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main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:
michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club
*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***
that's it that's the movie
outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative
actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.
aka Michael Myers Is A Republican
but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too
also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain
side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty
i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978
(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)
oh no he's hot

#HALLOWEEN#halloween the movie#michael myers#do you think he's a mike? mikey? to his friends? if slashers had friends?#i'll be honest i was expecting this movie to be way more of a bitch to its female characters#i mean yeah they died but so did some dudes#there's just a lack of cattiness compared to the way most later movies portrayed teenage girls idk#yeah the Final Girl is a Virgin and a Bookworm. but there's no bullying or any strong sense that's she's morally superior to everyone else#mostly she AND the other girls feel a bit sorry for her lack of a social life. one even tries to set her up with a date to the school dance#solidarity! trying to get your nerd friend laid!#overall it's just teenagers being teenagers and then a slasher comes in and ruins everything with his Lack Of Chill#like yeah dude sometimes teenagers have sex. get over it#also something to be said about how while the girl who survives is the one who isn't sexually active and dresses conservatively...#ultimately those things aren't ENOUGH to prevent her from being targeted#you could say that the other girls 'provoked' the villain (the same way women irl are so often accused of provoking their attackers)#but ultimately that doesn't keep the Final Girl safe. it just delays the inevitable.#because violent men never need excuses. no matter how eager society is to provide them.#ultimately she is at the mercy of the same violent whims because it was never her behavior that invited the violence.#gendered violence doesn't need an invitation.#also she doesn't save herself the doctor saves her#it's not her actions or choices that put her in danger OR save her from it--once again it is the whim of a man#no this wasn't intended to be a feminist movie it's just fun how you could argue it that way
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Percy is giving "Storm of Steel" while Luke is more "All Quiet on the Western Front" in terms of experience with the gods ngl.
#both All Quiet on the Western Front and Storm of Steel are books on ww1 written by german vets#but while Storm of Steel is a tale of glory- of a soldier rising through the ranks and fighting a heroic battle despite loss and injury#All Quiet on the Western front is a depressive look at the horrors of war- how doomed and tortured the normal soldiers was#and how utterly futile the entier thing was. The men fighting being little more than lambs to the slaughter#just like how Percy's story is one of gaining glory; of rightous fights and having a happy end#of prevailing and winning despite loss and injury#while Luke's story is ultimatly a testament to the powerlessness and horror of demigod life#of how they are used and abused; thrown to the wolves like the soldiers in ww1 where#and how they are ultimatly unable to change anything#The protagonist of Storm of Steel get's to survive after rising through the ranks; just like Percy got to have his happily ever after#the protagonist of all quiet on the western front dies a useless: meaningless; utterly vain death at the end#his life meant nothing as the war continued on#just like how luke's death meant ultimatly nothing as the gods went back to their old ways#pjo#luke castellan#percy jackson and the olympians#percy jackson
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Wait is the baby beam an official thing.. can I see baby mags.. I imagine him as Jank Boteko
this aint even the only time he's turned into a baby but here's the instance i keep seein on my TL
(X-Men Unlimited Infinity #64)
#snap chats#this the most Fuckass looking baby ive ever seen it cracks me up whenever i look at him#LIKE AFAIK THIS IS THE THIRD TIME HE'S TURNED INTO A BABY#THIS time he was turned into a baby by alpha who joins apocalypse after erik and moira fail to negotiate with him#and then the first time he's turned into a baby is Defenders 16 in the 70s by alpha. again. wherein after moira raises him for a while#before he's turned back into an adult by eric the red#then there's X-Men Babies but he's more of a toddler along with the other x-men ...... girl wtf is happening to this man--#also moira's dressed like that to be able to use magneto's powers while he's a baby. because this is a TL where she joins with mags#and the two try to pursue charles' dream in a reality where he dies. casual things.
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Onyx Storm and LGBT+ Rep
How does everyone feel about the LGBT+ rep in the series post Onyx Storm? Personally, I'm not very impressed.
Now, the LGBT+ rep was never the best. Frankly it was always a blink, and you'll miss it type deal, but I have to say after reading Onyx Storm I'm seeing some worrying signs.
One thing I noticed in particular was that the two main LGBT+ characters we have are the only ones without clear love interests/ they're the characters pointed out as sleeping around and unattached. This is in comparison to the straight side characters, who almost all have clear end game love interests or close relationships with one person. The straight characters also have their love interests as part of the side cast, who have at least some lines, as opposed to the LGBT+ characters whose lovers are barely mentioned by name, let alone are a part of the group.
Take Dain. He's one the main side characters. This book it appears his love interest and end game (because no one simply has a crush in a romance novel, or breaks up) is Sloane. Sloane didn't have many scenes in this book, but she's still around, she still has moments. She's apart of their Wing. She has multiple interactions with Dain on page. Also she was a pretty big character last book, who has family ties with an important character from the first book.
In contrast, Ridoc. He was a major character in this book, getting far more scene time than he did in previous installments. He's gay and the only thing we know about his love life, something that's been brought up multiple times, is that he loves sleeping around. In the book where he gets upped scene time, his only romantic interaction is flirting with a new Flier who never shows up again. The only other thing he does romance related (if you can even call it that) is to jokingly mock his straight friends for having steady partners, instead of living it up by sleeping around.
Rhiannon gets similar treatment, though she's not as much of a player. Rhi is an incredibly important character in the first two books and Violet's bff. Her romantic partner is a woman called Tara. They have an off and on again relationship, that is implied to simply be sexual, not romantic. Tara maybe gets a line in one of the books, but I can't recall it at all. Tara is in First Wing.
Unlike the straight characters (or at least those pursuing opposite sex relationships) these two prominent LGBT+ characters are not allowed to have romantic interests, only sexual hook-ups, none of which who are other important side characters, therefore get zero character interactions.
Also, the only LGBT+ character that had a romantic partner (who again is not part of the main friend group) died in this book, so that's not great.
I'm not saying that Yarros has to write an epic LGBT+ romance, but it'd be nice if she at least gave one of these characters as much care as her straight side characters get in the romance department. I mean, would it have killed her to have Ridoc or Rhi have crushes on someone in the main friend group and have cute interactions with them, similar to Dain and Sloane, or Sawyer and Jesinia, or Imogen and Garrick? Why can't Ridoc be interested in Bodhi and get some cute moment during the sparing matches?
I doubt it was intentional, but Yarros is playing into the trope (especially with Ridoc) that LGBT+ people are very promiscuous and rarely have meaningful relationships based on love, rather than sex. Past that, it really feels like they aren't treated the same as the 'straight' characters (because they could be bi) who get at least some dialog with their love interests, who in turn have scenes independent of that relationship, because unlike the LGBT+ characters' love interests, their crushes are important to the story.
#fourth wing#iron flame#onyx storm#onyx storm spoilers#fourth wing critical#idk it just really stuck out to me after this book#because Ridoc was such a big character this time#ontop of so many more straight ships being set up this book#not to mention how she had Ridoc mock his straight friends for being in loving monogamous relationships#while he's shown to sleep with a bunch of men#it just really struck me as playing into the trope of gay men being sex driven and not into real relationships#and you know#some LGBT+ people do sleep around#just like straight people do#but given the two main LGBT+ characters in the series are like this#While we aren't really given the equivalent of a straight main side character who does this to a memorable extent#does make it come across as falling into harmful stereotypes#and yeah Quinn doesn't count because she fucking died#was not mentioned or as integral to the plot as other straight characters#and she didn't get any dialog with her girlfriend#I also know that many people (myself included) think Brennen and Noalin were a thing#but that's not any better because Noalin is also dead or possibly turned Venin and we've gotten zero info on him#Brennan doesn't talk about him and Violet never asks about him#so even if it is revealed he and Brennan were in love it doesn't really mean all that much#or change how sidelined her other LGBT+ cha raters love lives are compared to her straight cha raters
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yeah okay, but i wanna talk a minute about how lichdom is actually the bad ending for emmrich a second, because i just played through the last part of his personal quest agaiin, and i've been chewing on it for the last, like, week.
so, you can romanticize it all you want, but emmrich changes after lichdom, which...you know, can be expected, but it's not in a good way. in a shallow sense he has more of a temper, he's more...i'm sorry, i don't think the overprotectiveness of rook is exactly ~so romantic~, i think it's...not great, to put it lightly. it's a little guilt-trippy about how he'll have to mourn them forever if they die, which...newsflash, he's gonna be doing that anyway. and on that shallow level there's just a layer of ickiness to it that i think some people just are...overlooking.
the fact that it's his life's work notwithstanding, like...this isn't the same healing and head on confrontation other companions get for what's eating at them, it's enabling emmrich's aversion to looking the facts dead (no pun intended) in the face: people die. he'll die one day, too, and literally nothing is forever, no matter what promise lichdom makes. like there's some banter with lucanis that i don't have exact quotes for at the moment, but it basically boils down to the fact that if you spend all your time reaching for undeath and hoping to return one day, you're ignoring and wasting the life you can have in the here and now and it's passing you by, which is...i mean, is that not it? is that not exactly what emmrich's doing? and i mean, if there's anyone to point that out, it's probably lucanis.
then there's hezenkoss, who has absolutely fed his fears, and if you search your heart you'll know it to be true. like @ofeluvians and i were talking about, i don't think it was ever a real, true friendship, i think it was almost entirely one-sded (boy, is that ever a character quirk i'm familiar with, i say, looking pointedly at 616 tony stark - ask me how!), and his insecurities were exacerbated to at least some degree. emmrich says himself that johanna never had an easy time of making friends, and if you read the flame eternal you can see she was acerbic even then, and not exactly what i would call compassionate to either emmrich or the spirits they were dealing with.
there's the fact that he was taken into a place that terrified him after his parents died, and i don't think it's necessarily some lofty, grand, scholarly thing that makes the memorial gardens his favorite place in the grand necropolis, i think it's because - out of all of it that we at least get to see - it's actually the most peaceful and least scary. just like i don't think it's hugely a shocker that his favorite spirits are definitely the wisps, which, by and large are manifestations of curiosity and by and large harmless.
i think, instead of a paralyzing fear of death, it's anxiety. like...big anxiety resulting from trauma that's never been addressed (his parents' deaths) and loneliness to a degree (manfred). he's so eager to share things with people, there's a recipe from his mother he passes on to lucanis (which i'm sure was a what's your favorite food conversation), or his books with taash and bellara. his skills to help neve solve a murder. going camping with harding. even the dad talks with davrin have shades of this, funny as it is. he...speaks to people on their level, i think, to a degree, once he knows what their level and their comfort level is (taash). he can empathize with situations he'll never actually experience himself. and it's like he says, a good instructor never makes a student feel inferior.
it's the loneliness thing i wanna circle back to a second, though, because it's my ultimate point: for all of this, for all of his flaws and his fears and his kindness, what the heart of his actual issue that needs addressing is is that loneliness. if you bring manfred back, he'll tell rook, you know, that he has pangs for what might have been, but seeing manfred grow and his excitement for his new magic and getting to be an apprentice mage is something he wouldn't change for the world. if unromanced he stumbles into one, anyway, full of adventure that wouldn't necessarily be the kind he'd find himself in, in his daily, normal life. his genuine distress toward the beginning, after he's recruited, when he feels like he's being judged and shut out (his commentary on other people's commentary on his skulls and manfred, his and taash's issues finally coming to a head).
like this man is lonely, y'all, and looking for human connection, and i don't think he entirely realizes it as the core of that overwhelming sense of dread. thinking about all his little notes in the codices, like...outside of lecture notes there's always some mention of someone from the veilguard in them, davrin and silly questions, or harding and burning the dead, or how davrin showed him flowers he's only seen in herbalism books and how excited he is for that. and if he turns to lichdom, he loses all of that. he loses manfred, and he does not get over it. instead he gets, like, five minutes of euphoria and then it's people finding him crying over manfred in his room and the deep regret when even spite confronts him about how manfred should be there.
so...yeah. that's a lot of words to say i don't think lichdom solves anything, and in fact actually probably makes things worse, because sure, he gets to live forever. with everyone around him that he loves dying, no manfred, and in the end he'll still end up alone, which is the core of the issue, i think.
#headcanon .#// it turns out i really do have a type#// and that type is men with facial hair#// who excel in their fields#// and look put together and successful on the outside#// but crave love and belonging on the inside#// while hiding from the truth#// tony behind iron man#// emmrich behind lichdom#// i sure know how to pick 'em huh#// (this is also why i think that dynamic would be interesting put a pin in that)#// but yeah#// i just think more than anything#// emmrich's just lonely#// his parents died when he was young - young enough memories have faded#// his best friend turns out to be an evil steampunk half lich#// and his son is a curiosity wisp driving a cobbled together skeleton#// mans needs the veilguard - a family#// not lichdom#datv spoilers#dragon age veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#veilguard spoilers
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so Ivanova is nearly killed off, saved by actually killing off sweet baby space legolas, and now she's left anyway? AND my boy lennier is going off to "find himself" too? mkay.
#babylon 5#i mean his archetype isn't quite legolas but i jokingly called marcus rite aid orlando bloom the 1st time he showed up & the likeness stuck#smh his life's biggest dream was to tenderly eat susan out and he died before he could ever lose his v card. shoulda been londo#im a few episodes in to s5 & idc about his 'almost died & now i feel bad for doing genocide' revelation#conveniently g'kar had his whole no revenge awakening blah blah a while ago but i think he should still have a lil killing londo as a treat#lenniers leaving honestly has me the most mad bc theyve made him this sad unrequited lovesick puppy vs his love for delenn just being a#casual fact that he's overcome bc his actual work with & overall care for delenn mattered more. it was great 'men & women who have attracti#attraction towards another can very much be platonic friends' representation. but nooooo gotta make him cucked or whatever 🙄#a lot i dont feel good about this season. like i didnt care for the s4 finale that tells us the plot of what will happen. like oh i guess#the telepaths are bad waow waow i wonder what will happen oh wait we know exactly & not in an intentional non-linear storytelling device#kind of way#:/ i do not feel motivated to be invested in these new characters/events thus far bc we know it goes bad#the previous narration about the incoming shadow war was a good use of that framing device. this season so far feels more telling vs showin#feels like a weird rushed infodump by a cancelled show yet from what ive heard b5 was planned 5 seasons. strange choices!#anyway ive taken a b5 break for this reason but its the last season so i gotta get to the end even if its disappointing#hopefully susan and lennier show up together as a cool crime-fighting ranger duo kickin' space pirate butt or something before then 🤞#dani talks about tv#oh last thing i dislike about this season: my nemesis garibaldi being promoted to my nemesis of a scifi trope: space cia agent 😒#and his whole 'diplomacy is naive we need to prepare to violate rights' schpiel and his viewpoint being 'validated' by the narrative...#i will never call star trek lib again i will never call star trek lib again i will never call star trek lib again i will nev
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frank and his stupid girlfriend he hates
#marvel#selfship#frank castle#metafrank#sona: meta menardi#spidersona#greasy dumb art tag#the sketch for this was very old but i decided eh. might as well finish it#originally i think it was supposed to be an illustration for love love love by of monsters and men but clearly i gave up on that KJFDHGH#also im gonna ramble in the tags again. i thought about it before but the gift from pixie kinda spurred that on further#i have an au (? sorta i mean idk) where meta dies but a few weeks (like three at most) mainline metafrank both get lost in the multiverse#and end up in this one. something about fate being cruel#because if frank was to pick one person who died to bring back it would NOT be this dumbass#and i think hed tell her that once they meet#and shed take it really well because she knows. shed tell him how she knows theyre just... theyre nothing. shes nothing to him#and the frank with the dead meta kinda pauses at that because like. oh yeah you really died thinking that. you really did.#she and her frank end up going back to their own universe at some point but the other frank gets a few days to have her back#and she gets a few days of a frank thats a little more open about whats going on between them as complicated as it is#a lot of silent proximity i think. theres a lot hed like to say but cant bring himself to even then#and i think for meta its. this frank is a more closed off and distant than her frank is already#but at the same time when he looks at her she feels like he wants her there#while with her frank is more of a. knowing it. she knows her frank is putting up a facade but with this one she feels it
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Probably an unpopular opinion: I don't like a lot of modern Dazzler appearances. Like after New Excalibur. I thought her 4ish issues in Astonishing were pretty good, and A-force v2. That's it really. Essentially every more modern Dazzler comic and appearance feels like it's trying really hard to re-create Dazzler v1, and that's not something that can happen, or even should happen. Ali has had so much growth and experiences past v1, and even in v1 you can tell it does start to shift from fun cameos to actual character growth, around the time she killed Klaw. And while I think callbacks to the silly storylines in v1, she is more than that. Especially post Dazzler the movie, and the gross relationship with Roman. And her time with the X-men and Longshot are important, too. She became more serious, more hardened cause she went through some shit. And like you can balance serious and silly that like never happens. Like most of her modern appearances really feel like they are completely reversing her character growth and it's. Frustrating and annoying :/
That's all I just had to rant about her character loss 👍
#and this isnt me saying i hate dazzler v1 but like. it feels like the writers read the first 10 issues and went “cool thats all who dazz is”#and its not she grew past that#she killed a guy she had a murder sister she had a shitty relationship with roman she accidentally lead to more anti mutant sentiment#she became a gladiator she chilled with lila cheney and didn't have that fun of a time cause she wanted to be herself she was basically#forced to join the x-men for her safety she fell in love with longshot she got amnesia and moved to mojoworld with longshot she became a#revolutionary on mojoworld and then longshot “died” and she left and she joined Excalibur and has mysterious ressuection powers that hardly#get mentioned (thank you for mentioning them a-force) and she died a lot#shes so much more than “what if famous singer... was mutant” and silly and while i think she should be allowed to be silly she has had#more complex situations added into her character#AGH#if you cant tell i recently read her recent run :/ :/ :/#please stop undoing her character growth 🥺#i love#alison blaire#dazzler#marvel#x men
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I HATE straight movies. Tony stark dies and what? best the twin chrises can do is a little lip quiver and some glossy eyes? This happened with venom too I need bad action movies to at least let men break down into tears like they're fucking will graham or something. Good god people
#rehks rants#let men cry but it's about fictional men in movies where they really should be crying s lot more#tom holland gave it his ALL every time they asked him to cry for the mcu#I just want to feel the impact dont 'be strong' about it while he died 2 seconds ago#I will admit tom hardy did a little better than the twin chrises but they really didnt let him break down even as he's behind the door#DEAN WINCHESTER COULDNT FUCKING MOVE BUT VENOM KILLS HIMSELF IN FRONT OF YOU AND UR A LITTLE SAD#venom spoilers#too I guess
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See, I think the thing about deranged, toxic relationships in fiction, is that everyone involved has to actively choose to walk into or keep coming back to this relationship. That's the interesting part for me. What would make someone, against every single ounce of reason, decide that being in a relationship like that is genuinely worth it for them? Why would someone willingly put themselves in that situation? What has to be going on in their psyche? What do they get (or think they get) out of it?
If the toxicity is one-sided or one party is completely railroaded into the relationship at every turn until they finally cave, or there's some outside force trapping both of them in the relationship and they don't actually want to be there, that's not particular interesting to me, personally.
(Obviously, other people can disagree with this; people have a wide variety of opinions and ways they engage with fiction, which is good, actually. I'm simply talking about my own thoughts.)
#also. and I had a conversation about this a while ago with a friend: the versions of this I gravitate toward tend to be ones that...aren't#well-loved by fandom. there are some examples of Complex Toxic Dynamics that ARE praised and popular and end up as examples of#Love Stories Of All Time. but those are...even if it wasn't necessarily INTENTIONAL. those relationships become palatable in some way#to the wider audience. and. I think you all know by now: I am not interested in being palatable#(obviously there are some exceptions to this: like people really like The Fucked-Up Soulmates from one of the movies of all time di revenge#*do. I'm on mobile & I'm lazy I'm not retyping all that)#(and dr/master has a fair amount of love--even if I wouldn't say it's The™ ship of the fandom at large)#but I think...idk. there are some examples of this where it seems like the creators are trying SO hard to make the toxic romance somehow#palatable or relatable to the audience. or like...done in a way to try and make the audience actively root for it.#and again part of the appeal TO ME. is that the people are allowed to be deranged in ways that AREN'T accepted or (how many times can#I use this word) palatable. or 'likable'. the appeal is that they're on the fringes of society and usually that includes 'within#the fandom/audience of the media they're from'#(I think...also. I just see so many toxic '''conventionally attractive''' white men irl. I'm a lot more likely to enjoy a dynamic if it#involves at least one character who isn't that demographic)#okay I need to go to BED#GOOD NIGHT
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Jaune is the Sakura Haruno of RWBY send tweet
#rwde#both are canon dorks w zero rizz yet are somehow gigachads shipped w anything that moves#both have relentless crushes on obviously uninterested parties while shitting on the one(s) who have crushes on them#both lose their heads in the heat of battle and someone nearly dies as a result#both are duel tanks and healers#both are fucking annoying as shit and i wish theyd get off the screen#both are written by misogynistic men that cant write a satisfactory story or cinch obvious m/m pairings to save their lives#instead shoehorning in a sloppy het romance where only the woman's interest was abundantly clear while the mans was never even established#i am filing for custody as we speak bc they both could have been SO MUCH MORE#at least theres fanfic#theres an ongoing nart au fic where sakura stops holding herself back and ends up becoming a master fuinjutist at 14#its called Hellbent by LuckySeven and its really good. highkey recommend#favorite version of sakura hands down
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watched saw for the first time and my god
Kinda alot to unpack but it was a really good movie. 10/10
#genuinely upset that tapp and sing died#that guy really spent 7 hours pretending to be a corpse while 2 men loose their shit#Only just to walk out ofc#i need to watch more of this series tbh
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my naming scheme for the resurrectionists causes me undue stress a lot of the time but when it works it Works
#edgar mortis is obv edgar allen poe + latin word for death. and his surname plays off the fact that there are four other resurrection men#only identified by their surnames which are pallor livor rigor and algor. rigor mortis should be easy to clock but the rest are all stages#of death as well when you attach -mortis to the end of them. which cements edgar's identity as a resurrection man even when he's farrr too#consumed by morana's world of magic and mystery to be actively working.#morana faust is a slavic death goddess + faust. the most famous necromancer in all of fiction. once again her surname cements her identity#as a necromancer specifically even when she gets swept away by unrelated magical happenings#nine and shi aren't their real names but their identification numbers are 9444999 and 4999444. 9 and 4 are both associated with death and#each of their numbers are the other's but reversed. also nine was a classical composer in life and there's a superstition that classical#composers will not live to write their 9th symphony (he sure as hell didn't lol) so it's fitting that he's the one who ended up with the#nickname. abberline isn't his real name either so he doesn't count. valdís has ancient norse for 'death' (val) + 'dis' (goddess) despite th#name not actually being used for any actual death goddess and her surname toth is likely derived from a medieval german word for death#her name isn't glaringly out of place with the rest of the cast but doesn't immediately let you catch on to her whole deal#which is good bc valdís is meant to sort of blend into the backround of reader's minds until The Reveal.#mara is a minor hindu goddess of death and her surname grave is. well. self explanatory. i tried to give the more non-magical side of londo#more straightforward names to contrast with some of the others and obv her dad was created before her and dr grave seemed like a good name#for someone who only popped up in the story while he was hiring professional grave robbers (now he pawns that task off on mara lol)#ereshkigal kore is just queen of the underworld + queen of the underworld but def has a very grandiose feel which is good bc that's#absolutely the vibes she should be giving off. all her servants' names boil down to figures associated with the greek + mesopotamian#underworlds. mainly attendants of aforementioned goddesses. which fits bc they all serve her#but i'd like to give special consideration to the maid trio here bc they're a set of triplets. and their last name is cerberus.#which famously had 3 heads. and the older two feature a similar naming scheme as persephone + eurydice (they even both end in the same e#sound) but the youngest's name is aisha which means 'living' or 'alive'. and obv her departure from the naming scheme makes her more easily#differentiated from her sisters + more memorable in the long run which is good bc she's the most important maid but it also gives me room t#have a 'my name means alive but she's named for the queen of the underworld so i'm willing to not live up to my name if it means being#closer to her' moment w a shitton of lilies in frame in case it isn't clear to anyone what's going on ('her' means eresh not persephone btw#and then there's dysmas. the patron saint of undertakers. which fits bc catholic. and sanson. as in the executioner. for a character heavil#inspired by the nasuverse's church executioners like kirei and ciel#rosette comes from the rosette nebula which looks like a skull. hayden is from one of my kids at work who said that next time i wrote a#murderer into something i had to name them after her so. here you go hayden. you get to be the cannibalistic child. (the topic came up when#i had to make a murder mystery for class so i stole the names from my kids and i told the ones whose names i used abt it later and she was
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Sophia, the Boston woman from 1875 who haunts a lamp I got at Brimfield: what is a stay at home girlfriend, if you please?
me: well, it's a woman who's financially supported by the man she's dating, and she lives with him and usually keeps house and cooks for him
her: and they're not married?
me: well, no; hence "girlfriend" rather than "wife." I know that may alarm y-
her: oh calm down I know about Kept Women. he has no legal tie to her, though? she has no sort of standing with him in the eyes of the law? only his word that he'll follow through?
me: yes
her: and remind me again- you don't have to be financially dependent on a man anymore, right? there are more than like three careers open to women that will let you support yourself at a decent level now? and society isn't pressuring you 24/7 to get married and stop working outside the home?
me: yes
her: so these women. CHOOSE to be dependent on a man. who could leave them at any moment without legal consequence. because they don't like their jobs. the jobs, while imperfect, that let them live on their own, answerable to no-one
me: yes
her: that had better be some absolutely amazing jewelry they can pawn off if he leaves them, then
me: it's usually not
her: THERE'S NOT EVEN SECURITY JEWELRY?!
me: oh by the way they blame feminism for "having to work"
her:
her: I became fully dependent on my in-laws who hated me, after my husband died two years into our marriage, because I was a 23-year-old orphan with no marketable skills in any avenue besides Running A Household and the only men left unmarried in my social circle were widowers thirty years my senior. I also couldn't establish lines of credit as a widow because the merchants said my husband dying so soon meant that I didn't have stable enough income. and that was entirely legal
me: yeah
her: I'm going to go slam some doors please do not bother me
#please don't fall for the stay-at-home girlfriend nonsense the door slamming is really loud#women's history#sophia the ghost#this is becoming a Thing now
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#actually not done with hadestown because also in the original version you hear Hermes blowing air after coming back with his ‘a’ight’ after#Orpheus looks and I’ve not seen it but I always imagine him blowing Eurydice back tot he underworld because he has to this is the way the#story goes and even though he doesn’t want it to end this way it has to and he has to fucking make it end this way#and I genuinely cannot remember if this makes it to the broadway version but then we have Hermes’ breath clearing the scene to be reset#to go back to the beginning and he’s taking about signing the song again even though he knows how it ends and ugh and yeah yeah it’s the#human experience to keep going despite failures and to hope that it works out this time and hope is a difficult habit to break whatever#but even the gods aren’t free of the fucking tragedy and then and THEN he has to be the one to tell Eurydice that she can trust Orpheus that#he’s not like other men and then he isssss he isssssssss he leaves her alone in the wind (because of course he does he has a SONG to write#and that’s more important than the woman you allegedly love…I have neutral opinions about that…clearly) and so Eurydice goes to hadestown#and another difference with the original is that she sees he’s full of shit in the first chant not in hey little songbird she’s already done#and then hades is like ‘hey - heard your man ain’t shit’ and sure he deceives her but he’s hades and if bitch ass Orpheus gets a pass so#should he so Hermes promises Eurydice that Orpheus is different. that she’ll be safe. that he’ll make her feel alive and thennnnn it’s not#funny but it’s hilarious so imagine having to do that again and again and again and my head canon is that Hermes knows. he knows that theyve#done this before but hope is an impossible habit to break and so he genuinely hopes that this time it’ll work this time Orpheus will stand#in the wind with Eurydice or listen to Hermes or not look back but of course he won’t. he’s Orpheus. he’s got a song to give to the world#and Eurydice is just his muse (and I LOVE the line ‘you’ll find another muse somewhere’…I might hate Orpheus like the oroginal peformer idk#his name unfortunately and Reeve are amazing it’s the character) so it doesn’t matter that she dies over and over and in some ways Hermes#might be restarting everything so his boy doesn’t have to be heartbroken because that’s his adoptive son basically and while he’s a fucking#idiot he’s loved so of course Hermes restarts everything not only because he has to but because he doesn’t want Orpheus to suffer and who#cares if Eurydice suffers for it as long as the song gets finished
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it sounds kinda pathetic and silly, but this scene is going to haunt me for a while... fuck. i hate it when they kill off the more... 'innocent' characters (well, he still shot his rifle and killed men, but yknow, i think he was the youngest out of the lot? which makes it even worse)
This shit was well-done. it's not like, hollywood-standards, but it was enough to make me tear up and cry a little. think these scenes hit a little harder when someone's comrade/friend dies in their arms, rather than a romantic partner
#this is sadder than when sharpe's wife died. I'm not even lying#that's because she died pretty early on and uh. yeah. i wasnt really *into* the series like i am now.. halfway through#this scene hit me hard and idk why it did... i guess bc im just enjoying it *now*#and ive grown attached to these buggers. goddamn it#ramblings#my screenshots#i was still sad when she died but i didnt like. cry over it like i did with this scene#think friendships hit harder than relationships to me. probs because i value friendships more than romance#never been in a romantic situation in my life so i cant relate 🤷#the raw emotion here... the realisation that one of their own is dying...#i feel so ill#and pat (pictured above) kisses him on the head.. hes holding perkins head here#good lord... you never see that these days#pretty rare to see a man kiss his comrade on his head while hes dying in his arms#this shit is from the 90s. THE NINETIES.#if they did this today people would call it 'woke' i bet money on it#god forbid men show emotions these days...#dan singing to him so it was the last thing he'd hear... MY FEELINGS...
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