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purplemoonabove · 11 months

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Love Triangles ≠ Tug-Of-War

“Oh great. Another love triangle.”

“Here it comes: the love triangle.”

“Ooohhh, I see a love triangle going on~!”

That’s the idea that is the new norm right now in storytelling: the love triangle, a situation involving a tense-making drama between three people, most commonly a girl that falls in love with two guys separately, and both guys love her back.

(Thanks Twilight.)

But the thing is, there’s actually a catch on calling it a love triangle. I was so caught up on the tri-romance that I didn’t realize it myself until seeing a source, whether a comment or something, had me thinking.

Thinking enough to head back to elementary school, where we learned our shapes.

You know how a triangle works. I don’t need to bring out a diagram. You got your Point A, Point B and Point C. Connect the dots and bingo! You got your triangle:

But here’s the thing: the triangle points… aren’t the same as the points in a love triangle.

Here’s the thing:

- Point A connects to Point B,

- Point B connects to Point C;

- and, Point C connects to Point A.

Simple, right?

But here’s the question: Why isn’t the points ALL connected in a love triangle?

The answer: It can’t, because it’s not a triangle.

It never was.

Shocking, I know.

Now, before anyone mentions on defending the “love triangle being legit”, remember what I said before: a triangle makes up three points, and they all have to connect to make the shape. That doesn’t work the same way as the love triangles I’ve been noticing from certain stories. Twilight, especially for being the root of it all.

Bella likes Edward. Bella likes Jacob.

Edward likes Bella. Jacob likes Bella.

One girl likes both guys. Both guys like the same girl.

Bella is Point A.

Edward is Point B.

Jacob is Point C.

Point A likes Points B and C. Point B likes A, and so does Point C.

It’s not a triangle because Point B and C – Edward and Jacob – are not connected.

Neither one has feelings for the other – other than the feeling to rip at each other’s throats. (Being a vampire and werewolf, respectively, it’s no surprise.)

Because if they were, then the real triangle would be:

Jacob likes Bella.

Bella likes Edward.

But Edward likes Jacob…

I’m humored by that. Just imagine how the plot would go if it somehow went like that. There would be new teams: Team Bella and Edward, or Team Jacob and Bella, or Team Edward and Jacob.

The direction it would have gone if were done…

BUT!

It wasn’t so it’s not a triangle – it’s tug-of-war. Love war. Both men fighting/trying/convincing/doing everything they can in a situation to get the girl they both like to accept one of them.

There’s a rope with two ends and a centered mark. Who gets the mark is the direction of a pair the author was going for.

Bella was the center mark. And Edward and Jacob were at the ends.

Same goes for:

- The Hunger Games; Katniss at the middle, with Gale and Peeta at the ends.

- The Mortal Instruments; Clary in the middle, with Jace and Simon at the ends; and,

- Legendborn (Read it if you haven’t! So damn good!); Bree in the middle, with Nick and Sel at the ends.

The effort the guys pull is the direction of which of the guys is with the girl in the storyline.

It was never a triangle. For the guys such as mentioned above, it was tug-of-war.

And for the girl in the center—heck, it would have been an angle without a base! The A without the middle line. Just standing like an open ladder, the bottom ends for two people to stand on and fight who will be first to the top as they climb—and by her acceptance.

This can also work vise-versa – the girls doing tug-of-war, the guy as the singular point of an angle. The rope or angle can even break if the main love interest decides neither one! Or whoever the author would be using.

The point is, the next time you read a book and see a romance where Point A falls for Points B and C, and the feelings are returned, remember: it’s not a love triangle. It’s a return to your childhood, during recess or P.E., where the rope is held at both ends, the center mark is the target, and whoever team you are on is the support for one of the pullers.

Not a love triangle. Just a new game of Tug-Of-War.

Thanks for reading my WriTED Talk 😊

#writing advice #realization #story telling #love triangles #the visualized truth #tug of war #twilight #the mortal instruments #the hunger games #legendborn #crave ya book #it counts too but I forgot the characters’ names #writer life #writers community #ao3 writer #fanfiction writer #fantasy writer #wriTED talk #TED talk

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immortalsins · 7 months

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HANNIBAL (2013-2015) — SEASON ONE

Killing must feel good to God, too. He does it all the time, and are we not created in God's image? Depends on who you ask. God's terrific. He dropped a church roof on thirty-four of his worshipers last Wednesday night in Texas, while they sang a hymn. Did God feel good about that? He felt powerful.

{inspiration}

#hannibal #hannibaledit #l.gifs #flashing gif #will graham #no way am i tagging all the characters actually #magnum opus. if we're going by effort alone #some of the choices here are as ugly as hannibal's interior design but we move #:/ started off trying to make it pretty and it's dissolved into chaos #pls enjoy my visual clutter i spent hours&hours on it #jumping between serious creepy gifs & then making things objectively so silly #homage to s1 of my favourite silly show <3 #small explanation: the typewriter text is what appears to be the situation (to the fbi). the gifs obviously show the truth that we know #so if ur thinking e.g. tobias budge did not kill franklyn. yes but thats what is believed by everyone but hannibal #idk if thats necessary to say #sometimes theres a dichotomy between the text and gif. sometimes not #so idk if it was clear #anyway #there we have it #good lord #im done #there are so many things i want to say abt insignificant details sjdbjhsb e.g. hannibal not being in the final few gifs is deliberate.#hes menacing in a ghostly background kind of way #the same way he is in s1 #okokok im going to post thsi now my procrustination is getting ridiculous #pls if you see a mistake i would love to have it pointed out #so i can fix it early on #i am sure there is one #ANYWAY posting & logging off . this was hours and hours worth of work holy shit

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everyitachi · 2 months

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#naruto #uchiha itachi #chapter 384 #of course the point of all this spectacle in the manga is to have like. good visuals.#but if we'd like to think abt his motivations on a character level it really makes you wonder abt how much he was overcompensating to try #and convince sasuke of his motivation #the genjutsu vision of his parents dying the throne the eye stealing threats etc #its makes him look extremely obsessed with sasuke never learning the 'truth' of him actually loving sasuke #and it's like man you didn't need to go that far.#it was actually pretty easy to take you for a bad guy.#sorry that my conclusion is just 'man you didn't have to do all that' i feel like we came to that conclusion already #well i enjoy it :) thanks for the spectacle kishimoto

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sleebgythyme · 6 months

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“When we were children, Sevastian gave me a little songbird in a cage.

When it vanished, Hortensia told me it flew away.

I wanted to believe her.

I don’t think I ever believed her.”

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biteofcherry · 1 year

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Wild Wednesday Ask!! Fave positions of your alphas and mafia guys. And also of their readers! 😎 Do they like the same or different ones?

Whoa. All Alphas and Mafia men? And their girls? That's quite a lot of... positioning 😂

i'm gonna do all the guys, but not their readers since the concept of Reader is to identify with them (at least partially). So anyone can think of their own favorite position in regards to particular man 😊

under the cut for obvious reasons

Mafia Ari is very sensual and affectionate, he loves having you in his lap. He'll let you ride him slowly while his hands roam all over your body, or hold you tightly while he fucks into you as hard as he wants. Ari truly enjoys how low you sink down on him, how you cling to him and make noises with your face buried in the crook of his neck.

Mafia Steve loves seeing your face, so he goes for any position that allows him to watch your eyes gloss over and the grimaces you make as he fucks you. Missionary is actually his favorite - he gets to pin you down, pound you deep and hold your gaze as you fall apart for him.

Dark!Mafia Steve will take you anyway he wants to, but most of the time you end up with your back pressed to his chest, one of his hand around your throat, the other tormenting you - holding a blade to your skin, or a gun that's still hot after shooting (or sometimes simply pinching your nipples, or rubbing your clit, or giving you a smack).

Mafia duo Bucky&Steve prefer you bent over. Either one is taking your mouth while the other is fucking you from behind, or you're bent over one's knees getting spanked or teased, while the other uses your mouth.

Alpha Steve, as much as he loves seeing you present for him, most of all loves having you displayed for him on your back. He cherishes the connection you have then and honestly gets a kick out of tackling you down (whether it's in bed, or he's tossing you onto the kitchen table) and spreading your legs himself when you're being a brat.

Alpha Ari is obsessed with prone bone. For one, it calls to his primal instincts, letting him pin you down and fully dominate you. Secondly, because you come the hardest when he takes you like that. It's a perfect angle for his cock to absolutely destroy your g-spot and also drive right up to your cervix. And you feel so much tighter, too.

I will also mention Alpha Lloyd, because some of you have became his fans 😂 Lloyd is all about doggy. You presenting for him and begging for his dick, then the fact you're staying in submissive pose and he gets to see your ass bounce with each slap.

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blissofauthenticity · 1 year

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They are the same height...I've only just come to accept this, and now I'm having fun with it!

So...You're telling me they could have made Kit the taller one?!

I'd love to see that!

I'd also love to hear the conversation which must have happened prior to filming:

"You play a lesbian couple, and you're basically the same height - unacceptable!

One of you must be taller! The knight! Let's give Jade some unreasonably high-platformed boots!

The lesbians will lose their minds over the height difference!"

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reyrapidsbutgayer · 11 months

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Meet Augini the eye of Truth!

He’s one of the new succubi I am adding to the game, and yes he is romancable.

The Master stole the top half of his head, his eyes and his mind.

Of course, this only managed to open what was left of his mind to something far older than the Master.

The demons have a long history that has been lost to the winds of time, but some of these dumb silly himbos find methods to communicate with the corpses of their elder gods.

Augini acts as the information broker (hint giver) on behalf of the player. He holds a lot of ancient arcane knowledge, but he tends to get lost in his prophetic visions, and might come off a little aloof. He likes goofy crafting projects and tends to be very forward with his affections.

Here is his original concept sketch:

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fisheito · 3 days

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How did i only Just notice that eiden actually has the two full grown men (sprites) on him

#prison riot revolt #all this time i imagined them flipped #cuz u know. the next screen shows yaku on the left and blade on the right #but i guess we're looking at them from eiden's POV LOL #yaku on the left. blade on the right. limbs can no longer lift #i was too busy laughing at the text that i didn't notice blade's lil antenna poking out above the box #then i paused. wait. that black white strip wasn't part of eiden's outfit was it?? [drags the text box away]#then i reached a whole NEW stage of laughter #the devs really said #we need to make visual jokes. do NOT show the two when eiden's contemplating his incarcerated existence.#have them pop up only AFTER quincy reveals the truth #so cute.... i'm so mad.....

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dimensionalspades · 4 months

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I'm frothing

#bruh #i thought it was just a game thing but no they said 'sova can fire a mile long laser'#the visuals and music were so good thank u #valorant thank u #sova #valorant sova #.there is no greatness where there is not simplicity goodness and truth ; so.va | aesthetic.

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misssatinandlace · 2 months

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Broken Glass

everything that glitters is not gold

confirmed for a second time in a row

the fake orchid imitated and interrupted

everything

the subtle frame as your acrylic paint

dries you realize you see through the cracks

at first glance transparent like broken glass

the darkness looms in the distance under

the open skies now gray

this unfortunate passion withered died away

radiant beauty with abandonment visually

facing the silence alone with a melancholy

smile this the place I call home

#visual diary #spotify #poetsandwriters #artistic soul #nostalgia #artists on tumblr #digital artistry #imaginationstation #wordart #poetry #spilled poetry #sad notes #pain of truth

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quixot1sm · 6 months

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i think, and this may just be my zekrom bias speaking, that if someone wants to experience the full value of bw's story it's better to play through white first. black has the issue of coming off as very dismissive towards plasma's legitimate and well-founded claims that pokemon abuse DOES occur (and it does! from the kanto games' marowak to bw2's liepard there's instances where it's put in the spotlight, so it certainly does happen)... by assigning the protagonist to truth, it feels pretty evident that n's beliefs are "wrong", and the game just seems to brush any questioning aside.

on the other hand, white giving n the hero of truth role means we're basically forced to think about what that means for the relationship of people and pokemon at large. to translate a point n makes in chargestone cave: if you allow people to coexist with pokemon, even if the majority of trainers treat them well, there will always be someone somewhere out there who abuses or neglects them instead. are we okay with that? should those pokemon still be allowed to suffer, just because what they experience is an outlier to the general rule? while not outright stated, zekrom's association with hope and the strive for the ideal suggests that we don't brush off these facts, but instead take them into consideration, and aim to change the world based off of them... like how in bw2 society in unova puts a lot more emphasis on the bond between people and pokemon, and on pokemon as equals (see: iris's dialogue before entering your team info the hall of fame).

i think black version has its own unique avenues to explore, but on the surface level, it's a much more cut and dry, "no, you're just wrong", type of story that kind of makes you work harder to fit it into bw's overall theming of "the world's not black and white, there's not a singular objective right or wrong perspective."

#text #pokemon bw #this is inspired by a few posts i've come across over the past handful of months including a poketuber's who completely missed the point #i think black version should've been handled with as much care as white. because how gamefreak did it was kind of.. well lazy #and downright mean at times (white getting way more version exclusives due to white forest + black 2 making black city an empire of greed #with kinda. i don't know. depressing visuals like route 4 being turned into suburbia)#(oh and leaving in stuff like thundurus's cry over tornadus's + the castelia city paintings still being 'ugly truth and eternal ideals')#it may be too much to hope that there'll be some reworking in the inevitable remakes #that gives more credit black versions telling of the story but i doubt it. this is modern tpc we're talking about #ANYWAY yeah i think if you want to engage with the plot white version is the more rounded of the two. and i've played all 4 gen 5 games so #i was able to get a pretty good comparison between my experiences with the version differences #and oh for the record this is not a diss on anyone who takes the wrong messages from black becausefrankly black presents the wrong messages #even if it did not actively intend to. turns out just changing the word 'ideals' to 'truth' is not enough to be compelling

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maliciousalice · 20 days

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👕 & 🍽️? For the trek ask game

Heheh thanks for Asking Meg!!! All aboard another long winded ramble about my wife ST: Voyager!!!!!

👕 Character whose fashion you like.

While I answered in the last one, I think I'll add to it by saying I love the Ds9/Voyager Uniforms--Infact I'm a HUGE sucker for them--At least to me, they feel like THE signature trek costume rather than TNG or TOS ones. Plus, they are fun to draw! I love how they look on the actors with the structured upper half, and loose, high-waisted pants that give everyone the illusion of height.

Those that are dressed in the uniform are portrayed with a respectable heft and a pleasant, overall shape. I know it's not the case, but they look like they are really practical. This is fully intentional as the lead costume designer said they wanted the suits to appear modular and have advantages in different environments. That's why sometimes they are unzipped or twisted around, depending on the narrative.

I could go on and on about them. I act feral over how they look when when all the actors stand together, turned in various ways, posing so that that folds pucker on their joints, or when subtle differences in their body sizes take up screen. It just looks so cool! I'm a big fan of squad-based, colour-coded uniforms and clean silhouettes.

Most importantly though, it gives them all BODY-ODY-ODY!!!

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AYO WHICH LOCATION THEY AT??? CW: GORILLA DUMPIES!!! 👀👀👀 😳😳😳😳

🍽️What alien food/drink would you want to try?

I wish I could find the video but I've seen bits and pieces about how they designed the food on the sets and I think it's super charming!

Lots of effort went into considering the cuisine. It just about decorates every set and It was important to the show. Voyager engaged in a lot visual gags, or dialog discussing food. It was in a comforting way that would present the characters with their personal ideals of home.I find that subtext of world-building really endearing.

Many scenes involved characters bonding in the mess hall, socializing around food, or isolating with it to gain a sense of self. In contrast, it's used as a device for diplomacy, or to make settings seem more alien, unnavigated and removed from regular comforts. It's even incorporated into main plot points, such as with Tuvok in ''Riddles'', when he gains a newfound skill around cooking after a serious accident, and he solves the plot by decorating a code on a cake. Through food, we saw a lot of what it could be like to be a crew member on the ship, and live inside their Universe. It wasn't always pretty but they made it work.

We have a really rich food bowl and diverse food-culture In Australia, I love noticing exotic food that are used as set decoration of as props--I am used to seeing tropical fruit or Asian ingredients around my community, so it's fun to see it transformed. And much like the characters in Voyager, I relate to the comfort and the charting of new territories when it comes to seeing/ eating food.

I suspect being a chef / working in hospitality would be an interesting occupation in Trek. Everyone complains about the lack of authenticity from replicated food, so I'm sure being a good Chef would be worth your while.

I genuinely want to try Old-mate Neelix's cooking. He seems so creative and passionate about what he plates up, and he CLEARLY (they all put on weight haha) kept the crew well-fed. ''Bitches make do'', but you can tell he cares by the questions he askes everyone, or the detail he places into his recipes. I'd like to see what all the fuss is about with Leeola Root Stew. I bet it's not that bad! (I like bitter food) Or better, serve me up a Jimbalian Fudge cake! It's so quaint how there is an evolution to his work as he gets more integrated with everyone.

(crying over this ^) Neelix Nation Rise Up!!!!

#SOBBING I LOVE STARTREK VOYAGER SO MUCH!!!!!!#thankyou if you read my thoughts again lmao the other one is popping off hahaha #i did not proof read this at all so sorry if it's a fucking mess (not much unlike my other textposts lolololol)#now i just want to redraw frames of the body music video with the command crew lmao #i think about this stuff & how it's so underrated in the way that the the REAL subtext behind the characters is right there but y'all slee #instead people are busy infighting or making up stuff little truth behind it when it's actually alot of sincere material is available #dont mind me being a FREAK over their visual language and body dimensions idk #i fucking love just SCANNING the frames and being like YUM A CURVE ON THEIR ARM or a WOW THE SHAPE OF THEIR WAIST #TY MEGGG I HOPE THIS ISNT A BAD RESPONSE IM SO BAD AT PROSE LMAO #neelix #kathryn janeway #chakotay #tuvok #star trek voyager #startrek voyager #st voyager #SORRY ANOTHER BIG TEXT POST #theartmeg

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letsgetitblog · 29 days

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Yall when we succeed (cause we will. ) in getting him mad because of the reviews. Y'all- what if he disappears- 🥴 like- like every episode he changes his expression on the website right? and then the last episode- he's just completely gone- and he might leave a message when you try to download him again (which he will) that would be scary ASF. Cause ya know the flat face bastard is gonna be mad cause of the shows he showing us ain't working so he goes and do something that WILL work AND HE'S JUST G O N E 🧍🏾‍♀️.

LIKE NOOOOOOOOOOO THAT WOULD SEND CHILLS UP MY SPINE I HATE ITTTT