#doesn't mean i don't enjoy sareth fanfics

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Labyrinth rant because I love it and need to vent it out

So Jim Henson's Labyrinth is my new fixation.

I kinda wish it was one of my childhood movies, I'm sure I would have loved it just like I loved The Neverending Story, but I'm also happy I discovered it now that I can decode the subtext in it.

It speaks a lot to me. I still am very keen on escaping from reality through fantasy as a coping mechanism, just like Sarah. I can't help but see her adventure not as real, but as a dream become physical. For me, what we see is just a manifestation of an internal struggle. That means her own mind is giving herself the chance to understand a lesson. She's actually fighting not to let her own tendency to escapism dominate her this much anymore, at least not to the point of discarding serious responsabilities. That's why Jareth, who embodies that, is a selfish, bullying tyrant and the Labyrinth is in decay. Reminds me of Scar's reign lol

I think it makes sense that Jareth embodies both her love for fantasy since childhood and the ghost of sexuality. Both (would) inspire her the utmost pleasure, just since two different points of her life.

I love Jareth's and Sarah's dynamic, in that sense. I love her struggle against the temptations he represents. I love how perfectly tempting he is. Yet I'm so satisfied by her final decision to let him down. About her love for fantasy, she's too mature. About sexuality, she's still too young. Both things need to be limited.

I also love how the conclusion isn't about getting rid of some part of you in order to grow up, but to balance all you parts. Your seek of happiness and pleasure and what it inspires it don't need to be erased, just not weight too much. It implies that you don't have to have shame and get rid of anything, every part of you is inherently good just because it helps to build you. It's up to you to balance the components.

It's reassuring and empowering.

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Hi!Iv'e been going trough your fanfic reccomendations and i was wondering if you ever had read keturah and lord death?It has a similiar dynamics with sareth, with the heroine trying to bargain with death to save her village from the plague while death pines over her ,with a good amount of stalking!!!You can read it online for free on booksvooks if you are interested!

I've read it a few weeks ago actually.

Although I don't consider it villain x heroine, I do think that, among everything I've read this year, it had the best prose. The writing is truly beautiful.

Maybe if I had not read it expecting Lord Death to be a villain (a tragic one, but a villain still), I might have enjoyed it for the folk tale it is.

But, as Keturah clearly states by the end of the book, he was just a force of nature necessary to give people's life meaning. He does his job and doesn't take enjoyment from it, nor regret.

In fact, through the integrity of the book, he even goes out of his way to not kill people when their time was due to please Kethura.

So that much shows he is more like a dark figure and his relationship with Kethura an allegory for acceptance of one's own mortality.

It was cute, but weirdly enough I shipped her more with that young noble Lord. He was hell cute.