"Guess Who Goes There?" by Kat Hudson

Ernest Scared Stupid

Art by Kat Hudson

Since it's been a while since I updated my Venom drawing on this blog, I decided now was a good time as any to share my Venom drawing from 2021 in the style of Kat Hudson.

Kat Hudson.

Miles Bron is the DEVIL. Watch Me Watch Glass Onion.

Giallo - Kat Hudson

Headless has so many WOMEN!!! all kinds of boss bitches!!! they’re all so different from one another!!! they’re all at various different steps on the spectrum from cinnamon roll (specifically Judy) to badass zombie who wants to kill you!!! they didn’t HAVE to make the conflict between Matilda and Kat the crux of the resolution, they didn’t HAVE to make the Horseman a horse-she, they didn’t HAVE to make Matilda the most powerful character on the show with a pure heart, they didn’t HAVE to have the most successful popular YouTuber (who’s also the most obnoxious person you’ll ever see) be a woman, they didn’t HAVE to give us a cool-ass international spy/criminal genius secretly living in Sleepy Hollow who’s also a lady, they didn’t HAVE to have Ramona be the most dramatic babe you’ve seen on this planet in recent history, they didn’t HAVE to have Verla crawl out of a well/TV/orphanage/doll to creep everyone out and raise the dead!!! and that’s not even all of them, there’s so many cool af female characters, the funky judge, the cutthroat landlady, the sweet assistant with a purpose, all of them are awesome, and none of them feel like a cliché, none of them fall into misogynistic tropes, none of them are written for a male audience to thirst over without substance

we need more writing like this that gives women their half of our attention and love

after. four rewatches of headless, two of which were sponsored by dragging my parents into watching it with me, here’s a thought that i thunk.

spoilers below!!!

at least three of the characters (ichabod, matilda, baltus) all have fake books that they store their possessions inside. this makes varying levels of sense for their characters; matilda for the Vibes of spooky witch lady, baltus for keeping his bribery checks a secret, and ichabod for the fact that he’s a people pleaser who probably bought it off matilda to make her happy, but also ties in to a greater theme of the series.

(literally) not judging a book by its cover.

all three of these characters—and more!!—have ulterior agendas that are revealed throughout the series. ichabod isn’t just some dweeb in sleepy hollow by happenstance, he’s a descendant of the storms family, come back to town to right an ancient wrong. he is also a dweeb, but like. a cool dweeb. matilda isn’t just a witch, she’s keeping the undead corpse of her best friend alive with ancient evil magics and covertly working against her new friends. baltus isn’t just the town’s genial mayor, but a cutthroat politician who killed two people in his attempt to kill a third.

similarly, this lends itself to the story’s theme as a whole, that people are far more than what you expect. although this is plain to see in characters like brom (and his babes), who start off as airhead jocks with some pithy social commentary and wind up as airhead jocks with hearts of gold and loyalties as strong as the horseman’s sword, it is exemplified with the character of the horseman herself. so much of headless is about reexamining history and stripping away old biases. everyone believes the horseman is a decapitated hessian soldier, but is actually a woman practically written out of history in favor of her more famous husband. it’s about doing away with commonly accepted narratives and taking a closer look at the stories that accumulated to build the myth we all know today.

the fake books are both windows into the souls of their owners and the soul of the entire story!!! on the outside?? a beheaded hessian!!! on the inside??? a doing away with the ideas of colonialist cis white male-centric historical narratives that get preserved and a doing of justice for the names that get left out!!! it kicks ass!!!!! it kicks so much ass!!!!!

𝑆𝑎𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒

𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠

Katharine McPhee making an appearance on the Jennifer Hudson Show

Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club" - After Party

The Witch's Remorse

Chapters: 10/12

Fandom: Headless (Web Series)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Matilda Bishop & Katrina Van Tassel, Matilda Bishop & Ichabod Crane, Matilda Bishop & Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, Matilda Bishop/Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt

Characters: Matilda Bishop, Katrina Van Tassel, Doctor Geoffrey Crayon, Ichabod Crane, Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, Henrietta Hudson, Rip Van Winkle

Chapter Summary: The full moon is upon them and Matilda has to make a decision.

(An exploration of Matilda's guilt, her growing relationships with Ichabod and Brom, and what led her to her decision in the final episode.)

Tonight's EastEnders is a prime example of how soaps are at their best when storylines are character-driven.

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