#despised elements of the culture that are omnipresent nonetheless etc etc etc etc
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Worlds #1 complainer about "dog motif" fans accidentally makes story with extremely central, predominant even, dog motif
#I wasn't thinking of it that way because it's like. For lack of a more appropriate word diagetic?#Like it's not invoked symbolically in the narrative or just with association it like. Involves actual dogs and the in-universe culture's#view on dogs. Rather than dog imagery to represent like Loyalty or Devotion or etc#The biggest underlying theme is kind of the human/animal relationship and animals as means of externalizing human states#cultural desires and fears etc etc etc#And in-universe dogs have a very complicated place in this cultural context where they tread the thinnest of lines between#being noble loyal valuable animals and unclean lowly despised scavengers. Both are the same animal and it all depends on the#role they play. And then this divide is narrowing in the context of a famine where the dog becomes competition#for food/consumer of the dead/possible desperation food source itself and one that contaminates the consumer in the process#Street dogs as kind of the ultimate representation of cultural anxieties of enemies infiltrating from within and without#despised elements of the culture that are omnipresent nonetheless etc etc etc etc#And then a cast of main characters where ALL of them in very different capacities are balancing a delicate line of trying their#best to play roles to remain in the 'valued' category and not fall into the 'despised'. Some doing better than others or having#more privileged places in this dynamic than others but all under tremendous strain from it#In a condensed high pressure panopticon setting of a pilgrimage/war party surrounded by like some of the highest#members of the social elite/literal royalty/etc#And anyway bottom line EXTREMELY central 'dog motif' going on here literally every main character interacts with a#'dog motif' in some capacity . Failed fucking step 1
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