Reading in the trees

Expect a barage of diverse content on this dash! Also hope you have a great one! <3

[throwingmenthols-deactivated202]

“denied the catharsis of punishment” is an underappreciated but hugely effective narrative consequence imo 

[unabashedlyseveresandwich]

#it’s so tasty and it comes in so many flavors#does the character self-loathe and feel anguished by what others intended as an act of forgiveness and grace?#does the character know they need to change but sort of madly wish they could trade the unceasing exhausting improvement journey#for a flash bang of slate-clearing repentance so they don’t have to *think* about it anymore?#is is a creeping horror as the character realizes no one is going to punish them because everyone else still thinks what they did was okay?#does the character have to live the rest of their life just feeling ever so slightly untrusted by everyone with no way to stop it?#sorry for leaving pretentious tags on tumblr dot com it will happen again 

Peer-reviewed tags by @annabelle–cane

[gkojax]

なすびさんのツイート: なんでだよ…( ˇωˇ )

（※イギリスのサイト） https://t.co/53WCLtdr9T

[werenotinbristol]

oh, nothing. just pip’s ig stories for tom’s birthday

[applepixls]

no, thats a trauma dump.

[fencecollapsed]

Charlotte has a spotlight on her for You Tied Up My Heart even though she's not singing. Bill has a spotlight on him for Not Your Seed even though he's not singing. they're being pulled into the show, forced to contend with their infected loved ones on Pokey's terms before being properly assimilated. they've already become part of the show before they're part of the hive.

for Inevitable, Emma doesn't have a spotlight on her until the end. because until the end, the point is that Emma's alone now. only Paul gets a spotlight, it's Paul's song, Paul is the focus, Paul is being celebrated. Emma's fear, her attempts to escape, don't matter, she doesn't need to be lit. Paul's corpse basks in the light, flaunting how separated they are now, while Emma runs and screams in the shadows. Emma's not part of the show, Paul is.

only when it's time for Emma to be front and center does she get her spotlight - only when it's fully sunk in for her that she has no escape. that's when she becomes part of the show. the light is on her until she's carried offstage, and she can kick and scream and beg all she wants. the light will still shine on her.

[floor-creature]

Tom is so good at making characters that are so un-okay (and I love them every time)

Also idk how I feel about Rick's design I leant into the Postman Pat part a lot (lot's of looking at images of Postman Pat that I didn't imagine my self doing...)

[grocki]

sci fi is all about getting so scared and ripping tubes out of yourself. people miss this

[grocki]

sci fi is all about desperately trying to reclaim your violated bodily autonomy. it’s all about asserting that you are a being with agency, and you can choose what happens to your own person, even if that’s ripping tubes out of yourself. and also sometimes an alien is there

[fangzie]

[rangerofthesouth]

This came to me in the shower

[machi40h]

[3hkowalski]

Happy birthday! ...at the end of times,

with the digital hallucinations

[quantumm76]

Nice to see that luke has finally caught up to the other members' heights

[oooooooohhh-somerseeeet]

Tom loves his friends :)

Tap for better quality, tumblr hates me

[koobiie]

i feel strongly about this

[oooooooohhh-somerseeeet]

IT'S SHOOT FROM THE HIIIIIIIIIIP

but for real the sfth subtitlers have me in a chokehold i adore them

[charmallows]

deltarune is an elaborate excuse for toby and temmie to play dressup with their tuoys

[homunculus-argument]

A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

[homunculus-argument]

@gem-is-still-bored I was so inspired by this comment that I had to make a grunge poster about it:

photo source

[smallpwbbles]

Come getchur Monster/God Caine food! I like the post ep 9 idea that the loss of power means Caine loses control much easier or gets tired more easily