Your Id, Show Me It!

[wizzard890]

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It should be no surprise the extent to which this whole id!pic thing has hit me, what with my art boner and all. But ever since putting up that post, and reading other people's (Linden, darling, you have kicked off A Thing. Yea verily), I've been unable to really shake thoughts of id and narrative kinks from my mind

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[mithrigil]

Disclaimer: You know how some people have too much water or fire or air? I have too much superego.

Books: The King Must Die, Mary Renault. I probably wasn't too young when I actually got my hands on this and The Bull From the Sea, but they were plenty formative as far as the direction of my id goes. Demytholigization? Check. Intensely sexual horror and questions of purity? Check. Ritual and oratory and magical realism all intertwined into something brutally real? Check please.

Movies: Inglourious Basterds. This is my id on crack.

Music: Wozzeck (surprise surprise), and Poe's Haunted.

[byzantienne]

This post makes me happy. In my brain. Also your id is a very nice id and I kind of want to roll around in it a little. Especially the way you've conceptualized loss, guh.

But you told me to talk about me. I can do that!

Narrative kinks. Yeah. So when I said all my stories were about empire. My Themes are almost universally about power and devotion and how they get mixed up. Kings and what it means to be one, and be a good one -- and the difference between being a good king and a good man. Similarly, people who fall in love with God and have God break their heart. Or the world break their heart. Or themselves. Because some things are too big to love easily or well and you can only love them obsessively, destructively.

And the other Theme I get obsessed with is perception and truth, unreliable narrators and unreliable narrative, the stories people tell. To themselves, or about their country, or about stories. Not 'all stories are true' -- more like 'all lies are stories'.

So yeah. Here's my favorite legend in the world:

When God

My nickname was Id, once upon a time.

[catgirlprime]

My id is special and flails everywhere. It enjoys and feeds off of books, movies and music that has themes of desperation, desolation, insanity, quesioning of morals, the like.

A movie for my id would probably be Suddenly, Last Summer with Katherine Hepburn. I still don't fully understand it because it's so bizarre and all over the place, but it's brilliant and I never tire watching it.

It's all pushing me to become a psychiatrist, so my id can feed off others' ids and become more weird.

=^..^=~

[miss_chella]

I haven't really given that much thought to my Id! But I can tell you that the book that has resonated with me the most is The Picture of Dorian Grey. The themes of Dorian's decaying morality, the temptation, and eventual corruption, of his innocence, and how decadent Oscar Wilde's writing style is, all of it made me fall in love with that book in the best way.

As for a movie...Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Going in a bit of a different direction here, but I love the real feeling of that movie. The real world and Joel's dreamworld are very well portrayed, and the overbearing feeling of Love that I get from that movie is so intense, I cried when I first saw it.

I hope I made some sense...

[dyxlisa]

The Secret of NIMH is one of my favorite childhood movies! It scared the crap out of me too, but it stuck with me like nothing else. Mrs. Frisby was just like no other heroine I'd ever seen, and I had so much emotional investment in her succeeding. But I had nightmares about the owl. And Nicodemus dying. Oh man