#birth metaphors

[haggishlyhagging]

Men have, however, appropriated for themselves positive references for the female-specific reproductive process in metaphorical extensions of the vocabulary that they attribute to thinking and learning. Given the fact that men have cherished for millenia the idea that they alone are capable of thinking, it is ironic that they should preempt birth as a vehicle. Men say that they"conceive ideas" and "give birth" to inventions. For example, in his Introduction to the Oresteia, Robert Fagles (1975) described what he called "the pregnancies of Aeschylus's style" and characterized the language of the play as "giving birth to a new drama and a new poetic voice" (36-37).

In spite of this appropriation of the birth process, other common metaphors simply extend the cultural asymmetries of mother and father as verbs. Although some countries are called "the motherland," others, like Germany, are "the fatherland," and the primacy of fatherhood is emphasized in numerous expressions so common we forget that they're figures of speech. Once men "conceive" of ideas, they are described as seminal. Men disseminate information to students attending their seminars. There are no "ovular ideas" and we don't "ovulate information," even though the [- male] metaphor would be more accurate. In those long genealogical lists of the old testament, only the males who "begat" and their sons are named; the women and daughters who must have participated remain nameless and invisible.

Men talk about 'the fathers" of a country, wax eloquent about building on the "wisdom of their fathers and forefathers" and living by "the rules set down by their fathers." They honor each other's "brainchildren" by saying so-and-so was "the father of American parasitologists" or "the father of the Cocktail Age." Although the predicate semantics of English treats the verb as a single, instantaneous event, the noun extends metaphorically throughout the social structure. The fathers become the creators, like Zeus, who bring forth and define ideas and objects for all time, whereas the verb mother is socially defined as a nurturing activity that takes place within the limited, localized context of the female domain. Rarely, if at all, is an outstanding woman similarly hailed. "Necessity may be the mother of invention" but invention, according to PUD, belongs to men. The male domain, in contrast, isn't only global, it's cosmic. C. S. Lewis (1964) admired the novelist George MacDonald because he learned from his father that "Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe" and taught that "the relation of Father and Son is of all relations the most central" (5).

-Julia Penelope, Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers’ Tongues

[pharmasrightarm]

separate ways

[pepperfellover]

A little Valentine's Day Comission 💌

for my beloved @scribbat of young Eraqus and Xehanort, back in their prime (before the horrors of being doomed by the narrative).

[crinj-central]

Hajrudin is bitter towards Loki bc he bullied him as a kid and was always the perfectly strong warrior, on top of killing their father and insulting his mother

Loki is bitter towards Hajrudin bc he never had to fulfil any royal duties, he got to form his own pirate crew and basically live out Loki's childhood dream of freedom

This sibling drama is truly delicious

[geekeryisafoot]

Since their introduction, so many of us have been trying to find the theme and metaphor of World Hater as our primary antagonist. Is is hunter v prey? Hunter v farmer? Life v death? I love all of theories and I'm inclined to believe all of them are true in one way or another, and I'm excited to see what we lean into as the story continues

And now we have this page

Now I'm leaning more towards the circle of life. Ichi embraces the cycle. He kills only to survive, and he knows someday it will be his turn to be killed for something else to survive. What we've seen of the witches works this way too: they aquire and aquire until they fail, and when they die their majiks return to the ecosystem to be acquired again.

But World Hater breaks the cycle. They are not life until death until life. They are obliteration. They are entropy. And, as of now, I think our thematic core is that they will need to be hunted to be put back into their place in the cycle.

[koszmarnybudyn]

*thinks about the horig situation as a sa metaphor*

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[dykedvonte]

Jimmy killing himself because he knows he is incapable of living an life without Curly and knows that in the miracle chance they were found and saved they would not let him have contact with Curly and he hates the idea he'd actually have to take responsibility.

Even if he lied, its only a matter of time before Curly is capable of showing or telling what a monster he really is, no matter what delusions tell Jimmy Curly would never do that to him.

He understands that he was the monster in everyone's worse moments but refused to accept that at the end. So he made sure that he died without the possibility of it being actualized as he's the only one that saw death as an escape rather than a release. Jimmy truly didn't believe Curly had anything to escape from even after everything and let him have what he perceived as glory as the sole survivor and thus Captain of the Tulpar.

[rabbit-rays]

and the war has been over for years since you gave up.

[pannotian]

Reborn

[proselles]

watching dead poets society with my mother and i cant make a single queercoded analysis this must be hell

[scarlettjulz]

Lilia trying his best, pt. 1

[no1ryomafan]

Not to talk about random robot concepts and a bit of mega man lore but you know what goes through my mind occasionally? The idea of making a robot a *child*.

Child robots are such a fucked up concept to me when you specifically look at it through the lens of “it’s a society where human robots are normal” cause when it’s a case like early mega man the robot masters take various different non human looks Rock being young isn’t weird, but when you look at *Reploids* later you realize they’d need to be upgraded to get older, and it seems to be a thing that’s implied by Zero and definitely a thing by ZX. Every human is a cyborg in ZX and Reploids get a lifespan to balance that out + we know who’s a reploid by the head triangles, and we see children with those triangles so we KNOW those are kid Reploids…

Reploids are given lifespans sure yet if they are made as children they have to be upgraded to age, that’s not really aging, that’s just making up for the fact if you don’t get upgraded you’d otherwise be stuck as a child you’re whole life and that’s fucking horrifying to think about. Even if getting old has it’s disadvantages and being a child is treated as a great thing, never getting the chance to grow up unless you are upgraded just makes you ask why weren’t you just built as a adult to begin with if you don’t age properly like humans do?

And I also think about Casshern Sins approach to this, how we see many child robots too yet we also learned robots wanted to figure out reproduction and it only somewhat succeeded before it was ultimately scrapped yet I gotta wonder: while it was said they were doing it to achieve evolution, do you also think it’s out of a robot wishing to have a child like a human does? That building a robot as a child does not have the same effect, especially with all the stuff with upgrades? That even if a robot giving birth can be seen as such a ODD thing, it’s still one way they want to be human?

I genuinely need to find more sci fi robot media that dives into this concept because GOD it makes me more existential than it needs to be yet it’s fascinating.

[jawz]

i’m late af but we finally saw Sinners last night and it was SO FUCKING GOOD. best movie of the year for me

[wayfinderships]

Good morning gamers!! :D Happy April Fools! Alas I don't have anything planned but I'll try to see if I can answer some asks later <3

[j4mboree]

what do yall think the kid's hair color is

[chronicoverthinker]

started throwing up after remembering how tiny Hikaru used to be