#the parallels are too perfect

[gerstein03]

#grant ward #mark trent #gabi mosely #john garrett #agents of shield #found nbc #i swear they're doing this on purpose #trent is 100% ward #the parallels are too perfect #i will still not be taking criticism #standwithward #you don't agree with my opinions just keep scrolling #life is too short for internet pissing contests

[fumifooms]

Kaka compilation

Because everyone is sleeping on him. Witness his greatness!! First two Kaka colored icons were colored by me, lineart by Ryoko Kui though!

Kaka & Kiki are kinda like Laios & Falin… Kaka being stoic and giving repressed energy like early Laios, Kiki being cryptic and always smiling and kinda soft-looking. Autism siblings 2, ostracized and othered as kids and have a deep bond due to sticking together through it all, though unlike with Laios their parents are very loving so Kaka developed family as a big value more than Laios (bc asides for Falin Laios doesn’t care much about it).

In the gnome festival comic you can see Kaka is more emotive than he seems! Full with a :3 face, and he’s the one crying at the end. He’s insecure about his legs and being tall… It really got to him. Conceal don’t feel. In the gnome festival comic you also see him sensing others’ gaze on him and that something is off unlike Kiki, again Laios-like in the way that judgement from others gets to him more than her.

#The twins are so autistic swag #A falin just as chilled out and smiling and a laios who never stopped repressing #They’re so neurodivergent and they’re allowed to just exist I love you Kui. Kaka is just literally me #I looove characters that are hard to know and hard to read/easily misunderstood. They’re my favorite thing #LOOK AT THE WAY HE SMILES THE WAY HE BLUSHESSS HE’S PERFECT and I would take a harpoon to the chest for him thank u #I do love Kiki too btw but I’ve been seeing her in fancontent and posts way more than Kaka so I had to give him some spotlight #But also Laios is my fave of the Toudens so this very much checks out #Their pre-Flokes story would be interesting to analyze too #Dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #kaka floke #Kaka #Kiki and kaka #floke twins #As you may guess from my new-ish icon I am in my kaka era #ALSO I SWEAR TO GOD STOP BEING MEAN ABOUT HIS NAME #KA IS A SYLLABLE IN MY IRL NAME. YES I WAS BULLIED AND CALLED KAKA AS A KID. MY NAME ALSO MEANS UGLY STUFF IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE #KAKA’S A PRETTY NAME I’LL DIE ON THIS HILL. IT’S NOT WEIRD IF YOU DON’T MAKE IT WEIRD #Oh also another laios falin parallel: they both sort-of-date the same woman

[hrrystylesbookclub]

we all know the snows’ infamous catchphrase “snow lands on top”

i’m currently rereading catching fire and i came across this part where katniss is making up a lie about hearing a forcefield, and one of the examples she uses of enhanced hearing since the capitol reconstructed her ear:

when i came back across this part i almost SCREAMED, this right here is so symbolic because it is the first instance within the 75th hunger games where katniss is taking a real instance in using the capitol, thereby also snow, against itself. she turns a skill she learned from fellow tributes into a conspiracy that can be used to turn suspicions on capitol doctors. and this THIS!!!! is the start of the sound of snow falling for the first time since dean highbottom 65 years ago. after years of a torturous reign of snow landing on top, katniss is able to plant that seed of snow hitting the ground

#i don’t know if i’m just crazy and seeing nonexistent parallels but this seems too perfect to be a coincidence #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #catching fire #katniss everdeen #coriolanus snow #president snow #quarter quell #dean casca highbottom #suzanne collins let me shake your hand #just absolutely brilliant

[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

[redshoes-blues]

I just think that Fives would be so proud of him :’)

#I saw that scene and had to combine it with fives’ speech. it’s too perfect #horrendous quality though oops #the bad batch #domino twins #tbb spoilers #arc trooper fives #arc trooper echo #tbb echo #parallels #tbb edit

[devilsrecreation]

Sorry I’m stupid like that JFHDGDGD

#i kept thinking about this parallel over and over and decided to make a meme #no but with everybody surrounding both kiburi AND flynn/eugene and them saying ‘i don’t sing’ was too perfect #granted everyone left kiburi alone and no one forced him to sing but imagine #ig if that happened kiburi would physically fight instead of giving in but it’s still funny #tlg outlanders #the lion guard

[marrfixated]

Hi. Priya being adopted by Alejandro and Noah. Bye.

#no reasoning or context here #welll maybe a little 😇 #I just think Alejandro and Noah balance each other out in how much work they put into things #Noah is the youngest of many sibling so probably knows something about feeling neglected and that need for independence #Alejandro grew up with a drive for perfection and insecurity when compared to his older brother #I think they’d make her feel loved and never too pressured #also I think they would love for her to go to med school #like yes girl escape the terrible reality tv life #Noah did a lot of reality tv so her could also help talk with her about that #also why did they drop the whole Priya going to med school thing? that was really important to her character #also Alejandro is super athletic and Noah is not so I think it’s good juxtaposition #and Alejandro being really good with people #but Priya not #and he would have a redemption sort of arc #Also Priyemma! because I talked about the parallels before #conflict with strategy and feeling with your teammate #original post #Alenoah #td priya #td Noah #td Alejandro #total drama #total drama 2023 #total drama island #total drama reboot #Noah td #Alejandro td #Priya td #Alenoah and Priya AU #rambling in the tags again teehee

[leecherish]

#kagura hikari #hikari kagura #revue starlight #revstar #hikari #shoujo kageki revue starlight #obsessed with how in blue glitter it basically gets confirmed that running away all the time is hashtag clairecore #hikari and yakumo are both running away all the time from their respective floras its insane. #and ig you could make the argument that maya who is another claire is also running away from her feelings/humanity #and therefore from the stage/the stage with claudine (flora) on it #i loveee starlight (the play) i love the parallels <3 me and the girls when we are doomed by the narrative #mine #inb4 anyone (rightfully) drags me for it. #i know contextually this scene is the opposite of this meme bc its from when hikari actually starts running TOWARDS karen #but it was too much of a perfect fit for me to not use it for this meme. ok? sorry.

[airenyah]

Joong Archen and Dunk Natachai in

Hidden Agenda (2023) vs. Star in My Mind (2022)

#hidden agenda #star in my mind #jokezo #kluennuea #kluendao #daokluen #simm #ha ep10 #hagifmine #simmgifmine #meine grafiken #adrm #so what if i completely lost it when they copied simm but switched places and lines!! so WHAT!!!!!! #bless whoever came up with this reference to simm #and bless even more whoever had the idea for them to switch for the hidden agenda scene #also i spent waaaay too much time on perfecting this when maybe like 10 people will care djfjfjf #but whatever the parallels were driving me insane so i HAD to do it anyway #for self-indulgence dkcjfjjfjf

[sesamenom]

no living man may hinder me: The Gilded Wraith of Numenor

from the Reverse Gondolin AU, based on @who-needs-words's idea for Ar-Pharazon's fate! (they also wrote a ficlet for it, check it out here!)

#silm #silmarillion #lotr #lord of the rings #witch king #witch king of numenor #ar pharazon #eowyn #reverse gondolin au #ooh i need to do this pose for fingolfin and morgoth #the parallels though! eowyn facing pretty much certain death #but being brought back by hope in the Halls #while fingolfin faced morgoth because he lost all hope #also: in the au sauron & pharazon took a bunch of numenorean tech with them before the Downfall #bc nobody attacked valinor so all the airships and engines and stuff were still on the island #so we get Steampunk Tech Numenor #(perfect symbolism w industrialization too!) #which means of course the witch king of numenor gets a Gun Sword #which is frankly terrifying #his face is still visible here bc the tiny bit of maia/peredhel ancestry (still like 20x more than aragorn tho) protects him from the rings #enough that his fea & hroa haven't faded; just been corrupted #also in the au bc of Prince Elrond's involvement in numenorean politics ar pharazon is way more aware of potential loopholes #in the 'no living man' thing #aka arwen and galadriel #and honestly he expected to be slain by arwen #so he still overlooked eowyn (and merry) #just for very different reasons #less hubris in a 'i am invincible' way #and more hubris in a 'you arent nearly important enough to bother paying attention to' way

[averlym]

"one day, i cut him an apple. when he saw it, he laughed" (click for better resolution!) ,,, tag from @elliotly

#ambrose wellington bassford #vincent aurelius lin #adamandi #whkjfhgdg i feel a tad audacious directly tagging a creator. but the tags left under the last bea post... i have a lot of thoughts #here is the brainrot very specific to the musical and the cut fruit thing uM here you go <posts. disappears.> #the quotes are all taken directly from the yt captions!! there are so many parallels here let me just. vaguely analyse everything #labelled like a sci diagram of sorts because vincent (and i have a soft spot for science/visual art kids like me) #also dark academia so fig. 1 and footnotes and the slight yellowing paper texture #i guess i'll tackle the symbols then the quotes? for the poses i looked btwn the two vincent monologues/interactions w ambrose! #<i've tried to draw the actors as best as i could. but i suppose the characters being recognisable is enough??? hhh> #this is of course about the apple cutting so the apple unravels in the bg: the smooth skin of the apple on ambrose's half in painted blende #and the rougher charcoal peeled apple on vincent's side. because different art styles and textures favoured parallel the apple so bad #footnote 2: artistic sensibilities differ referring to the art styles and also preferences. but also visually the apple skin tears - broken #footnote 1: more about texture; ambrose and ceramics and perfection.. waxy apple skin without any imperfections #apollo bust is also there! can i also say the lyric''contrapposto confidence'' made me laugh a bit too hard. art student inside joke i gues #footnote 3: about the biological drawings from dissections. but also the flesh of the apple and dissections. and how i hc? vincent would #similarly dissect his relationship with ambrose to process.. i mean he does keep writing stuff about people.. #fig.1: direct reference to scene // it's looking like a speech bubble but if you see it as diagrammatic then it also points to the markings #on his face. the organic imperfections is what i am saying #fig. 2: technically also about the apple (all the main black boxes are apple quotes) but also linked to the chisel ambrose is holding.. #like.. don't enjoy flesh and skin? turn into?? marble?? :OOO. sdafgfjhkl // fig. 3: technically also the apple. but also vincent @ skask #also visual parallels: ambrose holding chisel!! vincent holding scalpel!! classics and bio... alright i will stop here ksdjf #it is also worth to bring up perhaps that in asian households such as mine there's the whole cutting fruit as intimacy and love #(oh and in true me fashion to make a bad pun.. fruity behaviour...possibly...) #like it's such an obvious symbol i know someone who is directly referencing it for their school artwork yknow? so like as a sneaky represen #that part really got me. went a little bonkers (screamed silently in the train when i first saw it.) even before any Implications set in #then the whole asking their mother and she telling him ''it's cleaner'' then ''why would i feed you something bitter?'' my parents at me fr #hjadsfgshj ok enough enough thank you for reading to the bottom and partaking in my nonsense. mortifying ordeal of being known.

[bonniesgirl]

the fact that Fionna and Cake gave us the enemies to lovers toxic yuri with butch bonnie and villain marceline is still a shock to me

#like... how can it be so perfect AND REAL? #seriously adventure time just keeps on surprising me in all kinds of positive ways #i love this show so much #butch bonnie was a dream come true #adventure time #bubbline #and the parallels with gumlee too?? #what a time to be alive

[phoenixcatch7]

Okay but why haven't we had a time travel/fix it fic where after some shenanigans everyone decides to take down shinra, they split up to take out the important figures, sephiroth obviously takes hojo for any and all of a dozen good reasons.

And then hojo pulls a winter soldier sleeper code on him.

And then everyone is suddenly dealing with a brainwashed sephiroth.

-

Hojo has to have some way to control sephiroth as he grew into his monstrous strength and power, yes? And learned helplessness isn't enough of a reassurance your prized military leader powerhouse isn't going to wake up one day and realise just how easily he could paint the labs walls red with chunks of you. And because hojo is obsessed with total power and control, dealing with a murder machine with huge mental issues, it'd only be fitting he create his own emergency shutdown.

In the most needlessly traumatic and mentally violating way, of course. Would sephiroth even know, if he couldn't remember? Would he have long stretches of emptiness in his memories that never get explained to him, or would he wake up where he'd blacked out, just another day in the labs?

Imagine, his allies watching on the cameras, as sephiroth stalks into the labs, a predator sighting its prey, exchanging a few cold words with hojo, raising masamune... And then hojos mouth opening, sephiroth going stiff like an animatronic, rearranging himself on the floor where he stood, face hidden behind his hair. Hojo leaves the room and he doesn't move, doesn't respond to any comms or passing scientists accidentally rolling a cart over his coat and hair.

Hojo ordering sephiroth to reveal their plans, their allies, their resources. Sephiroth doing it. Hojo deciding to punish sephiroth for the rebellion with lab procedures, or hojo ordering him to hunt down his co conspirators and end the takeover. Sephiroth doing so, heavy in his steps, crashing through walls and doors, heedless now of morals or civilians, silent, unresponsive. So completely unlike the jenova malice they'd been prepared to fight, that sephiroth had been bracing against. No arrogance, no mocking, no dramatic battlefield or hungry glowing eyes.

The puppeteer becomes the puppet, and with it, every trace of holding back. The perfect soldier.

I imagine the first trigger word would be lucrecia.

#Hojo: *making his reunion theory* if you can't mind control naturally store bought is fine #Anyway there's no way hojo didn't have some backup plan for if his greatest experiment went rogue #Unfortunately sephiroth never went against his will even when he went jenova crazy. Because that WAS the plan all along #But fix its always have hojo unable to do anything against sephiroth and idk hojo is a Threat of the highest order #BECAUSE he's so staggeringly unethical but clever and has a tendency to shatter his victims minds #Like look at the falsified nibelheim library. The 'jenova' photo in EC. He knows precisely how to break sephiroths psyche open like an egg #And the winter soldier is a perfect example of what he could and would do #I imagine he made good use of it too. Whenever sephiroth acted out or if they couldn't restrain him for whatever reason #Or if hojo was too tired to do the injections himself #I doubt sephiroth would really know what was going on until it got caught on camera by people who'd show him the footage #sephiroth #final fantasy 7 #ffvii #final fantasy vii #ff7 #Also I just really like hojo/jenova parallels to go with the lucrecia/Vincent parallels #Hojo is basically the human version of jenova anyway. In terms of raising sephiroth. #ff7 remake #ff7 rebirth #ff7 crisis core #ever crisis #ff7 ever crisis #ff7 ec #sephiroth ff7 #sephiroth crescent #ff7 au #fix it au #In this case: everyone thinks it's a fix it au until it abruptly goes horribly wrong

[eggtqrt]

the thing about the charming siblings is i want to make them tragic. you're perfect, I wish I was perfect. you're allowed to not be perfect. I resent you for being perfect. I hate you for being imperfect. I want to be a boy. I want to be a knight. I want to be you. I could be better than you. I wish your destiny was mine. I wish people loved me the way they love you. I wish she loved me the way she loves you. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. I love you. I miss when we were friends. we never talk anymore. do you even care? you know nothing about me. you took my destiny. who am I? I'm supposed to be the responsible one. don't leave me. get away from me. when did you grow out of being a little kid? i miss home. the only place that feels like home is you. do you love her? do you love me? brother. sister. i was supposed to protect you. I'm sorry. I forgive you. nothing will ever be the same again.

it's about perfection and performance. it's about playing roles. everyone has their role to play. what if i want to be something else, something more. it's about femininity and masculinity. it's about not fitting in to either. is it about who you're supposed to be or who you want to be? I did it for you. I didn't ask for that. I'd burn the world for you. you never cared about me. I think of you always. there isn't room enough for all of us. i wish you'd never been born at all. I couldn't live without you.

#the thing about dexter and darling is they have a lot of parallels #they both thought their love interests (raven and apple) liked daring #they both wish they were like daring (though in different ways) #neither of them have a confirmed destiny #but at the same time dexter gets to be a prince and do the things she wants to do #and i think Dexter is sort of jealous of her because as another prince he gets compared to daring more #Dexter resents his siblings for being seemingly perfect and he also resents darling for how she doesnt even have to be perfect #bc she doesnt get compared to daring in his eyes #darling does feel the need to be perfect though and resents that she can't live the life she wants but her brothers get that life #daring TO ME has a superiority complex to cover up his flaws bc hes severely scared of being imperfect #but at the same time he wishes he was allowed to be imperfect bc the pressure is killing him #hes relied on false bravado for so long that he doesn't know who is without that especially when he loses his destiny #so he resents darling for her effortless confidence in who she is #i think they all used to be super close and daring felt like the one who needed to protect his siblings #but they grew apart as they got older and started to resent each other and he lost that protective instinct #but they all miss when they were closer #i think daring realizes he was “supposed” be the one protecting his siblings once darling starts protecting/saving him #to darling its too late for him to protect her bc she can protect herself and doesnt want to be protected #to dexter though i think a part of him wishes daring stood up for and protected him more #they all desperately need to be flawless but its killing them #and they all desperately want to be each other #and they all just want their siblings back #but they can't go back to when they were children #and they can't understand each other as they are now #but they love each other anyways #even as they resent each other #eah #ever after high #ignore that i wrote 50 million more things in the tags #i realize this may be out of character or whatever but idc

[frootbyethefoot]

victim/killer (crane/crab)

[ID: two digital drawings. the first one is of sayaka maizono from danganronpa: trigger happy havoc. she is standing against a bright red background, with one hand raised in the air, and another behind her, gripping a knife. her fingers are crossed, and she is staring straight ahead and smiling. sayaka is colored in monochrome, aside from her hands and the knife she's holding, with are bright pink. behind her is the silhouette of a crane in black

the second drawing is of leon kuwata, also from trigger happy havoc. he is standing against a pitch black background. he is pointing towards himself, as if to say "who, me?" and is also holding a knife. he looks confused, and is colored in monochrome as well. like sayaka, his hands, and the knife he holds are bright pink. behind him is the bright red silhouette of a crab. END ID/]

#danganronpa #danganronpa trigger happy havoc #trigger happy havoc #dr #drthh #dr1 #sayaka maizono #leon kuwata #joeys art #image described #actually have a lot of thoughts on sayaka being (kind of) associated with cranes #its only really mentioned in one of her free time events #where she directly compares herself to the crane makoto saved when they were kids #shes referencing the crane and the tortoise #im referencing the crane and the crab #as always when i reference animal fables its not a perfect one to one parallel #but i really like how this turned out #also. sayaka redesign #because i think its weird how many women in this series just get school uniforms compared to the men #im not totally sold on this design. but i like it enough to post it #oh and leon is there too lol

[chirpsythismorning]

missing them today

#murray bauman #alexei #stranger things #byler #byler parallels #this scene made me realize i 100% need byler to be murray'd #like idc if it means they have to team up with him all season #with him pestering them both seperately #but also together #i just know he's an expert on how to approach each couple differently #and with byler he's really being careful about it #so i could see him waiting for the perfect moment #or just looking at them knowingly too #that would be enough for me