i know exactly what i want and who i want to be;
Sometimes I just want to climb up on my university's rooftops and shout LESBIAAAAAAAAANS, just to see what'd turn up: a pissed-off security guard, or a love story.
In that vein: fem!Sherlock is unexpectedly difficult to write. Good to know, but fuck it. It was meant to study the ways the character might turn out as a woman, what changes it would bring to her life as compared to canon - which was somewhat inspired by CBS's decision to cast Lucy Liu as Elementary's Watson, and by fandom's reaction to it, to be honest - and instead it's slowly becoming a story about identity and the names we find for ourselves, which, I suppose, was only to be expected, considering that I'm still submerged in S2 identity meta. (It's now over 10K. FML.)
That said, try and tell me this video isn't AMAZING AS ALL HELL:
Apart from the, y'know, total and utter subversion of the usual fairytale clichés (which, by the way, is thoroughly amazing and feminist and I could babble on over this for ages), there's simply so much about this that should make it into ALL THE VIDEOS, EVER: these women are all of different races, and different sizes, different heights and body types, and none of them quite fits all the typical standards of beauty, but they're all thoroughly confident about themselves and gorgeous as hell for it. Jesus. Just look at them.
From the way they represent women to the way they alter the stories involved - Beauty dropping the good manners and letting herself go the same way the Beast does, the Mermaid not having to change herself for her prince's sake but getting her love story anyway, Cinderella telling her own prince and his shallow notions of what beauty is and isn't to shove it, among others - there's such a fantastic message in this, about the way we can flip clichés around, about positive relationships, and love, and confidence, and being who you want to become, instead of the person you're expected to be. I love it. I love it so much. Every story should be like this.
I may have been giddy about this since yesterday night. Feminist retellings of classical fairytales! I want this all day eeeeeevery day.
In that vein: fem!Sherlock is unexpectedly difficult to write. Good to know, but fuck it. It was meant to study the ways the character might turn out as a woman, what changes it would bring to her life as compared to canon - which was somewhat inspired by CBS's decision to cast Lucy Liu as Elementary's Watson, and by fandom's reaction to it, to be honest - and instead it's slowly becoming a story about identity and the names we find for ourselves, which, I suppose, was only to be expected, considering that I'm still submerged in S2 identity meta. (It's now over 10K. FML.)
That said, try and tell me this video isn't AMAZING AS ALL HELL:
Click to viewApart from the, y'know, total and utter subversion of the usual fairytale clichés (which, by the way, is thoroughly amazing and feminist and I could babble on over this for ages), there's simply so much about this that should make it into ALL THE VIDEOS, EVER: these women are all of different races, and different sizes, different heights and body types, and none of them quite fits all the typical standards of beauty, but they're all thoroughly confident about themselves and gorgeous as hell for it. Jesus. Just look at them.
From the way they represent women to the way they alter the stories involved - Beauty dropping the good manners and letting herself go the same way the Beast does, the Mermaid not having to change herself for her prince's sake but getting her love story anyway, Cinderella telling her own prince and his shallow notions of what beauty is and isn't to shove it, among others - there's such a fantastic message in this, about the way we can flip clichés around, about positive relationships, and love, and confidence, and being who you want to become, instead of the person you're expected to be. I love it. I love it so much. Every story should be like this.
I may have been giddy about this since yesterday night. Feminist retellings of classical fairytales! I want this all day eeeeeevery day.