trying not to talk too much abt the bear s2 but im Really fuckin frustrated that even with everyone demanding that they’re sooo media literate and sooo smart that no one has talked about claire and the way she sparks audience discomfort. like, she feels out of place within the show because CARMY cannot accept that he is getting this good thing—she feels out of place in HIS life. she’s actually crafted to be the ideal girlfriend, with glowy bokeh lighting in a grocery store and beauty shot close ups and a sweet instrumental leitmotif to show to you, an audience member, that she’s too good to be true in carmys eyes. if you’re an audience member, she raises alarm bells in YOUR head because she raises alarm bells in HIS. he literally tells us that—that’s the crux of his final monologue, that he doesn’t believe he can have the life of food and wines best chef and a life of love and human connection. he doesn’t believe he’s deserving of good things because his family has always been so fucked, because nothing he’s ever tried to hold together has held together—except for his cooking. it’s done this way on purpose, to make you feel that anxiety that he feels around this relationship, and to make you question why you feel it too
AEON which converts to LSTR, the AEON logo which is both a hexagram divided by 6 and a Penrose cube (that is, 6 component parts that from every angle form a single whole), the use of trigrams in reference to the 6 lines that form a single character, etc
The Penrose triangle which appears to have discrete sides but is actually recursive upon itself, 512 which is divisible NOT by 6 but by 8 (that is, the number of corners in a cube), the 八卦/Eight Trigrams, Falke the god with 6 spears forming 6 unbroken lines,
character class spreads from the official elden ring tabletop rpg, including a mixture of original art for existing classes and new art for classes exclusive to the rpg. i don’t think these have been circulated much in english-speaking fan circles, if at all. i’ll post cleaned versions of the character art at a later date.
