#this is some mix of book and movie canon for princess diaries

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While talking about the Bard AU with @anastasian-dreamer I ended up remembering my old AU from TikTok where Izuku is living the plot of the Princess Diaries. And then went: wait, the MLA stuff.

So, an AU where Izuku learns his father isn’t a ‘random fire breather living in America’ but is in fact the current King of a small country near Japan that discovered his infertility recently and learned that his only child is Izuku. King Hisashi instantly goes to Japan to speak to his ex girlfriend and speak with Izuku where he learns some stuff. Mainly: Inko had lied to Izuku about her being married to Hisashi and lied to others. I can’t remember if I posted the AU here or just ranted about it to Ari but like an AU I had was with Inko being super in love with Hisashi who wasn’t into her and then pulling all sorts of shit to try and force him into a relationship because I was in a weird mood.

So it’s kind of like that. Hisashi ain’t happy with Inko and ends up taking Izuku with him to live in a new apartment with his grandma. Now while the book grandma was a fucking weirdo and I loved it, I want more Movie Grandma, mixed with ‘new age hippie’ so that’s what we get. She also fully supports Izuku’s dreams of herohood, because according to her: ‘a hero serves his country and those around it. Hisashi won’t care if you be a hero in Japan for a few years before coming to the throne.’

Of course I am also like: wait would he be allowed to be a hero? Which... I do not know...

Support student Izuku?

I’m imagining though the MLA is heavily against the whole thing cause: Ah, a Quirkless child in power! No! Because I want Quirkless Izuku being a hero and a prince cause why not.

So we have the MLA be a MUCH bigger threat than in Canon as this is proof that their ideals are wrong. Meanwhile, Humarise is fully into this idea of a Quirkless King.

Izuku is getting loaded down with political lessons, history lessons, ettiquite and dealing with having a bodyguard (for now. As a hero they'd be only around to prevent kidnappings and stuff, but as a kiddo he needs help). Who takes 1 look at Bakugou before going: Ah, no.

Because it is me I am also thinking of couples and honestly? Not to sure. My TikTok had it IiDekOcha but the more I think about it, the more I'm like: EEEEE I dunno. We just need someone who is a good and charming person who will also be king. (Or have two people be consorts)

Who would be fun... I mean... hmm...

[hilarychuff]

princess diaries in my asoiaf au graphic series

When they come at him with the scissors, eyes on the hair he’s sloppily thrown into a bun using one of his mother’s loose hair ties, it finally starts to sink in that they’re serious. They want him — him, Jon Snow, an absolute high school nobody — to be the prince of Valyria, some far away European country he isn’t even positive he’s ever heard of before. He’d known his dad was some sort of politician over on that side of the world, maybe in France or something, but his mom had always been fuzzy on the details. Had she ever actually told him that he was a politician? That he lived in France? Or had he just assumed?

It doesn’t matter, though. His dad has always just been some loser who knocked up Jon’s mom despite the fact that he already had a wife and two kids. Other than the yearly tuition check he sends for Jon’s private school education, they have exactly no contact. Except, as it turns out, he’s not a loser. He’s a prince. Well, was a prince up until a few years ago. It seems Valyria’s royal family had undergone some turmoil after Rhaegar Targaryen, heir to the throne, was outted by the Sunspear tabloids for a series of affairs throughout his marriage to Princess Elia of Dorne. The king, Rhaegar’s father, had called the accusations libel and an act of war — and the ensuing political fallout had only been settled with the agreement that Rhaegar would abdicate his right to the throne, that the Martells would give up their own claims through Elia’s teenage son and daughter.

The matter had been settled, and Rhaegar’s younger brother Viserys was set to rule when King Aerys passed. In the wake of the royal’s actual death, however, Viserys’s reign was short lived, lasting only two weeks before he, too, had abdicated, citing instead his younger sister’s worthiness of the throne, her inherent talent and instincts for leading. The only issue with Queen Daenerys’s rule is that after having married, miscarried, and been widowed young, she’s been open about her infertility. The dragon queen, as they call her, can’t have an heir — and that is what brings her to Jon’s door. After Rhaegar’s abdication, the tension with Dorne, the whispers that she had blackmailed Viserys or used even more nefarious threats to secure the throne, stability is necessary. Valyria needs to know there will not be another succession crisis so soon, and so Daenerys has flown stateside to meet her older brother’s long lost son, a bastard child and candidate for future king nonetheless. 

Jon hadn’t believed it at first, sure it was some prank Arya had put together. He’d laughed in his alleged aunt’s face, then breathlessly told her to shut up when it sank in that she was serious (and the expression she’d donned in response had him suddenly understanding the dragon queen moniker). In the weeks since, though, as they taught him history and etiquette and what tiny spoon to use when so that he wouldn’t bring further shame to the Targaryen name when she presented him to the public, her judgment seems to have softened. Only now, as they finally finish making him presentable, his long hair trimmed into a set of tidy curls, the mustache and goatee he’s been working on for months shaved away, does she look at him with something close to pride. 

Arya, on the other hand, looks at him with disgust when she sees him before school Monday morning. They’ve always been outcasts together, after all, shunned by the popular crew for preferring metal music to pop, tattered black band tees to polo shirts with upturned collars. That he is suddenly conforming marks him as a sell out, a traitor, a bad friend, a wannabe, shallow — and she keeps up the onslaught for the entirety of their limo ride to school (though that’s one upgrade she certainly doesn’t seem to mind). She only stops when he pulls her aside, just the two of them, and finally spills the beans. 

Arya promises to keep his secret, but it only takes one day for someone else to leak the news to the press. By Tuesday, he’s greeted with camera flashes and a crowd, reporters demanding to know what he thinks of the Targaryens, of his father, if he’s met his siblings, if he’s used his new royal status to secure a date for Saturday night. And, the thing is, there is someone he sort of has plans with for Saturday. 

Just that morning, Sansa had walked to school by his side, invited him to come to her uncle Benjen’s car shop that weekend to finish up the work on the mustang he’d been saving for for years. She’d promised to order a pizza and M&Ms on her tab, teasing she could charge it to the company card thanks to the few hours she put in each week at the front desk, and at no point during Daenerys’s prince lessons had he felt as truly worthy of a crown as he did in that moment. 

And yet as he suddenly finds himself thrust into the spotlight, everyone’s attention on him, she disappears. All of Robb’s friends who’d turned their nose up at him before are pretending they’ve always been tight, Joffrey Baratheon is bragging to tabloid journalists that they go way back (without mentioning any of their literal fistfights), and Margaery Tyrell is suddenly flirting with him in class, but Sansa is ducking out of rooms when he enters them, offering only tight smiles and short waves on the rare occasions he does manage to catch her eye. She’s all but giving him the silent treatment... so when Margaery invites him to the big beach party that weekend as her date, he figures fuck it. Why not. 

Only the party ends in disaster, his very existence proves the Sunspear tabloids weren’t printing libel, and Dorne’s royal family are arguing that his half-siblings Rhaenys and Aegon should be added back to the line of succession before him. And, worse, Arya is pissed at him — both because he completely forgot he’d agreed to appear on her talk show and because he apparently broke Sansa’s heart when he stood her up Saturday night. He’s let everyone down: his aunt, his best friend, two siblings he hasn’t even met... and as infuriating as it is that Sansa ignored him and simultaneously expected him to realize they still had plans, the thought of her spending all night waiting for him makes him want to throw himself in some Valyrian dungeon for the next 60 years. He deserves it. 

But he’s going to fix it. He’s going to fix all of it. Or, actually, maybe he’ll just run away. He hasn’t decided yet, but with the Annual Valyrian Ball just around the corner — set to mark Jon’s official entry into Valyrian high society — the clock is ticking. 

ft. jon as mia, arya as lily, sansa as michael, the starks as the moscovitz family, ghost as fat louie, joffrey as lana, margaery as josh, lyanna as helen, daenerys as clarisse, drogon as rommel, rhaegar as phillippe, tormund as lars, sam as tina hakeem baba, arthur dayne as mr. gianini

[crunchykiwibby]

✩𝑲𝒊𝒘𝒊 𝑹𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒔: 𝑴𝒂𝒍☆

warning; rambles

I feel like most of the movies are just in Mal's perspective even if it's only third person omniscient. Because the books (some not all) and some bits of the movies are the only thing that gives us insight of more to the characters and their arcs than the movies and the movies are quick to cater to Mal.

And here's why...

Reasons:

1) Whenever people call Mal out for lying she makes them seem like they are in the wrong when they weren't.

2) Everyone suddenly forgives her super quickly, and we seen the apology in Audrey's diary. It was...choices. Also why wouldn't Mal apologize in person? Wouldn't that be more geniune than apologizing in her diary? I think Mal writing in her diary does more harm than good because Mal violated her personal space and try to "fact check" her stories and her emotions in her diary. Her OWN diary. A book that people use to gather their thoughts. Which isn't nor was good because Audrey was venting so obviously she's not going to be completely right because she's one: a teenager and two: it's her diary. she's writing how she herself feels about events that happened to her. So something must've happened between then and the engagement party.

3) AVOIDING DETAILS. Mal ignores the MOST important questions that she needs to answer and the characters don't question it again when in hindsight they would've been suspicious of her ongoing.

4) Her friends being like summaries equivalent to describing a 25$ meal at mf Chili's actually no Chili's at least uses adjectives. Like a McDonald's menu as if like their complexities didn't exist? Like Mal waters down Evie to just like fashion and make up when this girl literally has enough determination and love of science. Evie can find a cure for cancer and fly to Milan for the Milan Fashion Show but at the same time she has issues with boundaries because she wants to be loved (I'm making a separate post for Evie after this one.) and she learns to over come it?? She's literally Barbie??? You can be stylish and smart damn it. Carlos, he literally was bullied on the Isle of the Lost and when he came to Auradon he was able to be confident and be himself and she's like " You love playing with Dude!", and I'm like Mal,,,you should-you know what no. That is not all to him? Like maybe like you overcome what you thought you couldn't would fucking work- and Jay. Yo honestly the fact that Jay was the one who tolerated her most and yet was like " Sports. Tourney. Yes." Like no? Jay stopped stealing and didn't rely on having riches to be liked? (Might make a Jay development someday-) and he learned how to do healthy competition? He learned how to have healthy relationships.

5) On top of that she really arrogant? Like she knows what's she's DOINGGGGGGGG WHY DOES ACT LIKE SHE DOESSNNNNTTTT??? SHE LITERALLY STOLE SOMEONE'S BOYFRIEND AND WAS LIKE " i didn't know she was sad cause she quickly moved on with Chad and she was a perfect princess-", and I'm like, YOU KNEW YOU WERE STEALING HER BOYFRIEND YOU PLOTTED STEALING HER BOYFRIEND. STOP👏ACTIN👏BRAND👏NEW. 👏👏 Ben wasn't in the right either cause he didn't discuss his feelings beforehand (but I know why because I have the habit of the same thing but I'll talk about it in another post)

It's not a lot of reasons but honestly, I felt like Mal could've been likeable. NOTE COULD'VE BEEN. A good character because her dynamic is very complex such as the trauma with her mother (she wants to appease her mother so she does things that what she thinks her mother would approve of.) and she learns how to think and learn how to be nice for herself than needing to drug Ben (because that wasn't her developing that was her thinking that's what her mom approves of and mixing it with learning to love which was the actual case.) I think the issue is that her character needed to have a complex relationship and the need of confronting her relationship with power and authority. However Canon! Mal is so toxic she doesn't confront it because she is a toxic and self absorbed person which I hate the fact because they framed her perfectly for people who used to be like me (who has a bad habit of excusing bad toxic behavior and being nice to shitty people because they had a bad upbringing but I grown up to know that just because you have a shitty past doesn't mean you can be a shitty person.) and Maleficent was a Authoritarian and Narcissistic parent, Mal doesn't know how to act. And because of that Mal only knows that power= affection. Also she has authority over her friends, because you see how their relationship is. They bend over bACKWARDS for Mal because that's what's the narrative she wants, because her power= affection mindset that's never addressed.

That's why everyone instantly forgives her.

That's why everyone blames themselves for something that Mal did and it wasn't their fault.

That's why people that are surrounded by Mal are just watered down and are ignored of their individuality.

Because Mal only sees them as her go tos and not as people. With feelings..with trauma. With emotions. Because its not about them. It's about her.

idkifanyofthismakesensepleaseletmeknowifimadesenseimreallybafatexpressiojmythoughtsyallprayforme

[mythsofmodern]

                     LIST OF MUSES

PRIMARY MUSES

Chloe /previously at @soulcoded​/ [Detroit: Become Human.]        Due to Chloe being a minor character in a video game, her character will be very headcanon based, but follows canon with the things we do know about her. Mostly using icons from the game, at later point she might get a live action FC as of right now I did not pick one. Chloe was modelled after Gabrielle Hersh. Jessica Riley /previously at @minesurvived​/ [Until Dawn.]        Much like with Chloe, Jess will be very headcanon based since she is a video game character and we have very limited information about her. However with that information I will stick to canon. I will keep Meaghan Martin - who was the actress she was based on and who voiced her - as her FC and will use a mix of icons from the game and from other movies.  Lily Potter /previously at @doeeyeful​/ [Harry Potter.]       Follows canon, but there is also headcanon based. If you don’t specify a verse for her, I’ll usually just put her in 6th/7th grade. My main FC for her is Samantha Heck Müller, occasionally using Sadie Sink (as child FC) and Deborah Ann Woll and Karen Gillian for older FCs. Sabrina Spellman /previously at @spvllman​/ [Archie Comics/Sabrina the Teenage Witch]         Mostly comic based, with some influences from the 90s TV show. She is NOT Chilling Adventures of Sabrina based, but I might add a verse later on. I might use some comics icons (because she is simple too cute not too), but mostly my main FC for her is Josefine Frida Pettersen. Elise Avery /original character/ [Harry Potter.]        Original character. Elise is a Death Eater, keep that in mind when you interact with her. You can read more about her here - please read her bio before interacting. My FC for her is Bella Heathcote.

SECONDARY MUSES

Callie Cadogan [The 100.]       There is not much canon material about her as of right now, so while on what we have I’ll follow canon, she will also be headcanon based. I’m keeping Iola Evans as her FC.  Sharon Spitz [Braceface.]       Based on the early 2000s cartoon and follows canon, although in the show she is 13/14 and I’m aging her up to be 16/17 (and obviously older for college and adult verses). Apart from show canon she is also very headcanon based. My main FC for her is Claire Holt (mostly as Emma from H2O). Wanda/Wanderer [The Host.]        Based on The Host book by Stephanie Meyer and not the movie Host by Bong Joon-ho. Follows canon and for obvious reasons headcanon based. Writing her as both, in Melanie’s body and after. Her FCs are Katarzyna Markiewicz when she is in her own body and Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs for Melanie. Brooke Maddox /previously at @numbxrfour​/ [MTV’s Scream.]         Show based and follows canon. I have as of yet not seen the Scream movies, however I’ve watced the reboot of the series and am familiar with those characters too. I’m keeping Carlson Young as her FC. Meg Masters /previously at @daemonicum​/ [Supernatural.]         Follows show canon until the point where she dies, duh. We know little about her backstory, so that will be headcanon based. I’m keeping Rachel Miner as her FC, but Meg might occasionally jump into other bodies, thus me using other FCs.     Katie Bell /previously at @courageousbell​/  [Harry Potter.]         Follows book canon but very headcanon based due to the fact that she is a very minor character in the books. I will not use the movie FC, instead I’ll use Saoirse Ronan and Lily Loveless mainly and Kathryn Newton occasionally. I know many people headcanon her as a WOC which I respect and I’ll reblog such edits too, but when I first read the books I saw her as a blonde girl in my head and I stuck with that for all the years I have been writing her. Sybill Trelawney [Harry Potter.]         Book based and follows canon. Not using the FC from the movies. Instead I’ll use Lily Rabe (mostly AHS:Coven appearances) and Imogen Poots. Myrtle Warren [Harry Potter.]        Also known as Moaning Myrtle. Book based and follows canon, but for obvious reasons very headcanon based. I’ll use caps from the movie for her icons, but my main FC will be Anne Hathaway in The Princess Diaries before the makeover. Gillian Owens [Practical Magic.]        Follows movie canon and I’m currently also reading the book, but since the canon source is limited, she will be also headcanon based. I’m keeping Nicole Kidman as her adult FC and for her teenage verse I’ll be using Kennedy McMann.  

/The muses status of primary/secondary/on request could change at any time, however should that be the case, I’ll mase a post about it./

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Hi! You talk quite a bit about adaptations, could you give your thoughts on some adaptations of other classic novels, ones you particularly like or hate?

Well, let me think. I’ll give you the rundown on literary adaptations I like or love, as it’s getting late in the evening here and a bout of solid rage isn’t going to send me off to sleep so much as bring on a bout of indigestion. Also I went to review my DVD collection and for obvious reasons I don’t own many DVDs of things that I loathed. (I do recall nearly bursting into tears after a matinee viewing of I Capture the Castle because I felt the movie ended on such a bittersweet note that I was not prepared to walk out of a darkened cinema into a sunny day with birds singing while I was still Feeling a Lot of Unhappy Things, and so I felt like I hated that movie for a long time because of the sheer mood whiplash of it all. Also I wish I’d read the book first. The book is lovely, and I think I’d’ve stomached the film better, had I gone through the book first.)

Oh! I just remembered The Wings of the Dove (1997). I should have loved it, it had a lot going for it, buuuut fuck that movie and everyone involved in it, it just fell flat, for me. I don’t even care how critically-acclaimed it was, all the characters are The Worst and I never have a moment’s sympathy enough to care what happens to any of them. I hate even thinking about this movie and it is largely responsible for how much I despise Helena Bonham-Carter to this very day. Her and Jeremy Irons (who I admit I have many more personal issues with ‘cause he’s a silver-spoon gross-ass fuckshit.) A movie has got to be pretty damn brilliant on several other points for me to get past the knee-jerk rage I feel whenever either of them appear on-screen.

Also The Portrait of a Lady was terrible and riddled with pointless alterations and please just read The Making of a Marchioness, instead. Maybe I should add Linus Roache to my shitlist as he’s in this one, as well as The Wings of the Dove.

And now for adaptations I liked:

Wives and Daughters (1999) is quite good, in my view, and the ending they added to Gaskell’s unfinished work is quite satisfying, I think. (I don’t know about realistic, but it was sweet and simple and I dug it.)

Orlando (1992) Beautifully done. (Billy Zane! I love him in everything and I literally don’t even know why.)

Little Women (1994) is a classic, but I’m also very excited to see what Heidi Thomas and Vanessa Caswill do with the new miniseries from the BBC and PBS next year.

Daniel Deronda (2002) It’s prettyyyyyy. And so is Jodhi Maaaay.

Washington Square (1997) has a beautiful soundtrack, solid direction, and a stellar cast.

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) had some great cinematography and a good cast.

Dangerous Liasons (1988) I have such mixed feelings about Malkovich in this one but Glenn Close, holy shit she’s good.

Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) A TRUE CLASSIC LITERARY ADAPTATION I WILL FIGHT EVERYONE. THEN PAY FOR THE RUINED GREEK RESTAURANT.The Remains of the Day (1993) A somewhat underrated classic that I think perhaps unfairly sits in the shadow of Howard’s End a lot of the time, what with the comparisons of the Thompson-Hopkins casting in a Merchant-Ivory film. (I do like Howard’s End, but, again, Helena Bonham-Carter, and I just connect a lot more with The Remains of the Day, as a story.)

Wide Sargasso Sea (2006) I don’t recall unabashedly loving this one, but I own it, so I feel like I must’ve liked it well enough. Then again, I also just found a copy of Sweeney Todd still in its plastic-wrap that I don’t know how I came by, I don’t even like the concept enough to want to watch it in the first place. Also, Helena Bonham-Carter is in it. And Johnny Depp. Why the fuck do I even own Sweeney Todd? Anyway, Wide Sargasso Sea is alright, though I feel like I preferred Karina Lombard’s Antoinette to Rebecca Hall’s.

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) I’m pretty sure this is where Jane Seymour and Anthony Andrews made me bi and SIR IAN MCKELLEN HOW DO YOU DO?

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) HOW DO YOU FILM SMELLS? LIKE THIS. MY GOD. (Also please read the book.)

Dracula (1992) I mean, the cast swings between pretty good and absolutely wooden, but from a literary standpoint this is one of the more faithful adaptations of Stoker’s novel out there–though this movie is by no means The Best Anyone Could Do. There’s a lot wrong with it. But then Coppola didn’t need to include the blue fire thing, but he did, and I appreciate that.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) is worth it for Robert de Niro, alone; and maybe a handful of really, really good shots. Otherwise there’s too much Helena Bonham-Carter and also Ken Branagh just recently hauled himself onto my shitlist but GOOD NEWS the character of Victor Frankenstein was always an annoying fucko and that’s canon, so feel free to hate him throughout, anyhow.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996) Does not get enough love. A good antidote to Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights for anyone who sat there thinking Rochester and Heathcliff were BIG PILES OF RED FLAGS. Wildfell is a cautionary tale, but actually ends reasonably happily (and more believably happily, IMO, than Jane Eyre.)

The Secret Garden (1993) Pure nostalgia for this one, excellent casting, and the same director as Washington Square.

Ivanhoe (1982) Sam Neill has no business making a villain that compelling. (I know, I know, Bois-Gilbert’s characterization is softened a lot in this adaptation.) And this time I’m bi for Neill and Olivia Hussey. Sorry, Anthony Andrews, you drop to second-slot in this love-fest. Also Rowena ruins everything but that’s canon, so what can you do?

Maurice (1987) Who doesn’t love a fluffy gay gamekeeper?

Cousin Bette (1998) Changes stuff from the book, and on the whole the story can be a bit rocky, especially in the second half or so, but it’s worth seeing for Jessica Lange, alone, I think, as well as some broadly comic notes from side-characters in Hugh Laurie and Bob Hoskins.

Possession (2002) Ignore Gwyneth Paltrow as best you can and otherwise enjoy the literary mystery unfolding in between some amazing flashbacks. Most of the good actors are crammed into the flashback bits, but at least there’s some snarky Tom Hollander and dastardly-but-personally-I-think-he’s-in-love-with-Roland Toby Stephens in the modern-day sections to give us some fun.

Twelfth Night (1996) Again, ignoring Helena Bonham-Carter, this one’s got a lot going for it. Trevor Nunn directing, Toby Stephens managing to be damn fine and somehow I don’t entirely mind that Orsino’s kind of a douchebag, Imogen Stubbs being cute as fuck, and stellar supporting actors.

The Inheritance (1997) Look, this is a little-known Louisa May Alcott thing, and I’ll be honest, it’s not Groundbreaking Television. As far as direction and score and acting and script goes, there is no danger of anyone ever losing sight of the fact that it’s a made-for-TV-movie from 1997 and Meredith Baxter was probably the biggest name they could get for it at the time. Anyway, there’s a reason I own it, and that reason is that watching it is the equivalent of a big mug of hot chocolate after a terrible day. It is pretty and sweet and funny and the villains and heroes are clearly marked from the moment they appear on-screen, and is it perhaps a bit too sweet? Yes. Embrace the sugar-shock.Titus (1999) Goes on a little long, perhaps, but you can’t look away. Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange go toe to toe and it’s a thing of horrific beauty. Shhh don’t question the batshit bloodbath, just let Julie Taymor do her thing.

Enchanted April (1991) Run away to Italy with your girlfriends. Just do it.

The Princess Diaries (2001) A modern masterpiece. GET OFF THE GRASS.

Bleak House (2005) Oh my God, this cast??? Is so magnificent?

Persepolis (2007) One of those films that are so good you need to lie down afterwards. Again, please also read the graphic novels.

Any Agatha Christie adaptation, ever–I am HERE FOR IT.

I know I’m forgetting one I thought of earlier, but oh well.