I love ADOW, season three being my favorite because I really enjoyed how they handled Matthew's and Diana's relationship, specifically adding more moments that weren't weighed down by the plot of them being together even when the world was trying to pull them apart. But I am forever thankful for season three giving me that scene of pregnant Diana eating snacks beside Matthew while he was just laid across the bed, resting his chin on his arms. Like it was so cute.
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I'm rewatching A Discovery of Witches despite the fact that precisely because it is silly and self-indulgent and delightfully unapologetic about being a show about forbidden romance™ and vampires and witches in good knitwear.
Anyway. It strikes me that I may have subconsciously craved a rewatch because it is also a very powerful -- and, again, absolutely shameless -- fantasy about overcoming the anxieties, pressures, and not infrequent indignities and insults that come with being a female academic. To wit:
You will get a job
Moreover, you will get a good job
Despite your imposter syndrome, you are good at what you do
Your research topic is special and important
That powerful older man who's awful to you at a cocktail party? he's just an asshole
Your intellectual passions will not make you ineligible for or incapable of having a satisfying romantic relationship
Oh, and your manuscripts love you back <3
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