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tireless defender of world-weary matriarchs, ice queens, broken birds, and femmes fatales
emotionally compromised by found families, blood ties, and fire-forged friends
This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
@swanlaurences sorry my little x-kit kitten got in the way of your question lol! it’s nice to hear from you. I get so few questions these days, with all the shows I regularly post meta about either on hiatus or no longer compelling enough for me to engage with (and in that case that usually means I’ve stopped watching them bc I’m pissed about something…usually female character-related lol).
Good luck with that! I would rather not even try to fix the mess the show has made bc of all the gross ways they twisted george and elizabeth as characters to get there, but I support your endeavor. I prefer the AUs where none of that shit even happens, and thankfully @chocksawaychaps/ @letterfromtrenwith and @upstartpoodle (among other users maybe) have written plenty of those. I have sadly gotten behind on reading their well-written and lushly appointed stories and would like to catch up…I know I’ve said that many times; hopefully I have the time and emotional constitution to do that now, and revist my own fics for george and elizabeth, who I can only write about in contexts where they are both alive, happy, and together.
im sorry but george sitting around w/ his shirt open in s1 ep1 is sexier than anything ross the character ever did, season 1 to the present including that dumbass stocking scene to “make up” for being a truly horrible husband…george doesn’t even have to do anything to outrank ross here he just has to exist
im sorry but george sitting around w/ his shirt open in s1 ep1 is sexier than anything ross the character ever did, season 1 to the present including that dumbass stocking scene to “make up” for being a truly horrible husband…george doesn’t even have to do anything to outrank ross here he just has to exist
Okay so I stopped watching Pold//k after R raped E but I just saw the scene where they make up & I’m cringing at how bad this is. I mean, Ross is being so creepily chummy and chill as if he’s talking to an old friend and not the woman he raped. It’s just very odd how he says, ‘you think me a monster? to injure the woman I once loved!’ as if it’s so distant and his obsession with her didn’t destroy her? And to top it off he causally suggests she induce another early pregnancy. I hate him lol.
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he’s godawful and there isn’t a single character on this earth I loathe more; I’m not even exaggerating. the extent to which the books and the show both make him out as a hero when he’s actually backwards in every way - a rapist with a workingman messiah complex that actual human beings in any day and age would never buy given the condescending nature of his methods and the way he views anyone who aspires to rise above their place as he sees it. he’s everything bad about period drama and a very particular brand of British classism that still rears its ugly head in a lot of contemporary period dramas. I’ve never felt so empty and broken in response to a tv drama than I felt after realizing what the show was going to do with Elizabeth and George and her relationship with her son (making him idolize his mother’s rapist who is barely in his life anyway which is something even the books did not do). Now that I’m more active I want to continue the fics I posted pieces of and check up on everyone else’s work but it’s been hard bc thinking about the show for a long time made me physically ill. It doesn’t help that I had my own horrible experience with a man trying to pressure me into something since then - though thankfully things turned out much better for me than they did for Elizabeth.
It’s been a while since I’ve ranted about how disgustingly misogynistic and rapey Poldark is (and the show since season 3 has decidedly become as bad and sometimes worse than the books in that respect) but in retrospect I could’ve just copy-pasted this exchange between Mac, Dennis, and Cricket from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia s4 ep11, “The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell” that describes exactly how Ross behaves:
“I wish to court her in some manner, and I could use your help because I’m not, admittedly, very good with women.” “Good with women? You mean good at women? Like, you can’t catch them when they run away from you? Bro, it’s 1776. They don’t have any rights. You can just take them and force them to do whatever you want.” “I do not wish to take her. I would like to win her favor, like a gentleman does a lady.” “That just does not compute with me.” “I don’t understand what you’re saying. Digging the accent, but don’t understand you.” “Are you saying you’re gay?”
