Return of the beads!
I've made and worn my first attempt at a Mags bracelet. I got the ends tied right this time, and because of the shape and color of some of the shells, I was even able to conceal the knot. I might do another one later because, while I think this one looks pretty nice, I'm not sure it's awesome enough to represent Mags. Anyway, FUCK YEAH, MAGS! Also, stringing seashells together was more challenging than I had expected it to be.
Speaking of fannish things, I am really torn on whether or not I should see The Hunger Games and Brave in theaters. I have way too much emotional investment in the former: if the movie doesn't do justice to the book, I'll walk out raging, and if it does, I'll walk out sobbing. I have a lot of concerns about the latter, both because of behind-the-scenes stuff (specifically, the firing of the woman who was originally in charge of it and who had envisioned it as "a mother-daughter story" and replacing her with a man, combined with rumors this was done over fears that she was making it too female-centric to appeal to a mixed audience) and because the content I'm seeing in trailers has me worried about what was done to make the final product seem less cootieful to that all-important audience of boys. My early adolescence largely revolved around stories about feisty, tomboyish, red-haired daddy's girls who were great at archery and hated formal wear and were SO MUCH BETTER than all the other girls and women, including all those dull, rigid, prissy mothers who were always always cheerleading for patriarchy and conformity. I'm over it. And yet, I know that if these movies are hugely successful, there will be a pretty good chance of getting more movies in which girls do stuff other than get rescued, and if they're not hugely successful, we can pretty much kiss female main characters in action movies and animated movies good-bye for years to come. And they do have to be hugely successful. Remember, The Princess and the Frog was moderately successful, and yet the fact that it wasn't a mega hit on the level The Little Mermaid and The Lion King was used as an excuse for de-centering Rapunzel from her own story and even changing the title to obscure that it was based on a story about a girl.
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Speaking of fannish things, I am really torn on whether or not I should see The Hunger Games and Brave in theaters. I have way too much emotional investment in the former: if the movie doesn't do justice to the book, I'll walk out raging, and if it does, I'll walk out sobbing. I have a lot of concerns about the latter, both because of behind-the-scenes stuff (specifically, the firing of the woman who was originally in charge of it and who had envisioned it as "a mother-daughter story" and replacing her with a man, combined with rumors this was done over fears that she was making it too female-centric to appeal to a mixed audience) and because the content I'm seeing in trailers has me worried about what was done to make the final product seem less cootieful to that all-important audience of boys. My early adolescence largely revolved around stories about feisty, tomboyish, red-haired daddy's girls who were great at archery and hated formal wear and were SO MUCH BETTER than all the other girls and women, including all those dull, rigid, prissy mothers who were always always cheerleading for patriarchy and conformity. I'm over it. And yet, I know that if these movies are hugely successful, there will be a pretty good chance of getting more movies in which girls do stuff other than get rescued, and if they're not hugely successful, we can pretty much kiss female main characters in action movies and animated movies good-bye for years to come. And they do have to be hugely successful. Remember, The Princess and the Frog was moderately successful, and yet the fact that it wasn't a mega hit on the level The Little Mermaid and The Lion King was used as an excuse for de-centering Rapunzel from her own story and even changing the title to obscure that it was based on a story about a girl.
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