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@xenadiditfirst
I saw people complaining about the slow mo. Like bitch you crazy. This is 🔥
The slow mo cleared my complexion, cured my depression, and saved my crops; it is 🔥
I feel like my soul has been clensed and I haven’t even seen the movie yet
Wonder Woman (2017) dir. Patty Jenkins
It is our sacred duty to defend the world. And it’s what I am going to do.
Wonder Woman (2017) dir. Patty Jenkins
It’s not about what they deserve.
It’s about what you believe.
- she saved me first, you know // c.k
Wonder Woman: The Poster Gallery // promotional art by Warner Bros (2017)
Tomorrow comes the powerful amazon in her first ever feature film played by the beautiful Gal Gadot. Here’s every poster released to promote the film so far.
This is No Man’s Land. This is not something you can cross, it’s not possible.
Gabrielle’s little head shake when she looks at Xena
i’ve learned to respect life, love, and peace why? lots of reasons
Made my day :D
Alright, in Sins of the Past, there must have been a scene where a) Gabrielle convinces a Xena-in-her-suicidal-underwear to return to Poteideia with her, and b) Xena would have necessarily first dug up her leather, armor, and weapons before complying. I'm assuming all the other village girls including Lila had probably run off by this point, but still, just HOW would this extreme awkwardness have played out between our inevitable soulmates at this early stage?
Well, we know from one of the later episodes (I can’t remember exactly which one, but I feel like it was either FIN 1 or that episode where Xena and Gabrielle were in Africa, helping those tribes with the Roman invaders and Gabrielle killed the innocent boy by accident; one of those two, where Xena talks about how when she and Gabrielle first met, she felt like she had lost everything and that she just wanted to end the pain, but then Gabrielle came along and saved her. When Xena says this, Gabrielle seems very shocked to hear this, as if this was a revelation), that Gabrielle wasn’t aware that Xena was going to try and commit suicide at that point.
Knowing this, Xena probably have just kind of dug up her armor while Gabrielle stood there, jabbering on about everything that had just happened- asking who the guys were, who they served, why she had fought against them all, and a play by play of the fight that had just happened. Those kinds of things. If Gabrielle did ask about why Xena had buried her armor, at the time, Xena would have probably just ignored her (if Gabrielle asked again later, after they had officially joined as traveling companions, Xena probably would have honestly just told her that she was trying to put her past behind her while leaving out all the extra details. Burying her armor would be a symbolic gesture of that happening, if you take the suicidal ideology out of it), if we’re honest. She didn’t seem to want to really play along with Gabrielle, at the time. She wanted to be alone, and humoring someone is the best way to make them stick around.
If Gabrielle asked why Xena was digging the armor up, well, Xena has a ready made bad guy she’s going into battle against waiting down the road, and to go into that without her armor? Yeah, bad idea, especially since Xena was now playing to win.
Then there’s the scene where Gabrielle would be convincing Xena to come back to Poteideia with her. This one would be much more involved, and probably be based around the fact that Xena is just in her shift. When she buried her armor, it got dirty (pun unintended). When we see Xena getting redressed in Gabrielle’s house, that armor was spotless.
Now, imagine this: Gabrielle is standing there, staring at this warrior with dirt covered armor and weapons, and Argo’s probably wandered off somewhere at this point. The best suggestion Gabrielle would be able to make at this point would be that she holds Xena’s armor while Xena goes to get Argo. Which Xena might or might not accept. Let’s say she does accept Gabrielle’s offer, and hands over the dirt covered leather and metal while she goes to fetch her horse.
Xena comes back, and Gabrielle casually mentions that it will take hours to get her armor clean again, if she does it by herself. And dirt covered armor is going to be super uncomfortable and not as effective at protecting her if she wears it. Plus, Xena got knocked in the head, and that probably needs to be looked at. PLUS, Xena should probably come back to the village with her so everyone can thank her. PLUS, it would be more comfortable to get dressed inside a house, instead of in the woods. PLUS, Xena should come stock up on provisions. And let’s be real, Gabrielle probably just spent twenty minutes standing there talking to Xena while she looked over Argo, making sure the horse wasn’t injured and putting her saddle and saddlebags back on.
That entire time, Xena’s trying not to smile, and she’s just glad that her back is towards Gabrielle, because this girl knows who she is and just doesn’t seem to care. It’s a bit annoying, yes, because all Xena wants is to be alone, and this yappy young woman just won’t shut up and go away, but it’s cute, too. And Gabrielle isn’t scared, just talking to her as if she’s in awe, and it’s almost adorable. It really is.
So by the time Xena’s finished taking care of Argo, she’s gotten more than an earful from Gabrielle, and the only way to get the girl to finally go home is by agreeing to go with her.
So I don’t think it would be too awkward at the time, mainly because the knowledge of Xena’s plans for suicide are unknown. It would be annoyed fuzzy feelings on Xena’s side, complete awe on Gabrielle’s, and more talking from Gabrielle then they can show on the show.
How Does Your Favorite Star Trek Series Fare on the Bechdel Test?
Do you know what is frighteningly telling in that chart… The most recently made of those series Enterprise has the worst showing since the highly sexist original. This is something that is a definite trend in television these days, even when the leads of the shows are women they are too often relegated to the old tropes of being there to provide inspiration or support for a male or the whole point of their character is to find their fulfillment in finding a man.
It’s fucking sickening the backwards steps in female representation that television and film have taken in the past decade.
Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.
Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.
Isaac Asimov.
yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point
If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels
Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it
even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?
PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame
And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.
Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:
Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.
Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.
You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.
Got that?
Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it
I have literally been telling people this for over a year.
the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman
The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).
The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.
Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…
