Be Very Afraid

damn near every time I mention im working on a fic or piece of fanart, he gasps in hopeful anticipation and asks "tamatoa and heihei?!" and he always acts bitterly disappointed

Like say what u want but also remember it was 2010. The "ur gay" was a joke that would ostricized you in that time period.

If there's even a whiff of genuine same sex pairing in the show, that shit is cancelled. Reminder that Steven Universe's gay wedding episode came out in like 2018 and the show got cancelled bc of that. 2018.

Thousand & One Nights Inspired Evening Gown

c. 1910

If one of your characters is Shane Hollander, same sex marriage was legalized in his home province when he was 12.

Short timeline

1969: same-sex sex acts decriminalized in private, though remaining indecency laws continued to be used by police to criminalize homosexuality (ex the Toronto bathhouse raids)

1971: We Demand rally, the first gay public protest (August 18, still the date of Pride in Ottawa)

1981: Toronto Bathhouse Raids and resulting protests

1999: civil unions. They had most of the legal rights of marriage but weren't called marriage.

2003-2004 various provinces and territories legalized marriage

2005: Same sex marriage legalized by federal government

You'll notice Alberta didn't legalize before the federal law came in. In early 2005, my friend Christine from Alberta and a bunch of her friends wanted to show that support for gay marriage existed in Alberta, so they sewed a 4 foot tall, 150-meter long rainbow banner which they brought to Parliament Hill to show support for same sex marriage. It encircled all of Parliament Hill!

Pieces of it were used in people's marriages afterwards. There's a piece of it in the Canadian Museum of History.

Actually I think it was mostly sewn by Duff Bond, Christine's awesome mom.

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For a full timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBTQ_history_in_Canada

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need

The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to

You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking

No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)

Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.

Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!

Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.

May I present the best apple: