#chekhov posts

[thechekhov]

The 3 Main Schools of Necromancy.

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #necromancy #tlt #tlt fanart #doing a thing #cant post yet but i am proud of this one #chekhov draws tlt #chekhov draws the locked tomb

[benvoolioo]

‘if you ever have need of my life, take it’ is such a metal line. you would think it’s from the seagull by anton chekhov or something and it is. it is from the seagull by anton chekhov. 

#chekhov #the seagull #tagging this feels redundant after the actual contents of the post lol #me when the seagull by anton chekhov author of the seagull by chekhov #found in my drafts

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

when will season 5 be up?

It's up right now on Patreon! :)

As for when it will be public..... I don't know!

I'm currently trying to build up a buffer, so it might not be for another month or so, at least. I understand the urge to see it sooner, but I need some space for my own peace of mind, so please be patient.

#chekhov answers #comics #su au #white diamond au #steven universe #if you decide to complain to me about posting it early on patreon please be aware that i will block you

[imsodishy]

thinking about the parallels between S1 Steve rolling up on the Byers' house and S2 Billy doing the same.

Steve ostensibly went there to apologize, but when he encountered suspicious circumstances (noticed that Nancy was injured and acting strangely) he immediately jumped the the most logical conclusion (that Jonathan had hurt her) and was completely ready to barge in and cause way more problems. But then a demogorgon conveniently crawled out of the wall and did all the necessary explaining for them.

Billy arrived already primed to find a bad situation, his stepsister is missing in a strange town, that's a fact, and when he encounters suspicious circumstances (literally everything going on that night) he immediately jumps to the most logical conclusion (Steve and the boys are up to no good with said stepsister) and he barges in and causes problems... because no demodog falls out of the fridge to conveniently explain everything.

denied deus ex monster

#I've said it before and I'll say it again: why were they fighting in the kitchen if not to payoff chekhov's monster in the fridge???? #arrrgh #there was no reason to keep him in the dark at that point and several reasons to loop him in and they just didn’t #billy hargrove #steve harrington #have i made this exact post before? possibly

[punkitt-is-here]

Starting hrt today or tomorrow, I hope I get to look as swagful as you tbh

no matter what you'll look incredible

#chekhovs-atf-agent #my posts #asks

[generallyjl]

hat20

#tears in my eyes #[ HAT ] #neverafter spoilers #so sorry if like 20 other people have already posted this clip i just love it ao much #neverafter #dimension 20 #beardsley we see ur vision and we <3 u for it #as always this bit is even BETTER in context for the exact reason they said #chekhov's orange fairy top hat

[avengersome]

Samuel West - a selection of miscellaneous photographs

#because why tf not #samuel west #sam west #Chekhov #mr selfridge #Fleming #Hyde park on Hudson #Sunday brunch #I don’t actually know where all of these come from #but he’s so pretty #and I can’t do gifs #so occasionally I just post photos #because even if nobody reblogs it at least it was pleasant to put together

[beans-in-your-socks]

so.

TMAGP 9 ami right?

#Tmagp #tmagp spoilers #tmagp vague #vee vaugeposts #vague posting #the Magnus protocol #the magnus institute #chester and norris #i am gnawing at the bars on my cage #tmagp 9 #magnus friday #Jonny really went and got a Chekhov’s gun and shot us right in the face

[jack-kellys]

star trek au vision board

reckless captain jack. emotionally repressed half human first officer david. do no harm take no shit chief medic crutchie. do we understand

#me when i pin a post after months of not changing it. #i wanna try n do three strange new worlds esque ‘episodes’ for minibang so. #these r all actual screen caps from the 60s show. btw. it was this gay #newsies #newsies aus #jack kelly #davey jacobs #crutchie morris #newsies fanart #fizz draws #fizz freaks #newsies uk #i guess. sure #newsies art #star trek au #davey come get ur juice #crutchie and davey rivalry is fun and unexplored in this fandom so i'm takin it #i Would make it racer but a) racer whiz kid chekhov is soooo. good. b) race is not a medic character in the least in my brain #also crutchie is crutchie so i'm centering him duh

[fyodcrs]

Day ?: I’m still thinking about chapter 108.

I was supposed to post this a week ago, oops.

A lot of people, after chapter 108 dropped, appeared to assume that the “revelation” about Fyodor in this chapter was just a ruse, as Fyodor claims it to be. Personally, I don’t think it’s that simple, and I wanted to talk a little about it.

I should note that this isn’t really a theory or an analysis, just my initial impressions. And I guess we’ll find out pretty soon if I was close to the mark or not. Next chapter? Too much to hope?

I think that this was real:

But everything from this point was fake, or at least was Fyodor acting:

If it is true that Fyodor - the real Fyodor - has been controlled by his Ability this entire time, his breakdown after Sigma showed him the note was a moment when his real self, his real consciousness, took over. The sudden change in him is profound and shocking. His eyes look so different, and we know that eyes are important in BSD.

Then we get the POV break, however, and when we return Fyodor starts giving us some "explanation”...and then this happens:

The moment we return to Fyodor and Sigma after the second POV break, I think Fyodor had been “taken over” again and was acting. But I don’t think he was acting from the beginning, nor do I think that everything he said even when he was “acting” was necessarily false.  

There are a couple of reasons for this. First, it’s too out-there a reveal for me to believe it was a complete swerve. It really came out of absolutely nowhere, and then it’s all just lies? I don’t know, I find that hard to swallow.

Then there’s the matter of the note. If it was Fyodor that wrote it - why? Just for this silly ruse? Sure, he certainly could have predicted the entire course of events that led up to Sigma confronting him with a gun and laid the trap, that’s just what he does, but even for Fyodor that seems a bit much. Was it not Fyodor that wrote it, then? But who else would have written a note in Russian that says “help me”? Nikolai? What for? That seems like it’d be very out of character for him.

There’s also what Fyodor says after his breakdown. “What year is it?” What kind of question is that to ask if you’re pretending to be under the control of your Ability? Wouldn’t something like “Where am I?” or “Who are you?” be more fitting? Considering that Fyodor’s age and the nature of his Ability has been kept a secret for so long, this line really sticks out to me as important.

Not to mention, there was this in the previous chapter:

I don’t think it’s insignificant that Sigma is the one to say this, the one to bring this question up for the first time, rather than Dazai or Nikolai. Sigma is himself a character that could be considered not fully human. He was created from the Book, which itself is suggested to have been created by an Ability. Sigma’s origin, too, then, is tied directly to Abilities. It makes a certain amount of sense for him to be the one to realize that there’s something off about Fyodor, or at least for him to be the first one to confront Fyodor about it.

We know from 55 Minutes and Dead Apple that Abilities can take on a life of their own and even subsume the personalities of the original bearer. In 55 Minutes, Jules Verne’s Ability absorbs his personality and lives on; in Dead Apple, Shibusawa’s Ability lives on after his death, with no memory of his death and no knowledge that it is an Ability. Some Abilities, like Mori’s, naturally are manifest as separate personalities, though Mori has control over Elise.

Speaking of Dead Apple, there’s this famous scene:

“Even in the midst of the fog, my special ability did not turn against me like the others. Do you know why that is? I am crime. I am punishment. Did you not know? Crime and punishment are close acquaintances.”

Maybe this is more literal than I thought. Maybe there really are two Fyodors - in a sense. The real Fyodor - the “crime” - and his Ability - the “punishment.”

I do not, however, think that a “split personality” is really the “true” nature of Fyodor’s Ability. I think it’s probably more complicated than that. Abilities are extensions of their bearers, after all; Elise does not really have a distinct personality except what Mori gives her, and Shibusawa’s Ability had his personality and his desires.

Which makes me wonder - if this is true, and if the Fyodor we know really is the real Fyodor’s Ability, how much of his desires, his perception of himself and of the world, and especially of Abilities, is his own, and how much of it came from the real Fyodor?

I have a whole rant about Dostoevsky and Fyodor’s character I’ll post if this all turns out to be true, but for now here’s a quote from Demons:  “I also know that it was not you who ate the idea, but the idea that ate you...”

Another reason why I don’t buy that this is all a lie is that we’ve had no other red herrings about either the nature of Fyodor’s Ability, his character, or his past before this. It’s all just been subtle hints. It’s very odd that there would suddenly be a massive red herring now, so far into the series and so far into the DOA arc.

Of course, Asagiri could absolutely be trolling us. Who knows? Maybe in less than a month we’ll find out Fyodor really does deserve an Oscar. I wouldn’t even be mad, because he should have already won an award for that performance when he was arrested in the café.

#bsd spoilers #Bungou Stray Dogs #Fyodor Dostoevsky #BSD #BSD Fyodor #Fyodor #not me posting this a whole week late sdfghjghjk #I got busy okay! #quick tell me what you think this might be defunct in two weeks lol #I'm also still wondering about that knife #Chekhov's magic knife? #idk

[thechekhov]

#chekhov answers #cant search for something specific about the lore for fear of revealing a New Interest #to the Algorith #which will then fill all your algorithmic feeds with All The Most Recent Popular Posts #i will not say what it is #tumblr culture #fandom #content #comics #chekhov draws #comic

[chekhovs-nailgun]

this episode is titled andy and leyley contract a prion disease

#bitches thought they were safe when they didn’t have a parasite #the coffin of andy and leyley #tcoaal #ashley graves #andrew graves #coffincest #chekhov's prion disease #that’s just gonna be my tcoaal post tag lmfao

[offonaherosjourney]

Just watched Last Night in Soho and I adored it and do recommend watching it but the main character was so lesbian coded that to me the biggest plot twist in that movie was that none of those sapphic Chekhov's guns (Sappho's buns, if you will) paid off?

Was I really supposed to read a country girl that just moved to a big city and on her first night out stops to stare in awe at the door of a striptease with GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS written in neon pink letters as straight? A girl that dreams of becoming a fashion designer but when she goes to sleep gets to witness the life of another girl in the 60s, and becomes so enchanted with her beauty and charisma she not only makes her her muse (it was Anya Taylor-Joy so who can blame her) but also dyes her hair and starts dressing like her as straight?? A girl who flees a party in the verge of a nervous breakdown, looks in distress at the several straight couples making out near her and then proceeds to scream at the friendly boy that's been coded throughout the movie as her potential love interest how she wishes she could be like everyone else, just before she kisses him in what reads as a desperate hail mary, as fucking straight???

#last night in soho #anya taylor-joy #chekhov's gun #wlw #lesbian #sappho's bun #LOOK IT'S A BAD PUN BUT I MADE IT AND I'M TAGGING IT #i seriously thought part of the main character's arc was her coming to terms with her sexuality #nothing too elaborate because the movie was a thriller and the plot was angled towards that but you know #i really thought she was going to eventually reject the boy and ask to be just friends because she was actually very gay #nym's posts

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

Me waiting for April 14th so tapas will update and I can riot about the next beautifully crafted comic, knowing damn well it updates the day AFTER, (I assume timezones), but will still sit there patiently bc this thing is great and I love reading it: (´⊙ω⊙`)

DOING MY BEST TO DELIVER THAT ONE, AND ALSO THE NEXT!

#chekhov answers #guys #theres like so many more comics to go #the cluster happens realistically in a very short time #but i will need at least like 4 more comic POSTS to finish it off

[jessamine-rose]

Aight with Chemistry and Magnum Opus posted, I can finally share this meme based on a scene from vi. dopamine lol

To those who read the fics, y’all know what happens. And to new readers, I hope you enjoy my use of Dottore’s harness xD

#I CAN FINALLY POST THIS #i call it ​chekhov’s harness #dottore why are you wearing a harness at work?? FOR YOUR DARLING TO USE IT??!! #il dottore #dottore #dottore x reader #yandere dottore x reader #yandere dottore #yandere fatui harbingers #fatui x reader #genshin x reader #yandere genshin #tw: yandere #fem reader

[kenzan-kiwami]

to be completely frank i think most of the people i've seen with major complaints regarding RGG 8's story are forgetting that 99% of what they're saying can be applied across the whole series

#this is not aimed at anyone in particular i've seen these sentiments all over #but things like 'well the story was mid' ok well come back to me after you've replayed yakuza kiwami. no optional majima everywhere allowed #and things like the ending falling flat - sure. but so did 7's #the pacing in the end chapter + chekhov's failboy were like. huh??? #i'm never gonna call RGGS perfect but they're NOT regressing at all. #if anything gaiden and 8 have got me extremely hopeful for whatever comes next #like it's their 20th anniversary this year they've left so many loose ends in 8 they can carry on from they've got forever to keep going #MY only complaint is that they couldn't have retrofitted more of gaiden into IW but i can't exactly fault them for that #idk for all of the dooming i'm seeing i want to say something more positive about the game as a whole #even if this post is still pretty doom & gloom #people just let their expectations get way too high for this one game and i'm not even sure how that happened in most cases #it met all of mine - hell it EXCEEDED them. but i recognise i may be privileged on that front lol <- kashiwagi likers are eating so well rn #text #8 #again i don't mean to attack anyone in particular it's just a general frustration i've been having #and i only hope that if there comes a time when people play over again that they're able to dig further into the meat of the story #and recognise that this game isn't uniquely 'shit' or 'mid'