but like why has no one made a tv show about a bored 1950s housewife who takes up murdering people as a hobby
they’re afraid it’ll encourage women to take matters into their own hands
it could be kind of like Hannibal except she uses people meat to make Campbell’s-soup-based casseroles and bland roasts served with overcooked vegetables
but hell, money’s tight and she’s got three growing children and men will be rude to her, what’s she supposed to do?
i disagree with the food choice. i want a bone of contention between her and her husband to be that he dislikes her bland cooking and when she starts using long pig, she has to do something to disguise the flavour so she starts using those insane (and usually brand-sponsored) recipes that were so popular in the 50s. like this stuff. and when he compliments her on her new, snazzy cooking, she says something smug and witty like, “i know how to take care of a man.”
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If I am not online much for a few days, blame Nintendo. I’ll get my friend code up as soon as I google where I can find that. :p
ignore alien orders.: i think, ultimately, my problem with how nobility (and invariably,...
i think, ultimately, my problem with how nobility (and invariably, kingship) is treated in fiction is how characters are either written as inequitably Good Kings or Bad Kings. if the writing is anti-monarchist, the kings are invariably Bad Kings.
but i don’t really think this is enough, because it sets up the idea the rulers monarchy breeds are either good or bad based on themselves, rather than a system that is inherently corrupt and harmful regardless of the intentions and successes of its ruler. the focus on the individual ruler looses sight of the larger system of monarchy. and the system of monarchy is never interrogated, just the morality or trials of rulership. but it doesn’t matter what makes a good king, or if your king is good; kingship is still wrong.
and that’s my problem with the portrayal of royalty in most fiction, especially medieval fantasy.
also i’m all fucked up on codeine and i’ve been thinking about this concept for weeks and i have finally reached through the haze and explained it coherently (i think) so now i’m going to bed SO THERE YOU GO
#writing #basically how I feel #a good king is still a monarch #and I am tired of everyone in fantasy lit in particular just ignoring that #like IT IS NOT GOOD TO BE A KING and I hate how nobility or a crown is so often the hero's reward for saving the day #they can be interesting character - sure - but so can the god damn peasants jfc
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This year at E3 during the Xbox panel during a scripted “trash talk” bit someone made a scripted rape joke (male gamer to girl gamer who sucks at a game: “just wait, it’ll all be over soon.”) and then they acted like it wasn’t a big deal and then they released an expensive, anti-consumer (DRM on physical games) piece of hardware. And then Sony just released the PS4 which is just the PS3 but better graphics and $100 cheaper than the Xbox. So THAT happened.
But then Nintendo just quietly released a bunch of great looking sequels for all of it’s major franchises (Mario, Pikmin, Donkey Kong, and Smash Bros.) and every single one of those games interestingly features playable female characters who haven’t been seen in decades like Dixie Kong and Princess Peach - and Pikmin now has a new female hero.
One of my favorite things about Peach in the new Mario game is that one of the power ups is a literal “cat suit” and Peach’s “cat suit” doesn’t sexualize her at ALL. You can’t even see her boobs. She just looks like she’s wearing over-sized footie pajamas it’s so cute. Also they added a pink letter to the Mario logo just to accommodate Peach’s re-inclusion into the franchise as a character with actual agency!
So at the end of the presentation they tell you to go to the Smash Bros website to find out about new characters. And then they announced this character, Wii Fit Trainer, on the site. And in an interview the director said he gets thousands of requests for almost every video game character under the sun and he’s gotten absolutely zero requests for this character and he put her in the game to be funny and defy fan expectation. This character is literally “hey fuck you we’re the ones making the games around here, and we’ll be goofy and funny if we want to and also check it out another female character in Smash.”
Also the inclusion of the Animal Crossing villager is interesting because Animal Crossing is VERY popular with girls and even though the villager is male I’m 100% certain his alternate costumes will include the girl default villager character. So that’s neat. The three Smash characters they announced were two girl(ish) characters from two girl(ish) games and then Mega Man.
Also in the new Animal Crossing game boys are allowed to cross dress and all of the animals are explicitly genderqueer in the dialog. Characters say stuff like “Boys can ware make up if they want to, I mean, it’s 2013, who cares?” and just today a jock rhino was looking deeply into my eyes and asking me to hike a football and I asked him if he loved me (which was one of the option out of other options about sports) and he was like “Oh I guess a lot can happen when you look into someone else’s eyes like that, huh?” He didn’t even care that we’re both guys. Also in the new Pokemon game you can be black.
Basically what I’m saying is Nintendo is quietly and systematically making their games more socially progressive and Microsoft made a rape joke and then said “what? it was a joke.”
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can we just take a moment to imagine little cute six-year-old hermione reading matilda
and peering into this book about a smart, bookish girl who could move things with her mind
and then can you imagine her concentrating very hard on the books on the bookshelf and slowly, slowly, getting them to move
OH MY GOD
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