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bimoonchilde · 2 years

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The Lord and Lady of Boshaw Manor

She didn't get sick, that's what she told him a couple of days ago when he found her after one of the times she'd go 'missing' in the Whitetails. She was chilled to the damn bone, and barely made it to the truck.

Didn't get sick his pasty ass.

He'd gone to wake her up, as was routine. Six AM sharp, like a damn monster, but he could barely get her to stir. She was shivering, snotty (gross), and coughing her lungs out.

"I'm f-fine. Just gimme a f-few minutes."

Bullshit. There were many things that were fine. Aged Bourbon, Lucy Lawless as Xena, and her, if course, but not her currently.

"No y'ain't, Popo, you look like you caught the zombie."

"I d-didn't catch shit."

Four days, he'd had her in that cage for four days.

"Respectfully, darlin'? Shut the fuck up and.."

She had gotten to her feet, and barely dusted the dirt off her pants before Little Miss 'I don't get sick' damn near collapsed. Fuck this, he was intervening.

Despite her weak ass attempt at protesting, getting her into the truck, and then back out again, Charlemagne Victor Boshaw was carrying the future Lady of Boshaw Manor into said Manor and tucking her into his bed.

"Can't stay h-here, s'not safe."

"It's the last place anyone's gonna look, darlin."

"They need me."

"To keel over and die? No thanks."

"I gotta-"

"Again, respectfully? Shut the fuck up."

That earned him a weak slap to the head, but it was worth it, because her little five foot four inch body finally overrode the ten foot tall stubborn streak and curled up. The sight gave him butterflies, and maybe he even cooed a little bit. On the inside. He wasn't pushing his luck.

"You comfy?"

"Yeah, just cold. Could you.."

She didn't even have to ask, ever. Once his boots were off, he slid right in next to her, pulling her in close. She barely managed to rest her head on his chest before she was out, cold.

Oh, and Alexa? Remind him to put a bullet in Jacob fuckin Seed tomorrow.

#deputy kenz #sharky boshaw #i needed to write a cute #fc5

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anarchafemme · 2 years

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for the lesbian asks: 2, 22, 44 :)

2. Do you have a “type”? If so, describe it

I had to think about this one, cause nothing stood out at first besides just people who visibly have some kind of ~g e n d e r~ thing going on. But I realized I have history of going for academics/intellectual types and creative types who are really passionate abt their thing. Hearing cool facts and theories about a subject they're studying, or about techniques they used when doing/making a thing and how/why it works, just makes me go "wow, they are so smart and sexy and cool :)"

22. What lesbian stereotypes do you fit into, if any?

I already answered this one! But I'm 100% the useless lesbian stereotype. Flirting is an unknown arcane art to me, and someone jamming their tongue down my throat is probably just them being nice.

44. Who was your first lesbian crush?

Being a child of the 90's, it was of course Lucy Lawless as Xena. Unless celebrity crushes don't count, in which case, it was a friend I had when I was like 13. She was a few years older than me, very goth always with amazing over the top makeup, and she skateboard. Naturally I thought she was the absolute coolest person and developed a crush. It didn't help when she told me that she had thought I was a cute girl when we first met, because as a then androgynous looking effeminate boy struggling to make sense of weird gender feels, that just hit different.

#asks #sch-uwu-lchen #<3

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filmmakerdreamst · 4 years

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Xena: Warrior Princess Review

During Pride Month 2020, I finally got around to watch ‘Xena’. A show that had been in my to-watch list for years, but never got around to start. And when I finally did, I was pleasantly surprised. It was not what I expected and it was everything I think my 11 year old self would have loved.

The one thing that surprised me about the show, was the lack of packaging. Even though it was a fantasy, it also played with different kinds of genres too. I’ve talked about this before in my other review - ‘Xena’ was made at a time when TV had very few rules/rarely had a set audience, since there were parts of the show that were clearly for kids and there were other parts that were clearly for adults (therefore had much more flexibility). I admired how they weren’t afraid to break barriers and touch on deep themes such as religion, morality, redemption, spirituality, motherhood, forgiveness etc - even more than shows of today are able. I also loved how they played into the idea of ‘murder’ and how much it can damage a person - not just the person who commits the act, but the many people affected afterwards. I wasn’t expecting it to be that extreme. It made me think that this must of been the inspiration for ‘Game of Thrones’.

I see a lot of comments here and there, saying how ‘cheesy and terrible’ it was but to just accept it because its part of the fun. And while like any show it does suffer from the occasional spell of bad writing (the whole of season 5) but it was also shown to be very aware of that fact and never took itself too seriously - unlike some shows I could mention.

And regarding the ‘cheese’ factor (what 90s show wasn’t) It definitely can be, but I would call it ‘camp’ and ‘experimental’ more than anything else. (Don’t diss the poor use of CGI - I’m personally sympathetic to what was avaliable to them at the time) The style of humour reminded me of Taika Waititi’s filmmaking. If you’ve watched any of his films such as ‘Hunt for The Wilderpeople’ or ‘Jojo Rabbit’, then you know what I’m talking about. I liked how little they cared about being accurate or logical, which added to the ‘bonkers’ element in the show - which you can see in all of Taika Waititi’s films.

In all seriousness, a show centered around two women in their late twenties, who are realistic sizes (not trying to play teenagers). One of whom is a reformed mass murderer, who has lived a life experience, trying to do good in the world for the first time, picking the other one up who has no life experience prior (after they bugged them until they said ‘ok fine’) in their path to redemption. Just two women who become friends travelling the world together, fighting crime, having a laff, learning from one another without any toxicity - when suddenly when the stakes are raised - they realise ‘oh I'm actually falling in love with this person’ I have watched a lot of badly written shows in my childhood enough to know that, that’s not ‘cheesy’. I’ve never seen a story like that in my entire life. I’m not at all surprised that Russel T Davis was inspired by it while writing the Doctor and Rose’s relationship in ‘Doctor Who’ since he’s gay himself.

What’s more amazing about their love story is how they’re both develop as separate people as well. There was this video essay explaining ‘Why you should watch Angel’ the spin off series to Buffy; how ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer ‘was all about growing up and ‘Angel’ was all about being an adult. With Xena: Warrior Princess, you have both of those stories at the same time.

Xena’s character was such a multifaceted experience to watch. And I can’t imagine anyone else who could play her as well as Lucy Lawless. What planet did they get that actress from? She's flawless! The amount of skill she has to put herself into a very physical role is astonishing. I personally had a love/hate relationship with her character all series long. Not in the way that I hated her, just that I couldn’t trust if she was all good or bad, which I know was intentional on the writers part. I haven’t seen a character quite like her before. She felt very much like a fallen angel; almost like the villain of her own story. Some of my favourite episodes come from fleshing out her character and dark past (‘Locked up and Tied Down’ is one of them) which reminds the audience that's she's not the stereotypical hero everyone expects. I loved her transformation from being this incredibly stoic warrior to being content and happy with who she is in season six, all because of a woman she fell in love with along the way.

I’ve always thought of Gabrielle as the real hero and narrator of ‘Xena’. She’s the prime example of ‘a normal person becoming extrodinary’. Gabrielle’s coming of age story starting out as an innocent girl from a poor village dreaming of adventure, and ending as this vicious warrior who realises the ‘adventure’ wasn’t how she made it out to be is honestly the best character arc that I’ve ever seen. I loved how travelling with Xena made her realise her passion for writing (which was never going to happen in her home town, given the ‘sexist’ and ‘heteronormative’ ideas) and that she became a amazon princess like Xena. In regards to her sexuality, which is more up for debate than Xena’s (which I think we can all agree is bisexual) I personally interpret her as gay, just in terms of how she was written. Theres this moment in season 4 where she's being held up her hair, and Xena “symbolically” cuts it off ‘freeing her’. And she never really gets with a man afterwards, unless she’s being ‘possessed. It reminded me of a moment in one of Hayao Miyasaki’s films ‘Laputa, Castle in the Sky’ where the bad guy Moska shoots Sheeta’s ‘princess hair off’ which symbolises her transition from child to adult.

The cinematography was breathtaking. There was some great utilisation of New Zealand as the scenery. So was the soundtrack. You could tell it was made by experienced filmmakers. One of my favourite things about the show was the domestic elements - moments in the show where time seemed to stop - which made the world around the characters seem very real and magical. Even though it was a show that featured a lot of action/adventure, there was also this gentleness to it as well. For example, you could feel the wetness of the rain, the warmth of the sun and the clashing of the waves. This technique is used in Hayao Miayasaki’s work a lot .

The technique is referred to as ‘MA’ 空虚 meaning emptiness in Japanese. ‘Miyasaki describes this as the time between a clap’

“If you just have non stop action, with no breathing space at all, its just busyness. But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension” - Hayao Miyasaki

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The episode ‘A Day in the Life’ in season two is a really good example of this technique being used.

To my understanding, they used a lot of the local actors in New Zealand, which according to Lucy Lawless, consisted of ‘African immigrants and other different ethnicites’. It was so refreshing to see such a diverse show (despite some slip ups) especially in the 90s. I appreciated the idea that if the actors or extras couldn’t do an ‘american accent’ people could just talk in their natural speech which was also very refreshing.

The LGBT representation was surprisingly amazing. I never expected so many queer characters in one show - especially under the censors. There was this one episode where they had a trans woman - played by an actual trans actress - win a beauty contest. It made me cry. Not to mention the actress was an aids activist. It was actually Lucy Lawless’ idea to kiss her which was incredibly controversial at that time considering how everyone thought you could catch aids just by kissing. I can definitey see how it validated people back in the 90s.

When people told me that Xena: Warrior Princess was one of the greatest love stories, I thought they were exaggerating a little. But no, watching the show in context, I found out that it really is. Despite its obvious restrictions, It made me realise (regarding token gay couples today) how often television writers rely on physicality and drama to convey a ‘love story’ and how much of it is actually pandering the audience. One of the reasons why Xena and Gabrielle’s relationship felt so genuine is because it was built on mutual respect/compassion and they were also best friends. I felt like I was witnessing something very real and private. It didn’t need kissing scenes or drama to make it interesting.

It really helped that most of the writers were queer also. There’s this opening scene in season 4, panning over to Gabrielle giving Xena a massage (metaphor for sex - because they weren’t able to show that on screen) which I consider to be one of the most iconic scenes in media - considering how I wanted to sick up my supper when I watched the 10 minute ‘empty’ explicit sex scene in ‘Blue in the Warmest Colour’. The difference when something is written by a queer women vs a straight man.

Because the creators weren’t allowed to write their love story in the normal way, due to the studio forbidding them to, they found creative ways to showcase that love on screen - which made for a very magical/sensual experience. And I can safely say, if anyone has doubts about watching ‘Xena’, whenever I expected to be queer baited at a few points in the show, I was proved wrong time and time again. It’s the most romantical show I’ve ever seen in my life!

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rosydevita · 3 years

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QUOTES AND COMMENTS FROM ACTORS, WRITERS AND PRODUCERS OF THE SERIES "XENA" ABOUT XENA AND GABRIELLE'S RELATIONSHIP !! =)

1- "I didn't know about my own sexuality until acting in Xena and working with Lucy lawless" ..... Renee O'Connor

2- "looking back, I wonder if it wasn't Renee, I imagine if it was anyone else. It would have been horrible" Lucy Lawless

3- "Xwp is a love story between two people" ...... Lucy Lawless

4- "I have no interest in saying that they are heterosexual. That is all a lie, and, furthermore, it is not funny" ...... Liz Friedman (screenwriter)

5- "Your sexual orientation is a very small part of who you are. I don't feel that the character question of being gay or not is a big issue. However, I think Renee is very sexy" Lucy Lawless

6- "when I wrote the characters, xena was in love with Gabrielle" ..... Steven Sears

7- Playboy: "what are xena's dream vacations?"

A cruise for lesbos every two years. "

8- "when fates collide is a story about how xena and gabrielle meet and fall in love again" Katherine Fugate

9- "They are married, man!" Lucy lawless

10- "I think saying that they are soulmates was the most beautiful way to put it. That covers everything. I think they have a relationship, but it is above labels and categories. It was a beautiful adventure that lasted 6 YEARS". ...... Adrienne Wilkison

11- I'm thinking of doing "Safo s greatest hits" ...... Lucy Lawless

12- Lucy: So Renee, what is it like to kiss Lucy Lawless? "

Renee: let me show you .....

13- In my head, so I started to relate gabrielle with xena. I was falling in love with that woman "(Season 1)........ Renee O'Connor

14- the entire series is about love. Every minute of every day was about love "- Lucy

15- That was her way a great and romantic love story. We just wanted the characters to meet and act in a way that would tell us they had those feelings "(Rob Tapert)

16- In essence, that is who xena is: someone who recognizes Gabrielle "(Katherine Fugate)

17- Lucy: You were tempted to kiss me, weren't you Ren? "

Renee *: "You were very attractive

18- "My favorite scene is that moment when you realize that that girl that xena met in the middle of the road, that she was a fence and a little annoying and Xena is falling in love with her" - (T. J. Scot)

19- "So, even though Gabrielle has changed her inner path, it doesn't mean that she has to stop loving the person who is her partner" Renee O'Connor

20- "Brunhilda and beowulf fell in love with gabrielle simultaneously. At this point of everything between xena and gabrielle, that a woman falling in love with another was not a big deal" Joel Metzger

21- Lucy lawless :: that was good too. "You have good breath"

Renee O'Connor: thank you, you told me I was a good kisser !!

Lucy Lawless: shhhhh, the walls have ears !!

22- This series has two points that separate them from Hercules. One is that he has a great deal of lesbianism, as people know ......... Kevin Sorbo

23- it goes beyond the series, it goes beyond everything. The two souls are actually cosmically linked "Joel Metzger

24- "the relationship between the two is unique. Renee O 'Connor is incredible"

25- "in the end, there was no doubt what they were" _- Lucy Lawless

26- Soulmates in love. It was like he (tapert) wanted me to retract them "_- Katherine Fugate._

27- If I was on the set when the dance between xena and gabrielle was filmed and it was incredible to see. Everyone wanted to be on set that day. "(William Gregory Lee)

28- it was sexy ... it was beautiful .. everyone was kind: Wow! What are they doing? "(William Gregory reads)

29- the kiss was ideal for XWP. Because first it was mystically correct, and also because it suited the needs and desires of our characters so perfectly "(R.J Stewart)

30- If you renounce love, the ring will carry your most precious asset. And for Xena, this would be the memory of Gabrielle and the woman Gabrielle helped her become "..... Joel Metzger

31- "I was thinking that Xena was beautiful and that this was their last night on earth" "Renee O Connor (Scene from the episode" One against an army "

32-Throughout history, their souls had been lit. And every time that happened, they recognized each other. They said "I know you, I know you and I have to be with you. I don't know why, but I have to" ... Steven Sears

33- Interviewer: Have you had a fight, or small discussions?

Renee: I think after six years, it's like a marriage, sometimes you get over it when ...

Lucy:: "sex is sporadic".

34- The series is about two relationships: Xena and her past and Xena and Gabrielle "..... Liz Friedman

35- In the final scene, it has been consolidated for me. Now it wasn't just that xena is bisexual and that she loved her mate, and they joked sometimes. No ....., they were married "....... Lucy Lawless

36- There is only one person for xena. AND IT'S NOT ARES ....... Kevin Smith

37- "I would have liked to see Gabrielle sexually obsessed with xena" ...... Alexandra tydings (on the original script of the episode "obsessions".

38- "We still have to quote the subtext ??" ...... and then, any questions? ...... Melisa Good

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