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My initial impression when I watched Eclipse for the first time (and what I still believe) is that Stella knew full well that Ray didn't humilate himself on purpose in the bank when they were kids. I always read it as Stella knowing how embarrased and ashamed Ray would feel for having wet himself, and instead of trying to console him and tell him that it was okay, she let him be the hero instead. Because even though in Ray's memory he thought that he was being 'John Lennon, James Bond, Joe Namath, all rolled into one', I don't think Stella actually fell in love with an illusion at all. Like Fraser said, 'I am willing to gamble that Stella looked beyond that one incident and saw the whole person'. I think she always saw Ray for who he really was, but Ray's own insecurities about himself made him believe that she had to be with him based on a lie. I think the person who doesn't see Ray clearly is Ray himself. He has such a low sense of himself that he can't imagine her falling for anything but a con. He can't imagine that Stella simply fell in love with little Ray Kowalski, because who the hell is even is that? He's convinced himself that he's been playing the part of 'the hero' all these years that he doesn't really see that he has actually become one. The person who recieved all those citations that Fraser recounts wasn't a lie or a con, it was Ray Kowalski, a good policeman, someone who one would be proud to call a partner and a friend. In my opinion Ray's biggest con was conning himself into believing he isn't good enough just the way he is.
#due south#stella kowalski#ray kowalski#anyway this is why the depiction of stella in some fics of being historically embarrased by ray over the years has always rankled me#she wouldn't have stayed with him since she's 13 if he was a constant source of embarrassment#she truly loved ray for ray#she just sadly ended up outgrowing the relationship eventually#and i think ray tied so much of his identity to stella for so long which is why he struggled so much to let go of her#lol i just wanted to write a little thought about stella and it ran away from me a bit. this is why i don't do meta stuff. i tend to ramble#i just hope i made sense#ds30below#<- oops forgot to tag
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I've said my piece in a meta earlier how I read the Fraser/Ray/Stella thing (which you can find here if you're interested), but I really do love the idea of Fraser and Stella just fucking hating each other. Two people who need control who try to make the world a better place by their job which gets in the way of their relationships and the only thing they have in common is Ray and they hate that they have that in common? i wish we had more scenes of them roasting each other while trying to remain professional.
#due south#beanz rambles#fraser/rayk#stella kowalski#i cackle every time i remember ray arguing with stella in good for the soul#he's trying to help fraser and the guy has the balls to make ray think of his hair in disarray in front of his ex#i wish stella had been more fleshed out :(
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The fact that there's a version of the play "A streetcar named desire" with Rachel Weisz as Blanche and Ruth Wilson as Stella and that I can't find it anywhere keeps me up at night actually
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"She didn’t know what she was doing ...
"She was as good as a lamb when I came back and she's really very, very ashamed of herself."
what's toxic yuri if it isn't based off of a toxic hetero story from the 1950s?
#crk#cookie run#cookie run kingdom#crk fanart#hollyberry cookie#golden cheese cookie#hollycheese#toxic yuri#a streetcar named desire#stanley kowalski#stella kowalski#stella dubois#kaards art
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Theatre Playground vs Straight Acting
@maryxschuyler the Stella to my Blanche 💞
Martin said we couldn't post videos on socials but he said nothing about pictures also I think Tumblr doesn't count as it is simply a deep dark void so it should be fine
Also peep the violin wrist I don't think I'll ever do anything better than that in my life icl.
#a streetcar named desire#blanche dubois#stella kowalski#acting#actor training#east15#conservatoire#drama school#violin#theare playground#one day that tag will be full and I can't wait for it#ramiro silveira#you will always be famous to me
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Fandom: due South
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Stella Kowalski/Ray Vecchio
Characters: Ray Vecchio, Stella Kowalski
Additional Tags: Digital Art, bowling, Florida
Summary: Ray and Stella, in Florida.
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— Tennessee Williams, "A Streetcar Named Desire"
[Text ID: A cropped photograph of four lines of dialogue in a play.
BLANCHE. Is he so-different?
STELLA. Yes. A different species.
BLANCHE. In what way; what's he like?
Highlighted text: STELLA. Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with.
/End ID]
#tennessee williams#a streetcar named desire#american drama#love quotes#blanche du bois#stella kowalski#play quotes#daymarkist#now reading
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
#streetcar#literature#tennessee williams#vivien leigh#marlon brando#a streetcar named desire#stanley kowalski#Stella#blanche dubois#flores#new orleans#magic#realism#theatre#American play#drama#southern gothic
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a streercar named desire
i don't know if anyone knows or cares about this play, but i want to rant, so buckle up bozos
Tennessee Williams was very very deliberate about how he wrote this play. I wholeheartedly believe he wants us to not compare Stella and Blanche. Hell, he probably rewrote to make them even more different.
Ugh.
And there's just certain things that you can pick up on, but Stella is doubtful. For example, when Blanche says things like "Types?" when referring to Polish people... And Stella awkwardly agreed. (side note, this may be because of her obsession with Stanley)
They aren't similar!
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Hiya! Did I ever introduce myself? I'm Resonant/resonant8. So here's a new due South story.
Clockwise (10935 words) by Resonant
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio
Characters: Benton Fraser, Stella Kowalski (due South), Pop Vecchio | Ray Vecchio's Father, Francesca Vecchio
Additional Tags: Thanksgiving, Established Relationship, Post-Canon, post-Vegas, post-florida
Summary:
"We’ll be bringing your Mountie down to testify. And you two have got to keep him under control.”
Beta thanks to https://terminally-underwhelmed.tumblr.com/, mssalieri, and https://mific.tumblr.com/.
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Nothing makes me nope out of a due south fic faster than reading an unfair characterization of Stella. It doesn't matter how well written the rest of the fic is, I can't stand when Stella is portrayed as some heartless bitch who treats Ray badly for no reason. As much as I love RayK (he's my fave) I can admit his behavior with Stella is not him at his best. I mean we meet Stella in the episode where Ray is stalking her, and I think there's enough of an implication that it isn't the first time. It's not cute, it's not endearing. I can have sympathy for Ray's struggling to let go of the relationship he's been in since he was a kid, but it's not Stella's job to protect his feelings. She's made herself more than clear that there's no hope of reconciliation but Ray won't accept it. It's completely understandable that Stella would get fed up with Ray's persistence and feel the need to be a bit harsh in shutting him down.
#due south#stella kowalski#i have a lot of feelings about this character i guess#perhaps i over identify with her situation#to be clear i haven't seen an abundance of Stella bashing but when i do see it it makes me so mad#she did nothing wrong
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That moment in Strange Bedfellows when Stella and Ray told that government dude to get fucked whilst completing a graceful dance move really cemented why and how they were a couple because I can tell just from that they were Little Shits together
#due south#beanz rambles#ray kowalski#stella kowalski#i really did feel sad in that episode#they've spent basically their whole lives together and they don't really know what to do without each other#and they bring out the worst in each other and owie#i was right alongside with them asking 'why didn't it work out'#but it's okay in the end because they do the partner swap :D
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Ray Kowalski's pub decor! Ray has these two bar towels on his kitchen/bar counter, and I was lucky to identify them both as items made by Pub World, a company that specialized in this kind of "breweriana". The light colored one says "Dirty Dick's", and the red one says "The Happy Drinker" (I only figured that one out after checking if it could be another Pub World bar towel - bingo!).
But oh, the lost opportunities here! As I was searching for red bar towels, one that kept coming up said "Stella Artois" (a Belgian beer brand), another "Relax with an Otter" (this one was newer as it had an url for the brewery). But even with Pub World's English themes, I wish they'd used the ones with Sherlock Holmes or Jack the Ripper, or the golf themed one that says "The 19th Hole" (CKR is an avid golfer). Or, lol, why not the one that's all about "Big Ben"...
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one of the few good faith questions about s1 gender roles is why louis is only paralleled with white women. why does the show make him iolanta, melisande, nora helmer, etc and not claire kendry or janie crawford, characters who also appear in literature from the show's time period. why is he reading flaubert, colette, edward carpenter and not claude mckay or nella larsen who actually writes a lot about interractial relationships. on one hand the showrunner is white and maybe those are the texts he feels most comfortable with, but there are more than a few black creatives working on the show who are contributing in significant ways.
first of all, characters like iolanta, stella kowalski and nora helmer do not need to be white. they are white in their original forms because the writers were white and sometimes based them on real people. tenessee williams always wanted to have streetcar performed by diverse casts even though he based the characters partly on people in his own family. many productions now have non-white actresses in these roles (assad zaman was in one of these productions of a doll's house). also we can safely say lestat assigns melisande to louis because that's the kind of shit he's into (french opera based on a belgian story) and he's not really well read.
beyond that though, to me the reason louis is paralleled with white women is because he's married to a white man in 1910 louisiana where not only was interracial marriage illegal but homosexual relations and even interractial cohabitation were banned. but because of lestat's power, money and their vampire powers, these roles don't really apply to them. people who were in interracial or homosexual relationships in the 1910s had very different struggles and conflicts from loustat, like most of them could barely step outside without worrying about their safety. they certainly wouldn't be parading around society together all the time while even the politicians and authorities know about their relationship. so how do you make sense of your marriage if its very existence is anachronistic?? who's writing about your experiences if your experience is such an outlier in your society literally due to supernatural forces? there's no shortage of black literature in this time period (which overlaps with the harlem renaissance!) but being married to a white man is quite fundamentally different to being married to a non-white man especially in early 20th century. a white man has complete control over his dominion which includes the home and the outside world. a non-white man may have control over his home but the minute he steps out the door he's at the mercy of white men, he could be killed for simply looking at someone the wrong way, which makes non-white men impossible to relate to lestat. and who was allowed to be married to white men in those days? white women.
and ultimately louis is nora because the conflict of needing to escape an overbearing husband was something allowed only to white women in literature/theater. the reason we find so many parallels between louis and white female characters like belle even now is because his role in this story is largely reserved for white women and this has clearly ruffled a lot of feathers because its unfamiliar. i'll be curious to see what the show does as time moves forward but for season 1 it's very clear to me why the show chose these specific intertextual references.
#the loumand dynamic in s2 intrigues so much for this reason#cause we are moving into a lot more liberated territory#for louis who is so well read especially how does he relate his story to the stories he's read#iwtv
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Forty years ago (4 March 1984) on this day in show biz history the made for TV adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire premiered on ABC. This interpretation – starring Ann-Margret as Blanche DuBois, Treat Williams as Stanley Kowalski, Beverly D'Angelo as Stella and Randy Quaid as Mitch – was green-lit during Williams’ lifetime, but he didn’t live to see it. “Ann-Margret looks too healthy to portray Blanche DuBois, the physically and mentally fragile Southern belle protagonist of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, but we forget this discrepancy five minutes into her marvelous performance,” AllMovie concludes. “The 1984 Streetcar Named Desire is less a remake of the 1951 version than a companion piece - a praiseworthy alternate version of the same sturdy material.” John H O’Connor of The New York Times, meanwhile, raved “Ann-Margret transforms [Blanche’s] disintegration into a journey of incredible pain and heartbreaking beauty. Her performance keeps building in intensity until, by the final scenes, she reaches a pitch of vulnerability that is almost unbearably riveting.” You can watch it for yourself on YouTube.
#ann margret#tennessee williams#a streetcar named desire#blanche dubois#lobotomy room#playwright#southern belle#treat williams#stanley kowalski
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Due South s1 recs, part 2
Pizzas and Promises
Two for Ray coming up with Those Outfits:
I am Not Like You, by dS_Tiff
Going Undercover, by nomave
A smidge of post-drowning trauma:
Thank God for Frannie, by wneleh
New Trunk Smell, by orphan_account
Promises and Pizza, by Tallihensia (Fraser/Ray V)--Rework of the episode to bring a slashy moment just a little closer.
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Chinatown
Three backstory pieces with some connection to Fraser’s grandparents and China:
Home Schooling & Open the World, by Luzula
Bind Off in Pattern, by NienteZero
He Said Always. He Said Never, by Amparo Bertram--A crossover with Kung Fu: the Legend Continues. One of KFTLC’s recurring villains pops up in Chicago’s Chinatown, and the rest of the cast gives chase to stop him.
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Chicago Holiday, Part 1
No Matter How Much Leather They Wear, by gracicah (Fraser/Ray V)--Ray is surprised by how casually Fraser took the kink club, and he has some questions; Fraser offers some demonstrations in answer.
Right Church, Wrong Pew, by preetkiran1016 (Fraser/Ray K)--Two pieces telling Fraser and Ray K's POVs of an AU where they had a sexy encounter at that club, sometime late in s2.
three evenings, two Rays, by ifreet (Stella/Ray K, Stella/Ray V)--A short piece postulating that Stella Kowalski is in fact the secret owner of the club!
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Chicago Holiday, Part 2
A Gold Mine, A Boomerang, A Tank of Gasoline. And You, by Mary (Fraser/Julie Frobisher)--Sixteen-year-old Benton Fraser becomes a man, in more ways than one.
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A Cop, a Mountie and a Baby
Sans Souci, by Julien (Fraser/Ray V)--Fraser asserts that people do find Ray attractive, and Ray wants to know how the Mountie can be so sure.
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The Gift of the Wheelman
Haunted, by ButterflyGhost--In which Ray contemplates the ghosts of their fathers.
Angels, by ButterflyGhost--In which Ray sees those ghosts from a very different angle. The last line of this kills me.
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You Must Remember This
Two pieces about the events at Fortitude Pass:
Could I Revive Within Me, by pqlaertes (Fraser/Victoria)
Things You Said Under the Stars, and in the Grass, by ExpatGirl (Fraser/Victoria)
The Stakeout, by Rachael (Fraser/Ray V, unrequited)--Ray wasn't asleep when Fraser was talking.
Love and Glory, by brooklinegirl (Ray V/Suzanne Chapin)--On Ray’s last night before Vegas, Suzanne Chapin makes an appearance.
Five Years by Kernezelda (Ray V/Suzanne Chapin)--Five years was a long time. It wasn't nearly long enough to forget her.
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