#layered symbolism

[effen-draws]

It's my turn to do some dramatic dhmis art!!

Also have the sketch and a singular alt this time:

#lots of symbolism in this one lads #I thought about this one for so long that I came up with lots of silly things on the way #even an au that no one besides myself would enjoy #anyway #top ten most messed up layer side bars to date with this one #but I'm actually happy with it #also I love Lesley #that's all #don't hug me i'm scared #dhmis #don't hug me I'm scared fanart #dhmis fanart #dhmis show #red guy #duck guy #yellow guy #dhmis lesley #dhmis yellow guy #dhmis red guy #dhmis duck #fluffybird #dhmis duck guy #dhmis spoilers #effen's art

[brimay]

So, are we gonna talk about the fact that Katniss and Gale's first interaction is them sharing a piece of the baker's bread? And how that's obviously meant to symbolize Peeta? Even though he hasn't yet been introduced, he's already between them. The first meal Katniss has in the books, the first bit of hope and survival, is the baker's bread (Peeta) spread with goat cheese (Prim).

Suzanne Collins, you are so sick for this <3

#the hunger games #everlark #i could write a whole essay on the layers of the bread symbolism alone

[starsnores]

Don't you know what you do? You give me the horrors and I give you the goo that oozes Separate the scabs from the bruises

#homestuck #karkat vantas #gamkar #yes this is gamkar to me somehting about how if you layer the blood and rage symbols over each other you almost get gamzee's face? #i go insane thinking about it the imagery is very good for me #artsnores

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Something something about Bucks downstairs bathroom and it representing his innermost and truest self - almost a representation of his heart.

Because the door to Bucks bathroom being open and the room lit blue when Tommy came over, both of them crossing in front of that doorway has got me thinking because the bathroom door was firmly closed when Eddie was at the loft in 7x05.

This did a couple of things, it removed the blue light from the space so it was overwhelmingly yellow. But it also closed of a part of Bucks loft, metaphorically closing off a part of Buck.

I’m not 100% sure but I’m pretty sure we’ve only ever seen that door closed or very slightly ajar (I think when Taylor was around we saw it ajar - I’m going to have to go rewatch to be categorically sure) before now, the one big exception being when Buck was in that bathroom putting on a bullet proof vest in 4x14.

The other aspect is that Bucks bathroom has a glass door - and we all know about Buck and glass doors. Buck has metaphorically opened the glass door to his inner most self to Tommy, but he’s not able to do that for Eddie.

Because this isn’t about coming out, this is about opening up to the possibility of love and being loved in return - in a romantic sense.

If I’m right about the door being ajar around Taylor (not always but at certain points) this shows he was still somewhat closed off - he was open, but not all the way. He went into that room - into his innermost heart - when Eddie was injured - and put on a bullet proof vest - protecting his heart (and don’t get me started on that artwork about shouting at the top of your voice that is now also at the diaz house).

And now the door was fully opened when he had his first queer kiss - Buck being open to possibility- but firmly shut when he comes out to Eddie.

Something something about it no ring shut to Eddie, because he’s not ready to open the door to the possibility of Eddie yet (Eddie is also not available at the moment). But I think when he is and when Eddie is also ready or nearly ready, we’ll see that door open again when Eddie is in the loft.

#I will ascend to an astral plane if we see Eddie use/ go into that bathroom because the symbolism of him being in Bucks heart will end me #and this isn’t even touching on the fact that bathrooms are water based rooms - it is where most of the water sources in a house are located #and it was lit blue - like water - #buddie and water #this show makes me feral #so many layers and metaphors #911 spoilers #is it spoilers - who knows - tagging just in case #911 abc #evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie #tommy kinard

[carrotkicks]

MORE reverse au doodles

today we have

fukumori

fukuzawa + ranpo

mori + yosano + elise

yosano and chuuya having a photoshoot

kyouka tries on chuuya's hat

fukumori battle mode

higuchi vs dazai

higuchi and akutagawa

yosano gives kyouka a haircut

kyouka's new look. kenji approves

#bsd #doodle #doodles #bungo stray dogs #reverse au #idk if it's noticeable but fukuzawa's whole fit is supposed to look like. traditional japanese clothes layered on top of a business suit #projecting my obsession for girls with short hair onto kyouka. she deserves a symbolic haircut or whatever #chuuya's sleeves are really rolled up high to look like he's wearing a shortsleeve shirt lol. he needs his arm mobility. #yosano once again has 3 very similar but different outfits. lol

[thesoftestblackguy]

Had an interview that I absolutely KILLED

#me #just know that I smelled IMMACULATE that day #layered 2 of my favorite colognes #was smelling like an entire sex symbol

[specialshoesclub]

Hades game is really a story about family made by a gay person because there are characters from the greek tradgedies in it and you can help them. You can get Orpheus and Eurydice back together. You can get Sisyphus pardoned from his punishment. You can reunite Achilles and Patroclus. They're dead. Their stories are over. But they can still get their happily ever afters. You can fix everyone if you keep trying. You can say "Actually, no. It doesn't have to be this way."

#There are also layers of symbolism because Zagreus was born dead in the underworld and he's trying to get to the light #but those characters died and now they get to live #it's the death as a metaphor for transformation of it all #But other characters like Thanatos likes it in the underworld and he doesn't need to change #And Zagreus is so grateful and polite and determined and he stands up to his dad but doesn't lash out in anger at his friends😭 #hades game #hades supergiant

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

I have the smallest crumb of a theory. But what if howdy is mean to Latter because he’s self-conscious of being the only caterpillar (and repressed) and takes it out on his brother as a consequence. Because social expectations at the time gave him an excuse to do so?

no. ok. hoo boy. Allow Me To Be Insane Over The Most Prominent Thought I've Had Since Seeing The Update (about howdy)

i will try to be as eloquent and articulate as possible. ahem:

THAT FRUITY ASS CATERPILLAR IS REPRESSED AS FUCK, ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? DID YOU SEE THAT SHIT?? MY GOD. HOMEBOY HAS ISSUES STACKED ON ISSUES. GET HIM SOME THERAPY.

ok. ok ok ok. Now allow me to be articulate and eloquent

so obviously Howdy is almost certainly queer in the men-loving flavor. if i'm wrong about this my confidence will never recover. But I'm Willing To Take That Chance. so he's definitely queer, right? his.. well his everything points to it, but the final nail in the coffin are his rainbow suspenders from the group Homewarming artwork from Eddie's prolonged breakdown.

but this update i think showed us deeper into that part of him. and i take the shipping goggles off for genuine analysis, so when i say this i believe that there is Serious Evidence and seems Genuinely Plausible - if Howdy doesn't have feelings for Barnaby, i'll eat my cat.

the above is important to say because it Directly ties in to how Howdy treats Latter AND Eddie.

so. Howdy is likely gay or bi, what have you. i'm guessing gay. he obviously has feelings for Barnaby. SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS that i don't think Howdy treats Latter the way he does because of the caterpillar thing, I think Howdy treats Latter the way he does because Latter is genuine and Howdy is not.

what does this have to do with Eddie? well. look at Latter and Eddie in relation to each other. they're both... how do i say... Open. and not - not effeminate, but yes, for lack of of a better word, effeminate. just enough to make one go "huh." and Howdy treats them the same way - dismissive, apathetic, one could even say avoidant.

i wouldn't be shocked if Howdy picked up on their queerness (and if Latter isn't queer, his comfort with himself / his behavior & interests) and is on the defensive about it - likely subconsciously.

and with Latter specifically. Howdy could have also picked up on the way his other family members treat him if they're all also dismissive - as Seeya seems to be as well. i mean, it fits right in line with the time period! homophobia - internalized in Howdy's case (again, most likely). the blatant favoritism, the dismissive nature, it all adds up. even if no one outright knows, that subconscious recognition (or outright suspicion!) will do this

i mean, Latter makes me think of two things. 1) being the only queer kid in a family (especially large). 2) being a middle child. there was a third but i forgor. it felt important! it's gone now! anyway it's also Super telling comparing how Howdy treats Latter (emotional, earnest, open) to how he treats Beeya (oozing stereotypical masculinity)

tl;dr so i don't think it's really "expectations giving Howdy an excuse" as it is "subconscious / internalized homophobia causes Howdy to act the way he does"

as always, take all this with a Hefty grain of salt!

#i really dont think it's conscious behavior! not at the source anyway! #howdy Has to be soooooo so so deep in denial. he's gotta have five layers of repression there's no other explanation #howdy 'ill keep all of my feelings right here and then one day ill die' pillar #homebogging #wh speculation #welcome home speculation #it Would be the funniest outcome #if he really is like. deeply in love with barn but doesn't even realize it himself despite like. how goddamn obvious it is #ALL THE SIGNS POINT TO HIM BEING REPRESSED AND INTERNALIZED TO HIGH HELL AND BACK. #and being a caterpillar is like. symbolic to being open and accepting of yourself #< now im probably reaching However. The Symbolism Is There. intentionally or no #hence why barn is a caterpillar while everyone else is a butterfly #(hiya is on thin ice since her ref shows her as a caterpillar but the hullabaloo record art gives her wings) #latter is true to himself and open / out : butterfly #howdy is so deep in the closet that he's fighting wars for a lion : caterpillar #anyway so howdy. why do latter and eddie make you so defensive howdy #hm. hm. hm. #OH! AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN HOW HE ACTS AROUND FRANK YET! ohhhh that would be fascinating... #just One direct interaction between them could be So telling

[swording]

first paragraph of the book im writing

#alx.txt #its an exploration of girlhood gender trauma sisters mothers horror etc #surrealism stories within stories layers of meaning and symbolism etc etc

[weirdmageddon]

ok prev this is a huge part of why i love homestuck

aside from hussie’s use of platonic forms to construct the world which i think overlays everything basically

It's an approach that resonates with the rest of Homestuck's governing principles involving simple platonic concepts giving rise to greater complexity and chaos

there’s so much thematics and symbolism and symmetry that it’s so like, logically aesthetically pleasing to my brain. you could make a college course on homestuck’s integration of archetypes and typological symmetry (card suits, chess, DNA nucleotides ACGT, western zodiac, alchemy/elementals, the god tier classes and roles). lots of stuff that comes in pairs and even numbers, products of 2 so they can always be divided into halves. everything is symmetrical i swear the structure is so satisfying. it’s quite frankly impossible list it all since some of them encompass other elements within themselves, its like a fucking fractal of duality and 90 degree angle quartets of symbols

is there a name for this kind of symbolic symmetrical dichotomy elements….but not even “dichotomy” is necessarily correct since it often comes in a tetrachotomy too. twos, fours, eights, twelves, sixteens. and always mathematically relating to each other like folding over paper more than once and counting the folds on a single sheet of paper. folded in half once there’s two sides of the single paper. folded again the other way there’s four quarters of a single paper made by two halves (the halving folds themselves split the paper into two sides and there’s two of those folds). though that’s exponential the metaphor still applies

it’s definitely both mathematical and philosophical in nature. four seasons, four temperaments, four classical elements. its present in a lot of philosophy most prominently the yinyang concept and some jungian stuff has it too. like socionics model A also does that logically symmetrical structural relationships shit that i love. its sooo my jam i love you logical patterns and relationships i love you symbolism

idk what im saying or if there’s a term for this im just rambling. if you know what im saying or know of a term for this regarding what im getting at please tell me. im just spitballin whats im rotating in my mind but cant find the words for. fuck i need to talk about this. im not even really trying to make a point about these im just pointing them out

#hs #homestuck #homestuck meta #oh god all the layered symbolism for objects too #like the sun in homestuck especially

[thefiresofpompeii]

i hope ruby gets a well-that’s-alright-then-style notdeath. on the one hand it will make haters mad because oh no not another companion with an impermanent end (and i like to see haters mad) on the other it would require creativity to depict this in a new way + i love all the implications i love the dark fairytale quality of these companion exits i love my un-undead schrodinger’s women

with the way the legend of ruby sunday is titled… legends aren’t usually told about living people. legends are stories of the bygone past, of an age long since over, fictionalised and overgrown with folklore like barnacles sticking to an abandoned shell. there is such a thing as a living legend, but they’re exceedingly rare. the unmistakeable raven’s call in the 73 yards teaser, the trailer’s cut to fifteen crying alone after promising to cherry he’d protect her daughter… the foreshadowing is clear as day…

and yet. there’s one massive HOWEVER. ruby appears in s15: millie’s been spotted on set filming it. which leads me to believe — the doctor isn’t one to take the time travel route and revisit companions that in his future are genuinely dead. that would hurt too much, it would cause unnecessary trauma and could break the timeline. that must mean ruby stays alive in some way. ish. she’s alive and a legend and a mystery. girl-ballad girl-song girl-paradox

here she is, fading out.

p.s.: thesis statement on moffatgirls from the tags i left on somebody else’s post about charley pollard.. well it belongs here since it’s basically the semiotic hurricane swirling around ruby at the moment :)

#on a personal level what interests me about these characters is precisely what gets them labeled as being subject to #misogynistic writing by pop-feminist video-essayists. as an autistic girl* (*ish) however; i find female characters that #aren’t quite ‘normal people’; women who represent an idea or concept or are a puzzle to be solved or a manic pixie dream girl to be #more and in a way far more interesting than a girl-next-door-type universally relatable protagonist #they make for more nuanced stories with more symbolism and more layers of interpretation usually. why should there be realism in a #fantastical narrative? similarly i like characters that are haunting the narrative or dead before it began (big locked tomb fan if you #didn’t know) and like. not to be tvtropes but the lost lenore archetype. dead woman who spurs the hero on to recklessness or revenge. #i identify with that dead girl. the laura palmers of the world. set the story in motion without #necessarily having agency. maybe it’s something to do with my #constant background radiation of passive suicidality. in a fun whimsical way :) i would never kill myself but i don’t want to be a real #person. i want to be objectified but not necessarily in a k*nky s*xual way (that too) in a princess in a tower way #the ultimate femme fantasy innit? there’s something about it. hashtag problematic hashtag conforming to gender roles #10000 tags be upon ye #ruby sunday #millie gibson #doctor who #dw #steven moffat #clara oswald #fifteen #fifteenth doctor #twelveclara #amy pond #charley pollard #river song #donna noble #ncuti gatwa #doctor who meta #jamie.txt #haunting

[aroanthy]

the symbolism of revolutionary girl utena is key to understanding what it’s even trying to say narratively and thematically. if you remove the symbolism, if you remove the ways in which the narrative obfuscates itself and abstracts what it’s saying, then what it is saying changes dramatically. if rgu was like ‘yeah lol and did you guys know that incest is bad’ or ‘maybe gay people are good’ or ‘hey did you know that csa victims are Real and Alive and Have Interiority’— like those are all paraphrases of things that it says, but the way that it chooses to say them is so powerful and conveys so much nuance and complexity that those simplistic statements don’t. it provides an incredibly meaningful commentary on the way that systemic violence and abuse are covered up, codified, made part of our culture that supposedly resents those things. it’s examination of incest, the incest taboo and how that impacts incest victims— it’s all so incredibly considered and layered because the show chooses to convey what it’s saying through symbolism, through its metatheatrical framing, through allegory. it retains the reality of these issues; it shows them to us only when we’ve already bought into the system’s lies to make a point about how that operates, how that works to make us all complicit in that violence. nanami. nanami.

dont even get me started on how the movie uses its symbolism to demonstrate how the abuse anthy and touga experienced is simultaneously built into the world and culture they exist in, and always obfuscated and abstracted for the sake of their abusers (also specifically the way that it engenders shame and prevents people from seeking help. rgu is so damn good at understanding how and why people don’t ‘do what they should’ in abusive situations: the systems in place don’t fucking work bc they are an extension of the system built upon that abuse). anthy is the model in all the paintings, the symbol of so many undesirable things, the canvas on which they are painted. her likeness is used as an approximation for all of these awful things, many of which are a part of her in a way, but such that her interiority, her feelings, are never regarded, never seen, never understood. she’s the model. akio is never explicitly named as her painter.

#messy post once again just dumping thoughts #obfuscation abventures #< literally my thesis on the show. it would be peanuts to me without its layers of visual complexity its symbolism and allegory #its bonkers filmmaking. i mean my god editing rgu amvs gives you a greater appreciation for how they edited that show and MAN #the transfeminism hole video essay haunts me always. aou is anthy’s body!!!!!!!!!! the use of the static…. #the way that rgu uses looping and repeating shots and abrupt cuts (same w music) the pace it continually disrupts with its editing #its sooooo….. gahhh. ep 33. head in hands #rgu i love you rgu im sorry people would suggest you’d be better if you were more normal and conventional #this is why utena is a freaks only show. you have to go apeshit about the implications of shadow girl relationships to get it #didn’t even mention c-ko on this post like that SAYS something #dais.txt

[philsbrownquiff]

Also Dan was directing and if that means Dan was largely in charge then there is NO WAY there wasn’t a deeper meaning and we should absolutely continue analyzing

#if it was Phil directing I also would’ve said there was a deeper meaning #but you could’ve argued oh he’s probably just doing it cuz it’s creepy #but our boy Daniel can’t do anything without there being multiple layers of meaning and symbolism and commentary on society #dan and phil #phan

[th3-0bjectivist]

“Labyrinthine Willowtree” - Acrylic paint on canvas

#art on tumblr #art #art on canvas #acrylic #acrylic painting #alchemy #a life's journey #roots #abstract art #abstract #layered painting #textured painting #abstract expressionism #paint #painting #floweret #weeping tree #sun #sky #symbol #surreal art #fantasy art

[cycat4077]

Episode 9 of Fargo is titled "The Useless Hand". Perhaps it is a deliberate method of foreshadowing part of the final episode...

Ole Munch's speech describes Gator as the "Useless Hand". He is returned "without function". This is how Roy has ALWAYS viewed Gator. This is how Gator, as a result, has viewed himself.

But perhaps this will foreshadow the opposite. Perhaps the useless hand will become useful. Even though he cannot see, Gator still can speak. It is words and truths that can be most useful in the upcoming episode.

Perhaps Gator will find his purpose by revealing the truths of what his father has done.

In the Oedipus play, there are a couple of quotes that strike me as similar to Gator's situation:

You, with your precious eyes, you’re blind to the corruption of your life, to the house you live in, those you live with.

Gator is "blind" to his father's ways. He refuses to see Roy for the horrible person he is.

However, another line is also striking. Here, Oedipus speaks to a blind prophet:

Blind as you are, you can feel all the more what sickness haunts our city. You, my lord, are the one shield, the one savior we can find.

The sickness is Roy and his corruption. However, Gator is now the one who is literally blind. He may finally be able to see the truths of Roy's ways and perhaps even act upon them. Be a "savior" of sorts that help bring down his father.

Gator, though dubbed a useless hand, may finally serve a purpose, as he is awakened to the reality of his life through his blindness.

#fargo spoilers #fargo season 5 #fargo fx #fargo #gator tillman #i love the layers of this show #the writing is phenomenal #the symbolism and the metaphors and the parallels to literature and reality are so exquisitely done #fargo episode 9

[blueskittlesart]

“you are still a child in every way that matters, but you will never be nine years old again” has been holding space in my brain for so long, thank you for such a heartbreaking line. i want it tattooed.

thanks! i wrote it on the floor of my childhood bedroom freshly home from college and half a year away from my 20th birthday. if you get what im saying. that comic was about oot but also very much about me

#^ can only be emotionally vulnerable under several layers of symbolism #anyway. monthly reminder to play oot and have your brain chemistry altered permanently #asks