oops split the threadhttps://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1260740839803719680?s=20 …
-
Show this thread
-
selentelechia Retweeted selentelechia
selentelechia added,
selentelechia @selentelechiaanother thing: there are some very sweet tributes to people who have to have been real there are some archetypes so lovingly portrayed given good endings and good deaths and it makes me want to cry and thank@neilhimself for doing right by those archetypesShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
the character Gilbert a heavyset, somewhat awkward, exceedingly formal man compensating for the awkwardness with a chivalry ethic cornering young women he's fond of into accepting his help and also forcing them to listen to longwinded theological arguments
1 reply 0 retweets 12 likesShow this thread -
I have met this man a dozen times under a dozen different names and this portrait is so loving Gaiman gave him esoteric martial arts prowess and an expertise with the occult do you understand how good this is? how this fits so well for those odd, gentle men I've known?pic.twitter.com/YDB5nXRzeM
7 replies 0 retweets 29 likesShow this thread -
and how does his arc end? the man isn't a man he's a place a good place the steadfast center of the dreamworld reliable loyal full of richness and life this is how you love someone with the stories you tellpic.twitter.com/fXBHlEKYaC
2 replies 0 retweets 20 likesShow this thread -
what I'm trying to get at what I don't know if I can communicate it...isn't really about Sandman or fandom stuff but this feeling is a variation on a recent theme some kind of beautiful cultural convergence
1 reply 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
feeling like I'm riding a cultural wave that started before I was born realizing that so many seemingly unrelated threads I've encountered are all converging on the same tapestry that I'm playing parts and roles that have been played before variations on a theme
1 reply 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
I keep colliding with different nodes in a tightly-connected network discovering that things I was drawn to, on my own, are loved by people I met in completely unrelated contexts being introduced, spontaneously, to things I wind up loving
1 reply 0 retweets 11 likesShow this thread -
and finding out that my friends and family have already loved those things for decades and it isn't just stories, media, comics, movies, fan shit, etc I'm not even a very good geek in the encyclopedic-devotion sense :P
1 reply 0 retweets 10 likesShow this thread -
but there's a vibe a flavor patterns and archetypes and it's all so rich and I keep coming back to it in different ways, ways that suit the times and places I happen to be in it feels like home
3 replies 1 retweet 17 likesShow this thread
Someone recently asked to read my dissertation and I said just read all of Sandman (and others in that universe) instead. I wasn’t even joking. I sent an amazon link. It’s just great.
-
-
Replying to @generativist @selentelechia
On the other hand, I sort of don't like living in Transmetropolitan atm.
0 replies 0 retweets 3 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.