Meta/Essays
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Status: Or, An Incomplete Look at Some of Loki’s Motivations by ArgentNoelle
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
11 Jan 2016
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Meta that explores the ideas of why Loki does what he does in the movies through the lens of status; and how many things Loki has done since the reveal of his identity has been to regain the place that he has lost, through any means possible.
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- Part 1 of Meta/Essays
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Science Fiction or Fantasy? - Could Captain America REALLY Survive Being Frozen in Ice? by ArgentNoelle
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
24 Jun 2016
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A Meta on the probability of the above. Also: weird science facts.
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- Part 2 of Meta/Essays
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Theories and Facts, or, why does the idea that Sherlock Holmes is asexual seem to be so unregarded? by ArgentNoelle
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
17 Jan 2018
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In the ACD stories Sherlock Holmes is canonically asexual (”canonically”, as in: it’s not like he literally says that but explaining why he’s *not* requires much more mental gymnastics than just going with what is portrayed by his words, actions, and non-interest in canon), but in pretty much every adaptation ever made, people feel the need to shoehorn in a love interest (usually Irene Adler, who honestly deserves better). [And this is despite the fact that I rather enjoyed most of the Mary Russell novels.]
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- Part 3 of Meta/Essays
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Alternate Endings: Butlers & Masters in Black Butler, and how they parallel Sebastian & Ciel by ArgentNoelle
Fandoms: Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler
17 Mar 2019
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There have been four butler/master pairs established so far:
1) Sebastian & Ciel
2) Grell & Red
3) Agni & Soma
4) Wolfram & SieglindeEach of the other three relationships serve to parallel Sebastian & Ciel in interesting ways, and when they are introduced, how Sebastian & Ciel react to the pairs, and what happens in those parallel stories may even serve to elucidate the ambiguous nature of the relationship between the main characters.
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- Part 4 of Meta/Essays
- Part 1 of Black Butler Meta
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A collection of meta about Sebastian's character. Everything from: What do we know about Sebastian's past, before he made the contract with Ciel? To: what does being one hell of a butler really mean?
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"Even Ciel assumes that Sebastian secretly wants to act worse than he usually does; for example, in chapter 99, during the Green Witch arc, when Ciel tells Sebastian to get rid of the evidence. As usual, Sebastian asks Ciel if he’s sure he should be leaving the details to him (similar to his speech in the ripper arc, after revealing he sent Ciel on a wild goose chase and threw all his papers in the air—and before he knelt down and picked them all up again, because he’s a drama queen but he’s also a butler and someone has to do it). Ciel says, 'I won’t be there, and there won’t be any survivors. Feel free to go crazy like a beast.'As Sebastian destroys the evidence, he thinks, 'Ahh. My master. You’re misunderstanding something. What I find most entertaining now… is playing the butler in my game with you. It’s not behaving like a frenzied beast. However, if that’s how you like me, I’ll act accordingly.'"
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- Part 5 of Meta/Essays
- Part 2 of Black Butler Meta
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Harleen (2019) is a vaguely interesting mess. by ArgentNoelle
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: The Animated Series
09 Feb 2021
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What it says on the tin, basically. I read Harleen a while ago. I kind of enjoyed it, but it annoyed me a lot. For some reason I decided to write about it now.
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- Part 6 of Meta/Essays
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Death Note Meta (Interpreting the Foot Scene) by ArgentNoelle
Fandoms: Death Note & Related Fandoms, Death Note (Anime & Manga), Death Note: Another Note
18 Jan 2024
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1. Criminal Profiling as it Applies to Death Note (Technically, Light is a serial killer or a multiple murderer. NOT a mass murderer.)
2. How Many People did Light Yagami Kill? (It's as low as 1,300 people.)
3. An Argument for Aroace L Lawliet (L says it himself on two different occasions.)
4. Light Yagami and Honorifics (Family dynamics, and how L and Light insult each other by being polite.)
5. How L Solved the Kira Case (L is good at his job.)
6. Death Note—Interpreting the Foot Scene (an in-depth look at biblical and queer readings of the scene, and what L meant by it all.)
7. Light's Bookshelf (When Light designed his room, he decided he wanted to live in a library.)Series
- Part 7 of Meta/Essays
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thoughts on joker 2 (and its relation to comics themes) by ArgentNoelle
Fandoms: Joker (2019)
23 Oct 2024
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Joker 2 was really well done, and I liked it without liking it.
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- Part 8 of Meta/Essays
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Metas for Severance including:
1) An in-depth timeline for Severance + reasoning to how the timeline was created from context clues in the episodes.
2) How many innies does Gemma have? The math. (it's *not* 25)
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- Part 9 of Meta/Essays
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meta I've written for Smallville
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- Part 10 of Meta/Essays