Saw two dudes transporting a huge metal chest by bike this way yesterday and thought to myself, that’s very Wooden Overcoats.
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I LOVE YOU COMEDY WITH AN EMOTIONAL CORE
I LOVE YOU COMEDY THAT USES OUTRAGEOUS CHARACTERS AND SITUATIONS TO TELL STORIES OF HOPE AND COMMUNITY
I LOVE YOU COMEDY THAT INTRODUCES SEEMINGLY INNOCUOUS DETAILS FOR COMEDIC EFFECT AND THEN HAS THEM COME BACK LATER WITH AN EMOTIONAL GUT PUNCH
I LOVE YOU COMEDY THAT CAN MAKE ME LAUGH AND CRY WITH THE SAME LINE
I LOVE YOU COMEDY
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Wooden Overcoats
Will forever scream into my pillow about this.
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Undertakers Against Blonds
[id: a screenshot of rudyard, antigone, georgie, and madeleine from the wooden overcoats banner, edited so they're all saying a Tumblr post by romanken, which reads, "Daily affirmations. Blond men are the devil's emissaries. Blond men will not enter the kingdom of heaven at their deaths nor will they sing with the rest of god's creatures in his choir. Blond men are a scourge upon this earth and all who consider themselves righteous and holy are bound by honor to hunt them to extinction." end id]
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On my first Wooden Overcoats listen through, I always pictured the Funns as looking strange and off-putting. And I loved them. Both the way people treat them and the way they act made it feel logical that they would look a little uncanny valley. A bit spooky. Not conventionally desirable at the very least.
And honestly, it was a bit empowering to think of these characters looking so unseemly but still be absolutely delightful. Because I love Antigone and Rudyard.
BUT. There is textual evidence of them being hot.
-When Madeline mentions how Rudyard photographs well and blind terror to something wonderful to his eyes.
-When the mayor mentions how good Rudyard looks in a suit.
-When Eric makes a deeply licentious, flirty comment about Antigone within seconds of knowing her.
-The local theater director is constantly making moves on Antigone and compares her looks to his beloved (dead) wife.
And that's just within the first few episodes. And honestly?
The Funns being hot is hilarious.
I love the idea that they are so bizarre and macabre and socially inept that thier hotness is totally drowned out most of the time. People look at Antigone, the super model, and thinks she's a ghastly undead creature. People hear Rudyard open his mouth and just see red, completely missing the movie star barking "Now look here".
Eric is a Plain Jane comparatively. And Rudyard being the beauty queen half of that dynamic is so interesting on so many levels. Mr-popular-but-secretly-insecure would immediately clock that his competition is drop dead gorgeous. And it would infuriate him and drive his competitive streak. But also potentially fuel some of the moments of homoerotic tension between them you could potentially read into the text.
It's also kind of liberating in a way. Because It means the Funns' personalities supersede their appearance completely. It's like in Howl's Moving Castle, how Sophie feels liberated by the curse because she's seen for her personality rather than as a sexual object. No magic here though, just two delightfully autistic morticians.
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thinking about how Antigone mentioned that the only nice thing anyone had ever done for her was her father giving her an extra sprout at Christmas dinner once and how Rudyard made sure that Antigone got extra sprouts during the Christmas episode
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Aroace Rudyard truthers we won today 😌
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They're reading the book together :)
[ID: a digital drawing of Rudyard and Madeleine from Wooden Overcoats. Rudyard a pale man with short black hair, wearing a white nightgown. He's sitting in bed reading a Sherlock Holmes book. Madeleine, a small brown mouse is curled up on his collarbone and is looking at the book as well. /End ID]
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