The Kid Conducts An Interview With Some Of The Gang

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Blood Meridian - XXII - The judge pays a call

I'm the #89 anon who wrote about getting metaphysically and carnally ripped apart by the Judge - I love how you mfs thought it's Glanton, you all made my day, I too see it now.

#98

“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”

Blood Meridian (1985) — Cormac McCarthy

the dynamic between the judge and the kid is very reminiscent of an abusive parent and their child to me, especially when its viewed from the lens of punishment. besides the judge's insistence that he wouldve been like a father to the kid, it can also be interpreted that the judge perceives the kid's rejection of his philosophy and his place in it as a sign of disobedience, and so to "correct" this perceived disobedience the judge chooses to punish the kid harshly, which comes in the form of whatever violent act occurs in the outhouse. the violence committed towards the kid there is the accumulation of the judge's frustration towards his insubordinance in rejecting his place within his ideology, and it functions as the correction of the judge's worldview in eliminating the very element that refutes it. this punishment feels foreshadowed by the jail scene, which introduces the element of accountability in the judge blaming the kid for the yuma massacre and then berating him for his adherence to his morality and his rejection of the judge that comes with it. i think its of note how he focuses on the kid's supposed transgression and places accountability on him for their conflict ("our animosities were formed and waiting before ever we two met. yet even so you could have changed it all") and the frustration that results from it on the judge's end evolves into the fate that awaits the kid in the outhouse, the punishment. it reads as a shafting of accountability from the judge to the kid that goes on to justify what was done to him, a la "you made me do this", similar to how some abusive parents will use some transgression, real or not, to justify the abuse of their child

theres way more to it in my mind and my thoughts be kinda scattered but this is the basic jist of it😇

#164

i need the judge to carnally and metaphysically rip me the FUCK apart. like enter me and make me explode like a goddamn supernova split me into atoms so I meet the Maker itself please you fascinating horrible incarnation of war itself

#89

i had a dream where ivmet judge and he turned my teeth to maggits . i wokw up screaming at three am and woke up my dad who asked if i wanted to dance anx never die but i wasnt actually awake and then the kid showed up with a dog without a head and melted jnto blood that dripped upward. am i in danger

#143

literally addicted to him!!!!!!

! i do not endorse any harmful or bigoted ideologies !

thinking about how terrified mary must’ve been everytime she read in the newspaper that the van der linde gang idfk robbed 10 elephants from a circus or held an entire town up😭

“renowned outlaw arthur morgan was also present in the bank robbery. the surviving clerk says morgan made incredible inappropriate jokes and pretended to swing the butt of his gun at him to make him flinch before loudly chortling, multiple times, before fleeing. the clerk is still traumatised.”

“OH ARTHUR” mary internally screams