#doom by the narratives my beloved

[drawlody]

May i interested you in some Swap AU :D

THE ICE LADY X MAGIC SIMON/MAGIC SIR

I'll go and make a proper ref later as well as explaining some design choice the goodstuff ya feel me?

#digital art #artists on tumblr #art #digital drawing #adventure time #simon petrikov #betty grof #simon x betty #petrigrof #adventure time swap au #swap au #i call this one hat switch #for now #the ice lady pose whooped my ass #the sillies continue to be tragic regardless #doom by the narratives my beloved

[monarch-ambrosia]

none of the oiar employees know they’re in a horror series except alice. who spends every day desperately trying to change the genre to office comedy

#alice Doomed By the Narrative dyer my absolute beloved. pls stay alive #tmagp #the magnus protocol #alice dyer #the yellings

[swordsandflowercrowns]

I'm absolutely LIVING for the increase in luke and percy parallels, but something that's been rattling around my brain since I last listened to the lightning thief musical is that without luke, percy WOULD become him. I think that it's seeing the example of the cruelty and betrayal in luke that prevented percy from following the same path. he's horrified at how luke betrayed his friends, but luke believes he's doing it for the good of the demigods, just as percy would believe he's doing it for the good of his friends. percy is regularly disloyal to the gods by being loyal to his friends. he is saved from luke's fate simply because he came second and watched it unfold before him. I'm so sorry luke but you really are doomed by the narrative. you were always going to turn against the gods, even it it wasn't you. it had to happen.

#I am chewing glass #the good kid reprise in tlt musical my beloved #charlie bushnell's luke my beloved #pjo series my beloved #character doomed by the narrative my beloved #luke castellan #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo series #pjo tv show #pjo disney+ #pjo spoilers

[lizard-queen-izzy]

Thinking about Agnes Montague, Gerard Keay and Jonathan Sims. All chosen ones, in their own way. All intended by those who decided they were a chosen one to bring on the end of days. Or die trying. Or die while succeeding. They were only as valuable as their potential. Only worth what they could give.

And death was their only escape from those expectations.

Agnes had her church hang her.

Gerry died and then had Jon burn his page.

Jon had Martin kill him.

I just think there's something about them. Something about them all being doomed in such similar ways.

#tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #jon sims #gerard keay #gerry keay #agnes montague #agnes montague tma #jarchivist #savemejarchivist #characters doomed by the narrative my beloved #characters doomed by thise meant to care for them my beloved #characters who can't seem to win no matter how much they try my beloved #i am so so normal about them #i think about this a lot #i think about it all the time

[nell0-0]

I just wanna see him be happy :,D

#linked universe #lu time #my art #when he's doomed by the narrative but also my comfort character #beloved blorbo

[pecan-jelly]

Lucy Frostblade; She’s been dead since the beginning

#d&d #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #d20 fanart #d20 fantasy high #d20 fhjy #lucy frostblade #characters who are doomed by the narrative my beloved #the green background is inspired by paintings of Ophelia #she is so Ophelia coded

[adhd-merlin]

#WILL SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE LANCELOT A HUG #text post meme my beloved #the “you're doomed by the narrative...” isn't a tumblr post but idc I needed it here #for reasons #merlin memes #text post meme #bbc merlin #merlin #*

[annie-handholder]

The Burning God (rin pov) :

The Drowning Faith (nezha pov):

#i cant do this #😭😭😭😭 #lovers doomed by the narrative my beloveds #rinezha #rinzha #fang runin #yin nezha #the poppy war #asoolapost

[somebluemelodies]

q!Jaiden and Bobby are together now but at what cost

#qjaiden my beloved cubito doomed by the narrative from the start #the bittersweet ending of all bittersweet endings #head in hands #qsmp jaiden #qsmp bobby #qsmp

[inamindfarfaraway]

It's both funny and increasingly annoying to me when Hatchetfield fans associate Bill with Blinky, the way Paul is associated with Pokey and Ted with Tinky, but leave out Alice. She was there in Watcher World too! Her eyes were also purple! She was also controlled to try to kill her family! There is no way you can think of “Watcher World” without remembering Alice's equal involvement in Blinky's scheme.

I'd argue that she's a much better fit for Blinky's special human. He forms a grudge against her for insulting and disobeying him ("Fuck you, Blinky", "You'll be sorry"), just like Pokey's fixation on Paul because he defied him. She has a theme of watching going on herself, in contrast to Bill's naivety and obliviousness: being perceptive enough to notice the creepy, suspicious elements of Watcher World; trying to use observation as a tool to control Deb's behaviour, Blinky's modus operandi (though I personally like to believe that Deb didn't actually cheat and Blinky was tricking her); and having a connection with social media in general, which Blinky is thematically similar to and embodies the worst, most harmful elements of. She's deeply self-conscious, concerned with her reputation to her peers and has an anxiety disorder. The result that she's always worrying about how people see her and feels pressured to act in certain ways by that is exactly what Blinky wants in his prey, just like how Linda is Nibby's ideal hungry Honey Queen. She's interested in theatre and wants to be a playwright, to write shows where people will passively watch characters struggle and suffer for their own entertainment. Blinky creates live plays too - he even proudly says “Welcome to the show!" when the father and daughter's duel begins. She knows how to manipulate people by showing them what they want to see, giving her script draft a tragic ending for the queer main characters that's more likely to get it accepted in the discriminatory industry, when in fact she wants to change the ending once she has more power.

And she alone defeats her Lord in Black. Pokey assimilates Paul. Tinky breaks and owns Ted. Nibbly consumes Linda. Wiggly completely enslaves Linda and leads her to her death, and Wiley is unshakeable from his allegiance to him. But Alice? She overcomes the mind control, pushes through her panic attack, shoots Bliklotep in his all-seeing eye and goes home with her dad. And lets go of her independent issues with perception and image by putting down her phone.

She is so much like Blinky, and so much his perfect victim. Except that she wants happy endings. For the characters in her stories, for herself and for the people she loves. And she has the strength to make them come true. She's Blinky's equal and opposite. The hero to his villain. She can do everything he can, on a human scale, but she believes in happy endings.

I know the fandom likes the 'CCRP eldritch horrors’ favourites gang', and that is fun. But give Alice the respect she deserves! I see her as Blinky's Ted while Bill is his Pete; also a valued toy, but more by proxy than in his own right.

#she was literally doomed by the narrative in-universe and saved herself #and was saved by her dad #she is a PLAYWRIGHT THEATRE CHARACTER she can rewrite her own narrative! #she SHOT and escaped a lord in black #respect her! #alice woodward #my beloved #bill woodward #blinky #bliklotep #watcher world #nightmare time #hatchetfield

[small-spark-of-light]

day 23 was to pick a color palette and stick to those colors(with some blending allowed)

#incredibox #incredibox fanart #evadare #xrun #siren #capitan #30 day challenge #sparks creations #OUGH THE EEPERRRRRRRR/POS #BABY CAPITAN MY BELOVED #hes just a little babie <3<3<3<3 #siren is SO pretty and for WHAT #I LOVE WOMEN #this was honestly easier than i expected #all i had to do was translate the colors into greyscale #order them from lightest to darkest(lavender. yellow. light blue. red. dark blue) #and place them based on the values #it was just painting it was honestly nice :D #yes i chose the palette based on the name i thought it was funny #it was either still or drawing rafe again with a color palette called Doomed(By The Narrative) XD #but i drew rafe recently so i picked someone else

[muffinmoonn]

dark precure deserved better

all she wanted was to be loved by her father. thats why she wanted to kill moonlight. not just cuz its her "purpose" but bc she wanted to be sabaku's "real" daughter. she even says that once she kills moonlight, she'll become the "true moonlight"

she was jealous of yuri being sabaku's biological human daughter and wanted to kill her to take her place. all she wanted was to be loved by her father

after she's defeated, she shakily stands up and yells at yuri to get away from sabaku, because he's her father. she sees yuri cling to sabaku and she fears he's is leaving her for yuri. she doesnt want yuri to take her dad away from her, that's her greatest fear.

and then she dies in his arms and we see her genuinely smile (i think this is the only time she smiled in the whole anime?). sabaku tells yuri that dark precure is her sister, and he loves her just as much as he does yuri. and then she dies.

man this shit was so sad. she had so much potential that was only unleashed at the very end. she didnt deserve to die, she shouldve lived. she died "evil" and thats fucked up. apparently in the novel its confirmed that she doesnt have a heart flower. she doesnt even get a NAME. she's called a "doll with no heart" and yet we see her break down and reveal her true emotions. there no way she doesnt have a heart, u can see it right there in the episode. and she dies with only a little sympathy at the very end, and yet she never got to be human, she never got to be seen as human by the damn show. its so fucked up, she deserved better.

#dark precure my beloved ill save you from your doomed narrative #dark precure #heartcatch precure #precure #pretty cure #i dont use usually make long talky posts but idk i was feeling funky fresh so #muffin talk

[multishipperbish]

rotating the idea of a Jalph soulmate AU inside my head

but not a traditional fix-it soulmate AU where they find each other and immediately fall in love and all is well that goes well. What about that "first words are tattooed somewhere on their body" AU where Ralph has "Where's the man with the trumpet?" on his arm and Jack has "There's no man with a trumpet. Only me." on his leg.

What if they meet each other for the first time and they're friends. What if Jack betrays Ralph and they start hating the words on them. What if Ralph covers his arm with mud and Jack his leg with blood. They're hesitant to clean up when they're on the boat back home. During future confrontations their eyes wander and they meet gazes and just know what the other's thinking : what if we could have made it work?

It's the 1950s so obviously they're not thinking about being in a relationship. Maybe the media normalises platonic soulmates. Maybe not; maybe their parents told them they'd better have female soulmates or else. Maybe after their first meeting, Ralph looks at his arm every now and then and feels a deep discomfort in his stomach but he tells himself it's fine as long as they're on the island because nobody's going to bother them about it. Maybe Jack starts wearing longer pants after the island because his father found out and started hassling him about finding the girl who'd speak about a trumpet, however strange she may sound.

And maybe then they're back in school and undergoing therapy (probably not cause the 1950s were yikes about mental health but it'd nice to think about) they see their soulmarks and the feeling of longing from before the island comes back. "If only I could find them I'd be whole" turns to "If only I'd handled it better". They wish it could have worked. They wish they could have stayed friends. If only it had gone differently. Right person wrong time. Because if they're soulmates obviously their souls are going to feel like something's missing their whole lives now that they've found each other and they're apart, so add to that the PTSD and whatever else is going on inside their heads, the poor boys will not be having a good time.

Maybe Jack feels the pull of the hunt after the island (because I personally headcanon that he's lived pretty repressed beforehand due to his strict parents and the island gave him freedom he's never had before; the hunt was an amalgamation of all the stress that comes from having an overbearing successful Father with a capital F melting off his bones) AND the pull of the soul. Maybe he meets people with fair hair and the most gorgeous smile and he wants to vomit because he remembers the blood on his hands. Maybe Ralph is trying to socialise at school and he sees parts of Jack in everyone he meets. Maybe Ralph tells himself to shut up about his missing half, he doesn't have it that bad, just look at Simon and Piggy and the mulberry kid! at least he's not dead! (don't do that kids. that's a horrible coping mechanism. seek professional help) and still he goes to church and hears the choir and wonders if Jack still sings.

I dunno it's just an idea!! I am not done yapping about this. Will add on through reblogs if needed

#writing #my writing #it's more like #rambling #but fair enough #i dunno i saw a tumblr post about soulmate AUs earlier and the idea hasn't left my head #doomed yaoi #my beloved #as an aromantic person I have a complicated relationship with soulmate AUs #because usually they're interpreted as romantic #and like yeah! yippee!! that's often a good thing #but I also really like the idea of two characters cursed by the narrative together in a non-romantic way #stuck orbiting each other throughout their lives whether they like it or not #even through each other's romantic relationships #maybe their society normalises romantic soulmates and they feel pressure to become a couple but it doesn't work #lotf #lord of the flies #jack merridew #lotf ralph #jalph #if you couldn't tell i'm insane about them. #i need to think more about the other ships i like though. #ralmon rogermon jager. maurice i still need to find a proper suitor for because i don't get his character yet but it is coming. #piggy i just need to think about more often. #angst #ANGST I FORGOT TO TAG AS ANGST #I'M SO SORRY IF IT CAUGHT ANYONE OFF GUARD #jalph soulmate au

[swordsandflowercrowns]

luke is such an empathetic character because uncle rick just gives us a boy who's grown up feeling abandoned by his father, who he also deems responsible for essentially losing his mother. he loses one of his best friends because her very birth is seen as a mistake to the gods, and the very best zeus can do for her as she gives her life for her friends is to turn her into a tree. he becomes the best swordsman at camp, he successfully completes his quest, he's good, he's a good kid, and STILL he doesn't get so much as an acknowledgement from his father. he may be 19 during tlt but he has been a KID throughout all of this and he is desperate. of course he made the choices he did. it was ALWAYS going to happen.

#I SWEAR I am not trying to be a luke girlie #there's just so much narrative angst to chew on #there is no 'I could fix him' or 'I would join him' #no. you are the audience. he is doomed to follow this path and you are doomed to watch him and be unable to stop him. #character doomed by the narrative my beloved #charlie bushnell's luke my beloved #luke castellan #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo disney+ #pjo tv show #pjo series #pjo spoilers

[chaotic-gender-fluid]

LUKE AND PERCY FIGHTING THE SAME WAY.

they have the same issues with the gods

their arguements are so similar

and they are the ones changing things

he was his first friend at camp and he died on his birthday

they are cursed by the narrative to parallel each other

the oracle herself fated them to be intertwined

#i'm so normal about them #also I love them fighting #their arguments become physical and the EMOTION on their faces as they fight #THEY ARE SO INVESTED #and Luke recruiting instead of trying to kill him makes it all so much more powerful #percy jackson #pjo #rick riordan #pjo tv show #luke castellan #walker scobell #character doomed by the narrative my beloved #charlie bushnell's luke my beloved #chaotic ramblings in the ether

[spoookiepie]

The voice of the wind and droplets of light flow over you as you doze

#ryoji my beloved #persona 3 #I’m getting the P3 brain worms again #all my tragic doomed by the narrative babies… #persona 3 reload #persona 3 spoilers #my art