zenosanalytic reblogged
- Jack Kirby seemed really interested in creating this utopic, pure, enlightened society on New Genesis that is constantly fending off the corruption of Apokolips, but I am FAR MORE interested in New Genesis being this constant 👏 unending👏 hedonistic 👏Bacchanalian 👏 orgy that people on Apokolips are like "I've never met a New Genesian who was SOBER or not actively having sex"
- Like all anyone cares about is art and beauty and there's usually half a dozen plays every evening and poetry readings in the afternoon and you wake up to magna-harpist doing the most insane vocals just to tell everyone the weather in The City that morning and that's why Orion's like Ya Oh boy I'm fucking out of here. I'm gonna go beat something up. Destiny Is Battle Etc. This is Too Much For me. Get Me OUT of here.
- Headlines Like BREAKING NEWS: Unveiling Big Ass Sculpture In Celestial Gardens Lightray: Orion!!! do you want to go see the new sculpture. It's of Euresis, the third world god of sea life and storms. Orion: Orion: ...will it be there tomorrow? Lightray: I— Lightray: (sigh) Lightray: obviously, but you don't have to be a complete philistine about it.
- No, stop, this is NOT a critique on excess. God, don't be so dour. God don't be so boring!! New Genesis is a society that prioritizes art, beauty, craft, and indulgence. They party SO HARD, BUT they also spend so much time at lectures and "oh my god are you going to the debate tonight" and "Corya just wrote a treatise on Femininity and The Source" and casually chatting about architecture projects. This is between the festivals that are 3 weeks long where everyone is shitfaced.
- Yes, on Apokolips—that glinting red planet you can see from New Genesis in the evenings—world-wide starvation comes in waves and the slums are filled with disease and hopelessness. The will of Darkseid lurks there, on the horizon, waiting and coiled during this peacetime...but you've got a wine tasting to go to, you can't be bothered about that. 🥂
