#suddenly this parallel

[high-voltage-rat]

I think it's fascinating that the quotes:

"Have you forgotten sir, we were at war? A fight with an alien race for the very survival of our species. I feel I must remind you that it is an undeniable, and may I say fundamental quality of man, that when faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable."

"When you spend every day fighting a war, you to demonize your attackers. To you, they're evil, they're subhuman. Because if they weren't, what would that make you? What I'm trying to say... is I've been afraid to see you for what you really are. You're our brothers. Our sisters. And the things we've done to one another are unforgivable."

"These guys want to use us, take us away from our families, and send us all over the dad-gum galaxy just to test if their agents are ready for the big fight? Well... guess I'm interested in showin' em exactly what a big fight is all about! So I'm not ordering you to go. I ain't even asking. You do what you gotta do, Private."

came from the same series whose standard fare is lines like:

"What in the hell are you two doing?" / "We're being executed by our own men, sir." / "Cut it out."

"I only drink the blood of my enemies, and the occasional strawberry yoohoo."

"You always said I could sleep when I’m dead, Sarge, and guess what? I am dead. This purgatory is about to become purga-snore-y, yawn!"

...and both categories manage to be a poignant statement about the nature of war and what it does to the people in it.

#everyone always talks about the more dramatic bits of rvb with the speeches and the 8+ seasons of plot development as the anti-war part #but the comedicization of the violence and death that the characters go through. the tongue-in-cheek gung-ho attitudes. #the way that they're so desensitized to the idea of death or gruesome injury to the point that it's!!! a comedy show!!! #all of that is just as much a statement of the fucked up nature of war!!! #it's like Col. Flagg and Frank Burns in M*A*S*H. they're so simultaneously into and detached from the war and it's a STATEMENT #idk I'm just. thinking about my favourite anti-war media. drawing mash-rvb parallels. and suddenly had to scream about it #might reread the paper on rvb being anti-war media. for enrichment. #not video games #late nights with ali #ali watches rvb #rvb #red vs blue

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: dismemberment / ]

I think a lot about how Leo’s rescue could have easily ended in him losing a leg as the portal snaps shut on the Krang still clutching the limb, or, alternatively, only having Leo’s right arm make it out, still held dearly in his brother’s hand as the rest of Leo is left behind. (The latter hits even harder, as it directly parallels his future self in the worst of ways.)

I think a lot about how so many things could have gone wrong during the course of the movie with even a little bit of a change, but it really is harrowing how much of a coin-flip the entirety of the Prison Dimension rescue was.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rottmnt headcanons #rise leo #dismemberment / #if literally any part of the prison dimension rescue was different it would have ended Very Badly #mikey came in clutch for doing the impossible in the first place #raph grabbing leo and not once letting go was vital #and donnie directly hitting the krang was essential #hell leo having the ability to reach out at all in the state he was in was a miracle #listen I think about the prison dimension a lot if you couldn’t tell #for the next tags: #strangulation mention / #physical trauma induced mutism / #potential death mention / #potential sibling death mention / #barely it mainly focuses on if he lives but / #I also think about how Leo’s trachea could have easilyyy given out as Raph (krangified) was choking him #can you imagine the last words raph hearing from his little brother being I’m sorry? #he’d likely live as the hamato bros are built different but imagine if he straight up can’t talk again after #the bros having no idea what Leo’s plan is but they suddenly feel him disappear with the portal #or also #imagine all he gets out in his hoarse voice is to beg Casey to close the portal before his family HEARS the sudden silence like a knife #even if he gets saved his voice may be wrecked or even gone for good #what am I writing wait- #also for my point on leo losing his arm paralleling his future self #imagine fate being a thing in this world but a VERY situational thing #imagine it makes it so that leo has to lose a limb #but not just that - it also ties his presence directly with the Krang’s - so if the Krang’s somewhere else…so is he

[colesawicn]

guys…

#just watched both of these films today #wow #i’ve only had them for a day but if anything happens to them im keeling everyone in this room and then myself #suddenly movies are fun again #dndhat #dungeons and dragons honor among thieves #dungeons and dragons #dnd #nimona #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister x ambrosius #xenk yendar #xenk the paladin #edgin darvis #edgin the bard #edgin x xenk #ship parallels

[justplaggin]

IT'S THE SCENE

#suddenly i understand why dazai had that reaction #an entire chapter of lightning-fast action AND a chuuya jumpscare?? happy fifteen sunday #bsd #bsd fifteen #couldn't resist and jumped on the text parallel train #*mangacaps

[otterpiastri]

Dear talented writers, Once again, I find myself at your door, pleading for some race engineer Oscar and driver Lando fanfiction. I'm open to any dynamic you choose to explore. Please watch this for inspiration. Thank you.

#landoscar #my favorite is emp banana #anywaay #maybe race engineer oscar's career will parallel our real-life oscar's #everyone wants lando's previous race engineer back #claiming that lando was more at ease with him #and that oscar is too serious #not matching lando's energy #and suddenly in a few months people will be asking for more oscar content under mclaren's posts

[hoofpeet]

I'd probably have to read the printed version and web version back to back at some point to note all the differences but... ough

#sorry i'm going to be excited about this comic for the next month #nofna #okay having finished this now-- #and sorry if this doesn't make sense to anyone who's completely unfamiliar with this comic in advance- #the 'popcorn ending' (printed version) is nice to see but i think the web version hits harder. if that makes sense #so i'm kinda tied on which ending i 'prefer'- i think both are good though #also considering i've read the web version a good 4-5 times and the printed version only once- i probably can't make that judgement yet #easy answer- i do like Nutsedge :] so it's nice to see the ending where nothing bad happens to her #but also- NT suddenly becoming a greenie-esque villain out of nowhere felt a little jarring #as well as SV suddenly turning a corner and becoming a 'good guy' (arguable)- considering the first three books are about #/him being too stubborn to change or accept any outside worldviews . Him suddenly coming to his senses felt out of place #<- probably biased because i like characters being bitter to the end and ultimately destroyed by their own hubris #the web version is probably‚ objectively‚ a bit better #but - #(spoilers- if you're planning to drop ~70 bucks on getting these books) #the conceit of SV actually perfecting his style‚ using it once‚ and then immediately getting tooth-brained- was pretty cool #assuming it's meant to parallel him spending months tormented by trying to perfect it while something's still missing- #and then dying before he can narrate it to the audience‚ so that we never know what he figured out. #hard to articulate these thoughts but tl;dr- popcorn ending also had a lot to think about

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

Are you still active on tumblr?

YES I am!! Sorry friends for dropping off the face of the earth, I got a job and I had to move and it was a lot. But I am less stressed now and I hope I can get back to posting more regularly!! I really missed it (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

I will never leave tumblr because there is no other place on the internet where I can tell people that 80% of the time when I try to introduce myself to someone in the office that I haven’t met yet I get so focused on smiling and holding eye contact that I forget the part where I actually have to introduce myself (°□°)

#HELLO FRIENDS #how are you!! I missed you! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ #I hope you all had a good summer!! #mine was very nice even though there was a lot of stress and new things happening #suddenly there were so many adult things in my life that at the end of the day I just sat on the couch and watched decorating shows #I love decorating shows but today they showed this decorating competition and one woman had to decorate her whole bedroom coral #and then I knew it was time to go back #friends I've done so many new things the past few weeks!! I've really underestimated what this new chapter of my life would be like #it's very nice and I'm glad but I've never thought about things like insurance and taxes and parallel parking before #and I'm in a new apartment and everything!! ✧⁺⸜(●′▾‵●)⸝⁺✧ #it is a very good apartment but the landlord left us so many of their chairs #this does not sound like a problem but we also owned chairs before #so our chair number is doubled now #the kitchen is full of chairs the balcony is full of chairs #I've hidden two chairs behind the TV but I can still see their chair heads and then I feel bad because they do not deserve this #they should be roaming free #also rode a BIKE #they say you never forget how to ride a bike #but my secret is that I never really knew how to ride one #in Germany all students have to do a bicyle test in fourth grade and I was so bad that my teacher asked me #afterwards if I had tried to confuse the other students #I just said 'uh yes' and then he said ok and I passed with the worst bicyle grade of the whole school #I hade made 8 bicyle mistakes #I hope you're doing well friends!! see you soon!! #have a nice day :)

[nose-coffee]

tamsyn you owe me emotional compensation

#my post #fuck off lou #tlt #the locked tomb #ntn #nona the ninth #camilla hect #parallels #comparatives #morning y'all i just think abt that line a lot and it suddenly struck me that she DID

[me-sploh-rada-imas]

we've talked about how jan is hiding one eye in every photo. but has anyone noticed that nace is hiding one eye in all his individual photos too... even when fully facing us, one of his eyes (his left, the opposite to the one jan is hiding) is always in shadow.

sonething about how nace feels fully seen with jan but not on his own, even when he's trying to be vulnerable.

#joker out #nace jordan #jance #damon baker #LITERALLY JUST CLOCKED THIS #GOING INSANE AGAIN SUDDENLY #every time i look at these photos i see something new #the parallels between the individual and the pair photos is wild #fucking art #and nace being the only one who gets to see jan's right eye... I CAN'T #the fucking symbolism holy shit #jo photoshoot analysis

[gayofthefae]

"What happened? - to us?"

"After everything, you just...disappeared"

"I waited."

"Yeah, like, only a month."

#yeah but i just suddenly thought about how mike ACTUALLY waited. el was there the whole month. she tried to kiss him her first day back. #he didn't date her for a month #elmike stancy parallels #he waited #both times #he waited. #(and the second time was arguably out of his control) #byler #stranger things #byler lines #no throwaway lines #mike wheeler #byler² #byler povs #mike knows

[carlyraejepsans]

do you think toriel and alphys would be friends..................

i think toriel and alphys should kiss

#dr versions specifically #but yeah!! i think they would. i think toriel would find her dorkiness charming in an endearing way #alphys would probably be a bit in awe of her. even in spite of the whole. yknow. getting immediately fired by her thing #suddenly got reminded of a character comparison meta i wanted to write about asgore/alphys & toriel/undyne and how they parallel each other #answered asks

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

It's a neat trick, I must say.

How does one determine this position,one in which we exist and don't exist at the same time?

#black sails #james flint #john silver #bs madi #you see one pic of a floating boat and suddenly youre in crisis mode #black sails parallels #mine

[badfandomurl]

2x03 | 6x03

#i rewatched school hard the other day and this LEAPT out at me #and immediately made me fucking insane so it has to go into everyone's brains now <3 #theres no way this hasnt done before because this is SOOOO...... #one thing about me is that i will find the spuffy parallels in everything and especially tie EVERYTHING to the after life speech #there's a reason my tag for them is #otp: every night i save you #ch: spike #ch: buffy summers #btvs #** #*gif #thank god tumblr expanded the images limit #also i suddenly know how to make gifs now lmao the improvement between this and my sets from last year... #proud of me <3 #buffy the vampire slayer #btvsedit #spuffy #spuffygifs #btvsdaily #slayerdaily

[tthelady]

The furina and aventurine parallels..

#ill write them down later #oh my god #it just suddenly hit me #the parallels between them #genshin impact #furina #honkai star rail #aventurine #hsr #genshin

[owlsie-hoot]

You only realise what you have until it's gone - paralells 02x04//04x03

#ACGAS 2020 #all creatures great and small #siegfried farnon #audrey hall #siegfried x audrey #parallels that hurt and rip out your heart #he is so alone and I want to hug him #acgas #this episode was painful but good #it was lovely to see audrey so happy but then siegfried stood there all alone #POOR MAN! #suddenly everyone is gone and has someone in their life and he does not #how will he cope? #will Audrey notice? #but we also don't want her to pity him... and he wants her to be happy #OH this is a mess!!! #also: I cried again #Sam West is just soooo good this series #and Anna Madeley does things to me....

[beginnings2022]

I love how there are some things that stay the same in their relationship dynamics, but some things that are swapped.

#sasunaru #narusasu #naruto uzumaki #sasuke uchiha #naruto #sasuke #sasuke x naruto #naruto x sasuke #uzumaki naruto #uchiha sasuke #sns #the parallel of these scenes suddenly came to my mind #otp