#creative analysis

[slytherflowerao3]

just a small, slightly emotional check-in 🖤

first of all, i want to say thank you — genuinely — for all the engagement lately. whether it’s on my analysis posts or my fics, it honestly gets to me sometimes in the best way. knowing that people are reading, thinking, feeling along with me… yeah. it matters more than i ever know how to say properly.

and i’m sorry if i don’t always respond right away. i promise i see everything — every kudos, every like, every reblog, every comment, every bookmark, every new follower or subscriber. all of it makes me ridiculously happy. if it takes me a couple of days to get back to you after a chapter update or a post, it’s usually because once i hit publish, i take a breather before diving headfirst into the next chapter or hyperfixation. it’s my little reset moment.

i’ve been on tiktok for years now, mostly as a lurker. the byler side of edits and memes naturally finds me (and i love it), but i also see a lot of byler doubt and negativity over there — a lot of people questioning whether the duffers will actually go through with it. and as you know… i have thoughts.

i originally joined tumblr for this exact sense of community: thoughtful, kind, enthusiastic analysis — without the constant negativity you get on other platforms (and don’t even get me started on reddit, i’ve said my piece there already).

tiktok never really crossed my mind for posting. i’ve never had the patience to learn editing, and it always felt like it would be more of a comment-section battlefield than anything else. but i’ve been thinking about it lately, and i wanted to ask you:

would you be interested in seeing the same kind of content i post here on tiktok too? analysis, thoughts, fic talk, occasional silly — just… me, but over there.

i think i’d feel a lot safer dipping my toes in if i knew i had you guys from tumblr there too, ready to fight for us in the comments if needed 😌

same content—just also on tiktok?

do it 😌

cautiously intrigued

i’d watch from afar

tumblr is enough for me

Voting ended onDec 20, 2025

let me know what you think 🤍

[konstanka-blog]

Fragments of Time: filming, use of imagery, symbolism

Having received feedback and suggestions from the filmmaker Zhang Tingzhi, when filming, I was mindful of the type of filming I was looking to capture. Not having filmed to this extent before, I am not an expert in knowing how to capture certain effects or angles that would help the story in a way that would be interesting. I looked into documentary shorts that I enjoy, the raw and unedited, following the main subject around. In this case, the Nowness platform was an interesting source to look at how they use moving image to transmit an emotion in a non-linear narrative. In particular, the series on going to artists’ houses and following them around as they show their home is very inspiring for this purpose. One of the aspects that work well on these shorts is the presence of multiple close-ups, of decorative objects around the house they are showing, objects that the artists refer to as they are taking the viewer around the house, but also actions they carry out, such as writing, playing with things in their hands, holding coffee mugs, expressions.

Still from My Place: Charli XCX on Nowness.com 

One of the suggestions Zhang Tingzhi gave me was to focus on objects and items (in a similar approach to intervention 2, where the older participants were asked to share an object of personal value to them, and their grandkids had to imagine the looks of the object by just listening to the narration and story behind it), as a way to enhance and engage with a story in more ways than just by listening to words. Visual imagery helps viewers associate with ideas and concepts, and the feeling of it, even more.

As I would film my grandparents going about their day, I paid attention to the stories and references told, and when I was not filming them, I would go around the house, taking notes of several aspects that could help build the narrative of what they have been telling me even more, through the showing of house objects/ personal items/ any symbolic reference.

Because their stories involve migration and travelling, adapting to new cultural landscapes, it was important for me to discover where roots and early identity resides within the objects they possess, or where it gets lost.

It has always been part of my identity trying to understand how much of a ‘Turkish’ influence I have due to my grandparents’ cultural identity. Even though I don’t speak the language, I have always heard Turkish-Greek expressions been spoken, or traditions been carried out, and this has to do with the way my grandparents found a balance between the cultural elements they had growing up and the reality they encountered when they first moved to Greece.

Images: personal footage. 

[writeareview]

Creative Analysis

[bethbreeden]

*alienation from labour>alienation from nature>alienation from species>individualism>self improvement>purchase of “grow your own” product>.... vicious circle

[bethbreeden]

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm

||XXIII/ Let us now look more closely at the objectification, at the production of the worker; and in it at the estrangement, the loss of the object, of his product.

The worker can create nothing without nature, without the sensuous external world. It is the material on which his labor is realized, in which it is active, from which, and by means of which it produces.

But just as nature provides labor with [the] means of life in the sense that labor cannot live without objects on which to operate, on the other hand, it also provides the means of life in the more restricted sense, i.e., the means for the physical subsistence of the worker himself.

Thus the more the worker by his labor appropriates the external world, sensuous nature, the more he deprives himself of the means of life in two respects: first, in that the sensuous external world more and more ceases to be an object belonging to his labor – to be his labor’s means of life; and, second, in that it more and more ceases to be a means of life in the immediate sense, means for the physical subsistence of the worker.

In both respects, therefore, the worker becomes a servant of his object, first, in that he receives an object of labor, i.e., in that he receives work, and, secondly, in that he receives means of subsistence. This enables him to exist, first as a worker; and second, as a physical subject. The height of this servitude is that it is only as aworker that he can maintain himself as a physical subject and that it is only as a physical subject that he is a worker.

The universality of man appears in practice precisely in the universality which makes all nature his inorganic body – both inasmuch as nature is (1) his direct means of life, and (2) the material, the object, and the instrument of his life activity. Nature is man’s inorganic body – nature, that is, insofar as it is not itself human body. Man lives on nature – means that nature is his body, with which he must remain in continuous interchange if he is not to die. That man’s physical and spiritual life is linked to nature means simply that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.

In estranging from man (1) nature, and (2) himself, his own active functions, his life activity, estranged labor estranges the species from man. It changes for him the life of the species into a means of individual life. First it estranges the life of the species and individual life, and secondly it makes individual life in its abstract form the purpose of the life of the species, likewise in its abstract and estranged form.

*alienation from labour>alienation from nature>alienation from species>individualism>self improvement>purchase of “grow your own” product>.... vicious circle

[insertonepiecehere]

What is your personal opinion on Nami? As in your opinion on her character and stuff like that.

I know I’m going to get a lot of hate for this, but here goes

Looking at her from a creative standpoint, I’m neutral on Nami’s character development and actual character. While I like how her backstory was developed and made, I just feel a bit let down with how her character was brought about. I understand that the extenuating circumstances pushed her into doing what she does, but of all the places she went and all the people she encountered, she couldn’t find SOMEONE besides the main character who would help her or try to help her in any way, shape or form? Obviously, the way Oda has made the marines, most of them are corrupt and distorted, but with how much she claimed to have traveled the East Blue in search of the treasure to pay off the debt, she didn’t encounter Smoker? Who is a decent Marine and would easily wipe the floor with Arlong? I wish Oda showed more of her backstory regarding this, because all we know is she betrayed other crews and took their money, but he never showed her interactions with the crew or if she ever found someone besides her sister who tried to help her and cared about her well being.

Looking at her from my personal stand point, I have mixed opinions on her, While I do like that she is growing stronger with each battle and each encounter with herself, I don’t like how greedy she can be. But that’s just how I am; seeing as how monetary values and materialistic gifts don’t mean a thing to me, but rather the memories that come with them. Personally, I like her much more post-time skip rather than pre-time skip; the confidence she gained through her training and the power she gained through said training always has me smiling and cheering her on with each new challenge she comes to face.

Wall of text warning, my bad, lol

But I always enjoy analyzing character creations and story weaving, so I tend to ramble a bit whenever these questions come to me!

- Haru