judgmental much? (yes, v. much)

[rose_griffes]

I'm amused? irritated? to report that random disdainful commentary about fictional characters that DON'T DESERVE SUCH SLANDER SAID ABOUT THEM is still enough for me to not add someone to my Dreamwidth reading list. (This is especially true if that commentary JUST HAPPENS to be a part of that person's defensive tactic in shipping. As in, Mai from ATLA is a toxic partner to Zuko and, ahem, coincidentally this person happens to prefer Zuko with Katara. Or Yennefer from The Witcher is an awful person who knew the price she was paying when the only way to move forward with any power was to sacrifice her fertility and she oughtn't to change her mind like people sometimes do and it's just happenstance that this person likes to ship Geralt with Jaskier.)

Anyway! Things I could be doing:

• reading one of the three e-books I currently have checked out from the library
• writing that Fusco fanfic
• working in the garden
• organizing craft supplies so that I can, y’know, actually DO crafty things
• trying out some of the recipes I’ve been drooling over for the last few days

What I am actually doing:

• re-reading this amazing fanfic about Loki and Heimdall (I DON'T EVEN LIKE LOKI but the fic is SO GOOD!) (it's an AU where Odin still takes abandoned infant Loki from Jotunheim to the royal home, but later gives Loki to Heimdall--an exploration of what fatherhood and heritage mean to the two main characters)
• eating too much chocolate
• mulling over writing something about sexism as a (failed) visual language in The Last Jedi and Thor: Ragnarok (essay links below)
• trying to figure out how to find my “to read” list on AO3 (there’s a “Mark for later” button on each story... but where’s the list of stuff I marked for later?! I’ll report back if I figure this out GOT IT*)
• whining about people hating on characters that I like

*Okay, to read things that you mark for later on AO3: go to your history, and then on the top right there's an option to just show what you, well, marked for later. Huzzah!

The two essays that got me thinking about sexism as a storytelling medium in TLJ and Ragnarok are:
Middle-Chapter Romance – How The Last Jedi Holds The Empire Strikes Back and Attack of the Clones Accountable
and
What Heroes Do: Queer-Coding, Slut-Shaming, and Heroism on a Trash Planet

Comments

[lackadaisicalnereid]

hello, i came here because you left a comment on redbrunja's recent entry so i came to check out your blog and i'd like to say bless you for your essay recs, i read both and thoroughly enjoyed them, and the thor ragnarok one (tho i'm not sure i agree with it entirely, but then again, the first two thor movies are vague in my memory). i even recced it to a friend and rewatched ragnarok with her so that we could discuss the article with a fresher memory, so basically you brough hours of fun into my day yesterday, so thanks a lot for that! :)

[rose_griffes]

I'm glad the links were interesting! I liked Thor: Ragnorak a lot, but having read the criticism, I'd say most of it is pretty fair... even while I still enjoy it.

I have a lot of thoughts about that other link. Mostly that Rian Johnson FAILED in his attempts to use sexism in his storytelling within TLJ--and only partly because of the dudebros who didn't like watching women doing stuff in the movie.