#hazel motes

[blurr-sam]

[leaveharmony]

Shirtless and weird.

[hi-heaux]

Hazel Motes x Geordie Greep anyone?

[ariolimaxxx]

On very basic level I’m just participating in the time honored tradition of drawing my comfort character bloody and traumatized (what does it say about me that my comfort character is Hazel Motes?).

But also I just can't stop thinking about The Themes. Like as I drew the barbed wire, it felt very similar drawing the crown of thorns. Except Jesus’ suffering served a purpose, while Hazel’s was unnecessary and avoidable. But this idea that even at the furthest lengths of his running, he still is reflecting Christ (in a fucked up sort of way). Like the image of Christ that is haunting him and chasing him down is really his own shadow. It’s sooo good.

If I ever get top surgery I fully intend to get barbed wire tattooed over the scars as a Wise Blood reference. I refrained from giving him scars, though, because transition is an acceptance of grace, it’s transformation, and it’s a step towards life. Hazel Motes isn't doing any of that. His binding with barbed wire is more analogous to self-harm (I mean, it literally is), than top surgery. He's a cautionary tale, and when I'm at my most self-loathing/self-destructive/perfectionist/morally obsessive/compulsively avoidant his character feels like a mirror I'm looking into. If we're really looking for a trans metaphor, it's Enoch, but the book told me not to worry about that so I'm not going to (for now, at least).

[exdeputysonso]

Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes | Wise Blood (1979)

[femaleunbonding]

Hazel Motes would love slint tbh

[dzgrizzle]

From the opening credits of the John Huston movie WISE BLOOD (1979). I’ve seen it several times and I’ve read the novel (I’m due for a rereading soon) but I just can’t delete it from my DVR. Perhaps it’s because of the scene where the Christ-haunted Hazel Motes, played by Brad Dourif, shuts down a conversation with a talkative stranger on a train by leaning forward, looking her in the eye, and saying “I reckon you think you’ve been redeemed.”

It’s a desolate and unsettling and darkly funny movie, as is THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971), another movie I can’t seem to delete from my DVR.

[ocd-character-polls]

i want to submit Hazel Motes from Wise Blood as The OCD Guy Ever because his entire story and character is basically a fight with religious ocd that never specifically gets called that and i’ve never related to a character’s ocd traits more and also he’s just fucked up, interesting, kind of evil, and also funny! and you can also see me ranting about it if you search “wise blood” on my blog where i also found articles where the authors agree with me lol. anyway that’s my propaganda please enjoy

OCD guy of all time!!!