Scene:
Kim Banner strips in a nightclub filled with racist skinheads, which climaxes with a combination of the scene from Flashdance and Carrie.
Babz sure knows how to pick them…
How did Barbara Pershing (the last name is actually spelled Porshoen), a first-generation American Samoan, get a German-sounding last name?
Much of the story of that occurrence goes back to the Second Samoan Civil War (AKA the Samoan Crisis) and the end of the Battle of Vailele, when Germany, Great Britain and the U.S. nearly started a world war in 1899.
Pershing (the story of a punk rock girl and her mundane journey through a desert of the unreal).
Did the Earth ever have two moons?
NASA has a plan to lasso an asteroid and put it into lunar orbit, but still — two moons?
A future Earth with two moons:
This picture makes me think of my own weird shit cycle with Kirsten (or at least the weird shit others experience in her world).
flash forward…in Othered Space
texas-style conspiracy, where Kirsten lives the life of a captive, battered about…
(Source: the-old-breeze, via f-weedom)
America, the Dying Planet: Mars as Historical Analogue of U.S. Empire
The character of Metacom (Meganon) is used to not only refer to the ideas of gendered violence (especially on the biological-physical body), but to instruct the larger idea of the construction of U.S. history, with the trope of Mars-as-a-dying-world to stand in for American empire.
Fiery the Angels Rose: a short story about Metacom and the rise to power of the Gnostics of Ares.
*For more of the idea of comparing Earth objects to geological objects on Mars, check out this book by Stephen Paul Meszaros.
**For more of the othered space of Meganon/Metacom:
***For more of the history of the Rebellion in Heaven
William Blakes America, A Prophecy deserves mention with my newest short story Fiery the Angels Rose for the obvious reason of the title coming from Blakes poem.
So, too, should I mention that much of what hinges on the character of Metacom/Meganon is the historical foundation of America (which according to Jill Lepore deals with identity and the historical meaning of King Philips War, also known as Metacoms Rebellion).
There is also the personal mention of Blakes inspiration on my collage movies, with a pointed mention of the video for the Rebellion in Heaven.
In the end, what better analogue for America is there, than the dying world of Mars?
They first cut one of his Fingers round in the Joynt, at the Trunck of his Hand, with a sharp Knife, and then brake it off, as Men used to do with a slaughtered Beast, before they uncase him; then they cut off another and another, till they had dismembered one Hand of all its Digits, the Blood sometimes spirting out in Streams a Yard from his Hand… yet did not the Sufferer ever relent, or shew any Signs of Anguish…. In this Frame he continued, till his Executioners had dealt with the Toes of his Feet, as they had done with the Fingers of his Hands; all the while making him Dance round the Circle, and Sing, till he had wearied both himself and them. At last they brake the Bones of his Legs, after which he was forced to sit down, which ‘tis said he silently did, till they had knocked out his Brains.
King Philip’s War, also known as Metacomet’s Revolt (Rebellion) does more than supply the original name to the main character of Fiery the Angels Rose, it provides a historical analogue (and supports) the brutal idea of bodily destruction that explains the gender ideas within the character development of LotA.
For more on the war:
- Jill Lepore, author of the book, Name of War: King Philips War and the Origins of American Identity
- Review of Name of War: King Philips War and the Origins of American Identity
Why choose this Misfits song SKULLS (I want your skull…) for my newest short story, Fiery the Angels Rose?
The accompanying visuals of Frankenstein definitely help, especially, the introduction of the themes of Frankenstein of Creator and Creation.
How better to explain the Matriarchate and their creation of the Primates than the tragedy of a scientist of the Enlightenment?
Then, there is the matter of those skulls…
For in the Rebellion of Heaven, when the Primates (late to become the Gnostics) strike back at their hosts, the victors bring seek the skulls of the First Natural Sisters.
Eleven in number, each skull paired to their living double. One twin alive, one struck down.
(Source: shehulk1228, via wwwprincessofchina)
Excerpt from Blade Runner is the perfect illustration for my short story Fiery the Angels Rose. Roy Batty misquotes William Blake (sure), but the plot of BL gets is right: creations of man have returned to seek eternal life (or choose revenge in its place).
Nothing best sums up the Rebellion in Heaven led by the Primates.
