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hanzajesthanza · 13 days ago

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one of the tropes that is soooo disturbing to me but like in a good and interesting way... is when a descendant of a lineage, or an evolutionary descendant of a species, returns "home" after many years, and though this individual doesn't know or recognize this place at all, because its so different and divorced of itself now, that's where it was from... ancestrally...

ancestral determinism is soooo frightening to me like wdym there's ghosts in your blood 😭

and i guess it freaks me out how short the human lifespan is, like (if your family has emigrated or moved) you can have absolutely no connections to and no memories of what is supposedly your "homeland," but everyone insists it's your ancestral homeland as if that would mean anything to you

#like when ciri goes to the world of the aen elle. or when geralt goes to rissberg #i read man after man a couple of weeks ago and even though it's like a picture book it still twisted my stomach lol :D #all tomorrows i dont think has been translated into english yet bc i looked for it and couldnt find it #but i watched a long youtube video on it and shivered at everything #BTW. why i also don't like the inconsistent blood and wine writing where regis is like ;w; i miss the vampire homeland #what... he's less than 500 years old... he's never seen that shit #imagine a guy in his 40s yearning for victorian england #the whoooole aen elle plotline is disturbing to me in the most fascinating psychological horror genre deconstruction way #jesus wept at the union of ciri and auberon #the elbow-high diaries

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