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laniusbignaturals · 1 year ago

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Also I don't know why but a song I associate with Joshua as the Malpais Legate is "Leviathan" by Dirt Poor Robins. Something about how Malpais means badlands, him having an unhinged moment as seeing himself as a biblical disaster and unholy destroyer.

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Well this is certainly White Legs Conflict Coded: Joshua is always remarking on them and their “Great Salt Lake,” and Ulysses characterizes them in similar terms himself, “blood covered ghosts” and such. The other lyrics bring to mind that “vengeful spirit” archetype Siri introduces him as to the player: and you could take the repeated mention of lurking and concealment to allude to Edward’s disallowing of the mere mention of Joshua. Broke bitter bitch.

#music #asks #joshua graham #majortomiscominghome #I should probably expand on this in it’s own post but w/e:#I think the narrative of Honest Hearts suffers from the broader series’ refusal to confront their constant allusions to Native genocide #because it mandates that Joshua’s descent back into the level of cruelty he practiced as Legate #be presented as a wholly personal/moral failing rather than a specific & insidious ideology #which is both racialized and prevalent in the Mormon faith since it’s founding #(I mention this now because the lyric ‘for a thousand years I’ve been asleep’ brings to mind one of Daniel’s lines about Joshua)#(where he goes ‘secretly that violence never left him’)#but I can never comment on it with a straight face because like.#Joshua is not indulging in some meaningless individualized ‘violence’#the kinds of people that he targets for dehumanization matters. the kinds of people that he subjugates matters.

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