So, even in Japanese, I can’t help lusting over our dear Goblin King!
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Labyrinth Van - Second Side
I found a photo of the other side of the van someone posted a while back http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinkane/6922645217/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I93EcL3XZ4&feature=youtu.be
The Badger Ballroom Dance Team did a showcase and they had a number set to the song “As the World Falls Down”. Even the costumes and dance referenced the movie!
Labyrinth Goblin Mask
First of all I’d just like to say I think this is the most wonderful tumblr EVER. I’ve loved Labyrinth since I was a little kid.
Recently I attended a Masquerade party for my friend’s 21st and knew it was the perfect opportunity to make myself a mask inspired by the labyrinth scene in Labyrinth.
You can see it here:
http://cemeterydreamer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/labyrinth-outfit.html
and here’s a bit about how I made it:
http://cemeterydreamer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/labyrinth-mask.html
Keep posting the awesomeness =]
Edit by FYLabyrinth: These are awesome! Thanks for much for sharing with us! (And thank you for the compliments too! n_n).
Labyrinth Shirt @ TeeFury.
Just wanted to let everyone know for the next 24 hours, there is a really adorable Labyrinth shirt being sold over at TeeFury for only $10. :D
dunno if you’ve linked this in the past but thought I’d send it your way just in case you haven’t.
“A Sickness Called Desire.” I’m not too huge on fanfic but this is seriously one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
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Regarding the question for “In a Glass, Darkly”
Hey there, love the blog, this is for absofuckinglutely’s question about ‘In a Glass, Darkly’.
Though I’m not connected to Subtilior in any way, this is how I took it. It is a very complex story; I generally work from an interpretative viewpoint, so it’s possible/likely that other people will have completely different ideas on exactly what’s going on in it.
Anyway, I hope this helps a bit!
Er…this should maybe go under a Read More since it’s a really excellent fic (especially if you like Dark Jareth) and, well, SPOILERS HO!
Also, because this became a bit more of a TL;DR than I thought it would…
So Sarah has grown up, become a psychologist, moved on from her time in the Underground and is pretty much convinced it was all just a vivid dream, even though she’s had a few troubling recurrences. She spends her days and nights in the hospital helping people who have various illnesses and delusions, including a lady whose baby is very sick and who has been made very depressed by this and stays obsessively by his crib despite the effects on her own health.
So far, so good; until Jareth shows up torturing a patient, Aaron, a young boy who failed to run the Labyrinth and reclaim his wished-away little sister. So Aaron gets his dreams, but since Jareth makes the dreams he can do whatever he wants to/with his victims. He’s surprised to see Sarah on the other side of the two-way mirror and tells Aaron all about her; and how she will deny the fact that she can see his ‘imaginary’ persecutor too and everyone will think he’s insane.
Sarah makes a Faustian deal-with-the-Devil with Jareth – three nights together and he stops tormenting everyone who fails the Labyrinth.
Besides Jareth making the first night as difficult as possible for her by appearing just…hideous and disgusting (yes, yes, I know, the Goblin King, unattractive? I found it hard to imagine too! But the word ‘oozed’ is just, urgh, yuck!), Sarah finds herself having dreams and nightmares about her first visit to the Labyrinth. Jareth denies having anything to do with them, saying she makes and alters her dreams by herself, but isn’t above going into her subconscious to mess with her. So poor Sarah is exhausted: physically, and mentally from trying to keep him out of her mind.
Second night, though Jareth starts to make more of an effort with his appearance, she starts to think something isn’t quite right. Even though she’s now pretty sure he’s not a figment of her imagination, no one else seems to take any notice of Jareth except her friend, Ben, who is the hospital’s resident priest. She decides that she doesn’t really trust Jareth to stick to his word and so demands that he frees the victims of the Labyrinth before she goes through with the third night.
Understandably, Ben worries when it’s clear Sarah hasn’t slept properly in two nights and because he’s seen her with a dubious-looking man, but she has to tell him to back off and finish her deal if she wants to release Aaron and the others. She thinks she’s figured out what Jareth is - she admits to Aaron that she has also been to the Underground and so he isn’t crazy and swears he won’t be tortured anymore.
Jareth is highly amused when she admits that she believes he is the Devil himself. They have a bit of a discussion about the symbolism of the Labyrinth, which is similar to Sarah’s earlier explanation of her ‘dream’ – Jareth is very much the trickster and tempter, offering superficial gratification at a price; which is why he comes back for Sarah, the one who beat him, to reclaim her once and for all, to reclaim power over her. He suggests that the work she does is not nearly enough to combat the world’s suffering. And that she in fact feeds on suffering and the feeling of having done ‘good’, making her more like him than she’d care to admit.
Although she just about manages not to let him get to her, she suddenly remembers the third night and worries that he’s about to let her forget and then go back on their deal. Desperate measures are called for. And I’m not going to say much about this scene because I find it really difficult to be articulate about it. Just…asdfghjkl; The power-play. The seduction. Sarah being a total vixen and completely in control. It’s so good, I can’t even…
Ahem.
Anyway.
So the morning after the third night, Jareth makes her an offer – come to the Labyrinth and create dreams, be the Goblin Queen. She thinks about it for a few seconds before remembering that this was the guy who stabbed a child in the eye with a needle a few chapters ago and then essentially bullied her into sex. As we know, Jareth is not exactly the best at taking rejection. So he throws a few cryptic clues/threats at her in her dreams and leaves, apparently forever, swearing that he will never torture another person who fails the test ever again.
Er. Yeah, right, Jareth.
Sarah has a chat with Ben where he tells her about an experience he had when he was training to enter the priesthood where he believed he saw Satan himself, and that this was the reason he freaked out so much about Jareth – there was something about him that reminded Ben of that time. Sarah tries to laugh it off but is disturbed.
Aaron is still undergoing treatment because, medically, an unexplained overnight recovery from a mental disturbance isn’t exactly likely. It’s not like Sarah can just explain what happened. However, since she promised him that he wasn’t insane, Aaron takes his continued hospitalisation as a betrayal, especially when she denies having ‘spoken’ to what the other doctors consider a mere hallucination. The lady with the ill baby has also left and Sarah realises that she must have also failed the Labyrinth and that - freed from her punishment – she chose to leave her child.
Jareth returns in Sarah’s dreams and encourages her to change and develop them – and to create the dreams of others. In her dream she punishes the woman for abandoning her baby and is horrified when the next day the woman is back in the hospital and suffering worse than ever.
Sarah starts taking sleeping pills to avoid dreaming. At which point Aaron walks back into her life and demands to know why she lied and the truth about Jareth and the Labyrinth. And when he gets angry at her for lying, he does the logical thing and wishes her away to the Goblin King.
She’s trapped. No one is coming to rescue her. No one will solve the Labyrinth in thirteen hours to save her. For neglecting Aaron, she becomes Jareth’s prisoner and “No power over me” is just a distant memory. Aaron asks for his family to be returned to him in return for delivering Sarah, but they are only dreams – all Jareth ever provides are dreams; and the dreamers lie, undisturbed and sleeping forever in the Underground.
Sarah was right. Jareth is the Devil himself. He appears as she expects him to – the King of the Goblins, the monster from her childhood. He offered her a place by his side and she refused, now she will be Queen whether she wants to be or not. And he keeps his other bargain with her – he will no longer create dreams and nightmares for those who fail the Labyrinth, or for those who take the dream crystal, because Sarah will do it instead. On the mortal plane, she is dead. Jareth has finally defeated her through her own pride – because she wouldn’t admit to the truth and because she wouldn’t ask Ben for help. She is captive within her own dreams, nightmares, and memories; creating the dreams of others against her will, and completely powerless. And it’s heavily implied that Jareth plans to have her bear the Antichrist, so that’s…nice…
But generally I feel it ends on a positive note – I take it that the longer Sarah works as the dream-weaver, the more power she gains and that at the End she will turn on Jareth more harshly than he might think her capable.
AND SORRY, BUT I’M ABOUT TO GO ALL ACADEMIC AND PRETENTIOUS!
The whole fic is full of Judeo/Christian imagery – obviously Ben as a priest, the Biblical quotes, Sarah’s friend’s wedding, the origins of wedding traditions, the Last Supper, blood-like wine, snakes, apples, etc. – and a lot of psychological aspects: the Freudian and Jungian ideas of the meanings of dreams which are pretty thoroughly explained; the interplay of power and sex; the idea of archetypes which suggests that similar figures continue to appear in human mythology and folklore due to a kind of shared consciousness – so here, Jareth as the trickster is similar to Hades as in ‘Hades and Persephone’, taking the young woman prisoner, tricking her into capturing herself, or alternatively he’s like Mephistopheles from ‘Faust’, taking everything Sarah says literally but twisting it just so to trap her; there’s mention of the anima/animus which is basically the feminine side of a male psyche/the masculine side of a feminine psyche; in a related way the use of mirrors as a recurring image could suggest the ‘mirror stage’ as described by Lacan, which is essentially the fear of the ‘evil’ or less desirable side of one’s personality ‘taking over’ the good side that we perceive as the ‘real’ self, as when Sarah watches her own reflection with Jareth and when she punishes the woman who abandoned her child – the mirror shows her a different side to herself that differs from her belief that “I use my powers for good” - so through this reading, Jareth is essentially a dark facet of Sarah’s personality, perhaps her selfishness and cruelty, her possessive side, her ruthlessness, and possibly her libido, the side of her that doesn’t care what happens to her patients once they leave her care: the same part of her that wished Toby away.
Or…Jareth could literally be the Devil and all of the above could be reading into an excellent piece of fanfiction far too deeply.
The psychology and history of storytelling throughout human tradition is utterly fascinating, really, if you’re into that sort of thing. I recommend looking into it. You will start to over-analyse ridiculously, (I learned about Lacan the same week I saw ‘Black Swan’ for the first time – mirror stage everywhere!) but it becomes kinda fun after a bit!
(Don’t even get me started on analysing ‘Labyrinth’ itself. I can talk for days…)
Brian Froud interview!! theres a reason for Jareth’s pants!
The idea, [Brian] Froud explains to Empire, was always that Sarah, reaching the age of sexual awakening, is a lustful fan of Bowie-like rock stars, and therefore creates Jareth in a Bowie-like image. “We’re not looking at reality, we’re inside this girl’s head”, explains the artist. “There are references to all sorts of things in his costume. There’s the danger of a leather boy in his leather jacket, which also has a reference to the armour of a certain type of German knight in it; there are references to Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights; and the tight trousers are a reference to ballet dancers. He’s an amalgam of the inner fantasies of this girl. Everyone always talks about Bowie’s perv pants, but there was a reason for it all! It has a surface that’s fairly light, but then every so often you go, ‘Oh, my God! How did we get away with that?!”
From “Dance Magic Dance: 25 Years of Labyrinth” (Empire Magazine, February 2012)
I See You - Update
Just thought I should inform people that I See You is updated.
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