@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?????????

@aescling zelda the character not zelda the series

@aescling zelda, the character, is a storytelling device wherein a fictional sequence of events (her character development) stands in for something real, the way in which trauma provides an opportunity for white women to confront how the forces which oppress them are necessarily implicated in their own whiteness