#the freaking parallels

[clockworkbee]

when they're so desperate to be with the one they love that they don't even care if they get hurt in order to stay together

“Come with me, then,” he said. “Stay with me. I saw the look on your face when you saw the horses of the Hunt. You would do anything to ride again.” Suddenly furious, Mark leaned down over him. “Not anything,” he said. His voice throbbed with low anger. Kieran gave a slight hiss. He caught at Mark's shirt. “There,” he said. “Be angry with me, Mark Blackthorn. Shout at me. Feel something.”

—Lord of Shadows, Cassandra Clare

“We're staying together,” he promised. “You're not getting away from me. Never again.” Only then did she understand what would happen. A one-way trip. A very hard fall. “As long as we're together,” she said. [...] Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.

—The Mark of Athena, Rick Riordan

“I've been broken for weeks,” he said unsteadily, and she knew what that cost him, that admission of lack of control. “I need to be whole again. Even if it doesn't last.” “It can't last,” she said, staring at him, because how could it, when they could never keep what they had? “It'll break our hearts.” He caught her by the wrist, brought her hand to his bare chest. Splayed her fingers over his heart. It beat against her palm, like a fist punching its way through his sternum. “Break my heart,” he said. “Break it in pieces. I give you permission.”

—Lord of Shadows, Cassandra Clare

“Can I?” he asks. Can you what, Simon? Kiss me? Kill me? Break my heart? I touch him like he's made of butterfly wings. “You don't have to ask.” I say it loud enough that he'll hear me, over everything.

—Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell

“You cannot hurt yourself, Daisy. You must not. Hate me, hit me, do anything you want to me. Cut up my suits and set fire to my books. Tear my heart into pieces, scatter them across England. But do not harm yourself—”

—Chain of Thorns, Cassandra Clare

Come home. Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home.

—Queen of Nothing, Holly Black

#kierark #blackstairs #percabeth #snowbaz #herondaisy #cardan greenbriar #lord of shadows #the mark of athena #the heroes of olympus #wayward son #simon snow trilogy #chain of thorns #the last hours #queen of nothing #the folk of the air #the freaking parallels #web weave #words of love #the dark artifices

[edgeyrogues]

Being very normal about Puss in Boots 2

Just watched it for the third time and look what I found!

First fight with death

vs last fight with death

#puss in boots the last wish spoilers #puss in boots the last wish #puss in boots 2 #and by being normal i mean losing my damn mind #the freaking parallels #will never not love this movie

[bakedbeanchan]

Drawing from a mini comic where the timeline is reset but Zuko still has all his memories

Minicomic here

#baked bean originals #I just like drawing sokkas mortified face and then checked out #absolutely humiliated by some fire nation ponytail freak and then your little sister and that stupid bald kid want to befriend him after he #starts lying about how you all were friends in a parallel universe or whatever #that's rough buddy #just realized it looks like zuko's doing some pathetic little thumbs up here #avatar the last airbender #atla #sokka #zuko #katara #aang

[amphiboys]

robert pattinson, on his consistent lies // david lynch // will wood, on his fake daughter // kurt vonnegut // tumblr user intactics

#mine #web weaving #robert pattinson #will wood #kurt vonnegut #will wood and the tapeworms #parallels #quotes #idk how to tag this lmao #i think celebrities should just lie more #and say weird things #if you’re gonna be famous at least be a little freak about it

[theejael]

am i makin' you feel sick?

—

yeah, okay, the ghoul's kinda cool.

#not necessarily intended as ship but? if you wanna i guess #their dynamic was just interesting to me #also #coop you're a freak for replacing your chomped on finger with lucy's #love me some character parallelism/mirrors here #fallout season 2 when #fallout #fallout tv series #lucy maclean #cooper howard #the ghoul #my art #jael art

[k-martins]

We had SatoSugu

It's time for Itafushi <3

#I won't let Megumi Sea Urchin Fushiguro be forgotten! #Itadori has the same smile as an axolotl #I'm kidding #but I'm freaking out thinking about the next parallels we'll have in the opening of Shibuya #imagine a scene referencing Sukuna with the hands around Megumi's neck #or Megumi and Yuji having to let go of their hands and face their enemies alone #jjk spoilers #jjk #megumi fushiguro #jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #itadori yuji #itafushi #fushiita #satosugu #stsg #geto suguru #suguru geto #jjk manga #jjk season 2 #jjk s2

[ministarfruit]

day 28: made you smile ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

#minifemslashfeb2024 #ace attorney #dgs #tgaa #goulstrade #maria gorey #gina lestrade #GOD I MISS THEM #goulstrade is so funny to me. they're both freaks. they're both weirdos #BUT IT AIN'T EVEN ABOUT THAT #IT'S ABOUT THE PARALLELS (yes. again.) AND THE #THE FACT THAT NEITHER OF THEM HAD A NORMAL CHILDHOOD #both outcasts in different ways... both looked up to someone who ended up letting them down... hooh... #on a happier note I do think that maria would find gina endearing #I don't think maria knows what feelings are. exactly. #she just sort of goes 'it's that funny blonde girl again. day 130 of gina not agreeing to let me dissect her' #and gina is just like wat da hell. you're so scary. i need you in my life #girl knows if she befriends maria then she'll never have an enemy again #and she's right! #blah blah blah gina who has seen too much of the world and maria who has seen too little of it #thanks for coming to my goulstrade presentation where I make things up #I really enjoy them. teehee

[katronautt]

# corporate needs you to find the difference between this scene and this scene

#they are the same your honor #good omens #our flag means death #good omens s1 #good omens s2 #crowley #aziraphale #blackbeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #i love them so much #my chaotic husbands #cant freaking wait for s2 #ofmd #go edit #ofmd edit #my gif #my go gif #my ofmd gif #parallels #david tennant #michael sheen #rhys darby #taika waititi #our flag meets death season 1

[belovedgrayson]

— Bruce and Dick || The Road by Cormac McCarthy

#back at it with my bruce and dick + the road parallels #I can't get it out of my freaking head #the devotion #the desperation #they're so so dear to me #dick grayson #bruce wayne #cormac mccarthy #the road #dc edit #forever evil

[astraltrickster]

I want to introduce a disability concept that I've been calling paradoxical stigma.

What is paradoxical stigma? It's the stigma against:

1) The actually disabling traits of a disability that's in the spotlight for the parts of it that are convenient to accommodate, and/or

2) The diagnosis of such a disability itself,

Due to the assumption that the spotlight renders it "destigmatized" and no longer in need of support.

As of right now, at least around this corner of the internet, the most obvious examples of this are autism and ADHD. It's become disturbingly common for people to treat those like Diet Disabilities That Don't Actually Count. It's been really interesting to watch the popular attitude about these disorders shift from "autism is either a tragedy or an excuse depending on 'severity', and ADHD is just a myth used to drug kids into complicity instead of teaching them actual skills", to "actually these are real disorders that affect people in all aspects of their lives", to "I GUESS they're real disorders but honestly EVERYONE has them can't we worry about more SERIOUS ones?" and...not in a good way.

It comes up...partially as a legitimate backlash to people with these disorders who think that invisible disability and/or neurodivergence begins and ends at their experience, and...yeah, that's a problem all right, in fact if I had a dollar for every asshole who looked at my struggles with things like keeping my space clean or not fucking up my medication doses DUE TO ADHD and went "well I have the same diagnosis and I don't have THAT problem to THAT extent, obviously you're just lazy and careless", or saw me having an AUTISTIC meltdown and called it "bullying" or worse because I get loud and insisted that I NEED to CONTROL that CHOSEN BEHAVIOR if I want to not be a Bad Person, or heard about how AUTISTIC overstimulation defense measures play into my trouble with cleaning and insisted that well THEY'RE autistic too and don't have that specific problem so this is clearly weaponized helplessness because I just don't WANT to learn to do better, I'd...probably have a lot more assistive tech. I also get really, really frustrated and upset when people use RSD to mean "if you ever criticize me that's the height of ableism, no matter how much I'm actually fucking up and hurting you" - especially since it's so often invoked as a defense against being lightly criticized for ACTUALLY harmful behavior and as much as it sucks there IS no substitute to make that more emotional-dysregulation-friendly beyond basic kindness in criticism. That attitude exists. It's bad.

And yet, theoretically, I think we could all agree that the response to that should NEVER be to reinvent the old "ugh, those aren't REAL disabilities, those are just EXCUSES that LAZY PARENTS make for kids being kids, what they need is DISCIPLINE" stereotype of the 90s-2000s, just now aimed at those same kids as adults, in ostensibly supportive spaces - or arguably worse, to revert all our understanding of support needs to the externally judged high-functioning/low-functioning dichotomy.

What really sets this apart as paradoxical stigma, rather than just garden-variety lateral ableism, is that 1) we CAN theoretically all agree that reinventing those stereotypes is a terrible response, yet many people do it anyway, and 2) these stereotypes are invoked not only because of that intracommunity misbehavior, but both within and outside of disabled spaces, because of the illusion that you can bring up those disorders and have them taken seriously because fidget toys and stim videos and weighted blankets are popular now. An event having quiet rooms, or backlash to Autism Speaks being visible outside of autistic spaces, will be taken as "proof" that autism stigma is over forever and anyone who complains about it is just a whiner who doesn't know how good they have it...even when what they're complaining about is, say, being barred from migration. Paradoxical stigma is enacted by people who think that they, alone, are standing up against someone who's throwing others under the bus to continue to progress their own limited agenda...when in fact they're speaking a very popular shitty opinion, that MANY of the people making that claim would disagree with HEAVILY once separated from the "crab bucket reflex".

As a personal example, the result is that when I'm looking for assistance, I'm...hesitant to bring up those diagnoses, because I know I'm going to be written off as "obviously a high-functioning low-support needs scammer who just doesn't WANT to CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY and EARN things" - even by people who otherwise agree that people should be allowed to survive even if they truly are the living strawman lazy bum who has nothing wrong with them but just WANTS to lay around eating junk food and doing drugs all day, AND that disability deserves to be respected, isn't black-and-white, and affects everyone differently; somehow when these combine in the context of my diagnoses that have had a very sanitized version of themselves "destigmatized" on TikTok, they cancel out into blatant reactionary sentiment indistinguishable from what I'd hear from my shitty token Republican uncle.

So, that's paradoxical stigma. Feel free to use the term if you find it useful.

#disability #serious tag #and yes it is applicable to issues other than disability #if youre seeing parallels to this in how same-sex marriage passing nationwide in the us #was the beginning of a big downswing in support for queer rights because what ELSE could these entitled freaks POSSIBLY want #you are correct! they are VERY closely related! not quite identical because it wasnt almost equally intense within the community as outside #but i wouldnt call you wrong if you wanted to use the same term! #speaking of bringing back the high-functioning/low-functioning dichotomy - it is NOT lost on me #just how many people dont take me seriously as a Real Autist because im usually ''well-spoken'' #therefore i CLEARLY cant have support needs that are hard to aestheticize right??? #as if that kind of misconception isnt EXACTLY WHY we moved away from functioning labels in favor of discussing support needs

[charmac]

5x01 | 16x05

Mac and Dennis + Aggression

#iasip #sunnys super sweet 16 #parallels #macdennis #the gang exploits the mortgage crisis #the gang goes bowling #guys this was in my notes from...wait for it...MAY. #when the TRAILER dropped i said do a parallel with this #then forgot all about it #seeing it is so much better too #im smiling STUPID #like awh... freaks.. #oc

[clockworkbee]

If We Were Villains, M. L. Rio // You are in love, Taylor Swift // If I Only Had the Words, Billy Joel

#if we were villains #♪ you are in love ♪ #if only i had the words #web weaving #web weave #the freaking parallels #m.l. rio #taylor swift #billy joel

[guardian-angle22]

#911 lone star #911lsedit #tk strand #carlos reyes #mateo chavez #paul strickland #andrea reyes #owen strand #didn't know what to caption this one so I didn't #am i projecting my emotions onto tk through emojis? possibly... we all do therapy different okay let me live #i'd like to be cool about the situation like tk but also would like to not have a joke about it in all of their focused episodes pls & thx #if anything TK should be the one making the wife jokes imo - where are HIS hilarious wife jokes to carlos? #I just think the writers are so painfully unfunny with these ngl #so i'm making it fun for myself with ✨emojis✨😂 #my gifs #911ls parallel #episode: s04e02 the new hot mess #episode: s04e04 abandoned #episode: s04e08 control freaks #episode: s04e12 swipe left

[scoobydoodean]

I started hunting down Lilith, trying to get some payback. All by yourself. Who do you think you are, your old man? Uh, yeah, I'm sorry, Bobby. I should have called. I was pretty messed up.

Sam Ghosting Bobby | 3.11, 4.01

#3.11 #4.01 #pk rewatches spn number ? #good gifs with free tools challenge #sam the hunter #do i look like a ditchable prom date to you? #cw flashing #season 3 #season 4 #multiseason #parallels #high sodium freak #sam and bobby

[fuck-off-im-ace]

So Loquatius was introduced as a guy not only changing his face, but also the truth, to benefit his own narrative and the people in power. In the end, he’s the one who gave the truth to the people, and allowed them to be saved, at the cost of those in power.

Nydas was introduced as a merchant, accumulating riches and gold. In the end, he’s the one who stopped the saving of that wealth and materials so that the people could live.

Cerrit was introduced as an overworked detective, constantly planning and thinking, at the cost of knowing his family. In the end, he gave everything he had, left his friends to die just for the chance that maybe he could see his family again.

Patia was introduced as a keeper of many secrets, constantly seeking more knowledge because that is where she gets her influence and power over this city. In the end, she’s the one who gave the knowledge necessary to not only save the world, but also make sure that what happened would forever be remembered.

Zerxus was introduced as a paladin filled with doubts and contempt for a city he refused to call home. In the end, he put his fate in the hands of people he never fully trusted, and gave more than his life to save a city he never really loved. 

And Laerryn, introduced as the one who would doom the city, the world, with ideas bigger than what even the Age of Arcanum could handle. Laerryn, who sacrificed everything for her work, her legacy. In the end, she gave away the work of her life, her legacy, and her life, to make sure that Exandria would survive the Calamity. 

The Calamity was introduced as the day the world was doomed and fell. In the end, the first day of the Calamity was the day Exandria was saved.

#listen i am freaking out about the parallels of Everything okay #i want to watch the whole show again #just to truly enjoy the art of it #i am just obsessed with the characters #i want more of theeem #so sad this is ending #but what a beautiful ending it was #critical role #critical role spoilers #calamity #exu calamity #loquatius seelie #nydas okiro #patia por'co #cerrit agrupnin #zerxus ilerez #laerryn coramar seelie

[angelsdean]

when you've always secretly thought of yourself as some kind of monster and then you start to become one and you believe, like you always have, that everyone will leave you but then your angel reaches for your shoulder and reminds you that you are worth saving, always, and that he will never leave you, no matter what.

1x06 / 10x22

#yea i'm feeling fine abt it why do you ask? #also cas's ''no! you're not'' totally reads as a response to shifter dean's ''i know i'm a freak'' #parallels #spn 1x06 #spn 10x22 #destiel #deancas #web weaving #myedits