Multifandom mess

Just came across this while browsing YouTube. I bet this was a pretty cool event to have seen back in the day. Anyway, the video above is timestamped to an almost blink and you'll miss it moment between Xena and Gabs that I thought some of you might like to see if you haven't come across this yourselves.

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Notes from attending the panel at Comic Con featuring Barbara Dunkelman, Arryn Zech, Kara Eberle, and Lindsay Jones.

Barbara's engaged to her partner Trevor. Apparently she cannot stop staring at the ring at random moments.

The cast mentioned one previous con they remember was when someone brought up a jar of gold glitter and said 'It's Pyrrha'.

Everyone was nuts about the Bumbleby kiss. Barb apparently watched it 83 times.

Lindsay- "I do seek out media to destroy me". (Same tbh)

Lindsay was very glad to do Season 9 and the topics of Ruby's emotional repression and subsequent breakdown.

She loved the line 'What if I choose me?'

Therapy: The Season

Kara personally loved the rock throw moment for Weiss.

The actresses get no insight into future volumes until they've already been written. However, they did say that they hoped RWBY would get time for a vacation. Beach Episode!

They'd also like something where the Schnees make reparations to the White Fang.

With every smile you told me

the re-cap show | episode 8 | 44:03

c: “if you could have a lifetime supply of something, what would it be?”

t: “eggo waffles.”

c: “you never eat eggo waffles! i’ve seen you eat one eggo waffle in ten years.”

the good news is that they’re replacing them with brand new ones :) 

“”The themes speak for themselves, and make it clear what the intent is. In this actual mini-essay I will actually talk a bit about why focusing on ships being “canon” is wasting the potential of queer representation, in particular reference to Lycoris Recoil.

Lycoris flowers represent a lot of different things, most famous is that red variants symbolize death and final goodbyes. However, of that same species are also a pink variant which symbolize love, passion, and … ahem “feminine beauty”.

There are also yellow and blue variants in other species of Lycoris plants. Yellow represents cheerfulness, courage, and cherishing what you have. While blue represents being calm and dependable, but also freedom.

It hardly gets more on the nose and it’s clear how these apply to the characters and the themes of their arcs. And how the story overall is at the intersection between love and death.

Plus there are literally multiple homages to pieces of media where the characters have been thought of as gay in the story or by audiences. In particular the scene in Stand By Me where the characters kick each other, which the animators made the deliberate choice of copying the overall mannerisms of to draw a direct parallel.

The story is about a hell of a lot more than just a romance, and that is a good thing! I don’t need every piece of representation to be about just romance. And you’d also have to be joking me if you don’t see them using the term “partner” even after retiring from being Lycorises to describe their relationship, as being tongue in cheek about how there is so much media where the characters are obviously but not explicitly queer. Throughout the show they are constantly making references to other ambiguously queer media, and using common language that is unclear about the exact nature of their relationship. Like, everyone wants their confirmed representation I get it, but could we also not call the show doing the most on the nose and tongue-in-cheek queer coding of their main characters “queer baiting”.

The creators have clearly purposefully evoked when not just directly referencing other media where the characters have been queer coded, or queer audiences have resonated with the experiences of the characters. This isn’t subtext that went nowhere, this is a deliberate choice to code the leads as queer by reclaiming things and phrases that have been used as subtext. And then, this is the important part, actually reframing the context to emphasize when they are doing it. See no further than the picture below this. “Partner” has a long and storied history of being used ambiguously, because how we use it slots between purely romantic and purely platonic, and can mean either depending on … that’s right the context. Now let’s imagine you’re a restaurant employee, two women come in and order drinks. When one of them gets up to pick up their drinks and brags about the other woman being her “partner”, and reiterates the point. Now what sort of meaning can we imply from that context? Because if it was a straight couple, nobody would for a moment doubt that partner is in a romantic context.

Like c’mon people, they aren’t hiding it, but they don’t have to look directly into the camera saying they’re a couple for it to be obvious they aren’t “just besties”. Also I don’t even have time for going to go over how all the official art that’s come out since, and the fan art by the creators hasn’t been at all shy about showing them being more intimate than you’d expect from “just friends”.

Or that the season ended with them vacationing in Hawaii of all places. Or that the whole show had a rather open ending clearly hoping for more seasons, and this probably isn’t the end of their story together. Or that one of the original writers who was behind the entire idea for the show, and was a lead writer for the screen play has publicly stated on twitter he’d love to make them official, and told fans asking if the show would end up being a yuri show to “stay tuned for future stories“

Gundam Witch & Lycoris Recoil by misskiwi

Tell me that's not a Saber? 🤣