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from THEORY OF MOTION (4): ANOTHER MIDDLE-CLASS BLACK KID TRIES TO NAME IT by cameron awkward-rich, published in transit

[Text ID: Please—what’s the word for being born of sorrow that isn’t yours? For having a family? For belonging nowhere? Not even your body. Especially not there. /End ID]

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i want to watch eva 3.0

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literary references in evangelion

toji suzuhara, kensuke aida, and the last name horaki are lifted from characters within ryu murakami's novel ai to gensou no fascism / fascism of love and illusion.

nerv's motto is a quote from pippa passes, a 1841 verse drama.

"God's in his heaven— All's right with the world!

this line is also quoted in anne of the green grables.

"'God's in his heaven, all's right with the world,'" whispered Anne softly.

isao takahata's anime adaptation anne of the green gables also includes a scene similar to the ending scene of the anime series.

the name of episode 26 (the beast that shouted i at the heart of the world) is a reference to the book by harlan ellison, the beast that shouted love at the heart of the world, a collection of short stories. "i" sounds very similar to "ai", meaning love in japanese.

the greek tragedies, oedipus rex and electra which is fairly self-explanatory... i hope... with the show's use of freudian concepts (shinji's oedipus complex and misato's electra complex respectively.)

the human instrumentality project is a reference to the book series by cordwainer smith, instrumentality of mankind.

despite that, the human instrumentality bears a striking resemblance to the plot of Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 novel, childhood's end.

plot synopsis on goodreads:

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.

But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?

in asuka and kaji's introductory episode asuka strikes, there are four battleships in the UN convoy named after the shakespeare plays titus andronicus, cymbeline, othello and tempest.

in 2.22, kaji says he feels like urashima taro, referencing the japanese legend named after it's titular character, a fisherman named urashima taro. the legend goes that the fisherman rescues a turtle and is rewarded by a visit to the dragon palace where he is entertained for several days but when he returns to the human world, he finds that he had been gone for at least a century and everything around him has now changed. this is a metaphor for how kaji left tokyo-03 for only two years yet feels as though everything around him has now changed.

episode sixteen being titled (there are alternate titles to several evangelion episodes) sickness unto death after the philosopher soren kierkegaard's book of the same name exploring christian existentialism.

speaking of episodes being titled after philosophical works from the victorian era, is the hedgehog's dilemma. originally described in arthur schopenhauer's collection of philosophical reflections, parerga und paralipomena. the hedgehogs dilemma is a theme seen over and over again in evangelion with episode 4 being titled after it.

the title of evangelion 3.0 + 1.0: thrice upon a time references the book with the same title, thrice upon a time by james p. hogan.

It's amazing enough when Murdoch Ross's brilliant grandfather invents a machine that can send messages to itself in the past or the future. But when signals begin to arrive without being sent, Murdoch realizes that every action he takes changes the future that would have been...and that the world he lives in has already been altered!

Then a new message arrives from the future: The world is doomed!

as qmisato pointed out, anno has referenced james p. hogan's works previously as well (nadia: secret of the waters' final episode being titled inheritor of stars referencing hogan's novel inherit the stars)

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reoccurring imagery: hand caressing face

end of evangelion, dir. hideaki anno

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#22: at least be human (don’t be)

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Thicker Than Water, Kathryn Harrison

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Lies and Silence // At least, be human

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Nancy Chodorow, Mothering, Object-Relations, and the Female Oedipal Configuration, in Feminist Studies vol. 4 (1978)

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A daughter is wedded to her mother first.

“Thesmophoria” by Melissa Febos in What My Mother and I Don't Talk About ed. by Michele Filgate

It is my mother. It is my mother. It is my mother. But mother is our first love affair. Her arms. Her eyes. Her breast. Her body. And if we hate her later, we take that rage with us into other lovers. And if we lose her, where do we find her again?

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (emphasis mine)

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A daughter is wedded to her mother first.

“Thesmophoria” by Melissa Febos in What My Mother and I Don't Talk About ed. by Michele Filgate

It is my mother. It is my mother. It is my mother. But mother is our first love affair. Her arms. Her eyes. Her breast. Her body. And if we hate her later, we take that rage with us into other lovers. And if we lose her, where do we find her again?

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (emphasis mine)

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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T Kira Madden

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edits from tony takezaki's comedic adaptation of evangelion

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rei and asuka + dolls

neon genesis evangelion, dir. hideaki anno

end of evangelion, dir. hideaki anno

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"goodbye, mother."

yui ikari.

"my father, he killed me; my mother, she ate me: self, desire, engendering and the mother in neon genesis evangelion" by mariana ortega || episode 1: "angel attack" || manga volume 8, stage 51: "mother" || manga volume 14, stage 92: "birthday" || the end of evangelion (1997) || manga volume 5, stage 33: "aquarium" || "evangelion and the old testament" by carl gustav horn || episode 19: "introjection" || episode 20: "weaving a story 2: oral stage"

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rei fits :D

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i’m watching eva for the first time rn