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Sideblog of @violethowler where I reblog/post extra theories and speculation about my favoritie media, plus analysis and speculation for fandoms I'm not in
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fandomoverflow · 21 hours ago
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mister g'raha catboy tia [x]
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fandomoverflow · 1 day ago
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Having some random thoughts tonight, I guess, and something deeply displeasing occurred to me.
So you know the phenomenon where if, in canon, you have Character A (white) and Character B (Black) and they are absolutely fucking perfect for each other, so naturally fandom ships A/C (also white, surely just a coincidence) and puts B on the shelf?
Yeah, so in Bond fandom we definitely have white guy/white guy (Bond/Q) as our major pairing, and I'm sure unconscious bias is part of it, but the director also literally set their first meeting to the beats of a gay cruising pickup, so like, there is also at least one additional reason.
But.
Bond's best friend in most of the movies for the last sixty years has been Felix Leiter. And it so happens that in the most recent movies, he's Black.
Onscreen, he and Bond have a great relationship. They're close, they call each other 'brother,' Daniel Craig and Jeffrey Wright have great chemistry.
...so why is it that Felix almost never appears in fics, and instead white guy Alec Trevelyan, a villain from a previous Bond's run, whose entire thing was "I used to be Bond's friend but now I want him dead and actually it's slightly questionable how long I was his friend and how long I was just faking it," takes the best friend role?
Like shit! CraigBond and Alec have never met. Alec in CraigBond's world cannot chronologically exist because his story is explicitly tied to the end of WWII.
He has a best friend. Hell, he says as much in the last movie: "I had a brother. His name was Felix Leiter." (Yes, Felix dies, but I'll begrudgingly let it slide on the basis that a lot of main characters die in Craig's run, including, um. Bond.)
Why is it that the Black guy--the Black guy who canonically is Bond's opposite number in the CIA, they are intellectual and professional equals, the Black guy who saves Bond's ass before his first mission ever even really gets going--can't even be the best friend?
Like. I get not making them lovers in this specific case (I'd happily see Craig and Wright play lovers in a different movie and beat the drum for the ship, but watching two characters call each other "brother" and then having them hook up is not my cup of tea). And I get that Alec is a convenient ready-made male 00, which can be handy when you need more than one.
But why is "Alec is the best friend" the default and Felix the afterthought?
Just a little something on my mind this evening.
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fandomoverflow · 2 days ago
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i understand the reasoning behind people saying emet-selch could work retail if it was necessary for the rejoinings, that he can act up a persona if it furthers his goals and all that, but i think that him taking on the role of an EMPEROR, who is revered and respected and feared, is not in the same realm as needing to be smiley and apologetic and subservient to a grown woman screaming at you because you asked to see her receipt for a return. if a rejoining needed someone to work a retail job emet-selch would just make elidibus do it
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fandomoverflow · 3 days ago
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“Superman represents truth, justice and the American way. He is kindness in a world that thinks of kindness as old fashioned.” That’s how Superman producer Peter Safran, co-chairman and CEO of DC Studios with the film’s writer-director James Gunn, described the reboot formerly titled Superman: Legacy when announcing the new DC Universe in 2023. In the time since, Gunn’s Superman has adopted a mantra more befitting the film’s themes: this Man of Steel is “the embodiment of truth, justice, and the human way.” “I mean, Superman is the story of America,” Gunn told the UK’s The Times. “An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost.” Asked how his Superman film might fare in an era of political turmoil, and whether he’s considered how the film will play in blue states and red states, Gunn said, “Yes, it plays differently. But it’s about human kindness and obviously there will be jerks out there who are just not kind and will take it as offensive just because it is about kindness. But screw them.” Gunn, who began writing Superman in 2022, also addressed how his film arrives at a time of division in the country. “This Superman does seem to come at a particular time when people are feeling a loss of hope in other people’s goodness,” Gunn said. “I’m telling a story about a guy who is uniquely good, and that feels needed now because there is a meanness that has emerged due to cultural figures being mean online.” He continued, “And I include myself in this. It is ad infinitum, millions of people having tantrums online. How are we supposed to get anywhere as a culture? We don’t know what’s real, and that is a really difficult place for the human brain to be. If I could press a button to make the internet disappear I’d consider it. And, no, I don’t make films to change the world, but if a few people could be just a bit nicer after this it would make me happy.” As shown in the film’s trailers, one plot point sees Superman (David Corenswet) involve himself in foreign matters by intervening in a war between the fictional countries Boravia and Jarhanpur. His mission? Save people from dying, no matter what country they’re from. Gunn points out that Superman is “a hero for the world,” not just America. “When I wrote this the Middle Eastern conflict wasn’t happening. So I tried to do little things to move it away from that, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the Middle East,” Gunn said of comparisons to real-life conflicts. “It’s an invasion by a much more powerful country run by a despot into a country that’s problematic in terms of its political history, but has totally no defense against the other country. It really is fictional.” Superman’s intervention leads to a 10-minute discussion between Clark Kent and Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) about geopolitics and Superman’s place in the world. “It is definitely the most unusual thing that we put in the movie,” Gunn noted. “Yes, it’s about politics. But on another level it’s about morality. Do you never kill no matter what — which is what Superman believes — or do you have some balance, as Lois believes? It’s really about their relationship and the way different opinions on basic moral beliefs can tear two people apart.” Some of that debate has spilled over into online spaces. When the interviewer pointed out that Superman would be a controversial figure if he were to exist in real life, Gunn pointed out how his friendly, Big Blue Boyscout has already come under attack online. “It’s happening with the movie,” Gunn said. “We posted footage of David with a bunch of kids who were extras on set. Kids love Superman — it’s like when they see Santa. And David is high-fiving them, it was so beautiful, such a cute video. And then I saw people saying, ‘Oh, great, we’ve got a Superman who’s a pussy.’ Are you kidding me? That’s something you’re going to attack? That little kids like this guy and he’s kind?”
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fandomoverflow · 3 days ago
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"hikaru"
I love Hikaru ga shinda natsu so much and I wanted to draw a little tribute~
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fandomoverflow · 4 days ago
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The hardest part about Dracula to believe isn’t the vampires.
It’s the fact that three men proposed to the same woman and, upon being rejected, two of the men not only immediately accepted the woman’s refusal with grace but they also vowed to be loyal friends to her anyway and then they actually were.
In real life, you’re usually friends with a man first and after a while you get the “I need to tell you something” text but Dracula completely reverses the order of events. Lucy gets the text, politely declines and then gets to have a genuinely fulfilling friendship with the men who were interested in her.
Bonus: all three men, including the man whose proposal was accepted, are also friends and there was no toxic masculinity or fighting or trying to one up each other. There was no competition. They just respected Lucy’s wishes and each other.
I think people irl wonder why I’m so insane about this book, both regarding how well it holds up over time (generally speaking, because there is obviously still room for criticism) and what a complete failure every single adaption has been. This is why.
To this day, we struggle with how female and male characters are written, and here’s a guy from the 19th century who, despite still holding beliefs from his era, has been able to do what so many modern writers, both male and female, have completely failed to do. The men in Dracula aren’t just better than a lot of real men. They’re also better than a most fictional men too.
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fandomoverflow · 6 days ago
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I love this damn catboy so much guys
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fandomoverflow · 9 days ago
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Commission for Uranometria13
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fandomoverflow · 12 days ago
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@dilucs was right, this pose is perfect for them.
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fandomoverflow · 14 days ago
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The boy…
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fandomoverflow · 14 days ago
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fandomoverflow · 14 days ago
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Happy Pride to my favourite pansexual icon
Bonus version with my personal intersex HC that has no basis in anything except that I feel like it
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fandomoverflow · 17 days ago
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Spaceman in a box that is not bigger on the inside this time around I'm afraid
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fandomoverflow · 22 days ago
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I just think he's neat (throws him in the harem)
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fandomoverflow · 23 days ago
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I don't know if I've mentioned this here before (I probably have) but Arkham Asylum actually presents a really interesting problem, worldbuilding-wise.
Because in the 1970's, when it was first designed, the last recorded lobotomy had taken place only seven years previous. (They were discredited by then, of course, but apparently they're still not technically illegal.) Patients did not have the right to refuse treatment, and the roughest medications and treatments (like the original style of electroconvulsive treatment) were only just going out of fashion. People knew that asylums were hotbeds of abuse but they hadn't all closed yet. In the 70's, Arkham Asylum was perfectly plausible!
Today, however, people kind of look at Arkham and they're like, why is that allowed to be like that? And it doesn't make sense, it's so obviously not a real mental hospital.
But I looked into the connection between prisons and mental health facilities, and I think it could make sense if Arkham Asylum was an extension of Blackgate - essentially a specialized prison unit that is focused on treating mental illness. The mental healthcare is still shit, but all mental healthcare is shit in prison. (And lots in real life too, but not like it was in the 70's.) It would also explain the way characters tend to bounce back and forth between Arkham and Blackgate depending on writer preference.
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fandomoverflow · 27 days ago
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damn I can't wait until the long anticipated Steven Universe Renaissance happens as folks rewatch the show from the beginning in prep for Lars of the Stars and go "oh my god this show was So Good, how come I never realized how good it was growing up, the crit on it was so overblown and wrong" only for the Old Guard fandom (those who never truly left) to stare into the camera like we're on The Office and mumble something about how SU was ALWAYS good, the normies are just stupid and vastly skewed your opinions
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fandomoverflow · 27 days ago
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If I were president of Doctor Who, I'd make a Simpsons episode and I'm not joking
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