aspects of emotionally abusive parent/child relationships that i still can’t believe they included in tangled:
gothel appearing genuinely sweet and caring at times, enough to possibly even confuse the audience
the mumbling: just having that tiny insignificant little thing be something that gothel consistently, for no discernible reason, gets pissed about
having a special “i love you” exchange: seriously like idk if this is common but i had the same sort of thing with my abusive dad and the first time they said the whole “i love you more” “i love you most” thing i was like holy SHIT
when gothel says “oh great, now i’m the bad guy”: i cannot stress enough that 100% of the time any parent who complains about being the bad guy is abusive
and then later when she’s like “you want me to be the bad guy? fine” as if rapunzel’s making her do all this by not wanting to be locked up forever
when rapunzel tells pascal “shh, don’t let her see you”: why wouldn’t gothel want rapunzel to have a pet?? they never explain that, but they don’t need to, because of course she won’t allow rapunzel to have this harmless thing that makes her happy
rapunzel having an entire sequence where she struggles with finally feeling free and happy and also thinking that makes her a terrible person because her mother wouldn’t like it
So (according to the concept art book) as the Fellowship travels deeper into Middle Earth, the places they pass through become inspired by progressively older periods of history. The farther along you are in the story, the more ancient the design influences
We begin in The Shire: which feels so familiar because, with its tea-kettles and cozy fireplaces, it’s inspired by the relatively recent era of rural England in the 1800s
But when we leave Hobbiton, we also leave that familiar 1800s-England aesthetic behind and start going farther back in time.
Bree is based on late 1600s English architecture
Rohan is even farther back, based on old anglo-saxon era architecture (400s-700s? ce)
Gondor is way back, and no longer the familiar English or Anglo-Saxon: its design comes from classical Greek and Roman architecture
And far far FAR back is Mordor. It’s a land of tents and huts: prehistoric, primitive, primeval. Cavemen times
And the heart of Mordor is a barren lifeless hellscape of volcanic rock…like a relic from the ages when the world was still being formed, and life didn’t yet exist
And then they finally reach Mount Doom, which one artist described as
“where the ring was made, which represents, in a sense, the moment of creation itself”
I’ve watched the movies a few times and love them so much so I can’t believe I actually missed this!
But see the sound cannon is really fantastically meta for Lance if you look at its diverse functionality!
Its first use is as a weapon- but it can also be used to transmit signals (as seen in s5e1) and discern one’s surroundings (s2e10 and s3e3).
Lance talks to people. In particular he’s actually very good at getting information from people through conversation- look back at s1e1 and how smoothly Lance pulls off that “That right? All the way out to Kerberos?” and drops the act to directly question Pidge about it. In s4e4 we also see that out of the team, Lance is the only one who asserts obvious acting chops the entire time, and in s3e1 we see that Lance and Hunk were both a big hit on Puig- seemingly because of how much they engaged with their culture.
In many regards, Lance is good at talking. He’s good at being reassuring, even in fairly dramatic senses (him inspiring Keith and Allura in s3e2 and s4e6 respectively, and comforting Shiro in s5e6) he’s probably the best at identifying and discussing his own feelings before they cause serious damage to himself and the team’s synergy, he’s quick to acknowledge others (“Hunk, you big gassy genius!” in s1e1, in s4e3 to Pidge “Were you just waiting to show that off until your brother got here?”, in s5e3 sticking up for Shiro “You both are under a lot of stress.”) and really good at reading others’ emotions.
So describing Lance as someone who uses his voice as a versatile tool to communicate and achieve clarity is completely accurate. There’s a reason in the high fantasy AU I write, I specifically put Lance’s innate magical talent in his throat.
A fun reminder that Aang was a terrifyingly powerful Avatar.
Most Avatars are informed of their newfound destinies at the age of 16 to begin their training. Because of the approaching war Aang was told of his status at the age of 12. He had already mastered airbending, and in the span of a year he mastered the other three elements, the avatar state, and energybending. He also learned lightning redirection and seismic sense (a technique no previous Avatar had even encountered). In the span of a year.
Guys I am working on my Fake Love post, but there is so much going on in the MV that it’s taking me a while, also I had to prioritise streaming ofc. In the meantime pay attention to what Namjoon keeps saying in their American interviews ‘Fake Love is not just between lovers, it can be about the fake love between me and myself’.
This MV is about their struggles and lying to themselves/not addressing their issues. To get better you have to move out of denial, this is the first step to loving yourself. Just as one example, that’s why Suga is burning again. He has blocked every entry to the room where he sets himself on fire again, he isn’t letting anyone in still and he has reached rock bottom…
I will explain the case for each member individually in my inbound post in more detail.
It can also, as RM said, be about lovers because someone doesn’t truly love you unless you are being yourself and they still love you… if you aren’t truthful it’s fake love.
Lapis has some intense PTSD. She was basically a prisoner of war for thousands of years, and no one knew she was there. She finally gets released and treated like a person, and it gets ruined all over again when she’s dragged back to her hellhole of imprisonment (earth). Then to put another layer of trauma on her, she’s trapped in a horribly (mutually) abusive relationship and she can’t let go or the only person who’s ever cared about her (Steven) will probably die. Then when she’s finally free of that, finally healing (slowly), finally trusting Peridot, she’s triggered (y’all have ruined this word) by talk of the diamonds and the only thing she has room for in her messed-up psyche is fear. So she tries to get away, but it hurts to leave her once-home and once-family (peridot, possibly the gems). But she is operating on a broken system. A system broken over and over. Mental illness doesn’t make sensible decisions. It takes and it takes and she’s trying but it’s too much. She’s hurting people because she’s so hurt herself, she can only think of running away to maybe find some peace. Eventually she’ll realize alone isn’t what saves her, it’s friends. But she’s not there yet. Trauma isn’t healed in a day or even a year. It takes a lifetime.
“Maybe I’ll find myself smiling on that distant shore
midgardian etiquette 101: when going to their homes, hang your coat first or in some cases, your mjolnir.
naw maybe it’s actually asgardian custom to check your weapons at the door
It was medieval custom to check your weapons at the door of the meadhall before greeting the king of the place you were going to. It was courteous and showed respect. You can see it in Beowulf.
what i don’t understand is how that hook can hold the mjolnir.
the hook is worthy
the hook is worthy
Peter Pan would disagree.
I’ve not read the comics but I always figured Mjolnir wasn’t heavy so much as stubborn, and if it decided it didn’t wanna move it just wouldn’t. It sits on Loki, rather than crushing him in Thor 1, and in Avengers it rests on the floor of the ship, and trying to pick it up Hulk starts breaking the floor with his weight, but Mjolnir doesn’t seem to weight anything at all (If it was as heavy as Hulk implied, it would drag the whole ship to the ground right?). Mjolnir isn’t heavy, cos its not going down, instead it is a fixed point and everything else just moves around it. Hence, the hook doesn’t hold it, it merely remains in place.
so what you’re trying to say is that Mjolnir is like a chicken head
instead it is a fixed point and everything else just moves around it.
OK SO WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS THAT WHEN THIS HAMMER WAS FORGED IN THE HEART OF A STAR IT BECAME A FIXED QUANTUM POINT AND THE UNIVERSE MOVES AROUND IT—AND THOR IS THE ONLY ONE WITH THE PROPER RESONANCE TO INTERACT WITH IT ON A QUANTUM LEVEL AND SO HE IS THE ONLY ONE WITH THE LEVERAGE REQUIRED TO SHIFT THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE AROUND THE FIXED POINT THAT IS MJOLNIR
THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE
DUDE YOU GUYS SCIENCED THORS HAMMER THAT IS AWESOME
i just… can’t have this not on my blog.
This got really sciencey really fast and my mind is blown
An Asgore redemption story. Or rather, Asgore finally has enough of Toriel treating him like garbage once the barrier is broken and confronts her about it. He admits his wrong doings, his faults, all the horrible things he’s done, and yet all of that somehow overshadows all the good too? All he’s done to keep their entire race alive and hopeful while she ran off and hid because she didn’t like his decisions, abandoning her entire kingdom rather than talking it out or discussing it?
He understands that she needed time alone after what happened, but how many decades did she need?? In the end who was the one who handled the problem worse?
At least he stayed and kept up his responsibilities. What did she do?
… The argument ends in a lot of tears. But maybe Toriel starts to see that she was wrong in how she handled the whole situation. That’s not to sat Asgore handled it perfectly, they’re both flawed individuals, but maybe after some time to think they can be civil with one another again at the very least.
…
I have so many emotions about Asgore finally having enough of Toriel’s shit.
You know, I’ve actually been scratching my head over this one since I saw the season?
On one hand the Garrison treated Shiro so badly when he first came back, but on the other hand the fact that he was joking around about it with Sam before he left would imply that he bears no grudge? And by extension would imply that what they put Shiro through was pretty much standard procedure for a situation like that
Let’s remember, Shiro crashed on Earth completely out of nowhere when everyone believed him dead, delirious from panic and probably in a bad state physically, with an alien arm and raving about aliens and Voltron. It does actually make sense that in those conditions the Garrison protocol would be to isolate the unknown and run a series of tests to determine if it’s really Shiro, if he might be dangerous or a threat, if he might be carrying diseases that could decimate the human population, etc. It’s cold but it does make sense, and I think Shiro realizes that in hindsight, hence the joking
So it’s a possibility that their reception for Sam would be completely different because Sam would be arriving in a perfectly calm state, he would probably radio ahead to announce his arrival and explain the situation, and the Garrison might be more prepared for him because they’ve already seen that Shiro was alive so perhaps the other members of the Kerberos mission are too
As much as we like to demonize the Garrison and call them shady for how they covered up the Kerberos mission and how they treated Shiro, they’re still a military institution with a mandate of protecting humanity’s safety and interests and viewed like that, the way they treated Shiro makes more sense as simply following protocol for when an unknown, potentially dangerous object falls from the sky, rather than being deliberately cruel or malicious. So I do think Sam’s reception will be quite different, but still that doesn’t exclude the possibility that the Garrison is a shady organization and they might just as easily imprison Sam to avoid him spreading what he knows
ok but consider: sam radios colleen before he lands and tells her everything before the garrison has a chance to do anything shady
exactly what I was saying. Even if they /do/ try to lock him up to keep their cover (because I do not trust they wouldn’t. sure they might not sedate him and tie him to a table but they are very commited to that “ nope everyone died” cover story) Sam can then be like “ oh well, thing is…My wife already knows. and she has instructions to leak everything I know to the press–with proof– in five minutes, unless I say otherwise, as do some other friends I took the liberty of contacting (the other paladin’s families) so don’t think you can just disappear her, too. we have a color coded phone tree. Now, as I was saying….”
Sleeper agent or clone, the real Shiro is trapped and whether he’s in the astral plane or just buried deep within his own subconscious he needs help to get out but is unable to communicate with anyone. This has been going on for, what, months? Half a year? Longer? He’s been stuck alone all this time so can you image the hope he must’ve felt when he heard everyone calling out to him in a place where he can finally attempt to reach them?
I imagine too, it must have taken a great deal of mental strength to materialize here because, depending on the theory, he either had to fight Haggar’s power for control (thus causing the sleeper Shiro to black out) or he had to extend across planes of existence to reach them all in the space left empty by Kuron (due to him not having a close enough bond with Black to reach the plane). But, before he can say anything at all the team starts disappearing back to the physical world.
Lance is the last one left but when Shiro reaches out he sounds so faded like he’s calling out across multiple planes or perhaps from a very deep place in his own mind. Lance can’t even hear him and gets booted from the scene before he can learn anything about the situation, leaving Shiro again.
It makes me so sad to think Shiro only had that one glimmer of hope in months of darkness. And what makes it worse is that his motivation to communicate with the team is probably fueled more by his need to warn everyone about the situation rather than to save himself.
I had literally no reason to write this I’m just really emotional over Shiro and this scene makes me wanna cry because every time I see it and I just think about Shiro trapped and alone, desperately trying to get out.
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