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Movie Star Foot Soldier - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Playmates)

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A significant amount of my opinions about modern queer television are influenced by researching older queer media.

I see a lot of the same vitriol in modern queer fandom discourse that has been playing out in queer spaces since film and television were invented. Shows in the 70s started making steps toward sensitivity consulting in queer media, even as the networks fought them on it. Imperfect but earnest queer representation was met with aggressive protests by homophobes and queer people who thought it wasn't good enough. The argument over good representation vs no representation has been happening for decades and decades.

You spend enough time immersed in old queer media and you really start to vibe with Harvey Fierstein's words in The Celluloid Closet documentary. Or at least, I do.

Harvey Fierstein: "I liked the sissy. Is it used in negative ways? Yeah, but, my view has always been visibility at any cost."

The way I see it, the way to genuine, loving queer representation that showcases a vast array of experiences is to stop demanding perfection. The fewer queer stories that are allowed to exist, the more of the heavy lifting those stories have to do in the representation department.

When we have numerous queer stories, it's suddenly much less important to argue over whether the queer characters in question are "good" or "positive." They can just be queer characters who exist in the same infinite variety as straight characters. They can be messy, they can be flawed, they can be honest portrayals of the complexity of human existence.

Queer representation will never be perfect, and striving for perfection is how we shoot ourselves in the foot.

Some starter reading for those interested:

Alternate Channels: Queer Images on 20th-Century TV (revised edition) - Steven Capsuto

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture - Matt Baume

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies - Vito Russo

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Aaand the final results from 15 votes makes "Not sure, but am curious what you came up with" as the winner with 33.3% of the vote, followed by "Just want to see the results" in second place with 26.7%, then "Yes to Pern, no to Transformers" in third at 20%, "Yes to both" in fourth with 13.3%, "Yes that Transformers, no to Pern" at fifth with 6.7%, and in dead last "No to both" at 0%.

Not quite what I was hoping for, but I think I am justified in giving writing my ideas up so you guys can help me build on them a shot.

Will do Pern first, because it got more vote and is shorter. Not sure when, so keep an eye out.

Random Battletech Request/Question

Me being me, the first thing I started doing when I got into BattleTech lore was start storybuilding crossovers. I have two ideas that I have done quite a bit of work on, but have hit a wall, as I am either unconfident of my knowledge or unable to settle on an answer that the various questions I have come up with. Also, honestly, storybuilding is usually more fun when it's collaborative.

One is a crossover with Transformers. The other is a crossover with Dragonriders of Pern.

Obviously, both of these involve things that, by general agreement, are verboten in BT canon, so before I endeavor to invest in writing either one up, I want to know what the odds are of getting a useful result so...

#Random Thoughts #BattleTech #Fanfic #Storybuilding #Worldbuilding #Crossover #Transformers #Pern #Dragonriders of Pern #The Transformers #BattleTech Crossover #Self-Reblog

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Random Battletech Request/Question

Me being me, the first thing I started doing when I got into BattleTech lore was start storybuilding crossovers. I have two ideas that I have done quite a bit of work on, but have hit a wall, as I am either unconfident of my knowledge or unable to settle on an answer that the various questions I have come up with. Also, honestly, storybuilding is usually more fun when it's collaborative.

One is a crossover with Transformers. The other is a crossover with Dragonriders of Pern.

Obviously, both of these involve things that, by general agreement, are verboten in BT canon, so before I endeavor to invest in writing either one up, I want to know what the odds are of getting a useful result so...

#Random Thoughts #BattleTech #Fanfic #Storybuilding #Worldbuilding #Crossover #Transformers #Pern #Dragonriders of Pern #The Transformers #BattleTech Crossover #A Question #Poll #A Poll #Self-Reblog

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-Old Woman with Distaff-

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bambashkart

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wanna be as relaxed as this Green Arrow vol 3 #20

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‘Moorish woman’ postcard

Dakar, Senegal; 1915-1921

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floating duck 🍑⁣

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why don't people in zombie apocalypse stories ever just wear suits of armor? you think any zombie is gonna get their shitty rotting jaws through this?

I'm gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail

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Historic scenes as soldiers from No. 7 Company Coldstream Guards joined the Garde Républicaine, outside the Élysée Palace in Paris whilst the 1st & 2nd Infantry Regiments of the Garde Républicaine were marched to Buckingham Palace by the Band of the Grenadier Guards, marking the first time a military unit from outside the Commonwealth has mounted guard at Buckingham Palace. The events were to mark 120 years since the signing of the Anglo-French alliance known as the Entente Cordial.

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new post but im shy so nobody gets to read it