Life after watching Twin Peaks is so funny because you'll be wandering the aisles of a grocery store and then without warning be struck by the urge to wail and pull your hair out follicle by follicle over what happened to Laura Palmer and then it passes and you notice that avocados are on sale
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“Didn’t …,” Tamlin interrupted, his deep voice surprisingly gentle, “didn’t your mother tell you
anything about us?”
I prodded the table with my forefinger, digging my short nails into the wood. “My mother didn’t
have the time to tell me stories.” I could reveal that part of my past, at least.
Lucien, for once, didn’t laugh. After a rather stilted pause, Tamlin asked, “How did she die?”
When I lifted my brows, he added a bit more softly, “I didn’t see signs of an older woman in your house.”
Tamlin is observant.
Tamlin is observant.
TAMLIN IS OBSERVANT.
So what the actual fuck was book 2? We never got a proper explanation! Smells like *retcons*
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what i wish people would also explore more when it comes to Percy is the other side of his feelings about his mom about family and his childhood but this fandom is too afraid to paint Sally even in the slightest bad light (even if it's not bad just acknowledging her flaws because she's a human being and not perfect) that no one will touch on that subject. like yes Sally is the best mom but she also isn't and that's the thing! She isn't perfect! but she tried her best but her best still got Percy hurt and it isn't her fault at all but that's the tragedy of it. i want Percy's feelings about this explored. how he grew up with a loving mom but an abusive step father. how his step father would humiliate him and call him stupid but then his mom soothed him and told him he's not the things Gabe calls him. how Gabe would hurt him and Sally would be there to make him happy and loved but at the same time she stayed with him. i want Percy's feelings explored about how he knows his mother loves him but her absence still hurt him. she would work so much to have money to raise him she did that for him but at the same time it meant Percy was left alone or with Gabe. Sally gave up so much for him, she sent him away to protect him but at the same time he was sent away from his mom. she's the only parent he has because his father is absent and Gabe is not actually a parental figure at all but she's also often absent in his life too and that must have left him with such mixed feelings because it's not all black and white! Sally's love protected him but also hurt him. Percy loves his mom so so so much but there's also this deep-seated bitterness and hurt and anger he never let himself feel and then the guilt for having those feelings because his mom loves him he knows that and she gave up so much for him and she married a monster that abused her to protect him, he knows that but it doesn't make it hurt any less. the mess his emotions are because he knows his mom suffered for him and did it from her love for him but he still desperately wishes she never married that monster that he wouldn't have to have the childhood he had with him that he wouldn't have to live with the trauma he was left with. this all is exactly what makes their relationship so fascinating and also heartbreaking.
or the idea of Percy having weird mixed feelings after Estelle is born because that's his little sister and he loves her with his whole heart and would do anything for her and wants only the best for her but there's also this little jealous monster deep down that wonders why she gets to have a loving mom and a loving dad and a happy normal life but he never got that. why does she deserve it but not him? why couldn't he have that too? doesn't he deserve that too? he was just a child too so why why why??? and then the guilt of feeling that way too it makes me want to scream. emotions are fucking messy and they can be really ugly and they can make you hate yourself and there's no way Percy's feelings aren't a mess when it comes to this and i want to see it explored so badly!
and with Sally too! her feelings about Percy because she did so much and tried her best but sometimes unfortunately your best isn't good enough and it still got her beloved son hurt and she hates it and feels so guilty but she just has to live with that but she can't help to wish it was different. that their lives would be different. better. normal. she can't help but to wish she didn't have to do the things she's done, didn't have to suffer so much just to protect her child. can't help to wish she didn't have to worry so much, didn't have to be so scared about Percy, didn't have to be terrified that one day he won't come back home to her, that she won't be able to hold her son anymore because he will be gone, she just wishes he didn't have to suffer so much, she just wishes and wishes and wishes
and i just wish people weren't so afraid to explore this because it's so heartwrenching and yes if you want something do it yourself but unfortunately i cannot write nor am i able to handle this topic in a way it deserves so i am left only with rambling about it on here thank you
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y'know what we don't talk about enough? Hazel died. We talk about how she grew up in the 30's and 40's and we talk about how out of place she feels in the modern world, but! She died! She was dead! She has spent more time dead than alive, and not by a close margin!
How does that effect a person??? We got some of it in the flashbacks, but once those caught up with her present timeline and she shared them, they just kind of... disappeared. And she was a regular girl with some weird past experiences. That's one way of doing it, sure!
I think it would have been a lot cooler if she was just a touch creepier. If she felt a little bit Wrong. Yeah, in general she's more approachable than her brother, she's more sociable and less closed off, but. If you actually spend any time with her, it can be difficult to tell which child of the underworld is actually more unsettling.
Hazel is bright of personality and has a dazzling smile, but sometimes she'll just... shut down. She'll go completely blank for like half an hour and nobody knows what to do with it. Sometimes she forgets she's alive. Sometimes she'll spout the grimmest shit you've ever heard like it's nothing, she won't even notice it's weird until the room goes quiet. She spent decades in Asphodel, which is designed to make people forget about themselves and wander around for eternity, only she didn't have the luxury of forgetting! Wild! After she comes back to life, sometimes she forgets that she's allowed to Do Stuff now. She can spend so long sitting and staring at nothing. Sometimes she'll start crying on cloudless days because it hits her again that she can actually feel the warmth of the sun on her skin and she can hear birdsong. Every little mundane experience is a blessing and she will make you remember that in the most foreboding way possible.
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Cannot stop thinking about how Toga’s parents are shadows
Every other parent who has been shown to us in bnha has at least some level of detail and personality. They are shown as actual people, as human
But Toga’s parents have no detail. They don’t have any discernible features apart from hairstyles (the mother having a style that sort of resembles Toga’s hair when it is down) but other than that, there’s nothing. That is literally the only visual thing that tells you they are her parents
No fashion, no real expressions, not a kind word spoken, no happiness at all. I believe this is to show how Toga remembers them. She does not remember any good times, any compliment or pat on the back or hug or even a smile. She remembers them as they are to her, as they look; intimidating shadows, vague shapes in her memory screaming at her
In fact, the only thing that is clearly shown to us over and over again is what they said to Toga. Every criticism, every angry word, every you can’t do that and why can’t you just be normal on a loop in her mind
And I think that detail of there being no physical detail speaks so much to how they have effected Toga, especially when you compare their appearances to that of the other Villain’s families in their flashbacks
One more thing thing that intrigues me about this as well
Toga’s father slaps her and his hand is actually real. No shadow around it, no shading - it is real and it hurts. Again, we are not shown any caring side; the only physical contact we ever see is her father hitting her, and I think that’s all Toga remembers too
It’s so interesting the way it’s all depicted. Going from certain backstories like Izuku’s, Ochako’s, Dabi’s or Tomura’s and then turning the pages to Toga’s backstory in contrast just makes hers feel so... empty. It’s heartbreaking, the lack of love she had in her childhood, and it’s no surprise based on this that that is all Toga really wants in the end
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