NOTE: This is just me fooling around. I get that this is a classic show for a reason, and I’m not gonna claim to be better than Winnie Holzman (who wrote the book for the show) or Gregory Maguire, who wrote the original novel the show was based on. I never saw the show, I never read the book. All I’ve got to go on here is the movie adaption.

NOTE NUMBER TWO: Spoilers, y’all. So many spoilers.

Compared to these efficient travelers, I was a wild thing. A creature of the woods, as at home on that tree branch as any bird or scurrying rodent. So when the trappers passed under my tree and the woman glanced upward, she didn’t see a young woman crouching in the sycamore. She saw an animal. A faerie. A thing.

A list of things NOT to do to your female characters. These are all real examples of things that I saw in two anonymous manuscripts shown to me by two anonymous misogynists. Both misogynists tried to explain to me how each and every point of sexism was okay in their case.

Get ready for some spicy sweary fury because my heart rate is up and I am ready to let loose.

If you had to guess what a religious/fantasy comedy, a classic regency romance, a space opera, and a teen vampire soap opera have in common, what would you say?

Well if you’re smart, you’d say “trope” because I basically gave it away in the title.

Specifically I mean Good Omens, Pride and Prejudice, The Empire Strikes Back, and Vampire Diaries. And also I mean a specific romance trope that most people are at least familiar with: enemies to lovers. That’s right, Crowley and Aziraphale, Elizabeth and Darcy, Han and Leia, and Damon and Elena all follow the same romance trope in their plots and subplots. So do about a kergillion others but these are the ones I came up with off the top of my head.