#the analysis I did made tma sound more thoughtful and coherent than it was | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

frankensteincest · 7 months ago

Text

every day I am burdened by the fact that the Web is about having your story written for you whilst the Beholding is about narrativising yourself, under the ‘Eye’s clarifying influence’, putting on a show rather than being puppeted, whilst also forcing everyone around you to replay their trauma over and over as if they were stuck on a stage, spotlit to hell, and there is very little difference between the two, the choice is illusory because one is always free at someone else’s expense &c. &c. and none of that mattered bc the Eye is stupid apparently. be so serious rn

#so much of s5 was just simplifying/flattening what Was an interesting nuanced narrative #into a disney cartoon lvl morality play of the worst sort #but this specifically pisses me off more than all the rest #then again I should have seen it coming when a/lex called himself a narratologist before pointing towards a tvtropes page #whatever sorry this is petty as fuck #my fault for doing a metafictional reading of tma for my dissertation & working myself up all over again #the analysis I did made tma sound more thoughtful and coherent than it was #log.#the magnus archives

5 notes · View notes