Unpopular Opinion Friday
Maybe I should just have hatred empowers us as a tag. Because I clearly don't have enough.
It’s rather awkward when you run across conversations you’d really like to be involved in but … you aren’t, and even if it wouldn’t be inappropriate to butt in, it feels sort of pointless. So I’m just going to be passive-aggressive and declare this
UNPOPULAR OPINION FRIDAY
One per fandom or thing-I-participate-in-on-the-Internet.
(1) Persuasion is okay, but a bit rough and flawed.
(Whence comes Mrs Smith?)
(2) Padmé doesn’t die from childbirth. She isn't (...belatedly) killed by Anakin's Force-choke. She dies from losing the will to live. Yes, I know it sounds stupid, and no, that doesn't matter: it's what's in the movie, and therefore it's canon.
(Thus, when people blame her for her death, they’re not blaming her for blood loss/infection/suffocation/whatever, but for simply giving up. "You shouldn't blame women for dying in childbirth" is true, but not relevant.)
(3) Lily Evans is completely in the right in breaking off her friendship with Snape. Also, she's awesome.
(4) Guru Pathik isn't morally wrong, he's just incorrect.
(5) Temperance Brennan's Ziva-moments are not that unrealistic, native Anglophone or not.
(6) The Circle of Magic world-building is far superior to Tortall's.
(7) Susan Sto Helit got her Deathiness from both parents.
(8) Romana is still in E-space.
(9) The Elenium is far and away the best of the Eddings series, but Polgara is cooler than Sephrenia.
(10) The insistence that Disney ruined the Original One True Versions of fairy-tales is kind of hilarious.
(11) My biggest issue with porny het and slash is that there are too many dudes in them.
(12) Hades is kind of nice, as gods go.
(13) Wide Sargasso Sea is legitimately good, but representing Afro-Caribbean culture via a white girl is a bit wonky.
(14) Best Reasonable Authority Figure ever: Queen Angella.
(15) Fellowship was the best of the LOTR movies.
(16) At least one of the Pevensies probably married during their reign, and not to one of the others or local fauna (yes, including actual fauns). Peter/Cool Calormene Lady Who Is Nevertheless Nothing Like Aravis OTP!
(17) John of Lancaster > Falstaff
(18) Holmes/Watson is not actually canon.
(19) First Contact makes no sense for Picard's character.
(20) The Old Testament has some of the best female characters in anything ever.
(21) The secret behind the veil is a total cop-out.
(22) Marguerite Blakeney cannot seriously be the cleverest woman in Europe.
(23) Dickon is a painful Mary Sue.
(24) The best novel written by any of the Brontë sisters is The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
(25) Carmela is a teensy bit annoying.
(26) Ludicrous assertion of the week: nasty things that systematically happen to asexual people because they're asexual actually aren't happening because they're asexual, but are instead misogyny-meets-ableism and maybe a few other things but definitely not about asexuality. Yup, even when they happen to able-bodied asexual cismen.
It’s rather awkward when you run across conversations you’d really like to be involved in but … you aren’t, and even if it wouldn’t be inappropriate to butt in, it feels sort of pointless. So I’m just going to be passive-aggressive and declare this
UNPOPULAR OPINION FRIDAY
One per fandom or thing-I-participate-in-on-the-Internet.
(1) Persuasion is okay, but a bit rough and flawed.
(Whence comes Mrs Smith?)
(2) Padmé doesn’t die from childbirth. She isn't (...belatedly) killed by Anakin's Force-choke. She dies from losing the will to live. Yes, I know it sounds stupid, and no, that doesn't matter: it's what's in the movie, and therefore it's canon.
(Thus, when people blame her for her death, they’re not blaming her for blood loss/infection/suffocation/whatever, but for simply giving up. "You shouldn't blame women for dying in childbirth" is true, but not relevant.)
(3) Lily Evans is completely in the right in breaking off her friendship with Snape. Also, she's awesome.
(4) Guru Pathik isn't morally wrong, he's just incorrect.
(5) Temperance Brennan's Ziva-moments are not that unrealistic, native Anglophone or not.
(6) The Circle of Magic world-building is far superior to Tortall's.
(7) Susan Sto Helit got her Deathiness from both parents.
(8) Romana is still in E-space.
(9) The Elenium is far and away the best of the Eddings series, but Polgara is cooler than Sephrenia.
(10) The insistence that Disney ruined the Original One True Versions of fairy-tales is kind of hilarious.
(11) My biggest issue with porny het and slash is that there are too many dudes in them.
(12) Hades is kind of nice, as gods go.
(13) Wide Sargasso Sea is legitimately good, but representing Afro-Caribbean culture via a white girl is a bit wonky.
(14) Best Reasonable Authority Figure ever: Queen Angella.
(15) Fellowship was the best of the LOTR movies.
(16) At least one of the Pevensies probably married during their reign, and not to one of the others or local fauna (yes, including actual fauns). Peter/Cool Calormene Lady Who Is Nevertheless Nothing Like Aravis OTP!
(17) John of Lancaster > Falstaff
(18) Holmes/Watson is not actually canon.
(19) First Contact makes no sense for Picard's character.
(20) The Old Testament has some of the best female characters in anything ever.
(21) The secret behind the veil is a total cop-out.
(22) Marguerite Blakeney cannot seriously be the cleverest woman in Europe.
(23) Dickon is a painful Mary Sue.
(24) The best novel written by any of the Brontë sisters is The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
(25) Carmela is a teensy bit annoying.
(26) Ludicrous assertion of the week: nasty things that systematically happen to asexual people because they're asexual actually aren't happening because they're asexual, but are instead misogyny-meets-ableism and maybe a few other things but definitely not about asexuality. Yup, even when they happen to able-bodied asexual cismen.