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smyrnaff · 6 years

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Piper Piaget

Name: Piper Piaget Pronunciation: [paɪ.pər PIE-pər ・ pjaʒɛ] Meaning: PIPER “a person who played on a pipe (a flute)” Nickname: Birth date (& Age): August 8, 1991 (21) Zodiac: leo Gender: female Education: Major B.J. Bachelor of Journalism (Hons.); Minor BA Sociology [EuSin 4th year] Occupation: Hair/Eyes: tawny/hazel Height: 5'5"

Short Description: Page's laid-back twin sister. She is in charge of everything Page does not wish to do and she does it all well. Piper is a doting sister and tends to overlook the huge flaws in her brother, though this may be a way to cope with such a high-maintenance person. The only reason Piper applied to the Journalism program (or even, to <i>EuSin</i>) was to be there for Page.

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aion-rsa · 3 years

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How Bridgerton Season 2 Can Improve On Season 1

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This Bridgerton article contains major spoilers for Season 1, as well as concealed references to the books.

Bridgerton, the first TV series from Netflix’s collaboration with Shonda Rhimes’ production company, debuted on Christmas Day to viewers hungry for a romantic distraction from the ongoing pandemic. The recent announcement of renewal for a Season 2 comes as no surprise as rumors were already swirling. Although showrunner Chris Van Dusen has received praise from critics and fans alike for diversified casting and a storyline filled with drama, some noticed a few glaring issues that detracted from the enjoyment of the story. Here’s some of the areas where improvement could result in more viewers and even may win back viewers who weren’t able to finish the series initially.

Moving Towards Color-Conscious Casting & Avoiding Colorism

Many Black viewers noticed that the major speaking roles during the season went to actors with lighter skin tones and darker-skinned actors had either minor roles or non-speaking background roles in crowd scenes or as servants. While Bridgerton did not need to provide an explanation for why people of color rose to prominence in their world, one was offered anyway. Many viewers also could not ignore the implications of Simon’s father as a darker skinned man being portrayed as evil. Past Netflix series/movies such as BlackAF, Dear White People, and Self Made have also been criticized for colorist casting. Complicating matters is that the UK industry has a more severe blindspot when it comes to colorism and there are even fewer opportunities for darker-skinned people, especially women to breakthrough in the industry. As Netflix is aiming for a global audience, these issues can’t be ignored by US or UK creatives.

Colorblind casting also comes with the responsibility to ensure that skin tone stereotypes are avoided. Many viewers who did not read the books criticized Marina (Ruby Barker ) for being an example of the “tragic mulatto” trope, even though this was not the original intention of the novels. Her plot is a reflection of a real situation during and after the Napoleonic Wars, where soldiers died and women waiting for their boyfriend to return home for marriage had to raise children by themselves. It’s worth ignoring the objections of book purists to avoid repeating colorist media tropes. Fans should be able to fully separate events that are due to the way of life in Regency-era fiction from events that are designed to hurt Black/POC characters because of conscious or unconscious bias.

There’s some hope for fans in regards to characters who were not introduced yet. An easy way to improve on Season 1 is to cast the main love interest and their family from the second book in the series The Viscount Who Loves Me as darker-skinned Black as well and to take that same consideration in auditions for the other main characters not introduced yet. These new characters can expand representation in a way that still rings true to what has been set up already. Marina’s plot could also be fixed to avoid tropes if a new character was introduced into later events.

Along with increasing color-conscious casting, increasing diversity in the writers room will also help resolve these issues. Black and POC screenwriters can bring their real-life experiences to the table and can review plot lines after casting is complete to avoid reinforcing negative stereotypes white writers would not catch.

Before Season 1 was released on Netflix, I wrote an article about how the show could avoid the Simon and Daphne controversy from The Duke and I. Although Sarah Dollard’s script from Episode 6 did remove the worst parts of the original marital rape scene from the book, the script was still constrained by the book plot glossing over the fact Simon (Regé-Jean Page) was indeed a rape survivor who was motivated by protecting his mental health after past child abuse. In addition, Simon not being able to revoke consent when he wanted to has additional negative connotations given the history of Black men being fetishized, dehumanized, and raped during and after slavery. The rest of the season did incredibly well in making sure that Simon’s plot was grounded in class and gender issues unique to the time but leaving this scene in alienated fans no matter if they read the books or were first-timers.

Quite a few fans on social media expressed disappointment or even went as far as to stop watching to avoid the scene in question. As future books are being adapted, there must be a conscious effort to do more than remove obstacles to consent such as alcohol consumption or communication issues. These plots must show that not only are both characters fully consenting to sex, but that consent can also cease for any reason without resistance or any aggression. Just because past romance fiction has relied on dubious consent related tropes it does not mean that the genre should be continuing to perpetuate these issues in light of the Me Too movement.

From Bridgerton to Hamilton: A History of Color-Conscious Casting in Period Drama

By Amanda-Rae Prescott

How Bridgerton Can Avoid Outlander’s Mistakes

By Amanda-Rae Prescott

Commit To Radically Reformatting the Novel Timeline to Avoid Queerbaiting

Benedict (Luke Thompson) has used his second son status this season to pursue relationships with men as well as strike up friendships with artists outside the Ton. Quite a few fans believed that the season finale hinted that Eloise (Claudia Jessie) and Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) were heading towards a queer relationship. Books 3, 4, and 5 blow giant plot holes into both of these situations as heterosexual love interests are introduced for all three characters. Since Bridgerton’s world is racially inclusive yet homophobic, crafting a happily ever after will be one of the challenges the writers will have to tackle next season. Fans are hoping the series will avoid what previous period dramas have done and ignored LGBTQ representation.

In a best-case scenario, Benedict’s love interest in Book 3 is deleted or reformatted to accept a relationship with a bisexual man. Books 4 and 5 are much harder to reformat to result in a Penelope and Eloise endgame as some characters already introduced this season have parts to play in those plots and others were not introduced yet. If the screenwriters are willing to put in this work, they can reverse the damage previous dramas such as Sherlock have done as far as setting queer romance fans up then dashing their hopes.

Where Was Francesca?

This is a more minor concern compared to some of the other things mentioned earlier, but it is interesting to note that Francesca (Ruby Stokes) returned to London in Episode 7 but managed to miss Daphne’s wedding. The distance between Bath and London is 106 miles which even by Regency travel standards was a realistic distance to cover. Did she not get enough advance notice when Simon and Daphne (Phoebe Dyvenor) received the special license? Was she delayed by weather conditions or did someone detain her in Bath? Her story may not get much focus in next season as events in Book 6 are considerably further down the line but this is a question fans will want an answer to eventually.

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There’s nothing wrong with seeing ways in which an already great program has room for improvement and as a result win more viewers. This article is inspired by an informal collection of many social media posts from fans and critics of series alike after watching Bridgerton. Check out some choice examples below…

Okay, but seriously, I am going to bed. Black people should be in more period dramas. Give us all the gowns and cravats.

— Brandon (@blgtylr) December 30, 2020

Well, I've reached the climax of the season #Bridgerton We could've made it here without the unfortunate incident. It was deeply unnecessary. Issa yikes from me. Also the Whistleho reveal. Rofl. Like??? True tomfoolery. Not as bad as Dan being Gossip Girl but similar energy.

— Niq Fury (@queerspecimen) December 30, 2020

#Bridgerton isn’t flawless, and we should talk about it’s botched handling of race and consent. But it’s also the first mainstream adaptation of a wildly popular romance series in ages. You cannot divorce the show from its roots in the romance novel genre.

— ella dawson (@brosandprose) January 2, 2021

The post How Bridgerton Season 2 Can Improve On Season 1 appeared first on Den of Geek.

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knightofbalance-13 · 7 years

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http://dudeblade.tumblr.com/post/159701855606/riproarrude-the-writing-has-always-been-flawed

Okay, I’ll only be tackling Dudeblade’s Reblog because I’m pretty sure the OP will never change their mind about RWBY and since the OP has no other posts about RWBY, it’s just their opinion at that point and I’m not fighting out right haters.

Just haters posing as fans.

They also can’t write major topics properly.

For this discussion I will be using Neon Genesis Evangelion to prove just how stupid the thoughts surrounding this subject truly is.

Neon Genesis Evangelion is a stated inspiration for RWBY (doubly so since another anime stated to be an inspiration, Gurren Lagann, is itself inspired by Evangelion). Unlike RWBY, Evangelion’s creators were well known anime content creators. Unlike RWBY, Evangelion is praised for it’s handling of mature themes. Unlike RWBY, Evangelion is world renowned and as much as I hate it, it is a famous anime. SO by all logic NGE should knock RWBY out in each category right? Well...

Racism? - Only three characters were seen to actually be racist! And one of them literally overcame hers overnight! Not to mention that it made no sense! Weiss should have been angry against her father, not the faunus. Also; “Menagerie” literally means “Zoo.” It’s the equivalent of a bunch of African Americans calling their community “Plantation.”

Yeah, Cardin, Roman and Weiss. Each of whom is treated as in the wrong. SO even if it is just three people, that’s three for three of showing that racism is bad and should be despised.

And do you see racists every single place you go? Because I have rarely ever see racists in my hometown and even then the people who say the N-word once every years or so grew up in a time when it was cuturally acceptable and have been telling me my whole life to never use that word. Racists don’t exist everywhere left and right.

There’s also the fact you ignore a lot of what Weiss’ arc and character. For one, the only Fanaus she was ever exposed to was through the White Fang, terrorists that killed family members and made her life a living hell, and Sun, and that was a first impression where he stowed away on a boat, stole a banana and resisted arrest. It’s akin to black person being racists because their only interactions with white people where racists and murderers their whole life: Can you really balme her? And It’s made clear by the end of that Weiss had stowed away her racism for Blake.

And only Blake. In Volume 2, Weiss is obviously uncomfortable and distrustful of Sun but gets over it as she gets more and more suited to him, just as she did with Ruby and just as every high strung person on the planet. It takes time and she only ever truly gets over her racism in Volume 3 where she risked her life to save Velvet, someone she didn’t know or should care about.

You also act as though changing the name of a country is easy. People have known that area as Menagrie for decades, it’s been recorded in history books for decades as Menagrie. You can’t just change that name overnight and expect everyone to go long with it. Very few humans (AKA 80% of the population of remanant) would care enough to call it that way (just as many people don’ give a shit about calling Native Americans “Indians”) and as seen with Sun, most of the Fanaus outside of Menagrie wouldn’t care either so not even every member of the Fanaus care enough to shake up the foundation of history because of a name. There’s also the fact that Menagrie is representative of the racism that still exists today so it can be usedas a motivator to overcome oppression.

And now to NGE. In NGE, one of the main heroes, Asuka, is clearly racist in that she calls Japanese customs weird and she shows obvious disrespect for them. And unlike the Fanaus, Asuka is the weird out of place one so it makes much more logical sense for her to adjust. But she doesn’t, keeps calling Japanese customs weird and stupid and keeps being insulting towards the culture she is in...despite being one fourth Japanese herself. So why does Evangelion get a pass when RWBY doesn’t and does a better job?

PTSD? - Overcame overnight! Without any hint of actual therapy or psychology shown. Also, treating PTSD as if it were ‘moping.’ And having the character doing the comparison being treated as in the right! They also can’t write how a person gets used to a prosthetic in a respectful manner.

Yang’s PTSD was not overcome in one night, she only started overcoming it after the beginning of Volume 4 which has a canonical six month minimum time skip and she is only shown to fully recover in Episode 9 which Yang CONFIRMS weeks have passed since then.

And the show wasn’t treating PTSD as moping, that was a joke made by Yang’s father Taiyang. I will not go into how you twisted the joke into your own meaning that is far removed from what the show has intended and you are not one allowed to use unfortunate implications considering your fanfic implied Tifa is using Yang’s PTSD to separate her from her father an best friend to get a date and talk about how only one character ever even treated as such as well as the fact that the Tv Tropes page for Awesome/RWBY clearly shows that they could have been way more disrespectful so you are not allowed. I will also point out that what you are demanding is actually even more disrespect as you expect Yang to just get over PTSD completely and utterly in one season when such an event would span the entirety of her life, something RT has a documented vase of doing.

And just as well, you disregard the fact that Yang was trained in two armed combat by a two armed instructor meaning they would need to create a whole new fighting style which would no doubt be inferior due to the fact that Taiyang cannot replicate one armed combat as well as the fact that brawling requires two arms. You also ignore the fact that Yang choose to put on the arm with her father only being an influence. She could have choose to not to and itw as her choice but then you rob that choice from her and demand that she be forced from her arm without her consent because YOU want that for YOUR selfish reasons.

And you should know just how badly a situation like that can truly be portrayed. In NGE, the major issue of DEPRESSION, which was the real focus of Yang’s arc as the PTSD was a side effect of the depression. And unlike RWBY, Depression is a major theme in this show and s the major focus with every character suffering from it in some way or form. And unlike in RWBY, the focus is on the de facto Protagonist, Shinji Ikari. And unlike RWBY, Shinji’s depression extends all throughout his life which is NOT comparable to Yang’s seven month period. And unlike RWBY, Shinji is constantly punished and harmed and tortured for his depression. And unlike RWBY, NGE demands to be taken seriously. And unlike RWBY, NGE actually did have Shinji overcome his depression overnio- no, he overcame it in twenty minutes. So it can be a whole hell of a lot worse. And unlike you, I actually did suffer from depression so I know what I am talking about.

LGBT Representation? - They have the time to show three heterosexual relationships, but they can’t be bothered to have two female models or two male models holding hands in the background? - “We want it to feel natural! Believe us!” - Yeah, when you say “Believe us” it makes me less inclined to believe you because you have to try to reassure us. Those don’t mean anything, actions do.

Actually, many people have criticized the show for showing numerous one dimensional heterosexual relationships such as Jaune and Weiss which was criticized for the lack of interaction and foreshadowing and Weiss and Neptune, which was criticized for coming out of compeletely nowhere (and SHOULD HAVE BEEN CRITICIZED for robbing Weiss of any agency as a character whenever Neptune was on screen, turning her into a lovestruck dumbass even though her character is about a 175 degrees AWAY from that. Real fucking great job there rwde.) The only relationship that was three dimensional was Jaune and Pyrrha and that took three volumes of heavy focus, conflict and trials to be three dimensional and that relationship isn’t even canon as Pyrrha admitted to it only when she was about to die so we never know if Jaune felt that way. So the score currently stands at 0 - -2 for LGBT versus Hetero.

And that would be shoehorning an LGBT couple for tehs ake fo shoehorning it in. I would like to point out that you, a self proclaimed ciset straight man, is botching more about representation than @mageknight14 and @phoenix-theurge who are bisexuals. You are complaining about a lack of representation than the people who they would be representating.

And again, this topic was handled in NGE where Kaworu was a gay kid for Shinji. Expect Shinji never got with Kaworu despite the fact that he was literally the only person who showed the kid unconditional love, appeared out of the blue in the third to last episode, is a villain and is out right stated to be pandering to yaoi fans. And yet NGE gets away with demonizing the LGBT community than RWBY being careful.

In the end, many of your complaints have nothing to stand upon and are just twisting facts to fit your agenda. Andc what little is there pales in comparison to what shows that are criticially acclaimed get away with and even be praised for so it’s obvious that the suspension of disbelief should cover these instances unless you are willingly being bias against the show and not being fair in your analysis. And yet you call yourself a fan.

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smyrnaff · 6 years

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Xiaoyu «Xenia» Lau

Name: Xiaoyu «Xenia» Lau [hanzi: 劉/刘曉雨 Lau Xiaoyu] Pronunciation: Meaning: XIAOYU 曉雨 “dawn; daybreak & rain” || XENIA "hospitality" || LAU 劉 / 刘 Nickname: Birth date (& Age): January 10, 1988 (24) Zodiac: capricorn Gender: Female Education: M.J. Master of Journalism [EuSin Alumna] Occupation: Hair/Eyes: black [grey/blonde ombre]/brown Height: 5'2"

Short Description: Alumni Journalism students and the pride of EuSin, Candy and Tyrone are currently working for the metropolitan news team. Page hates them with a fiery passion and hopes to one day uncover a scoop that will overshadow both.

Tags: #xenialau Inspiration: #xenia

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smyrnaff · 6 years

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Page Piaget

Name: Page Piaget Pronunciation: [peɪdʒ PAYJ ・ pjaʒɛ] Meaning: PAGE "servant, page" Nickname: Birth date (& Age): August 8, 1991 (21) Zodiac: leo Gender: male Education: Major B.J. Bachelor of Journalism (Hons.) [EuSin 4th year] Occupation: Hair/Eyes: light brown/green Height: 5'8"

Short Description: Fourth year Journalism Major. Rather eccentric in an annoying fashion and tends to behave in a way that gets on peoples' nerves. Underneath all that, he's just a lost kid trying to figure out where he belongs. The problem is that he goes about it in the worst way imaginable. Though somewhat of a drama-monger, Page has strong morals and refuses to misrepresent people and events for ratings/grades.

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