{"id":8232,"date":"2016-05-27T05:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T05:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/05\/27\/arcanebarrage-hungrylikethewolfie-no-but\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T09:40:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T09:40:16","slug":"arcanebarrage-hungrylikethewolfie-no-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/05\/27\/arcanebarrage-hungrylikethewolfie-no-but\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8232 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/05\/27\/arcanebarrage-hungrylikethewolfie-no-but\/attachment\/8233\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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href=\"http:\/\/hungrylikethewolfie.tumblr.com\/post\/74955870274\">hungrylikethewolfie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No but guys, GUYS, we need to talk about how important this scene is.\u00a0 Because the commonly accepted lore about unicorns is that they are so good and pure that they\u2019ll only appear to young virginal girls.\u00a0 Because Molly Grue is a middle-aged woman who has been living with bandits for most of her life and is as far from innocent and virginal as you\u2019re likely to get.\u00a0 Because she\u2019s <em>so angry<\/em> that this creature, embodying everything that society tells her she\u2019s lost, everything she\u2019s thrown away through her own choices, is here <em>now<\/em> when all that The Unicorn represents is long since behind her.\u00a0 Because she knows, in a way that only someone who\u2019s been steeped in an oppressive system her entire life can ever know, that she\u2019s missed her chance and doesn\u2019t <em>deserve<\/em> to be seeing a unicorn now.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?\u00a0 The Unicorn doesn\u2019t give two fucks about her virginity, about her supposed loss of innocence and purity.\u00a0 She\u2019s not repelled by Molly being older, being experienced, being a <em>full human person<\/em>.\u00a0 None of that has ever mattered to unicorns, only to the people telling stories about them.\u00a0 Not only does she step in to physically comfort her here, but before long this bandit\u2019s wife becomes her friend, closer to her in most ways than Schmendrick.<\/p>\n<p>This story is fucking revolutionary, you guys, and I just have a lot of feelings about it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I heard Peter S. Beagle speak about this scene at a convention once. He said he just kept writing and writing into the scene and suddenly here was this powerful, moving dialogue which came out very strong and natural, flowing directly from inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was one of those moments when \u201cthe writer just gets really lucky.\u201c\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>arcanebarrage: hungrylikethewolfie: No but guys, GUYS, we need to talk about how important this scene is.\u00a0 Because the commonly accepted lore about unicorns is that they are so good and pure that they\u2019ll only appear to young virginal girls.\u00a0 Because Molly Grue is a middle-aged woman who has been living with bandits for most of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/05\/27\/arcanebarrage-hungrylikethewolfie-no-but\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3209,3210],"class_list":["post-8232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-favorite-scene-of-this-movie","tag-ngl","post_format-post-format-gallery","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8239,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions\/8239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}