Song Meme

[sunclouds33]

I'm doing the username song meme, from kikimay, beer_good_foamy and lokifan. Post one song for each letter in your username. I even spelled out the "thirty three".

Space Oddity: Starting this off with a tribute to the late, great David Bowie.
Union Maid: By Woody Guthrie, and special plaudits to the Judy Collins/Pete Seeger version. It's a song to practically cheer to! "Now

Comments

[sunclouds33]

But I think most of all, it fits into fandom's mistaken arguments about Willow just in BtVS. Forget the fandom comparison game. People really think that Willow sits on a tuffet making failed schemes mainly out of greediness, while not being enough of a doormat for Buffy or Cordy and having the nerve to see a slight as a slight or believing that she has the power to interpret dissent as defiance even though Willow's not even high status enough to even think in terms of dissent v. defiance most of the time.

I don't want to drag you down- but I've been thinking about it. At any rate, I positively compare the Handlebars video to that. I kind of demand lots of words to back up a harsh critique of Willow- if you're going to talk shit, than back it up. However obviously, visual art can be as valid a critique as written meta. However a long time spent matching up Willow's scenes to "Handlebars" fairly accurately in terms of lyrics to scene and taking the attitude above that Willow is an active participant in her own goals or more of a Walter White than a Cersei Lannister makes sense. Just posting random gifs with mis-attributed pictures and being all "Willow's varied lesbian romances can be just as perverse as Cersei/Jaime in the greedy for love section!" feels like hiding dumb ideas behind gif making skills and acting like because you put the time in to make the art, it means that you have something intelligent to say.

Hmm, I didn't really see the Cordelia one as a critique. It felt more like a celebration. But word to your comparison on Willow's and Cordelia's strength/weakness package.

[local_max]

Gonna eat dinner soon, but: the Cordelia one was obviously intended as a celebration, but if you author-is-dead it it totally reads the other way too. "Only thing I wanted was the world...."

Also absolutely that Willow is way more Walter White than Cersei Lannister in terms of method, motivations, strengths, weaknesses etc. -- independent of where they actual score in the evilmeter.