#and that need to be changed for a mordern adaption

[cinaja]

I first got into wheel of time through the show but am now about 3/4 through Eye of the World and I love both show and books, but I have to say that while the show changed a lot from the books, I think they made good calls on most of their changes? (Except for the obvious fridged wife issue.) This might just be the first time I ever say that about an adaption, but I think they did the right thing in straying from the books in several areas. This is not to say that the plot points the show changed were bad in the books, just that I think that the books, much as I enjoy them, are impossible to make into a successful TV show without significant changes.

I get wanting an adaption to include all of the beloved scenes from the books, but I honestly can't see myself (or many others who hadn't read the books yet) enjoying the show that much if it had stuck extremely closely to the books. Mostly because the start in the books is just incredibly slow and even for me who was already hooked from the show, it took some effort to get through it. Most of the really interesting worldbuilding is revealed only gradually. The characters spend a good proportion of the book just being dragged along by the plot (in the form of the bad guys chasing them and Moiraine and Lan telling them what to do) more or less willingly. Besides, none of the characters start out especially unique or interesting. They all have their unique personalities, of course, but there's nothing that really sets them apart from other fantasy protagonists. What does exist in the books is a sort of implied promise that there will be stuff happening with them, that there is more than we see, that we'll just have to stick around and watch them because there will be something interesting coming there. (All of which is legitimate for the books and even works for a large part because of the subtle ways narration and POV keep tension up and keep readers interested. Besides, the massive scale of the series goes hand in hand with a slow start and anyone who starts reading knows what he's signing up for. But that doesn't work for a TV show with a much bigger audience that will not happily sit through several episodes before things really kick off, or wait around patiently for the main characters to fulfil their promises of becoming interesting.) Not to mention that in our time (which is several decades after the books were published), the Ordinary Farmer Fantasy Protagonist is a bit of a cliché and "Wait for the not overly unique white guy with a crush on the girl from his village to get Super Special Powers" is... not really the promise that will draw people in.

I think centering Moiraine and Lan so much in the series was a brilliant decision. As a non-book reader, they were what hooked me to the story immediately when I started the series. There were two characters who were interesting right off the bat, who provided the story with the very concrete goal of finding and protecting the Dragon Reborn (and proceeded to work for that actively, which made the entire protagonist-side feel much more active because the people doing the protecting were as much the focus as the ones being protected) and also immediately introduced the unique bits of the worldbuilding. The focus on them was what gave the Edmond's Field kids the time to develop and grow on me as the viewer. And if some of the mystery surrounding Moiraine and Lan in the books was lost in the process... well, it's honestly a small price to pay. And I think the show's "We know we are looking for the Dragon Reborn, but we don't know which of these five it is" works just as well as the books' "We don't know what the dark wants with these three, but it's pretty clear to the reader that Rand will be The One".

Similarly, I think cutting down the amount of travel scenes made sense for the show. Don't get me wrong, I adored the travel scenes following Shadar Logoth, that was when the books really started to draw me in on their own, without the show needed as back-up, but I still think they wouldn't work for a TV show. A lot of what makes these scenes work in the book is the narration, the constant sense of fear and being chased, as well as the worldbuilding and all the questions that keep being brought up. But that type of thing just doesn't translate well into movie format, and watching the show, I don't think I would have appreciated episodes of travel scenes where I am constantly introduced to new characters who all only get brief appearances before disappearing again (and apparently reappear later on, which is brilliant in a book series and something I am looking forward to a lot, but would probably have overwhelmed me hopelessly in a show) and the several run-ins with various servants of the Dark that worked well in the books would probably have felt repetitive quickly in the show.

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Barbie Movies That Are More Relevant Than You Think

1. Barbie’s Princess and the Pauper 

> The Big Thing: Shows a realistic representation of 1st world problems and 3rd world Problems coexisting. Annalise is a princess in an arranged marraige and Erika is an indentured servent, both looking to esacpe, but are determined to overcome these issues. They acknowledge that they have differerent problems but are both struggling in their own right. It’s important to know that they don’t wish they were someone else, they just wish they could escape their personal struggles. 

> Women supporting women! 

> Female Leads that are friends and aren’t catty towards each other 

> Annalise and Erika talk about things other than boys, althrough an arranged marraige is a plot point and all boy talk is really about that particular plot point. 

> “Duty is doing the things your heart may well regret” is the most badass line in exsitance, okay? 

> The Princess loved science. 

2. Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princessess 

> The Big Thing: This story is about extremism and the dangers of a binary system. In this case, it’s Law vs Chaos, and unregulated freedom of expression vs overregulated conformity. The 12 are unruly and chaotic and uncaring about their royal status which causes strain on the kingdom and they are super unprepared for royal life. The antagonist comes in, strips the color and the fun and is all rules and control and is trying to teach them how to be “proper ladies” which is also done in an extreme. Neither of these are right, and in the end the girls use their unique interests to save their father, and they acknowledge they should behave better and be prepared for royal life. They essentially find their middle way. 

> Realistic siblings. No one calls the other “sister” 

> Lacy, the frail sister, is never treated poorly by her sisters despite the fact she causes a few issues in the plot. Super supportive sisters. 

> LI isn’t a prince. He’s a shoemaker. 

> There’s an assassination attempt in this one! It technically succeeds. Really good show on adult topics in a children’s movie. 

> Power and Corruption are thematic here with the villain. 

3. Barbie’s Mariposa

> The Big Thing: This one is about destorying an entire society for personal gain and power. If you’re American, you’d understand why THIS is super relevant. The queen is bring poisoned and is the life source for all the lights, and those lights are what protect faeries from the monsters in the dark. The Big Bad Guy plans to take the throne with these monsters as her minions, promising them they can eat faeries. She will destory this land to gain the throne, and she doesn’t care who dies along the way. 

> Has a Cinderella vibe to it. Good rendition 

> Two First World Entittled rich faries are humbled through the journey, and learn to be king and selfless despite starting with selfish intentions. GROWTH. 

> Skeezite is a funny word. 

> ACCENTS. I think they’re all Spanish, but can’t confirm. The only Barbie movie that didn’t do British Accents, I’m pretty sure. Vocal Diversity is 10/10 

4. Barbie Fairytopia Series 

> The Big Thing: DISABILITY IN A FANTASY WORLD DONE WELL. Like holy shit the plot is the Big Bad is commiting bio-terrorism by poisoning the air that affects all faeries except for Elina because she was born without wings. DISABILITY BECOMING THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE YOU. YES. She does  get wings at the end, but I always saw it as a prostetic because if she lost her necklace she lost her wings. And in a later movie she has to trade them away to save someone. 

> Bibble is valid 

> This series does the “girl who doesn’t fit in” trope well because Elina is constantly seen as the girl who doesn’t fit in. In the first movie she’s the girl without wings, in the second she’s the faerie, not a mermaid (Nori gets mean towards her because the mermaid prince wanted a fairy to save him or someting like that), and in the last one, I’m pretty sure she’s sort of regarded as the charity case. I can’t remember exactly, so don’t quote me. Either way, Elina is the most relateable Barbie character for people who struggle fitting in wherever they go because Elina never fits in at first (but it’s a barbie movie, so you know, acceptance and stuff) 

> This marks the third movie on this list with an assassination attempt for power. Power #Corrupts 

> Good overcoming narrative. Elina survives all her trials towards being accepted in society. 

5. Barbie as the Island Princess

> The Big Thing: This one is tricky because Barbie is a white character, and that is a valid critique for this one. However, the topic is handled well despite this fault due to the movie’s context. This one is about a status quo society and their treatment towards a different “Cultural” upbringing. Ro grew up on an island alone outside of society and talks to animals. She has an entire different set of values and beliefs. Her curiosity sets her off into a populated civilzation and a big part of the movie is the Prince Character making genuine efforts to help her adapt and make her comfortable for what she is used to, and the rest of the society relegating her to a barbarian. She struggles trying to fit in to a society that wants her to adapt to their society, but refuses to make any adaptions to hers. Her not being from there is eventually what saves the day, which is a healthy message that differnet people learn the world differnetly, and these cultures can meet and interact and help each other without forcing one to obliterate itself. Ro doesn’t stay in that society. She goes off sailing with the prince character, a happy medium from her island roots and desire to be around other people. 

> ANOTHER assassination attempt. 

> Big Bad has a daughter she’s trying to marry to the Prince, but the daughter doesn’t love him and is happy that he finds love. she and Ro are friends. 10/10 Women supporting women. 

> Ro’s cultural roots are celebrated a lot. It’s nice! 

> Prince never puts Ro in a corner to change, from what I remember. He guides her through what she’s willing to do, and helps accomidate her with that makes her uncomfortable (sleeps in the greenhouse,for example). 10/10 m8

6. Barbie and the Diamond Castle

> The Big Thing: The catalyst of this movie is Liana and Alexa’s lively hood being destoryed by a storm, and now homeless and jobless, they end up questing with a magic mirror to save Melody and the other trapped Muses. Alexa is hesitant and even gives up to stay in a Lotus Casino type place because there’s food and shelter there. There’s a heavy value on having enough to eat, and having a place to live. Displacement and poverty, I guess is the right word for this. 

> Okay so I heard around that Alexa and Liana are queer coded based on their dress colors in the final scene matching the Lesbian and Bisexual Flag and I stan that because honestly, Barbie need some gay. 

> The Will Sing For Food scene hits differently than any other scene in Barbie Movies. It’s just such a real thing. 

7. Barbie and the Three Musketeers 

> The Big Thing: Sexsim. This one is very on the nose of “women can’t do this.” and then Barbie adn Co proves them wrong!! 

> I am pretty sure there are SEVERAL assasination attempts in this one. 

> “Release the Fireworks!!” is carved into my mind. 

> The Master Trainer is an old lady maid. Cool trope subversion. 

Honestly, people who cry about adult themes in their kids movies need to watch these movies. Did you notice how many ASSASSINATIONS happen in these movies? SO MUCH ASSASSINATION. 

These movies are deeper and more complex than given credit for. I can admit that Barbie’s early movies didn’t do great with racial representation, but we can also praise them for accomplishing their aim of empowering young girls as much as they did. 

I can’t say much for mordern Barbie since that’s not my era. Perhaps someone else can comment about that better than I can. 

TL;DR: Barbie movies deal with adult themes in a child friendly setting and they are well done and you should go watch them and see how much deeper and complex these movies can be. 

A Barbie Movie I DO NOT STAN: Princess and the Pop Star. That movie is “Two whiny girls hate their privlaged life and wish they were someone else’s privlaged life and I guess help the poor” It’s not good. You can enjoy the bops it produced, but that movie is INSANELY Problomatic. 

[mysaldate]

any mordern au hcs for douma and enmu please ?

I don't usually think about these since I'm not much of a fan of modern au myself but it was still fun to think a little out of my usual box!

Warning: Mentions of smoking in Enmu's last hc.

Modern AU headcanons

Douma:

Modern times? What's that? He still lives mostly cooped up in his temple, aside from most of the world so it might take him some time to even notice something had changed.

For the same reason, he's quite clueless when it comes to technology. Sure, he knows it somehow works but how? And how to operate it? That is beyond him. He never needed it and doesn't see why he would need it now.

He doesn't hate it by any chance and if one of his followers brought a pc or a smartphone to the temple, he'd probably get curious about the peculiar little thing.

"Do you have games on your phone?" Period. Anyone who dares to bring a phone after the first confrontation is bound to get asked over and over until they give in and let him play to his heart's content.

He will eventually discover Instagram modeling and the only reason he doesn't get into that is the feeling of responsibility he feels towards his cult as their leader.

Lord forbid he ever found out about Tinder! It wouldn't be unlike him to get on and use it for the sole purpose of getting more cult following. He isn't really interested in humans after all.

One of the more puzzling things to him are all the new transport methods, especially planes are a mystery. He sometimes sees some of them flying over the temple and he used to wonder what kind of a bird would leave such an obvious trail. After being told it was actually a machine of human invention, he was more than puzzled. Humanity had just earned the slightest bit of respect.

Can high-factor sun protection save demons from burning in the sun? Because if yes, Douma might just try and travel a little bit, probably mostly with the use of Nakime's blood demon art since normal travelling would take too much time. He enjoys beach and botanical garden trips the most.

Enmu:

He adapts way better than Douma, especially since he lives in a city. Especially the passengers of his trains help him gain more knowledge about the quickly changing world around him.

He's also quick to engage with any technology. After all, anyone who can succesfully navigate a modern train's control panels has to understand technology at least a tad.

He likes to stay at home for the days even if the sunscreen thing works. Speaking of his home, he has just a small 1-room flat, nothing too fancy. But he made effort to decorate it in his very own specific style to make it really feel like home.

Thus, he spends his free time there, usually playing some video games. He may or may not become a Youtuber and stream some just for the fun of it. If he does go for this, he's quickly gonna get popular, mostly thanks to his unusual exterior.

He sometimes makes competitions for his fanbase where he hands out train tickets to his fans. Come on, you knew he would find a way.

It's not unusual that he finds some questionable content about himself, mostly gifts from his fans. Not that he minds of course, he even shows some of the pieces he found in his videos. His fandom has this unofficial contest of who can write or draw the weirdest thing allowed on YouTube. He just seems to draw this sort of people.

He doesn't have a phone as he doesn't see the point in having one. Does Muzan need a phone to contact him? No? Then why should he bother getting one? However, he does have an MP3 player. Outdated as it may seem, it's enough for him so long as it can play music. He likes to listen to it while sitting on a train, racing into the night ahead.

He did, at some point, try smoking to look cool. He didn't like the taste and ended up choking on the smoke so he gave up on the idea completely. Furthermore, he grew irritated at people smoking in his presence. Good thing trains are mostly non-smoker...

[bottlepiecemuses]

Why There Should Be An Anime Adaption of A Christmas Carol In Mordern Japan

https://www.efe.com/efe/english/world/japan-s-hidden-poverty-exposed-as-homeless-people-crowd-night-streets/50000262-3725357

https://www.businessinsider.com/japan-is-facing-a-death-by-overwork-problem-2018-3

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-08-24/japan-working-mothers-battle-overwork-culture

https://theweek.com/articles/794831/how-japans-overwork-culture-affects-parents

As a staple of Christmas time, A Christmas Carol has been adapted many times in many different media, forms, and iterations. In the Western world, especially the UK, Canada, and the USA, it has many different versions that date back to even the earliest days of film. On the other hand, even though that it has been a Christmas classic. It is interesting it as a story hasn’t caught on as much in Japan. The reason why I say is that Japanese work culture and homelessness is really in need of it’s own take on the story. You might have seen recent anime take aim at Japanese cultural problems like workplace sexism, overwork, and homelessness. However, it has come to me that there has been no Christmas Carol adaption that takes place in modern Japan and addresses these social ills. 

While the homeless and poverty problem in Japan is not as big as in the USA, it still is overlooked by people and again many people have pretty negative views on them. The people who are often the ones focusing on the homeless are religious ones usually of Christian backgrounds. Which is ironic enough since Japan is one of the least religious countries in the world. However, it again shows how society has a whole doesn’t always look for those who are the most vulnerable. 

When it comes to work culture. As many people have point out, it has caused a lot of social issues in the country. For one thing, a lot of working parents have to stay long nights in order to meet society customs to stay loyal company. There is also the horrid sexism that is rampant with so many women expected to get married and quit their jobs. There is not to mention the harassment and biases in the workplace, which makes it extremely hard for working mothers. There is also the fact that being overworked has caused suicidal depression in people, which has become a big problem. 

As one can see this is a reason why a Christmas Carol adapted to modern Japan would be good, because it’s a story a lot of that culture needs. And from my perspective, I really wish someone of Japanese origins would make it. The reason is that someone inside their culture would have a better time conveying those themes, while showing what needs to change for the better of the country. Who knows if this adaption could ever become a classic or just a cult classic, but it would be a good thing in a culture that is in need of a story like this being in their conscious. 

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