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Chrisjen Avasarala taking no shit in The Expanse S02E09 "The Weeping Somnambulist"

So, I Just Watched Netflix's DAMSEL...

...And I'm wiping tears?? ...Because I loved this movie and the allegory and it was the perfect girl movie for International Women's Day which was yesterday??? This movie got a 58% Rotten Tomatoes score and I'm honestly confused! It was a beautiful perfectly original fairytale. In the good old days, this would have either been a sleeper hit in the theatres or a beloved classic discovery in the VHS rental market and likely overplayed at odd times on HBO like The Neverending Story. It for me is on tier with The Seabeast and Predator for excellent modern "girl-power" films, that should have been released in the theaters. It subverts so many fairytale tropes, and while it's predictable, I'm an old soul who still can cast myself back to girlhood and for me, again, the allegory touched me. Much in a similar way that Maleficent did, with its origin for the title character as a metaphor for the loss of trust and innocence after a violation, "a sexual assault" with loss of wings. It 100% wasn't intentionally this deep, but this for me was about the price of colonization; of adhered-to ancestral memory that the "winners" who write history carry, sacrificing 'the other" for generations destroying their own souls.... Until the convenient lies are finally faced. Ugh, I loved what they did with the dragon, with all the supporting characters, with the amount of harrow, and some consequential violence, enough to genuinely scare but not enough to scar. It felt very old school in that way. -Like a good solid 80's style fantasy, except for some of the non-practical effects. IDK, maybe it's just about my soft heart, but again...

This movie made me cry. I honestly and truly adored this fairytale.

#THISISAREC --For the fairytale girlies... The ones who like dragons, Grimm teas, and girls bloodied and determined.

The Belt will treat you with respect. You have my word. We will take our niche in the future and allow you yours. You have my word. Is that good enough?

Watching The Expanse for the first time: Season One

شطرنج باد Chess of the Wind Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976

Whoever casted Shohreh Aghdashloo as the voice of the dragon in Damsel is a fucking genius

Um, Shohreh? That is a BIG Chrisjen x Bobbie artwork.

THE EXPANSE -> SEASON 2

Shohreh Aghdashloo as CHRISJEN AVASARALA Nick. E. Tarabay as COTYAR GHAZI

Posting them for my own enjoyment and to inflict thoughts on others.

Chrisjen Avasarala continuing to have none of the BS in The Expanse S02E09 "The Weeping Somnambulist"

i think about this video at least twice a day. 🥰

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