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philippeauguste · 7 months

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The bird theme is all over OFMD, especially in S2E1. The title is impossible birds, probably a direct reference to the story Ed tells Frenchie after Ed shot Izzy.

That bird born in the air, that can never land, is obviously Ed. He’s stuck at sea forever, can’t go back to land since no one is waiting for him here (Stede left him).

Ed also has a bird tatoo, it’s not random that the half feral crew is eating a raw bird when Stede finds them on the almost destroyed Revenge. The crew killed Ed (well actually put him in a coma). They are not enjoying eating the bird, it’s not cooked and it’s clearly not good food, it’s a last resort survival thing.

Like what they had to do to Ed. They hurt him to survive.

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede #blackbeard #ofmd 2 #ofmd spoilers #impossible birds #bird metaphor #ofmd meta

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love-you-into-pieces · 5 months

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I'm so sick of metaphors.

I'm not a dog.

I'm not a bird.

I'm not a flower in the sun.

I'm real.

Even when you leave me behind I'm here.

I'll wait by my phone for you to remember me.

You leave me behind and I still wait

Hoping all these pretty words will make you see

I'll always be here, waiting to be seen

Waiting for you to care enough to notice me.

#poetry #stupid fucking bullshit #metaphor #dog metaphor #flower metaphor #bird metaphor #bad poetry #situationships #crying

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frankensteins-pussy69 · 1 year

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En. 8

Little Bird

who failed to fly.

On the ground.

She wonders if God will ever fix her.

Wings, minority fractured,

and feathers only down,

she jumps, weighted, into a deep puddle,

but God refuses her drown.

"Fuck it!"

she shouts,

the suicide attempt repeated.

But when Little Bird reentered the waves,

she found the water depleted.

Defeated, she cries.

"My wings are shit, maybe they'll feel better

with a slit."

And so, Little Bird flies.

11/12/22

#journal entry #my journal #trigger warning #poetry #poem #poets on tumblr #writer #writing #vent writing #bird metaphor #frankenstein's journal

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miscellaneouscanine · 4 days

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I envy the ones who have wind beneath their wings, I long for wild skies

I pray the vultures take pieces of me with them

So I may finally fly

#-RBB #the first line started out as a stand-alone haiku!#poetry #bird poetry #original poem #my poem #my poetry #vulture #vulture poetry #bird metaphor

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stainedgold · 6 months

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Bird in a Cage

I am a bird in a cage.

Hallow bars inside my cave.

My wings singed by the rage of scars.

I gave you my feathers and beak.

I sing a song of hope.

Nothing which I truly speak.

I beg with carol’s to set me free

When my door peaks open

I step back, still too meek.

I am a bird in a cage.

Battered better rage.

Unable for escape.

#does this make sense #i dont think this makes sense #im sorry #please don’t hate me #poetry #poem #bird #bird metaphor #this is about Kei Vern btw #i love him he’s my favorite #stained gold #oc blog

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anteomnia · 5 months

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just endlessly thinking about blue eye samurai.

thinking about how akemi, taigen, and mizu are if a coin had three sides or maybe just the two and mizu is the bridge of metal between them.

akemi being the ideal image for women, for the life they endure. she was simultaneously a princess, a prostitute, and a prisoner. her entire life was men making decisions for her, even the ones that had good intentions, and she believed her deepest desire was freedom. it still is, but she has been revealed to this heinous predicament of her gender, and she’s realized that to reach true freedom as a woman is to be the bird in the cage, to play nice and to earn the love of a man until he buys her a bigger cage and a bigger cage until he trusts her not to fly away. and it'll never be true freedom, but it will come with power. it'll come with the freedom of only one master rather than many.

taigen being the ideal image of a man. not all powerful, but not weak. he had a taste of what it'd be to succeed, and when it was taken from him, that easy success, he mistook it for his honor. he hunted mizu down to kill him, and instead he saved him. he saved him and saved him and he came closer to killing mizu when they were on the cliff's edge, and just when he gets to the point where he may actually fight mizu, he's tortured for information on him. he is tortured. Literally tortured within an inch of his life, enduring such a heinous violence, and he refuses to break. this man was a fight, was the torturer, and the victim of his torturing could've been his salvation from pain but he refused. mizu gave back taigen's honor but not by fighting him.

akemi wanted freedom and learned she would need power to have it.

taigen wanted power and learned that the violence that came with it was infinite and dishonorable.

and then there's mizu. mizu who wants revenge, wants acceptance. arguably the same things as them both. mizu wants acceptance, the freedom of living and the freedom to love and be loved. mizu wants revenge, which follows after violence and power, to get said acceptance. she thinks she must do both, have both, to live peacefully, and she's blatant about how she will not live without either.

she's given acceptance with the blacksmith, her "mother," her husband, but she sees the flecks of avoidance in it.

the blacksmith will not hear of her true gender. her "mother" will not acknowledge the crime of her birth. her husband can't find tolerance for the violence within her, the man of her.

and so she has to balance the woman and man of her, the ronin and the bride. taigen and akemi. and it's meeting mizu that they start to unravel their own identities.

mizu, who is both, and akemi and taigen who thought themselves one but turned out to be neither.

god.

#complexities #and comparisons #i think they are so much more than what i’ve said but just #the cinematography #and the metaphors #the underlying theme of birds #blue eye samurai #the poetry that you are #it feels like every scene was specifically crafted #like they did not make one undeliberate mark #like it all has meaning #i’m insane #mizu #taigen #akemi #mizu x akemi x taigen #the ronin and the bride

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guqin-and-flute · 1 month

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Something about the fact that these shots are all grouped together, one after another, visually giving them equal weight just gets me. The narrative knows what's going to happen between JGY and Huaisang at this point, knows how it's going to treat JGY at the end of everything. And it still takes time to show Meng Yao instinctively and immediately going in front of Huaisang and Huaisang instinctively and immediately hiding behind him. It takes the time--literally, showed it in the background and focused on it with the same general amount of time as the other shots--to show that this act of protection and trust are just as real and true as Jiang Cheng defending his sister, as Wen Qing defending her younger brother.

Like, I dunno! There are other Nie juniors there! They have swords and shit! Huaisang could have gone and hid behind the wall, but he hid behind Meng Yao! And Meng Yao could have moved back with Huaisang, but he steps directly in front of him!

There's a lot CQL did to JGY's character and narrative that I don't like and that flatten or just straight up erase his full complexity. But I really appreciate the lengths that it went to in Episode 4 to explicitly tell us that he does not hesitate to protect Huaisang, even though at this point he does not have a sword and definitely does not have anywhere near the same cultivation power (if any) as any of the rest of the people in the room.

Right now, after being publicly humiliated, unarmed and definitely outclassed, he is brave. Along with the rest of the characters, he's allowed to be uncomplicatedly young and loyal and just as innocent as any of the other students there.

#Besides Wen Chao fuck u bud #Honestly I think that along with Xichen Huaisang is the other person he legitimately never considered hurting #(In the same way that he didn't consider killing Mingjue hurting them but I digress)#With Xichen I think there were plenty of times were he came to the conclusion that fucking him over or overtly manipulating him #in a disadvantageous way would benefit himself and he actively decided that he would not do that #Whereas with Huaisang I just get the impression that it never occurred to him to do that #And I'm not saying that was ALWAYS out of the goodness of his heart #I think he genuinely didn't think he would get anything out of taking advantage of Huaisang personally or politically #Which is not the most ringing of endorsement next to 'I knew I could and chose not to'#But it wasn't ALWAYS that #for a man who has to constantly be on guard and look for leverage in every single interaction and aspect of his life #I think it's pretty significant that he let Huaisang in so close that he was shocked when he found a metaphorical sword in his chest #along with the physical one #Because in never trying to hurt him he never felt he had to defend against him #He loved him. They both loved each other :(#Also him finding Huaisang's bird antics so genuinely amusing in the background of this ep is just 😭#jgy #nhs #my stuff #jgy meta #nhs meta #text

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sereinreality · 2 months

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i love the concept of corazon (mother bird) who is taking law (baby bird) away and how law’s beige and colourless clothes resembles chicks without feathers

it’s only when he’s older that law finally gets his adult feathers

#i love bird metaphors for corazon and law #also being stuck in a BIRDCAGE like omg…#one piece #corazon donquixote #donquixote rosinante #rosinante corazon #trafalgar law #trafalgar d law #trafalgar d water law #rebel rambles

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ignitingthesky · 1 year

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I dreamt that the most secretive child in the world was given a little android boy as their only permitted bestie and growing up together made him develop curiosity against explicitly given instructions not to. everything goes wrong when he tries to find out what is Up with his bestie.

#involving the most wholesome and heartbreaking collection of ceramic animal mugs #and metaphors involving said animals . bird vs squirrel #and crumbling buildings #a vision of a dream; a fragment

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toxictoxicities · 1 month

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Sorry if this sounds odd, but I've been wondering... do birds have any significance in your Trafficlights? Birds have been mentioned in at least three of your Trafficlights drawings. Was that just a coincidence/spur-of-the-moment idea, or is that a theme for them in some way — in symbolism, or maybe it's something they connect on, etc.? (I'm asking because I have this silly idea for them more directly related to birds, but I need to know if that's actually a running theme)

Nah it's not odd at all! Especially when I have in fact littered so many little symbols and foreshadows in designs and art pieces I've done - and I love sprinkling in little symbols or using certain elements which aid in the whole visualization of the narrative.

However I cannot spill alllll my lil secrets I've laid out, but I'd love to hear your interpretation of it!

#ill give u a curve ball also #someone pointed out that only Suns left antenna twitches #lil details like that >:)#toxart #toxtalk #trafficlights #I think more the bird is somewhat a symbol #but also a metaphor #im not sure how to label it #but it did stem from me just liking birds #and that theres many things I could do with birds and certain things meaning different stuff about the two #srs #nsh #iterators #rw #rain world #qna #sketches

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papermillll · 3 months

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“SQ had never before related so strongly to the metaphor of a caged bird, and given his history, that was really saying something.” (Ch. 29)

Fanart of S.O.S. by @nobodysdaydreams! (amazing fic would 100% recommend :))

#I don’t know if his stuffed bird has a canon description so just ignore if the bird is nothing like sq’s haha #sq pedalian #tmbs #sos #s.o.s.#sq bird metaphors make me go so feral #also i do not know how to draw bird cages so i hope that actually looks like one #pm art tag #pm fanart tag #id in alt text

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brenninthetaylorverse · 6 months

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yeah that's cool but you know what's cooler?

you asked to walk me home, but I had to carry you. and you pushed me in, now my feet can't touch the bottom of you. you couldn't have, you couldn't have stuck your tongue down the throat of somebody who loves you more. so I will wait for the next time you want me, like a dog with a bird at your door. we hate "tears in heaven" but it's sad that his baby died. and we fought about john lennon until I cried. and then went to bed, upset. but now i'm dreaming and you're singing at my birthday and i've never seen you smiling so big. it's nautical themed and there's something I'm supposed to say but can't for the life of me remember what it is. and if I could give you the moon, I would give you the moon. you are sick, and you're married and you might be dying, but you're holding me like water in your hands. when you saw the dead little bird, you started crying. but you know the killer doesn't understand.