#fascinating!!

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American World War II War Bonds poster, c. 1942-1945 (source)

[qqquinoxtikk]

[puckpocketed]

if i have a bad game, he’s not going to rip into me

[simplaertes]

i think part of the reason jean and klaasje (and to a lesser extent liz and the smoker on the balcony) entranced me so much is bc there's so much left to explore there. while harry and kim's stories are left kinda open they had arcs they had choices you lived the whole game with them. but klaasje has this wide open past you only see the outlines of. and jean is a gaping wound you stumble over at the very end. and liz is a bundle of unanswered questions. and the smoker is a tragic waif. anyways what i'm saying is the outline of kim and harry is pretty filled in and it's like the backbone these question marks are hanging off of. and the question marks make me so curious

[mcshears]

i say this on pinterest and it made me think of me , [ 🧶🎀 ] and you . you are tomato boy from tiktok rizz party . crying in homophobia . / silly

Oh wow

[marisatomay]

i love when joyce carol oates tweets about movies because 50% of the take is always mind-boggling drivel where you question how she could have ever reached that conclusion and then the other 50% manages to be almost real critical insight. like she’s so wrong that it comes back around to being almost right. which means she has a better cook-to-flop ratio than the rest of film twitter.

[seoafin]

yup. every domain expansion requires hand seals (which is always associated with a figure from buddhist myth) with the exception of dagon that one time bc he got bodied in the subway so he drew one on his belly 💀 so i'll start with gojo, who's mudra is associated with sakra/ also known as Indra (in India). he's the lord of the center, commander of 4 heavenly king and rules (trayatrimsa/ tavatimsa) heaven of 33 devas (deities) but what i'm curious of is whether that gojo who (MIGHT) be based (1)

on sakra residing in that realm build HI arc. i'll quote wiki here : "sakka rules by righteousness, patience towards aggressors, and compassionate treatment of wrongdoers. sakka and the devas honor sages and holy men. he earned his place as ruler of the devas by fulfilling 7 vows which embody the standards of the virtuous householders while he was still a human being. the buddha holds up sakka's patience and forgiveness as a model for the bhikkhus."  i won't be going to all the details (2)

just the one related to gojo so pls bear with me here 😔 so the realms of existence is divided into 3 distinct "worlds" (loka) which are : a) the immaterial world (arupa loka), b) the fine material world (rupa loka), c) the sensuous world (kama loka). kama loka consists of 11 realms in which experience (pleasureable/ sth along the line like happy and not) is dominated by the 5 senses. 7 of these realms are favorable destinations (including human realm & several realms where the devas reside) (3)

and and tavatimsa is included in the happy destination (sugati) and is one of the deva domains, domains of bliss. BUT the disadvantage of this domain is that things are so very comfortable there, that who reside in those realms completely neglect to work towards enlightenment/ nirvana. instead they gradually use up the good karma they had accumulated (in their present lifetimes and their previous one) and so they eventually fall to a lower birth this reminds me a lot of gojo who's lineage (4)

and birth hold more privilege than the rest of the characters since he also hold the title of "the strongest", inherited his clan technique in first of 100 years and "he eventually fall to a lower birth", he reached enlightenment in his fight with toji and figure out reverse curse energy in his death door but eventually fell to lower birth like slowly waking up from a sleep first through riko's death and a bitch slap from geto's defection until he's all for fuck the higher ups 🤩🤪🤞(end)

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DON’T APOLOGIZE I LOVE IT

i think the fact that a lot if not all the main characters are associated with buddhist imagery and gods is soo fascinating! especially since gojo is so heavily inundated with all this godly imagery PLUS THE HAND GESTURES!! I had no idea that domain expansions were also associated with hand seals (I read a little bit about The Kuji-in (九字印), or the "Nine Hand Seals” and Mudra on wikipedia because of you) so I’m learning a lot about what the different motions mean!! Now I’m also guessing that the hand seals in naruto are also probably based on Mudra?

Also I think you explained gojo’s symbolic prevalence really well!! Gojo’s character arc (at least what we’ve been given of it so far) seems to follow what you laid out. The reason why i love the HI arc so much is because of Gojo’s “fall from grace” or how he went from believing himself to be unbeatable to his inevitable “defeat” (before his ‘enlightenment’ ofc, but the fact that this enlightenment came to him while he was dying/on the verge of death is very symbolic, possibly of “rebirth”?) especially since gojo’s entire outlook/beliefs on life changed as a result of amanai’s death and then geto defecting!!