#jellifish

[infectiousidealism]

[maruti-bitamin]

ocean bloom

[captaincravatthecapricious]

“What happens if you open the door?”

[Pause]

“I drown.”

[raggedyblue]

JELLYFISH OR MEDUSA?

I start from this meta of @sagestreet (X), but since I completely move away from his topic I quickly put my ideas here ... hey soon it's Christmas, who really has time to think about jellyfish?

However, when I think of the jellyfish in Sherlock, despite the visual stimulus (aquarium) and the suggestions (THOB), I can't help but think of Medusa in the first place.

Now who was this creature? She was a Gorgon, terrible creatures that petrified men at the mere glance. She was not alone but she had two sisters and they were daughters of Forco, who represented the dangers hidden in the depths of the sea. I would emphasize the concept of depth and sea / water. The dangers inherent in the depth of emotions, Sherrinford is also under the sea, one could easily think that it is about the depths of the human psyche.

And what are these monsters, these dangers, which are hidden so deeply? They are sexual perversion (Euryale), moral perversion (Steno) and intellectual perversion (Medusa).

And what was experienced as perverse in all respects, moral, sexual and intellectual, in the Victorian era? yes, homosexuality.

John and Sherlock tell us that a jellyfish/Medusa cannot be stopped and in the presence of jellyfish, this time, no one is petrified, instead the heteronormativity is killed.

A rebellion against the preconstituted, and it is not the first time that Medusa is used as a symbol of change, she was a symbol during the French Revolution, and Shelley dedicated a poem to her attacking the patriarchy that had made Medusa victim, monster and victim again. In fact, the myth tells that before she was a monster she was a beautiful girl that Poseidon fell in love with. He ended up raping her, unleashing Athena's anger who, instead of taking revenge on him, Poseidon, transformed the girl into a monster that Perseus ended up killing. Medusa therefore also became a symbol of the feminist movement of the 70s. A woman transformed into a monster by men who could not tolerate her being seductive. And the Moffits explicitly used feminism and the feminine as an allegory for homosexuality, just look at the multiple female mirrors, Eurus and the League of Furies. Homosexuality transformed into monstrous because it is scary. But at the end of Medusa's severed-headed story, Pegasus (practically a My Little Pony) and a giant with a .... long golden sword were born.

@possiblyimbiassed @gosherlocked @ebaeschnbliah @sagestreet @sarahthecoat

[wolfman-al]

A robot design I did for my the new comic of my friend https://www.furaffinity.net/user/owinnik/ called "Space Insects" Design of small multi purpose robots I did for Space Insects. The final desig of them wndet up to be a little different, more jelly fish like.

[saeonim]

5 & 6

[selvaggea]

16.02.2023

Jellyfish?

[justpret-ending]

Medusa

The profecy was fulfilled.

 I was given a body

to age in and to rot in

to feel desires unattained

and to bear a longing.

 I was given my own name

to be cursed by and be remembered by

and to point to for betrayal

at the dawn of the prison break.

 I escaped my destiny

of boresome love

worn out comfort

and thus the prophecy was fulfilled.

I stood proudly at the edge of this existence

that I could be forgotten in the next.