a couple lists, because I'm strangely fried

[pocochina]

So I've had a suspiciously enjoyable week with Tumblr, which led to a shocking uptick in notes and....seven?! new follows in 48 hours. Which is cool but how did these people find me, people are reading my yapping and sending other people to read my yapping and WHO DID THE THING A MILLION YEARS DUNGEON!!

In seriousness, so far it's been pretty cool;

Comments

[pocochina]

I think her emotional unavailability and the way it's subtly handled by the text without making it an Oh Look, Emotional Unavailability is gorgeous.

AGREED. And I think it was really well-handled in that...that's a thing where it would've been VERY easy for me to just declare allegiance right there, lol. But the show didn't let me take the easy way out with her by erasing the impact it had on the people around her? Like, usually when emotional unavailability in women shows up in narratives, the "damage" to others is "you wound my pride by being too independent at me" (a la HIMYM), which just makes me more amorally protective. But I think Veronica's patterns - including her tendency to push to get people to disappoint her, and the power issues around her fascination with other people's emotional lives and vulnerabilities - were sometimes legitimately hurtful, in a way that kept her on the hook without eviscerating her.

the text neither castigates her for it and suggests that she will eventually learn to be more caring or something,

[lynnenne]

The reason for most of the other character constructions is often that narratives try to make out that male characters are powerful not because of their entrenched privileges (which is the legit truth about 80% of the time), but that the power is something inherent in them, that they're powerful because of themselves, because they have the skills which makes them so, not because the social structure often automatically places them at that position. And Klaus's narrative actively goes AGAINST that general tendency of characterization, he IS powerful because the supernatural structure so places him, and not for any other particular reason contingent on who he is.

I want to marry this comment and have its entrenched privileged werebabies.