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[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

is sisyphus book 2 still going to happen? i find myself rereading sisyphus book 1 and i miss this crazy world - I understand if it's on the back burner haha

The Heart of the World by me (@janedoewrites)

In the works as we speak! (And thanks for the praise)

I'm a little over a quarter finished I'd say.

[theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin]

you have such a meticulous way of thinking about and analyzing everything - do you do STEM or law irl or anything??

You caught me, I'm in STEM.

[avantguardisme]

hold on what was the quijote fanfic that pissed cervantes into reviving don quijote !!

ok so like big disclaimer up front that i am not a siglo de oro Guy so i might mix up a few facts here BUT

basically what we now call the first part of the quijote was published in 1605 as a stand-alone work and was a huge hit, and after its publication it apparently inspired several unauthorized sequels, the most famous and important one being the Segundo tomo del ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, written under the pseudonym "Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda" (real identity still unknown), which was the most important of the bunch on account of being the most popular (iirc) and also Specifically Pissing Off Cervantes

and we know that cervantes was pissed about it (and that it's likely a major reason that a sequel exists at all, or at least that it was published when it was) because there's a ton of references to it in the second part of the quijote, starting with literally the first line of the prologue! even the title page of the second part makes indirect reference to it, having a) a slightly different title to part one (specifically calling the title character the "ingenioso caballero" rather than an "ingenioso hidalgo" like he did in the title of the first book, because "ingenioso hidalgo" got used by avellaneda) and b) a sort of underhanded jab in the by-line, attributing to "Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra, autor de su primera parte" (author of the first part) just to make it absolutely clear to everyone that this is the OFFICIAL sequel

it is also a major plot point in part 2 that someone is out there telling false stories about don quijote and the character himself goes out of his way to correct this

anyway it's all extremely petty & i love that that's at least a major contributing factor to there being a quijote part 2, esp since cervantes literally dies like 5 months or something after part 2 gets published

[mokutone]

sasori, if you’re up to it? 💌

ah...i can! but if you like him, i don't think ur gonna like my answers sdjgkhsdkghsdg

favorite thing about them — i feel like he could have been a very interesting exploration into like, dehumanization in general, since he's so entwined with it. since he desires to become nothing but a puppet, and he also grew up into a world where becoming a thoughtless machine of violence would be desirable, there could be a lot of interesting stuff to explore, but i never felt as though kishimoto really intended to delve deep into that.

least favorite thing about them —i dislike most of all, the profound lack of interest he seems to have in the people around him. He doesn't seem to hate people, he doesn't seem to like people, he doesn't even seem to be bored with people, he just...seems to see them as interchangeable with objects. idk he skeeves me out on a level that only orochimaru comes close to, honestly.

favorite line—

this is a scene kishimoto gives us in order to hamhandedly demonstrate that both deidara and sasori are unable to respect human life in any meaningful way—indicated by them having this conversation abt the theory of art while deidara is sitting on gaara's body.

and thats like. fine!

but i mostly like this because neither of them really seem to understand what art is about at all, i think? like sasori clearly understands beauty as immortality and immortality as beauty, and since art is beauty, then immortality must be art.

similarly, deidara sees art as...speed? like, he sees the speed between one state and another as art in itself. the change itself is art, but preferably, the closer this change is to death, the better.

so you have one character who thinks that death (or arguably the life in the seconds before death) is art, and you have one who thinks that everlasting life (or arguably the extension of life to the point of destroying the self) is art. neither seem to have any connection to art as a whole and seem totally unhinged to me.

it could be a really interesting conversation to actually have and characterize these characters, but instead all it kinda seems to do is exist to point out that theyre crraaaaaaazy 🤪 they're having this convo on GAARAS BODYYYYY 🤪.

have i mentioned i hate kishimoto

brOTP —i think his only friends might be his puppets. i dont wanna comment on that. didn't he give kankuro some of his puppets? i guess that's kind of an interesting relationship. imagine your mentor coming back to attack and kill your brother. poor kankuro. anyway this isn't a brOTP bc that would be unhinged but it is the most interesting platonic relationship, i think.

OTP — i'm not convinced he views other people as people. probably pretty hard to be in a relationship with that mindset

nOTP —skjghdskgjh similarly, i don't really care

random headcanon —ah...i don't think about him, i'm sorry

unpopular opinion —i don't think he's pretty. i don't think he's cute. i don't like looking at him skgjhskjgkdghsdkgjh, from what i understand about sasori fans this is an extremely unpopular opinion. the fact that he's a 35 year old man and still wants to look like a teenage boy is disturbing to me. You can't be a teenager forever. Frankly, I don't see why anyone would want to be a teenager forever. Like, even Tsunade and Orochimaru, who are both also fixated on immortality and maintaining their youth, at least don't seem to mind the concept of looking like an adult.

song i associate with them — Stay on the Outside by Whitey

"On the outside we have to stick together On the downside you just get in the way I see grey skies and i feel a little better I see grey skies ahead and it's fine by me oh oh"

favorite picture of them

tube.

[beastenraged]

why do you view fairy tail's magic council as the biggest representation of anti-intellectualism in the story? i haven't read ft in a while and thought it was an interesting point to make ^_^

I'm just going to put a disclaimer on this first: that I'm pretty sure all of the implications of what's going in Fairy Tail are most likely not on purpose, and a result of many shounen tropes jumbled together as they are. Maybe I'm being too harsh on the Magic Council.

That being said, here I go.

Fairy Tail puts emotion over fact. That's a given, it's shounen. The Magic Council, as an opponent to them, is supposed to be Order verses Chaos, Reason verses Emotion.

Yet.

The way they're written is how many anti-intellectuals imagine so-called intellectuals to be like: snotty, judgmental, knowing much more than everyone else, and using that knowledge often for ill or never.

Which...in reality isn't how education and a lot of information related sciences work? What anti-intellectuals accuse those people of doing.

There's a theme, in Fairy Tail, that all of the information is stuff that only the Big Bads look for. The people who seek out the most knowledge in their surrounding world are either dead or end up villains because they've "overreached." All possible scientists are cult-members or leaders. Important self-discoveries end up not mattering, because who cares about the past in Fairy Tail?

No, the Magic Council encourages an era lacking personal study into magic and history by keeping the most dangerous discoveries to use as weapons against any possible opponents, restricting magic use to only Guilds, and only allowing Guilds to know about possible threats when it's almost too late to deal with them.

I don't think it's wrong to attempt regulating magic but there's a level of superstition about magic in a world full of it, leading to the backstories of the Strauss family and Grimoire Heart desiring a World of Magic (among others), that doesn't make sense if information of magic wasn't purposefully being squished down or increasingly mystified.

And that, I blame on the Magic Council.

[tsigililimclean]

hii i love your blog i don’t even get into pjo much anymore but your posts about it are great n i love ur sense of humor. something something horsegirl hazel.... anyway ya hope u have a nice day 💌

awww thank you 💕💕💕 that's super sweet of you, i hope you have a nice day too!

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

is john jones also half-elf, or does he just have elven heritage? it surprises me that the kingdom makes such a big deal about lily being half-elf whereas wizard lenin sacrificed the "human part of himself" and nobody seemed to have noticed, calling him a "very powerful human mage" (elizabeth) ... he also surprisingly has a lot of scorn for lily's dad's choice of wife, though he has scorn for everything ... my initial thought was love elf based on tom riddle's backstory, but his recount of his alliance with the love elves makes me think otherwise - it's too much of a professional thing. unless?

The Heart of the World by me (@janedoewrites)

Something something spoilers spoilers something something.

LOVE THE SPECULATION THOUGH.

[wellnoe]

do you think there'd be an observable difference in behavior between the rika of jjk0 (her own entity) and the rika of jjk (behaving how yuta believes rika would've behaved)? of course, yuta doesn't know the entirety of rika's personhood. and also, at the times where rika (jjk0) would've lashed out (ex. out of jealousy), idk if the rika of jjk would...? and, well, do you think yuta is cognizant of this difference idk

hm hm hm a difficult question for me to answer given the fractured way i have acquired jjk knowledge (i have watched the anime and have talked extensively about the manga with a friend who has read it and shared screenshots, but i have not read it myself).

i think even beyond however rika (0) and “rika” (jjk) may be actually different, they will act differently bc yuta is in a space where he is invested in emphasizing the love and romance of that relationship, a place he only gets to at the very end of jjk 0. to the extent “rika” doesnt lash out as plausibly, that could be a part of why. yuta actually uses her, his domain is about his relationship to her (he made a new rika after releasing the first even!), so shes not as anxious about being disregarded or hated or replaced.

this also imo makes it difficult to figure out whether yuta would notice any difference! i’m being kind of wishy washy here bc this is such an interesting question to me but i don’t know how to answer it confidently. ig my answer is that enough is different in how yuta thinks of rika in jjk vs in 0 that if he so desired he could ignore any difference not stemming from that change in his own position on the relationship.