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violet-witch-6 · 16 hours

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Charles Rowland is dying. And Edwin Payne tells him all the cool things about being a ghost.

He does not mention Hell could be part of the after life until after Charles dies.

He has known nothing but suffering after death but keeps that to himself and tells this poor boy ghosts can walk through doors and still interact with the material world, all the while not sharing Charles is in fact dying. DO YOU SEEEE?

What I’m saying is EDWIN PAYNE IS MY PRECIOUS BABY ANGEL

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violet-witch-6 · 16 hours

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I can’t believe Charles within a couple of hours of meeting Edwin really went if I have to choose between heaven and you then I pick you

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violet-witch-6 · 23 hours

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Dead Boy Detectives has everything:

Co Dependent queer platonic tough to define Best Freinds who would and have gone to hell for each other. they have an office with a cupboard full of board games, and a long history of Noodle Incident cases of '04, and also a bunch of maneuvers with code names. They are also ghosts who solve mysteries for other ghosts.

One is a sassy well read diva in a stupid little bowtie. he keeps meticulous notes, and went to hell on a technicality. he has no rizz and has a sexual awakening at the hands (paws?) of a supernatural Cat King

the other is a cheerful happy bruiser, the brawn with a pocket demension only he can navigate in his backpack, a magic cricket bat, and wells of anger deep down

they team up with a cool psychic (whos also a pretty tree) dealing with her asshole abusive boyfriend who was literally a demon while also trying to restore her memories (she also has a hilarious hate off off with the nerdy one)

then they add a sweet shut in who isn't very brave but is very inquisitive and has excellent reading comprehension and is actually the most brave

and their landlady is a hot goth Sapphic butcher who is done with their shit (but not really)

and the main antagonist is a cunt serving witch with an iron cane chewing up the scenery, just camp queen obsessed with Beauty and Revenge as she should be

she turns her crow familiar into an astrology loving twink to honeypot the nerdy one but the crow catches feelings whoops

the cat king who deserves his own mention again. he's here to seduce a stuffy British detective/tease, cause problems on purpose, reluctantly help solve those problems and mostly slut it up.

a bureaucrat learns to VERY reluctantly embrace the beautiful power of friendship after being swallowed by a fish

its set in a gorgeous seaside town with a light house! and a malt shop!

because this is all A Scooby Doo homage!

It's an episodic Case Of The Episode format! with strong serialized elements!

and as if that wasn't enough there's even Death of The Endless.

what more could any person possibly want in a show.

oh and there's a lot of really interesting themes around internalized homophpbia, abusive relationships and trauma and toxic anger and learning to love and trust and help other people again in spite of and because of the bad parts.

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violet-witch-6 · 23 hours

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I'm truly sorry for all of this. For what I did. I didn't know.

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violet-witch-6 · 23 hours

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Charles “We’ve got literally forever to figure out the rest means” Rowland

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violet-witch-6 · 23 hours

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Edwin and Charles are each other's light in the dark

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violet-witch-6 · 23 hours

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I want all of you people to know that the Cat King gave Edwin a Lily Flower, which is deadly for cats but it symbolises rebirth, condolences, commitment and purity of adoration and love.

Cat King gave his crush a flower that's deadly to him to pay his respects and express his commitment.

Oh, I will not shut up about them.

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violet-witch-6 · 5 days

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When we're looking at why Wei Wuxian took so long to even consider that Lan Wangji might really like him, I think we should maybe place more weight on that time when they were trapped in a cave together at around age eighteen, and Lan Wangji told him his dad was dying and started to cry and Wei Wuxian was like SHIT and fidgeted awkwardly for a while like ahhhhh I hate when people cry especially men what do I do????

And then he tried to find something to say and Lan Wangji was like 'shut up' and he shut up, and Lan Wangji said 'you're a loathsome person' and he shut up so hard he left him alone for three entire days.

Like if I spent three days trapped in hell with someone, restraining myself from reaching out for human interaction because not subjecting them to my personality was literally the only thing I could do to help with their state of misery.

I would have a real hard time letting go of the understanding that the thing this person wanted from me was not to have to deal with me.

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violet-witch-6 · 5 days

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‘Teaching Jake about the Camcorder’ Interpretation

In order to understand what’s going on in this short film, I think it’s important to first identify its themes. This theme starts revealing itself early on within the video. In fact, right from the beginning of the second run through we see of the tape.

Before I continue on with my analysis, it’s important to note the way that the story is being communicated. The film is shot as though we are Jake, watching through an old home video of our father. It’s essential to understand that this tape is representing two opposing ideas; subjective memory and objective history. It’s fascinating to see these two contrary ideas symbolized by a singular medium, and it’s fascinating to note how it was done; the repetition representing objectivity, while the changes in the film representing subjectivity.

From the very beginning of the second runthrough, we see an immediate diversion from the original we just watched. This difference is the father’s facial hair. Within the first playthrough of the tape, the father’s facial hair was limited to a moustache, while in the second runthrough, we notice that this moustache has been exchanged for a beard. It’s a small change, but it’s a change that sets up the theme of the story. By swapping out the father’s moustache for a beard, the film is immediately communicating to us that memory isn’t reliable.

Within this film, there are two character arcs. There is the character arc of the father, and there is the character arc of Jake. Both tackle the same theme.

This theme is the fear of time affecting an individual’s memory. Specifically, the theme is the fear of forgetting and/or being forgotten.

Again, memory is unreliable. It shifts and changes and fades, especially when the memory takes place early in a person’s childhood, and, as evidenced by the father’s surprise upon seeing Jake through the screen, we can assume that the father died early in Jake’s life.

This fear is represented by the character of the shadowed figure; a literal faded, black hole in Jake’s tape/memory.

The character arc of the father is much more active than the character arc of his son’s.

See, the father’s character arc is all about the resignation of being forgotten, while the son’s character arc is coming to terms with forgetting his father.

Again, this theme first shows itself within the second runthrough of the tape. While the father is explaining the rewind button, for the second time, to a young Jake, in the background of the frame we see a figure. This isn’t yet the fully shadowed figure, but instead, it seems to be a sort of inbetween stage. It’s faded and hard to make out, but there is still shadow and highlights, and it still seems to be affected by the environment around it.

This is meant to represent how Jake’s memory of his father is beginning to fade.

When the shadow figure fully realizes itself, and it has its first encounter with the father, the father is terrified. The father is scared of being forgotten, and with good reason. The idea of your child letting you slip from their memory is terrifying. But the father also quickly realizes that Jake continuing on to grip on so tightly to this moment is unhealthy, restricting Jake to reliving the past instead of living his life to its full potential.

Then comes probably what I consider the strangest scene in the film.

When the father stares at the stuffed rabbit, it’s a look of terror. I thought about why this could be, and while the explanation I came up with isn’t based on the most solid ground, I feel the way it fits with the rest of the story is sufficient. In some eastern asian folklore, the rabbit represents longevity due to its connection to the moon, sometimes portrayed as grinding elixirs of life. The fact that it’s a stuffed rabbit could also be relevant, connecting to the idea of the tape recording being a false representation of eternal life.

The fact that the father looks terrified of this stuffed rabbit could indicate, again, his realization that Jake rewatching these tapes over and over and trying to keep this false memory of his father alive isn’t healthy.

I admit, this interpretation is a bit of a stretch, but, again, I believe it fits in with the themes of the film, so it’s definitely a plausible interpretation.

By the end of the film, the father has completely resolved himself to the idea of being forgotten. He gives Jake one final reassurance of his pride, then leaves him. He walks through the door, colored with an orange light. To the left of our old television, we see this same orange light, and in it, the shadow figure.

The implication here is that the father turned into the shadow figure, or, in this case, allowed himself to be forgotten. The father stopped fighting against the flow of memory and time and allowed himself to fade from his son’s memory. And though Jake’s memory is faded and vague of his father, the influence that his father had on him is still very real and sticks with him. This is why the shadow figure reappeared in our immediate vicinity.

In fact, the figure didn’t even seem especially malicious when we saw it flash in the orange. Not to me, at least. Part of this has to do with the lighting shown throughout the film. As it progresses, the film began to get further and further desaturated, the two most colorful versions of the tape being the very first runthrough and the very last runthrough. Everything in between became overlaid with this unsettling, cold blue hue. But at the end, when the father walks through the door, the lighting around him is this warm, inviting orange.

After giving up on fighting so hard to remember the specifics of his father, when both parties give in to the fact that neither can healthily hold on, the memory instead becomes a vague, warm feeling about the idea of his father.

This film is a wonderful introspective about grief and memory, and how aging and time affects them.

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violet-witch-6 · 5 days

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thinking about how the (greek) big three swore to never sire any more demigod children because those children are just too powerful (dangerous) and also thinking about how the characters that, arguably, seem to have the greatest proclivity for cruelty in the name of justice or vengeance are also the (greek) big three children... there's something there, a connection to be made I'm sure of it

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violet-witch-6 · 6 days

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i can never write a soulmates au cause i very quickly stop thinking about romance and start thinking about the sociological implications of a world where soulmates are a confirmed verifiable thing

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violet-witch-6 · 6 days

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I think people get mixed up a lot about what is fun and what is rewarding. These are two very different kinds of pleasure. You need to be able to tell them apart because if you don't have a balanced diet of both then it will fuck you up, and I mean that in a "known cause of persistent clinical depression" kind of way.

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violet-witch-6 · 6 days

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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY by John Le Carre

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If it’s bad, don’t come back. I want to remember you all as you were.

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violet-witch-6 · 6 days

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Sherlock: "I actually find sex repellent. All those fluids and odd sounds. But my brain and my body require it to function at optimal level, so I feed them as needed."

peak kinky ace (and later aro) coded Sherlock Holmes introduction

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violet-witch-6 · 7 days

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People don't realize how liminal it is to be a time traveler. How you don't ever really feel like you're in the time you are. Even when you're in your own time, everything is off, your coat was something you bought in interwar France, the book you're reading on the train is from a bookstore you had to visit in Victorian London, even your necklace was given to you by a Neolithic shaman, from a culture the rest of the world can never know. You find yourself acting strange even when in the present, much less in the past you have to work in.

You remember meeting a eunuch in 10th century China, and having him be one of the only people smart and observant enough to realize you were from a diffrent time. You could talk honestly with him, though still you couldn't reveal too much about your time. And it was still so strange hearing him talk casually about work and mention plotting assassinations. You're not allowed to but you still visit him sometimes.

You remember that the few times you were allowed to tell someone everything it was tragic. You knew a young woman who lived in Pompeii, who you had gotten close to, a few days before she would inevitably die. On your last day there you looked into her eyes, knowing soon they'd be stone and ash, that the beauty of her hair would be washed away by burning magma. And you hugged her, and told her that you wanted her to be safe, and told her she was wonderful and that you wanted her to be comfortable and happy. And you let her tongue know the joy of 21st century chocolate, and her eyes see the beauty of animation, knowing she deserved to have those joys, knowing it wouldn't matter soon. And you hugged her the last time, and told her she deserved happiness. And when you left without taking her it was like you were killing her yourself.

You want to take home everyone you're attached to. There's a college student you befriended in eighteen fifties Boston. And you can't help but see him try to solve problems you know humanity is centuries away from solving. And you just want to tell him. And it's not just that, the way he talked about the books and plays he likes, his sense of humor. There's so many people you want him to meet.

You feel the same way about a young woman you met on a viking age longship. She tells stories to her fellow warriors and traders, stories that will never fully get written down, stories that she tells so uniquely and so well. She has so many great ideas. You want so dearly to take her to somewhere she can share her stories, or where she can take classes with other writers, where she can be somewhere safe instead of being out at sea. She'll talk about wanting to be able to do something, or meet people, and you know you're so close to being able to take her, but you never can, unless she accidently finds out way too much then you can't.

You remember the longship that you met that young storyteller on. You were there before, two years ago for you, ten years later for the people on it. The young woman who told you stories wasn't there ten years later, you had been told why then but you only realize now, her uncle, who ran the ship, had been one of the first people to convert to Christianity in his nation. He killed her, either for not converting or for sleeping with women, you're not sure, but he killed her, and bragged about it when you met him ten years later.

You talk to the storyteller on the longship, ask her about the myths you're there to ask her about, the myths that she loves to tell. You look into her eyes knowing it's probably less then a year until her uncle takes her life. You ask her if you think that those who die of murder go to Valhalla. She tells you she hopes not, she doesn't see Valhalla as a gift but as a duty, she hopes for herself to go to Hel, where she wouldn't have to fight anymore. You slip and admit you're talking about her, telling her that you hope that's where she goes when she's killed. You hope to yourself you'll be forced to take her to the twenty first century, you're tempted even to make it worse, you want to have ruined her enough to be able to save her.

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violet-witch-6 · 8 days

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Ok, this is a little niche, but I have a theory for all you Discworld fans. Why doesnt Carrot have a beard?

A few facts to start with:

1. All Dwarves have beards.

2. Carrot is, culturally, a dwarf. He sees himself as a dwarf and other dwarfs accept him as such. (He’s just a very tall dwarf.)

So why would Carrot NOT have a beard, if all Dwarves have beards and Carrot is a dwarf? Would he choose to shave? Why? He wouldnt, right? Is there some reason he CANT grow a beard?

Another fact to remember about Disc Dwarfs:

All Dwarves are raised as men. Regardless of their biological sex and whether they are XX or XY, they are men, they use he/him pronouns, etc. (The fact that some dwarves have begun to identify and present as women is very recent in Disc history after all, and not all XX dwarves identify or present as women)

So, follow me here- the Dwarves in the mountain find a human baby. Regardless of that baby’s biological sex, they would be raised as a dwarf boy/man, yeah?

So…. may I present the theory- the reason that Carrot, a dwarf man, has no beard is because, you following, he is biologically an XX human. The fact that he cant grow a beard doesnt make him less of a dwarf man than the fact that he is 6+ feet tall.

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