I’ve finished watching ‘Anne With An E’. I thought it was a really great show in many ways. Especially the writing. Didn’t really care for the Shirbert romance. I felt like they left that one a bit too late. Although I enjoy slow burn… the constant back and forth wasn’t enough to cultivate my passion. Although they’re both amazing people in their own right, I just didn’t feel it because the writing was very rushed for it in the end.

Otherwise… to Moira Walley-Beckett…

this show was absolutely exceptional.

I’m so glad I returned to it to finish it. But I am ever so personally aggrieved for you that it was cancelled.

Netflix are real sods. I’m sorry.

Hopefully now that Anne knows that she looks like her birth mother, she’ll stop bagging on her red hair and freckles. Her vanity was a huge annoyance to watch. But she was a character that was a breath of fresh air in that she never lost her imagination even as she grew up into a woman. She just ended up refining it to include, at least reachable, goals and ambitions. Her temper tantrums eventually became very meaningful and impactful. She was a character developed well. That’s why I love coming of age stories. It really does make all the difference when evolution is the focus. I wouldn’t say she was morally grey but they definitely made sure to showcase her flaws and faults and the consequences that came from her actions and choices… which is enough really. I didn’t need much else. I’m just glad she wasn’t your typical protagonist. Yes, she was a good person but she didn’t always do good things or make good choices. That mattered. It also mattered how she corrected her mistakes. By developing on her self-awareness and emotional maturity once she realized where she went wrong. It all served to give a real, relatable and resonatable character. A real gem of characterization in any show.

And Thank You to Amybeth McNulty for portraying her ever so well and knowing where her true heart lies. I’m fairly certain your first audition was a crying scene because you certainly did enough of them. But - along with the character writing - you never once made her seem weak in doing so. Expressing emotion was a strength and not a weakness. I really appreciate that.

"Limoroeau should have been a slowburn!"

We don't see them again until 2025, burn that shit now!

Fighting DEMONS rn trying not to get invested in one piece to figure out wtf you're posting about!!!!

come here cyber.... we have this thang

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2024 reads / storygraph

A Tempest of Tea

first in a YA fantasy duology

follows a young immigrant woman in a fantasy Victorian city who runs a tearoom that doubles as an illegal bloodhouse for vampires at night

when their business is threatened, she gets a chance to save it by teaming up with her best friend, a rich girl with a talent for forgery, a vampire artist, and a mysterious city guard to do a heist to infiltrate high society and collect a logbook that may reveal the extent of the corruption in the city

fantasy city with a masked ruler, arthurian elements, themes of colonialism

I rewatched a few of the early episodes of spyfam today bc getting to see the movie gave me an itch to scratch, and in particular episode two made me finally able to conceptualize what about fandom twiyor that irks me so deeply. If you like widespread fandom interpretations of them I would uh, look away bc none of my opinions on it are positive.

Episode 2 of the spyfam anime remains one of my favorites because of all the little flourishes the studios add to sell you on Yor as a character while also expanding a bit on the manga's original commentary on the stigma that follows older single women. What draws Yor and Loid together as a family is that neither of them are capable of having conventional relationships. Both of them are war orphans forced to grow up far too soon and who threw away aspects of their humanity to fight for what they believe to be a better world. While Loid's position as a spy and mastery of deception allows him to avoid the stigmas that would come from the ordinary person discovering what he does, that is not something that holds true for Yor, whose weakest point is that she simply cannot understand "normal." She's aware of the way her coworkers demean her and insult her but can do nothing about it because her only conflict resolution skill is murder. She is constantly reminded that she is an outsider, hence why Loid's declaration at the party is so meaningful to her, and what convinces her to ask him to continue the facade as a married couple.

Underneath it all however, is a quiet showcase of amatonormativity that drove both Loid and Yor to their arrangement. Eden requires a student to have a perfectly nuclear family. Societal conventions dictate that Yor, happily single at 27, is someone pathetic (to her coworkers) or someone in need of help (to her brother). Marriage is an expectation that Yor is pressured to commit to, and a societal requirement that Loid must uphold for the sake of his mission. And while this showcase begins in episode 2 it is something that spyfam continues to highlight when it comes to the expectations both Loid and Yor struggle to meet when they try to hard/become to anxious over what is "expected" as a married couple vs what the other person is actually thinking/feeling.

Now, what the fuck does this have to do with fandom you ask? Here's the thing. Spyfam reached the broad range of anime fans when it exploded in popularity, which is when I started engaging with it beyond just comments on the latest manga chapters. Modern fandom already has the issue of classifying ships into tropes rather than actually like, shipping characters as they are. And that's exactly what happened with twiyor. People began going "oh my gosh this is the moment she fell for loid," "oh he's so in love with her just look at him," before we had even reached episode 10. Which was incredibly frustrating to me because clearly Loid and Yor are not anywhere near in love that soon in the story- and the basis for that frustration starts in episode 2 for me. Because Loid and Yor's marriage is one that is unconventional from the very beginning, and it is that factor that defines their dynamic an allows them to function as healthily and sweetly as they do. People don't need to be in love to be married or to be a parental unit. None of that requires romantic love, it is simply an expectation of our society, the same sort of expectation that cripples Yor and makes her think she has to find a partner, then that she has to find a husband to appease those around her. Seeing that completely erased in a large portion of art/commentary/fics written about them angers me because its something baked into the foundation of their dynamic and something I feel enhances them as a potential romantic pairing rather than detracts from it. But we can't have that because of course a man and woman living together and caring for a kid fell in love almost immediately.

And don't even get me started on how people misinterpret Loid for their far more romantic interpretations of his motivations and relationship with Anya and Yor or else I will start losing teeth from how hard I am clenching my jaw

"Liuxi, as long as I can get a hold of you, I won't let go." | West Out of The Yu Men

Saw a YT vid with the title, "Fandom Can't Handle Asexuality"

You're right, they can't... Because it doesn't fucking exist to them.

I started an honor mode playthrough with probably the cutest tiefling in bg3 and I fuckn got killed during the Phase Spider Matriarch, so I decided to continue my save with dishonor because my character was just so damn cute. Well for some reason or another the game didn't?? Switch it to custom mode?? It's still honor mode??

So I'm either going to get those golden dice in the most dishonorable way possible or the game is just pulling on my leg and It's just honor mode without the reward.

you know what I’ll post these doodles here too about the secret isekai romance fantasy au that lives in my head that I can’t draw but I think about a lot

Faking dating story where they're both aroallo and instead of falling in love at the end they just end up friends with benefits

/venting

Terrified to continue my main save until Minthara's spoiler bug is fixed, so I jumped ahead a bit and previewed Durge!Alice and well I knew she was gonna be absolutely fucked but I mean

God's Least Tired Princess

Her vibes are so rancid even from minute one I love it

dad im scared 🥺

Oh yeah she's gonna be just fine

me when I when I purposefully spread false information in my camp

i need more variety of relationships in my ocs, most of them are either besties, worsties, or like. coworkers. i barely even have any ocs with siblings

also that the pics show that phil & orville's Adorable Meetcute at least involves a replication of the film's first & only interaction between [phil/herb role] & orville, of smacking into each other & putting on each other's glasses then fumbling around switching them back, indeed homoerotically close (including closer than this gif depicts)

Me and my wife: *hang out for 6 hours and stay up til midnight talking about our favorite things*

My wife: *leaves to shower and go to bed*

Me, 2 minutes later: *picks up phone to text her about the new movie trailer I just watched*