#it’s haunted

[shawsimmer]

first week in glimmerbrook

[selfconsciousfangirl]

All this talk of Band of Brothers being haunted on account of us seeing these men as young, healthy and living, portraying men who are —by the time the show was made and aired— old, some of them fragile, some of them even dead, it got me thinking about a Ronald Barthes quote that goes “He is dead, and he is going to die …”

The Barthes quote is about the infamous Lewis Powell (he of Abraham Lincoln assassination plot) photograph, the one where Powell looks oddly modern and young and yes, attractive. It's about the haunting power of photography, how in this particular case the "photograph simultaneously witnesses to three related realities. Powell was, he is no more, and in the moment captured by this photograph, he is on his way to death".

Webster is Powell in those last images, when we see him being young, healthy, carefree, playing baseball. He is alive, but text is superposed to remind the audience that he died many years ago, under tragic circumstances. He is going to die in the future that does not yet exist in the alternate reality of the show. But he is very much alive for those moments in the fiction of the show, unaware of the fate that awaits him (unlike Powell in the photograph, it must be said). Webster is doomed by the narrative of real life. He is dead, and he is going to die …

Of course Webster didn’t kill Lincoln. He was not a racist part of a conspiracy to overthrow the United States government, but the quote is true all the same, more true perhaps because it’s based on fiction. We see a fiction that reinforces the hauntedness (it should be a word), the sort of unspoken tragedy of making a show about young men who are by now, if they’re lucky, very old men; men who see their old dead friends as young living men, who get to see themselves as young, living men who nonetheless are going to die.

Here's the article on Barthes and the Powell photography where I got my quotes from.

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[intezaarlily]

the ache of nostalgia

[flawlessflesh]

what if thistle had confronted senshi before the story started?

[captainjonnitkessler]

>Join a union

>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it's all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what's going on

>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members

>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that's going on

[skorpionegrass]

the greatest spell you'll ever know

[neo--queen--serenity]

Remember how, in the Touden party, everyone had to swap clothes when they changed races, since that was the only way they could feasibly find clothing that fit them in their new body types under such short notice?

Kabru and Mithrun had to do the same thing, and for the same reasons. They had to swap the bottom halves of their outfits to be able to accommodate to their new forms. Normal enough, right?

Normal enough until you realize that Kabru is still wearing his armor, which looks inordinately large on him. Which begs the question: why didn’t they swap the top halves of their outfits?

It’s because…oh god, I can’t even say it with a straight face…it’s because Mithrun’s upper body is too buff to fit into Kabru’s plate armor. Poor Kabru has to lug that thing around like a huge metal circus tent because Mithrun’s too fucking jacked to fit into it himself.

[dcvina-claires]

i am a tragedy enjoyer before i am human

[liveandbreathemusicals]

Gay people will be like “this is my comfort show!” And then show you the most emotionally devastating, stress-inducing, tragic piece of media you have ever witnessed

[n7punk]

i love stardew modders fr

[generationexorcist]

[ghostember]

items from a forgotten cowboy

[ruporas]

dragon meat, you, and me

[r4diopl4y]

Just had to join in on drawing this fucking thing

[celesse]

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