i walk the world in a skin so thin

[musesfool]

I got my period yesterday and it was one of those times where it felt like my ability to think had ground to a halt. Just a really bad case of the dumb. Today I feel so much more alert and able to function.

I did manage to write a cute little Arrow story though:

We'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more (@ AO3Arrow; Felicity, Oliver, Diggle; g;

Comments

[flaming_muse]

I'm with you on Sleepy Hollow. I enjoy the show very much, but that's because of Ichabod and Abbie and everything that is delightful about them. I don't know why we aren't getting Irving and Jenny more, I like Henry being evil, I really don't trust Katrina but don't even know if I'm supposed to, and I'm a little wary of whatever the arcs are for the season. I would like it to feel tighter and more purposeful instead of monster of the week.

But I still really enjoy it, which is saying something, because usually if a show made me question what it was doing this much I would be less engaged while watching it. The chemistry is out of this world; I just love watching them.

[musesfool]

I'm still enjoying it, but I feel like it could be so much BETTER - and it doesn't need to add anything, it just needs to go back to using what it already has!

[flaming_muse]

Exactly! The mythology and characters are all there! I feel like it got caught in the second season trap of adding more characters and stuff when it really didn't need to. I was actually surprised by it, because unlike so many shows it really was set up to keep doing a lot of what it was doing. Sure, the season's big bad had to be slightly different, but as Witnesses with their various enemies it seems like they could have just kept on being a tight show with tight characters.

[musesfool]

Yeah, I mean, they added Jenny and Irving to the main cast! Why did they not keep them in the action instead of foisting Hawley on us? I don't mind Reyes so much because she doesn't show up that often, and they do need some connection to the sheriff's department, but it feels like in trying to expand the cast, they went in completely the wrong direction.

[barkley]

Yup, I am firmly in that cult. Love her!

[musesfool]

She's awesome! <3

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm right there with you on sleepy hollow. no one wants a hawley/abbie/jenny love triangle except apparently the ptb. altho i read somewhere someone's theory that it's a studio decision, because it seems like the kind of stupid, boring, conventional plot contrivance that studio suits would insist on. but i don't know if that's true or not. in any case, hawley is a plot device more than a person - and since the show already had an artifact-finder in jenny, i don't know why the ptb needed someone else to do that - and the love triangle thing is totally forced and seems to work its way into pretty much every one of abbie's interations with anyone. which, ugh. the best i can say is that she doesn't seem nearly as interested in him as he is in her

[viridian5]

It might be, but since the necklace makes her see Headless as a normal living man, I'm thinking the necklace is also making her see the Moloch thing as a cute human baby when actually it's horrifying.

[tsuki_no_bara]

that's what i thought too. i mean, we saw it as a demon baby, and then she looked at it and it was adorable and human. and you'd think she'd remember the whole conversation about henry needing the succubus to help birth a baby moloch, and so wouldn't be quite so taken with the kid.

[musesfool]

I think the necklace both puts a glamor on things (so she sees Abraham and the baby instead of Headless and Moloch) and possibly messes with her head in other ways, too? It could be two things. But as much as I hate that they even brought it up, they did say she felt linked to fetus!Moloch, so that could be activated too.

[viridian5]

Hawley is so blond that I can't help wondering if there were racist reasons for including him so prominently in the show while also setting Jenny and Irving aside.

[musesfool]

Oh, I would not be at all surprised if they were like, yeah, we got kudos on having a diverse cast so now we can just add white dudes! I don't even think they necessarily intend to be overtly racist, but that is how it comes off.

[musesfool]

*nod nod*

That makes sense to me. It does seem like they made the trains run on time, after all, at least in the larger, more central systems.