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Blacklist and Personal Tags:
#important - catch-all politics & current events tag.
#this is cassandra - talks tag. From the song by Talis Kimberley.
#sadismposting, #the intersection where the bodies meet - horny violence babyyyy! Largely defunct as I work through some stuff.
#something rotten in the house - incest, haunted houses, and greek tragedy. context
#torture - Torture, trauma theory, and solitary confinement.
#echo's book club - books I've been reading!
#echoes of the past - don't worry about this one.
I can be rather inconsistent when tagging!
Interests:
Opera - #opera tag
Fashion and textile arts, focused historical techniques & materials. I’ve knitted hand warmers from yarn I cleaned, carded, and spun myself! - #textile, #move the sheep and the fences around, #clothing
Sub-Saharan African mythology & cultures, for nostalgia reasons. May rarely post in Kiswahili. - #africa
Farming, homesteading, animal husbandry, etc. No tag. Lots of chickens.
Feminism and transfeminism! No tag. Heads up: TME/TMA is not useful for the kinds of discussions I'm interested in, and I find the terminology personally upsetting; no disdain if you use them, but I will not. I use transfem/not-transfem.
Spiders - #spiders
Ancient legends, media analysis, meta narrative. Enemies to lovers, too; if the Epic of Gilgamesh did it, I can put it here. #can’t argue with a monomyth, #enemies with benefits, #stories
Character tags: #gawainposting, #gearposting, #ishtarposting, #xipe totec posting, #zoraposting
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We need more women characters who are Male Protagonists. You know. Slightly haggard. She's splashing cold water on her face and gripping the edge of the sink staring in the mirror for a minute. She's coping badly with her deadwife
My favorite genre of female character is when they're male protagonists. Especially potent when the script was literally originally written with a man in mind and then they just made him a woman. Examples:
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A backstory doesnt Need to lay on the tragedy to be good. as long as a backstory explains why a character is the way they are. hell in this regard. a backstory can be just "this character grew up w loving parents and never had a problem in their entire childhood" and as long as the writer knows what theyre doing that can be as compelling as a backstory that piles on tragedy on top of tragedy yk?(Which tbc does not inherently make a backstory good either)
I also get the feeling that a lot of writers are too concerned w what an audience thinks of their character so they try and get them to feel sorry for them by giving them a really sad childhood or something? But more ppl need to understand that having a tragic past doesn't excuse someone being a piece of shit in the present...
[litany against reactionary thinking] throughout all of human history the majority of art has been kind of trash that reflects a lot of common impulses and thought patterns that the general populace have and is not an indicator of some great advent of moral or intellectual failure unique to our current time.
like every day i have to go into work and see fifty different books with descriptions like "55 year old cowboy dad sexually takes advantage of a 19-year old recent college grad who works for him and is friends with his daughter" branded as a cute and quirky romance novel and it makes me throw up a little every time. but it isnt creating these desires so much as reflecting them. that being said you are still freely allowed to be a hater about both the book and absolutely the societal forces behind them. and i will!
kiwi blitz posting in 2026. i like how in both kb and sd, steffi is the sort of person who really struggles with making and keeping friends. she's actually a pretty lonely character but because the narrative doesn't mention it it's hard to notice?
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the amendment that "ended" slavery specifically left permission for slave labor as punishment for convinced criminals and our inmates have been legally exploited ever since, yes
i think the body is its most erotic when it betrays and destroys itself to the point that it calls into question the accuracy of defining it as "yours" and i have no psychological problems or complicated relationships with personhood also
“average arthurian knight has 3 names" factoid actualy just statistical error. average knight has 1 name. names gawain, who lives in a castle & has over 10,000 names, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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PERCEVAL THE UNHAPPY, THE MISERABLE, THE UNFORTUNATE, THE FISHER KING!
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
ALRIGHT alright. so previously I did an illustration that explained the premise of all this, that it's inspired by the narrative choices that Bresson made in his film Lancelot du Lac etc
to dive in more into it (because this is something like derivative fiction. I'm putting concepts into a blender and seeing what comes out of it): the setting is haunted by the previously existing narratives that started cannibalizing each other until it regurgitates itself into the more well known narrative beats, and something else about the invasive rot of christianity and empire mythmaking into settings. it's an intertextual haunting, if you will! and this scene takes place during the grail quest narrative, but the temptation of Perceval plays out differently.
in both Chretien (and Wolfram's) Perceval narratives, what 'wakes' Perceval up (in more ways than one. desire and self actualization in one go!) is seeing knights, something his mother tried hard to keep him from. so instead of the temptation of lust & etc in the Morte narrative taking the form of a lady, it takes the form of a knight. the temptation to renounce one's faith to serve something else remains.
so Perceval still stabs himself, but instead of continuing on the grail quest in the shadow of Galahad, he becomes the narrative's Fisher King because his earlier state of being as a the grail quest hero is creeping back into his marrow. it was waiting for an opening, and stabbing yourself in the thigh is one hell of a parallel!!!
that wound isn't going to heal buddy, and the state of the setting will now be reflected on your body. sure hope that Arthur hasn't like. corrupted the justice of the land or anything. that sure would suck for your overall health.
all the red in this sequence is because in de Troyes' Perceval, Perceval takes the armor of the Red Knight and becomes known as the Knight in Red.
and now for the citations, which I will try to order in a way that makes sense!
Seeing Knights For The First Time
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
The Temptation of Perceval
Le Morte Darthur, Mallory (modernized by Baines)
The Fisher King, and Perceval The Unfortunate
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
On Perceval and Gender, etc.
Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey
On Wounds
Wounded Masculinity: Injury and Gender in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Kenneth Hodges
The Red Knight
Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)
On Arthur and the Corruption of Justice
The Failure of Justice, the Failure of Arthur, L.K. Bedwell
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