#chronicle of a disappearance

[gael-garcia]

Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996, Elia Suleiman 🇵🇸) (watch on netflix)

[petravonqunt]

Chronicle of a Disappearance (dir. Elia Suleiman, 1996)

[maggiecheungs]

Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) dir. Elia Suleiman

[starjammin]

“Hi, pretty !”

[i-am-trying-my-best-okay]

(Tentatively) 288 days till The Wicked Powers (Until Further Notice)

[pip3dream]

can’t believe we’re gonna get Kit and Ty ALONE for an ENTIRE book and they ARENT dating

[completeoveranalysis]

[8]

WAIT

WAIIIIIT

WAIT HELLO ONE MOMENT WE’RE REWRITING THE SECRET CANON HERE

I HAVE TO UNLEARN THE MOST TERRIBLE LORE EVIL WOLVERINE DROPPED ON US UNANNOUNCED ONE TIME 

ARE YOU READY OK DO YOU REMEMEMBER THAT ONE TIME WE SUDDENLY HAD EVIL WOLVERINE JUMP INTO THE PLOTLINE FOR NO REASON TO ANNOUNCE THAT HE CLONED SAKURA AND KILLED HER OFF SCREEN DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT IT WAS AGES PROBABLY (CHAPTER 181, IT TURNS OUT) TO KYLE RONDART FOR NO REASON

AND THAT WAS THE BIGGEST NARRATIVE BETRAYAL TO ME PERSONALLY BECAUSE THERE WAS NO HINT OF THAT ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE PLOT AND THERE WAS NO REASON FOR HIM TO HAVE DONE THAT

WELL! LUCKILY FOR US HE WAS WRONG THE WHOLE TIME

He cloned Sakura for… like, insurance purposes or something. No wait hang on, let me see. I think I originally had assumed that he cloned Sakura so that he would have a back up Sakura just in case anything went wrong. BUT, he explains it this way - that he cloned her the same way he cloned Syoaran but her soul was perfectly copied also. And then he destroyed the original. SO we're now getting the context that he must have assumed that Cloning Result was an incredible success but for the original Sakura it was a complete bust and the original body was not very useful anymore. So he had it destroyed.

It's a bit weird because in that previous conversation Evil Wolverine has with Kyle he still sounds very excited over the fact that both the body AND the soul were perfectly cloned - and so he didn't need the original anymore. I suppose the benefit of this would be... that a manmade body doesn't really deteriorate like a normal one does? And so THAT suited his plans?

But they way Yuuko describes it, it sounds like after he cloned Sakura he put her original soul into the new body and assumed the old body was no good anymore, and had it destroyed. Ie, that only the body was cloned and not the soul. And so Yuuko swept up the contents and could reassemble it, ready for her soul to go back into it later.

But I'm not sure that entirely connects either, because while Syaoran is entirely a man-made creation (which is the reason Yuuko says this is possible at all), Sakura technically was not, originally. Like, she WAS a real person, with a real soul, who had her real body destroyed and her real soul put into a clone body. And it’s the real body that was reassembled with the real soul put back into it. Which is not like Syaoran at all. UNLESS, like Evil Wolverine says, he DID clone both her body and soul, which WOULD make sense as to why she can be reassembled in this way, because the clone soul would not die, and it can be reassembled.

BUT that doesn't seem to be what Yuuko is saying happened.

Like, it quite specifically is not the clone body that is being reassembled here, since that was the empty body we’ve been chasing ever since the Infinity arc, that has now fused into Super Sakura. That body is still there. It’s the ORIGINAL LIVING body that is being reconstituted, and I'm not sure why that is possible. Unless that IS technically possible BECAUSE it was empty - because her soul was transferred into the clone body, in which Yuuko is right and Evil Wolverine is wrong.

UNLESS UNLESS we are also saying that this Sakura, even before Evil Wolverine cloned her, is TECHNICALLY ALSO A TYPE OF CLONE, since with all of reality rewritten (the first time, when Lava Lamp made his wish to save Not!Sakura) she was technically an entirely new person who didn’t exist before (because the original one was trapped in time?), and therefore she kind of WAS created by way of man-made actions. And therefore kind of a clone? Since her name IS Sakura when the original original original Sakura's name was NOT Sakura?

IS THAT WHAT WE’RE DOING? IS THAT THE LOGIC?

OR, like, is she TECHNICALLY a clone by way of the cloning process being done to her, leaving her original body as “empty” and therefore practically the same as a clone body?

IS IT ONE OF THOSE? 

IS IT???

Either Evil Wolverine or Yuuko is wrong about what happened, or there's a translation quirk that happened between their two explanations, but EITHER WAY I’m just going to assume one of my two guesses is right until otherwise corrected by CLAMP. 

MEANWHILE Syaoran is being prompted to choose SO I FEEL LIKE THIS IS A BIG MOMENT THAT THEY WOULD USE AS A CLIFFHANGER

*checks*

YUP THAT’S IT THAT'S THE CLIFFHANGER

[culiehua]

le fandom, 24/7 since the letter dropped:

[kitty-gray]

Anyone else noticed how Livvy wasn't mentioned?

[tiny-evillious]

The full canvas!

Calling this "the electric kettle fucking broke so i got so mad i drew 20 characters while waiting for us to get a new kettle, until then we're boiling water in a pot" but since i'm queueing these the kettle should be here a week ago from posting this (update the new kettle is good. i can make tea 2-4 times a day now again!!!!!). In other news I'm posting these on twitter now too! tiny_evillious on twitter. cheers!

[gael-garcia]

Elia Suleiman's depiction/recreation of 2 French tourists in "Israel" talking about the "complex" "conflict"

—Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996, 🇵🇸)

[poetpony6890]

My favourite characters and how likely I think they are to be evil in TWP

Simon Lewis - 2/10

Alec Lightwood- Might crash out and say some evil things but not become evil 4/10

Lily Chen - fuck you Cassie. 9/10

Magnus Bane 0/10 might die though don’t know yet

Kieran - 7/10 yeah I think he’s gonna do evil things but for good reason

Elliott the vampire - 3.5/10

Ty - hmm was hinted at being evil? 5.5/10

Izzy - my queen, never evil 0/10

Kit - might have some powers he can’t control but not evil 6.9/10

Jace - bros evil normally 10/10

Janus - eviler Jace 20/10

[tallertysupremacy]

If I had a nickel for every time in the shadowhunter chronicles a character was introduced and someone was like “yeah this guy is kinda annoying, but his brother is sooo much worse” and then when we meet the brother he’s basically just a misunderstood sweetheart I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[arista-essendon]

"I only learned one thing - that I, too, would have died if it weren't for this man. This man who scared me so much I vomited out of fear. He protected me."

Hadrian Blackwater Moodboard

[puppyluver256]

the duality of man

[completeoveranalysis]

About Tumblr

I’ll add this to the pinned post as well but on the off chance that Tumblr does suddenly disappear and take this whole blog with it you will be able to find me on Patreon under the same name. 

And don’t worry - it doesn’t cost anything by default. In case you haven’t used Patreon before you can follow someone without paying anything, and any communications from me there would be free and viewable by anyone. Paying anything on Patreon is always entirely optional. 

What would my plan be if Tumblr disappears? Who knows! I’ll save the actual decisions for if it actually happens, but I’ve always had a few options in mind every time Tumblr threatened to disappear in the past. 

On the plus side I have finally managed to download an entire updated archive of the blog just this week so nothing will be irreplaceable, and we can move forward in a new place if we need to.