JARED LETO AS CHRIST ◊ THE 30STM BYZANTINE CROSS VARIATION

◊🖤💬 As I continue to deepen into awareness of their patterns of interaction with the fanbase through viewing reports and information on others’ experiences, I’m presented with the vague possibility that there may be an unspoken “rule” of a kind, in which they do not usually like feed posts of fans, but instead use comment interactions to express their appreciation. Unless of course Jared might, for example, post a reaction video of his own, say to a cover of his song.

◊💎🌐 That said, I’ve thoroughly decided against the use or promotion of that theory. Ultimately, there are no “rules” anyway, and we all know they can do whatever they want at any time. If something distinctly about my own work here at UNITY LIFE has made it impossible for them to directly like my feed posts, I feel this may speak of paradigmatic and larger social patterns which may be behind this as a trend of their interactions — yet that is best expressed as unique to my work and this situation.

◊💕💭 When I put it that way, like something has made it impossible, I mean to say that I feel they love my work and would be genuinely hoping for a chance to express their genuine appreciation with a like to a feed post of mine, since I seem to have overall charmed them in the most lovely way. Yet it should be said that my work often brings up highly charged topics of controversial and socially complex content. I often deal with issues that are paradigmatically censored, and I look forward to educating more through UNITY LIFE about paradigmatic censorship itself as this is a main theme.

◊🌐🕊 I do this on purpose always, in such a way where it would always seem that in a perfect world, it shouldn’t be a matter of any complexity, to show alliance with my views — my aim is to point at where the real source of the problem is, in our larger society, by obviously not being the corrupt or questionable root cause of the controversy which one might see coming up around my work. The narrative I offer is one of reflection on larger societal issues which can be subtly sensed through the textures of my approach, even if not blatantly pointed out.

◊🔑❤️ With all that said, I’m eager to play the game with Jared and 30STM — the expectation / hope vs. disappointment / letdown game, as to whether or not I would receive any praise for what I have offered to them. I feel that the quality of my work is gorgeously self-evident here and considering the love I’ve received from them so far in general, that should be enough to clarify that they would have loved this archive. They are clearly keeping track of my work — and though they are busy, we’ll have to watch to see if they catch up with their tags and social media updates when they emerge from this time away.

◊⁉️ It’s imaginable that they may be late in catching up, but with time passing, once they are back and re-adjusted, I estimate that they will finally someday notice that this post had come out. When they do, will they offer no reaction? I have commented on their posts in reflection about this archive, leaving options for them in the comments if they would be so bold as to like or comment on something which was actually very reflective of the content here in this archive. They are well aware that this addendum will be edited to chronicle that event very publicly on my instagram, as I have been doing with these addendums.

◊🖤🛐 If they offer no reaction, I must say this really brings up some nauseatingly disturbing ideas about what the controversy would be in surrounding their public expression of approval for this archive. I’ll let the reader come to their own conclusions, just imagining what seems possibly conflating or triggering and to whom, in such a scenario. I assure you this would be the running joke “story of my life”, not a comedy of errors on my part, but thoroughly what I’m used to cracking jokes about, in terms of just how constant the problems are. Stay tuned on my instagram to be notified of any changes in this addendum.

Update ◊ February 4th

"◊🖤 Story of my life 😂😅 )). I've gotten no response from Jared ..." was written on January 26th, as follows, and I'm only later changing my mind about this. I thought it really made for a funny line to say that, after all you'd just read, so I had to keep it  — but the good news is, that's not true. 

Original Entry ◊ January 26th

◊🖤 Story of my life 😂😅 )). I've gotten no response from Jared or the band about this archive specifically, even after they seemingly had returned to social media. Although they did interact with me on instagram (both Jared and the band) it seemed impossible to link their interactions with this particular piece, especially since quite a lot of other material had come out since that time in which they were tagged, which involved them.

Continued Update ◊ February 4th 

◊😂😅 You know, funny thing is, I felt perhaps similar to how Jared and Shannon must have felt just buried in papers at that time. I had been working really hard. Somehow the significance escaped my mind that one of my interactions with them — the one with Jared specifically —was a comment response to my comment on his post about his role in Tron : Ares. The thing is, it had been announced (and they were tagged in the announcement which I imagine they may have been aware of) that this archive about the modified Byzantine cross was designed as a direct addition into the UNITY LIFE Archive — THE SIMULATED ALCHEMY OF JARED LETO IN 30STM & TRON ARES. I had totally forgotten that — which is honestly strange considering that I wrote it myself. But I just had other things on my mind. You can see the record of that interaction at this link.

◊✌🏿✌🏾✌🏽✌🏼✌🏻✌️ Essentially, it seems that by choosing a post about Tron in which to interact with me, Jared was saying "I appreciate your reflections on Tron : Ares, Ba" — and the thing is, there were quite a few, including this archive especially. 

The Continued Entry ◊ January 26th

◊💎 So much happened. I dedicated FACET 36(104 ◊ CREATOR to Jared in honor of his birthday with new artwork. I came out with the 30STM and MM inspired new card system prototype, The 7 of 9, and dedicated its corresponding FACET, FACET 6(78) ◊ FAMILY to Jared and Marilyn Manson's birthdays (which are close to each other). And I created a new UNITY LIFE Archive to celebrate the release of the new 30STM track, God's Eye. And all combined, this has been a lot of information to take in actually. I'm impressed if they were able to study it enough within their busy schedule to get a firm grasp on it. 

Continued Update ◊ February 4th 

◊💎🧬 In the paragraph above, I forgot to mention that the UNITY LIFE Archive — THE SIMULATED ALCHEMY OF JARED LETO IN 30STM & TRON ARES — was made a part of FACET 6(78) ◊ FAMILY as a core resource of that FACET. So in this case, it's explained how such a simple interaction from Jared could mean so much and refer to so much information. This gesture of interacting with me with a comment rather than just a comment like — and of specifically choosing Tron : Ares as the theme between us for a more significant interaction — was such a statement. To even say something along the lines of like "Ba, I appreciate your reflections on Tron : Ares" is referring to a wealth of things, including this piece about the modified Byzantine cross.

The Continued Entry ◊ January 26th

◊💫 So much has been going on when they were just coming out of retreat — and they were away for quite some time — Jared only started resurfacing around January 6th, so he and Shannon had likely been away about 3 weeks. 

◊☦️🔑 It does look as though what happened is, this particular archive got lost in a mountain of stuff to check out and was lost in the pile.

Continued Update ◊ February 4th

◊🔑 So, just to clarify : There's no proof that what I said above was not true. It's entirely possible that it was not noticed. However, you never do know. If I was writing this fresh today, I wouldn't have taken the firm approach of saying it looks definitely like it was overlooked. In fact, without this oversight to address, I would simply say this : There appears to be an overall resonance between us about all this. Of any word that he's received of any of these various pieces that have been coming out, certainly none was enough to turn him off of from continually interacting with me — so he certainly had no problem with it. In fact, quite the opposite — it was a strengthened message of connection. 

◊☦️🖤 I went on to conclude the entry from January 26th with musings about any controversy which surrounds the topic of Christ in this context, as it may interweave with overall religious contention. I was wondering if that had caused a censorship wall between us here. It's comforting to know that my concerns about paradigmatic censorship were not an issue in this case from all I can see.

◊🪞🪞 That resonates for me, as someone with a background within the Marilyn Manson fandom coMMunity, where comparing MM to Christ is not only fairly common, but has been celebrated in at least one of his interviews as a theological debate of interest. Manson's appearance on a Christian talk show in which they carefully unpacked the possibility that he may personify Christ in a certain way which does not contradict their theology, adapted the fan community to these ideas — although so much had already been explored about this in his lyrics and artwork, leading to this interview in response. 

Final Note ◊ January 26th