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I don’t really know what I was expecting from the 2022 Persuasion trailer. I was just excited for another period piece to watch, another JANE AUSTEN period piece to watch. Teaser photos looked really promising, and then, June 14th happened. What even was that trailer. I have one main point I want to comment on, however I think there is a small thing that kind of shocked me. I don’t want to accuse this Persuasion of copying Emma (2020). BUT. BUT. BUT. The cinematography, comedic timing, Anne Elliot’s father’s costuming, and the home’s colors look STRICKINLY similar to Autumn de Wilde’s Emma. Furthermore, why does the hair and makeup in this movie look so modern? Seriously? AND THE COSTUMES? WE CAN HAVE INTERESTING REGENCY COSTUMING. THAT’S NOT IMPOSSIBLE. What I really am truly upset about is the horrendous use of the fourth wall break in a AUSTEN PIECE. Jane Austen novels are chalk full of stolen glances, minimal skin to skin contact, repression of true feelings, all this being shown on screen silently, without words. Allowing those moments to speak for themselves. So much of these stories are told through body language so the reader/ viewer can truly understand what these heroines are going through. To add a fourth wall break for a character who is very sincere and repressed by not only her surroundings but herself, and tell the audience everything is completely insane for a Austen adaptation. It goes against so much of what Austen is, and if that’s what they’re going for, fine. But I am not going in with high expectations. 

#jane austen #persuasion 2022 #period pieces #period dramas #costuming #regency #james i'm so upset you have no idea

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shout out to my two friends on tumblr who tag me in posts and i get to find them like their little treasures all for little old me. like little washed up messages in bottles that i find at my feet. to put it romantically. 

#this is about you james this is about you eizen

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(SPOILERS FOR KING’S TIDE AND A MAJORITY OF THE OWL HOUSE AS A WHOLE) 

I’ve been tracking and following along with The Owl House since it started airing, which is crazy for me to think about. But I never considered myself a fan until season 2. In all frankness, I felt as though too many things in season 1 acted as filler. Which I understand that a lot of it was to establish the world, I know. But personally, season 1 wasn’t my thing. I was expecting season 2 to be in a similar vain. I was pleasantly surprised to be contradicted of that. Anyways, long story short, I’m a huge fan of the show now, all the characters growing on me in their own way. And I wanted to comment on the season 2 finale. It was emotional, it held the weight of the build up very well, but I wanted to talk about something that’s hit me. I’m sure everyone already got this and took note of it, but I think my mind was focusing on other things the season was offering. Luz was desperately adamant to not leave Eda behind, she refused to go through the portal with her friends back to the human realm without Eda. King sacrificed himself so Luz could be safe in her own realm again. That being one of Luz’s worst fears. She knew if she went back to her realm, she would lose all the friends she made, and it hit me. All her friends. Her family. Everyone. Her mother is the only person she has back home. It all made sense now. Why Luz was doing so much with her friends now, why she was making sure she could keep her friends safe, why she couldn’t leave without Eda. She has nothing back in the human realm besides her mom. No friends, just a school that belittles her, and loneliness. I think this makes it all the more devastatingly painful. That is what makes the found family trope so sad. I think part of me didn’t understand why she was so angry with Eda when she tried to send her away with Raine. I think I was focusing on Luz’s anger when she was interpreting Eda’s protectiveness as thinking she was too weak. But I think I see the whole picture now. Luz doesn’t want to lose the very fabric of her being. The whole reason she can be who she wants to be. Luz can’t even bear the mere thought of being ripped away from the people who make her happy to be who she is, being ripped away from the people she loves, love that she has never experienced before. I knew if she goes back to the human world, she won’t have her friends from the Boiling Isles anymore. I get that. But I think it’s when I realized, it was more than that. Again, Luz losing the most pure and bombastic kind of love she has never known. Her first girlfriend, people that understand her. A surrogate mother. A little brother. A found family. It’s achingly tragic, because I think of it’s reality that it holds for a lot of people. I don’t know, I’m just very scared how everything is going to be wrapped up and fixed, because I too, can’t bear the idea of these characters being separated. The very idea of Luz having nothing is enough to break an entire fandom. 

#the owl house #luz #season 2 #that episode broke me #the owl house eda #eda clawthorne #crying #disney you foul beast

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(POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS KIND OF)

I think many Marvel fans need to brush off the assumption that Wanda fans only like her because of her ungodly amount of power. And the whole notion of calling Wanda a “girlboss.” Of course, there isn’t anything wrong with liking Wanda for her power. I mean, her powers are what drew me to her. But I believe there is something deeper about Wanda that many of us seem to come back to. The more I think about it, the more I realize that I love Wanda, and many others do too, because of the intense level of emotions she has been allowed to feel. Thinking about it, we live in an age where we are trying to break away from the cool, crime fighting, never has a lack of witty comebacks female protagonists in superhero stories. Even though we seem to still fall into the pit, Marvel specifically seems to be attempting to move past that. Even if those characters are fun to watch on screen. Wanda was the first female superhero character that I ever saw break down. Truly break down, all the way back in Age of Ultron. Seeing her grieve, slightly, in Civil War, then see her lose even more in Infinity War, and bits more of her grief in Endgame, but it wasn’t until Wandavision that really took her large emotions to the next level. Wanda seems to be in an eternal state of grief and suffering, which isn’t something I agree with, considering what the writers of done with her grief. Turning her into a villain with lifeless dialogue and unrealistic motives and actions. But I haven’t really turned away from her as a character. Going back to Wandavision, we see all her unprocessed grief and how she never really moved from her grief to mourning to acceptance. There was always something else she felt she could do to have people in her life. She knew to a certain extent what her powers could do. I loved her storyline of being in a constant state of denial about losing Vision. How Westview was a literal manifestation of her denial. How the series seemed to try and serve as a way for her to close that part of her story, to allow her to come into her own as a character and work past her grief. How healing from loss is not linear. How healing takes time. She cried, she threatened, she was never “herself.” I put quotes around that because, what really is “herself”? This is where I want to unearth my grudge and issues I have with Marvel regarding Wanda. If you were to look at me and ask, “Describe Wanda Maximoff to me. What’s she like?” I don’t think I could tell you. It makes me beyond happy to have her grieve and actually feel such intense emotions, because I feel such intense emotions. And yet, Marvel has taken her grief and made that her entire character. She’s the character who’s always suffering, she’s the character who lost everything, she’s the character destined to destroy the world. Where did it all go wrong? I fear that if she ever is given the healing she should get, will she be whittled down to nothing more than a cool, comeback filled superhero? It feels like the writers are afraid to let her move on. That a woman with large, intense, big emotions can only have just that. Women should be allowed to move on, especially Wanda. The bottom line is, I love Wanda, I love she gets to have really intense emotions, but this can’t be the end all be all for her as a character. 

#wanda maximoff #marvel #mcu phase 4 #scarlet witch #analysis #this is a very long post #i needed to share this

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“kill some mfs though. for real with your cool fairy magic. just murder them,” - Griffin McElroy. 

There is something so poetic about Tiny Heist that I can’t quite explain. 

#griffin mcelroy #dimension 20 #tiny heist #i had to contain myself after this one

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