I've finally organized (the majority of) my posts with the proper tags! I'm so proud of myself, I genuinely thought I was never gonna do it but hey, miracles do happen after all!
It took me almost one year but now I've fully realized the importance of tags, this is what I call progress...
It was actually quite a helpful thing to do because I've identified what my major themes are and well, turns out I do write about a lot of stuff, don't I?
I'm sad to report that not all tags work for all posts, I don't know why this is happening and, honestly, I don't care right now. Things will sort themselves out... somehow... magically... in the future.... lol.
I like some of the names I've chosen, some others are too prosaic, what can I say? Inspiration comes and goes.
#the book of john: john winchester as a character is my current hyperfixation.
#myths we live by: general observations and/or criticism about the underlying myths that are prominent/popular in the stories I consume and that therefore play a part in my understanding of the world.
#movies in spn: it's not shocking news to anyone but once I've personally realized the depth to which movies in SPN are not just used as references but as foundational structures to write episodes on it was over for me.
#destiel and betrayal: dean and cas relationship as a marriage of (con)sorts based on betrayal.
#on resurrection: I see resurrections as rebellions against Time, a way to keep the past forever alive, which is the ultimate undead that must rise to be faced etc. And I use Supernatural to explore my obsession, thank you very much.
#billie won theory: I think Billie won because the weight of the role of Death in the narrative was eventually re-established. On one hand, it's a postive thing because Death is too much of a powerful symbol to be discarded the way it was in S10, it was bound to re-emerge. On the other, the way it was re-framed is quite... bad because it gives a problematic and conservative flavor to the finale where Death is glorified and romanticized. After all, let's all go back to the jolly old times that never were jolly, instead they're just old, and be content that there will be happiness in the after-life, yeah! No thank yewwwwww.
#phd in spn s12: I have a fascination with s12 which I can't really explain to be honest. I don't even like the BMOL storyline! But I love Mary and I LOOOOVE. LOOOOOOOOOOVE Kelly Kline so, you know. Maybe that's it.
#time travels in spn: I have a lot to say about time travels but I never manage to write down what I want the way I want so there's not so much in here for now. But maybe... somehow... magically... in the future... I'll be able to write coherently so that people can actually understand me etc.
#spn angels: I have. A.LOT.to say about them. I love them, they're the ultimate dysfunctional family. Apart from Cas, Metatron is my fave, be warned.
#spn s9 is complicated: well, nothing more to add. It is what it is. BUT, ALSO. S9 is kinda good, like... the episodes are, like, not bad at all. And the plot more or less makes sense which is a huge compliment for Supernatural.
#super-m/Others: mothers in SPN are my favorite thing. I mean, I know this is supposed to be THEE show about absent fathers but I honestly don't care, SPN mothers are wild and most of them are also dead. Lot to think about.
#spn lines: some lines that I like or that I want to analyze.
#jack the puer: I have this theory, you know, and it's about Jack and how he perfectly fits the imaginal archetype of the "Puer Aeternus" and one day I'll write more about it, hence the tag. It's like a promise to myself.
#b/w spn: this is about how SPN is a show about dichotomies and how sometimes the lines between polarities get blurred and some other times (too many times) are reinforced much to my chagrin.
Okay, soooooo, finally.... Order in my land of Chaos! Hope you enjoy it! <3
after you’ve been through like a string of fandoms and you’ve decided your favourite character/s for each one, there will come a day when you will list all your faves from each fandom side by side and look at them carefully and realise
my toxic trait is that i kinda like drug-addicted freud, the idea that the development of early psychoanalysis will forever be associated with cocaine gives me joy. i can't explain it.
lots of media about free will centers around a white, able-bodied male character not necessarily because the writers are misogynists, racists and elitists (although they often are) but because the core concept of such a story can only ever be developed if it caters to the oppressors' class. the question "does free will exist?" becomes moot when the protagonist is other than white, able-bodied and male because such idealistic lucubrations can only be reserved to people who are actually granted agency by the system. stories centered around "othered" characters vs free will would necessarily need a materialistic pov that's rooted in everyday, present-time life to have any political, societal and literary significance. even recurring to sci-fi as a solution isn't enough because it transports the discourse on a symbolical level that's ultimately only conventional. in others words, the needs felt by people behind these stories (for instance the need for self-determination), is perceived and co-opted by the media industry and turned palatable in a way that's safe for/controlled by the few people who own the whole system. this is also why, i think, criticism has become an endangered species because critics have failed to recognize why the entertainment industry has such a strong hold on people. they analyze the situation through elitist, middle-class lens and blame it all on people being mindless dumbfucks who are lazy or weren't paying attention in school. literary criticism without politics has basically become virtually useless nowadays. hence its not-so-slow disappearance. not to mention the hegemonic cultural impact the media industry has, an industry that's "made in the USA" and that's currently selling the end of the world as both inevitable because it's too late and there's just nothing, nothing to do about it! and avoidable if we could all be just so kind and naive to trust and believe in the good old-fashioned american hero (who is white, able-bodied and male and also. ONE individual vis-à-vis a collective of people).
men really be like "free will exists" until you tell them that there's no need to eat meat and all of a sudden they're all like "eating meat is in human's nAtUrE!", LMAO.
it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there
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