The Greatest Showman Tag
It’s time for another tag, this time courtesy of Andrea @ Andrea’s Nirvana. She has created her own original tag, no less, with prompts inspired by the tracks from The Greatest Showman. This is where I admit that I haven’t actually seen it, but anyone who knows me knows I’m late to everything. Nonetheless, the tag looked fun, so let’s just jump right in!
The Greatest Show | In Which The Intro Is Amazing
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All We Shall Know
As soon as I read the stark yet shocking opening paragraph of All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan, I knew I’d found a new favourite author: ‘Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He’s seventeen, I’m thirty-three. I was his teacher. I’d have killed myself by now if I was brave enough.’
A Million Dreams | In Which Things Get A Little Too Dragged
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Snap
Snap by Belinda Bauer is a recent example that springs to mind. It’s essentially a mystery novel, but by the halfway point, the reader already knows whodunnit, and we simply have to watch as a band of supremely unlikable police officers attempt to scrape together enough evidence to actually prove it. With all sense of intrigue gone, we’re left anticipating a follow-up twist that never comes…
Come Alive | In Which There’s A Nice Plot Twist
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A Kiss Before Dying
A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin has several incredibly clever and well-placed twists. He manages to catch you off-guard just when you think you’ve got it all sussed.
The Other Side | In Which A Villain Turns Into A Good Guy or Vice Versa
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Little Deaths
The heroine of Little Deaths by Emma Flint feels like an appropriate pick, as she’s undoubtedly complex and flawed, and yet the more we see of the circumstances surrounding her, the more we realise she may not be as evil as everyone likes to think. Depending on whose perspective you look at her from, she could be deemed either the villain or the good guy.
Never Enough | In Which You Hate The Love Triangle
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The Hunger Games
The love triangle in The Hunger Games always irritated me. Katniss is painted as a brave, proactive leader, and yet much of her story revolves around which boy she’ll end up with. *eyeroll* She’s trying to lead a rebellion for crying out loud; why can’t young women be allowed to have platonic male friendships?!
This Is Me | In Which Representation Is Amazing
Ah, an answer for this came to mind right away, as I just so happened to watch A Quiet Place a few nights ago (See, I wasn’t kidding when I said I’m late to everything). It’s set in a post-apocalyptic world, where humanity has been decimated by strange creatures that hunt using sound. We follow a family attempting to live in complete silence. They are able to communicate via sign language, as one of them is deaf (played by real-life deaf actress, Millicent Simmonds). For a major blockbuster to be almost entirely in sign language, and for the deaf character to be played by an actual deaf person, was so refreshing, and a great example of how to normalise good, diverse representation, without the character being defined solely by their differences.
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Millicent Simmonds and Emily Blunt in A Quiet Place
Rewrite The Stars | In Which It’s ‘Us Against The World’ [Not Necessarily Romantic]
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson focusses on two sisters following the deaths of almost their entire family. They have shut themselves away in the family manor, maligned by their community, and plagued by vicious rumours and an air of mystery. It’s gothic, and unsettling, and brilliant, and very much captures an ‘us against the world’ vibe.
Tightrope | In Which The Love Triangle Took A Wrong Turn
Truthfully, I don’t read/watch a huge amount of stuff with love triangles in them, so I was struggling to think of something… I’m not sure this strictly counts as a love triangle, because that definitely would be wrong, but once you know that Luke and Leia are in fact twins, it’s a little weird that they initially tried to imply a sense of rivalry between Han and Luke for Leia’s affections in the original Star Wars.
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Luke, Leia, and Han
From Now On | In Which The Main Character Only Gets Their Stuff Together In The End
The first thing that came to mind was LOST, as the whole final season is pretty much about all the characters trying to get their stuff together!
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The huge ensemble cast of LOST.
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There we have it! Thanks again to Andrea for tagging me; since it’s an original tag, it would be fun to see lots of people getting involved, so if you want to take part, consider yourself tagged.
