#canto x

[diona-venus]

"I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. For the first time I’d realized how all these people loathed me."

[c1139]

how Meursault be feeling after that canto announcement

[firestorm09890]

thinking about how in the intervallo art all the background characters have their gazes lowered to the ground and everyone else is looking left or right except Kim (looking away from us) and Meursault (looking straight at us) and then in the canto art all the people are still looking at the ground, but all facing the viewer this time, and the the BIG scary eyes are all peeping through holes in reality itself (something is wrong)

also, the only color in n corp comes from chromatic aberration (something is VERY wrong) and that little bit on the side that is probably the ocean but looks like it could also be torn paper (which is also a hallucination probably)

[cinavico]

STUDIUM PUNCTUM

it was hard to figure out what was happening but omg the amount of detalis... the quality...it's SO GOOD...

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[stellaerium]

excuse my shitty drawing and handwriting i'm doing this on my phone with my finger. Anyways is anyone else picking up what im putting down

there's something to be said about how meur (always talking about how there is more to the sun than its warmth/light) is getting a season ego based mostly around shadows which are cast by said light.

and also there's something to be said abt the season apparently only being called PUNCTUM, which is the part cast by the shadows of STUDIUM in the key art.

i'm sure plenty of people already elaborated the definitions of studium and punctum the second the teaser came out but in the simplest terms, "studium" is the broader attractive points of a photo and what the photographer wanted to portray - so the clothing, the choice of setting and lighting, etc. etc. studium is what catches your eye in the first place. "punctum" is the very specific emotional impact a photo has on YOU 🫵 as a person. punctum isn't intended by the photographer. it's called that because it's supposed to feel like a puncture, a surprising little prick like a needle. (or a gun, i guess. heh.)

ANYWAYS my point is that punctum, the more personal aspect of a photo and the season title, is being cast as a shadow by studium. similar to meur's whole new theming around shadows.

additionally, with what we now know about meur previously having been important in some way to gran magasin sisyphe and the production of canned experience which reduces your ability to feel emotions, plus n corp's taboo around filmography and heavy restriction on photography and meur's apparently much deeper than they look opinions on things... yeah. i'm excited for c10.

[iateaslinky]

Meursault's backstory perplexes. I have a theory that I dont exactly LIKE but I want to get it out there because i like explaining my thought process. This is going to be probably dumb and stupid and I dont even believe in it myself but dont pierce me with a nail and hammer for this pretty please!! I know not how canned experience works but I assume it would involve requiring someone to have that knowledge first, before it is somehow extracted or taken from that person. This is important, because I feel like Meursault was somehow involved in that. He talks about having gone to clubs, smoking and then quitting smoking, learning many different things and doing things that are considered right and wrong. He also knows how distortion feels, too. This, combined with his photographic memory ( recall the canto IV scene ) made me wonder if he was the source of some of the canned experience. His EGO and the themes of being watched also kinda play into this. His experiences are being consumed by others for them to see how it feels, so he and his experiences and actions are consantly under surveilance. Obviously, this theory is probably wrong, too similar to another sinner, doesn't take MANY things into account ( like Maman ) and is overall just for fun :D

[shephar]

Predictions for Canto X:

Meursault manifests E.G.O

Demian appears and says some vague shit about sheep.

[theresetrashbag]

he's next