Oh, I don't know yet if I will formally publish it or just put it here or on a blog. My current state of life and *gestures around* all this makes it hard for me to know what exactly to do. I'm just very haunted by Thérèse and the parallels are definitely there so I feel it has to be said somehow. - ThreadSky

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akumajoukamachi.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Oh, I don't know yet if I will formally publish it or just put it here or on a blog. My current state of life and *gestures around* all this makes it hard for me to know what exactly to do.

I'm just very haunted by Thérèse and the parallels are definitely there so I feel it has to be said somehow.

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akumajoukamachi.bsky.social•3 days ago

As you know Thérèse dreamed of being a martyr/missionary, whether she was playing Joan of Arc or thinking to go to Vietnam, I think it was? She's very popular in Japan as far as saints go, and so I often wonder what she would think of this flower girl/martyr character who seems clearly based on her.

akumajoukamachi.bsky.social•3 days ago

Advent Children literally ends with the institution of the Final Fantasy equivalent of the Sacrament of Baptism after the intervention of St. Aerith's prayers, too. And the humble way Aerith talks about her Holy materia she received from her mother maybe even recalls Thérèse's "Little Way." Etc...

akumajoukamachi.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, some fan (not me!) really made that anime-style art of St. Thérèse throwing flowers. 😅

akumajoukamachi.bsky.social•3 days ago

In the end it's all about these sinful, guilt-ridden, broken male characters (e.g. the men Thérèse prayed for, Cloud) and the female saints who see through them like a laser, understand and still love them.

It's why male writers like Miyazawa Kenji and Jack Kerouac also loved St. Thérèse. 🤷‍♂️

akumajoukamachi.bsky.social•3 days ago

And it's so funny, touching when she's like, "Sorry, you can't stay here in heaven with me and the other saints, time to go back to Earth and do more good work."

catholickungfu.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thérèse haunts me too. Chose her for my confirmation saint *because* of how she died.

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