Alright, let’s talk Powerpuff Girls.
Wait… what?
Yes, no, I’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… yeah. See- this was me, watching the Powerpuff Girls, 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… there it is. In a fit of recursive meta, we have the Powerpuff Girls acting like I did, back when I watched Powerpuff Girls– 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.
For those that have the episode, this clip was from the episode “A Sun Scream”, which was the first half of season 6, episode 5. To understand fully what I’m talking about here you will need to watch the whole thing.
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’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.
So yeah, I would use cartoons like Powerpuff Girls and Dragonball 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 Powerpuff Girls fans who were wondering about this episode, now you know.
So it was during all of this that I kind of made a vow to never get sick again, etc. That really didn’t pan out of course but it did lead to me taking more direct control over my powers and such. I’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.
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 Powerpuff Girls episodes back then, so I must have seen it, but I just didn’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’t. Not 100% sure about the back ones. They might have been chuckling at me the whole time; who knows, lol.
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’s absolutely packed with symbolism- some of it pertaining to me, specifically, others to intelligence, and others to… other people. Those symbols I “get” but don’t know who they are referring to, specifically.
Crazy. What I kind of think was going on there at least pertaining to me and the show’s creators was a lot of miscommunication. It’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’t understand the occult symbols, not having been exposed to them personally. So I didn’t “get it”, and I’m not sure that anyone on “the other side” knew that I didn’t. Maybe.
But… yeah, wow. I liked the bluebird hitting Buttercup’s left eye symbolism. I mean, see? Now 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.
Crazy. Wow. Unreal, all of this. Just absolutely unreal.
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’re the fucking Powerpuff Girls. Literally the coolest people to ever appear on a show, ever. I mean, maybe except for Batman. Maybe.
But uhmmm, yeah. So, I would be willing to bet now that seasons 5 and 6 of Powerpuff Girls 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 Powerpuff Girls season 5 ran from late 2003 to 2004… yeah, I have no doubt it’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.
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’t have a favorite, but I was always kinda partial to Bubbles, for, ahem, one… very… obvious reason. lol. (So, like, am I the only one who didn’t get this stuff, back then? I mean, I couldn’t have been, right? I mean, yeesh.)
Uh, yeah. So, uhm… I forgot how I was going to end this, lol. So, I’m ending it here. I think that maybe Victoria wants to talk to me anyhow.
Soooo… uhm… yeah. Good night ppl, lol.