lifeonqueen

I love Once Upon a Time.

I love the fact that it’s a show with three female leads, each with their own share of agency within the narrative, each modeling a different performance of femininity. I like that despite having three ‘strong female characters’, Once Upon a Time has made Emma, Snow, and Regina smart as well as physically tough. And I really like that in a genre that so often treats motherhood as the end of the adventure or fodder for tragedy, Once Upon a Time positions motherhood (and all parenthood by extension) as a heroic journey that, like all great quests, involves the active choice to take up the responsibility.

And because this is a fairy tale story, sometimes that means struggling to parent your newly-discovered 28-year-old daughter who is also your best friend and roommate - thanks to the Evil Queen’s curse stripping you of your memories and freezing you in time - and who has an oft-stated weakness for dating the wrong guy.

Hook doesn’t need to worry about giants or evil sorceresses. He needs worry about how Snow White is ready to cut off his other hand just for looking at Emma.

Actually, I like the vuvuzelas.

There are a surprising number of German soccer fans in Toronto; that's the great thing about watching the World Cup in here. We all know the city is multicultural. We're pleased to call ourselves the most multicultural city in the world (it's probably even true) and we note that over 100 languages and dialects are spoken in our city. No matter what political narrative we follow, Torontonians are proud that so many people from around the world have chosen to call our city home. But it's not until you see Brazil supporters throwing an impromptu dance party in Little Italy after a victory that you can appreciate how far we've come from white, anglo, protestant Toronto of the 1960s and 70s.

When we talk about diversity and multiculturalism in Toronto, we tend to focus on what holds us apart from each other - language, ethnicity, belief - as things that must somehow be managed. We so rarely take the opportunity to celebrate our differences as one big flag-waving, horn-honking, patio-filling, traffic-stalling mass of common humanity, to recognize the value in difference and of difference and celebrate it without fear. In our jerseys and scarves, flying our World Cup flags, we are all soccer fans (or soccer-haters) - unique and the same, tribal and united by sport.

There are a lot of German soccer fans around here though.

Who knew?

Ask them how they feel about people who only read their books via their local library.

WHY DO YOU HATE LIBRARIES SO MUCH George R Gabaldon PRO WRITERS, WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

To Buy:

Black Widow #1 - good hook, solid art: worth a shot.

The Brave & the Bold #33 - hell, I'm a sucker for Barbara Gordon

Think About Buying:

Power Girl TP

Batgirl #9

Wonder Woman #43

Powers #4

Anything with Luke Cage or Bucky Barnes in it...

Having watched my way through Stargate SG-1 the next logical step would be to rewatch all of The West Wing to complete the "US Government Organizations as Hero" duology.

And then write cross-over fic. Because, darlings, fandom...

So yeah, I have a DW account. I just don't read it... and when the entries here automatically cross-post, no link to DW pops up. Well, that's not going to be confusing.

Begins by going jogging.

*iz ded*