I’m Watching Kim Possible and Writing Down My Thoughts Letsa Go
What the hell is her outfit? What happened to the badass cargo pants and crop top long-sleeved shirt?
She got pinned down by two guys in less than five minutes, what the fuck.
Ron’s character is... surprisingly lovable?
Wait, where’s Rufus?
Okay, no, why is the transmitter on her chest, I don’t get it.
It’s sparkly pink goop. It’s just sparkly pink fucking goop.
Her identity is supposed to be a SECRET what is this MESS girl I do not APPROVE.
I’m not against Kim wearing different clothes, but a red head wearing that cherry nightmare with bright pink shoes is not working for me.
Open your own damn window, Jesus Christ.
She nabbed a stroller with a grappling hook, but it rolled up back up the hill instead of towards her. ‘Cause... that’s how physics works.
Dead ass just stood in front of everybody on the bus for a minute straight like she was somebody. Nobody is impressed with your shit, Kim, sit your ass down.
Drakken is pretending to drown Kim in the toilet and I’m concerned.
Shego is actually okay. She’s certainly salty enough. Her personality is a little darker, but I can roll with it.
Ron IS livestreaming your first day of school, let him live Kim. You’re parting the Red Sea of high schoolers, he can do what he wants.
I’m still worried about the lack of Rufus.
Why is Wade not in school? Did that question ever really get answered?
Ron, tie your shoelaces.
Wait, Kim’s not really going to try out for soccer instead of cheerleading just because Bonnie told her to, right?
I bet that inconvenient classroom switch makes them late.
Yep. Now they’re labeled on the first day of high school. That’s not in any plot about high schools EVER.
Does nobody have to stop at their lockers?
Kim! Ron doesn’t have a grappling hook! Don’t break into vents you psycho, just run in the halls like everyone else, damnit!
Eternity leave. I want this movie to be on eternity leave.
‘Slightly exploded’
Excuse you, Shego, but Ron was there which means Drakken was stopped by TWO puny kids.
This is Ron’s BEST first day of school? This soft, curly boi-
Kim do NOT try out for soccer! You are a CHEERLEADER!
Is that... a pink, crop top, COLLARED SHIRT? I am DISGUSTED with this.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Kim was a cheerleader to set an example! She showed young girls that you don’t have to act all prissy and frufru in order to cheer and they just THREW IT DOWN THE FUCKING DRAIN BY MAKING HER CONFORM TO HER SCHOOL’S SOCIAL NORMS I’M-
Kim, oh my fucking god, stop showing off. The poor girl just had a bad day, she doesn’t need a fucking cartwheel.
I love Athena’s hair. It is a beautiful mess.
NACHOS!! Ron, you soft soft boi. Still missing a Rufus, though.
Ron Stop-PITBULL why is this the funniest thing in the movie so far, I’m cackling.
Tardy Party strikes again and Kim is STILL WEARING PINK.
THE OLD OUTFIT. THERE IT IS THERE IT IS THERE IT IS THERE IT IS
Athena’s dancing is the most relatable thing.
Born to be Kim’s BFF? And Athena feels the same way? tbh, those lines were delivered very awkwardly. Suspicious 100%
If I see one more useless, out of context cartwheel from Kim I will scream.
Damn, Athena got MOVES. I bet she’s been training to take down Kim. That’s gonna be the big twist.
Still think Athena is low-key a traitor, but what do you mean the best version Athena can be? Athena is already beautiful you piece of absolute shit!
‘Out-Kim’ Kim? Pippy fucking Longstocking could ‘out-Kim’ Kim. SUPER GROVER could ‘out-Kim’ Kim.
I know Kim ain’t about to get jealous of Athena even though she was the one that suggested the haircut.
Why the hell is Poppy Blue here now?
Kim is an expert in tax laws, has a head start on her midterms, controls advanced technology on a regular basis, and still didn’t know that WASN’T an apple tree?
She’s actually jealous Athena! This is bullshit! I hate it! I’m still suspicious of her, but STILL.
RUFUS!! YAS!! MY BOIS ARE FINALLY TOGETHER!!
Wade’s not buying your bullshit, Kim.
‘Did you get demoted?’ Girl, I fuckin’ WISH.
Let Athena help, goddamn, she’s better at this than you are anyway.
Kim. Ron said he got it first. That means MOVE.
Go Athena, go! Go Athena, go! Shut the fuck up, Kim! Athena is busy kicking ass! Go Athena, go!
Shego knows what’s up. Athena’s WAY better at this than Kim. Definitely traitor material.
Aw, look at all the high schoolers playing with broomsticks.
Bonnie is a bitch, but Kim totally deserves it. Athena is just happy to be part of the team, she’s good at what she does, and she’s not getting a big head about it. Kim needs to step off.
So Kim is tryna learn the bo staff just because Athena used one. Kim, you jealous piece of shit.
Okay, now she’s crying. The producers are trying REALLY hard to make her relatable, but if she wanted to be her own person so bad then she would have tried out for cheerleading like she wanted, not shown off all the time, and she DEFINITELY wouldn’t have conformed just because some sophomore told her to..
She’s skipping school because she got an F?! What the hell is this movie?!
God bless Ron Stoppable.
School has been in session for, like, a month, and Athena has already been voted homecoming queen. Way to go, you.
See, Athena still asked for Kim’s help! She doesn’t believe she’s any better than Kim is, she just admires the hell out of her favorite hero. Either that or she’s still in the process of betraying her. It’s one or the other.
Throw her the damn staff!
FUCK YOU KIM I SWEAR TO GOD!!
Athena just got kidnapped. So either Kim finds her and apologizes for being a bitch or they reveal she was a traitor.
Ron asking the real questions. You wanted to save people by using a weapon you don’t know how to use? Yeah, how’d that go?
Did Kim just have an identity crisis and then fix it within the same ten minutes?
I KNEW IT!! PICK UP THE DAMN PHONE BECAUSE I CAAAAALLED IT!! ATHENA A TRAITOOOOOOOOR!!
They can all just switch outfits in two seconds, damn.
And now Shego and Drakken are going to double-cross Athena because they’re the ~bad guys~ so spoopy yes with your painfully obvious manical laughter.
How long is this tragedy?
Calling Kim out on her shit, yas Athena! I know she’s technically a bad guy now but she’s still a better character than Kim.
A robot. I... wasn’t expecting that. I probably should have been expecting that. But I wasn’t expecting that. Hm.
Kim having a break down while staring at pictures of herself. Is that not a midlife crisis?
Ron hitting an electric cage to get to his friend is the purest thing I’ve seen in this movie so far.
Bet Rufus saves everyone though.
Everyone else: ‘Uuuuuugh the evil plan reveal.’
Ron: ‘Let him finish, bro.’
Athena will be destroyed. Double crossed. Can this stupid move be ANY MORE PREDICTABLE?
Oh of course, NOW she thinks of Athena as a friend. Just in time for some last minute character development to try and fix over an hour of bitchery.
Stay away from the side of the electric cage. Really? Ya think?
Rufus saved the day, wooooot!
Why is Drakken a cute kid? WHY IS DRAKKEN A CUTE KID? And how was that the side effect???
And the very original ‘Run the place is gonna blow’ bit in three... two... one...
Kim been a such a bitch to Athena this whole movie and she’s still protecting the little brat. I literally hate this movie so fucking much.
Rufus found Athena!
Shit. Rufus found Athena’s hand.
No wait! There she is!
ATHENA NO!! KIM IS NOT A GOOD FRIEND!! ACTING LIKE A GOOD PERSON ONE TIME DOES MAKE YOU A GOOD PERSON!!
A martial arts club? Are you fucking serious? What. About. CHEERLEADING?!!
SHEGO IS MOMMING DRAKKEN. SHE IS MOMMING HIM AND I AM LIVING FOR IT.
Ron is a better character than Kim. Athena is a better character than Kim. Shego and Drakken are better characters than Kim. The cat obsessed teacher is a better character than Kim. Everyone is a better character than Kim.
FINALLY OVER!! I’M SO HAPPY THIS IS MOVIE IS DONE OH MY FUCKING GOD!! I’M GONNA GO WATCH RISE OF THE GUARDIANS AND MAKE MYSELF BETTER BYE BITCHES!!
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DOWN & DIRTY QUICKIE REVIEW!
One Sentence Summary:
She’s a pronoun indifferent, non-binary AFAB disguised as a man running a long con & he’s her bisexual, Darcy-clone, new BFF.
Name That Trope:
Sloooooow burn romtastic romance
Gay Panic Is A Unicorn [It Doesn’t Exist]
Prim & Proper stuffy hero falls for a DGAF free spirit love interest
Non-virgin widowed heroine
“We Can’t Be Together”
What part made you fangirl squeal:
When the plot put our AFAB enby in a dress and DIDN’T pull the "Tada! They sexy now!" bullshit. MY FANGIRL HEART WENT POP!
How the 3rd act’s internal conflict is half-resolved by both the hero’s dad’s lover & the heroine’s BFF butler rocking dialogue that did big things to the plot...and to my feeeeeeeeeeeeels!
How both our leads shared an equally remarkable character arc?! Her living her truth as her enby self, him learning money for the sake of money means nothing? Romances with social commentaries are hot don’t @ me.
When our hero called his heroine-induced-erection a “predictable bastard.” Fangirl lols are really real.
THAT! REJECTED! MARRIAGE! PROPOSAL! Watching her defend her right to independence, and pushing against the gender role that marriage would place her in, was feministly amazeballs! It was a marriage rejection was so lit even Lizzie Bennet would be proud.
OUR DARCY-TASTIC HERO! He is, and I quote, “so wrapped in layers of wealth & rank he’s all but invisible.” And when asked to dance he replies with “Why would I?” My happy squeaks were happily squeaky!
Favorite Character:
OH FUUUUUCK YOU, ME, FOR MAKING ME PICK! It hurts my heart to do it, but if I must? Under the threat of execution?! Fine... Charity/Robbie.
This heroine is a goddamn hero!
She owns her body & her sexuality. She shades capitalism. She tells the hero, “Get back to kissing me.” She is honorable and loyal and protective and reliable and badass and loving and giving AND I ADORE HER WITH ALL MY ADORBS!
How smexy was the smex?
I don’t wanna grump...but I gotta. Sorta.*
Honestly...the sex is super-duper rushed. We don’t spend much time (if any) on detail, so it feels pretty perfunctory. That said, I can’t truly call the sex a Point of Bitchery because, well...the plot didn’t have time for expansive Pound Town. Too much other great shit happened!
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
"Love carried a weight that was heavier than honor or prudence.”
*****
“Fine. If she wanted pleasure, he could give her that. If she wanted to break his heart more comprehensively than might otherwise have been the case, then so be it. His heart was hers to break.”
*****
Robbie/Charity: Well, there’s no point to having money unless you spend it, and there’s no point to having rank and privilege unless you use them.
Alistair: My ancestors used all of the above to hold orgies.
Robbie/Charity: No, they used them to be happy. And for them, I suppose that meant orgies, although one might wish they could also have found happiness in establishing hospitals or endowing artists. And think of how inconvenient it must be to have one’s happiness hinge on orgies. I think I pity your ancestors. Consider the logistics.
Got any bitching to do?
NONE!*
*see 2 above
Visually Depict Yo Book Feels:
Famous last words:
This is the best Woman Disguised As A Man book I’ve ever read, and frankly? It’s what EVERY incarnation of this trope should aim to be.
Gimme heroes who give 0 fucks about their newfound or longtime sexuality. Gimme AFAB enbies (or trans!) love interests that live their truth in all the ways that means!
Because fuck gay panic and fuck gender roles.
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Six Cold Feet, The Bitchery of History, Aubrey Marcus Podcast
Welcome back to the wonderful world of podcasts with your friendly* neighbourhood Castologists. (*actual friendliness may vary depending on what podcasts we've listened to this week.) No theme this week, just good old-fashioned and new-fashioned podcasts. Liz recommends scripted anthology podcast (with season one about a mysterious missing musician) Six Cold Feet; Zane chats kick-ass women from the past with The Bitchery of History; and Patrick gets into some modern philosophy with Aubrey Marcus Podcast.
Liz Recommends - Six Cold Feet
https://sixcoldfeet.com/
The first season of this "spoken novel" style podcast focuses on a "found audio" plot device. We as the audience are listening to a man called River, recording himself while searching for his missing sister. Do yourself a favour and save episode 0, a behind-the-scenes look at the podcast, til after you've listened to the series. Liz felt there were a few things spoiled (unintentionally!) by co-collaborators J. M. Donellan and Jessica McGaw.
The website for this Brisbane podcast perhaps describes it best. "Six Cold Feet is a fiction anthology podcast about music, mystery, and the places we escape to when the real world disappoints us. Season 1 told the story of River, who is looking for his recently disappeared sister. Season 2 [which Liz has been cast in and which will premiere in September/October] follows the story of Athena, who is hired to write a biography of her hero; the mercurial singer-songwriter Juliet Knives. She quickly discovers that Knives has been keeping secrets for many years, and that she might be finally ready to confess…
Written by award-winning author and poet J.M. Donellan and performed by a cast including Melanie Zanetti, Kate Logan, Jessica McGaw, and Tom Yaxley this series will leave you pondering long after the final episode sings through your speakers."
For both: It's a serial so start at the very beginning (but not episode 0!)
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/six-cold-feet/id1304057366
Pat Recommends - Aubrey Marcus Podcast
https://www.aubreymarcus.com/blogs/aubrey-marcus/tagged/aubrey-marcus-podcast
Aubrey Marcus is an optimizer of the human variety, an author, and the CEO of Onnit, a lifestyle brand based on holistic health philosophy. Nothing out of the ordinary for me here. Longform interview stlye podcast with some of the world's formost athletes, scientists, philosophers, and then some. Each episode Aubrey and his guest try to tackle some of the biggest questions and broadest concepts. Episodes sit around the one hour mark.
For Zane & Liz: I like Adam Savage and Michael Pollan
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/aubrey-marcus-podcast/id521945322
Zane Recommends - The Bitchery of History
https://umpboh.podomatic.com/
Another Zane-theme has emerged - Women in History. This podcast is a bit more relaxed and casual then some of the previous similar podcasts. Celebrating the women who made history, only to be forgotten by it, best friends Max and Allison discuss badass heroines and villains like two kids at the back of the bus.
For Pat: Any Episode
For Liz: Any Episode
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