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Yes, he is pure distilled badass. Here he looks a bit like a more evil (?) and more gansgsta version of Gendo. Also, note his unique take on the Gendo Hand Posture.Merridian wrote:Way off topic, but Kutta—if you’re still reading this—is your avatar Ihsahn? That guy is totally badass.
Jimbo wrote: it maybe "equal" but it's "equal" on another level because it's not playing by the standards that traditional literature set.
Right, that’s my point. But there are only so many traditions you can break until your work ceases entirely to be what the traditions embody. So while stuff like FW is still in the written medium, it has broken SO many traditions that I simply cannot see it as ‘literature’. It’s something else entirely. That’s what I was trying to say—Finnegans Wake is an example of some parallel form of written expression that is even more basal and primal than literature could ever be.While I do see what you’re saying, I suppose the difference is just a matter of perspective (since we’re almost to the point of ‘terminal agreement’ anywayJimbo wrote: […] I don't see that it so much "destroys" tradition as it does simply create a new paradigm and mode of creation and criticism. That's what I see that Joyce did; he simply gave literature a new way to write and critique literature. He didn't "destroy" anything, he just created something new.
). I just think that the creation of a new paradigm still results in the death of an old paradigm, even when the old paradigm continues to exist in parallel. The mere creation of such a divergent ideology is going to make a lot of audiences’ heads spin and form rifts within the subsequent schools of creation and interpretation, it is often very difficult to reconcile the differences. Jimbo wrote: Well, I won't sidetrack this lit discussion to start on music.
I took your initial analogy and ran with it. It was a great analogy that worked well with the topic at hand. I’ll have to look up this Penderecki fellow sometime…Kutta wrote: Yes, he is pure distilled badass. Here he looks a bit like a more evil (?) and more gansgsta version of Gendo.
He does! Man, Ihsahn wasn’t the first heavy metal I was introduced to, but his work (& especially his work with Emperor) has had the biggest impact on me. Have you checked out Peccatum? That little project got bashed (STILL gets bashed, actually) by all the black metal purists, but I liked what I've heard. Some of the lyrical themes and song titles are a little pretentious and over-the-top, though.
And anyway it's really obtuse and bizarre, so I'm not sure how well received it'd be.
MatrixRefugee wrote:Neon Enoch Evangelion
DatDude wrote:BrikHaus wrote:MatrixRefugee wrote:Neon Enoch Evangelion
Is that anything like Neon Eunuch Evangelion?
nope Eunuch is what Asuka makes Shinji into for stealing her panties.
How about you invert everything? Instead of a girl transforming into a Magical Girl, you have a Magical Guy transform into just some regular jim in order to fight crime and win style points. It could take place in some weird magic/alien/futuristic kingdom on another planet, and when he says some phrase or does some funny dance, he transforms into an average salaryman complete with glasses and a briefcase, and these tools are used to thwart the metaphysical intrusions that threaten the safety of the planet. And each time he fights, he fails, because he lacks initiative and personal ambition, and at the end of the story he casts aside his alter ego to live as a Magical Guy, but when his love interest (make this part up) discovers that he’s actually a Magical Guy—and not the boring salaryman she had fallen for—she abandons him in despair and marries… I dunno… the arch-villain or something. And the arch-villain is actually an extremely benevolent person who sincerely hopes for the best in people, and he works as a caretaker of a hospice house. And he is very, very, very dull. In fact, he isn't a bad guy at all; he's a veritable saint.GAP wrote: I am attempting to create a fic where I can deconstruct a genre of anime specifically the mahou shoujo/magical girl genre.
Use symbolism only if you find it helps make things easier on you. Just throwing symbolism around to be fancy leads to pretentiousness and overcomplicated plots that fall apart too easily.GAP wrote: And do I need all that mind boggling symbolism that I find prevalent in such literature?
Merridian wrote: How about you invert everything? Instead of a girl transforming into a Magical Girl, you have a Magical Guy transform into just some regular jim in order to fight crime and win style points. It could take place in some weird magic/alien/futuristic kingdom on another planet, and when he says some phrase or does some funny dance, he transforms into an average salaryman complete with glasses and a briefcase, and these tools are used to thwart the metaphysical intrusions that threaten the safety of the planet. And each time he fights, he fails, because he lacks initiative and personal ambition, and at the end of the story he casts aside his alter ego to live as a Magical Guy, but when his love interest (make this part up) discovers that he’s actually a Magical Guy—and not the boring salaryman she had fallen for—she abandons him in despair and marries… I dunno… the arch-villain or something. And the arch-villain is actually an extremely benevolent person who sincerely hopes for the best in people, and he works as a caretaker of a hospice house. And he is very, very, very dull. In fact, he isn't a bad guy at all; he's a veritable saint.
At some point, the story could end with this Magical Guy just blending into the background of this Magical World, disillusioned, alone, unknown, and overridden with fear.
In other words, the best way to deconstruct something is to completely invert and/or blow out of proportion all of its key components.
+1CorporalChaos wrote:FUND IT.
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