#i'm always sad because i could express myself so much better in german

[wednesdayorwhatever]

sooo I noticed something

There are these obvious parallels between Wednesday and Enid on the one hand and Morticia and Weems on the other hand in terms of being roommates in Ophelia Hall, being captain and co-pilot at the Poe Cup, their general aesthetics (Morticia + Wednesday = dark hair, dark clothes, dark everything / Weems + Enid = blonde hair, bright clothes) etc.

I think these parallels are also emphasized by scenery:

so at first you would think: there is supposed to be a parallel between Wednesday and Morticia and then Enid could be compared to Weems in some ways

BUT if you think about it and analyze the characters more deeply you could say that in some ways Wednesday has more in common with Weems than with Morticia, whereas Enid has more in common with Morticia than with Weems.

Here are some things I noticed while thinking about this:

#1 their roles at the Poe Cup

This is what initially made me think more closely about the parallels between the four of them: Weems tells Wednesday that the last time Ophelia Hall won the Poe Cup, Morticia Addams captained the team - just like Enid captains the team now. Weems was Morticia’s co-pilot - just like Wednesday is Enid’s co-pilot. This made me wonder: Why didn’t they make the parallels between Wednesday and Morticia more obvious by just having Wednesday be the captain and Enid the co-pilot? The reason for Wednesday being the co-pilot is Yoko not being able to participate in the Poe Cup but instead of making Yoko the original captain and Enid the co-pilot, having Yoko be unable to participate and then making Wednesday the captain and Enid the co-pilot, the writers decided to have it the other way around. Enid now has the position that Morticia used to have and Wednesday has the position that Weems used to have. Which doesn’t put Wednesday in her mother’s position - but in Weems’s position. And Enid in Morticia’s position.

#2 their character traits

Like Wednesday Morticia has a dark aesthetic and is drawn to dark and morbid things. There are obvious parallels. But if you look at their personalities more closely you see a lot of differences. While Wednesday never expresses emotions, doesn’t show any interest in romance and is very aloof in general, Morticia is very likable, very passionate and romantic (in her own unique dark and morbid way of course) and also sentimental and kind of soft. Wednesday doesn’t care about others at all and is a loner whereas Morticia’s love for her husband is unmatched and her family is very important to her. Enid, though not matching the Addams’ aesthetic at all, seems to have more in common with Morticia personality-wise than Wednesday has in common with her mother. Enid is engaging and passionate, enthusiastic and has a high interest in romance. She is also likable and dedicated and emotional, in a way like Morticia. I have always thought, even before Tim Burton’s “Wednesday”, that Morticia Addams could in some ways be described as having a “bright” personality as opposed to her dark appearance. She draws others in, she’s devoted and dedicated, happy and positive. Enid is like that too while Wednesday is completely different. Morticia herself talks about Wednesday’s and her opposing dispositions when talking to Wednesday about her psychic abilities - Morticia's disposition being positive (which causes her visions to be more positive and which makes her a Dove) while Wednesday’s disposition being darker on the other hand (which causes her visions to be more potent and powerful and which makes her a Raven). I think it is very obvious that Enid’s disposition is positive too, just like Morticia’s.

And then there’s Weems. Obviously, Weems and Wednesday don’t have the exact same personality. On the outside, Weems is always nice and friendly, she’s polite and civil. But there is also a different side to her. She doesn’t show it to others but she does have a rather dark and angry side that she is hiding. She is very bitter about her past and seems to hold on to a lot of jealousy towards Morticia. She can also get very angry and harsh. And she is serious, unlike Morticia, who is soft and angelic. Because of her bitterness and her seriousness and the fact that she hides these negative feelings from others (when she confesses to Thornhill that her own Rave’N was only disappointing she then quickly changes the topic and doesn’t want the conversation to get more personal) and especially the throwing-a-yearbook-page-into-the-fire-scene with that evil and hateful expression on her face, I would describe her disposition as rather dark as well. Weems is nice and a good person but she is not light-hearted and carefree, there is a certain severeness to her. Therefore a dark disposition - just like Wednesday. And when you think about it, she is a loner, too. She is surrounded by people but no one is even remotely close to her - just like Wednesday.

#3 their lives at Nevermore

Enid is very passionate about Nevermore and the whole school spirit thing, participates in a lot of school activities, is captain of the Ophelia Hall team at the Poe Cup etc. Morticia was like that too. She was captain of the fencing team, Queen of the Dark Prom and President of the Séance Society (what a legend) and Wednesday says that Nevermore “was the perfect school” for her mother. Just like Nevermore is the perfect school for Enid! Both Enid and Morticia are popular and successful and show a high level of identification with the school.

By the end of the first season Wednesday seems to enjoy being at Nevermore. But she did NOT (and I like that fact and love that the writers did it that way) and will probably never follow her mother’s footsteps. Wednesday has no interest in networking and being popular and taking part in group activities. And while it is nice that she found people she cares about (mostly Enid and Eugene), she will not be like her captain-and-queen-and-president-of-everything mother and prefers to be an outsider, even at a school for outsiders.

I think it is very likely that Weems was an outsider when she was a student at Nevermore too, just like Wednesday. We know that she was always jealous of Morticia because Morticia was popular. When Morticia says that they had good times at Nevermore, Weems basically says “speak for yourself”, implying that her time at Nevermore wasn’t that great, and at the Rave’N she tells Thornhill that all she remembers about her own Rave’N is “disappointment”. The negative feelings she has about her time as a student at Nevermore go as far as to RIP OUT a page of her old yearbook and dramatically throw it into the fire. So like Wednesday she probably didn’t take part in many school acitivities that she was excited about, she wasn’t very popular and maybe even an outsider. I think this is a parallel between Wednesday and Weems - though, of course, Wednesday WANTS it that way while Weems was and still is bitter about it...

#4 Wednesday and Weems being in Morticia’s shadow

There is this huge parallel between Wednesday and Weems about being in Morticia’s shadow and trying to find their own path without Morticia’s ‘legacy’ overshadowing their every move. Wednesday says multiple times that she has no interest in following in Morticia’s footsteps because she couldn’t live up to the expectations based on her mother's legacy anyway. Just like Weems could never compete with Morticia. I especially noticed one scene where Wednesday expresses very strongly that she doesn’t want to be compared to her mother all the time and that she has the need to be her own person. In this scene Weems compares Wednesday to Morticia and when Wednesday tells her that she and her mother are two different people, Weems seems to think about Wednesday’s words for a moment. I don’t know whether I interpret too much into this but I think that Weems’s face shows that she realizes that she is very familiar with the need to be “independent” from Morticia Addams. She knows very well how it is to be in Morticia’s shadow and I think it is in that moment that she realizes that Wednesday feels the same way about Morticia as she does. It was not easy for Weems and it is not easy for Wednesday to be “linked” to Morticia’s legacy at Nevermore because she was perfect - she was popular, well-liked, happy, successful, dedicated and beautiful. So in a way, Wednesday’s experience at Nevermore is similar to Weems’s experience: always being in Morticia’s shadow. And I think that’s what Weems realizes:

Also, Wednesday tells her mother: “I’m not you, mother. I will never fall in love or be a housewife or have a family.” So... she’ll be like Weems then? She’ll choose a whole different path than her mother just like Weems chose a whole different path than Morticia did.

To sum it all up: there is a lot to unpack. Which makes the show so great. And I think about the Wednesday-Weems and Morticia-Enid parallels constantly.

#sorry for any mistakes and/or weird phrasing #english isn't my first language #i'm always sad because i could express myself so much better in german #anyway maybe i interpret too much into weems in general #but you can't create such a great character and cast such an amazing actress and expect me to not analyze every single detail about her #live with it or medicate me #wednesday #wednesday addams #jenna ortega #enid sinclair #emma myers #larissa weems #gwendoline christie #morticia addams #catherine zeta jones #morissa #wenclair #analysis

[peachblossomsofair]

tbh, I'm so sick of these ships fans. I'm a hard core KM bcs I support them. I do ship yoonmin but its just a ship and frankly speaking, taekook and kookmin supporters are too much to handle. I was on twt when I saw some taekookrs said kookmin was dead and not worth of shipping and those are big accounts too. Then I saw it, how they're digging to the very deep hole when big hit uploaded their photos or bts themselves uploaded it, if tae sat/stand between jk, they'll go wild all days +

+ and said that every moment are taekook moments. these things are actually making me very sick and worried to the point when I got any notification about infos and photos, when i get a glimpse of jk and tk together I will quickly close it. it was so sickening bcs I couldn’t even enjoy the whole shipping stuffs bcs some of them are so obsessive and abusive. I couldn’t enjoy those photos, their choreography, even the gcf anymore bcs they will twist those to make it sounds like their ship +

+ and that was disturbing. I know for the fact that kookmin supporters are chill af whenever those immature taekookrs attacked them but I can’t help but felt down and the need to support kookmin lessen day by day.. bcs bts doesn’t deserve these kind of fans, those are abusive and threatening each other, I got so sick of that +

The point is, i deleted twt and after i post this note, i will delete tumblr too bcs I couldn’t enjoy shipping and supporting ships in bts. I always looking for updates abt kookmin but with the addition of fights between them and taekookrs? I can’t even enjoy looking at their photos without thinking ‘please don’t let any ships fight bcs of this’. I always seek comfort from kookmin bcs I adore, I really love them and I use them as my ticket to get away from my family stuffs that’s so disturbing +

+ but guess after this I won’t embrace all these again and facing those RL problems without a comfort source… I saw something serious abt kookmin but I couldn’t even express it without feeling disturbed by those abusive fans…. Have a nice day, regard from German.

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First of all, if anon can still see this, I am sorry to hear that real life is now hard on you and you are forced to leave your comfort source that is KM too. I do hope things will eventually turn for the better. Fighting.

On the subject of a problematic, perhaps even toxic fandom driving people away, from KM, from BTS, Anon is actually not the first person who expressed such feelings to me. But every time I hear it, I still feel sad that it is the sensible fans that are being driven away.

I myself actually had for a few times considered leaving tumblr too. I actually wrote a post about [here], then another one when I recollected myself [here].

I then later wrote a post on a metaphor, which though was meant for a more specific BTS subject in mind then, also fits the situation now:

I like the colour yellow a lot, and I like clothes that are yellow… but I never buy yellow coloured clothing simply because they tend to attract more bugs than other colours, and I dislike bugs so much that I’d rather simply give up yellow coloured clothing in order to avoid the trouble they bring.

Have you ever experienced similar circumstances or feelings?

And yes, the example of yellow coloured clothing is both literal and metaphorical…

So I think, BTS is now to you a yellow coloured shirt, though you still love it and want to wear it and enjoy it, the bugs it attracts and the trouble it brings give you no other option than to give up the yellow shirt completely.

I guess I am saying, I understand, others feel the same way that you are feeling now; you are not alone in feeling heavily distressed by the fan wars, ship wars and just general toxicity. And if distance helps, I do think you are right, and your own wellbeing is of the utmost importance.

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However, I think it might also be helpful to share with you how I personally deal with the problem, which is basically to ignore the problematic side of the fandom and pretend it does not exist (I don’t use twitter unless it is to search for information), until it very unceremonious intrudes itself upon me and my blog (such as the case of Danny), at which I shall not hesitate to smack it as hard as I can, cause it is the one who is asking to be hit, mocked and ridiculed.

I want to try to build up this blog as a safe space for KM supporters and shippers, our fort (or dock) so to speak, where we try to promote critical thinking, logic and reason, healthy discussion, and learn to be adults, to be respectful to each other and each other’s opinions on issues relating to KM and BTS in general…

Occasionally I will speak on things that I feel is wrong, like over-hyping in the fandom, or how I feel BH could have dealt better with Euphoria, but all subsequent discussions on the posts are to be done in the comment section below or via direct messages to me, as this is a safe space, I will hence not involve the whole of my reader group in a debate in ask/answer form that doesn’t concern the majority of my readership [example here]. And if occasionally, I see facts being twisted, things being intentionally mistranslated, I will also call out or reblog posts that calls out such behaviour, for awareness sake.

So I hope my readers will be able to breathe here. I am sorry that I am not able to do more; I wish things were different and better.

Love, support and best wishes.

#anon stories