Please do How to Train Your Dragon and Captain Underpants
3 года назад
You know, Prince Caspian vase a better game of thrones and star vs the forces of evil than the Actual one! So the changes you mentioned in that review we're enhancements.
Please do the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness. The books are described as "Twilight for adults" which is, frankly, insulting, because they are extremely well written and there is a serious scientific explanation for the existence of vampires and other supernatural species.
You should do the Black Dagger brotherhood. At least like the first book cuz there's a bunch of them. it's a modern fantasy action romance novel and it's really awesome and there's really not much sex in it. Lots of fighting though.
Dom: Gives Dr. Strange as the best example of a superhero living with a disability Professor X: Am I a joke to you? Edit: substitute Professor X for Daredevil
I take it he did that because, at least in the MCU, Strange sought out to learn magic in order to compensate for his crippled hands. His disability and powers aren't connected. At least in the movies Professor X's inability to walk is directly the result of his powers, since when he took drugs to repress them he regained the ability to walk
Yes actually. In the comics have a couple of examples of him getting his legs back describing how amazing and manly he felt thanks to super science instantly removing his disability.
@@Evnyofdeath those movies sucked. I prefer the comic universe where he lost the ability to walk after a huge blow-up with Magneto. Magneto lost control and accidentally hurt Xavier
Im pretty sure that starbucks worker has seen and listened to worse than a bit of book porn. Retail and customer service make you see things... but Im still laughing my butt off xD
I had a very aged woman have me help her try on bras at a very not-victorias-secret type place and changed her bra in front of me. I am still a little traumatized. Oh yeah and by the people who have literally confused fitting rooms for toilets.
I work at Walmart. The stories I could tell include a 300+pound woman in Yoga pants 2 sizes two small and a thong, a old woman stripping naked and screaming, and a *lot* of people pissing on the side of the building in full view of everyone. Amung other things. That book story would be something workers like that tell eachother and their families and laugh about.
When I was a waitress at a hotel, it quickly became apparent that 50% of the people who order room service immediately set about having sex to see if they can finish before it arrives. A guy caught listening to an erotic audiobook is nothing.
For real though, Dom is a top tier booktuber - it's so nice to see someone approaching books on their level and actually trying to understand them rather than just like, pretending to be outraged by stuff
That whole time travel reassembly of body parts thing seems also terrifying if you ever had a life-saving operation for a birth defect or other inherent medical issue that will come around again. Ableist AND horror, woo.
Welp...my life would be screwed. I had a heart surgery when I was five and I don't think my heart would appreciate the return of infundibular pulmonary stenosis and ventricular septal defect.
That actually sounds like a cool setting! Imagine a person having to go through that sort of dillema, because they need to go back in time to save someone but know that it would physically and/or mentally hurt them, because their body would go back to how it was before!
Getting real for a moment, I have a school friend (referred here as [REDACTED]) who got a severe infection on one of their legs, which forced the doctors to do an amputation procedure. With that in mind, yeah, the mentioned tropes really rubbed me the wrong way.
Side note: Wouldn't it be cool if Kinley stayed disabled but still had a fulfilling life as a pyrokinetic vampire hunter, complete with immortal Highlander lover? Heck, that could explain the Romans' overconfidence when capturing her. "She can't even walk, there's no way she can-wait, does anyone else smell barbeque?"
Oh, yes. I had so many issues with both the book and the TV show, and never made it to the second season or the second book. I feel like Dominic reviewing it would be cathartic.
As a disabled writer talking about these tropes is a big part of my job. Thank you for pointing out the issue of "disabled characters all need to be fixed" as a theme in media. See also mega-hits like Me before you and Avatar. Also disabled is not a bad word and thank you for using it correctly. Minor correction: Phrases like "confined to a wheelchair" or wheelchair-bound are not great. A wheelchair is a tool that betters my life. I am a wheelchair user. Overall though thank you for paying attention to this and continuing to learn.
@@morinomajou I believe OP is talking about the Cameron movie, which is ableist af. Toph is, as far as my able-bodied ass can tell, rather unproblematic. Toph is blind, so she develops an alternative way of "seeing", which is literally what blind people _do_ - using their senses of touch and hearing to experience their environment. I've even heard of cases where blind people learned echolocation and ride bikes without (major) troubles. Maybe the fantasy part might be a factor, since normal people obviously can't earthbend. But that's pretty much it, I think. ATLA never treats Toph as incomplete. It's actually kind of the point of her story arc. That her parents treat her like some fragile flower even though she can take care of herself and live her own life just fine.
Thank you for bringing this up! I am disabled also, though not a wheelchair user. Some of my friends/loved ones are wheelchair users, however, and so I wanted to point out the terminology issues too. Dom is usually really good about listening to this sort of feedback. By the way, if anyone reading this comment is interested, Just Happen To Be has a really good review of Me Before You.
I so appreciate whenever you mention that you're not the target audience for something, and therefore your experience with it is different. You can't imagine how rare that is for a man to recognize. Thank you.
He may not get as much enjoyment out of beefy Highlander hunk s*x (gender flipped version with hot Scottish chick when?) but I don't see why he shouldn't be able to judge character development, world building, writing style, usage of tropes and so on fairly.
@@Alias_Anybody I was more referring to the kinds of reactions that Straight Men™ (yes, a specific breed of straight men) have when consuming media that isn't targeted to them. There's usually bias, and a tendency to interpret things very differently. A review of Sailor Moon comes to mind, where the reviewer was confused as to why the underage protagonists were "objectified" in the creator's art style, when in fact the depiction was meant to be empowering to its target audience, which it was. But the reviewer couldn't have known that, because his experience was different with the show.
@@zoeleene Let's not forget the time-honoured tactic of basically every bigot in the history of humanity: Taking something utterly out of context and applying their own twisted "morality" to it just to tell you that you are evil/immoral/barbaric/unenlightened/etc. for liking it... ;-)
@@zoeleene The thing is, he never actually analysed or judged the quality of the steamy parts in this review, only discussing the quirks around it, which makes the disclaimer slightly redundant? In contrast, I don't see the impact of inherent male bias on the concept of burning immortal Roman vampires with superpowers.
@@Dominic-Noble damn...I'll have to stop being lazy and actually bump up the movie on my "to watch" list I've gotta see this o.O Edit: I also get the joke now XD
My personal highlights: -The title in and of itself sounds like a fever dream. The fact that it’s merely an accurate description is delightful -Acknowledgment and discussion of ableism -Dom just looks darn good in a dress and he knows it -That Starbucks story. I laughed so hard. Pour one iced white mocha out for us, you legend -I now imagine all the characters to sound like the tweets of Scottish Twitter -Snake-STD. Like WHAT -Everyone is getting a time-travelling girlfriend and no questions are asked -“My boob disloged”
The starbucks story had me in stitched but the "Back to more lighthearted content ..." after that broke me. And let's be real: After the venom penis of Edward, the snake thing seems quite normal.
@@blauespony1013 the revelation of the venom penis truly divides my life in before (not great, but at least I didn’t know about venom penises) and after (not great either, but now I know about venom penises which makes it ever so slightly worse)
I remember reading a highlander romance book that felt like a watered down Outlander written in 1992. It was good and other books involving the main girls family having time travel adventures of their own. You should check it out.
The Dom starts reading: 'Dominic stood with a green screen behind him looking into a camera as his thoughts turned to the RU-vid algorithm... and love' Wait?! What?!!
"I'm ne gonna lie ta ya lass, I was kinda expecting a more extreme reaction to ya finding out I just shot a spirit up ya hooha." I burst into a fit of giggles at this part 🤣
When you said that she was wounded, scarred, and had to have limbs amputated, I was REALLY hoping that there would be none of this "omg, I got my parts and pieces back! I'm a whole person again, thank god!". Sadly, I was disappointed.
Are you challenging your audience once more, Dom? In which case... remember what happened last time. And for the sake of your mental health, good luck.
Yes. Dom, don't let big media -- er, big romance fantasy publishing -- tell you how to feel about your appearance! I also liked that he dropped in how those chiseled physiques are at least partially a result of dehydration.
@@strawberrybunny.2983 Sandra Hill wrote a series of paranormal romance novels all featuring Viking Vampire Angels. The first in the series is called Kiss of Pride and while not the most well known paranormal romance series (that would probably go to either J R Wards books or Sherrilyn Kenyon's) they are really popular and a little notorious among booksellers for that hell of a elevator pitch.
Is it weird that I, as a bisexual woman, would want books like this to involve a romance between two men instead? Like, a modern guy being romanced by a hunk of a warrior.
Personally, as a Disabled consumer of fiction, that has had so many otherwise enjoyable stories ruined by lazy ableism, I've come up with my own "Bechdel-Style test,"^ for a disability rep: *The 1,000 Desires Test* There's a disabled character. Who wants something (That's _not_ revenge, cure, or death) And takes action to try to get it. ^A character from a non-default demographic gets to do something in a story that would ordinarily be taken for granted for a default character (such as "having dialog." "having their own story arc," "having a goal," "not *always* dying). And the thing they get to do is independent of the trait that marks them as "other."
As another Disabled consumer of fiction, I agree that the ableism ruins so many books especially for me. Also, I will definitely use your Bechdel style test because this could definitely be useful! Thank you for that!❤
Smutty romance usually isn't my cup of tea but I have to be honest here: a time traveling women with a druid-fire-super-power, roman vampires and immortal highlanders in a single book is so much wiedness that really, really want to read it now. Edit: I wrote this comment before the horny snake spirit-STD was mentioned. I'm sold, I'm gonna read it no matter what.
in fairness to outlander’s time travel tropiness, it Did start out as essentially doctor who fan fiction because the writer had a thing for jamie mccrimmon. which does make it doubly ironic that the author DESPISES fan fiction based on her work to a.... disturbing degree.
@@DragonLandlord As an author who started as a ficcer, I want everyone to write fanfiction of my work. However, since I am not famous and only have two books out, I think I am unlikely to have that happen. Heck, my publisher went out of business and my books are out of print now, so really, truly, not gonna happen. XD But maybe one day... :)
@@DragonLandlord YES. Authors ranging from George R.R. Martin to Cassandra Clare wrote really popular fics and were active on fanfiction websites, but now they don't want anyone else doing it.
On the one hand I can see not wanting to read or at least admit to reading FF because if the author then goes on to write something similar their can be claims of plagiarism. So I can see giving a wide bearth. But on other hand, FF is a gateway for so many aspiring authors. It seems frankly mean spirited and gate-keeping to be like, I made it into the industry but not the rest of you dirty peasants.
I would love for people to write fanfics of my content. It’s just down to looking. If you don’t agree with one fic, just look for one that suits your taste. That’s what I would do. I’d be honoured if someone wrote a fanfic of my work. It shows compassion and genuine interest. I should know: I’m doing a rewrite for fun of a show I really like.
Dom: If this video gets 10, 000 likes I'll read this book too. Me, looking at the 5.5k likes on the video after it's only been up for a few hours: hehehe.
That talk about how disabilitys are represented in media has made me curious on your opinion on katawa shojo. Its a visual novel/dating sim where each of the love interests have a disability, which sounds extemely fucked up but the whole thing is surprisingly very high quality and respectfull, going out of its way to talk about how living with their disabilitys has affected their lives and never pulling a magical get out of jail free card to fix all of their problems. Id recomend looking into it if your interested as its honestly really fasinating. The whole thing was a colaborative online effort to create and so its available free to download as well.
To be fair it really only sounds that bad at the start because you left out that the protag is also disabled and attends a special facility that caters to people with disabilities.
@@bubblegum1366 so, it ok for it is only OK and not fetishising of pitty porn or whatever, if a disabled person date's another disabled person, so it the self insert character is, there can be nothing wrong? I found the argumentation of it being respectful and showing the ways of how they deal with their limitations instead of using it for flavor and then spring a miracle cure way more convincing
@@Alias_Anybody As a Scot I feel obliged to tell you, good sir/madam/whatever else you identify as, that they are not called ‘Scottish Cows’ but are in fact known as Highland Coos.
@@kierangorman3052 whatever you call them, they’re bloody adorable. Not my favourite cows (that would be the lovely grey Brahmans with the hump on their backs), but not far off the top spot. And yes, I have a favourite cow breed. Also, I like the smell of cowpat. Side effects of growing up on a cattle farm.
@@katherinemorelle7115 I agree, they are really cute! I always thought about the fact that if they were grazed anywhere else than up in the freezing cold Highlands that they would be roasting all the time, but it might just be me that thinks about that. Have to admit that I would probably have to count the Highland Coos as my favourite (but to be fair, I do have some obvious bias). Glad to meet someone else who can appreciate a good cow.
Oh Dom... Oh Honey... You lived my personal nightkare: accidentally flaunting weird porn in public. Stay strong. The barista probably made an amusing anecdote out of you.
Every time Dom introduces me to the most buckwild story concepts it's like a shot of pure confidence. People really straight up be writing and publishing the wildest concepts, so go out there and write something!
I never knew this. Almost none of the second doctor's episodes got played here in the US, so I barely even remember Jamie. I did like that we have the same name, though. X) He looks very different in the Outlander show than the guy who played him in Dr. Who! I don't think I'd have ever made the connection on my own. Thanks!
The Roman Empire invaded and held the lowlands of what is now Scotland in the face of resistance from the native tribes. But it *seems* that the Romans withdrew before the Irish ("Scotti" to the Romans) had invaded the mainland ...
Isn't this what it's like when you're a high level DnD player? You just straight up forget that you have a spell for a problem because you've been casting Fireball and Eldritch Blast since day 1
You know, if we make him review ‘Dominic, her Warlock Protector’, he would probably have to dress up as the titular handsome warlock, bared chest and all. That should be a reward in and of itself!
Time travelling single:"What age is this?" Celtic warrior:"The higlander age!" *unsheaths giant broadsword* Time travelling single:"That explains the Roman vampires."
I know the "I need to work out more" was a joke, but just so it's clear, all bodies are beautiful and also beauty isn't an obligation and also you look great!
I'm with you- a disabled and heavily scarred female military veteran time traveling to fight vampires in the past was an interesting hook right up until I find out that she is miracle healed right away.
“There’s a recurring theme in fiction writing that I became aware of while reading a review of Detective Pikachu of all bloody things-“ Ok, say no more, Dom. The fact that Detective Pikachu was the thing to tip you off to the “magically healing disabilities” trope is unbelievably hilarious to a Pokémon fan like me! 😂
I went for most of my life wishing I could be “magically fixed” and that my disabilities would just be cured. I ate stories like that up constantly and it made me hate myself. Instead of accepting the fact that I just had to do things differently, I would try and force myself to do things just like everyone hoping I would just magically be able to do it. It took so long to accept my disabilities and start to play to the strengths they gave me. I don’t hate the trope, I just wish it was used more responsibly.
There is a book I read that was kind of time travel romancy (more young adultish) with the MC having a disability - more specifically, she had cerebral palsy. The author never made an attempt to fix it, but instead showed that the character essentially worked with her disability instead of against it. It's one of the few examples i can think of where the disability wasn't 'fixed' or 'marked over' when it came to the story itself.
"Ah'm nae gonna lie to ya, lass, I was kinda expectin' a more extrrreme reaction to findin' ou' I jes shot a spirit up yer hoohah." killed me. Well, the Starbucks story killed me first. That killed me twice.
As someone who read a lot of fanfic, this really sounds a lot like a guilty pleasure self insert fanfic. No real explanation for how you ended up there, the trip making you attractive and healing any health issues, the randomly granted super powers, the lack of consequences, the never adapting enemies and the immidiate close relationship to attractive people are all very common to them.
As a disabled beautiful watcher, I appreciate you pointing out the ableist trope of magically fixing disabled characters or making them evil. I’ve simply adjusted to my new impairments and just work around them. I do miss the abled version of my body (mostly because it wasn’t constantly in pain) but I’m not resentful. Life keeps going, you know? ☺️
This is why I really like Quest for Camelot. People bitch about Gareth not getting his sight back but I think the point was he had a happy ending without being "fixed." I can't tell you how many stories I've seen as a child about the disabled, and it felt like they don't have a "happy ending" until their disability is miraculously gone.
