Conjoinment music video
An alert reader brought this music video of “Twin Flames” off the 2010 Klaxons album Surfing the Void. It’s a must-see for people interested in the subject matter of this blog, because it has some of the most amazing conjoinment material I’ve seen on video:
Klaxons ‘Twin Flames’ from Trim Editing on Vimeo
A theme we have definitely seen before here at Erotic Mad Science.
Fusion organique
Here’s another Elvifrance cover, from it’s Série Blanche, No. 36, which is intriguing for the thaumatophile, because one has to ask, what on earth is going on here?
Are we looking at
- A conjoinment fantasy? That would seem to be one obvious reading of une fusion organique.
- A liquid girl story? Wiktionnaire gives the first definition fusion as “liquéfaction d’un corps par l’action de la chaleur” and there certainly does seem to be a bit of melting going on at the base of the illustration.
- Something A.S.F.R.-related even? Women are not normally silver or gold like that.
As for the grotesque figure looming over them, I haven’t a clue.
It gets stranger from there, because there is some evidence that whatever was beneath the cover you see above was considered too naughty even to be published in France. The index page for the cover art in the series tells us “Les n°35 et 36 sont des microtirages destinés à la commission de censure, donc jamais commercialisés.”
Which fact, of course, only makes this thaumatophile want it more.
Aesthetics of the Fly III
In the end, Seth Brundle decides he just can’t hack being a human-fly hybrid (one which is becoming more fly than human as time goes on). And there have been complications, in the form of his girlfriend Veronica getting pregnant (with what it’s not clear).
So Brundle comes up with what is clearly very much a mad science idea, which is that he is going to use his transporter to fuse himself, Veronica, and baby into a single hybrid, one which he hopes will be more human than fly.
It’s quite an audacious idea, I must say, and perhaps it’s one source of my idea of fusing Maureen Creel and Jill Keeney into a single woman named Jireen. Unfortunately for science, Veronica is no more keen on the idea of being fused with Brundle than Aloysius was with Jireen, when Jireen proposed exactly that.
It’s a close call for Veronica, though. She almost gets fused. And I must say she makes a fetching mad science almost-victim.
Not a movie that really ends well for any of its protagonists. But it’s a true classic all the same.
Conjoinment
At the end of Gnosis Dreamscapes, Aloysius attempts a Hail Mary play with the Apsinthion Protocol to try to save the lives of Jill and Maureen, both gravely wounded in their encounter with Madder’s thugs.
As so often in mad science, what happens isn’t exactly according to plan, and what results is a conjoinment of Jill and Maureen. More personal identity porn
Now with a little bit of effort you can find a fair amount of conjoinment material out there. This example is found at Gammatelier, which has a lot of this sort of thing, very fetchingly done too.
But of course this art, though perhaps appealing, isn’t quite what’s going on in Gnosis Dreamscapes. Jill and Maureen fuse completely to make a single individual, not just a sort of conjoined non-twin (or triplet, or what have you). Artistic representations of that more complete process are harder to find, probably because a single fused being looks rather a lot like just another human being.
But there is at least one fine example of a complete fusion. Back in the 1990s John Byrne , a prolific comic book artist who has worked on more superheroes than most people even know exist (website here) created a short-run series called Babe. Babe was created when five separate women were fused together through some weird process involving alien technology and arcane forces (can you hear the thaumatophiles panting?), creating a being geometrically stronger and tougher (and arguably, more comic-book outlandish) than any of the five women put together.
Eventually the situation got defused and we get to see Babe’s five component women:
Though in a later series Babe was re-created. The scene in which one of her component women vanishes to recreate Babe should have a familiar feel to readers of The Apsinthion Protocol.
I don’t think Carolyn actually melts away — panels in the previous number suggest she spontaneously dematerializes/is teleported away while showering, in a scene reminiscent of one that happens in Mars Needs Women. (If you remember that scene, or indeed anything else in Mars Needs Women, you have my sympathy.)
And as for Maureen and Jill? As the last intertitle says…to be continued.
