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You are so right in your distaste for Blades book 2. No matter how great things get near the end, a majority of the book was horrible. They led us along like mouse to cheese. It’s inexcusable to play with their audience this way.
I only wish more people were less willing to excuse PB’s mediocrity. The signs were on the wall for me when DLS was flat out better than Blades 2, and it’s narratively quite simple. The story told was well paced, thought out, and above all kept us waiting for more each week. I cannot say the same for B2. That is sad.
I mean I do understand why people still enjoyed it and were willing to overlook the negative aspects or didn’t have much of a problem with them to begin with. Blades 1 was a fan favorite, we all missed these characters a lot, and many people (myself included at one point) didn’t believe we would actually get book 2 because of all the bait and switches PB had done in the past. But the first two things are why I personally couldn’t overlook the glaring issues.
I can’t remember who the OP was now, but I remember seeing a post from when book 2 only had a few chapters out where someone said something about it seeming like the writers learned all the wrong things about what made the book so good, and I couldn’t agree with that person more! Yeah, book 1 was good because it was different from anything we had ever gotten before. But I think the main reason it was so good was because of the characters as individuals and the relationships we got to form with those individuals to ultimately become a family. Yet they didn’t really acknowledge those individuals or relationships in ways that did them justice for the majority of book 2. And on top of that, MC’s own characterization was inconsistent at times because the writers picked and chose when they wanted us to be a competent leader and when they wanted us to be virtually clueless for plot convenience.
Book 1 was also relatively straightforward whereas it seemed like the writers wanted to turn the sequel into their own personal commentary on religion, which is an incredibly complex topic in itself. They had some social commentary in book 1, but it was done a lot better in my opinion because it didn’t take so much of a front seat. They managed to make it clear that that commentary was important and relevant to the writers, the characters, and the readers living in the real world while never robbing book 1 of that fun adventure game used for escapism feel. Meanwhile, book 2 almost felt like ‘Rising Tides but make it religion’ at times. And that’s on top of all of the other issues I’ve already mentioned in my previous posts.
I will say that I can see how there’s usually a lot of pressure to blow things out of the water for a sequel to something so beloved, and that most likely contributed to how things played out. So maybe I’m being a bit too harsh in my judgement of everything. But I still find it very disappointing to wait so long for something just for it to be so messy and miss the mark by a mile
I saw that you said the Barnaby/Howdy fusion will be the biggest of all, and now im guess he will have some-like sardonyx vibes. Because im sure the combination of a big comedian dog and a charismatic gentle caterpillar will definitely give out a bright personality 👀
He def bit of a showman! He’s a toy maker! Think Gustafson from Jingle Jangle! (Song included 😂)
"We didn't know this thing, and we were sort of... in this magical world for ages and now we've come back, and we're like: YEESS! But obviously the people that come in, they've seen it! And they're like: WHOA!! And we're like: No, it's fine! And so, yeah I really hope that everybody that came into season two felt as held as we do as well; the people that we're here in season one." - Claudia Jessie
BRIDGERTON 2.01 'Capital R Rake' | BTS 'At Home and on Set With the Bridgertons' | 2/3
perennial reminder (because of a friend, not me for once) that your job will fuck you, but it'll never love you.
toe the lines you have to, swallow what you gotta to pay rent, but keep notes, use what benefits you get, and double check that you're actually getting what they owe you.
Sometimes it hits me I have the skill set to literally make any kind of clothes I want(I could even crochet deer shaped lace if I wanted)...and yet I never think I'm good enough and every time I DO make something I go through 90 crisis making it.
Interesting video 👀👀 the most interesting thing about it to me is that there is SUCH a societal and cultural obsession with blondeness in many Western cultures, especially "natural" blondeness, and it is in fact a big deal specifically as an aspect of White Femininity (which is not a good thing btw 💀💀 because it's in many ways a white supremacy thing...)
The thing that provoked my interest initially is that I personally have goldish/dark blonde hair (according to the majority of votes in my tumblr poll xD) and:
1) what color it is varies culturally (in Finland there's sometimes been HUGE scrutiny over whether it's blonde or brown, even when I was growing up and had somewhat lighter hair than now - in Germany and among Southern Europeans "blonde" is much more flexible in my experience)
2) there's a value judgement attached to it, with blonde hair being seen as much more unique and desirable than non-blonde hair (the vid discusses this, with women online obsessing over their hair color and trying to "prove" their blondeness with childhood pictures etc.)
And idk after watching that video I just think it's dumb! I made that tumblr poll partly to test what kind of emotional reaction I would have to the replies, and I do notice a value judgement, like I got disproportionately happy about the replies calling it blonde. Which is so stupid! But idk it's just this whole system of white femininity that's promoted culturally as the ideal, and that white women then internalise and reinforce for both themselves and others (it's mostly women and mostly white women, men's hair color rarely comes with value judgements attached...)
But um yeah idk. That point about cultural definitions is really interesting... I think it would be healthy for everyone who cares about this to take a chill pill and (like suggested in the vid) try not to participate in structures with ties to white supremacy 💀 even if it seems like harmless personal fun. Like, maybe don't worry so much about whether you can gain admission to the Most Exalted White Women club for yourself, and work harder to get rid of beauty standards that made it exist in the first place 😭