"Aaaaah a cute anime girl talking to me through the computer I'm going insaaaane!!"
BTW if you have access to X, last Halloween I participated in a space where I recited a few local werewolf stories from the 18-19th century, in a few of them the source of the curse was a wolf skin that the person was forced to wear by the devil and could be physically destroyed to free them https://x.com/Ancient_Daze/status/1983654998363054542
I've been saving this in my inbox for a while, finally got around to it. I'm glad I recently made the jump to paid, this was great! Looking forward to more, I'm consistently impressed by your insights.
Thank you! Yes, and the history of early plastic surgery is bizarre and at times, disturbing, constantly betraying particular anxieties. Noses have apparently always been a source of self-loathing. SotL is such a rich film, it can be read in so many ways, but I do agree that the skin-ego idea massively sharpens the concept of 'body horror', which is always a hand-wavy description. The term body horror doesn't really work unless you're also implicitly describing the context of selfhood, skin-boundaries, subjectivity etc. For example, so much children's media could be defined as 'body horror', with characters blowing up like balloons, flattening faces, being squashed into paper, as could many traditional animistic stories, but neither are 'horror' because the context of the subject is very different.
"Aaaaah a cute anime girl talking to me through the computer I'm going insaaaane!!"
BTW if you have access to X, last Halloween I participated in a space where I recited a few local werewolf stories from the 18-19th century, in a few of them the source of the curse was a wolf skin that the person was forced to wear by the devil and could be physically destroyed to free them https://x.com/Ancient_Daze/status/1983654998363054542
Nice.
Or stealing the skin and wearing it as a literal skin-suit.
I've been saving this in my inbox for a while, finally got around to it. I'm glad I recently made the jump to paid, this was great! Looking forward to more, I'm consistently impressed by your insights.
Thinking "Dead Skin Mask" by Slayer...
Thank you! Yes, and the history of early plastic surgery is bizarre and at times, disturbing, constantly betraying particular anxieties. Noses have apparently always been a source of self-loathing. SotL is such a rich film, it can be read in so many ways, but I do agree that the skin-ego idea massively sharpens the concept of 'body horror', which is always a hand-wavy description. The term body horror doesn't really work unless you're also implicitly describing the context of selfhood, skin-boundaries, subjectivity etc. For example, so much children's media could be defined as 'body horror', with characters blowing up like balloons, flattening faces, being squashed into paper, as could many traditional animistic stories, but neither are 'horror' because the context of the subject is very different.