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wholesome-supervillain · 2 years

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Look, I have no criticisms of A Wrinkle in Time (2018) except that it completely downgrades the villain of the story.

In the book, the villain is evil itself. It has spread across the universe in many ways, subatomic and cosmic. Camazotz is a tragic casualty of this evil, and here it is displayed in a way that the readers can understand.

My problem isn’t that in the book IT is a brain and in the movie IT’s. Like. A whole weird glowing dimension of darkness. I think they did IT brilliantly and in a way that fits the aesthetic of the movie. They took liberties, and they did it respectfully and captured the spirit of the story, except in one aspect.

My problem is that they represent IT as the origin, the source of this evil, and thus Camazotz as ITs home, making IT seem much less cosmic.

I can believe that IT is potentially an echthros with a strong hold on an entire planet. That makes sense. I can believe that said planet being a dark one could potentially be a very catastrophic force. That lines up with some of the themes of the (original?) Time trilogy. But them making Camazotz the epicenter of the evil that is the villain of this series just sorta diminishes it.

Aight rant over, back to your regularly scheduled bullshit <3

#a wrinkle in time #movie review #movie critique #rant post #mini rant #this is one of my favorite stories #and I’m serious they did it really well!#I love how they made Red just a puppet. and really colorful and alluring #it’s a great interpretation of the corresponding scene in the book #and it’s really visually cool #that’s probably my favorite scene #but man. they just completely downgraded from echthroi #dark beings of hate #a terrifying spreading nothingness #to……… oh this thing is on this planet and it’s *not* in a ton of other places too #noooo this isn’t a universal war light against dark love against hate that’s been going on for eons #nooooo earth isn’t a shadowed planet that’s actively fighting the echthroi (yes I know they aren’t mentioned in AWiT idc)#I’m just. ugh

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autumn-may · 4 months

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Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

#The boy and the heron #how do you live #studio ghibli #ghibli #in all honesty that movie was legitimately so fantastic and im like changed as a person #Story wise as well! It hits really hard if you know a bit about miyazaki and his legacy. Its a very personal movie i think #And you can feel it in every aspect #The eng dub voice actors were really good as well and the animation was beautiful as always #Also really loved the tone!!! The story really relied a bit on the use of negative space in both sound and pacing and i enjoyed that alot #in conclusion go read a article about miyazaki and his son and then go watch the movie it’s probably going to be one of my favorites #image id in alt

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westywallowing · 12 days

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snippets from my miraculous Fruits Basket au :))

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thoodleoo · 2 months

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arthur rackham's drawing of baucis and philemon as trees from hawthorne's a wonder book may be one of my favorite drawings ever. like...the people looking up at them in wonder. the way that even as trees they have those perfectly human wrinkles. the gentleness of their smiles and the way philemon has his branchy hand around baucis. i think this is what love looks like

#tagamemnon #greek mythology #theyre so. theyre so......#it's one of my favorite stories ever #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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andthebeanstalk · 9 months

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Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

#original #the last unicorn #tlu #peter s beagle #molly gru #schmendrick #schmendrick the magician #two of my favorite characters in anything right there in the center of the story! and I'm glad I saw the film first!#my reading ability has diminished due to trauma disability etc. but it seems like having a visual reference actually really helped!#no wonder i only ever want to read fan fic! turns out reading is not actually Superior to other types of Storytelling. it's just different.#to say otherwise is snobbishness I have been eminently guilty of in my life!#but like it is easier for me to consume tv and movies and that is fine actually. also that's why I'm doing a graphic novel lol #because i wanted to make something i would actually be able to read if i found it at a library. altho the audio book IS gonna be bomb #the audiobook is for visually impaired readers and anyone who wants or needs it! accessible stories for everyone! yeah!!#my gender was already transed but now I've gained an ADDITIONAL gender! which one? I'll never tell 😘#i am so powerful i have so much fuckin gender. my wife has no gender. and she is equally as powerful.#and also she has STUDIED THE BLADE #mostly zoro's blades from One Piece #normally YouTube recommends me shit movies like idiocracy or smth this is like if every day ur cat brought you a piece of rotten food and #then one day it brings you a BEAUTIFULLY ANIMATED TALE FEATURING MY BELOVED TWINK FUCK-UP WIZARD FRIEND AND MY ALL-TIME HOMEGIRL MOLLY GRU #and also it's soft and beautiful and funny and fucking weird!! i wrote melodies to the songs in the books on my ukulele

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softichill · 5 months

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JtKCU (Jeff the Killer Cinematic Universe)

#cricket doodles #art #creepypasta #jeff the killer #homicidal liu #nina the killer #jane the killer #Except it's not a cinematic universe bc a movie centering around Jeff is guaranteed awful quality at this point #Anywho fun fact Jeff is one of my favorite creepypasta characters #Not bc he's well-written but because I can see the potential and all the characters people have thrown into his story are fun #(I'm a little shocked at how popular Nina is now considering she used to be used as a joke character. Scene nostalgia is powerful)

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demigods-posts · 1 month

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because, dude. sally grew up essentially all by herself. she searched for companionship and found it with someone she could never be with. and was left to raise a kid on her own. then she married an abusive man to ensure her child's survival. and her child became her only source of companionship for years. and, dude. percy grew up thinking his father walked out on the family. and couldn't keep from getting expelled from every boarding school he attended. and was bullied for his entire childhood. and the only source of comfort he had was his mom. like. there is so much love there. but it had great potential to become something codependent.

#i think this route would have been incredibly interesting #i mean #of course this couldn't happen because percy's story centers around his life as a demigod and demigod responsibilities #but i would eat this shit up #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo text post #pjo #pjo headcanon #percy jackson #sally jackson #percy and sally’s relationship is actually everything #percy and sally are one of my favorite duo's ever

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chaosinterlude · 1 year

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“lucifer is sadistic and mean!! he’s so serious and scary!!”

meanwhile,

he’s just a silly man who wishes for a domestic life with his partner and dog <3

#i love silly and soft lucifer #he’s not this serious guy everyone makes him out to be i mean he conducted a necromantic ritual #TO GET HIS DOG BACK #and then introduces said dog to you because you’re important to him <33 #which mirrors the way in which lucifer becomes more open to mc after they become close to his brothers!!#he just wants his favorite people to get along #this devilgram is one of the most precious things i’ve ever seen #family is so important to him!! and it really shone through in this devilgram <33 #and i love incorperating that into my writing as well <3 #gahhh stories that portray lucifer like this (in-game or fan-made) make me so so happy #gently holds him in my hands and shuts up before i ramble on for too long #obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me lucifer #obey me swd #lucifer obey me

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rawliverandgoronspice · 4 months

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Oh my fucking god??? I *knew* there was something fishy with no writers/quest designers being credited. Also: outsourcing is not an excuse not to credit the gamedevs doing hard and deserving work.

This is genuinely contemptful towards everyone involved, gamedevs and players alike.

#totk #totk critical #when will my brain return from the imprisoning war...#yeah no Fuck TotK #we have taken a hard turn towards fuck TotK #gameplay is cute but you don't get to disrespect my profession and my fellow gamedevs like that #nor one of my favorite game series #this is... so fucking revealing #still on the conspiracy board of “they had another story planned and it didn't work out and everyone parted in bad terms”#and this is how they fixed it #wow wow wow #best zelda story my entire ass #and the lack of honesty!!!#I'm so furious hahaha like what the hell

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fictionadventurer · 27 days

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Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.

#me reading any christian historical fiction set in england: why are none of these gentry anglican??#they ARE all anglican and if they are not it is extremely plot and character relevant you can't just have them using evangelical buzzwords #but i'm also thinking of this because i started another charlotte yonge book #that is by far my favorite of the things of hers that i've read #because it has characters who have different upbringings and religious opinions #instead of just 'here's a bunch of high church anglicans judging people who don't live up to their victorian standard'#you have the very high church anglican rector whose wife is worldly but still a very good person #the girl raised in a very strict protestant family who is more scrupulous than the anglicans but is still recognized as a good person #you have people who are trying to work out the nuances of different issues #and that makes it so much more realistic and so much easier to integrate into the story #(the politics though are hilarious)#(most of the classics that survive are the ones that were 'ahead of their time' in politics)#(so it's equally fascinating and refreshing and a bit infuriating to see one that is very very of its time with regards to women's rights)#('why did this woman get up at the meeting and explain her very good ideas for rebuilding after the fire? she should have had a man do it')#(meanwhile i'm just screaming 'why on earth SHOULDN'T she???')#(it's almost enough to make a feminist of me)

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finelythreadedsky · 5 months

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JSTOR Wrapped: top ten JSTOR articles of 2023

Coo, Lyndsay. “A Tale of Two Sisters: Studies in Sophocles’ Tereus.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 143, no. 2 (2013): 349–84.

Finglass, P. J. “A New Fragment of Sophocles’ ‘Tereus.’” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 200 (2016): 61–85.

Foxhall, Lin. “Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault’s History of Sexuality.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 167–82. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Garrison, Elise P. “Eurydice’s Final Exit to Suicide in the ‘Antigone.’” The Classical World 82, no. 6 (1989): 431–35.

Grethlein, Jonas. “Eine Anthropologie Des Essens: Der Essensstreit in Der ‘Ilias’ Und Die Erntemetapher in Il. 19, 221-224.” Hermes 133, no. 3 (2005): 257–79.

McClure, Laura. “Tokens of Identity: Gender and Recognition in Greek Tragedy.” Illinois Classical Studies 40, no. 2 (2015): 219–36.

Purves, Alex C. “Wind and Time in Homeric Epic.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 140, no. 2 (2010): 323–50.

Richlin, Amy. “Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 202–20. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Rood, Naomi. “Four Silences in Sophocles’ ‘Trachiniae.’” Arethusa 43, no. 3 (2010): 345–64.

Zeitlin, Froma I. “The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia.” Arethusa 11, no. 1/2 (1978): 149–84.

#alphabetical order. im not ranking them #i still have two more froma zeitlin essays to read (one new and one a reread) in the next few days though #and its possible one of those might knock amy richlin off the rest (nothing personal; its a great piece just not my area)#but if im willing to have two things by the same scholar i would have to rethink including grethlein 'the poetics of the bath in the iliad'#some of my favorite articles/book chapters of the year are not on jstor though...#bill beck 'lost in the middle: story time and discourse time in the iliad'!!!#and lyndsay coo has a 2020 chapter updating and expanding this 2013 article that is 🔥🔥🔥#and of course judith mossman 'women's voices in sophocles' which is what send me to garrison 1989 and rood 2010 but is not itself on jstor #i also reread some of melissa mueller's objects as actors book which is wonderful as always #and i would be incredibly tempted to put william m calder iii's tereus article on a top ten list for sheer entertainment value #jstor wrapped #mine

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leafie-draws · 1 year

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