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Fandom: I'm so jaded observations of the day:
1.) I watched and enjoyed Thor, and watching it, I knew already that this version of Loki was going to prove fangirl catnip, resulting in cries of woobie! and mass adoption, complete with Loki/everyone pairings. So colour me completely unsurprised that this is exactly what happened. (What did me surprise me a little is that this includes lots of Loki/Sif, because "hey, I like X who is nifty, and Y who is nifty, and never mind they didn't have much screen interaction, they should totally shag!" is more likely to happen on the slash side of the force - case in point: those two guys from Inception whose names I can't even remember anymore -, so hooray for equality there.) I think in ye olde days of my personal fandom I probably would have gone the same way, but in my current mood I'm more inclined to be cynical and demand an equally cynically minded vidder vid woobies from several fandoms - Loki, Lex, maybe Lindsay from Angel to the tune of "I'm just a soul whose intentions are good, pleaaaaase don't let me be so misunderstood". In lack of that, I'm tempted to rewatch some of Being Human season 3, or, as I personally subtitle it, Revenge on the Woobies.
2.) Speaking of equality: the way Ursula from The Borgias immediately became the most hated character of the show in fandom was a good demonstration that vilification and bashing of a female character for the perceived sin of coming between a popular couple works with het couples as well as slash couples. Complete with bashing of the actress for her perceived lack of prettiness. I mean, I knew that, of course, but I find it especially annoying in my shiny new fandom because the source text has been ever so good to avoid pitching women against each other. Bah.
Fandom: I'm so gleeful observations of the day:
1.) Yesterday![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
andraste posted a link to a new clip from X-Men: First Class, which made me even happier on the Mystique and Xavier front, today I find yet more goodness in that regard. The First Class scene, for those of you not reading Andraste's journal:
I love the linked exchange between the adult versions and Erik as well and yet again am so glad about this idea of making little Raven and Charles each other's first other mutants, as well as giving them a relationship in their own right before either establishes one with Erik. As I said toartaxastra, borrowing a comparison to another fandom, if before Mystique was Saavik as far as we knew, now she's Leonard McCoy. Not that Saavik isn't a great character in her own right, but McCoy simply has another status in the narrative. (Also, the dialogue which [Bad username or unknown identity: Quigonejinn"] quotes in the post I linked above sounds like OT3 bait. I'm trying to resist. Actually, no, scratch that, I don't.)
2.) So, once upon a time (1965, to be precise), David Bailey, star photographer in 60s London, famous enough to be an icon in his own right (and to be the model of the photographer from Blow Up), was supposed to photograph the 50 most influential people in England. Bailey included himself in this as well as all five Rolling Stones but only wanted John Lennon of the Beatles, on the ground of considering them a silly boy band (though he later admitted he liked the late music from the White Album onwards), being a die hard Stones fan, and according to rumour being somewhat interested in John. John insisted on bringing Paul along for the sessions, which means we have the iconic moptop era Lennon/McCartney photographs from David Bailey. Who said he felt "a tension, an animosity" between them during the session and asked them to look away from each other to convey that in photo. What tickles me every time I think of it is that the Bailey photographs convey anything but animosity to each other as published then, and every time Bailey releases yet new prints from that session where they're all over each other and can't keep to the "look away, damm it!" instruction for longer than two pictures, his statement becomes even more hilarious. Now you'd think after a few decades we know even the most rejected print from that session, but no. Due to tumblr, I saw today David B. has released even more outtakes. The animosity, it is burning, I tell you. Burning.
Okay, first the new Baileys:
Valiantly trying to portray hostility as demanded by photographer:
And now the ones already released last year, because those are always fun to repost:
That's the one at the start of the session, where Bailey took the "looking away from each other" picture from:
And the other iconic pic from that session came from this series:
So that was fun to look at. (Btw, considering Bailey was one of the people who spoke at Linda McCartney's memorial service, I assume he and Paul made up later.) I do suspect that must have been the most interesting of the scheduled photo sessions, other than the ones Astrid Kirchherr did with them in Hamburg, that is. (Linda's photos of them were snapshots which is something else again.)
1.) I watched and enjoyed Thor, and watching it, I knew already that this version of Loki was going to prove fangirl catnip, resulting in cries of woobie! and mass adoption, complete with Loki/everyone pairings. So colour me completely unsurprised that this is exactly what happened. (What did me surprise me a little is that this includes lots of Loki/Sif, because "hey, I like X who is nifty, and Y who is nifty, and never mind they didn't have much screen interaction, they should totally shag!" is more likely to happen on the slash side of the force - case in point: those two guys from Inception whose names I can't even remember anymore -, so hooray for equality there.) I think in ye olde days of my personal fandom I probably would have gone the same way, but in my current mood I'm more inclined to be cynical and demand an equally cynically minded vidder vid woobies from several fandoms - Loki, Lex, maybe Lindsay from Angel to the tune of "I'm just a soul whose intentions are good, pleaaaaase don't let me be so misunderstood". In lack of that, I'm tempted to rewatch some of Being Human season 3, or, as I personally subtitle it, Revenge on the Woobies.
2.) Speaking of equality: the way Ursula from The Borgias immediately became the most hated character of the show in fandom was a good demonstration that vilification and bashing of a female character for the perceived sin of coming between a popular couple works with het couples as well as slash couples. Complete with bashing of the actress for her perceived lack of prettiness. I mean, I knew that, of course, but I find it especially annoying in my shiny new fandom because the source text has been ever so good to avoid pitching women against each other. Bah.
Fandom: I'm so gleeful observations of the day:
1.) Yesterday
andraste posted a link to a new clip from X-Men: First Class, which made me even happier on the Mystique and Xavier front, today I find yet more goodness in that regard. The First Class scene, for those of you not reading Andraste's journal:I love the linked exchange between the adult versions and Erik as well and yet again am so glad about this idea of making little Raven and Charles each other's first other mutants, as well as giving them a relationship in their own right before either establishes one with Erik. As I said to
artaxastra, borrowing a comparison to another fandom, if before Mystique was Saavik as far as we knew, now she's Leonard McCoy. Not that Saavik isn't a great character in her own right, but McCoy simply has another status in the narrative. (Also, the dialogue which [Bad username or unknown identity: Quigonejinn"] quotes in the post I linked above sounds like OT3 bait. I'm trying to resist. Actually, no, scratch that, I don't.) 2.) So, once upon a time (1965, to be precise), David Bailey, star photographer in 60s London, famous enough to be an icon in his own right (and to be the model of the photographer from Blow Up), was supposed to photograph the 50 most influential people in England. Bailey included himself in this as well as all five Rolling Stones but only wanted John Lennon of the Beatles, on the ground of considering them a silly boy band (though he later admitted he liked the late music from the White Album onwards), being a die hard Stones fan, and according to rumour being somewhat interested in John. John insisted on bringing Paul along for the sessions, which means we have the iconic moptop era Lennon/McCartney photographs from David Bailey. Who said he felt "a tension, an animosity" between them during the session and asked them to look away from each other to convey that in photo. What tickles me every time I think of it is that the Bailey photographs convey anything but animosity to each other as published then, and every time Bailey releases yet new prints from that session where they're all over each other and can't keep to the "look away, damm it!" instruction for longer than two pictures, his statement becomes even more hilarious. Now you'd think after a few decades we know even the most rejected print from that session, but no. Due to tumblr, I saw today David B. has released even more outtakes. The animosity, it is burning, I tell you. Burning.
Okay, first the new Baileys:
Valiantly trying to portray hostility as demanded by photographer:
And now the ones already released last year, because those are always fun to repost:
That's the one at the start of the session, where Bailey took the "looking away from each other" picture from:
And the other iconic pic from that session came from this series:
So that was fun to look at. (Btw, considering Bailey was one of the people who spoke at Linda McCartney's memorial service, I assume he and Paul made up later.) I do suspect that must have been the most interesting of the scheduled photo sessions, other than the ones Astrid Kirchherr did with them in Hamburg, that is. (Linda's photos of them were snapshots which is something else again.)