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yakalskovich) wrote2005-11-07 10:28 am
yakalskovich) wrote2005-11-07 10:28 am
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*wibble*
I now leave for work, and when I get back, there is plot in Morningstar Manor that I wibblingly look forwards to - Andras is going to get his comeuppance from Erik Desler, wheee! He is going to be humiliated and made to suffer.
And no, I haven't suddenly developed a taste for character torture, and I violently deny that it's just for the fun of seeing snarky Dom!Erik that I so look forwards to today's thread. Of my two brothers in MM, Lajos's tale conforms with the narrative archetype of human corruption and betrayal (he will go over to Vision this very week!), while Andras's is the classic tale of a student learning and developing, like Earthsea, for example? And just as in Earthsea (or any of the older tales that follow the archetype), the basically gifted student needs to screw up badly and be punished to finally learn what his craft has to offer him. Andras has screwed up now; and rather than let him cling to his error and move sideways, cordoning off another area of his life (as we mundane humans often do in RL), he will today be taking the next step.
Superficial research at the Wikipedia (and the links that offers) into the basics of BDSM suggest that what Erik is about to do is very, very risky and irregular, as he's going to carry over elements of that lifestyle into mundane, vanilla space - if one looks at the plot from that point of view or paradigm. Somebody like Erik can carry that off, probably, but it is still very much on the limit - which makes for an extra edge to that plot line. If one looks at the plot with another paradigm in mind - that of some Japanese sensei who punishes a student so through humility and attention, he learns - the tale is a classic, of course. If Andras gets to scrub the workroom floor, for example, that is not just the job of a 'service sub' given to somebody that doesn't quite get it all (I go with Andras having read up on BDSM at the Wikipedia, like I have, and that is all), it's also the most classial chore done at a Zen monastery, or every normal Japanese school, by the pupils...
No links, as usual with Morningsar Manor - threads are heavily f-locked, and those that aren't are distributed over many different RP comms that finally come together on the characters' f-lists.
And no, I haven't suddenly developed a taste for character torture, and I violently deny that it's just for the fun of seeing snarky Dom!Erik that I so look forwards to today's thread. Of my two brothers in MM, Lajos's tale conforms with the narrative archetype of human corruption and betrayal (he will go over to Vision this very week!), while Andras's is the classic tale of a student learning and developing, like Earthsea, for example? And just as in Earthsea (or any of the older tales that follow the archetype), the basically gifted student needs to screw up badly and be punished to finally learn what his craft has to offer him. Andras has screwed up now; and rather than let him cling to his error and move sideways, cordoning off another area of his life (as we mundane humans often do in RL), he will today be taking the next step.
Superficial research at the Wikipedia (and the links that offers) into the basics of BDSM suggest that what Erik is about to do is very, very risky and irregular, as he's going to carry over elements of that lifestyle into mundane, vanilla space - if one looks at the plot from that point of view or paradigm. Somebody like Erik can carry that off, probably, but it is still very much on the limit - which makes for an extra edge to that plot line. If one looks at the plot with another paradigm in mind - that of some Japanese sensei who punishes a student so through humility and attention, he learns - the tale is a classic, of course. If Andras gets to scrub the workroom floor, for example, that is not just the job of a 'service sub' given to somebody that doesn't quite get it all (I go with Andras having read up on BDSM at the Wikipedia, like I have, and that is all), it's also the most classial chore done at a Zen monastery, or every normal Japanese school, by the pupils...
No links, as usual with Morningsar Manor - threads are heavily f-locked, and those that aren't are distributed over many different RP comms that finally come together on the characters' f-lists.