#v: lady lazarus

[starry-night-rose]

“This is best day ever! Every day is the best day ever!”

Character Playlist / Character Inspirations

Full Name: Blair Anneliese Handler

Nicknames: Blair Bear (Family), Mademoiselle Rose (Rook), Coral (Floyd), Miss Picture Perfect & Blondie Beauty (Rosemi belongs to @authoruio ) The Magenta Mistress (Lazarus belongs to @mystery-skulls-ghost ) My Queen (Killian belongs to @rosietrace )

V/A: Mitsuki Takahata (JP) Kelly Sheridan (EN)

! Twisted from Barbie from the Toy Story franchise !

Age: 18

Birthday: July 21st

Horoscope: Leo

Species: Human

Gender: Female

Pronouns: She/her

Height: 155 cm (or 5’5)

Hair Color: Beach Blonde

Eye Color: Baby Blue

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Homeland: Land of Dawning

Family: Unnamed Father, Unnamed Mother, Four unnamed younger sisters

Dominant Hand: Right

Dormitory: Toytoriya (belongs to @toytoriyadorm / @revolllutionary )

School Year: Third Year

Class: 3-A (no. 7)

Best Class(es): Flying, Alchemy, Magical History

Worst Class: None!

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Favorite Food(s): Cupcakes, Smoothies, Pizza

Least Favorite Food: Beets

Hobbies: Surfing, Reading, Tailoring, Aerobics, and so much more!

Dislike(s): Being Late, Rainy Days, Inactivity

Talent(s): Ballet, Writing, and Public Speaking

Sexuality: Demiromantic Asexual

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Personality: A real go-getter! Blair is a cheerful, upbeat, and friendly young lady. With her countless hobbies, she often has her hands full but honestly, Blair couldn’t care less! She likes the feeling of being active more than anything! Blair hates to see her friends treated unfairly and would do everything in her power to help them. Blair is seen as a sort of role model in Toytoriya with her endless positivity and helpfulness. Blair truly does love helping others. Underneath however, Blair hides her fears, insecurities, and doubts behind a charming smile. Blair can’t help but worry about anything from mortality and her place in the world.

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Background: Blair had a relatively normal childhood. Born to a loving family, Blair grew to love and care for them very much. Growing up by the beach left Blair with a love of the ocean and everything about the beach. Later on, Blair was accepted into NRC and was sorted into Toytoriya.

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Unique Magic: “You Can be Anything!”

Allows the user to alter one’s appearance, abilities, personality, etc for up to one hour. Extremely draining on the user however. Can be used on the caster though to lesser effect.

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Trivia!

Blair was the one who customized her own uniform!

Some of Blair’s favorite genres of books are adventure, fantasy, and romance!

Blair used to be on the debate team back in middle school! She was very passionate about it but left due to scheduling conflicts

Blair has even won some awards for her surfing abilities!

She hopes to have some of her stories published one day!

[stealingyourbones]

A Hades and Persephone!

Tall!JazzTM (Hades) spots Jason (Persephone) and its instant heart eyes.

Jazz goes and ask Jason's ghost parent (Lady Gotham) for permission to court him.

Jason either doesn't know he's considered Lady Gotham's child or he forgot when he got resurrected.

Jazz moves to Gotham and starts courting Jason with ghostly chocolate treats infused with ectoplasm (LAZARUS PIT WATER?! insert panic) and by beating up his enemies.

Insert video footage of Amazon Goddess beating up the Joker and then tying him up like a parcel (with a bow tie and all that) to deliver him to Jason's haunt.

The Bats are freaking out.

Batman is Demeter. He does not want this Death-Spirit to whisk away his son.

said video footage is shaky ass civilian camera footage and it absolutely explodes in popularity online. A portion of people are terrified of her, a portion are absolutely down bad, and even more have a mantra of "what the fuck what the fuck whatthefuck is that the JOKER????" in their head.

absolutely love this its v sweet and chaotic and I adore it

[margridarnauds]

Hello, please talk about some TV show and song recommendations. :)

I've actually been wondering for ages if you've heard of the concept musical, Lady M, which has been releasing promo songs here and there. I want to emphasize that I'm not SOLD on it, not 100%, since (1) They've only released three songs and (2) They talk about inventing "an original backstory to Lady Macbeth's villainy and downfall" and they how "chilling flashbacks of her haunted past are woven into this reimagining of the famous tale", and that sort of thing can go either really, really well or really, really badly (I am begging people, she doesn't NEED a tragic backstory, especially if it ends up being trauma porn), BUT Lady Macbeth's song, "What Must Be Done", DOES fuck. If the rest of the musical ends up being garbage, I'll still have this song.

Another concept musical that I've been really impressed with (and now has had a concert performance that was recorded and is available on Spotify, so I can judge it more accurately) is Treason: The Musical. I've been supporting this musical since 2021, so I've been very interested to see whether this would do well or whether it would be one of those musicals that get a bit of traction and then burn out. It seems, at first glance, to be one more cynical Hamilton rip-off (not to name names...but. You know. You Know™), and I think that it WAS born from the Hamiltrend, in the sense that I don't think it would have been created without it. But it has its own unique folk sound that sets it apart; it isn't mindlessly following the trend, and honestly I would say that the weakest parts of the show are the moments where it DOES sound like Hamilton (namely, James (V)I's parts). They even use the lyrics to one of my folk songs, "The Unquiet Grave/Cold Blows the Wind" as a bookend to the musical -- and it's impressive that I LIKED it since I'm a die hard proponent for the "Dives and Lazarus" musical setting for the song (most non-D&L settings are...boring, which is criminal in a song about a ghost coming from the grave to tell her boyfriend to stop crying over her.) Favorite songs include: When Will I See You Again, Blind Faith, Burn, The Day Elizabeth Died, No Happy Ending.

Finally, no song/musical recommendations list of mine would be itself without me plugging my beloved Marie Antoinette: The Musical, specifically the 2.0 version (DO NOT watch the German, I BEG you, if you want to have any affection for the musical left). It features my favorite feral gremlin musical lady protagonist, Margrid Arnaud, who we're first introduced to when she splashes champagne on the Queen of France, and she only gets more unhinged from there. She's everything that people say they want from a female Blorbo -- She's pathetic, she cries on stage over a situation she absolutely partially caused, she might or might not be fucking the king's scheming goth cousin while pining for Marie Antoinette's boytoy, she has daddy issues, she has mommy issues, she has half-sibling issues, she leads a mob to Versailles, she commits perjury and gets off free during the height of the Reign of Terror, she calls down the wrath of God on the aristocrats. She's like Madame Defarge on speed with positive character development. Literally no one is doing it like her. Have some of Margrid in her natural element, from the Korean proshot (which I'm not legally allowed to say whether I have a copy of it.)

Speaking of Storming Versailles, have some Je Veux le Monde from 1789 -- every single production of 1789 has had Woman Problems in some capacity (hilariously enough, NEVER the same Woman Problems, so you get to pick your poison), but the song fucks.

[heysawbones]

Litho Ninja is in Houston, which is v cool - it's a lithographic printer that does small comic runs, among other things. I had all my MO runs done through them, and highly recommend them

come to find out Lady Lazarus is also in Houston. is there something about Houston that lends itself to great print shops? wth

I love that litho ninja's website is so terrible. part of me wants to be like "yo do you guys want a better looking website? I'm sure I can hook you up with someone" but I'm also like - you know what? no. they don't need to have a good website. they just need to Print Good and they do that Just Fine

[thegospelofstjohn]

"The Tech." From the Gospel of Saint John, 11: 9-11.

John says "Jesus answered" the call of the people for their freedom. Observe the progression in the way the Hebrew terms express this:

Answer=1116, קיא‎ו‎, kiv, "a vomit of puke." Politicians like Mike Johnson, a filth, love to convince people they aren't free or safe enough, then they screw them. This is how an answer to the call of duty becomes vomit puke.

Jesus Answered=2110, ךאי, techa'i, "stitches to the Land of Israel."

Jesus was trying to rekindle the Kingdom of Israel. Everything He did was to create an Island of superlative success in the midst of an anticlimactic human civilization like Rome. Like America.

In the next frame He says there are twelve major indicators of an enlightened person He said must be taught to the people in order for the Black Pillar of Christian dumbness and oppression to lift.

In order to understand the essence of the Light spoken of by Jesus, I created a Number consisting of the names of the Twelve Disciples= 10531, קהגא,‎ haga, ‎ ‎"the civil defense."

Once again we see a pattern emerging from the Gospel Torah pertaining to the use of the military to ensure the General Welfare and Common Defense. Without civil defense, the people have no resort against people like Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin, or the filth. The beginning of civil defense, the Angelic Host begins early in life through a demonstration of yes, you guessed it civics.

Little kids don't need an education in traffic court or why the fire department responds to fires, or why people in uniforms often tell others what to do, they just need to see the job get done. When you let the filth run amok, you tell children and adults of all ages the purpose of civics are null and void and this is wrong.

You know those really mean overweight thoroughly unpleasant black ladies that stop traffic so little kids can cross the street on school days? Imagine if one of then waved a car through and let a dump truck run over a bunch of little ones and shrugged and said "nyeaaah!" This failure of civics would make the news. So we need to obey the civics.

As for the officials themselves, Jesus says "It is time for them to wake up."

9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. 10 It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”

11 After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”

The Values in Gematria are:

v. 9-10:  Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight?"

The Number is 16747, י״וזדז‎‎‎, yetahozdaz‎‎‎, "hold on then....""

v. 11: After he said this I am going there to wake him up." I have been trying for over a decade to get you pukes to wake up and raise hell over what happened in that 2016 election and since and put the dragon and his angels down into hell where they belong. Why o why have you not done it?

In the summer of 2021, after I got really tired of it, I sent a letter to various heads of state around the world asking them to make peace with Israel and invest in the Third Temple. Putin responded by invading Ukraine, he even said I am the reason why he did it. The USA Americans responded by excavating underneath Israel, subsequently attacking it on October 7, 2023.

You know what those fucking Republicans and Donald Trump did to me and my family but nonethless, those letters were intended to incite the Mashiach, not start a Third World War. So as one might imagine I have a few bones to pick especially with Misters Putin and Trump whose heads I duly require on the end of a pike, forthwith for the evils they have done when they could have actually done some good.

But they did not, no one really has. It is therefore time for vengeance, retribution, a clean up, the prisoners need to go free, the land needs a fresh breath of clean air. Get this done please.

The Number is 5879, טהחז‎ ‎ , tahachaz‎ ‎ ‎, "let this be so."

The term tech has come up a few times in this frame. It means "priest" and Jesus certainly was a priest, but if we dig we find what Jesus wants is for man to observe, pay attention to the signals, apply historical knowledge, and create an ever sophisticated way of anticipating reality.

The etymology enumerates this as "a day."

"The Hebrews understood that time is not linear and also not two dimensional. A person's sense of present reality sits entirely in her own personal head and every element of her sense of reality made its way into her head when a signal containing a piece of information reached her and was absorbed by her senses and processed and incorporated into her mind by her brain. That means that the past, and thus the east, is all around her and is signified by a state of dispersal.

The observer functions as a point upon which all lines of the past converge. Should the observer in turn desire a greater state of unity with whatever she cannot observe through signals from the past, she would have to shuffle "backwards" into the future. Hence to go west is to unify, to go east of to disperse. Going westward is forging bonds or simplifying observations into general statements, going eastward is dissolving bonds and making things more complicated.

The opposite of coming first is coming last: the verb אחר ('ahar) means to come behind or after or to be late. The word for west, where the sun sets, is באה (bi'a), which also means entrance and comes from the common verb בוא (bo') to come, or rather to go from a primitive condition of dispersal toward a sophisticated condition of unity.

Since the sea was to Israel's west, the word ים (yam), meaning sea, was used synonymous with west. The word ים (yam) in plural, namely ימים (yamim) is identical to the plural of the word יום (yom), meaning day."

This brutal way of life we have created must come to an end and the new day must begin. This is surely going to mean a few evil despicable individuals are going to have to be apprehended and dealt with, but so be it. Wake up, rise up, time is so very short.

[warisanart]

“cute.” the word drips with sarcasm. she casts a quick glance around the room, assuming that their session would be recorded. replayed, dissected. “i thought the illusive man would a bit more subtle about trying to get in my head, but...” a sharp smile was set on her lips. “i guess you don’t care, since you’re probably getting a handsome paycheck.”

[exitwound]

sylvia plath, lady lazarus // ilya milstein, the muse’s revenge

[horizonwalkers]

the-fungeon-of-lady-lazarus replied to your post “do you have any thoughts on balancing berserker barbarian? it seems...”

You're using action economy right! And, yeah, those are good changes to make it an actually playable subclass, lol.

hell yeah @ wotc hire me i actually know the terminology of game design now

[proditionne-a]

tag dump: verses

[onebadxday-archive]

@crimson-smirk

DEATH was stranger than she’d ever imagined. As she walked the streets of purgatory now it all looked the same as in life, only perhaps with a darker tinge. How did she know she was dead? Well, it was the only thing that made sense. She’d remembered DYING, remembered having the life choked out of her by a strange man on the kitchen floor of the apartment she shared with Jack, that they would soon share with their child, too. Their child....Hand grips the fabric at her stomach where there was now nothing but emptiness. Memories of crawling out of that strange, swirling hole and feeling NOTHING but LOSS, ANGER, CONFUSION, plague her thoughts. Nails dig into the fist of her other hand so tight she draws blood. This had to be HELL. She couldn’t comprehend the thought of being brought back to life without her child, not now.

If this twisted plane of existence was parallel to the one she once walked, she wondered if its inhabitants were, too. Namely, the bleedin’ gang Jack had been working a job for. They had to be the ones responsible. He’d worn a RED HOOD. Part of her KNEW she really was alive again, that she’d be able to find them, and that part wanted nothing more than to make them PAY for what they’d taken. But her mind was stuck in a dance between reality and fiction, between life and death, and she wasn’t quite ready to admit to herself that she planned to KILL unless she told herself it was merely fiction, metaphor of the hell world she’d fallen into. But, boy, she was ready to. They’d taken her CHILD, and who knew what they’d done to Jack.

Without really noticing she’s followed a group of people down a dark alley toward a small door where music boomed and lights flickered. She figures she may as well make it a start on her quest to find the gang, and if she wasn’t successful she could always just DRINK.

Following the group inside, eyes begin to scan the room immediately. As she searches for something familiar, she’s stopped in her tracks by a LAUGH. There was something off about it, yet so FAMILIAR. Curiosity getting the better of her, she follows the source of it until her eyes land on a man who somehow looked like Jack all dressed up like a strange hybrid between a clown and a mob boss. 

It overwhelms her and the toggle deciding whether this was reality or not suddenly switches over and with it she loses all inhibitions. If she was already dead, what did it matter? “Jack?” She calls loudly, pushing through the crowd to get to where he was sitting. “Well, I’ll be damned, this really is hell.” She laughs dryly, taking in the character the devil had dressed her Jack up to look like. This wasn’t him. He wouldn’t party with these people, sit around like a freakin’ crime boss with guns and bodyguards! Nice try, devil! “So, tell me, what do I have to do to pass this level of purgatory?”

[ahmairi]

Won't you rise it all up?

[qveendcms]

@iincantatriix from x 

          “oh how you wound me with your cruel words.” loki feigned hurt, a hand falling to her chest as if she were clutching her heart for a moment before soft laughter left her lips. “we’re alone dear, no need to pretend as if you didn’t miss me terribly.” loki grinned, hand lifting to brush red locks over her shoulder as a manicured brow lifted at the mention of the missing dressing. “are you sure they were your gowns? honestly how many times have our styles overlapped and caused a confusion?” true as that may have been it was still likely that loki had borrowed a gown or three for the sake of doing so. 

[mutable-manifestation]

Family at the Core

So I decided to continue the rogues-as-family-with-Danny once they realize he's a baby & flee to the DC universe/Gotham fic.

Parts 1 & 2

Info: AU where you gotta fight ecto with ecto - it’s the only thing that has any effect on them, and it’s part of the reason why the ghosts love Amity so much - aside from the whole “thinking danny was old ghost pretending at being human and openly challenging pretty much everyone by claiming a Living Realm haunt and then opening a stable portal in it” (from their perspective pre-’holy shit he’s baby’ realization) - Danny? Sam & Tucker with ecto weapons? Humans who can and will put up a challenge but won’t try to seriously harm them ala bastards like Pariah & the Guys In White? It’s practically the ideal ghostly vacation spot. 

The Fenton fam are the first to discover how to fight ghosts in their dimension, but DC didn’t have blood blossoms and made the deal w/Pariah before they figured out the ecto v ecto option

This is pre-ID reveals among the JL because it’s funnier. 

Disclaimer: idk how the police work I’m just rolling with what sounds probably like it’d be right.

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Kitty and Johnny disappear before they can discuss a time for the police sweep, but Kitty <i>had</i> asked for Bruce’s number earlier in the conversation - “To set up that playdate once we’re more settled in” - after Bruce had mentioned the benefits of peer contact for children.

(The complete and utter disconnect from information about humans certainly lent credence to their claim of being ghosts - or at least not humans)  

She’d promised to give him a call once they got their phones set up. Hopefully that would be soon - they really needed to talk about the Lazarus Pit in the building before the kid fell in and died - assuming they truly weren’t aware of it prior to selecting the location. 

Perhaps Bruce could convince them to block it off? If they truly weren’t after the pit, he could ask about setting them up with a better place; make up some excuse about wanting the building for the company.

He makes contact with them and is left with more questions than answers; at least they know where they are now, despite the in-costume team's inability to track them as they left.

Constantine and Deadman arrive together <i>less</i> than an hour later, managing to arrive at the Batcave at the same time as Bruce’s group.

Constantine twirls an unlit cigarette between his fingers as the footage of the Joker incident plays.

It stops twirling when the lunch lady appears on the screen.

His lips form a grim line as he watches.

“Anyone ever told you you’re the unluckiest bastard this side ‘a the pond?” Constantine asks, turning to Batman once the first video concludes.

“No.” Is Batman’s humorless reply.

“Don’t leave us in suspense here, Conny,” Nightwing slides closer to lightly elbow him in the side. “Is Damian Wayne’s doppelganger the most haunted kid in America or what?”

Robin, for his part, crossed his arms and continued sulking - as he had been since Batman had read them in on the existence of JL Dark and verified that ghosts were indeed real.

“Most haunted kid this damn dimension, Bird boy,” Constantine answered, stowing his cigarette. “Those-” he gestures to the now-blank screen “-are Infinite Realms Ghosts. They aren’t like Deadman here, they’re about a million times worse.”

“Hey!” Deadman protests.

“They come from a place they call ‘The Infinite Realms’ - big shock there. Their kind haven’t been seen in this dimension for tens of thousands of years now; most people just think they’re myths by this point. I only even know about it because my thrice-damned house wouldn’t stop throwing a book on the subject at me until I read it a few years back.”

He puts the cigarette away in favor of crossing his arms.

“The Realms are said to be connected to every dimension there is, and legend has it that way back when we got a lot of visitors from their side. Had a lot of names - the era of chaos, the age of disaster, whatever you wanna call it. They treated this dimension like a plaything, and there was nothing anyone could do to stop them. 

Nothing worked - salt, holy symbols, the magics of the time, etc. Supposedly, someone even tried summoning a demon and watched the thing get hunted. Realms ghosts were leagues more powerful than any of the other known beings at the time and no one could find a way to fight them. The only reason they left was because some group made a deal with their king - no details on what the deal involved other than getting them to get lost.”

“So we are simply supposed to hope that their king isn’t too busy dealing with the infinitely many other dimensions they are apparently hooked up to to come get a few strays out of ours?” Robin questions icily.

“It means you’re simply supposed to give me a chance to do some more research - I only skimmed the one book to get the house off my back. What I read wasn’t promising, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t more useful information buried somewhere.” Constantine replies with an eyeroll. “For now, if they want to play house with some poor bastard? Wayne’s got enough kids to know how to give good enough advice they don’t accidentally kill him in the meantime. Infiltrate their playdates if you’re that worried. And look on the bright side! They took care of your clown problem. Now, you said you had two videos?”

“Yes,” Batman answers tightly, bringing up said second video. “We managed to get footage of their meeting with the Waynes.”

The second watching was far less eventful.

Until the very end, when Kitty and Bruce shake hands and Constantine lets loose a stream of curses.

“What? What’s wrong?” Red Robin demands.

“What’s wrong is that Brucie Wayne is dumber than a sack of damn bricks.” 

The batclan members make various coughing/strangled noises at this, save for Batman, who remains stoic. 

“Who the fuck meets a self-declared non-human entity and shakes on a deal.” Constantine drags an exasperated hand down his face. “Make sure Wayne knows his ass needs to buy them that building asap or Ghost Girl gets to make him dance to whatever tune she wants; break a deal with a dealmaker and they get controlling shares in your soul.”

“I see,” Batman says, “We’ll get in touch with him again after this; we need to discuss the police sweep of the Yuyan building anyway. If direct observation will help, he should be willing to bring you along as a civilian friend.”

Constantine looked at him like he had three heads.

“Not a chance in hell, Bats.”

He backs away from the table toward the cave’s Zeta tube.

“Oh! Oh, me! Pick me! I wanna meet the new ghosts!” Deadman shook his arms wildly, doing loops in the air.

“The visibility spell won’t last that long and we don’t know if their kind of ghost can see you without it. Also, we were in the middle of something. We already detoured. Let’s finish the job and then we can come back and play ghost party 2: yet another pain in my ass edition, yeah?” 

“Awwwwww,” Deadman slouched sadly before zipping into the tube with him.

“Great. Have fun, try to get along with the new neighbors, don’t shake any hands, don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, yadda yadda, aaaaaand bye.”

And with that, they were gone. 

“Well that’s not ideal,” Nightwing mutters.

The meeting had at least answered one question.

Now for the other two dozen.

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Kitty wants to get this cop sweep over with as soon as possible.

The others are hesitant at first - or territorial, in Walker’s case - but a little fast-talking has him all for the idea. 

The chronic rule-follower had only taken to making his own rules because of the zone’s inherent chaos and lack of real, broader government. In Gotham there are rules pre-made to follow, to enforce. He eats it up.

He’ll be obsessed with being law-abiding once he’s done studying up, but Kitty had been headed towards a future in law before her own death. She was well aware that it would take him - even with the aid of an eidetic memory - a minimum of months to read enough to actually start enforcing anything. 

And until he’d read it all? Kitty was free to make him paranoid about missing a later subsection to create her own Walker-loopholes.

Once he’s on-side, he practically carries the argument for her. She only pipes up again to mention how “the baby would probably be a lot more comfortable with a stable, uncontested home.”

Walker does his own sweep of the building, opening cabinets and hidden passages and drawing attention to weapons and other hints of crimes-past and Kitty hovers over Technus’ shoulder as they hash out the details of how best to lure in the police.

The Box Ghost leads the others - except Ember, who ‘s on baby-watch at the pool - in packaging up everything they want to keep to be phased into the ground under the building.

Arguing took most of the time and it’s only the work of another two hours to have the entire building ready for the cops to peruse. 

In the end, they decide setting off a small bomb by the entrance is the easiest way to draw police attention - they’ll come investigate, when no one responds they’ll have to check it out, they’ll find the weapons and cult-like documents and murder records Walker had located sitting out in the open, et voila: wanted owners and building up for grabs.

They, of course, will be invisibly watching the whole thing.

Danny hasn’t left the pool since their arrival and they don’t want him to, so he stays there with Johnny on watch to make them both invisible if and when anyone enters that room.

It goes off without a hitch, and by 11 o’clock Kitty is flying to a nearby roof to call Bruce and remind him of his end of the bargain.

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[cocoartistwrites]

Do you have any thoughts on the New Yorker Trauma Plot essay?

First of all I should say I was a sympathetic audience because I am so bored of having characters' motivations explained by Something That Happened to Them. That can work very well but it is very tiresome that it always has to these days, so the basic premise of the essay is one I already agree with. I was particularly struck by the phrase 'the tyranny of backstory' - this is exactly it! BUT that's not to say that people should not write about their trauma, or explore trauma. Of course not. I just oppose the relentless insertion of it into things.

I am of course guilty of creating a backstory for Tom Riddle in unsphere the stars, so let's examine that for a moment. I think, on reflection, that isn't a trauma plot. Firstly that was in reaction to holes I felt were there in the original. I'm not sure it was necessary, though it was certainly interesting and I hope I didn't dwell on it too much or create too obvious a link. The Trauma Plot version would have had what I think was a fairly brief glimpse of life at the orphanage transformed into something much bigger that sort of caused him to do terrible things.

I, like the author of this very good article, am wearied by these inserts and explanations. It's not that it's always bad, to be clear, and sometimes it can even be brilliant. It's that it is e v e r y w h e r e. And the correlation is so reductive ("Two modern adaptations of Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw” add a rape to the governess’s past.").

ANYWAY tl;dr I thought it was a superb article so thanks for mentioning it, and I don't think people getting het up about it probably read it properly. The case is against shoe-horning in trauma as character explanation, not that all writing about trauma is bad.

What do you think? Other people feel free to chime in.

some key pull-outs:

The experience of uncertainty and partial knowledge is one of the great, unheralded pleasures of fiction.

Unlike the marriage plot, the trauma plot does not direct our curiosity toward the future (Will they or won’t they?) but back into the past (What happened to her?). “For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge,” Sylvia Plath wrote in “Lady Lazarus.” “A very large charge.” Now such exposure comes cheap.

The trauma plot flattens, distorts, reduces character to symptom, and, in turn, instructs and insists upon its moral authority.

[alanis-altair]

Yeah, yeah - I know. Another Peaky Blinders post, but I'm obsessed; who cares?

I reaaaallly need to draw attention to the soundtrack of Peaky Blinders. I mean, HAVE YOU LISTENED TO IT?!?

IT'S PERFECT! no one can change my mind, try me. I, myself, realized how brilliant the soundtrack is after recognizing that they put a song of the Arctic Monkeys into the playlist.

I MEAN?!? The Arctic Monkeys, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Arctic Monkeys. I confess, I love them wholeheartedly. They're like one of the most British bands I know and they're sound fits the series just perfect. The slight rasp, the deep bass sounds and this rough tone. It's like Peaky Blinders was made for the Arctic Monkeys and the Arctic Monkeys for Peaky Blinders.

I think the first song I recognized was Danny Boy by Johnny Cash, who by the way is also a perfect match for the series with his melodic voice, but after hearing If You Were There, Beware, Dance Little Liar, Only Ones Who Know and finally One For The Road, Arabella and Do I Wanna Know? my heart burst because I love both so much, the series and the Arctic Monkeys. I think that's what they call an overstimulation of joy.

But it continues. I recognized fucking BLACK SABBATH in Peaky Blinders. This is just awesome. Wow. Ozzy fucking Osbourne was BORN IN BIRMINGHAM, so his accent is exactly the one all of the characters use in the show. How could one series put more love into a soundtrack while handling to sound SO badass, atmospheric and sad at the same time?

Apparently, we're not done yet, friends. Ok, listen. Obviously the series soundtrack also features Queens Of The Stone Age. I want to point that the band helped the Arctic Monkeys write some of their songs?!?!?!?!

Aaaaand The Last Shadow Puppets OBVIOUSLY contain Alex Turner who is the fucking lead vocalist of the Arctic Monkeys.

Plus, The 1975 is also featured. Their music is quite similar to the Arctic Monkeys.

You see what I mean? This soundtrack is not just SOME soundtrack. It's really clever and just brilliant. So we'll composed, wow.

So again, let's take time to appreciate whoever chose the songs for Peaky Blinders. Because of this excellent choice, I decided to listen to the whole soundtrack and got even more surprised.

To share my discovery with you, I created a list of my favorite songs out of every season. Enjoy and listen to those masterpieces, especially when reading Peaky Blinders OneShots or thinking about the show. You'll feel it, I promise. Now, go on and bless your ears.

Season I

Jack White - Love Is Blindness

Dan Auerbach - The Prowl

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand

The White Stripes - St. James Infirmary Blues

and many other Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and The White Stripes songs

Season II (the best soundtrack in my opinion)

Arctic Monkeys - If You Were There, Beware; Dance Little Liar; Only Ones Who Know; One For The Road; Arabella; Do I Wanna Know?

PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?; To Bring You My Love and a lot more, she's awesome

Johnny Cash - Danny Boy

Season III

Arctic Monkeys - Dangerous Animals; Crying Lightning; Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair

Radiohead - You And Whose Army?; I Might Be Wrong; Life In A Glass House

David Bowie - Lazarus

Queens Of The Stone Age - Burn The Witch

PJ Harvey - This Is Love; Red Right Hand

Season IV

Radiohead - Pyramid Song

Laura Marling - Red Right Hand

Jarvis Cocker/Iggy Pop - Red Right Hand

Foals - Snake Oil

Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes - Devil Inside Me

Johnny Cash - Further On Up The Road Ep3

Salvages - Adore

Season V

Bob Dylan - Ballad Of A Thin Man

Anna Calvi - Wish; Ain't No Grave; Papa Pacify

IDLES - Scum; Divide & Conquer

Joy Divison - Atmosphere

Black Sabbath - War Pigs; The Wizard

Radiohead - Climbing Up The Walls

Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave

I don't remember the season anymore so here you go

The Score - Glory; The Fear; Stay

Barns Courtney - Glitter & Gold

Dorothy - Raise Hell; Wicked Ones

SUR - LEAN BACK; MAKE IT TO MORNING

The 1975 - People

Imagine Dragons - I'm So Sorry

The Last Show Puppets - Bad Habits

Royal Blood - Come On Over

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