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bookwyrminspiration · 2 years
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This is a very unimportant topic, but I don’t think what Sophie & co did to get out of Ravagog was reckless. Impulsive, sure, and dangerous, but not reckless. They would’ve gotten into VERY big trouble with the ogres, if they even survived, which they otherwise probably wouldn’t have because Linh could not have held that wave much longer. It wasn’t ideal, but it seems like it was the best course of action out of their limited options, which imho, isn’t really reckless!
That's a fair argument! I looked up a definition of reckless and it gave me "without thinking or caring about the consequences of an action." Sophie was able to evaluate multiple different options and their potential outcomes and from there come up with something to avoid the consequences she didn't want. I concede that that's a supported point. Regardless of the danger and impulsivity of the action, she did think through consequences before making her decision and chose the best course she could, contrary to that definition.
And you're right, out of all the options Sophie was able to consider when trying to escape from Ravagog, it was the option that would result in the least trouble/danger with the highest possibility of success. And it worked! They got out
My reasoning for labeling the decision to be on the bridge as it crashed down to then break through the gates as reckless was based on the aforementioned definition of reckless as "without thinking about the consequences of an action" and a few scattered lines on page 612 of Neverseen. They are (apologies for the formatting I'm trying to grammar):
"But...what happens when we go KABOOM?"
"--but that didn't explain how they would survive the crash."
"Time for the brilliant Sophie Foster to come up with another plan and save us, right?"
"But Sophie was all out of ideas."
All of which indicates that while Sophie had concluded that the flood and bridge idea was better than angry ogres in the heart of Ravagog, she hadn't truly thought of the consequences of being on the bridge when it crashed. She didn't know how they'd survive, didn't have a plan, didn't have any ideas. Which I think could indicate a level of reckless behavior.
I do acknowledge that she does briefly mention it to Dex asking if he thinks they could survive and he says he thinks they would, which gives at least a small amount of forethought and they were pressed for time, but I personally believe that it wasn't enough time for it to truly be considered substantial and maintain that it was, at least partially, a reckless decision.
I do agree with your arguments!! And they're a valid challenge to my hastily assembled list of reckless decisions, so I don't think it's as reckless as I originally painted it given the perspective you've provided. I do still think it was a little reckless, but that it was unavoidable in the situation they were in
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theunmappedstar · 1 year
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sophie: mansplaining is-
cassius: mansplaining is when a man explains something to a woman that she already knows but he acts like he’s teaching her. does that make sense to you?
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atwistinthetail · 8 months
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my s3 rewrite headcanons
like, obviously my perfect s3 includes emma and lewis for the entire season, but I’m going to engage with the season on its own terms here
here we go~
the comet/moon rock stuff is OUT sorry not sorry but that’s a no from me
I’m fine with Bella’s origin story but the moon pool that turned her should be its own separate thing with different rules and characteristics
maybe she has a different tail color, like different moon pools create different “subspecies” of mermaids
instead of the water trying to warn them about the end of the world, maybe Bella’s magic is conflicting with the Mako moon pool bc they are two different sources of magic, and that’s why the magic is going haywire
instead of Sophie and Ryan mining the moon pool, it could be self-destructing or warping in some way due to the competing magical forces
how do they fix it? I don’t know but I’m sure they could figure it out. Maybe they all hop in during a full moon and they all steep in the magic and it like combines all their auras or something and brings balance to the force. There can still be a cool showdown where they use all their power to do some big spectacle and fix everything, nothing would be as silly as a comet headed straight towards earth
it would also address that things only start going wrong when Bella shows up, and they never question that. It should be bc she shows up, but like it’s not her fault
this is an obvious one everyone says but just… make Will a merman. Maybe it felt like too many merpeople but honestly you can’t have too many merpeople and with a show like this you just have to lean into the camp as much as possible
a new person transforming into a mermaid is also the only repetitive plot that doesn’t get old imo. “My boyfriend can’t find out” is old news, bring me “My boyfriend has turned into a merman”
he could transform on his own without anybody finding out at first, since he has already discovered the moon pool independently. As he and Bella get close, they are both trying to hide the fact that they are merpeople, but they also both want to know what the other is hiding so they are in this constant tango of trying not to be suspicious
and it would eliminate Will being such a rude ass about forcing Bella to reveal her secret
what ramifications does mermania have on Will’s relationship with Sophie if he has to abandon his training?
y’all know this was coming bc it’s me, but we have to fix zikki, I mean this is truly dire. I’m not saying they shouldn’t have problems, but there were so many better problems they could have
first of all, we must get rid of the Rikki/Will ship tease, it has no place here
if Will is a merman, the Will/Rikki/Zane melodrama could be improved. There’s a new guy bonding with Rikki who shares a huge part of her life that Zane never can, and that’s a more interesting insecurity than just being jealous of this new hot guy who made her a friendship necklace
we can do the same thing with Sophie. Rikki seems to have some level of imposter syndrome about running the cafe, at least prior to opening, so it makes sense that Sophie, with more experience and confidence, would be a threat when she impresses Zane
goodbye to the it’s-not-what-it-looks-like Sophie/Zane kiss, it’s the worst reason zikki could have broken up, and we basically already did it with Miriam in s1
Zane didn’t have to revert to his start of s1 self to, like, be a problem. I can definitely see him inadvertently mansplaining business to Rikki, getting into financial trouble bc he’s overconfident, like the same kinds of things they tried in s3 but a lil more nuanced. I don’t see him outright trying to commit fraud lol more like he would make risky financial moves or find dangerous “opportunities” like the treasure hunt to make ends meet
all of that can still cause tension and arguments, but they would be the arguments a committed couple running a business would have, not just more tired teenage jealousy
and they should have ended the series still together lol like I think my stance is clear but I just needed to say it
once Lewis leaves, Zane should take his place as the human protector of the secret. His impulsive, reckless approach to problem-solving would create a new dynamic in the group. He and Rikki would butt heads on how to handle mermaid problems, but it would also let him bond more with the other girls
and eventually Will, bc everyone is friends at the end of my season. They don’t have to be besties but they would be gently competitive allies
Zane would also definitely call Lewis as a lifeline at least once. Their misadventures never miss
speaking of phone calls, they should have called Emma a few times. They wouldn’t have even needed to have a voice on the line, it could have been a one-sided conversation just to show they’re all keeping up
and to confirm she dumped Ash lol SORRY to any Ash girlies if you’re out there
another obvious one, but they should have kept wearing their lockets. Maybe they don’t wear them all the time, but to stop wearing them entirely? They could still also have their own new thing including Bella and Will. Friendship bracelets?
Miss Chatham should have made at least one appearance to meet Bella. Does she know there are other mermaids from other parts of the world?
a Halloween episode where all the mermaids go as mermaids and just have their tails out and everybody thinks they just have really great costumes (I feel like Halloween isn’t as much of a thing in Australia as it is in the US? but they should still do it for the hijinx)
Cleo tells Don and Kim the secret. If Emma told beige-ass Ash the secret there is no way that at least Cleo and Emma would not have told their parents as well, at least as a “finale” kind of move
every couple should have gotten an underwater kiss, I’m sorry but that should be a law in all human/sea creature romance
everyone is happy and friends at the end
Clewis are their perfect endgame selves of course
Zikki is intact, but probably realize that being business partners (or at least partners in this particular business) isn’t for them, but they have come out of their issues stronger as a couple and secure in pursuing their individual endeavors as well
the moon pool is still in shambles but it died of natural causes and it’s still suggested that they will be spending their summer putting it right
the last cafe scene and sing along can stay, but the actual last scene is everybody together at the moon pool 🩵
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Title: Four Tulips Author: 1016anon Fandom: Bridgerton Pairing: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sharma Summary/Intro: Debate moderator: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Anthony: Yes.
Kate: It depends.
Debate moderator: …
Anthony: The falling tree makes a sound because sound is a well defined physical phenomenon wherein vibrations are propagated through some medium such as air or water. It exists independently of human observation.
Kate: You presuppose that such a medium exists in this hypothetical forest with hypothetical falling trees. If the tree falls in space, it would not make a sound as there is no medium through which an acoustic wave could travel.
Anthony: Must you always?!
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A/N - Hi you-know-who-you-are. I wrote this thing. Maybe it will be finished. Maybe it won't. But I hope you enjoy its ridiculousness! (Lol also for those of you who like chess, no offense intended. It's my own inside joke thing.)
"I cannot stand her!"
Simon rolled his eyes. He decided to take the high road and refrained from saying here we go again.
"I don't see why Kate shouldn't be captain of the debate team," Daphne said, well aware she was riling her brother up but also determined to make a point. "She was the one who carried the team to victory for the semifinals."
"Only because she got a topic on post-colonial influence in the world! She's practically written a dissertation on the topic!"
"That sounds like a good thing, Anthony," Francesca-- who could normally be relied upon to support her brother, replied. "You certainly wouldn't have won that debate."
Anthony huffed.
"I'll have you know, Kate has argued with me on the subject so many times, I anticipated every point she brought up."
"And you would have taken all the credit, given none of it to Kate, and decided you were a subject matter expert from that point forward," Eloise retorted. "God save us from the mansplainers."
He hated it when the triplets ganged up on him. El always argued against him; Daph was, as the eldest triplet by fourteen minutes, always determined to keep the peace; but it was Fran's betrayal that cut to the quick.
Yes, he was dramatic. Benedict often suggested he should have taken up theatre instead. Anthony had frowned at him and asked what could possibly be enjoyable about auditioning for The Crucible, which was one of the most depressing things he'd read in a while. Besides, who would he argue with? Mrs. Featherington considered herself something of a dramaturg.
Anthony had read those scripts Colin brought home. Every year, Mrs. Featherington insisted they put on a performance of her latest play, which was usually some overwrought period drama. Anthony would rather join those obnoxious pricks in the chess team-- they all considered themselves geniuses-- than find out how Mrs. Featherington was going to butcher The Crucible.
Benedict, who worked designing set pieces and drawing the very attractive, enticing posters promoting the school plays (Anthony always felt like he ought to report his brother to a consumer protection bureau for deceptive advertising), shrugged and said at least they could recycle the costumes. He was more than happy to relinquish costuming duties to a new girl-- Sophie something-or-other.
Simon was suppressing a smile. No one knew it, but Anthony did. That's what happened when you were attached at the hip since preschool. Simon was the triple threat: captain of the mathletes (led the team to fourth place-- the first time the school had ever gotten that far in the rankings), winner at state's in cross-country last year, and handsome to boot.
It was unfair, because Simon admitted that when he was running, he was usually thinking about some difficult math problem; by some stroke of nefarious magic, it would almost always solve itself towards the end of the race and he would put in a burst of extra speed because he needed to write the solution it down.
Then again, Anthony fenced. And excelled at fencing, because he was usually thinking of all the counterarguments he would have made against Kate during practice the other day.
The point was, Simon was suppressing a smile. Which meant he thought Anthony was being deliberately obtuse.
Come to think of it, Simon had been suppressing his smile often these days.
Anthony chewed very noisily and viciously on baby carrots and slurped his juice box. Yes, he liked juice boxes. They came in the format of boxes, which meant he could organize his lunch bag in an optimal configuration. Anthony watched youtube videos of Japanese people creating bento boxes, wishing he had such organizational and culinary talent.
The only talent he really had was arguing (his inner Fran came to his rescue and told him to stop feeling sorry for himself, he had many skills, one of which was to look pretty). But it had served him very well. They had an unusual family and had been subjected to many remarks, to put it politely, over the years. Anthony's natural protective instincts reared its handsome head and just... stayed there, like a sea monster who decided the view was better above the surface.
He didn't have the full story of how CDEF came into his life, but part of it was that his father was very wealthy and his grandparents, as a condition of accessing the trust fund, required Edmund (and his siblings) to engage in at least twenty hours of community service.
It was how he met Violet, a social worker who found his idealism and good intentions charming (most would have, and had, found it off-putting; Edmund was given several harsh lessons about privilege and that this job was not a hobby to make rich white men feel better about themselves. Edmund took those lectures to heart, but was of the sort of disposition who always looked for the glass of orange juice, never mind half empty or half full).
Something something (Anthony didn't care about the details of his parents' dating), they got married, had Anthony-- a difficult pregnancy-- then Violet's birth control failed and they had Benedict shortly afterwards-- another extremely difficult pregnancy. They decided to have Edmund get a vasectomy.
Violet and Edmund knew they could not save every child in the system. They knew the system failed so many children, and it often felt like a a hopeless battle. But they somehow managed to draw healthy boundaries between their job and their home life-- a lot of it probably had to do with the individual and couples therapy they went to, the support Edmund's siblings gave, and the fact they had two young children of their own.
But then--
But then-- Anthony was twelve, Benedict ten--
Col was ten, Daph, El, and Fran were nine. All from the same family. A horrifying story involving gangs, drug wars, DEA stings, sealed court records-- CDEF had their names changed for their own safety-- things Anthony still didn't know. Violet and Edmund volunteered to keep the children in protective custody. When the dust settled, CDEF's parents were dead, their closest relations were in prison or deported to an unnamed country in Central/South America (those records were also sealed). The chances that CDEF would all be adopted together were slim to none.
In the meantime, four Latino children thrown into a new neighborhood, all of them with a history of severe neglect and conditioned to endure the abuse-- they were easy pickings for the school playground.
Anthony and Simon started a lot of fistfights, which Colin, taking his cues from Anthony, soon joined. (Sometimes Benedict joined. Mostly he went to get the teachers before it devolved into Anthony and Simon holding a kid down to make him eat his own socks.)
Thus began the many, many sessions of therapy for anger management (for all the boys) and lectures on "Use your words, Anthony," which led to Anthony yelling and insulting and generally using words too large for other children (or himself, to be honest) to understand. But something about facing off Anthony Bridgerton's ferocious temper (Simon and Benedict standing menacingly behind him) and his history of stuffing a kid's nose with their own non-toxic Crayola markers seemed to get a point across.
What that point was aside from "you bully my siblings, I'll make you choke on wood chips," no one would know. Anthony's first forays into "debate" were rather one-sided.
Violet and Edmund decided to adopt Col, Daph, El, and Fran. Simon, Ant, and Ben were essentially siblings by the end of the two years the children had been in their protective custody. The children had settled into the neighborhood, did well at school, had friends-- ripping them away from that was cruel. It would be... a lot... to adopt four children, but Violet and Edmund couldn't in good conscience abandon them.
So, Anthony's siblings-- who had, in his mind, been his siblings the moment he threw his first punch on their behalf-- became his siblings legally. (Simon was another story. It could be summarized as: they lived in the same neighborhood; Simon's dad was a POS; Simon pushed Anthony in the mud when Anthony had made fun of his stutter; they became best friends. Children were mysterious.)
And now here he was, betrayed by his best friend and his sisters. The only reason why Col and Ben hadn't joined in the razzing was because they had a different lunch period.
No doubt Anthony's grousing would reach the ears of Edwina also. She and Eloise were dating. It was liking living with a spy.
He exaggerated. El didn't care enough about Anthony's debate team woes to talk about them with Eddie. They had much more important things to do, like reading Simone de Beauvoir.
Which brought him to Kate. Sharma. Kathani Sharma.
The absolute bane of his existence ever since seventh grade.
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The rivalry began, as all great rivalries did, with a complete misunderstanding which was relatively easy to clear up, and subsequently had been cleared up because their friends were annoyed by their complaints, but by then it was too late.
The hatred was entrenched.
It was rooted deep. Nothing short of a drill designed to extract ice cores from the Antarctic could resolve it now. They were sworn enemies.
They both didn't remember what the misunderstanding was, but it was the principle of it, Siena, don't you understand? I don't care if he's cute, no, please, go ahead and date him as long as you don't bring him to our movie nights-- Siena! Siena!!!!
The misunderstanding was that Anthony was blessed with the worst (best) sense of timing when it came to Kate. She always seemed to hear the tail end of a joke which was not sexist, it had been approved by Eloise, for god's sakes, why don't you ever listen to what I'm actually saying?!
The point was, no one remembered the misunderstanding (except Simon. Simon had a terrifyingly sharp memory, one he liberally used against Anthony when his friend was being a prick. But Simon wasn't going to rehash that entire sordid history because since Anthony and Kate didn't remember their own misunderstanding, they argued about who had the correct understanding of the misunderstanding, which was Simon's cue to silently leave them in an empty classroom. Alone. Unfortunately, that plan never seemed to work. But one must make do with what one has).
Kate's own history with debate was because she had immigrated to the States when she was in elementary school and had been mercilessly teased for her accent. She worked extremely hard to iron it out but found that even when she had, the children found other things to pick on her about.
Using her newly found voice, Kate discovered she had a talent for delivering vicious tongue-lashings which left the children paralyzed like shrimp tangled in a jellyfish; not know why they were stuck with fear in their hearts yet knowing they were going to be eaten alive all the same.
She used her talents to defend (and subsequently befriend) Siena, who was beautiful but not the right kind of beautiful, and therefore the target of taunts by other girls. Siena was scrappy and could fight on her own but that was the problem; she fought, physically. Kate volleyed insults that no one quite understood until three days later, when the lightbulb moment happened and they realized what "face that would turn a Gorgon to stone" actually meant.
The first year of middle school, neither Kate nor Anthony had any classes together. They passed each other in the halls constantly and traded insults.
"Congratulations on your math test, Bridgerton. Who knew you were so square that even a cube root left you rational?"
Simon nearly spit out his water, coughing because it went down the wrong pipe.
Anthony was tempted to thank her because he heard the word rational so surely it couldn't be that bad, but given Simon's reaction, it probably really was that bad.
"What?"
"Ant, she's saying you're so stupid you don't even have the brains to realize it."
"What?!"
"I can tutor you. 64 is really dismal-- it's just algebra."
"What does rationality have to do with it? Shouldn't it be irrational?"
"You're kind of proving my point here."
"There is no point!"
"She said you're square-- the only other squares you can get greater than 64 are 81 and 100, which if you take the cube root, are both irrational numbers."
"I'm talking about the wordplay."
"Oh. Well, she's saying you should be pissed off for doing so poorly which-- she has a point-- but you're not, so that means you're either complacent or you know you can't do better."
"That is the most convoluted insult I have ever heard!"
"I thought it was kind of clever."
"Whose side are you on?"
But the real games began when the following year, in eighth grade, they joined the Model UN team. It was a disaster, in the best sense of the word. No matter if the countries were close allies or the topic uncontroversial-- Kate and Anthony invented ways to make it controversial and adversarial.
They had their own points system: ad hominem attacks were prohibited; so was historical mud-slinging, unless the topic in question was a direct consequence of a country impinging on the sovereignty of another; hyperbole was considered poor form; deviation from the country's actual policy in favor of their individual opinions was also prohibited, since the whole point of Model UN was to represent a country's policies.
It was the last rule which they both chafed against. Having their options for arguments hamstrung by a real country's declared position felt not only limiting, but insincere. They couldn't pour themselves into an argument they didn't believe.
Anthony and Kate had two classes together: geometry (as it turned out, Anthony was pretty good at writing proofs. He especially relished drawing the little square at the end to signify quod erat demonstrandum), and English. Unfortunately, there were no debates in English class, just lively discussions on the degree to which 1984 was still relevant in the internet age.
What they were to each other was something only understandable in the complex prison hierarchy of the modern teenager's sociological expression of tiktok.
They weren't friends-- aside from the short-lived (one) date Siena went on with Anthony (characterized by awkwardness, pizza, and a kiss which tasted like buttered popcorn kernels), her circles did not intersect with his. They weren't enemies-- they no longer insulted each other in halls, reserving that mental energy for class or Model UN.
Anthony didn't take up a disproportionate amount of Kate's CPU, nor did she his. The misunderstanding had caused enough of a rift that they weren't interested in being friends, just interested in besting each other, but it wasn't personal (yet). If someone else had been the best, Kate and Anthony would have transferred their attentions accordingly.
Unfortunately, this "someone else" never materialized. So for all of eighth grade, they were just fellow students floating like rigatoni noodles in the broth of bubbling hormones; they somehow remained above it all, but it was only a matter of time before they passed al dente and sank to the depths of soggy despair.
In other words, they had not yet been hit by the pheromone bath bomb which completely disorients the teenager's brain and leads them to conflate all sorts of emotions and signals with their opposites, agonizing over the placement of the word "you" in a sentence and wondering if there's a greater meaning to the fact they kept spending time together and looking at each other.
But it was only a matter of time. In many ways, it was a foregone conclusion. Kate and Anthony were cursed with the kind of dynamic which resulted in them constantly challenging each other, making each other try harder, do better; unbeknownst to them, they were condemning them to a positive feedback loop which would spill over into all other aspects of their lives.
Forever stuck in a race where they were always neck and neck and obsessed with how to gain the advantage, they sealed their fates.
Soon, they too would be stewing in an explosion of sexual dimorphism and social media, all of which led to volatile brain cells sparking and misfiring as neural pathways were laid down, ripped out, laid down slightly to the right, &tc., until all roads led to Kate and Anthony, fucking against a tree (k-i-s-s-i-n-g!).
Which brought them to ninth grade: high school.
By mutual agreement via trash talk, they signed up for the debate team.
The rest, as they say, is a mystery.
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tempcsted · 1 year
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1, 8 & 14
1. What are three Netflix shows that they’ve rated five stars?
based solely on vibes alone:
breaking bad ( gaslight manipulate mansplain ). gus is their favourite character.
pretty little liars - the drama. the schemes. the elaborate nonsense of it all
girlboss - okay this was the most spontaneous choice. i think they'd love sophie a lot.
8. What sort of toys did they play with as a child?
anything they could get their hands on became a toy. there were kid's broomsticks that were flown 2 feet off the ground until they started to wear, cardboard boxes that became little houses, a wand stolen from one of their parents - the list goes on.
14. How do they eat their popcorn? What do they put on it?
salty & sweet mix. nothing else special on it. they’re aware it’s a little bit psychopathic of them.
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triviareads · 2 years
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ok so I have no one to pitch this idea to except your messages. sorry in advance. i’m a show only bridgerton fan so take this with a grain of salt probably. i’ve spent the past month kinda following the discourse around people (me included) wanting queer representation, specially considering how much eloise and benedict were queer coded in s1 (and still tbh), and some people bringing up that genderbending the sophie storyline would be kinda misogynistic. i see where the second group is coming from, and agree that the intersections of class, probably race AND gender are important to explore. but hear me out. what if instead of genderbending b and e’s stories, they switched them? make eloise meet a mysterious lady at a ball at the beginning of s3, a lady who she hangs out with now that penelope is out of the picture and that she has great conversation with, who has fascinating things to say about women’s lib, who is fierce and brave and interesting. have the lady disappear, and eloise not getting her out of her head, in a VERY different way than theo. i think it makes sense with the way eloise’s character has been developed so far that she keeps poking around outside of the ton either way, but specially if she’s intrigued by someone and wants to find them and thinks that that scene is where she might. maybe it’s even a way for penelope to start trying to mend their friendship, if she somehow finds out and wants to help eloise instead of discouraging her like with theo. and I feel like if eloise was having a crisis with her feelings and sexuality, she’d need a friend. benedict is there of course, but someone else as well. anyway, rebellious eloise seems like a great person to have a story with a working class woman that is not only a good romance but a good opportunity to tackle the issues people have been saying sophie’s story does. it’s even a good way to contrast privileged white liberal feminism with more complex struggles, a way for eloise to also grow and learn from someone as she falls in love with them. i also feel like the queen might be kinda lenient towarda eloise since she accused her of being lady whistledown and even without that, the queen is so much about love above all else that I don’t see why she wouldn’t be on board with a sapphic marriage. i guess this idea would mean changing the story orders but i’ve read that might happen anyway. and then s5 can be benedictxphillip crane (after s4 polin), hopefully without marina dying. maybe she even knows, and it’s part of their arrangement, phillip married her for honor but also because he wasn’t planning to marry anyway. then marina can get another chance at an actual happy and loving romantic relationship. i just think show!phillip’s nerdy sensibilities and love for nature would be a good match for benedict’s artist soul. so as a book fan who knows these characters much better than i do, how do you think this would work?
I don't see Benedict x Phillip happening, and I'm not the biggest fan. I'd much rather Benedict end up with a man we've yet to meet.
It would be interesting to see Eloise with another working class love interest, but this time, a woman. I'd be curious to see whether they handle the intersectionality of feminism and class better than they did in S2, esp. with Theo mansplaining feminism to Eloise, and Eloise (lowkey rightfully) being accused of just wanting to slum it for a bit.
But yeah, otherwise, I'm all for the queer!Bridgerton agenda, because quite frankly, in a family with 8 siblings, surely a few of them are queer, and more importantly, in a romance show in 2022, surely the writers realize that we deserve queer love stories that aren't sidelined, because they sure as hell existed in 1814.
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thegeminisage · 2 years
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Gaslight (Hardison)/ Gatekeep (Eliot)/ Girlboss (Parker)
VS
Manipulate (Nate/Sophie)/ Mansplain (Nate)/ Manwhore (Nate/Sophie)/(Manslaughter Eliot)
??
first one is correct. second one i would do manipulate (sophie) / mansplain (nate. gag) / manwhore (definitely eliot) / manslaughter (parker or hardison because eliot kills people ON PURPOSE)
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realhankmccoy · 2 months
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Instead of boys trying to mansplain politics, They should be watching Sophie Sholl: The Final Days. They're playing White Rose in NYC right now. Trump's cucks and Hitler's cucks may want you to think talk of Nazis is no longer relevant but it certainly is. Many neoliberals in that same striving, craving, abusive, hierarchical and dismissive mode that the Nazis were in, even. Stalinism was similar to capitalism and Nazism in many ways, as Orwell noted. So stop being fucking dumb and acting like Jordan Peterson or that idiot from Germany and acting like Stalinism was some whole separate thing.
It certainly wasn't... hierarchical patriarchy, hatred of queers, hatred of minorities, world dominance, populism, masculinity fetishes, militarisation, raging out against 'weakness', loyalty and control obsessions, world conquest agendas, hatred of 'weak' Western democracy...
these are all issues the USA experienced, too, and still experienced. all this bullshit has the world on the brink of nuclear devastation, though it's easy for you kids to forget because those who cucked ya
like Jordan Peterson and AfD and shit their lips are as sealed as the Go-Gos because they're idiots who are stuck in their childhoods.
figure it out, kids, it's not my fault Jordan Peterson and Hitler made ya stupid and I'm sick of rectifying it. It's labour and it's unpaid labour to educate dumb dumbs all the time. But stupid gonna stupid and crawl up that ass of Hitler or Trump or Jordan looking for the sniff of the man they're not unless you stop em.
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teachingmycattoread · 10 months
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Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #3.5.5
Small Gods, Terry Pratchett (previous episode here)
Mansplain Manipulate Malewife (meme)
This scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
St Ungulant - the pillar hermit to whom M has ascribed malewife status
Undomestic Goddess, Sophie Kinsella
Wile E Coyote (wiki)
Brother Nhumrod - Brutha's boss in the opening scenes of Small Gods
Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss (meme)
Tumblr media
Friends (1994-2004)
This scene from X-Men: First Class (2011)
Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
Hogfather, Terry Pratchett (our episode here)
Nigel Planer (imdb)
Nigel Planer Discworld audiobooks (audible). They're not all available on Audible any more, but your local library may have them.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
This scene from Hitchhiker's Guide
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Record scratch, freeze frame (meme)
This scene from The Emperor's New Groove
Guillermo del Toro (imdb)
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett (our episode here)
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cafeteriaoats · 3 years
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alright, ask and ye shall receive. here’s the first of a series of really annoying essays i’ve written about some of my favorite symbols:
Some may say that Newsies is a show about resilience; found family; the power of the underdog; a bunch of fruits doing crazy jumps and tapdancing. This is all accurate and I refute none of it, and I also encourage those who watch musicals as a fun escapist pastime and just wanted to see some little guys talk funny to keeeeep scrolling. Yes, some may say Newsies is a show about a lot of things, but this is an essay about Newsies most prevalent theme, contained in its most obvious theme: escapism.
Our hero, Jack, spends the course of the show searching for an escape from the uselessness he feels -- he becomes the “face of the strike” essentially to get his ticket out, to feel bigger than the box he’s been pushed into. The opening sets this theme immediately -- the sun rises on Jack escaping into his delusional fantasies about Santa Fe; a Santa Fe he has never seen, and knows almost nothing about. Obviously, the Santa Fe we’re talking about in this song isn’t a real place; it’s whatever the person talking about it needs it to be. Santa Fe has appeal for all the Newsies because it’s whatever they want; friends, safety, a home, etc. Jack and Crutchie are both orphans, and this is discussed during the song (“I ain’t got no folks nowhere”; “I don’t need folks, I got friends”), so it makes sense that in their minds, Santa Fe is a world of smiling faces (“The minute that you get there, folks will walk right up and say: welcome home, Son, welcome home to Santa Fe”). For Crutchie, Santa Fe is also a normalcy he would be able to feel if he wasn’t disabled (“Watch me stand, watch me run”). However, what pulls these disparate hopes together is the fact that they will be together -- that they can find this hope, this escapism, in each other. In a metaphor that must have been used in at least 30% of Newsies fan posts, Crutchie essentially becomes Jack’s Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Reprise is nowhere near as hopeful. This is interesting because it is the emotional low of the show, set immediately after the emotional high (King of New York). Jack has lost Crutchie, and more painfully, he has lost his Santa Fe. Without Crutchie, no victory will be the same, and he will never find the joy he dreamt of in the opening. Jack no longer dreams of the smiling faces in Santa Fe, or the beautiful scenery, or the good times, or any of the fantasies from the opening. This Santa Fe is a desperate last call -- and here we come to possibly my edgiest hill of all time, but one I will nonetheless die on. The Santa Fe reprise Santa Fe is death -- there’s no other way of looking at it. If Crutchie is to die in the refuge, then Jack wants the same for himself. “Guys are fighting, bleeding, dying, thanks to good old Captain Jack / Captain Jack just wants to close his eyes and go” cannot be interpreted in any other way -- nor can “let me go somewhere they won’t never find me”.
To recap: Santa Fe is always an ideal state for Jack, and in the opening, this ideal state is one full of hope and love. In the reprise, without Crutchie, the ideal state is death. And this never necessarily resolves itself -- what happens is much more bittersweet. After the events of the show, Jack can never necessarily return to the Santa Fe of the opening. He has essentially grown up and recognized his responsibility as the father of the Newsies -- the person they turn to. In the course, as all people must, he has let go of his escapism, his fantasy, his defensive mechanism of becoming someone else. He stops needing to go to Santa Fe, and New York becomes his home -- because Crutchie and the rest of the Newsies are in it. His life doesn’t need to be perfect -- he just needs his family in it.
Also, Jack and Crutchie are gay. Have a nice day.
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sophockets · 3 years
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i’ll call this a very long list of highly specific kotlc content
alden vacker telling his kids to simply repress their bad feelings by slapping the phrase “no reason to worry” at the end of each sentence
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the song twins being flung into banishment after linh caused a literal natural disaster without warning
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keefe sencen (finding out that his dad took mansplain manipulate manifest too literally and then finding out that his mom took gaslight gatekeep girlboss to the brink of death and no return) wanting the hell out of the sencen family name
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sophie just wanting one family dinner with grady and edaline without a weird carnivorous creature at havenfield trying to digest its neighbor
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that one time in alluveterre when fitz got his hair care regiment completely bonked and demolished by a scrawny strawberry-blond elf and his stupid blond elf in crime
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flashback sophie having to take 74 elixirs in the healing center, with at least 15 of them containing some kind of of weird fungus or worse
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fitz continuing the never ending alvar slander (that has gone on for three whole years) because if he doesnt channel his anger somewhere he will have to resort to feeling other feelings
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abracadaze · 2 years
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sophie walten character analysis tidbit that i thought would be short but became long </3 i'm breaking this up into little sections because i don't want to scare away my target audience (adhd havers) with a wall of text. lots more is under the cut! i didn't want to clog anyone's dash lol
- jenny shows sophie the bunnyfarm machine because she thinks sophie will enjoy the weird glitches ("these glitches are very freaky if i'm totally honest. that's why i wanted to show you this in the first place, i know you're into that.")
- from this, it can be pretty safely extrapolated that sophie enjoys horror, or at least creepy things (sophie does not seem to be particularly interested in arcade games, as evidenced by the fact that jenny has to explain to her very basic game mechanics, like what a joystick does)
- however, when jenny starts talking about the weird rumors surrounding bsi, sophie begins to sound anxious and worried, and she ultimately changes the subject when jenny brings up the fact that someone might have died on bsi property
- (immediately after that, she zones out, and when jenny asks what's wrong, she says "oh, yeah, i was just thinking about, um..." and trails off. obviously the rumors are upsetting sophie more than she lets on. i wonder what she might be thinking about..?)
- later on, once the 'glitches' have become more apparent and more unsettling, sophie says "i feel like this could be related to a person, trying to tell the player something. maybe even a ghost, because this game makes it seem like the people shown on screen died."
- it's interesting to me how quickly sophie jumps on the possibility of something supernatural going on, almost like it's something she thinks about pretty often
- ok, in summary: sophie likes horror but dislikes scary things in real life, and she seems to believe in (or at least accept the possibility of) the existence of ghosts
all of this is to say... i think these facts about her are a direct result of her trauma. even with the pills, she must remember having had a family and then losing them all. the terrifying uncertainty of what happened to her original family, even if it's only a vague feeling, could have pushed her towards horror media as a strange form of catharsis. in horror movies, you get answers, and generally the characters have some kind of agency, something she really didn't have when everything happened. they are fictional and distant from her, and that may make her feel a bit better
the stories of bsi employees going missing wouldn't exactly be pleasant for anyone to hear, but for sophie that must've struck an especially sensitive nerve because, to her knowledge, that's what happened to her family; they went missing, never to be seen again. she doesn't need a reminder that people are still going missing in brighton. despite enjoying horror media, real deaths and disappearances are too much for her
finally, her acceptance of the supernatural... i'm sure she's contemplated whether or not her family is even alive anymore after eight years of radio silence. people cope with death in a lot of different ways, and sophie believing in ghosts—that her family might still be with her, even if they're no longer alive—makes perfect sense to me
idk if this is all super obvious and i am just mansplaining basic plot points to u guys lmfao i just thought it was interesting and wanted to put it into words. thank u for reading this far if u did <3
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eloquentgifs · 3 years
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DWJ Reading Project. Part III
As I said here, my 2021 2023 resolution is gonna be READING EVERY DIANA WYNNE JONES BOOK I CAN FIND, and due to my love of making lists and taking notes, I’ve decided keeping track of this reading project here in this post, which I’ll keep updated as I make progress. It’s mostly for my own pleasure, but maybe it helps someone who wants to give it a try to this amazing writer and doesn’t know where to start.
Part I (1970 - 1976 & The Dalemark Quartet)
Part II (1977 - 1981 & The Chrestomanci Series )
- Archer’s Goon (1984): At this point it’s just ridiculous how these books keep being surprising and leaving me all wtf (in a good sense). This one is, again, about a family with very realistic dynamics who have to deal with some surreal fuckery. In this case, they live in a town ruled from the shadows by seven brothers and sisters, each of one farming a different aspect of the town (energy, police, crime, education, sewage... etc). I couldn’t explain the plot if my life depended on it, but I enjoyed every single page. ALSO, there’s a TV adaptation, althought it doesn’t seem very faithful***
***Edit: I’ve watched the whole thing now and I stand corrected: It’s actually quite faithful. Some characters are not how I imagined them, but they did mostly a good job, and I’m obsessed with Dillian’s dress
- Fire and Hemlock (1985): Well, I finished it yesterday and I’m still processing it. What a ride. I felt I missed a lot of subtext by not knowing the stories it’s inspired by, so I’m totally re-reading it in the future, after I’ve checked those up. About the parts I did get, it’s just WOW. Polly in all her complexity is just amazing. I love that the premise seems to be a feminist revision of a tale of clingy love, and I love how all along the book you can see different examples of shitty stuff women have to put up with (grown ups sexualizing underage girls, boys mansplaining shit and being a pain in the ass until the girl they’re after gets so tired she gives up, slut shaming between girls, whatever is going on with Ivy’s mental health, THE FUCKING GROOMING –really, this made me so unconfortable from the very beginning). Of course I don’t think this is the main theme of the book, but I do believe DWJ wasn’t random about anything. There’s so much going on in my mind I don’t really know what else to say.
- Land of Ingary Series: · Howl’s Moving Castle (1986): This is 8th time I read this book (the 4th in English. It was actually my first book in English). It's my favourite book in the world and I could write a whole essay about how much I love it and how good it is for my mental and emotional balance, so I’ll just mention a few thoughts to keep this short: 1) I relate to Howl much more than I’d like to admit. 2) Sophie taught me to use aggresive cleaning to cope with anxiety. 3) Also, I would kill for powers like hers. 4) I actually relate to all of them, bunch of human messes. Diana predicted the millennials. 5) I can’t believe it took me this long to really understand [Calcifer spoilery stuff]. 6) Now that I’m more familiar with DJW usual tone and themes, I have to asume she wrote this lighthearted (pun intended) and fun story to relax a little bit after the previous 3-4 books, and that makes me love it even more. 7) I should read Stardust.
· Castle in the Air (1990): I’ve also read this one several times, and there’s a lot to love in it. Most of the new characters are amazing and the plot is quite a ride (and if you’re into The Arabian Nights, you’ll probably love this). I even stole some traits from Abdullah for one of my OC. But I must admit it didn’t age well, or at least there are some aspects I like less every time I read it, mostly regarding the female characters and what is said about their looks and beauty. I also felt Sophie was a little bit out of character, but obviously she’s going through STUFF so I’d rather not to judge. In any case, it’s a nice story and it’s not its fault not being as perfect as the absolute masterpiece that was HMC
· House of Many Ways (2008): The first time I read this one it was months before DWJ died, and since I hadn’t like that much and it made me really sad to know it would be the last book of this series, I used to feel a weird resentment against it all these years. This new re-read helped me to reconcile with it and actually enjoy it a lot. Maybe back then I was too similar to Charmain and I felt attacked or something, idk, but I’ve definitely learnt to love useless idiots who have no clue about anything going on in their lifes and it’s almost a miracle they’re still alive. And the fact that a huge % of the book it’s just her and Peter doing house chores? Hilarious. Also, I have the impression that DWJ was so tired of people fancying Howl that this time she did her best to show us how fucking annoying he can be.
- A Tale of Time City (1987): This was the first DWJ book I read after a long hiatus and I must confess it took me several months to finish it, which was surprising because I had missed Diana a lot and time travel is one of my favourite things in literature. Maybe the hype was too high, but it just didn’t hook me at first. It gets better once the worldbuilding is settled and the plot can fly free, and I did enjoy a lot of silly scenes that only provide vibe, like the main character laughing her ass off during the chaotic morning routine in the house. I also appreciate the racial diversity, and the comeback of the Surprise Evil Uncle (tm), a DWJ classic. And I do want one of those butter-pies now. - Wild Robert (1989): Heather is a girl who lives in a castle-museum because her parents are the curators there. She hates tourists so I could relate to her from the very beginning. She hates them so much she accidentally wakes up a 350 yo wizard from his grave so he gets rid of them. The story is so short that it almost feels as pilot for a show, like, you want to keep seeing Heather and Robert getting into trouble and stuff.  It would have made a nice series of children’s books.
- Black Maria (also known as Aunt Maria, 1991): The timing for this one was weirdly good because: a) I had to move in with my old aunt for a few days to help her while she recovers after a surgery (which is basically the starting point for Mig, the mc of the story, and her family), b) the book has several mysteries, including a crime one (my aunt forced me to watch hours of police procedural shows), the town where Mig's aunt lives has a extreme matriarchal social structure, where women are on the top, and men are just Ken, and the main conflict surrounds this (I started reading the book around the time Barbie premiered). I don’t normally like the first-person narrative, but DWJ managed to do it, once again, in a rather clever way that fits the story quite right and made me like Mig a lot. Also, it was nice to see that the adult relative is actually helpful and good, instead of the classic neglectul piece of shit that she so often includes.
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youritalianbookpal · 2 years
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"You bloody fool," he swore. "Do you have any idea how dangerous it is in the world for a woman alone?"
"Er, yes," she managed. "Actually, I do."
If he heard her, he gave no indication, just went on about "men who take advantage" and "helpless women" and "fates worse than death." Sophie wasn't positive, but she thought she even heard the phrase, "roast beef and pudding." About halfway through his tirade, she lost all ability to focus on his words. She just kept watching his mouth and hearing the tone of his voice, all the while trying to comprehend the fact that he seemed remarkably concerned for her welfare, considering that she'd just summarily rejected him.
Julia Quinn, An Offer From A Gentleman
Cool motive, still mansplaining
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❝Listen, never, ever, ever underestimate a bratty clever teenage girl! I knew Sansa (Sophie Turner) was going places from day one! Shout out to every man in every bar that for so many years mansplained GoT and specifically Sansa to me. I loved that Sansa got under people’s skin, and taught them how absolutely terrifying a smart teenage girl could be. Sansa might not have a sword, but she used what skills she did have, even to mimicking her hair to whoever she needed to impress at the moment, and I love her for that. Anyone that can turn hair braiding into an act of war deserves to rule. All hail the rightful Queen of the North!❜
—Dana Elle Salzberg
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i'd like to start a support group for all the sofia/sofía/sofija/sophia/sophie/žofia/žofie/soffia/zsófia/zofia/sonia/sonya/sonja's who have had their names mansplained to them
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