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I think it's possible that when team cockroach arrives to the good place they're going to need to reform THAT too. Those people seemed completely out of touch with humanity and that could create its own issues (as in like, "THIS is supposed to be paradise??").
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I really liked the Pied Piper story in this week’s DC’s Crimes of Passion. I don’t know much about the character other than some team appearances, and I was wondering what would be a good place to start reading about him. any suggestions?
TVD meme (season one): one vampire - Isobel Flemming
“Mulder was right in the end.”
if I were to ship Elizabeth with anyone other than Will, it’d be Barbossa, not Jack. he served his purpose in the original trilogy, I won’t deny that, but I never have and never will get the hype.
meanwhile, Barbossa is the cursed, morally dubious monstrous man that locks her in his castle ship, feeds her, bonds with her in strange ways. I’m a Gothic Romance fan through and through, and I find that dynamic extremely appealing.
this has the side effect of making that scene where Will thinks for a second that Elizabeth is picking Barbossa all the more hilarious.
TVD meme (season one): two one quotes
“It’s not a competition, Caroline.” “Yeah. It is.”
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I’m crossposting some of my (femslash-adjacent) DW posts from last weeks. This one is about some of my opinions on The Witcher.
-First, I'll say that I wish the Game of Thrones comparisons stopped, ESPECIALLY the Daenerys-Yennefer comparisons; I just don't see it. They’re both fantasy sagas. They both rely on one or two similar “period” markers and fantasy conventions. They’re not particularly alike. And I’m saying this as someone who still likes GOT, and who enjoyed this show quite a lot too.
-My absolute favorites are Yennefer and Tissaia. Together and separate. Yennefer’s anger feels so real and tangible, I admire the hell out of Tissaia (the moment where she said "we must risk not only our lives but our pride" my heart grew three sizes), and their relationship is fascinating from beginning to end. I love messed up mentorships and femslash, so I fully expected to like them, but damn. And I love the rest of the mages too, including the evil ones. They’re the most interesting part of the show; among other things, I like that they’re the exception to the show’s thesis of “powerful creatures are the marginalized ones”, which is a trope I feel ambivalent towards, if I’m honest (I do like that Yennefer’s elven heritage is the cause of her physical problems, instead of something that made her “inhumanly” beautiful).
-Here I returned to my “always the wrong ship” tradition: other than Yennaia, my favorite ship was Geralt/Renfri LMAO. What can I say, I loved Renfri in the pilot, and I like how affected by her Geralt is even decades later.
-Not that I dislike Geralt/Yennefer. I tend to think lead couples are “alright”, in various degrees, and rarely get to OTP/NOTP stages (or, probably more accurately: if I dislike the major ship I’m less likely to stick with a long show). But yeah, I liked them. They had good moments and their evolution as the story goes could be interesting.
-Another great character was queen Calanthe. She’s an absolute tyrant and I love her. My warrior queen, with practical armor and realistic blood splatters. I can’t decide if I’m more attracted to her or to Tissaia. Hmm.
-I liked Geralt himself more than I expected. He just has very hashtag relatable moments (like deciding his solution for insomnia would be asking a potentially dangerous djinn for a wish LOL).
-Jaskier might be one of the most annoying comic relief characters I’ve encountered in years. At least he’s not overused.
-Ciri is there. I can’t say I care much about her, at least not yet. Her storyline felt all over the place. I look forward to seeing her and Yennefer interact; I think I’ll like that.
-I follow a book reader on tumblr and I feel I’m spoiled for the biggest developments and plot twists in the saga LMAO. It doesn’t ruin anything for me, on the contrary. Now I’m actively rooting for the show to go on, if only to enjoy the drama xDD
I don't really like that trend of arguing that there was some "original version" of Persephone's myth where she chose to stay in the Underworld herself, and that this means the story was feminist all along. First of all, as other people had pointed out, there's no such thing as an "original version" when it comes to most myths and folklore: the written sources we can get our hands on now compiled oral stories, told over and over and over. And either way, this couldn't be more obviously a modernized version of the story, one designed to do away with the uncomfortable bits to freely enjoy the rest. And though I have nothing against that, and think it could be a nice choice for a retelling, I do want to hear about those uncomfortable bits. When she became Hades' wife, she gained something and she lost something. How did Persephone cope with it all? How did she feel when she got to leave for six months, and did those feelings change over time? Did she come to terms with how the relationship started, or did she never forgive him? Was it something that poisoned the marriage even if she later genuinely fell in love with him? Those are all questions that have always fascinated me about this myth, and the "ACTUALLY, it was her choice all along!!", when they eliminate them, they tell a different story. Not a bad one, or an uninteresting one, at all; but not what, to me, it's Persephone's story, if that makes sense. On top of that, those feminist revisions raise the question of whether it's better to implement changes that erase the original problems, or tell a story addressing those horrors, but that's a whole other topic.
(originally posted in dreamwidth over here)
I watched Ready or Not this weekend, and had a few things to say about it. Spoilers under the cut (I know the film came out last summer, but I prefer to watch things as unspoiled as possible, so I'll extend the same courtesy). I also mention some of the gory bits and deaths in the film, btw. Originally posted to my dreamwidth over here.
I guess I have mixed feelings about the ending. On the one hand yes, it was cathartic (which is my number one wish when I watch a horror film). Besides, if the demon (the Devil) had appeared for more than two seconds, or interacted more with Grace, I’d probably be writing fic right now. As it is, I ship them a little bit anyway (that blink-and-you-miss-it acknowledgment of respect).
On the other hand, I’m not sure I like the confirmation of the family’s beliefs. If you haven’t watched the film, the premise is this: when someone new marries into the (disgustingly rich) family, they have to pick a card out of a box that, according to legend, a mysterious creature (the demon) gave to an ancestor. There was a secret pact where the family would thrive, and if the card picked was “Hide and Seek”, out of all the possible games, the family had to kill the bride/groom in a ritual before sunrise. Or the demon would kill them all.
In the end, Grace makes it past sunrise by the skin of her teeth, and then everyone in the family that remained blew up. Literally. A couple of kids included, though that happens conveniently out of sight. Of course, I was rooting for all of them to die, duh. I liked Grace a lot, even more than I expected (I just love a good “rags to riches” story. And I felt so bad for her when she talked about how she was happy to marry into the family because as a former foster kid she wanted a place and people to belong with, knowing what would happen next). But I don’t know. I wanted karma to get to them some other way.
I almost never argue for stories to have LESS supernatural elements, and this is the second one in the last few years lol (if anyone’s curious, the other one was the DCEU’s Wonder Woman. I found the final fight so, so underwhelming, and out of place with the rest of the film). I’m conflicted.
Like I said, my favorite part of the film was the protagonist, Grace, the bride. The actress has a natural charm that made it really easy to immediately root for her. I loved how absolutely feral she looked by the end, when she avoided the sacrificed and pointed a knife to the rest, grunting like an animal. And even through my aforementioned mixed feelings, I loved how she started laughing with glee when the family started dying around her.
In what’s probably an unpopular opinion, I liked the groom, and his relationship with Grace (in case anyone hasn’t noticed: yes, I only retained Grace’s name. I’m terrible with names). Most people seem to lean towards Grace/her brother-in-law, and I can see why (he’s conflicted about the sacrifice and ends up killed by his own wife trying to protect Grace).
But yeah, I preferred the storyline with the groom. He had tried to help Grace from the beginning, first by trying to dissuade her from the wedding, then trying to get her out of the house. Until the very end, as he finds his dying brother (and assumes, reasonably, Grace did it), and sees Grace killing his mother. Given genre conventions, I would’ve been more surprised if he didn’t make a face-heel turn (he’s Bluebeard, in a sense), but I found his pretty relatable. He’d tried to escape the family (the cult), but he was still tied to them, through love and through brainwashing. Ultimately, I rooted for Grace to beat them all, so good riddance, but that doesn’t mean I don’t find his side of things compelling.
Overall, I liked it, even if the resolution fell a little flat with me. And I loved the last shot: Grace sitting in the front stairs, the house in flames behind her, covered in blood and completely disheveled in the remains of her wedding dress. She lights up a cigarette from her mother-in-law’s stash, and when someone off-screen (a cop, or another type of first responder) asks her what happened to her, she looks at the horizon and replies “in-laws”.
She DID marry into the family before all that bullshit happened, so I like to imagine she gets to keep their riches hehe.
