#cm punk is the underlying undercurrent of american counterculture

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probably not going to go back to writing aew fic for a while but i am trying to think of ways to smash together cm punks absolutely bonkers jesus symbolism with mjf's personification of jewish masculine anxiety in a way that is sexy and fun instead of just vaguely antisemitic

#like............. #mjf as assimilation narrative he wants to achieve the american dream he wants to reach the asymptotic line of total acceptance he wants #to be the victor of the shining city on a hill #but the dream is unobtainable it does not exist and every person he follows is in some way unlike him #such that he must betray them #because they have betrayed him first #by leaving him wandering in the desert #moses could not enter the promised land he wandered in the desert until he died and mjf is fundamentally afraid that he too will be denied #entry at the last minute #he loves cm punk for being what he wants to become but cannot become him without destroying himself #something something cody is america as presented at ellis island #statue of liberty huddled masses etc etc #chris jericho is the america of the almighty dollar #the country club the board room the private jet #cm punk is the underlying undercurrent of american counterculture #which is in its own way consumed by the thing it rebels against #a cult of beautiful outraged suffering #william regal is the working man's meritocracy #and mjf loves and hates them all because they cannot make him anything other than what he is #a five foot nothing adhd riddled jewboy #and he's certain everyone can see it #(but punk is special because after the rejection and the pain mjf wants to belong with him the most) #(but because of the things he has forced himself to be in order to survive in the world) #(punk is the only one who rejects him first) #(mjf craves validation for his anger and punk is the only one who can give it to him and that's why punk) #(will never shake his hand) #mjf #anyway this was inspired by cm punk's stigmata hands #which is #just