the public reaction to i saw the tv glow is like a perfect case study into how cis people take up queer spaces and unknowingly mock and enjoy trans suffering. sitting in the theater, i had a pit in my stomach the entire time. so many times, i would tear up and then someone else in the theater would laugh. and i wouldn’t cry because how would they look at me when the lights came back on? because they don’t see it. they don’t see the pain. they think it’s funny. i left the theater completely silent, not saying a word to my boyfriend and he didn’t say a word to me until partway into the drive home. the people around us immediately got to picking it apart, explaining what it all meant to each other, dumbing it down, making theories. cis people see the the movie, just like transness, as something to debate. a conversation. something to dissect because it makes them uncomfortable if they don’t understand it in their easily digestible way.
I think what chronically upsets me about TotK is that. So much of it could have been so good with so little change.
I am into Zelda as a sacrificial, wondrous and silenced creature who must literally carry the blade of the hero as a wound inside her forehead and silently wait to be humanized again --and the injustice of a kingdom built on such a premice doomed to repeat itself, especially if the kingdom was founded on such dubious grounds to begin with. I am into Ganondorf forcing the present to reckon with the past through the most violent clash, forsaking everything that made him a person while sinking down into petty vindictiveness until no connection and no humanity remains, even though independance was what he was trying to protect in the first place. I am into Link as somebody trying to hold onto his most important connection to the world he once knew being used to force him into a conflict that has ultimately nothing to do with him (sure that's SS again but, it could have been explored even further). I am into Rauru as this self-important, self-made king who used his own association to godhood to live out a power fantasy that refuses to ever be acknowledge as such, maybe compounded by the fact he is one of the last of his species and feel, himself, the crushing weight of their fading heritage?
I don't know, the Tears of the Kingdom or something????
But, it all tragically depends on one crucial thing, which is to allow hylians to be wrong sometimes.
And it's wild to me how all of this incredible potential to comment on the series' history and the characters' role in it is just. Flattened into nothing, because Good must be Good and Evil must be Evil, and Hyrule must be righteous at literally every cost --even if it means nervously rewriting their own history through convoluted logic that rejects conflict and depth and vulnerability at every turn.
looking back at the yjh webtoon screencaps i have saved and giggling... hes so cute... moe... my pookie ^___^ 🥰🥰 poor little meow meow woof woo- *eliminated where i stand*
i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself
Okay but you know what I need in my life?? A GOOD OMENS CHRISTMAS MINISODE. I'm fully aware this it sounds incredibly cheesy and self-indulgent but HEAR ME OUT.
-The whole show is LITERALLY about religion, and the next season is apparently about 'the second coming', which MAJORLY ties in with Jesus and therefore Christmas so IT WOULD FIT.
-You literally cannot tell me that Aziraphale isn't THE BIGGEST FAN OF CHRISTMAS EVER. Like, just imagine his bookshop looking all festive with little fairy lights and a cute little Christmas tree; and he wouldn't have to feel at all guilty about celebrating it, because it's technically a holiday all about heaven (PLUS, THE CAKE)
-It could take place at literally any point in history. Christmas has been around for a long, LONG time and I'd love to see Crowley and Aziraphale celebrating it in ANY era.
-Cowley would totally whine about Aziraphale's love of Christmas but still be all for it, and if the minisode took place pre-apocolypse then he'd talk hell into letting him have the day off because 'humans drink so much on Christmas they don't NEED any tempting' or something along those lines.
-Contrary to popular belief, I don't think Crowley would drink during Christmas apart from the occasional wine or whatever, because in the series so far he seems to drink the most when he's stressed/upset/anxious which he WOULDN'T BE, because he'd just be spending a couple days in a pretty little bookshop with Aziraphale.
-THEY COULD BUY EACH OTHER GIFTS. I mean, we've already seen that they give gifts as a love language (the holy water, buying each other lunch, the books, etc) so how fucking insane would they be about Christmas presents??
I have MANY more things to say about this subject, but unfortunately they are mostly incoherent squealing, so yeah. Good omens Christmas minisode . Have a nice day.
finished reading the sunshine court late last night (or rather, early this morning), only got a few hours of sleep, i feel like garbage but it was Everything.
I think The Underworld is definitely my favorite song but I can't listen to it without sobbing uncontrollably yet and I'm way too dehydrated to cry any more today :/
crowley trying to passive aggressively kidnap aziraphale and get him into the bentley so they can run away together will never not be funny
"work with me I'm apologizing here. yes? good. get in the car!"
very much energy of trying to convince a cat to get into their carrier. "we're not going to the vet? why would you think that? no no nothing to see here... oh look a treat! no, no, over here. just get into the carrier..."