#w the red threads

[bitegore]

EVERYONE CLAP.

FLIGHT RISING BREEDING PAIR ACHIEVED IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN.

#red rambles #im gonna go make a forum thread so if anyone wants to sign up for like preorder babies or w/e lmk there #flight rising #they'll have their eggs hatch on halloween! #range of black-obsidian primary cantaloupe secondary pumpkin tertiary so they'll all be pretty similar

[arthurs-flower-jar]

had to get an orth'r out of my system

#(i originally posted this on a twitter thread w/a totally unrelated account so if it happens to look familiar that's me i didnt steal lol) #arthur morgan #rdr2 #myart #red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 fanart

[pastafossa]

Next chapter going up shortly! We're getting some final scraps of fluff towards the end of this chapter before we really dive into both the Frank's Trial arc (which obviously includes the ninja shenanigans happening at the same time, though stuff will obviously play out a bit differently) and a more serious arc having to do with Jane's hunt for Derek and Anthony.

So enjoy this moment, this calmness, this fluff. Then buckle your seatbelts, please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times, cause we are going on a RIDEEEEEEE

#the red thread #it is coming #frank's trial and ninjas and elektra shenanigans #and then some shit with stick obviously and boy do i have some fucking PLANS for that FUCKFACE MCIHATEHIM #(aka fandom catharsis cause we all want it) #along with jane having healed just enough to really start chasing after derek and then anthony #anyway you get a serious discussion with Karen and also some fluff with Matt cause we all deserve it he deserves it give that boy a hug #before shit goes down cause uh #yeah #A N Y W A Y #who's foreshadowing i'm not foreshadowing #in this house We Hate Stick hours are 24 hours a day 7 days a week we do not take holidays

[chaikachi]

Hey radical spicy hot take but Trapdoor is 100% a ruby song. And. Trapdoor is 100% a oscar song. They are a mirror to each other. They are put on the same pedestal. They bear the same weight. They occupy the same space, simultaneously, impossibly. Do you see my vision?

anono... how does it feel to have such a big brain. all songs are rg songs if you try hard enough. 😤

Yes, Trapdoor is first and foremost a Ruby song, but her and Oscar are 100% mirrors living such similar character arcs. I could talk about all those parallels in a post all their own (one day), but for now a really good example is actually comparing Trapdoor to Sky is Falling (thank you @greenteaandtattoos for pointing it out first).

I'm gonna ramble a bit

Trapdoor is a song about the weight Ruby has been carrying. How she has tried so hard and how it's seemingly done more harm than good. It talks about how she doesn't feel seen or heard or needed, let alone wanted. How she's losing herself. How she feels like a trapdoor, part of the floorboards being walked on and unnoticeable. How one more step is all it might take for her to break and fall further into the depths below. And simultaneously like a trap that will lead all her friends to ruin.

And Sky is Falling (in my opinion) is a song about the weight Oscar has been carrying. How he's struggling with moving forward in light of everything he's been through and everything they've lost. The song itself is cited as referencing the original Henny Penny (aka Chicken Little) fairytale since it's a story that uses the song's title as a cry wolf for fearing the end of the world. But that feels a bit like a red herring to me. Or at least not like the whole picture.

The original myth of Atlas and the weight of the world isn't actually about the god holding the world on his shoulders. It's about him holding up the sky. So whether you read it as Oscar struggling with what to do given Atlas is falling... or struggling with how to move after Ruby falls, (Ruby, who was holding Atlas on her shoulders. So when she fell, so to did the city in the sky) is up to interpretation.

Some examples of how the songs mirror each other a bit tho:

Trapdoor

Though I try to keep the hope alive

Sky is Falling

Lost all my hopes and dreams

Trapdoor

Watch it all Unfold As I Cascade below Frozen In the darkest moment I can't bear the weight I hold

Sky is Falling

Starin' at the casket, hopin' to move past it Knowin' things will never be the same, and that's it Cold soaked as I'm standin' in rain Feelin' nothin' but pain until I see you again

Both of them struggling to hold onto hope. Both of them struggling with the cold of grief. The water imagery in "cascading" and "rain". The feeling of drowning. How to keep moving in the face of it all.

Also just on the topic of them being mirrors, it's interesting how many of these songs can so easily link back together. Trust Love's "open up your eyes" to Sky is Falling's "cover up your eyes". Then Sky is Falling's direct parallel, Touch the Sky. In my opinion, this song talks about both of them. The first verse is very Oscar "Little Prince" Pine, but especially this part:

I'm soarin' like I never have before Flying self-assured and free And I somehow feel I finally feel like me I looked in the mirror and I gotta say It's been a long, long time since I felt this way Right now, I'm just a bit surprised 'Cause I feel just fine and I might just touch the sky

And then directly towards Ruby's ascension in the second verse:

Open doors and so much hope in front of me Full of confidence, every challenge crushed My heart's electric, racing endlessly Feeling like the stars have all aligned Illuminate the darkness that was blinding me Now I'm positive that it's my time to shineI will explode, you'll see me rise You may not even recognize I just can't wait for this reveal

But also... very strong argument can be made that both verses apply to both of them. Finally feeling like themselves, the people they've wanted to be, the ones they're meant to be. These kids and their identity issues... But especially cause, um, Ruby isn't the only one that explodes.

So to summarize, Oscar looked in the mirror - not the mirror that showed Oz's reflection, but the mirror he sees in Ruby - and he became more like himself. Influenced by the hope she inspires.

And Ruby, like Alice, fell through the looking glass. But in the Ever After the only Oscar that was there to stare back at her wasn't a reflection of hope, it was was one of fear.

So she had no choice but to fall further and looked inward. Until she found the hope that was always inside her. The hope Oscar always knew was there because he sees her.

And the fact that Ruby's hope, her motivation, has always been "the people she hasn't lost yet". And how Oscar is the only living companion Neo 'kills' to hurt her. I'm getting so off track here but...

The Parallels. It's CINEMA.

They make me UNWELL.

Edit: I ended up just talking a bit about how they're mirrors through song and not so much Trapdoor from an Oscar lens. It is so strongly a Ruby song to me that it's hard to apply to him, even if it does fit him in some ways as well. All alone in crowded rooms and all that.

#is this even coherent #i feel like that conspiracy meme guy #w all the red string on a board and idek where half the threads go #BUT I'M HAVING FUN SO THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS EHEHE #sorry if u wanted a different answer ldkjfkld #ask #asks #anon #anono #chainalysis

[actualbird]

main story: don’t worry mc i’ll do the heavy lifting and difficult tasks!! just sit nicely and wait :)

mini game: catch these fish and make sure it’s at the exact angle or they won’t get in!! And give me these EXACT cookies in this EXACT amount or I’ll be sad

genuinely Despise the fish and the drawing game im glad everyone else is suffering because i keep getting so angry at it

jkhvKJSDHVFJS THIS IS THE FUNNIEST JUXTAPOSITION!! yes everything in main story world is grim and horrid but at least the boys do the work!! meanwhile in the minigame world, u have to deal with luke making a sad little chibi face and offering you the worst insult to skill known to mankind: Reassurance

luke: it's okay, the fish are really slippery---WHY ARE YOU CRYING

mc: JUST TELL ME I SUCK JUST BE HONEST

Alliance Of People Struggling With Anniv 2 Minigames....

#on th brightside! at least it's nowhere near as hard as the blizzardous threads of red labyrinth rooms HAHAHA #those rooms still haunt me..the timed ones especially....along w the 'friendly reminders' from the boys like... #marius: miss we gotta go-- #mc: I AM GOING AS FAST AS I CAN POSSIBLE BE GOING!!! #asks #anon

[27-royal-teas]

idk what the point of this post is but i just need you to know that patrick stump, born 1984, is a year of the rat in the chinese zodiac

#toby speaks #fob #patrick stump #also. I rlly kinda want to do a chinese new year fic cuz thats comin up soon but none of the boys are chinese itd be weird. lol #so i think im gonna do the red thread fic and post it sometime in feb if all goes according to plan #its essentially an old Chinese legend thats like : you have a red thread tied to you that connects to your soulmate #you cannot rip or break or cut the thread it’ll just stay w you until you find that soulmate #but it will tangle with others that you meet and connect with #idk i think it could be rlly cool #anywayyyy

[thedreadvampy]

wait no sorry one last quick immature bitch moment

the more I find out about how this person has behaved in both this relationship and a bunch of other relationships, the funnier it is how much they like to set themselves up as a like. authority on ethical nonmonogamy and consent and conflict management.

when like. they constantly sexually assault people to prove a point, pressure their partners into shit, got into enm by cheating on 3 people concurrently, and literally every time a problem in their orbit is brought up it gets explained away without anything actually changing, or they cry about how hard it is until everyone says OH NO IT'S FINE DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT

you know. very "call yourself a Community Organizer even though you're not on speaking terms with your roommates" energies.

#red said #I'm mad tbh i know in being bitchy but this blog is my safe space to be bitch on #and this shit has been building up for years. not even just in my relationship with their partner. since the first time i meet them #in like 2018 #and having this chat with my pal last night now I'm no longer second guessing myself bc of my relationship has uhhh Crystalised Some Things #especially getting some new context on where a lot of the tensions and sensitivities I've been aware of for ages are from #also tbh when we broke up my ex led off with 'i know you think this is about [partner] but it's not' and i was like. it is though. #it's not the only thing but it's been a common thread through every piece of tension in that relationship #not saying if the partner wasn't there we'd have been together forever. i don't think that's true and I'm glad things went the way they did. #cause w were good for each other and breaking up was also good for us #but their partner has really caused me so so so so so much turmoil for years and i haven't felt able to acknowledge that cause it makes me #feel like an asshole. but like. OK SO I'M AN ASSHOLE. I'M FUCKING MAD AT THEM. #they are manipulative and controlling and they treat their partner like shit and they have perpetually made my life worse #i like a lot of things about them and i do feel for them. we share a lot of similar issues and i do understand how they feel a lot. #but fuck me they treat everyone around them so badly and a good chunk of the reason i ended things with their partner #is that i was so fucking sick of being told i was wrong and just didn't understand how hard they had it whenever i brought up #one of the many many many shitty things they did to me or to our partner or to our friends. #multiple times i left a situation in a fully fucked up mess and my partner came to apologise for how their partner has behaved #and within minutes it would turn into them explaining to me how it wasn't really their fault and i shouldn't be so hard on them #and like fuck that. had enough of that in my life with my previous ex. #anyway. yeah. i am probably being more didactic and aggro here than i genuinely feel. but there's some room for that anger i think #and i did get some room for it to breathe last night and that's good and helpful.

[pajanyas]

i was going to make a post abt how if ann speaks ardonese to u, she loves u, but then i realised it’s not an actual language and that i would have to essentially create one. and that. that’s a level of dedication to rpc that i’m not succumbing to yet

#NOT YET but yeah she obviously will speak her native tongue at events at home and the like but #since most of my threads take place outside her home country .. she’s very firmly in english mode #(i typed all of this w red wiggly lines under the words bc my keyboard rn is as gaeilge and i’m #too lazy to change it back to english)

[bejeweleds]

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#guess who is fake dating her crush aka ex bf aka best friend aka soulmate aka red thread connection #AGAIN #we do it to mess w others but it’s a bit too on the nose this time

[odysseys-blood]

todays progress on tiggy: she finally has a color now and i started on her base ego concept

#cliff png #i was struggling with the room then i thought hm how would this be rated on the sinner room rating list #nothing can top WATER #but i think this is pretty uninhabitable when i finish it #tomblike room w/ open graves in the ground #dust storm through the window outside bc when antigone first buried her brother it was during a sand storm #also final concept im adding in is the thread spinner w/ red thread connecting to each of the pictures on her wall #each one is a portrait of her family members and the in-tact one is her sister who she doesnt want to- #follow the rest of them to the grave #ok i be quiet now #limbus oc #adding that tag in case i dont finish any time soon

[fishyartist]

Think it’s really goddamn funny whenever I see character analysis for that one guy in delicious in dungeon it literally looks like you plagerized a (smart!!!) karkat fan’s essay but changed the name so no one would notice

#I say this w/ love btw #homestuck // #like granted I’m only reading like a tweets worth of text in the whole threads b4 moving on bc #im watching the anime btw. bc I know I like the manga’s art better so if I read that first I’m gonna get pissy about genuinely stupid shit #so idk if it stays that applicable through whatever that guys arc is #anyways is the catgirl the Vriska. is that red girl the Vriska. who is the Vriska. don’t answer this. #I just know its not marcelle (more Jade coded 2 me) and not Falin (I haven’t grafted a Homestuck kin to her yet but its not Vriska

[akkivee]

regardless if it’s a timeskip or not i do think the new outfits signify a new chapter in their lives??? like in the case of bat:

kuukou’s still punk still monk lol but more importantly, he still has his sachihoko symbols on his haori thing. kuukou’s always changed the symbols on his coat whenever he gets a new one so it’s an important point!!! sachihoko are guardians to protect from storms so kuukou still has his protector/protection imagery

jyushi’s overcoat is still the same style but it is longer and darker and his outfit as a whole is grandiose lol like even more vkei, so i’d say this is jyushi’s final form a jyushi more true to himself and braver than ever before and ready to perform on his biggest stage yet

hitoya’s i’m not too sure actually lol but it reminds me a lot of his fit back when he helped out kuukou and jyushi. if that’s the angle then it might have him playing support for whatever he’ll be getting into as jakurai’s partner. also lends to his own knight imagery since that’s the period of time we see him as a defender

#this is vee speaking #i didn’t have the bandwidth to actively think about rosho’s glasses #but it struck me as closure for rosho and i read a thread yesterday that filled in the blanks for me lol #rosasa back at again with their self contained story lol #rio i’m kinda excited for lol he took off the uniform!!!!!!! is his war about to be over?????? #gentaro took off two elements of his outfit i think?????? like that black coat is gone and so is his turtleneck!!!!! #he’s opening up y’all 🥹🥹🥹 #what’s cracking me up about jiro’s fit is that he’s wearing that plaid button shirt UNBUTTONED #AND UNDERNEATH his usual black shirt like bruh lmao #ichiro!!!!!!! is back in black and red!!!!!!!! he’s back in his tdd era colours where he actively wanted power!!!!!! #similarly samatoki is back in leather!!!!!!! (MY LONGEST YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH BOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII EVER) #he wore aloha shirts after the tdd timeskip and i’ve always been of the opinion he’s wearing comfort clothes since he’s been that depressed #so maybe now that nemu’s okay and thriving!!!!!! he can be a leather baby/daddy again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #juto and red has always been a Thing the brain just hasn’t ever made the connection with why red’s important to juto and i’m sad ☹️☹️☹️ #he looks good but i still don’t know what red means to him ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️ #ramuda in posse yellow ;w; his beret is rly cute too he wore a hat during the tdd era and i feel like that’s the trend with tdd #they’ve rediscovered their purpose from back then 🤔���🤔 #and so with sensei uhhhhhh well it’s certainly the brightest version of his clothes yet 😭😭😭 #he’s peak happy by this point maybe and i do wish that for him lol #anyone else i didn’t mention i’m still thinking on lol

[yume-fanfare]

i think they're most likely not going to be tori&wataru nor keito&rei though it has to be some of the other combinations

#like if tomorrow is keito then next one won't be rei it'd be wataru or tori #yknow #picture me as the parks and rec meme of the guy w the red thread #mar's midnight rambles

[mindsmade]

@kilgcre ( hosea )

❛ Heard the bear hunt with Arthur didn't go exactly according to plan. I'm not going after it myself, but I am going to hunt down some plain old deer for Pearson. Feel like coming with? Away from the humidity – ❜ and rising tensions – ❛ here? ❜

#kilgcre #❛ thread / charles smith. #❛ setting / red dead redemption. #❛ timeline / 2. #thanks for liking the starter call! i'm excited to write w you aaa

[the-furies]

goif 2 try 2 make . a. fwiwndship bracelet .

#pk;m pain threshold🔴 #WE HAVE A BIT OF THREAD IN OUR ROOM FROM AN OLD FRIENDSHIP BRACELET KIT AND INTERFACING'S BEEN BEGGING TO MAKE SOME SOOOO #we onyl have. pink purple blue & yellow ro woek w tho rip #was gonna add purple thread bc im doing pink & blue bc wE DON'T HAVE RED & this is fr concept & i bit I'm liek #oh wait a second . I'm not bisexualNFNDMDMFCN #i just need. some tape. t.o. tape this down w and I can start but im wayitjf. #for our mom & sib to leave so i dont whabt ro explain what im up to. #'why do you need tape 🤨' to make a friendship bracelet 4 me. bc I'm bored. 'oooo fun lemme see :) oh your set up is wrong bla bla bla' #like. no thamks mom. let me do it fucked up do jot yell at me for my fucked up process here shh shh shh #<= collectively has a whole Thing abt this #aNYWAYS IT'LL BE A SIMPLE ONE WE'VE NEVER MADE ONE BEFORE ABUT if it turns out ok and we enjoy it!!!! maybe we'll ask for more thread!! #we need smth to do w our hands & smth that isn't Drawing Digitally when we're in bed jajajddkckdk

[sxturdaysun]

when halsey said "everything is blue / his pills, his hands, his jeans" and when troye sivan said "i want you / i'll color me blue / anything it takes to make you stay"

#i'm So Normal about Junpei Tenmyouji. #thinkin about the stark difference between 999 jumpy and ztd jumpy and like. god. #guys who did not deserve any of that. #🖤 red threads #♡ — text #♡ — web weaving #also. god. i've associated colors w/ him for 7 whole years huh. #now he's so devoid of color he don't know what it means.......... #YOU WERE RED. AND YOU LIKED ME CAUSE I WAS BLUE. #GOD. FUCK.