My Somewhat Unpopular Opinion Is That "famous Story Retold From Female Character's Pov" Is A Good Concept,

netflix hill house is a good horror show but why did they name it after this book like. it’s so not the same type of ghost story. tv hill house is haunted by ghosts that are very scary guys. hill house the book doesn’t have any ghost guys. the book characters were never a family, that’s kind of made a point of. and nell can’t be theo’s sweet innocent dead sister bc she’s theo’s jealous mean nasty wonderful toxic yuri life ruiner. call it smth else…

i don't doubt they would have leveraged tain hu to exercise control over baru, and above all baru wants to be untethered from these higher powers, so it's not that she gained nothing towards her aim. but that she carries out the execution as she does out of posturing for her new imperial coworkers / to give off an image of loveless detachment and not only does everyone see through it, but there is not a single response among her peers as she was gunning for. it utterly alienates the coworker that has commonality with her in this hostile world and who had previously been hopeful to bond with her over it. cairdine farrier is DELIGHTED. not even in the way that she would have wanted him to be in her ruse. he knows she loved tain hu. he doesn't want her to not be gay. he wants her to be gay and suffer the anguish of KILLING what she loves in order to prove that she can overcome her base instincts of being gay. he sees her actions as evidence corroborating his theory. she becomes another cog in his plan by it. you didn't even get what you wanted out of this, you can't help but think. you blew up everything for worse than nothing.

i think heroes and villains should meet in a hotel at night because it's after hours and theyre only a hero or villain from 9 to 5 so they say and one of them wakes up in the night to look over the other one asleep beside them not caring about the vulnerability of the state and the whole thing is cast under somber blue light because its nighttime. and the awake one saunters melancholically to the balcony to look out at the city lights. and theyre both girls

What r Joyce’s thoughts on the rangers (also hi love ur poasts and J is sooo fun)

hi ! you’re so kind !! here we go.

herald. dumbass kid. joyce is nice to his face, playing into his dream narrative of a kindly, washed-up-but-still-got-it sidestep who trains him and even teases that she might get back into the hero game … while destroying his self-confidence on purpose. she pities & despises him, seeing him as a poster boy for letting the agencies & corporations that own heroes do whatever they want with you, willingly and happily, til you die or your parts are wearing out too fast to be worth the replacement cost. she’s not interested in seeing more complexity in him.

short term, breaking down herald is just the most efficient way to break down the rangers as a team, embarrass them on tv, make the public question why they’re reliant on such fallible heroes so blackout can give answers. long term, if her “training” takes herald out of the hero game now while he’s young and undamaged, before she unveils the system of abuse & vice behind it, well. she thinks he’ll come to thank her for the favor.

argent. threat, but not too hard to neutralize. joyce successfully plays the harmless therapist to plant false memories & the damocles sword. blackout comes out of their book 1 fights unscathed & not flagged as a telepath, their book 2 fight just dinged up. joyce is curious about argent’s motives, her apparent attraction to blackout, the source of her powers, her dynamic with the other rangers, but not enough to ever chase the rabbit while she’s on a mission, so she knows almost nothing about her.

chen. one of a very few ppl joyce shows some of her real personality to—mainly, the pissy part. they can’t help snipping at each other like a couple of mean old queens whenever they’re in a room. but it leaves them both tired, and sad, because even though they don’t see eye to eye at least they see each other, more than they do with many other people. which is why he’s the only one with any suspicion she might be blackout (25%). he’d be the second person she told about being a re-gene, if she was sure he wouldn’t kill her.

ortega. jesus christ, what doesn’t joyce think about ortega? sidestep loved him. she’s remembered as his sidekick. she resents that, deeply, because it implies that as soon as she got away from her creators she immediately poured herself into someone else’s shape instead of molding her own identity, and she thinks that might be true. joyce still loves him. she hit him with a car. she crashed a car with him in it. she likes how he looks with blood on his face. she hates to see him hurt.

she flirted with him as her puppet, josie, a younger woman who looks like sidestep, or maybe her daughter, while also flirting with him as herself. she turned him down when he asked joyce to the gala, accepted as josie, only to stop in front of the sidestep exhibit and throw a hissy fit about how “she” saw him talking with an older woman, and should she be worried? then as joyce demanded to know if him going out with josie was trading in for the younger model. only when she was confident he liked her real body more did she have josie break things off, pretending to be scared of his powers as a parting kick in the ribs for “making” her doubt. he hadn’t done anything.

she slept with him. she showed him her tattoos. she smacked him. she kissed him again. she cut her hair back to how she wore it when she was sidestep. she misses his mom.

she’s in on his hollow ground investigation, uncertain yet whether to help him or tangle up all his red strings while he’s distracted. she’s testing him, encouraging him to share his conspiracy theories, trying to see if he’s jaded or desperate enough to partner with blackout in exposing the truth. she wants him to be. she wants to be honest with him and she wants his sharp, suspicious mind. but she doesn’t want to see him brought low enough to get on her level, because she fell in love with an idealist. he calls her joy. it’s so. 🤌

well thanks for asking

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Tonkee is transgender and wlw, and uses she/her pronouns!

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i hate this weird trend in fandom where subtext is seen as a Bad Thing and is only done if the creators are too cowardly to commit to showing something. i hate to break it to you but nuance and layers are what make stories interesting, if you have no subtext then you have a very flat story

I wanted to add a comic of Amber proudly showing Oksana her shirt, but i haven't had the time BUT IF I DID

it's autumn, time to reread trc <3

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