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I reread the lunar chronicles every December so I say that counts for me ☺️

Reblog and tell me about a movie/book/show that isn't Christmas-themed, but you still like to experience at Christmastime.

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Don’t really use this account but thought I would share this here too.

#snow white with the red hair #akagami no shirayukihime #zenyuki #shirayuki x zen #zen x shirayuki #fairy tales

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Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made

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Beloveds I must know: what are your top three mcr songs?

#Mama #you know what they do to guys like us in prison #kill all your friends

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Enough fairy tale collections aimed at "giving girls strong, fierce heroines that aren't damsels in distress." They all pretend that this is some rare feat that upends the fairy tale world, when anyone who has any fairy tale experience that goes beyond Disney can list of oodles of strong fairy tale heroines (and knows that those Disney fairy tale heroines are stronger than pop culture assumes). The zillions of these books already in existence prove that strong fairy tale heroines are a staple of the genre.

If fairy tales are so male-oriented, where are the fairy tale collections for boys? Giving them heroes to look up to? Showing them the virtues that lead to happy endings? It's not like Snow White's and Cinderella's princes are the focus of their supposed damsel-in-distress stories, so just handing them "traditional" fairy tales isn't enough. How about collections showing the men who go on quests to save a beloved? Who are kind to strangers and get rewards? Who are courageous, dedicated, kind, loving, and yes, strong? Give me those collections and then I'll start to be impressed by the commitment to gender equity.

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ALSOOO!!

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Part of the genius of Marissa Meyer’s adaptations of fairy tales in the Lunar Chronicles is that like Tolkien and Lewis she understands that the power and core of the fairy tale is its Images—the apple and the glass coffin, the glass slipper, the tower, the red hood and the wolf—and it is these chiefly that she adapts and deals in and uses to connect the stories, so that the fairy tales keep their power and poignancy and vibrancy and cores, and yet fit organically into their new contexts. Cinderella is contained within the glass slipper—but what is Cinderella or a glass slipper in a futuristic space tale? Meyer transforms them into a Cyborg girl and her prosthetic foot—a striking image conveying the core idea of “someone looked down upon” and something highly unusual which could only belong to her. And then! To explain “well, how did she get like this” she doesn’t just spin some Plot yarn. Instead she draws on the core point of the fairy tale AND key images of folklore and interweaves those into a plot, so that we get something real and true at its heart. Why is Cinderella Cinderella? Ashes of course! Ashes mean fire, and ashes ashes we all fall down (possibly because of plague)—and it’s those primal embedded Images she uses to make the story.  Rapunzel’s tower becomes a satellite—carrying the same connotation of somewhere confined and isolated and cut off from the world, but on a sci fi palette. Rapunzel’s visitor goes blind due to the wrath of her captor, and that is used as the driving force of the plot. The Wolf becomes a genetically engineered soldier with Wolf-ish traits implanted in them, and thus carries the same primal Threat within its sci fi context. And then she infuses elements of folklore to build up the world. We have problems of reality and illusion, carried over from fairy tales. Wolves connect, imagery wise, to the moon—a sci fi element!—which brings a whole cart of related elements into play, because the moon also means madness and reflections and change! Snow White brings with it reflections and false appearances, poisoned apples and hearts. The whole world, the story, all hinge around the fairy tale Images accurately expressed in sci fi garb, completed with fleshed out characters which inhabit both their fairy tale and sci fi world’s perfectly at once, and this is what makes it all work so well.

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me: “actually blank space is a satirical song taylor wrote to express how she was being demonized by the media and viewed as this serial dater who only wrote breakup songs and was just this embodiment of the crazy ex girlfriend stereotype which was totally sexist and dismissed her as a valid artist by putting her in a neat little one-dimensional box which is why a lot of women and girls jumped on this bandwagon of hating her for ‘no reason’ which was actually because of strong internalized misogyny”

the cashier at barnes & noble scanning my CDs: “your total is 20 dollars and 10 cents please leave”

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The best thing about unlearning internalised misogyny is that you get to be a swiftie and be completely like other girls it's just the best

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Reblog or your mom will die in 928 seconds.

I love my mom.

I am risking nothing

I AM SORRY FOLLOWERS, I LOVE MY MOMMY

Will not risk.

sorry followers :(

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so whats your top song for 2021 so far and what does it say about your mental state

#uncomfortably numb #american football #hayley williams

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If we ever get a tlc show or movie, I hope it remains mostly similar to the books, while maybe fixing some of the more apparent world building issues, like the entire Eastern Commonwealth. There are so many cinematic scenes in the book, like the wedding scene, and with a good budget it could be really amazing