Samantha Parkington and Anne Shirley Cuthbert are so similar in my mind, not just because they are orphans being raised by someone old enough to be their grandmother, but because of their curiosity and generosity, as well as their propensity for speaking out of turn and getting lost in daydreams, and their romantic view of everything around them.
@SamWiseTheWitch15 күн бұрын
I absolutely agree! I think they have a lot in common. In a lot of ways Anne is like Samantha and Nellie's lovechild lol
@charlottehollingsworth912514 күн бұрын
@@SamWiseTheWitch omg you are so right, maybe if you pull back the family tree Grandmarie and and Anne are cousins
@SamWiseTheWitch14 күн бұрын
@@charlottehollingsworth9125 I'll add that to my headcanons! Lol
@Jogjosmowwdkfs16 күн бұрын
This is truly what I want from life. Please take my thanks!
@SamWiseTheWitch15 күн бұрын
💕💕
@zachbeall681024 күн бұрын
I'm pretty sure chickens are super low mantinance. Give them food and water and they will be good. Not a daily thing. More like weekly
@SamWiseTheWitch22 күн бұрын
We live in an area with very hot summers, so our girls go through water very quickly. If we only refilled their water once a week, we'd lose birds to dehydration.
@ununhexium26 күн бұрын
Love that. I love dresses that can be overcoat bodices like that and they're so rare to find
@SamWiseTheWitch26 күн бұрын
I know, right? I was so happy to find this one at the thrift store.
@AbbyJoiner26 күн бұрын
Girl! That looks amazing!!! I love the pets helping a long the way❤️❤️
@SamWiseTheWitch26 күн бұрын
They're great assistants lol
@manyaperkins193926 күн бұрын
This is really impressive! What a great job you did ❤🤗
@SamWiseTheWitch26 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@kapsican26 күн бұрын
wow, the dedication! very well done and most importantly, judging by your smile, you love it too! what a fun original piece to flaunt
@SamWiseTheWitch26 күн бұрын
Thank you so much!
@DaizyWadhwa29 күн бұрын
I loved your videos and missed you , love from India 🙏🏻
@SamWiseTheWitch29 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@DaizyWadhwa29 күн бұрын
Your Instagram Account details pls
@SlumberUnicorns8 ай бұрын
Really appreciate your review! I liked the convos re:colonialism in the book and the pace/ending of the horror aspect. I also loved the romance! I was very sad about the ending but also felt it was the right one.
@Kameno-o Жыл бұрын
Sharing this like crazy: Queer has been reclaimed for the longest and now is being labeled as a slur by transphobe. Keep it up.
@revacharlotte Жыл бұрын
couldyou do an astral projection tutoriel ?Thanks
@michaelwestern11 Жыл бұрын
Loved the neat presentation to lay out the context clearly!
@michaelwestern11 Жыл бұрын
What did you think of the movie?
@seraphir4662 Жыл бұрын
I think this is reductive, especially the title. Queer is a slur because it has innately negative meaning, and its historical and contemporary usage heavily connotate that negative meaning with LGBT people. The truth is I'm not strange or odd for being transgender and a lesbian, and nobody else is strange or odd for not being cis-het, these are entirely normal things. Queer is different from other widely identified words in this sense. Gay never had innately negative meaning, neither did lesbian, bisexual, or trans; these aren't equivalent comparisons to queer. If you wish to reclaim it for yourself, that's genuinely fucking awesome. I love the reclamation of words used to hurt us. I call myself a tranny dyke all the time and it's empowering to embrace and shrug off the negative meaning that people try to attach to me with those words. And I love those that do identify as queer, the mere act of that is reshaping the word into something new and better. Queer is an incredibly powerful word, it blurs lines and defies rigid boundaries between labels on purpose, we NEED queer if we are to evolve and grow. But to say that describing queer as a slur is anti-trans because some dumbass TERFs have a problem with it is reductive. Queer IS a slur, and that's okay, we've long been able to handle a slur or two in our communities and we've been reclaiming them and changing them for the better just as long. Just as with any slur, don't call people it without their permission. I don't go around saying "The dyke community" when I talk about lesbians, or "The fag community" when I talk about gay and bisexual men, or "The tranny community" when I talk about transgender people, because I know that would be hurtful for some of them. In the same way I hope that others don't go around referring to all non cis-het people as queer. There IS a queer community, just like there are dyke fag and tranny communities, but they do not include all L G B or T people, only those who identify with the words.
@karengustafson7666 Жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation. I’ve really enjoyed this video. I hope there are more.
@SamWiseTheWitch Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@TheJulleful2 жыл бұрын
Great video please make more! I don't have access to this book and I left curious about did Josephine hurt herself with the trap or how was it explained? 😁 (Sorry for my english I'm from Finland)
@mariedit99352 жыл бұрын
Queer is a slur. Bitch, cunt, hoe and whore are sexist slurs. Terf is just an insult I get that. But queer is a slur. Just say your actual sexual orientation and please trans/nb people stop making everything ALWAYS about yourselves
@forestings2 жыл бұрын
is it okay if i don't feel comfortable calling myself queer because i have been physically abused while being called that word? of course this only applies for myself, meaning that I won't go around saying "don't use that word!!!", but i just don't want to use that for myself because it brings back memories surrounding heavy trauma.
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
Personal preference and PTSD triggers are entirely different. As long as you're not trying to police how others express themselves, of course you should avoid doing things that are connected to trauma for you.
@D_YellowMadnessАй бұрын
It means you have common sense. It's a slur. There's no reason to use it. It literally means "weird". No one will take us seriously if we call ourselves that instead of just saying what we are. Anyone who uses it is pretentious, selfish, & evil.
@Thepeejay2 жыл бұрын
Such a great review! It's on my tbr
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I truly do love this book.
@printo3162 жыл бұрын
I guess you don’t know what it’s like being called queer as an insult. Btw, witchcraft is fiction, so stop trying to be like Harry Potter.
@MakiPcr2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, thank you for your commentary
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed!!
@TOVANorseWitch2 жыл бұрын
Hail Sam, just passing through and just wanted to tell you what a beatuiful Soul you have and your voice is really soothing too. you have my subscription blessings Halsa Valang
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! That's so sweet of you!!
@ScandalfromBohemia2 жыл бұрын
When I saw you'd picked Crooked House, I thought, "Oh, no. Of all the ones to pick..." (I do love Crooked House, but it's one of her darkest, and I know people who are offended she solved it in the way she did.)
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
Oh no. Live and learn I guess 😅
@nightowl3342 жыл бұрын
I didn't know you wrote a book! I feel the criticism towards many witchcraft-related books so, so much! Also, I love love love the book cover!🥰
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@nataliaferruggia77402 жыл бұрын
I really thought it was Sophia for the ENTIRE book until the last couple of chapters (I put two and two together with the real solution just before it was revealed). I really really thought I cracked it with this book, but Christie fooled me yet again. I also saw bookslikewhoa's video after finishing it, so with the knowledge that the murder is almost never a "Mary Debenham-esque" young woman, I likely would have ruled Sophia out much earlier! This is definitely one of my favorites from Christie that I've read!
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
Sophia is soooooo sketchy lmao
@triumphofmagic2 жыл бұрын
I've watched all the videos you've talked about as well, hahaha! And I also started reading them as a child - my first one was The Mystery of the Seven Dials. Crooked House is pretty good imo. I don't think I got it right when I read it either, and I can't remember any other book of hers in which there was a child culprit. I remember at least one older teen, but no one this young... I think there was a short story that included someone telling a story about a child that killed a friend on purpose, but I don't remember much else. In any case, she didn't use child killers often, so it's kinda easy to overlook this suspect. edited: Spent a long time trying to find out which story it was, and it was an actual novel. :) The character is no longer a child in the book, though, there's just this story about their past at some point.
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
Right! I was like "oh, that doesn't really fit her pattern." Turns out this was her one deviation lol
@seto7492 жыл бұрын
You're thinking of Towards Zero.
@kattahj2 жыл бұрын
It's usually a mistake in an Agatha Christie novel to dismiss anyone as a suspect. :-) I really like this book. One part that stuck with me is what they said about the two sides of the family, that Aristide was dishonest but kind, and his wife's side are ruthless but law-abiding, but if you combine those two the wrong way you get someone with no respect for others OR the law, i.e. basically a sociopath. And from that perspective I think the murder makes sense.
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I found that detail in the family history really interesting! I guess I discounted the kids because in previous Christies I've read, the children were all kind of non-characters lol
@marinamaged66482 жыл бұрын
I thought it was one of the two children! But I suspected that it was the other child in the wheelchair. For me when I think about an Agatha Christie novel I always think of the most absurd unexpected scenario that everyone else would dismiss so this time it was the kids.
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
Yes! I feel like her endings are always some insane plot twist lol
@theoctopuscats65102 жыл бұрын
Personally, I love the word queer. It’s older meaning is something like “strange” but not in a bad way exactly. At least that’s what it always seemed to be to me. I think that to identify yourself as queer is inherently anti-assimilationist because it says “yes, we are different from you, that’s why you hate us. Society *will* need to change to accommodate us” and to me that’s so powerful. Assimilation always seems to mean that some people are left out in the cold because it means creating space in the current societal framework for *some* queer people, wether that’s cis gender conforming gay people who want nothing more than to get married and have kids or straight gender conforming binary trans people. Not that there’s anything wrong with being either of those things, but we need to include everyone. I also like how it’s a label with so much freedom in it I think. It makes it hard for people to categorize you into their little stereotype boxes. I would love to use it for myself more (or at all let’s be honest) but I don’t have the confidence to claim that I belong under the queer umbrella even though I unassailably qualify and it would even help resolve some conflict I have with my current labels. I have a hard time believing that any people who are “straight with extra steps” are using it to invade anyone’s spaces.
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
YES TO ALL OF THIS. It reminds me of the old protest chant, "We're here, we're queer, get used to it." Queer to me is a label that demands to be seen and allowed to take up space, and I love that.
@angelsumirebelle2 жыл бұрын
btw every gender identity is in the trans community. If you're not cis, you're trans, that's what the colour white in the trans flag is. The white is the enby spectrum. Sooooo every identity that's outside of the binary is in the non-binary spectrum. If you're not cisgender, then you're in the trans community. Idk if you can research this, but I found this out from a bunch of lgbtqa+ accounts on Instagram. It's fun to learn about these things yk. Like I'm genderfluid, but I feel more trans masc most of the time. that makes me trans, but genderfluid is under the enby spectrum.
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
For sure. "Trans" is an umbrella term, which includes nonbinary, genderfluid, etc. Unfortunately there are some folks who want to force trans people to "pick a gender," which can be really harmful. That's more of what I'm talking about in this video.
@marjolijnashara17262 жыл бұрын
From another queer witch, thank you. For me, queer is the word that covers all the aspects of me. I don't have one single letter in the LGBTQIA+ that fits me, I'm not just the B, I'm also the A and the T (as an enby). So in group spaces queer is a word that embraces all of me, not those different aspects. It also means I don't have to go into detail with things that I might not be comfortable disclosing at that time. And to be honest, it's also a feeling of rebellion and community. We're here, we're queer, get used to it. Anyway, good video, well thought out and well phrased. Good job!
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! Yes, I absolutely agree that queer is a word that implies community and belonging, as well as resistance.
@lochnessie85142 жыл бұрын
Incredibly well phrased and a wonderful contribution to the argument. Out of curiosity, do you think it makes sense to pair the word queer with other identifiers (kind of like how people can pair Buddhism w other religious affiliations? For example, queer and/or ace?
@SamWiseTheWitch2 жыл бұрын
I think it depends on the person. I really do see queer as an umbrella term, while terms like ace and trans refer to more specific identities. So I guess it depends on the context of the conversation.
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Samantha Parkington and Anne Shirley Cuthbert are so similar in my mind, not just because they are orphans being raised by someone old enough to be their grandmother, but because of their curiosity and generosity, as well as their propensity for speaking out of turn and getting lost in daydreams, and their romantic view of everything around them.
I absolutely agree! I think they have a lot in common. In a lot of ways Anne is like Samantha and Nellie's lovechild lol
@@SamWiseTheWitch omg you are so right, maybe if you pull back the family tree Grandmarie and and Anne are cousins
@@charlottehollingsworth9125 I'll add that to my headcanons! Lol
This is truly what I want from life. Please take my thanks!
💕💕
I'm pretty sure chickens are super low mantinance. Give them food and water and they will be good. Not a daily thing. More like weekly
We live in an area with very hot summers, so our girls go through water very quickly. If we only refilled their water once a week, we'd lose birds to dehydration.
Love that. I love dresses that can be overcoat bodices like that and they're so rare to find
I know, right? I was so happy to find this one at the thrift store.
Girl! That looks amazing!!! I love the pets helping a long the way❤️❤️
They're great assistants lol
This is really impressive! What a great job you did ❤🤗
Thank you!
wow, the dedication! very well done and most importantly, judging by your smile, you love it too! what a fun original piece to flaunt
Thank you so much!
I loved your videos and missed you , love from India 🙏🏻
Thank you!
Your Instagram Account details pls
Really appreciate your review! I liked the convos re:colonialism in the book and the pace/ending of the horror aspect. I also loved the romance! I was very sad about the ending but also felt it was the right one.
Sharing this like crazy: Queer has been reclaimed for the longest and now is being labeled as a slur by transphobe. Keep it up.
couldyou do an astral projection tutoriel ?Thanks
Loved the neat presentation to lay out the context clearly!
What did you think of the movie?
I think this is reductive, especially the title. Queer is a slur because it has innately negative meaning, and its historical and contemporary usage heavily connotate that negative meaning with LGBT people. The truth is I'm not strange or odd for being transgender and a lesbian, and nobody else is strange or odd for not being cis-het, these are entirely normal things. Queer is different from other widely identified words in this sense. Gay never had innately negative meaning, neither did lesbian, bisexual, or trans; these aren't equivalent comparisons to queer. If you wish to reclaim it for yourself, that's genuinely fucking awesome. I love the reclamation of words used to hurt us. I call myself a tranny dyke all the time and it's empowering to embrace and shrug off the negative meaning that people try to attach to me with those words. And I love those that do identify as queer, the mere act of that is reshaping the word into something new and better. Queer is an incredibly powerful word, it blurs lines and defies rigid boundaries between labels on purpose, we NEED queer if we are to evolve and grow. But to say that describing queer as a slur is anti-trans because some dumbass TERFs have a problem with it is reductive. Queer IS a slur, and that's okay, we've long been able to handle a slur or two in our communities and we've been reclaiming them and changing them for the better just as long. Just as with any slur, don't call people it without their permission. I don't go around saying "The dyke community" when I talk about lesbians, or "The fag community" when I talk about gay and bisexual men, or "The tranny community" when I talk about transgender people, because I know that would be hurtful for some of them. In the same way I hope that others don't go around referring to all non cis-het people as queer. There IS a queer community, just like there are dyke fag and tranny communities, but they do not include all L G B or T people, only those who identify with the words.
Excellent presentation. I’ve really enjoyed this video. I hope there are more.
Thank you!
Great video please make more! I don't have access to this book and I left curious about did Josephine hurt herself with the trap or how was it explained? 😁 (Sorry for my english I'm from Finland)
Queer is a slur. Bitch, cunt, hoe and whore are sexist slurs. Terf is just an insult I get that. But queer is a slur. Just say your actual sexual orientation and please trans/nb people stop making everything ALWAYS about yourselves
is it okay if i don't feel comfortable calling myself queer because i have been physically abused while being called that word? of course this only applies for myself, meaning that I won't go around saying "don't use that word!!!", but i just don't want to use that for myself because it brings back memories surrounding heavy trauma.
Personal preference and PTSD triggers are entirely different. As long as you're not trying to police how others express themselves, of course you should avoid doing things that are connected to trauma for you.
It means you have common sense. It's a slur. There's no reason to use it. It literally means "weird". No one will take us seriously if we call ourselves that instead of just saying what we are. Anyone who uses it is pretentious, selfish, & evil.
Such a great review! It's on my tbr
Thank you! I truly do love this book.
I guess you don’t know what it’s like being called queer as an insult. Btw, witchcraft is fiction, so stop trying to be like Harry Potter.
Excellent video, thank you for your commentary
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed!!
Hail Sam, just passing through and just wanted to tell you what a beatuiful Soul you have and your voice is really soothing too. you have my subscription blessings Halsa Valang
Thank you so much! That's so sweet of you!!
When I saw you'd picked Crooked House, I thought, "Oh, no. Of all the ones to pick..." (I do love Crooked House, but it's one of her darkest, and I know people who are offended she solved it in the way she did.)
Oh no. Live and learn I guess 😅
I didn't know you wrote a book! I feel the criticism towards many witchcraft-related books so, so much! Also, I love love love the book cover!🥰
Thank you so much!
I really thought it was Sophia for the ENTIRE book until the last couple of chapters (I put two and two together with the real solution just before it was revealed). I really really thought I cracked it with this book, but Christie fooled me yet again. I also saw bookslikewhoa's video after finishing it, so with the knowledge that the murder is almost never a "Mary Debenham-esque" young woman, I likely would have ruled Sophia out much earlier! This is definitely one of my favorites from Christie that I've read!
Sophia is soooooo sketchy lmao
I've watched all the videos you've talked about as well, hahaha! And I also started reading them as a child - my first one was The Mystery of the Seven Dials. Crooked House is pretty good imo. I don't think I got it right when I read it either, and I can't remember any other book of hers in which there was a child culprit. I remember at least one older teen, but no one this young... I think there was a short story that included someone telling a story about a child that killed a friend on purpose, but I don't remember much else. In any case, she didn't use child killers often, so it's kinda easy to overlook this suspect. edited: Spent a long time trying to find out which story it was, and it was an actual novel. :) The character is no longer a child in the book, though, there's just this story about their past at some point.
Right! I was like "oh, that doesn't really fit her pattern." Turns out this was her one deviation lol
You're thinking of Towards Zero.
It's usually a mistake in an Agatha Christie novel to dismiss anyone as a suspect. :-) I really like this book. One part that stuck with me is what they said about the two sides of the family, that Aristide was dishonest but kind, and his wife's side are ruthless but law-abiding, but if you combine those two the wrong way you get someone with no respect for others OR the law, i.e. basically a sociopath. And from that perspective I think the murder makes sense.
Yeah, I found that detail in the family history really interesting! I guess I discounted the kids because in previous Christies I've read, the children were all kind of non-characters lol
I thought it was one of the two children! But I suspected that it was the other child in the wheelchair. For me when I think about an Agatha Christie novel I always think of the most absurd unexpected scenario that everyone else would dismiss so this time it was the kids.
Yes! I feel like her endings are always some insane plot twist lol
Personally, I love the word queer. It’s older meaning is something like “strange” but not in a bad way exactly. At least that’s what it always seemed to be to me. I think that to identify yourself as queer is inherently anti-assimilationist because it says “yes, we are different from you, that’s why you hate us. Society *will* need to change to accommodate us” and to me that’s so powerful. Assimilation always seems to mean that some people are left out in the cold because it means creating space in the current societal framework for *some* queer people, wether that’s cis gender conforming gay people who want nothing more than to get married and have kids or straight gender conforming binary trans people. Not that there’s anything wrong with being either of those things, but we need to include everyone. I also like how it’s a label with so much freedom in it I think. It makes it hard for people to categorize you into their little stereotype boxes. I would love to use it for myself more (or at all let’s be honest) but I don’t have the confidence to claim that I belong under the queer umbrella even though I unassailably qualify and it would even help resolve some conflict I have with my current labels. I have a hard time believing that any people who are “straight with extra steps” are using it to invade anyone’s spaces.
YES TO ALL OF THIS. It reminds me of the old protest chant, "We're here, we're queer, get used to it." Queer to me is a label that demands to be seen and allowed to take up space, and I love that.
btw every gender identity is in the trans community. If you're not cis, you're trans, that's what the colour white in the trans flag is. The white is the enby spectrum. Sooooo every identity that's outside of the binary is in the non-binary spectrum. If you're not cisgender, then you're in the trans community. Idk if you can research this, but I found this out from a bunch of lgbtqa+ accounts on Instagram. It's fun to learn about these things yk. Like I'm genderfluid, but I feel more trans masc most of the time. that makes me trans, but genderfluid is under the enby spectrum.
For sure. "Trans" is an umbrella term, which includes nonbinary, genderfluid, etc. Unfortunately there are some folks who want to force trans people to "pick a gender," which can be really harmful. That's more of what I'm talking about in this video.
From another queer witch, thank you. For me, queer is the word that covers all the aspects of me. I don't have one single letter in the LGBTQIA+ that fits me, I'm not just the B, I'm also the A and the T (as an enby). So in group spaces queer is a word that embraces all of me, not those different aspects. It also means I don't have to go into detail with things that I might not be comfortable disclosing at that time. And to be honest, it's also a feeling of rebellion and community. We're here, we're queer, get used to it. Anyway, good video, well thought out and well phrased. Good job!
Thank you so much! Yes, I absolutely agree that queer is a word that implies community and belonging, as well as resistance.
Incredibly well phrased and a wonderful contribution to the argument. Out of curiosity, do you think it makes sense to pair the word queer with other identifiers (kind of like how people can pair Buddhism w other religious affiliations? For example, queer and/or ace?
I think it depends on the person. I really do see queer as an umbrella term, while terms like ace and trans refer to more specific identities. So I guess it depends on the context of the conversation.