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covered/coated/wrapped copper wire is the perfect symbol of humanity's sensual and erotic relationship to machinery. so we start with the basics, of course; What is a wire?

a wire is a strand of flexible metal. wires can be made of any metal, but for the purposes discussed here, we are mostly using Copper Wire. why is copper so good for wires? because copper has the highest conductivity of all precious metals, which makes it perfect for wiring many Machines. machines (which may use a large amount of electricity) are liable to create great amounts of heat, given off in the most direct form, though the contact points of the Wires. BUT-!! when Copper Wire is wrapped or coated, it allows us [Humans] to touch it (albeit, the cord is probably atill pretty hot so you may want to wear gloves...)

the pure sensuality of this, to know Wire HAS a form of nakedness, that we "clothe" it to make it more suitable for our purpose, that we take so much time and care in doing so. The image of a fist full of wires could be either despicable violent or delicate seduction. an exposed wire can be both. the copper, stretched thin enough to act as a weapon, the hand bleeds over the wires and this becomes the ultimate sensuality: the Concious Mind

this manipulation of precious metal down to something so basic, so (literally) foundational also indicates our inherent inclination to Inflict Change onto things. some call this "domination", I believe it is simply a different form of entropy. regardless, I believe it's onvious now that machines are sexual and/or sensual to many. if they were not, why would they wlawsy be trying to fuck them?

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Missing records, love, and mystery in "Bloom Into You" [Part 1]

Yuu in the student council record room

For today's post, I thought I'd look at the sixth episode of one of my favorite yuri anime, Bloom Into You (called Yagate Kimi ni Naru in romanized Japanese), titled "Words Kept Repressed / Words Used to Repress," where a record room in the Student Council building is shown and is a key part of the episode itself. For this post, I'm using the subtitled version rather than the dubbed version, since I prefer subs to dubs, but that's a discussion for another day.

Reprinted from my Wading Through the Cultural Stacks WordPress blog. Originally published on Nov. 14, 2020.

In the episode, Yuu talks to Sayaka, who tells her that Touko is so wrapped up in the stage show because of what happened to the Student Council president seven years prior and entreats Yuu to investigate it. She goes back to the Student Council building's records room [1] and finds that the whole book with records for that year is missing... I wonder why? Dun dun dun! She later locks up the student council building, after getting a key from her teacher (who will be mentioned later in this post) and determines that someone removed the documents specifically from seven years ago for a "specific reason," although she doesn't know what that reason is yet.

Oh no, the records are missing!

Later in the day, after her class ends, she goes to a records room, which you could call a records center or a repository more broadly, at her high school to do some more investigation. A teacher (basically like a records custodian) comes in to ask if she found what she was looking for and she says no. He also seems perplexed that the records are missing as well (he should have done better records management?). She thinks about it more while sitting behind the desk at her family's bookstore, asking herself, "even the records in the main building are missing?"

This is a case even worse than the deletion of records about the clone army by then-Jedi Dooku, later named Count Dooku! There is no Jocasta Nu to declare that if records aren't there they don't exist, an obvious falsehood, so that's good.

Continued in part 2

Notes

[1] The same room was also shown in the fourth episode, "The Distance Between Fondness and Kisses / Not One of the Characters." In that episode, there is a scene where Yuu is putting away files, along with Sayaka and later in the episode, Maki talks to Sayaka in that room about her insecurities, when it comes to Touko.