#egon alter

[inevitablemoment]

Frightober Day 21 - Crossover

Word Count: 547

Warnings: Concussion, disorientation

Fandom: The Frighteners, Ghostbusters

Pairings: Frank Bannister x Lucy Lynskey

Okay, like I'm Home, My Love, this is connected to my future multi-chapter Ghostbusters/Frighteners crossover.

Enjoy!

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"Ma'am, are you okay? Ma'am!"

The deep voice uttering those words worsened the throbbing pain in Lucy's head. A strong hand helped her roll over from her stomach onto her back. Her eyes will still closed, but she could tell that it was very bright out.

"Where's my husband?" she asked.

"He's getting help, ma'am," the voice told her. "Can you tell me your name?"

"Doc-- Dr. Lucy Bannister," Lucy answered, unable to keep herself from thinking about how familiar the voice was. "My husband's name is Frank. We-- we have a daughter, Julia-- she turned one on Halloween."

"Any family we can call?" the voice asked her.

"My-- my boss, Dr. Henry Kamins," Lucy told him, beginning to open her eyes slowly.

And when she saw the owner of the voice. He had dark hair that was obviously naturally wavy, but had been styled in a high pompadour. His dark brown eyes were framed by round wire glasses, complimenting the structure of his face in a way. He was dressed in a familiar, tan-colored flightsuit that she had seen people of all ages dress in for Halloween.

"Egon Spengler?" she spoke his name aloud without even realizing.

"Yes-- Dr. Bannister, what's the last thing you remember?" Egon asked her.

Lucy opened her mouth to try to speak, but she struggled to articulate her thoughts.

How-- how was Egon Spengler right there across from her?

He was a character from a movie. She had seen in theaters with her mother when it first came out.

"Wh-- what's going on?" she asked. "Where-- where the hell am I?"

"Dr. Bannister, you're in Tribeca," Egon explained. "You may have sustained a concussion or some other head injury."

"No, I mean-- how is this possible? This-- this can't be real!" she exclaimed.

Well, why the hell wouldn't it be? she thought.

If ghosts and witches existed, then of course she would somehow find a way to be trapped in a movie. Even if Egon looked a teeny bit older than he had in the second movie.

"What-- what year is it?"

"Today's date is November 5th, 1991," Egon answered.

"No, it's November 5th, 2001," Lucy argued. "I-- Frank and I-- FRANK!"

She pushed herself up to her feet and immediately regretted it, but still ran off until she came across Frank, who was being examined by Dan Ay-- Ray Stantz.

"Frank?"

"Luce," Frank sat up and pulled her into his arms.

"What-- what's going on?" she asked him. "What's the last thing you remember?"

"Just-- we were getting Julia ready for bed," Frank tried. "And-- and then, those women from Anissa's coven burst in... and that's it. I-- I can't remember anything else until now."

"Who's Anissa?" Ray asked.

Lucy looked at Ray, still trying to adjust to the idea of communicating with this fictional character in a flesh-and-blood form. "She's... she's... I'm sorry, I just--"

Suddenly, something whooshed past them-- an indigo shape with a high-pitched cackle. Frank gripped onto Lucy protectively.

"PETE! WINSTON!" Ray called out.

Egon caught up with them. "Dr. Bannister, I think you and your husband should go inside the firehouse."

Both Frank and Lucy looked up, seeing the familiar "No Ghosts" logo that had been plastered over everything from lunchboxes to pop-up Halloween stores.

#Frightober 2023 #frightober2023 #Ghostbusters/The Frighteners Crossover #Lunnister #Lucy Lynskey #Egon Spengler #Frank Bannister #Ray Stantz #The Frighteners #Ghostbusters #Trini Alvarado #Harold Ramis #Michael J. Fox #Dan Aykroyd #TW Concussion #TW Disorientation #OTP: Alters Your Perception #Altered Perceptions 'verse #Altered Perceptions #Frank x Lucy #Frank Bannister x Lucy Lynskey #Ghostbusters II

[spxnglr]

☎️ 𝙶𝙷𝙾𝚂𝚃𝙱𝚄𝚂𝚃𝙴𝚁𝚂, 𝚆𝙷𝙰𝚃 𝙳𝙾 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝚆𝙰𝙽𝚃? || five interesting fact about Egon? Go. || @femtaile​

AYYYY LESGOOOO

He canonically made explosives as a child. A sonar gun too.

He speaks, or understands at least, about a dozen languages, half of which are “dead” in the verbal sense I’ll link the HC post I made about this when I find it lmao

He knows how to skateboard. He used to navigate the college campuses with one when he was a student, and rarely used it as a shock tactic while he was a Professor.

He was a licensed coroner, again, as a student. He still has his license, but as he says, it’s now “just a hobby” for him.

After being possessed by The Sandman, he took it upon himself to make himself immune to possession and any form of mind control/alteration. He’s determined to teach the other Busters the same tricks.

#𝙸 𝙲𝙾𝙻𝙻𝙴𝙲𝚃 𝚂𝙿𝙾𝚁𝙴𝚂 𝙼𝙾𝚄𝙻𝙳𝚂 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙵𝚄𝙽𝙶𝚄𝚂. (HEADCANONS) #𝚆𝙴'𝚁𝙴 𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝙴𝙻𝙸𝙴𝚅𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄. (ASK) #femtaille #thank u for this!!

[flipside-phoebe]

#9 & #10 for the violence ask meme!

choose violence ask game

9. worst part of canon: I have a lot of love in my heart for Ghostbusters, but there's a number of things that rub me the wrong way. Art styles I dislike, storylines I couldn't follow, and some ideas getting repeated too often. If I had to narrow it down to one thing I really didn't agree with, It's how they handled the love interests in the IDW series. That comic series carried the franchise for several years and introduced a lot of great new characters, some got better treatment than others though. Jenny Moran got to be Ray's girlfriend, even after she was (spoiler alert) killed off and brought back as a ghost. She seems to be a clever re-imagining of the dream ghost from the first film and is based on Dan Aykroyd's wife Donna Dixon. I didn't mind her becoming a ghost, but later on she had to lock herself in the containment unit for… Sci-fi nonsense reasons. It felt pretty unfair to both her and Ray to force them apart. Winston's wife Tiyah suffered too. She got to marry him, then lost her memory in a whole other series of events. So all her character development was undone and Winston lost the love of his life. Janine & Egon's dynamic was in a weird place too. Ever since Harold Ramis changed his mind about them being a couple in the original film, spinoffs have teased the audience without committing to answering "will they, won't they?" In the comics, there are moments that suggest something more is going to happen with them, but it doesn't really go anywhere. Personally, I always liked the ambiguity of their relationship, but there's only so long you can stretch that out in canon before it gets frustrating. Now that IDW lost the rights, we'll never see these plots get a proper resolution!

10. worst part of fanon: As for fanon, where do I even start? What can I complain about that hasn't already been criticized? The sexist side that reared it's ugly head in 2016 was awful. The gatekeeping in certain parts of the cosplay community is bad too. I don't know if those things count as "fanon" though. I guess one thing I don't jive with is "Modern AUs" and "Happy Ending AUs." Some people like to alter the story in a way that takes the characters out of the 80s setting and/or keep them from going out of business so they can remain successful. Few stakes and little conflict. It's cute, but rather dull for me. It also contradicts the plot of Afterlife, but I realize that many people were already making these long before that. Overall, this one is more of a personal gripe for me, but to each their own.

#mera's answers #communicore #ghostbusters #idw ghostbusters #thanks Em! #I hope I made sense #happy ending AUs are fun but I'm very attached to Afterlife #I also like angst but it has to be written well

[usmiletk]

Kim Taehyung / BTS V is wearing altered version of sequin Top from Egon lab the brand that is known for “Genderless credibility” in his ‘Love Me Again’ Official MV

#taehyung #kim taehyung #thv #kth #taetae #tae #bts #bts icons #dailybts #dailybangtan #bangtan #handsome #sexy #pop #kpop idol #kpop #taekook #lgbtq community #lgbtqiia+ #lgbtq #queer community

[cptsadist]

Idk how to word this but. Wraith looks cool. What's his deal? Is he human?

Thank you for thinking he's cool!! 🥺

Wraith is a demon who has attached himself to Egon. Several years ago, Egon was kidnapped by a group of cultists (who just so happened to be working for Trance), and the cultists attempted to sacrifice him. Since Egon is far from pure, they ended up summoning a demon instead, and that demon was Wraith. Wraith kept Egon from being killed; the cultists attempted to slit his throat and cut out his heart, but Wraith kept them from making any lethal cuts. Since then, he's just stuck around Egon, enjoying his company. While Seiren is an imp who is trapped in Trance's body, Wraith is a much stronger demon and isn't tethered to Egon in any way and is able to move freely on his own in his own body. Wraith also can alter his form if he so wishes.

#wraith #ask cptsadist #captainsadist #gamedev #cptsadist #murder sim #murder oc #murder ocs #oc #siren from hell

[ecandjamesvpjournal]

Idea for a Ghostbusters Crossover “Cinematic” Universe

Alright so, I’ve been mulling over the idea for a while for a fan fiction universe involving the Ghostbusters, because they’re ripe for such takings.

Here are a few rules:

Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II are cannon. (Technically, Ghostbusters: Afterlife is as well, but with the additional stuff, it’ll change things)

Ghostbusters: The Video Game is cannon

The events in the IDW comics are cannon, meaning that the crossovers both with the TMNT and within their own franchise are cannon as well.

Some aspects of the Ghostbusters Fan Film Cinematic Universe are cannon. Like the film “Return of the Ghostbusters”, or whichever one is the one where they’re in Denver (I think it’s Denver) and they stop a Egyptian Professor who uses the living souls to power his amulet, by stealing the GBs traps.

Now within this fan fictional universe is the various franchises that will exist within their world. Which shows/movies should exist within this world?

Danny Phantom: With the world of ghosts existing, and the events of the Shandor Incident of 1991, if anyone knows the existing ghosts and their world, it would be the Ghostbusters

Miraculous: The Adventures of Ladybug and Chat Noir: Magic and Science in the same world. Add in Paranormal Investigators, and it should lead to an epic team-up with the Miraculous Team and the Ghostbusters

Invader Zim: If anyone was to argue with Dib’s dad about the paranormal and supernatural, it would be scientist who are legit, like the GBs.

Disney’s The Owl House: What if Jacob from the Gravesfield Historical Society ended up being friends with someone that didn’t do what he did in the series? What if he became a Ghostbuster with said friend, using the museum as the main HQ? What if they had the technology to create a portal without the problems of S1 Finale, but synchronicity or finding the home co-ordinates required the events of “Yesterday’s Lie.

By addition in realization, that means that Gravity Falls (unconfirmed), and Anphibia (confirmed) exists in the same world as Owl House.

At this time, I am working on the draft for Ghostbusters of Amity Park and hoping for the best.

UPDATE: I want to remind people that Ghostbusters: Afterlife is going to be cannon in this collection of fan fiction (I kinda forgot to make an addition to this about it), but there will be a few alterations to the previous story.

Yes, Egon will still die in the story. Yes, he will still be a ghost.

There are some more character development that will happen within the story itself, from those that thought that the teenage characters didn’t have enough chemistry

The town that was built by Shandor will have something additional for the conflict to seem MORE legitimate.

Lucky will have ties to the town

That’s all I will tell without giving anything away, b/c the stories will build up to the events of GB: Afterlife. Wish me luck.

#fan fiction #ghostbusters #danny phantom #miraculous ladybug #miraculous lb #invader zim #disney's the owl house #alternate universe #shared universe #lots of things are cannon #ghostbusters and ghostbusters 2 are canon #ghostbusters 2016 is a alternate universe

[sheltiechicago]

The Self Seers (Death And Man)

Artist: Egon Schiele | Year (completed): 1911 | Style: Expressionism

The picture's title seems perplexing because it doesn't fit with what the image is about. The artist of this eerie painting, Egon Schiele, is obliquely recognized as one of the figures in the artwork. It presupposes the presence of a mirror image as the painter is looking at himself. A doppelganger, a shadowy, almost insubstantial figure, can be seen looking over the first man's shoulder. The pale and dim counterpart, or the 'alter ego,' is portrayed as an ominous, foreboding sign of impending death.

#egon schiele #artist #art #expressionism #the self seers (death and man) #painting #history #doppelganger

[dominustempori]

For those who don’t speak Latin (I took 5 years of it in middle and high school, fyi), my Tumblr tag translates to “Lord of Time.”

Ergo, I consider and style my internet alter ego as “Amateur Time Lord.”

What’s with my icon? It combines my top 2 fandoms I’ve been in love with since I was a little kid: Doctor Who and Ghostbusters. It comes from one of the GB graphic novels; it’s a flashback to when Egon was a grad student at Columbia. I can’t credit the artist enough for giving him a “Tom Baker-esque” look.

Other obsessions? Well to keep it sort of brief:

Wizarding World of JK Rowling, Phantom of the Opera, all the Monkey Island games, Rick Riordan’s Greek/Roman Mythology world…little bit of adventure/RPG gaming here and there…

I stumbled into Cosplay a few years ago, definitely a hobby bordering on obsession nowadays (check my GB uniform, yo.)

So that’s me. Welcome aboard to my little corner of the Tumblr universe.

#who am i #keeping it real #amateur time lord out for now

[dallas-ghostbusters]

Please work please work please work

Dr. Spengler? So sorry to bother you on a Sunday, but it's a bit of an emergency. We have reason to believe that your brother is being used as a vessel for the Class VII entity known as Tiamat. She's using him to draw energy to get herself back up to full power.

Even at a fraction of her power, she's been making blood and fetuses of various animals rain from the sky and alter gravity in select areas. There have been an increase of small earthquakes all over the DFW area that are definitely not from fracking or tectonic activity (and they certainly aren't volcanic, although I wouldn't put it past her to drop a volcano on us).

By the looks of things, it seems like she's managed to put Mr. Peck under some kind of spell or hypnosis most likely to manipulate him to her will and feed on his energy as well as your brother's. One thing's for sure though; your brother must be very strong if he can be host to Tiamat and live.

I may not be able to help much from here, but I'm willing to do whatever I can to assist you.

-Keith

[@do-ray-egon]

#☢ #text #ghostbusters rp #rp blog #og team interactions

[lifewithaview]

Andreas Pietschmann in Dark (2017) Zwischen der Zeit /In Between Time

S3E7

Across three centuries, residents of Winden continue their desperate quest to alter their fates and save their loved ones.

*This episode reveals that Silja had an important place in the family tree of the people of Winden. Originally known as the "Girl from the Future" who knocks Jonas unconscious at the end of season 1, it is now revealed that she was actually Bartosz's wife, Noah's mother, Tronte's grandmother, Egon's daughter, Claudia's half sister, Martha's great-great grandmother, Jonas's half sister & great-great-great grandmother and the unnamed's great-great-great-great-grandmother, yet she was "the girl from the future".

#Dark #tv series #2017 #2020 episode #Zwischen der Zeit #In Between Time #S3E7 #time travel #relationships #families #Andreas Pietschmann #German tv series #crime #drama #mystery #scifi #best tv series ever #just rewatched #german

[inevitablemoment]

I’m Home, My Love

Word Count: 551

Warnings: Mentions of a canonical character death, head injury, fainting

Fandom: Ghostbusters

Pairings: Egon Spengler x Cathleen Paige Spengler

So, this is going to be part of my Ghostbusters/Frighteners crossover, which crosses with my post-movie Frighteners series Altered Perceptions, with the canon Ghostbusters ‘verse, and with my Cathleen Lives AU.

Enjoy!

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Cathleen let out a cry of both surprise and pain as she felt herself hit the ground. She still had her proton pack, so she was just on her back, like a turtle that turned onto its shell and was stuck. She was expecting her head to hit the side of the Ecto, so it was an honest relief to her.

She pressed her hands against the ground to try to push herself up to a sitting position. As she sat up, she noticed that the ground wasn’t as... grassy.

She opened her eyes, her jaw almost dropping when she saw the tall skyscrapers before her.

She had lived in this city for almost thirty years, not counting the year when she and Egon lived in Cambridge when he was studying at M.I.T.

But... how could this have happened? And besides getting her out of the way, why would Gozer have sent her back to New York?

Suddenly, she saw a flash of blue whoosh past her. Despite the weight of her pack, she jumped to her feet and ran after it.

That was definitely a ghost. She couldn’t tell what class it was, but if she...

Shit, Phoebe had the PKE!

She followed the ghost for what felt like miles and miles before it stopped. Well, not so much stopped, and more like was caught in what looked very much like a proton stream.

To her right, she spotted the new “No Ghosts” logo that they had installed at the firehouse after they had returned in 1989. But last she had heard, some shitty coffee chain had bought the firehouse.

“I GOT HIM! I GOT HIM!” a familiar voice yelled.

The hairs on her body seemed to stand on end as she heard that voice that she knew so well. Her head whipped back to see where it was coming from...

It was Egon.

Alive and well, looking as he had thirty years ago.

And there was Ray, and Peter, and Winston...

And a couple of people that she didn’t recognized standing behind her husband.

One of them was a man with brown hair, and a woman with raven curls. The man was holding the woman protectively as they watched the scene in front of them.

The ghost seemed to be beginning to release itself from the stream, so Egon called for assistance. Both Peter and Ray attempted to help, but Winston couldn’t because he was working on the trap.

Cathleen quickly retrieved her gun, and shot out a proton stream that coiled around the ghost like a lasso. She kept her eye on the little spook, but she could sense the surprised looks and eyes on her. Winston opened the trap, and she, Egon, Peter, and Ray carefully lowered the ghost down until the trap began to suck it in.

The trap shut closed, and Cathleen allowed herself to look at the people before her.

But most of all, Egon.

He was standing before her-- happy, healthy, and alive.

“Cath?!” he called out her name in confusion before his face broke out into a smile.

The kind of smile that one would have if they haven’t had a reason to in a long time.

“CATH!”

“Egon...” she was able to breathe his name before darkness claimed her.

“Cath? CATH!”

#Cathlegon #Stealth Crossover #Ghostbusters/The Frighteners Crossover #My Fics #My Writing #Multiverse #Egon x Cathleen #Egon Spengler x Cathleen Paige #Cathleen Spengler #Egon Spengler #Ghostbusters #Cathleen Paige Spengler #Cathleen Paige #OC: Cathleen Paige Spengler #OC: As Long As You're By My Side #Linda Purl #Harold Ramis #Ghostbusters: Afterlife #The Frighteners #TW Canonical Character Death #TW Head Injury #TW Fainting

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☎️ 𝙶𝙷𝙾𝚂𝚃𝙱𝚄𝚂𝚃𝙴𝚁𝚂, 𝚆𝙷𝙰𝚃 𝙳𝙾 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝚆𝙰𝙽𝚃? || [Scandalous Rumor] Psst, I heard Dr. Spengler Egon is just an alter ego he uses for lusty professor porn, and not a hilarious typo for MI5. (I could not actually bring myself to send this off anon) || 𝙰𝙽𝙾𝙽𝚈𝙼𝙾𝚄𝚂.

❝ Are you sure you're not confusing me with Dr. Venkman? That sounds like something he'd try - I wouldn't even put it past him to use that name.

❝ ...Wait - I'd better go and make sure that he's not actually doing it - ❞

#𝙸 𝙵𝙴𝙴𝙻 𝙻𝙸𝙺𝙴 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙵𝙻𝙾𝙾𝚁 𝙾𝙵 𝙰 𝚃𝙰𝚇𝙸𝙲𝙰𝙱. (CRACK) #𝚆𝙴'𝚁𝙴 𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚈 𝚃𝙾 𝙱𝙴𝙻𝙸𝙴𝚅𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄. (ASK) #𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙴'𝚂 𝙳𝙴𝙵𝙸𝙽𝙸𝚃𝙴𝙻𝚈 𝚂𝙾𝙼𝙴𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙴... (ANONYMOUS) #I was about to head for some zzzzzzzz but this made me wheeze so hard my throat ended up a lil sore #so I had to respond to it #thank u sm whoever sent this in #USFW

[korrektheiten]

Leserbriefe zu verschiedenen Artikeln

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[essaer]

På ett ytligt plan kan Nina Bondesons motiv beskrivas som fragmentariska, olika objekt ligger utspridda på duken, pannån, tyget, möblerna – artefakterna som hon kallar de själv — befriade från sina vanliga proportioner och i fantasifulla hybrider. Den tålmodige åskådaren hittar fler och fler detaljer, hittar en text som finns broderad i tyget, målad likt runskrift med penseln, ibland felstavad, ibland överkryssas ist för att repa upp stygnen eller att måla över. Rent estetiskt är det dock sammanhållet, och på ett djupare plan är det tydligt att alla dessa föremål och karaktärer rör sig i rymden av samma idévärld; relationerna föremålen och karaktärerna emellan förstärks med sladdar, slangar, trattar, kopplingar.

John Donne – det där om att ingen människa är en ö… det är skitprat – det är ju precis det vi är. Öar. Men vi har förmågan att upprätta förbindelser mellan de öarna. Skapa ett sammanhang som överskrider utan att överge (s. 9).

Det är svårt att förklara, för verken rör sig på flera plan. NBs alter egon som tar plats i konstverken gör det inte bara i bild utan också i skönlitterära texter (texterna om konsten är däremot teoretiska). Så fort jag tar ansats att försöka förklara en detalj i tavlan avbryts jag av viljan att förklara känslan den väcker istället, och det är just i den här upplevelsen som NB vill uppehålla sig. Hon skiljer på en fiktiv verklighet och en verklig verklighet.

Våra erfarenheter ryms inte i det vi förmår utsäga om dem. Det blir bara en jävla röra. [Det är omöjligt att välja en favorit eller ett särskilt representabelt verk, allt är underbart och språket känns otillräckligt, vilket också känns som en åtbörd för att hylla NB:s ansats.]

[För en konsthistorisk novis som jag är] NB:s tankar om konceptkonstens intåg i 1960-talets USA en intressant fond för hennes egna verk. Hon menar att idén i konceptkonsten blev överordnad de materiella och estetiska aspekterna;  konsten skulle vara underordnad kommentaren, teorin och bildkonsten “befriades från material”. Postmodernismen påstår att det inte finns några oförmedlade erfarenheter [sinnesförnimmelser och levande erfarenheter], medan NB känns som hon vill fånga känslan eller åtminstone det mellan känslan och yttrandet, samtidigt som jag upplever hennes texter som avancerade filosofiska (fenomenologiska enl utställningstexterna på Konsthallen) resonemang med referenser till bla Wittgenstein. På konstskolan uppmanades hon att skala av och förenkla, men det är i livets komplexitet och oklarheter som hon uppehåller sig.

Det är nog något av detta som Ragnar Söderberg försöker fånga i bokens förord ang bildens universalitet: “den unika, partikulära, levda och i tiden aldrig återkommande subjektiva erfarenhetens objektiva existens” (s. 7). NB:s karaktärer försöker också fånga förnimmelserna och känslan:

Dessvärre förstår vi inte mycket av allt vi erfar, våra sinnen har vi själva underkänt av oklara anledningar, vi drabbas oftare av minnesförlust än av insikt, vi vinglar omkring i skapelsen i en tid som bedömer det mänskliga subjektet som näst intill oanvändbart, då och då blir det till och med dödförklarat [–] (s. 21). I stycket om Elena

Jeremy Adagio, den självlärda lingvisten – som skriver brev till sin assistent Imre Omm i vilken han är kär – beskrivs: “Hans forskning rör sig kring människans språklighet, varifrån språket en gång kom till exempel, men han beforskar också oss människor som de tingens värddjur han anser att vi blivit (s. 22).”

Från Sinziana Ravinis text:

Om det är något Bondeson, min far och jag tycks ha gemensamt är det övertygelsen om att människan aldrig överensstämmer med sig själv, att identiteten är mer eller mindre en fiktion, och ett symtom på viljan att få kontroll över det okontrollerbara – jagets splittrade natur. Att jaget är splittrat är för övrigt ett gott tecken, ett tecken på att människan tillåter sig tvivlets och osäkerhetens lyx (s. 16). påminner om Martin Hägglunds tankar om existentiell identitet som något ständigt pågående formande, Neuraths båt osv.

Om konsten framkallar det outhärdliga, framkallar den också förmågan att ta itu med “det reala” genom att producera en kunskap om den njutning och fasa som konstverket ger oss. Det är därför viktigt att gå från den klassiskt romantiska skönhetsteorin till en känsloteori som inte förtrycker jagets multipla identiteter och kroppens oändliga teatrar (s. 17).

* Endast de som flyr samtiden är samtida, lärde oss Friedrich Nietzsche i Otidsenliga betraktelser.

* SR beskriver Baudrillard som postmodernismens enfant terrible Själv är NB intresserad av att utgå från målarens erfarenheter och låta åskådaren tolka med sina erfarenheter, att låta konsten vara oartikulerad.

* bildstriden i kristna kyrkan (~726-843)

2023-05-22

#nina bondeson #rapporter från den aktiva inbillningens uppdrag

[ecandjamesvpjournal]

An Idea that I’m putting out there for anyone to use #1

Alright, I have an idea for a Harry Potter x Ghostbusters crossover fan fiction, but since I have never read the series, nor watched the movies, and only have heard of it through passing from clips, fan fiction, and people who know it (friends), I have devised the following idea:

The Dursleys (who are as “christian” as usual) take Harry, to New York where they give him to his distant relative to his mother. A relative connected on his mother’s side, The Spenglers. Cue the Dursleys arriving at the front door of GB HQ and dropping him off to Dr. Egon Spengler. Thankfully, they have a DNA test and is proven to be indeed a distant relative to Dr. Spengler.

At some point, Harry reveals his magical nature to the scientists, due to either deciding to reveal to them after an encounter with the green ghost (“Slimer”), or because sometimes he keeps setting off the PKE Meters. After this, the US version of the Ministry of Magic arrive to talk to the Ghostbusters, including with P-CoC’s Head, Walter Peck (remember, this is taking place in the 90s). There, they talk about how this US Gov’t has approved of Harry being there with the scientist, along with the scientist assisting with certain magical problems, as they were impressed on how they took on, not only a powerful god… twice (Gozer), but to defeat a powerful dark wizard Prince Vigo of Carpathia, and Ivo Shandor who was doing abominable experiments that neither non-magical humans, nor wizards would ever do.

While staying with them, Harry starts to learn how to combine magic with the science the Ghostbusters have on hand.

When he’s given a chance to learn magic in his home country, Britain, The Ghostbusters go over to help when the US Magic Gov’t sends them to help. There, they discover Hogwarts to be overrun with Class V [5] and VI [6] ghosts (Class IV [4] ghosts are basically human souls and since they show no hostility, they’re left alone).

The Ministry of Magic soon discovers these “muggles” that are able to fight ghosts and magical things, but by that time, Voldemort is being discovered by Harry and his friends. This leads to where events happen and before Voldemort is able to fly through Harry to get the “curse spell thingy”, the Ghostbusters with their tech is able to grab “He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named-For-It-Is-Cursed”, and trap him, altering the story somehow.

Things that Need to happen in the story:

Since it is the 90s, the Ghostbusters VG and the first two films are cannon

A cousin or nephew of one of the Ghostbusters is there when Harry arrives, and is there throughout the story. Not only is he there to help relate to Harry being in this new world that he’s been thrown into, but at the point of being at Hogwarts, he defends Harry and his friends when Draco(?) insults them. He challenges the Ghostbuster, leading to a really cool duel between the young wizard, and the non-magical human with the particle accelerator and thrower strapped to their back. BONUS: they somehow beat Draco.

Some of the ghosts and dead wizards are surprised by these new modern humans that are un-phased by the magic, ghosts, and sentient items. They are also intrigued by some of their science, and how it blurs with their magic.

Voldemort is captured and thus altering the plot. It would make things humorous to indicate that this wasn’t that hard to capture while the wizards who fear this guy is surprised to find him defeated by a young boy and his non-magic distant uncle and HIS friends.

That’s about whatever I could think of. But the possibilities are there for a epic crossover involving a group of blue-collared paranormal investigative scientist, and the “Boy-Who-Lived” becoming the “Boy-Who-Lived-With-The-Ghostbusters”.

Go nuts and have fun.

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Hashish in Berlin:

An Introduction to Walter Benjamin's Uncompleted Work On Hashish

Paper read at the Walter Benjamin Congress, University of Amsterdam, 1997: Scott J. Thompson.

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O braungebackne Siegessäule

mit Winterzucker aus den Kindertagen [1]

This motto beginning Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood Around the Turn of the Century and appearing in a slightly altered form in Berliner Chronik has its origins in Benjamin's experiments with hashish, as Gershom Scholem and the editors of Benjamin's Gesammelte Schriften have noted. The "golden leading strings" [2] of childhood and the attempt to recapture their magic are interlaced throughout Benjamin's writings and experimental notes on hashish, opium and mescaline. As he expressed it in the mescaline protocol recorded by Dr. Fritz Fränkel in Paris on 22. May 1934, "The first experience the child has of the world is not that the adults are stronger, but rather that it cannot conjure."[3] In Benjamin's novella "Myslowitz - Braunschweig - Marseilles: Story of a Hashish Rausch" (1930), the narrator's hashish vision transforms a man in a restaurant into the image of a young boy in an Eastern European town. [4] In the essay "Hashish in Marseilles" (1932), a young boy on an electric tram is transformed into the sad child, Barnabus, from Kafka's The Castle. [5] In "Crock Notes" (1932), the opium smoker and hashish eater are said to "playfully exhaust those experiences of the ornament which childhood and fever made us capable of observing." [6] In the protocol to the hashish experiment with Gert and Egon Wissing in March 1930, Benjamin recorded the following:

I was not very attentive to what Egon said because my hearing immediately converted his words into the perception of colorful, metallic glitter which coalesced in patterns. I made this understandable to him by comparing it to the knitting patterns which we loved as the beautiful colored plates in Herzblättchens Zeitvertreib [Darling's Diversions] when we were children. [7]

In a more recreational experiment with the Wissings on 7. June 1930, Benjamin saw Gert transformed into "a slender boy in black attire." [8] When Egon Wissing supervised Benjamin's experiment with hashish and the opiate Eucodal on 7. March 1931, he noted that "toys or colorful children's pictures thrust themselves to the foreground again and again." [9] In the session of 18. April 1931, supervising doctor, Fritz Fränkel, noted Benjamin's extremely childlike sensitivity to color and wordplay, particularly his "remarkable number of diminutives." [10]

In his attempt to regain the child's magical power of conjuring by availing himself of Dr. Ernst Joël's invitation to become a test subject in a series of loosely monitored hashish experiments, Benjamin was able not only to independently evaluate the findings of Baudelaire's Artificial Paradise, which he told Ernst Schoen in 1919 would be required to appreciate the book, [11] but was also able to explore that root of his philosophical intentions, which Theodor W. Adorno has described as an ability "to render accessible by rational means that range of experience that announces itself in schizophrenia." [12] In his essay "A Portrait of Walter Benjamin," Adorno drew attention to the concept which unites the magic of childhood with "mental derangement," when he wrote that "The rebus is the model of [Benjamin's] philosophy." [13] The playful disorientation of the rebus and the delight in the sudden spark that ignites the mind with its solution are keys to Benjamin's concept of "profane illumination." Given Benjamin's mania for collecting children's books and books by the "mentally deranged," to which Scholem has attested in his essay "Walter Benjamin," [14] it is logical that he would have taken advantage of an opportunity to explore substances the experimental value of whose attendant rausch was described by his old acquaintances, Ernst Joël and Fritz Fränkel, in their article "Der Haschisch-Rausch" in the following manner:

Without proposing a blanket identification of spontaneous psychotic episodes with the phenomena observed in these experiments, we nonetheless maintain that an experimental way of penetrating abnormal states exists here, which allows us to investigate how far the individual can deviate from the norm, and to determine which psychotic symptoms in general are within the realm of the normal individual. The rausch provides a remarkable yield of sympathetic understanding for pathological symptoms (compulsion, schizoid behavior, delusions, incoherence, etc.). One acquires a new understanding for the mythic and the mystical. As for the alterations of particular qualities or the lack of such alteration, first we must identify the qualities in the norm, if the conditions of normal psychic processes are to be disclosed by pathological modification. [15]

Though they do not employ the term in their article, the concept of the psychotomimetic, a substance the ingestion of which is said to imitate or simulate a psychosis, supplies the operative paradigm in Joël and Fränkel's "experimental psychopathology," which they understood as both an attempt at "a total comprehension of altered psychic life" [16] and as a necessary corrective to the mechanistic psychopharmacology of Emil Kraepelin's school. It is important that we understand Joël and Fränkel's theoretical presuppositions if we are to bring an informed reading to Benjamin's experimental protocols and the extant writings which testify to what remains of that uncompleted book on hashish, once described by Benjamin in a letter to Scholem on 26. July 1932 as "ein höchst bedeutsames Buch" ["a truly significant book"]. [17]

In his pathbreaking book Du Hachich et de l'Alienation mentale [Hashish and Mental Illness] (1845), Jacques-Joseph Moreau (de Tours) [1804-1884], the doctor who introduced hashish to Charles Baudelaire and the Club des Haschischins, suggested that psychiatry could benefit by comparing hashish experiments with the symptoms of the mentally ill. [18] This idea was adopted by Emil Kraepelin (1855-1926), father of psychopharmacology, when he called rausch "Irresein im kleinen" ["derangement in miniature"]. [19] The Kraepelinian method however, according to Joël and Fränkel, failed to comprehend the entire human being, because it mechanistically severed partial functions of the psychic life, which were then altered by psychopharmaka and subjected to behavioristic testing. In this important respect, Jöel and Fränkel's critique of Kraepelin was related to Benjamin's critique of the Kantian concept of experience.

 In his early treatise "On the Program of the Coming Philosophy" (1917), Benjamin had called into question the Kantian concept of experience based on Newtonian physics, describing it as "view of the world of the lowest order." [20] Against Kant's Enlightenment mythology, Benjamin offered anthropological and psychological evidence of alternative realities outside the Kantian purview.

We know of primitive peoples of the so-called preanimistic stage who identify themselves with sacred animals and plants and name themselves after them; we know of insane people who likewise identify themselves in part with objects of their perception...we know of sick people who relate the sensations of their bodies not to themselves but rather to other creatures, and of clairvoyants who at least claim to be able to feel the sensations of others as their own. [21]

The cognizing subject of Kantian philosophy was called "a type of insane consciousness." [22] Against the Enlightenment worldview of the Protestant burgher, Benjamin posited a coming philosophy which would reclaim the cosmic rausch possessed by the human being of antiquity. In his later essay "Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia" (1929), this cosmic rausch and its materialist, anthropological "profane illumination" were to be appropriated by the proletariat in the coming seizure of power.

 Some scholars have seized upon the Surrealism essay to downplay Benjamin's interest in psycho-pharmaca. The concept of "profane illumination" is stressed as an awakening from a rausch, which is all-too-often characterized as a "narcotic trance," [23] despite the fact that cannabis and mescaline are not narcotic. The "profane illumination" of the rebus, however, presupposes an initial disorientation and sense of being puzzled. The problem with taking Benjamin's Surrealism essay as a definitive statement on rausch is that in so doing we overlook the fact that most of Benjamin's hashish, opium and mescaline experiments were written after 1929. Protocols V - X were conducted between March 1930 and May 1934. In November 1930, "Myslowitz - Braunschweig - Marseilles" appeared in the journal Uhu. During the spring of 1932, the more theoretical Crock Notes were written in Ibiza, and in December 1932, "Hashish in Marseilles" appeared in the Frankfurter Zeitung. Then there are the passages on hashish in the Passagen-Werk. Nor may we forget that Benjamin had first told Scholem that "even my experiences while under the influence of the drug" were a "worthwhile supplement" to philosophical investigation. [24]

Other scholars, such as Gershom Scholem, Susan Buck-Morss, Sándor Radnóti, Norbert Bolz, [25] have been much less reticent to admit the extent of Benjamin's hashish investigations. In her Origin of Negative Dialectics (1977), Susan Buck-Morss went to far as to assert that:

...the insights induced by drugs were not insignificant to Benjamin's theoretical endeavors. His notion of the subject-object relationship which lay at the heart of his theory of knowledge bore the stamp of these sessions and characterized the particular nature of his empiricism. [26]

Despite these less reticent scholarly remarks about Benjamin and rausch, a book length study of these writings has not appeared, and although these writings have been available in German for twenty-five years, "Hashish in Marseilles" is the only work of this nature by Benjamin which is available in English. Were one to substitute "Benjamin" for "Baudelaire" and Über Haschisch for Flowers of Evil in the following passage from Benjamin's letter to Max Horkheimer [6. January 1938], one would discover an apt analogy to the status of these writings in Benjamin scholarship. Voicing his displeasure with what he perceived as their bourgeois limitations, Benjamin characterized the Baudelaire scholarship of his day in the following words:

The mark of Baudelaire commentaries is that, in all fundamental aspects, they could have been written the same way had Baudelaire never written Flowers of Evil. They are, in fact, challenged in their entirety by his theological writings, by his memorabilia, and above all by the chronique scandaleuse. The reason is that the limits of bourgeois thinking and even certain bourgeois ways of reacting would have had to be discarded - not in order to find pleasure in one or another of these poems, but specifically in order to feel at home in the Flowers of Evil. . . [27]

Having been able to feel "at home" in what remains of Walter Benjamin's uncompleted book on hashish, a new breed of Benjamin research-activists have begun to examine this material in depth. As Hermann Schweppenhäuser noted in his essay, "The Propadeutics of Profane Illumination," "like the micrological explorations that typify his philosophizing as a whole, [Benjamin's] experiences of rausch bring to light surprising finds." [28]

--Scott J. Thompson

 San Francisco, July 1997

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Notes:

[All links to www.wbenjamin.org as The Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate have been inactive since 2016]

[1] "O brown-baked victory column with winter sugar from children's days" appears with the altered line "With children's sugar from the winter days" in Berlin Chronicle, trans. Edmund Jephcott in Reflections, NY, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978, p. 27. The original poem which was inspired by hashish appears in Über Haschisch, ed. Tillman Rexroth, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1972, p. 142: "Im berliner Nebel/ Gottheils Berliner Märchen:/ Oh braungebackne Siegessäule/ Mit Nebelzucker in den Wintertagen/ Französische Kanonen überragen/ Mein Fragen. /Barbarossa 1771" [In Berlin fog/ Gottheil's Berlin Fairy-tale/ Oh brown-baked victory column/ with frosted sugar in winter days/ above my questions spire/French cannon fire," in On Hashish, trans. S. Thompson, San Francisco, 1996, p. 105 <http://www.wbenjamin.org/translations.html>Cf. Gershom Scholem's afterword to Berliner Chronik, Frankfurt a.M., 1970, p. 132, cited in GS IV/2:973 and GS VI:798.

[2] Friedrich Hölderin, "Dichtermut" [Poet's Courage] and "Blödigkeit" [Timidity], cf. Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Vol. I: 1913 - 1926, ed. Marcus Bullock & Michael W. Jennings, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1996, pp.21-22; GS II/1: 105-126.

[3] On Hashish,op. cit., p. 91; Über Haschisch, op. cit. p. 130; GS VI: 608.

[4] GS IV/2:729-737; 1075; cf. also Über Haschisch, op. cit., pp. 41-42; On Hashish, op.cit., p. 9; As the editors of the Gesammelte Schriften have pointed out, Benjamin borrowed this vision of the schoolboy in Myslowitz from Ernst Joël's hashish protocol of 11. May 1928. The boy in the vision was none other than Benjamin himself. Cf. GS VI: 577; Über Haschisch, pp. 90-91; On Hashish, pp. 50-51.

[5] GS IV/1:415; Über Haschisch, p. 53; On Hashish, p. 19.

[6] GS VI: 603, 824; Über Haschisch, p. 57; On Hashish, p. 22.

[7] GS VI:588; Über Haschisch, pp. 107; On Hashish,p. 66.

[8] GS VI:592; Über Haschisch, p. 112; On Hashish, p. 71.

[9] GS VI:593; Über Haschisch, p. 114; On Hashish, p. 73.

[10] GS VI:598; Über Haschisch, p. 122; On Hashish, p. 82.

[11] Benjamin, Briefe I, ed. G.Scholem & T.W.Adorno, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1978, p. 219; The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, trans. M.R. & E.M. Jacobson, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1994, p. 148.

[12] Theodor W. Adorno, "Benjamin the Letter-Writer" in On Walter Benjamin, ed. Gary Smith, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991, p. 329.

[13] Theodor W. Adorno, "A Portrait of Walter Benjamin" in Prisms, trans. Samuel & Shierry Weber, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1967, p.230.

[14] Gershom Scholem, "Walter Benjamin" in On Jews and Judaism in Crisis, trans. W. Dannhauser, NY, Schocken, 1976, p. 175; cf. also Neue Rundschau , 76, Jahrgang, 1965, p.3.

[15] Ernst Joël & Fritz Fränkel, "The Hashish-Rausch: Contributions to an Experimental Psychopathology," trans. S.Thompson [Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate: <http://www.wbenjamin.org/contrib_1926.html>, San Francisco, 1997]; it originally appeared in Klinische Wochenschrift, 5:1707,1926. Benjamin opened "Hashish in Marseilles" with a long except from this article.

[16] Ibid.

[17] Walter Benjamin/Gershom Scholem, Briefwechsel,ed. G.Scholem, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1980, p. 23; Correspondence, op.cit., p. 396.

[18] Bo Holmstedt, "Historical Survey" in Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs, ed. D.H. Efron, B.Holmstedt & N.S. Kline,U.S. Dept. of Health,Education & Welfare, 1967, pp. 4-9.

[19] E.Joël & F.Fränkel, op.cit.

[20] Walter Benjamin, "On the Program of the Coming Philosophy" in Benjamin: Philosophy, Aesthetics, History, ed. Gary Smith, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989, p.2; GS II/1:159.

[21] Ibid., p. 4; GS II/1:161-162.

[22] Ibid., p.5; GS II/1:162.

[23] Cf. Peter Demetz, "Introduction" to Reflections, trans. E.Jephcott, NY, Harcourt,Brace, Jovanovich, 1978, pp. xx, xxxi; Herman Schweppenhäuser, "Propadeutics of Profane Illumination," trans. L.Spencer, S.Jost, & G.Smith in On Walter Benjamin, op.cit., pp. 35-36; Richard Sieburth's interpretation of profane illumination in "Benjamin the Scrivener" [in Benjamin: Philosophy, Aesthetics, History,op.cit., p. 18] would divorce it from its propadeutics altogether, characterizing altered consciousness as "private avant-garde narcosis." John McCole [Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition, Ithaka, NY, Cornell University Press, 1993, pp. 225-227] expatiates on Benjamin's accusations that the surrealists had an "entirely undialectical conception of intoxication" and not surprisingly find little value in "narcotic ecstacies." The list could be greatly expanded.

[24] Correspondence, op. cit., p. 323.

[25] See "Walter Benjamin's Hashish Experimentation: Remarks from Selected Secondary Sources," on the Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate website, op.cit.

[26] Susan Buck-Morss, The Origin of Negative Dialectics,New York, The Free Press, 1977, p. 126.

[27] Correspondence,op. cit., pp. 549-550.

[28] Hermann Schweppenhäuser, "Propadeutics of Profane Illumination," op. cit., p. 35.