Aster Shen

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Promotional image for Immortality, with a print of a woman in fancy frame writhing in flames

The Rapists of Immortality

By Aster Shen • November 18th, 2022

No matter how many I kill, there’s always more.

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Screenshot from Iconoclasts, where a ponytailed mechanic in headphones is speaking to some black clad agents sitting in her cozy home. One named Black says "If we all just chose our profession, nothing in this world would ever get done. He just wants balance, my dear."

“There has never been anything smaller than me”: Agent Black, Iconoclasts and the Necessity of Grief

By Aster Shen • October 21st, 2022

Agent Black cannot let go – she literally cannot let go – of the rocket that symbolizes a potential that will never be realised.

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Still from the title sequence for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, with an assortment of symbols and shapes in the background and a man in a flashy suit and cadet hat, hands in pockets on the left, a very similar looking man with a big lip of hair on his brow in the middle, and a youger person in a school or military uniform on the right

How to Take a Stand // Transpersonal Defiance in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

By Aster Shen • October 4th, 2022

Koichi goes to his death without despair, because he believes that justice will be done. He connects to the idea that what he represents cannot meaningfully be ‘erased’ at all: the heart of justice that defies the existence of Yoshikage Kira.