#john 19:30

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"It is finished."

[shutterandsentence]

"It is finished."

--John 19:30

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Tetélestai

ότε ουν έλαβε το όξος ο Ιησούς είπεν, Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said,

τετέλεσται, και κλινάς την κεφαλήν "It is finished!" And He bowed His head

παρέδωκεν το πνεύμα and gave up His spirit

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When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

(John 19:30, ESV)

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What made your brain do an edit of john's mutilated body as your "humble application to jirvnation" (asking as someone else whose first jirvnation contribution was fanart of his dying moment (affectionate))

sincerely @werewolfsone

you got me. okay, okay, let's see... what is the appeal of jirv's mutilated body?

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no, so, first off, that post was meant to be longer. it felt too cluttered, couldn't get it to work, so I said 'less is more' and left it as you find it. that said, the body was still the first image I selected for the post, the first I edited, and the one that stayed, so it's still significant. but it's maybe enlightening that the other screens/edits were going to be 1) jirv's raggedy bandage hands (fraying bandage, symptom of decay that you are) and 2) the same dying moment as your own art (with hickey's hand over his mouth). aka, there's a recurring theme, and it's called 'I love DnD' (death and decay).

as for the body specifically — it's both the brutality and brutal beauty of it. it's antithetical to john's character (that shy, repressed, christian self vs. his mutilated corpse, basically nude, on display as the centre of attention). it's also used in a way antithetical to john's character (to deceive, to justify murder/sin, which we discussed in the comments of that post). so, on the one hand, you have his body being twisted against the purposes he applied it towards in life. this comes across even more strongly in the context of jirv's evangelicism and related values of your own responsibility in your salvation plus your 'duty' to share this with others (but all his body's used for is violence against those he might seek to convert — which can also be violence, but that's a whole other essay or ten).

on the other hand, it also drives me back to hickey's quote about him being a man afraid of chaos... which, to me, implies a man in need of control, if only over his own self. that, in death, he's entirely stripped of such control is wonderful to me. mr. uptight man gets his insides spilled in death. yippee. you can't hide anymore, johnny boy. they all see you now, grotesque, humiliated, dehumanised. all he has to hide behind is the cross that did sweet fuck all confronted with a hickey that is, in the script, likened to the antichrist. that has me thinking of the 'armour of god' in ephesians: 'the breastplate of righteousness' (cue stabbed chest), 'the helmet of salvation' (cue scalped head). so much for that, then. the image of his body can be a post-mortem confession of fundamental human truths: flesh and blood after all, animalistic, chaotic. control as illusion. a comforting prayer in the face of chaos, but not one that protects.

where I'm going now isn't very related to the tragic element of jirv's body, but probably heightens the brutality of it: I'm always struck by the incoherence of his mutilation. aka he's stabbed, scalped, has his genetalia, fingers, and parts of his chest removed. it plays like some bizarre, nightmarish, colonialist fear-driven pastiche of stereotyped 'native violence'. like someone read a heap of frontier tales (or maybe listened to one too many of hodgson's anecdotes) and stitched them together incomprehensibly. irving's mutilation is no specific practice, only a depraved approximation of one engineered to prey on existing racism to hickey's own ends. which is more relevant to a point about empire, but I think simultaneously deepens the what-the-fuckery of john's corpse and embodies (ha) the complete disrespect with which it's treated. it isn't just 'unchristian', but godless by any faith or sense of spirituality — except for hickey's pursuit of 'survival'.

it's also relevant that I'm predominantly a film person. I feel like there are two broad categories of terror-heads (it's more nuanced than this but let me have my fun): history majors with media minors and media majors with history minors. not literally, and many enjoy both aspects equally, but in terms of what brought/kept them in the fandom. so, of those, I am most definitely the latter. why is that relevant? well, as my intro states, I love my body horror! I'm an enjoyer of blood and bodies and wounds and scars and mutilation. on the surface, it's 'wow blood cool' (and, yeah, blood cool), but, on a deeper level, I adore what you can express visually through bodies, their desecration and distortion.

I also find images far more viscerally emotive than spoken or written word. which ends up being pertinent to jirv's mutilated body running amok in the rafters of my mind, because it's an image that has stuck with me since seeing it (alongside many others from the terror — the precise moment during hickey's flogging when he turns his head to look at crozier, irving dying with hickey's hand over his mouth, jop's table crawl, etc.). aka, I like chasing dread, anxiety, sad things, and expressions of pain (in the least edgy way! I approach it all with curiosity), so images evoking these have me hooked.

building on bodies and body horror as expression — what does the mutilation express about irving? fuck knows, really. look, I do love my media in context; I also love it in a void with meanings I apply to it for what they personally stoke in me (i.e., I think you can ascribe all kinds of personal meaning to a single frame of a film outside of the film it is part of). jirv, to me, is a man whose mental space is fucked. so seeing that body, as well as everything I've already mentioned, just feels like almost a cathartic (though twisted) expression of said mental fuckery in a way he'd never confess or communicate in life. bodies or wounds as embodiment of internal truths. I love physical symbols for internal things (why that frame of his bandaged hands gets me — bandages as a symbol, a sign of a wound you can't see, becoming almost an abstraction of a wound itself). but that's drifting further still to the realm of body horror, and I have drifted far enough off course.

tl;dr, bodies cool, fucked up bodies cooler, jirv's fucked up body coolest for being antithetical to his character, incoherent butchery, a representation of the failures of faith, and the undeniable, physical expression it can be for a bloke whose life appears defined by discomfort and repression (to me, shame as well).

thus it made sense to include his body in a post partly about his piety because of the perceived juxtaposition between brutality and faith (though faith itself can often be brutal) and its image of a 'human undone' or failed by god, if you want to be dramatic about it.

that was an overlong, poorly-organised, broad-strokes response, and I commend you for making it to the end! I couldn't discuss the jirvbod and my attachment to it without chatting body horror just a little bit though. thank you for the ask and long live (?) jirv's broken body

[wiirocku]

John 19:28-30 (NKJV) - After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!” Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth. So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

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