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Dear Creator
Jan. 8th, 2018 12:27 amDear Creator,
I'm sure that whatever I'll receive from you will be absolutely wonderful and I'll delighted with it.
In the following, please have some of my thoughts about the fandoms I requested.
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
I have read Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' several times for my MA thesis and have nitpicked it through for lesbian subtext, so I would not be offended by romantic Lucy/Mina. Having said that, I have often also thought about Lucy and Mina's friendship and it's connotations before and after the events of the novel. The construction of the novel is also telling: while it has contributions in the form of letters and diary-entries from Mina and Lucy both, we can assume they have been edited and chosen, which begs the guestion of what was left out?
Once Upon a Time
I'm a Swan Queen shipper through and through, but I also liked how the show handled family relationships and friendships between women, and the fantasy context with curses making ages lose almost all meaning (especially with the Charmings, where Snow, Emma and David are practically the same age), so it would be interesting to see something with that. Maybe an exploration of Snow and Red's friendship? Or mother-daughter bonding between Snow and Emma? Or the friendship with Snow and Regina we got to see on the later seasons?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
With this show I have always liked the portrayal of female friendships, the all-female Summers household and easy intimacy of Willow and Tara's relationship. And a few more specific things: What did Willow's friendship mean to Buffy, was Faith envious of Buffy's close relationship with Joyce or what could have happened between Faith and Buffy if they let go of any inhibitions?
The Lord of the Rings
LOTR is plagued by a derth of female characters, for one reason or another, but the women we do get are strong and exceptional: Galadriel, Éowyn, Arwen are all strong and capable, independent women who do great deeds. But there are also several ladies haunting the appendixes, like Aragorn's mother or shadowing the between-the-lines spaces in the way of Éowyn and Éomer's mother: all the key players in LOTR seem to have long-since departed (in one way or another) mothers who still resonate, who and what where they? Also: was Narvi a woman?
I'm sure that whatever I'll receive from you will be absolutely wonderful and I'll delighted with it.
In the following, please have some of my thoughts about the fandoms I requested.
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
I have read Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' several times for my MA thesis and have nitpicked it through for lesbian subtext, so I would not be offended by romantic Lucy/Mina. Having said that, I have often also thought about Lucy and Mina's friendship and it's connotations before and after the events of the novel. The construction of the novel is also telling: while it has contributions in the form of letters and diary-entries from Mina and Lucy both, we can assume they have been edited and chosen, which begs the guestion of what was left out?
Once Upon a Time
I'm a Swan Queen shipper through and through, but I also liked how the show handled family relationships and friendships between women, and the fantasy context with curses making ages lose almost all meaning (especially with the Charmings, where Snow, Emma and David are practically the same age), so it would be interesting to see something with that. Maybe an exploration of Snow and Red's friendship? Or mother-daughter bonding between Snow and Emma? Or the friendship with Snow and Regina we got to see on the later seasons?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
With this show I have always liked the portrayal of female friendships, the all-female Summers household and easy intimacy of Willow and Tara's relationship. And a few more specific things: What did Willow's friendship mean to Buffy, was Faith envious of Buffy's close relationship with Joyce or what could have happened between Faith and Buffy if they let go of any inhibitions?
The Lord of the Rings
LOTR is plagued by a derth of female characters, for one reason or another, but the women we do get are strong and exceptional: Galadriel, Éowyn, Arwen are all strong and capable, independent women who do great deeds. But there are also several ladies haunting the appendixes, like Aragorn's mother or shadowing the between-the-lines spaces in the way of Éowyn and Éomer's mother: all the key players in LOTR seem to have long-since departed (in one way or another) mothers who still resonate, who and what where they? Also: was Narvi a woman?
