#thematic

I saw someone saying something like ‘all the bylers’ arguments are about tiny things in the background like mike’s bedroom walls and stuff that honestly “means nothing” in the grand scheme of things’ and like.

My guy. Have you forgotten that this is a TV SHOW, CREATED by people? Not real life? There are entire teams of people who were paid simply to decide what innocuous objects to put in the background of EVERY SINGLE SHOT.

I am currently in school for Art, and if all goes well, pursuing a career in EXACTLY this. (Costume/Production design for film). At the student level, with like 100-200 dollar budgets and 2-3 month pre-prod timelines, there is definitely some slightly less thought out set decoration, I will grant you. But even on student projects, a LOT of planning and thought goes into things like posters on walls and lighting and ESPECIALLY color palettes. Imagine how much you can do with YEARS, and MILLIONS of dollars, and HUNDREDS of people?

All for some mileven to say it all (and I quote) “means nothing”?

These things are made by artists, for the consumption of their audiences. EVERYTHING is intentional, and you can bet they had so much fun deciding what to tease where, and how. To say that dissecting the backgrounds is overboard and delusional is exactly contrary to the artists’ intention.

The same can be said about plot decisions- this story has been crafted by writers, unlike real people’s lives. They will craft a story that is satisfying, compelling, thematically poetic, etc. Real life doesn’t work like that; all the evidence we have for byler as a likely outcome for s5 would NOT be evidence for a couple in real life, because real life isn’t created by artists to be thematically appealing. In their desperation to deny byler, many milevens seem to have forgotten that *this* story was brought into the world by *artists*.

As far back as volume 1, the protagonists were launched into the air and needed to have “landing strategies” as they fell

Then they were in a forest called Forever Fall

The fall of beacon, of course

Cinder Fall

The Fall maiden being such a significant lynchpin in the Fall of Beacon and Pyrrha’s death

Ironwood’s fall into tyranny

Ambrosious’ warning not to fall

Falling into the Ever After

A book called After The Fall

Multiple volume openings using the symbolism of the characters falling

Yang saying she feels like if she lets go she’ll fall, Blake replying they’re already falling, creating the first time “fall” has been used in a positive way which is really interesting!?

I’m sure there’s more, too

• Taylor + Lisa = SmugBug = uncanny insights, could be mistaken for precognition ; reckless self endangerment

• Taylor + Rachel = WolfSpider = sudden not-necessarily-proportional violence ; brain no longer maps to human interaction

• Taylor + Grue = Dark&Creepy = obfuscation, macho power displays ; power theft

• Taylor + Regent = QueenBee = false sense of emotional detachment ; controlling people but not their minds

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The Beast of Hadingley Hill - HoratioMarissa

The Stargazer & The Star —

She spent her nights looking up.

With cold hands wrapped around warm mugs, pages filled with notes she barely understood yet, and eyes that learned the sky by patience rather than magic, she did not expect the stars to answer her.

She only hoped they were listening. And somewhere beyond sight, one of them was.

The Star had watched for a long time. She did not descend in fire or command the night to part. She came slowly, like light reaching a distant shore, careful not to break what she touched.

When they finally met, it was not grand. It was gentle.

A hand lifted. Another answered. For a moment, the distance between earth and space grew small enough to cross.

And when the night returned to silence, the Stargazer was not the same.