#motherhood metaphors

[agentrouka-blog]

Dany loosing her child twice is implying something. When Dany got pregnant with Rhaego, her and Drogo decide to conquer the Westeros and the price Dany willing to pay. She then goes against the nature and use blood magic to revive her husband and looses her baby. Then she burned a woman alive to bring dragons. When she miscarried second time as you mentioned that she chooses fire and blood by rejecting peace. Because she chooses to Mother of Dragons, she rejected Myhsa of people.

The symbolism is pretty obvious in that there is a clear dichotomy between being mother of humans and mother of dragons.

She had no control over her fertility problems. There are multiple potential reasons that made the loss of Rhaego inevitable, and the grasslands miscarriage probably so, and all of them ultimately lead back to dragons and how they affected her ancestors dating back to Valyria and right down to Viserys' abuse of her. That's a cruel legacy she had no say in.

But the Mhysa role is the one she chose for herself. The one that she tried to embrace in opposition to her previous indulges in violence and conquest. In opposition to her own dragons. That's the one she herself rejects in this chapter. Right on the heels of discovering her "moon blood" and avoiding the conclusion of a miscarriage, she juxtaposes Hazzea (the human girl, forgetting her name) with the Mother of Dragons.

And she chooses the dragons.

Confronted with the choice between two fundamentally incompatible potential legacies that she could use to compensate for the loss of her fertility, she chooses the dragons over the people.

The miscarriage and infertility is a prompt, if you will. It's the equivalent of Bran's paralysis, which will confront him with the choice between immense power (even the power to prevent his own injury) and the opportunity to do the right thing and save others at his own expense.

You have to choose.

Dany keeps choosing the dragons.

#rouka queue #anti daenerys targaryen #infertility #motherhood metaphors #you have to choose

[marcusagrippa]

hey you think palpatine ever ate people

#guh. cannibalistic imperialism #sheevy p #metaphorically eating the galaxy itself/specifically naboo?? thinking about the blockade and. mm #something something naboo and motherhood and the not quite oedipus complex that comes from eating your mother #i am onto NOTHING !! but it's fun to think about #palpatine #q :3 #jase speaks

[firebird963]

Okay trans Ethan is cool and all but like, what if,

Trans Ethan but he was the one who carried Rosemary...

And Chris is the bio father.

And Chris and Mia know this but no one else knows, not even Rosemary...

So while her dad is gone she's also always grown up with her father.

#winterfield #resident evil #firebird text #Been having a lot of gender feels lately #but also this headcanon kills me for so many reasons #some shipping related #but others like #There are so many themes of motherhood in RE8 and familial trauma #So the metaphorical/emotional significance of Ethan being both mother AND father would be peak fiction #Also if you spread Mia hate on my post I will come for you with the hand cutting chainsaw

[pained-expression]

@astheworldcomestoanend you asked for this

We start with the obvious, Grant wrote a book and is a librarian. College educated, masters in library science maybe? Anyway the boy likes his literature, this is canon and I love him.

Now for the fun part

As Lark got older, and with the Close-Foster-Freeman custody nightmare, Lark turned to Glenn as a father figure. Glenn, as Glenn does, tried to share his passion for music with his new protege. But Lark was never any good with writing the rhymes, and strict rules that go into writing songs and verses and choruses. What he DID love was poetry. Irregular rhythm and odd rhyme schemes, and when life felt too hard to explain he found that someone somewhere had felt that way before, and had written it down. Every time it felt like a love note passed through history, the reassurance that this too shall pass, whatever this was at the moment he was feeling it.

And Grant got that. By all means they didn’t agree on everything, (Lark still can’t understand Grant’s objectivity when it comes to the Plath Vs Hughes debate*) but when Lark was overwhelmed and couldn’t process what was emotionally and mentally exhausting him, Grant knew how to help.

When they’re still teenagers, Grant reads Lark Stephen Crane’s ‘in the desert’ and uses it to help reframe how Lark thinks about himself in relation to his guilt, and his self loathing and self destructive patterns. That even though your heart is bitter, it’s still your heart. And it gives him permission to forgive himself for the mistakes he made when he was 12 years old

Lark found no shortage of poetry about having mixed feelings about your parents and not knowing how to talk to your dad, side note there is so much of those poems, Tony Harrison, Sylvia Plath, Philip Larkin - I could go on but damn I’ve written so much already. more poetry HCs in the tags also 

yes i will take questions because literature is such a passion of mine and always has been but all my irl friends are sick of listening to me going on about it lol

#*yes this is deeply personal argument that has come up a lot in my circles and I have incorporated it into a fic that may come out some time #when rebecca is nervous about motherhood he reads her metaphors by sylvia plath #book ends by tony harrison blew his fucking mind #this be the verse by philip larkin #honestly the whole ariel collection by plath #Lark is a Plath stan because i'm projecting and i said so #feminine gospels by carol ann duffy was rec from mercedes or samantha and also blew his mind #lark got super into 1984 but grant thinks its overated #lark and grant both cried over flowers for algernon #on a funnier note i imagine them reading death of a salesman and being like what the fuck this guy is like a less aggressive willy #god #lark oak garcia #grant wilson dndads #dndads

[sourcedecay]

Glad I didn't make any plans for today bc I was at the library and I ran into this girl I have classes with who ive talked to a few times and we skipped our evening class together <3

#school had some guest lecturer from cardiff visiting today giving a lecture abt plants as a metaphor for motherhood/nursing in roman lit #so we went to that together. it was cool #she might be gay im not sure. shes cute though

[twacn]

happy mothers day to whatever the fuck the Alien franchise has going on

#Mother (the computer) #The xenomorph queen #Ripley /w newt #The way aliens are born as a metaphor for forced birth #It's all about motherhood in all the most disgusting and tragic ways possible yk yk

[samaspic31]

what he says: i’m fine

what he means: the first despicable me movie was explicitly about gru and his daughters becoming an unconventional family unit and fighting overwhelming odds AND their own fears in order to remain with each without without sacrificing anyone’s freedom and individuality as cishet nuclear family structure usually requires. Right ? Right. And then you have the sequel that uncritically considers gru being a single parent as something to fix, has gru suffering under amatonormativity, never once questioning the asssumption he should have a partner to feel complete, and by the end, that family is as close to the epitome of the hegemonic stereotype of a patriarchal family as it can get with adopted children, thanks to heterosexual marriage, yay, and that’s without even talking about the capitalistic implications in the despicable me universe -

#sam speaks #my brain is soooooooooo normal #anyways I love overanalysing kids media it is so full of bias and I’m studying it all like a bug #the character herself is pretty cool tho. bit of a girlboss stereotype (derogatory) with the whole lipstick taser kinda jokes #but interesting arc about choosing non biological motherhood and feeling inadequate in the third movie #anyways gru is gay in my book and vvillains in the despicableverse could be interpreted as a queer metaphor that’s what I mostly mean

[brain-depositary]

Anyway venturing into Google Scholar was A Mistake, every time I see Victor Frankenstein analyzed as a monstrous vicious patriarchal pig-dog for *checks notes* getting deathly ill after giving birth to a disabled child and abandoning it as he had no social support, and then aborting his second pregnancy I want to dash my head against the desk.

#frankenstein #victor frankenstein #You want to interpret Frankenstein as a birth metaphor but also not acknowledge difficulties of unsupported motherhood? #no. you do not get to have your cake and eat it too. bad feminist.

[nofearnopanic]

My toxic trait is that I get so mad whenever I see that post criticizing Never Love An Anchor by The Crane Wives

#'ships DO love anchors' 🙄 shut up #maybe in YOUR metaphor ships love anchors. but the crane wives are telling a very cool and sad story about motherhood here #and quite frankly none of your additions are improving on the crane wives #failure of intertextuality to acknowledge the value of the original work #or im just a diehard crane wives stan who's being petty

[catboybashirs]

mom lalondne and queen deltarune are the same bitch . to me. and i love em both

#.txt #.doctor speaks #alcoholism... themes of motherhood... trying to reach out to their child (metaphorically or not) and failing miserably... God

[touyatodorokigf]

I do love Beth evil dead rising and she was a good final girl for the franchise but honestly Ellie was just so much more compelling to me

#I think Beth is cool tho bc she like has a lot of both ash and Mia in her #god evil dead rise was so good the whole motherhood aspect of that was insane #like one thing about the evil dead films is that they find the most perfect metaphors for the possession #just god I could write essays about them genuinely

[oceanstone]

Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating by Geneen Roth

Eating as Metaphor: Hunger

My Hunger Has a Name

#geneen roth #feeding the hungry heart #the experience of compulsive eating #eating as metaphor #hunger #my hunger has a name #motherhood #family #personal

[sunbentsky-archived]

I’m making Myr midwife of some village in Velen, and all children born under her care will have just a little bit of magic in them. They’ll also be protected by Light-as-the-wind-heavy-as-the-earth, the spectral not-dog, when they’re in danger from all kinds of beasts and monsters, from the common wolf to the colossal fiend. However, his aid doesn’t extend to harm that might come from other humans or human-like beings. That’s a domain he has no power over, as St. Sunday herself has no power over it either.

Myr, however, becomes somewhat of a bridge between the realms of humans and that of the beasts and primeval magic. Thus, folk magic is something that she can easily connect to and tap into, and it becomes clear to the people around her that she does indeed have a gift for welcoming children into this world. Rarely does a stillbirth occur when she’s present, the mothers feel at peace with her around and claim that even the childbirth pains are alleviated. The children grow up big and strong and are seemingly favored by fortune. 

Moreover, it’s not just humans Myr helps. Non-humans-- elves, dwarves, halflings, etc.-- sometimes come to request her aid, too. On more than one occasion, families have brought their beloved mares or some other gestating animal to be blessed by Myr, too. She takes everyone in. 

Word travels fast and soon enough, pregnant women from nearby villages all around come to Myr to ask for her assistance, or the families send for her to be brought to their homes if they’re unable to travel. Myr’s little cottage is well off the beaten path, deeper into the woods than the rest of the village she associates with, and she refuses to move somewhere closer to the main road or allow the villagers to cut off surrounding trees to make access easier. Claims that it’s these woods that give her her gifts, and since everyone wants their children to live well, everyone complies-- and quickly shuts off any accusations that she’s a witch.

And so she becomes known as the Midwife of the Wilds. 

#myr #i was talking to mom about how my great-grandmother was the midwife of her village and how respected she was because of this etc #and idk thoughts about myr. they're not new just haven't mentioned it before #i love her sm #she represents motherhood obviously but not the. soft gentle nurturing parts? #the painful sharp bloody parts more like #the loss the grief the hardships #she lost two daughters after all #(and regained one of them [saskia] later but still) #(she'd been lost to her for more than twenty years during which myr grieved and saskia grew up wondering if her mother would even want her) #(it's a whole thing but !! their story is so important to me. villen can fuck off lmao it's about saskia reconnecting with her mom and both #of them reconnecting with their dragon nature. which could be a rather nasty metaphor but it's not i promise they just happen to be dragons #) #pregancy tw #childbirth tw #stillbirth tw #just mentioned but

[fractured-omens]

wanted to add this to my last post but not clog op's notes:

this video essay is really good and explores the literal horror of motherhood! also i'm a big fan of film fatales

#motherhood #mothers #horror #horror movies #video essay #youtube link #monstrousness as a metaphor #Youtube

[meloromantics]

airpods case will recharge airpods even when she herself is perilously low on power … motherhood metaphor

[deepmochi]

Lilith in the 4th house 💎

Lilith in Cancer can also read it, or Lilith-moon aspects.

⚠️ Read: Mention of cheating, family dynamic and mothers!

What to learn: Emotions make you stronger, you are worthy of real love, and your family shouldn't define you.

What to avoid: Having victim mentality, blame others for your wrongdoings, and over nurturing tendencies with others.

Some celebrities: Alexa Demie, John Travolta, Donald Trump, Ozzy Osbourne, Shia Labeouf, Justin Bieber, Cameron Díaz, Brook Shields, Kristen Dunst, Margot Robbie, William Shakespeare (apparently) Cary Grant, Orlando Bloom, Jennifer Garner, and Jessica Alba.

🕯Issues with femininity and the idea of being a woman. In men, issues with being nurtured by a woman.

🕯Undeveloped Lilith attracts overprotective (toxic) people and manipulators.

🕯 They could cheat with people who are married just for the sake of feeling better (if bad aspected).

🕯 Other women admire or like them, but men like them more (male gaze).

🕯The mother could compete with them for certain reasons. These creates issues with female peers.

🕯 Can easily became a mother even thought they don't want it. Pregnancy scares could be a thing. Use protection please.

🕯They're very private about their roots and family. They will avoid posting pictures on their social networks.

🕯 Motherhood troubles them; they can come to a term if they do it willingly.

🕯 Mothers are sacred to them, but mother was also their worst nightmare. Mother was harsh and cold at times.

🕯 Emotions are not easy to read for them; sometimes, they might ignore them, creating chaos.

🕯 They prefer long-term relationships even if it is toxic. They might follow the family pattern. The must work on it.

🕯 Father was an absent figure; mother has both roles combined. They can imitate this too if bad aspected, especially men.

🕯Emotional manipulator: they can use people's feelings to their pleasure.

🕯 They use their body and feminine energy to lurk others in. "Why you feel like that?.... tell me"

🕯Undeveloped Lilith is the friend who cheats with you bf/crush and makes her innocent face..."I didn't knew you were together" (pd: she knew).

🕯 People can see them as innocent or someone who need protection.

🕯Disconnection with the body and their feminine energy, especially when something traumatic happens at home.

🕯Women has difficult relationships with mothers or mother figure during childhood. Mother was very demanding.

🕯Here, Lilith doesn't want to be consider only a "woman"; they want more than that.

🕯However, this Lilith can be highly sexualised due to their feminine energy. Men can use them as ego boost for the immature masculine energy.

🕯 Men with this placements can have big issues with their emotions. They may ignore their pain and feminine energy, producing cheating or violence outburst.

🕯Both (women and men) can be moody when they're "hurt", and use these emotions as weapons.

🕯The mother could have hurt them or used for her benefit. She may sold them metaphorically to society, or they didn't shield them when they need to.

🕯Prone to follow traumas from their childhood. If they denied their mother issues, they may repeat their pattern.

🕯 As a mother, they are afraid to be like their mother. It's highly possible that this native sees motherhood as complex. However, they are call to cut the ties with the past.

🕯 The best partner is someone who nuturues them, but this person is destructive for their home if wounded. So, they may run away from "commitment" or commit too quickly to toxic people.

🕯 Society pressures them to be a woman. To follow a certain path, they have to deal with the Madonna-whore complex.

🕯 When they are younger, they tend to be sexualized. When older, people "miss" their old self aka beauty. Here, the native must value herself in very stage. She isn't missing anything. She is worthy in every stage.

🕯 They were sexualised very young, unfortunately. Even use as profitable object, look at Justin Bieber, Brook Shield and Shia Labeouf. They were introduced very young to Hollywood.

🕯Deep down, many of them want the home and family they couldn't have. However, they must understand that marriage is more that a social contract. It's a healing process for them. Love goes a deep as they let it.

🕯 Some may have weird family dynamics, which lead to traumas.

🕯 They will very private with their families, partners and lovers. Overprotective tendencies.

🕯Like to follow traditional roles such as, marriage, couple titles (ex: bf or gf), or/ and traditional families. Also, they make like to damage them.

🕯 They can be seen as a perfect parent or as a lacking one. Society is the one that decides (is not always true).

🕯Prefer to live far away from their family. It's safer for them.

🕯 It's very protective of their love ones, especially younger children and sisters/brothers.

🕯Their home is a very private area. They save it from really close people.

🕯They prefer to have small wedding or doing something rather private. If Lilith is immature, they will be a show.

🕯 Bad aspected Lilith would like to take your bf or husband from the sake of feeling loved. They're wining him over you because "they're better than you".

🕯Home could have an abusive dynamic.

🕯Young girls and boys are prone to date older men/ women due to mommy / daddy issues. With time, they realize that nobody can heal them, only themselves will do it.

Take care, loves!

Note: just take what resonates.💚

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