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beescake · 6 months

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back in the day we had pantskat

now we have sagg sollux

#homestuck #hs2 #sollux captor #karkat vantas #solkat #sol's still blind but pls suspend disbelief for the sake of cursed pants meta #the contrasting parallels in fan reaction upon each reveal may have amused me more than it deserves #i wasnt there but. i think the general consensus is that pantskat = cute/funny and sagging sol = cool?? hot?? degen????🧍#lore extended: karkat briefs sollux boxers ?????#vioart #2023 #listen there are very clearly deeply rooted psychological reasonings behind their preferred choice of trouser orientation alright......#we all see it even if we cant explain it.......

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randomfandomss · 9 months

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The Bandstand Breakup vs. The Bookshop Divorce

#good omens #good omens 2 #go2 #go s2 spoilers #good omens s2 #good omens season 2 #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens gifs #aziraphale x crowley #good omens edit #my gifs #go spoilers #The parallels were paralleling the contrasts were contrasting and I as usual was crying #UGHHHHH beat for fucking beat #phewwww this one was...huge #rfgoedits

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voidfishing · 1 year

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normal siblings

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #falin touden #toon talking #the… the reflection of one another the parallel..#the contrast between Laios choosing this and Falin not having a choice #I’m unwell

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seance · 9 months

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If you were truly as evil as you like to paint yourself, you would've done that. Nah. That's the trouble with you lot. You don't just see things in black and white. Sometimes, you've just gotta blur the edges.

#goodomensedit #goedit #good omens #good omens spoilers #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #edits #tusermyra #jameszmaguire #the parallels were sick and twisted #sick and twisted i tell you #the unadulterated joy on aziraphale's face throughout the whole season every time he saw crowley #contrasting SO MUCH with the post-kiss confusion/pain #i literally wanna kword myself cause david and michael really gave us everything in terms of performance #it was a crescendo with the perfect peak #heaven once again confirmed most toxic work place in the universe #rs: hereditary enemies

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originalaccountname · 1 year

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I made some funny comics a little while ago about the potential effects of Fukuzawa's ability on Chuuya's, and how it perhaps could make it revert to a pre-Arahabaki state.

I realized later that some of you lack the context for where that came from, and that I might be creating confusion, so this is a (hopefully) comprehensive walkthrough of things we learned in Storm Bringer that lead to this conclusion.

tldr; The lab created "Arahabaki" by manipulating an ability into a destructive force. That ability existed before the lab, and the nature of that ability is heavily implied to be the power to enhance other abilities through touch.

Explanation and sources below (so you can judge yourself) ⬇

- spoiler warning for Storm Bringer, hopefully written in a way that you'd understand even if you haven't read it yet -

In Storm Bringer, Chuuya meets the scientist that was responsible for Project Arahabaki, Professor N.

Project Arahabaki, N explains, was the Japanese government's secret project to create an ability singularity they could have control over and freely use as a weapon.

What are singularities? Singularities are what happens when abilities clash in specific ways and create a new, unforeseen reaction. The easiest way to create a singularity is to pit two contradictory abilities against each other to create a paradox; examples included the ability to always deceive and the ability to always perceive the truth, and to have two ability users who can see into the future (*coughs* Oda and Gide) try to one-up each other. The result is usually much more powerful than the original abilities on their own.

Some singularities are said to have been explained as god-like interventions, because of their often destructive nature. This is what inspired the name "Arahabaki", after the mythical being (here's a post of the subject and I'll it link at the end too) These events are described as very rare.

Like mentioned in that passage, there is another way to create a singularity: to have a single ability user use their ability in a way that contradicts itself. This is what the lab was trying to do.

For that explanation, Professor N gives an example. He first shows a video of a child, whose face is hidden from the camera, holding a coin (described as having a certain melancoly to it), with a moon and a fox engraved on it. The video is from one of the lab's tests. The child is made to recite some activation lines, which are directly taken from one of Nakahara Chuuya's poems, Upon the Tainted Sorrow (which does mentions a fox, as a fun fact).

The coin then starts glowing, the glow turns into a black mass, and from there the experimentation goes bad: the coin starts attracting things and absorbing them, the space gets distorted, the child's vitals flatline, panic spreads and someone calls for an emergency stop, we hear a scream. The video ends.

N explains that the child in the video had the ability to enhance the ability of others. That child then used that ability on themselves, effectively enhancing the enhancement which enhanced the enhancing, in an infinite loop. That loop created a lot of energy; the surplus of energy was so intense its mass deformed space (physics!) and it created a black hole.

Here's where it gets tricky: N claims that child died during that accident, that the child was absorbed by the black hole created by their ability. We never actually learn their identity.

But N is a lying liar who lies; he said about one and a half truths the entire book. The only reason he was telling them any of this was that he thought he'd get rid of all of them within the next few minutes. His objective was always to regain control over Chuuya, his pet project.

Plus, during the epilogue, we learn that Chuuya was assumed to have died during the war. That's what his parents think. That's what is officially recorded.

Furthermore.

Project Arahabaki was based off French research papers; someone else had done this kind of experimentation before, and their result was Verlaine.

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Verlaine's gravity-manipulation is a singularity. Better yet: Verlaine also has a Corruption state, named Brutalization. Their abilities are the same, because the lab copied the techniques that were used to create Verlaine when they worked on Chuuya.

Here's a passage of Dazai nullifying Corruption, at the very end of SB:

"The self-contradicting skill, which was supporting the energy of a singularity". This passage confirms that the source of Chuuya's ability is, in fact, like the child's and Verlaine's, if any doubts remained. "[...] weakening the singularity's output. It wasn't long before it returned to its normal state, and the Gate closed." The Gate refers to releasing Arahabaki, it's basically a limiter, just like the passage above when talking about Brutalization. When Dazai nullifies Corruption, he gives that limiter the opportunity to come back and seal Chuuya's power away again, but does not stop the singularity, only allows it to go back to its stable state.

From all that, we can say that Chuuya's ability wasn't always gravity manipulation, but that it was another, unconfirmed ability that was exploited in such a way that it became a permanent, stable singularity that allowed him to have control over gravity.

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Bullet point recap:

Chuuya's gravity manipulation comes from a singularity, like Verlaine, like that child;

You need a self-referencing/self-contradicting ability to create that singularity;

Such an event is rare;

There is a substantial amount of time spent describing a "random" child that was experimented on during the war;

That child created a black hole through their singularity;

That singularity was activated using a passage from Nakahara Chuuya's poems, while holding a coin that references it;

That child supposedly died;

Chuuya's parents think he died during the war;

N is a pathological liar with an agenda.

So no, there is no "confirmation" that Chuuya's ability was ability enhancement before the lab took him. But an author writes a story with an intent, so I am asking what Asagiri's intent was when writing all this, and if perhaps we weren't indirectly given the answer already.

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What is Arahabaki (Fifteen and Storm Bringer lore, with too many citations)

My own perceived timeline of the true events behind Storm Bringer (was originally gonna be part of this part, also with too many citations)

#the dazai parallels are a nice little bonus because we KNOW chuuya as a character was designed to match dazai #he was most literally designed to go with him and contrast him #but that's meta analysis so i didn't include it in the actual post with the rest of the textual evidence #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd analysis #bsd theory #bsd meta #bsd chuuya #bsd nakahara chuuya #bsd storm bringer #bsd stormbringer #stormbringer #storm bringer #i'll reblog this to my art blog tomorrow so the people most concerned have more of a chance of seeing it #apparently i talk sometimes

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sunderberry · 2 months

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parallels and perpendiculars between the two most important men in angel's life (for better or for worse)

#hazbin hotel #husk #valentino #huskerdust #angelhusk #(implied at least)#if you're wondering why husk is so MINOUCHE here i wanted to emphasise their height difference #husk struggled to read his lines in ep 1 but could spot a guy drugging angel's drink in ep 4 so i think he's farsighted #i think it's very interesting how these two parallel and contrast each other #pretty sure it might even be intentional #sun art

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seamayweed · 11 months

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ALICENT HIGHTOWER + kissing the king (aka the kiss of judas)

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#house of the dragon #houseofthedragonedit #hotd #hotdedit #gameofthronesdaily #welighttheway #alicenthightowerdaily #alicenthightoweredit #alicent hightower #viserys targaryen #aegon ii targaryen #alicent and aegon #seamayweed gifs #seamayweed stuff #wasn't able to fit this parallel into my last gifset #the contrast between those two kisses................#she already declared war for him once and she will do so again #she loves him she loves him she loves him #her every action and gesture scream i love you you fool #screaming at him the way she did when she grabbed his face #hers is a dagger-wielding love #a knife held to both their throats #a terrifying force of nature #the kind of love that could stare down a dragon #and even kill it #and then he has the GALL to ask her if she loves him #ok brief bout of insanity is over #you can like and reblog now sdhjds #yeah. i'm still completely unhinged about alicent and aegon

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viveela · 9 months

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Caretaker role but make it gardening

#veearts #south park #kyle broflovski #sp fanart #fan art #incoming ramble in the tags #i been thinking about this one post about kyle #it's where they point out he doesn't really have interests #or much to his own individual self aside from being reactionary #well. I am not a fan of this truth #so I decided to give him gardening #this is his interest now thanks #i mean he's so deep in the caretaker role #maybe he'd find comfort in choosing to do so with flora #also it's a nice contrast to how stan is such a fauna lover #they parallel hear me out

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ezralva · 2 months

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Same pose, same enemy (Sukuna), different support system

#another parallel #same pose same enemy different support system which will make the result different #im sure of it #choso #yuji itadori #choso & yuuji #itadori yuuji #chousou #jujutsu kaisen #jjk 252 #support system is the key #oh the contrast is killin me #shibuya arc was a major turning point for many #jjk spoilers

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etoilesombre · 4 months

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[id: a set of eight images from Black Sails. The first image shows Mrs. Hudson speaking to Woodes Rogers, with the text "She said you should trust that her commitment to you remains inviolable." The second image shows Flint and Silver together in Madi's house after her presumed death. The third image shows Eleanor in the fort firing on Rogers' ship, with the text "and that this is no betrayal..." The fourth image shows Flint taking the cache ashore on Skeleton Island, viewed through a spyglass. The fifth image shows Eleanor and Rogers talking in bed, with the text "...but an act of love." The sixth image shows Flint's face during the Dragons speech. The seventh image shows Eleanor lying dead in Flint's arms, with the text "An act she is determined to see through to its end." The eighth image shows Silver pointing a pistol at Flint on Skeleton Island. /end id]

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sixteenthprince · 1 year

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you don't die from a broken heart. you only wish you did.

or brocedes + “after the movie” by marie howe

#idk what this is #hate that it's so short but i couldn't find anything else that fit the vibe #tried to contrast the first and last pic lol idk if anyone noticed #anyways #love as violence #web weaving #nico rosberg #lewis hamilton #brocedes #f1 #parallels #formula 1 #brocedes brainrot #webweaving

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hanafubukki · 5 days

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I always talk about wanting Lilia or Malleus with wings, claws, and a tail.

Then I couldn’t help but think, what about the Knight of Dawn?

The Knight of Dawn with wings would be beautiful! 🥹💚💞

His amour already has various angelic motif, so him with beautiful wings (especially blessed by the fae) would be beautiful.

I’m imagining white with gold wings on him.

Wings that get scarred and marred in battle. Where you would then help treat him after battle. Treating the wounds and soothing the aches as you handle the wings as gently as you can.

The trust he has in you to allow you to do this when he’s this vulnerable.

And then…his wings turning black due to blot. As the way fallen angels do when their wings go from pure white to the darkest black.

Why else but for those that he loves? He would fall just to protect those he cherishes. In order to protect you.

The Fallen Angel.

Will you be able to bring him back?

#and then think about the CONTRAST WITH LILIAS WINGS #one is pure white and gold like the day #and the other dark as night with like a silver shimmer to them like the night sky #lilia Vanrouge and knight of dawn parallels yet difference always makes me love struck and also ferals #I needed to get this out so I can sleep because it’s been plaguing me for hours ever since I thought of it #twst knight of dawn x reader #twst knight of dawn #twst dawn knight x reader #twst dawn knight #twst x reader #twst headcanons

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mayasaura · 1 year

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Kiriona said that if she killed Alecto, she would be John's cavalier. That's so interesting to me, because it's the one relationship we've never seen in a necrocav pairing. We've had siblings, lovers, cousins, best friends, coworkers, uncles, servants, and whatever the fuck Babs and Ianthe had going on, but never a parent and child.

Unless.

We still don't know what Samael and Anastasia's relationship was, but we do know now that Anastasia was already a mother before the ascension. Pyrrha painted a nursery for her.

It would be very interesting if Samael had been Anastasia's son.