(BSD 113 SPOILERS) the fyodor jesus imagery is driving me insane, so here are a couple of things i noticed from this chapter (all translations from @/nineofscans).
1. fyodor’s position
so the first thing that was most obvious was fyodor’s positioning here. he may not be on a cross, but this is very intentional i would say! he is still in the position of christ on the cross.
2. fyodor’s outfit
i could be reaching, and this is less to do with jesus, but his outfit to me resembles a monk’s habit somewhat—perhaps signifying his position as a man of god.
3. stabbing with spears as the rooster crows
two things are standing out to me here:
first of all, stabbing fyodor with spears as a means of execution is interesting to me considering how jesus also was stabbed by a spears before being taken down from the cross after he gives up his life (following the “my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?” line—which was quoted in the last chapter!)
i cannot remember if jesus is also stabbed before then, but that is the one i remember the most.
the second thing that jumped out to me about this line was the part about the rooster crowing.
in the new testament, when jesus is betrayed by judas, he warns peter that before the cock crows, he (peter) will have betrayed him (jesus) three times.
what are the implications of that? i can’t really say, maybe it has something to do with why bram later gets stabbed with the holy cross sword and why he later works under fukuchi/fyodor. but it felt like an intentional nod to this part of the passion of christ.
4. bram as the devil
this is perhaps another reach, but i’m including it anyways.
before jesus re-enters jerusalem and the events of the passion of christ, he fasts for 40 days in the desert, where he is tempted from the devil (each of the gospels talks about this differently).
but anyway, this does say something. if bram is the devil, and considering all of fyodor’s positioning and religious imagery surrounding him—i feel the jesus references are very intentional. fyodor is deliberately positioned as— if not jesus, then definitely at least a disciple, or a messenger of god, almost supernatural in energy and appearance.
and with all the buddhist references to angels scattered throughout this arc—i think there’s a lot to be unveiled about fyodor yet. we definitely haven’t seen the last of him. but i’m excited to find this all out later!
I had a dream that for your ask event you had the boys on a stage panel trying to manage them through the event and you threw a mic at Red for misbehaving. Would you throw a mic at Red Mage?
so i just moved right and i have a couple boxes left unpacked, but i did unpack 95% of my books. so tonight i was thinking about theoretically lending my copy of gtn to a friend, and then i realized i didn't know where my copies of tlt are rn, did a literal dramatic gasp, then promptly remembered they're just in the last boxes. instant relief.
every time i’m about to dress up and go all out just for her class i’m always like “stop this madness she will never love you or notice you she is your teacher she does not care!!!!” to myself and then i black out and when i wake up i’m in the shower shaving my entire body like it’s the night before a one direction concert
Maybe I’m just stupid or the pre vis messes with details, but from how Jancy look in the backseat of that clip the Stranger Writers posted today on Twitter, it looks like they have their season 2 haircuts. Dustin’s hat doesn’t match his hat from season 2 so maybe it’s nothing, but just thinking about how they look, I wouldn’t be surprised that they are from the past in the clip. Because Jonathan has bangs now and Nancy’s hair is bigger right? Unless they look different after a time skip from season 4, and go back to their season 2 haircuts. How fun would it be if Steve and Dustin went back in time and interacted with younger Jancy?
Hm. I’m starting to wonder if that room in the library with the things you can examine is Significant in some way now that I know what’s going on with the twins
I find this guy, who came into our doctors office to get tested for chlamydia, very attractive. And I wanna give him my number, but feel awkward since I work at there and it’s a doctors office.
I love it and hate it at the same time when I follow series weekly. On the one hand, I love being able to spin ideas and share theories and conspiracies and stuff while waiting. But on the other hand, the next episode of The Eclipse seems very intense and I love Akk and Ayan welp.