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monsteracademia · 21 days ago

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monster theory reading list

this list is going to be some recommended reading when it relates to literary teratology or monster theory. some of these works predate 'monster theory' as a concept (which was coined in 1996 by jeffrey jerome cohen) but are foundational to that work regardless.

i'll try to include links to any readings that are freely available online and links to doi etc but if something isn't and you're really keen, hit me up and y'know we'll see what i can do.

monster theory: reading culture (1996) by jeffrey jerome cohen - the original and defining text on monster theory by the man himself. here is a link to a pdf of the first chapter, which i spoke about at length in another post.

the horror reader (2000) by ken gelder (editor) - an incredibly insightful collected edition about the horror genre as a whole, however gelder's introduction to part three, as well as marie-hélene huet's chapter introduction to monstrous imagination were incredibly helpful to my work personally. very generously, gelder has allowed free access to the entire work in pdf form!

the monster theory reader (2020) by jeffrey andrew weinstock - an amazing collected edition featuring cohen, creed, kristeva and a number of others that provides a really good foundational background knowledge of what contributed to the creation of monster theory as well as some fantastic takes on it post cohen.

classic readings on monster theory (2018) by asa simon mittman & marcus hensel - similar to weinstock, this collected edition features a number of classical foundational essays and some more modern ones surrounding monster theory. a very helpful starting point! here is a link to the introductory chapter by mittman and hensel in pdf form!

the monstrous feminine: film, feminism, psychoanalysis (1993) by barbara creed - creed's idea of the monstrous feminine is one of the foundational underpinnings of monster theory and is key in comprehending the 'other' as monstrous, particularly as it relates to women in a patriarchal society. highly recommend! here is the entire book in pdf form!

powers of horror: an essay on abjection (1982) by julia kristeva - kristeva's idea of abjection is a precursor to a lot of theoretical frameworks regarding the horror genre, in particular as a direct precursor to creed's work, then to cohen's work. here is the entire book in pdf form!

this is definitely not an all encompassing list of sources, but it is a good starting point for anyone interested in this particular niche field of literary theory. these are texts that were crucial for me in understanding the basics when i was starting work on my thesis.

#monsteracademia #monster theory #jeffrey jerome cohen #barbara creed #julia kristeva #ken gelder #jeffrey andrew weinstock #literary theory #literary teratology #monster theory 101

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mageknight14 · 1 year ago

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Nagi and Beat: What it Means to be Empathetic

One thing I really appreciate about Nagi and Beat's characterizations and dynamic in NEO TWEWY is how the game portrays them as the two of the most emotionally mature and empathetic party members in the game and how they express that maturity in distinct but equally important ways.

Let's start this analysis off with Nagi. The game makes a point to show off multiple times that she’s in-tune when it comes to others’ emotions. Take the side quest with Buddy Rapids on Week 2 Day 4, for example.

When he flips out over not receiving a glass of water from Ken Doi and everyone is flabbergasted by how he reacted, Nagi actually takes the time to empathize with and explain why he would feel that way, that he probably felt unwelcome or deliberately provoked. She literally absorbs emotions of others like a sponge, to her own detriment. She has this ability, knows it, knows how to work with it, but she can’t exactly turn it off. It gets to the point that an overwhelming burst of negative emotion from the people around her can cause her to emotionally break down, as we see from when she reacts to how the citizens are suffering from Shibuya Syndrome.

She analyses people and feels them whether she wants it or not, and due to being a combination of simultaneously open minded and very direct, those not true to themselves strike her as very wrong, in the wrong, or plain bizarre, as we can see from how coldly she treats Motoi and Fret at first. She’s true to herself, and to others, and someone not reciprocating on the same level is a bad thing in her book.

She suffers from hyperempathy and easily 'taps in' to what people are feeling, but she can struggle with finding the appropriate channel through which to express her feelings, such as her initial coldness towards Fret. Because of this, besides her infatuation with Sho, she’s fairly passive towards the group dynamic and synergy at first, instead to either gush about her beloved Lord Tomononami, EleStra, or both. This is especially notable when tensions start to rise between Rindo and Fret at the beginning of Week 2 and she can do nothing but weakly comment at the tense atmosphere in the air.

However, as we get to see throughout the game, she begins to lighten up towards Fret and if you look closely at how she interacts with him, she progressively becomes less outright insulting towards him and more distant and hesitant once she puts together than he might actually have a reason to be putting up a front. By the time week 3 rolls around she's not insulting him at all, actually engaging in convos with him because she's realized that Fret is a genuinely good person who acts fake as a coping mechanism. Most of this realization starts showing up during week 2 because Fret gets stressed enough by the situation they're in to let the "mask" slip on multiple occasions— you can see that Nagi's expression changes when her portrait is present during these instances because she starts to put it together.

While her arc isn’t as pronounced as the others, it’s still there nonetheless and revolves around her learning that she does not need to dismiss people right away and look past the surface, exploring in learning how to nuance so to speak. To cap it off, by the time week 3 comes around, she actively steps up to the plate more than once to help the others sort out their issues and integrates more into the group, truly embracing her role as the team mom, as seen as when she helps the other characters cope with their own issues on Week 3 Day 5.

Now, let’s contrast this with Beat. While he isn’t as academically intelligent as Nagi, can be slow on the uptake, and not really keen on using his head, he still gets a few good hits in and has a cutting-the-knot way of problem solving that is as much a positive as a negative quality.

In the first game, he calls out Konishi, who is presented as very smart, on her "unforeseen circumstances", and for someone mixing words a lot, he used those surprisingly straight and deliberately angers her so that she can focus on him while Neku snags Rhyme underneath her notice. He feels that the game is "whack" in NEO and is the first to call out Kubo against it and be suspicious of him while the others just found him sleazy and hatable ("might ask gramps some questions"), fairly quickly discerns that Fret and Rindo were at odds concerning the decision of trusting Kanon or not and that they needed to sort it out, and even recognizes Fret’s grief concerning Kanon herself and opts to let him have one last moment of hope and get some closure on the whole thing rather than just letting him bottle up these feelings in a negative manner forever.

I’d say that while Beat may not be academically smart, can often takes things at face value and can be considered dense at times, he is emotionally incredibly intelligent, even if not in the same way as Nagi: both are highly receptive to others’ moods and feelings, but while Nagi processes them with her heart and brains, Beat processes them with his heart and guts.

Conversely, while Nagi suffers from her hyperempathy and can struggle with finding the appropriate channel through which to express her feelings, Beat intuitively 'taps in' to what people are feeling and also intuitively 'taps in' to what he can say to cheer people up or to motivate them to keep moving forward, as shown when he inspires the group to keep going forward even when things get dire at the beginning of Week 3 Day 4.

Nagi stumbles butt-over-head into people’s psyches and while she has a good grasp on the information and psychology, being excellent at reading people, she doesn’t have the means of transforming that into a pleasant interaction if things are at odds. Beat, however meets people partway, at middle ground, or if he senses that he needs to, goes all the way to drag them out of their shell. He doesn’t embarrass himself with the unnecessary, as he doesn’t like to beat around the bush but also seems to think that people do have their own reasons of acting the way they do. To solve the problem, you address the problem, politeness and other fioritures can wait (which, again, is as much a positive quality as a negative one). Nagi has more tact with it because she can sense when things will go on the fritz, and because she’s more actively trying to get along with people than Beat. Even when giving the cold shoulder, she still has restrains (it takes a breaking point to call someone a "degenerate ape") and at worst ignores what bothers her, or makes it clear. Beat, on the other hand, would directly hop to 'I don’t like you, yo' and show scathing hostility, as he does with Sho and Coco who, in contrast to Kariya, Uzuki, and Shoka, are not at all apologetic when it comes to their actions and still antagonize him, in which he responds back in kind. You wrong him or his friends, you’re on his shit list, period.

This difference is seen most predominantly when the Wicked Twisters meet up with Sho again. Beat is immediately hostile thanks to his previous encounters with Sho in the first game and is ready to assume the worst of him, unaware of the shared history Rindo, Nagi, and Fret have with Sho at this point. And when Sho seemingly validates his concerns by attacking him and his friends, he's ready to write him off entirely. And it's not like Sho even cares about what Beat thinks of him to try and correct him afterwards.

Nagi, on the other hand, immediately notices that something is off about Sho compared to when he allied with the team in the first week and picks up that it may be Noise-related. And sure enough, she turns out to be correct. Sho had been absorbing Rindo's Dissonance Noise while he was away and when he absorbs a whole bunch at once, his mind gets overwhelmed and he goes berserk, attacking the Wicked Twisters in the process. Sure enough, when Neku quite literally beats some sense into him after he was already worn down by the team, Sho doesn't antagonize them at all whatsoever. and even gives them cryptic advice concerning the storm that's coming their way later.

To put it into perspective, Nagi is receiving all channels 100% of the time and as such had to define herself strongly against them to hear her own, affirming her personality and being very direct. It’s a radio always on that she can just tune out somewhat, but not turning it off. And if things get too overwhelming, she can take too much of that negative energy into herself and become severely affected herself if she doesn't have an immediate outlet. It's why she flips out at Rindo when she first meets as she was already unintentionally channeling the emotions of others and was being harassed by the DRS team beforehand and her missing the special EleStra pin was essentially the straw that broke the camel's back.

Beat, in contrast can hop from channel to channel and tune in on people, but only a few of his choosing at a time. Hence why he’s more receptive of a variety of different people, if they are amicable to him. He instantly hits it off with Fret, wholesomely accepts Nagi, even reaches out to Rindo who’s more unsure and shy (seen in the day after recruiting him as he’s the first to come up to him to see if things are okay), wholeheartedly accepts Shoka in the team and develops quite the protective streak for her among the rest (seen when he warns Susukichi about taking her after Ayano’s passing). He’s the big brother all the way. Compare this to how he reacted to Neku and Shiki in TWEWY, where he welcomes the latter at first after apologizing to the duo for mistaking them as Reapers but immediately takes a justified dislike to the former because Neku was kind of being a huge prick at the time.

I think all of this is incredibly interesting in how the writers go about in portraying that nuances of what it means to be empathetic and emotionally mature and it just goes to show how much the TWEWY team cared about detailing the psychology and mindset of each character in a way that makes them all the more real.

And as a side note, I really appreciate Nagi and Beat’s dynamic. Rather than have them conflict as they could have so easily done (the athletic, skateboarding musclehead and the nerdy educated woman) the game has them genuinely enjoying one another's maturity and working to support the rest of the team, with Nagi even patiently translating anything she needed to of her dialogue for Beat's sake, as well as draw comparisons between the way Nagi treats Beat and Fret to foreshadow her issues with the latter and I think that's just neat.

#twewy #the world ends with you #neo the world ends with you #neo twewy #daisukenojo bito #nagi usui #beat bito #analysis post #ntwewy

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twewywhispers · 1 year ago

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#the world ends with you #whispers #neo the world ends with you #ntwewy #ken doi

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trancyzp · 1 year ago

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MOJO DOJO CASA HOUSE DOAÇÃO❕

Olá gente, boa noite! Espero que estejam bem. Estou aqui com uma doação bem babadeira com a Aninha (ablha), eu com capas e ela com os plots. Por favor, se atentem as regras! Não roube as ideias dos plots da Ana, saberemos e eu vou atrás, viu!

1- Não iremos doar para qualquer pessoa, primeiramente eu e ela iremos checar o seu perfil e certificar de que você vá usar mesmo a capa e o plot.

2- A conta deve ter pelo menos 1 (um) ano de uso.

3- Adote apenas se terá compromisso com minhas capas e os plots da Ana!

4- Nada além do seu user será alterado, ou seja, apenas o user será alterado. Então, terá que criar algo a partir do título que eu coloquei.

5- Sua história deve ter no mínimo 1.000 palavras ou mais, vai depender da sua criatividade!

6- Você tem 2 meses (dois meses) para usar a capa. A contagem começa assim que eu entrego a capa alterada com o plot.

7- Entrega será feita pelo spirit, então certifique de que o seu user está correto quando for comentar a ficha.

8- Por favor, coloque os créditos nas notas inicias ou finais, com meu e o user da Ana (trancyz e ablha)

9- Se não conhece o grupo ou os personagens, não adote!

10- Avalie bem as capa e os plots, pois a capa será adotada juntamente com o plot, ou seja é os dois juntos ou nenhum. Capriche na história, viu?

CAPAS E PLOTS❕ leia atentamente

cruel summer, heejin e hyujin # disponível [myoitar]

“Heejin é uma universitária frustrada, e decide fazer uma das melhores loucuras da sua vida. Nessa decisão, a estudante conhece Hyujin e juntas decidem fazer daquele verão cruel no melhor de suas vidas.”

efeito do àcool, yoongi e taehyung # disponível [darksaori]

“Taehyung odiava seus amigos, e odiava ainda mais a si mesmo por ter mandado mensagem para o garoto que mexia com o seu coração, Min Yoongi, e tudo sob efeito do álcool. Pelo menos ele teria um encontro.”

essa é pra você, yeri e seulgi # disponível [kanfleurs]

"Yeri amava sua companheira de trabalho, Seulgi, porém após uma traição de sua amiga colorida, Yeri decide se declarar com a música do Jão.”

i'm just ken * jimin, jimin e jungkook # disponível [xxpujinxx]

“Jimin tenta de todas as maneiras arrastar seu namorado para o shopping apenas para ver o filme da sua boneca favorita, e para não perder a magia teria que ser a caráter.”

ipanema, namjoon e jin # disponível [crystol]

“Namjoon é um doutor em letras e para comemorar essa maravilhosa conquista ele decide fazer uma viagem para o Brasil com seu marido Seokjin. Era apenas os dois e o português afiado de Namjoon, ao som de Seu Jorge o amor dos dois é declarado novamente.”

like crazy, jimin e jungkook # disponível [ablha]

“Jimin precisava se descobrir, precisava saber que ele realmente era, mas por conta de sua família super protetora e tóxica o garoto nunca fez isso. Até que ele descobre seu verdadeiro eu com os lábios do barman.”

lonely, joy e irene # disponível [cybersad]

"A música salvou Joy do vazio obscuro da solidão, e com o mundo colorido, a mulher descobriu a sintonia de cores que eram os lábios de Irene.”

nosso encontro, namjoon e yoongi # disponível [taeluminado]

“Férias de verão, as melhores que Min Yoongi teve em sua vida, nelas ele sentiu os dedinhos escondidos na areia, a brisa beira mar, Kim Namjoon e o encontro que eles tiveram.”

rival bands, jimin e jungkook # disponível [xxpujinxx]

“Eles são rivais declarados, mas por causa da paixão pela música, Jimin e Jungkook terão que viver mais tempo juntos e construir sentimentos avassaladores.”

splish splash, hoseok e taehyung # disponível [chansao22]

"Taehyung era um bobo apaixonado que conseguia fingir muito bem, ele fingia que odiava Jung Hoseok, mas sua postura toda cai por terra quando o moreno lhe dá um beijo. Era apenas atuação, mas mexeu com o xerife.”

vagalumes, jimin e jungkook # disponível [sololunar]

“Fugir dos compromissos por apenas um final de semana é maravilhoso, e é isso que o casal decide fazer. Jimin e Jungkook fogem da civilização, e aproveitam a natureza caçando vagalumes e em um pouquinho maluco.”

Ficha (comente exatamente assim) User no spirit: @.fulano (pelo amor de deus, use uma conta que não mude tanto o user) Nome da capa: título

#trancyz #ablha #doação de capas #04/08/2023 #trancyz doações #capa para social spirit #capa para fanfic #capa de fanfic #capa para spirit #capa romantica #capa colagem #capa fluffy #capa divertida #capa simples #capa para fic #capa de fic #design simples #design clean #design colagem

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