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thecindercrow · 2 years

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A League of Their Own - 1.06

#a league of their own #alotoedit #my gifs #my stuff #long post #I have a lot to learn still because these were a nightmare to light and color #but that's also just darkly lit shots for you #brighten your filming!#I need everyone seeing this who hasn't watched the show to know that this scene is played very...#well I was about to say 'straight' but that wouldn't be right #this isn't supposed to be subtextual or wink nudge wink #the scene is genuine. they are in a secret gay bar. they are blatantly flirting #after this they slow dance together and flo says jo is the most beautiful person she's ever seen #and this is just one tiny scene in this show that explores a lot of lgbt characters and relationships genuinely

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emillungs · 6 months

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devotion

#my art #wot #the wheel of time #wheel of time #siuanraine #moiraine damodred #siuan sanche #digital art #artists on tumblr #digital painting #maybe (most likely) its the shows impact on me but. its crazy how their first interaction on book 2 reads as subtextually gay #there is still Much to fix in this but wtv im setting it free before i go insane 🕊

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pinkd3mon · 6 months

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Kirby deals with existential crisis and Bandana is a good friend

#kirby #kots #kirby of the stars #kirby fanart #hoshi no kirby #king dedede #bandana waddle dee #gooey #i like the fact that gooey is canonically Kirby's roomie and we never see him therr #i don't think even Kirby knows where he goes #he's like a wild cat you let live in your house but still manages to go out and returns when it wants #did you know gooey means everything to me #everyone's pal gooey #enough about gooey let's talk trauma #Kirby's existential crisis is my favorite subtextual overall narrative from the kirby novels #it's so good how Kirby is always a bit uncomfortable every time they find someone who looks like them #and no one makes them feel worse than void #i think Kirby understood more about void than we give them credit for #and if you ask me why does Kirby have nightmares despite being inside of Dreamland and around the fountain of dreams #the answer is idk #anyway bandana is really perceptive about it #marx is an asshole as always #i wish Kirby's fear and inadequacy could be explored more #they're only hinted at by the novels #but i know Kirby saw themselves in Galacta Knight #the novels confirmed Galacta used the allies sparkler when defeating void termina and the sparkler represents something objectively pure #so my favorite hc is that Kirby was born after the heroes of yore defeated void and star allies draws parallels to that giving you og Kirby #Kirby defeated void and got friends Galacta got imprisoned for eternity #i wonder if Galacta went through the same identity crisis Kirby went through but Galacta sealed with it worse #anyway nothing bad will happen to Kirby after all they have tons of friends to rely on

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quinn-pop · 7 months

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let’s do some autistic meta knight headcanons!! over explaining my interpretation of meta knight yet again wooooo

this orb has NO idea how to talk to people!!! outside of work anyway. a lot of this is partially due to upbringing (suppressing his emotions all the time) but he does not know how to express emotions, like…at all.

this goes into a few things

1. yeah talking is hard. even after figuring out what he wants to communicate he will struggle. conversation can be so overwhelming, especially under pressure. he will need time lol

2. because of that, forming connections is hard. i really don’t think meta is much for shallow relationships, and certainly not early in the timeline. which also means he has very little experience with friendship. so a lot of the relationships he did have went kinda neglected, and issues that probably could’ve been worked on by talking became…*cough romk* escalated.

3. honestly i wouldn’t be surprised if meta convinced himself he couldn’t feel emotion (anymore) until like. katam-ish. he tried very hard lol

vulnerability is terrifying. (though this gesture here is also just comforting, like his little cape cocoon thing he does.)

unmasking—yeah im taking the mask thing very literally here—is a big deal and a very slow process for mk. i’m sure he has a lot of feelings on that lol. it served as a way to ensure no one could ever, y’know, see him.

i can’t say i think he’d ever fully ditch it—there’s always gonna be some days that are more stressful than others and if having it could help him get through it, it just makes sense. mainly when working.

it really is about vulnerability. granted, i don’t think he has the most expressive face (in my head every astral just tends to stare at things) but i doubt he has much control over it. can’t fake a smile but also can’t hide it. probably blushes easy because yeah, astrals; just look at kirby’s face.

just the idea that someone might be able to read his expression and know what he’s feeling before he’s ready for them to (or even understands it himself…) yeah he doesn’t want that

but emotional turmoil aside, i think his mask also hides a lot of his stims

remember that whole “suppressing your feelings” thing? yeah turns out that ignoring half your instincts isn’t a good idea. so in true meta knight style, he tries to stim as subtly as possible

1. he has the least control over his wings, so they will flick and twitch on their own. they’re usually a good indicator of how he’s feeling, not unlike the body language usually seen in cat ears and tails lol. flapping is also an extension of this of course, though he probably suppresses it more.

2. this also effects when he takes his wings out. pretty much every time he’s excited or nervous it just happens. kinda makes me wonder if his wing cape ordeal might also go into the suppression thing… (i’d say yes, but using a cape is also very comforting so it’s not necessarily a bad thing)

3. going back to the mask thing; he stims a lot underneath it. think like biting or pursing your lips. he bites his tongue and clicks his mouth. that sort of thing. his mask also makes it harder to notice that he is constantly sighing, humming, grumbling…all that

one nice thing about the mask though is that it helps a little bit with lights!!! woo

(look at him and his magically floating glasses)

sensory stuff—i think he’s mostly bothered by light and sound. maybe a bit of texture. he’s pretty sensory avoidant and perfectly happy standing off to the side not touching anything.

the one exception to this is physical affection, which is, despite all of this, most of how he shows affection. it’s a lot easier to hug someone than to try to explain your feelings for them, after all.

i think he would like pressure though. so that’s probably part of it. and i’m pretty sure there’s some connection in here to fighting (dang, is that the only way he knows how to get his energy out?)

anyway, pretty much all of this is in contrast to kirby, who i would gladly nominate as the champion of Doing Whatever He Wants. he might pick up a few bad habits, but he will never mask the way meta knight does. he might not understand how he feels, but he’s in tune enough to express it…usually.

this is a very good thing for meta because it helps him to do the same thing. kirby’s so energetic, it’s hard to not want to stim with him. it reminds meta to be kinder to himself and explore his own emotions. he can also help kirby understand themselves, so this connection is very important.

yeah, at the end of the day, everything kinda just boils down to kirby and mk as parallels

this is the conclusion i promise

to me, meta’s arc is about growing stronger by growing kinder, and this is mostly by learning to be kind to himself. letting himself be a person again, loving and understanding other people, and eventually, letting go of all the expectations placed on him and doing the things he’s always wanted to do…

autism headcanons are fun for me because it’s cathartic to write, but at the same time, it just makes sense in this sort of narrative. meta is, to me, inseparable from these things. and so is kirby! that’s a dynamic that’s a lot of fun to play with, and it’s at the heart of my kirby interpretation.

if you actually read all this WOW thank you

#i almost considered not posting this on a wednesday but then i wrote everything and uhhh yeah i think i gotta so #happy cringe day wednesday #for as many notes as i have on these characters i really don’t talk about it much #but meta knight is a special case because i am terrible at subtlety and he wouldn’t be meta knight without it #so this is to contextualize some things #because of what ill have in the next few days haha #basically these are just things i consider when writing meta #but a lot of it is subtextual and i dont know how well it comes across #kirbyposting #kirby #meta knight #headcanons #autism headcanon #this is practically an essay lol oops #i have like 2/3 of a fic that explores most of this in a way i probably won’t do again #but we’ll see if i ever finish it #god kirby concepts are so fun to chew on #i overthink everything i make so much lol

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blitz0hno · 1 month

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Y'all realize that if John is truly a new alter at least one has to have existed before him right? Even if the "third" alter (dubbed Midokoto) is no longer in the system/story, he WAS there.

Mikoto. Was never. A singlet.

Ever.

That's just not how DID works. Mikoto has to have had childhood trauma to have alters; you don't just split from stress in adulthood without ANY parts beforehand.

With this distinct difference in appearance, it's plenty reasonable to argue this guy could be John's predecessor (not John, but also NOT Mikoto).

So yeah it's plenty reasonable to think about the other alter and treat him as a factor in the story, whether or not he's around anymore. Bro is not like "an OC," he didn't come from nowhere. Systems cannot ever be singlets because their brain's development was disrupted; if John is truly new, someone else has to have previously existed alongside Mikoto.

Idk I trust that Yamanaka has thought this stuff out but this is just my opinion lol

#idk the way y'all talk abt midokoto and Mikoto's system in general got me fucked up sometimes lmao #like see him however u want this is just my opinion #but like... don't act like the subtextual and textual evidence isn't there #I'm kinda vagueposting rn gonna b so real but like it's a fictional character I'm not MAD about it lol just feels a little silly #mikoto milgram #john milgram #mikoto kayano #milgram

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stoat-party · 2 months

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do you ever think deacon’s repeated plastic surgeries are an elaborate form of self-harm, symbolically killing the old self over and over?

#am i going to keep making jokes about the face changes despite that? yes i am.#it’s juuust subtextual enough to still be funny #i imagine him continuing to get them post-institute #walking into hq pretending to be a rando who stumbled in #until the survivor sits him down and makes him acknowledge his feelings for a second #(Deacon hated that.)#fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #deacon fo4 #deacon fallout 4 #deacon fallout #fo4 deacon #fallout deacon #fallout 4 deacon #self harm reference

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vero-niche · 6 months

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canon bi rep?????? in MY anime???????????

#hello?????????????????? can anybody hear me HELLO????????????????#has this like. ever happened before??????????#like *not* subtextually????????????#anime of the fucking SEASON #2023 is giving insane queer rep in anime with whacky titles #first its buddy daddies THEN its goofyboss...... truly this is the year of the queer #atarashii joushi wa do tennen #my new boss is goofy #cannot believe this is real. and yet. damn

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racefortheironthrone · 1 month

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Hello, bit of a follow up and the Magneto question. How do you think magneto feels about non mutant jews? Does he feel a kinship, or does he see them as other homo sapiens, still below the homo superior he now more more closely identifies with? Cause he really emphasizes the tragedy of the holocaust in his backstory but apart from kitty pryde, I can't actually think of any moment where he connected with a fellow jewish person? Thank you in advance for your answer and hope you are well.

That’s a great question!

So as I’ve said in the past, while Magneto thinks of himself as mutant first, he does consider himself culturally or ethnically Jewish, although he’s very firmly an atheist who does not give a shit about things like kosher.

If you’re looking for an example of Magneto interacting with non-mutant Jews, I would recommend you check out X-Men #199, the issue immediately preceding the “Trial of Magneto” recently adapted in the second episode of X-Men 97. In this issue, Magneto and Kitty visit the National Holocaust Memorial.

Here, we see that Magneto keeps in touch with fellow survivors and regularly attends reunions, and is a respected member of the community. As in the show, Magneto is arrested by Val Cooper to stand trial for crimes against humanity, but rather than handing himself over to prove himself to the X-Men, he does so because Val Cooper’s quisling paramilitary force (there is a reason why the Zalagang refer to her as “the bitch Val Cooper,” and personally I think Mystique and especially Destiny have never adequately repented for their anti-mutant collaboration and this incident in particular) attacks the Holocaust Memorial, and Magneto is shaken by how his self-defense has endangered and frightened his old friends.

#xmen #xmen meta #magneto #max eisenhardt #subtextual judaism #x men 97

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proudfreakmetarusonniku · 17 days

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I could talk for hours about what each facet of Isaac is split into each individual character btw (and how the tainted forms are those aspects after trauma). like i could write whole essays on this. like how maggie is a representation of his love and admiration towards his mother to the point of becoming her while tainted maggie is a representation of the desperation that makes him feel for affection and how much it’s tied up in pain and hurt. or how judas is a representation of how isaac feels like a sinner and like he’s betrayed everything he loves and tainted judas being simply being beyond the point of caring accepting you’re an inhuman monster who’s evil by nature and who can’t change.

each one of the main characters represents an aspect of Isaac he has isolated and considers separate to himself (he's very likely developing a system, though he’s too young to have a properly defined one yet- however, he does canonically have heavy disassociation issues, so this heavy splitting of different aspects of himself certainly has a high probability of leading to it). each of the tainted characters represents that aspect at its worst, usually due to abuse. it’s genuinely fascinating to think about.

#Isaac moriah is the most character of all time and that’s entirely from gameplay leaving so many subtextual hints #That probably didn’t even initially mean anything but I will obedanalysse them anyway #The binding of isaac

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hooved · 1 year

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#for context i started thinking about the odo subtextual gay sex episode and was curious to see how ppl have discussed it #odo #star trek

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linipik · 1 year

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PATROCLUS (17 /30)

#patroclus hades #patrochilles #Hades #hades game #huevember #huevember 2022 #Hades Supergiant #the og subtextual ship that has every scholar pulling their beards #fanart

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myimaginationplain · 1 year

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It's interesting to me how even though Thrúd has the aesthetic & air of the rebellious cool-girl archetype, she's far more sheltered than either Atreus or Angrboda, despite both of them being dorkier & visually softer. It's obvious in the way she talks about asking for her mother's permission to be a valkyrie, meanwhile Atreus has long stopped bothering to ask for his father's permission to do anything since before the beginning of the game, & Angrboda has no one's permission to even seek out since both of her parents are absent & her grandmother is estranged.

#something something asgard representing a carefully curated aesthetic of freedom while actually being extremely constricting #while the giants knew true freedom #I'm glad there's no upfront obnoxious love triangle even though imo you're obviously meant to compare & contrast #the potential of his relationship with thúd vs angrboda as proxies for asgard vs the giants #as more work was obviously put into angrboda as a character & into her section of the game I think it's safe to say she & the giants are #more significant to atreus. but still #anyways I love subtextual love triangles soooo much more than textual ones #that doesn't mean I'm not gonna go look for some stupid tropey love triangle fan fic once I'm done watching playthroughs tho lol #gow #gowr #gowr spoilers #god of war #god of war ragnarok #thrúd #thrud #atreus #angrboda #atreus x thrúd #atreus x thrud #atreus x angrboda

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palant1r · 1 year

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death note is so funny because the mangakas made the gayest dynamic ever between L and Light. and then Madhouse said "hold my beer" and gave them the Foot Scene and light seeing L as he died. and THEN the 2015 drama said "hold my beer" and had Light fully look at L's naked dick and that's not even the gayest thing that happens in that show

#meanwhile L isn't even the guy who's subtextually implied to be in love with light #death note

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echo-stimmingrose · 3 months

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Exaggeration of that One Scene in EP 6

Percy and Annabeth: We know who the lightning thief is.

Luke *panicking*: How could you possibly know that?????

Annabeth: Well we spoke to Ares-

Luke: It's Clarisse yes! You are absolutely correct! She makes the most sense! Wow, I can't believe it!

Percy and Annabeth: um-

Luke: Don't think about it too much! You're right! You did great, I'm so proud of you, kids good job! I gotta go and uh make sure Chiron knows it's her! Bye! *Ends I.M.*

Percy:

Annabeth:

Percy:

Zebra:

Annabeth:

Percy: Great, now they might be able to get some information out of Clarisse.

Annabeth: Yeah, I wanna know how she stole it.

#the subtextual zebra in the backs like: Are yall for real? that fuckers lying.#percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #annabeth chase #luke castellan #pjo tv #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv spoilers #pjo spoilers #bestie don't read

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funesta-mamarracha · 2 months

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The Joker in Batman/Dylan Dog #1 (2024)

#obsessed with the art of this comic🔥#Joker looks as fruity as he deserves #batman #the joker #batjokes #a subtextual reference is enough to classify it as batjokes

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maevesweirdart · 5 months

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ok so i just finished reading this gay furry visual novel called Adastra, and i have to say.

it didn’t have the devastating emotional effect that i’ve heard it tends to have on many other readers, but then again i’m pretty sure that’s just because i’m attracted to large buff sword-wielding women and not large buff wolf boys.

and then i realized

thinking about this. thinking

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