This is my side blog where I (mutuallyprime) re-blog stuff on a queue. Why in my sideblog rather than my main blog? Dunno, but here we are. I'm coprime on AO3/Dreamwidth.
Pollice Verso: the hand gesture made in Ancient Roman colosseums to pass judgement on defeated gladiators.
He never thought he’d be on this side of the argument before.
Foggy dies and Matt makes his choices. Matt always makes his choices.
Have you cried today? Do you want to?
Then look no further! @spiralwaves wrenches the heart while weaving some really beautiful prose and some fantastic character analysis for Matt and Frank both. Every time I read it I end up sobbing, and that's how you know it's good.
The way Matt's thought process tends to tiptoe around Foggy's death here with flowery metaphors despite the fact that it's also the driving force behind everything that's happening is absolutely agonizing (positive), and watching through Matt's detached POV as Frank has a monkey's paw moment re: Matt and killing is really fascinating.
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This is my Man. I am not afraid of him. He is very strong, for he eats a great deal; he is an Eater of All Things. What are you eating? Give me some!
He is not beautiful, for he has no fur. Not having enough saliva, he has to wash himself with water. He meows in a harsh voice and a great deal more than necessary. Sometimes in his sleep he purrs.
Let me out!
I don’t know how he has made himself Master; perhaps he has eaten something sublime.
He keeps my rooms clean for me.
In his paws he carries a sharp black claw and he scratches with it on white sheets of paper. That is the only game he plays. He sleeps at night instead of by day, he cannot see in the dark, he has no pleasures. He never thinks of blood, never dreams of hunting or fighting; he never sings songs of love.
Often at night, when I can hear mysterious and magic voices, when I can see that the darkness is all alive, he sits at the table with his head bent and goes on and on, scratching with his black claw on the white papers. Don’t imagine that I am at all interested in you. I am only listening to the soft whispering of your claw. Sometimes the whispering is silent, the poor dull head does not know how to go on playing, and then I am sorry for him and I meow softly in sweet and sharp discord. Then my Man picks me up and buries his hot face in my fur. At those times he divines for an instant a glimpse of a higher life, and he sighs with happiness and purrs something which can almost be understood.
But don’t think that I am at all interested in you. You have warmed me, and now I will go out again and listen to the dark voices.
By Karel Čapek, Translated by Dora Round; revised by the editor. Originally published in Intimate Things, 1935.
I dunno, stop apologizing for your art. This includes not posting enough, too much, changing style, inconsistent style, repetition, subject. Its your art its your expression. Have fun.
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My Project Hail Mary Animatic is out!!! 💜 This all started because I saw one PHM edit with this song and I could not stop thinking about it since. Their friendship means everything to me <3
Hope y’all enjoy it and let me know your thoughts :)
Helloooooo PHM fandom, the movie grabbed me by the heart and wouldn’t let go, so I decided to make a necklace about it. The design is meant to evoke Hail Mary and the Blip-A sitting on the Petrova Line between Adrian and Tau Ceti.
Here it is! My vid on the history of gay kissing on US TV. This vid premiered at Escapade 36 this past weekend, and, after a whole lot of effort and relearning skills I haven't used much since college, it's finally here for all of you.
A lot of the reasoning behind this vid came from Oz and Xena simultaneously eating my brain over the course of 2025, and my curiosity to know where their respective Big Damn Kisses fell on the list of the first same gender kisses on American television, only to discover that there isn't actually a list, as such. There are an awful lot of listicles and nostalgic Pink News articles about whatever early kisses particularly moved the writer, and with that, a sort of ahistorical mythologizing of a few famous cases, creating a narrative that then gets perpetuated unthinkingly.
'First, there was endless homophobia, then in 1991 we got the kiss on LA Law. Men weren't allowed to kiss until 2000, on Dawson's Creek, then something something Willow and Tara, then Glee, and now we have Heated Rivalry and the rest is all history.'
The reality is a bit more complicated, and comes with a lot more caveats. My vast (and yet still almost certainly not comprehensive) spreadsheet full of every gay kiss I could find lists 39 same gender kisses from 1990 to 1999, covering network, first-run syndication, basic cable, and premium cable to get a fuller picture of the ways Americans watched TV in the last decade of the twentieth century, a breath before the rise of prestige TV and streaming services fundamentally altered the landscape.
Cable channels like HBO and MTV, and later on, Showtime, led the pack by a mile in terms of sincere representation. PBS aired groundbreaking documentaries like Tongues Untied and miniseries like Tales of the City, but was always at the mercy of conservative local stations for their funding. The networks lagged noticeably, beholden as they were to controversy-shy advertisers always quick to cut their losses. For about a decade from the late 90s through the late 2000s, the Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss was a popular, albeit exploitative way to grab cheap headlines without having to commit to real queer representation, before more widely-available queer shows (and, let's be real, easier access to titillating lesbian action online) quietly killed the trope. The vid reflects just about all of these contrasting realities and more. There are also some clips in here from episodes of television that are just about unfindable in their entirety.
The content warning at the beginning of the video was taken directly from Ellen (1994), where it aired over every episode of the show's fifth season, after Ellen Degeneres, along with her character, Ellen Morgan, had come out as a lesbian.
My hope in the coming few weeks is to set up a basic website or a wiki with the contents of my spreadsheet and any and all else I manage to dig up and verify, and make this information available to whomever wants it, to interpret however they like. If I can, it'll have a submission form option as well, in case you notice a glaring absence and would like to clue me in. This vid has been a labor of love for about half a year at this point, and has been the catalyst to get me vidding again, after a decade and change fallow period. I hope you all enjoy it.
Also, yes, there's a lot of Oz and Xena. It's my vid, you have to watch my blorbos making out.
My deepest thanks to @ferronickel for patiently putting up with literal months of bitching, crashing out, and fugly wips. <3
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