#The Wozzard

[spacevixenmusic]

You'd think in a universe full of fringe extremists, eccentrics and weirdos, its inhabitants would be long past things like fatphobia and revulsion to disfigurement. But then again, Lexx came out in the late 90s/00s, and media was ESPECIALLY rife with that shit back then. (It has always been this way, especially after all the decades of brainwashing advertising we’ve endured). This next episode was rough, but I wanted to examine it because it left me with a lot of thoughts that I want to keep fresh in my mind next time I feel like world-building and subverting these ideas.

The Dark Lady (left) is some kind of powerful witch who thinks no one can ever love her because of her disfigurement, and she invites willing participants to use her bimbofication machine (I cannot stress enough that it is literally a bimbofication machine) to make themselves desirable and/or to imbue themselves with Love Slave personalities. The Wozzard (right) thinks this process robs women of their inherent natural beauty, and that The Dark Lady is bimbofying these women simply to sell them off as sex slaves, and cites that they have an “expiration date”. Being that Xev herself was also transformed into a Love Slave, she too has an expiration date, and may die soon if she is not re-bimbofied. She becomes a key instrument in fueling this ongoing war between the two of them.

Anyway, the scene I wanted to talk about. While searching for the machine to extend Xev’s life, the crew gets sucked into the war and the Wozzard uses his own machine to forcibly transform Xev back into her original, fat, disfigured, pre-Love Slave body, then forces her to watch “propaganda” about how wonderful her natural original body is. She hates this idea and begs him to change her back, even with the knowledge of the Love Slave body having an expiration date. The whole scene is framed around how Xev looks, and makes little effort to hide its fatphobia - as many other episodes previously have already demonstrated. The whole conflict boils down to “which body is truly more beautiful”, and ends with both leaders destroying each other as Xev is re-restored to her Love Slave body by her own choice (and technically needed it to extend her expiration date, but I digress).

Now, if you were to remove the fatphobic framing and simply focus on the act of choosing which body to remain in, even with bimbofication, this story becomes an easy trans allegory. At the very least, the core idea changes to "you are most beautiful in the body you CHOOSE for yourself, whether natural OR transformed". And in a universe where magically changing your body overnight is possible, you would think such phobias about fat, trans, and disfigured bodies would stop existing pretty quickly, because anyone could simply change themselves at any time. It’s an interesting concept to explore, and one I think more sci-fi would be keen to dig deeper into. I’m not giving brownie points to this show for “doing it right”, but I am glad it at least approached the topic in a way that made me think about it.

ANYWAY, enough word vomiting. Let’s wrap up this season in the next post!

#Lexx #Woz #The Wozzard #also did I mention the whole episode is a parody/homage to Wizard of Oz

[teledyn]

I've Been Over The Rainbow

It was a therapy happening, but all it leaves you with are memories, and memories aren't where it's at. Boy, getting to where it's at is a long search!

#early electronic music #mort garson #where it's at #wozzard of iz

[charlottan]

kong gozzard and the lozzard wozzard

ive heard of them

[stop-entropy-lie-down]

war iff to saw the wozzard, the winderful wozzard if is

[noirandchocolate]

Good Things Today: Lunch out with mom and Bast where I got really good bruschetta pizza with burrata on it. A walk with Penny at the park where she got to smell many smells and be joyful. Some birthday cards. Finding out our team (Bast, Kat, and me) for the escape room we did last week had the best winning time for the week for that room. Wozzards 4 ever!!! Ordering dad’s Father’s Day steaks in advance. Remembering that Kat left us an entire sleeve of thin mints omg unexpected Girl Scout cookies. Reading a lot of Night Watch with Bast just in time for the Glorious 25th!

#kidk says stuff #its not my birthday monday is my birthday

[staircasewitch]

26

rogue wozzard undermining the magiarchy

#inktober2017 #inktober #wizard #fantasy #brush pens #traditional media #artists on tumblr #illustration #black and white

[swordrobe]

This engineer at work was telling me how he likes dnd because of like statistics and stuff and I was just like hhhhhhh l wozzard

[staircasewitch]

wip wozzard

#digital art #artists on tumblr #art #wizards #fantasy art #tablet