#the last of us it's the opposite

[northern-passage]

hey. have you all heard about this. they’re making a squid game reality tv show. like an actual squid games. have you heard about that. did you hear about amazon also planning a disco elysium tv series, and a life is strange tv series? of course we already have rings of power and then over on HBO we have the last of us and then wherever that shit halo show is streaming. and don’t forget all the star wars spin offs whose taglines are “the revolution will be televised” while being streamed by one of the worst media companies of all time who uses their billions of dollars to support bigots in the government and create military propaganda. have you heard about the booktok industry plant? have you heard about that author who gets their agent to spoon-feed them tropes so they can write the most soulless, bland fanfic that they can then repackage as a YA novel (she’s a new york times best-selling author btw) have you heard about all of that?

the creative industry is so discouraging right now. sometimes i really struggle to find any motivation at all when i see the way certain stories are treated - completely bastardized, milked for all their worth (and then beaten like a dead horse just for good measure) or otherwise you have creators that clearly could not care less, nothing but a cash grab with a pretty coat of paint, usually piggybacking off of trends or just using a pre-existing media (because then you already have a pre-existing fanbase. easy money!) and i’m not going to pretend like i understand how all of it works, what the process is from book/game to movie deal to netflix show but i will say i hate that this is the “goal” now, that this seems to be the expectation with so much art these days, whether the creator wants it or not.

it’s all just so... bleak.

#anyways. sorry i saw the squid games thing this morning and snapped i guess #obviously im under no delusion that any of this would ever apply to tnp or anything i write at all #but it's still really discouraging. it's still hard to find the motivation to create in this kind of grim capitalist environment... #especially when it comes to games which are already underappreciated #and i really dislike the games to movies/shows trend #the level design the mechanics the music the art style all of that is just as integral to the story as the dialogue and narrative itself #games are a way to experience a story it's a different way of telling a story. it loses meaning when you strip that away. imo #as someone who 'makes games' i guess. #like with IF the whole POINT is the player interaction #the choices #and there are so many games out there (literally disco elysium and life is strange) where that's a core mechanic #the last of us it's the opposite #the lack of choice and the railroading of the player is a core mechanic #it's not the same when it's just some actor in a costume. the player is part of the narrative. it's important #sigh. anyways support indie creators i guess #personal

[obisamya]

DANI ROJAS & JAN MAAS Ted Lasso (2020-2023)

#ted lasso #tedlassoedit #tedlassosource #dani rojas #jan maas #cristo fernández #david elsendoorn #gifs. #they're literally best friends look at them #numbers right next to each other... no nonsense tall guy + silly smiley shorter guy... realist + idealist... #unstoppable force (jan's honesty & inability to read a room) vs immovable object (dani's positivity & inability to read a room) #in the first ep of s3 when they're talking about richmond being placed last on everyone's predictions for the season or smth: #jan spitting out statistics about relegations that no one wants to hear + dani's 'maybe they're trying to motivate us!' #the inability to read a room but on opposite ends of the spectrum is something that can be so personal ......

[peachybruiseslego]

they're stupid and i love them

#had to edit on the cursed zane plush onto the last panel im sorry LMFAOO #made this like a month agooo #this uses my older design for zane which is ugly!!! gross!! #oppositeshipping #kai #zane #kai smith #kai jiang #zane julien #opposite #ninjago #lego ninjago #art #peachy's art #ninjago fanart

[daylighteclipsed]

Y’all ever think about if Sora falls to darkness that inside his heart will look like the Destiny Islands falling again

#i do a lot #kingdom hearts #one of the biggest reasons i think we’ll see something like this in canon. briefly at least #not only would parallel ddd w ven’s heart/armor no longer there to protect sora #and roxas and xion gone from sora’s heart too. so sora would be alone #and actually there as opposed to in the RoL/awake when riku dives in #but also there is no way nomura’s gonna pass up the chance to bring us full circle like this. he loves making his characters revisit/relive #worlds and memories like this to make a point. and sora’s heart was sunset in ddd… following kh1 the dark and stormy night comes next #The thought of sora and riku reaffirming their love and friendship here when it broke the first time the islands fell #both of them having to in a way relive this horrible night for the final time #but riku doing the total opposite of last time. trying to save sora trying to stop the darkness from consuming everything #being totally honest with sora. reaching his hand out for sora but this time he’s not being consumed by darkness. #he’s become the light in the darkness. and they finally reach each other they finally grasp hands. I’m chewing on glass #i don’t think sora would ‘fall’ to darkness in the traditional sense #thematically i think it makes more sense for him to be faced w another martyr choice #though his own negative feelings would still be tangled up in there. and this would parallel kh3 #and if sora chooses to let darkness into his heart to save others it’d also parallel kh1 w riku choosing to open the door/let the darkness #into destiny islands at the risk of others #god it’d be just like kh1 but we’d be playing as riku and he’d be the one looking frantically for sora #a reversed dynamic. but now they understand each other’s pain and feelings so they can reach each other #figuratively and literally #i love parallels i love symbolism i love themes kick my ass !!!!

[scarapanna]

Last AU WIP of the week!!

This is gonna be one of the most difficult frames to finish lmao

Also the quality is extra crusty but that's okay/silly

[More rambles undercut]

Long story short this thing has prespective and BGs since I barely do both and it's good to practice, but on the downside it's gonna be taking a long long time to do (tldr I re-sketched the panel to make linearting easier)

Finished 1/6 panels so far tho!!!

The others are simplier other than the first two so I should take as much!!

#on that struggle grind wooo🔥🔥🔥 #He will NOT walk barefoot in this house nuh huh/silly #beetle's ramblings #cookie run kingdom #pure vanilla cookie #beetle's art #intertwined opposites au #I can't wait to see what time record the ibis paint canvas I'm using for this is gonna hit hshfnsnf #last time was 66 hours lmao

[totheecore]

When you and Marisol ran into me and Tommy, we were on a date. Really? Mhm-hm. [...] So you two...? We were on a date, yes. Is that weird? No. Absolutely not. [...] This doesn't change a thing between us. Okay? Good. That's a relief.

911 7x05 | You Don't Know Me

#911 #911edit #911 abc #911 net #buddie #evan buckley #eddie diaz #alielook #uservictoria #*my gifs #[delulu goggles on] eheheh famous last word #jokes aside i love how they portrayed this so much :') #also oof im used to giffing kpop stages and tv shows are a monster league of their own lmao #they're their complete opposite in terms of lighting and midtones and coloring. it's inchresting #q

[chipchopclipclop]

oc doodle art dump ft. friends ocs, first guy is a tiefling tav who's the adoptive father of my friends durge (it is as dramatic as it sounds)

#chipchopdraws #original #oc #bg3 tav #the red twink was part of a design the opposite of what u usually draw challenge lol #and the last two are another pair of gay horror men jude dreamt about us making which is still hilarious #glasses is basically personality wise an ichiban/nanba combination. embarrassing read on my psyche

[chirpsythismorning]

The Duffer’s when asked about forgetting Will’s birthday:

The Duffers when asked about s5:

Me rn, putting up with this bs:

#stranger things #byler #will byers #birthdaygate #either you don’t remember the last time you rewatched s2 #or s2 is central to everything and is going to play a big role in the direction the show goes for s5 (the final season) #but you can’t have both #matt insisting they don’t sit around and rewatch their show is also a blatant lie #they’ve said the complete opposite in the past #also outlining is everything to them #looking at the whole picture is everything to them #y’all can’t seriously believe that blatant lie?? #why give fans the impression s2 is irrelevant to excuse why they forgot wills birthday? #only to show us in the details that they didn’t forget at all? #s4 has birthday mentions in the double digits… #whereas every other season has 1 or two at most #like clearly the only people prepared for what is to come are people that are willing to see what is clearly there #they didn’t forget about s2 #and the ending of the show is going to make everything connect as an overall story

[uter-us]

radfem question!!

i'm having a conversation with someone about female only spaces (this specifically pertains to bathrooms) and they said that the rule of having female-only bathrooms would "act more like an enforcement of femininity more than anything else."

I think their point is about butch lesbians and/or women who present "masculinely," and so because there is ofc no female identification at the door, and policy would likely just make it more acceptable for women and girls to report if there was a male in the bathroom (without having to determine if the male identifies as a woman), this could end up hurting "masculine"-presenting women (implying that they could be mistaken as male), and in turn just reinforce femininity. Thoughts? (mine are in tags)

#I understand that this has happened a few times before actually. i think my main point would just be that dressing masculinely does not #actually make you look male and like its evolutionarily advantageous for humans to be able to spot the opposite vs same sex #and so this i dont believe is going to be a huge problem based off of mistakenly seeing female ppl as male HOWEVER #because (from my very limited knowledge) it seems that the few times it has happened it has been lesbophobia #could this be a tool to enforce femininity on females? my last point is just that ofc ideally (imo) many single-stall bathrooms with like #complete complete privacy is ideal but also financially that is very hard to impliment and is not practical. but also! kathleen stock spoke #abt how TRAs cant simultaneously claim that TW being able to use the womens bathroom is so important and also not think its important enoug #to shell out money on?? so maybe the financial practicality COULD be possible?? but also maybe not idk.! im just curious what yall think #thanks!! #radfem #radblr #radical feminism #gender critical #radical feminists do interact #terfblr #rad fem #gender criticism #terfsafe #questions tag

[spicyraeman]

Nah nah nah, Shadowheart is a woodland girl and then she became a Fundie before cutting off her. bangs and being an Ex-Fundie.

Lae’zel meanwhile? Working woman, traveling across the planes, a professional and worldly.

Clearly, Lae’zel is the Big City Buisness woman who’s car tragically breaks down in small hallmark town were local town girl who can recite the bible from memory suddenly discovers that shes a Lesbian

I can get down with fundie/ex-fundie Shadowheart, it wouldn't really be Shadowheart without a bit of religious trauma now would it

Big city Lae'zel on the other hand? I can def see the vibe, its not my vibe, but I can see it none the less

#asks #worldly is the last word I would ever use for lae'zel tho #shes like the exact opposite of that lol

[myrkkymato]

Quick emo!ellie x gymrat!abby sketch because I finally got more paper and a pen that actually works

#very crusty on so many levels i know #ellie has so much emo potential #opposites attract #tlou #ellie williams #abby anderson #ellie x abby #tlou fanart #the last of us #abby tlou #ellie tlou #ellabs #fan art #myrkkymato art

[ellies-enrichment]

Bella Ramsey as Ellie Williams in every episode of The Last of Us season one

#bella ramsey #ellie williams #the last of us #hbo the last of us #hbo tlou #endlesshbo #now i think i get the cause of it queue were holding out to find the opposite

[unlikely-gravestones]

Currently thinking about how for nearly all Dreamling meetings, Hob's always the one watching Dream leave him.

In 1389, he watches Dream walk away from their table. In 1489, he again watches Dream leave while saying that he never told Hob his name. In 1589, he bitterly watches Dream leave with Shakespeare. We don't see the end of the 1689 meeting, but there's a pattern here, so. In the 1789 meeting, Hob again watches Dream leave and he literally never looks away from him- the scene ends with Hob still watching Dream leave after their confrontation with Constantine, he never turns his head from him. And then of course the 1889 meeting, which again...ENDS WITH HOB CHASING AFTER DREAM AND WATCHING HIM LEAVE IN THE RAIN

friends I am having thoughts

#The angst potential of Hob being so used to the one that's left behind #Always watching His Stranger leave #Which #Hob's happy to watch Dream walk anywhere if u know what I mean #But he's always the one being left in that pub for the next 100 years #Someone know what I'm trying to say I can't get to my point #I don't even think there's a point it's just a recurring detail I noticed #And the last shot of the 1789 meeting got me because it literally ends with Hob STILL watching Dream leave #Despite him walking in the opposite direction his head was STILL turned to watch Dream #the sandman #dream of the endless #hob gadling #dreamling #sandman #And it's not that I think hob wants to be the one that leaves Dream for once #It's just that by 1889 we can clearly see that Hob is evaluating their relationship and wanting more from it #Wanting to put clear terms down and see where they stand and he's OBVIOUSLY been musing a lot on their interactions #I just think it would add to how lost he might feel about where they stand with eachother when he's always being left alone

[justaboot]

She’s my CHILD anyway stream last of us

#ellie williams #ellie tlou #tlou #the last of us #my art #file under: shows that are the polar opposite of DT

[thebogmonster]

hey tlou fandom i have a psa. guys. as a mental health worker who serves many ppl whove committed violent crimes the way u talk about joel's violent side is very fucking weird. i am seeing people say that what kept living after his attempt on his own life wasn't really joel, saying that he doesn't care about the world, that he's heartless except for ellie. u guys got the wrong fucking message out of this show. the message is not that joel lost his ability to be a good guy after sarah died and therefor he did violent things to survive. the point is that joel is just a person who witnessed a horrible thing that made him try very hard to turn off the part of him thats a good person, and did violent things to survive and those things hurt him now. it is not that ellie is the only thing he is capable of caring about because he just needs a daughter. its that ellie allows, encourages, & requires the caring and good parts of him to resurface while still recognizing the bad parts. she allows him to hold the dichotomy because she requires that he is caring to her and violent to those who want to hurt her and that allows him to accept the contrast within himself.

#joel does the opposite for ellie #he brings out the violent parts of her because she sees what hes had to do to survive and she has an attachment disorder #the last of us #tlou #tlou hbo #ellie williams #joel miller #also. i want you so badly to look up the concept of moral injury. #tlou analysis

[hausofneptune]

(repost) [the astrology of pedro pascal] - hard moon aspects (major) | moon opposite saturn

hey y’all! in this series we’ll be covering major hard/challenging aspects (squares and oppositions) to pedro’s moon. minor challenging aspects to his moon (semi-squares/sesquiquadrates and semi-sextiles/inconjunctions) will be covered in an upcoming series, as well as the rest of the major and minor aspects to the rest of his planets, and asteroids in his chart! i also want to note that when it comes to these aspects, they have to be examined through the lens of the entire chart, as they’re influenced by a myriad of factors within it.

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moon opposite saturn (within 9.0°)

with the opposition, there is a polarity between the planetary bodies and they are at odds with one another. the moon represents our subconscious feelings, our feminine (light/yin) sides, how we show up emotionally, how we crave nurturement, as well as our home and familial dynamics. it’s also indicative of our mother/maternal figures, our relationships to them, and how we perceive them to love and nurture us. saturn is representative of long-term goals, how we approach those goals, and more specifically the restriction and difficulty we face in meeting these goals. most often you’ll hear saturn referred to as the “teacher” or the “father” of the planetary bodies, it is the “bar” you set for yourself. 

moon opposite saturn is one of the most difficult aspects in astrology. there’s an internal struggle to find harmony between one’s emotional needs and their responsibilities. for those with this placement, they crave fulfilling and nourishing relationships, but there seems to be various obstacles between themselves and feeling loved and valued. they crave affirmation and seek validation from others, and can feel isolated or lonely when they aren’t receiving it. they may find it difficult to express or share their feelings, and could be perceived by others to be emotionally aloof or distant. softer aspects in their charts will be their saving grace, as those with this aspect can feel pessimistic and overly-pragmatic too often.

as with all moon aspects, the connection to the mother/maternal figure will play a crucial role in how an individual approaches relationships in adulthood. in the context of the moon opposite saturn, the father may also play a role as saturn represents the father/paternal figure. the parents/guardians may have been authoritarian, demanding, cold, distant, struggled with illness, or were absent in some way shape or form. this can also manifest as the parents/guardians being at odds with one another. there could have also been an authority figure or teacher who held high expectations that the native may have felt they could never measure up to. these standards tend to be something they carry with them as they age, they may seek validation from those in authoritative positions, all while loathing the way they feel constricted by them. they can be over-workers, and can be overly critical of themselves and their own work ethic as a result. this could also simply manifest as feeling self-reliant or unsupported as a child. 

depending on the level of emotional support these natives were granted in their childhood, they will either maintain healthy, productive relationships in adulthood, or stagnant, difficult relationships instead. in their youth, they may have been hindered emotionally or struggled to express themselves in a childlike manner, resulting in fears of rejection or abandonment. their partners could find that they encounter wall after wall when attempting to emotionally engage with these individuals. they may avoid being vulnerable as a means to maintain a sense of “authority” in their relationships. 

their saturnian traits tend to manifest in these relationships, they could expect their partners (and loved ones in general) to be just as self-reliant as they are, or they could attempt to control them under the guise of “knowing what’s best for them.” this approach will often lead them to limiting themselves from new opportunities and connections, and there should be effort taken to maintain an equal amount of give-and-take in their relationships. 

they must evolve past their fears of growing close to others. they may find that it’s easier for them to connect with people who are much older than them or much younger. this is an aspect that tends to get easier with age, so long as they’re putting in conscious work towards healing. those with this aspect would benefit from therapy and self-help practices. eventually, they will grow to become more secure in opening up to others, and find the balance between their drive for success and need for stability and comfort, leading to emotional liberation. these natives are extremely determined people, and have immense drive to accomplish their goals despite whatever roadblocks or barriers they may face. 

as always, if anyone has any of the placements or aspects mentioned in this post i’d love to hear how it personally manifests in your own life and how it impacts your personality, or if anyone has anything to add in general feel free to reach out and let me know! 

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