thinking about john and arthur getting each other birthday gifts 🤔
arthur getting john that custom made saddle with his initials engraved on it on the horse he had up until it died during the wolf attack... arthur probably spent a fortune on it and was like "since your current saddle looks like it's been through wars..." to play it off like its no big deal and hes doing it out of necessity but he definitely planned it out for a long time and the look on johns face when he handed to him made his heart he thought was long gone and dead go up and throb with something he hasnt felt since mary
john getting arthur a new journal "shucks johnny how'd yknow i needed a new one? my current one is almost full..." his smile then fades into a look of realization and john breaks out into a cold sweat
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i got curious about mary's role post-resurrection so i looked at a list of all her appearances in season 12 only to discover that she's only in about half of the episodes. which is surprising because like, where the fuck is she going? where is her character arc going to take her such that she's separated from her children for entire episodes, 33 years in the future with everyone else she's ever known or loved dead?
i'm just eternally fascinated that supernatural is a show about sam and dean, and literally no other character including their own mother is allowed to impede on that. every other character has to be removed at some point from the brotherly unit so as not to infringe on their domination of the narrative. every other character is expendable, unnecessary for the show to function continuously. every other character can go off on their own for several episodes at a time and live a life separate from them. there's no limit to this and no one is allowed to get close enough to sam and dean to negate this reality.
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nimona thoughts! still my top movie of the year so far!!
been thinking about how to frame my thoughts on this gem, and I ultimately arrived at a bit of a pretentious jumping-off point. but honestly, my favorite stories are always the ones that end up demoting the whats, the hows, and sometimes even the whos in service of the whys. it's the hardest question and context to tackle in any story, and it's worth interrogating the most in order to find any true meaning, any connection at all to what's told.
nimona shows exactly why walling yourself away from the "others" isn't good enough. it shows why you have to do the work and see them.
not just that it is dogmatically "the right thing to do". not just depicting what certain systemic injustices are, how they are deployed, and who they are targeted at. but the why. that simplest, purest shape of questioning an injustice dating back to your gentlest time as a child, when you were vulnerable, naive, and truly curious in the best possible faith. the question you would always ask was why.
you are picking up a sword to threaten the unknown. you've been told the whos and whats. you parse it thus. but you don't know the why. you are watching this happen on TV, contextualized, simplified, dramatized. you are connecting the dots. understanding the why.
nimona painstakingly drills down on that why. arduously, achingly digging past the institutions of fear fed by cycles of indoctrination and right down to the core of it. packaged in a simple-to-parse fantasy world built with deft, elegant metaphors and archetypes that immediately fall into place and make sense to a person of any age.
it is animation as a medium and fantasy as a genre both working in concert. a fun and colorful romp that ends on a gentle embrace of reassurance that tells children - both literal and the ones buried deep inside adults - that their first question to the world was always the correct one. because it was the kindest.
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I've been thinking about the tragedy of Elizabeth Woodville living to see the death of her family name.
I don't mean her family with her husband, which lived on through her daughter and grandson. I mean her own.
Her sisters died, one by one, many of them after 1485. When Elizabeth died, only Katherine was left, and she would die before the turn of the century as well.
All her brothers died, too. Lewis died in childhood. John was executed. Anthony was murdered. Lionel died suddenly in the peak of Richard's reign, unable to see his niece become queen. Edward perished at war. Richard died in grieving peace. For all the violence and judgement the family endured, it was "an accident of biology" that ended their line: none of the brothers left heirs, and the Woodville name was extinguished. We know the family was aware of this. We know they mourned it, too:
“Buy a bell to be a tenor at Grafton to the bells now there, for a remembrance of the last of my blood.”
Elizabeth lived through the deposition and death of her young sons, and lived to see the end of her own family name. It must have been such a haunting loss, on both sides.
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So we know Mix has never paired in a BL with anyone besides Earth, they’ve known each other for years, even before Mix started acting. So it’s obvious that they’re very comfortable with one another and Earth is the only man he’s ever properly kissed, (Phuwin in FUTS doesn’t count, that wasn’t a kiss, it was purposely filmed stilted and awkward with dead fish lips for the scene) so it’ll be interesting to see if First’s insane chemistry with literally everyone will translate to playing a romantic partner with Mix well. I really want to see how well Mix is able to sell it, are they going to kiss? Is it going to be awkward? First has never come off as anything but completely genuine when playing a romantic partner - no matter the gender of his scene partner - in all of his roles. Mix on the other hand has never played romance opposite anyone besides Earth, he was a ‘romantic interest’ in Fish Upon The Sky for Phuwin’s character, and their dead fish kiss was supposed to be weird and awkward because it was all in the character of Pi’s drunken mind. But in Moonlight Chicken, Wen and Alan are in a long term committed relationship, they (seem to) live together, they’re clearly supposed to be close and comfortable with one another until Wen starts cheating with Jim. So I am admittedly very curious if First was able to get Mix comfortable enough with him to the point that they genuinely seem like a couple on screen 🤔
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