Ela, 30-something - Aquarius, book lover, feminist, cat person This is very much a multifandom blog intended for anything that strikes my fancy, so if you decide to follow me for one specific fandom only, expect a lot of unrelated "spam" on your dashboard :).
Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.
Woke:
Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and slandered publically by the police for this.
So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.
YU SHUXIN & WANG HEDI as Xiao Lanhua & Dongfang Qingcang
LOVE BETWEEN FAIRY AND DEVIL 苍兰诀dir. Yi Zheng (2022)
— If you want to destroy Tai Sui completely, what will happen? Why are you feigning ignorance and refusing to reunite with Dongfang Qingcang? You’ll die, won’t you? Yes, I’ll die. You and Dongfang Qingcang love each other. You would rather lie to him, than let him suffer any more.
“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!
Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”
- Sacha Coward
Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero
Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”
the fact that dorothy chooses to make oz her home at the end of emerald city of oz is so important to me and i never see it in analysis :/ like yeah she decided to return home to kansas at the end of wonderful wizard!! but she couldn't keep away from oz!! she returned to kansas because she loved her family and felt that was where she needed to be but when her family started to despair and no longer wanted to be in kansas she took them to oz with her!!! she took them to the place that had become her home!!!!! and i just. oz is not a story of giving up on chasing a perfect world. it's not a story of trading in idealism for practicality. it's not a story of dorothy rejecting the feminist values she learns in oz for kansas domesticity (an actual thing i just read!!!). she returns because home is where the people she loves are. where she feels her duty is. and when the people she loves no longer love home, she brings them into her world. because oz is her world
i'm just tired of the same old "umm dorothy rejects oz in favor of a bland, familiar, domestic, normal life!! it symbolizes a rejection of queerness or modernity or feminism or ____ (insert value of oz) and a return to traditionalism!!" NO!!!!!! did you read marvelous land of oz??? she keeps a mirror so she can say hi to ozma every day!!! she never stops thinking about oz!!! she's devoted to her family but her heart is in oz!! SHE GOES BACK PERMANENTLY!!!! i just. augh.