Pink and blue
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beccaelizabethToday I have been reading about the color pink (the word is named after the flower! flower pinks were first! other european languages all call it roses!)
and poisonous flowers
to choose girls' names.
... there are a surprising number of very toxic girls' names.
This is because I can't call her Foxglove in every story, unless we're going with fanfic conventions where you can reset with the same characters every time, which come to think is perfectly worky, just unusual outside that context.
She's called Foxglove in the story where she's working with a druid with a favourite four leg shape. It is A Funny.
But everywhere else she also starts out naming herself pretty and toxic
so, flowers list.
Other than that vague noodling I have been reading until I'm nearly caught up on F&SF magazine.
Lots of stories, not much to say about most of them.
I am stalled right now because I hit my limit on how often I want to read a character called 'it' because of perfectly normal human variation.
The story already told us the characters are going to get Horrible Consequences, but I needed a break before they got them.
Yesterday I tried to remind youtube what I actually use it for (having started it to find only sports and baking, two topics I have never shown interest in once)
so I ended up finding a bunch of new to me Reverse Flash vids
and gave myself feels about Eobard Thawne again.
The designated villain and the destined/cyclical fall
vs the hero who can do no wrong, due to his amazing ability to always blame it on the villain...
I know the story they are trying to tell about/with Thawne, I'm just fed up of it.
When I say stuff like that I then feel the need to mention
killing people: a bad thing.
like, I am fully aware of his flaws,
but he's drawn that way
and that's what I'm mad about.
only some characters ever get a way out.
So then I watched a bunch of Methos vids, because if his story was told in order,
designated villain much?
but we meet him when he's cute grad student guy
so it is An Surprise
when he goes blue.
He gets a much better story:
of course he can change
he already did.
More stories like that
show us the ways out.
... see also Leverage.
Better ways.
and poisonous flowers
to choose girls' names.
... there are a surprising number of very toxic girls' names.
This is because I can't call her Foxglove in every story, unless we're going with fanfic conventions where you can reset with the same characters every time, which come to think is perfectly worky, just unusual outside that context.
She's called Foxglove in the story where she's working with a druid with a favourite four leg shape. It is A Funny.
But everywhere else she also starts out naming herself pretty and toxic
so, flowers list.
Other than that vague noodling I have been reading until I'm nearly caught up on F&SF magazine.
Lots of stories, not much to say about most of them.
I am stalled right now because I hit my limit on how often I want to read a character called 'it' because of perfectly normal human variation.
The story already told us the characters are going to get Horrible Consequences, but I needed a break before they got them.
Yesterday I tried to remind youtube what I actually use it for (having started it to find only sports and baking, two topics I have never shown interest in once)
so I ended up finding a bunch of new to me Reverse Flash vids
and gave myself feels about Eobard Thawne again.
The designated villain and the destined/cyclical fall
vs the hero who can do no wrong, due to his amazing ability to always blame it on the villain...
I know the story they are trying to tell about/with Thawne, I'm just fed up of it.
When I say stuff like that I then feel the need to mention
killing people: a bad thing.
like, I am fully aware of his flaws,
but he's drawn that way
and that's what I'm mad about.
only some characters ever get a way out.
So then I watched a bunch of Methos vids, because if his story was told in order,
designated villain much?
but we meet him when he's cute grad student guy
so it is An Surprise
when he goes blue.
He gets a much better story:
of course he can change
he already did.
More stories like that
show us the ways out.
... see also Leverage.
Better ways.
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Date: 2021-09-25 01:47 pm (UTC)I was young, and attached to Darius.
Now, looking at it more maturely, I can admit it was a good way of piecing his past out through the flashbacks.
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Date: 2021-09-26 08:47 am (UTC)I guess I dont see it as taking things, because there's more of a compare/contrast in my mind? Like Darius got a religious revelation sort of story, and Methos is more secular.
It was a great Drama theme either way.