Happy New Year, friends and listers!
I felt like posting about the new Sherlock, but I haven't actually watched it yet - I'm struck in that awkward rut where you REALLY WANT TO WATCH but also don't want to ruin a moderately good thing.
So, instead, I've been making a list of 15 Favourite Characters Ever and let me tell you, it was very harrrrd.
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Briony, okay. I said she keeps growing beyond the scope of her own narrative, and her narrative is the Teenage Girl Who Hates Herself, and we don't mean in the polite Cosmo-approved way. Like, hates her personality, hates her past, her relationships, her talents. It's kind of breathtakingly horrible, because that's a thing that exists too - she sees her own vanity and snark and judges them fiercely, and doesn't even get around to judging people around her, because she's too busy judging herself. And the thing is, you're in her head, you see her reasons, you start thinking she has a point.
Right, henceforth lie SPOILERS;
basically her entire story is the gradual undoing of this, bigtime learning to be loved - it's the most gratuitious but meaningful spree of You ARE Awesome; You DO Deserve Tenderness. There are so many times she thinks all she wants to do is crumble down and heal, let someone else be her caretaker for once (she doesn't just hate herself, she also sees herself as the Caretaker and is basically stuck with that), and it happens, slowly, slowly. By people who see her, understand her struggles, her hatred, everything, and accept it all, and love her anyway and tell her so.
And slowly, slowly, slowly, she grows able to believe it.
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*reads*
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My BFF recced it saying IT'S THE BEST THING EVER, THE HEROINE HATES HERSELF SO MUCH, and I was like UM, but oh god Briony's self-hatred really is one of the best-written things in my life, the precise spirals of mixed vanity and snark and self-contempt.
Also, the ships. And the sisters. And the h/c. And the boooy. Heh, it's got a lot of both our id's doesn't it?
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thank you ♥
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E's pointed out it's basically sex-swapped Beauty and the Beast, which adds a whole new layer, especially to Rose. (Rose = the rose, of course, protected in a belljar and the key to Briony's monsterhood.)
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