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queen-mabs-revenge · 7 months

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there is something so exceptional about the audio form and the kind of...meta-narrative (?) of horror it creates that really leapt out at the end of this re: dracula episode (25 Sept).

seeing the runtime of each episode sets the scene - 27:06? ok, i'm in for something here -- we have a few, uhhhhh, long-winded characters in rotation so it might not be an eventful something, but at this point in the story, we've already been gutted by episodes with longer runtimes so just glimpsing the runtime already sets the scene for heightened dread. you might set aside time to experience the dread instead of maybe quickly listening to a minute long episode wherever/whenever you are.

i luckily got to listen through without interruption and so i was only vaguely aware of the passing time in that approximate way one's body clock ever is. so as this episode came to a close, and mina asks van helsing to not reply if he agrees to meet for breakfast, the dread spiked

i didn't know how long was left in the episode -- the music was still lingering. how much time has it been? 27 minutes? it feels like it could be 27 minutes, but it also feels much shorter? can't be sure. and even if the runtime is nearly elapsed, we know from previous episodes that a telegram can take mere seconds, a journal entry just a few words. is van helsing going to be called away? is he going to cancel the meeting? is mina going to be left alone again with no answers and no friends? with the count and the 'bloofer lady' closing in? how long has the music been playing? holding my breath for the morse code. holding my breath for van helsing's voice. holding my breath for 'letter by hand'. holding my breath for 'letter unopened'...

"this episode featured..."

relief

when reading, you have the unread pages in your hand constantly telling you the story of the progress of the narrative's shape. unless every piece of ephemera of an epistolary story is set on its own separate page, you can see the next item in your eyesight. sure, even if they are on separate new pages, you can see through the printed page the shadows of the text on the next, giving you a subconscious hint of expectation.

with a film, you lose the tangibility of the physical object informing the narrative, but you have other sensory cues - something like a fade to black over the lingering music can manipulate your expectations of narrative completion (and either follow through or subvert them). if you're watching on a device, an accidental activation of the screen or cursor might give you a glimpse of the progression bar, again changing your narrative perception.

with an audio drama you're left with just the one sense as your guide. unless you're actively watching the progression bar as you're listening or actively watching a clock, you just don't know beyond your own imperfect perception of time what you're in for and fuck me the added anxiety because of that is just

whew

#re: dracula #i have a deep obsession with the inescapable narration of the material art form on the art itself #and man oh man this was a treat for me today #thinking of how other things can shape your narrative experience #if you're listening while walking on a familiar route and know how long it takes you to walk from point a to point b #passing a physical landmark might spike dread because you suddenly are aware of time passed and remaining #literally a fire hydrant. a weird tree. a crack in the sidewalk could be a meta-narrative device #something that the author has no control over can shape the perception of their story #going feral about it actually?

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braxiatel · 2 years

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I love you tragedy I love you corruption arcs I love you doomed relationships I love you character succumbing to their fatal flaw I love you codependency I love you characters doomed to die from the start I love you road to hell paved with good intentions

#going feral over Characters #eta: this was actually in my queue but I'm posting it now on this the day of me being very on my bullshit about tragic narratives #the void collection

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hailsatanacab · 5 months

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"Well, this is a bad idea," Tim says, hands on his hips as he surveys the mess they’ve made in the cave.

"Nah," Danny replies, twirling his screwdriver in the air in what is probably meant to be an impressive trick to inspire confidence, except he fumbles it and it clangs to the floor loudly, "we good. If a younger version of myself hasn't come forward in time to stop me, how bad can it be?"

"Shouldn't it be the other way round?"

"What?"

"Normally, it's an older version of yourself going backwards in time to stop you, right?"

"Not in my experience."

Danny's grin is impossibly feral and a shiver runs up Tim's spine.

"This is definitely a bad idea."

#dpxdc #dcxdp #batpham #dead tired #dead tired ship #there is a more expanded upon version of this with actual backstory and context rotting in the recesses of my brain #but its only half on paper and the conversation made me laugh so #here: have some feral danny leading tim down a path to disaster #danny: this is going to go so well! i have such a good feeling about this!!#tim: this is going to go so poorly. i have such a bad feeling about this.#danny: 🥺🙏🙏🙏#tim: i never said we weren’t doing it. i just reserve the right to tell you i told you so when it inevitably goes wrong #danny: leave that to younger me - he always makes very valid points in the form of fists to the face!#tim: can you stop talking please this is making me want to do it less #danny: no.

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thenegoteator · 11 months

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—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

-- 'One Art' by Elizabeth Bishop

you ever think about how after everything Ahsoka told Vader "I'm not leaving you" and it wasn't enough

#ahsoka #star wars #anakin skywalker #darth vader #swr #tcw #xuserann #my art #going FERAL about these two again actually #and about poetry.#something something about losing. and leaving. and being left. and coming back too late.#imagine ahsoka hearing how vader died.#padme and luke both said 'there's still good in him' and ahsoka KNEW that and yet he would not show it to her.#i'm chewing drywall

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jimjamjomjum · 4 months

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Be right back.

#No but I’m actually feral about Wilbur Cross #We know that MacNamara didn’t go mad when he went into the Black and White so why did Cross #Did he give up what he cherished most #DID HE????#synchronize your time piece with mine #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #myart #fanart #starkid #tgwdlm #black friday #wilbur cross #uncle wiley #john macnamara #peip #All Wilbur Cross wanted to do was save the world with his peeps and the Lords in Black made him give it up so even if humanity does win #Cross won’t celebrate with them???? He won’t even want to??#I’m just making stuff up at this point lol

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wen-kexing-apologist · 4 months

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Hey, are y'all seeing this shit?

Phaya and Tharn in reality:

gif by @firstmix

Phaya and Tharn in fantasy:

gif by @wanderlust-in-my-soul

Clearly Phaya had a very informative morning.

#phaya...I know what you are #and this is why I can't pay complete attention to what I am watching if I am going to attempt to be normal about the show #because if I actually spend some time looking I see shit like this and immediately turn into a feral dog #chomping at the bit. foaming at the mouth. tattooing 'HOMO' on Phaya and Tharn's foreheads.#billybabe #tharn x phaya #phaya x tharn #tharnphaya #phayatharn #the sign #the sign the series #I just really fucking love all the work they are doing with physicality in that there is such an unconscious tenderness #that is immediately activated when phaya and tharn have physical contact #because they can't shake those reincarnated lovers bullshit babyyyyyy

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wanderingdream · 2 years

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"you need not have come to my defense" except dream LOVES it because in that moment Hob is a knight protecting his king and Dream hasn't had anyone fight on his behalf before because he doesn't wage wars, he doesn't reap he creates but to have someone stand up and fight for him even though HE DOES NOT NEED IT makes him smile that little smile and realize that he loves seeing someone fight for him, seeing HOB fight for him, defending him in a way no one has before even though he need not come to his defense. he need not!! but he does. in this essay i will

#dreamling #hob gadling x dream #GOING FERAL OVER THAT TBH #might write a fic about dream wanting to roleplay hob fighting wars for him #and of course roleplay for dream is in the dreaming where an ACTUAL war is staged and he's like 'go my knight' and hob is like dream ily but #the fuck #anyway #the sandman

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introspectivememories · 4 months

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TIM DRAKE: ROBIN #7 YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS

#this comic won a pulitzer prize in my house #when they told us that it would be bernard pov.... chills #and then the actual contents of the book???#i think i went insane as i read it #genuine changed my brain chemistry #OH MY GOD WHEN WE THOUGHT BEAR WAS GONNA PROPOSE???#AND THE NECKLACE!!!! THE FUCKING NECKLACE!!!#sorry i'm going feral just thinking about it #td:r #tim drake: robin #bernard dowd #tim drake #timbern #dc

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say-hi-intrepid-heroes · 3 months

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dates that i legally need to take someone on at some point:

- those cute little build a bear dates i see all over tiktok

- book date (go to second hand book store and pick out books for each other, then go somewhere and read them)

- coffee date but you switch drinks (like order what you'd usually get and then switch. doesn't work for everyone but like i'll drink anything so it can work for people like me)

- cooking date. (let me cook for you. please. that's all i want)

- watching twilight but making fun of it (nothing funnier than talking the whole time and making fun of them)

- just. going outside. and sitting on a blanket together. maybe reading a book or taking a nap or drawing or writing. just,,,, being.

- stargazing date :) (see above but at night and also looking at the stars???? i love)

- zoo date. i love the zoo. lets go see all the tiny little animals and lose our marbles.

- (this only works for people who knit or crochet but could be adapted to other art forms) each go and buy one color yarn (it can be cheap as hell, i think the dollar store has yarn sometimes) and switch and you have to make something out of the yarn the other person picked out. idk i think that's cute

- literally just hanging out. anything is a date if you do it together. run errands with me. i'll come sit with you while you do homework. rant about your day while im cleaning my room. that's a date.

#i'm about to go feral if i don't go on a date right now actually #also feel free to add if you've got good ones

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hazelnut-u-out · 3 months

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Somehow never caught this before, but does this imply Birdperson’s mom killed his dad and he remembers seeing it?

The fact this memory is somehow tied to Blood Ridge in his mind makes me wonder if that’s part of why he didn’t accept Rick’s advances— maybe even subconsciously. If that’s what this implies, no wonder he had commitment issues. Makes the shit with Tammy hit differently, too…

I know it’s a throw away moment, but I really hope we get a follow up on that… Regardless of what that memory is, it’s dark shit.

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #birdrick #birdperson #i wonder if he remembers her eyes being red because they were or if it’s a childhood memory thing #because if they are actually red it makes me wonder if there was a whole population of mind controlled birdpeople being used by the GF #at some point #they always go so dark with birdperson’s character #and maybe that’s because he isn’t very expressive #he’s so stoic that it’s silly— but there are these moments that you get reminded ‘no. he’s fucked up.’#thinking of this he’s probably the most traumatized character out of all of them #jesus fucking christ #sorry i’m feral and adding tags because i NEVER noticed this shit #the things we don’t talk about #the things we bury #the things we hide in an abandoned military vehicle in our memories of war #not going to be able to sleep now bc i’ve got too much of an adrenaline rush from this lol

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iammyowncryptid · 2 years

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My favourite relationship dynamic is the equivalent of when the teacher sticks the “good kid” with the “bad kid” to be a good influence or whatever bs. But the “good kid” is just the kind of autistic who follows the rules to the most literal interpretation, and the “bad kid” is just the kind of autistic who thinks the rules don’t make sense (which, fair) so doesn’t follow any of them. So instead of the ‘bad kid’ quieting down, the ‘good kid’ realizes ‘wait these rules ARE dumb actually’ and they just vibrate excitedly and info dump about phschology and Jane Austen. And also neither kid is actually bad the teacher just sucks

#fanfiction #ao3 #archive of our own #autism #actually autistic #yes this is about Jazz and Jason #let Jazz go a little feral she deserves it #danny phantom #batman #shrodinger’s bat #dp x dc

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fromtheseventhhell · 7 months

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"Sansa = Ned 2.0 and Arya = Catelyn 2.0" is one of those takes where you can just tell people are more attached to the aesthetic than anything. "The Stark girls are most like the parent they look least like" sounds good on paper and people run with the idea, regardless of how it actually fits into the story. A majority of the justification relies on misinterpreting all of their characters + a healthy dose of fanon. What gets me is that this is the same fandom that insists that Lyanna, only compared to Arya in the text, is equal parts Arya and Sansa but Ned and Catelyn, two fully fleshed-out and complex characters, have to be more like one girl or the other? There's just nothing in the story to justify being so adamant about these comparisons. Arya and Sansa have parallels with both of their parents but at the end of the day, they are unique characters with their own stories. I'll never understand why people want to flatten these complex characters down to their most basic tropes and fit them into restrictive boxes just for a "poetical~" comparison.

#arya stark #sansa stark #catelyn stark #ned stark #house stark #asoiaf #BORING YAWNING SLOPPY #notice how these takes never come with actual evidence from the books to make direct comparisons from the text?#/ned is a gentle quiet poitican/ and he physically attacks someone + constantly shows his frustration and voicing his opinions #our first introduction to him is him executing a man and we know he's done so several times that year #he says that his toddler son needs to grow up and stop being afraid of a giant wolf cause /winter is coming/ and Northern life is hard 😭#/Cat is a feral wild woman/ and her chapters are full of her holding her tongue and trying to mediate situations #people literally switch their characterizations cause the second a woman shows emotion she's /feral/#and a man can be the most wild unhinged character ever and still be /kind/ and /gentle/#like yeah fanon sansa is fanon ned 2.0 and fanon arya is fanon cat 2.0 but their actual characters are more complex then that #the only valid /2.0/ comparison is between Lyanna and Arya but somehow she gets split between Arya and Sansa 🥴#my hourly frustration at this fandom not caring about the story and only being here for /the vibes~/#like Ned hates Tourneys and protests one as a waste of resources while Sansa is planning a Tourney and using resources while winter #is arriving and smallfolk are going hungry...but she's Ned 2.0? Where? How? Huh?#And yeah Ned deals with politics in KL but that's relatively a small aspect of his character #and even him constantly speaking his mind and challenging Robert directly is the exact opposite of Sansa's approach 😭#/courtesy is a Lady's armor/ vs. /I'm gonna tell Robert he's an idiot right to his face/ oh yeah totes the same #Arya is the character following his advice and guidance for a reason just saying #like if Sansa was doing the same I could see it but she..isn't? Her approach is much closer to Catelyn's than Ned's #I don't understand why people have all of the sudden decided that the Sansa/Cat parallels are shallow when they're #very similar characters and Sansa's current plot actually revolves around that fact #obviously they're not exactly alike but no two characters are or even meant to be...their comparisons are still very valid #tired of being expected to accept an idea just because enough people repeat it

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seeminglyseph · 11 months

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I think it matters a lot that a) everyone who has seeming offered to help Karna has done so *after* she needed it. And b) was in some way using her and therefore needed her.

In the eyes of a child, if you weren’t there when she needed you, and can’t even help yourself, what good are you to her?