#and I haven’t purposefully used the monomyth/hero’s journey for story writing since high school

[unhinged-summer-fun]

just realized “I’ve written a prophecy” is hilarious when talking about farmer Joel because the prophet Joel tells a story of redemption and judgment day and purification and restoration and bounty and fruitfulness and hordes of armies that destroy and consume hundreds of times over and the wrath of a god who is vengeful and awesome in that old testament kinda way

in the context of this story, Joel absolutely refuses the call for several years even though literally everything is like. PAY ATTENTION DUDE PLEASE

if I end up calling this fic ‘the book of joel’ literally express ship a fist to my jaw

#I didn’t reject the church for this #actually I kinda did #but THATS BESIDE THE POINT #scardinata #there’s just something so 🤌 about the Refusal of the Call #and I haven’t purposefully used the monomyth/hero’s journey for story writing since high school #even though STC is essentially THJ #but I truly appreciate how impactful it is on so many other pieces of media #I’d say TLOU included #it’s cyclical and it’s poetic the way we see Joel go from whole to empty to broken to healed again #it’s not redemption it’s a circle #both can be valuable #but a circle doesn’t resolve cleanly which is why I think ppl have been resistant to TLOU’s canon #sometimes you just have to let a circle be a circle and you can’t fault it for having equal ups and downs #but also I’m very excited to rant about hügelkultur with y’all