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ineffableaddiction · 3 months

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Aziraphale is modernizing.

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #modernizing #aziraphale’s first mobile phone

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princesssarisa · 2 years

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I've been looking over the information I can find about various modern-day retellings of Little Women: the nearly-forgotten 2018 film, the graphic novels Jo and Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, the middle grade novel More to the Story, and the two web series versions, The March Family Letters and The Attic.

They all make interesting choices to bring the story and characters into modern times. But I was just thinking of one in particular: the way they handle Beth's illness.

Now that scarlet fever is rare and easy to treat with antibiotics, Beth's illness obviously needs to be changed. Most modern retellings use cancer, although the two web series are exceptions: The March Family Letters gives her aplastic anemia, while The Attic opts for a congenital heart defect. But one thing they all have in common? Unlike the scarlet fever the original Beth contracts by caring for the Hummel children, none of these illnesses result from her kindness and care for others. All these retellings remove the tragic irony that her death results from her greatest virtue.

I wonder... is there some way a modern retelling could still include that aspect of Beth's illness?

Obviously, if it were set within these last three years, then she could contract COVID-19 from the Hummels, but setting it in the current pandemic would create a whole other slew of story complications.

Or maybe she could be babysitting the Hummels when their toddler runs into the street and is almost hit by a car; she could push him out of the way and be hit instead, become paralyzed, and several years later die of complications from a bedsore. That would certainly tie her fate back to her selfless love for others! But maybe that would be too melodramatic.

Maybe the original tragic irony of Beth's illness is too melodramatic for modern, realistic retellings anyway. After all, as fresh, realistic and relatable as Little Women still is in so many ways, the fact remains that it's a work from a different time, and there's still an aspect of sentimental 19th century melodrama about it. Maybe having Beth die as a direct result of her selfless care for others is too soppy for a modern setting, as opposed to a completely random illness like cancer or a congenital disorder.

Looking over these retellings, I've also noticed that Amy's near-fatal mishap is usually rewritten to be much less directly Jo's fault than the original thin ice incident. (The 2018 film changes it to a horseback riding accident, in Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy she almost gets hit by a bus, in The March Family Letters she gets lost in a freezing cold forest at night, and in The Attic, with its college setting, she gets trapped in a building with a gunman.) This change I also think I can understand, even if it does dilute the lesson Jo learns about anger. The fact that the original Jo almost deliberately lets Amy die has always struck me as a bit disturbingly melodramatic.

I do think it's interesting to notice which themes from the original book the modern adaptors choose to keep and which ones they choose to ignore.

@littlewomenchannel, @thatscarletflycatcher

#little women #beth march #amy march #jo march #tw: illness #tw: death #tw: injury #tw: paralysis reference #adaptations #modernizing #louisa may alcott

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brother-hermes · 1 year

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EPIGENETICS AND LIVING WATERS: The Impermanence of Trauma

Trauma isn’t some lasting thing that gets to define us for the rest of our lives right. It certainly isn’t the gateway into the generational curses your local fear mongers sold you. Yehoshua spoke of a living water throughout his teachings because life is fluid. Nothing is fixed or permanent. Rock with me as we take the journey within.

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cadaverkeys · 5 months

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You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

#rambles #if you are a person who is into delicate skills #like lacemaking or printing or sewing #you will know fair well just how non expansive the knowledge online is in comparison to written guides from like the 50s #there was a time where at least one person in the household had to know a constructive skill #but in the modern day there is just less ans less demands for comprehensive guides #library propaganda #im stuck doing an essay rn but bc i have covid i cant go to the library and its totally fucked me #i want to source a lot of the stuff i read irl but i just cant go and get it and theres no online ver

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dunmestuffy · 1 month

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#delicious in dungeon #izutsumi #dunmeshi #dunmestuffy #senshi dungeon meshi #dunmeshi fanart #dungeon meshi #inutade #tade dungeon meshi #dunmeshi modern au

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chvvy · 20 days

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laios being marcille's nightmare in every universe

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #marcille donato #farcille #chvvydraws #modern au

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breakingjustxn · 7 months

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well i mean, not wrong // credits: @screamingemonight on Instagram

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spooksier · 6 months

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passages that make you whisper "oh my god"

#text!#working on a paper abt the degradation of the line between real/unreal in modern society and this one paragraph blew my MIND #like it literally tied all of my other sources together #also this whole paper is about how sex has disappeared from american media so if ur interested in that i highly recommend it

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dunmeshistash · 10 days

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Dungeon Meshi - Senshi and Izutsumi Summer

#Daydream Hour #modern clothing #Izutsumi #Senshi #Dungeon Meshi #senshi of izganda

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dayundying · 2 months

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Theyre trying their best

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marycrispies · 5 months

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It's a date! 🍔✨

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cinnamon-coffees · 10 months

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“It’s literally impossible to be a woman.

You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow, we're always doing it wrong?

You have to be thin, but not too thin, and you can never say you wanna be thin. You have to say you wanna be healthy, but also, you have to BE THIN.

You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass.

You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean.

You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas.

You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time.

You have to be a career woman, but also, always be looking out for other people.

You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is INSANE, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining!

You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood, but ALWAYS STAND OUT and ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL. But never forget that the system is rigged, so find a way to acknowledge that but ALSO, always be grateful!

You have to never get old. Never be rude. Never show off. Never be selfish. Never fall down. Never fail. Never show fear. Never get OUT OF LINE. It's too hard! It's too contradictory, and nobody gives you a medal or says 'thank you!' And it turns out, in fact, that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also, everything is your fault.

I'm just so tired of watching myself, and every single other woman tie herself into knots, so that people will like us.

And if all of that, is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don't even know." -Gloria the barbie movie

this is it. this is exactly it oh my god.

#barbie #barbie movie #feminism #this is modern feminism talking #it’s so messed up #the patriarchy #male gaze

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officialspec · 3 months

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modern au but set in brisbane. is this anything

#TRICK QUESTION its everything. to me #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #marcille donato #senshi of izganda #laios touden #kabru #falin touden #izutsumi #farcille #chilchuck tims #namari #my art #dunmesh #brisbane meshi #americans have all the fun putting their modern aus wherever they live. well its my turn. namari is a caboolture bogan i know this #ive thought about this So much i need to write down all my notes somewhere

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sabertoothwalrus · 1 month

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UHMMMMM what if T4T labru

#only reason she probably wouldn't use they or neopronouns is cause I can't realistically see them used in that setting. maybe a modern au #I don't think she'd mind being called Laios. or King.#I think he'd like having long pretty hair that looks more like his mama :)#kabru is transmasc kui told me #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #laios touden #trans laios #kabru #labru #transgender #agender #my art #comic

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professorcalculusstanaccount · 26 days

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as newspapers today dont tend to hire children, a modern day Tintin would run a clickbait YouTube channel, except the clickbait is 100% real every single time

he starts off as an irritating conservative pundit at 14, meets Chang then leaves the think tank paying him and launches his own independent channel and blows up shortly after. Chang helps with video editing and managing his socials and they often chat on video calls between adventures. Haddock, his foster dad, has absolutely no knowledge of his earlier videos.

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majoringinsarcasm · 5 months

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DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON OLD FICS DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON FICS IN A FANDOM THE AUTHOR MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE IN. IF THE STORY IS STILL UP LET THEM KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS IT MIGHT JUST BE THE REMINDER THAT MAKES THEIR DAY.

SINCERELY SOMEONE WHO JUST GOT A REPLY THAT MADE ME WANNA MAKE THIS POST

#reject modern fast fashion fandom culture #comment on shit from 2012 to scare and or delight the author #anytime I see ppl reading my haikyuu fics I wanna cry with happiness #being reminded of fics and then looking and realizing I still love them is a true gift #COMMUNITY BITCHES THIS IS WHAT THAT IS

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