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@theangelwithawand
Hello and welcome to my tumblr! I post about the following fandoms:
- Star Wars
- Good Omens
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Doctor Who (I am most familiar with series 1-4)
- How to Train Your Dragon
- Shakespeare
- The Last of Us
- More to be added
I love talking about media critically, so feel free to comment on my posts, send me a meta question or fic prompt for any of the above fandoms and I’ll try my best to respond!
I really love that the big twist in phm is that Grace didn't choose to go on the mission. I think it's really interesting from a thematic standpoint; all the stuff about sacrifice and free will and what it means to be a coward or a hero or maybe just a human. I also think it's just skillfully done. Grace's amnesia, which should be suspicious, serves a really important narrative function- it allows him, the expert, to learn information in a way that basically forces him to explain it to the audience. Hypothetically, if he did volunteer for the mission and then woke up with all his memories, it would be much more difficult to explain the situation and the world building in a way that feels natural. Flashbacks and recovered memories are a great way to have a character acquire new skills or information to progress the story without having other people to interact with, and without having to build knowledge up from zero. Grace still gets to be ridiculously smart and skilled, but he doesn't start off the story already at maximum capability. So the amnesia makes perfect narrative sense, and there are so many in-universe reasons for it to be natural that your brain probably isn't going to jump to conclusions of foul play.
But the thing that I find the most interesting is the way that this information doesn't actually change anything. Grace has known this whole time that a stranger put him on that spaceship, he just thought that the stranger was himself. He has no memory of deciding to get on the Hail Mary, he starts out with no memories at all. He doesn't know who he is or who he was, so is he really the same person at all? The Grace that wakes up in space did not make the decision to be there, he did not make the decision to sacrifice himself, even if he had actually volunteered. And as he remembered more of himself, became more of himself, I think he was expecting to start recognizing that stranger. I think he thought that eventually he would remember making the choice to sacrifice himself for his planet and suddenly be that hero again. He wouldn't be so scared or confused, because that's who he was, really, a hero, he just couldn't remember quite yet. And then it turns out that he was never going to be the man who volunteered to save the world, because that man never existed. A stranger put him on that spaceship, and that stranger was Eva Stratt not Ryland Grace.
And coming to terms with that, with who he is and was, how he was betrayed, and why it even matters, doesn't actually change anything. Grace still has to save the world, he still has to do the work, he still has to rescue Rocky. A stranger put him on that spaceship, but he knew that since the beginning. There was still work to be done.
Being critical of your interests is sooooo fun when you have the critic gene & then you sound kind of insane to the average tv watcher when you're like "this is my favorite show, It's Racist" & then you try to clarify what you mean & get that [Speech (legendary) - FAILURE] "the racism is really interesting though"
[Speech (legendary) - SUCCESS] I find the sociopolitical context of pulpy old sci-fi born circa the civil rights movement really fascinating to analyze especially when it was progressive for its time but still reveals the writers' unexamined biases in the subtext
Them: So you're saying its bad and I shouldn't watch it?
Me: I mean depends on your tolerance for this type of racism, but like I said it's my favourite show, it def has some great parts if you're up for it.
Them: Oh so it's not racist.
Me: It absolutely is.
Them: So you're saying racism is ok??
Me: No.
Spoilers for Enola Holmes 3:
You know, I would also be freaking out/getting cold feet if my fiancée’s godfather embarrassed me in front of dozens of people and my fiancée didn’t stick up for me. I really wish they’d brought that up and Tewksbury owes Enola an apology and some understanding. And what do you mean you noticed she was hesitant for weeks? That’s something you bring up BEFORE 200 people get on a ship to Malta. It felt very ooc for him especially since they were both fairly good communicators by the end of movie 2.
Also, why is he giving up his title exactly? Because his father committed war crimes? You could just…do something good with your title and money instead? That was his entire motivation in the first and second films. And it’s not like he didn’t know his family had blood on its hands. His father was killed by his grandmother (who also tried to kill him) for being a liberal. Also Enola works for free so…enjoy having no money.
Plus, wouldn’t Tewkesbury would just be his surname not just the viscounty title?
Also, I really don’t understand what exactly Moriarty’s plans or motivations were? Like she judges everyone for being related to/profiting from the effects of colonialism. But she is also mad that she doesn’t…benefit from corruption? Like she’s right to be mad, but she kidnaps and murders people who aren’t really responsible for anything. The Holmes family are only sort of noble. Mycroft doesn’t have a title and if he does it’s seemingly very minot. Both Enola and Sherlock are working class. They had an estate that hasn’t been seen since the first film but it was never mentioned again. Eudoria mentions having been a lady but isn’t anymore.
The mystery was harder to follow than the previous films as well. Who were the two people that Moriarty killed? Why was she broken out? What happened to the people that broke her out? Why exactly did Enola lead Moriarty to the gold? I thought it was to draw her out, but then they raised the possibility of her ALREADY being in the cave. But if she knew about it then why orchestrate all of this to begin with?
I liked the costumes except for Enola’s actual wedding dress, because what on Earth was that doing in a period film?
I know the Enola Holmes films use flashbacks and non-linear storytelling but the first third of the movie, especially the lead-up/direct aftermath of the failed wedding were rushed and clunky. Also why
TBH, my fav scenes were the cutesy Enola and Tewkey scenes, and the ones with Watson/Sherlock and Watson/Tewkey.
before the toxic season three polin fans start blabbering about benedict’s mistress offer to sophie and comparing his confession to colin’s (they’re already buzzing on twitter regarding the difference between colin’s proposal and benedict’s) *biggest eye roll*
sophie baek is a maid. that distinction is not cosmetic, it is the foundation of her entire story. comparing her to penelope ignores the central class divide that defines benedict and sophie’s relationship. penelope is from a reputable family. she is a known, present member of the ton. she is a debutante. ON TOP OF THAT ELOISE’S DEAR BEST FRIEND because of that, colin can bring her through the front door of bridgerton house without any bloody hesitation. he can present her directly to his mother. and violet, the family, and society can accept that union with joy and pride. their love fits within the rules of the world they live in. its two privileged people coming together.
benedict and sophie do not get that luxury. benedict cannot bring sophie through the front door. that is not a minor obstacle, it is the entire point of their story. sophie’s class is mountains lower than the bridgertons, and the ton will never accept her as his equal. their union will be whispered about, shamed, and resisted at every turn. loving sophie is not socially safe for benedict; it is a risk, a defiance, and a dream he is not supposed to be allowed. where colin’s love is sanctioned by society, benedict’s is fundamentally transgressive. penelope’s story is about being seen within the system. sophie’s is about surviving outside of it. collapsing those two dynamics flattens the stakes and erases what makes benedict and sophie tragic, radical, and powerful.
benedict is an aristocrat. his family is close to lady danbury who’s the queen’s closest confidant, his brother is a viscount, one sister is a duchess, another a countess, his sister in law is THE lady whistledown who controls the entire ton, to sophie, benedict is untouchable, an impossible dream. he feels unreal to her, like someone she should never even look at too closely. he’s almost like a prince in her eyes, and the idea of being involved with him any deeper terrifies her.
their love is not meant to be easy, public, or instantly accepted. it is meant to be impossible and defy the traditional society rules.
Oh, how I love to see it. Keep booing.
extremely interesting take on why so many women are incredibly upset by franchaela in s5 of bridgerton by tzeyikoay on tiktok
Ooh. This is SO GEN X.... hopefully some of you younger ones will get it too.
I can't believe they left out the most important one...
Things We're Never Gonna Do:
Somebody compared this cute Sophie moment to this meme and now I can't unsee it.
Crucial to understanding the gender politics of Dracula is that when the men exclude Mina to protect her they are WRONG. They are manifestly wrong according to the text and it isn't ambiguous. Jonathan dislikes hiding things from Mina. It isn't natural to their relationship, which has always been one of equal partners. Mina hates it and is distressed by it. Once again Van Helsing and Jack are smugly sure it's the right thing to do, having learned nothing from Lucy's fate.
Everyone is all "I suppose we must play our gender roles as god intended" but the narrative lets us know this is a bad idea because it almost dooms them all. Dracula gets to Mina because they shut her out, even after it was her studiousness and thoughtfulness that brought them well over half the vital information they have. And they would not have defeated him without her. If he had killed her before they realized what he was doing, they would all have been doomed. They were a hair's breadth from losing everything due to their insistence on treating Mina like a helpless baby for just a few days. As it was, they lost plenty for taking so long to cut it the fuck out.
in dracula there is a cowboy and the female lead lives. in nosferatu there is no cowboy and the female lead dies. ergo, the existence of a cowboy is highly important for the survival of the female lead in a gothic vampire story.
It's so funny to me that Mary Shelley, her husband, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story and she wrote fucking Frankenstein. Imagine losing a competition that badly. Imagine just doing a silly little competition with your friend and she basically invents a new genre and creates one of the most famous characters in fiction. Imagine being proud of your little story and then she shares one that people will still read every day in 200 years. Imagine doing a writing competition with your wife and she becomes so recognizable that you'll always be known as Mary Shelley's husband
The "Block AI Enhancements" toggle was originally introduced in Firefox 148 Nightly in January following significant community backlash afte
The Firefox "AI kill switch" is here.
Go to Settings > AI controls. There, you can toggle the "master kill switch" on to fully block all the features, which means two things:
you won't see them,
you can't even be asked about them.
The default state is, like before, "available". This means the features are NOT on by default (they never were), but Firefox will let you know about them where they exist (e.g. when you create your first tab group) so that you can choose to opt in.
Please note that Firefox for Android or iOS have never included AI features, so you won't see these settings on your smartphones or tablets.
Please also note that, unlike popular belief here on Tumblr, besides "chatbot in sidebar" (which is simply embedding the same page you'd have normally browsed to), none of these features have ever interacted with anything outside your PC, because they download a small model to your computer, to do everything locally. These small models have never been and are not downloaded until you explicitly agree to turn on one of the features.
You know what I fucking eat up every time? The thing where one character is an optimist and the other is a pessimist, and something happens that just, snuffs the hope right out of the optimist, and the pessimist has to desperately try to do what the other has always done for them, cheer them up. I live for that shit omg.
For those of you who don't know!
We're doing a Tumblr blackout protest for 24 hours on the 26!
Protesting shapes AI
(I hate this idea bc my partners are on here but it needs to be done!)
And Block @SHAPESINC
Could someone please explain to me why Liberty’s Kids, the low-budget PBS Kids cartoon from 2002, has a more compelling and interesting version of Benedict Arnold and his betrayal then TURN, the prestige TV drama?
TURN is serialized, gives Arnold so much more screen time, and the best they could do was make him Gaston but worse?
Meanwhile, Liberty’s Kids is generally episodic in nature, with 20 minutes episodes and has to condense timelines to tell the story for younger children to understand. Benedict Arnold is in five(?) episodes, and in all but the one centered on his actual betrayal, he isn’t even the focus of the episode. Yet, I still UNDERSTAND the psychology of this version of Arnold and find him genuinely compelling. It makes way more sense that people put up with THIS version of Arnold, who hides the true depths of his own ambition under a desire for honor. Even he brushes aside the fact that he’s betraying his soldiers for money and ambition, that’s how thoroughly he has convinced himself that his actions stem from a sense of honor. I mean yes, he’s voiced by Dustin Hoffman (who apparently specifically asked to play Arnold after being offered the role of Washington) so you’re already at a huge advantage. But still.
Though, I will concede that TURN does have superior versions of Peggy Shippen and John Andre. Mostly because they’re allowed to be characters not cameos, but Andre in particular is weirdly super incompetent and annoying in Liberty’s Kids.
