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Oh damn. OH DAMN???
guy who has mistaken adrenaline for love and isnât interested in correcting the mistake
#is 180 files#ANGEL???#fuck#my agent happily saving the operation and the files#after flirting with angel#DANGER HE MAD#Can't wait
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Conversations between best friends has often led to some reckless/stupid/not thought out at all decisions. Like one conversation the amity park trio had where Danny said that he couldn't see Tucker as a doctor (the medical kind) to which Tucker responded with "Alright, bet." and enrolled in medical school. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Wayne and Tucker Foley somehow by coincidence *cough* clockwork* became friends. And stayed friends even after Bruce dropped out and Tucker went on to finish med school. It was a strange friendship that was mainly just Bruce calling Tucker from the weirdest locations and asking things "Out of curiosity, if an immortal nutjob wanted you to marry his daughter and become his heir what would you do? uh-huh, uh-huh, really? ok, thanks." and meeting up for coffee every now and then. It was during one of these coffee meet-ups that Bruce confessed that he wanted to adopt a recently orphaned child by the name of Richard. There was currently push back from people who didn't think 'Brucie Wayne' would be a good parent and from others who didn't want a random kid having a chance to inherit the Wayne fortune, the media was also having a field day. Everyone kept asking him to "reconsider" and doing everything they can to stall/stop the adoption process. Tucker, being the good friend he was, said "Don't worry, I got this" Stood up from the cafe table, walked to the nearest library and politely asked to use one of their computers, spent a good ten minutes on it, printed something out on the library's printer, walked back to the cafe where he left Bruce waiting. And finally, he handed over the paper with the words "Take this." and continued drinking his now cold coffee. Bruce was, understandably, confused. "What is-" "Trust me, it'll work." Tucker assured him. That is how Bruce Wayne adopted one Richard 'Dick' Grayson.
And after that, Bruce went to Tucker whenever he came across a kid that he wanted to adopt, which was often. It's one reason why Tucker will do everything in his power to make sure Danny and Bruce never meet for fear that the Gothamite might try to add the Halfa to the growing army of children. Aka
Tucker Foley is The Guy
#dpxdc#dcxdp#dp x dc#dc x dp#danny phantom#danny fenton#batman#becoming a doctor out of spite#Tucker has a medical degree that's collecting dust while he tinkers with tech magic#He has a license and is legally allowed to practice medicine#He never does#Bruce is keeping an one on him because everyone knows all doctors go villain in gotham#Bruce: please don't become a mad scientist#Tucker with a basement filled with very dangerous tech: ...Have you met me?#I was thinking about Sam being the one going to med school#but she'd hate Brucie wayne#Bruce sometimes forgets to come at things from a normal POV so he go's to Tucker for advice#Tucker gives bad advice#Another late-night ramble
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it's immensely funny to me how andrew lloyd webber read this passage from the book and was like yeah the journey down to the phantom's lair is this really breathtaking magical gondola ride where christine is just captivated by the strange and fantastical beauty of it all (see below)
when in the novel they're both like in a rowboat in the dark with christine scared out of her mind and confused as hell while erik is paddling like he's out for an extreme day of fishing and just staring christine down for the entire duration of the journey without blinking once . like mind you his eyes quite literally GLOW in the DARK and he's just fucking staring into her soul and silently rowing and probably not even breathing like
#AND IT'S SOMEHOW STILL HOT#i always forget that by this point in the book there's no âi am your angel of music / come to me angel of musicâ like in the musical#like she has no idea who this mf kidnapping her is and when she says âwho are you where is the voiceâ he's just like đ#and when she DOES find out that *he's* the voice and he's been pretending to be an angel sent by her dead father for 3 months#it's when he's just set her down in his sitting room that's filled with a bunch of stupid pretentious flowers#and he's like âdon't be afraid you're in no dangerâ despite the fact that she's been taken FIVE STORIES BENEATH THE OPERA against her will#by the guy who's been manipulating and lying to her through the goddamn walls#ohhhhhhhh and then fans have the audacity to get mad at christine for trying to snatch his mask like THIS MF ABDUCTED HER????#(still love him though <3)#(his morals are questionable but so is my interest in menđ)#phantom of the opera#poto#poto shitpost
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After Danny adopted Dani as his daughter, she decided to travel a little again, the problem is, she ended in Metropolis.
Now that the Justice League is chasing her cause "she killed her original" , she decided to go with them, just cause she is tired of running
Now they are discussing contingency plans and Dani needs ecto-dejecto, she decided to call her parent.
Enter 100% original Danny Fenton, full human form, screaming about kidnapping his daughter
#danny phantom#dp x dc#danny fenton#dani phantom#dc x dp#justice league#is all a misunderstanding#but Danny is mad now#absolutely feral#and he hate the JL#The JL tries to tell him she is her clone and dangerous#and will probably try to kill him#He just stared at them#totally dead in the eyes#And tell them yeah he knows she is a clone#but is HIS DAUGHTER#and you cant take her#Short Danny vs all JL League#and he is winning#Other clones into the league are staring in love#and yeah Danny DEMANDED JL for Kidnapp#in court#he is SO mad#JL Dark is not being called and that's hilarious#cause if they were there Constantine will cry about League being idiots#But no#Danny is not using his King privileges#he is destroying them 100% human#Eldritch Danny Phantom
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i love a hypocrite :)
#witch hat atelier#wha#wha spoilers#qifrey#actually kinda funny that i could've added a bunch of panels of him using magic when he's mad as hell lol#he's not very professor-like at times but he's about to show the true meaning of anger and danger now and i for one am ready to see it hehe
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i don't think u need to worry about poppy ikemen anymore, new ride kamens character is kr kamui who is our lord and savior dan kuroto
DAN THE DANGEROUS ZOMBIE MAN!!!!!! I was SO excited when I saw the reveal, he is absolutely the funniest possible character choice hands-down. oh my god. I'm so glad he made it into this game.
also Kamui just looks incredible. instant favorite. this is the kind of man I can picture standing naked on a cliffside and screaming at everyone about his imminent ascension towards godhood. he is the incarnation of that one iconic Gina Linetti scene.
#art#ride kamens#AND he's apparently frenemies with araki which is maybe the best character combination i've ever heard of#i bet they each think of the other as being their sidekick#this game just keeps looking better and better#i was wrong about mad guys being the tough boys though whoops#this just makes me more obsessed with whoever's coming tonight though WHAT'S HIS DEAL GONNA BE#god. cannot overstate how happy i am to see shin neo kuroto#and not just genm but dangerous zombie specifically! my favorite!#dangerous zombie is one of my favorite suit designs of all time so i'm just pleased as punch to see it included#(i never did get used to the ex-aid eyes but he makes them work)#i do wonder if we're gonna get to see some of the other related characters too. kinda twst-style.#in which case is ikemen poppy something we still have to think about or...
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Vlad: Would you like to form an alliance... with me?
Ghost writer: Absolutely. Absolutely, I do.
Now, Vlad should know better than to ally himself with someone who broke the Christmas truce, buuuut. The call for DnD is so tempting that he just had to do it.
He then dragged Daniel and his friends into it as well. Daniel dragged his sister along and then the Fenton parents found out and, well.
It suddenly became a thing.
Oh well, both Vlad and Ghost Writer sculpt up some lore from each of their character sheets, weave a world from words and then drag a random number of people to act as their 'players.'
It was supposed to be people from Amity Park, but there was a miscalculation on that part, and honestly you can't even blame them because they've been weaving nonstop and Vlad ignored quite a bit of sleep to try and make this perfect as he could.
So instead of civilians they dragged in a few members of the Justice League and, well.
As long as they play by the rules nothing would hopefully go wrong...?
#dc x dp#dp x dc#dpxdc#dp x dc crossover#dcxdp#dc x dp crossover#I don't wanna say what roles they have in the post becus someone else could probably think of sum way cooler so I shall just say them here#Jack and Maddie? Probably mad scientists or mad scientist adjacent#Jack could even be a blacksmith and Maddie an Alchemist#One who makes weapons he really shouldn't be and the other dangerous and outright banned potions#I would say Danny could be a dragon but then there's the whole parenthood thing#And I would say that Jazz is queen of Amazons but then still#Parenthood thing.#Sam could be a nymph or sum typa plant spirit#Tucker could be a#Pharoah#Yes that#but who knows#Just me musing
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I don't know how to explain about the Braytech lore in a LoP AU setting â so instead I made concepts.
#destiny#destiny 2#destiny the game#lies of p#lop#crossover au#exo stranger#elsie bray#ana bray#banshee-44#fanart#THESE BRAINWORMS HAD BEEN LIVING IN MY MIND SINCE I BEGAN LOP#SOONER OR LATER I HAD TO DRAW IT#and yeah i didnt draw my hunter gal yet but ofc i also have ideas for her#as well as awoken ppl and ada also bein a technician#but lets consider first on bray family and puppet exos and ergo/clarity and raspuppetin#idk yet how i want banshee to be in this au bc i also want clovis to exist and be the geppetto figure#all while being that mad figure we all know that wants to be immortal but ofc he will not put himself in danger yet#so would banshee still be powered by clovis' ergo or an awakened attempt w someone else's (clovis ii) ergo?#and as much as i love elsie i still want her to be trapped in a timeloop especially because that's P plot too#IN THIS HOUSE WE DONT WORK WITH SOLID IDEAS â JUST IDEAS
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Dc x dp idea 84
Jack and Maddie are legit crazy mad scientist.
They moved to amity before jazz was born. Prior to the justice league. Those who didnât comply when the moved were swiftly taken care of.
All outside new sources come from them amity has only seen what the fentons want.
The Giw were hired by the Fentons. Both are bad. But who would the town rather deal with the shoot first supposed government. Or the wacky Fenton parents.
And how many parents can exactly actively stake out a school. How many times had they been inside the school during the school day.
That is until mr lancer comes into play. Somehow he managed to slip by and entered the town this year. Earning a position of vice principal right under their noses.
He actively promotes Danny doing better. Actually forcing him to do his work and learn.
He takes notes of Dannyâs declining health. Falling asleep in class, the bruises and reports the fentons. Only for nothing to happen.
Lancer then takes notes of the eccentric actions of the fentons. The screaming of tearing the ghosts apart. He knows about the truth of the outside world. He knows this would go against the meta human protection acts. So he makes a mental note to contact the proper services of the need arises.
After the events of the town being yoinked into the infinite realms. He finally acts. Sending out an email and call to the justice league hotline. Unbeknownst to him both being stopped by the Fenton parents.
Obviously they plan to deal with him when the time is right.
The only reason he stays is because no other adult seems to care about the kids. He was the only one who event attempted to check in on them during the ghost flu.
He canât stand by any longer when he sees the two Fenton parents hunting phantom. See them getting skilled shots in. Actively forcing phantom into Danny. But they donât stop. Still shooting at Danny.
Mr. Lancer watches as Jazz, Sam and Tucker manage to get them away. He ushers them to his car the five hardly manages to make it out. Danny seriously injured.
Itâs only then does the phone connect to the justice league helpline.
#danny phantom#danny fenton#dp x dc#dc x dp#dp dc crossover#dp x dc crossover#dp x dc prompt#justice league#bad parents jack and maddie#mad scientist#good teacher mr.lancer#mr lancer saves the day#he would have left but he was concerned about the kids#he had gone from every now and then emailing#to emailing/calling the hotline daily#never getting a response#but he couldnât just leave.#then he had to. he wasnât going to leave his 4 students in danger#not when they faced them#not when Danny was obviously injured
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âAll we need is a planâ *fails to elaborate*
#whyâs he so proud of himself đ#everyone is so mad#henry danger#ray manchester#schwoz schwartz#henry hart#jasper dunlop#charlotte page
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still cant choose whats the funniest part of this scene: dementus' "everyone is saying itâs MY fault!đ" or jack's "yeah.. whatever, just shut up alreadyđ" expression
#jack's âyou can speak to meâ tho#absolutely insane and one of the most romantic moments in the decade#furiosa hasnt seen dementus for years and now her arm unconsciously moves to the gun to shoot him#and jack doesnt even know whats wrong but he instantly understands the danger#so he just steps in front protecting her from that monster and furiosa comes to her senses#no one writes romance like george miller does my god#furiosa#furiosa a mad max saga#furyjack#dementus
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If yâall can forgive Edgeworth for knowingly participating in a rigged trial because he couldnât accept ruining his perfect record, than you should be able to forgive Phoenix for presenting forged evidence when he was facing the possibility of execution and the man actually responsible for the murder he was accused of walks free and could go after his daughter if he decided taking vengeance out on Phoenix wasnât enough.
#ace attorney#phoenix wright#aa4 spoilers#god forbid a generally good character make a morally gray decision when he and his loved one are in danger#some of you are like âif a character isnât presented as fallible from the beginning than he is never allowed to mess up.â#and itâs just⌠frustrating.#like please learn to have sympathy for good characters making bad decisions under duress#you can certainly be mad at them but to decide they are a no good horrible selfish person because they had one moment of self preservation#is just ludicrous#and boring
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#15 Incorrect Batman: Vigilante (My AU)
Poison Ivy:Â I am Poison Ivy, I speak for the trees. Chop them down and I snap your knees.
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Joker:Â I just got the best idea I've ever had in my entire life!
*Later*
Lex Luthor, to Joker:Â That was the worst idea youâve ever had in your entire life.
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Mad Hatter:Â Just be careful, Dear Scary!
Scarecrow:Â *heading out the door* I'm always careful, Matty!
Scarecrow:Â It's everything around me that's careless.
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Harvey Dent:Â I give up. I am so tired.
Joker:Â Get the emergency supply!
Harley Quinn:Â *carries Grace and places her in front of Harvey*
Grace Lamont:Â *smiles*
Two Face:Â AND I AM BACK BABY, LETâS GOOO
*****
Mad Hatter:Â Hey, wanna help me commit crime?
March Harriet:Â What the hell!?
Mad Hatter:Â Oh, sorry, my bad.
Mad Hatter, whispering:Â Wanna help me commit crime?
March Harriet, whispering:Â Sure. How can I help?
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Joker:Â *pretending to joke* So when are you going to go out with me?
Batman:Â I don't know. When are you going to ask me to?
Later
Harley Quinn:Â And you just ran away?!
Joker:Â I didn't expect him to flirt back!
*****
Two Face:Â What can therapy do for me that screaming in my car for 30 minutes canât?
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Music Meister:Â Hey, Mad Hatter, do you have feelings for me?
Mad Hatter:Â Yeah, anger.
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Penguin:Â You know what the problem is? Youâre really cute, so no one ever told you to shut your pie-hole.
Riddler:Â You think Iâm cute?
Penguin:Â SHUT YOUR PIE-HOLE!
*****
Joker:Â A fistfight CAN be romantic.
#Batman: Vigilante#scarecrow needs to be more careful#like really#he's a danger for the other and himself#batman dc au#dc au#batman au#dc joker#harley quinn#jonathan crane#jervis tetch#edward nygma#poison ivy#scarecrow#dc mad hatter#two face#harvey dent#grace lamont#dc riddler#march harriet#harriet pratt#music meister#lex luthor#bruce wayne#batjokes#riddlebird#hatterharriet#grace lamont x harvey dent#batman#batman incorrect quotes
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love seeing your takes on mouthwashing and how sane they are. everything's so black or white. I like how you acknowledge curlys abuse under jimmy (which I honestly didn't quite notice when I first watched a playthrough. should rewatch w this in mind) and how that very much doesn't "forgive" his inaction towards Anya and Her abuse under jimmy. I think what happens to him despite all his issues (bc he clearly wasn't OK đâđź) is very much karmic. I really did hurt huh
I hate the take that what happened to him is karmic as becoming disabled and being tortured is like not in any way an equal consequence for not taking more action against Jimmy. It is a consequence as is the whole game for everyone but itâs one that is very much established as being undeserved and extreme as everyone elseâs but Jimmyâs fate.
Thank you for liking my takes but I also try to point out that this exact sort of framing of the events and what happened to Curly is bad especially if you are gonna factor in his own abuse into the equation of his inaction/ineffective acts. Itâs like âsaying yeah he deserved the abuse he was already going through to escalate because he didnât do enoughâ which is like not a message the game tries to deliver at all. Itâs like the game shows that abusers escalate
Karma and punishment are not concepts that I think should be directly tied to Curlyâs fate especially since during the game and even in discussion he takes on too many consequences of someone elseâs actions. Like this framing is the direct thing I describe taking the discussion away from Jimmy, P.E and the factors that created the environment in the first place.
#Maybe Iâm just a bleeding heart for fictional characters that suffer but the fandom has a weird attachment to retribution#as if retribution is not a damning desire in the game like the game is about what happens when you#lack the capability to try and do better or go back on it and that is about all of them but mainly Jimmy and how it intensifies#the suffering of those around him like not saying Curly is excused but the think pieces about Curly make on whether he deserved it make it#sound like he was some empty headed dolt that didnât know women faced oppression or had any issues of his own#and that he needed to be humbled to understand as if his toxic relationship with Jimmy is not an aspect in the forefront and his apathy in#life like becoming disabled isnât karma yes his condition parallel Anyaâs feeling but itâs also reveals all the way Jimmy was already#treating him poorly and how it got worse now that he had more power over him like again he harasses Anya still but noticed he takes out most#of his frustration on Curly now like idk what more I can say#I hate the idea someone deserves to be disabled and go through such a brutal experience comments like that are weird#like this is not an argument of Curly suffered too with Anya it is they are both suffering at all points with Jimmy#and it is not at all helpful to any conversation to try to scale and compare both their experiences against each other#but rather how they both reacted to Jimmy and how it affected how they handled/viewed everything pre and post crash#like I hope this hurts is likely a comment on the whole system that allowed it all to happen not specifically about any character or what#they did like it never did not hurt thatâs the point none of the choices made felt good for anyone like sorry this is not about you anon#just the general sentiment of post crash curly and deserving cause by the logic people use then Swansea deserved to watch Daisuke suffer and#have to kill him because he didnât kill Jimmy or support Anya better like itâs crazy to me#like yes represents him not being able to do more anymore but it is again pointed out to be unfair because of what resources they had#like he suffers due to P.Es restriction even when it comes to his care because they under supply them despite how long and dangerous#and isolating and short staffed their jobs are.#got a little heated sorry anon I just think the idea someone needs to suffer for what Jimmy did outside of Jimmy makes me mad#mainly because itâs never like realistic or just or acknowledges the facets of abuse#mouthwashing#ask#anon#mouthwashing game#curly mouthwashing
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buddy is surrounded by horrible horrible adults like at all times and it is deeply stressing to me. not to baby him, i do think he is easily mislead but he is not stupid. but also like. can he be given a moment to breathe actually. can he not be manipulated for one second. please put him in a normal social situation with regular teenagers his age please im begging you
#fantasy high#dimension 20#fhjy#d20#buddy dawn#fantasy high junior year#SLASH LIGHT HEARTED THIS IS NOT A GENUINE COMPLAINT OR ANYTHING#I DIDNT EXPECT TO LIKE THIS CHARACTER AS MUCH AS I DO AND I AM SO WORRIED. IM SO SCARED#i get uncomfortable when people go like âhe is just a baby!â because he is a full teenager#like i agree hes being manipulated big time by irresponsible adults around him that dont care about him#but i think its more complicated rhan just âhe doesnt know any better!â#but im losing my mind. i think hes being set up as an antagonist for s4 and while#im very excited we get to see more of him im also deeply terrified because i think . he is in danger ?????#bc he is still being influenced by the rage crystal that hasnt been takem out of him + im so scared hes gonna get. killed#i do not think he is evil. i think hes a misguided kid whos having a lot of awful things happen to him#but im terrified i will be proven wrong. buddy please#IM EXCITED TO SEE WHERE THE CLIFFHANGER WILL LEAD TO BUT U MUST UNDERSTAND#IM SO ILL. IM GOING MENTAL. MAD. SICK IN THE HEAD#IM GOING TO MICROEAVE HIM UNTIL HE EXPLODES.
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frustrating levels of discourse continue happening on twt ugh https://x.com/lara_e_brown/status/1839303817256645101
Lol yeah, I've honestly just given up on reading takes like that because once you've seen one, you've seen 'em all.
It's an extremely shallow reading, using things like "pale", which you can in fact be while having a darker complexion, with both examples relating less to a physical appearance and more to his aspect in the moment (his face is "white" because he's scared; he's "pale and effeminate" because he's in a wan and weakened state). And I say "both" because you tend to come up with faaaar fewer examples of the text relating Heathcliff as pale than... not.
I also find it funny that this user uses Heathcliff marrying Isabella as an example of why he MUST be white, when Heathcliff and Isabella literally run away together because nobody wants them to be together, PARTICULARLY her brother, and this rips the Linton family asunder. Almost as if.......... it was............... breaking a taboo......................
Like, yeah! 18th century Yorkshire wouldn't have accepted that marriage. And if there's one thing we know about Heathcliffâif it's not accepted, he's not gonna do it.
One of the entire points of his character is that he lives against law and taboo and societal norms (while at the same time being deeply aware of the fact that his existence doesn't gel with them). In that thread, that user references the Byronic hero, with the name drawing from Lord Byron and his own literary fascinations. Byron was obsessed with taboo, lived to break them (most famously the taboo of sleeping with people of the same sex, and probably the taboo of incest as well... COME TO MY TED TALK TO DISCUSS HOW THAT COULD RELATE TO HEATHCLIFF, ALSO). One of the reasons why more recent scholarship (and I don't even mean super recent) surrounding Wuthering Heights has come to terms with the interpretation of Heathcliff as a man of color is that he does embody the taboo even more.
And obviously... some taboos (the incest one) exist for a reason. But the book also seems interested in questioning how much we really gain by treating someone (someone like Heathcliff) as other and wrong simply for existing. Again, we go into the cycle of abuse.
I also find it rather belittling of people to refer to general 18th and 19th century values when discussing how people "would have" seen Heathcliff, or interpreted the text. Because, for one thingâyeah! A lot of contemporary readers did not in fact Get It. Perhaps in part because they did have the biases that people like that user seem to believe would have prevented the author from exploring Heathcliff as a man of color.
... But if Emily Bronte thought exactly as the detractors of her novel (who condemned it as wicked and aberrant) did, she never would have written the book, I think. Who's to say, though? It's difficult for EITHER side to make leaps about what Emily knew or thought, because she is someone who didn't live very long, has been portrayed as an eccentric (and perhaps even maligned by Elizabeth Gaskell's portrayal of her) and definitely had something of an offbeat upbringing. We just don't have much directly from HER. So it's a bit rich to me to make assumptions about the kind of limited worldview she may have had on topics like race, when we really do not have a lot of definitive information about her worldview, but DO know that the book she wrote, which some theorize to be about a man of color, REALLY upset some conventional readers.
Like... why would you contextualize that book within a purely conventional reading when the entire reason why Wuthering Heights matters is that it defies convention?
I do shy away from using the word "canonical" to describe Heathcliff's race, because while I know what people mean when they say it (and I'm sure I've said it at some point) it's just a word choice that people like that user will latch on to. Like I've said before, there is no way to prove with 100% certainty Heathcliff's race either way. Which isn't to say that you have to do so to state that he's a man of color. It's just the kind of pedantic strategy people will use in threads like these.
And I'll notice, too, that she omits Nelly's line wherein she speculates that Heathcliff's mother could be Chinese or Indian. I mean, what's her take on that specificity combined with the lascar speculation? No mention of Liverpool relating to people... not... from America or Spain...?
I do worry sometimes that people see someone's major concentration (say, if someone has a BA in English or something, which for the record I don't) and go "Damn, that's end-all, be-all" A) it's not, there's more to research than getting a degree B) you could also use literal wikipedia footnotes to kickstart your own deeper dive into this, there are tons of people who've made careers discussing books like WH debating the issue C) having a degree of any level never kicks your bias.
To go back to my own degree... I knew old art historians who saw nothing gay at all in Michelangelo's work. You can know a lot about a lot, and it doesn't mean you have an open mind.
I think anyone can read WH, do some research about the era and Emily, and drawn their own conclusions. And you are just going to have to make your conclusions based on your own assessment. There is no smoking gun here, and there never will be because the smoking gun would be a living Emily Bronte willingly telling you what she meant.
And I didn't read Heathcliff as a person of color from the jump, for the record. I was thirteen when I read that book for the first time; I'm white; I picked that book in the context of it being a Great English Classic, and as far as I knew, those were all about white people. Because... that's what you were taught about WH at the time, at least where I was.
But when I was first introduced to that interpretation some time later, it was a literal "OH!" moment. Because like... yeah. There isn't a smoking gun for Dorian Gray's sexuality (and yes, we know a lot more about Oscar Wilde than we do about Emily Bronte; but the absence of knowledge of Emily's interests and attitudes doesn't mean we can assume she DIDN'T have an interest in writing Heathcliff as a person of color) but The Picture of Dorian Gray makes way more sense when you interpret his queerness for what it is. Wuthering Heights makes way more sense when you interpret Heathcliff's race for what it is.
#wuthering heights#people want this freaky-ass book to be as conventional as possible#they want pride and prejudice but with eyeliner and dying#and i do have to raise an eyebrow at the constant references to the byronic hero when people make the heathcliff is white argument#bc it feels as if they're divorced from the fact that byron wouldn't have been far off from emily#he died when she was a small child but he wasn't this distant figure#and the byronic hero wasn't this super solidified type as it is now#heathcliff obviously would be part of what solidified the type as it is today versus adhering to it#and i think that when we simply think of the byronic hero as the suffering loner type versus what BYRON was#we simplify it into being moody and tormented versus being OUTSIDE OF SOCIETY#which is the thing i think people of the era associated LORD BYRON with#like yeah moody tortured mad bad dangerous to know but also a very compelling figure who was too taboo-breaking to be allowed to stay#anyway that's just about the use of byronic hero to justify a white heathcliff intepretation
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