cmq characters' signature scents (because im insufferable)
inspired by me finding out that casey assigned their book four characters signature scents back in may and i completely missed it. these are not their signature fragrances (except alex and henry and kind of shara), but rather what fragrances would smell most like them.
alex claremont-diaz (red, white, and royal blue) - canonically santal 33 by le labo but also skins x vilhelm by vilhelm parfumerie for a bit more depth
i know what the movie said. i think santal 33 is boring and basic. skins x vilhelm feels to me like an elevated version of santal 33 with a bit more depth and dimension, so it could perhaps be his more "adult" scent once he's a lawyer or what have you.
henry fox-mountchristen-windsor (red, white, and royal blue) - bois marocain by tom ford
also a basic take, but hear me out!! i originally had henry with tobacco vanille, but it pulls kind of vanilla-y and sweet. i think he'd lean for something classic and understated but slightly different (which is where the pink peppercorn comes in, since it has a nice balance of spicy and floral), while still being palatable for the general public. it also has a similar core as santal 33 in the virginia cedar, which may have been how he recognized it on alex. he may have worn it before and moved on, and kept the base of virginia cedar.
august landry (one last stop) - good girl glorious gold by carolina herrera
i actually have a fragrance in the mail as we speak that really fits the pancakes aspect of august's scent, but she canonically uses lemon soap, so i had to include it! ols is my favorite of the three published novels, and august is my everything, so picking out scents for her and jane was such a labor of love for me.
reminder, this is not the scent august uses (she doesn't have time for perfume while she's solving the mysteries of her sexy subway girlfriend!), but rather what she just smells like. at the core, i wanted lots of sweet notes, because her pancake aroma never wears off, but also coffee for the long nights spent on the train and coffee tits and citrus for her soap.
jane su (one last stop) - kasbah by 19-69
to quote august herself, "jane is spun sugar. a switchblade girl with a cotton-candy heart." so, i had to reflect that. leather and sugar, with a bit of oranges (electricity not included). finding a fragrance that had leather, orange, and sugar notes (of any variety) was near impossible, so if y'all will forgive me for using honey, i had to go with the second best option.
again, she isn't going out and buying this fragrance. kind of hard to do so when you're stuck in a time loop. this is just the essence of jane, so to speak, if it were to be bottled up into a fragrance.
chloe green (i kissed shara wheeler) - dodo (2020) by zoologist
i wanted a weird girl dark academia perfume and it was not coming up with my existing notes so this is what i settled on. in my head for chloe i was not picturing her as wearing fragrances, but rather having a permanent scent of either coffee or tea and then some weird ass linger scent like blood or dirt or something.
obviously, this is not really that, but i think the brand zoologist itself has that very vibe (go take a look, their stuff is cool as hell). dodo is kind of in the middle of ultra weird and tame with their stuff, and i think it fits the vibe i'm sort of going for. chloe also mentions in one chapter that one of her favorite smells is when one of her moms brought home fresh cilantro, so herbal notes felt appropriate.
shara wheeler (i kissed shara wheeler) - dilis classic collection no. 21 by dilis parfum
shara canonically wears lilac body spray and vanilla-mint lip gloss, so i took those notes and ran with it. this is like a more nuanced version of what shara would smell like, with things like pepper and cedar grounding a very floral scent. when it dries down, it's vanilla and cedar based, rather than the lilac everyone expects from shara, creating the idea and imagery that she's not exactly what everyone thinks she is.
i hope y'all enjoyed getting a look into what my brain is like on a daily basis! i love fragrance and talking about it and especially love attaching it to fictional characters since i think it says so much about them and their personality. maybe i'll fuck around and do more characters but i wanted to do the main romances? kind of? from each of the three.
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After giving it a few days of thought I think I have mellowed out a bit on Jeremy Adams. I think it's pretty damning that he follows so many right-wing extremists on Twitter and that some of his views leak into his writing. I'm obviously not happy about this and I think it's awful.
I want to be clear that I do not like him as a person.
With all that being said, he hasn't really done anything yet. Beyond making Jay and Wally religious, which is aggravating from a comics lore standpoint but religion isn't necessarily inherently a good or bad thing.
There are little things that hint towards his views but there's been nothing 100% or overt.
Hell, for all I know he followed those accounts years ago and has changed his views since. Or maybe he didn't know what they are.
I'm not trying to find excuses for him, I'm just trying to show that there isn't a smoking gun here. There's a pattern of suspicious activity and I'm 96% certain that he has terrible views but the evidence for that sucks.
Piper shows up in the next issue. Piper, who is a gay socialist. I think that will be a really good litmus test. I'm going to be reading that issue like a hawk.
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puss in boots: the last wish was... hmm... i dont know. i think it has some cool ideas and fun scenes, but it all feels too disjointed for me. like a movie written by animators who just wanted to throw a bunch of ideas at a wall.
also, it felt predictably pandering to the very specific kind of animation fan who thinks every found family story is revolutionary. someone who was on tumblr in 2016 and reblogged every post about how its really brave when a villain is just generically evil and was always just a privileged douche. how movies that explicitly call attention to this in a meta way are really smart and cool. that makes it a clever commentary on. idk. privilege or something. sure.
they even have an uber emotionally self-aware moment where someone straight up tells puss in boots he needs therapy and im like. sighhh. ok. sure.
can we make other animated movies? please? i dont hate it. its a good-looking flick. it has some cool moments. i liked the death dog - i wish he was in more than 3 scenes.
i'm just... blegh. im tired. i've seen this exact writing style too often. can we go home?
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