Wandavision is hitting me in the feels because being stuck inside trying to be happy and "normal" whilst the world falls apart and trying to process loss through fiction has basically been my life.
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This isn't to say allegories are always bad? More that I think I've often approached critiquing them in this 1:1 CODEBREAKING sort of way. And often we talk about deficiencies in them because they fall short on being exactly right.
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Eg. X-men's mutations are not a good allegory for being gay because powers usually hurt other people and gay people are themselves more likely to be vulnerable to being hurt by their families. Etc.
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And it's not that I think all of this genre of critique is invalid, I stress. But I sort of feel it can miss the point that it's not the totality of an experience or identity that is being transposed & incorporated into a story. As a single ingredient of a complex stew of feels.
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So returning to the point I started with, I can point out numerous ways in which Wanda's experience is completely different to my last year. Duh. She's a reality-bending witch in love with a dead robot living in a dreamscape made of stitched together sitcoms. I am not.
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But it's that moment of, oh, yes this hits that same note. This tune. Somehow the instruments are all different but you've played the same note and I recognise it.
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