#thehead

[pirathotten]

I just watched The Head 2x06 "Episode XII"

#TheHead #trakt

[saramackenzie1982]

I've had books that literally had me on the edge of my seat. Other times, I've been inside the story and dreaming about it, long after it's finished. Then, there are those tricky character deaths and... #Reading #EdgeOfYourSeat #TurnYourHead #CharacterDeath #Knife #KillingOffCharacters #Inside #TheHead #OfTheAuthor #Sometimes #YouHaveToWatchOut #YouMightSeeIt #UnderMySkin #MySoul #InYourHead #Bookworm #Better #BooksTakeYouPlaces https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce8-ZHKukle/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#reading #edgeofyourseat #turnyourhead #characterdeath #knife #killingoffcharacters #inside #thehead #oftheauthor #sometimes #youhavetowatchout #youmightseeit #undermyskin #mysoul #inyourhead #bookworm #better #bookstakeyouplaces

[dappersautismcreature]

im like a passenger princess but for loreheads, someone goes 'so this is why this happened probably' and i go ':D ok!! ur very smart :D' and i sip my little beverage and stare out the window thinking zero thoughts. yall can drive the car

#qsmp #u guys are very smart and im patting you on thehead #i just #cannot be a lorehead i think id lose my mind

[roomcode]

me and jester were talking about different types of brackens so i . made these jus 4 an idea of tht . thnaks

#lethal company #bracken #dont even ask i dont know either #im ill and sick in thehead

[zazagundam]

"Gundam RX-78-2: Online!!"

#gundam #gunpla #plamo #model kit #gun plastic #posing #rx782 #rx 78 2 #rx 78 #mecha #robot #robots #anime #manga #cool #granddaddy #personal #THEHEAD LAMP FINALLY ARRIVED

[butchez]

okumuras palace is the worst one btw in my first playthrough i got stuck in those fucking door puzzles for like an HOUR . literally walked in circles opening doors skipping through movement cutscenes all while that Garbage Disposal music looped in the background. and it WILL happen again

#its not even good garbage disposal music ! 🖕 personally im glad akechi shot that bitch in thehead #jude talks #persona lb

[ahaura]

so no head?

#📺 lb #SORRYSORRYIT WASEIGHTTHERE THEHEAD IS GONE LMAOOO

[mistiwysteria]

analysis

Bora Chung’s short story, The Head, from Cursed Bunny 

- translated by Anton Hur

synopsis : a head constructed out of a woman’s feces rises out of her toilet bowl and begins to call her mother. disturbed and disgusted, a series of events lead the woman to quit her job and enter a loveless marriage and give birth to a daughter. however, she is constantly plagued by the head and so attempts to get rid of it. on after the second failed attempt to kill it, the head eventually stops appearing. the woman grows old, cooking and cleaning for her husband and daughter. as her daughter grows, the woman begins to recognise her ageing body. then one night out of the blue, the head rises out of the toilet as the woman’s younger self and demands the woman to give her her clothes. the head (now her younger self) enacts revenge on the woman for her mistreatment and tips her into the toilet.

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when I first read The Head I was struck by how surreal it was. it was nothing like I've ever read before- it was bonkers- yet bonkers isn’t quite the word for it. As crazy as a head made of feces calling you “Mother.” got, the woman’s suppressed dissatisfaction with her life, her relationship with her daughter and husband, her disquietude and disgust of the head all seemed rather rational. 

as I was reading through the short story, I was desperately trying to work out what exactly were ‘the bigger meaning’ behind the story. at first it seemed to me to not have a large cohesive ‘bigger meaning’ but rather smaller fragments of it, perhaps its aim was to give a fragmented representation of society- for instance, a pressure to marry, growing old and living with regrets. 

arguably, The Head could be interpreted as a showcase of class divide; the head representing the marginalised members of society, and the woman representing the upper class, ending with a social upheaval as the woman is flushed down the toilet, serving as a kind of warning of the transience of power and social capital. in many ways The Head reminded me of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which could also be interpreted as a novel in support of the French Revolution, repeatedly showcasing the idea of ‘if you treat people well, they will behave well, if you treat them badly, they will undoubtedly rebel’. This idea could also be seen in The Head, when the woman demands gratitude from the head at the end of the story, the head responds with ‘Gratitude. What gratitude should I have for you? [...] What have you given me besides your feces and trash?’. the woman's mistreatment and rejection of her responsibility towards the head accumulated the head’s resentment and lead to her demise. 

however, I am more so convinced by the reading that The Head was an exploration of the oppression of women and its effects. I am not sure if I am reaching but in some ways I felt that the head was likened to an aborted fetus. It is an unwanted child and the woman did not purposely create it or want it either and if you will, it’s down the toilet. Either way, never mind wether the head is a symbol for an aborted fetus, it is ultimately an unwanted child, a child born out of wedlock which is already a cause of social exclusion be it aborted or not. The head’s identity as a child born out of wedlock- or even as child born out of feces- embodies the unconventional, shunned route leading away from the rigid obligations of marriage, childbirth and motherhood. the woman’s disgust of the head could be reflective of society’s disgust of the unconventional, leading her to quit her job and enter the average prescribed road which she finds no joy in. deep into her middle age, the woman ‘gazed upon the meaningless progression of scenes’ on TV, attempting to distract herself from ‘am odd little space between her heart.’ Her passive action of ‘gazed’ and watching TV in itself suggests a lack of involvement and vigour in her own life, and perhaps a sense of yearning for something more in the form of story-telling to fill the ‘odd little space’. 

at the end of the story where the head returns with it’s body complete, it is described luxuriously with all the beauty of youth and the narrative voice begins to refer to it as ‘her young self’. this binds the woman and the head together as one, suggesting the head embodies the woman’s full potential that she had at her youth and before she married and entered her empty, emotionless life. her young self takes over and removes the old self of its meaningless life, and continues as the woman. The young self’s unconventional birth suggests a trajectory where the young self takes an new path as unconventional as her birth. Here, the use of doppelgängers could suggest that the head/the young self is the woman’s unfulfilled potential and desires that had been limited by her and therefore society’s disgust of the head/the young self. 

in recent years, anti-feminism has drawn the support of many young men in S.Korea who believe that they have suffered the worst of gender discrimination. an article published by the guardian, reported that this was possibly due to men feeling threatened by women’s advancement in the workplace, and especially because all Korean men must serve mandatory military service before the age of 30, which can hinder their careers. this same service is not expected of women, which, sparks debate which I won’t be discussing here. roughly speaking, this creates a situation where sentiments towards advances in women’s rights are resented and traditional roles for women are pushed. on top to this, S.Korea’s birth rate is decline. undoubtedly there must be a growing pressure on Korean women to fulfil their supposed ‘duties’ of childbirth. as many of us know, having children is challenging, many married women upon having children often retreat from work, and assume housewifely identities which can result in a reliance on their husbands. 

this route is seen here, in The Head. the woman leaves her job due to her disgust of the head and enters a loveless marriage, which she and her husband spend in ‘emotional detachment’ and does not seem to view any aspect of it as fulfilling. and despite having a ‘real’ daughter of her own the woman is still the more preoccupied with the head (and therefore what it represents). once the head disappears, she becomes all the more aware of the meaninglessness of her life as a housewife and her age.

Chung seems to be critiquing this unfulfilling conventional path that seems to be ever more expected of women, exploring the emotional effects of this pressure through the characters of the woman and the head.

#thank you for coming to my ted talk lmao #it was so fun to right this because I haven't found much analysis on bora chung's thehead on the internet #it just feels really good to be original for once #like all those old classical texts have been studied thousand times over #idk how much you can say more about them #but anyway #also im not particularly familiar with the societal atmosphere going around in Korea so please correct me if I am wrong #I will definitely correct things if I am #thank you so much! #bora chung #cursed bunny #Booker Prize #international booker prize #the head #literary #literature #literary analysis

[iloveplayrehersal]

Look at this beauty

#this #wtf #thebabyiswow #thehead💀 #danny gonzalez #beautiful

[aropride]

awww hes showing us all his toys

#pats him on thehead or whayever #text

[pirathotten]

I'm watching The Head 2x06 "Episode XII"

#TheHead #trakt

[dappersautismcreature]

gonna be so mentallyy ill abt codeflippa n slime but fornow i havs head ache

#qsmp #liveblogging #mushroom screams #helps thehead hurts

[fucktoiboi]

Hey the post you just reblogged is from a minor, please report their blog

Thanks! I'm usually so diligent about checked ever blog I find in the tags, idk how I missed one. Deleted, reported, and blocked, as always.

#seriously thanks for theheads up #all minors are reported #and all ageless blogs are blocked #if you can't handle that get out of kink spaces

[monstertsunami]

im so glad to see youre Also handling the finale well!!!!!!!!!!! <- coping

YEAH WE R SO FUCKED . IM FUCKED IN THEHEAD

ok official thoughts under cut- spoilers, obviously

im not a big fan of shitting on shows like oh it woudlve been better if it was Like This Instead like. thats kind of dick behavior to me so prefacing with i DID like the finale it was good :3 i liked how most of it was executed ! and overall it was satisfying ! its really uncool to approach a story with hate in your heart and not even give it a chance. HOWEVER. i have devoted the past 2 weeks of my life to going fucking BONKERS about simon/(gol)betty so i do unfortunately have opinions on how they handled thaaat. like . i literally made a post abt this yesterday- moving on just isnt a good solution to their arc !!!!!!!!!!!!!! i get where it comes from and the message its trying to get across but its just . why ! whats with this therapy-ization of modern characters ! Every Slightly Unhealthy Couple MUST Break Up And Theres No Such Thing As Improving Relationships And Talking About Problems Or Rebuilding Together. AFTER EVERYTHING SHE DOES FOR HIM, JUST WHEN THEYRE BOTH FINALLY SANE AND TOGETHER AGAIN AFTER CENTURIES SHE JUST . GIVES UP . SIMON HAS MATURED, AND IS CLEARLY IN A PLACE TO LISTEN TO HER AND REMEDY HIS MISTAKES. BECAUSE HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE ISSUES ! THAT THEY HAD ! HE LITERALLY SEES THE PROBLEM AND IS LIKE OH MAN THAT WAS REALLY FUCKED UP OF ME . BUT THE SHOW DOESNT EVEN GIVE THEM A *CHANCE* TO TRY AND MAKE IT WORK AGAIN . I FULLY BELIEVE THAT THEY DID LOVE EACH OTHER! A LOT! SIMON JUST WASNT PERCEPTIVE THAT SHE WAS DOING SO MUCH FOR HIM AND IT LEAD TO BOTH THEIR DOWNFALLS- THAT IS LITERALLY FIXABLE. im just saying it wouldve taken one conversation MAX to fix this issue, AND GOLBETTY WAS CLEARLY READY TO TALK TO HIM?? LIKE HE ALREADY LEARNED HIS LESSON TOO . SO WHY . AUGH. "THE GOLBETTY BUS IS ABOUT HOW SHES MOVING ON TO A PLACE HE CANT FOLLOW" BITCH SHE IS A GOD OF CHAOS WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE MOVING ON TOO. LIKE HE IS LITERALLY ALL SHE HAS CONNECTING HER TO REALITY. SHES GONNA GO TO CHAOS GOD THERAPY? BITCH? IM NOT SAYING LIKE "IN A REGULAR RELATIONSHIP YOU *CAN* FIX HIM DONT GIVE UP KEEP SACRIFICING GIRL!" BUT NOT ONLY IS THIS IS VERY DIFFERENT BUT SHES NOT SACRIFICING ANYTHING ANY MORE . HES JUST FINALLY READY TO LISTEN. AND *THATS* WHEN SHE LEAVES. FUCK. OFF. AUGH. so overall umm i really liked all the golbetty scenes and . i thought they were really cool episodes :) i liked how a the rest of it was handled actually! and i will be wiping the conclusion of their arc from my mind :3

i will be posting gifsets/hq screencaps of my sexy big nonverbal wife on my sideblog @huge-wife later so keep . an eye out for that!!

#boss makes a dollar i make a dime thats why i answer asks on company time #like i know she couldnt actually TELL him things bc shes fucking golb #but he understood . he apologized . theres literally no reason for this to have happened after that #i just feel like it wouldve been a way better concusion to their arc if he just apologized and said hed do better #and then they pine for each other from across the universe . maybe even visit on weekends #and thats just the HEALTHY ALTERNATIVE. that the showrunners CLEARLY WOULD PREFER. TO THE OTHER TOXIC THEMATIC TRAGIC ALTERNATIVES. #petrigrof authors please start writing canon divergent stuff its the only way i can cope PLEASEE #fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #f&c spoilers #adventure time #simon petrikov #betty grof #golbetty #petrigrof #schizobabble #it fits. IT FITS VERY WELL. SORRY FOR BEING INSANE

[centipussay]

⚠️ arachnophobia warning aaah (also the photo isn’t mine, i just edited it to make it a bit blurry) ⚠️

littltle babie. pput a boww on hesd !!!maybr id this thehead idomt know butCcute

#bit sscaredto toucvh him #dontw wannna startlr hjm