My Narrative Kinks: As Illustrated By Arthur Rackham

[wizzard890]

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lindensphinx made a rad post about visual representations of id!fic. There is St. Sebastian in. Go read it. I will wait.

Okay, back?

Awesome. Anyway, this is me totally co-opting that idea, and putting my very own id out there, with the help of one Arthur Rackham. But these aren't sexual kinks, or even emotional ones, really. These are narrative kinks,

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[twistedsheets10]

The brokenness of fathers and sons. Sewing the seeds of one's own destruction. The collapse of empires. Decent men in indecent worlds. Knowing you are going to your death...and going anyway. Consequences. Fighting for righteousness in a fallen world. Once and future kings.

Amen.

[wizzard890]

*fistbump of solidarity*

[deixis_dyad]

Guuuuhh. This picture is composed so beautifully, such a lovely balance of lights and darks and procedure, never mind all those delightful narrative implications you just listed. Mmm.

But seriously I love your narrative kinks. They are so complex and epic. Mine are like "... People are funny when they sneeze." xD SO YOU CAN SEE I'm really enjoying yours, especially the "Sewing the seeds of one's own destruction" and "Decent men in indecent worlds."

I may have been exaggerating about my narrative kinks a little. But they're basically on that level of derp compared to yours and most everyone else's. xD

[wizzard890]

But your narrative kinks are yours! That is why they resonate with you! Mine are just the things in narratives that make me go "guh". No epicness needed.

[deixis_dyad]

THEY ARE SO DERPY THOUGH.

... maybe I'll make a list and put them on my journal. Just because. It'd be nice if they were in one place instead of the far reaches of my mind.

/opens Word document

[minuiko]

That is a glorious picture.

[wizzard890]

ISN'T IT?

The fact that I haven't iconed it yet is a sin.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

The brokenness of fathers and sons. Sewing the seeds of one's own destruction. The collapse of empires. Decent men in indecent times. Knowing you are going to your death...and going anyway. Consequences. Fighting for righteousness in a fallen world. Once and future kings.

Bold = things we share.

I was actually thinking about my own thematic obsessions just a couple days ago, and I remember wondering if "favorite themes" was a conversation we could have without feeling so pretentious we'd be obliged to walk into traffic immediately afterwards. By which I mean, we should have that conversation.

[wizzard890]

Honey, I can't believe we've gone this long without having that conversation, death by traffic or no.

When I come back. At some point. Yes.

Also, I am not surprised by our thematic overlap. In the slightest. <3

[pyrrhiccomedy]

I would add to the list: compromised heroes, the necessity (and elusiveness) of redemption, entropic hunger (both the passionate kind and the horrifying kind), "there is no such thing as the moral event horizon," and the kind of loss that can't be healed. And that's...pretty much my Pizza Supreme of narrative hnnghks.

[wizzard890]

Fff. Ffff.

How the heck did you do that? EVERY SINGLE ONE of those is setting off my "what's a nice theme like you doing in a place like this" response.Especially the necessity (and elusiveness) of redemption, and the kind of loss that can't be healed.

We are so talking about this.

(And it is making me lol that Gilded Souls is fucking crawling with some of these.)

EDIT: Waitwaitwait--also my icon: men who overstep "divine" boundaries. HUBRIS. I am crazy for that.

[byzantienne]

Emily, you are my favorite.

So many of those resonate for me, too. Righteousness in the fallen world, eeee.

[wizzard890]

*fist bump*

The whole "righteousness in a fallen world" thing seeps into everything I touch. Possibly because it forms a touchstone of my worldview.

[byzantienne]

Mine too. And thus.