#in very different contexts

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #matt smith #david tennant #peter capaldi #alex kingston #jenna louise coleman #catherine tate #dw spoilers #ok i thought about waiting until saturday to make this #so that i could have a better quality one of fourteen and donna #but i couldn't do it!!!!! #the context for all of these kisses on the hand are so different i love it #but clara definitely got her fair share of them lol #also thought about including eleven and amy's forehead kisses but.... idk #anyways i'm very excited for saturday ahhhhh

[kinos-fortress-2]

this is what the mind of someone insane looks like

#piss mauling #sniperpauling #you know piss mauling is such a deranged name out of context very different from the others thats why i like it #thanks user maybeeventhebest for creating such wonderful name for such weird shipp #team fortress 2 #tf2 #sniper #miss pauling #kino art #this arent that good but hey i will dump whatever i made for tf2 in this fucking blog and you gonna bare with me bc im gonna be so annoying #anywaayyss... they are so cringe and sweaty and weird girls and and yeah #this is like the second most weird girl shipp type w miss pauling the first one is w pyro ha #edit:FUCKIFORGOTTHETEXTOFTHESECONDPONE #edit2: if anyone asks why her back is so arched like that just imagine she’s super flexible👍 i often can’t draw bodies right forgive me

[soups-archive]

more signs were discovered around the spawn area!

#qpurgatory 2 #qsmp #i feel mildly bad main tagging this but it does in fact feel quite relevant to the main server #MY LADS #THEY LIVE!! #theres also been a couple of other signs found left around in portuguese that seem like they're from cell #goldfish is obviously baghs #green sign might mean slime #and the four beds implies theres at least one more #the tallies of days on the green sign is also only one or two days off #from being the exact number of days since the islanders arrived in purgatory one #the spanish sign might be pol but from what ive seen its mexican spanish? #like chorro is in multiple different dialects but its mexican slang for shitting #so its the only one that works in this context #and its very qroier coded #if so ?? what the fuck are you doing here king????? #HOW the fuck are you here king????

[sualne]

(wip) a comic about a haircut im procrastinating

#undescribed #my art #my comic #secret modern au #this is nearly word for (translated and slightly adjusted) word conversation i had with my dad. #working on the modern au i was still trying to figure out how to go about sanji's transness. then one day i had a #meltdown where this convo happened and i thought it was kind of fascinating how even though the context is different. the meaning of the #words too it's still very much the exact same 'i can't be how i want and i hate it' the difference is sanji doesn't understand why #he feels this way. it's a 'had a breakdown. bon appétit' kind of comic tbh idk if i'll get around finishing it #but it helped me figure out this version of sanji. #i need to go cut my hair

[youssefguedira]

actually i've decided i'm obsessed with joe's what are you gonna do kill me line. marwan kenzari plays that one 100% seriously which is in line with how he does the rest of the scene (perfect btw 100/10 we've talked about that that's not the point here) and i tend to overlook it because of that but in retrospect funniest possible thing to say to the guys who have kidnapped you for your immortality. what ARE they gonna do. kill him?

#neon has thoughts #saw a gifset. you know how it is #the old guard #joe 'faster than the elevator' al-kaysani WOULD say that #in context and with the way mr kenzari delivers it it reads a lot like he's so concerned over whether nicky is all good that he just kinda #snaps it at them. which very much works. but the line itself. funny as hell #and THAT'S reason 437 why mr kenzari should have an award for this scene and does in my heart with different delivery it would feel like a #marvel-esque quip but in the context it feels more serious and crucially Not Unbelievable #which is the key to the van scene imo. wrote a whole little meta about it once. but that's not important right now

[cock-holliday]

Wish more adaptations would take the route like Mike Flannigan works or House MD or Hannibal. "Based on" in the sense of taking inspiration from source material and playing with them like dolls and saying something unique and creative with it outside of the material while maintaining key dynamics and themes that make it recognizable to the source.

Really sick of "faithful" adaptations that mean all the aesthetics and names and plots but told in such a soulless themeless mess. Did you think because the source already taught the lessons you don't need to say anything this time, you can just copy-paste?

The equivalent of cutting up the source to make a collage versus bringing it back from the dead wrong.

#not even gonna list shows and movies for the second example #there are so many #been watching The Fall of the House of Usher and having a grand time #as a longtime Poe enthusiast it's fun to see super familiar stories told in a different way #I know how the short stories end...but not in this context #opening the show how it does very much says exactly that: you know how it ends but not really #fun! lovely! creative! yum I love art

[victorie552]

I headcannon that after 3rd Kinslaying, and especially after Elrond and Elros left them in whatever fashion, Maedhros was a total dick to Maglor.

You know how sometimes old or sick people are nice to neighbours/nurses/strangers, but are horrible to their primal caretakers? That's them.

People aren't dicks to their caretakers just to be dicks - it's because they are often frustrated with themselves or their situation and don't know how else to deal with it or they can't deal with it the usual way. It also happens because, paradoxally, they feel safe around their caretakers - you can be a dick because you know they won't leave just because of that.

And boy, did Maglor cast himself in a role of caretaker (let's not kid ourselves, he wasn't qualified, and with his own problems to boot), and BOY, did Maedhros resent him for it. He did not NEED help, he did not DESERVE help, he's not another kidnapped child MAGLOR, I'M the older brother, I should take care of YOU YOU WRECK, WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO BABYSIT YOU GROW UP ALREADY and leave me Nothing is EVER your fault, even when you left me to Angband as you should Why would you care now, it amounted to NOTHING before, it's WORTHLESS

And about half the time Maglor just takes it, actually likes it even. Mostly because of his guilt complex about how he deserves it, but also because Maedhros is only like this with him - he's trying his best to pretend to be fine and be a leader to few followers they have left, because they deserve better and that's the only thing he can give them now, and their brothers are all dead and would always be Too Little to act like that around them anyway. Maedhros would behave himself even around Fingon, to make him think rescuing him was worth something. So by being a dick to Maglor, Meadhros sees him as an equal, a safe haven. Maglor basks in that.

But obviously no one could just take such abuse like it's nothing, and Maglor is a Feanorian too, is prideful and stubborn, with his own laundry list of complains about Maedhros, and also unwell, and also thought of a new insult while lying awake at night and just wants to yell too. So half the time Maglor yells back and their yelling matches would bring orcs to tears, with hate and blame dripping from every word. I don't have enough imagination to picture it realistically, and actually I don't want to, it's too heartbreaking.

And sometimes, one or the other just starts crying. They don't talk about these times.

After some time, their arguments and insults are just a noise, something to repeat endlessly to the point of boredom.

By then, what actually hurts are the words that were not meant to harm.

Example 1:

Maedhros: 'did an all-night inspection of their stores cause he couldn't sleep' I found a herb you always liked to wash your hair with.

Maglor: 'doesn't remember last time he washed his hair, no less scented them'

Maglor: 'choked up' Appreciated.

Example 2:

Maedhros: 'feels like he's dragging Maglor to damnation with him' You could go with the twins, you know.

Maglor: 'doesn't want to upset Maedhros today so decides to pretend as if that was actually an option' Vanyar would probably like my singing but you know they would get mad at you for having better battle plans than them.

Maedhros: 'now KNOWS he's dragging Maglor to damnation with him'

Maedhros: 'dying inside' Of course they would.

When love hurts, it's easier to be a dick.

#maedhros #maglor #silmarillion #silm #barely related but it plays into my headcannon that when nerdanel didn't went with them and feanor died #maglor and maedhros became New Mom and Dad for the rest of Feanorians #not even with any creepy context from them it was an automatic process #oh Mom left Dad Maglor is similiar to her guess Maglor is New Mom #oh Dad's dead? Maedhros is New Dad #boom problem solved #when Maedhros was unwell after Tears Celegorm got to be Dad for some time #it's so unhealthy when you look from the outside #it's unrelated to anything except Maglor as New Mom resents any mentions of abandoning the others #Maglor is NOTHING like Nerdanel #THIS mom won't leave anyone thank you very much #and then Maedhros stays in Angband for 30 years lmao #so unhealthy #angst I guess #I feel it went in different direction than it started but eh

[muninnhuginn]

Ngl definitely thinking back to the cartoon-making chapter now we know that Twilight doesn't realise studying/pursuit of knowledge can be fun. No wonder the cartoon he made sucked. He was approaching it purely from the educational angle with zero idea of the entertainment aspect that makes edutainment programming effective.

It's not that he was really bad at writing the fun parts. He plain didn't realise there were meant to be any in the first place for it to work.

Copying the aesthetics with no understanding of what was underneath.

#like yeah you could tell the first time around he had all his priorities wrong but with the added context from the latest chapters #you realise just how ridiculously off base he was #spy x family #sxf manga spoilers #anyway something about how he's tried to adapt his teachings for anya to some extent but a mix of anya's upbringing + his own has stymied #this. anya doesn't do well with 'traditional' study methods + has associations with those but also loid thinks what worked for him could #work for her. and he's (as he spells out) learnt purely for survival. it's a very different situation + anya doesn't /have/ to. #but loid has tried. yuri has tried. both with varying levels of success for all their missing info on anya. until finally siggy's approach. #sth sth community to raise a child but also different teaching styles but also being willing to meet on anya's level. #making positive associations with learning rather than the negative ones everyone else has

[elvisqueso]

Character Parallels: Diving off of an absurd height immediately after introduction.

#how are they alive #pocahontasedit #pocahontas (1995) #pocahontas #john smith #disneyedit #this is such a cool way to establish these two characters tho #like first you get a bit about their reputation from others before properly meeting them #and then the very first action you see them take in the film is diving headfirst off of a ridiculous height into a body of water #and yet the context and motivations for each dive is COMPLETELY different #john smith will throw himself off a boat without hesitation to save someone else #pocahontas will throw herself off a ledge just for her own amusement #they're both so fucking insane i'm glad they found eachother #queso*gifs #queso*edit #pocahontas x john smith #yeah ill tag it like that why not #EDIT: i just also realized they are also diving in opposite directions on the screen oh my god they are SO— #flashing #flashing lights

[wolfheadghost]

*Confusion instilled*

The white palace takes much longer when you forget to look around and are also bad at the game

#for context: i forgot to check out sceret rooms along the way and was very pissed to be sent back to do those attempts again lol #this mini comic doesnt make sense unless you where there but i still think its kinda funny haha #sleepy scribbles #hollow knight #hk ghost #hk pale king #hk hollow #this looks different because it was made traditionally btw!!!

[onaperduamedee]

Anasai of Ryddingwood. Each of her poems was written as an elegy. This was for her father. She left instructions; it can be read, but should not be spoken out loud, except when it was right to do so. She did not explain when it would be right to do so.

#The wheel of time #wot edit #wot on prime #moiraine damodred #lan mandragoran #wot book spoilers #minor spoiler though #the poem in itself tells nothing #the poet was literally one of the clues given by the official account to unlock a promo picture #married to death #mine: wot #mygifs #still it's a very interesting poem in this context and I've been wanting to use it for ages #I remember seeing the quotes from Rosamund Pike about the loss of the OP being like the loss of a child #and it's true that their arc hits a lot of beats from such stories with the people involved being having nothing in common anymore #the bond was a bridge between them #now it's an absence between them #they have different ways of dealing with that loss and those ways happen to break them even further apart #Moiraine wants him to move on without her #Lan wants her to talk to him #they aren't compatible #the arc gets an interesting conclusion in the sense that their conflict doesn't so much resolve as it is stitched #Moiraine does not talk to Lan any more than she does to Siuan #and Lan very much cannot move on from her #but Moiraine accepts that he will stick with her whatever happens #and Lan accepts that Moiraine will not tell him everything #their bond is restored but the fractures remain #they don't change but they accept they won't always be able to understand each other #I do like that the show made a point this was a choice to renew their vows too #this arc was a platonic feast I tell you

[daily-hanamura]

#p4 #persona 4 #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #EVERYDAY IM HOWLING. EVERYDAY IM SCREAMING. #for context this comes at the heel of yosuke charging at mitsuo kubo in rage because of his flippance towards killing saki and he's hit har #but souji and kanji jump in to protect him #like ok a lot of things going on here such as the obvious OH MY GODDDD yosuke being yosuke and taking things on for himself #because he doesn't want to bother people?? because he's made it his own responsibility? because his survivor's guilt is still lingering? #i mean don't tell me he doesn't look at how he surrendered to his shadow like apart from his self-sacrificing propensity #i low key feel like everytime yosuke demands answers about saki's death from the murderer/god/etc there's this undertone of how #he would rather it have been him #he cheapens his own life so much and for what #BUT ALSO!! ALSO!! not just souji jumping in because we know he would he's down bad for yosuke BUT ALSO KANJI #listen you've all heard me talk so much about how i adore kanji yosuke friendships #i can't really tell whether it's kanji or souji that says “haven't we earned your trust yet” but it's a line that hits SO HARD #regardless of which one of them was saying it and i think it hits hard in slightly different manners #it's kanji's admiration and how he looks up to yosuke and how he wants to be closer to yosuke as a friend/kouhai/whatever you want #tatsumi “who's your partner now!” kanji has so much respect for yosuke he wants yosuke to rely on him too!!! #and this stands out because kanji is very conscious of social hierarchies and such but as a kouhai as yosuke's junior #he's so specific about wanting yosuke to treat him as an equal #i smtimes feel bad for kanji because he has a bit of that vibe of a poor puppy trailing after souyo because he wants to be in their convos! #he wants to be included! but critically he also just! wants them to SEE him!! #going a lil off tangent but i think kanji's attitude towards souji is very much one of kouhai respect like he understands his place #of like deferring to souji or getting advice from him and just generally regarding him as a reliable mentor #and it's the same with chie and yukiko? but idk man. with yosuke. guys. with yosuke i always feel like kanji wants to break that hierarchy #that convention. that social norm. to cross a line and be closer to yosuke. #he's more willing to tease yosuke in a way he doesn't with the other 2nd years. and this isn't coming from a place of disrespect either #AGAIN. KANJI REALLY LIKES YOSUKE. he wants to protect yosuke!!! he jumps at the opportunity for yosuke to rely on him!! #i'm getting delulu but there's those hints of “yosuke senpai i want you to see me as a man!!!” kind of energy here and i'm it's yknow hmm

[flowercoasts]

the fact that imogen was 18 when her dreams first started reveals so much about why she was so bitter and angry and lost all her faith in the world. now we know that it wasn’t because imogen didn’t experience her youth and the kindness of it; it’s because she did. and then it was ripped away from her. friends, people she cared about, people she loved - all of them turning on her. she had a community, a life, a job, something of a future built in gelvaan. she worked for someone. she was his apprentice. that was imogen’s whole life planned out (just starting, really) and she had a taste of it before she started dreaming and hearing things she shouldn’t. and then everyone turned their backs on her.

#that’s a different kind of bitter and jaded than not experiencing those things at all #anyways. much to ponder! much to ponder! #it’s just a different context for imogen in my mind now which is interesting #very chewy info. much to chew on. #flower talks #imogen temult #critical role #cr meta #cr3 #sorry if this is messy i’m a bit under the weather bc i got my booster yesterday #flowers hits #1k

[sysig]

A very normal scientist doing very normal gene splicing experiments (Patreon)

#Doodles #UT #Handplates #Gaster #Wobbledogs #Sometimes media flooding bleeds over into other interests at the same time and yes that is my only justification for this lol #I'm always most amused by the sequence of things lol - I'd already started in on Handplates again but then got very diverted by Wobbledogs #Which is especially weird to me because I was introduced to the game like half a year ago and it didn't really grab me #It's cute but eh it's fine - and then I watched a proper lightly edited playlist not like jumpcut-jumpcut-jumpcut #That can make for a very punchy one-off but it doesn't really reflect the gameplay loop #So actually getting to see it properly made the difference and I kinda Get It now and also kinda want to own the game lol #MeanWhile - Ghoster's been hanging out as my desktop buddy literally /while/ watching and I was getting new ideas on that front #They smushed together lol #Having him onscreen is just a good excuse to do a quick once-over style of study and follow some silly ideas haha #What would Gaster think of a progressive mutation type game ♪ Watching them grow watching them struggle to walk #Only uses the scold feature - or the worse option that he treats the dogs better than the skelebros noooo haha #Pretty much all of the creatures in Undertale are sentient to some degree aren't they :0 Wobbledogs are just dogs #They're not monsters but they're not humans but they're not exactly just dogs either - just little creachurs haha #It's fun to imagine him nurturing anyone or anything haha ♪ Goes from ''???'' to ''How can I help this reach their full potential'' #Whatever ''potential'' means in his own context hehe #It's cute in its own way

[professor-doc-emeritus]

I love the dichotomy we get between jinshi and the emperor that shows off how the traits that make jinshi a great prince, boss, friend (husband 👀👀👀👀) are the very same traits that will make him a terrible emperor.

His hard working streak that lets him handle his weird assignments with grace and manage the clashing egos of the inner palace is what will get him killed by overwork as emperor since he has no real head for delegation. It took 11 volumes and the intervention of most of his immediate family just to get jinshi to hire a secretary. The emperor always being free to host parties, sleep with the consorts, and bust jinshis balls in-between it all is, much like lakan always being free to annoy maomao, actually a sign of him being god-like at delegation and organizational management.

His lack of ego and willingness to look the fool if it gets the job done is great for avoiding political snafus and getting to the truth of things. It's genuinely the thing that makes all his expeditions to the western capital so wildly successful: he really doesn't gaf about how he's seen by the public, so long as the job gets done and his friends aren't in immediate danger. It's also the exact opposite of what you need from a head of state who's legitimacy is not-insignificantly based on the public perceiving you as an instrument of the will of heaven. The emperor being willing to kill people and their families over slights jinshi (and most sane human beings) would be willing to let slide is cruel and inhuman, but it's also what keeps the populace at large from being able to organize against him and challenge the imperial power.

Jinshis compassionate streak, his urge to save as many people he can and find the best solution for everyone possible, makes him great to work for. He'll give you assignments that match your hyper fixation, work around your crippling social anxiety, give you a post that just-so-happens to involve you staying with the love of your life for a few months. More over, he isn't gonna risk his life and your position over petty ego or greed when he can find a peaceful solution instead. But the hesitation he feels at using people like tools, and his unwillingness to act if it means throwing people under the bus, is what will lead to death and destruction if he's the emperor. Especially in a time of war. The current emperor is willing to ruin lives and crush nations if it reaches a goal, advances an agenda.

Finally, jinshis loyalty, I'd say even more than his looks, is what draws people to him. He loves his toys, can't stand to give them up. It makes him a great romantic figure. But when you're the emperor, and you need to be willing and able to marry someone for political ends, produce as many heirs as possible regardless of who with, and set aside the feelings of those women for your own sake, that loyalty is poison.

Idk, so often in stories with these systems they sorta follow the logic of "if he's a good person he'll be a good leader." I think it's cool to have a series talk about how being a leader involves being EXTREMELY comfortable with being an asshole, for a myriad of reasons, and how someone being pleasant to work for wouldn't make them an effect monarch.

#its also important to note that despite all the shitty things the emperor is shown being/doing #he genuinely is portrayed as a well loved and effective leader #who does his best to reach his version of compassion #john mulaney has a good bit about working with celebrities for snl #and how in their world their version of polite/acceptable is very different and it can lead to tense situations #i think a lot of the emperor's actions are like that #like in a vacuum they're dick moves #but in the context of who he is and what his duties are you see why he does them #the apothecary diaries #jinshi #ka zuigetsu #spoilers

[marypsue]

bugs me ngl that the assumption now seems to be that ‘queer’ is always a shorthand you use for a whole bundle of specific labels that you ~*actually*~ identify with. Queer can be the only label. I’m not withholding anything from you by telling you I’m queer. 

#and that's on purpose! please do not suggest more granular labels. queer and i are very happy together thank you. #would someone who wanted to date me need to know specific things about whether that relationship would work and what I want? yep! #would that maybe differ depending on context? also yep! #would that all be the case for someone who wanted to date me even if I were cishet? again that's a big ol' yep! #does putting a 'fuck' in the tags still make a post unsearchable? let's find out!