I'm bulletproof, nothing to lose/fire away, fire away/I am titanium
Alternative subject line: in which Cleo flipped her shit so hard she just had to write about it.
Ok, I know I haven't journalled in ages and there are about 800 things I COULD be talking about but really briefly I NEED to freak out (some more) over this vid. Go watch it, it's 4 minutes, I'll wait.
(No seriously, please go watch it, it's Wonder Woman, WHO DOESN'T LOVE WONDER WOMAN?)
I was at Vidukon this weekend, it was AMAZING and brilliant fun but this vid was easily the highlight for me. I can't remember what I was doing with my life when Festivids went live this year but I basically missed whatever Cara and Cathryn didn't show me, and they didn't show me this one. As far as I can tell, for their own amusement, but anyway.
I've been meaning to watch the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman for AGES, funnily enough because of another vid, and not got round to it, and I'd really only seen a tiny bit of it, so when the vid started I was excited but mostly to see more of the source. I kind of lost it a bit around the first chorus because...I don't know, because it's basically live action She-Ra? And like, I ADORED She-Ra and Jem when I was wee and basically feel like my teens and twenties have been a quest in where are all the women with alter egos OMG and why do we get stuck with endless Batman and Superman when we could have She-ra and Jem and Wonder Woman...not even instead, just AS WELL AS. Like seriously, I've been SO CROSS at the existence of the new Superman movie because WHERE IS MY WONDER WOMAN MOVIE DAMNIT because how great would it be? THIS VID is how great it would be. So there. Not that this is new to ANYONE still reading my ramblings but just, ugh, my heart, why. While I'm wishing for things I want a live action She-ra movie as well.
And it's just...I LOVE superheroes and superhero movies but I can't think of any like Wonder Woman, that get to be the main only hero. Except She-ra. Like all the other women I love and am familiar with in this sort of context come in teams. The X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers. And obv I know the Black Widow has her own storylines but it's...another kind of hero. To be like fair and good and noble and perfect and superhuman and well...Super Man. I guess there's Super Girl? But then she's Super GIRL, not Wonder Woman.
Argh. I'm not explaining well. I just, I don't know, the image of Adora running off to transform and then coming back as She-ra and more often than not rescuing herself is formative (and I know I'm not alone there) so seeing another woman doing the same just gave me this lovely feeling of coming home and yes THIS is my superheroes and yes, I don't know.
Plus Alex loved Wonder Woman so anything related makes me think of her and I feel like an idiot for not watching the show while she was still alive and she would love this vid, omg. Likewise my new Wonder Woman bra and my Wonder Woman t-shirt.
Like IDK, I am actually kind of bemused by this reaction cuz WW was never my thing, it was Alex's, and it was a thing I LOVED about her and I got her lots of WW stuff over the years and she showed me a lot of stuff (when I went to visit her before she died we spent a morning watching the 2009 animated movie in a hospital while she had a blood transfusion) but it was never my thing, She-ra was, but I think it's finally clicked how given HOW MUCH I love She-ra THIS IS AN OBVIOUS CHOICE.
I don't know, their outfits are the same, and their hair, and their tiaras, and the way they change, and even their backstories a bit and they have alter egos WHO LOOK JUST LIKE THEM except minus tiaras and with different hair but everyone is MYSTERIOUSLY BLIND on this topic, and are all noble amazing princesses and yes. They should team up and fight crime.
(It's so bedtime. I'll just watch the vid once more.)
Ok, I know I haven't journalled in ages and there are about 800 things I COULD be talking about but really briefly I NEED to freak out (some more) over this vid. Go watch it, it's 4 minutes, I'll wait.
(No seriously, please go watch it, it's Wonder Woman, WHO DOESN'T LOVE WONDER WOMAN?)
I was at Vidukon this weekend, it was AMAZING and brilliant fun but this vid was easily the highlight for me. I can't remember what I was doing with my life when Festivids went live this year but I basically missed whatever Cara and Cathryn didn't show me, and they didn't show me this one. As far as I can tell, for their own amusement, but anyway.
I've been meaning to watch the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman for AGES, funnily enough because of another vid, and not got round to it, and I'd really only seen a tiny bit of it, so when the vid started I was excited but mostly to see more of the source. I kind of lost it a bit around the first chorus because...I don't know, because it's basically live action She-Ra? And like, I ADORED She-Ra and Jem when I was wee and basically feel like my teens and twenties have been a quest in where are all the women with alter egos OMG and why do we get stuck with endless Batman and Superman when we could have She-ra and Jem and Wonder Woman...not even instead, just AS WELL AS. Like seriously, I've been SO CROSS at the existence of the new Superman movie because WHERE IS MY WONDER WOMAN MOVIE DAMNIT because how great would it be? THIS VID is how great it would be. So there. Not that this is new to ANYONE still reading my ramblings but just, ugh, my heart, why. While I'm wishing for things I want a live action She-ra movie as well.
And it's just...I LOVE superheroes and superhero movies but I can't think of any like Wonder Woman, that get to be the main only hero. Except She-ra. Like all the other women I love and am familiar with in this sort of context come in teams. The X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers. And obv I know the Black Widow has her own storylines but it's...another kind of hero. To be like fair and good and noble and perfect and superhuman and well...Super Man. I guess there's Super Girl? But then she's Super GIRL, not Wonder Woman.
Argh. I'm not explaining well. I just, I don't know, the image of Adora running off to transform and then coming back as She-ra and more often than not rescuing herself is formative (and I know I'm not alone there) so seeing another woman doing the same just gave me this lovely feeling of coming home and yes THIS is my superheroes and yes, I don't know.
Plus Alex loved Wonder Woman so anything related makes me think of her and I feel like an idiot for not watching the show while she was still alive and she would love this vid, omg. Likewise my new Wonder Woman bra and my Wonder Woman t-shirt.
Like IDK, I am actually kind of bemused by this reaction cuz WW was never my thing, it was Alex's, and it was a thing I LOVED about her and I got her lots of WW stuff over the years and she showed me a lot of stuff (when I went to visit her before she died we spent a morning watching the 2009 animated movie in a hospital while she had a blood transfusion) but it was never my thing, She-ra was, but I think it's finally clicked how given HOW MUCH I love She-ra THIS IS AN OBVIOUS CHOICE.
I don't know, their outfits are the same, and their hair, and their tiaras, and the way they change, and even their backstories a bit and they have alter egos WHO LOOK JUST LIKE THEM except minus tiaras and with different hair but everyone is MYSTERIOUSLY BLIND on this topic, and are all noble amazing princesses and yes. They should team up and fight crime.
(It's so bedtime. I'll just watch the vid once more.)