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se4shell · 2 years ago

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1.) a quiet, calm girl who has a svelte body with long arms and looks like a dancer

2.) I’d take away all my excessive worries!! intrusive thoughts are forever banished!

3.) not being able to travel or feeling satisfied with myself

4.) Hunter x Hunter, Game of Thrones, Blood+ and any other anime I enjoy lol

5.) my fears fascinate me

6.) I need to go to Japan. It’s not a want. It’s a need, for years now. I will literally cry as soon as I step off that plane and my foot graces the ground

7.) don’t take what others say personally. you’re unique and beautiful!

8.) ideal life partner starts with loving myself first. I’m still working on it.

9.) spring! I love how nature is revived, green is the primary color with sprinkles of rain, flowers galore & birds singing, fairies dancing

(only downside is my severe allergies lol)

10.) I cannot recommend anything specific. Please read Blood+ manga, I like manga. I also like tragic, romantic, hopeful works. So whatever that entails. Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson. Everything soulful and feminist.

11.) there’s too many!

ANYTHING by Daughter!

Heaven, Wait album by Ghostly Kisses

FKA twigs’ Cellophane along with MAGDALENE and her older songs (Water Me, etc.)

Lifts by Lia Marie Johnson

pretty much anything by Soccer Mommy as well, all her albums are amazing!

Softens by Wet

Young and Beautiful by Lana (a lot of her songs but this is one of my all time favorites)

Alexandra Savior’s Soft Currents

Special by SZA and SO many others I could go on for days and days and days!

12.) she’s patient with me. too hard on herself. I want to hug her and hope she knows how special she is.

13.) I really cannot remember for the life of me!

14.) basic me says classic hot cocoa but I also love warm tea (cinnamon, green, chamomile)

15.) Phantom of the Opera, I saw it so young so it really set the bar high since forever lol. Tragic romances have always been a favorite since then.

16.) favorite form of flattery is sweet poetic words/a unique compliment I never knew I needed from someone. “You remind me of the spring. You have a peach aura.”

17.) Ana Mendieta is one. I like raw, abstract art. Visual performance art. I also like landscapes and flowers. Claude Monet’s works are always mesmerizing.

There was this visual performance art piece I saw a few years back at a local art museum of this nude woman slowly falling through layers of sheet glass and it was so incredibly freeing and beautiful to me.

I know Marina Abramović is extremely controversial and I do not condone or promote anything she’s known for now but I would be lying if I said her early works didn’t move me.

18.) I’m a pastel, soft butterfly loving fairy girl. But I also like Y2K, gothic styles as well. A combo of both.

19.) reading other people’s works, music, being out in nature as well as piecing words and visions together.

20.) Labyrinth was definitely one of the firsts.

21.) I’ve used Tumblr for about 9 years now! not as long as others here but I’ve definitely seen many changes. from random memes, manga edits and aesthetics to a steady flowing theme now, I think.

22.) first cellphone was a bright orange blackberry, it flipped open to type. if ykyk!

23.) this is hard. I like all the berries, lychee and pomegranate.

24.) gonna pass on this one, brain power is limited rn.

25.) a meal? it’d have to be a superfoods bowl. with grains, fresh veggies, a splash of citrus and spice, protein. all the essential amino acids would be present!

26.) I think the ones I’ve struggled with most are wrath and sloth. pinches of envy, I squash. pride and gluttony are the ones I least encounter.

27.) my latest obsessions are Tom Riddle from Harry Potter and Douma from Kimetsu no Yaiba/Demon Slayer. I always have rekindling of old obsessions with problematic characters as well. *Cough cough* Furuta Nimura *cough* Chrollo.

28.) Maybe a swan or deer?

29.) The wet dog smell just kills me every time lmao!

30.) mermaids/sirens and fairies because they’re alluring and fun! dragons too!

31.) I can’t name a scene off the top of my head but I cannot stand most romantic comedies or cheap, backdoor slasher/horror films.

32.) I am in love with my large abalone shell!

33.) I like my creative side!

34.) I saw Melanie Martinez back in 2016 and it was the chillest concert I’ve been to.

35.) “I know you’re bitter and have your own insecurities to deal with. There’s better ways to handle it than taking it out on others who did nothing to intentionally harm you.��

36.) It’ll be okay. You’re worth it all, love. Don’t worry about things you cannot control. Focus on all the things that make you happy. You are worthy of everything you desire.

37.) I used to chew on the inside of my lips and cheeks. It got so bad at a point in time; I’m surprised I didn’t get an infection as one nurse warned me I would. I don’t do it anymore so I’m happy about that!

I wash my hands religiously to the point where my skin gets so dry it bleeds and forms a rash.. It’s a really difficult routine to break. I always need lotion nearby.

38.) Rain, running natural water, fire cracking, doves cooing (probably doesn’t qualify as white noise but damn is it soothing and nostalgic!)

39.) Labradorite, pearls and opals. I love all things iridescent.

40.) I cry. Snack. Listen to music. Vent. Read or watch something that makes me happy.

41.) I’m currently trying to go back to school and work towards some degrees! It’s a long process so I’m still in the middle of motivating myself.

42.) I’ve some cute thrifted shirts.

43.) Unique, observant, compassionate!

44.) I love them both dearly, but there are many times where I feel ignoring them is the best option, unfortunately. It would break my heart to cut communication off completely though.

45.) I want to learn how to play the harp!

46.) I can’t pick just one. I’m like a mix of Emmy Rossum’s Christine Daaé from Phantom of the Opera, Jennifer Connelly’s Sarah Williams from Labyrinth and Uma Thurman’s Beatrix Kiddo from Kill Bill.

47.) I can appreciate any genre. Ska and pirate metal shanties are kinda weird though lmao.

48.) I’ve had too many close encounters already but bats.. I have an intense fear since one got tangled in my hair before. Aside from them, I’d have to say a grizzly bear out in the woods or if I’m swimming in the ocean and see a great white or giant black squid.. No thank you!

49.) I don’t care for Ryan Reynolds or Robert Pattinson. Shit, most of the male celebrities people fawn over.. Bleh.

50.) I love reading well-written fics on here as well as finding aesthetically-pleasing photos!

50 Q’s

1.) describe yourself through the eyes of a stranger? 2.) what is a quality you’d like to change about yourself? 3.) what is your worst potential fear for the future? 4.) which television series do you use as a form of escapism? 5.) share a secret about yourself? 6.) if you could choose any place in the world to visit, where would it be? why? 7.) what advice would you give your childhood self? 8.) describe how you envision your ideal life partner? 9.) what is your favorite environmental season? why? 10.) what’s one book you’d suggest every person should read? 11.) what is one song that’s able to bring you to tears? 12.) describe your best friend? 13.) what was the premise of your last dream? 14.) what’s your favorite warm beverage? 15.) name one musical album that greatly impacted your life? why? 16.) what’s your favorite form of flattery? 17.) what’s your favorite painting? and describe how it makes you feel? 18.) describe your personal style? 19.) what was the last concept that inspired you? 20.) who was your very first artistic inspiration? 21.) how long have you used tumblr for? how has your style changed over the years? 22.) what was your first cell phone? 23.) what is your favorite fruit flavor? 24.) whom would you resurrect from the afterlife? which 3 questions would you ask them? 25.) if you could choose only one meal to eat for the remainder of your life, which would you choose? 26.) which of the 7 deadly sins do you struggle with the most? and which the least? 27.) your latest obsession? and why? 28.) if you could domesticate any animal as your pet, which would you choose? 29.) what’s your least favorite smell? 30.) favorite mythological creature? and why? 31.) name a scene from a movie that makes you cringe? 32.) favorite piece of memorabilia you own? 33.) your personal favorite oddity about yourself? 34.) favorite concert/show you’ve attended? 35.) what’s one thing you would tell to the last person who betrayed you? 36.) your favorite mantra to live by? 37.) do you have any strange habits? 38.) what’s your favorite white-noise to fall asleep to? 39.) what is your favorite gemstone? why? 40.) how do you choose to cope when you’re upset? 41.) what are you currently trying to accomplish? 42.) what’s your favorite item you’ve purchased secondhand? 43.) describe your personality is only 3 words? 44.) how is your relationship with your parents? 45.) an instrument you aspire to learn how to play? 46.) relate yourself to one movie character? 47.) least favorite music genre? why? 48.) which animal would you be the most terrified to encounter? 49.) name a public figure you find to be overrated? why? 50.) what purpose do you get out of using tumblr?

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g-perla · 4 years ago

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The ACOTAR Series is a Romantic/Gothic Horror Stage and Only Nesta Got the Memo

Not even SJM knows what’s going on.

Ok, this is going to seem off the rails but bear with me.

So I'm a big fan of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (top 5 books and all that jazz) and I was thinking about it because it deals with themes of the Other and the supernatural, Nature as Character, the overlap of the animalistic and human, blurring of established binaries...fun, Romantic shit like that. Interestingly, this overlaps with how SJM illustrates her world and characters a lot of the time, hence why I was considering it while working on my Nesta project. I’ve mentioned before that Nesta really gives me Byronic heroine vibes and that’s a character construct of precisely this literary tradition.

I started thinking about Heathcliff and Cathy and how they're ridiculously extra and just feel the most intense emotions towards each other but also towards literally everything (nothing half-assed ever, this is a Romantic novel after all). I then remembered how so many people ship them, but like in earnest, in a totally aspirational way. It's not a #cursed ship to them at all. It's...romantic to them not Romantic. I even read often that people quote it at their weddings, specifically the infamous "two souls" quote.

Then I had an epiphany. I was like "wait, what if SJM is one of those people?? What if she has the energy of a Cathy/Heathcliff earnest shipper and that's why all her ships are messy??" Because if that is the case, my friends, oh boy oh boy would it explain so much. I will post some sections from Wuthering Heights:

Doesn’t the acotar series seem like a 1/50 dilution of that energy?? And that is barely a taste of all the spiciness this book has to offer. To illustrate further: SJM gave us the F/eysand suicide pact and the near-death battlefield Nessian scene. One is certainly more outlandish than the other, but both are the result of intense emotions. To that Emily Brontë raises the following: Heathcliff asking the sexton to dig up Cathy’s grave to see what’s up because her ghost has been haunting him since he personally dug up her grave 18 years prior and she has been haunting him ever since. He later demands to be buried in the same exact grave when he dies so they can decompose together. They both married other people though which only adds to the mess. (I am not lying to you the Romantic tradition really gave us these gems lmao. As an aside, Mary Shelley was also a writer of the Romantic tradition and she confessed her love to husband Percy Bysshe Shelley on her mother’s grave. Her mother was liberal feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft by the way which only makes this even more amazing. Additionally, biographers believe that the Shelleys also had sex there. Talk about Romantic 😉.)

Then I had ANOTHER thought! (Dangerous)

If we read the series from the point of view of just another YA high fantasy things might get a bit boring because the world-building is honestly lazy and the magic system is pretty soft, which isn’t a pre-requisite in high fantasy (The Lord of the Rings has a soft magic system) but it's not the norm and it doesn't pay off in this series. Not to mention that the plot is pretty lackluster and derivative. To add to that the romantic and sexual relationships are questionable in their healthiness and consequently are the source of much argument in the fandom.

But, dear reader, if we think about the ACOTAR series as being a sort of thematic and ideological 21st century YA homage to the Romantic tradition of the 19th century (within which Gothic Horror also lives), things get REALLY, REALLY SPICY.

No longer do we just have a romance fantasy with messy, hyper-emotional, animalistic characters who constantly partake in morally grey situations rife with dubious dynamics. No longer does plot really matter. No longer do we require quasi-scientific descriptions of the world and the magical system. No! All that matters now are the characters and the mood. Now we have potential! Add a lot of Nature ambiance: expanses of dark woods, great mountains, the unknowable and sublime energy of the ocean, a violent rainstorm/hurricane/tsunami, an impending snowstorm whose intensity reflects the growing emotional intensity of the characters as the story goes along (I’m looking at you impending snowstorm in acofas that curiously matches the growing complexity of Nesta’s emotional state). Blur the lines between any imaginable category: life and death, human and animal, known and unknown, Self and Other, beautiful and monstrous, good and evil, masculine and feminine, the list goes on. Most importantly make your readers uncomfortable by frustrating their desires to sort things into easy binary categories and don’t apologise for making them question their assumptions about the world, morality, gender, and any other kind of previously constructed Order.

Basically write the story with Dionysus-in-a-Greek-tragedy energy and bring to us mere mortals artful Chaos.

Once that is done we can have a literal Romantic/Gothic Horror story. The Acotar series could have been this unapologetically, with the added element of being told through the eyes of the "Cathy" character instead of through the lens of a third person getting second-hand accounts about what went on. This whole series is honestly enough of a chaotic mess of Byronic-like heroes and heroines and cursed familial relationships that it could have been that. That alone is peak entertainment. The problem, however, and the main reason why I can’t really say that this series truly delivered this wackiness is that SJM committed the act of not fully committing to the bit (very un-Romantic of her, I know). Now, I am not saying that SJM actually intended this. I’m just saying it really could have accidentally been this genius with some tweaks. Unfortunately, she made the crucial mistake of trying to justify too much, trying to make things too neat, too tidy, too sensical (in other words: the reason we really can’t have nice things).

I could end this here, lamenting the potential of what SJM had set-up for us were it not for one element, one gift:

Nesta

OHOHOHO DO THINGS GET GOOD HERE SO BUCKLE UP

Most of the characters refuse to fully commit to the bit in their desire to satisfy modern sensibilities, by which I of course mean they want ridiculous things like political power, to conquer lands, to be a Girl Boss, to get married, have kids, celebrate holidays, converse about mundane things, be relatable, etc. You know, pretty pedestrian stuff that only requires a bit of genetic luck, a sprinkle of energy, and the right circumstances within the world of Acotar. I would like to reiterate the beginning of this paragraph: most of the characters.

Let’s say you’re stubborn and you decide to still read the series through the lens of the Romantic/Gothic tradition, what happens then?

The most hilarious thing (for the Nesta stans that is. The antis would probably hate this)

Nesta, based on what we know about her through Feyre and the limited amount of other scenes, is the only character who really takes the performance seriously. She's the only one that SJM hasn't managed to confine through justification. Nesta just shows up and simply refuses to make sense (her POWER what a queen 👑). She is endlessly fascinating because she just exists in her world on her terms, established categories be damned, and in this manner she frustrates not only the sensibilities of the characters in the stories but those of the reader as well. This double duty is, I suggest, the result of the other characters not fully inhabiting the nebulous world of Romantic characters and thus being a little too plausible and understandable even if they are not justifiable.

Ok, you may say, but I relate so much to Nesta. I do understand her. I don’t justify all of her actions, but I understand where she is coming from. (You’re not alone, friend. I like to think these things too. Alas, we are but plebs).

To that I reply; Nesta does things, certainly, and we can spend hours trying to explain through extrapolation, educated guesses, and personal experience why she did those things, but the fact is we really don't know why. We are never explicitly told. Our insight into who she is and her motivations comes predominantly from the understanding of her youngest sister and from our own interpretation of the actions she takes. I must make clear that our own interpretations are rooted in pre-established assumptions about what is sensical and orderly in our own world and in our own lives. We cannot interpret with the tools available to us that which may be, by definition, unfathomable. It is simply paradoxical. Nesta, as we currently know her, is a construct derived from a limited number of scenes and our interpretations and projections of these scenes. Even the scenes where we get third person narration don’t explicitly tell us her motivations and her logic. For all we know there really is no comprehensible reason for her actions and that is endlessly amusing to me in how utterly Romantic it is. Acosf may and likely will change this of course, but as it stands, Nesta is a whole Romantic character. Her divisiveness in fandom and in the narrative could be due in part to her refusal to fit the discrete categories available in her world and ours.

Isn’t that wonderful?

To illustrate this a bit more I will share some details SJM gives us about her/ elements she sets up that fit in with the characteristics of the Romantic tradition (these are not exhaustive by any means):

The absolute pettiness (and extra-ness) of being so angry at her father’s inaction that she is willing to starve to death to see if he does something.

How in Acowae she is described as shifting between emotions as if she were changing clothes and feeling everything too strongly (probably to the point of destruction)

She is constantly being compared to animals, even when she is still human. Granted, SJM compares everyone to animals, but that strengthens the blurring of lines between usually discrete categories. It is still most powerful when used as a comparison when she is human because it dehumanises Nesta.

Often, SJM describes her characters as forces. Forces of nature, for example. Acofas is full of details like this in relation to Nesta. There is a storm brewing leading up to the solstice party and it is in full swing when she arrives at the townhouse. The language used there suggests that Nesta herself may be the storm (against the onslaught of Nesta). It really adds to the Maleficent energy tbh.

She is often associated with death post her transformation

She is Other even to Others. She was Made like Elain, Feyre, and Amren in a sense, but the process of her specific transformation differentiates her greatly from the others. As it is, she doesn’t fit in anywhere

Her intense attachment to her femininity and its expression are at odds with the ideas and assumptions about the performance of womanhood and a woman’s role in her world and even in ours. She is unapologetically feminine in her physical presentation, but her character, her thoughts, and possibly even desires transgress the unwritten rules of acceptable femininity (unfortunately there still are abject expressions of femininity in our ‘”progressive” mileux

She displays in many of her actions a disrespect towards authority and to the status quo. This is particularly notable when her intensely polarised sense of right and wrong is aggravated.

Her self-destructiveness. This is referred to most strongly in Acofas, but I would say she was remarkably blasé about self-preservation in Acowar as well

She is described as intelligent, cunning, ruthless, attractive, and prone to debilitating extremes of emotionality. All of these are characteristics of Byronic heroes, a subtype of the Romantic hero

Here are a bunch of quotes that touch on many of the elements that I have discussed above:

“I looked at my sister, really looked at her, at this woman who couldn’t stomach the sycophants who now surrounded her, who had never spent a day in the forest but had gone into wolf territory...Who had shrouded the loss of our Mother, then our downfall, because the anger had been a lifeline, the cruelty a release. But she had cared--beneath it she had cared, and perhaps loved more fiercely than I could comprehend, more deeply and loyally.”

--Acotar, emphasis mine, note the strong emotions. This is a recurring element for Nesta.

“Cassian’s face went almost feral. A wolf who had been circling a doe...Only to find a mountain cat wearing its hide instead.”

--Acomaf, animal comparison

“Nesta is different from most people,” I explained. “She comes across as rigid and vicious, but I think it’s a wall. A shield--like the ones Rhys has in his mind.” “Against what?” “Feeling. I think Nesta feels everything--sees too much; sees and feels it all. And she burns with it. Keeping that wall up helps from being overwhelmed, from caring too greatly.”

--Acomaf, emphasis mine

“I knew that she was different [...] Nesta was different [...] as if the Cauldron in making her...had been forced to give more than it wanted. As if Nesta had fought after she went under, and had decided that if she was to be dragged into hell, she was taking the Cauldron with her.”

--Acomaf, Nesta had her own plans for the Cauldron what a queen

“Something great and terrible.”

--Acowar, referring to her eyes. Oooh, spooky Nesta 👻

“The day she was changed, she...I felt something different with her [...] like looking at a house cat and suddenly finding a panther standing there instead.”

--Acowar, a two in one here: difference + animal comparison. Boy does SJM really go heavy when establishing Nesta as Other.

“‘Not in flesh, not in the thing that prowls beneath our skin and bones...’ Amren’s remarkable eyes narrowed. ‘But...I see the kernel, girl.’ Amren nodded, more to herself than anyone. ‘You did not fit--the mold that they shoved you into. The path you were born upon and forced to walk. You tried, and yet you did not, could not fit. And then the path changed.’ A little nod. ‘I know--what it is to be that way. I remember it, long ago as it was.’

‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’“

--Acowar, show don’t tell gets thrown out the window here, but it is useful for the present purposes

“What if I tell you that the rock and darkness and sea beyond whispered to me, Lord of Bloodshed? How they shuddered in fear, on that island across the sea. How they trembled when she emerged. She took something--something precious. She ripped it out with her teeth. What did you wake that day in Hybern, Prince of Bastards?

What came out was not what went in [...] How lovely she is, new as a fawn and yet ancient as the sea. How she calls to you. A queen as my sister once was. Terrible and proud; beautiful as a winter’s sunrise.”

--Acowar, who knew rocks, darkness, and the sea were such gossips, but look how many connections to nature! To be compared to the sea, a significant example of the sublime, is peak Romanticism. If any of you have read Moby Dick, think about what the ocean and the white whale might have represented there and how that might relate to Nesta.

“I think the power is death--death made flesh.”

--Acowar, Feyre referring to the possible nature of Nesta’s power. Alluding to her powers possibly being related to death is quite significant because that is something most of us cannot comprehend, nor can most of the characters. For Nesta, a “reborn” but very much living character to have death associated with her is a strong blurring of the lines. The case of her being labelled a witch is similarly significant as it solidifies the elements of the supernatural while simultaneously comparing her to pretty much the only exclusively female-coded monster in western pop culture. I will touch more on this when I do my study of Nesta through the framework of Barbara Creed’s Monstrous Feminine.

“I am not like the others.”

--Acowar, we love a self-aware queen.

“Nesta took in his broken body, the pain in Cassian’s eyes, and angled her head.

The movement was not human.

Not fae.

Purely animal.

Purely predator.”

--Acowar

There are a lot more details and quotes that support this interpretation, but I didn’t write them all down in my archived notes. This post is obscenely long, however, so even though there is more to be said, I’ll leave it for another day. If you made it this far you really are an MVP and probably love Nesta to a concerning degree like me. Please rest your eyes if you’re actually reading this 😂

I’d love to read about any other takes and thoughts that might have come to your minds after reading this monstrosity,

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yarart4ever · 4 years ago

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YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! HAMILTON ARRIVED ON DISNEY+ A FEW DAYS AGO WHAAAAAAAAAT!!!?????

as you couldn't tell, I am IN LOVE with Hamilton! the musical got me into discovering the musical fandom! sure I was in love with Hairspray and musicals in general but Hamilton was my first actual music obsession!

this is the LIVE SHOW! just recorded professionally! and Imma do my usual review on it! :3

-lol king george's intro at the beginning! XD

-WHO ELSE BOPPED AND GOT EXCITED DURING THE FIRST SONG IN ACT I: ALEXANDER HAMILTON!?

-I like how the crowd is so respectful to the performers and only laughs and claps when necessary!

-the dance choreography! *chefs kiss* perfecto!

-YO! the actors for John Laurens/Philip, Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson and Hercules Mulligan/ Maddison ARE. FINE! they. are. DADDIES! PERIODT!

-okay but like... the actresses for Angelica and Peggy are also pretty fine! like.. UwU WIFEYS!

-Angelica~, (work, work) Eliza~ and PEGGY! the schuyler sisters~! sorry I had to! TvT

-ANGELICA. IS. A QUEEN! PERIODTTTT!!

-lol everything that comes out of King george's mouth is gold! XD

-RIGHT HAND MAN IS A BOP OH MY GOD! (O///o///O)

-aw, Helpless is so wholesome I love it! <3

-okAY BUT SATISFIED IS MY FAVORITE SONG AND IT'S WHAT GOT ME INTO THE HAMILTON FANDOM! I KNOW THE SONG WORD FOR WORD ISTG-

-lmao who else died at raise a glass reprise cuz... XD it got me!

-WAIT FOR IT IS MY SECOND FAVORITE SONG!! (>///o///<) but like show me mother theodosia pls! T^T

-"I'm a general! WEEEE" Charles Lee~ best quote by far!

- the way! John Laurens! looks at Alexander! jesus why does he have to be so attractive!?

-damn Alexander got daddy issues! O_O

-that would be enough almost made me cry what??

-EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR AMERICA'S VERY HOT FIGHTING FRENCHMAN!... wait that's not the lyrics..

-damn! dying is easy, but living is harder... that hit different! :'(

-THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN!! HOLY THAT SONG SLAPSSSS!!

-oml Hercules Mulligan's solo (O///_///O) and he sticks his tongue out too! he's a aggressive top hottie and I am living for it!!!

- what comes next was totally foreshadowing for when Trump becomes president. like, "when your people say they hate you, don't come crawling back to me"! like yo! foreshadowing or what??

-aw dear theodosia! my third favorite song! you know, ever since I heard this I wanted to name my child theodosia so that I could sing her this song as a lullaby.

-NO!!! JOHN LAURENS MY HUSBAND!!! T^T </3 I knew he was gonna die anyway cause I've listened to the sundtrack many times but still! and Alexander was so happy singing about his son and then he hears about John's death I'm- :'( I almost cried again during that song... you can probably tell that I love John Laurens..

-NON STOP THO!! LIKE WHAT!?! THIS SONG WAS AWESOME IN THE SOUNDTRACK AND IT'S MORE AWESOME NOW THAT I'M SEEING IT AND SINGING ALONG!! (>///O///<)

~~intermission~~

-okay okay, act II! I'm ready!! give. me. that. tea!

-THOMAS JEFFERSON! HOLY SH!T HE'S HOT!!! AAAAHHHHH!!!

-OH! AND HE DOES THE KISS!! excuse me while I faint of fangirling...

-aw, poor Maddison is sick. lol corona?? I'm telling y'all they knew what was gonna happen in 2020! like even John wanted to help end black slavery and then there was that george floyd situation now and just... foreshadowing all over! :T

-HOLY CRAP YO THERE'S AN ACTUAL RAP BATTLE!! XD WHAAAATT??? like Jefferson and Hamilton got them mics, they be all up in each other's face roasting each other like bro!

-"turn around, bend over I'll show you where my shoe fits!" OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH! GET ROASTED JEFFERSON BAM WHAT??

- lmao why the fnck do they have an grown a$$ man playing a 9 year old?? XD

-okay, I love the sister dynamic for Angelica and Eliza! they're so cute! and I like how no one questions that even though their races are different they're still related. and it bothers me that people nitpick about that. like leave them alone, they are sisters! periodt!

-oh no it's say no to this... I hate this song... I can't believe Hamilton had an affair with someone he doesn't even know! who cares if she's hot?? you're MARRIED!

-and wait... ain't that the actress who played Peggy in the last act?? sheesh no wonder she's so attractive!

-look at this dude saying "lord show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this"! LIKE BOI! just say no! tf?? it doesn't matter if she's a fncking model! if I was married to a kind hearted, gentle and just generally an amazing person Like Eliza, and a woman pulled me in their bed and said "stay~" I would've been like "HAHA nope! peace out my guy, I'm already taken thank you very much and they do it to me better than you ever did! periodt!" and I would leave. it's that easy!

-"and her bodies screaming hell yes" BOI IF YOU DON'T KEEP YOUR D!CK IN YOUR PANTS AND GO HOME ALEXANDER I SWEAR TO FnCKING ALLAH......

-and he fncked up... that's it... I'm done!! Deuses! *gives peace sign and leaves*

-no one else was in the room? okay we getting hype now! XP

-damn Aaron Burr is a great dancer! XD

-oh sh!t oh sh!t there's another rap battle! same people too... everyone take cover! seriously this is not a drill!

-damn! okay did not hear this yet?? uhm so.... Hamilton snapped. and not the good type of snapped too... the moment he was given a opportunity to speak he literally shouted "YOU MUST BE OUTTA YOUR GODDAMN MIND!" and when I tell you I shook....

-"daddy's callin'.." oKAY FIRST OF ALL HOW WRONG DOES THAT SOUND TO YOU??

-lol when Burr came on stage and started singing, Jefferson was so confused he was like "bruh the hell did you come from??" and I died! XD

-oh sh!t Burr and Jefferson are joining forces- LOOK OUT EVERYONE AS THEY BRING THE THUNDER!

-YO THE RAPPING IN THIS SONG IS LIKE WOWZAH! LIKE BARS BRO! :D LIKE FnCKING M&M IS QUAKING!

-"sir, I don't know what you heard but WHATEVER IT IS.... Jefferson started it.." LMFAO ALEX I SWEAR TO GOD XD

-one last time oh no I'm scared this song is gonna make me cry isn't it??

-YEP I WAS RIGHT! I'M CRYING NOW! GREAT!

-George Washington's voice is so powerful oh my lord... and oop! he's crying too! also great! :'D

-my hEART T^T-

-King George Istg STOP! XD

-also yay, I like how they used a woman for the guard/right hand man to the king! as a feminist... I approve UwU

-who else flinched when the king started laughing........ because I did....

-"sit down John you FAT MOTHER FnCKER!" oop... was not expecting that!

-NO ALEX DON'T TELL THEM THEY'RE JOINING FORCES YOU'RE DEAD IF YOU TELL THEM THAT- aaaaaaaand you told them... smart.. real smart -_-

-okay but Thomas' reaction was even more funny on screen then in the sound track X'D

-welp... now Burr's gonna tell everybody.. oh wait no.. ALONG with Jefferson and Maddison... good job, Alexander..

-holy sh!t the reynolds pamphlet! he actually wrote it down?? I mean I knew this happened but STILL! WHAT THE FnCK, HAMILTON?!?

-Jefferson is getting to hype for this I swear XD

-OH CRAP ANGELICA IS HERE!

-"all the way from London? DAYUM!" that's me!

-damn, work it, King George! XP

-YEAH DAMN RIGHT HIS POOR WIFE ELIZA DIDN'T DESERVE THIS! >:(

-aw man, Burn hit's different! especially when you catch your ex cheating on you. if that ever happens, LISTEN TO THIS SONG! trust me!

-I feel so bad for her.. :(

-Philip saying "the scholars say I got the same virtuosity and brains as my pops, the ladies say that's not where the resemblance stops~" MADE ME DIE! LIKE ON THE SPOT! NO JOKE!

-the ladies are getting hype for Philip and honestly I CAN SEE WHY! HE'S A DADDY! DUNNO! UwU

-OOF! BEEF!

-he got shot AGAIN!?!

-he dies AGAIN!?!

-WHY DOES THIS HANDSOME BOI KEEP DYING?? LET HIM LIVE BRO!! T^T

-poor Eliza...

-oh god please no not it's quiet uptown! Imma cry again!

-oop... and now I'm crying again... ain't that fun! :'D

-the way they held hands at the end! T^T be still my heart!

-DAYUM! Hamilton chose JEFFERSON over Burr! oof, that's gotta sting!

-"you know what we can change that, you know why?" me: why? "because I'm the president.." me: *blushes and sweats*.... uh.. ahem... welp, that's enough convincing for me you got it sir! I am so sorry... TvT

-oh no they about to duel! oh sh!t oh sh!t! I'm scared!

-lol A. Ham! XD I'm sorry I just find that so funny! HAM! AHA do I look like a Christmas meal to you?? lmao

-he's... HE'S AIMING HIS PISTOL AT THE SKY! BURR HOLD UP DON'T SHOOT DON'T-

-... he shot Hamilton...

-seriously Burr??

-Eliza has been through many heartbreaks right now..

-oh this is my 5th favorite song. who lives who dies, who tells your story... I'm gonna cry again, aren't I?

-yep! definitely just cried! that song always hits home for me..

I love this musical so much! no words can describe how much it means to me. so I suggest you listen to the soundtrack yourself, if you haven't and tell me how you feel about it. c:

#I feel a rollercoaster of emotions #i criiii #who lives who dies who tells your story #hamilton #hamilton the musical #they added hamilton to disney+#we rise and we fall and we break and we make our mistakes #alexander hamilton #the schuyler sisters #i'm in love with musicals #musical #musical fangirl #extreme fangirling #who else thinks that Thomas Jefferson is hot??#who else thinks John Laurens is hot??#who else thinks Hercules Mulligan is hot??#the revoltuion #dear theodosia #musical fandom

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brehaaorgana · 7 years ago

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no reblobs just yet

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i would definitely read this and be like "yes, good. all correct things here"

remarried

no no please finish it and post it *chinhands*

oh man I trailed off because I felt kinda stupid, haha. Like...I was thinking of posting on medium, but it’s maybe kind of a waste of time. Here’s most of my draft below the cut, though. Minor TW for animal abuse in history?

“Loving Cats Means Hating Yourself,” and Other Bizarre White Feminist Takes Who knew pets provide the perfect platform for victim-blaming?

I’ll cut to the chase: it is a truth universally acknowledged that whoever writes an Op-Ed piece about why they’re single and going to die alone is going to sound insufferable.

Perhaps the author believes that being “vulnerable” and “honest” will gain them some empathy. Or perhaps they believe people admire their willingness to be self-deprecating. More likely? They’re either too self-absorbed to care that they’ll inevitably come off poorly, or too desperate for the work to not take the risk.

In this case, one at least hopes that Krista Burton got paid for her New York Times opinion piece “I’m a Lesbian Who Hates Cats. I’m Going to Die Alone.” Hopefully it was enough to afford the burial costs of her love life.

And rest assured, her romantic troubles aren’t because she hates cats, but probably because she hates women who like cats — or more accurately, hates women who like things she doesn’t. In fact, Burton has a list of things that women who she dates can’t like: playing in a band, gaming, yoga or cross-fit, improv, and their own birthday. The list of her deal breakers also include “needs a second mommy,” and “self-loathing/voted for Trump,” but these come off as fair issues of contention, and not merely personal interests other women might have. Pointedly, Burton never says she’s not like “other” women, but she doesn’t need to — the internalized misogyny is there regardless. In Krista Burton’s world, having a cat means you’re a masochist, because cats are haughty, sociopathic, filthy, manipulative, withholding of love and affection, sadistic, and of course “string[ing] you along.” (Did you notice how many of those adjectives are also used to deride women? We’ll come back to that.)

Preferring dogs to cats needn’t be deep or worthy of an op-ed, but when you try to make it into a feminist platform, analyzing the meaning becomes fair game. And if you want to make a pseudo-feminist take on why women loving cats is bad (because we were lacking in misogynistic claims about cat-ladies!), you probably shouldn’t start by blaming the victims of your self-identified cause of the problem:

“I’ve often wondered why women and queers love cats so much, and in the end, I think it might be this: It’s possible we’ve been conditioned to love and perform labor for creatures that don’t necessarily love us back, care about our needs and may even wish us ill. Like women loving cis men. […] People who really love cats are masochists; they’re so happy to be even acknowledged by their evil-yet-adorable pets that they will keep taking care of them indefinitely, aware they’re being used. […] Maybe this is what’s really behind №29 on my list of deal breakers: Truly loving cats means hating yourself.”

Allow me to rephrase that baffling conclusion: Women and LGBT people as a whole have been conditioned to accept a society which expects them to perform emotional labor without reciprocity, and that makes them vulnerable to abuse. People who have been victimized by society are prone to liking cats (who are a reflection of this misogynistic/abusive system) — and if there’s anything Burton in this piece can’t stand, it’s a self-hating, hapless victim.

It’s not too far of a stretch to see why this kind of language might set someone’s teeth on edge — cat lover or no. I don’t claim to know anything about Burton’s personal life, history, or backstory, and yet I can easily pinpoint how Burton’s opinion piece becomes spectacularly un-self-aware, and deeply un-empathetic.

“[T]hey’re so happy to be even acknowledged by their evil-yet-adorable pets that they will keep taking care of them indefinitely, aware they’re being used…”

If, as Burton suggests, we see women loving cis men as analogous to loving cats, then we can rewrite that sentence based on her own comparisons:

“[T]hey’re so happy to be even acknowledged by men that they will keep taking care of them indefinitely, aware they’re being used…truly loving men means hating yourself.”

Pardon the pun, but woof.

That opinion could’ve been an interesting one — especially when discussed in relationship to lesbianism, being LGBT, being a woman, or all of the above. It would’ve had all the shocking punch that Burton’s aiming for with none of the excessive analogies or asinine takes on people’s pets. We wouldn’t have needed to hear about the list of 49 deal breakers: a list that coming from men comes off as a “nice guy” tactic, and coming from women feels like publisher’s exploitation of women’s willingness to humiliate themselves, or to demean other women for their career.

Of course, it still leaves the reader wondering if Burton dislikes other women who have been hurt or abused — either by the system, or by another person — and who fall prey to being victimized again, or who remain in abusive situations or relationships. It certainly comes close to feeling that way: cats represent bad relationships and therefore if you love cats, you love being in relationships with people who’re using you, which makes you self-hating and unworthy to date.

What a reach! What a…bizarrely aggressive take on disliking victims of misogyny, survivors of abuse, or cat-lovers. Or are they all the same thing?

Burton asks a good question, but comes to an unhelpful conclusion: Why do marginalized people “like cats” as a concept so much? It’s probably not that we love the derisiveness of being called a “cat-lady.” It’s not that they’re dirty (they self-clean, dogs do not), it’s not that they’re hateful, and it’s not because they’re beneficial to associate ourselves with. It doesn’t take a genius to realize cats have had a litany of unkind associations applied to them historically — associations Burton helpfully calls to mind.

Rhetorically, it goes a little something like this: dogs are loyal, smart, trustworthy, and masculine; while cats are manipulative, fickle, haughty, evil, vain, untrustworthy, unloving, and feminine. A dog is man’s best friend, and a cat is the witch’s pet. You ought to burn a woman who owns one at the stake.

If this seems dramatic, it is. But it illustrates the point — marginalized people like cats because historically cats have been analogous to us, not our oppressors. There’s no consensus on the origin of the idiom “letting the cat out of the bag,” but here’s a suggestion: prior to the 19th century, cat-burning was form of entertainment in France. In his classic book, The Golden Bough, Sir George James Frazer wrote of the past-time, wherein cat’s ashes would be poured out from the bags they had been burned alive in:

In the midsummer fires formerly kindled on the Place de Grève at Paris it was the custom to burn a basket, barrel, or sack full of live cats, which was hung from a tall mast in the midst of the bonfire; sometimes a fox was burned. The people collected the embers and ashes of the fire and took them home, believing that they brought good luck. [...] In the Vosges cats were burned on Shrove Tuesday; in Alsace they were thrown into the Easter bonfire. In the department of the Ardennes cats were flung into the bonfires kindled on the first Sunday in Lent; sometimes, by a refinement of cruelty, they were hung over the fire from the end of a pole and roasted alive.

“The cat, which represented the devil, could never suffer enough.”

In his book, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History, Robert Darnton elaborates on this practice:

A favorite object [for burning in bonfires] was cats — cats tied up in bags, cats suspended from ropes, or cats burned at stake. Parisians liked to incinerate cats by the sackful, while the Courimauds (or “cour à miaud” or cat chasers) of Saint Chamond preferred to chase a flaming cat through the streets. […] Although the practice varied from place to place, the ingredients were everywhere the same: a “feu de joie” (bonfire), cats, and an aura of hilarious witch-hunting. Wherever the scent of burning felines could be found, a smile was sure to follow.

Letting the cat out of the bag could just as easily have come from the practice of releasing a live cat as it did a dead one – a shrodinger’s idiom, if you will. LGBT people of all genders, and women of all sexualities have historically felt kinship with the concept of felines because we too were the victims of societal cruelties.

And it doesn’t take a genius to track this connection historically, at least within a Christian-dominant society. In the 1230′s, the a Papal Bull called Vox in Rama was released, and within it was a condemnation of the black cat as an incarnation of satan – who was also half-man, half-black cat. The impact of Vox in Rama is still felt nearly 800 years later, under the guise of calling Black cats bad luck.

[.....aaand here’s where i trailed off, feeling dumb lmao]

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Fire & Flight - A Newt x OC AU

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2CNmGQJ

by Gottalovenewtmasterek

basically there's this hot new chic at Newt's high school and she moved here for apparently no reason and is very secretive and mysterious and no one knows anything about her except that she can dance like you wouldn't believe and her singing is out of this world would and she would rather slit her own throat then be near an open flame and she's a raging feminist and a bisexual legend so naturally newt's terrified of her but then he has to tutor her in maths bc she sucks at it and he's a nerd and then they become friends g r a d u a l l y and then they end up studying at his house rather than at the library and she sort of ends up teaching him science bc he sucks at it and she's a genius and he's been crushing on her forever and she slowly starts to fall for him but doesn't want to admit it because of her baggage and you'll find that out later and basically she won't tell him where she lives and then there a bonfire and a performance and all this shit happens and you'll have to read to find out what happens next bc I'm a salty hoe that way

Words: 766, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Maze Runner Series - All Media Types, A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Newt (Maze Runner), Original Female Character(s), ocs like teachers and students and parents and stuff, Gally (Maze Runner), Thomas (Maze Runner), Winston (Maze Runner), Brenda (Maze Runner), Teresa Agnes, Chuck (Maze Runner), Harriet (Maze Runner), Sonya | Elizabeth "Lizzy" (Maze Runner), Alby (Maze Runner), Ben (Maze Runner), Minho (Maze Runner), Assistant Director Janson | Rat Man, Ava Paige

Relationships: Newt (Maze Runner)/Original Female Character(s), Original Female Character/Original Female Character

Additional Tags: AU, newtxfemale oc, the only ACOTAR reference is the dæmati, you don't need to have read ACOTAR, Not Canon Compliant, the ocs name is kara, She's a badass, a badass with baggage though, au where they have wings, just go with it lol - Freeform, I'm Bad At Tagging, Author Is Sleep Deprived, Thats a tag lmao, seriously though, um, Fluff, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, kara has some serious baggage, she has minor ptsd, Minor Character Death, Not Really Important Though, just adds backstory, kara is a sarcasm queen, She won't take your shit, she will roast you to hell and back, Feminist, bisexual kara, pansexual newt, First Time (Implied), no smut bc I don't do that shit, asexual author means no smut for u, Sorry Not Sorry, Getting Together, Making Out, emotional scars, physical scars, kara won't have anything to do with fire, thats a clue, hint hint, kara is a dancer, like wow can she dance, any dancing, and she can sing like a mf angel, or like cardi b, depends on what she's going for, she loves science, and wants to be a therapist, she can't do maths for shit lol, just like me, newt is terrified of her but then he has to tutor her, bc hes a maths nerd, and she sucks, sorry but heterosexuality is boring, No Disrespect Meant, but they're pan and bi, also the violence is not really graphic, I have no idea where I'm going with this lmao, Just come along for the ride, you never know it might be worth it, and that's all, might update tags as I go, who knows - Freeform, we'll see, ps angst with a happy ending

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2CNmGQJ

#ao3feed #acotar #a court of thorns and roses

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aitheriios · 7 years ago

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Group 5

Mod: Saquib Syed

Scribe: Jessica Do, Jordan Wollenman

Archivist/Uploader: Mei Sulistio

QC: Alexis Edwards

Photographer: Jessica Do

Artist Statement: For our transformative work we decided to imitate the format of the recaps to answer the questions. We put together the answers during our discussion and put it together along with reactions photos and photos of our reaction to those photos to make it a little more ~authentic~.

H E W W O and welcome to group 5’s recap of this week’s questions! *:.｡.o(≧▽≦)o.｡.:*☆

honestly loveeee this screen shot lmao (￣ω￣)

This video was super helpful to our understanding of Kdrama. They start off the video with a few questions from their audience and then move onto the main topic of the video. While speaking about the cross dressing trope javabeans clarified, “Korean Dramas are far from the only ones to do this” (20:20). This is true, as most people have encountered tropes here and there. I mean, come on, they’re everywhere in the media: the popular guy falling for the wallflower, the love-at-first-sight, so on and so forth. But javabeans and girlfriday helps us explore trope formulas that are uniquely Kdrama. The video contextualizes Kdramas by using well-known tropes. This allows people to understand what Kdramas are about while keeping the subject focused on Kdrama itself. Two of our team members didn’t have any exposures to Kdrama and found it reaaaally great to watch this video and be able to understand more about the patterns and plotlines in Kdramas.

Recapping the Kdrama requires a lottttt of work. More so than just being fluent in both Korean and English, it is essential to know the slang and culture surrounding the drama too. Take for example Dhobi ki Kutti’s fic. If you simply Google translate the characters, it’s going to give you words like “vegetation” for पुरवाई (Syed kindly informed our group that this word meant “Easterly wind”. Phew. That’s one less question on our mind). Google translate won’t give you the double meanings and context. In that fic, this aspect highlighted how knowing the language is not enough to understand cultural references. Fansubbers and fandubbers must be able to understand these references and contexts to make the Kdrama understandable for English-speaking audiences (aka the Blind-Idiot Translation trope).

As far as why fans do this and the “why”? Oh, why does van Gogh paint? For the love and passion, if nothing else. Well, that, and exposure of their favorite forms of media. Since Kdramas are kind of a niche interest, it’s always the desire of fans to create more fans. This creates a fan gift economy, as mentioned by Turk and Hellekson (◕‿◕)

In terms of aspects of U.S. feminism seen in both recaps, as a group, we felt that the recap for Gaksital was very by-the-book, as in, the recap relayed the happenings of the episode. There were opinions from javabeans, but it wasn’t much related to feminism. (*꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ)

The lead in Sungkyunkwan is feminist in that she’s doing what she can to better herself instead of simply accepting society’s or culture’s expectations as a woman. Some of the ideas that girlfriday references are echoing ideas in U.S. feminism. For example, she says, “Sun-joon sneaks a peek in the red book of hetero-normative instincts, and his eyeballs nearly pop out”. This idea of heteronormativity stems from U.S. feminism terms. In another place, girlfriday reference an idea of sex that is reflected in U.S. feminism, too.

“I love how in dramas people always freak out about a man and a woman being locked in a place overnight, because “something” might happen. It’s the funniest euphemism to me, because they always make it sound like sex is a “thing” that happens to people, like catching a cold or something. It’s hilarious. Can’t two people just choose to have sexy fun times?”

This idea that sex should be able to be a fun choice is reminiscent of U.S. sex-positivity. Girlfriday also made comments throughout about the tropes found in the episode, and a lot of those tropes stem from U.S. feminist media studies. (✧ω✧)

Having a guide explaining Kdrama can be a double-edged sword; it all depends on the skills and intents of the guide that determines whether it is a decolonizing or Orientalizing experience. In the recaps that we read for this discussion, we were agreed in that it was primarily a decolonizing experience. For example, javabeans’ summary of Gaksital begins with several paragraphs describing the Japanese occupation of Korea in the early part of the 20th century, not only from a historical context, but from the cultural context of a people resisting a foreign power. “Gaksital is set in the 1930s, the independence movement in full swing. We can see how rich the tableau is, with our main character being born into the occupation and having a different perspective on it than, say, his father’s generation, who lived through the early movement and gave it life.” (javabeans). Javabeans and girlfriday both did well in performing not only a plot-by-plot recap, but also the meaning of a character’s reaction as it pertains to the Korean culture of the time. By making these experiences relatable, this served as a decolonizing experience because it maintains the important aspects of Korean culture, rather than gloss them over or try to erase (or colonize) them. This relatability helps minimize making these reactions and other aspects from seeming “foreign” or the “otherness” that characterizes an Orientalizing experience.

We also touched upon the kind of recappers that would make the action Orientalizing instead of decolonizing. It seems that the three members of our group familiar with Kdramas and Kfandoms agree that when someone who has no prior knowledge of the culture and media do a react or recap, it is Orientalizing because they’re just trying to profit off the exoticism and hype. *sighssss* (￣︿￣)

Works Cited:

dramabeans. “7 of Our Favorite K-drama Tropes” YouTube, girlfriday and javabeans, 21 Nov. 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK6jqakqh0M

javabeans. “Gaksital (Bridal Mask): Episode 1 » Dramabeans Korean Drama Recaps.” Dramabeans, 30 Jan. 2012, www.dramabeans.com/2012/05/gaksital-bridal-mask-episode-1/.

girlfriday. “Sungkyunkwan Scandal: Episode 12 » Dramabeans Korean Drama Recaps.” Dramabeans, 12 Oct. 2010, www.dramabeans.com/2010/10/sungkyunkwan-scandal-episode-12/.

Hellekson, Karen. 2009. “A Fannish Field of Value.” Cinema Journal 48 No 4. 113-118. Turk, Tisha. 2014. "Fan Work: Labor, Worth, and Participation in Fandom's Gift Economy." In "Fandom and/as Labor," edited by Mel Stanfill and Megan Condis, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2014.0518

Photos Included:

Spool, Ari. “Confused Mr. Krabs / When You Wake Up From a Nap.” Know Your Meme, 19 Jan. 2018, knowyourmeme.com/memes/confused-mr-krabs-when-you-wake-up-from-a-nap.

Vindaz. “Creepy Condescending Wonka” imgflip, Meme Generator, January 2016, https://imgflip.com/i/w6ldf

“HD Mspaint | Thinking Face Emoji 🤔.” Know Your Meme, 14 Jan. 2018, knowyourmeme.com/photos/1256183-thinking-face-emoji-%F0%9F%A4%94.

javabeans. “Gaksital (Bridal Mask): Episode 1 » Dramabeans Korean Drama Recaps.” Dramabeans, 30 Jan. 2012, www.dramabeans.com/2012/05/gaksital-bridal-mask-episode-1/.

girlfriday. “Sungkyunkwan Scandal: Episode 12 » Dramabeans Korean Drama Recaps.” Dramabeans, 12 Oct. 2010, www.dramabeans.com/2010/10/sungkyunkwan-scandal-episode-12/

Best_of_Grindr. “Every time [user] and I bump into each other 👯”* Instagram, 3 June, 2016. www.instagram.com/p/BGNJMT3BtzM/.

Group Evaluation: Everyone did a great job at communicating as well as editing all responses. We appreciated how everyone was able to guide one another through answers as well as specifications since not all of us were very familiar with Korean dramas and some of the material was harder to get for some of us than others. We felt as if everyone did their part in collaborated greatly! There was a great amount of collective creativity and everything was put together with virtually no trouble. Special thanks to Jessica for the cool idea of taking pictures of us throughout our collab session and us reacting to screen grabs!

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