Polyamorous Vulpine

Been rewatching The Pretender, which delivers a hearty nostalgia bomb to the face because oh geez, I imprinted on this stuff so hard back in the day. Also ironic, because the doctor we are fighting tooth and nail against hospital bullshit and bureaucracy to get me aunt to is named Michael Weiss and Jarod is played by Michael T. Weiss. (I actually thought of Pretender the instant we were referred to him. Nerrrrrd cred.

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Everyone's acting is flawless and they are all so fucked up and they are all so dynamic and I just want to smoosh all their little faces together so I can watch them play off of each other eternally.

...then it all goes downhill in later seasons, of course, but what can you do.

I have already produced four pieces of gen fanfiction for Snow White and the Huntsman's trailer. I am trying to talk myself out of writing more. Do I really want to bother? Why stopper creativity? The canon may be more mood, suggestion and my own fertile brain than the end product of the actual film, but that's not going to break my heart and shouldn't bother anyone else, especially since I'm sure I'm going to be writing a boatload for the actual film in question when it comes out.

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If I suddenly vanish off the face of the earth tragically short of the Snow White and the Huntsman premiere, you may rest in the knowledge that THEY KILLED ME DEAD.

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I did laugh my ass off at Tyler's little 'aaaand now to the couch' heaved sigh after Caroline kissed him.

I do love those moments between Esther and Elena, where they're clearly at odds and Elena will never forgive yet she can't help but be able to see things from Esther's perspective, to see what Esther suffered. It's like - Elena will stand her ground, and in some things she can be desperately, stubbornly blind because she's so afraid she'll just collapse if she looks (Stefan, Damon, etc) but in so many things - in this place where she's so out of depth, where she's a teenage girl keeping company with creatures thousands of years old, dealing with questions of life and death and visceral horror - Elena can't help but look at it with her eyes open, and through that clear, huge compassion and grave thoughtfulness she is extraordinarily perceptive in those moments.

Also ( happy spoilers this time )

Hell yeah victory party.

Also hello, I can't really think of any Vampire Diaries cliffhangers in like...two seasons that made me panic waiting for the next episode but THIS ONE MANAGED.

/screams, gargles, casually claws at face in corner

MY FOREVER GIRRRRRRL

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Oh gee, the Vampire Diaries is exploiting Caroline's suffering in an objectifying and gratuitous way that they'll never allow her any kind of meaningful triumph over. It's fridging through torture, their favourite tired old horse, because when writing skill fails, why not fall back on your tried and true? Plec and Williamson's tried and true being gratuitous rape and/or abuse of vulnerable girls. (And occasionally boy, so progressive.)

Wait, the Vampire Diaries writers honestly just supported Damon referring to his attempts to rape, murder, and torture Elena as 'making it easy for her' (to reject him, when all of these instances where in response to her rejecting him based on what she wanted and being punished for it) and unironically positioned him as the wounded party in a discussion about her telling him no. Positioned her rapist as the wounded party in a discussion about her telling him no.

The last time Jeremy saw Elena and Damon kissing, he interrupted Elena sobbing 'no, no, no' and Damon then murdered Jeremy to punish her for saying no. To frame his concerns about and objection to their relationship (which is abusive) as being 'young' or somehow lacking perspective or deep knowledge, is misogynistic with a deeply troubling intensity in something marketed to young teen girls.

Especially since punishment is designed to alter someone's behaviour. When Elena tells him no - especially in sexual circumstances - Damon murders her little brother, throws her into walls, brutally violates her and tries to break her arm. His behaviour has not altered in the slightest and to be perfectly honest this casts doubt on the consent of further sexual interaction without serious shifting of dynamics and examination of his actions.

Damon changes her (explicitly, canonically) into someone exhausted and frightened and afraid to stand up for herself. He challenges her right to consent and her right to make decisions for herself. Sorry Rose, much like when people 'challenge' my right to health care, marriage, and oh not getting beat to death on the streets with no repercussions for my killers, I'm unimpressed by your argument.

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I honestly loathe the habit - I've seen it mostly in anime, as in American media they prefer to have their heroes be genuinely sexist and objectifying without it being contested - of having female characters accuse hapless male characters due to ridiculous accidents of walking in on them nude, their skirts blowing up, Big Misunderstandings, etc. It took me a long time to figure out exactly why, and then I heard people trash-talking Ashley Graham (...a teenage girl kidnapped and terrorized in a town full of monsters who nonetheless manages to remain determined, resourceful and remarkably levelheaded for her situation) for various reasons and really put my finger on it.

I'm not going to get irritated by a girl protesting sexual harassment, objectification or other untoward sexual behaviours towards herself. I refuse to find that abrasive - or comedic - the way they want me too, because I am a girl and I know damn well how nasty it gets for girls who speak up for themselves, and how relenting both cause and repercussions are.

And I'm repulsed - and pissed off - that these texts are trying to make a joke out of it, to portray these objections as unreasoning or hysterical and our poor dude protagonist as the pitiful victim of these terrible accusations.

(Also, if a guy accidentally pointed a rifle bead up my skirt I would be diving for cover, and he'd get a lot more shit about it than a brief exclamation. Those are sensitive parts.)

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NEGL about how excited I am about OTP, Selene and Michael, original stoic lady/tender hearted emotionally open dude ship.

( babbling plus spoilers )

Plot was weak on some points, and still no female Lycans. Didn't the first three movies focus on the treachery of the ruling class and their manufactured position as the righteous party, and the how mindlessly evil the Lycans weren't?

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