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gothicrepetitions · 3 months ago

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“The greatest weight.-- What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!" Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Supernatural (2005-2020)//True Detective (2014-)//Time and Personal Identity in Nietzsche’s Theory of Eternal Recurrence, Scott Jenkins//Purgatory with Color TV: Motels Rooms as Liminal Zones in Supernatural, Lorna Jowett//Yellowjackets (2021-)//Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997)//Quote by Guillermo del Toro//One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Marquez Garcia//Trauma Reenactment in the Gothic Loop: A Study on Structures of Circularity in Gothic Fiction, Andrea Juranovszky

#there is. much much more to say about spn and themes of repetition #the gothic repetitions sins of the father past collapsing onto the future etc etc #and supernatural as a show doomed to repeat the same storylines and beats over and over again #and while this web weave does lean a bit into the latter #it's more about. the loop itself and samdean being perpetually stuck #it's driving in circles passing the same sign again and again and saying hey haven't we passed this sign already??#(also have not finished s15.... i should have watched it first but yk i lost four followers because of the name change #got to live up to it at very least #even though it isn't really gothic repetition)#web weaving #sam winchester #dean winchester #supernatural #spn #winchester family #is this wincest....#it is not not-wincest #but yk it's just sam and dean. whatever the fuck they are #also very much tragic and sickening #web weave #comparatives #i do often wonder if like. if the web weave ends up making sense in the end. like if i was too caught up in my thoughts but on paper they #aren’t so well articulated or joined

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