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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Wow, I... don't like this? I generally don't mind characters being revamped to be more inclusionary but there's something about the Joan of Arc story specifically that feels like the subversive womanness is really important/inherent, making her nonbinary weakens this theme.
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Shakespeare’s Globe
@The_Globe
Our new play I, Joan shows Joan as a legendary leader who uses the pronouns ‘they/them’. We are not the first to present Joan in this way, and we will not be the last. We can't wait to share this production with everyone and discover this cultural icon. bit.ly/GlobeIdentityI
A graphic of a person who is covered in dirt and grime, their chest is bound and they wring their hands. A chainmail helmet covers their eyes. They stand in front of a purple background with text above their head reading I, JOAN in large white letters.
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@vlad_avy
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@Aella_Girl
Oh well... this version of Joan would have been executed for blasphemy waaay before the Siege of Orléans, so I can see how the plot really suffers.
Cassandra Sky
@CassandraSky10
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@Aella_Girl
I feel like because Joan of Arc lived so much longer ago, she's considered a more borderline "mythical" figure. Making people living in the 1800s-1900s a different gender than what they expressed would be more blatantly ahistorical.
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Edward Cree
@ecree429
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@Aella_Girl
It's a stronger flex if they can get away with smearing their ephemeral modern political posturing all over something that *doesn't* supply any artistic justification for the change. Signals "we're so in-crowd we don't have to *care* if it's crap"
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Hilda Twistcage
@DigitalWatches
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@Aella_Girl
Yea you could probably also do Archimedes or George Washington, but it may be a choice made partially because many modern audiences won't parse "woman leader" as gender-subversion. Might not be my lane tho; I care below-average about both representation and canonicity in stories