#metaphorically? literally? up to you

[evanture]

i know you know who i am

#deltarune #dess holiday #utdr #carol holiday #based off of ‘i am the one reprise’ from next to normal #lyric wise and actual art wise #december holiday #i was gonna say ‘dess’ mother issues’ #but its really carols issues. she has issues #for context this is like ? a vision of dess haunting carol #metaphorically? literally? up to you

[tendermimi]

oh my god mitski

#hi tumblr long time no see! #just back to talk about the album #oh my god #going insane #YOU BELIEVED ME LIKE A DOG I BETRAY YOU LIKE A MAN #WAKE UP GIRLS NEW MITSKI DOG METAPHOR JUST DROPPED #I’m your man is literally making me insane

[efplanning]

what'll be left of me, if i let myself go completely under?

#pokemon #vaporeon #my art #you ever think about how wild it would probably feel to blend into water as a vaporeon for the first time? how scary it could possibly be.. #to feel your body dissolving into a liquid. in such a distinct way for the first time ever like that? #how much of you will be left if you fully submerge? will You be able to come back up the same? #anyways the literal dissolving into water molecules isn't what this piece is about it's like a metaphor. or something. #the family

[inkskinned]

here's the good news: you don't know what else you still have to learn about this world.

i've been here for almost three decades. i know a lot of things. i know a lot about nature. it can tell you lots of facts about flowers and trees and creatures. i am lucky to say i have spent a large portion of my life wandering around outside.

i didn't know the fog lifts until today. i thought it was just a saying; like how we say rain "peters out", or that "dawn breaks".

goblin and i were walking in a place called pine alley. these red pines all are old wood; they stretch high up. the path is wide and beautiful. the fog was snuggled against the ground in a warm fur. i was on a call with my brother, talking about a funeral.

i've been jaded recently. certain personal things have been going very badly. i'm stressed beyond the breaking point, because i hit the breaking point about 2 months ago and had to keep going. i recently ran out of room on my to-do list for a single day - and i wasn't even breaking down my tasks neatly.

but the fog lifted.

i'd never seen it do that. i didn't know it could happen so quickly. the curtain, slipping upwards, returning to the sky. my brother kept talking on the other end of the line. i had to interrupt him. holy shit, i said. fog actually lifts.

i've been living in foggy locations my whole life. i love fog. i love the gentle quiet peace that comes with it.

and here, in the trees beside a meadow, i felt the universe wink at me. see, it said, there's things even you keep learning.

#spilled ink #i LOVE how many of you saw a metaphor in this #it's genuinely such a fucking honor to have people read into my texts and notice things i didn't #bc i meant this 100% literally #i meant LITERALLY fog picks itself up off the ground and lifts up to the sky #i had never seen it happen like that #but also.... holy shit #you are so fucking right #it's also... #the fog does lift #when you least expect it #it might be foggy where you are #it will lift.

[f4keplastictr33s]

thinking about flowers’ petal (that came right of blue’s mind via cabeswater) being compared to kisses and they landed right on gansey’s mouth meanwhile the petals avoided adam and landed all around him :/ also adam watching the petals fall bc he’s an eternal observer :/

#the raven cycle #gansey #trc #adam parrish #excuse me i just love this moment and it’s not talked about enough for my taste #bluesey #bluesey you will always be famous #flower petals synonym for desire and kisses and and #blue just want to kiss gansey #also it’s a blue lily who falls on gansey’s mouth #the fact that we know that blue thinks gansey has a nice mouth and THIS happens #blue get up #im rereading and losing my shit rn #also the mention of rain after.. yk where else we’ve seen rain? GANSEY’S SPIRIT WHEN BLUE THINKS GANSEY WILL DIE WHILE IT’S RAINING #AND HERE THE BLUE LILY IS ‘KISSING’ GANSEY’S MOUTH and just after it’s compared to rain #rain being associated with gansey’s death by blue #and the kiss #it’s literally a big metaphor for the fatal kiss im sick in the head

[segretecose]

people who date taylor swift or others like her at this stage are so brave it's not even about the songs it's just the ticking clock before you get Commercialized that would make me run for the hills

#not saying these are poor little men who must be defended from evil witch songstress mind you. #idc if she threw those mfs into an active volcano literally or metaphorically #it's just the tmz-fication of music and art that irks me so much #like she's not being inspired by her personal life to write music be so serious that's not what she does #she very consciously and masterfully picks references she knows her fans will pick up on and connect the dots on #but she's not selling music (not only at least). she's selling gossip #i'll admit there's at least more artistry involved in that than in a paparazzi walk but in principle they're the same #she's not the only one who does it btw.

[yardsards]

the true lumity dynamic is just

(luz is the btw and amity is the tbh)

#eliot posts #toh #the owl house #lumity #luz noceda #luz is practically confirmed adhd #and amity is so so autistic to me even if it wasn't done on purpose #the stimming. special interests. missing social cues. taking metaphors literally. using social scripts/repeating others' phrasings #she is autistic your honour #some chud once told me i was ''reinforcing harmful stereotypes'' abt autistic ppl by saying she was autistic #because ''i'm autistic and i don't do those things!'' #like shut up not everyone's autism looks the same and just cuz you don't have certain symptoms doesn't mean they aren't real #i'm still annoyed

[silvergreenseraphim]

The monster in Shinra Manor is singing the “Trail of Blood” theme from FF7.

First introduced when Sephiroth/Jenova leave behind the trail of carnage in the Shinra building and I believe it was last heard when Hojo revealed he was Sephiroth’s father. I need to verify.

The theme is heard in Remake and seems to be referenced in the Haunted Hotel. I’m sure there are more scenes where it’s heard, but I like that the monster is singing it. A nice detail.

#this is what happens when you are doing translation work and have to dig up all these videos lol #now i am making random theme connections #i also found it fitting that they played this for hojo’s revelation because if anyone metaphorically #but also literally left a trail of blood in his wake after doing what he did…it’s hojo #ff7 #ffvii #ff7 rebirth spoilers #rebirth spoilers #final fantasy vii #final fantasy 7 #vincent valentine #shinra manor #sephiroth #ffvii rebirth

[pizzagame4000]

we all know human vigilante… but what about… slightly human vigilante

#pizza tower #pizza tower vigilante #the vigilante #vigilante #the noise #pizza tower au #if i was made of cheese i would probably stress-eat my hair too #ily vigert ebenezer lantte #some design notes: #vigi will always be short and fat to me. anything else just feels off for some reason #also as we all know #the way indigenous people are shown in this game is Horrendous #so as a native person i was like #hmm. native codes your vigi #it’s subtle cuz it’s not plot important or anything #it doesn’t rlly change anything except flipping the cowboy movie stereotypes #so i thought it would be fun #the turquoise bits on his outfit are inspired by Diné jewelry and metalwork :3 #the braids are just cuz it looks cool not cuz braids = native lol #also holy fuck epiphany: native vigi speaks to the mixed experience #HEAR ME OUT HEAR ME OUT #you are native in the sense that you have native family and community u grew up with #but you are also #made of cheese #something decidedly incredibly not native #bc the entire concept of dairy was imported to the americas by europeans #you are mixed native and white👍 #he’s literally me fr #ANYWAYS. don’t take any of that very seriously but it is an interesting metaphor #sorry for the essay in the tags. it will happen again

[17magpiesinatrenchcoat]

ALL THE SLAY THE PRINCESS ANALYSIS-ISH POSTS IVE FOUND ON HERE SO FAR

As someone who can never really grasp meanings in media beyond surface level, analyses like these are always lovely to read. Here are all the ones I’ve gathered during my short time in the fanbase so far, this is mainly for myself, but maybe it would be useful to someone else!! Also. If anyone knows of any more, please please send them to me!! I will add more as I go too.

I don’t think these all count as analyses, but they all made me go “oooh :0” so yeah

https://www.tumblr.com/momentomori24/735278091386126336/i-just-had-an-epiphany-about-the-cold-that-i-never

https://www.tumblr.com/lipstickchainsaw/735000176332259328/the-pristine-blade

https://www.tumblr.com/electronicdelusionstarlight/735270452740734976/id-like-to-point-out-that-in-the-wild-if-you

https://www.tumblr.com/dapperrokyuu/735178155760992257/alright-now-that-ive-seen-the-end-slay-the

https://www.tumblr.com/momentomori24/735068416032047104/something-i-really-love-about-the-smitten-is-how

https://www.tumblr.com/geebeeskoos/735078530884534272/the-nightmare-the-moment-of-clarity-might-be-the

https://www.tumblr.com/electronicdelusionstarlight/734951196420358144/id-like-to-point-out-that-while-the-tower-and-the

https://www.tumblr.com/bpdwwx/734705488874422272/insane-over-slay-the-princess-imagine-death

https://www.tumblr.com/satellite-slickers/734633384872132608/slay-the-princess-is-really-cool-because-learning

https://www.tumblr.com/satellite-slickers/734573430353117184/i-just-realized-that-even-though-our-protagonist

https://www.tumblr.com/satellite-slickers/734558408577073153/i-like-how-the-twist-in-slay-the-princess-isnt

https://www.tumblr.com/golvio/734492024048369664/it-was-a-bit-of-whiplash-going-from-the-damsel-to

https://www.tumblr.com/three-lesbians-of-the-apocalypse/734467272705490944/theres-something-so-chilling-about-asking-the

https://www.tumblr.com/in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene/734463751524319232/the-more-i-think-about-it-the-more-not-exactly

https://www.tumblr.com/honeyfizzly/734464645923045376/i-think-the-horror-of-deconstructed-damsel-comes

https://www.tumblr.com/colorful-noircuts/733183847545683968/rambling-about-something-i-realised-in-slay-the hello my lovely mutual!!

https://www.tumblr.com/k20spock/734344272686481408/i-feel-like-i-havent-seen-as-much-discussion-of

https://www.tumblr.com/nerdlordofnerds/734384189011607552/man-dont-you-hate-it-when-you-try-to-rid-the-world

https://www.tumblr.com/lipstickchainsaw/735338029994115072/oh-for-the-stp-questions-what-do-you-think-of

https://www.tumblr.com/honeyfizzly/735336172257198080/i-really-adore-the-witch-wild-route-because

https://www.tumblr.com/supervillainies/735028943239921664/ive-mentioned-it-before-but-voice-of-the-cold

https://www.tumblr.com/lots-of-little-pink-clouds/734249738756620288/follow-up-thought-tsm-says-when-you-meet-he-gave

https://www.tumblr.com/angelofthemornings/734527183265185792/one-thing-i-like-about-slay-the-princess-is-that?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/metanarrates/734373760026705920/if-you-choose-to-chain-yourself-next-to-the?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/satellite-slickers/734216961853095936/durring-slay-the-princess-our-leads-have-the-only?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/golvio/734035911415857152/tried-the-damsel-route-today-this-shot-and-the?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/electronicdelusionstarlight/733870455536173056/say-what-you-want-about-the-smitten-but-the-man?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/electronicdelusionstarlight/733801315338190848/the-way-the-skeptic-implicitly-trusts-the?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/electronicdelusionstarlight/733269659334426624/the-way-the-shifting-mound-ends-every-ending-by

https://www.tumblr.com/electronicdelusionstarlight/733333027972907008/the-way-the-princess-has-no-name-but-at-the-same

https://www.tumblr.com/justsalpals/733475592170848256/the-spectre-really-had-no-idea-what-she-was-doing

https://www.tumblr.com/electronicdelusionstarlight/733630301609295872/the-way-you-can-only-kill-the-princess-with-the

https://www.tumblr.com/lipstickchainsaw/735453678374469632/also-what-do-you-think-of-the-adversary-i-like

https://www.tumblr.com/lipstickchainsaw/735448991864635392/oh-oh-another-question-what-do-you-think-is-up

https://www.tumblr.com/lipstickchainsaw/735538031989293056/oh-what-do-you-think-of-the-spectre-and-prisoner

https://www.tumblr.com/lipstickchainsaw/735509320346812416/what-do-you-think-of-nightmare-and-spectre

https://www.tumblr.com/minotaur-asterion/735506279592787968/might-be-a-weird-question-but-what-do-you-think this one isn’t an analysis at all but I thought it was funny

https://www.tumblr.com/birdmitosis/735586819735961601/this-honestly-really-fascinates-me-because-it

https://www.tumblr.com/lipstickchainsaw/735614693262196736/ohhhh-and-what-about-the-narrator

https://www.tumblr.com/elieclowngamer/735849806204960768/okay-but-like-spoilers-for-slay-the-princess

https://www.tumblr.com/lipstickchainsaw/735902648917721088/what-do-you-think-about-the-beast-in-stp

https://www.tumblr.com/lipstickchainsaw/736242037895168000/what-do-you-think-about-the-fury-and-the

https://www.tumblr.com/k20spock/736789844699807744/birds-and-trees-in-slay-the-princess

https://www.tumblr.com/lipstickchainsaw/735509712935829504/what-do-you-think-of-nightmare-and-spectre

https://www.tumblr.com/lipstickchainsaw/736243685245730816/what-do-you-think-about-the-fury-and-the

https://www.tumblr.com/fierce-little-miana/736431035990016000/strange-beginnings-ending

https://www.tumblr.com/chi-the-idiot/736610535159873536/ok-but-we-need-to-adress-how-slay-the-princess

#slay the princess #shut up lori #I’m gonna go hunting for more of these tomorrow #please send me any more you can find!! #on tumblr or anywhere #I must collect these like a crow collecting shiny things #this is the only way I can see all the cool ass deeper meanings in this game #as much as I love metaphors and shit #because of my autism I find it extremely hard to take things beyond surface level/literally #so being able to read stuff like this makes me appreciate art like this so much more #showing me all the depth I cannot see on my own

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

socially watching The Crown with my Irish hosts and I can't help but feel very uncomfortable with the premise. We're at Diana's death and there's something very ironic about all the commentary on voyeuristic journalism and the denunciation of the nightmare of living in the public eye in a show that makes a spectacle out of the private. How can you credibly condemn paparazzi when you're inventing whole conversations and private moments for real people? It's glorified rpf.

#they don't just metaphorically drag Diana and dodi's ghosts from the grave they literally have scenes with their ghosts #they don't even have the dignity of death's silence. The show has to have them both talking after they've died #Just dragging this on for as long as possible #The crown #Just... the show might be self aware but that doesn't change how gross it feels to watch private moments #Invented wholesale #You have the voyeurism of watching private moments of real people *and* the violation of making stuff up

[hella1975]

day 1383 of thinking about how two of the biggest characters in mha get canonically groomed into adulthood and it's just hardly addressed

#THEY REALLY SAID 'YEAH HAWKS WAS TAKEN BY THE HERO COMMISSION AT AGE 7 AND THE ONLY THING WE KNOW #ABOUT THEIR TRAINING METHODS IS THAT IT WAS ENOUGH FOR LADY NAGANT TO LITERALLY GO CRAZY AND KILL THE PRESIDENT' #HELLO. HELLOOOOOOOO. IS THAT IT. IS THAT FR ALL WE'RE GETTING FROM THAT #AND DONT GET ME STARTEDDDDDD ON SHIGARAKI. HE WANTED TO BE SAVED SO BADLY. HE'S LITERALLY TWENTY #HE SHOULVE BEEN AT THE CLUUBBBBBB #BUT YEAH IT'S FINE OFC MAKE HIM THE VILLAIN AND ACT LIKE HE'S EVIL INCARNATE. THAT'S FINE #and afo now taking control of his BODY. this has to be a metaphor for something you cant do this to me it's so sick and twisted #i feel NAUSEAS over this stupid fucking anime #anyway i just saw an edit of shigaraki and hawks to put me in a movie by lana del rey. will be throwing up promptly #mha #tomura shigaraki #hawks #mha spoilers

[ladyaster]

After Isa's redemption in KH3, I'll never find it not funny as a huge fan of FFVIII that the fanon consensus is that the new "nemesis" of the Seasalt Trio or at least Roxas and Xion is Seifer.

I dunno how much of the KH fandom has played FFVIII, and in-universe it makes sense given Seifer is the "neighborhood bully" of Twilight Town where the Seasalt Squad now lives. However, given what VIII players know about him, it's hilarious and cathartic to see these two kids either bonk him with copied claymores in response to him trying to intimidate them into giving him their ice cream money, curbstomp him at Struggle right after calling them "lamers" or "chicken wusses", or accidentally drop half-eaten popsicles on his face when, in his universe of origin, Seifer was a major war criminal who dropped actual malboros onto a hugely populated city.

Roxas and Xion are just delivering Seifer some belated karma from 1999 is all and I'm loving every second of it.

#Kingdom Hearts #Final Fantasy #Final Fantasy VIII #Roxas #Xion #Seifer Almassy #Seasalt Trio #Seasalt Squad #Rokushi kinda? #I will say though #Roxas and Xion -insert handshake here- Squall and Rinoa #Power couples against Seifer Almassy #I'll never find that not funny #Sorry Seifer you're an interesting character but as you are a bully this post shall bully you slightly #One of the many reasons I wish the FF characters had more spotlight in KH3 or will get spotlight in KH4 #Because I want the Seasalt Trio to meet some of the characters chiefly Squall/Leon and a newly-introduced Rinoa #Not just to bond over literally and metaphorically hitting Seifer with a rolled-up newspaper #Just sort of comparing stories #Particularly Xion and Rinoa would have SO MUCH to unpack due to having been in similar states of mind at least at one point #Also comedy ensues when Leon already psuedo-adopted Sora and now accidentally adopted Roxas #It just kind of happens it's his destiny to adopt all the Soras #I'm so sorry I love FFVIII so much I would die happy if Rinoa ended up in KH #Same with Laguna he'd be a lot of fun to have #Sadly I think the FF characters are going to be gradually phased out as the series progresses until they're nonexistent #BUUUT I can dream

[thisisadonaldduckblognow]

ik it’s probably a classic case of extrapolating way too much but... the way raph’s character design lines up w his whole arc and role and struggles...

like the fact that he is so so so much bigger than the others. raph is big, raph is strong, raph is steady and sturdy and he can literally pick up his entire family and carry them all at once. 

and like, when raph is so big and so strong and such a reliable thing. when raph is the protector, the one calling the shots on missions, the mother hen, the first point of authority. when raph is there, overprotective, when raph (for all that his brothers poke at him not being good under pressure) always always ALWAYS comes through at the end of the day when things are serious, ALWAYS gives it everything he’s got. 

his design and his learned role/behaviors in this family are just the perfect storm of why it took up to the season finale to drive home the issue.

so much of the series carries the default energy of “raph will handle it.”

raph will hold up the ceiling above you. raph will throw himself over you and take a hit and get back up and keep fighting. raph has a power that makes him even bigger and draws more attention and makes him able to carry MORE. raph will be the substitute parent. raph will be put into the mentor role through leo’s leadership arc. 

and raph is big. he’s built to carry heavy loads. raph is strong. raph is bold and loud and always ready to try to push on. even if he doesn’t know what to do or what he’s doing, he won’t give up and we’ll all pull together and things will turn out okay.

(his room is full of teddy bears. he dipped out on a mission to try to take a picture of a pigeon carrying a slice of pizza. he’s terrified of being alone.

he’s just as much of a kid as his brothers are. he’s just as new and inexperienced with the things happening to them as his brothers are. but for him, for some reason, there’s like this double standard where that becomes a huge glaring flaw.)

idk this got very sloppy and uncoordinated. i’m very in my feelings about raph right now though.

#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt raph #rise raph #rottmnt raphael #honestly i could go on forever and ever about the double standard thing where raph is concerned #like. w movie leo especially leo is learning lessons raph also had to learn in the series! making very similar mistakes! #but you never see analyses or essays pointing to those bad calls as signs that leo isn't up to the task... #(i mean there are some clear Reasons why that happens.) #(its the reason why raph and mikey are the bros who get the least content by a MILE. but. not the point of this post.) #the whole point is just the idle subconscious assumption and associations of it being fine to let raph carry everything #literally physically sure but also metaphorically #and the plight of the child who seems to Need Nothing (all children need; some sadly learn not to appear to need) #even my tags are incoherent rn clenches fists i love him so much is all #like there is a reason it takes to the series finale for him to have a proper breakdown and get actual support from his bros #and i am still mad we never got real good content for him and splinter #considering how similar their arcs ARE.... #thats a whole other thing whatever

[copepods]

less gentle nurturing protective goddess c!kristin more amoral fickle petty divine being c!kristin who cares little for the affairs of mortals aside from her chosen favorites. more c!kristin who destroys lives with a flick of the wrist without sparing a thought, not out of malice but pure carelessness, as gods are wont to do

#when characters are immortal i think that fucks them up so so much esp when theyre also very powerful #kristin and phils relationship is very emotionally intense partially because kristin literally has No One Else to connect to. #so shes very attached to him and to his family by extension but really doesnt give a damn about anyone else #it makes her a very efficient death god to be fair. #she IS protective of her people (the dead) but only out of the expectation that theyre Her property and no one elses #so when xd starts messing with the realm of the dead she gets pissy. but not out of actual care for the people affected you know #i just idk. really like stories where the affairs of gods are on such a totally different plane to the affairs of mortals #and that gods might not be Trying to kill people but they still do #the same way most people step on ants without meaning to #also yes it's a class metaphor. lol #text #mcyt

[a-s-levynn]

"Too many swallowed keys / Will make you bleed internally someday" A Series of Small Offerings - III/5 - day26

#a series of small offerings #sleep token fanart #look there was an idea.. it's uncertain how good it was but it was there #remember how i said i probably not gonna use colour again? yeah about that.. #but it made sense here #shading wise i absolutely wanted to go for someting completely flat to let the red pop even more #and i wanted to go quite literal on this line because this is probably one of my favourites of the 'not so subtle metaphors' in ST lyrics #like.. you know #when you pack shit up? when something that hurts you bad you just take it. put it in a proverbial box. lock it and basically swallow it #so you don't have to deal with it.. you are fine so you can go on? and after a while there is just far too much? #and it just festers and hurts and gets worse by the minute #yeah.. #talk about relatable sleep token lyrics #sleep token #vessel #vessel i #vessel fanart #vessel sleep token #sleep token vessel #sleep token band #sleeptoken #levynn tries to draw