Media
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‘Tis The Season For Hallmark
It is Hallmark movie season! And it has been for a while, but I’ve only just got back into it now that I am in medical isolation for about three to four months. Already, I’ve ticked off a number of this year’s Countdown To Christmas offerings (small rec list going up on YouTube next week) and am excited to watch the rest, and some older offerings as well. In the past few years, Hallmark has been taking a turn away from the same stories of the past they are still remembered for. The same white, heterosexual romances where someone gives up their success for someone else, or a Grinch has…
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More Literary Adaptations And Why I Love Them
It may no longer be the season – or trend – for vlog-style retellings of classic novels anymore (though some of my favourites still hold up), but it doesn’t mean webseries adaptations have stopped. Instead, they’ve turned into mini-TV shows in their own rights, and I cannot say I’m displeased by this. This year, two adaptations have come to a close, the story coming to their natural ends, and I’m still in awe at the levels of production they have both put forth. Never let it be said that webseries are not professional forms of media in their own rights. I have read neither of the classics they are based…
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Some Of My Favourite Things: Book-To-Screen Adaptations
I recently (finally) finished watching the first season of The Wheel Of Time. As I eagerly wait for season 2, I began to think about adaptations and how they are received by fans of the original source material. It is safe to say no adaptation is above criticism. There is always someone who will find some flaw, some thing to nitpick and complain about. I know I have done the same. Even then, fans always want to see their favourite books translated onto the screen. There have been so many adaptations over the years. As long as movies and shows have been made, there has been someone interested in taking…
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About Fandom Discourse
The full title of this post was actually going to be ‘About Fandom Discourse and Why I Try To Avoid It’. So while I’ve cut that down for the graphic and header, I will basically only be talking about fandom discourse as it pertains to arguments with people primarily on Tumblr which is the platform I am most active on. Specifically discourse in the fandoms I’m a little more active in. The biggest thing I’ve noticed about fandom discourse is that many times – most of the time – people rarely argue in good faith. When I say people, I mean those people who will jump on (usually correctly tagged)…
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Hallmark Presents; December Movie Rec List
We have officially rung in the New Year. And I am still watching feel-good Hallmark and Lifetime movies. I don’t think this particular hobby is going anywhere any time soon. Hallmark’s Countdown To Christmas and Miracles Of Christmas events drew to a close in the second last weekend of December 2022. It took me a while to sit down and watch the ones I’d wanted to, but now that I have, I’m back with part two of my recommendation list! You can find part one, covering the first half of the holiday events, here. Movies marked with ‘*’ are movies that lived up to my (quite high) expectations. Movies marked…
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Hallmark Presents; A 2022 Movie Rec List
Earlier this year, when I came down with Covid, I wrote a post about how I was watching a lot of Hallmark movies. This has not really changed. For the past few months, I have been watching so many of these feel good, predictable movies because – as much fun as Netflix romcoms can be – Hallmark (and Lifetime) movies have an earnestness most Netflix movies lack. They laugh with you, even the ones that are genre aware, never at you. And because I’ve been talking about this A LOT with friends, some of them have asked me for recommendations for the days when you just want a pick me…
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Unreliable Narrators
I’ve been putting off writing this post for a little while. It’s more literary than my usual posts, I suppose. I remember once writing an essay about this topic! But the thing is, in one of my fandom spaces especially, people seem to completely be missing the point that the main character of the series is an unreliable narrator and biased. A mix of Main Character Bias (Protagonist Syndrome) and Unreliable Narrators leads to, well, a mess of a fandom. It is not fun. So I thought, why not talk and break down a little of what makes an unreliable narrator unreliable? Why not bring up two characters who are…
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Feel Good; The Hallmark Way
And I thought I had been doing so well too. I suppose that tells me not to pat myself on the back too quickly, huh? My impromptu two week break started because of what will go down as one of the worst weeks of my life. Testing positive for Covid, only for my youngest to fall sick while I was in isolation? Horrible feeling, unable to care for her, unable to go with her to the hospital. On top of that, the same day she was hospitalised, my grandfather passed. Yeah, horrible week, really. But things are looking up. My grandfather was not well for a long time, and he’s…
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;the hero’s journey vs. the heroine’s journey
A few years ago, I did my Masters in Creative Writing, and as part of it, had to break down the tropes and pitfalls present in the fantasy genre – the genre I was writing in – for it. I never thought of presenting that on the blog, but a while back, I was thinking on it again. And I thought, why not? Did you know that there is a difference between the Hero’s journey and the Heroine’s journey? Until I started this research, I sure didn’t! The traditional Hero’s Journey is when the (generally) male protagonist is called upon to act in a secondary world, usually of strange powers…
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;movies i thought i imagined
I was recently thinking about movies I used to watch as a kid. This was prompted by a BookTube video I filmed talking about books I read as a kid and I realised because I hadn’t seen anyone else talking about a book series and I couldn’t find my copy, I started doubting whether or not it actually existed. Maybe I had imagined reading the whole thing? Then I found my copies of the books and was very relieved, but it did get me thinking about a few movies I vaguely remember watching when I was younger but never saw anyone else talking about.* *I checked IMDB and all these…