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For posts with directly and deliberately contrasting themes or imagery. Sometimes the duality is purely aesthetic, but often it suggests deeper meaning. Such themes include:

• light and dark
• red and blue
• hot and cold
• happy and sad
• good and evil
• peace and destruction
• human and animal
• female and male
• inhibition and zeal
• outward facade and inner feeling
• reality and a heartfelt wish
• normality and insanity

Ideally, the dual themes compete with, offset, or reflect each other and combine to make a greater whole, often communicating with the viewer some truth, secret, or desire.

Related tags:

• altered_reflection
• altered_shadow
• alternate_form
• alternate_species
• dual_persona
• split_screen
• square_crossover

See also

• yin_yang