{"id":4064,"date":"2021-02-10T23:18:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T05:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2021-02-10T23:19:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T05:19:57","slug":"physical-stuff-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4064","title":{"rendered":"Physical Stuff, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, let&#8217;s talk <em>Powerpuff Girls<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Wait&#8230; what?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, no, I&#8217;m serious, tho.  We need to talk <em>Powerpuff Girls<\/em>, and this is the time and place to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, first, please everyone watch the following:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xe4WhwLxHiY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ok.  So&#8230; yeah.  See- this was me, watching the <em>Powerpuff Girls<\/em>, after suffering from the debilitating and unrecognized illness after graduating from college.  You know, that Lupus like thing that I have talked about on this blog before, like a few times.  I mean&#8230; there it is.  In a fit of recursive meta, we have the Powerpuff Girls acting like I did, back when I watched <em>Powerpuff Girls<\/em>&#8211; back when I thought that acting like the Powerpuff Girls was the thing to do to maybe fix whatever it was that was destroying my life at the time.<\/p>\n<p>For those that have the episode, this clip was from the episode &#8220;A Sun Scream&#8221;, which was the first half of season 6, episode 5.  To understand fully what I&#8217;m talking about here you will need to watch the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, so.  The story goes as thus.  I came home from college after graduating and my blood got infected, or something, and I nearly died.  My joints froze up and I couldn&#8217;t move, and everything hurt, I was in constant and unending agony, etc. etc.  I thought maybe it was Lupus or Churg- Strauss, or something similar.  I never did get a formal diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, I would use cartoons like <em>Powerpuff Girls<\/em> and <em>Dragonball <\/em>as kind of a tool to motivate me to get out of bed and moving around, in spite of the overwhelming pain and joint stiffness that I was experiencing.  And yes- my skin would turn red.  So for the many <em>Powerpuff Girls<\/em> fans who were wondering about this episode, now you know.<\/p>\n<p>So it was during all of this that I kind of made a vow to never get sick again, etc.  That really didn&#8217;t pan out of course but it did lead to me taking more direct control over my powers and such.  I&#8217;m not sure if I would have the control I have now if this illness would not have happened.  So- good thing?  Nah.  Painful, awful, ugly thing, and I wince now when I watch clips like this.  They hit wayyyy to close to home by dredging up some super uncomfortable memories.  I mean, the screaming in pain, the telephone, all of it.  Yuck, such awful, ugly stuff.<\/p>\n<p>An odd thing- I never knew at the time that this was based on me, of course.  I mean, I think I watched all of the <em>Powerpuff Girls<\/em> episodes back then, so I <em>must <\/em>have seen it, but I just didn&#8217;t realize, like at all, what was even going on.  I mean I had absolutely no idea.  Or, at least, my front personality (the current me) didn&#8217;t.  Not 100% sure about the back ones.  They might have been chuckling at me the whole time; who knows, lol.<\/p>\n<p>But yeah, this is some crazy, weird stuff.  Watching the whole episode now, I see everything that is going on there behind the scenes so clearly.  It&#8217;s absolutely packed with symbolism- some of it pertaining to me, specifically, others to intelligence, and others to&#8230; other people.  Those symbols I &#8220;get&#8221; but don&#8217;t know who they are referring to, specifically.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy.  What I kind of think was going on there at least pertaining to me and the show&#8217;s creators was a lot of miscommunication.  It&#8217;s like, I was the most powerful psychic \/ occultist in the world at the time, but it was all natural talent.  It was raw, unbridled power, not refined and finessed power.  So I didn&#8217;t understand the occult symbols, not having been exposed to them personally.  So I didn&#8217;t &#8220;get it&#8221;, and I&#8217;m not sure that anyone on &#8220;the other side&#8221; knew that I didn&#8217;t.  Maybe.  <\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; yeah, wow.  I liked the bluebird hitting Buttercup&#8217;s left eye symbolism.  I mean, see?  <em>Now <\/em>I get it, but back then?  How would I ever have known?  I mean, now, I can pick apart the entire episode and dissect every scene, every line of dialogue, every image, and get essentially everything on the offer, but back then I guess I truly did not understand even a quarter of what was in this stuff- including the mountains of stuff even pertaining to me, lol.  Yikes.  I was seriously wayyyy out of the loop.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy.  Wow.  Unreal, all of this.  Just absolutely unreal.<\/p>\n<p>You know- somehow, I feel more honored that the Powerpuff Girls liked me than perhaps anyone else I have ever met in media.  I mean, they&#8217;re the fucking <em>Powerpuff Girls<\/em>.  Literally the coolest people to ever appear on a show, ever.  I mean, <em>maybe <\/em>except for Batman.  <em>Maybe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But uhmmm, yeah.  So, I would be willing to bet now that seasons 5 and 6 of <em>Powerpuff Girls<\/em> are literally packed to the gills with symbolism pertaining to me.  That would make sense, since I started watching the show religiously in 2003, after graduating from college.  It was the perfect escape from life and my health troubles.  And since <em>Powerpuff Girls<\/em> season 5 ran from late 2003 to 2004&#8230; yeah, I have no doubt it&#8217;s all in there, and this likely explains some of the big stylistic differences between seasons 1-4 and 5-6. Some of the differences.  Not all of course, but some.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, exercise.  I used to watch the show while exercising.  It was great, helped me through a lot, etc.  Seriously, those chix rule.  PPG forever, lol.  I don&#8217;t have a favorite, but I was always kinda partial to Bubbles, for, ahem, one&#8230; very&#8230; obvious reason.  lol.  (So, like, am I the <em>only <\/em>one who didn&#8217;t get this stuff, back then?  I mean, I couldn&#8217;t have been, right?  I mean, yeesh.)<\/p>\n<p>Uh, yeah.  So, uhm&#8230; I forgot how I was going to end this, lol.  So, I&#8217;m ending it here.  I think that maybe Victoria wants to talk to me anyhow.<\/p>\n<p>Soooo&#8230; uhm&#8230; yeah.  Good night ppl, lol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, let&#8217;s talk Powerpuff Girls. Wait&#8230; what? Yes, no, I&#8217;m serious, tho. We need to talk Powerpuff Girls, and this is the time and place to do it. Alright, first, please everyone watch the following: Ok. So&#8230; yeah. 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