Power of Emotions...

Welll... my last post (which can be found here), was a brief albeit rambling one sided discussion of what is power in media such as movies, games and the written word. however, just what the heck am I supposed to do for an assignment on the theme of power is more than a little tricky for me to concieve. So in desperation, I went with what the modern university student does: I JFGI'ed and went through a certain website that should never, ever be cited as a source for anything in a bibliography despite the fact that there are students dumb enough to cite it.

I got a few ideas and out of idle curiousity I punched in "GBGD209" and THIS popped out: http://artfanatic2011.blogspot.com/#!/2012/10/hunks-day-at-college-official-clip.html Definately worth a look at - but that's my ego talking because I'm actually IN the damned thing... kinda forgot about that until I watched it again...

I found myself going to all random corners of the internet looking for ideas as to what I could do with this assignment... suffice to say that I spent a lot of time on that fanfiction website and I came across a few other things related to power - at least in a fairly lateral fashion: Emotions and feelings. Should have thought about this sooner... but this picture kinda proves the point about me maybe:


Emotions tends to be one of those things that comes across best in written or perhaps spoken (try storytelling sometime. Trust me when I say it is NOT EASY).  but there are too many fanfiction works of varying length that focus on different emotions in different contexts and turn them in to sources of power, energy/strength for the hero(es) heroine(s) to face down the bad guy and ultimately win the day. One story that brought this hammering home to me was this one linked here, written by "Peptuck." He grasps the concepts of emotional turmoil, the doubt and second guessing, the everything that can make emotions seem like an absolute weakness and then turn it in to a source of strength. A more blantant example of channeling negative emotions as power is here (for those who know the FF8 Storyline - this is the Final Showdown between the Six and Ultimecia. The title is suitably fitting) and here (from my own on running Harry Potter Saga). If you have not read either: I strongly recommend spending a weekend on Peptuck's FF8 Novelization. - I've done enough to shameless plug my own work here...