#the book poor things tackled the intertwined relationship between scotland and england and their creation of the british empire
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i'm really tired right now and this will be incoherent but highlander bodice rippers, the movie poor things, using scottish folktales in your work when you're not scottish.
this of course goes for everyone who takes stuff from cultures that are not their own to use in their work: removing all the context of when, where, and WHY these things were written, dumbing down or erasing the historical elements completely, and you're left with something unoriginal and empty, easily consumed by the masses. because you just really wanted to write something sexy or scary, but like...surface level.
#the book poor things tackled the intertwined relationship between scotland and england and their creation of the british empire#using bella baxter a woman from manchester who is reborn into a scottish woman then dedicates herself to socialism.#she's a metaphor for scotland and the change it needs to make#scottish folktales might have been used as lessons to teach their children or something entertaining to tell on rainy evening#but they were often used for political movements as well#tam lin for eg was mentioned in the complaynt of scotlande during the rough wooing- a scottish propaganda piece resisting english control#the story takes place on the scottish borders. tam lin represents the scots who were taken in by the english and worked alongside them#janet is the scottish hero who claims the right to her homeland and exhibits agency throughout the entire story#tam lin is trapped. she is not.#janet is the one who ends up saving him and bringing him back home to do right by his people#poor things being turned into a pseudo feminist sex movie and folktales being turned into fetishes or easy horror is like#ok it's midnight but what is this nutritionless mush?#i don't know what to tag this as
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