#The Selection trilogy

[acourtofquestions]

America Singer 🤝 Aelin Galathynius

RED HAIR REBELLION

[megalomari]

the last two movies were wack but i did some doodles anyway

[astrolotte]

Thinking of writing a fic where Wiggly calls Nibbly the "least evil Lord in Black" (a canonical fact about him fyi), and Nibbly responds by deciding to supposedly 'prove him right' by sabotaging his latest apocalypse and working with the humans. Just to fuck with him. As brothers do.

No clue if anyone would even be interested in it but I'm highly considering it. Maybe I'll see where this goes.

edit: turns out people are very interested in this, so I've started writing it! if you're intrigued enough here's the ao3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51812965

[flyingraevyn]

Me getting on Tumblr to search for a book series I’m only halfway through:

I’m ready for ✨spoilers✨

[toniodarling]

WHO GAVE TBIS BLUE-EYED FREAK BROWN CONTACTS

[pocoslip]

I'm still waiting for Mercenary Stickers to put on any Autobots and Decepticons, even if it takes Forever

[bethannangel]

Guys I’m here and I’m not ready

[roobylavender]

theres been a discussion of reeves vs nolan take on selina recently. someone said the nolan one was better and theyre currently getting dogpiled.. what is your take on whos better?

nolan unequivocally. i feel like people get caught up in nolan selina’s occasional sexy lines (which are cringe and i do dislike, to be clear) as a means to discredit the character altogether despite the fact that there’s so much emphasis put on selina having agency and liberty to do as she chooses, which is a quintessential aspect of her dynamic with bruce. he disapproves of her actions and methods at times but he respects her personhood and he doesn’t make choices for her bc obv he doesn’t have a right to but she would also never allow him to. their dynamic in the dark knight rises is great bc it is holistically predicated on a respect for her decisions, her bitterness, and her compassion. i do think there are other criticisms you can make as to how nolan selina sort of subtly reinforces the propaganda of the trilogy; i do not have the link at the moment but when reeves’s batman came out there was a youtuber who made a video comparing reeves selina to nolan selina and talked about how the latter’s whiteness did play into her ability to escape confinement and consequences easily, which when you juxtapose against the racism driving nolan’s casting and the recent shift to acknowledge selina as a potentially biracial character, can spark valid concerns as to limiting the potential class commentary she was actually capable of as a character (and i will address this later with respect to reeves selina). but that valid criticism aside my preference for nolan selina has to do with maintaining her character and relationship integrity, which to me is the most impt thing you can do in an adaptation. if the plot and circumstances will change, what you should at least try to do is maintain the core of the character, and nolan does that marvelously with selina and bruce (likely bc dixon, whose work the nolan movies are largely adapted from, actually tended to write these two well)

now, obv with reeves selina a huge reason for supporting her in comparison is the racial visibility, esp when you, again, consider why nolan originally rejected zoe for the role in his movies. and i do think that’s highly valid and frankly i want non-white selina, bc it makes her contentions with and distrust of the state as established in catwoman (1989) that much more palpable and worthwhile to explore. but a racebended casting doesn’t automatically do the work for you and there’s still a character integrity you have to maintain. and i think this is something not only reeves but dc writers at large tend to understand poorly. there’s so much racebending happening in comics these days and i do think it’s a useful vehicle but not as it’s actually used in practice. the changes are superficial rather than going to the root of the character. so i personally find reeves selina to be a huge insult to the character, bc rather than use that racebending as an opportunity to expand on selina and her hardline opposition to bruce and the state, it’s not really used to do much at all (which honestly can likely be attributed to the fact that everyone involved in making this script and plot was white!) and selina is instead regressed from what she was in the comic that reeves’s take on her was based on. catwoman (1989) and catwoman (1993) for that matter are huge novelties in selina’s history bc they are near insularly focused on her. we play by her rules and everyone else in the picture is a reactionary. the reeves movie turns this on its head bc now selina is subservient to bruce’s arc and to his decisions. he dictates what she does until she’s finally fed up with it, which we’re supposed to applaud despite the fact that bruce does nothing short of condescend to her and victim-blame a sex worker, and bc he ultimately saves her from her anger in the end so it’s romantic. the romance is the priority throughout the entire movie. there are brief moments of selina’s rebellion but as a whole she has no control over her arc bc bruce’s arc comes first. i also think the final scene where she says “the bat and the cat. has a nice ring to it” (or whatever it was, close enough) to be a complete misunderstanding of their dynamic at its inception. this movie purportedly based its selina on mindy newell’s work but somehow fails to recognize that mindy newell’s selina expressly disdained the idea of being associated with batman bc her independence and defiance was the entire point. even if you want to argue their dynamic in the movie is a reflection of what it has become in the comics now, those are depicting bruce and selina’s relationship with each other more than twenty years after they first met. it makes no sense to make selina so amenable to bruce in the beginning bc it completely undercuts the fact that she’s right in her class stance from the start. and it also seems to reiterate the prevalent misconception that for a romance to work between bruce and selina she has to soften her edges and anger, despite those being the exact things that made bruce attracted to and sympathetic of her

[sketching-shark]

Hm. Been awhile since I've been involved in the Star Wars fandom, but it still sometimes hits me how bizarre it was that the first film of the sequel trilogy went out of its way to establish that the current generation of Stormtroopers were basically a slave army made out of kidnap victims and then the 2nd and 3rd film just kept blasting them away as per usual.

[oveliagirlhaditright]

So, I think I mentioned this in another post… but curiously, a few times in the Buffy tie-in books, Buffy has definitely been being interested in having children with Angel (like in her ideal life/fantasies and stuff). Part of me wonders if maybe if this was foreshadowing the Twilight S8 stuff? (But maybe not, because I think at least some of these were written before that, of course. Though maybe Joss already had the idea at the time and could have told these writers about it? IDK.) Or it could have absolutely nothing to do with that, which I honestly hope it doesn’t, and it’s just Buffy voicing what she wants, as she definitely should be allowed to do, of course.

But anyway, I decided I’d go ahead and compile them all here (that I’ve found so far). And -sighs- the Twilight thing too, just on the off-chance it is connected to that. (Though I pray not.)

From “Unnatural Selection,” that takes place in Buffy season 3 (though this one’s actually a cover story on Buffy’s part.)

2. Book three of the Unseen Trilogy, entitled “Long Way Home” (this takes place in Buffy Season 4/Angel season 1 and is a Buffy/Angel crossover book. In this instance, Buffy is seeing a parallel universe and is somewhat being tempted by it).

3. This is from the book “Heat” (another Buffy/Angel crossover, that takes place in Buffy season 7/Angel season 4. Buffy is being shown her ideal fantasy by the enemy in a way to keep her down, but I don’t think this one’s real. Like, I don’t think it’s a parallel universe or anything like that.)

And then here’s a beat from “Heat,” where Buffy and Angel talk about Connor:

And here’s stuff from Buffy season 8, where Buffy and Angel are gods, have sex, and give birth to a sentient universe that then possesses Angel and is evil, because it’s not too happy its parents abandoned it right after creating it (this universe is called “Twilight���). Because why not do all of this nonsense? I mean… I guess it could happen, arguably, make some sort of sense because it sort of rings like Greek mythology or something, and they did all kinds of weird stuff like this. But this all thing is strange, and why did we need it? And it makes me sad that this is the only canon “child” of Buffy and Angel that we have.

But here it is:

Anyway...

[allysio]

twilight and harry potter getting tv series, new hunger games movie, gee, they are really trying to give me the teenagehood i wanted but never fully experienced because i was just a little too young

[jaykorianddickkoriforlife]

I don't remember if they ever talked about it in the books but do you wonder if anyone pulled an Octavia Blake in the hunger games universe?

Like how do the peacekeepers keep track of all the births for the games? Are home births allowed? I'm assuming no to keep everything documented, and controlled. Do they do house checks randomly?

If you don't know, Octavia Blake is a character from the 100 who was born in a place where she legally was not allowed to exist in, literally, so her mother hid her beneath the floor since she already had a son, and you could only have one kid.

I genuinely can't remember if it was ever mentioned, the rules behind that, but it would be interesting to see. It's intriguing to think that in both scenarios, the end result wouldn't be pretty since everything is so government controlled, and you can't escape it.

[datharlequinoni]

Transformers Generations Exhaust, Cordon and Spinout, and Road Rage.

[friendtotheshadows]

i have wanted to add the hawthorne boys and some selection characters, thoughts?

[yours-etc]

hey to the local book store who’s horror section WAS AN END SHELF, fuck you.

and to the one barnes and noble in town who has half an isle to horror, double fuck you.

shout out to thrift books. com 🗣️🗣️🗣️ i’ll write sonnets about that website

[pocoslip]

Why do I still Buy and taking Pictures of Transformers Toys???? idek...