#watching the movie

[empressgeekt]

Trolls - Character reaction fic gripes

okay 1 I'm on mobile so sorry for any mistakes in Grammer. And 2 this is not a hate post.

I love character watch their show/movie fics ans there's a decent number of them in the trolls Fandom. Some of them really good interms of character interaction and writing. However! I think it is a shame that no author has yet kidnapped pre-breakup Brozone (+grandma and young peppy and viva [poppy is most likely an egg]), and make them react to modern timeline shenanigans.

Movie 1: Like yay we will escape the tree one day! But wait where's my eldest daughter?! Why is our baby brother grey?! Where were we when grandma died?! GRANDMA DIED?! We could've talked the bergens into feeling happiness this whole time?! Okay f*ck Creek.

Movie 2: there are other tribes now? Peppy why didn't you mention this, we could've called them for help after getting captured. Floyd you traitor why are you rooting for the bad guys' music? C'mon big branch don't back out of confessing! Wait we were the bag guys first?

Movie 3: screams of horror at questions they asked since the beginning of the first film finally being answered in the worse way possible. 🙃

Theres just so much angst potential! I'd write it myself but I don't have time currently.

[sailermoon]

c.s. lewis really said hey what if we did the crucifixion of Christ but for children and with my furry OC

[irondadfics]

Hello, sorry that this isn’t necessary focused around Peter and Tony, but do you guys happen to know of any fics with the characters reacting to/watching the films? I’ve read several that DO include Tony and Peter fluff and some that promised it in future updates. I just can’t seem to find any of them on Ao3 rn. Sorry if this is classified as a rec list request but I know the one i super want to find doesn’t have Peter in it (yet).

there are so many fics like this. But here’s a few, could any of these be close to what you’re looking for?

part of the journey is the end by burningfudge

An Avengers: watch-it fic series

The Trials and Tribulations of Spider-Man, the People's Hero by ironfidus

An assortment of characters ranging from Avengers to high schoolers and everything (not really) in between are summoned to a theatre to watch a certain movie about Queens' beloved web-slinging vigilante.

you can also try the “avengers watch the movies” tag

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/avengers%20watch%20the%20movies

[theonlyadawong]

i love my dead gay son

[detentiontrack]

I’m so normal. I’m so normal. I’m so normal. I AM SO SO SO SO NORMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[flippythegodzilla]

Finally watching puss in boots and I’m the only in here!!! I’m the only one this is so fucking cool!

[princessofxianle]

Feng Xin Gladiator AU idea plagues me...

[shadebloopnik]

Man Puss in Boots fics are great. Man watching the movie fics are great.

Would be nice if someone *cough*putthemtogether*cough*

[mahgck]

you have to outlive donald trump

[paintedcrows]

Did anyone tell Ford (bonus doodles: Family Movie Night, 70s Classics)

[cloud-ya]

outcast of the village

[stevenrogered]

Dame Maggie Smith as Muriel Donnelly The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)

[musashi]

i want more nuance to be entered into the discussion of the green girl sorority and how differently cynthia plays elphaba in comparison to those who came before her because while a lot of people are rightfully like "why was elphaba not black from the beginning" and celebrating that she is now being played by a black woman, i think we need to be careful in just writing off all the elphabas of the past as Random White Girls when the role was championed (and often followed/succeeded) by a jewish woman

the pop culture archetype of the Wicked Witch has deep roots in antisemitism stretching faaaar far back. there is a level of reclamation happening in casting idina menzel, a jewish woman, to play the Misunderstood and Maligned young girl who is branded as exactly that. and stage!Elphaba is also written and acted with jewish stereotypes in mind--she is loud, aggressive, no-nonsense, blunt. she is quick to advocate for herself and shut down the discrimination she faces. all of this is very intentional! her personality is abrasive from years of abuse, and that makes propagandizing her easy. this is literally the thesis statement of the musical--it's not about aptitude, it's the way you're viewed.

cynthia's performance of elphaba is fucking INSPIRED despite going in a completely different direction. she's much more reserved, analytical, one of her key character traits is how well she can read people (see her calling out Galinda as insecure/putting on airs in their first scene together, clocking that Fiyero is using his party guy persona as a shield for his own depression) elphaba's attempts to blend in and make herself smaller all fail simply because of her existence, if not that then because she feels empathy so strongly she often struggles to hold back from acting, protecting.

personality wise, though, cynthia's elphaba is very quiet and closed-off, not at all the bullet-to-the-face that she is in the stage show, and... she still gets propagandized and maligned. though this seems to contradict the other interpretation, it tells of the other end of the spectrum of propaganda, one that black women watching (and many, MANY other marginalized folks) are sure to identify with--it does not matter how "nice," how reserved, how small a black woman makes herself. a racist society will still scrutinize her every action for a way to parse ill intent from it, brand her as an angry black woman who is dangerous and wicked, and write off any humanity she has in the process.

these two very different interpretations tell of the lie of assimilation. the fact of the matter is, when you are marginalized, there is no way to sand down your edges enough to make the people oppressing you "accept" you. that is why wicked is a tragedy at its core. whether loud and aggressive or quiet and unimposing, there is nothing elphaba could have done to make the people of Oz see her as anything other than a scapegoat to blame all their problems on.

so while i definitely appreciate that people are excited for black girl era elphaba, i would encourage us all to still show appreciation for what came before--that was not white girl era elphaba. that was jewish girl era elphaba. two houses, both alike in dignity, two stories both worth being told.

[vicholas]

the funniest part of the jason x sex scene post is actually watching jason x and finding out that the sex scene was plot relevant because jason revives at the very same time they were having sex in the room next door and it's implied that jason could sense them having sex while he was cryogenically frozen and it pissed him so much (because he hates sex) that it revived him. if you removed it you would make the movie less funny.

[ofswordsandpens]

idk why people get super pedantic about the movie logic in Home Alone and start and try to pick it apart, because like, its a Christmas movie about a child accidentally being left home alone, the premise isn't exactly asking us to suspend our disbelief that much, and yet nearly every single "gotcha" question I see people bring up about this film is literally answered within the first 15 minutes :/