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I like this take. Nothing else to be said. Fic writers (who will not be me this time cuz although I could, I don’t have the time), make it happen
this whole “interesting choice in date” thing was jealousy on both sides and nobody can tell me otherwise
WEDNESDAY
Don’t get me wrong. I love Wednesday, I love Jenna Ortega and her performance as Wednesday was brilliant.
#spoilers
However, ultimately the show felt bland in the end to me, because the whole plot ended up revolving around the romance drama: of course, one of the romantic interests was going to be the villain and break her black heart. It was so painfully cliche. To me, as someone who writes and reads a lot, it was obvious from the start where the plot was heading, since the first scene with Thornhill in the dorms and Tyler at the coffee shop. Thornhill was actually better written though.
It was the love interests that just ugh, fell so flat and soured the experience for me. Both Xavier and Tyler were both written in JUST to add romantic drama because Wednesday’s a teen and as such she “should experience typical teen problems and boy problems”.
Which is absolute fucking bullshit in my opinion, not every teenage girl protagonist has to experience love triangles and romantic drama just because she’s a teenager, that is just a cliche trope that has been perpetuated by movies and series, but doesn’t portray the real life of a teenage girl. Besides, why would Wednesday ever need romantic drama? She’s a great character by herself, being how she has always being, she never needed other characters to make her “evolve” or seem more relatable or teen-like.
The cool thing about Wednesday has always been how unapologetic she is, she will be herself without giving a fuck about what others think of her, she will speak her mind always, specially when something that she perceives as “not right” (like the bullying, misogyny, white-washing retelling of history, etc) is happening in front of her; she’s different of course, but that’s what makes her so special, she’s not willing to change herself or bow down to society.
Wednesday has never needed love interests to seem more teen-like, or be more relatable. She’s great just like she is. The weak attempts at writing romance with Wednesday… holy gods they were so bland. Xavier and Tyler were added in with only that purpose, barely have any personality, not to mention having absolutely zero chemistry with Wednesday, at least romantically.
Tyler, if you ignore him being one of the antagonists, reads as a puppy-eyed white male who finds her intriguing because she’s so different from all the other girls he has met before, and since she pays a modicum of attention to him because she needs his help, he thinks she’s interested. Xavier reads as the boy who literally just broke up with a girl he liked, but could never trust, and his mind immediately grabs onto Wednesday as a new love interest because she’s someone who he has met before, and he knows how she is; she’d never lie to him or manipulate his feelings knowingly, he knows she doesn’t have the power to do that, so of course, in his mind she’s trustworthy and because she’s so different from Bianca, she’s perfect as a new crush.
Wednesday never gave them signals of being interested. And yet of course, typical, just because she seems to tolerate them, they automatically assume she likes them. Even though it’s clear from the start she’s just using them for her own means and ends, not actually bonding with them. Tyler is the normie who’d help her with the investigation and help her escape Nevermore because he has a car, and is conveniently the sheriff’s son, so she can keep an eye on his father through him. They had no conversations outside the ones related to the investigation, yet somehow they kissed…..
She barely talked to Xavier outside of the scenes where she snuck into his studio, those scenes being; the infirmary, the classroom, the burnt yard, the jail.
In none of those does Wednesday show any signs of being interested in him in any way, she tolerates him because they’re sort of childhood acquaintances, and he’s her suspect. And in those scenes, the lines they exchange-with the exception of the infirmary (because it’s the moment Xavier’s character is introduced)-are painfully brief and to the point. In fact, I don’t even think they talked in the classroom; Wednesday just looked at him and smashed the spider. She didn’t even say anything. The yard scene was after their fight in the studio and it’s only like 4 lines because they’re not on good terms, which again, were they ever really? And the jail scene is just full of tension and friendship heartbreak because Xavier perceived her differently than she is, and Wednesday is hurt by his words, even though she doesn’t seem to (but Ortega really is brilliant at expressing what Wednesday is feeling just with little face muscle movements. If you pay attention to her face, it is really easy to read how Wednesday is feeling in every scene).
In their efforts to add romantic interests for Wednesday, they ended up coming up with two extremely bland characters. Not to mention Ajax, who is not as bland, but still feels like kind of an unncessary addition. Honestly, the way they’re written, it’s painfully obvious that the purpose of the 3 boys is just to merely act as romantic interests and a stopper to the shipping between Wednesday and Enid, being like “oh but see? They both have boyfriends! Male interests! They’re not queer! They’re just really good friends and roommates!”
….. god that’s just terrible writing. Both read as heavily queer coded, and Enid is the only character Wednesday actually cares about and bonds with out of her free will, unconsciously (with the exception of Eugene, but he’s like a sibling to her). By the second episode, Wednesday is already showing signs that she’s starting to care for Enid, without being prompted to by anything else, circumstancial or otherwise. When they argue, Wednesday is hurt by it, saddened because she’s now alone; she keeps looking back at Enid’s side of the room and hopes to solve everything asap so it can all go back to normal. She’s again, hurt and disappointed when Thornhill shows up to tell her that Enid has requested to room with Yoko for the rest of the year, but tries to play it off. Wednesday is a character who perceives emotion as weakness, because it’s how people commit mistakes and get hurt, it’s what people use to manipulate each other, so she convinces herself that she doesn’t need emotion, including affection and caring about people.
Yet by episode 5, not only does she clearly care about Eugene, completely willingly and with no ulterior motive, she also cares about Enid’s feelings and talks with her easily, standing close to one another. She tries to tell Dr. Kinbott that she’s still as cold hearted as she was the first day, but it’s clear she’s trying to convince herself of it too, because although she has tried, she cannot help but care about them. She could have thrown away the snood when Enid was not looking, but she kept it, tried to avoid hurting her feelings by telling her she didn’t like it, and even wore it when they were investigating.
Enid literally turned into a werewolf in her hurry to get to Wednesday and help her. She fought for her and got scarred, and the first thing she says when she’s in her human form again is “where is wednesday?” And she’s worried, scared for her. She could have hugged Ajax when she saw him, but she just leaned into him for comfort, because she literally just turned into a huge beast, fought for her life, and is really shaken by it. In contrast, when she sees Wednesday she literally runs to her and hugs her tightly. And Wednesday actually reciprocates, hugging her tightly and hiding her face in her neck while Enid clutches her uniform in her hands. Wednesday didn’t hug Tyler even when they were kissing, she only let herself be held, but made no move with her own arms.
I could continue, but this is getting really fucking long. Point is: there is no fucking way Wednesday and Enid are not queer in some way, regardless what netflix may say (when one writes a story, the characters always evolve and develop beyond one’s imagination and thoughts, because they are characters, and ultimately, they are people). And Xavier and Tyler made no goddamn sense as love interests, yet sadly it’s already obvious that Xavier is gonna be endgame, unless they decide to actually make Wednesday x Enid canon. The show just felt like compulsive heteronormativity to me.
so are we gonna talk about how enids parents literally wanted to send her to conversion camp.
her mother literally said, "don't you want to finally be normal?" im going to be sick
and enids, "i just hope one day you'll finally accept who i am" good grief.
and some of y'all wanna tell me shes not gay. mmmmmkay.
One can dream
i refuse to believe xavier saying "or girl" wasn't foreshadowing
YES WTF. There is no way the writers of the show wrote it this way without considering how queer it’d read. They’re totally baiting us dammit.
I’d love for them to become canon, but chances of that happening are pretty slim.
The balls of this show to make Enid so queer-coded… her mom literally wanted to send her to “werewolf conversion camp” because she hadn’t wolfed out yet. Then she finally wolfs out in order to save Wednesday??
Agreed.
wednesday is bi on the aroace spectrum meanwhile enid is a lesbian in THEE deepest trenches of comphet imaginable together they are an ATROCIOUSLY confused bundle of baby gay angst
THIS. She’s so queer coded! I literally gaped with the scenes about the conversion camps. They could have used any other set of words, like transformation, or metamorphosis, or wolf shifting! But they said conversion.
And not only did they say conversion camps. But Enid was actively scared to go there. Why would she be scared to go to a camp that is supposed to help werewolves shift? What do they do to them there to try to get them to shift? Not only that, but her mother explicitly tells her ‘don’t you want to shift and finally be normal honey?!’ AND Enid later tells her mother ‘I just hope one day you can finally accept me for who I am’
Enid’s fear of being kicked out of the pack in the first episode, not finding a mate, because she’s not a normal werewolf. That is literally the experience of a queer teen with a family they cannot trust with their identity; being afraid of being kicked out, of never finding someone who will love them, dying alone as the odd one out, etc.
Like. WTF!! That’s literally a queer teen’s way of thinking and speaking.
THERE IS NO WAY THE WRITERS HAVE ADDED ALL THESE DETAILS AND EVERYTHING ELSE IN WITHOUT CONSIDERING HOW QUEER IT READS.
They made Enid Sinclair dress is lesbian flag colours the first time we see her and then proceeded to be like look at her relationship with her parents. Look her parents trying to send her to werewolf conversion therapy. They dressed Wednesday and Enid like the two ends of the lesbian fashion spectrum meme. And then have the audacity to try to claim Enid is cis-het???? Sir, that is a queer person!
You just read my mind. Honestly, if they’re going to try to put romance in the series, either write it correctly or don’t add it in at all. In my opinion/hc, to me Wednesday has always read as a character in the aroacespectrum, and in the series context, she reads to me as graysexual, who barely feels any kind of attraction but starts to feel something for Enid.
The typical love triangle trope and white boy love interests were so painfully cliche and badly written, they soured the series a bit for me. Jenna and Myers were brilliant, and the performance of the 2 boys was just so lackluster in comparison for me, their characters were just horrifyingly bland, there just for the romantic drama. It made no sense.
Why add half-assed written characters just to add unnecessary romantic drama because Wednesday is a teenager? Not all teen series gotta have romantic drama. Not all teens experience romance. I just wished they’d stop with the unnecessary romantic drama with half written characters with no personality.
Tyler and Xavier are both so delusional
"I thought you were giving me signals." Wednesday was like a walking pillar this whole time. No emotions, no facial expressions, no signs of liking one nor the other. She contacted both only when she needed a favour or information. There is literally no reason to think Wednesday is interested romantically in any of them . She helped you repair the coffee machine? She saved you from burning without realizing it? Girl shows minimum of courtesy to a boy and he already believes she's in love with him. The only two characters besides her family she shows genuine liking is Eugene (bcuz he reminds her of Pugsley) and Edin.
Another sketching session with me for this week! This is my oc for the short film animation I’m working on for a college degree of 2 years.
Finally got around to making a video after a looooooooong time
Sharing the beginnings of my fantasy novel here, hoping someone might feel drawn by the synopsis and take a peek inside.
As with any piece of writing, there’s still a lot of editing to do, but seeing it evolve and become something greater than you thought it could be at the beginning, is the lovely thing about the journey.
Copypasted synopsis from the wattpad version
In a war-torn world, the ancestral peoples of the Old Country are decreasing in number at an alarming rate, after two decades of war with the humans and elves. The Eagle-People have been pushed back so far from their lands they're going extinct, however there is the growing thunder of a rebellion in the West beyond the Athar Keep, where dragons lie in wait.
A lost eaglet torn cruelly from her family must now travel beyond the Keep, the only shelter left for those like her. However, what she'll find over the Wall will change the tide of the war.
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I’ve been wanting to be a writer since I was nine, when I sat down and wrote my first story (I made drawings for it and was very excited haha).
Since then, I’ve evolved a lot, having up to 24+ novel ideas in my mind and written down that I want to write.
And now I’m taking the decision of writing one of them for real, starting with the 3rd story idea I ever had, the first idea I ever had with real potential to become a great thing.
I’ve decided to take it seriously now, because I realize I’m not getting younger. If I don’t do it now, when the hell am I going to? Just fantasizing about getting published or noticed by an editor but not doing anything to make that come true, WON’T make your dreams come true magically, with 0 effort from you.
So, I’m currently writing the first version of my first fantasy novel Initiation, in wattpad, with some illustrations! After I’ve finished it on there, I’ll self-publish it on kindle and ibooks with extra parts and the real illustrations with color and extra deets and quality!
Mystical town. Urban sketches. #8, set of 10.
The crow.
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Mystical town. Urban sketches. #7, set of 10.
Out the window.
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Mystical town. Urban sketches. #6, set of 10.
Over the wall.
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Mystical town. Urban sketches. #5, set of 10.
Beyond the garden wall.
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Mystical town. Urban sketches. #4, set of 10.
Playground.
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Mystical town. Urban sketches. #3, set of 10
There’s a shadow in the corner, cradling a small light.
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GUYS. PEOPLE OF THE INTERNET WHO MAY OR MAY NOT BE READING THIS. I’M TAKING DIGITAL ART COMMISSIONS STARTING NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY.
IF YOU’RE INTERESTED, PLEASE MESSAGE ME, COMMENT, ASK ME, OR HEAD TO MY WATTPAD WHERE YOU’LL FIND INSTRUCTIONS PLEASE.
This is some of my stuff. I do a variety of styles, depending on what you want or request.
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Mystical town. Urban sketches. #2, set of 10
Sketch number 2, is part of my apartment building. I had a lot of fun with all 10 of the urban sketches, and this one’s added bonus magical element is the spirit person watering their plants and the name plate on the wall.
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Mystical town. Urban sketches. #1, set of 10.
I did 10 sketches as part of the sketchbook I had to turn in as art college homework. I really enjoyed doing these urban sketches. At first I was really bummed with the idea, as drawing inanimate things, like buildings and such is not something I particularly enjoy. So I found a way to make it fun; stylize it in a way I’d like it and add something fun to it, something magical and mysterious that wasn’t there in real life. This way, I ended up seriously enjoying these urban sketches.
Because I procrastinated for so long, I had to do in like 5 days, 20 drawings for the sketchbook. I still tried to ignore the pressure and stress I felt and enjoy it, and I succeeded. It was honestly my favorite part of the semester, getting to finally stretch my creative muscles. By ignoring the pressure, and actually having fun with exploring new styles and ways to make my art look different, I managed to breeze through the sketchbook in time.
I’m really proud of those 20 I made, even these set of urban sketches that I really didn’t want to do at the beginning and wasn’t looking forward to. But I’m happy with what I created. Really happy.
Thinking they’d look great as short animations and prints. I’m totally doing that.
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Drowning
Let’s hold each other together as we cry, let’s stain the other with our tears.
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Drowning
I kinda liked it more without the black in the clothes, but oh well, too late. I like them both. I really really liked just the simple sketch version too, but my original idea was to do the lineart so I ended up doing it anyway. I really like his face, he looks a lot like a Renaissance statue; very expressive on its own.
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Drowning
Sketch with ref. I’ve been thinking about this one for a while. I really, really like this pose. It looks like a statue. It’s so expressive.
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WITCH 🌺🌑🦇
I just had to repost it xd I mean, I love it! Kinda wish I had done it on black paper though. It would have been much cooler. Imma do more halloweeny stuff on my black sketchbook from now on.
When the crow cries, you know its watching.
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WITCH🦇🦉✨🌑 🎃
A little something for Inktober. Just daily practice. But slightly more fun 😉
When the things that go bump in the night come out to play, a Crower watches over from the other side of the moon.
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Rocket trip
Soo I liked it so much I colored it!! I’m in love with it. I think I learned a lot about dramatic lightning with this one.
Done on Procreate with a photo of the original drawing and drawing on top of it.
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Homework
This some homework for my cartoon class. I kinda really love how it came out. Before this class I had never dabbled in cartoon drawing, just wasn’t used to it. My style is usually more realistic.
It turned out so well that I kinda wanna color it.
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Highlands
A commission for a friend. An album/single cover for a song he made with other people from college.
I’m super proud of this one. I think I’m getting better at drawing actual backgrounds. The radio could look way better though :/
I still love the colors though ;b
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Lily studies 🌺🌸✨
This is the plant I chose for my hybrid homework. I’ll combine it with the white heron and make something cool 😎.
I kinda don’t like how the studies turned out tho. They look nice, but are a bit too dark in comparison to the real thing. The photos were a little bit too neon, too saturated, and in an attempt to do the impossible with normal watercolor paints it turned out like that.
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