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Distracting myself with sapphic ladies
Feb. 15th, 2023 12:24 pmI posted my fic for an upcoming event a few days ago. It won’t be revealed until Friday, so we can still do edits, and I’ve been resisting the urge to just rewrite the whole thing. I’m mostly happy with it but I always get the feeling of “oh I missed what this fic was actually about” right after I post.
So for distraction… gay stuff.
I finally watched the Harley Quinn Valentine’s Day special (my reward for finishing the fic) and I loved the HarlIvy parts. I really like how the show always goes back to Harley and Ivy’s bad romantic histories and compares them to what they have now. Plus we got to see Arkham!era Ivy again. I have so many feelings about Ivy and Joker both claiming they saw Harley though the Harleen persona, but when Joker says it he means the Harley he created, and when Ivy says it she means the person Harley became.
I do wish the rest of this show more consistently lived up to the Harley and Ivy parts. Bane deserved a better plotline and Clayface… doesn’t, probably, but I deserved not to watch that.
I did like the little interview things they did with other characters. I will even accept the character assassination that is Clark Kent being a sports reporter.
I also finished Willow. I was very meh on it in the beginning but it won me over by the end and now I hope they get a second season. It’s an odd kind of show, because it’s framed as high fantasy, but it doesn’t fit with the other kinds of high fantasy being made right now. There’s not much effort in the worldbuilding and it doesn’t take itself too seriously in the plot. But it’s also not just a comedy, because it takes the emotions of the story extremely seriously. It’s very earnest and sincere. It’s also really heavily riding on the charm and chemistry of the cast, which is fine because they are all perfect and I would die for them.
I like Elora, even though she’s hitting every Chosen One trope hard. The actress sells it. I love Boorman. He’s played by Amar Chadha-Patel, who was supposed to be Ingtar on Wheel of Time (they renamed his character when he left the show to do this one), and honestly, it was the right decision. Boorman is mostly comic relief and he’s so good at it, WoT would have wasted him in a serious part. Oh, and Graydon, I love him too. Always got to like the nerd character.
But my favorite is Kit. I wish there were more Kits in fantasy. She thinks she’s the badass Strong Female Character but she’s actually just… kind of a mess? She’s not as good of a fighter as she thinks, she’s grumpy all the time, she has an inferiority complex, her love life is mostly a disaster. She’s very gay. Her whole motivation is saving her brother, and I’m a sucker for sibling relationships so that was nice. She’s perfect and her arc made me so happy this season.
So for distraction… gay stuff.
I finally watched the Harley Quinn Valentine’s Day special (my reward for finishing the fic) and I loved the HarlIvy parts. I really like how the show always goes back to Harley and Ivy’s bad romantic histories and compares them to what they have now. Plus we got to see Arkham!era Ivy again. I have so many feelings about Ivy and Joker both claiming they saw Harley though the Harleen persona, but when Joker says it he means the Harley he created, and when Ivy says it she means the person Harley became.
I do wish the rest of this show more consistently lived up to the Harley and Ivy parts. Bane deserved a better plotline and Clayface… doesn’t, probably, but I deserved not to watch that.
I did like the little interview things they did with other characters. I will even accept the character assassination that is Clark Kent being a sports reporter.
I also finished Willow. I was very meh on it in the beginning but it won me over by the end and now I hope they get a second season. It’s an odd kind of show, because it’s framed as high fantasy, but it doesn’t fit with the other kinds of high fantasy being made right now. There’s not much effort in the worldbuilding and it doesn’t take itself too seriously in the plot. But it’s also not just a comedy, because it takes the emotions of the story extremely seriously. It’s very earnest and sincere. It’s also really heavily riding on the charm and chemistry of the cast, which is fine because they are all perfect and I would die for them.
I like Elora, even though she’s hitting every Chosen One trope hard. The actress sells it. I love Boorman. He’s played by Amar Chadha-Patel, who was supposed to be Ingtar on Wheel of Time (they renamed his character when he left the show to do this one), and honestly, it was the right decision. Boorman is mostly comic relief and he’s so good at it, WoT would have wasted him in a serious part. Oh, and Graydon, I love him too. Always got to like the nerd character.
But my favorite is Kit. I wish there were more Kits in fantasy. She thinks she’s the badass Strong Female Character but she’s actually just… kind of a mess? She’s not as good of a fighter as she thinks, she’s grumpy all the time, she has an inferiority complex, her love life is mostly a disaster. She’s very gay. Her whole motivation is saving her brother, and I’m a sucker for sibling relationships so that was nice. She’s perfect and her arc made me so happy this season.
