screencaps and conclusion from understanding snapewives: religion, fandom, sociology & erotica - biz barclay (2022)
we're small. we are so small. we are so small and we are so alone. trapped in these miserable flesh sacks just screaming out our retinas and all the faces and all the holes that we can find just to desperately desperately try and connect with people.
derrida says that religion circulates in the world, it imposes itself in a particularly palpable manner within the conceptual apparatus of international law and global political rhetoric. the SHIT'S EVERYWHERE, of COURSE it's gonna make its way onto the internet, of COURSE it's gonna make its way into fiction, it is a phenomenon born out of people feeling shit at the same time! of COURSE there's no natural boundary to it; it's chaos theory, it's religion, it's the internet, it's people, it's all fucking chaos. writing off the snapewives as some kind of "top ten wildest crazy shit to happen on the internet psycho women" does a disservice to you, it does a disservice to me, it does a disservice to those women, and it does a disservice to the study of human behavior.
we are just a bunch of lonely human consciousnesses locked in these tiny human boxes being kicked and poked and shoved into this twisted capitalist consumer bot powered on gluttony and hope and just getting railed to death by a wolf in art's clothing. this mysterious ghost-like fairy god figure that feels like a physical thing but is really just a series of rapidly disintegrating numbers and hex codes and signals shooting off back and forth into space infinitely which is like for FUCKING EVER infinitely and this imaginative infinity gives us access to each other all the time the constant build up the constant excitement the discussion the social bonding everything about the traditional fandom experience, all the catharsis, all the moral harmony of group events and shared identity, all of it, just compressed, down to the minute, a cycle, exponentially increasing because you keep getting desensitized to it, so you have to keep upping the ante, you have to keep putting more and more and more passion in, passion begets passion! more passion, more love! more friends! more feelings! more and more and passion begets passion, you keep ramping it up and ramping it up it's like god and drugs all at the same time and WHO WOULDN'T GET OFF ON THAT?
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a continuation of this
I was talking a bit about the cult chapter on twitter, so I might as well post these snippets over here as well! Have some concepts with bonus Billford!! A little snipplet on the aftermath of their night out hehehe. I drew my pookie and me in Gravity Falls' artstyle a while ago too, because I want to shamelessly have us cameo in the comic LMAO.
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Oblivion has the weirdest aesthetic choices going on. Everything is super bright and saturated, the characters look silly and almost bordering on cartoonish, and the voice acting and delivery tends to be pretty silly. The whole things has such a strong classic fantasy vibe compared to the other tes games, but also there's a bunch of realistic gore and rotting corpses and really dark questlines with gross visuals (for the quality of those visuals). it's such a weird game.
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