#several way to interpret

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

#in our enclosures!! #video linked as source; which i'm glad to see already has a million views and is trending. That's Right #lackadaisy #WHICH i have been reading since at least '07 when i was thirteen my god b/c this animation is based on the ongoing webcomic #like does its influence show up Directly in some Discrete way i can point to in my art? not very easily probably. And Yet. #the inspiration....i wasn't able to be Regularly Only for at least another year / art done Nonprofessionally Online was novel to me #like wow ppl can make & post fanart of w/e they love huh....didn't know webcomics were a thing & i never really read that many since but. #good god the quality of Lackadaisy at its onset is like this is superb?? this person putting in all their talent and effort??? #and Then you get years & years more art and i don't even know what superlatives to throw out abt its quality as it evolves. obsessed w/it.. #if i see a new lackadaisy comic page i Will be acting out. obviously this animation is a delight & also stunning. and fascinating to also #juxtapose as a Translation / Interpretation of the comic in a different medium & standalone snippet of Story #and that we're not even quite there in the comic timeline; Taking Notes abt character info we get distilledly here....genuinely love like #take it back to '07 i'm like oh boy can't wait for the dream team to assemble. then a decade later when it did? Oh Boy. that is payoff lol #namely hooray for stitches and mudbug at the field office for every passing gangster. killing one marigold associate but not the other #which seems like a promising start to shootouts w/the other dream team triumvirate. i adore that in canon so far mordecai freckle & rocky #have met but only over a nice brunch. re: all intentions anyways. anyways i'm like Gifs Must Be Made while i'm also so riled afresh abt the #comic that i've been sooo hype for for over fifteen yrs now babeyyy Deservedly. i've done a couple of rereads & ought to do another.... #For Interest it'd probably take a few sittings to catch up from the start but there is much to be engaged over....this ongoing story that's #historical fiction prohibition bootlegging cats with plenty of focus on characters & several Mysteries. which i'm better at parsing now lol #like one of the more recent rereads like Oh Of Course x (probably) accidentally killed his y & z took the fall & that's a binding secret... #Not [oh of course] abt the circumstances surrounding a's death & how b & c were involved. nor the ''what's marigold's damage'' mystery #which is great. love to not know things. love that we can readily follow all the emergent drama everyone's wading in nowadays. hell yeah #anyways admire my organized approach to gifs here. four shots each Expressions Atmosphere Action Groupshots #sure might've muddled through gifmaking for this anyways but fr being a huge lackadaisy comic enjoyer for now most of my life helps #and its very Overall Inspiration like. just really getting the [you can really just draw stuff out here] going. fr the art's detail & skill #and that enrichment like i'm gonna have a great time following this. And I Have #you don't expect a crowdfunded indie animation in the mix back then but hell yeah fellas #SIGH ok removing a 4th gif that's broken / not displayed despite reuploading then entirely remaking it. if it's a bug i'll try again later

[starsapphire]

the thing about people writing tim as insecure is like yeah he is insecure and a little desperate and the cockiness is partly a defense mechanism. but he would NEVER actually let on that he is even remotely insecure. he's an unreliable narrator because he doesn't even let the reader know he's insecure most of the time. tim would rather disembowel himself with a grapefruit spoon than have even his closest loved ones know that he's a little insecure sometimes

#tim's (over)confidence is half justified cockiness and half severe allergy to emotions and vulnerability #is he desperate for approval and belonging and terrified of being abandoned? yes. #but he has a little hubris and by christ he will take it all the way #<- my interpretation at least #p #dc

[shakingparadigm]

The kiss is very controversial but if there's one thing about it that I'm most grateful for, it's that I can send that shit over and over again to my friend who insisted that Ivan and Till had a brotherly relationship

#THAT SHIT WAS NEVER BROTHERLY WHAT ARE YOU ON 🔥🔥🔥 #i know ivan wasn't happy during the kiss. it didnt elate him or anything of the sort but it at least sent a message #he confirmed that his feelings were explicitly romantic. he was in love. it wasn't just a best friend thing or a “brother” thing. #and honestly amidst the confusion and several hundred different interpretations #i admire the fact that they went out of their way to make that one thing clear #as if it wasnt clear enough already #at least i have solid evidence for the non believers #alnst #alien stage #alien stage round 6 #ivantill

[hualianisms]

on twitter here and here, forayuarchive has been talking about how LLH & FDB really act like an old married couple, and i couldn't stop thinking about it too. as a native chinese speaker, the level of informality, familiarity and bickering, in how FDB and LLH speak to one another (especially in the later episodes) are reminiscent of how bickering old married chinese couples are often depicted.

when FDB is angry/upset at LLH, he calls him "死莲花" - "Damn Lotus/Damn Lianhua". the way FDB says it is in a manner where you might imagine old spouses scolding one another when nagging/bickering (to clarify, it's not romantic per se, but it's extremely informal & familiar).

for example, in ep 35, FDB calls him Damn Lotus in the note he left LLH when he went to look for the styx flower. CN fanghua fans on weibo managed to painstakingly transcribe the note (see forayuarchive's tweet about it here with the eng translation) - it's extremely informal and reads like a short note a spouse/partner would write when leaving their shared home in a hurry.

i also still can't believe LLH calls FDB "xiaobao", it speaks for itself. 小宝 Xiao Bao (literal meaning is "little treasure") is usually something you call literal babies/children AND is FDB's family nickname for him so if you're calling a grown man that in front of his parents and his colleagues and strangers and literally everyone, then he's either your biological family or he's your bf/partner. (it's a level of intimacy that would make me feel embarrassed as a third party hearing LLH call FDB that in front of everyone😭)

and not to mention the deleted line of FDB calling a sick/unconscious LLH "xiaohua'er". (see video & meta of the deleted line by forayuarchive here, translation of the deleted line by ttiesanjiao here). xiaohua'er is so intimate, definitely something one might call a lover 😭

(*for more name meta, see forayuarchive's twitter thread meta about all the names that FDB and LLH call one another, and in what situations each particular name is used)

in any case these are NOT what a disciple calls his shifu or a son calls his dad. these nicknames are far too informal and familiar - no son talks to his father like that and no disciple talks to his shifu like that. (now, an angry spouse however...)

(there's also the fact that FDB explicitly rejects their relationship as being anything other than that between 2 adult equals - when LLH jokes that FDB should bow to him as disciple, FDB immediately rejects the idea, saying that he was only joking about wanting to be LLH's disciple, that FDB is too old now. he firmly sees himself as an adult equal to LLH.)

tl;dr within months of knowing each other, LLH & FDB act as familiar as an old couple 10 years married, skipping the entire courtship stage 😭

#fanghua #mysterious lotus casebook #fang duobing #li lianhua #莲花楼 #mlc meta #there's more to say about the names they use for each other but this post is alr getting long #sometimes i see ppl saying that LLH and FDB are like dad and son and um... well you can all interpret anything you want #im just saying that as a native chinese speaker the way they talk to each other is NOT shifu & disciple at all #(UNLESS IT'S THE MO RAN AND CHU WANNING KIND OF DISCIPLE AND SHIFU/SHIZUN) #its even less son & dad😭😭 (v much NOT son & parent dynamic like omfg even if a child and parent were v close they would NEVER talk to #their parent like that in chinese culture. NEVER. bc it'd be so rude that at that point ur rejecting ur dad if u call him like that) #(as in straight up not seeing that person as ur dad at all. rejecting them as a parent entirely) #(bc FDB does NOT see LLH as anything other than an equal) #compare FDB & his mom - he is v close to her. he is playful with her but still always calls her Niang ('mother') #edited the post several times im so sorry for how many times i edited this

[moliathh]

the scorpion and the frog

#hellsing #alutegra #i need period drama hellsing #the clothes might be historically inaccurate because i just shove every reference up together #did not have the time to differentiate between victorian or ewardian or regency something something #alucard hellsing #integra hellsing #the scorpion and the frog is my favourite fable #there are so many ways to interpret it more than just a cautionary tale #personally i see it as a tragic romance #all of my otps follow the same damn trope everytime #someone who believed that it is in their nature that they are unlovable #and someone who trusted them regardless even fully aware of their destructive nature #but as fairytales mostly go isnt true love can break the spell #so i think there are several ways that the tale of the scorpion and the frog can be retold #the scorpion and the frog

[controversial-blorbo-bracket]

Bakugo hot take: his character would have been better if he was a girl. This would also make him even more controversial. I will not elaborate.

Oh god this makes me wonder if. Okay so. I’m about to say something cursed. And I know I’m going to get hatemail about it (or at least very passionate explanations about why I’m wrong).

is bakudeku just yaoi reylo

#I AM REFERRING TO THE WAY I SEE PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE SHIPS ONLINE #DISCLAIMER ​I HAVE NEVER SEEN A STAR WARS MOVIE #AND HAVE SEEN ONE SEASON OF BNHA SEVERAL YEARS AGO THAT I RETAINED NONE OF #I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT I MEAN BY THIS SO INTERPRET IT UNCHARITABLY IN WAYS I DIDNT EXPECT PLEASE #not a poll #ask #anonymous #propaganda #discourse #reylo #bakudeku #bakugou katsuki

[toffeeandtatertots]

The brainrot has finally won I’m talking about the journalist now-

Because like… Bugsnax has so many interesting characters and it’s so weird to say they’re my favorite but I’m just so impressed by the way they were characterized-

They’re just??? I’m forever gonna be in love with how the devs nailed that line between “character that represents you” and “character with a distinct personality and goal” because that’s so hard to do correctly and they nailed it.

They’re a blank slate at their core. A character to project on. Nameless, voiceless, faceless… you can turn them into whatever you want (both in and outside game) and chances are it’ll fit perfectly into the rest of the puzzle that is “canon.” You get a few guidelines and nothing else because the bottom line is that they’re the player. There’s a whole tag related to ocs of this sort and each one is beautifully unique.

And yet they’re still the journalist. The fandom recognizes them as their own character with their own relationships. They’re sarcastic and dorky when they do speak. They’ve got opinions and goals and so much personality that shows through the little things.

They’re kind of a pushover. Impulsive. A foil to Filbo and a parallel to Lizbert. They doodle in their journal and believe in cryptids. They’re ridiculously tough and can survive jumping off the side of a mountain and being set on fire for half a minute. They’re a character just like the rest of the town, even with that blank slate core.

I could write an entire essay about this creature. I just love it. It’s a huge relief for people like me who struggle with having multiple sonas cause it lets me relate to a pre-established character without mischaracterizing them entirely. It’s a window of connection that lets people get sucked in while also keeping a distance if they want to. All of my favorite games manage to do this sort of thing and god damn I wanna play more that do.

#bugsnax #bugsnax journalist #one day I will get around to that essay but until then I have tumblr #also I cannot stress how much I love all the different interpretations and ocs they’re all so good #I’ve gotten emotionally invested in several at this point and I don’t want it any other way #hell my own journalist OC is an absolute menace of a brainworm I can’t go a day without thinking of them #just. augh. them <3 #extra love to the besties who deal with this brainrot y’all are troopers #toffee thoughts

[pinkeoni]

It always stuck out to me that Will the lego stuck up Will’s nose was a specific guy. So specific that he had a name.

So there was a man literally stuck inside of Will’s head. And this guy was a construction guy, or someone who builds things. Kind of like—

But it’s alright, because Jonathan was able to help get the man out of Will.

#stranger things #stranger things analysis #will byers #jonathan byers #one stranger things #vecna stranger things #henry creel #byler #<- target audience #anyway i think jonathan could be instrumental in helping to sever the connection between will and henry #tw implied sa #kinda? #i realized the language makes it sound like that #could be interpreted that way

[neoncityrain]

i like to think of ascension in rain world as both good and bad. it is- potentially- a final rest in a world where death is not forever, melting one away so completely that no cycle can take them back. and for some, this is good!

but also, theres something so beautiful about looking death in the eye and choosing to walk past it, even as tempting as it may be. instead continuing to adventure, to make friends, to survive, to be alive.

#ive seen some posts bashing on my interpretation so im posting mine after um several months of worrying abt it lol #ive been suicidal for over a decade now the thought of the void being 'only good' makes me a tad nauseous tbh #i cannot see it that way ive been fighting death too long #chattering #rain world #rain world headcanons

[steevejr]

if i met shallan i would tell her im here to kill her and give her some type of terrifying riddle to solve to keep her enriched. if i met kaladin id give him a cigarette and a blanket. if i met adolin i would. um. hm.

#to shreds <3 #interpret that as you will. #way of kings #certainly hope he gets dangerously bloodied by the end of book 3 because thus far the adolin eroticism has been severely lacking. #stormlight archive

[soloorganaas]

not the doctor casually coming out to donna at a 1920s garden party omg ‘all the decent men are on the other bus’ ‘… or time lords’ and she doesn’t even fucking blink!!! oh my god I love them so much

#tenth doctor #donna noble #doctor who #this is the only way I will be interpreting that comment #literally 2 mins before he’s shaking the queer guys hand holding his gaze for several seconds longer than is heterosexual #and then watching as he flirts with another man #he’s somehow so ace and so slutty at exactly the same time #i love that little twink

[the-lark-ascending69]

> be a robin buckley fan

> be lesbian

> project on robin

> look up "internalized homophobia robin buckley" on tumblr because it's cathartic

> 3/4 of the posts are about st3ddie or just about steve

#saw one in which steve was like ''no robin you don't understand! i have never been loved! i don't know how that feels like!'' #i have several grips about that interpretation #going from the fact that's not true (dustin is clearly a big steve fan + robin herself cares about him deeply) #to the fact he probably wouldn't be introspective enough to voice his emotions this concisely not to mention he'd probably wouldn't take #a moment to realize he's never felt loved if that were the case. i mean. he could think that. when he's like 35 and more in touch with his #inner world. 19yo steve can't even get the hint that hitting on a girl who's already clearly taken (nancy) is wrong so like i don't expect #him to be that smart #but i can live with people having takes i don't agree with. my opinion doesn't have to be everyone else's opinion if you see steve that way #it fine #what bothered me was the fact he was saying this to a lesbian living in the 80s lmao #who tells him that 1) her whole life has been an error 2) she doesn't think he'd want to be close to her if he truly knew her and 3) #3) is paralyzed by fear of social suicide if she dares believe for even a second that the girl she likes may like her too #like i dont need people to do deep dives into robin lore and quote from memory lines from Surviving Hawkins abt robin feeling like she's #rotten inside. not supposed to have friends. feeling like something is wrong with her and that pushes people away etc etc #the fact that she's a lesbian should tell you enough abt who has the biggest chances of being loved 😭 #also bothered me that it showed up when looking up posts abt internalized homophobia because?? where's the internalized homophobia therw #unless it's gay steve feeling bad abt it in an AU (as if canon robin didn't go through it) #like look im not bothered to find steve-centric content in the robin tag cos people are gonna tag her in posts mentioning her. #she's his friend. #but there are barely any posts at all about robin's internalized homophobia. like i saw 2 or 3. compared to all the steve or steddie ones #where's the love for my babygirl 😭😭 #anti steddie #not really but y'know i don't wanna bother anyone #edit: the bit about there being like 3 posts on robin w internalized homophobia isn't exactly true. there are a few. but they still feel #drowned in st3ddie posts #like something isn't right here

[akkivee]

i read this cool thought that kuukou’s ability to seal might actually come from this sentiment. that he’s essentially stripping others of their abilities in the name of a no holds barred fight so that way it comes down to skill and a good fight lol

#this is vee speaking #like IF kuukou’s ability comes from a desire for no holds barred battles #in that sense kuukou’s ability is highlighting the power of words in the purest sense of the concept so to speak??? #like kuukou has several verses throughout songs of drilling his words into you and that could be what his ability is reflecting #which is sick i think lol #this makes me want to look at sasara and kuukou’s abilities thru the same lens tbh lol #like sasara’s reflects his desire to bring laughter to the world #kuukou’s reflects his desire to guide maybe lol #let’s go year of the kuukou manifesting more ways to interpret kuukou let’s go let’s go lmao!!!!!!!

[sysig]

One better (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #Blood #I knew going into this and it was still so distressing :'0 #Who needs plot twists when you can create such an intense sense of Dread #Probably doesn't help that I read this At Night In the Dark lol - actual shivers #Gods this was a hard scene to read - there have been several instances of my face hurting from furrowing my brow so hard haha #The way that ''Doctor'' is written is So skillful - I'm so impressed by everyone's prose and quirks and syntax! #Not to mention when he breaks character in a later scene to apologize for taking a bit to move the scene along haha <3 Play!! #It really does speak to just how much skill and effort is put into everything <3 It's so well done all the way around!! #Anyway to the actual scene at hand lol ow :') Drawing blood is always fun but I wish it wasn't his ;u; #Ugh the way he takes the surgeries is so well written - fear of course but a kind of stoic suffering as much as he's able to - #Until it comes to his eye #Ugh the /break/ of it all he goes from so eloquent - almost snarky and silly! Still trying to find an out make peace do /something/ #It all goes completely out the window he's so /reduced/ and nothing hurts worse than that ughughugh #For all his intelligence and wit and prior successes and charm and just - everything that makes him /him/ to be dissolved into abject fear #It's so sad ;; And so well done <3 #And he still holds enough of himself to know what he'd be losing wegh it's so sad!! He's so defined by his vision as most VUX are it's fjdsl #Zelnick is already gone by this point but I wanted to throw him in for extra sad flavour :') #Plus - I've mentioned his post-Op was one of the ones from the gallery that Actively kills me every time I look at it #Can you imagine my heartbreak to find out that he didn't have his Captain to comfort him after this in actuality? That he was fully alone? #''Are we home? Is it over?'' ''N...not yet'' - The Absolute Devastation of realizing that Never Was not really #Just tear my heart out why don't you ugh I'm fully bleeding out 💔 #That last one is actually meant to be Max but it's open to interpretation :) #I think it's such a waste that his eye was just disposed of! Someone else could've used that (lol) #I do think there's something to the idea of seeing what used to be a part of your body elsewhere - like the Leftovers! #Even just keeping as a memento tho - a trophy - insult to injury but literally #Just points to no one being special and nothing being sacred I suppose

[thirteenemeraldcats]

I come bearing random fic asks! 1) tell us about your current wip(s)! 2) what's your writing process like? 3) I think you mentioned you have a background in psychology — how much does that influence your writing?

Hello my beautiful friend!!

Thank you so much for sending me these! I have been sitting on this for days because I wanted to banish 'thought that i was young' from my WIPs before answering lol

1.) Now that THAT'S published (and taken most of my WIP wordcount with it *sad violin noises*) there's 3 fics I'm actively poking at, the chunkiest is a Sam-and-Jamie-BFFS-agenda-6-conversations-they-might-have-had-and-one-they-definitely-didn't which I'm pretty sure I've posted a snip of SOMEWHERE before whoops. The working title was too long for me to cope with, to the extent that it managed to override my inability to make my mind up about anything, and is now called 'i said, maybe' - a line I've gleefully pinched from Wonderwall by Oasis! I like it for this fic because *gestures at working title* BUT ALSO Wonderwall is the song Sam sings at karaoke in 1x07 'Make Rebecca Great Again' and the Manchester connection tickles me greatly!

There's a non-angsty, short-ish (I'm honestly shocked) fic that fell out of my brain nearly fully formed a couple of weeks ago (because almost everyone I knew was either talking about or having birthdays) which ALSO has a title 'because he had no say in it (no say in it at all)', which is almost definitely going to be posted next (and hopefully a LOT sooner than the time-space between 'i learned to walk while he was away' and 'thought that i was young').

The only other thing I'm actively poking at right now is in the outline stage, it is also short-ish (please PLEASE stay that way) but is back to the angst-fest that is apparently all my brain wants to spit out. It's Jamie-centric. It involves a cat :)

2.) Honestly at this point my writing process is best described as:

(sound warning)

ANYWAY

(My actual answer about my writing process is that I love planning. Very much. Stretching the dough into spaghetti is where the problem lies 🫠)

3.) I do indeed have a background in Psychology! Like any undiagnosed-in-denial-17-year-old-DUMBASS, I studied Psych right out of high school due to a combined and truly harebrained motivation of 'what IS going on up there' and 'wow I love systematically studying, analysing and mimicking human behaviour [no underlying NOTHING going on up there no siree]' and wound up with a four year degree. NOW, my background is purely theoretical, I have never been registered as/worked as a Psychologist, so I'm not violating any ethical codes by using my knowledge for evil applying my Psych training to fictional stories/characters. Because the answer to 'how much does that influence your writing' is. SO MUCH. Not necessarily intentionally, there's only one fic in the extended-mountainous-WIP-pile that's explicit about Psych stuff (I'm giving Dani Seasonal Affective Disorder whoops), but psychology is one of those fields that once you're trained in it you can't really ever un-know it. Unfortunately for me, and everyone that I meet, there's forever a predisposing/precipitating/perpetuating/protective biopsychosocial model being drawn up in my head whenever someone exhibits any kind of behaviour my forebrain finds moderately interesting. (This doesn't happen with online friends DON'T WORRY [in truth it's only because I can't physically see you all- I AM SO SORRY- I am not in control of this]).

Honestly, I think a big part of it is just that my particular brand of pattern-recognition-AuDHD has been granted auto-inserted citations and gone mad with power.

Take Jamie, beloved stress ball that he is, he has so much psycho-analysis potential that I'm forever torn between wanting to write a dissertation on the various comorbidities that could be floating around in that guy's head, having a Watsonian v Doylist argument with myself about ~artistic intentions~, having to suspend disbelief for the sake of storytelling because I've been cursed with knowledge (gleefully and enthusiastically sought out and paid for knowledge) and just wanting to enjoy the story/character as they're presented/as I'm writing it.

Applying actual Psychology to fictional characters is like trying to tie a balloon to a moving rollercoaster, for the simple fact that they're not real; their actions and motivations and reactions are scripted and rehearsed and performed.

I'm doing it anyway :)

#I do think the nature of characters is fascinating #they're a culmination of several peoples' interpretations/representations of human behaviour #in a not dissimilar way that people are typically a reflection of the immediate people around them #characters are shaped by layers of humans reflecting on layers of human reflection #storytelling is cool #humans are cool (mostly) #homer's the odyssey is used by classicists to ascertain the established ideals of human behaviour from over 2000 years ago #I JUST THINK IT'S NEAT #you've unlocked a word ramble my dear friend i am SO SORRY #THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME THIS #(part of why i love teaching is having a room full of captives that have to listen to me) #(one of my kids last year accidentally unlocked a 20 minute long info dump about the challenger disaster) #(the class was on false memories so it was MOSTLY relevant) #writing tag #ask box is always open #the-sea-anemone #kvetchinglyneurotic

[bogkeep]

i finished Some Desperate Glory and it's an ABSOLUTE banger. recommended if you like stories about people clawing their way through several layers of character development, people discarding their forcibly assigned purpose, and tangled relationships + begrudging friendships. i could say more but i don't want to spoil too much of the delightful journey i've had, so here's the official blurb:

(the audiobook came with content warnings, i don't remember word for word but heads up for: SA and grooming, cult environment, forced pregnancies, eugenics, genocide, suicide, in-universe homophobia and transphobia)

#haiz reads things #RELATED TO MY PREVIOUS POST ABOUT THIS BOOK where i hoped for the protag to be aroace: #i will keep interpreting her as asexual and i think she fits into the aroace Spectrum #that said i have no idea what romantic subplot the post that made me read this book referred to ahahahhaaa #there was no central romance in my eyes. lots of incredibly tasty relationships and several things that could be interpreted some way #tragically my favourite character was this absolute jerk of a guy being stuffed into a locker of friendship by the jock characters #just. what a good fucking meal #(now im wondering if the way ppl read books and esp. books labeled queer in a constant search for The Romance...)