richard inkst4ins

She was very sad.

To me, reality is a very feeble thing. We all perceive the universe through our subjective experience, yadda yadda yadda, I'm not breaking any ground there. But what I've always found interesting is that, mostly through propaganda, our subjective understanding of the universe is consistently clouded. History is rewritten by its victors, harmful ideologies are peddled by the ruling class to the workers as a way to escape their perilous situation, even something as simple as a parent teaching their child that its wrong to be gay, shows an outside force that squashes the base goodness I think people are good with.

And when you look at it that way, you come to understand that the universe as we understand it is a deeply perverted, gross, reconstruction of what is 'natural.'

If I can quote Ultimate Spider-Man (2025), "These people stole your future. These people robbed you of your destiny. The question is... do you want it back?"

And I think that is where I find the value in searching for that impossible truth. The forces that robbed us of these truths are, at least, tangible. And they fucking stole something from you!!! On purpose!!!! So to me it is as simple as wanting it back.

As for your second question, I have a much simpler answer for you. You really don't. At least I don't. Carving your own path in the world is difficult as shit and more often than not involves bending the rules instead of disregarding them completely which kind of means you're still bound by them, even if less than the others. But, speaking from anecdotal experience, I think most people who are in places in life they don't need to be in, as much as they can lie to themselves about it, understand innately that the situation they're in is Killing them.

Hello Lee.

i think Starburned is my favorite MV-related thing to work on bc for all intents and purposes it is a story that is a) a reward/checkpoint for viewing the rest of MV and b) the emotional centerpiece OF MV. It is also only at Chapter One which leaves it in!!!! A very interesting position!!!! What i can talk to you about is both Black Magic Women and The Life of Starman are, functionally, preludes to Starburned. We are about ten years too early for the Opal and Vincent parallels to really take shape so let's focus on BMW lol. Black Magic Women exists to establish the class of 2001 as narrative haunters to end all narrative haunters. Part of why I'm almost comfortable leaving Black Magic Women unfinished is because those characters are ultimately defined by their absence, which is best exemplified in... The way Hasaan witnesses Mary's loss of self knowing that that is the fate he is doomed to, the Borkoshavski family having a lost daughter that goes unmentioned and, of course...

Clara's Corner. I don't think a Black Magic Women discussion WORKS without discussing Clara's Corner because Clara's Corner is our only look at a Clara that actually, well, exists, slowly losing the ability to push forward, slowly but surely succumbing to nostalgia. She drowns herself in the notion that Elle saw her as anything more than a burden, yearns for the embrace of her Elementary crush so hard she dates her brother and her c- And Opal. And Opal. And yet as time marches on, she loses even that, even imitating the 'Clara that once was' becomes too difficult when the world simply moves on without her and her relationship with Chris exemplifies that. Who the fuck is that guy. Who is that