#it's called Parallel Mothers

[stheresya]

“Well, you can scarcely be my trueborn daughter. I’ve never taken a wife, that’s well known. What should you be called?" “I . . . I could call myself after my mother . . .” “Catelyn? A bit too obvious . . . but after my mother, that would serve. Alayne. Do you like it?” (Sansa VI, ASOS)

[…] You are marked by the way you speak, so you must be some girl of Westeros . . . but a different girl, I think." She bit her lip. "Could I be Cat?" "Cat." He considered. "Yes. Braavos is full of cats. One more will not be noticed. You are Cat, an orphan of . . ." (Arya II, AFFC)

this is a moment where the stark girls have to let go of their true selves in order to survive, and as they are forced to become something else they immediately choose to name themselves after their mother. sansa and arya's identity goes through a temporary "death", and in death they seek to recover their lost mother in a way where she can encompass them. like in fairy tales and gothic literature the heroines are often deprived of the mother figure because she signifies unity, strength and protection, all of which would avoid the conflict that these heroines need to face for the story to exist. and asoiaf is a series that pulls heavily from those genres, especially with its female characters because the gothic has always been the subgenre where gender horror is best explored. in order for the the girls' perilous journeys to happen the narrative needed to remove the mother from their lives right in the beginning, first through separation, then later with death. but as both sisters' identities symbolically die they try to have their mother symbolically live through them as a way to derive strength from her memory.

#sansa doesn't know that she kiiinda managed to call herself after her mother but in a twisted way (alayne stone - lady stoneheart) #sansa stark #arya stark #catelyn stark #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #meta #this made more sense in my head :/ #parallels

[fairydrowning]

Happy Mother's Day to all those mothers who never get a chance to become a mother. Happy Mother's Day to all those who lost their child/children. Happy Mother's Day to all mother's who always think they are not good enough for their children. Happy Mother's Day to all those mothers who are kind to their children. Happy Mother's Day to all those mothers who always makes sure to go to their kids school on any occasion. Happy Mother's Day to all those who never put their scars and grief into words. Happy Mother's Day to all those mothers who are not healthy enough to take care of their children or themselves. Happy Mother's Day to all to those who don't raise their voice on their kids when they do something wrong. Happy Mother's Day to all those mother's who understands their child. Happy Mother's Day to all mothers in the world.

#honestly speaking if anything in my life goes wrong the first person I'm gonna call is my mom #she always listen to me and makes sure that I'm in right hands #on mothers #words #classic literature #literature quotes #books and literature #parallels #spilled ink #spilled thoughts

[moonhuit]

sat in front of my laptop rewatching warrior nun and told myself: there's no way there is more than one camila and shannon parallel right?

alternative title: its camila and shannon's collective energy of protect suzanne from her own self-sacrificial ass against the world.

#warrior nun #sister camila #sister shannon #mother superion #;graphics #warrior nun : edits #how do i talk about the camila and shannon parallels that ive picked up in this entire season ALONE #through giFSETS OF COURSE!!! #like one thing they're going to do is argue with suzanne actually #okay but i am not sure how deliberate these are or its supposed to be !!!! SOME OMINOUS FORESHADOWING #also please it keeps happening between mother superion and camila i will literally eat my shoes simon #do not SEPARATE MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT DUO #the 2x06 parallels done solely by mother superion or as i like to call it: the one suzanne protects and also the one suzanne protects #the one thing this season has not given me is make camila react to suzanne dying because #i would be twice as powerful as i am now #and also insane

[feargender]

After a brief respite, the prodigal dog slinks back home to lick behind the dying mother’s ears

Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein, Margaret Atwood

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

The Average Fourth Grader is a Better Poet Than You (And Me Too), Hannah Gamble

How to Be a Dog, Andrew Kane

Unknown (if anyone has a link lmk)

Anna Haifisch

Angriest Dog in the World, David Lynch

Space Struck, Paige Lewis

#honorable mentions to I would leave me if I could and cop car #for not making the cut #web weaving #parallels #the frightening door #wire mother #cut yourself in half call one half mother #kieran reaches out into the void

[youjustwaitsunshine]

due to a chain of events i am now forced to get a bagel and maybe even a white choc latte

#listen it's true #im supposed to be at the lab safety briefing #however my tram was cut off by some idiot driver so the tram driver had to brake hard #so this girl fell and skinned her knee a bit #she was fine but her mother insisted that an ambulance be called #so i spent 45 minutes on the train because we waited for the ambulance and then the police and then the train people #so im too late to still barge into the lecture however the briefing is parallel on zoom so im chilling at the coffee fellows #so i need a caramel macchiato and a bagel

[countdown-til-sanders-take-over]

So hows it going 😀

TMAGP 7 is a WILD ride

#First we're already starting off with the end of tmagp 6 with Celia Ripley being the new hire #(And having the same voice actress as a extremely side tma character who started calling herself Celia post-change) #Then you get fucking hit with #“I mean it's an old system but it could have been worse. It's not like we're wrestling with tape recorders and manila folders.” #AND CELIA ASKING IF THERE'S A WAY TO SEARCH FOR SPECIFIC THINGS. LIKE BEING BURIED ALIVE OR MEAT. #I.E. THE BURIED AND THE FLESH #I'm much more inclined to believe that the Celia's memories are seeping into each other than bit characters full on universe hopping #(Oh yeah The Magnus Protocol is set in a world that's parallel to The Magnus Archives; not technically a direct sequel) #[But like they are chronologically. I think.] #Anyway CELIA KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK IS UP #And you'd think things might calm down with today's incident report; it's just Chester (“ai”/“automated voice” also voiced by Jonathan Sims #[who voices character Jonathan Sims. Creative genius we know.] #with another internet-based statement #(HE'S TRAPPED IN THE FUCKING WEB) #Except know it's about a charity shop ON HILLTOP ROAD #For context: EVERY ELDRITCH ENTITY AND THEIR MOTHER FUCK AROUND WITH HILLTOP ROAD #PRIMARILY THE AFOREMENTIONED WEB #WHICH HARBORED THE MESSIAH OF THE CULT OF THE LIGHTLESS FLAME #AND THE CHARITY SHOP *BURNED DOWN* BY THE END OF THE INCIDENT REPORT #We then cut to the other new hire Sam going to talk to Colin the IT guy #Colin's definitely going to be the first to die he's in DEEP in trying to understand the mess of of system that is the OIAR #And he's been adamant against Alice giving the computers any sense of a personality #And what does Sam go to ask Colin? WHO JON IS #BECUASE HE GOT A NONSENSICAL EMAIL FROM A RANDOM USER WHO CALLED HIMSELF JON BUT IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS AN INTERNAL EMAIL #Obviously Colin's to steeped in paranoia to react well to anything; but what is he hung up on? #That Sam brought his phone into the IT room; and that “it” has probably recorded too much already *!!!!!!!* #Oh and also their boss was like contracted to kill a guy but she failed and Gwen is using a video of it to blackmail her #tmagp spoilers

[unfried-mouth-wheat]

Mary Shelley herself actually came to me from beyond the grave and told me to give everyone this message:

STOP CALLING VICTOR A MOTHER

#AGAIN this is just a personal thing that I really fucking hate #If you wanna talk about parallels to postpartum depression #or how Victor fails in the whole nurture department be my guest! #Those are all incredibly great and fascinating interpretations #But my skin fucking CRAWLS when anyone calls him a Mother #caps tw #frankenstein

[sbd-laytall]

Daredevil (2016) #10

Gilmore Girls 3x13

#okay I'm not saying that Matt is Sam's father figure but I think this parallel speaks for itself #I think there is something to be said that Sam calls Matt when he needs him just like Rory does when she needs her mother #rory gilmore #lorelai gilmore #gilmore girls #sam chung #samuel chung #blindspot #matt murdock #daredevil #daredevil comics #marvel #marvel comics #comic series #meme #my post

[sweet-as-kiwis]

Choosing a kitten to adopt is ROUGH

#missed the call to schedule a meet with Posey but I should hear back from them tomorrow and she’s Adorable #Rue is precious and started purring the second I picked her up #Macy and Roxy are precious and the whole fam already likes them (they’re my aunt’s current fosters) but I can’t Seperate Them #Marcus is a sweet lil guy he just needs socialized and some more oil in his diet #Unnamed Black Kitten One of Three was SO BRAVE he was DOING HIS BEST (had just been transferred to that location Today) #Marylin Monroe is a little PUFFBALL and is so far one of two tabby cats my mom has approved of #(Macy and Roxy are Technically tabbies and as such my mom is arguing if I want a tabby to get one of them) #(Macy and Roxy are also DEFINITELY PART SAVANNAH CAT so I’d argue they don’t count as ‘basic’ brown tabbies but eh #Unnamed Kitten Number Four (white seal point edition) is one of the cutest kittens I’ve seen but is a five hour round trip away so uh. yea #and we’re going to another shelter tomorrow! apparently it’s where my parents adopted my childhood dog #so as this kitten will be my first pet adoption my mom is Very Excited for those parallels #anyways cat that currently has my vote is Rue with Roxy in second and Macy tied with Posey in third #the current agreement is mother tries to convince my dad to have three full time cats so we can adopt Macy and Roxy OR #is someone adopts Just One we’ll take the other

[audarcy]

The original percy jackson series is about cycles of abuse and neglect, right. Were introduced to percy as a kid who has clearly been left behind by a school system that has given up on him, restless and unengaged and self-defetist because hes been given nothing that works for him and no one even tries to meet him where he is. Then hes told no, listen, your neurodivergence is amazing and you just need to be given something that actually utilizes your unique palatte. And thats obviously the uplifting idea rick wanted for his kids, right. But once we get to know chb the same cycles are happening there too. There are kids "left behind" there too for one reason or another, because their parents dont want to claim them, because their parents werent important enough to get a cabin. Do you get it, all the kids who dont fit the most common neurotypes get shoved into the same closet. Kids are being left in a cruel world to fend for themselves without the tools they need. Theyre dying because no one bothered to accommodate them. Its such an obvious parallel that the first chapter introduces a teacher whos written to be especially hard on percys disability and she turns out to literally be one of these monsters trying to kill him. Meanwhile sally jackson tells him she named him after Perseus because she wanted a redemption for a hero whos story ended in tragedy. Meanwhile every book in the series replicates a greek myth step for step until the moment they break the cycle. Annabeth, playing Odysseus, is talked down from her hubris and grounded by her friends. Percy, playing Heracles, meets someone wronged by the original Heracles and rights his wrongs by refusing to go down the same selfish path as him. Monsters are reborn because they are--as the books explicitly call them--achetypes. These kids are stuck inside the cyclical nature of mythology because thats what happens to mythology, it gets retold over and over again. But these are the kids who have to live it. The series ends with percy being offered immortality and he rejects it because he wants to use his godly favor to force them to break their cycle of neglecting their kids. The series ends with a declaration that we cant keep letting this happen. The very first book offees the same choice. It ends with percy refusing to keep the head of medusa as a spoil of war, refusing his heroic reward. He lets his mother have the head and use it to kill gabe. Isnt that fucking crazy for a kids book? Gabe wasnt a Monster. He wasnt going to Turn to Dust and Disappear in a narratively convenient way. He was a living breathing mortal dude and percy and his mom killed him without remorse. Break the cycle of abuse!!!! Dont let this happen again!!! Anyway thats why the original percy jackson series is Hey where are you going with our breadsticks

#pjo #percy jackson

[friend-dispenser]

Just realized I wrote these tags in their own post not in a reblog of the post I was trying to add them to!!!!!! Ugh!!!!!

AND I LOST THE POST!!!!!

It basically went like "I'm sick of hearing about taylor swift. Tag the most obscure band you listen to." If anyone comes across it please let me know cause I wanted to look through the notes again in a week or two! And also share my tags!

#Aki Akane (Japanese utaite rock singer who has crazy texture control) #Hillsburn (Folk Rock with violins and powerful harmonies and sad mad bittersweet lyrics #got synthier and a lot sadder with their third album. It's a great album in its own right but I prefer the first two) #Courage My Love (imagine Paramore but with a million layers of vocals and guitars and sometimes strings and pianos too #Becoming was my all-time favourite album for several years. Only reason it's not now is that it reminds me too much of my junior high years #Uncanny (slightly Prog-y Hard Rock band I went to see on a whim when I lived in Montreal for a month. Only have a few songs unfortunately #They're great though really good balance of intense and catchy and they were even better live) #Eat Lead Tracy is a super fun garage rock aggressive-but-a-little-tongue-in-cheek-about-it band #Kids Losing Sleep (Pop Punk with some The 1975-esque glitter and grime. Their EP called Loves is by far my favourite thing from them) #The Maes (aka The Mae Trio. I only know one song by them and it's Parallel Park but I love that song. #three part harmonies guitar mandolin and violin folk singer-songwriter cute and soft but not too cute and soft y'know) #Mother Falcon (someone else mentioned them. Folk Punk Orchestra what else do I need to say) #Orla Gartland (idk exactly how obscure she is but incredible rock singer songwriter. like if Boygenius was way less sad) #oh and Backpackparty!! (like Owl City + early Lorde + that youtuber you really liked when you were 11) #(their drummer/keyboardist was a youtuber I really liked when I was 11. Still listen to their EP Possibly pretty regularly though)

[winter-jay-official]

Me projecting eldest daughter syndrome onto Dean

#h elp #i think he has very mixed feelings about taking care of people esp kids bc of having to take care of sam #and thats why hes so quick to take care of kids but also pushes them away in the next second bc he doesnt want them too close #bc ohhhh what if sam went through a phase of calling dean dad or smth im- #<- taken from my mom being happy that my sister reffered to me as a second mother like it was cute and not rlly weird that i couldnt #just be her sibling #ooooohhhhh mg #sorry im normal #(im not) #auugjhmkhdrujdgk #anyways. he has complicated feelings and thoughts and ohhh parallels btw taking in jack and him taking care of sam and he doesnt want to go- #through that again but also he cant just watch him die and he feels a little resentful that sam and cas are actually adults when they take- #in jack unlike dean who was also a child taking care of a slightly younger child but having to act like an adult #sorry sorry #augh #spn

[nunyabznsbabes]

Katniss is like Lucy Gray this, Katniss is like Sejanus that, and yes find that's all good and true and lovely but Katniss Everdeen is also a direct parallel to Coriolanus Snow and people NEED to start talking about this because it's driving me crazy.

Think about it: they both grew up poor and deeply vulnerable, losing parents at a very young age, with a matriarchal adult (Katniss' mother and Coriolanus' Grandma'am) who fails to provide for them emotionally and physically. They intimately understand the threat of starvation, even developing with stunted growth because of it, and their narrations in the books share a fixation on food. Throughout their childhoods, both experienced constant fear and suffered a fundamental lack of control over their circumstances. Because of this, they're inherently suspicious of the people around them. They resent feeling indebted to others, especially those who have saved their lives. They're motivated almost entirely by family and deeply connected to their communities. Both are used and manipulated by the Capitol, both are forced to perform to survive and despise every inch of it, both are thrown into the Arena and made to kill. Both have a self-sacrificial, genuinely sweet sister figure acting as their conscience. Peeta and Lucy Gray - performers and love interests with a fundamental kindness and sense of hope about them - fulfill markedly similar roles in their narrative. Both contribute to the development of the future Hunger Games, Snow throughout tbosas and Katniss towards the end of Mockingjay.

It's easy to ignore these similarities because, as mirrors of each other, they are exact opposites. Katniss is from District 12, viewed and treated as less than human; Snow is the cream of the Capitol crop, given the privilege of a name with social weight, an ancestral home, and the opportunity of the Academy despite having no more money than a miner from 12. Katniss has no agency over her life, and responds by being kind whenever she's able, while Snow justifies horrendous evils in order to continue his quest for complete control. Katniss does everything she can to protect her family; Snow does everything he can to protect his family's image as an extension of his own ego. Katniss loves her District and connects with its inhabitants on a meaningful level, but Snow is indifferent at best to his peers - the apparent "superior people" - and only engages with his community for personal gain. Katniss emerges from the Arena horrified at herself and the system, but Snow takes his trauma and turns it into an excuse to perpetuate the violence with himself at the top. Katniss cares for Prim until her death and then snaps at the loss of her little sister, while Snow survives on Tigris' blood, sweat, and tears and then torments and abandons her, presumably because she calls him out on his insanity. Snow actively adds to and popularizes the Hunger Games because of his vendetta against the Districts following his childhood wartime trauma - Katniss briefly agrees to a new Hunger Games in the pursuit of vengeance, but later stops them from happening by killing Coin and choosing a life of peace and privacy. Snow is obsessed with revenge, but Katniss empathizes with the Capitolites and does what she can to keep them from suffering. He exists in a cruel system and selfishly upholds it; she exists in a cruel system and works to dismantle it for the good of her family and community, at great personal cost. And Peeta and Lucy Gray are incredibly similar, but Katniss and Peeta forge a relationship of genuine love and understanding that shines in comparison to Coriolanus' obsessive projection onto Lucy Gray.

So, yeah, Katniss is Lucy Gray haunting Coriolanus. But I bet you anything that eighty-something year old President Snow looks at her, the girl on fire, bright and young and brilliant, emerging from a childhood of starvation with a relentless hunger for success, a talented and charming performer helping her win the Games, and he sees the ghost of his own past. And that's why he's so afraid of her! Because if he sees himself in her, then he's up against his own cunning, his own talent for manipulation, his own charisma, his own genius. He's up against the version of himself that he once wished to be, with the nightmare army of his childhood at her back and her star-crossed lover at her side, spewing Sejanus' truths in his own voice. This isn't to say that Katniss ever achieved the level of power and agency that Coriolanus did during her time with the rebellion, but it is to say that Snow was taken down by what truly terrified him - his own morality, come to finish the job.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #katniss everdeen #coriolanus snow #president snow #lucy gray baird #peeta mellark #everlark #tbosas meta #the hunger games #thg #snowbaird

[altruprism]

mother’s daughter is SUCH an inej song it actually fucks with my head a little bit

#don’t fuck with my freedom #I came up to get me some #I’m nasty I’m evil #must be something in the water or that I’m my mother’s daughter #ooc. #the repeated religious phrases calling parallel between a deity and the mother #the emphasis on hard work and remembrance #the implication that the narrator is wrong or tainted somehow and yet still full of pride #the fucking BASS LINE #man idk idk I’m obsessed #meta; inej.

[oceantornadoo]

your weighted blanket (simon riley x f!reader)

could be part of this two lieutenants series but it’s standalone

—

“you know what i want?”

“wha’?”

“a weighted blanket.”

simon turned away from his bedroom desk to stare at you, his dark eyes squinting incredulously.

“what?! i think it’d help me sleep.”

“wha’ the fuck is a weighted blanket.”

you huffed a sigh. “it’s literally a weighted blanket simon. having weight pressing down on you helps you sleep, it’s scientifically proven.” you rolled your eyes, crossing your arms as you laid back on his bed.

turning off his desk lamp, he made his way to his bed. he joined you on top of the covers, giving you plenty of space. keeping it platonic. not that he wanted to, but that was another thing.

“can’t jus’ have some sop lay on you?” the words hurt coming out, but it was the only thing he could say. desperately looking for a sign that you were talking to someone as you were so tightlipped about your escapades until after they ended.

“i’m on a man break. they all suck.” no one measured up to the unending care simon gave you, even if he was just a friend. just a friend who lets you come into his room every night, talking yourself to sleep. just a friend who never forgets your favorite body wash or candle scent on supply runs.

“they don’t know how to treat a woman like you.” his words echoed in the dark, ideas of what they meant bouncing around in your brain. “a woman like me?” silence. “don’t be mean, si.”

fuck he was so stupid. needed to watch his tone better, like gaz was always telling him. “dove, jus’ meant a smart independent woman like yourself. yer lookin’ for a partner and they’re look for a mother or a fuck. or both.” your jaw dropped. “oh. thanks.” his words thickened the air. no one had ever talked about you like that, like you were something to be treasured, not kept. like he respected you.

“if you really need a weighted blanket i-“ “yeah?” you sounded too eager, but you didn’t care. you turned towards him, catching his eye in the gleam of the base lights outside his window. “could be yers. if you want. strictly platonic.” he scratched his head, looking away. embarrassed. “yeah, platonic. course, yeah. that’s fine. good, i mean.” you needed to get your act together and stop sounding like a teenager, but he just offered to be your blanket. surely that was more than platonic.

“now?”

“sure.”

you sat on his bed like a dead fish, arms at your sides. you were not about to initiate what surely would be the most awkward non-cuddle session in your life. simon pressed one large paw into the mattress, hauling his huge body up on one arm. he moved down farther on the bed, his head parallel to your ribs. then, with the uttermost care, he shifted on top of you, hovering. waiting. “you can lay on me si, it’s okay.” he released his hands slowly, the full force of his body laying on you. 250+ pounds of pure machine, a body honed from years in the military. a soldier, a sniper, a lieutenant, now at your mercy, body covering yours completely.

“not too weighted for you?” you giggled. an actual giggle from his fellow lieutenant. “no, si. not too weighted.” your hand instinctively went to his hair before you could stop yourself. “is this comfortable? you’re on my ribs.” he grunted. it actually hurt like a bitch, your bone pressing into him through layers of fat, but he was laying on you and therefore could not complain. “you can move up, i won’t mind.” well, if you were letting him. he wanted to make the most of this blanket situation, this type of intimacy so foreign to him.

simon scooted up your body and laid his head on your tits. built-in pillows, one might call them. you hand went to his hair again, slowly scratching his scalp. “this ok?” you never touched like this, had never touched him like something precious. he grunted, a yes in “ghost” as you liked to call it. you continued running your hand through his hair, surprised at the softness of his locks. his face was against your breast, and usually you’d be embarrassed, but lines had been crossed and all bets were off. his body was heavy, sure, but the weight of it was comforting. all you could think of was him, not the annoying recruit from this morning, not the bad dinner you had at the mess hall. only the smell of the base shampoo and his natural musk, something uniquely him but not gross.

all simon could hear was your heartbeat. it had quickened when he first laid down, but now it was slowing to a comforting beat. you were here, you were breathing. the gunfire and the smell of bombs in his head meant nothing as long as he had you like this, in his arms where no one could hurt you. he could feel your body relaxing, muscles losing the day’s tension and giving themselves over to sleep. as your breathing slowed and you moved to a lower, more comfortable position on his pillow, he knew time could stop and all that would matter was you, right here, with him.

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part one part two part three part four

#simon ghost riley #simon riley x reader #simon riley x you #cod 141 #ghost call of duty #fluff #tornadothoughts #simon ghost riley x reader #ghost imagine #ghost riley #ghost x reader #ghost cod #ghost fanfiction #cod ghost