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Katherine Arden, The Bear and The Nightingale

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the sillies all year round...

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fitz: could it be... that chade was wrong about something?

me:

"i have missed you, you know. missed you sorely, despite all our differences"

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"i have missed you, you know. missed you sorely, despite all our differences"

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only reason why kennit is in liveship traders is because he was born before madoka magica was created

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Not me scrolling through the Conclave tag only to see no one talk about the deliberate positioning and framing of the women in this movie.

Pulling up this movie I completely expected to only encounter Sister Agnes as the one woman we see in the trailer, the conclave a space that has been kept from the female members of the church. Now, color me surprised when I started the movie and most of the establishing shots we got were focused on all the women working in the Vatican.

And it is such a deliberate choice, it does the film a disservice not to talk about it.

Because while Cardinal Lawrence is having his fifteenth breakdown during sequestering and Bellini finds the ambitious asshole within himself, Ray does all the leg work, and Bel---- we see the women work.

We see the kitchens, we see them cook, we see them stand aside. Most of the time when the Cardinals are conspiring it is the women who interrupt because they are busy working, walking, running errands.

And there is power in that.

I think it is very deliberate how often (and with such lingering gaze) the camera shows us the lives of the other half - partially to connect to the wider themes of the movie, on how Bellini asks for women to get more power but never thanks them, and how Benitez stumps them all by thanking the women preparing their meals when asked to say the prayer (considering his own probably tumultuous relationship to gender within the church).

But it also stands in direct opposition to a long tradition in story telling: servants don't exist. How often the heroes of a regency romance are "alone" because the two hand maidens and three maids don't really count.

Conclave doesn't do that.

It doesn't let us look away.

Between all the petty drama, the politics, and the real life consequences of the conclave, we never stop looking at the people doing all the work.

Yes, we follow the ups and downs of Lawrence and Co, but in doing so the movie reminds us again and again of the women working the kitchen.

And that was just such a powerful artistic choice in a movie about a famously misogynistic church... I loved it. And I had to talk about it.

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if every danmei character ever was a woman, who would you be most insane about?

chang geng from spl. my friend hel explained this

genderswapping chang geng is fun because I love it when women have mental illness and extraordinary strength and are also clinically horny. thanks for coming to my ted talk

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(evergrowing) ultimate fanfiction recommendations!!

sha po lang (all changgu):

soft to be strong by bicuspidjam

rated T, finished! — love conquers all, and everything will be ok

anchor by Ceta

rated G, finished! — it's au but it's so in character, i need another 90k of it

借一半清醒梦给我; lend me half a lucid dream by jingi

rated E, finished! — you can really sink your teeth into this one

genshin impact:

Conversation Among the Ruins by sirenalley

zhongxiao | rated M, not finished! — my holy scripture, truly

lilies, tigers by achene

haino | rated M, finished! — beautiful prose, very atmospheric

all my dreaming given name by windborne (ewagan)

haino | rated T, finished! — again, beautiful prose, made my heart flutter

best laid (wedding) plans by forwantofanoxfordcomma

kaeluc | rated T, finished! — really good concept... why did i shed a tear?

final fantasy vii:

moon (hole of light) by anonymous

not rated, finished! — it's only 630 words but incredible

pathologic (all burakhovsky):

What Becomes of the World & Finding a way to make the pieces fit by mariamegale

rated M & rated E, finished! — secret Pathologic route, shh (if i could eat this, i would)

Shedding Skin by Plaguedboar

rated M, finished! — canon, actually

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the worst part about being a fan of pathologic classic hd is having to play pathologic classic hd. the second best part of being a fan of pathologic hd is getting to play pathologic classic hd. the #1 best part of playing pathologic classic hd is of course the yaoi

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Next patch is Lantern Rite... Any Zhongxiao predictions?

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obsessed with kennit's "i'm going to fucking Kill Myself" attitude after sorcor gave him a reality check

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do you ever start writing a comment on the internet and then think “oh what the fuck am i going on about” and delete it

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on the hunt 🐺

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"....Even to me."

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