Maybe I was just at the wrong age when I finally began reading them, but I never got into LoEG, and I think a lot of the above explains why. Heck, I’m still steamed over what Moore did with the Maschinenmensch (a.k.a. “false Maria) in The Roses of Berlin.
What do you dislike about league of extraordinary gentlemen?
Short answer: What I dislike about the comic is the same thing comic fans disliked about the movie- it turned my favorite characters into caricatures.
Long answer:
Make up your mind, Alan Moore- is the League okay with rape or not? It’s horrifying when Hyde or Bond do it, but they first come across the Invisible Man in the process of raping children and basically laugh it off.
Bull-freaking-shit would Jonathan dump Mina over having ugly scars. If you really needed to get him out of the way to hook Mina up with your preferred guy, why not just kill him off and have Mina angst over his death Gwen Stacy-style?
If Jonathan did ever dump Mina for her scars, Van Helsing would be waiting outside the house with a baseball bat (for Jonathan’s kneecaps) and a bouquet of flowers (in case Mina wanted to trade up.)
Why did Mina fall in love with Alan Quartermain? I’m not opposed to younger woman/older man pairings, but…why? Some amount of looks can be traded for some amount of personality or vice versa, but Quartermain as written by Moore had neither.
Why did Moore’s idea of “strong female character” mean “take a woman who was canonically kind and make her a straw feminist ice queen”?
If Jekyll became Hyde because he was ashamed of being gay, then why the everloving hell was Hyde into women?
People Alan Moore cannot do pastiches of: Shakespeare, P.G. Woodehouse, Jack Kerouac.
Pirate Jenny canonically (insofar as a throwaway song is canon) became murderous over doing humiliating menial work. This was not enough for Alan Moore- she had to be raped, because that’s the only possible reason a woman would become a supervillain.
Since he’d already made her Indian, if he wanted her to have additional motivation to be mad, couldn’t it have been about racism?
I don’t like what he did with James Bond, but defending James Bond really isn’t the hill I want to die on. Suffice it to say that it felt mean-spirited.
Speaking of mean-spirited, what does Alan Moore have against Harry Potter and Peter Rabbit?
If you’re going to write a series of comics that amount to “look how much better I am than these other sexist, racist authors!” then your comic should be 1) actually better, and 2) not sexist or racist.
Neil Gaiman goes on about how the movie adaptation was the first time everyone agreed the movie sucked and the comic was great, and it annoys me because I *don’t* agree that the comic was great.
In fact, that’s a big part of why it all pisses me off- I feel like I’m supposed to love this comic. I spent years trying to love this comic. I do not love this comic.
Now, do I think you can do this kind of critique well? Yes, and I’ll point to a series I love, Jane Carver of Waar. An expy of John Carter of Mars shows up in the second book as the villain, and poorly handled it could have felt like a snide “fuck you to all my predecessors in this genre.” As written, though, it was “isn’t it fucked up that John Carter of Mars owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy?” This works because it is a valid point. It is fucked up that John Carter of Mars owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy.
League, on the other hand, is like going “It’s it fucked up that John Carter of Mars ate children?” It’s not a valid point, and it just makes me go “But…he didn’t?”
First Eric and Hannibal mocked him with ominous threats, then he met his real father, then this...man, Questlove had a rough day.
I really like this design, even if it’s just the basic patrol escort hull profile kitbashed with TOS components. It’s a good design for a little putt-putt ship that does all the dirty work.
Pioneer-class, Star Trek: Online
Okay, let me see here: 1. The Mummy (1999)
2. Pride and Prejudice (2005)
3. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
4. Frozen (2013)
5. Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
6. Gladiator (2000) 7. One of the Lord of the Rings movies...I’m gonna guess Return of the King? 8. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) The gif was vague enough that I couldn’t place the movie at first, but your comment gave the game away. ;) 9. Jurassic Park (1993) 10. Star Wars Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) Tag me in and I’ll see what I can do! (Assuming, of course, that Tumblr has any gifs for the movies I like.)
Post ten gifs from ten favorite movies without naming them, then tag ten people.
@skybound2 tagged me for this meme, and it was a lot harder than I expected! I think aside from a significant few, movies tend not to stick in my head as much as TV shows and video games do.
I’ll tag anyone who’d like to do this!
Daily Kuvira #103 - Glasses
I had to go see the eye doc today..
Thanks for the answers!
Hello there! I’m yet another person who found out about your series through Night Mind, and I have to say that I’ve really enjoyed all of what I’ve seen. You picked a great concept, and you’ve organized things such that you can keep the narrative going with little risk of it ballooning beyond your ability to handle, something that tends to happen a lot in Slenderman-based series. I also think you’ve done a great job with all your monsters; all of them are threatening and off-putting in some unique way, and they all seem to be thematically for your story.
All that said, I do have a few silly questions for you:
1. Are the same forces keeping the house filled with food and water also taking away Mary’s garbage, or will an upcoming episode reveal that the dining room is packed to the roof with trash bags? ;)
2. Are all of the humanoid monsters female? For that matter, is the amorphous shadow female?
3. In “goodnight?” there were a couple instances of the shadow’s left hand disappearing and reappearing in other parts of the frame. Was that intentional?
4. This is more of a comment, but I found it interesting that “DO NOT TOUCH” seems to be the first time Mary tries to confront the monsters. From what I’ve seen of the series, it appears to me that Mary has been placed into a situation where she is made miserable, but both the house and the monsters are making an effort to avoid killing or physically incapacitating her. However, rather than trying to put her captors and tormentors on the defensive by putting her own life in danger or making a concerted effort to escape the house, Mary has instead curled back into herself and “chosen” to endure their tortures. I know part of the reason for this is that your parents aren’t terribly keen on you starting fires or digging a hole through their basement wall, but would I also be right in assuming there are thematic reasons Mary has taken her particular course of action?
( First off, thank you! I’m glad you’re appreciating the story!
1. So far, trash is treated the same way that food and water is. Everything just clears, restocks, and resets
2. The veiled monster yes, mirror monster yes, and the other two are up to interpretation!
3. The left hand disappearing was a real rookie editing mistake that I didn’t notice until I uploaded… and proceeded to feel bad about for a week lol. The other hands appearing places were intentional.
4. Big thematic reasons. Very big, thematic reasons. And yeah also I can’t blow up my house hahaha. )
I think your best bet might be the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, which has mountains of bibliographical entries for obscure and forgotten sff authors. The SF Encyclopedia is another good source, but that's more focused on SF in general rather than solely authors. There's also the SFE's sister work The Encyclopedia of Fantasy; it hasn't been seriously updated since the turn of the millennium, but if you're looking for an old fantasy author, you might get lucky.
the peril of reading old scifi/fantasy is i’m left trying to navigate author websites that were clearly hand coded in html 20 years ago and haven’t been updated since when i just want a nice neat list of all their books that they somehow don’t seem to have 😭
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. :|
@nesterov81 depending on your point of view, for Hitoe things either improve, or enter fate worse than death territory, in these episodes of the show
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Daily Kuvira #205
When there’s nothin’ else to do in prison. You might as well try some meditating.
She’s probably meditating along with one of the greats.
Based on my own experience with Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Rabbits, and Inland Empire...yep, that’s pretty much it.
Explaining Twin Peaks
Hello there! I'm nesterov81, and this tumblr is a dumping ground for my fandom stuff. Feel free to root through it and find something you like.
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