julie and the fandoms

I’m going to be annoying for a second to add some lore to this post. Because one thing on here was accidental, but I think it’s cool to know that.

I am typically a huge supporter of the statement “nothing about this was accidental,” generally speaking, especially because oftentimes I’m the one insisting that’s the case when people try to ignore/devalue subtext or production details.

But… While the colors in Naomi’s office are often pointed to as looking like the bi flag (understandably), at the time, Jerry Wanek said that wasn’t the case:

Of course, maybe Serge chose it for bi flag reasons, but this seems to be confirmation that he didn’t. And that honestly checks out, because the term “bisexual lighting” wasn’t even popularized until 2014.

However… to me, this moment is significant, because it means that in 2013 Jerry Wanek and also possibly Serge Ladouceur had the concept of using lighting to signify the bi flag brought up to them directly and they were made aware of the possibility. And of course, as the years went on, “bisexual lighting” then came to be something discussed in the cultural lexicon and turned into a well-established media language in its own right, used in several queer instances like Janelle Monáe’s “Make Me Feel” music video, the Black Mirror episode “San Junipero,” the movie Atomic Blonde, etc.

It certainly became known to the point where it’d make sense for its use in SPN to unequivocally mean bisexuality by 2019 and be blatantly deliberate by everyone involved in making episode 15x07. That includes Jeremy Adams, who wrote “GLOWING NEON SIGNS illuminate what can only be described as Dean’s idea of Heaven. Cowboys and bikers. Gorgeous ladies and rock and roII” in his script.

They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.

Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.

Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances. 

It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.

Very carefully, I would imagine.

WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugs…

…but the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)…

…through Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)…

…Ancient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 “Valeria Victrix”). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest - I wonder did they squabble over which was the “right” one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was best…?

…then Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crests…

…right up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)…

…and the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford, more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in the first a molet argent.

After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford was on the winning side…

And pigs will definitely eat people.

It gets mentioned in the movie “Snatch”, the book/movie “Hannibal” and the webcomic “Lackadaisy Cats”, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL it’s suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.

More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).

Here’s some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancient…

…and modern…

…and the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancient…

lily evans the woman that you are….

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