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niphredil-14 · 3 months

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if request are still are open here’s a fun idea you could try- like the Rottmnt bros with a younger sister reader with unknown origins but she’s MAGICAL. Think like the characters from magical girl shows

this request should tell you that am a huge magical girl fan😅

sorry this took so long to get to, life's been hectic, also sorry if this kinda sucks, i'm running on no sleep, and have only ever watced two magical girl shows, neither of which I finished.

RISE BOYS WITH MAGICAL GIRL LITTLE SISTER

I feel that it's important to point out the fact that they all use mystic powers, they are all magical. So I don't really feel like they would view you any differently based on you being magical. But for the sake of writing this, I am going to assume that the Magical Sister is like a typical magical girl from an anime (im gonna use inspo from Tokyo Mew Mew where the girls have animal powers, since I feel like it would tie in well with the whole mutant turtle thing.) (also gods that takes me back to my early anime phase yikes) This means I am imagining someone who does flashy magical wardrobe changes and is 60% aesthetic, 20% girl power, 10% love, and 10% cringy tweenage girl emotions.

Leo:

Leo is the ultimate hype man, super supportive.

I feel like he might be slightly jealous of your transformations though. He's the face man, and feels that he should get to be the flashiest.

Would def be like your partner in crime.

Raph:

the definition of "protective older brother"

he doesn't care how strong/powerful/capable you are, he's gonna worry.

Frankly he doesnt even want you going on patrol. You're his baby sister, and the only reason he let it slide is because you and Mikey teamed up on him.

If you have a boring love interest, like most magical girls do, he will be repeatedly giving the shovel talk. Does NOT like your LI, though he'd be glad that they were some boring normal person and not anyone dangerous to you.

If they are someone dangerous, he will forbid it, like the absolute asshole of an overprotective brother that he is

Donnie:

Don would be mostly indifferent.

Might wanna study whatever item turned you into a magical girl (if one did)

Prob isn't as big of a fan of all the magic,

But he is ALL for the showmanship. He will help with the theatrics, and making sure that you're safe, but that's it.

Mikey:

if im being honest

mikey is also a magical girl

there is nothing you can do to convince me otherwise.

Magica girl team-ups ^u^

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onejellyfishplease · 8 months

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I have done it, but at what cost?

Behold: Magical Girls Turtles

I was trying to get them ‘mid transformation’

Also a few notes on the designs:

Yes Leo does have ice skates, it’s so he can cut out portals from his feet as well through the extra blades :), and yes, now he is twice as fabulous.

Mikey’s mask tails turn into wings so he can pull off even more razzmatazz, also he his rocking that pose

Raph’s shell turns into more of a sun-like shape… not for any particular reason, just because it looks cool.

And Donnie’s goggles change to look more like a crown bc he is a queen. You can’t see it, but know that his soft shell now has like 10 times the amount of hearts on it now :)

#i may be cringe but i am free #rottmnt #art #rottmnt raph #rottmnt leo #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt mikey #magical girl #my art

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ziipzeepzop-eez · 4 months

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Here’s something fun you could try doing, I really liked the Leo x unicorn reader so why not something more magical. How about Rottmnt x younger sister but get this she’s a MAGICAL GIRL like sailor moon or even pretty cure. I would like to imagine she had sailor moon’s personality just for fun.

If you couldn’t from the user name am a huge magical girl fan😅.

Wassup friendo! Aw, I'm glad you liked it =) Ayyyeee but mira mira- *casually slings arm around your shoulders, leaning in conspiratorially* This is a pretty rad idea, save for the fact that I have next to zero knowledge about Sailor Moon and ... Pretty Cure? Is that what it's called? 😅 I hope I'm saying it correctly ajshdjdhd /gen!

As far as being something more ✨magical✨ with rottmnt and a magical sister, all I can imagine is her having a cool Sailor Moon transformation every time they gear up for battle and:

Leo is infinitely jealous each time. Why doesn't he get a super cool glowy transformation when the moment strikes too?? Seems homophobic to him. (/lhj) (Just wait til he unlocks his mystic abilities, he'll be back to himself in no time. Probably tries to outdo you in terms of showy glowy magic girl aura.)

Donnie wonders how it's possible for you to exude legitimate sparkles ("HOW IS THIS GENETICALLY POSSIBLE?? SIMPLE: IT'S NOT.") but gets used to it since, yk, you're his sister ajshdjd

Mikey gets just as sparkly and you do purely vibe-wise!! — I definitely believe he wholeheartedly adores the magical aspect of his sister and it just makes his little mystic heart so happy ╰⁠(⁠*⁠´⁠︶⁠`⁠*⁠)⁠╯

and Raph would generally be positive about it!! It's just that when it interferes with missions and hero work or what other, he gets a lil stressed :>

— Especially when you go all magic time right 👏🏽 in the middle 👏🏽 of 👏🏽 the 👏🏽 battlefield pleaseeee he would be frothing at the mouth. Not above asking "if you can do this later" lmboooo. (He means well I promise, he's just a big brother 🥹)

In terms of being magical: if this were to be their biological sister then the magic itself would be their inherent mysticism!! rather than if it were to be a sister with origins unknown/different from the boys; heck, you could have a whole other magical bloodline out there somewhere and they're just. none the wiser. (well, everyone except for Donnie. that man knows things nobody else does.......... nor should. shivers in fear.)

Ayo but overall, they'd love their magical sister. That's on Pizza Supreme in the sky fr.

Idk man imma have to evaluate on this now. Might turn it into a ✨professional✨ req/hc list. Dunno. Might get a lil silly with it. What do you think?

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callmehere-iwillappear · 11 months

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rec list part 2! (last updated: 10/22/23)

this time it's one shots! here's the link to the multi chapter rec list

and again, if you know the tumblr url of anyone i missed, let me know!

One shots

awake to eyes like your eyes (to hands that fit in your hands)

Leo has a tough time after a nightmare, but Raph will always be there for him.

starting off with a good one! god i care them so much. raph and leo hours post movie it is EVERYTHING i needed

Chiquitita (Or, The Complicated Art Of Forgiving Yourself)

Future Leo and Leo have a conversation about repentance.

oooohhhh my god this is like. so satisfying somehow. self forgiveness is a bitch but sometimes you look at the version of you who fucked everything up and realize just how small he is and it's. yeah. yeah

entangled, inseparable (the dark and the light; the sun and the night)

The twins get cursed by a body-swap spell.

i mean. yeah. yeah. body swap is one of my all time fave things and this one is REAL good. they are So Twins my god the BULLYING. AND there's mind meld which is another big time fave of mine it Does Not get better than this

Fibonacci (me again)

Leo is six when he (and his brothers) finally get their birthdays.

yeah yeah another one of my own fics But Anyway more twin hours (surprising absolutely no one) it's literally just fluff

I bend the definition of faith (@siliconforbrains)

In which Michelangelo refuses to leave his brother to die, and Leonardo somehow ends up in the body of his 16-year-old self. This changes everything and nothing at the same time.

god. god. this fic is incredible. wailing on the floor. super interesting take on the 'future leo goes back in time' idea too tbh

in my hour of weakness, you were there to see my courage fail (@stardustcoral)

Leo has a certified Bad Time™. His brothers help.

mostly focused on leo and raph but the others are there too at the end and Good God my heart. i can't explain why it's just so like . cathartic?? augh. legit made me cry which, let me tell you, does Not happen that often with fics

the carol that you sing (right within your heart) (@stardustcoral)

Donnie gives Leo quite the shocking gift: emotional vulnerability! Oh, and a battle-shell. Amongst other things.

disaster twins fluff my BELOVED. absolutely adorable post movie christmas fic i love them so much

The Kindness of Collision

One by one, in the timeline that ended the world, the Hamato family dies--and wakes up, somewhere kinder. One by one, in a timeline that saved the world, the Hamato family wakes up and remembers exactly how much they could have lost.

augh. UAGHH. i am SUCH a sucker for 'present turtles get memories from future turtles' in ANY form good god. them. the them

The 'KYS' Incident

Raph doesn't know how to use acronyms. This causes issues.

SORRY THIS ONE IS JUST. SO FUNNY. literally just what it says on the tin. if you know you know

Though the Truth May Vary (@kattythingz)

April is a big sister first and foremost, and copes with the End of the World™ accordingly. Leo is a little brother two-point-five-fourths of sometimes, and copes with his sister's coping accordingly.

THE RARE AND ELUSIVE APRIL + LEO DUO MY BELOVED... this bitch has it all - sibling bonding! post movie healing! april kicking ass and taking names! leo being his usual incredibly stubborn self until he gets through to her about how amazing she is! magical girl transformation! other spoilery things! what more could you want?

Trinkets

“Thanks, Donnie!” He said brightly, his other brothers chiming in with their own thanks after him. Donnie flapped his hands and giggled, making Leo clutch his new present tighter. Donnie did love them, and this was the proof.

YESSSS DONNIE GIFT GIVING LOVE LANGUAGE REAL!!! super sweet and in character i love it so much

Twins Don't Need to Have Logic

Leo stopped calling them 'twins' years ago and thought Donnie would've been grateful for that... Little does he know how his brother actually feels.

look i know i KNOW a lot of these are disaster twins focused but i'm just. so soft for them. anyway donnie secretly referring to leo as his twin my beloved

Worth it for the Laughter

Leo is absolutely certain that Donnie stole his teeth to use for science. Or maybe that's just the post-surgery painkillers talking.

leo gets his wisdom teeth out and says absolutely nothing embarrassing or incriminating whatsoever i prommy <3

your fears are all true (@remedyturtles)

'Donnie bring me toast.' A long pause. Leo felt an impression of confusion, then comprehension. Donnie sent back, 'Did you seriously just mind meld with me to request breakfast in bed?'

this fic has EVERYTHING. disaster twins? check. mind melding? check. existential dread? check. i love it here

#talk tag #once again i am Not a professional reviewer or whatever LMAO can u tell #fic recs #not fic related #probably will Also update this later but

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moonlightflower21 · 4 years

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Anything thats sweet! Like maybe a daddy daughter day or a chaotic day of trying to keep up with the little one and have to wonder how their s/o does it day in and day out. Or maybe teaching their sons how to properly wield a wooden version of their fathers weapon, or in donnies case a smaller version of it.

this was so adorable omg, not sure this was what you wanted though xD

Leonardo: "I want that one!" She whined, stomping his feet on the floor and Leo rubbed his temples. He thought this would be an easy training session with his child and he would be able to introduce the world of ninjitsu at an easy pace but so far she was being fussy and unsettled. He had tried everything to make her feel better but he drew the line at her trying to use a blade at such a young age.

"You will hurt yourself if you have this one, c'mon honey, please" Leo tried to reason and his heart dropped when he saw her lip tremble.

"No no no please don't-" but the ear splitting cries ripped through her vocal chords, stomping the ground as hard as she could. Leo wondered how much pitch her voice could hold, quickly bending down to her level.

"Let's stop that crying" he wiped the tears away but they wouldn't stop falling. He picked her up and rocked her in his arms, reaching for the milk bottle he left aside but that wouldn't work. This was going to be a long day.

After hours of wailing, and trying to appease his baby, Leonardo sat down on the couch exhausted with his child snuggled into his arm. He watched her peaceful face and the dried tears streaks as her chest rose and fell with every breath she inhaled. He loved her so much but she really did knock the energy straight out of him. He loosened his mask, resting his head against the couch and you finally walked in, shutting your phone off and raising a brow at your family.

"You are never leaving again for that long" Leo whispered, holding his hand out for you to take. You chuckled, kissing his cheek and looking at your daughter.

"Do I even want to know?" "You have no idea"

Raphael: "How on earth...." Raphael gasped at his makeshift gym, the small purple and red handprints decorating his weights. They were everywhere, even on the wall which got Raph thinking what kind of magic she possessed by reaching THAT high. And then he got his answer.

"Daaad!" Came the voice of his two year old, on the bar stool wiggling and Raphael rushed forwards before she could fall. She fit snugly in his arm and she grinned up at him, the paint smeared all over her face arms and legs.

"How the- I only left ya alone for 2 minutes! How does your mom do this?" His eyes widened and then he heard the cheerful baby calling him. "You're lucky you're cute" he muttered, standing up and kissing her cheek before crunching up his nose. "Aaaand ya need a bath..." He sighed, a soft chuckle coming from his lips. The paint was going to be a pain to get off and he was pretty sure it was going to leave a stain afterwards, but still she was so cute. "Gonna have tell your momma how she does this everyday..." He muttered, holding her in one arm as he grabbed her towel with the other

Donatello: "Donatello, patrol!" Leo knocked on his door, opening it until his eyes widened at the sight. "What the-" "I can't go on patrol tonight" Donnie replied, continuing to place the sparkly purple curlers in his five year old daughter hair. She sat down, in Donatello's lap trying to read a book. "Why not?" Leo asked, a brow raised.

"Because we're having a relaxing day, that's why. And I promised Y/N I would babysit" Donnie answered, standing his small girl up in his lap and turning her around.

"Oh my god, you look so adorable" Donnie laughed when she giggled, touching her hair eagerly. "Careful sweetheart, you're going to ruin it" Donnie gently placed her hand down from her head.

"Your turn!" She chirruped, her wide eyes holding confusion when she didn't see any hair fall from Donnie's head.

"I-I actually don't have hair sweetheart, we'll try something else?" He suggested and he instantly regretted saying that when her eyes out up like stars as she caught sight of the bright purple clay face mask of yours.

"This! Can you wear this one?" She asked, picking it up in her small hands and do now tried to back out from it.

"I don't think we can, mama might shout" he picked her up with one hand as he stood but she huffed, pouting. "C'mon Dada, pwease?" She asked in that small voice that Donnie knew he couldn't disagree with and finally with a long sigh he agreed. He walked around the lair with a bright purple mask on his face matching with a purple robe and some badly painted nail polish on his nails. But anything to keep that beautiful smile on his baby's face.

Michelangelo: "c'mon sweetheart, let's lay down hmm?" Mikey crawled on the floor, the breath knocked outta him as his small daughter pouted.

"Let's play hide and go seek!" Her baby hands nudged Mikey's head and Mikey groaned, his arms giving away so he was slumped on the floor.

"I can't move anymore..." he whimpered, laying back on his shell and his eyes closed momentarily for a second of peace. "Dad!!" Her voice jarred him out of the peaceful sleep he so desperately wanted to have.

"Yeah?" His meek voice followed after, exhaustion settling in every bone of his body. "Play" she whined, coming closer to him and Mikey scooped her in his arms so her face leaned against his chest.

"I love you but how do you have so much energy?" He yawned, kissing her head while she giggled. A smile made its way to Mikey's lips, hearing her chuckle before she sighed.

"Lets play..." she whined, tugging his hand and then sitting on his chest. Mikey looked up, pouting at her.

"Can we sleep?" "No!! We gotta play! Pwease?" She stuck her bottom lip out, her eyes transforming into the nest puppy dog eyes he had ever seen and he groaned. "You win this time" he said reluctantly, his hands coming over to hold her as he sat up. She laughed gleefully, sticking her small tongue out and Mikey raised his eye ridges, as slight smile on his lips.

"If I win this round, can I sleep?" He asked and she nodded reluctantly. "Awesome. Better start hiding, princess. Because I am going to find you either way" he smirked, placing his hands over his eyes and then hearing her shriek with delight before turning a round and quickly trying to find a hiding spot. When he finally reached 10, he opened his eyes and stood stifling another yawn.

"Where are you, honey bunny?" He chuckled, walking around the lair and then walking past the lab to his room. But he heard small giggles and excited hushed chatter. He pursed his lips, slowly entering the lab to see Donnie chuckling and pointing towards the curtain where her frame was so easily seen. Mikey's heart warmed immensely, his grin at how precious his baby was.

"Well, I guess she's not in here..." Mikey laughed, turning around.

#tmnt x reader #tmnt 2016 x reader #tmnt x reader fanfic #tmnt leonardo #tmnt leo #tmnt raphael #tmnt raph #tmnt donatello #tmnt donnie #tmnt michelangelo #tmnt mikey #tmnt dad!turtles cute moments #tmnt dad!turtles x reader #tmnt dad!turtles

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erinptah · 4 years

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Super Drags review (tl;dr Show Good)

The post where I do my best to spread the Good News, that there exists a saucy gay drag-queen magical-girl animated comedy and everyone should watch it.

Okay, not everyone -- I'll give some caveats at the end -- but definitely a heck of a lot more people than Netflix has bothered to advertise it to.

Look at this! Why did nobody tell me about this??

What is Super Drags?

Fast facts:

It's a 1-season, 5-episode adult animated comedy series, released in November 2018

Here's the official page, with a free-to-view trailer

It packs more explicit, unashamed queerness into those 5 episodes than any other cartoon I can think of

The only possible competitor would be if you took the whole 5000-episode run of Steven Universe and pared it down to a supercut of Just The Gay Parts

This in spite of being produced in Brazil, which (in my broad understanding, as a total non-authority on the subject) is more oppressively, dangerously homophobic than the US

The original is in Portuguese

There is an English dub, fabulously voiced by contestants from RuPaul's Drag Race

It's wrapped in "for adults only!" warnings, not because the content is any less child-friendly than (say) your Bojacks Horsemen or your Ricks and Mortys, but because Brazilian authorities tried to get it shut down on the grounds of this much gay being Harmful For Children

It was (heartbreakingly) not renewed for a second season

Here's a promo video, in which the main characters (Portuguese, with subtitles) play Drag Race judges for Shangela, who ends up voicing Scarlet in English.

And here's a beautiful flashy music video of the big musical number! (Also Portuguese, no subtitles, but the melody and the visuals stand on their own.)

Plot and worldbuilding stuff!

The elevator pitch is "What if Charlie's Angels, but also drag queens, with superpowers, because magical-girl transformations?"

In this universe, all LGBTQ people have magical energy. The Big Bad is an evil magical-drag-queen nemesis who tries to drain our energy for her own purposes. It's like if Ursula from The Little Mermaid was a first-season Sailor Moon villain.

...sidenote, in case you were worried, the representation isn't "cis gay men and nobody else." There's a butch lesbian in the recurring cast, a genderfluid person (in that specific word!) as a one-off love interest, and all the ensemble scenes are wonderful collages of different races, body types, and gender presentations.

Our heroes also fight non-magical everyday homophobes, who get written with scathing realism.

The moment I knew the show wasn't pulling any punches was in the first episode, where a newscaster complains about being Silenced by the Law of Political Correctness, then chirps "however, we have a special guest who is thankfully above the law!"

According to the reviews I've found from Brazilian viewers, it's also pitch-perfect when it comes to local queer culture, community dynamics, slang and speech patterns, even memes. All of which flies right over my head, so here's a post (with no-context spoilers) about one viewer's favorite details.

The handful of reaction posts on Tumblr have a dramatic split between "Brazilian viewers fiercely defending the show as culturally-accurate, uplifting, and brave in a terrifying political moment" and "American viewers complaining that the show is problematic because it's a comedy about drag queens with no perfect role models and lots of sex jokes."

As the Super Drags tell their nemesis (and this is also in the first episode): "How dare you try to turn the LGBTQXYZ community against each other? We do enough of that on our own!"

In between missions, our girls work sitcom retail jobs and deal with other everyday problems. All of which are written in amazingly nuanced and thoughtful ways for a show that also features "defeating an orgy monster with a lip-sync battle."

Detailed character stuff!

Our heroes are Color Coded For Your Convenience!

The Super Drags themselves go by "she" in-uniform, and a lot of the time when out of it. Like the Sailor Starlights, only more so. I'll roll with that.

In blue: Safira Cyan, or Ralph by day, an excitable college-age kid who's built like a football player and squees like a fangirl. (She's an anime fan in the original, and for some reason all the otaku references were replaced in the dub, but you can see them in the subtitles.)

Ralph lives with her younger sister (they play video games together!) and their dad, comes out to them mid-series, and is very shippable with another young guy who starts out reciting the homophobic beliefs he was raised with but whose heart clearly isn't in it.

Safira's weapon is a classic magical-girl wand that casts protective force-fields. Which are shaped like condoms. Because of course.

In yellow: Lemon Chiffon, aka Patrick, the oldest of the group and generally the smartest/most strategic. In most cases, the other two treat her as the de facto team leader -- unless she pushes it too far.

By day she's a single guy with thick thighs and thinning hair, who has some body-image insecurities on the dating scene. And this show has Things To Say about unrealistic beauty standards within the community...not to mention, about masc guys who look down on anyone too flaming or femme because straight people disapprove.

Lemon's weapon is a fluffy boa that can be used as a whip or a lasso, especially when there's a bondage joke to be made.

In red: Scarlet Carmesim, also Donizete, the loudest and most aggressive teammate with the most cutting insults, who refuses to suppress that attitude in an attempt to appease racists. (But will give it a shot when trying not to get fired.)

Donny still lives in her religious/homophobic mom's apartment, and I'm pretty sure it's because neither of them can afford to move out. Her rock-solid sense of fierce self-confidence is the reason it doesn't bring her down.

Scarlet's weapon is a fan that she uses to throw shade. Yeah, you knew that was coming.

The Charlie to these angels is Champagne, who runs operations from a cool magitech compound and breaks the fourth wall at the end to petition for viewers' support in getting a second season.

...we let her down, folks :(

So here's a thing. The show never draws a sharp line between "people who become drag queens because it's a way they're driven to express themselves as gay men" and "people who become drag queens because they were trans women all along." That's consistent with how South American LGBT+ culture works. (Again: best of my knowledge, not personally an authority on this, etc etc.)

Many of the characters, including Champagne, never describe themselves in ways that translate to one of our sharply-defined Anglo-USian identity categories. And I'm not going to try to impose any English labels on them here.

But I can say (in contrast to Safira, Lemon, and Scarlet), Champagne never switches out of her "drag" name/voice/presentation, not even in the most candid off-duty scenes, and still has the same bustline when naked in the tub. Make of that what you will.

You Should Watch This Show

If you have a Netflix subscription, watch Super Drags!

If you ever do a Netflix free trial month in the future, make a note to yourself to watch Super Drags!

It's one of their original productions, so there's no risk of missing your chance because the license expired. But it's absolutely not getting the promotion it deserves. Which means potentially interested viewers won't find it, which means Netflix will think there's no interest, which means they'll keep not promoting it...etc etc etc.

No idea if there's any chance of getting it un-canceled, but maybe we can at least convince them to release it on DVD.

And the sheer gutsiness it took for a group of Brazilian creators to produce this show in the first place -- that deserves to be rewarded with your attention.

In spite of various anti-discrimination laws that sound good on paper, the country has serious problems with homophobia, transphobia, and anti-LGBT violence (warning, article has a violent image which is only partly blurred).

Maybe the creators could've gotten a second season if they made this one softer, less sexually-explicit, more restrained...but honestly? I bet that wouldn't have helped.

Consider Danger & Eggs, an Amazon original cartoon. It was made in the US, thoroughly child-friendly, and restricts its LGBT+ representation to things like "characters go to a Pride celebration...where nobody ever names or describes the quality they're proud of."

And it didn't get renewed past the first season either.

(Note: it had a trans woman showrunner and a queer-heavy creative staff, so I blame all that restraint on executive meddling, not the creators themselves. The showrunner even liked the tweet of my review that complains about it.)

So there's something very satisfying about how Super Drags went all-out, balls-to-the-wall (sometimes literally), all the rep explicit and unapologetic, packing every 25-minute episode with all kinds of queer content that would be censored or muted elsewhere -- but here it's exaggerated and celebrated and just keeps coming.

(...as do jokes like that, and I'm not sorry.)

Okay, there are a few legitimate reasons to not watch this show

Some caveats.

None of these things are Objectively Bad Problems that the show itself should be shamed for...but maybe they're genuinely not your cup of tea.

It does have actual Adult Content beyond "the existence of gay people." This show loves to swing barely-clothed cartoon genitalia in your face. There is, as mentioned, an orgy monster. If that kind of humor is going to bother you too much to appreciate the rest of the show, give it a pass.

I wasn't kidding about how realistic the homophobes are. Opening of the first episode has a guy trying to murder a busload of people while shouting slurs at them. If that level of hatred on-screen is gonna crush your soul, even in a show about sparkly queens flying to the rescue with dick-shaped magical weapons, don't push yourself.

Any fiction with this much crossdressing and gender-transgressing is going to hit some trans viewers in a bad way. Because trans people are such a broad group, with so many different experiences, that Every Possible Trope Involved pushes somebody's buttons. (See also: "some trans readers complain about a storyline that turns out to be drawn from a trans writer's actual life experience".) If this show goes does gender things that turn out to be personally distressing for you...or even just distressing for this specific time in your life...don't feel obligated to keep watching.

It has aggressively-sassy queer characters making jokes and calling each other things that are affectionate in-context, but would not be okay coming from straight/cis people. If you can't wrap your head around that, go watch something else.

Other Than That, Go Watch This Show

For all its big heart, big ambitions, and big gay energy, Super Drags is tiny enough that I've binged the whole show 2 times in the past 2 weeks. Thankfully, it's highly re-watchable -- lots of fun background gags and subtle foreshadowing that you don't catch on the first round.

(Pausing one last time to appreciate that a show with elements like "the high-tech robot assistant is called D.I.L.D.O." can be subtle at all, let alone be this good at it.)

I've also paged through all the fanart on Tumblr and Deviantart, looked up the single fanfic on the AO3, and started brainstorming plans to request it in Yuletide next year. Someone, please, come join me in (the English-language side of) the itty-bitty fandom for this ridiculous, glittery, over-the-top, fabulous series.

#Super Drags #lgbtq #recommendations #recs

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payaso-pastel · 5 years

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I made different versions of TMNT Buni because I have zero impulse control. More under the cut! 1987 -kinda looks like dora(???) -she’s like, eleven here -she's just a kid that happens to be able to transform into a superhero when she waves around her wand -when she transforms, she looks a lot like superman but more pink -considering the singular they wasn’t really used back in the late 80s, the Turtles would probably have to switch between she and he when referring to her. Maybe making the occasional joke at how confusing it is to switch between pronouns(it was little different back then bear with me) -she has only one sickle, but it looks a lot more like a magical girl toy and throws out sparkling rainbows instead of cutting people -tends to stutter a lot (think Bill from IT) -she was really frilly and cutsey all the time -has a comedic phobia towards insects -she was particularly close to Micheangelo in this incarnation 2003 -about 12 years old -a little more quiet and nervous -still really cheery and excited 24/7 -doesn’t stutter as much -a little closer to Donnie in this one -magical girl aesthetic was reinforced here -she has a whole transformation sequence and everything -noticeable inspiration to Sailor Moon and anime -her transformation is super bulky and tall (taller than Casey and the Turtles) -sad backstory emphasized a little more, but not very much -there’s a slightly heavier emphasize to the fact she goes to school -and she has two sickles this time. they look like toys untransformed and then turn into weapons 2007 -since this is a movie, and I have seen it I have a little more to work with -she was going to a private school the entire time Leo was off training -piled with schoolwork, she was unable to visit the Turtles or even April and Casey -not to mention that she was extremely stressed and tired during that time period -she put that aside for later though, when she heard Leo had returned -we later learn that she was tired because she helped Raph at night with his little patrols -she has a transformation sequence, but it’s only shown once -very similar build to Aguila (the main stone general guy) -still wears pants here, but the outfit is frilly -she’s about 13 here 2012 -like 10, maybe even 8 -sad backstory is bass boosted pretty heavily here. the series was pretty edgy, so it works -super nervous and scared all the time -stutters so bad she can’t even speak sometimes -Donnie manages to break down her walls and calm her down -still nervous then but smiled a lot more -anxious even when she transforms -HEAVILY anime here -he wears a dress here! finally! -he only has one sickle, and it’s a weapon in and out of transforming -the trans aspect of her whole transforming into a guy is kind of played with, but barely enough to notice and pass over kid’s heads -can and does often lose control of his form -Donnie and the other usually intervene and help out here

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Powerpuff Girls 2016 - “The Last Donnycorn“

Written by: Jake Goldman, Haley Mancini

Written & Storyboarded by: Kyle Neswald, Benjamin P. Carow, Julia Vickerman, Cheyenne Curtis

Directed by: Nick Jennings, Bob Boyle

The last Donnycorn is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace. Oh, I wish.

It’s a start of a brand new season of PPG 2016, to the delight of very few people. The ratings weren't very good, and the merchandise isn't selling. What could possibly salvage it? How about a special episode that is a whole half-hour long? It’s so special, the title card has all three colors! And who else should be the main focus but the character everyone wanted to see the least?

Donny: Help me, help me! They’re after me!

For those who are lucky to not know, this is Donny the Unicorn. This is Bubbles’ “BFF” that has once beaten her to a pulp in a “transformation ray”-caused rage, and ditched her for a “friend” who turned out to be a killer robot in disguise. I would write about any of the positive experiences Bubbles has had with Donny if she had any, but she’s still his BFF anyway because...he has a horn?

The two times he actually affected the plot in a way that serves the girls is in a situation that he caused the girls to in in the first place. That’s counting the comic he was in; Donny did nothing good in Horn Sweet Horn. Let’s see if he’s any better here, I say not knowing the answer immediately. Just letting you know, I might not be honest about that.

As one can tell from that opening quote, the episode starts with Donny waking the girls up at night because he is in danger. Bubbles immediately starts running and screaming along with him, because she's his BFF, and that means she just does everything Donny does. Blossom comforts Donny, saying he’ll be safe with the Powerpuff Girls. Donny accepts this, saying that he’ll be safe in the only place he knows outside of Unicorn Land. I think that's supposed to be a joke.

By the way, they were apparently sleeping in their normal clothes instead of their pajamas. Clearly, the animators must be paying more attention to that kind of thing since this is the special half-hour episode. How can the writers distract from this? Cue an explosion from a Terminator Unicorn.

Terminator Unicorn: (looks at Bubbles) Sugar.

(looks at Buttercup) Spice.

(looks at Blossom) Everything nice.

(looks at Donny) Wimp.

I can think of a thousand different insults for Donny, and I guess that could be one of them. Donny’s being followed by a muscular unicorn who is eventually called a Killercorn. He may as well be the Terminator Unicorn, as the only way this reference could be less subtle is if he was also a governor.

The Powerpuff Girls attempt to fight him, as I cringe for the inevitable Monster Punch, Girls Down scene, but Donny stops them before they even try. He uses his teleportation ability, because he’s a magical unicorn, to transport them...

...to a bowling alley. Donny has the ability to teleport, but only to bowling alleys because the episode felt that would be funny. Buttercup yells at Donny for being a chicken, which Donny responds to by...acting like a chicken. The main problem of the episode makes itself apparent: the episode's plot hinges on him being the comic relief, and like most comic reliefs, he's not funny.

Donny tells his story on how he got in his situation, asking the Powerpuff Girls to go to the bathroom first so he doesn't have to interrupt himself. Buttercup tells him to get on with it. Anyone who can guess what happens during the middle of this exposition gets absolutely nothing. No, it doesn't turn into an Austin Powers reference to fill the half-hour running time, though I was expecting that.

Donny’s story starts in Unicorn Land, which, of course, comes with a chorus saying its name. Donny is playing Frolicball, just go with it, but he accidentally makes the ball roll into a dark, black forest. He falls into a hole into a dark, black cave with a magic mirror in it. He decided the best course of action is to make funny faces at it, which somehow causes 5 evil unicorns to come out of it. He does the most courageous thing he could think of: running away. To be honest, I wouldn't blame him.

However, the Powerpuff Girls do; even Bubbles sarcastically tells her BFF that he ran away like a coward. Before Donny could defend himself, the Killercorn arrives in a stolen helicopter. Donny attempts to transport them to the bowling alley in Citiesville, but the Powerpuff Girls aren’t having any of it. Even the original writers couldn’t do Citiesville justice, I have no hope for the reboot writers.

The Powerpuff Girls rush in, and to nobody’s surprise...

...they actually beat him up. Wait, what? Sure, the punches and kicks are covered up by hit flashes, but I was not expecting that from the reboot that takes the Puffs down with glitter and crayons. It helps that these are the same relatively good hit flashes from People Pleaser and not the slow Nike swooshes.

Buttercup: I call that three strikes, you turkey!

Wow, a decent one-liner that ties into the setting. Hopefully they had enough faith in it to not outright tell people it was supposed to be funny...

Blossom: Nice! (fist bumps Buttercup)

Damn it. Speaking of damn it, the Killercorn gets back up. Buttercup forms a bazooka aura, and actually blow him full of hole with bowling balls! Wait, we can have a robotic unicorn get blown full of holes by what is essentially a gun, but we can’t show him getting punched in the face? Whatever, it’s still a decent scene.

Unfortunately, he’s able to put himself back together Iron Giant-style, and finally take two of the Powerpuff Girls down. Just in case you didn't who the Killercorn is supposed to be, he says a big twist on the most famous line of the movie.

Killercorn: Hasta la pasta, Donny!

Wait, why replace the word that doesn't rhyme with pasta? What does pasta have to do with anything? I expect better from the writers who came up with "A Star Is Blossom", "Odd Bubbles Out", and, well, "The Last Donnycorn". The Killercorn fires his laser at Donny, only for Bubbles to fly in and take the shot for him. This, of course, knocks Donny's BFF out, and he reacts in a realistic manner.

Donny: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I get that he's the comic relief, and doing a big no after someone dies is a common thing in fiction, but the way the face is drawn feels like this is being played for laughs. This could have been an emotional moment as Donny is all alone, his all-powerful BFFs defeated, against an unstoppable foe that cannot be reasoned with. This should be a dark time, but that face ruins it. Eventually, even Donny realizes he ruins everything, but not now.

The dark time ends when, in a plot point taken directly from his last full-but-not-as-full-as-this-one-length episode, Donny uses a macaroni trophy, a running gag in the first part of the episode, to reflect a laser beam right back into the Killercorn. While disintegrating into a sock, just go with it, he slowly mentions that Donny is the chosen one. That is a saying that gets brought up a lot in this episode, and it never feels more than forced.

The Powerpuff Girls instantly wake up and realize that Donny gained the courage to save them. To celebrate, he decides to teleport to a different bowling alley in Unicorn Land...

...which is currently in ruins. They even get surrounded by the evil gang of unicorns! For the first time in the series, we have a commercial break.

In a great twist, it turns out it was not the evil unicorn gang, but Donny’s parents in disguise. I read Goosebumps books that had better chapter break twists. Oh, and there’s also Gretel, a chunky unicorn that speaks entirely in raspberry noises. See, it’s funny because she’s different!

We get even more exposition about the rest of the evil unicorns. They’re known as the Four Unicorns of the Apocalypse, and their leader, Stanicorn, is stealing the magic of all of the unicorns so he can break free and rule the universe. They got banished into a mirror, Donny freed them with the power of silly faces, and we’re all doomed. However, if they can get to the evil mountain lair and make that funny face to the mirror again, they'll be re-banished again.

The Powerpuff Girls get dressed up in unicorn disguises, available at your local Sears for just $49.99. Unfortunately, an argument between Bubbles and Donny over where a bathroom is causes them to rip each other’s costumes apart, revealing themselves to the guards, and getting them thrown in a jail cell. Well, at least there’s one problem in the episode that wasn’t caused solely by Donny.

Just outside of the jail cell, the four unicorns of the apocalypse finally introduce themselves. There’s Joeicorn, who symbolizes War, Petercorn, who symbolizes rock and roll, Tanyacorn, who symbolizes being a token female, and I already realize they gave up on the whole “four horsemen of the apocalypse” reference a quarterway through.

Oh, and there’s the aforementioned Stanicorn, who apparently symbolizes not having a sense of humor. He shows this off with a zoomed-in face gag, and lasering Blossom’s bow before she can fist bump Buttercup after making fun of his height. Is he supposed to be this show's haters?

They leave the room to get some shepherd’s pie, and Donny cries some more about how he’s a “big dumb-dumb” while they’re trapped in a jail cell. This is the equivalent of a He-Man episode where Orko whines about how he's a useless magician. I'm sure that episode exists, and it probably wouldn't be very good.

One would think a jail cell would be nothing to a group of girls that can lift buildings full of people. In the original, they broke out of jail by busting through a wall, but I assumed the reboot wouldn't do that. I mean, these are heroes that got their arms broken when they got tail whipped into a wall.

However, that's what they actually do! Or at least Buttercup does with an off screen supersonic punch. They immediately go to the mountain, which is apparently unguarded now, and confront the evil unicorns. This kind of makes the jail scene pointless as they could have just combined the fight scene with these introductions, but I appreciate that the reboot knows how strong the Powerpuff Girls are supposed to be. Blossom tells Donny to get to the mirror while they take care of the unicorns.

Here’s a rundown:

Blossom uses her ice breath to break the rocker-corn’s guitar. It’s later implied that she then gives him an off-screen beat down.

Buttercup’s fight is a little gross, as the war-corn literally pulls his horn off, only to get it chopped in half by Buttercup’s sword aura. Kind of noticed that only Buttercup uses the auras in this whole episode; I guess animals and office equipment weren’t needed.

After Blossom yells at Bubbles for having a pillow fight with the token female-corn, Bubbles hits her with a pillow so hard, she spits out blood.

Wait, WHAT?

Well, okay, it’s actually Valentine hearts, but this episode sure fooled me for a second. While these fights aren’t perfect, I still wish they could punch people on screen, they’re great compared to the Monster Punch, Girls Down scenes of the first season.

Instead, we get Annoying Unicorn Does Random Things. Every time they cut to Donny, he's getting leg cramps, playing video games, and, even when he finally gets to the mirror, he gloats about how he did it instead of doing the thing that he was supposed to do. Which, by the way, is to make a funny face, something he does at random most of the time, like when he's mourning his BFFs.

While Donny is doing all of that, Stanicorn finally gets enough unicorn magic to...

...get super buff. He fires some rainbow beams at Donny, but the Powerpuff Girls seemingly make a sacrifice and fly into it. This, of course, knocks out the Powerpuff Girls, bringing Donny to the same low point he was in 12 minutes ago. He does get some help from Obi-wan Kenobi his mother in a bubble.

Donny's mother: What's the most important thing about you?

Donny: That...that I'm terrible at everything?

Donny's mother: No. That you bring joy to others around you!

Yeah, I don't think so. After destroying the bubbles, Cho Aniki-corn grabs Donny to steal his unicorn magic. Because I guess he didn't have enough already. Donny counters this with a face so funny, this reboot's animators couldn't possibly animate it. Stanicorn finds this so funny that he explodes! See, if the most cynical person can find Donny funny, why can't you? The day is saved, but we can't have a Narrator to talk about it anymore. I guess he decided to skip Townsville. Wise choice.

New season, new rules for the last segment. I barely used the Remarks, so that's no longer here. There was one question I've answered in there in the recent reviews, so here you go:

Does the title work?

The title is a pun on the movie The Last Unicorn, except it’s not really a pun when you’re just combining a character’s name with what he is. It would be like calling Blossom a “Blossom-puff Girl”. It doesn’t really work.

How does it stack up?

The Powerpuff Girls actually act like superheroes and actually have some good scenes. The villains aren’t too bad either. The fight scenes between them are above the very, very, very low average of PPG 2016 “fight scenes”. By far, not only is this the best episode that has Donny in it, it's not that bad of an episode in my opinion. No surprise, they probably spent a lot of time on a double-length episode.

Part of this might be because of that abomination that came right before this, but none of this has to do with Donny himself. He may not have been infuriating as Mr. I Made A New BFF But You Better Not Be Jealous, but all he really does is whine about how useless he is and prove that he is, both in action and in humor. 30% exposition, 30% unicorn whining, 40% okay-at-worst action comedy.

So despite Donny’s best efforts, this episode breaks the streak of Disgusted Buttercups. I originally gave this a Happy Buttercup at first, but after some consideration, I decided to change it on 4/7/2017. Mostly to be consistent, while the good scenes are on the upper end of the scale, when this episode is bad, namely the scenes with the hell-horn in it, it's bad. As a whole, it's not that bad.

But that's my opinion.

And so the new season begins with a sort-of bang. Next episode is something the Powerpuff Girls clearly haven’t done before: an episode where a Powerpuff Girl meets up with an old superhero! Yeah, this season’s quality is probably going to be falling like the arches.

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How Mulan’s Main Antagonist Almost Breaks the Disney Mold

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This article contains MAJOR spoilers for Disney’s Mulan. You can read our spoiler-free review of the film here.

A recurring visual motif in Disney’s 1998 animated Mulan is the titular warrior staring at her own face, rendered unfamiliar by makeup and wondering at how to reconcile the image of that stranger with the truth of herself hiding inside. The film’s core “I Want” song, “Reflection,” articulates this ambivalence, this sense of carrying two selves, with lyrics like: who is that girl I see / staring straight back at me / why is my reflection someone I don’t know. The Mulan (Yifei Liu) of 2020, however, doesn’t have to peer at her own blurred reflection in a pond. Instead, those alternate selves are made flesh. She confronts her reflection in the faces of her sister Xiu (Xana Tang), and to a much greater extent the Rourans’ warrior-witch Xianniang (Gong Li): the two potential futures available to her. Throughout the course of the film, Mulan forges a new, third future that she makes reality. And she probably couldn’t have done it without her main antagonist: Xianniang.

From Xianniang’s first scene with Böri Khan, the antagonist is presented as the cautionary tale for what could have been, had young Mulan not heeded her father’s advice to hide her qi as she reached womanhood: Xianniang was exiled from her home for refining her qi, a privilege granted only to men, so that by the time the Rouran commander found her, she was “a scorned dog.” Böri Khan gave her a way to direct her anger and betrayal at her own people, with the promise that, when he ruled China, she would have what she most wanted: a place where her powers would not be vilified, even if that place would only exist under his totalitarian rule.

The promise of this dark future is the chain with which he leashes Xianniang, despite them both knowing that she is more powerful than him by leagues. When he calls her a witch, she grabs his throat and corrects him: “Not witch—warrior.” Yet he laughs at the notion of calling her a warrior, because they both know that a woman cannot name herself with such an honorable title; she must be named by others. The only option is a slur.

The most breathtaking example of this society’s casual sexism comes at the training camp, when Mulan-as-Hua-Jun shows off his use of qi while sparring with Honghui (Yoson An). Later, Commander Tung (Donnie Yen) gently scolds him—for hiding his ability. “You need to cultivate your gift,” he says. “Your qi is powerful, Hua Jun. Why do you hide it?” As a man, Mulan is chided for not utilizing her advantage, while as a woman she would be exiled for daring to do so.

Even her father Hua Zhou’s narration belies the tricky nature of qi: “The qi pervades the universe and all living things. We are all born with it. But only the most true will connect deeply to his qi and become a great warrior.” Only those who use their qi can be true, but only men can use their qi. Women are trapped from the start, with no chance to fulfill that trueness.

All of this lays the foundation for Mulan’s four confrontations with Xianniang—which, interestingly, map onto the four virtues of the film.

True

While the new Mulan adaptation uses the same story beats as the animated film in revealing Mulan’s true identity, they come in a different order, granting our warrior protagonist agency over this pivotal moment in a way she never got in the 1998 film. Instead of getting wounded and having the doctor discover her body beneath her armor, it is Mulan’s bindings that stop Xianniang’s deadly arrow from piercing her heart. Hua Jun dies, but Mulan lives.

Yet even before what was supposed to be a killing blow, Xianniang shames Mulan for lying. “Your deceit poisons your qi,” she snarls in disgust when they first fight—of course she immediately recognizes Mulan as another woman taking on a mantle not offered to her. Twice, Xianniang gives her the opportunity to identify herself; twice, Mulan says, “I am Hua Jun, soldier in the Emperor’s army!”

“Then you will die pretending to be something you’re not,” says the Rouran warrior, who bears the slur of witch by embodying everything that her own people accuse her of being: otherworldly, powerful, unpredictable.

Despite representing opposing sides on the battlefield, Mulan clearly recognizes some solidarity with the other woman. Why else would she willingly return to the Imperial Army as herself? She could have pulled the arrow from her bindings, readjusted her armor, reclaimed her helmet, and ridden back as Hua Jun, having miraculously escaped death. Instead, inspired to finally fulfill the third virtue stamped on her father’s sword, she presents herself in all her courage and vulnerability.

And they call her an impostor and cast her out.

Loyal

Though I briefly theorized that Xiu could have grown up into Xianniang, making her and Mulan sisters, in actuality, having Xianniang be older than Mulan makes her story even more compelling. There is a dearth of older women in fantasy stories, and in Disney tales they are very deliberately siloed into specific roles: Anyone over “marriageable age” is dead (mothers), evil (stepmothers and/or witches), or supporting characters lacking their own arc (fairy godmothers). Obviously, Xianniang falls into the evil category, but the sympathy woven into her story elevates her beyond her peers. Even if you could identify with Maleficent not getting invited to Aurora’s birth, or felt a twinge for the Evil Queen chasing after beauty via her magic mirror, we are taught that these women are past their prime, that they are pathetic for competing with their younger replacements.

Xianniang has no need to compete with Mulan; she was already a prodigy in her youth, rich in her power, and she was crushed for it. She has seen the consequences of trying to fit into their society by men’s standards. That’s why Xianniang invites Mulan to join her, because she sees the younger woman as someone to mold to her own vengeance, to replace Böri Khan as the catalyst for reshaping their future. “Join me,” Xianniang says, the tropiest of moments yet still aching with authenticity as two women trying to find a way forward together. “We will take our place together.”

But Mulan, who has known the camaraderie of men like Honghui and Tung (even if they cast her out) and who clings to the promise of her father’s unfaltering love, rejects Xianniang. “I know my place,” she says, “and it is my duty to fight for the kingdom and protect the Emperor.” And there is something troubling in that a woman will choose the patriarchal society that rejected her over creating something new by allying with a woman who has already trod her path. Yet neither is Xianniang’s destructive plan tenable. Mulan chooses the loyalty she knows, imperfect as it is, over a potential new loyalty, even if it sees her for who she truly is.

Brave

When the two meet again, Xianniang sits on the Emperor’s throne, and Mulan finally believes her: “You were right,” she tells the warrior-witch. “We are the same.”

“With one difference,” Xianniang says sadly. “They accept you, but they will never accept me.”

But buoyed by Honghui and her friends’ willingness to follow her into battle, Mulan believes that they can still change the tide. “You told me my journey was impossible,” she urges Xianniang. “Yet here I stand, proof that there is a place for people like us.”

Unfortunately, this is where what had been an affirming, feminist dynamic falls prey to worn-out tropes in which the older woman gives up. “It’s too late for me,” Xianniang intones, and transforms into her falcon form—not to escape, but to lead the way for Mulan to save the Emperor from Böri Khan, and to seal her own fate.

Devotion to Family

Xianniang is not Mulan’s blood, but they are nonetheless bonded by their mastery of qi. Xianniang is not Mulan’s sister, but she is a role model. When she tells Böri Khan that a young woman from a small village is the sole resistance to his plot, she can’t help smiling at the irony of it. And when he scoffs, “A girl,” she is quick to correct him, not with her violence over the use of the word witch, but with calm certainty: “A woman. A warrior. A woman leads the army, and she is no scorned dog.”

When Böri Khan sees this warrior for himself, before even allowing her to engage him in their first and only face-to-face fight in the film, he takes the coward’s way out: shooting an arrow at her, to swat her away like an inconvenience rather than treating her as an equal.

Are we at all surprised that Xianniang takes the arrow intended for Mulan, and then dies in the young warrior’s arms? “Take your place,” she whispers in her final words, before speaking the woman’s name like a spell, like a blessing: “Mulan.”

In that moment, Xianniang is the fairy godmother quietly stepping offstage after magicking the carriage. She is the evil queen who brings about her own literal downfall by stumbling off a cliff. The wonder of having an older woman in a fantasy story does not last if she dies in the end, doubly so if she takes herself out so that there can be only one female warrior because our mainstream storytelling still too often believes that women can be powerful, but only as exceptions to the patriarchal rule, and only for as long as they are young and traditionally beautiful and never challenge the dominance of men. Women can be powerful, but only in the ways borrowed from traditional masculinity: as soldiers, as comrades to other men, as defenders of the rightness of patriarchy.

Mulan’s fight with Böri Khan is inconsequential, even as she uses qi to defeat him, because the movie’s most important figure has already died, and in the most demeaning fashion. What’s insidious is that their culture still wins out over two women allying together. Mulan carves out her own place in the world, but it is a singular role; it does not leave room for someone like Xianniang, who is considered too far gone to save. It’s ironic how the writers built an entire complex character out of Shan Yu’s falcon from the animated film, but in the end she is reduced back to a symbol.

I already made the joke in my review that the inevitable 2040 remake will hopefully make up for some of this movie’s stumbles. Hopefully, by then, viewers will not just get more than one woman in the movie, but both women will make it to the ending credits.

Mulan is available now on Disney+. More details on how to watch it here.

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IDW has a lot on deck for comic fans this week at New York Comic Con. They have a ton of signings that start from Thursday through Sunday plus some panels and con-exclusive merch. Let’s get to the schedule and see what IDW has on deck.

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NYCC 2017 Exclusives, Panel, Signings and more from IDW & Top Shelf

San Diego, CA (Oct 2, 2017)— IDW is heading east for New York Comic Con! To help fans prepare, here’s the complete list of IDW’s hottest EXCLUSIVES, most anticipated SIGNINGS, and can’t-miss PANELS. All of your convention must-haves are right here!

The convention exclusives are only available for pickup at IDW Booth #1844. That is also the location of where the signings below will be held.

IDW SIGNING SCHEDULE

Thursday, October 5th

10:00 – 12:00 Kid Lobotomy – Peter Milligan, Tess Fowler (*Free Sketches!) 10:00 – 11:00 Sh*t My President Says – Shannon Wheeler 11:00 – 12:00 Comic Book History of Comics – Fred Van Lente, Ryan Dunlavey 12:00 – 1:00 Star Wars Adventures – Derek Charm, Landry Walker (*Check out the show exclusive variant!) 12:00 – 1:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/ Batman – Freddie E. Williams II 12:00 – 1:00 The Electric Sublime – W. Maxwell Prince 1:00 – 2:00 Mr. Wormwood Goes To Washington – Ben Templesmith (*Check out the show exclusive variant!) 2:00 – 3:00 Top Shelf Soiree – Kim Dwinell (Surfside Girls), Lauren Purje (You Might Be An Artist If…) 3:00 – 4:00 First Strike – Mairghread Scott 3:00 – 4:00 ROM – David Messina, Paolo Villanelli 3:00 – 4:00 Transformers – Alex Milne 4:00 – 5:00 Roots – Tara O’Connor (*Book Debut!) 5:00 – 6:00 Bernie Wrightson Artifact Edition – Louise Simonson (*Check out the show exclusive variant!) 5:00 – 6:00 Ragnarök – Walter Simonson 5:00 – 6:00 Sword of Ages, Locke & Key – Gabriel Rodriguez 6:00 – 7:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Michael Dialynas, Ulises Farinas, Ryan Ferrier, Mateus Santolouco, James Tynion IV

Friday, October 6th

10:45 – 11:15 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Max Landis, Arvind Ethan David (*Ticketed signing, see employee for details) 11:15 – 12:00 IDW PDX Presents FULL BLEED – Cassey Kuo 11:15 – 12:00 Top Shelf Soiree – Shannon Wheeler (Sh*t My President Says), Kim Dwinell (Surfside Girls), Tara O’Connor (Roots) 12:00 – 1:00 DuckTales – Joe Caramagna 12:00 – 1:00 Atomic Robo – Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener 1:00 – 2:00 Sword of Ages, Locke & Key – Gabriel Rodriguez 1:00 – 3:00 Kid Lobotomy – Peter Milligan, Tess Fowler (*Free Sketches!) 2:00 – 3:00 The Beauty of Horror – Alan Robert 3:30 – 5:15 Star Trek: New Visions – John Byrne (*Ticketed signing, see employee for details) 5:30 – 6:00 Dirk Gently – Elijah Wood, Samuel Barnett, Hannah Marks, Jade Eshete, Fiona Dourif, Mpho Koaho (*Ticketed signing, see employee for details)

Plus! Don’t miss Peter Milligan & Tess Fowler signing Kid Lobotomy at St. Mark’s Comics Friday at 8 PM!

Saturday, October 7th

10:00 – 11:00 Star Wars Adventures – Derek Charm, Jon Sommariva, Landry Walker (*Check out the show exclusive variant!) 10:00 – 11:00 First Strike – Mairghread Scott 11:00 – 12:00 Samurai Jack – Fabian Rangel Jr. (*Check out the show exclusive variant!) 11:00 – 12:00 Sh*t My President Says – Shannon Wheeler 12:00 – 1:00 Love is Love – Matthew Rosenberg, Chris Ryall, Cat Staggs 1:00 – 2:00 Dirk Gently – Arvind Ethan David, Robert Hack, Ilias Kyriazis 1:00 – 2:00 Sword of Ages, Locke & Key – Gabriel Rodriguez 2:00 – 3:00 Top Shelf Soiree –Kim Dwinell (Surfside Girls), Tara O’Connor (Roots), Janet Lee (Return of The Dapper Men) 2:00 – 3:00 The Story of Men – Zep 2:00 – 3:00 Siberia 56 – Alexis Sentenac 2:00 – 4:00 Kid Lobotomy – Peter Milligan, Tess Fowler (*Free Sketches!) 3:00 – 4:00 Judge Dredd – Ulises Farinas, Erick Freitas 3:00 – 4:00 Assassinistas – Tini Howard 4:00 – 5:00 Bernie Wrightson Artifact Edition – Louise Simonson (*Check out the show exclusive variant!) 4:00 – 5:00 Ragnarök – Walter Simonson 5:00 – 6:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Michael Dialynas, Ulises Farinas, Erick Freitas, Ryan Ferrier, Mateus Santolouco, 6:00 – 7:00 Star Trek – Cecil Castellucci, Donny Cates, Cryssy Cheung, Marc Laming, Declan Shalvey

Sunday, October 8th

10:00 – 11:00 Jem and the Holograms – Jen Bartel, Gisele Lagace 10:00 – 11:00 Top Shelf Soiree – Kim Dwinell (Surfside Girls), Tara O’Connor (Roots), Lauren Purje (You Might Be An Artist If…) 11:00 – 12:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/ Batman, TMNT Adventures – Billy Martin, Jon Sommariva, Freddie E. Williams II 11:00 – 1:00 Kid Lobotomy – Peter Milligan, Tess Fowler (*Free Sketches!) 12:00 – 1:00 Assassinistas – Tini Howard 1:00 – 2:00 My Little Pony – Ted Anderson, Tony Fleecs, Agnes Garbowska, Sara Richard, Andy Price, Jeremy Whitley (*Check out the show exclusive variant!) 2:00 – 3:00 Star Wars Adventures – Elsa Charretier, Derek Charm, Pierrick Colinet, Cavan Scott, Landry Walker (*Check out the show exclusive variant!) 2:00 – 3:00 DuckTales – Joe Caramagna 3:00 – 4:00 Sword of Ages, Locke & Key – Gabriel Rodriguez 4:00 – 5:00 Sh*t My President Says – Shannon Wheeler

IDW PANEL SCHEDULE

Jack Kirby’s 100th Birthday Celebration with IDW! Fri. October 6 | 1:45p.m. – 2:45p.m. | Room: 1A21 He swore off cons forever but the love of the King is bringing him back! IDW is proud to have Eisner Hall of Famer JOHN BYRNE return to NYCC for one time only—to join fellow Hall of Famer WALTER SIMONSON in a rousing discussing of JACK “THE KING” KIRBY, complete with a presentation of over 1,300 images of Kirby’s work. IDW President Greg Goldstein and CCO Chris Ryall will preside over this one-of-a-kind team-up tribute. Plus: all in attendance will receive a Jack Kirby birthday gift of their own!

IDW: PDX & Black Crown — Full Bleed at the Cross Street of Comics & Chaos! Fri. October 6 | 5:45p.m. – 6:45p.m. | Room: 1A02 Join IDW CCO Chris Ryall, Black Crown curator/editor Shelly Bond and IDW: PDX Creative Director Dirk Wood for an action-packed mash-up panel, with the very future of comics at stake! Here’s your first chance to get the full scoop on IDW: PDX, and their maiden publication, FULL BLEED: The Comics and Culture Quarterly! And It’s the official launch of BLACK CROWN which means stalwarts Peter Milligan, Tess Fowler and Tini Howard will be on hand and expect more special guests! Peeks at unseen FULL BLEED artwork? Tales of what it’s like to interview Stephen King? Hardcore veterans & punk neophytes corrupting? You came to the right place!

IDW Publishing: Stars of 2018 Sat. October 7 | 6:30p.m. – 7:30p.m. | Room: 1A02 What does IDW have planned for 2018 and beyond? Here’s your first chance to find out! Join IDW CCO Chris Ryall, Group Editor Sarah Gaydos, and Editor Joe Hughes, along with Sword of Ages creator Gabriel Rodriguez and other talented-creators-to-be-named-later as they show and tell all about IDW’s upcoming slate of books, including a focus on our twin Stars, Star Wars and Star Trek! Bonus: everyone in attendance will receive a cool little promo item as well!

The First Official Sonic the Hedgehog/IDW Town Hall Sun. October 7 | 12:45p.m. – 1:45p.m. | Room: 1A02 At SDCC, IDW announced they were taking over Sonic the Hedgehog comics. The series won’t start until 2018 but this is the first official chance for fans to get in front of the editors to hear hints about what’s to come, share your history with Sonic, and have an informal meet-and-greet with IDW CCO Chris Ryall, Editor Joe Hughes, and maybe a special guest! Everyone in attendance will leave with a special Sonic something, too! Join us on the ground floor of an all-new Sonic adventure, won’t you?

New & Noteworthy Titles from IDW Books and Top Shelf Sun. October 8 | 2:30p.m. – 3:30p.m. | Room: 1A18 Take a closer look at fall releases and hear the first details of Spring 2018 titles in this comprehensive panel featuring titles and creators from both Top Shelf and IDW.

The most diverse publishing house in comics takes to the stage for an hour-long celebration of the graphic novel. Hosted by IDW Senior Editor Justin Eisinger and Top Shelf’s Leigh Walton, join special guest creators in a lively discussion of upcoming releases and all things books.

IDW Con Exclusive Merch

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Star Wars Adventures #1 Con Variant Cover by Elsa Charretier limited to 500 copies $10 each

Star Wars Adventures #2 Con Variant Cover by Tim Levins limited to 500 copies $10 each

DuckTales #1 B&W Con Variant Cover by Marco Ghiglione, limited to 500 copies $10 each

Samurai Jack: Quantum Jack #1 B&W Con Variant Cover by Michael Avon Oeming limited to 250 copies $10 each

Wormwood: Mr. Wormwood Goes to Washington #1 Con Variant Cover by Ben Templesmith $10 each

Star Trek New Visions John Byrne Photo Variant limited to 200 copies $10 each * First 100 people to buy this book on FRIDAY morning (not Thursday) will get a wristband for the John Byrne signing on Friday from 3:30-5:30 pm.

Kid Lobotomy #1 Metallic Ink Con Variant Cover by Tess Fowler limited to 250 copies $10 each

Kid Lobotomy #1 Blank Sketch Variant Limited to 500 copies $10 each

Tom Whalen Variant Comic and Bonus Poster Covers by Tom Whalen; Each comic comes with a FREE lithograph! Limited quantities available $25 each

My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Volume 1 Con Variant Cover by Zachary Sterling limited to 200 copies $20 each

Bernie Wrightson Artifact Edition NYCC Variant Cover by Bernie Wrightson, Limited to 100 copies $125 each

Ragnarok T-Shirts Design by Walter Simonson $27 each

DuckTales Disney Archives Official Lithograph Art by Jeff Smith, Limited to 100 numbered prints $50 each

ENAMEL PINS

ALL ENAMEL PINS ARE $12 EACH! BUY 2+ PINS, PAY ONLY $10 EACH!

TMNT Bandana Pins (Convention Debut!)

-Raphael (Red) -Leo (Blue) -Michelangelo (Orange) -Donatello (Purple)

Locke & Key Pins (Limited Qty: 125 each)

-Animal Key (NYCC Debut!) -Moon Key (NYCC Debut!) -Owl Key (NYCC Debut!) -Gender Key (NYCC Debut!) -Ghost Key -Head Key -Omega Key -Shadow Key

Sword of Ages Enamel Pin (Convention Debut!) Designed by Gabriel Rodriguez, made by Skelton Studios

Hasbro Pins (Limited Qty: 100 each)

-Autobots shield (Transformers) -Decepticons shield (Transformers) -Bumblebee (Transformers) -Arashikage tattoo (G.I. Joe) -Cobra symbol (G.I. Joe) -ROM head -Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony) -Songbird Sia (My Little Pony)

IDW Announces Their 2017 New York Comic Con Schedule IDW has a lot on deck for comic fans this week at New York Comic Con. They have a ton of signings that start from Thursday through Sunday plus some panels and con-exclusive merch.

#Hasbro #IDW #New York Comic Con 2017 #nycc #Transformers

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