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swatkat+ Via heathershaped, Syfy's character blurb for Gwen:
If there's one thing Gwen might wish for, it's that she could be just a little bit prettier. With her wonky teeth, uncooperative hair and glasses, not even the most charitable person could call her beautiful. She secretly wishes that someone would see beyond the obvious and like her for the person she is...but in Camelot, she doubts that will ever happen.
...
Gwen might be poor and simple now, but unbeknownst to all concerned she is destined to be the Queen of Camelot, and the most notorious adulteress in the world.
So they copy/pasted Gwen's physical appearance and desire for a makeover from Ugly Betty BUT managed to leave the Camelot-destroying vagina intact.
In case you haven't met her, this is what Gwen looks like:
+ Meanwhile, today I had to read things like this:
a. An article where the author earnestly argues why the Missionaries and other detractors of Indigo planters in India are WRONGWRONGWRONG. Because even if their means are perhaps a little oppressive, the planters are honest Christianfolk, right, and so they should have no reason whatsoever to be cruel unless they somehow had to, right? It is completely unfair on the Missionaries' part to compare them with slave traders in the Caribbean Islands - WHO, BTW, had the sanction of the Parliament and protection and still ended up dead whenever the 'blacks rose up like demons', and it's completely unfair on the part of the British government to *not* provide armed protection for the Indigo planters as well. And besides, "If by forced cultivation be meant the crop is unremuneratory, how is it that natives, not the tenants of Planter, and in no way connected with them grow indigo on their own account, and bring it to the factory for sale?"
b. An article talking about the fabulousness of the British Empire in 1850: "Whatever may be the moral character of the wars in which we have been engaged during the last ten years, and whatever the political value of the territories which have thereby been added to our Indian empire, we have at least this satisfactory conclusion, that England has been burdened with no portion of the expense. It has been met, partly from the resources of the country itself, and partly from loans borrowed on the security of Indian revenue."
c. An article pondering on Orientalism: "It is therefore a question of supreme importance now -- how is India to be permanently pacified, and its people led to co-operate with England in the great work of civilising and Christianising the Hindu race..."
Just another day in masochism central.
On my way back home I decided that I want to read a Cara/Kahlan Pirate AU where Kahlan is Commodore James Norrington and Cara is her archnemesis, a very Cara version of Captain Jack Sparrow. Richard can be either Will or Elizabeth, I wouldn't mind either way.
Alternately, I want to read a Gwen and Merlin Detective Agency AU where they have been hired by Arthur Pendragon to solve some Mysterious Burglaries. His estranged step-sister Morgana Le Fay may or may not be a suspect. Gwen may or may not like Morgana more than she should.
Someone write me these stories. *snaps fingers*
heathershaped, Syfy's character blurb for Gwen: If there's one thing Gwen might wish for, it's that she could be just a little bit prettier. With her wonky teeth, uncooperative hair and glasses, not even the most charitable person could call her beautiful. She secretly wishes that someone would see beyond the obvious and like her for the person she is...but in Camelot, she doubts that will ever happen.
...
Gwen might be poor and simple now, but unbeknownst to all concerned she is destined to be the Queen of Camelot, and the most notorious adulteress in the world.
So they copy/pasted Gwen's physical appearance and desire for a makeover from Ugly Betty BUT managed to leave the Camelot-destroying vagina intact.
In case you haven't met her, this is what Gwen looks like:
+ Meanwhile, today I had to read things like this:
a. An article where the author earnestly argues why the Missionaries and other detractors of Indigo planters in India are WRONGWRONGWRONG. Because even if their means are perhaps a little oppressive, the planters are honest Christianfolk, right, and so they should have no reason whatsoever to be cruel unless they somehow had to, right? It is completely unfair on the Missionaries' part to compare them with slave traders in the Caribbean Islands - WHO, BTW, had the sanction of the Parliament and protection and still ended up dead whenever the 'blacks rose up like demons', and it's completely unfair on the part of the British government to *not* provide armed protection for the Indigo planters as well. And besides, "If by forced cultivation be meant the crop is unremuneratory, how is it that natives, not the tenants of Planter, and in no way connected with them grow indigo on their own account, and bring it to the factory for sale?"
b. An article talking about the fabulousness of the British Empire in 1850: "Whatever may be the moral character of the wars in which we have been engaged during the last ten years, and whatever the political value of the territories which have thereby been added to our Indian empire, we have at least this satisfactory conclusion, that England has been burdened with no portion of the expense. It has been met, partly from the resources of the country itself, and partly from loans borrowed on the security of Indian revenue."
c. An article pondering on Orientalism: "It is therefore a question of supreme importance now -- how is India to be permanently pacified, and its people led to co-operate with England in the great work of civilising and Christianising the Hindu race..."
Just another day in masochism central.
On my way back home I decided that I want to read a Cara/Kahlan Pirate AU where Kahlan is Commodore James Norrington and Cara is her archnemesis, a very Cara version of Captain Jack Sparrow. Richard can be either Will or Elizabeth, I wouldn't mind either way.
Alternately, I want to read a Gwen and Merlin Detective Agency AU where they have been hired by Arthur Pendragon to solve some Mysterious Burglaries. His estranged step-sister Morgana Le Fay may or may not be a suspect. Gwen may or may not like Morgana more than she should.
Someone write me these stories. *snaps fingers*
