- devy. she/her. january capricorn. infp. Indian american. writer of stories & singer of songs. proud member of the fitz vacker defense squad.
- main obsessions: kotlc, the chronicles of narnia, the hunger games universe, a study in drowning, the priory of the orange tree, little women, & olivia rodrigo
- daily clicks for palestine
Living in a conservative part of a blue state and watching tv during an election year is really trippy because nationally people are like oh youâre all liberals over there you donât know what itâs like living in a conservative area but then the local attack ads are like my opponent wants to be NICE to ILLEGALS and the RADICAL TRANS AGENDA and BURN DOWN POLICE STATIONS. You should vote for ME. I will SHOOT immigrants PERSONALLY in THE STREET. I am a former NAVY SEAL. BARK BARK.
I own this book and itâs about 600 pages and itâs ALL this good. You can play as hamlet, Ophelia, or hamlet sr, who is a ghost. You can murder everyone in the play. You can fire yourself out of a cannon and use your uncle as a skateboard. There are dozens of endings and places where you can diverge from canon and do something wacky instead. 10/10 would recommend
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call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support
and you could say that what iâm saying here is basically âa lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysisâ but letâs be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think thatâs where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyoneâs opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think itâs fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the pieceâs in-fiction and real world contexts?
Infinitely annoyed by the treatment of Oralie, "oh but Empaths minds' break easier-" Then why are we letting Keefe do ANYTHING? He's an Empath. And also a baby in comparison. She is a grown ass woman. She is hundreds of years old. SHUT THE FUCK UP
i can't properly articulate this right now, but phillip crane could be the sweetest, most understanding and intellectually interesting man on earth, and it would still be a defeat.
"but what if they truly love each other- " no. eloise would still be conforming to those rules she was rightfully seeking to escape.
no matter how unconventional - not too much, obviously - they would try to make their relationship, how supportive phillip would be of her intellectual pursuits. in the end, eloise would still become the wife to a lord from the ton, conforming the way society has always wanted her to.
it would turn out eloise didn't actually know what she wanted, she just had to 'find the right gentleman' who would Allow Her to study and talk as much as she likes, safe within the limits of the golden cage that had always suffcated her - but that, really, she just had to learn to love.
i cannot overstate how much this is, like, the opposite of whatever girls supporting girls stuff bridgerton claims to be about.
legacy trying to make sophie foster, the moonlark with five powerful, rare, coveted abilities, a victim of the matchmaking system is giving âtransphobia is bad because it harms cis women too!!!!â like please be so for real right now. can. can we get back to the people the matchmaking system was designed to harm
i think my main issue with âfeminist retellingsâ is that they always tend to fall in the same bio-essentialist narrative that women are inherently good. the women whose stories they claim to finally be telling still donât have any agency of their own and are still moved around by the events (and men) of the story instead of doing any of the moving themselves. and, honestly, i think painting a woman as a person incapable of ever doing wrong is just as misogynistic as painting her as a wholly evil witch.
tldr: let your female characters be horrible people 2025
wait and id love to hear your thoughts about my favorite shakespeare character, the one and only lady macbeth
hey sadie!!!!!!!!!! <33
I think I've mentioned this to you before, but I had to do this excruciating video project for macbeth in AP lit, which low-key ruined the play for me :CCCC (I am SORRY I was devastated because I knew you loved it) BUT don't worry, all is not lost. Positive opinions are coming. The reason I couldn't wrap my head around it initially was because I wasn't convinced by anyone's motivations. I was super intrigued by the idea of this female, power-hungry villain character, and I genuinely really appreciated the fact that she existed, because female characters were generally never allowed to be so ambitious and so, so flawed. So yes I have always known that the world needed her in it, and been very grateful for her existence <3
my thing was that I couldn't fully appreciate it bc it felt like Shakespeare was trying to tell us that a woman becomes evil when she attempts to act like a man (Act I "unsex me" monologue and whatnot). [in retrospect, I can def appreciate this more if I interpret it as social commentary]
When I first read the play I just wanted the entire cast of characters to feel more HUMAN. Only because I feel like we got glimpses of this humanity and they were so BEAUTIFUL! the one that comes to mind is the scene between Lady Macduff, her son and a murderer. Another is of course Lady Macbeth's: "I have given suck, and know how tender tis to love the babe that milks me." I read that and immediately wanted more. like wdym they had a child/children??? what happened??? why is she the way that she is??? and then we just...didn't get anything more :/
the same thing with the macduff family. I would've loved them sm more if I didn't detest the way that shakespeare pulled off his no-man-born-of-a-woman-can-kill-me plotline with macduff being a c-section baby. my opinion was definitely influenced by my lit teacher, who said "Tolkien did it better" (don't know if you've read/watched LOTR, but there's basically a prophecy saying that no man can slay the witch king of angmar, and then a woman kills him).so yeah !! tolkien ate way too hard with that I fear. in a better world, lady macduff would've killed macbeth and acted as a direct foil to lady macbeth but alas! it wasn't meant to be [don't take this tangent too seriously, this is mostly wishful thinking lmao]
but !!! this was a few months ago, and things have changed since then. I haven't been able to stop wondering about the Macbeth baby/babies, and how vastly different the play becomes in my mind when I let the narrative have more sympathy towards lady Macbeth. because maybe shakespeare's intentions about painting her has a villain because she wasn't "like a woman" don't matter, or maybe that was the point. I can't go as far as to say it was social commentary on period-typical norms, because I don't know that for a fact. anyway, all that matters it this: I love a lady Macbeth who's allowed to be a person, not just an unmotivated caricature. when the production allows itself to focus on parental grief, I actually LOVEEE it (and lady macbeth)!!!! tbh, I might be an idiot because i've recently seen people online saying that they always assumed it was about grief, but in my defense our teacher sped over this unit so quickly; we were too busy speed-reading to digest unfortunately
but SADIE. if you haven't already, you need to read this post I found about a production of Macbeth in which their child died immediately before the beginning of the play. it literally begins with the funeral and it changes the tone of the entire story. I love it sm; nothing is interesting to me unless it's about love, or a poignant lack thereof. it really got me thinking about the importance of directing and actors' interpretations, not to mention the effects of grief, depression, mania, etc.
in short, i LOVE it when productions tell me why lady macbeth is the way that she is !!!
also not sure if you've read this, but ava reid wrote a novel, Lady Macbeth, that i've been meaning to read!! I was obsessed with a study in drowning by her :))
i read something so so fascinating about hamlet and particularly opheliaâs role in it a while back (when working on my ophelia & abortion paper) which is, summarily, that ophelia does not obey the âexpectedâ behavior of a love interest as typical for early modern drama at this time, including in shakespeareâs own works. simply put? she denies her own desires and obeys her father. this was not the case for virtually every other early modern women âlove interestâ! (scare quotes because ophelia is far far more than a love interest, but it is one of her many roles in the play.) women in early modern drama did not obey their fathers, they chased after/worked hand in hand with their beloveds. juliet is an obvious and probably the most well-known example, but desdemona also defies her fatherâs preferences to marry othello, bianca defies baptisa, etc. and so it is deeply fascinating that, at least on one level, ophelia chooses to obey her fatherâs wishes and thus denies her own desire to be with hamlet. (and the fact that ophelia even âhelpsâ her father investigate hamlet was even more a distortion of the aforementioned early modern theatrical tropeâdaughters helping their fathers against their beloveds simply was not done.)
which of course creates a fascinating parallel: ophelia does not fulfill her desire just as hamlet does not fulfill his revenge. these characters are defined by what they do not do throughout the play. from this alone, it is easy to argue that hamlet and ophelia are the most clearly defined foils in all of hamlet, but the reasons go on and onâthey are the only two characters who experience madness, they both prioritize obedience to their fathers above all, ophelia is the only character to verbally match hamletâs wit, etc.
It's amazing how I read a Shakespeare play and I'm like sure I guess this is kinda clever but then I see one performed by a cast who really get it and ohhhh fuck. Holy fucking fuck. Yeah ok this really is That Good. I see why Shakespeare is such a big deal even today. Fuck.
yk when i was reading legacy and i saw sophie avoiding fitz's calls, never reaching out to talk to him, never reciprocating giving presents or appreaciating the presents he gives for more than two sentences, i was actually really happy. bc it showed that she was, in fact, a VERY BAD girlfriend, which is to be expected from an extremely traumatized child soldier. i was happy because i thought, 'wow they're definitely gonna address sophie's avoidant attachment when sophitz finally break up...right?'
INSTEAD, the sophitz breakup was entirely fitz's fault actually because he wouldn't instantly consign himself to a major fall from grace, a life of scrutiny and being the black sheep of his family, for a girl that avoids him literally all the time!! like it is ridiculous how easy sophie got off after the breakup. like biana doesn't confront her? at the end of legacy, fitz is actually not angry at all at her?? WHAT???
susan's horn becoming this great magical thing of legend that summons, essentially, narnia's saints back to it after a thousand years is crazy for many reasons but perhaps most of all because it didn't bring some mythic higher power or legendary hero when susan blew it the first time she needed help. no. it brought her big brother.
happy shakespeare day! here's a thought about shakespeare
i sometimes can't tell if hamlet's feigning insanity or actually genuinely distressed. like what is up with this guy
UGH YES hamlet my beloved and beloathed !!! i first got into hamlet after watching Ophelia (2019) and that version of hamlet was so, so incredibly purposeful. he was deeply in love with ophelia the entire time and itâs soooo oughhh
actually this post perfectly encapsulates the way i prefer actors to portray hamlet the character
and i adore this tumblr userâs interpretation of ophelia
it was lovely to meet you <33 and thank you for the ask!
