The role of 124

In Beloved, the parts that happen in the books' 'present' happen around 124 Bluestone road.
So that got me thinking, how important is the house within the book?
Baby Suggs rents 124, then Sethe. Beloved is killed at 124. The boys run away from 124. Denver barely leaves 124.
So lets begin from the beginning. Baby Suggs, a recently freed slave, rents 124 for cheap as long as she helps out elsewhere from time to time. This must've been huge for her- she had property, when before she was the property and couldn't own anything. She starts leading those congregations in the woods, parties at 124, and other things within the community. 124 becomes like the central hub of the community. Then Sethe and her children arrive, there's a big party, and suddenly 124 isn't the hub of the community anymore. Suddenly, everyone hates 124. A period of what one could call "isolation" begins.
Schoolteacher and his boys arrive and Sethe tries to kill her children and gets sent to prison
- Suggs retreats into 124 and locks herself into her room
- When Sethe returns from prison, she's an outcast of the community, she spends her days at 124.
- Beloved haunts 124. No one else even know she's there.
- Denver barely leaves 124.
When Paul D arrives he kinda encourages Sethe and Denver to get out of that isolation, to get out from the confinement of 124, and it briefly works until (wowow) Beloved (or maybe its not Beloved, who knows) arrives and forces Sethe and Denver back into their isolated states within 124. Paul D fights a losing battle with Beloved until he gets mad at Sethe and leaves. At that point, Sethe and Denver become even more isolated from the community than they were before. Finally, Denver realizes something is wrong, and that if she stays in 124 they're all gonna die. Its when she leaves 124 that things get better, like if it was 124 that was holding back her potential.

Another interesting thing is that I can't recall them ever calling 124 "home". The only "home" they mention is Sweet Home, the place with so many bad memories (yet good memories too?) attached to it. Its kinda like the thing Mr. Mitchell said in class about Sethe saying "yeah its not 'home' but its the last place we were all together" type thing. Its strange to me that, after like 18 years, they still can't seem to call 124 'home'. It just has no good memories attached to it. The first 28 days are ok, but after that it goes downhill until you have a haunted baby house.

Thats about it, I just found it interesting how a the grand majority of the book revolved around 124 and sweet home

Also, do y'all think there's a reason to why Morrison named it "124 bluestone"?
I might be thinking into it a bit too much but I think it might be refering to Sethe's children: the 2 sons and Denver.

Waifus? In AALit? what

So a while back I remember Lauren's poetry discussion, where she discussed JPEGMAFIA's song "Grimy Waifu", and we had a really good discussion about it, and I especially remember the part where we were discussing these lines:
 
Uh, these bullets coming at you
Take these bullets for me, that's my grimy waifu (Hot)
They keep on dumping the tool
Take these bullets from me, that's my, ooh (Woah, huh)

I remember reading this at home and asking myself "what the heck?" and it seems like other people had that reaction too. We all kinda know what a waifu is, and it seemed really weird that it was being described as "grimy" and being told to take bullets for From him. After the class ended I was still thinking about these lyrics, and now I think it makes a bit more sense.

So, Nico, I haven't been on social media ever and have no idea what a waifu is.

Ok. So a waifu is basically a fictional female character (usually from an anime) which someone feels a connection to which someone feels really really, really, attracted to. The word itself, wife, is an English loanword to the Japanese language that began appearing in the late 1980s. The pronunciation changed, and now its being reintroduced to English in its altered form, waifu. It still means the same thing though, but now its associated to fictional characters.

But liking a fictional 2D girl is weird. How does this happen? Why do people have waifus?

Yeah its weird. It baffles me how people can actually be ok with this. However, actually crushing on fictional characters isn't impossible. 
Yeah, I didn't know either.
So it turns out that actual research has been done on stuff like this. One experiment done to compare the  interpretation  of  emotional  body  language displayed by animated characters compared to that of real actors showed that the animated body language could be accurately interpreted. From the emotions correctly interpreted, more were of sadder emotions than of happier, livelier ones. Basically- the humans could identify sadness in the animated characters better than they could happiness. idk. It is also totally possible to develop feelings for a being you made up. The human brain is... weird.
So if you're a sad person who is horrible at social interactions, ig you could see the appeal or actually manage to connect to characters who show wide ranges of emotions. that character becomes the waifu. The waifu then becomes an escape from reality of sorts.
Its strange, I know.
I guess as long as people don't take it to the extremes, its fine. Some people keep on going through life because of their waifus, and I don't think its right to shit on people for it. Ig we have to understand some people really have trouble interacting with actual people. At this point however, its become more of a meme, and people use it more for fun than because they've actually somehow crushed on a cartoon character

So what the heck does this have to do with my interpretation of these lines?
I think we all agreed that by 'waifu' he meant gun. In the past, the army framed your gun as your girl. You bring it everywhere, its with you always; while eating, while on duty, while in bed, everywhere. In thise sense you'd be creating a sort of connection to it- it's your lifeline on the front lines right? Thats a pretty deep bond. By giving it a gender from the start, the gun could become a type of waifu, if the term is used loosely.
The 'grimy' part is one that confused me more. A "waifu", given that it means wife, isnt something someone would (or should, at least) call grimy. However, given that it is a gun that has seen duty (possibly) I guess it makes sense. In the end, this section is about the bond formed between a man and his gun.