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today: a miscellany
ARGH. Sometimes I feel like the only stats student in a roomful of anthro students. Which, y'know, I AM. And then I say dumb things that are refuted on the next page of the paragraph I'm referring to, or I stray off onto a point that is irrelevant APPARENTLY (ART CAN BE METONYMY, I SWEAR), and then, because I notice these things and overreact to them, the professor looks at me when she says, "And then of course there is the curse. Someone can say, 'I put a curse on you. You're dead.'" ALL THE WHILE LOOKING AT ME D:
AND ALSO. The article we were discussing today, the one I DIDN'T READ, was about (ARGH) mythology, nationalism, and the COMMUNIST PURGES OF INDONESIA IN THE SIXTIES. AND I DIDN'T READ IT. 'COS ALL THE TITLE SAID WAS "Ideology as a Social Structure" so I was like, "Pah! I'll just focus on the ones about religion!" It should've been titled "All Things Relevant to Your Interests"! ARGH. I lost an opportunity to say something intelligennnnnnnnt when all this time I have felt... kind of dismissed. :(
BAH. BAH, I SAY.
So I am caught up on all seasons of the Tudors and there are things that I like about it (Princess Mary! Cromwell! Cranmer! political doublespeak! THE QUEEN OF SPAIN (and all Spain-related things)), and things that piss me off (HENRY). I wonder if they were making Henry an unsympathetic douchebag on purpose, 'cos I mean, granted, Henry VIII was a pretty huge douchebag. It's just that I can't get behind him as the heart and leading role of the story, because he's so petty and fickle and spoiled and generally horrible. I suppose we're meant to dislike him. So I guess it's a good thing that it's an ensemble cast.
I kind of have a giant crush on Cromwell and DAMN WASN'T IT HORRIBLE HOW HE DIED?! Francis Bryan is a cold motherfucker. But Cromwell is so great, because he's clever and two-faced when he needs to be, but also sincere about his Reformation (by the end? I'm not sure if he was in the beginning?), born so low and risen so high! And Cranmer and his stupid moral ground, augh <33. And Henry loved them both. Apparently Henry forever rued the execution of Cromwell, well GOOD.
And man, how fantastic is Sarah Bolger as Princess Mary, the subtleties of her emotions, of her strength and distress <33. And KATHERINE OF ARAGON, YOU'LL ALWAYS BE MY QUEEN.
I know very little about this historical period, I'll preface with that. So it's like, Henry is a puppet? And it's about the irony of how he's absolute monarch, and yet those around him take advantage of his impulsiveness to achieve their own ends. I wasn't sure what people really wanted in the beginning because everyone's so sneaky and kissing Henry's ass. When Cromwell was revealed to be actually serious about the Reformation (and not just using it as means to gain power), I was.. kind of surprised. Did he care all along, or did he eventually end up buying into his own masquerade? Like Anne Boleyn did.
The non-hanging execution scenes I kind of have to fast-forward through. Death by burning, death by BOILING?! Eek.
I watched The Tudors through the aftermath of race/genderfail, so I was especially sensitive to the rampant misogyny of the show. So my question is, what is the balance between portraying How Things Were and incorporating the feminism of our age? Thoughts?
I don't actually have that much to say. I think I might've ficced this show if the story weren't so damn convoluted. I wasn't really sure what episode I left off at last time, but then I realized it doesn't matter, because I don't care that much. They're on the way back to the island, or they're back on the island. Okay. I still ship Charlotte/Faraday (despite YOU KNOW), and Juliet/awesomeness and Sayid/hotttt.
Also, this is one of those shows that's like... It's like this one time, my friend and I were watching an episode, and she doesn't watch the show. I was going to explain to her what was happening, but I didn't need to, because Hurley and Ben were being Mr. Exposition all over the place. This show is more exposition than plot. Why do I still watch it?
Recs? Why not!
Tudors fic recs! It's all Charles Brandon, 'cos I guess Henry Cavill is pretty. But goddammit, I want some Cromwell fic. Some LADIES OF SPAIN fic!
Along the lines of crack, here is an Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot vid set to an improbable hip-hop song about Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot. (His name is Lancelot. He break dances a lot.) Here is a Merlin AU fic where they are dinosaur revolutionaries (and evolutionaries?!). And this next thing is not crack, it's just that her header graphics are gorgeous.
AND ALSO. The article we were discussing today, the one I DIDN'T READ, was about (ARGH) mythology, nationalism, and the COMMUNIST PURGES OF INDONESIA IN THE SIXTIES. AND I DIDN'T READ IT. 'COS ALL THE TITLE SAID WAS "Ideology as a Social Structure" so I was like, "Pah! I'll just focus on the ones about religion!" It should've been titled "All Things Relevant to Your Interests"! ARGH. I lost an opportunity to say something intelligennnnnnnnt when all this time I have felt... kind of dismissed. :(
BAH. BAH, I SAY.
So I am caught up on all seasons of the Tudors and there are things that I like about it (Princess Mary! Cromwell! Cranmer! political doublespeak! THE QUEEN OF SPAIN (and all Spain-related things)), and things that piss me off (HENRY). I wonder if they were making Henry an unsympathetic douchebag on purpose, 'cos I mean, granted, Henry VIII was a pretty huge douchebag. It's just that I can't get behind him as the heart and leading role of the story, because he's so petty and fickle and spoiled and generally horrible. I suppose we're meant to dislike him. So I guess it's a good thing that it's an ensemble cast.
I kind of have a giant crush on Cromwell and DAMN WASN'T IT HORRIBLE HOW HE DIED?! Francis Bryan is a cold motherfucker. But Cromwell is so great, because he's clever and two-faced when he needs to be, but also sincere about his Reformation (by the end? I'm not sure if he was in the beginning?), born so low and risen so high! And Cranmer and his stupid moral ground, augh <33. And Henry loved them both. Apparently Henry forever rued the execution of Cromwell, well GOOD.
And man, how fantastic is Sarah Bolger as Princess Mary, the subtleties of her emotions, of her strength and distress <33. And KATHERINE OF ARAGON, YOU'LL ALWAYS BE MY QUEEN.
I know very little about this historical period, I'll preface with that. So it's like, Henry is a puppet? And it's about the irony of how he's absolute monarch, and yet those around him take advantage of his impulsiveness to achieve their own ends. I wasn't sure what people really wanted in the beginning because everyone's so sneaky and kissing Henry's ass. When Cromwell was revealed to be actually serious about the Reformation (and not just using it as means to gain power), I was.. kind of surprised. Did he care all along, or did he eventually end up buying into his own masquerade? Like Anne Boleyn did.
The non-hanging execution scenes I kind of have to fast-forward through. Death by burning, death by BOILING?! Eek.
I watched The Tudors through the aftermath of race/genderfail, so I was especially sensitive to the rampant misogyny of the show. So my question is, what is the balance between portraying How Things Were and incorporating the feminism of our age? Thoughts?
I don't actually have that much to say. I think I might've ficced this show if the story weren't so damn convoluted. I wasn't really sure what episode I left off at last time, but then I realized it doesn't matter, because I don't care that much. They're on the way back to the island, or they're back on the island. Okay. I still ship Charlotte/Faraday (despite YOU KNOW), and Juliet/awesomeness and Sayid/hotttt.
Also, this is one of those shows that's like... It's like this one time, my friend and I were watching an episode, and she doesn't watch the show. I was going to explain to her what was happening, but I didn't need to, because Hurley and Ben were being Mr. Exposition all over the place. This show is more exposition than plot. Why do I still watch it?
Recs? Why not!
Tudors fic recs! It's all Charles Brandon, 'cos I guess Henry Cavill is pretty. But goddammit, I want some Cromwell fic. Some LADIES OF SPAIN fic!
Along the lines of crack, here is an Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot vid set to an improbable hip-hop song about Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot. (His name is Lancelot. He break dances a lot.) Here is a Merlin AU fic where they are dinosaur revolutionaries (and evolutionaries?!). And this next thing is not crack, it's just that her header graphics are gorgeous.