#there is once again a metaphor in there

[ickypuppi3]

billy not telling anyone what happened the day after the crash because he knew full well that no one would help or even believe him and his point literally being proven when everyone realised he was in trouble and did, in fact, not help him

#hate everything actually #billy hargrove #there is once again a metaphor in there #something about reasons why abuse assault etc victims don’t seek out help #something about how often vulnerable people are failed by the system and those around them #i mean everything in that whole season could be a metaphor but.. yk.. it’s the duffers #they wouldn’t know how to utilise a good metaphor if it hit them smack bang in the face

[jinkitsuragi]

#disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #yeah yeah we’ve all seen it. gun phallus metaphor #mullet to compensate for hat #phis brain- the place to beeeeee #ok. goodbye once again #addendum: realize now that harry did suck on kims gun. #like i think the point was more the killing yourself aspect but i forgot it was a little homoerotic with it as well

[a2zillustration]

Buckle up Croissant's about to do something

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#I'm queueing this in Jan - someone asked me about Croissant's origins #which I hope I have drawn by the time this gets posted #because it's very relevant to this metaphor lmao #Otherwise once again I have made a Special Thing Just For Me #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #act III spoilers #house of hope #croissant adventures #tav #raphael #comics

[nonbinarycharmybee]

sonic canon is a fucking mess why do people get so up in arms about what "really counts" as canon when literally everything has been retconned to hell and back. babe it's okay it's not real. take my hand let's enjoy everything for what it is together <3

#once again. buffet metaphor. adhere by it or perish by your own shortcomings. #mine

[gideonisms]

What always gets me is that anyone handwringing about tlt usually misses the most fucked up parts and fixates on the stuff that is kind of a side note. like try harder there is way more than that

#re: the person shocked to see twincest art #bad news about the rest of the interactions in tlt #they aren't a solid model for one's personal life that is for sure! #once again. harrow breaks gideon's ribs.... #also while we are here. #my pet peeve is everyone thinks all the relationships with ianthe involved are the worst because she is creepy on purpose #completely stepping around john's relationships #john/alecto is like the core metaphor of abuse and trauma...john consistently fucks people who think he is their God.... #if we get into the consent issues there we will be here all night #'campal are cousins' YEAH AND THEY'RE BOTH SUICIDAL like we've got bigger problems

[hecksupremechips]

Something about Steven Universe being asked why he wasn’t Pink Diamond when he should be and him screaming “SHES GONE” in the most bone chilling way that shook the world and broke the ground beneath him

Something about Lake breaking the train’s engine room in frustration after being denied over and over again, screaming and crying right at you saying that they’re not Tulip, not a sliver, not a null, or anything else that other people have labeled them, they are a PERSON

More of that please

#steven universe #infinity train #transgender #just god. that trans rage. it fucks me up every fucking time ill never recover #it just gets right up in your face and tells you that there is something wrong with you for not getting it through your skull #that these people are who they say they are #anyway shout out to the best trans metaphors ever and yes i did just watch the su finale #and i did go batshit insane once again over the SHES GONE scene

[maggiecheungs]

when i say utena is a show with countless different possible interpretations, i don’t just mean it like ‘different people interpret it differently’; i mean it like ‘at any one moment i am interpreting it in about seven different and often mutually exclusive ways, and it deeply enriches my viewing experience’

#utena #revolutionary girl utena #shoujo kakumei utena #rgu #ellistxt #yes i am once again thinking about the nanami egg episode #one of the most blatant and unsubtle metaphors in the whole show and there are still about four different interpretations #all of which are clearly supported by the text #also thinking about episode 37 and also everything that Anthy does in the entire show #wildly differing interpretations galore!!!!

[aroanthy]

i love how fraught and complicated discourse around various utena characters ‘dying’ is when anthy is literally stabbed to death eternally by a million swords imbued with human hatred. and then utena gets stabbed to death by them also. like. ‘death’ is incredibly interesting in rgu because most of the time it’s this ambiguous figurative thing that has interesting implications re: ohtori as a closed-off world one can escape. we are all trapped in our coffins. mamiya is the only named character with a grave. nemuro memorial hall functions as one all the same. ruka is implied to have died in the hospital— was he dead all along? who was the boy we saw for these two episodes? is this dead boy the same boy, or is this just another coincidence from the shadow girls, cutting like a knife? it’s heavily implied that akio and anthy murder kanae by poisoning her, adding to the previous implication that they were poisoning mr ohtori too, but there are no perceptible consequences of this. kanae’s absence is not felt. she’s fed an apple slice. what happens to the bodies? we know what happened to the 100 boys, but what about everyone else? and so on and so forth. ‘death’ is a tricky thing in utena, i think it’s constantly functioning on figurative and literal levels in very different ways for very different purposes. dios died. dios was dying. dios didn’t die. he grew up. etc etc

#what am i trying to say here? #idk! think about all of the pieces you have #dying is complicated in ohtori in countless different ways #and i find it boring to see so much ‘this character is dead and that’s it’ stuff #when death is used farrrrrrr more figuratively than some ppl give credit for #and i think the movie too does wonderful things with death #and what ‘dying’ really means #being disbelieved. being forgotten. being rejected. haunting despite this #much more interesting to think about wrt commentary on abusive relationships than it is #to think about what?? oh me when my brother died but plot twist he’s alive and can walk on this road all cool. like????? #akio doesn’t have the power to make himself revenant #he THINKS he does and he absolutely has power when he’s alive and he imbues that power with such meaning that it does live on after him #but ANTHY. anthy is the one struggling with herself and her feelings and the impact of trauma and abuse (that power!!) in aou #he’s dead? he died? she brought him back through her memories? or she’s left him (metaphorical death) and he’s haunting her?? #all such interesting interpretations #i haven’t mentioned touga bc i don’t have the energy today. if dead and just illusion of others memories then why active. why awful #like in aou akio is only Obviously scummy when he’s alive. his illusory self is based upon anthy’s love for him #if anime!touga is nothing more than nanami/whoever’s memories of him before he died……. why does he actively choose to suck again and again #like nanami wouldn’t do that. unless it was meant to be a subconscious thing like ooo he’s dead all along but that’s not what her arc is #it’s not ‘he’s been dead all along’ literally or figuratively. it’s ‘he’s unsafe and i don’t want him’ #sigh. once again i am asking people to think about nanami and touga’s dynamic through touga’s eyes #it’s so interesting to me how people forget to consider his motivations or feelings on ANYTHING #like sure his motivations and feelings are scummy but they’re interesting!!!!! they intrigue me!!!! #compel me even #anyway ignore how i said i didn’t have the energy for this and then typed it all out anyway #dais.txt

[skunkes]

guy liker moment

#a doodley #once again very difficult times for the has never been touched community #also recently some fictional men have me questioning things further and its making me sooo miserable #in the sense of like. it wouldnt be enough to t**** a beautiful man i want to be one. too. #i want someone to feel the same way ykwim. eager excited. witnessing beauty. crawling into each others skin. #i want you and i want to wear your face and be desired too. #ugh ugh ugh ugh #i probably wont ever even draw it but the lino piece i want to try making is based off of like. lately... #my skin burns when i see even the imitation of a human body. When i think of it. its so dire #or like i love the human body in general i love studying it bc its so beautiful and interesting no matter what #but i do studies and its like ahh i wanna get closer i wanna get closer im at the zoo i want to jump into the enclosure and get clawed apar #t. (saying this as metaphor bc obviously humans are not things to be owned) but i want my own model to pose and study #closer. and closer. look and touch and examine. #<- 3 seconds away from drawing nefarious shit with talon in this nature but i didnt say that #talkys #🌺

[mas-que-loucura-menina]

Obsessed with when fanfictions go like:

Jason: "your son died!! I'm not that kid anymore! You can never have him back!! >:("

Bruce: "I mean, yeah? You had new experiences, made new friends, learned new things and went through a lot of difficult situations. You're human, people grow up, but there are still things about you that will never change, one of them is the fact that you're my son and I will love you regardless of what you choose to be."

#i miss those types of fanfic #there should be more of those #because once i read one i was like "holly shit i'm not the same person i was as a kid and neither is anyone #jason dying and coming back just makes it more metaphorical somehow and bruce not being there to see him growing up makes it sad #so now there's this new person who still have little things about his child self but definitely isn't the same kid anymore #but that's okay because bruce can just meet his son all over again and use those little things to slowly conect with him again #i just really love fanfics like this they tend to make me cry a lot #jason todd #red hood #batman #bruce wayne #batfamily #dc

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Garak is So much right from his first episode. Laura Palmer of Cardassia over here trying to get laid, foil a terrorist plot, AND work a retail shift, all while high as fuck. Dude’s schedule in Past Prologue is FULL.

#Star Trek: Deep Space 9 #Past Prologue really reveals how immediately dickmatized he is by Julian cause it's Julian at some of his absolute peak autism obliviousnes #and Garak still wants him so bad. utterly pathetic to see. I'm obsessed with them. #also it sucks how we have to wait sooooooooo fucking long to see Garak again after that but it's also kind of hysterical #like DS9 said there is a full on Cardassian spy loose in the station. we will not be following up on this for an entire season btw. #he's just. hangin around. #Starky's Original Posts #Starky's Text Posts #garashir #garashir best ship because it's literally a former torturerspyassassin (all at once) whose tragic backstory is literally whatever you want #and the world's most adorable puppyish angelic twink who still sleeps with a teddy bear #STRAIGHT OUTTA WATTPAD FANFIC. I FUCKING LOVE YOU STAR TREK YOU CRAZY SON OF A BITCH #also didn't mean to imply that Julian's autism obliviousness is not an extremely sexy trait of his bc it is I just meant like #you wouldn't have thought it'd be so sexy to. a Cardassian and a spy. it's soooo funny #the way he has to desperately try to explain that the suit fitting is a metaphor. absolutely dickmatized RIP.

[agilident]

casually cherry picking two sketches i particularly liked from that one time i tried to draw him and produced a little sketch page

#my art #revenant #revenant apex #revenant apex legends #apex legends fanart #once again reposted from twitter but thats already a given #god help me i want him to disembowel me and (metaphorically) spit on my remains

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Something something about Buck and learning and or teaching.

Something something about Buck teaching when he really needed to be learning.

I just keep thinking about how the show has increasingly - especially last season - put Buck into the role of 'teacher' - including his coma dream. (i'm using teacher for the lack of a better term!) and how in the aftermath of the coma dream - he's been trying to teach but it hasn't worked - instead he's been learning.

I've been musing on the fact that even back in season 1 Buck has been in a teacher role -

Abby learning to chose herself and go for her happiness,

Bobby learning to let people in and Buck being a major part of that because of their developing father-son type relationship

'teaching' Eddie that he could rely on other people for help

Maddie learning at Bucks hand that she didn't need to keep running, that she could lean on him for support and build a new life for herself

Ravi being tutored by Buck in the fire house

even Lucy being given advice by Buck - teaching her through his own experiences in dumb luck

Buck making himself into a teacher in his coma dream and the idea that all these people he has helped teach teaching him that he has a place with them and that he is important

and so many more examples through the seasons that I won't list or I'd be here forever!

Because there has been a lot of emphasis on teaching and learning since Buck woke up from his coma - he learnt he was good at maths, but then wasn't allowed to help Chris with his maths homework because it would be cheating.

used his maths skills to win at Poker - but got taught lessons even in victory - rather than teaching others lessons (whatever they might have been)

Natalia being interested in him because he could teach her about death and things going south pretty quickly when it became evident that Buck needed to learn how to live again rather than be stuck in death

And now we've had several mentions by Tommy of him teaching Buck things - teaching him to fly, teaching him Mauy Thai, all the way to him being his bi awakening is teaching him about a part of himself he didn't know. Things are turned on their head - Buck is the student not the master now

Even with Eddie this season, we've seen him teaching Buck things - rather than Eddie learning from him - Eddie handing over this really important thing going on with Chris - Eddie knowing that Buck would be a better option - that Chris would open up to him more - is teaching Buck about his importance in the Diaz family - re-enforcing that he is part of their life. Its also Eddie who has had the good advice for Buck this time rather than the other way round.

Something something about 'you like to be the guy with the answers' to Buck becoming the guy with the (maths) answers - only for it to fade away and now he's having to learn

Something something about the tie to Buck and death and the resurrection and how Christ was the teacher up to and immediately after his death and resurrection when he left others on earth to spread his teachings and he ascended to learn at the right hand of god

Something something about how that is the key to happiness and that is what Buck has figured out and that is why his journey to figuring that out has had him wearing the bright blue - because in Christianity - that shade of blue is the colour of the kingdom of heaven (because it is the colour of the sky!) so putting Buck in it at all these key markers of his journey is showing him as being on the road to ascension.

This post is a mess - I don't even know what it is any more! I started with one idea about teaching and Tommy and then more kept coming and we ended up here!!!!

#I know technically that they all teach and learn from each other and that others were also involved in these scenes #but I'm just interested in the fact that the tables have now been turned on Buck specifically and he is now the student #I think thats interesting as a character study - Buck who learnt to survive on his own and teach himself now getting to go back to learning #look here I am - atheist me blabbering on about religious symbolism around Buck once again!!! #Im fascinated in it though - especially in relation to Eddies catholic guilt and the way that the show is using much more #scientific symbolism around him - hearts and guts and the mind - all working organs (or groups of organs) #that have these metaphorical and intuitive attributes attached to them #but all have important real world functions that a human need to survive #and the fact that we've got Buck to this point of 'ascension' and Eddie effectively working on the last of the three - the gut #well I think that is pretty telling - once Eddie has his gut under control/ worked out (catholic guilt) then he will be in a position to #'ascend' as well. #and don't even get me started on the triangle symbolisim within all of this - the holy trinity and the trifecta of heart mind and gut #because they are playing into the triangles this season - literally every where!!! #I feel like at this point if they put Buck in purple (esp if hes wearing it when buddie go canon) - the holiest of colours and #one associated with magic -then I will be the one ascending - because that would be the ultimate #this show is insane!! #it makes me insane - I'm insane!! #evan buckley #eddie diaz #911 abc #911 meta

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Crossing lines...

#180 degree longitude passes through us #and once again I am blown away by the cinematography and the metaphors #and both are craving for this physical touch #thai bl #thai series #thai drama #bl series #bl drama #asianlgbtqdrama #myedit

[bookshelfdreams]

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#just saw that tweet abt pink days on the set of the barbie movie & i think it made me realize why it - the marketing etc - annoys me so #'margot robbie went around collecting fines and donated them to charity haha' okay. look. #that's just the perfect metaphor for how it worked for us - me - anyone who wants to align themselves with me - when we were girls #isn't it #because you grow up and you desperately want to fit in with the other girls but you don't & you don't know why #but you're surrounded by things and people telling you what a normal girl is like & little-to-none of it is things you find appealing or #interesting. makeup and fashion and skin care. gymnastics and romance. you're told that you are obligated to be pretty #but prettiness has never been part of your perception of yourself. femininity is an arcane concept #an exclusive club that will never grant you entrance #& the only comfort you can give yourself is deciding that it's dumb anyway. shallow. vain. who cares about looks and boys and all of that #idiots that's who #but this is Doing It Wrong too isn't it? because now everyone who has taught you that you will forever fail at femininity turns around #& tells you that's patriarchal oppression and YOU'RE the bad one by distancing yourself from something that always made you feel defective #'YOU may have never lived up to this impossible standard of perfection but some ppl do and actually it's fine to be like that! #hyperfeminine traditionally beautiful women are the most oppressed group of all & finally we will stand up for our rights!' #'girls can be pretty AND conpetent' but that's not what they're actually saying. isn't it. #because performing femininity correctly is the prerequisite. a threshold you can never cross and you know that. & that's fine #but somehow that's wrong too because you're not supposed to make peace w that are you. you're SUPPOSED to want to do it right #even if you don't and never have and never will #and once again everyone is yelling at you that this club isn't meant for you. if you criticize the barbie movie you're antifeminist #if you refuse to wear pink I'll make you pay a fine #hashtag girlpower #(well im not a girl. not a guy either. and not a secret third thing. just bad at femininity. #bad at being a person. and y'all don't need to tell me you don't want me in your club #I've always known that. i just wish you'd stop expecting me to beg for entrance.)

[officecyborg]

This scene is somewhat familiar if you've seen the '98 anime, but here it's also harkening back to an earlier manga scene with Wolfwood:

Moreover, the character Legato threatens to strong-arm Vash into killing him is not Meryl, but Wolfwood's friend Livio. Wolfwood always presented something of a realist middle path compared to Vash and Knives. Violence is wrong, but sometimes necessary to protect yourself, or to protect others. He cynically suggested that one day, Vash would encounter a situation where he couldn't resolve things peacefully, and would have to choose between murder and letting someone die. Up until his death, Vash proved him wrong. But now we're here, and the scene is as much about Wolfwood's philosophy as it is about Vash's.

Ultimately, Vash can't let Livio die. Again, similar to the anime, except that Vash sees a vision of Wolfwood that prompts him to shoot. I get the feeling that "I couldn't bear to let that go to waste" is about more than Livio's life.

When Wolfwood was on death's door, he chose to sacrifice himself to save Livio. Now that Vash is on death's door, he chooses to dirty his hands to save Livio.

#bigun blogging #still ruminating on what the ash is doing here... #like his coat getting stained when he's contemplating killing is a fairly on-the-nose metaphor for dirtying your hands imo #but then he breaks his rule just once to save livio and it flakes off turning red again. where red = determination and love #I don't have anything concrete. but it's interesting. #clearing out my drafts #trigun