I reblog this every time I see it, because the part that makes this so horrific to me, is that the room is a direct callback to Goodnight Moon. It takes this memory of safety and security and turns it directly upside down and I love it.
Noooooooo! I am a total wimp! (Actually, in real life, I am brave. Just don’t bring it into my bedtime stories!)
“You want to know what the Captain really whispered to me that day? He told me that my true Iove was right in front of my eyes. And he was right.” Stardust (2007) dir. Matthew Vaughn
Aww, I’m sorry… and you’re welcome. 😛 Yes, I’ve lived in the Bay Area all my life. I think my favorite bookstore in this area is one I just discovered earlier this year: Owl & Company Bookshop in Oakland.
tbh nothing frustrates me more then when people brush off classics like pride and prejudice or jane eyre because they don’t fit into today’s modern standards of feminism and social justice etc.
remember that these novels were published in the 19th century. and that some of the things that were written in these books may seem trivial to us today but would have absolutely fucking shook readers in the victorian era
like,,,,,elizabeth rejecting mr collins because she doesn’t love him even though it would have been considered her duty in her family to marry him? or jane eyre not agreeing to marry mr rochester unless it was on her own terms? hell even anne brontë wrote a lesser known novel about a wife leaving her abusive husband with her five year old son to live a better life?? do y’all realize how unheard of that would be in the 1800′s?? where women were considered more of a commodity than actual human beings??
even though they might not be up to todays standards of modern feminism and romance, they were still HUGE building blocks for equality for that time period. so if you’re a reader who says to themselves ‘I read classics with modern standards applied and I can’t get past that’ then you are most likely going to be disappointed when reading classics and not fully understand their significance to that time period
Resulta que escribiendo sobre la nueva versión de She-Ra, me enteré que su showrunner es una artista muy joven que se hizo conocida online hace unos años por una serie de viñetas sobre los personajes de Tolkien reinterpretados como hipsters modernos.
Me gustó tanto el concepto que los busqué y recopilé algunos acá abajo, porque es una de esas joyas de internet que vale la pena rescatar.
La comunidad entera
En un agujero en el suelo vivía Frodo.
Con su tío Bilbo
Hipster Arwen
Papi Elrond no aprueba que salga con mortales como Aragorn
Los hombres de Gondor se bancan
Obvio que los Rohirim son una banda de motoqueros
Eowyn siempre es todo lo que está bien
Faramir en la friendzone
Y Boromir un banana
Saruman es el seguidor número 1 de Sauron
Grima igual de stalker.
La dinámica entre Legolas y Gimli es perfecta.
Merry & Pippin (y Barbol)
Los Nazgul siempre tan siniestros
Sam peleando con Gollum
Galadriel y Celeborn son el rey y la reina hippies
Y también hay de “El Hobbit” (especialmente con Thranduil)
Excursión a las Montañas Nubladas (Legolas no se hunde en la nieve)
Legolas, ¿qué ve tu iPhone? (Atenti al detalle de la van)
Pueden ver algunos más en su blog, que ya no actualiza porque ahora trabaja en las grandes ligas, pero quedaron archivados (tiene incluso toda la secuencia de Gandalf luchando con el Balrog en Moria, es brillante).
Si les gustó, ¡recomienden!
This is fun. Even if it is totally movieverse (!).
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