Love the idea of each previous hero's journey being mostly lost to time, such that each time the cycle starts again absolutely no one picks up the very obvious clues that might lead them to the hero.
Oh, you've named your blond haired blue eyed child Link, have you? That's a good name!
Oh, he's found a strange red and white maned horse he's named epona who has utterly bonded with him? How unusual!
Yes, the princess Zelda is the same age, isn't she? What a good omen for the family!
We know he doesn't talk much, but he's the sweetest lad, don't worry!
Don't fret, dearie, his wanderlust will abate when he grows up, I'm sure it won't get him in too much trouble before then.
Prodigious little swordsman, isn't he? He would make a great knight if he wanted to when he's older!
Oh? Rumours about a long forgotten temple in the woods? How strange! Are you sure it's not just the children telling stories?
Look at him in his armoured green outfit! That hat looks lovely on him - where did you find it?
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rewatching nuwho and i'm rlly.... why is human nature / family of blood just racist hit after racist hit after racist hit against martha . followed by a heavy dose of classist (+ misogynistic!!!!) behavior directed against her afterwards where the humans of 1913 england treat her like a weird alien from another world (the doctor in human form included!!!).
also, why do they have the doctor a) be actively bigoted and b) fall in love with a racist nurse who specifically speaks down to martha (someone who the doctor cares for). they create this "unassuming" white woman character and then have her be awful to martha but we're supposed to believe that she is kind and sympathetic worthy of being the human doctor's love interest, more than martha being treated as a human being. (and then that we should cry over her lost love/future in the end)
like why. genuinely why. what is the point .
also objectively what function does the nurse serve that martha jones could not have. she's even a medical student like !!!!!! going undercover as a nurse would not be that far off!! and plus, i'm not even a tenmartha shipper but it would fit more for the emotional arc of martha's character to get what she wanted all season in human nature / family of blood (the doctor falling in love with her!!! wish fulfillment !!!!!! ) only to realize the cruelty of what this would be like in reality if she were never to open the watch (despite her finally having what she "wants"), and finally understanding and having to give john smith up. it could've been a really tragic, but human moment (like a lot of other things in dw!).
then 10 and martha's relationship could actually be on some sort of equal footing. bc martha had a taste of what it would be liked to be loved by him (or someone similar to him, at least), and chose in the end to let it go. it would give her emotional closure, etc. and would show her choosing the /actual/ doctor (not human) and the friendship she has with him, rather than a lifetime with a human that she fell in love with who happens to look like him.
could've been a really cool moment of both character development and then bonding between the doctor and martha afterwards in their newfound partnership, so half of martha's character is no longer swallowed up by her pining for him.
but no. instead they go and hide in racistville and martha is a servant who experiences racism/misogyny/classism and microaggressions from white people + aliens over two episodes for nearly no reason .
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Robin Hood Research Rant
So, I’ve finished Hood, and I have Thoughts on the book’s conclusion, but I don’t wish to spoil it for the other readers. I also have a rant specific to Lawhead’s resarch process, however. (I will call it a research process, though “process” is generous.)
First, credit where credit is due: he has taken time to wander through an old-growth European forest, and that definitely counts as Robin Hood research in my book. This kind of embodied research has academic recognition as well as obvious benefits. So, good for him.
Second good thing: he has read primary sources, both ballads and chronicles (hooray.) He’s read Gerald of Wales, from whom I think his oddly repetitive ethnic characterizations of the Normans in the book come. He has also read Brenhinedd y Saesson, but here the problems start. For one thing, he seems to take the chronicle at face value (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.) For another, he seems to take for granted that its perspective is Welsh and presents “the Robin Hood legend in seed form.” I’ll get to that in a second, but the issue with this Welsh perspective thing is, um, it’s a compilation chronicle. It draws primarily on English sources. Yes, compilation is a creative endeavor, especially in the Middle Ages, but I would feel so much better if it were clear that Lawhead 1) knew this 2) cared.
Despite all this source use, the grounds for his argument for Welsh Robin Hood appear to be... vibes. He writes “My contention is that although in Nottingham, the Robin Hood legends found good soil in which to grow, they must surely have originated elsewhere.” This is the kind of thesis that I would annotate ferociously with red pen if it were in a student essay. Actually green pen because research shows that looks less aggressive. It’s also the kind of thesis I wish I could annotate with “I will not dignify this by calling it a thesis.” Anyway. Absolutely unsubstantiated. What he cites as though he thinks it is evidence is... the longbow is Welsh. Seriously. That’s it. He also claims that fact is Ignored By Historians™, which, no.
Then there’s the question of the individuals he cites. “British historian Philip Warner” was indeed a historian, and an acclaimed military historian... of the modern period. And “military historian Robert Hardy,” well, that’s the Robert Hardy. The actor. Charmingly (in my view,) playing Henry V formed part of Hardy’s longbow-enthusiast origin story, and he was indeed an expert in historical longbow technology, and a respected member of the Society of Antiquaries. But it seems to me careless at best -- and disingenuous at worst -- to cite these two authors rather than historians of medieval Britain... or, for that matter, scholars of the medieval Robin Hood literature! And I am more irritated by this tissue of claims to historicity, plausible, I fear, to the untrained eye, than I would be if he just said “I, acclaimed fantasy author Stephen Lawhead, am writing a Welsh Robin Hood because I think it would be fun.”
Here endeth the rant.
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I dont really make posts like this but
look I don't watch the news and Im not gonna lie I don't really understand politics and all that much but, even so, even from the little info ive gotten from just tumblr. its uhm i dont think its that hard?? to understand that all the stuff going on in palestine right now is incredibly fucked up? I dont pretend to know how like. the land and stuff works but i know there is nothing that justifies killing so many people.and KIDS god its. a lot. its really fucked up. I dont really like cursing idk it just doesnt really, i dont feel the need to so know im using it now to convey my strong feelings. so this is me trying to help how i can with just like. internet uhh exposure sorta thing? yknow. talking about it.y eah.
if you somehow are seeing all this and thinking its fine? please block me. I dont want you here.
Free Palestine
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Haii, I had to do a video essay for a college final, and i ended up being really proud of it! Being able to ramble about my fav movie ever for a grade fucking rules. I will warn yall, it had some editing and grammar issues, but I'm still proud of it! Go check it out!!!!
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if i lived in the medieval times id still find a way to fixate on insane fictional characters. id read the canterbury tales and then be posting about my new blorbo the Wife of Bath at church or whatever
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My younger siblings got me into Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (after I made them watch a lot of the OG 80’s series)….. and absolutely positively NO ONE WAS GONNA TELL ME ABOUT THIS??!!?!
I mean I was loosing my shit over the ice cream kitty reference a few episodes before that….
… but an actual acknowledgment to other TMNT adaptations is gorgeous with its alternate universe note. Absolutely beautiful! If you need me I’ll be writing my next free-style college essay why Rise is the best adaptation.
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