#idle musing

[stone-cold-groove]

Daydreaming about world domination again.

[neroushalvaus]

I do think it's fascinating to think of Sweeney Todd through the lense of a typical man-centric Rape Revenge narrative, or rather as a kind of subversion of one. When Rape Revenge is done by a male relative or a spouse of the victim, it often ends up looking more like a power fantasy for a man than an empowering fantasy for a woman. "You ruined something pure and beautiful that belonged to me, so now it's time to pay."

Lucy was a victim of sexual assault and Johanna has the threat of sexual violence hanging over her during the plot, but for Sweeney the sexual violence is just another way they have been taken away from him.

Now, I don't mean to say that Todd doesn't care about Lucy or about Johanna or about their suffering as people, he quite obviously does ("would no one have mercy on her?"). But I'm also not the first to say that those two are, above all, symbols of the life he lost. A life that was taken away from him.

And that's why I think Sweeney Todd is the perfect man-centered Rape Revenge narrative that strips the genre to its bones.

[blxck-rider]

Consider the following: an alchemist seeing Command Seals or somehow getting one.

[recordingsurface]

maybe we ought also to consider that memories are a memetic system. this is something i should have thought of a long time ago. memories that compel recall in some way reinforce themselves and keep themselves intact. they mutate over time through misremembrance. when the memory is shared by multiple people, it may work in a very small scale selective way, allowing people who forget to be reminded by people who remember, and thus allowing mutations that aid recollection to exist for longer. but regardless, as part of a larger memetic body, memories form the basis and backing for frameworks. so really successful organisms trying to gain a foothold will probably sink their teeth into you through memory formation and recontextualization. the memetic system of memory is somewhat subjugated by these forces. diminished. run by them. unable to really assert itself as its own system. this is all idle musing. i will give it more thought on the road

[automatic-purification-system]

I'm actually getting kind of excited for magia exedra?

watching some magireco stories and. man i just miss my girls. I want to see them again.

I won't be able to play at launch (my phone would burst into flames) but once it comes to pc.................

[thesquireinvictus]

It's sometimes physically painful to think about how much my mother hates me.

[sukimas]

why doesn't lesbian grindr exist anyway. not to be all the grass is greener or whatever but surely there's some equilibrium where the gals can get some without it involving writing her 40 sonnets and taking her to the aquarium

[wingedcatgirl]

every facet of the love square has its good points but thinking about it the core of why we love marichat so much is that it feels like the closest we can get (short of an identity reveal) to their true unfiltered selves just having fun together with no Love Makes You Dumb getting in the way

the corresponding downside of course being an apparent complete lack of romance. though fanfic can and will solve this in every possible manner, which we appreciate greatly <3