| Rome, wtf? |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|05:14 pm] |
All mental points awarded to Rome are revoked. Totally, permanently and irrevocably revoked. Infinite, infinite fail.
I mean, there were some hints previously. The conspicuous casting of Eirene vs Gaia, the skewed amount of white to darker characters in villainous/antagonist roles, the gender!fail inherent in Vorena's portrayal--she's made a prostitute, her attempt to reclaim her sexuality leads to terrible things, and she's redeemed by swearing herself chaste to a goddess. (Oh screw you, show.) Not to mention Atia's obsession with the bottom feeder.
And now their portrayal of Cleopatra.
Cleopatra was a powerful, political, canny queen, reputedly the only Ptolomeic ruler to have actually learnt the Egyptian language. She and Egypt did not exist merely as some subnote to Rome, as some ~exotic~ place all about debauchery and corruption of those fine Roman men. I was nearly nauseated at the whole scene where she had to be 'schooled' by some condescending bastard of a Roman soldier--a woman who grew up in a cutthroat family, ascended to the throne at eighteen, raised a rebellion and won an alliance that raised her once more to the throne, a woman who is intimately familiar with murderous politics.
And yet in Rome, somehow she turns into a completely amoral, depraved druggie who proclaims herself a 'slave' of Caesar and then seems to have nothing to do but sleep with and be rabidly possessive of Anthony as opposed to, say, running her country.
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| Meme! |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|04:50 pm] |
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Name your 15 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms. Picked up from ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) lucifuge5 I HAVE LOTS MORE. But these are the ones that came into mind first. I also narrowed it down by picking only the ones that had definite, confirmed basis in canon.
1. Chiara/The Bear (The Wolf King)
2. Regeane/Maeniel (The Silver Wolf)
3. Leetah/Cutter (Elfquest)
4. Dante Valentine/Tierce Japhrimel (Working for the Devil)
5. Chihiro/Haku (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi)
6. Sunshine/Constantine (Sunshine)
7. Jill Kismet/Saul (Dante Valentine)
8. Kamiya Kaoru/Himura Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)
9. Allen Walker/Rinali Li (D.Grayman)
10. Jaenelle Angelline/Daemon Sadi (Black Jewels)
11. Keiko Yukimura/Yusuke Urameshi (YuYu Hakusho)
12. Kaylin Neya/Severn (Michelle Sagara's Cast series)
13. Bonnie McCullough/Damon Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries)
14. Vesper Lynd/James Bond (Casino Royale)
15. Anita Blake/her awesome (early Anita Blake books)
...what do you mean, that doesn't count? Okay, fine, have an extra: 16. Sesshoumaru/Rin (Inuyasha)
...apparently I like a lot of relationships where there's equality, but the girls are unequivocably in charge. Especially when the boys are a bit dangerous/amoral/etc.
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[Nov. 24th, 2009|04:34 pm] |
On rewatching Transformers: God, Sam is such a fucking sleaze. We're supposed to be rooting for some asshole who would dump his friend in the middle of nowhere just so he can make the moves on some complete stranger?
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[Nov. 24th, 2009|04:33 pm] |
hi.
spam me with your gifs please. I am in the mood for gifs. |
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[Nov. 24th, 2009|03:56 pm] |
SoW people can you send me Petrificus Totalus or Imperio?
tyyy |
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| ROME FANDOM FAILS FOREVER |
[Nov. 23rd, 2009|10:02 pm] |
Okay, so. I've tried to restraint my anger with the Rome fandom to a few tamped-down comments here and there. But it's not going away, so here's my space to scream and rage a bit. Feel free to ignore this post.
( Read more... )
Not that there isn't a perfectly simple explanation. There is! And it's that in fandom, manly angst takes precedence over women's actual suffering and trauma.
SCREW YOU ALL.
ETA: ...I feel a little better now.
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| ROME, MERLIN |
[Nov. 23rd, 2009|07:32 pm] |
Thoughts on Rome: Vorena makes me cry. She is, in my opinion, both the bravest and the most tragic of the characters on the show, and I love her, and what she goes through makes me want to cry. And I'm glad that despite the focus on the male characters, the show doesn't once make me feel as if she should be blamed. (Unlike the show's fans.)
On Merlin: I LOVE FREYA KIND OF A LOT. A WHOLE LOT. **criiiies**
( from comment on camelot_fleet. spoilers ) |
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| overall, did not approve |
[Nov. 23rd, 2009|06:11 pm] |
Can we goddamn fucking well get rid of the "female characters used only to advance/influence male characters' plot/emotions?"
From tavella:
But... I'm just not very optimistic, because the real problems I have with the show are less with character arcs and plot holes (though they don't help), but underlying principles. The constant gender!fail -- when a producer bursts into laughter at the suggestion that Morgana and Gwen could have their own episode, that's not a sign anyone is thinking it's a problem. And of course, the whole having Arthur leading the slaughter of a village and then thinking it doesn't even have to be addressed.
Maybe not.
THE ONLY WORTHWHILE THING IN THIS SHOW. Well, Freya can stay too.
( quote that, for the moment, sum up my general feelings. more coherent post probably to come later. spoilers ) |
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| Elena Gilbert, HBIC |
[Nov. 23rd, 2009|04:18 pm] |
On rereading The Vampire Diaries: I love how the explanation for why, in the end, Elena is not at all afraid of Stefan basically boils down (from somewhat flowery terms, as Stefan is a bit of a sap regarding Elena) to 'she totally tops and she knows it.'
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[Nov. 23rd, 2009|07:22 pm] |
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....So. A girl I've been friends with online for a decade now? She just met my Bellatrix pb in person. I'm torn between insanely jealous, incredibly impressed, and a teensy bit weirded out. |
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| Bleh. |
[Nov. 23rd, 2009|01:20 pm] |
fjdkls Whyyyyyy won't my computer connect to anything? I'm ready to do some sort of voodoo dance to get it to work again.
Also, why does everyone always talk about how ugly Maggie Gyllenhaal is? She's lovely. And she made me laugh so hard in Away We Go that I thought I was going to wake up the whole household. |
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[Nov. 22nd, 2009|03:49 pm] |
Whenever someone says Jo was 'too immature'--ostensibly in general but, it is fairly easy to discern, meaning 'for Dean'--I have to laugh. By anyone's estimate, Jo Harvelle is a great deal more mature than Dean Winchester.
Let's see...wants to strike out on her own, seems perfectly capable of it. Doesn't collect venereal diseases like stamps. Behaves with maturity, is self-contained, isn't a total sleaze. Independent, quick and clever, capable...although Dean may have those qualities, too.
Just--can't you shut up now that [spoiler] has happened?.
Supernatural has been leaving me with a bad taste in my mouth for far too long. It's amazing how you run into this stuff when you no longer have the slightest amount of interest in the canon and never had an interest in the fanon.
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| because i love bandwagons |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|05:39 pm] |
Comment below and I will tell you which of your characters that I've played against are my favorites and why I love them. Then repost this in your own journal. Yeah idc. I'll do it for you even if you don't repost this. |
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[Nov. 22nd, 2009|05:39 pm] |
To say that Jonathan Michaels was a troublemaker growing up is an understatement. He was a regular badass actually. He was a lion that couldn't be tamed. A rebel without a cause. Of course, every rebel has that one person that he lets down his guard to. He had that one person in highschool and her name was Anne. She was the town sweetheart and she got to him. She just got to him. He didn't know how it happened, but it did. Shortly after they graduated highschool, they were married. They were young but they were in love and that's what matters. They survived pretty well on their own. They did quite well actually. Just a year after they got married, they found out she was pregnant. She wasn't just pregnant with one baby, but with two. Nine months later, he was the proud father of Alec Austin and Benjamin Bryan.
A year later, he lost his best friend to a car crash. It left a wife widowed and the triples fatherless. Seeing all of them together at the funeral, he made a promise to himself that he would always help her out. It was the least he can do. As he spend more and more time with her, something happened that he was planning; he started falling in love with her. He happened right under his nose and he didn't notice until it was too late. His affair with her started one night during a snowstorm; they were stuck at her house and all cards were laid out on the table. He woke up the next morning with her in his arms and he wouldn't have been happier. He did, of course, feel a little pang of guilt that he had just cheated on his precious Anne. He knew it shouldn't have continued from that night but there's just something about Serenity that kept him coming back for more. He couldn't explain it.
The affair went on for years upon years. How he managed to train to be a secret agent like his father, raise his twins, be a father figure to the triplets, and continue seeing Serenity is anyone's guess. When the kid were nine, both Serenity and Anne got pregnant. Jonathan, obviously, was the father to both. William and Lainey were born around the same time. Because he could only be a father to one of them with out the town getting suspicious, he was involved in William's life as an uncle figure. It was the only role he could presume that would allow him to take part in his son's life. It was just how it had to be.
His tryst with Serenity continued and he found himself falling more and more in love with her everyday. It was dangerous with their kids being so young and the fact that he had a wife, but what can I say? He's a danger junkie. Always has been. Always will be. Speaking of danger, when the kids were eleven and two, Serenity was witness to a murder by a very powerful gang member who started coming after her to keep her quiet. Jonathan, being the kind of man that he is, suggested she go into hiding. He knew the only way to make the threat cease before her children were harmed was to make it appear like she no longer lived. Yes, the one way for things to be safe was for her to fake her own death. He arranged everything for her and set the plan into motion but when it came down to it, he couldn't stand that she would be away from him. He couldn't stand it so much that he decided to come with her.
While she faked her death, he simply left his family. He had no doubt that Anne would do a good job raising the kids. As he left, he hired someone to keep tabs on them for him. He wanted to know everything that was happening to them as they grew up. A part of the plan, he and Serenity became Jason and Sam Morgan. They had to act like a married couple, which wasn't not at all that hard considering they were crazy in love with each other and might as well be married anyway. He proposed to her not too long after they left Liberty but they couldn't get married right away considering the fact that he was still married to Anne. They were engaged for nearly eight years.
When the death of Anne reached him, he didn't waste any time becoming Serenity’s husband. A little rushed, yes, but he didn't care. The two now married couple made a trip back to Liberty to pay respects to Anne at her funeral. They stayed hidden and were able to obverse their kids, now eighteen and nine, and appreciate how they grew up. They were so proud of their kids. Of course, they didn't stay in Liberty long because it would be too much for people to see them together. Alot of questions would be asked that they couldn’t answer. They were not able to return to Liberty until just recently.
After fifteen years of being gone are now able to come back because the threat on Serenity's life is no longer present because the gang member who was after her was killed. They are now able to see their kids and be around them. Jonathan knows this isn't going to be easy for any of them. It's going to be down right difficult but he feels like he needs to be back on his kids life. He's missed out on so much and he wants to make up for it. It's the least he can do. |
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| ROME |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|01:27 pm] |
I have been watching Rome.
Surprise! I am fond of it. It is, in some ways, all about the menz, but the female characters are fabulous, despite the fact that their lives seem to revolve around the male characters--I think that's not unreasonable for the time period. There was--GODDAMNIT--what I would definitely classify as a fridging, but I'm hanging on for the other women. I don't actually know that there are any male characters besides season 1 Octavian where I'm actually interested in finding out what happens to them, never mind liking them. The fandom corners I've dipped my toes in are full of raging misogyny--how dare she be angry with the man that caused her mother's death! How dare she try to move on and pursue a life of her own after her husband's death! Bitch, slut, whore, etc--as to be expected, I suppose. But I love the way the show never makes me feel as though I'm intended to blame Niobe for her choices, or Eirene or Vorena for their anger. And while male characters are shown as sympathetic after doing terrible things, female characters are too. Which is really cool.
The sets are pretty fantastic, and I'm told that it goes to great lengths for historical accuracy. I think they do a really good job of making the characters' certain outdated views understandably their own without supporting it textually, which far too many shows/movies fall into doing.
My favorite characters are Eirene and Octavia, but even the female characters I find reprehensible are fascinating. The male characters are well written as well, but a lot of the qualities I'm intended to find interesting and sympathetic fall flat.
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| James Franco (115) |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|06:33 am] |
AND FINALLY, TIME FOR A NEW BATCH! Newsflash: I am unfeasibly infatuated with James Franco, do not even get me goddamn started. Unfeasibly. This is the post that originally kept me awake tonight, aorifdageøægdfølg.
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| Saffron Burrows (42) (Reign Over Me) |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|06:30 am] |
It is so late. I am so tired.
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| Jewel Staite (43) |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|06:06 am] |
Like the previous post. I might actually get around to more Jewel eventually, because she's adorable -- but in the meantime, I'm v. pleased with this batch. Mostly candids!
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