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Coups, huh?
"Don’t Prosecute Gotham’s Supervillains for Their Latest Scheme" by the Joker
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Some other reading I am doing!
Title: Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Author: Carol Clover (originally 1992, my copy is the 2015 Princeton Classics edition)
Link: Jstor actually has the full text!
Why I love it: This is actually a tricky one, because I am reading it slowly as part of the background reading for the Great Queer Rewatch of Supernatural, and so I am on Chapter 3. That said, it's really interesting, and I am using it both as a resource on its own and pulling its citations for my own reading. It's made me a much more careful reader of Supernatural. I'm also planning to read a good number of other things about gender and sexuality in film, and particularly in horror, so there's a lot I'm thinking about here. There are some flaws - her analysis needs a lot more gender studies than it has (the field was pretty young in the late 1980's), so I'm planning to supplement with Gender Trouble and The Epistemology of the Closet. That said, this is a really approachable classic for thinking about film and horror, and as a person who really benefits from having a specific set of examples to look at when diving into a new field, this has been great!
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Title: If I'm Haunting You, You Must Be Haunting Me
Author: Mardia
Fandom: Knives Out ( 2019)
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22042492
Author Summary:
It seems horribly fitting that when Marta’s soulbond arrives, it’s in the most absurdly ridiculous, horrible way imaginable. It involves the Thrombeys, so of course something that should be wonderful just ends up being terrible in the end.
Why I Love It:
Oh, oh, I love this. This is a soulmate Marta/Ransom fic. Let's be real - Ransom is the fucking worst and there is something deeply wrong with me for enjoying this pairing so much. But he's so entertaining, and so amorally loyal to Marta in this fic that I really, really enjoy setting the moral analytic part of my brain aside for a bit while reading it. I find there is something deeply attractive about indulging the fantasy of having someone really lean into that amoral devotion. (The line where Juliet calls Romeo, "The god of my idolatry" just sends shivers down my spine.) As Marta spends so much of the film being a good and noble person, this feels indulgent and fun and deeply sexy. Highly recommend.
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Title: Ernesto de la Cruz vs. The Court of Public Opinion
Author: skater_of_the_surface
Fandom: Coco (2017)
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13573815
Author Summary:
The thrilling sequel to Coco that you've all been waiting for! Miguel visits ... wait for it... wait for it... A LIBRARY. Or : Miguel probably can't prove that Ernesto is a murderer, but stupendous fuckbucket is still on the table.
Why I Love It: It's epistolary fiction! A story told thru a series of article and tweets, detailing what happens when Miguel tries to spread the story of what really happened to his " no-good dirty rotten guitar-playing great-great-grandfather." It's charming and fun to read. (The author is not Mexican and does not speak Spanish.)
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Two Related Recs:
Article: FAQ:THE “SNAKE FIGHT” PORTION OF YOUR THESIS DEFENSE by Luke Burns
Fanfic!
Title: The Best Defense
Author: Neveralarch
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28298529
Author Summary:
You had to fight a big snake for your thesis defense. One of the largest ones you'd ever seen—and you'd attended plenty of defenses, seen the fear in the doctoral candidates' eyes as they sought out their snake in the shadows. You don't actually know if it's the biggest snake the facilities department had to offer, because they don't like to give out that much information. But it was a very big snake indeed.
Why I Love It: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense is just a perfect absurd encapsulation of the complete absurdity of academia and the way it grinds you down. Literally everyone I know who went thru a Ph.D program have major horror stories about the toll the process took on their mental and physical health and personal lives. This, makes a joke of it. The fic itself imagines the Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense turned back on the unkind and awful advisor who selected the snake for you, and imagines, What if the snake was on your side?
