(I've never struggled so much before: multiple wings with crazy lighting effect? Yeah sure I can do that no problem. Smiling DT in light color outfit? Not even after seven attempts. What's wrong with me honestly)
Especially with Agatha’s excuse of “it was the 1920s!” sounds so similar to how white people respond to reparations (“It was 400 years ago! Get over it.”)
one of my favorite things about this scene is how Rio starts off her story by saying “someone” then “them” and then ends with “she is my scar” and just proceeds to fully stare at Agatha
jac schaeffer in 2021: what if I make a banging show about a false reality where the setting and costumes are different every episode and everyone thinks that agatha harkness is manipulating the whole thing but the false reality was actually created completely by accident by someone named maximoff which I will heavily hint throughout the show but it will still be a shock to everyone when it's revealed
This is an Agathario playlist that I will be writing with. Every song listed under the cut will eventually be linked to a fic written about Agatha and Rio. Any song that has a finished story will be purple and hyperlinked.
Make sure to listen to the song while reading the corresponding fic!
Thank you so, so much @enthusiasteditor for getting the hat pin line correct. I see so many people insisting that it's "do you have your hand in?" which not only doesn't make sense, it's not seeing what Crowley was meaning. For anyone who didn't quite get this scene:
TW: rape; sa mentions.
Crowley is referring to "The Hat Pin Peril" of gross men during the women's suffrage movement who tried to restrict women's ability to buy hat pins of certain length or ban them outright in different places because women were using them to fight off would-be rapists.
Mrs. Sandwich is a modern woman who didn't know enough about her own profession historically to know that "seamstress" was an 19th century era euphemism for a sex worker and, so, actually an accurate description of what Mrs. Sandwich does for a living. Mrs. Cheng, also being a modern woman, did not know this either, leading to their confusion. But the dark humor here is that when Crowley, who is not under the magic of 19th century speak but knows it all from living it, dryly speaks to Mrs. Sandwich using a term from that era related to rape and sexual assault, Mrs. Sandwich absolutely understands that Crowley is asking her if she's armed and ready.
Crowley doesn't ask Mrs. Sandwich if she has a gun or a knife, even though women who could get them have always carried those, too. He asks if she's got her hat pin, after asking her to go face the demons-that-are-also-metaphorical-inner-demons with him. This is referencing the non-consensual-possession-is-rape allegory that the show has and Crowley's story being one of survivorship. Crowley's casual reference to confronting the dangerous people outside the shop being akin to their mutual confronting of SA-related trauma is speaking about those things in a familiar way that someone wouldn't do with a person with whom they haven't discussed these topics before. It's implying that it's not just Crowley who is a survivor but also that Mrs. Sandwich is as well. It's saying that they know that one another is and that supporting one another is part of their friendship.
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