that fandom post was lovely, and just reminds me of any time i want to engage in the themes and implications and connections in a work yet see nothing but shipping posts in the work’s tags... And it’s every work. Every piece of media, no matter the subject matter, no matter the tone, every single time. Not getting into the wider disaster of having to see this while being a romance-repulsed aromantic (and y’know acknowledging the existence of other aros like and unlike me), it is fucking exhausting.
and i only really made this post, not to confirm the obvious truth in that other post, but because my current hyperfixation is just fucfdjskalfds lOADED with intereconnected themes and allusions and ideations and history and philosophy and socio-political critique, aaaaaaaaa i need to ramble below hang on
- The KING IN YELLOW.
- The deCAY! the decadent movement, the rot and waste and destruction of british colonialism, the ashes it leaves behind,
- the decay of the past, the ransacking of cultural artifacts at the hands of white british fucks, national histories lost to careless hands who should not be touching them in the first place
- what is the role of the past?
- actions and consequences and the interplay between the two. the interpretation of either in relation to the other,
- the dialogue presenting an item and allowing all the various layers of meaning to that item to be real and true and relevant and showing the limits of different characters taking different limited meanings from the item without realizing there IS a difference between their interpretation and others’.
- the decision to have each main antagonist in each game use (mis?)(alternate?)interpretations of two (constantly quoted and taken out of context) greek myths, sysiphus and ikaris...
- death, time, entropy. look upon my work ye mighty and despair. but also defiance in the midst of oblivion, “I remain”.
- verner “wears no mask”.
- gold, stars, entitlement, parasitism
- TRUTH and all that entails. absolutely everything it entails.
i could go on, and on, and on, but I’ll stop myself now.