Word and image

[wongkk.livejournal.com]

This is another one of Gackt's complex facial expressions.  It's a fairly uncomfortable picture, which I found thought-provoking but not easy to enjoy.  The poem is from the same set as the last Word and Image I posted.  

I'm not sure of the origin of this picture as there was no credit where I found it, but it looks to be from the Crescent/Last Song era and may be a screen cap e.g. from the photobook  "making of" video.  I've looked through the Crescent photobook itself fairly carefully and I can't see this picture there.  The words are mine.

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[wongkk.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no photobooks have arrived. This is a bit of a sore point but I am still hoping for something. Buying like this is always risky, eh? Sigh. This image is a screen cap I've now been told (see first comment above for the real detail) so, sorry, that's why his expression is difficult.

But you're not curious as to what has happened to get him into this state? I'm curious that the train pic-poem filled your head with questions but that this one only makes you want to "cure" him!

Well, there is indeed a small set of these and it does include some happier ideas, so I've promised myself that the next one to be offered for W&I should be more upbeat. You'll know from my LJ that my usual format is pretty much full screen, so I'm having to adapt to post to the 400 pixel width here - quite an interesting challenge! Maybe I was getting too formulaic anyway ;) It's certainly made me look at the pictures in quite a different way (rather than just to reduce the scale) so not a bad thing.

Thanks for coming back to comment and for braving the internet demons so many times; I hope that they find your persistence gives them such indigestion that they leave you alone for a while.

[mingoes.livejournal.com]

oh oh doh..misread..but you have crescent ^^ anway hope you get them soon enough. risky indeed...
hmm..isn't the expression difficult because you choose to cap that? and not because it is a screencap it looks difficult?

Well it's not that I'm not curious..but in this current shape, it's first cure and then try to understand. but due to that sprinkle of hope, it sounds as if he is positive enough so don't want to remind him of that what got him like that. Or perhaps the small source of hope is small, so needs to be hold on tight and anything reminding of the process getting in this state extinguishes the hope. (you still follow??...)
Either way respect that, so no ask how he got there but support... and perhaps something recently irl that influenced in how I responded.

hmm I see.any titling for this set? Can't wait to see more of your set. :)

[wongkk.livejournal.com]

Oh - just found your comment! I didn't get any heads-up in my Inbox as usual (strange) so big apologies for appearing to ignore you.

Re the "difiicult" epxression, I meant that the expression from a screencap is sometimes caught mid-movement and is not a "pose" where the subject necessarily has the chance to make his face show something intentional. Hence the added ambiguity! (nice toy for the imagination)

I like your kind response in terms of curing first! Ah - Gackt-san is lucky to have such kind fans. Yes, you are right about the small hope thing: to look back with a small flame of hope in your hand can allow the cold wind of the past to extinguish the fire. You say "something recently irl" - hope this was nothing bad for you? I'd hate to think of you looking as beaten as poor Gackt here. Really hope that didn't happen to you

No, some of these poems don't have titles because they just unfold for themselves. One or two of the others do have a title to avoid a misunderstanding. Usually, my stuff in this lyric style is so simple that no misunderstanding is possible!

Can't wait to see more, eh? Well, here's a teaser trailer for you: the next poem in this set, to be offered here, could be titled, "Carry me closer to the sun", but that's the first line anyway so what would be the point? ;) See if you can guess, from that first line, which picture I've used! (Clue: it's from one of the photobooks).

Thanks for giving your further thoughts. So sorry I didn't see earlier; just didn't have any reason to check back here.