real talk jesters were not at the forefront of my le dark fantasy dungeoncore medieval courthouse archetype interest but once i found a way to make them slightly grotesquely sexual they got a grasp on me
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recently i happened to be researching clowns re: jesters & was contemplating sharing this wrt clown sexual motifs:
a history tidbit regarding cultural origins that i saw for the first time when i was reading up (i'd never Once heard the words "ritual clown" in my life but makes sense!)
CLOWN SOCIETIES... RITUAL CLOWNS.. a buffet of implications for the queer academic, thank you. it ties into a lot of stuff ive read for my masters to do with designated scapegoats and sacrifices and other repression-relievers. the countlessly peer-reviewed "its a sex thing" of it all...
every time you mention masters research i am intrigued.... do you have any broad recommendations on directions to look re: the topic of scapegoats/sacrifice in the context you're thinking of? if there's anything top of the dome
oh yeah the book i was mostly going by wrt to masters is Rene Girard's "Violence and the Sacred", i used it so much i took a pdf of it to the print shop to get it printed and spiralbound lol... bro weaves theories that can be applied to so much
i mostly applied it to folk horror film (midsommar and wicker man and whatnot) but since he talks a lot about Greek tragedies I also applied it to Yorgos Lathimos films (K.O. Sacred Deer, Poor Things) so its less about clowns and more about sacrificing scapegoats to restore order lol
yahhh i getchu!! i've been chipping away at a book called topology of violence by byung-chul han that discusses different purposes and forms of violence over the years of human history (from divine violence to modern day violence) that reminds me of this 🤝 ty for sharing!! his other titles look wild
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a history tidbit regarding cultural origins that i saw for the first time when i was reading up (i'd never Once heard the words "ritual clown" in my life but makes sense!)