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rosalie-starfall · 10 months

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Nadja of Antipaxos

What We Do In The Shadows - Hybrid Creatures

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margle · 9 months

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just finished the last episode of wwdits and im so confused about helen the magic johnson. the whole of ep 7 I was thinking she was part of the guide's fake curse. and I thought in the final ep the guide would mention hiring her to make nadja do something nice for someone or realise that the guide belonged with the group, in the same way helen belonged at the donut shop.

but she wasnt?

so who was she?? she wasnt in her class as far as I remember. how did she know about the curse? did she know nadja was a vampire? she must have known she was in some way supernatural in order to feel confident that nadja would believe she was magic. and nadja hypnotised the donut worker at the end - helen must have noticed. why did she even choose to approach nadja to get the donuts?? was she just working at the night school and overheard the conversation about curses and decided to try and manipulate her?

it feels almost like they wrote the plot point with the guide in mind but then didnt want to make the reveal that the curse wasnt real too obvious. so they came up with helen? idk

#wwdits #helen the magic johnson #please someone explain #I feel like im missing something #or should I just accept the sitcom rules of suspended disbelief

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cohborikardok · 10 months

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too many people talking about the latest episode of wwdits being “bad” or “not interesting” and not enough people talking about helen the magic woman

#i need her #where are the gifs #wwdits #helen the magic woman #helen johnson #helen the magic johnson #what we do in the shadows #also can we talk about nandor and colin robinson’s friendship #the dynamic between the characters keeps getting better

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battyaboutbooksreviews · 4 months

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🖤 Black History Month ❤️

💛 Queer Books by Black Authors 💚

[ List Under the Cut ]

🖤 Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender ❤️ Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta 💛 Warrior of the Wind by Suyi Davies Okungbowa 💚 I'm a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De La Cruz 🖤 Real Life by Brandon Taylor ❤️ Ruthless Pamela Jean by Carol Denise Mitchell 💛 The Unbroken by C.L. Clark 💚 Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova 🖤 Skin Deep Magic by Craig Laurance Gidney ❤️ The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi 💛 That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole 💚Work for It by Talia Hibbert

🖤 All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson ❤️ The Deep by Rivers Solomon 💛 How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters 💚 Running With Lions by Julian Winters 🖤 Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters ❤️ This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender 💛 The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum 💚 This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow 🖤 Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa ❤️ Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbalia 💛 Legendborn by Tracy Deonn 💚 The Wicker King by K. Ancrum

🖤 Pet by Akwaeke Emezi ❤️ You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson 💛 Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole 💚 Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron 🖤 Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann ❤️ A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney 💛 Power & Magic by Joamette Gil 💚 The Black Veins by Ashia Monet 🖤 Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon ❤️ The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow 💛 Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James 💚 Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett

🖤 The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta ❤️ Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee 💛 A Phoenix First Must Burn (edited) by Patrice Caldwell 💚 Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson 🖤 Things We Couldn't Say by Jay Coles ❤️ Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad 💛 Darling by K. Ancrum 💚 The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode 🖤 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé ❤️ Off the Record by Camryn Garrett 💛 Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers 💚 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

🖤 How to Dispatch a Human by Stephanie Andrea Allen ❤️ Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans 💛 The Essential June Jordan (edited) by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller 💚 A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark 🖤 A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney ❤️ Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo 💛 Dread Nation by Justina Ireland 💚 Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome 🖤 Masquerade by Anne Shade ❤️ One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite 💛 Soulstar by C.L. Polk 💚 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

🖤 Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender ❤️ Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby 💛 Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair 💚 The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi 🖤 If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann ❤️ Sweethand by N.G. Peltier 💛 This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron 💚 Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon 🖤 Friday I’m in Love by Camryn Garrett ❤️ Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez 💛 Memorial by Bryan Washington 💚 Patsy by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

🖤 Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon ❤️ How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole 💛 Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackosn 💚 Mouths of Rain (edited) by Briona Simone Jones 🖤 Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia ❤️ Love's Divine by Ava Freeman 💛 The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr 💚 Odd One Out by Nic Stone 🖤 Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden ❤️ Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas 💛 The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons 💚 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

🖤 Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert ❤️ My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson 💛 Pleasure and Spice by Fiona Zedde 💚 No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull 🖤 The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus ❤️ Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor 💛 The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin 💚 Peaces by Helen Oyeyem 🖤 The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk ❤️ Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh 💛 Bingo Love by Tee Franklin, Jenn St-Onge, Joy San 💚 The Heart Does Not Bend by Makeda Silvera

🖤 King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender ❤️ By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery 💛 Busy Ain't the Half of It by Frederick Smith & Chaz Lamar Cruz 💚 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 🖤 Sin Against the Race by Gar McVey-Russell ❤️ Trumpet by Jackie Kay 💛 Remembrance by Rita Woods 💚 Daughters of Nri by Reni K. Amayo 🖤 You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour ❤️ The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters 💛 Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi 💚 Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyem

#black history month #queer romance #queer books #queer community #queer #book list #book blog #booklr #bookstagram #book lovers #book reader #book reading #books to read #reading #batty about books #battyaboutbooks

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rel312 · 10 months

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What I loved about WWDITS S5 Episode 7 (SPOILERS!!!):

Guillermo climbing!

“Twilight”

Guillermo turning in into a bat!

Laszlo just… fucking around and finding out with his experiments

Laszlo accidentally making Guillermo drink his own piss

“HWHATSoever”

“I’m not gonna give up on you” Laszlo

The… the animals… what?????

“Kill them” those are his children

Nadja teaching at night school

“Hey I’m walkin here”

“Burgers and fries, Mickey Mouse Mount Rushmore, yeehaw!”

“Somebody burned down the school, and that person was me” Queen

THEYRE CLONES??????

One of them coming from the wool in Guillermo’s sweater

Nandor and Colin Robinson joining Nadja’s class and refusing to leave

Lol I’m pretty sure I saw a post talking about how they wish Laszlo discovered night school so he can do science stuff and now he’s the only one not in the class

The guy being the water cooler

Guillermo not being able to kill the animals

Helen the Magic Woman

Nandor and Colin Robinson both getting up to teach

Guillermo’s reaction to the talking animals

“Nolej”

Colin Robinson’s whole vibe with the fedora as “the cool teacher”

Colin Robinson giving out condoms

Colin Robinson’s rap

The nut

The animals calling Guillermo Daddy

“Daddy Gemerno”

“I kinda made the froggy… pregnant” “I want raw meat”

“Our elders spoke of a prophecy of a one true Guillermo who saves us” huh???

“This fetching bitch is my beautiful daughter, you may lay with her” I can’t with this lmao

“Helen, I’m home”

The doughnut order

“I wank in there all the time, 30 minutes ago to be precise”

“Daddy, what is wank?” This episode is ridiculous

Colin Robinson on the guitar

Nandor being so obsessed with history”

Nadja calling back to the camera crew

The vamps’ stuff being on display at the museum cause they just never claimed it

“Property of Nandor”

Nadja figuring this out from a poster

“Helen the Magic Johnson”

“That is a keychain given to me by my mommy” he’s a mommy’s boy

Nandor being so upset about his diary being called fiction

Nandor getting so angry he knocks over the display because he was accused of never having sex

Guillermo accidentally killing the birds

Colin Robinson stealing the keychain for him and rewriting the plaque to be nice for Nandor

Nandor’s smile at knowing Colin Robinson is a good friend

Guillermo dropping the animals at a nursing home

Guillermo keeping Binky

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ninja-muse · 5 months

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2024 Release TBR

🏳️‍🌈 - queer MC 🇨🇦 - Canadian author ⭐️ - BIPOC MC 📘 - have an ARC bold - newly added

The Secret History of Bigfoot - John O'Connor (travel/history) - February 6

Ending the Pursuit - Michael Paramo (sociology) - February 8

Remedial Magic - Melissa Marr (fantasy/romance) 🏳️‍🌈📘 - February 20

Tomorrow’s Children - Daniel Polansky (post-apocalypse) - February 27

The Baker and the Bard - Fern Haught (YA cozy fantasy) 🏳️‍🌈- March 5

The Tower - Flora Carr (historical fiction) 📘 - March 5

Parasol Against the Axe - Helen Oyeyemi (literary fiction) ⭐️📘- March 5

Those Beyond the Wall - Micaiah Johnson (science fiction) ⭐️📘 - March 12

The Floating Hotel - Grace Curtis (cozy science fiction) 🏳️‍🌈 - March 19

The Angel of Indian Lake - Stephen Graham Jones (horror) ⭐️ 📘- March 26

This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances - Eric LaRocca (horror) 📘- April 2

Catchpenny - Charlie Huston (science fiction) 📘- April 9

My Love in Stitches Vol. 1 - Emily Gossman (urban fantasy/graphic novel) 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 - April 15

Dear Wendy - Ann Zhao (YA contemporary) 🏳️‍🌈 - April 16

The Tomb of the Mili Mongga - Samuel Turvey (memoir) - April 16

The Proper Thing and Other Stories - Seanan McGuire (fantasy) - May 1

The Library Thief - Kuchenga Shenjé (historical fiction) ⭐️ - May 7

Plain Jane and the Mermaid - Vera Brosgol (YA fantasy) - May 7

Every Time We Say Goodbye - Natalie Jenner (historical fiction) 🇨🇦 - May 14

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying - Django Wexler (fantasy) - May 21

A Gentleman From Japan - Kevin Lockley (history) ⭐️ - May 21

Dreadful - Caitlin Rozakis (fantasy) - May 28

Tidal Creatures - Seanan McGuire (contemporary fantasy) - June 4

Running Close to the Wind - Alexandra Rowland (fantasy) 🏳️‍🌈 - June 11

Echo of Worlds - M.R. Carey (science fiction) - June 25

Navola - Paolo Bacigalupi (fantasy) 📘- July 9

Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle (horror) 🏳️‍🌈 - July 9

The Black Bird of Chernobyl - Ann McMan (romance) 🏳️‍🌈 📘 - July 19

Goodnight Tokyo - Atsuhiro Yoshida (fiction) ⭐️📘 - July 19

Peking Duck and Cover - Vivien Chien (cozy mystery) ⭐️ - July 23

Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop - Emmeline Duncan (cozy mystery) - July 23

Last Seen Online - Lauren James (YA mystery) 🏳️‍🌈 - August 1

The Pairing - Casey McQuiston (romance) 🏳️‍🌈 - August 6

A Sorceress Comes to Call - T. Kingfisher (fantasy) - August 20

Radiant Sky - Alan Smale (science fiction) - August 27

The Salmon Shanties - Harold Rhenisch (poetry) - September 10🇨🇦 📘

Casket Case - Lauren Evans (paranormal romance) - September 10 📘

Buried Deep and Other Stories - Naomi Novik (fantasy/short stories) - September 17

The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society - C.M. Waggoner (fantasy) - September 20

Villain - Natalie Zina Walschots (superhero fiction) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 - October 1

The City in Glass - Nghi Vo (fantasy) - October 1

Swordcrossed - Freya Marske (fantasy) 🏳️‍🌈 - October 8

My Kind of Trouble - L.A. Schwartz (romance) - October 8

Shoestring Theory - Mariana Costa (fantasy) 🏳️‍🌈 - October 8

Sorcery and Small Magics - Maiga Doocy (cozy fantasy) 🏳️‍🌈 - October 15

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door - H.G. Parry (fantasy) - October 22

Usurpation - Sue Burke (science fiction) - October 29

The Improvisers - Nicole Glover (historical fantasy) - November 5 ⭐️

October Daye #19 - Seanan Mcguire (urban fantasy) - date unknown moved to 2025

#2024 releases #upcoming releases #the tbr list of doom #booklr

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pacific-rimbaud · 9 months

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Hi! You write beautifully and so I feel like your taste in fics and books are just as lovely. Would you mind sharing some of your favorite fics and books? Thank you 🤍

Fics that have stuck with me include Room Serviced by Pir8fancier (Dramione), The God Abandons Antony by counterfog (Phryne Fisher and Jack Robinson from Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries), and everything provocative_envy ever wrote for HP, especially her exquisite rare pairs.

For traditionally published work, I'm unabashedly feral for Tamsyn Muir, Genius Person. I'm also eternally devoted to Susanna Clarke. I'd like to tour her brain like Elizabeth poking sheepishly about Pemberley, but instead I'm finishing up a reread of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and am, as ever, floored and full of so much wonder and admiration and that childlike desperation for magic to be real. E.M. Forster for life. I yearn for Helen Oyeyemi's heart and humor and technical prowess, and Madeline Miller's ability to immerse and move. James Baldwin, both for his thinking and his way of expressing it. Thomas Hardy, Mrs. Gaskell, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol. The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by de Assis. Kazuo Ishiguro. Denis Johnson. John le Carre. Catch-22. Everything Vonnegut. Terry Pratchett. William Faulkner. And always, forever, above everything, Jane.

Not really sure what the general vibe is there, other than an impossible standard from a writer's perspective? Thank you for your kind words and for the ask, I'm imagining myself running up to you with a wild look in my eye and books spilling out of my arms.

#you asked I answered #reading

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lesbos-crossings · 10 months

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helen the magic johnson is so me bc I too feel at home at dunkin

#reminder that pumpkin is back on the menu yall #not sponsored #wwdits #wwdits spoilers #my posts

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inmyhorrorsera · 10 months

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S5E7 "Hybrid Creatures" thoughts

That's it. Those are my thoughts.

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Kinda...

I'm kinda used to the writers putting Nadja in situations and see what it sticks, but (un)holy shit its so obvious that they don't know what to do with her character. What we do in the shadows learn how to write women challenge.

I don't know if the Guide even appeared. My stream stopped a couple times and I have to refresh so maybe I missed her (if not see previous point because it also applies to her).

LOVED Nadja's kitty hair buns, love to see that at least the hair and costume department still cares about her.

The line about burning the school made me roll my eyes, not only because that story doesn't make sense with what we learned about her childhood, but also because I can FEEL when tv shows throw lines with the specific expectations of them being gifed, become memes, etc.

I know it's stupid to discuss about the ethics of Laszlo's experiments on the dick and balls show but in this episode I was all 😬😬😬 about it. Like, I don't give a shit if it was done with comedy purposes, animal experimentation is one of the subjects I will never find remotely funny or make jokes with, specially if we start thinking... How much consent Guillermo gave for Laszlo to straight up play with his DNA in this way? He has nothing to say about it except for a confused frown or looking panicky at the sight of the creatures?? More important, if Nandor did this exact same thing the past season and created the hybrids with a Djinn wish or whatever, how would the fandom have reacted??? (spoiler: waaay more angered than when everybody's fave Laszlo does it).

The work of puppetry and digital effects was good as always, nothing bad to say about the team behind the cameras that puts all their hard work and craft on this, sadly, mid storyline.

Despite how little I care about mAd ScIenTiSt Lazslo plot, the moment when Guillermo believes he won't help him anymore was truly heartbreaking just by looking at his face. You can see he really has all his hopes in Laszlo finding a 'cure'.

I wish the whole thing about Guillermo being incapable of killing the hybrids hit me harder (as if we didn't saw him luring innocent teenagers so they can get killed in the literal pilot).

Sorry but that lady character didn't work for me and the "Helen the Magic Johnson" joke was unfunny and kinda old :/ i wonder if half of the wwdits fandom even got the reference (also lmao shameless product placement, you can tell they needed the money to pay for the cgi used on the creatures).

Colin was like his season 1 self. I bet the wwdits reddit ate up that shit.

See also: Laszlo calling Guillermo 'Gizmo' again. Hated it.

Colin becoming the stereotypical 'cool' white liberal teacher was hilarious specially when he said the cliché "history is written by the oppressors" line because that's where the parody becomes too obvious. This is the guy whose dna results on s1 were "100% white" after all. AND YET some people here are still celebrating and repeating it as this 'so true bestie 😔✊' moment without realizing the show's laughing at you, not with you. But hey, this is the we don't get satire even if it bites on our ass site. Imagine fans celebrating when Kendall Succession shouted "fuck the patriarchy!" in front of the paparazzi for being a #feminist. That's how wooosh the moment went over some of y'alls heads.

Nandor and Colin at the museum felt a little tackled on, but at least Nandor annoyance at his personal items being displayed was fun.

And Colin being friendly (dare I say…sweet?) with him at the end again gave me a happy smile. I'll never guessed this season was all about the Colin and Nandor (Condor??) era but I'm all for it.

Biggest Mild laugh of the night: Nandor mannequin having male and female lovers on the display, the dude is wearing Calvin Kleins!

I can't say much about Guillermo leaving the hybrids at the senior home because it's a overused ending for wwdits at this point. Seriously, when this show doesn't know how to end an episode they always do the same shit: Leave the characters that are a problem in a different place. It happened with: Topher at the zombie sweatshop, Jim the vampire as the volleyball coach in Tucson, familiar Benji in a different city/state (forgot where), The Baron and the Sire in the countryside, Derek working at Sean's MLM, Freddie!Marwa in the Uk. They have done this ending 👏🏼lots 👏🏼 of 👏🏼 times👏🏼already!!

Having a wank?! The setup and payoff for this joke really worked.

Next episode seems interesting.

Anyway, I am once again asking for the Djinn...

#of course i found a way to sneak character of all time Kendall Roy in my conversations #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #wwdits spoilers #wwdits thoughts

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rosalie-starfall · 10 months

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Nadja of Antipaxos

What We Do In The Shadows - Hybrid Creatures

Nadja: It was, like , a "Crullan." Helen: Cruller. Nadja: "Crewlour." Helen: Cr-uller. Nadja: "Crew-row-row…row-row-ler." Helen: Close enough.

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spicyvampire · 10 months

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Helen the magic Johnson

#what we do in the shadows #wwdits #presented without comments

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purpleplaid17 · 6 months

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Jess Watches // Tues 26 Dec // Day 95 Synopses & Favourite Scenes & Poll

Orphan Black (rw with mum) 5x03 Beneath Her Heart

As Clone Club reels from the loss of one of their own, Sarah gnaws at the shackles Rachel has firmly placed around her family. Alison struggles to find her place in the sisterhood.

The flashback of Alison meeting Cosima for the first time and not the clone you'd expect being the high one lol; Talk to the bouncing hand, Donnie; I did love that they added in Donnie's Scottish Highland dancing and his mandolin playing because of a party at MDK's house; I felt so bad for Alison being undervalued and that her feeling ashamed caused her to relapse; Her showdown with Rachel was a very satisfying way for the imminent danger to resolve.

♪ Cause baby, there ain't no mountain high enough Ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough To keep me from getting to you, baby ♪

What We Do in the Shadows 5x07 Hybrid Creatures

Nadja gives back to her community; Laszlo's experiments have some unexpected results.

Which 'The Shins' song in Garden State was Colin referring to. Caring is Creepy, or New Slang? And you can call me Helen The Magic Johnson because I too would do questionable things for a donut. 🍩

Keep Breathing Ep 1 Arrivals

Desperate to reach Inuvik after her flight is canceled, New York lawyer Liv Rivera hitches a ride on a small private plane. Then, disaster strikes.

Probably not the smartest idea to watch this at the same time my sister is on a plane. Though I do know for sure she is definitely tough enough to survive in Liv's situation too. She has trekked through 800 miles of the Appalachian Trail on her own.

#orphan black #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #keep breathing #polls #tumblr polls #jess watches #day 95

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affablyevilshowdown · 1 year

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Large Bracket Round 1

Large Bracket

No. No! Unless…

Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)

Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

<3< (Homestuck?)

Hedonist Lit

Lestat de Lioncourt (Interview with a Vampire)

Dorian Gray (The Picture Of Dorian Gray)

Virtually the same person. I guess?

Discord (My Little Pony (Friendship is Magic Gen 4))

Q (Star Trek)

The Doctor vs The Master 1

The Master (Delgado) (Doctor Who)

Dr. Griffin (The Invisible Man)

The Doctor vs The Master 2

The Master (Crispy) (Doctor Who)

Doc Scratch (Homestuck)

The Doctor vs The Master 3 (Animal Kin Edition)

The Master (Ainley) (Doctor Who)

Doc Ock (Into the Spiderverse)

The Doctor vs The Master 4

The Master (Simm) (Doctor Who)

Dr. Evil (Austin Powers)

The Doctor vs The Master 5

The Master (Missy) (Doctor Who)

Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)

The Doctor vs The Master 6

The Master (Dhawan) (Doctor Who)

Dr. Facilier (The Princess and the Frog)

This is so tremendously unfair, but hey it's the two inspirations of my favorite OC

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

Solf J Kimblee (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Dracula was on Buffy the Vampire slayer too

Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Dracula (Dracula)

Entitled White Lady- Names (Since we don't have a Karen)

Helen the Distortion (The Magnus Archives)

Lauren Mallard (Welcome to Nightvale)

Jennifer Check (Jennifer's Body)

Actual Entitled White Ladies

The Handler (Umbrella Academy)

Cruella De Vile (101 Dalmatians)

Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2)

Fight your shadow lego self

Lego Joker (The Lego Batman Movie)

Joker (Batman (2005))

*Heard over the speaker system, when you are about to have a bad time*

The Narrator (The Stanley Parable)

Cave Johnson (Portal)

Style Icons

Misa Amane �� (Death Note)

Her Imperious Condescension (Homestuck)

Nui Harime (Kill la kill)

Dads

Hunson Abadeer (Adventure Time)

Asgore Dreemur (Undertale)

Mayor Richard Wilkins III (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Can do so much better than their ex

Harley Quinn (Birds of Prey)

Spinel (Stephen Universe)

An image of the self

Kevin (Welcome to Nightvale)

Frankenstein’s Creature (Frankenstein)

Double Trouble (She Ra)

Entitled Creeps

Nevel Papperman (iCarly)

Killgrave (Jessica Jones)

Lil Gideon (Gravity Falls)

Scorpion tails >:3

Tyrian Callows (RWBY)

Scorpia (She Ra)

Shaped

Big Jack Horner (Puss in Boots: The last wish)

Eggman (Sonic)

Wheatley (Portal)

#girlboss

GLaDOS (Portal)

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Jesters

Marx (Kirby)

Rouxls Kaard (Deltarune)

Second career as highschool staff

Yzma (The Emperor’s New Groove)

Baron Draxum (Rise Of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Just a child, no, No Ignore the destruction and the carnage. this is a baby

The Collector (The Owl House)

Flowey the Flower (Undertale)

Creates an empire with his "children"

Horde Prime (She Ra)

John Gaius, Emperor Undying, Necrolord Prime (The Locked Tomb)

Soft and fluffy, Soft and fluffy. Sharp and pointy! Soft and fluffy..

Kyubey (Madoka Magica)

Monokuma (Danganronpa)

In another world they're just an ordinary hero, and honestly that's worse

Gentle Criminal (My Hero Academia)

Megamind (Megamind)

Goro Akechi (Persona 5)

Fairy tale vibes

Rumpelstiltskin (Once Upon a Time)

Salem (RWBY)

Space bois!

HAL9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Marvin the Martian (Looney tunes)

Love and Anxiety is stored in the them

Spamton (Deltarune)

Navy Ruby (Stephen Universe)

Jinx (Arcane)

One says "you're gonna die" because of how good his food is, and the other you're gonna die and become food..

Lalo Salamanca (Better Call Saul)

Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal/Silence of the Lambs)

Kira ;)

Yoshikage Kira (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Light Yagami (Death Note)

Radio Adjacent/Death Adjacent

Alastor (Hazbin Hotel)

Dusknoir (Pokémon)

Their crime is basically just being a capitalist

Mr. Grizz (Splatoon)

Varrick (Legend of Korra)

Elias Bouchard (The Magnus Archives)

Wizards

Merasmus (Team Fortress 2)

Magolor (Kirby)

Death gods

Hades (Hercules)

Ryuk (Death Note)

Abstract Fears

Michael Distortion (The Magnus Archives)

Other Mother (Coraline)

Godzilla (Godzilla)

Royalty

King Boo (Luigi's Mansion games)

Queen (Deltarune)

Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)

The absence of the thing they're addicted to causes Problems

Gamzee Makara (Homestuck)

Bender (Futurama)

I'm calling them both pirates

Long John Silver (Treasure Island)

Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek)

Mobsters?

Gustavo Fring (Breaking Bad)

Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (Daredevil (Netflix))

Listen, I don't know how long it would take to actually fit these three into a category that makes sense, I'm just glad I technically only have one strict Miscellaneous vote (actually there are 6)

Oogie Boogie (The Nightmare before Christmas)

Roman Torchwick (RWBY)

Medic (Team Fortress 2)

#Affably Evil Showdown #Brackets #Don't count the number of polls #I promise I'll fix it in round 2 lol

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I feel like rian johnson writes women like he is so so worried about being cancelled for misogyny so every lady (who doesn’t fall into a misogynistic trope) comes across as having like. Divine insight to impart on men she knows.

Like how so many black characters in mainstream movies especially in the 80s and 90s and later on gay characters exist as just hyper competent borderline magical support systems for their white/straight Main Character friend

Idk maybe that’s not quite it but I think he’s afraid of women

i don't think i've seen enough of his stuff to really have an informed take on this - i've only seen knives out and glass onion. but based on what i have seen, i would push back slightly. in those two films, the female protagonists felt very hollow and overly virtuous and moral, but i didn't feel like they were especially wise. in glass onion, helen's attitude happened to be against the rich people, but she was driven by emotion (anger, grief, desire for revenge), rather than intellect. but the (mostly white) women surrounding her were as flawed as the men -- some in particularly gendered ways, such as birdie, a classic dumb blonde archetype. claire and peg had no real personalities to speak of, and while whiskey had the slightest hint of a hidden depth, her insight was limited to the emotional/social dynamics of what was going on within her own relationship. depicting women as particularly intelligent or wise would be a bit more subversive than what he's actually doing, which is depicting these two protagonists as highly emotional underdogs driven by affection for their loved ones. it's quite a stereotypical and mainstream characterization of women, really.

also, i think if you're going to analyze what the protagonists of these two films represent as women, you have to include the context that they are also women of color, and basically the only significant women of color in these two films. there is a running thread in those two movies where it seems like johnson is consciously making the most innocent characters women of color. and i understand why, because there's something true about his depiction of these characters as outsiders in the spaces they're in who aren't trusted by the people around them. that dynamic in the films is key to his pretty liberal critique of racism. in knives out, he clearly establishes marta as subject to racism; by making the rich people surrounding marta highly suspicious of her but also establishing that marta hasn't done anything wrong, he positions his film in opposition to that overt racism and misogyny. buuut if you zoom out, there's another, more liberal school of misogyny and racism he hems to by not giving his women of color any humanity at all. it suggests that giving marta or helen any flaws, even little ones, would complicate the black-and-white morality because they can't be even a little bit flawed and still be liked. the morality system in these films is really thin.

that said, while i think there was a missed opportunity to make the protagonists more roundly defined, i don't agree with the comparison to 80s/90s Black characters. for one thing, these women are the protagonists of their films, not glorified extras shoved into the background. they take meaningful action, and they have motivations - they're just weak and predictable. and i also think the writing of the supporting characters in glass onion is equally bad? in glass onion, helen dominated the story, but the other characters are also extremely one-note. just like johnson doesn't seem to trust that his audience would recognize helen as the hero if she had any flaws, he also makes the background characters incredibly obviously loathsome. it suggests that he thinks giving them an ounce of redeemable characterization would topple the entire thing. one-note villains can work in satire, but it works less well when every character is equally flat.

basically i just think he's a shitty writer, and his weaknesses are more plain when you look at the characters who have the most screentime - who happen to be women of color. they are shallowly written and lazily support the blandly liberal messaging he's going for, but i don't think fear of women is really the motivating factor. it's more like he had a gem of a good idea (about who is and isn't trusted in highly judgmental wealthy spaces) that was then burdened by limited writing ability to pull it off. sad!

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Horror Books by Black Authors: a reading list

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster--and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also uncover the truth, and the answer to the question How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist? In their riveting and timely young adult debut, acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi asks difficult questions about what choices you can make when the society around you is in denial.

Lakewood by Megan Giddings

When Lena Johnson’s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret program—and lie to her friends and family about the research being done in Lakewood. An eye drop that makes brown eyes blue, a medication that could be a cure for dementia, golden pills promised to make all bad thoughts go away. The discoveries made in Lakewood, Lena is told, will change the world—but the consequences for the subjects involved could be devastating. As the truths of the program reveal themselves, Lena learns how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the sake of her family.

White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched into its heart. Lily is gone and her twins, Miranda and Eliot, and her husband, the gentle Luc, mourn her absence with unspoken intensity. All is not well with the house, either, which creaks and grumbles and malignly confuses visitors in its mazy rooms, forcing winter apples in the garden when the branches should be bare. Generations of women inhabit its walls. And Miranda, with her new appetite for chalk and her keen sense for spirits, is more attuned to them than she is to her brother and father. She is leaving them slowly - Slipping away from them - And when one dark night she vanishes entirely, the survivors are left to tell her story. "Miri I conjure you " This is a spine-tingling tale that has Gothic roots but an utterly modern sensibility. Told by a quartet of crystalline voices, it is electrifying in its expression of myth and memory, loss and magic, fear and love.

The Undead Truth of Us by Britney S. Lewis

Death was everywhere. They all stared at me, bumping into one another and slowly coming forward. Sixteen-year-old Zharie Young is absolutely certain her mother morphed into a zombie before her untimely death, but she can't seem to figure out why. Why her mother died, why her aunt doesn't want her around, why all her dreams seem suddenly, hopelessly out of reach. And why, ever since that day, she's been seeing zombies everywhere. Then Bo moves into her apartment building―tall, skateboard in hand, freckles like stars, and an undeniable charm. Z wants nothing to do with him, but when he transforms into a half zombie right before her eyes, something feels different. He contradicts everything she thought she knew about monsters, and she can't help but wonder if getting to know him might unlock the answers to her mother's death. As Zharie sifts through what's real and what's magic, she discovers a new truth about the world: Love can literally change you―for good or for dead. In this surrealist journey of grief, fear, and hope, Britney S. Lewis's debut novel explores love, zombies, and everything in between in an intoxicating amalgam of the real and the fantastic.

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