#parallelism between this and the memory

[proxycrit]

Day 50– Gerudo Desert

Promises are kept, food is made, and monsters resettle in their ecological niches. And so the arc comes to a close, with our heroes riding away into the dusty afternoon.

(End of the Lightning Arc)

(This totk au is called Familiar Familiar! It all starts when Zelda doesn’t get sent back in time and the butterfly effect devolved from there.)

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[mimenoises]

2 sides of a similar coin

[archer973]

One of the things I realized when I watched Fury Road directly after Furiosa:

Furiosa doesn't treat Max like she treated Jack. She treats Max like Jack treated her.

There are so many parallels - the way they meet, their conflict with each other that quickly turns to partnership, their journey to The Green Place (and how it fails)...

But where before it was Jack reaching out to her, now it's Furiosa who is asking Max his name, teaching him the kill sequence for the rig, trusting him to have her back in a fight, giving him everything he needs to leave (even when she wants him to stay).

Furiosa doesn't see Jack in Max, she sees herself. Everything from the muzzle to the nightmares to the fact that he barely speaks is a direct parallel to what she was like when she met Jack, and Furiosa knows it. And so as someone reached out to her, she reaches out to him, this feral, half-mad Wastelander. She reaches out and offers him hope, just like Jack did to her when he came back for her on the Fury Road.

And together, they find some kind of redemption

[lycoric3]

Spoilers for sctir / msch ~693

Thinking about how regardless of the differences in privilege, luck, and experiences, Han Yoojin and Sung Hyunje will always reach the same conclusion. That no matter what, they'll meet each other in the end.

One of the clearer examples being the Game of Life arc in chapters 680+.

Hyunje is shown to be extraordinarily lucky, rolling 6's constantly and starting off the game with a well-funded restaurant and a bike, while Yoojin ends up starting a moving service with a skateboard. Then, as the game requires a dice roll for each turn, we end up faced with Yoojin's evident poor luck that forces him to charge forward with his own tenacity while Hyunje gets an easy ride through.

It's to the point where Yoojin deliberately renders the dice roll useless because he can't depend on luck to get him anywhere, eventually climbing his way up to the position of mayor. And when he has to go to the neighbouring city to meet the other mayor.... guess who it is... it's Hyunje.

And there they are, role-playing over-simplified versions of their lives only to lead them to stand at the height of fictitious power as equals once more.

and in cruel fashion, you're reminded once more.

"For both of us. In the end, I’m just another pawn in this game too."

- 693, Sung Hyunje to Han Yoojin, when he wins by the machinations of the transcendents, rather than any sort of fairness. (and in some sense, this too, is their equally unfortunate luck.)

[sisterofficerlucychen]

i think i've seen this film before ...

[betta-phish]

people who actually understand Neptune’s character and know he’s not just some dumb comic relief>>>>>

[icantdothistodaybruh]

yea sooooo I may have or may have not watched and instantly rewatched all kuro musicals in existence in a spawn of one week and now have roughly 40 screenshots to redraw from

I think I might be insane or something

[gothicrepetitions]

Revolutionary Girl Utena: Ep.22//Ep.34

[theriverbeyond]

i love t4t paldulcie and i think it adds a level to them never seeing each other and only knowing what the other looks like by self description and how cam turned those descriptions to portrait. iirc dulcie said she wanted her portrait after she died to be the one cam drew for her and that always read read as very trans coded for me, the desire to be remembered visually as she had been known by the ones who actually got to know her as the person she wanted to be (or came as close to knowing her as she was able to let them) instead of the dying symbol / figurehead her illness and house status had relegated her to

YOU GET IT and there is such an overlap of that trans experience with how like.... if you are a type of sick that drastically impacts your appearance, especially if you experience that chronically starting from childhood, there's just this compounded body horror of having never really gotten to live and desperately not wanting to die but also specifically not wanting to die looking like this. not wanting people to remember you like this. not being, necessarily, *in control* of if people remember you like this.

and there's like, the intimate horror of feeling trapped by the physical shell you exist in and knowing your memory will be distorted that is especially relevant to Dulcie as a young person with cancer who is literally held up as a figurehead/symbol of her house, and has been held up as such for her entire life. the horror that people will forget who you were in exchange for the inspiratory figure they want you to be. when you are valorized to absurdity, but no one notices or cares because you were a young person with cancer who died and once you're dead it becomes about everyone else instead.

And the almost comically massive differences between the memory-of-you-and-you wrt critical illness is magnified and.. explicitified? made more explicit? when it is, again, a horror that is compounded by being trans in a way I think can be sooooooo narrativly meaty. a lot of room to play around in here.

anyway. Dulcie wanting Cam's picture, which looks nothing like her, drawn exactly to her specifications when she was critically ill, to be the picture she is remembered by is just... so much. it's so much. anyway.

[clegfly]

Finally got caught up with TADC and to no one’s surprise I’m now uncontrollably sobbing over the tragic doomed loving couple

[upiri-entita]

I've been thinking, steves and nancys relationship in season 2 of stranger things and adult shaunas and jeffs relationship in yellowjackets are same relationship, aren't they?

[gingermintpepper]

hi I love your tags so so much! they were so sweet and so interesting and creative and the whole Aphrodite type of beauty thing sounds really interesting do you have any articles and recommendations to read further into it??

-hogoflight

Hello my fine feathered (I am assuming possession of feathers if you are, indeed, capable of flight) @hogoflight! I'm always always happy to hear that people appreciate my frenzied rambling in the tags :D! I have a lot of articles and recommendations :D!! Ancient Greek notions of beauty and representations of it in their art and sculptures is a pretty well studied topic! There isn't any way for us now to know definitively what the beauty standard was (it varied widely from region to region and culture to culture after all) but here are a couple of my favourite reads about Aphrodite and what her representations tell us about idealised beauty!

Probably the most empirically extensive one I can list is Krönström's thesis which compares statues of Aphrodite and literary text referring to both the goddess and mortal women to determine physical ideals for women in five specific eras of Grecian antiquity. Including measurements of the statues there are many descriptions of Aphrodite as 'curvy' with a 'voluptuous figure' and with 'ample buttocks and bosom'.

"When the beauty traits are described in the texts, they are never extreme or anything that could not be found in normal people just that they are more beautiful in every aspect. Furthermore, the sculptures’ physical forms look healthy, they are tall and have distinct curves. Great examples of this are the Knida sculpture and de Milo (the Melian) sculpture."

Of course, these images are still idealised, and there was still a concept such as 'too fat' or 'too skinny' found in written records (and this thesis even includes analysis of pornographic writings and descriptions of the fashion and stylings of pubic hair of women from different regions!!) but from an interpretational standpoint? There is absolutely no reason why these can't refer to a fuller figure. Height was also a very important factor after all and over the course of many eras, it seems like being well proportioned in addition to the length and appearance of one's hair were the most important factors (and, like Apollo, greater beauty was given to those with curlier hair)

Mireille M. Lee's 'Other Ways of Seeing' essay which talks about the forgotten female viewers of Knidian Aphrodite which is also extremely illuminating on how Aphroditic sexuality and sensuality was perceived totally differently from the well documented male voyeuristic gaze (which was overly preoccupied with the statue's nakedness and therefore over-sensationalised the statue's physical appearance) vs women's perspective on the statue which is more centered on the beauty of simplicity in Aphrodite's garment and decoration and in her power and ability to captivate both in her finery and without it. I think it's especially useful in exploring the importance of finery, jewellry and adornment in representations of Aphroditic beauty.

"Some of the small-scale copies are heavily jeweled, especially those from the eastern Mediterranean, for example the Hellenistic gilded terracotta statuette in the Çanakkale Museum (Fig. 5) in which the goddess wears, in addition to the armband on her (right) arm, the following: a necklace with multiple pendants; cross-bands extending over both shoulders and hips, with a cascading pendant in the center; a coiled snake armband on the left arm and another snake on her left thigh, and a twisted anklet on her right leg. (The left leg has been restored, and might also have featured an anklet.)"

"Jewelry is especially associated with Aphrodite in Greek literature. As seen above, in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess adorns herself with gold jewelry, dress-pins, and earrings in the shape of flowers (162–3)..."

Finally, and to me, the most important one in the argument for an interpretation of Hyacinthus as fat, beautiful and fundamentally Aphroditic comes from Brilmayer's brilliant brilliant thesis done on Aphrodite's work and influence in Archaic Greek Poetry which does away with all of that masculine preoccupation with physical proportion, measurement and bodily ideals for a focus on a Sapphic Aphroditic ideal centered in clothing, ornamentation and, most importantly cunning as symbols of Aphrodite and ultimately a feminine idealised form of beauty. This paper also discusses Pandora and Helen in these terms and it is just kind of a wonderful read tbh.

"Combining Homeric and Hesiodic elements with her own ideas, she [Sappho] alters the way female beauty is viewed. For example, the Homeric war chariot – a symbol of male, military prowess - comes to symbolise the totality of Aphrodite’s power uniting in itself male and female qualities. Having addressed the concept of beauty directly, Sappho then concludes that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. With the help of Helen of Troy and her beloved Anaktoria, Sappho sets out to reinvent the concept of female beauty as a godlike, subjective quality that may be expressed in many ways, yet remains inspired by Aphrodite."

The conclusion to all of this of course is that Aphroditic ideal beauty is much more fluid compared to its stricter Apolline masculine standard. The nuances and understandings of both are of course, constantly being studied, analysed and scrutinised but really, if Dionysus who was both bearded and clean shorn, effeminate, birthed and rebirthed (and twice gestated!) and strongly associated with vegetation can be popularly portrayed as fat and handsome, why can't Hyacinthus?!

[voluptuarian]

FOR THIS REASON HE IS CALLED "THE ONE WITH THE TWO MOTHERS": "The Kid" as Dionysus, guided by Neela/Semele and Alpha/Rhea along the path to his destiny

Monkey Man dir. Dev Patel; Imagines by Philostratus the Elder trans. Arthur Fairbanks; Theogony by Hesiod trans. Hugh Evelyn-White; Fabulae by Pseudo-Hyginus, trans. Mary Grant; Variety magazine; GQ magazine; Wikipedia articles for Dionysus, Semele, Rhea, Cybele, and Monkey Man

[lordsalemander]

Is anyone else still caught up on the parallels between Imogen and Opal?? Because I am.

I was revisiting my c3e92 and c3e93 live thoughts and came across two big points:

Firstly the parallel of Ted disappearing in order to protect Opal with Liliana disappearing to protect Imogen. And the contrast of Ted, who did so by becoming an inseparable part of Opal while Liliana tore herself away desperately trying to separate herself from Imogen. Both done out of a will to protect the other. (Fyi This was written during e92 before the Aevilux reveal)

Secondly, after the Aevilux reveal, this connection hit me: The locket Imogen got from Relvin (potentially carried by Liliana) carried her baby fingerprint and the words “The better halves make/become a better whole.” A sentiment that Imogen tries to use at the Malleus Key and on Ruidus to get through to her mom. And who is a near perfect literal manifestation of this? THE AEVILUX. The people who split their souls in two (or were born separate in Opal/Ted’s case) and live independently before reuniting again and becoming more powerful for it.

Now imagine Imogen and Opal were to meet (obviously possible as both are being pushed to fight Predathos/those trying to free it) and Imogen repeats the locket phrase and something about it sounds so familiar to Opal, but she just can’t remember it. The group realize that there are gaps in Opal’s memory. Eventually Imogen is able to restore Opal’s memories, living through them alongside Opal in the process (kind of like how she projected herself into Laudna’s head in e103). Then Opal helping Imogen get through to her mom in turn. Or even just them fighting side by side to prove how much stronger you can be if you stop running from your better half. That coming together is a way better way to protect someone than running away and fighting those battles alone.

TLDR: I need Imogen and Opal to meet and talk this instant. Please Mattholomew Mercer I would do anything.

[lae-zels]

🍄envoy, beloved.....

[enjoyerofstories]

am i the only one who thinks there is the possibility that arthur, guinevere and lancelot were in a poly relationship in the legendborn universe? or at least that there was some romantic tension between arthur and lancelot? arthur doesn't seem to hold any grudge towards him in bloodmarked and sarah saying in refrence to reynolds and samuel (?) davis' wife that her husband might have known about her baby not being his? at the very least i'd say arthur knew about lancelot and guinevere and didn't mind it. whether he himself and lancelot had something going on too remains to be seen