No No No NO! “The Idol” Could’ve Been Directed By A WOMAN Until The Weekend Got His Grubby Little

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H2O: Just Add Water S01E03 | The Secret Circle S01E02

Beyoncé in 2004 ｡⊹ ♡.*࿐ ｡ ₊ ·

✨Venus Exaltation✨

crane wives album covers i did for a class last year! hoping to get the other ones done before beyond beyond beyond comes out

Analyzing The Abilities of Characters From The Boys Pt. XV

🐈‍⬛Kimiko🐈‍⬛

Kimiko is one of the core members of “DaBois” and a fan favorite, rightfully so. I imagine she was supposed to be this world’s version of X-23, but with all the charm of America’s favorite terrorist assassin.

Her primary ability is her healing factor, allowing her to regrow limbs, instantly heal wounds, and even revive herself from death. This is coupled with great strength and agility, making her a formidable combatant.

Her origin story paints her as being abducted by a terrorist group that forced her to compete in routine death matches to weed out the weak from the strong. This was most likely what forced her body to adapt a healing factor; Kimiko needed to keep getting back up after every cut, gash, punch, or gunshot, so being able to heal instantaneously would be the most useful adaptation.

I find great tragedy in her character, seeing as how she’s been conditioned into a weapon by Shining Light only to be “freed” by The Boys, and inadvertently groomed into becoming Bitch’s Butcher’s personalized weapon. She openly resents this and shows herself to be miserable at the prospect of having to slaughter more people since being released from her cage, but this reaction seemingly annoys Butcher (one of the many reasons I’m salivating on that man’s death, but whatever).

I enjoy seeing her character finally being able to speak by the end of S4, seeing as how her voice seemed to be a control tactic the show used for her characterization. She was expected to be a silent assassin, which she internalized into being entirely mute to grapple with the monster she believed she had to become. With her finally being allowed to wail out for Frenchie, I wonder in this insinuates that she no longer views herself as a killer, but now as a rightful victim of all the suffering she’s endured. I also think it’s worth noting that this was brought about in a scene that reintroduced Cate, which I found symbolically interesting, seeing as how Cate’s ability is dependent on her verbal communication, so seeing Cate’s entrance into Kimiko’s life eliciting Kimiko’s voice was a fun little detail.

Aphrodite energy ✨️

RIKKI

hey guys! this was a while ago. I have a few more in my art vault lol

Feeling a lot of feelings about how Hadestown doesn't present the story as "Orpheus turned around and everything fell apart and there was nothing anyone could do to fix it" and instead presents a story that says "he turned around, he doubted, he failed, but if we keep telling his story maybe one day Orpheus won't" and it's not just about Orpheus as a single character, it's a bout every Orpheus, everyone who runs up against a system they can't change and fails and everyone who sees that failure and gets back up and says "maybe I can change it now" and tries again. That Orpheus failed isn't the takeaway of the story. The takeaway is that one day he might succeed.

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