doES ANYONE ELSE REALIZE THAT WE’RE LIKE, THE FIRST GENERATION ON TUMBLR

GIVE IT 10-15 YEARS AND WE’LL ALL BE GROWN UP AND AN ENTIRE NEW SET OF KIDS WILL BE ON HERE BLOGGING ABOUT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOWS AND BANDS AND MOVIES AND BOOKS

THE ONLY THING THEY’LL STILL BE BLOGGING ABOUT THE SAME AS WE WERE IS DOCTOR WHO

HOPEFULLY

We’ll probably all be blogging about Sherlock season 4.

maybe

7/22/2013

happy decade anniversary to this post

Jamil and Kalim have an inherently tragic relationship

Twst is full of a lot of unique relationships and interactions. A lot of the characters aren’t friends in the traditional sense. What was the most compelling to me was the story of two boys tied together and torn apart by the society they live in. 

Jamil’s family are servants to Kalim’s family. Jamil was born a servant and expected to remain a servant. He was tasked with taking care of Kalim when he was a child himself.

I see a lot of people misinterpreting the reason behind Jamil’s overblot, both not having sympathy for his past or not liking him because he’s mean and Kalim is nice. It’s not that Jamil necessarily wants to be mean; he’s an entirely different person when he’s allowed to enjoy himself or engaging in something he loves- 

But 99% of the time, he’s trapped, and he knows he’s trapped. 

He’s been in servitude since he was born. His own parents command that he always let Kalim win in everything they do- competitions, grades, everything. They ask their own child, who is incredibly talented and brilliant, to purposefully fail. They drill into him that Kalim is more important than him, and he gets punished for even daring to ask Kalim to play something else while they’re literally children. 

All the adults around him echo the same sentiments. They know Jamil is talented and smart, but he isn’t important. He should be giving Kalim every victory that belongs to him; he should put his line on the line for Kalim constantly. 

He almost died for Kalim’s sake, and with the constant assassination attempts, it’s likely that one of them might just be enough to do him in. 

The main point of conflict for him is not only is he meant to suffer in silence, unable to communicate with anyone how he feels because no one cares. He’s not able to do what he wants to do or be what he wants to be…and Kalim unfortunately didn’t see this until it was too late. 

Jamil has tried to communicate with Kalim subtly or even telling him up front “Please don’t do this” “Ask me first before you do something like this” and it always falls on deaf ears. Not because Kalim doesn’t care, but he doesn’t notice, and his upbringing has shielded him from noticing stuff like that. 

Jamil resents Kalim for him, albeit unintentionally, being a big part of the reason why he isn’t free. Jamil’s one shot of getting to be himself by going to school overseas was diminished as soon as Kalim followed him, and so his job continued and never ends. 

With Kalim, it’s an entirely different story that’s just as sad. Kalim definitely has more power in the relationship, but he’s just as powerless in the life he lives up to this point. 

Kalim suffers from multiple kidnappings and multiple assassination attempts. He’s been poisoned as a child repeatedly, even poisoned by family members that want him dead just to get closer to his father’s wealth. 

He didn’t do anything except be born as the eldest son and heir to a fortune. 

If he can’t even trust his own family members not to kill him in painful and violent ways, then who can he trust? 

Jamil was all he had. He was the only person who never attempted to poison him, who always did everyone with him (He was forced to.) Jamil always takes care of him, and always helps him (he was forced to.) Despite everything that happens to him, it is Jamil’s near-death experience on his behalf that he takes to heart. 

How is a child supposed to grapple with the fact that people want him dead? Some of his family wants him dead. Jamil was probably the only person he could trust unconditionally (and even that wasn’t true) 

When Jamil left for school, he likely had no one. He was left with his family members, some of whom he couldn’t fully trust, even with his optimism and desire for happiness. He wanted to be with his best friend (who was forced to be his best friend and didn’t want him there)

Even when Jamil betrayed him, Kalim was willing to just take his word for it and let it go because he would’ve believed him regardless if he knew he used him. Because Jamil wouldn’t do that. 

Kalim was kept in the dark about so much. There’s a chance he doesn’t know who’s been trying to kill him; he wasn’t told that Jamil was forced to give him his accomplishments, and he didn’t know his position of housewarden was bought for him. All he knew was that Jamil was his friend and that he loved him.

They’re stuck together, Jamil wants to have freedom, and Kalim doesn’t want to let go. It’s neither of their fault their lives turned out this way. Their home has strict hierarchies. 

I’m sure when they were young, very young before Jamil’s parents and other adults started enforcing certain rules, these two could play as normal. Their positions as rich heir and servant wouldn’t have mattered until it did. 

Kalim can treat Jamil as a friend, he can love him with all of his big heart, but Jamil still has an obligation to take care of him. They aren’t equal as they are, so Kalim isn’t the same as a friend in Jamil’s eyes, and that’s so sad. 

I always hope, if twst as a story gets to this point, that Kalim will set Jamil free like Aladdin freeing the genie, so that Jamil can experience a life owned by only himself. 

Maybe someday he’ll come back, and what kept them apart as children won’t be there anymore, Kalim can have a friend, and Jamil can live his life, and they can both get past their trauma. I have so many thoughts about them, this is too long. Just manifesting any development (because Chapter 5 did have some and I love it but I needed MORE)

twst 2023 valentine gift COMPLETE message compilation!!

The Devildom when they watch the news and realize their entire government is some human's harem:

Disclaimer: Sorry, this took so long to get out! These are my thoughts on the new Tamashina-Mina event that just passed and how they reflect on Leona’s character. I think that maybe this event could shed more light on his character or could help some people appreciate him more! Or not, and I’m just crazy. This is just MY opinion, so feel free to disagree. I think he is a nuanced character who is not all good or bad and I just wanted to put down my thoughts about it. (Spoilers for the event and VERY slight spoilers for the very first part of Chapter 7, but nothing major.)

Tagging: @anevilbunnyinthehat, @cherryjkj, @artistfaery, @comingyourlugubriousness, @just-patchy, @writing-heiress, @twst-the-night-away, @the-monday-witch, @aroseyhyena, @thebettybook Anyway without further ado-

i… i had to

ANOTHER THING PEOPLE HAVE MENTIONED

I drew Jamil clinging to one of his pillows- the green and brown one there, because it's YET ANOTHER THING that I see other artists do and it's SO CUTE

He's just so emotionally and physically closed off, like you expect Kalim to be the more clingy sleeper since he's more outwardly affectionate so idk Jamil being someone who clings in his sleep is so endearing to me??

Like that's adorable as hell 😭😭

TWST - Dorm Analysis: Morals and Values

What gets a person sorted into one dorm or another? What dorm might you end up in if you were to attend the illustrious Night Raven College? Well look no further than here for the answers to your struggles and questions!

Truth be told I saw somebody try and do this once, but their analysis felt rather biased and left me unsatisfied, so here’s a little something I like to call: “Soul’s Deep-Dive Analysis into the Morals and Values of the Seven Dorms of Night Raven College”!

Keep reading

Anne Rice on transgender people

Writer, actor and activist Phaylen Fairchild wrote a Medium post calling Rice her friend and “first LGBTQ ally,” recalling when she reached out to Rice in the early 2000s via the email address listed on the author’s website. Not only did Rice respond, she encouraged Fairchild’s newfound writing aspirations. 

“At the time I was a navigating difficult territory of gender and sexuality, and she was the first person I came out to as gay,” Fairchild said in the piece. 

“Anne, although I never heard her voice, felt like a safe place. … She gave me confidence to live authentically, telling me ‘Your life is a story, every day is a new page. Live a story worthy of telling again and again.’”

In 2009, Fairchild came out to Rice again, this time as transgender.   

“In typical Anne fashion, she thought it was fabulous,” Fairchild remembered. 

“She told me at the time that she believed transgender people were sacred, that we possessed a unique gift of life experience that few ever would, which would allow us to see the world from ‘a view from the greatest height.’ She shared with me stories of trans figures in history that she had learned about in her own extensive studies. ‘The most fascinating figures in mythology were always transgender or genderless’ she once told me. ‘And in so many cultures reaching back thousands of years, transgender and intersex people were deified, perceived as wise and powerful.’”

“Anne Rice was the first person who made me feel that it was OK to be comfortable in my skin, and that my journey as a transgender woman was special — not because I was by any means odd, weird or different — but that I was worthy of celebrating because my very existence was ‘a remark on the magic of the complex human condition,’” she continued.

from this article.

Kalim’s lack of self-preservation and his over-abundance of care towards others

Something I noticed and was always interested in when it came to Kalim is the sort of underlying context to just how nice he is, and his perceptions of himself vs others. 

Usually when it comes to characters who have a vast amount of wealth and the ability to have whatever they want, you’d think of characters who are entirely self-obsessed and believe the world revolves around them, but that isn’t the case with Kalim. 

Yes, he is out of touch and does things without thinking, but it’s not because he values himself over others, it’s more of him not understanding how other people think but still trying to make them happy somehow. 

Kalim’s VA explained it very well and has a good grasp on his character, and I think his take is quintessential- 

“His desires have always been granted, so he doesn’t need to think that much. He doesn’t have that much longing for his desires, right? That’s why he makes people around him happy. Seeing that instead makes him happy. He doesn’t think too much (for himself) because he’s enjoying seeing other people happy.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwHMphJkLr8&t=68s)

Kalim has rarely felt unhappy, his needs were always met by his loving family and he was very protected. He had his share of terrifying experiences with attempted poisonings and kidnappings, but those were not things that shook him. They are bad experiences, but ones that Kalim can talk about in passing without feeling too unhappy. He generally regards himself as very hard to scare/upset despite going through all of that.

It’s not his own safety or life that he cares too strongly about. Either be believes nothing bad could happen because he’s survived so much and has been kept protected from harm well (like how him almost falling to his death in his dorm uniform SSR vignette wasn’t too much of a big deal, Jamil saved him as he always manages to)

Much like his interest in making other people happy and seeing them happy, his concern that very well could be used for himself is projected onto other people- Primarily Jamil. 

In his dorm uniform SSR vignette he reveals that Jamil almost died eating something poisoned that was meant to kill him, the way Kalim recites that story is so drastically different in tone from his other stories, that event undeniably shook him to the point where he can’t eat curry and bans it from his own household. 

It’s unfair of him to do that, but it shows how he can move on from his own poisoning with hardiness but it’s Jamil’s poisoning that brings back traumatic memories. It’s so much different to see it happen to someone else, especially when it was meant for you. 

I’m sure the people in his household were more relieved that Kalim wasn’t poisoned, they probably told him it was a good thing that Jamil ate the curry and not him. 

Despite likely being surrounded with assertions that his life is more important than Jamil’s, it clearly didn’t do anything to make him believe so, because he doesn’t think about himself or view himself like that in the slightest. 

His unyielding empathy and compassion for others, the source of what makes him happy more so than being happy himself, is also what caused him to be so much more affected by what happened to Jamil than what happens to himself. 

This plays directly into how Kalim doesn’t care much for his own safety but  cares a lot more for others, with Jamil also being the main subject of this concern in a lot of instances (I’d say MC also is included in this, but Jamil tends to be the center in a lot of vignettes and story in a lot more examples)

It’s interesting how Kalim will generally partake in dangerous things, but the moment he thinks Jamil could be in danger he changes his approach and becomes more aware like in Jamil’s ceremonial robe vignette.

He even becomes more firm and stern when it comes to getting Jamil to do as he says. He rarely ever asserts his authority over Jamil in this way unless it’s in regards to his safety, and to other people as well like in chapter 6 when he snaps at Jade for implying that Jamil and others might be dead after their kidnapping. 

I do actually love how Kalim doesn’t use his wealth, power, and authority over people for his own selfish gain, but rather to (try to) lift people up, protect others and to put a stop to something that could be dangerous and bad. 

He really gains nothing for himself, he doesn’t want that, what he wants is for people to be safe and happy, and I adore that about him. He doesn’t always go about it the right way but it’s so genuine. 

Does this also mean there’s something even deeper behind not thinking about himself past his needs always being met? Maybe, especially for angst reasons. Because especially after chapter 4, it feels awful to be told you’re at fault for someone’s misery, even if that isn’t entirely true. That hurts so bad. Because knowing Kalim he’s absolutely more upset his friend is miserable more than his friend betraying him and his trust.

Jamil Viper Character Analysis

Jamil is a character that I just adore. With all of his passive aggression and snarkiness, something we don’t get to see nearly as often with some of the other characters.

But before we get into this, I wanted to discuss something I noticed. That being people hating Jamil’s character because of what he did to Kalim. Seeing it purely from Kalim’s perspective instead of Jamil’s. And I feel like I should point out that there’s a reason that Kalim still trusts Jamil even after what he did. Something I think people should think as to they why more than anything. Because people just look at it as Kalim being a naturally forgiving person, when there’s more to it.

Now as for the why, well that’s simple. Jamil could have done so much worse if he really wanted to. Because he doesn’t actually hate Kalim, he hates what Kalim represents. And that’s the system. A system that Jamil couldn’t get away from. That he can’t get away from.

That’s why Jamil only wanted to either, A) take Kalim’s Dorm Leader position from him (keep in mind, I’m not saying that Jamil wanted to be Dorm Leader, he just didn’t want it to be Kalim) or B) Have Kalim cause a big enough scene that he would go home. That was it. That was Jamil’s goal. Besides maybe being a little humiliating at most, considering Jamil only did the personality changes over break, he wouldn’t have actually caused any lasting harm to Kalim.

It just got way out of hand because Azul and the twins got involved. And then Jade said he livestreamed the whole thing, which would have been horrifying to Jamil. Because he wouldn’t just be thinking of himself. If word ever got back to the Asim’s about what he orchestrated, it wouldn’t just be Jamil on the chopping block. It would be his entire family. It’s why he went so hysterical and overblotted. Because he’s thinking he just ruined his entire family.

Keep in mind, for the Asim’s poisoning in their family is normal. Who knows what they would do to a family that serves them if they found out they were betrayed? Let alone, that the person that was betrayed was their first-born son Kalim. This is a world where child labor, that slavery (because that’s exactly what the relationship between the Asim’s and the Viper’s is implied to be, even if no one wants to say it) is normal. There’s a chance that Jamil’s family could have either, all been imprisoned or killed. It’s no wonder Jamil completely lost his mind.

I can’t say if Azul and the twins realized what the implications of what they were alluding to meant or not, but I can honestly see it going either way. Maybe they did and that was Azul’s way of trying to back Jamil into a corner so he could have him for himself. Maybe they didn’t and that’s why they didn’t consider the idea of Jamil losing it and overblotting. Who knows.

Because all Jamil was trying to do was make the system more barely to deal with, not ruin his family. And let’s talk about the system and how its shaped him and his family. And why that makes Jamil who he is.

His entire life, Jamil has had to bend over backwards for Kalim and the Asim family. With the pressure that if he says and does anything wrong, he could ruin himself and his entire family. He would constantly have to be walking on eggshells. And he could never get away, because even on his breaks Kalim would seek him out. It would be a constant anxiety in the back of his mind.

Because no matter how kind Kalim and the rest of the Asim’s are, Jamil’s family would never let Jamil forget the position that they were in. That they constantly had to be thinking about how their actions effect the Asim’s. Their actions were never for themselves, it was always for the Asim’s, never anybody else. Jamil never got the chance to be and grow as a person because his family never let him out of the fear that he may offend someone in the Asim family.

With this in mind, no matter how Kalim acts or how Jamil might try to view him as a friend, he just can’t. Because he can’t even be himself. He would constantly have to be wracked with anxiety in the chance that something goes wrong, even if it wasn’t his fault. Because if something happened to Kalim, he would be blamed even if he did nothing wrong. And his parents never let him forget that. He never had the chance to relax.

He had to be worse than Kalim because if a mere servant was better that their master at anything, it would be a great disrespect. Because Jamil was always tasked with the task of being Kalim’s caretaker. Being his bodyguard. Had to live with the paranoia of not only his actions, but with the fact that someone might try to harm Kalim and it would fall on him to protect Kalim or him and his family would pay the price.

It’s why Jamil now insists on making all of Kalim’s food. It’s at least something he can control. Because then he wouldn’t have to worry about being a taste tester and being poisoned to protect Kalim if he was the one that made all the food. He can’t even enjoy something as basic as cooking because it’s not a hobby, it’s a survival skill.

And things got so much worse at NRC. Because Jamil was the only person that Kalim could turn to, he had even more pressure on his back than normal. It’s why he either wanted Kalim to lose the Dorm Leader position or go home. Because if Kalim was Dorm Leader, it was really Jamil doing all the work while Kalim got all the credit, on top of having to make sure nothing happened to Kalim.

It’s why he does what he does. Because Kalim is unknowingly condescending in his actions because he doesn’t even know what he’s doing, which just makes Jamil even more upset. He never wanted to harm Kalim. He just doesn’t want to deal with the responsibility that is Kalim, because it’s something he never had a say in.

Even when Kalim gives him permission to act as himself and to finally have the freedom to achieve all that he can, that’s all that it is. It’s not true freedom, it’s something he was given permission to do. It’s why there’s still that level of hesitancy in Jamil’s actions. Because he’s still just a servant. Something in the back of his mind he can never get away from.

Because even when he’s given permission to act as himself, he just naturally tries to give credit to Kalim. To people of a higher standing than him. Because the difference of positions is so vast, something he’s constantly been aware of, that he can’t get away from it. Even when he finally has the chance. And that understandably, makes Jamil bitter. A vicious cycle he can’t get away from because of the family he happened to be born into. Even if he adores his family.

And the worse part about it is that the Asim’s and Kalim aren’t even cruel or horrible people. They are kind. Which just adds salt to the wound, because Jamil can’t even hate them for it because they aren’t bad people. Which’ll make it sting all the more.

Goncharov score masterpost

I want to make a post to keep track of all the Goncharov score that’s been uploaded to tumblr, so I will link to all the one’s I’ve found so far and update with any new ones that come up (if you know any I’m missing please share the link!)

Main Theme uploaded by @caramiaaddio

Main Theme (End Titles) uploaded by @if-only-angels-could-prevail

Main Theme (Reprise) uploaded by @raccoonfink

The Bridge Breaks uploaded by @nicewizard

The Clocktower uploaded by @dungeonmastersconsortium

Farewell Scene uploaded by @levuna (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Tempus Fugit - “Clock Theme” uploaded by @trupowieszcz  (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Goncharov Theme in Minor uploaded by @mapplejuice  (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Katya’s Leitmotif (Vinyl Rip) uploaded by @unscharf-an-den-raendern  (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Andrey’s Theme uploaded by @the-frosty-mac (pointed out to me by @muzic4sewerratz , thank you!)

It Is True (Extract) uploaded by @hex-of-els (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

Memories Of Water - Goncharov Soundtrack uploaded by @rismrus (pointed out to me by themself– please do feel free to toot your own horn!)

Katya’s Sonata uploaded by @arcanistvysoren

“For My Love” Andrey’s Serenade uploaded by @shits-getting-weird (pointed out to me by themself)

Stolen Time uploaded by @avatar-of-the-vast (I lost track of who pointed this one out to me I’m sorry but my notifications at the moment are A Lot, so thank you to whoever it was and I’m sorry I don’t know who you were)

Sharing A Dance uploaded by @the-frosty-mac (pointed out to me by themself)

In The Boathouse uploaded by @madame-karenina

What Was And Will Be uploaded by @piano-flute​

Overture on the Clocktower uploaded by @dead-minecraft-fandoms​ (pointed out to me by @mccoppinscrapyard, thank you!)

Privyet Goncharov uploaded by @rismrus (pointed out to me by themself)

Goncharov’s Gun uploaded by @netcup

Sofia’s Serenade to Katya, from the deleted scene in the boat where she sings “Come Raggio di Sol,” uploaded by @melongumi

Dockside #2, one of the unreleased tracks, uploaded by @reptilemodernism

Unnamed Fragment from Goncharov’s death scene, uploaded by @quizshow1994

Bonus:

Cover of the song Goncharov (2010) by @idiopathicsmile  (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

At Goncharov’s Gate (PC Version), song written for the PC game with a Super NES port released in 1994 for PC-DOS, uploaded by @badgraph1csghost (pointed out to me by @graduatedpillowmonster, thank you!)

One of the official trailers was recently recovered by @talkshowhost1996

being on tumblr for the goncharov incident has made me realize how those ancient stories and myths got made up. some fucker went "yeah that lightning bolt? his name is zeus" and everyone just ran with it

​if elon permanently bans misha from twitter he’ll be forced to… he’ll be forced to come b…. No i shan’t say

Dear Apple...

You have awakened a sleeping beast. Our war cry will ring throughout the world, an unending dirge for the girls and the weed we’ve lost.

We are Superwholock.

We are Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons.

We are Steven Universe.

We are Bee Shrek Test in the House.

We are Danganronpa.

We are the Hunger Games.

We are Karl Marx and Frederich Engels.

We are Lord of the Rings.

We are Undertale.

We are the Once-ler.

We are touching butts and buying pizza.

We are One Direction.

We are BTS.

We are Marvel.

We are Avatar: The Last Airbender.

We are Gravity Falls.

We are Free!

We are Ouran High School Host Club.

We are My Little Pony.

We are Dan and Phil.

We are Loki.

We are Spamton. We are IBS Warriors.

We are flower crowns.

We got the booty.

We are all of that, and much more.

We are Tumblr.

And if you keep underestimating us? We have MUCH more on our side…

We are Homestuck. You can be our kismesis.

We are Dream SMP. We know how to start a revolution.

We are Warriors. We can overthrow any tyrannical leader. In Starclan we trust.

We are Woody. We can round you up.

We are the teachers. We can school you.

We are a family. We come together… and make dreams real…

We are storytellers. We have been through a lot in our lives.

We are Naruto.

We are every anime, even the… weird sides.

We are iCarly.

We are Eddsworld.

We are yaoi.

We are Five Nights at Freddy’s.

We are MLG.

But most of all… we are all together in this. We will not fall to you and your wretched desires! This is your calling card, Apple and Tumblr staff!

This is also now a calling card to Elon Musk!

See you in Elon’s Palace, fellow Yaoi Thieves of Tumblr!

i went through the anthology on a whim and cropped some of my favorite funny faces

ok have a joke 

Anakins face as he goes up

Hayden Christensen as Lorenzo Virgin Territory (2007) dir. David Leland