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[acaciapines]

ITS MY (HERA’S) BIRTHDAY TODAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

eleven whole years old.....its been A Ride certainly.

[adaleim]

every time I see this post I feel so smug for how my au handles this

[emp-t-man]

too much talk about kepler on my feed where are the women

[amadryas]

I know "Akraia" is supposed to mean "she of the heights," but I keep calling her "extreme." Extreme Hera.

[commsroom]

first of all thank you so much for having this blog and sharing your thoughts!! your eiffelposting (and heraposting) has literally got me through the post w359 Grieving Process after running though the whole thing in about 2 weeks and your character insight is. well. chefs kiss. Eiffel Understander Of All Time. 2 things: 1, if it’s ok, you’ve mentioned before about an eiffel version of change of mind, and the idea has (1/2)

(2/2) literally stuck with me since and i’d love to hear your thoughts on that if you have any! 2, are there active w359 discords about bc i got a deep need to yap about all this (apologies if the first msg came through twice, tumblr's being weird)

oh, it makes me very happy to hear that!! your art is a gift, and i'm glad i can offer you something in return.

as for your question... yes! okay. the basic premise is to frame eiffel losing (and regaining) his memory as a catalyst for character growth, as a narrative parallel to lovelace's death and resurrection, rather than a resolution. i think it's noteworthy that the finale has eiffel faced with himself from first a very internal (the final confrontation literally taking place inside his head) and then a very external (hearing his logs as an outsider after losing his memory) perspective and i think the natural extension of this is, well. to confront him with himself.

one of the most key things about eiffel's character arc is that he wants to escape himself. "it's taken me this long to realize that running from everyone else means that you're alone with yourself" but, as addressed in constructive criticism, he's also running from himself. he doesn't like what he hears on those tapes, but the eiffel of succulent rat-killing tar both is and isn't the eiffel of brave new world, and i think that's what's being set up/suggested at the end.

i think viewing eiffel's memory loss as a death is incomplete, while viewing it as a "fresh start" or anything of the sort is incompatible with his existing character arc. but if you think of it as part of this pattern of eiffel trying to escape himself, and ending up still stuck with himself...? if he makes the big sacrifice, "escapes" the person he is as much as anyone can, and then finds he's still stuck with himself, still has to live as the person he is...? then, what next?

(i think this also ties in well with maintaining sobriety; addiction, self-destructive impulses and the desire to not be present in his life, etc. are all rooted in the same things.)

my concept of eiffel regaining his memory would be this sort of... fever dream "life flashing before his eyes" sequence of stepping into significant moments in his life (as a stranger) and interacting with himself, and needing to accept / reintegrating all of these versions of who doug eiffel is and has been. that the question of "am i still doug eiffel?" is one of accountability for his past but that he's always been changing and will continue to grow. i think a key part of this would be him seeing these moments through a pop culture lens / as if it's a movie and then more gradually seeing what they really are. ideally, these would be moments tied to specific songs for him; eiffel's internal soundtrack is well beyond wolf 359's budget, i'm sure, but it's a hypothetical anyway. these would be real memories, in some form, but obviously none of this would be happening for real; it's just how i think his brain would make sense of it (while he's presumably unconscious.) it's like sarah shachat said about eiffel's story in limbo: to tell that story, he would first have to make it a story.

i like this because i think it works well with eiffel's existing arc. i like it because it provides a different angle on self-exploration via memory in the same vein as memoria and change of mind. i like it because it makes a good potential parallel to shut up and listen/constructive criticism, and to mayday (eiffel alone with the voices of others vs. eiffel literally alone with himself.) it feels like a natural extension + heightened conclusion to things that i feel are already implied + set up. and, while i like where wolf 359 ended and would never want to add to it, i like imagining what zach valenti would do with a bunch of different versions of eiffel at different stages of his life interacting; i think he would knock it out of the park with material like that.

i think the real core of identity in wolf 359 is in these moments where people assert who they are, or decide to be who they are. again, in parallel to lovelace... the same way that lovelace decides to be isabel lovelace, "even if [she] never has been before", eiffel would decide to be doug eiffel, all the people he's been, the person he is now, and all the people he's going to be.

(as for discord... i think there are some, but unfortunately i don't know of any that i would personally recommend. you are always welcome to ramble at Me on discord, but i know that's probably not the same.)

[clonerightsagenda]

Uncharacteristically I did not Herapost much during this relisten, but I've done so much Heraposting in the past I guess I ran out of fresh content so I Lovelaceposted instead.

I've built up quite a backlog of new episodes I've been ignoring, but after I clear that I think I might listen to Small Victories next.

[spicyreyes]

heraposting

[herastagram-blog]

sen sanat dolu bi müzeydin ve ben gözlerimi kırpmadan seni izledim.

Herapost

[acaciapines]

its missing jacobi hours gang

[acaciapines]

help i cant stop thinking about the multiple times i called minkowski mom

[acaciapines]

editing the wolf 359 daemon au and ah. ahhhhhhhh. I LOVE MY CREW.

[acaciapines]

i think i struggle writing maxwell the most because i’ve never been able to understand why she did what she did. how should could simultaneously believe in my personhood before anyone else did, be the entire reason i became the person i am...and then still try to control and rewrite me anyways.

[clonerightsagenda]

Also while I’m Heraposting, shoutout to Minkowski listening to her station mother program who’s supposedly prevented from intentionally harming any crewmembers delivering a series of increasingly graphic death threats while evidently confident of her ability to carry them out.

[herastagram-blog]

Bir piç gibi terk edildim bu çirkin kentte, kimsesiz ve en beteri sensiz kaldım.

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