Fandomaid for Nepal
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fandomaid appeal for Nepal. I've got two offers for both fic and beta-ing up (my fic offers were all taken while I was typing this entry up!), and there are tonnes of awesome offers going up! Donate to the Red Cross/Doctors without Borders etc. and get fandom goodies as an extra thank you for helping out those in need. It's a total win/win scenario!
Season finale for Poldark today. I have a bad feeling about this.
One of the things that has bothered me since 1x04 is that Ross Poldark sees his marriage to Demelza as a kind of redemptive love? And while all his declarations seem romantic, I'm pretty sure it's all going to go sideways now that she's fallen off his pedestal. And it's just like... why is this such a constant theme in romance? I am actively starting to HATE romances that are set up to redeem bad boys. Like, how ludicrous does this sound when gender flipped: Will the love of a good man will cure a woman of her reckless, dastardly ways? TUNE IN TO FIND OUT.
Also the misogyny makes me squirmmmmm and I'm not sure it's done to simply be historically accurate? Maybe I'm too spoiled by the way Reign is written-- like the awareness of misogyny comes shining through, even if the female characters must act and think in ways constrained by it. Like why is Demelza squarely blamed for the smelter's house of cards collapsing when the real fault lies in Francis spilling names he'd seen in Ross' paperwork? Why is his betrayal somehow justifiable and expected because she'd set up Verity's marriage? The framing in this is that yes, she set the whole thing in motion so she is absolutely at fault despite her actions being in something utterly unrelated. (And why the hell was Ross looking at these sensitive documents in a cafe? Is he really fault-free in all this? Especially when he knew the risks of defying the Warleggans going in?)
Ross also feels horrifically worried about Mark's fate and therefore takes crazy risks to save him from the law. This I find plausible-- he cares more for someone he has known his whole life than a woman from outside the community who drew gossip and suspicion; he's done something outlawish similar before (and his friend still lost his life). But a murdered woman is not in any way equal to poached birds? Like...? (Or maybe it is, and I am just deluding myself. Like we birds just lay eggs amirite.) What really grates is the way Innis worries more about how he had "wronged" Mark (by giving in to her advances) than feeling the woman he slept with hours ago deserves some justice for BEING MURDERED?
Basically this exchange sums up my feelings:
fandomaid appeal for Nepal. I've gotSeason finale for Poldark today.
One of the things that has bothered me since 1x04 is that Ross Poldark sees his marriage to Demelza as a kind of redemptive love? And while all his declarations seem romantic, I'm pretty sure it's all going to go sideways now that she's fallen off his pedestal. And it's just like... why is this such a constant theme in romance? I am actively starting to HATE romances that are set up to redeem bad boys. Like, how ludicrous does this sound when gender flipped: Will the love of a good man will cure a woman of her reckless, dastardly ways? TUNE IN TO FIND OUT.
Also the misogyny makes me squirmmmmm and I'm not sure it's done to simply be historically accurate? Maybe I'm too spoiled by the way Reign is written-- like the awareness of misogyny comes shining through, even if the female characters must act and think in ways constrained by it. Like why is Demelza squarely blamed for the smelter's house of cards collapsing when the real fault lies in Francis spilling names he'd seen in Ross' paperwork? Why is his betrayal somehow justifiable and expected because she'd set up Verity's marriage? The framing in this is that yes, she set the whole thing in motion so she is absolutely at fault despite her actions being in something utterly unrelated. (And why the hell was Ross looking at these sensitive documents in a cafe? Is he really fault-free in all this? Especially when he knew the risks of defying the Warleggans going in?)
Ross also feels horrifically worried about Mark's fate and therefore takes crazy risks to save him from the law. This I find plausible-- he cares more for someone he has known his whole life than a woman from outside the community who drew gossip and suspicion; he's done something outlawish similar before (and his friend still lost his life). But a murdered woman is not in any way equal to poached birds? Like...? (Or maybe it is, and I am just deluding myself. Like we birds just lay eggs amirite.) What really grates is the way Innis worries more about how he had "wronged" Mark (by giving in to her advances) than feeling the woman he slept with hours ago deserves some justice for BEING MURDERED?
Basically this exchange sums up my feelings:
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ETA: saw the finale, and they didn't burn the whole thing down... but maybe they should have? Like isn't that the emotionally honest move? Who TF is Mother Theresa when their baby dies, like srsly. I WOULDN'T BE.
ETA: saw the finale, and they didn't burn the whole thing down... but maybe they should have? Like isn't that the emotionally honest move? Who TF is Mother Theresa when their baby dies, like srsly. I WOULDN'T BE.
