@Lady the furmer is the more interesting device but idk that i’d call it a metaphor

@aescling so when you think people are speaking metaphorically that means they are saying “her smile was a sunrise” a bunch

@aescling when someone says “X is a metaphor” that means X is a figure of speech like “the mountains were a great maw rising towards the stars”

@Lady if i were feeling very pedantic about it that is what i would say, yes

@aescling you would be wrong since “X is a metaphor” takes a prepositional phrase, “for Y”, which makes no fucking sense with your definition

@Lady i disagree that it necessarily takes a puurepositional phrase

@aescling but you agree it does take one

@aescling surely you are not arguing “Zelda is a metaphor for how trauma provides an opportunity for white women to confront how the forces which oppress them are necessarily implicated in their own whiteness” is nonsensical or ungrammatical

@Lady i feel like that's not really the best example because X can stand in fur Y in the case where X just is Y lol

@aescling it’s a perfectly fine example because interpreting “metaphor” as “a figure of speech” is clearly nonsensical (Zelda is not a figure of speech), yet the sentence is sensical, therefore that interpretation of metaphor must be the wrong one

@Lady i wouldn't call it a metaphor???? zelda is just About that?????? it's a diffurent thing?????????