations.

Secondly, this post, which makes a strong argument that Link Click is deliberately drawing from other time travel media. In this case, the 2002 version of The Time Machine. Also, a fun fact not mentioned in the linked post, but that I recently discovered is that the name of the girlfriend the time traveller is constantly trying to save is *Emma*.

Now that I've linked these two, I just want to say that this rest of this post is me having fun and I would love for these to be deliberate references, but let's be real, a lot of time travel media understandably shares a lot of visual language. Hourglasses, butterflies, and clocks are all fairly recurrent themes.

Click the read more for a mix of potential references to other time travel media and screenshots of specific details of the new MV I found interesting:

Left: Link Click (note the photo reel design). Right: Doctor Who (specifically one of the intros for the Twelfth Doctor)

And to add to the photography aesthetic present throughout, the photo reel clock resolves itself into a camera lens:

Next, we have a main character centred within a clock. In both cases, the character casts multiple shadows that resemble clock hands.

Left: Link Click. Right: Steins;Gate

The shot where Qiao Ling is stood still amongst a moving crowd is neat for two reasons. First, the people she's surrounded by seem to be those related to the cases CXS/LG have taken on. You can see Emma just behind in the above screenshot. And the other thing is that the first time this sequence plays the moving characters are too blurry to easily make out. When the sequence reverses however, and the lyrics speak of "pausing" the scene actually freezes with all the characters clear for a tiny bit. (I didn't screenshot purely because it was a pain to get the exact moment but you can check this if you want)

Upper left: Link Click. Upper right: Higurashi Gou/Sotsu. Bottom: Steins;Gate 0.

Next up: fragments! This one is honestly a real stretch, but hey, there are at least two other time travel adjacent shows that use them as visuals in their openings. I would really like the use to be similar to in Higurashi (the example screenshot is from the anime sequel Gou/Sotsu but the sea of fragments is present in the og too). In Higurashi, each time "loop" is actually an alternate timeline (wherein events would differ slightly even without intervention) and so each fragment represents another timeline. For Steins;Gate, it's more a visual that exists purely in the opening sequence to play into the whole shattered clocks aesthetic.

Left: Link Click. Right: Steins;Gate.

This one is inspired by me watching the opening only to go "Okabe Rintaro????" when Qian Jin showed up. But also. We can clearly see some of Qian Jin's scars in this shot. There appears to be one on the back of his neck and two over his left shoulder. These have to be relevant and obviously his eye colour has me side-eyeing but I don't think we have all the pieces for this character yet. (Him being a former cop with a connection to both of our focus cop characters though makes me think)

And a final one with generic anime trope no 58382929:

Left: Link Click. Right: Steins;Gate

I know, I know. This is typical anime/donghua. But! It's deliberately a shot in Steins;Gate that returns again and again throughout the series. It's also very associated with the character of Mayuri so take that as you will.

Bonus whatever this is:

Multiple Cheng Xiaoshis in different states of doing badly. I wonder if the centremost one is the one Lu Guang appeared to be thinking of in episode 1? Possibly another "fragments" situation or if not then it may be various things Cheng Xiaoshi will go through in this season

Anyway, the Steins;Gate opening visually has a lot of similarities and of course a lot of it is natural overlap because they're both time travel series. And they both draw inspiration from The Time Machine (especially Steins;Gate's sequel, Steins;Gate 0). But I find it pretty neat how all these series from different times and places do have these recurring themes.

#link click #link click spoilers #this is mainly just spamming thoughts and references on a specific part of the mv. #I do have thoughts tm about the hourglass bit but mostly it's interesting how everything is all set up for damsel lu guang #and the recurring multiples of different characters. Plus ofc ofc people have already pointed out two hoodies which this mv agrees with #shiguang daili ren spoilers #shiguang daili ren #steins;gate #Not featured in this: madoka rebellion op. it has some clock cog shots but the op is too focused on being misleading to go full on #both madoka rebellion and s;g have the entire 'reaching out your hand for someone and they vanish' thing though which is a classic trope #but it's also a fave okay. and ptutu has chara in clock cog but isn't time travel in the same way for me to count it #edit: also tumblr mobile destroyed my left/right images smh

[frecklystars]

i love that both barbies pull ken's shirt over his chest or try to just touch his shoulder through the shirt bc they wanna be respectful and not touch ryan's bare chest

#ITS SO RESPECTFUL #they were like dw ryan gosling we will NOT touch your tits!!!!!!!! #the girl on the right acted like her fingers would be burned she hesitated so much at first #its so cute #also the fact that when he falls to the ground at first his shirt IS over his chest #but then they cut to the barbies and kens running in panic #and when they show him on the ground again his shirt is open and his arms are in a different position SLIGHTLY #i love noticing when scenes are shot multiple times #the small subtle differences #sinking my teeth into every single scene ken is present #pausing every moment to look at him in the bg or study others expressions #god i love being in love again!!!!!!! #love notes #💕 I'll fight for you!! - ̗̀🐎🏖️✨ ̖́- #💕♫♪ ♡ You're the pink in my cheeks 🎀🌸✨♡

[cute-pluto]

jaidens spacial awareness in video games is so bad i got caught up in it and missed a lot fo what was going on with other players and it was certainly a surprise to go see what roier was up to in that time and he was actually 10 blocks away from her for most of the stream being mentally and physically fucked with.

#got shot with a gun multiple times and jaiden didnt process it so i didnt either LOL #also the way roier noticed they were being followed and couldnt actually say anything he wanted to for like. a whole hour. #cutepluto screams #qsmp spoilers

[killstreak-kritzkrieg]

Every time I hear Kim talk about Fat Angus’ death, and pause to tell us that he took so many bullets to die, I just

#god…………………. poor guy man #poor poor dude #he really didn’t need so many bullets he already had asthma just a shot in the lungs should have done him in… #but they just… ripped him apart huh #every time i hear about a fat character getting shot multiple times to die idk why but it makes me feel something #angus is like… #an extremely Nothing character and exists to out his friends and be the target of fatphobia but i liked him a lot nonetheless #disco elysium spoilers #as an asthmatic fat person with an anxiety disorder #where both their fatness and anxiety being exacerbated by their asthma #it just really hits

[trainingdummyrabbit]

heavily considering picking up journaling........

#piktalk #mildly intense personalposting again give me a moment. apawlogies. tagwall. #my memorys always been pretty shot but the past week or two have been Pretty Intense im ngl #like not just th normal Forgetting thing but now theres also uh. #The Backseaters. theoretically. on th list of people i trust to tell me information 'i' am lowest on the list. #so you can see where the issue lies with The Backseaters. (refuses to believe my own senses on account of being 'me') #its just a rly big tangle of mess that keeps me from doing much of anything and it Sucks. i just need t wait for th lines t cross or whatev #but also ive been switching genres (for lack of a better term) multiple times daily and a lil intensely #so i am Highly Discombobulated at all times. #im keeping a brave enough face about it; which is a good and bad thing; but its about all i can do to weather it let alone Make Progress. #which is not great; considering the whole 'expected to be a person' and 'unemployed' thing. not a great development. #umm. anyway. hanging in there; or whatever. sure dont know what to do abt this though. #god forbid i tell either the two (2) 'trusted people' i know irl they could barely handle the executive dysfunction talk. (they didnt.) #girl if u knew th level of mental bullshittery i was on 24/7 youd explode. or something. anyway. ✌

[comehomet0myheart]

HOLD THE GIRL REISSUED WITH THE SINGLE COVER I BELIEVED SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ALBUM COVER I NEVER LOSE

#I have said multiple times that I would buy it if that shot was the cover #the girl is literally being held! #love you rina #rina sawayama #txt.

[saintlesbian]

once again I still think finn and Liz are better as friends, but also I think what’s very irritating about this pairing is that they aren’t really playing a part in any major plotlines rn, so seeing them show up feels like these two have been paired together to hit contract minimums in the meantime, like they’re in this romance story holding pattern until the writers figure out what to do next…

#pentababbles #general hospital #now of course. not every character needs to be contributing to a major plotline all the time #but with fiz it feels like this awkward romance is their whole plot… #comparing to other couples most of the others at least serve multiple plot functions #chalynn has the internal conflict of blq committing corporate espionage threatening to undermine the relationship again #and the external conflicts of blq’s dad being an amnesiac while chase is investigating a murder #sprina has the internal conflict of spencer having to raise his brother with clingy Esme #and the external conflict of Trina’s paternity reveal + Curtis getting shot + Portia’s neurotic ass #sante hasn’t had too much internal conflict they’re mostly chilling #but both of them are involved in external investigations related to major plots #fiz hasn’t had much going for them in a while. aside from passively remarking on what some other main characters are doing… #…they’re pretty disengaged from everything else. #last time they had a relevant plot it was mostly retconning Liz’s history to try making Finn relevant (flop btw) #and then Liz helping nik keep Esme prisoner and confessing to the crime. what now? #like idk much about Finn but Liz is a character with a 25 year history theres gotta be SOMETHING y’all can work with here #ugh whatever I’m in my hater era again lol

[daisyachain]

my stance on k/k is that the Haruhi Suzumiya novels are a charming, enjoyable genre blend of romance, sci-fi, and magical realism. Koizumi is a sparkling mixer to the heady main story as our main explicator and expositionist. He's a well-spoken narrator who verbalizes the more complex concepts at play in the stories, making them a summer cocktail rather than a stiff shot. Kyon is the trope-defining sardonic narrator who gives shape to the story and is the one to ultimately sell the Haruhi Suzumiya series to us as the reader. Between the two of them, Koizumi and Kyon tell us the story of Haruhi and they are instrumental in what we-the-audience make of events. Their dynamic between the true believer and the sceptic, the fake smile and the fake frown, the obfuscator and the denier, is great just on its own when taken at face value. I'm quite content to just read them as two characters who don't like each other very much and whose relationship is limited to mild antagonism over a girl they both love. I would do just that, if Tanigawa Nagaru wanted it. However in the year of our lord 2020, after closing the Kyon/Yuki subplot, after jossing any Kyon/Mikuru speculation, after committing fully to the Kyon/Haruhi romance in the story, he writes Koizumi having psychic foreknowledge of Kyon's measurements and expects us to make nothing of it. Huh.

#kelsey liveblogs haruhi suzumiya #genuinely i do not know what to make of the k/k in the novels. it's lampshaded multiple times by kyon as #'sorry tails if this looks gay to the viewers'/'miss me with that shit i am straight. i am straight.' #in fact it's lampshaded so often that it's impossible to read the books without being forced to have an opinion on the matter #one argument: there was a bunch of k/k shipping after the first couple novels and tanigawa got so sick of it he decided to address the fans #sure fine occam's razor most simple answer is the most likely #it's still a fact that the entire plot of the novels plays out in subtext. subtext is important in haruhi suzumiya. #hell. the main canonical romance is buried in the subtext. #therefore. for kyon and koizumi's relationship to have so many loaded moments #for those moments to continue across the books. for the idea of them liking each other to be explicitly addressed (if shot down) #AND for the cast dynamic to be a 1:1 evangelion ripoff with haruhi as asuka and koizumi as kaworu #it's hard not to read into it. it is an actual task to try and picture kyon and koizumi's dynamic without some UST

[got-eggs]

Imma post all the photos I took today, none of them shall be edited, just raw ass photos

#meaning there's gonna be blurs #had to take it all on ny phone tho #mean like its decent but limited in what a regular camera could do #like being able to take multiple photos at the same time #i learned that after i tried getting a shot of my cat jumping #i need to get a compatible sd card so i can use my old camera

[psilactis]

I just watched the first Furiosa trailer and.... I didn't like it

#I'm so upset #I love mad max so much #It was my favorite movie for so long #Why is this happening... #Why does it have a specific date #Why are Anya Taylor joy and Chris Hemsworth the leading actors #Nothing against them they're both very good but. In this? Idk #I hope it's good I really hope it is #But just the fact it has a date is fucking me up. #The most fun thing about the Mad Max movies was the whimsy of it. When is this happening? Who is Max. How did the world come to this? #All questions that don't matter #But now we have a DATE #And suddenly these questions begin to MATTER #Now we have to wonder is max over sixty years old? He was around before the collapse so what up #What's the actual time line here? #Were there multiple Max's #Also it might have only been the trailer but I didn't particularly like the copy-paste of scenes from fury road #Like... My memory might be funky but I feel like a bunch of the action scenes were very similar. Not only in like #The cars and weapons being used but the framing and the actual action taking place #The very shot of Furiosa walking by herself in the desert at night !!! #Why :((((( #Please please please be just in the trailers. Don't let the whole movie be like this

[occasionally-intelligent]

me *realizing i participated in a coloring event*: huh maybe i should check tumblr to see- WHAT THE

#literally thank you all #so much #all of my linearts were colored multiple times #with sam being the favorite by a long shot #(dont worry shes my favorite too #also definitely what my invisobang fic is gonna be about) #but this event was so much fun #greenwithenvy2023 #danny phantom #also there are still more rbs on the way...