#the tragedy in the mundane

[brofightiscancelled]

friday suuji shift change overlap from my sakura schedule headcanons

#osomatsu-san #not ship. bl/matsu do not fucking interact #4 #5 #everyone so obsessed with post-letter canon sticking around but no one sees the potential in post-sakura canon sticking around #the tragedy in the mundane #things have changed for the better but they've still changed #i know it's exciting and dramatic for everyone to be separated #but i feel like the realness of 'everyone still lives at home we just dont always eat together anymore' is tastier #treasuring the moments you do get to be together but it's meloncholic. and the gnawing knowledge that this is for the rest of ur life #i like it. everyone like it with me. everyone debate my schedule theory with me #png

[lyinginthesnow]

something about childhood in succession.. the way it casts its shadow over the entire narrative, the rotten root of the roy siblings’s pain, all wrapped up in Logan’s power and abuse and love. The opening credits are filled with images of them as kids, beginning every. single. episode. by emphasizing the importance of their childhood: the siblings posing for a photo, playing sports, standing on a manicured lawn, riding an elephant, etc. and then the shots of logan, in which he is always shown from behind, or far away. It is a childhood the viewer never gets to see in any other context, since there are no flashbacks in the show, and therefore as integral as it seems, we know almost nothing about it. What exactly happened? What are the details? We feel its presence, we can tell how it informs their relationships, we can put together the pieces of incomplete and contradictory memories expressed through dialogue, and if we trace their struggles and dysfunction back far enough we know it leads there, to when they were kids. But there is so much empty space we can’t fill in. It’s almost like their childhood is presented in that horror technique where you never get to see the monster clearly straight on. It’s always in darkness, and chopped up into close-ups so that the viewer’s imagination is forced to invent something, however vague, and that is far scarier than it would be if we could actually see it — a monster that is terrifying BECAUSE it’s unknown. The roy siblings’s childhood is a major force behind so much that happens on screen, but what specifically occurred is out of the reach of our understanding. We are shown the monster’s shadow but not the monster, we are shown the frightened faces of the characters as they look at something behind the camera we never get to see, we are shown the running or the fighting or the blood but never the true, bigger-picture, clear details of the horror itself

#sorry succession as horror scratches an itch in my brain and the idea of their childhood makes my brain explode <333 #just!! even showing this shaky blurry footage of mundane childhood moments feels ominous to me— #it’s like. a documentary abt something awful that begins with #a ‘before’ montage of seemingly benign family life #and of course when the videos were taken they seemed meaningless. but now looking back at them we can see they mean so much #like the tragedy was woven into them right from the start #eeeeeeeeeee i need to be sedated i think #roy siblings #connor roy #kendall roy #roman roy #shiv roy #logan roy #succession #ruby (unfortunately) watches succession #succession as horror

[thirdtimed]

quite truthfully my very personal highly self indulgent interpretation of the life series & it as a timeloop specifically is like. entirely 10000% shaped by orvs metanarrative so if you want access to this specific interpretation that like maybe 2 or 3 total people globally hold you will unfortunately have to read 551 chapters of a korean webnovel that only exists in full via awkward fan translation. but it sounds tempting does it not

#sorry whenever i try to bridge the gap of explaining even a modicum of my interpretation of the life series timeloop #i just turn into a shameless shill for orv LOL #im just.. very very attached to the concept of the watchers and how they are a direct analogy for us as fans of the series #& the idea of us (me! & you reading this!) being responsible for all the events that transpire..death as entertainment! tragedy as beauty! #and just. the horrible wonderful messy thing that is the act of storytelling as a preservation of life #we live on through story......... can a watcher continue to exist even if they have nothing to watch...... #though they try to paint themselves as villainous as story gluttons as puppeteers and masterminds and bloodthirsty monsters #though they try to run away to drown themselves in the story to watch and watch and watch to become something else for just a little while #its just... #its all only ever because they loved the story.... they loved the story so much they brought it to life... #who else will be there to record their victories? their deaths? every little mundane thing? #who else will ascribe meaning to the minutiae-- to the things that were never supposed to hold meaning in the first place? #hand in hand together we make a tiny world #we watch it die over and over again #and we watch it slowly come back to life....... #maybe we can feel alive this way too....

[dayurno]

do you think when jean taught kevin french the first thing he did was teach him all the swear words?

i could definitely see him teach all the slang from marseille and it's hilarious to me

OH THIS IS FUNNY they were teenage boys after all and jean was famously very rebellious when he came to evermore right? oh seriously the idea of this essentially this fourteen year old teaching kevin how to curse in french because he wants to stick it to riko and the master. i don’t even think he would Tell kevin he is cursing at all (or would he? i wonder if kevin has ever gone through his teenage rebellion phase or if the programming was too brutal for that) he would just lie and kevin would believe it. horrible boys. but then again one is forced to remember (and live through) the fact that kevjean were more than friends… they were boys together….

#asks #kevjean #they were children together once doesnt this just make you want to carpet bomb edgar allen #i never quite liked the childhood friends to lovers trope and i still think its mild at best #but there’s something abt kevjean man. #they knew each other before tragedy struck! they knew each other through horrible things but also through very small mundane things #and honestly (sits down next to you) #if it does turn out that kevin is jeans first love then isnt that. truly something #isnt it. isnt it! #oh dont make me tap the sign #kevin be like ‘i will end in death or heartbreak’ #my first friend in life you made life worth living

[reactionimagesdaily]

#each one of us observing mundane tragedy in everyday life and neglecting to take action out of existential hopelessness #reaction image #reaction meme #daily reaction images #image mood: ooh-de-lally

[knifeeater]

it wouldn’t help you it doesn’t help me it’s Friday afternoon there goes Antigone to be buried alive

Antigonick Sophocles transl. Anne Carson

#i've had this in tags somewhere before but can't find it again #how the 'filing away' of the chorus is an archiving #telling a story as mnemonic device #reading this in full finally & seeing 'archives of grief' - the curse as pattern prediction & the driving weight of history #the doubled meaning of 'house' the room of death everyone must eventually go to & antigones status as living dead #the ordering power of the archive & the cyclical nature of tragedy that can never quite catch the moment itself the unspoken the mundanity #there goes antigone to be buried alive #antigonick #sophocles #anne carson #antigone #knives #mnemonic

[gayemeralds]

here's the thing about shadow: his role, as the protector/savior of the world, is already being utilized. there's someone else filling his role. sonic.

shadow fulfilling his goal of protecting the world would have been fine as a one off thing. shadow being the protector and dying valiantly thus fulfilled what gerald and maria originally intended for him. he kept his promise to maria, even at the ultimate cost.

but by bringing him back from the dead, sega brought about a very big question- what do we do with him now? the role he wants is already being filled. there's not really a need for him. so what's left for him?

i don't think sega honestly has a concrete answer. the route they seem to take is that shadow's trying to let go of his past but also keep maria's promise. but i think, for both fans and sega, that they put far too much emphasis on maria's promise. i don't think it's a satisfying arc for shadow to save the world just because he feels he has to, just because he promised he would, just because he was intended to do so. shadow 05 was all about a deep exploration into morality and identity. what is shadow, now that maria and gerald are no longer in his life? what is shadow, now that someone is already fulfilling the role of the hero?

personally, if i had been in charge, i would have put him on team chaotix. having shadow align with g.u.n. is frankly a bad move- the very same branch of government that literally killed shadow's family and is filled to the brim with corruption? i don't see shadow joining, not willingly. and i definitely don't see him joining as an alternative to being a hero. the commander and him still have a lot of unresolved conflict and there's the fact that g.u.n. KILLED maria and EXECUTED gerald.

i think him being a part of team chaotix would be a good compromise. shadow's allowed to let go of his past, to no longer live up to the expectations of others. he's not just fulfilling a role, he's not just doing what he was always originally intended to do- he's carving out his own path and his own identity but he's still able to keep maria's promise, just on a smaller scale. he helps the chaotix with smaller level cases, helps keep people smiling and happy, becomes a hero to the little people.

the chaotix could definitely help him loosen up and learn to create his own identity without worrying about other people's perception. shadow fufills his promise without compromising the idea of giving him a life separate to the one gerald and gun intended for him. he's not a weapon or a cure or a saviour or whatever. he can just be shadow.

#there is something quite lovely to me in the idea of weapon of revenge shadow the hedgehog #ends up being some guy that helps old ladies cross the street or gets cats out of trees #its about the choice of living a peaceful life after seeing so much hate and tragedy #its about being able to choose mundanity #its not about surviving or fighting or whatever #its about thriving #sega official speaks #i don't know #like im fond of the idea that shadow wants to keep his promise but i always HATE how much like..... spotlight/focus is on that aspect #i think its counterintuitive to have him only be a hero because of maria #i honestly don't think thats particualry canon #or at least wasn't the direction they were going with him until they jsut gutted his character into edgy sonic rival #in my mind he'd more of a bonus back up character #like he's plan b if something goes wrong with sonic #but he wouldn't be a part of the main cast #also i don't necessarily mind team dark as a family but i just don't really think they would be able to #and i stress #HEALTHILY give shadow a sense of identity while fufilling maria's promise #omega can teach shadow how to live beyond what his creators wanted from him #and rouge can teach him the value of selfishness #the value of your own life #but ultimately i don't think they would give him the color he's looking for #the two of them live VERY exciting lives too #and i think it would be nice for shadow to end up being a bit more mundane. still here to help but in his own way. #after years of thinking youre just a weapon or you just need to dish out revenge #years of straggling and uncertainty. i think he deserves a bit of peace. like emerl/gemerl did. #etc etc etc etc also i think it would be funny for shadow and charmy to be on the same team. thank you for your time

[joeeatsdvds]

they’re talking about the finale for this coming series being “huge” and “devastating” which i hope that means ruby gets killed

i love ruby sunday i really do but we’re long overdue a companion suffering a devastating fate again

#i mean what any experience that a companion goes through must suck y’know the transition between seeing wonders to the mundane boring life #but when i say devastating i mean devastating like rose sent to parallel earth devastating or donna having all of her memories wiped away #or like i don’t know amy and rory getting transported by that weeping angel devastating #i need for something horrible to happen we can’t have gone five companions without a tragic fate #and i get that not every companion needs to meet such a fate (classic had its companions move on to new lives after the doc) but five #FIVE companions without dying? there is tragedy approaching and it’s got ruby’s name on it #i’m just now realising i typed way more than intended in the tags and i also forgot donna getting out of the specials alive and unharmed #anyways something horrible is going to happen to ruby and i’m excited >:) #i run a ruby sunday fan blog with my girlfriend we’re so hyped for this new series! #doctor who #joe soup posting

[dirtbra1n]

thinking. that I’m in my tashiro era

#start spreading the news……. #no but i’m home for a while. Also don’t know why it took this long. why is so much radiohead rivercore. sorry #anyway Home. thinking a lot about summer. i love feeling things and i love being reminded of things #and getting nostalgic about the tacky feeling of dried sweat on skin. it’s so not something that i should be happy about buuuut. home.! #hmmmmmm. contrasting harder extremes. further in the direction of tragedy and helplessness and further in the direction of mundanity #lie on the floor float in the bath. go to a place high up and look over everyone. get bit by a mosquito probably seven times #try really hard to look at the stars. succeed. #complain about light pollution. and so on #yeah i like nighttime. i’m gonna go clean the long day off of me #good talk. think about bodies of water. final message

[ernmark]

I'm thinking about ghost stories.

I'm thinking how ghost stories are so many things, but so often they are histories.

And I think how many times ghost investigators will look into the records of a place and learn about the people who lived and worked there, the ones who were never important enough to make history, but some detail about their life matches up to that unexplained smell, or that snatch of tune you can hear hummed when you pass that room, or those odd shadows.

And in some small way, by telling that ghost story, you bring that person into the present. Even if they had nothing to do with those odd sensations we can't otherwise explain, we are invoking them. We are raising this distant person from obscurity and remembering them, learning their duties or their tragedies or their crimes.

We tell ghost stories to scare ourselves. We tell them to entertain.

And we tell them say "this person was here. This happened. This mattered."

#storytelling #ghost stories #the particular ghost stories I'm referring to are a different category than the campfire stories and urban legends #though those are also valuable #I'm talking more about the kind of history/horror fusion that you find in ghost tours #in those books on the histories of seemingly unimportant locations that are framed as collections of ghost stories #in the way we often introduce real world horrors and tragedies to children as scary stories #because that makes them a little easier handle #ironically a little less scary #than they would be if we simply presented them as the way of the world #or how you make otherwise mundane details of the past a little more accessible by framing them as a genre story #it matters

[crimeronan]

months and months and months ago, WELL before any caleb canon except hollow mind was established, rafi and i were listening to my usual dramatic angst music in the car & "monsters" by shinedown came on & rafi said "you know, this could be caleb vibes." and i was like god i doubt this is his attitude at all given what he's like in the canon memories (hopeful, affectionate, forgiving, conflict-averse) but can you IMAGINE if he WAS a vengeful vicious ghost about everything???? that would FUCK SO ENORMOUSLY. OMG. EDGY AU NOW

anyway. this is no longer even an edgy song assignment. listen to it while thinking about caleb watching belos drag his dying goopy eldritch ass oozily across the ground it is. SO fun and choice. leave the light on if you're able cause we both know you're unstable :) call a doctor say a prayer choose a god you think is fair :) cause my monsters are real :) and they're trained how to kill :)))))))

#i feel like i should have known they'd go the vengeful narrative haunting route for caleb because the team LOVES their horror #and tragedy and terrifying supernatural shit and terrifying mundane evil. but it's also like. oh. is for me?? #is for me personally?? me edgelord kitkat who already loved the sunshine man alone?? #you make him a malevolent gaunt vengeful projection of the villain's crumbling psychological state?? just for kitkat???? #toh #caleb wittebane #belos toh #toh spoilers

[pied-piper-pluto]

read Lonely Castle In The Mirror recently and i highly recommend that book for anyone else who really wanted to like Wonder Egg Priority and then felt disappointed when its approach to its themes never really came together cohesively

#among other things what lonely castle in the mirror Got Right for me #was that you don't need to make every character's traumatic events the most melodramatic overblown anime tragedy #and in fact that kind of misses the point of how mental health issues happen #a lot of trauma feels very mundane or petty when you try to explain it to outside parties i have found #lonely castle in the mirror gets that! wonder egg did not

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

i can’t imagine how these bills players feel having to turn around a play in such an important game, even with damar hamlin on the mend. and this is the time in the season when really strong teams lose steam. i already wanted the bills because i like the bills and i hate the patriots and i want the dolphins to keep their playoffs dreams alive, but God how do you not feel for them? how do you not want them to win in whatever way is meaningful for them? and obviously the nffl turns everything into fodder for their script, and i don’t want to contribute to that, but these guys are under a lot of pressure in general but i cannot imagine how these bills players are feeling right now :(

#probably trying to compartmentalize #and in fairness when we all experience tragedy we often have to go on with our lives #in general but in the day to day mundanity #but still #that was a genuinely traumatic experience on monday night

[variousqueerthings]

the problem (joke) with chozen and daniel is similar to the problem of kumiko and daniel in that you look at them and think "well daniel should just run away to okinawa with this person who brings out all of his mischievous, youthful, even spiritual energy, and maybe he should have stayed there 30 years ago, and it's sad to think that he never will (although maybe, hopefully he'll come and visit)"

#daniel larusso #chozen toguchi #kumiko #the thing with daniel and okinawa is that it's lowkey a tragedy of the mundane kind #life simply worked itself out in a way where he stayed in california #and now his life is so entangled in it that to imagine leaving - even though there's a yearning - is simply impossible #the more i think about the okinawa episodes the more im hurt by how much he belongs there #and how when he came back he immediately had to deal with fallout

[sprucewoodmpreg]

i think about the tubbo3091 blog a lot. i hope the person running it knows they made a good thing

#this is coming from someone who doesn't know. much about tubbo's dsmp lore #but smthn about the posts is equally as endearing as they are sobering #*are equally as #not even necessarily in a sad way? im unsure of how 2 phrase it #it's like a snapshot into someone's life. maybe there was tragedy in the past. however. now it's...mundane mostly #maybe it's about healing? is it a combination parody and also tribute of a character? #theres lots about it that i appreciate i think. maybe im reading too much into it but. hey. that's the fun of it

[tbcanary]

i say if the arrow family being together will cause some great disaster we should let it happen. it’s about time they got to give everyone else a massive headache.

#text.tb #the thing is. i saw roseworth say this it’s not my original thought but I do agree. #is I don’t read ga for the outer space alien time dimension etc nonsense. #I read it bc ollie is just a guy and his family is full of normal people and they all have fairly mundane problems #they are not the ‘great cosmic tragedy’ family and so it’s odd for them to be put in that story. #THAT BEING SAID. #every other family has gotten to cause great tragedies on a massive scale. #and I simply think that if the arrow family has to do that in order to be together then yknow what. let them. it’ll be fine I’m sure. #looks at hal. you really think after all the shit the lanterns have done to earth you have any right to be involved in this. #like of course he does he’s a space cop but #anyway #I love not having thoughts. I read the words I see the images I appreciate Connor and I mourn Ollie’s man bun.