This week, I’m writing about
another Wonder Woman social media theme called—“Sword in the Dress”.
In the movie scene, Wonder
Woman attends a fancy social together with a purpose. She is intent on finding the god Ares to slay him. She wears a lovely, jewel blue dress with her sword
strapped to her back.
Sword in the Dress had it’s fashion moment on social media as women and girls tried having a sword at
the ready for themselves. All sorts of swords were tested, wooden,
plastic, Scottish ones with cage handles, rapiers, light sabers, pool noodles
and a tattoo.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Newspaper in Australia, called the fashion trend, Wonder Woman’s sword trick has inspired an army of women on social
media.
Other websites are warning
women not to copy WW because of the dangers of injury with real metal swords.
Here’s a picture of my dancing sword,
but that’s not me holding it of course. I get shivers at the thought of resting
that cool metal blade against my spine. I might stay with trying to balance the
sword on the crown of my head instead.
Enjoy your weekend, ♥ Ashlyn
Wonder Woman pictures used in this post are owned by
Warner Brothers.
The Wonder Woman movie has been an outstanding
success and continues to feature in entertainment news articles. There are also
some inspired social media posts coming from people.
There's a guy who used make-up
to transform himself into Wonder Woman and impressed Gal Gadot.
I recently visited the twitter world and came across the interesting topic of, “From Princess to General”. The theme features two actresses (so far).
Robin Wright
From Princess Buttercup who needed saving in the
Princess Bride movie to General Antiope in Wonder Woman’s Amazon Army.
Carrie Fisher
From Princess Leia who led the Rebel Resistance against
the Empire and who was promoted to General Leia.
source: @ErikaChody
Princess/General Leia from the Star Wars movies is
a much loved character. Peace and thanks to Carrie Fisher for giving movie world
an iconic heroine, a long time ago.
Months before the film was released, the Wonder Woman movie trailer and posters captured
the imagination of fans. Wonder Woman’s
history—past and present has appeared on social media pages as vintage comic pics, video and image mish-mashes of the 1970’s television show starring
Lynda Carter, and of course Wonder Woman’s solo and spectacular superhero debut
in the new movie.
I came across two galleries of gorgeous Wonder
Woman art on the Poster Posse webpage to share with you. The following artworks
came from these sites;
As you scroll through the images, enjoy some music
by a musical wonder woman, Tina Guo. The Cello sound is hauntingly beautiful. This
version of the Wonder Woman theme song also has a rock and rock edge. Tina even looks like an Amazon warrior playing her instruments.
Diana, Princess of Themyscira, was the only child in a
community of women living on a secluded island. A timeless, visually stunning place that’s
rooted in an ancient matriarchal culture. The paradise home was shrouded by a
god’s mist as protection against intruders from the outside world.
Diana’s Aunty, an Army General, knew Diana’s purpose in life
and had no choice but to train Diana from child to woman to become a brave warrior.
Driving Diana to fight harder, tougher, and stronger. Warning her that a battle
with the enemy would never be fair.
Diana was her mother, the Queen’s greatest love. The Queen
knew one day Diana would leave the island of Amazons to save mankind from their
corruption. Because Diana was born with a sacred duty to protect those who can’t
defend themselves. Her destiny was to become an unconquerable weapon against
war.
Actress Gal Gadot – as the incredibly fabulous
Wonder Woman. Gal Gadot was everything and more Wonder Woman than I'd ever hoped for from Hollywood.
One day, a World War 1 pilot chased by the enemy flies
through the island’s protective mists and crashes his airplane into the ocean.
Diana doesn’t hesitate to answer her call to destiny. She dives into the sea to
rescue the drowning person. Afterward, she discovers the pilot is a man and
she’s never seen one of them before.
Her life changes forever.
The Amazon Princess will become Wonder Woman.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Hello Friends,
Last weekend, Wonder Woman from the 70
year old comic book stories sprinted onto the movie screen with her god-slaying
sword, and gauntlets (wristbands) made from the Greek Goddess’s Athena’s shield.
Woo-hoo!
WOW. What a movie it was!
Unforgettable. Brave. Empowering. Inspiring.
The cast, the music soundtrack, the cinematography, action,
quiet moments and compassion were just fantastic. The first part of the movie
that was set on the mystical Amazon Island teased my interests in history,
myths and Goddess.
During most of the movie, there were tears in my eyes. My
chest was tight with emotion because in the scenes, I saw symbolism of a
Goddess Warrior fighting for goodness and love in a grey world of violence. Many
times Wonder Woman fought alone and after she was advised not to take action.
Actress Robin Wright as the incredibly fabulous General
Antiope of the Amazon Army. Convincing and scary. Supportive of Diana’s
destiny. Tough love here. The warriors thundering down the beach on horseback were mesmerizing.
I loved the self-determination, courage, acrobatics and athleticism of the Amazons. Spectacular.
Entwining the Themes of Love and War
Diana learns about the war raging in the outside world from
the pilot, Steve Trevor. There’s an even bigger call to destiny for her to
answer.
The Queen forewarns that mankind doesn’t deserve Diana.
Nonetheless, Diana knows she must leave her island paradise
home.
Sail through the misty portal to the World War 1 era of time to London and Europe.
Actress Connie Nielsen as the incredibly
fabulous Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Loving mother. Wise. Prophetic.
Stubborn.
As Diana journeys, she grows closer to Steve and her naivety
from her sheltered upbringing is challenged.
Steve guides her to the battlefield.
To save the innocent, the homeless and starving people.
To fight the god Ares.
To defeat war using the power of love.
It was unusual to watch a movie where women were more than objects, victims or scene decorations, but were the central wheel, defiant people and winning
their battles. It was refreshing to see the desperate, misplaced mother and
baby in the muddy war trench were not regarded as collateral damage or unfortunate
refugees. Diana couldn’t ignore their plight.
Wonder Woman’s single-handed charge across ‘no-man’s land’
deflecting the repeated enemy shower of bullets was the female superhero
conquering movie world.
Thank you to Gal Gadot - Wonder Woman, the cast – you were
all fabulous, and to the Director Patty Jenkins – the boss at the helm, for
bringing this story alive with grace, imagination, sensitivity and straight
from the heart.
Cheering,
Big Time!
Have a good weekend everyone.
♥Ashlyn
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Heroines or Villains is the third theme in my “Interesting Women” series of blogs.
I’m writing about women who broke the mold, and challenged the ‘status quo’ of their societies. Were they heroines or villains?
“Are they too old or too
serious to be shagged senseless by a debaucherous Duke or a sexy billionaire or
a ruggedly ripped farmer?” Woah, the hot questions need
answers.
Hello
Friends,
This
week it’s my pleasure to welcome Australian romance author, Justine Lewis back
to the blogger site. Justine joins us today with a guest post about older
heroines and why she thinks they aren’t past their use by date in romance
stories.
Guest Blog with Justine
All
romance readers and writers love a hero, but we don’t seem to talk as much
about heroines. I’ve even heard a few people say they only read romances
because of the heroes and that they don’t care at all about the heroines. For
me, one of the main attractions of romances is that they are about women (with
the obvious exception of male/male, but you know what I mean). In romance
novels women are usually the main characters, the protagonists. And in a world
where men still dominate almost all aspects of public life, this is a big
reason to love romance.
So
I want to talk about heroines for a change. In particular, why do the majority
of romances feature younger heroines? We may have moved on from virginal twenty
year olds to women in their late twenties … early thirties … but we haven’t
moved much further than that.
I’ve
read only handful of books featuring heroines over forty over the years,
including Amy Andrews’ lovely Ruby-winning A Doctor, A Nurse, A Christmas
Baby and Sandra Antonelli’s Driving in Neutral. But these are the
only two that instantly spring to mind (though admittedly my memory is not as
reliable as it once was). I haven’t sought books with older heroines out, but
they haven’t overwhelmed my Kindle either.
And
I want to know why.
source:fotofolia.com
Is
it that there isn’t a readership? I doubt it. If anything, older heroines
should be more interesting. Older women have more memories, both to comfort and
haunt them. That should make for deeper, more complex conflicts. Maybe it’s
because we have all been younger women and can all relate to someone who still
has their entire life ahead of them and hasn’t made all those mistakes we’ve
made? Romance is about escape after all.
Or
maybe once the heroine is over a certain age a book tends to be classified as women’s
fiction because past a certain point women are considered too old or too
serious to be shagged senseless by a debaucherous Duke or a sexy billionaire or
a ruggedly ripped farmer. I hope I’m never too old for any of those things.
I
think the age from thirty-five onwards is particularly interesting. This is
often a time of change, a time when so many women face their last chance to
have a family (or add to the one they may have). Aren’t the stakes higher? The
rewards so much sweeter? A woman in her later forties probably no longer has
the endless beat of the ticking clock in her head, but she is likely to have a
much more interesting backstory than the twenty-year-old virgin. And she
probably still wants, consciously or not, love and great sex. Being past
child-bearing age does change some things, but not everything. It is perfectly
possible to have a full and happy life without children (some would say it’s
the only way!) I have a theory that women make better choices about men when
the possibility of having children is not on the cards anyway.
My
latest release is a contemporary romance about a television anchor woman who is
about to turn forty. She fears she’s reaching her use-by date and finds herself
both threatened and attracted to a new gun foreign correspondent who becomes
her offsider.
I’m
interested in what you think? Do you like reading about older heroines? What is
your favorite book with an older heroine? Leave a comment or connect with
Justine on her social media sites.
The Older Romance Heroine in “The Reluctant Lover” by Justine
The heroine in my new book, “The Reluctant
Lover”, is about to turn forty. I started to write this book when I was
thirty-nine and six months old. I’m not sure if it occurred to me at the time,
but writing this novel in the lead up to the big Four-Zero probably saved me
thousands in counselling fees. My heroine, Katherine, is conflicted about her
big birthday – she’s a television journalist who has kept her birthdate a
secret. But the ratings on her show are declining and while she believes that
age shouldn’t matter, she also knows all too well how women in the public eye
are judged by the way they look. And to make Katherine’s fortieth even more
eventful, I gave her a new, younger colleague to challenge all of her
assumptions. I hope you enjoy Katherine and Liam’s story.
Australian author, D.D. Line joins us today with a guest post about love and growing older, and passion taking on another meaning. The ability to fall in love can happen at any stage of life. Yes, there’s a different intensity, a different focus of passion and need, but those fluttery moments where you’ve swallowed a thousand tapdancing butterflies, and your speech turns to incoherent babble never fade... Older Romance Heroines with D.D. Line
