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wolby ([personal profile] wolby) wrote in [personal profile] child_of_the_air 2017-11-03 05:53 pm (UTC)

I really love this.

From a "it's no fun if you can't pick things apart and examine the underlying axioms" viewpoint, this reminded me of our Sorrowful Mother Gods conversation from the other day, and the still-problematic archetype of Mother.

Mothers in our society stop being human beings with pasts, futures, or interests independent of their offspring. Their offspring are treated as their only legitimate creations, which they will then be judged by.

(Just realized Demeter actually subverts this: she has interests/work independent of Persephone---e.g., making sure that the rain falls, the sun shines the proper number of hours in a day, and shit generally grows---and Persephone's presence in her life affects her ability to get not-Persephone-related shit done in a positive way.)

I guess what I'm saying is, I would read Mary action-adventure gen!fic about what it looks like to accept entropy.

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