Universes beyond is honestly incredible flavor. Imagine fighting a Wizard and they cast Summon Dalek

Liliana Vess + Tumblr Textposts

Medieval authors were so fucking funny. In "The Faerie Queene" this guy comes up to the main hero and is like "Don't go over to that cave, there's a guy inside that makes people kill themselves." And the hero is like "Bet." and goes into the cave. Then the old man (literally called Despair) is like "If you die, you can't commit sin." and can you guess what happened.

They also fucking LOVED King Arthur. Like 9/10 in any book published back then, there would be a King Arthur cameo. The original blorbo. He would just show up mid-story and be like "I'm on an adventure! But I guess I can lend my aid to you first since I'm so noble and awesome." And people would just eat that shit up.

It's beautiful that humanity never changes

Funniest part of Magic the Gathering lore is the plane where vampires are evil Catholics, and they finally find and revive Vampire Jesus (who is a woman). And Vampire Jesus goes “What the fuck is wrong with you all? This is literally the opposite of what I said to do. Vampirism is a curse to take on to serve a burden of the church and you all are just using it for power and racism?”

And then so many vampires were like “But I want power, not responsibility” that they went “Can’t believe Vampire Jesus was wrong about Vampire Jesus’s teachings, we should schism.”

if you're just joining us, george takei is having to educate jk rowling on holocaust denial

She could have easily looked this up before replying, but no, in her mind, trans people- trans women especially- are new, recent, an invention of modern times that are simply whining about failure to receive special, preferential treatments

In this reality, it would be so ludicrous to imply otherwise- that trans people have ALWAYS BEEN HERE, and have faced genuine oppression, not just 'not getting extra priveleges', but real, actual, systemic violence and destruction- is such a ridiculous concept, the possibility that it was true didn't even cross her mind.

Like finding out your "dramatic, lazy" coworker always "faking sick" was just diagnosed with cancer.

She isn't open to receiving new information and growing as a person because she's already decided what she wants to believe. She doesn't WANT to learn otherwise. She just wants to hate trans women

"Costume party at the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin, date and photographer unknown. Magnus Hirschfeld (in glasses) holds hands with his partner, Karl Giese (center). Credit: Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft e.V., Berlin"

The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic by Brandy Schillace for Scientific American

FINALLY the first transmasc legendary creature dropped!!!

This was such a formative movie

This shit was revolutionary for the mid-90s. Among other things it helped me understand that transgender and cross-dressing were completely separate things.

To this day, I am in awe of the fact that Patrick Swayze not only campaigned hard to get the audition, not only auditioned in dress and makeup, but spent most of the day leading up to the audition walking around LA in dress and makeup.

This was a man who could sing, dance, act, ride a horse, fight, and walk in heels, he had nothing to prove to anyone, and he is MISSED.

Okay, I’m not done feeling about this.

If you’re younger, you may not know Patrick Swayze; he was Taken From Us in 2009. But Patrick Swayze was an icon of masculinity. Men were willing to watch romantic movies because Patrick Swayze was in them.

Patrick Swayze was fucking beefcake.

And this man didn’t just agree to do a movie where the only time he’s not actually in drag is the first three minutes, which involve stepping out of the shower, doing make up, and getting Dressed. He has ONE LINE that is delivered in a man’s voice, and it’s not during those three minutes.

And if you watch those three minutes, you see a stark difference between his portrayal of Miss Vida Bohéme and Wesley Snipes as Noxeema Jackson. (I am not criticizing Snipes’ performance. They were different roles.) Noxeema was a comedy character. Chi-Chi was a comedy character. But Miss Vida Bohéme was a dramatic role, played by a dramatic powerhouse.

When Vida sits down in front of the mirror, she sees a man. And she doesn’t like it.

Then she puts her hair up, and her face lights up.

“Ready or not,” she says. “Here comes Mama.”

And while Noxeema is having fun with her transformation (at one point breaking into a giggling fit after putting on pantyhose), Vida is simply taking pleasure in bringing out her true self. And when she’s done, she sees this:

And you can FEEL her pride.

All of this from an actor who, up to this point, walked on to the screen and dripped testosterone.

the fact that some of you history-ignorant children in the notes are trying to shit on groundbreaking historical queer cinema because it doesn’t meet 2021 standards is infuriating. sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen to the elders in the room for fucking once

This. If you have never lived in a world where queerness was universally pathologized and criminalized to the point that even IMAGINING a world where it wasn’t constituted a radical and potentially dangerous act, you don’t have any business judging those of us who have for how we survived it and how we found (or still find) comfort in the few imperfect representations we got.

You don’t have to like it. You probably aren’t capable of “getting” it. And to be honest, I don’t want you to! I am glad that young queer people will never know exactly what it was like “back then.” But what you also will not do is refuse to learn your own history and then shit on everything that came before you, because like it or not what came before you is the reason you will never have to get what it was like back then.

On Wesley Snipes’s role Noxeema and John Leguizamo as Chi-Chi Rodriguez.

Source: How Hollywood heartthrobs and Steven Spielberg helped make a drag queen cult classic

a monumental film in the library of queer history.

it was formative for modern society, too.

there are a lot of action fans out there who learned from their idols that respect doesn’t cost a damn thing to give. i know plenty of people who aren’t queer saw trans women and drag queens presented as people to them for the first time in wong fu. suddenly, strange and foreign queer identities that had only been presented to them as jokes if they’d even heard of them, seemed a little more relatable, and very human.

we’re all just people.

snipes, swayze, and leguizamo were willing to play people a lot of their fans didn’t respect yet or didn’t even know how to respect and demand they figure it the fuck out.

It’s also worth noting Leguizamo has gone on the record to say he brought his own experiences to the role; Chichi is wearing makeup too light for her natural skin tone through most of the movie, and swearing to stop doing so is part of her growth. Leguizamo based this on observation of his own female family members growing up.

-John Leguizamo, Out Magazine

Important tags:

boccs

monzterzack

Dec 16, 2023

#one of the reasons this movie even made it into production is because Robin Williams did a cold read for Steven Spielberg#and Robin (being the king of allys that he was) put his all into it so much that Spielberg was quote “mesmerized”#and made the efforts to get into full production#Robin was also considered for a lead role but (rightly) felt he would overshadow the other leads#so he instead took a small UNCREDITED roll in the beginning#Spielberg meanwhile fought tooth and nail to keep the director (Beeban Kidron) from being let go because she was pregnant#and also fought to have the original script changed to have Chichi achieve her dream and win the pageant at the end#what I’m saying is there’s a whole lot of love and a whole lot of allyship and a whole lot of respect in here#and i’ll be DAMNED if I hear a bunch of young queers shit talk it because they weren’t there when it happened

All jokes aside, and acknowledging most of the MoM story has been highly enjoyable so far, it's a terrible waste what was done with Lukka.

Speaking from the minority position here, I found Lukka to be a pretty interesting character in The Sundered Bond. Here you have a character with a very earnest and dedicated nature, made hard by the necessity of the plane/world he was born into. You then have that character forcibly thrust into a position where, as a bonder, he must now question the life he's led up to that point, leave behind everything he knows, and survive against the hostilities of the very society he once protected.

And he screws up! He screws up big time! He comes close to making positive decisions that could have brought him to a more sympathetic relationship with the creatures of Ikoria, but events, the aforementioned hostilities, and (often overlooked, I think) direct manipulation by the voice in the Ozolith put him in a situation where he makes horrible decisions and hurts people. And he does so while, and I think this is very important, genuinely thinking he is acting in the best interest of the people and place he calls home.

The man himself has a lot of issues, and flaws aplenty, but I was excited to see him show up again in future stories, to see where this complex take on the monored character would go, and how he would bump up against the rest of the multiverse. He had a lot of growing to do, but that journey of growth was off to an interesting start.

Instead, I get the impression the creative decision was to look at the general backlash against Lukka following The Sundered Bond, throw up hands, and go "hey look! we're in on the joke too; look at this idiot and how bad he sucks!"

And the result, quite frankly was...some pretty weak storytelling? Lukka's Strixhaven storyline (like the villains he aligned with) was sort of a big nothing - a really awful act of violence against an institution of children and young adults with poorly explored motivation and no real follow-up in any subsequent plotlines. His compleation story was interesting enough, but then gets followed up on by a story that seems to exist purely to kill him off in he most humiliating way possible, every character in-universe acting with a very deliberate disdain for him before he can get two sentences out of his mouth.

I absolutely understand why Lukka wasn't a popular character. His motivations and worldview are entirely too self-centered, and he didn't win any fans by being much less sympathetic to his animal bonds in the novelization of the Ikoria set than appeared to be on the cards.

Still, wouldn't it have been more interesting to GIVE us something to care about in regard to Lukka rather than swing him around a bit like a rag and toss him in the bin just because his introduction to the story was a mis-fire? Isn't the magic story better served by an attempt to make something enjoyable out of him than just shit-can him for a (if I may be so bold, not even particularly witty) laugh?

I think so, fwiw.

PS - I write all of the above well aware that, for any of the compleated and killed walkers so far, one could make the argument they've been done narratively dirty. Personally, I would argue that so far those walkers have all been given a depth of previous stories Lukka has not, and that they, notably, have been granted POV sections in the stories where they are either killed or presumed killed. I would also not for a moment mean to diminish the negative feelings folks have about other walkers dying in the MoM story. The above critique is all ultimately very subjective, and I hope is taken as such.

PPS - Majorly telling, imho, that Lukka gets written off as a moron for trying to use his SOLE magical ability to bond with Phyrexians in order to survive and save others in ONE, but Wrenn bonding with Realmbreaker gets no such scrutiny, because the narrative rewards one and not the other

FYI, it was implied during the preview panel but I appreciate it being outright confirmed here. Ral is both off-plane and still a planeswalker in Bloomburrow.

Ral: never leaves Ravnica

Vorthoses: Well, he oughta!

WotC (mishearing): He's otter?

Bloomburrow: He's otter :3

I’ve seen this on my dash so many times and I honestly can’t tell if this is a real animal or just a super realistic puppet

Its a Pallas cat, it’s a real animal, and they really do look like that..I’m convinced they are the inspiration for Fuzzy’s

This cat just told a bad pun.

I just realized there’s an entire nibble ring around that hole

Pallas’ Cats (Otocolobus manul) also known as Manul are an absolute treasure. 

Native Habitat:

King

No one has ever warranted a presidential pardon more

The show is now called "Keep going Brandon"

it's too bad hardly anyone has read The Gathering Storm (2019) by Django Wexler due to the fact that it was published via weekly newsletter email because at the time it released i was honestly blown away by how openly and honestly django wrote Ral Zarek's sexuality as a gay man. like. wow. he cooked.

link: The Gathering Storm chapter 11 on MTGLore.com

if any of you do end up reading my favorite piece of mtg fiction (i beg of you. its only 20 chapters), please keep in mind the whole time that his next appearance will be on the cottagecore plane. makes the sex and callous disregard for the lives of others hit different

Ral: Would you still love me if I was an otter?

Tomik: What?? I mean, of course- I’ll always love you no matter what!

Ral: Okay good- because

Official MTG art of Ajani showing underwear and even a bit of bulge. I'm. In shock.

Now there's two (2) Izzet Otters.

MORE MORE MORE

Ral's fursona reveal woke me from torpor

IM NORMAL IM NORMAL IM NORMAL IM SO FUCKING NORMAL

Spider-Man fans are actually pretty funny.

They can accept that a car and a goddamn dinosaur are Spider-Men better than Web-Weaver and Sun-spider.

These people forget that all of the Spider-Verse concept is that anyone can wear the mask.

It's hilarious how a fanbase forgets everything the original product teaches.

JENNIFER COOLIDGE Wins Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for The White Lotus | 75th Primetime Emmy Awards

Slight fandom shift, but I love how MTG Tumblr took one look at Aurelia (a literal angel) arresting Massacre Girl (a literal mass murderer) and decided "They're definitely in lesbians"

To their credit, there is a collar involved in the actual WOTC published story, so they brought this on themselves.

And you think I didn't know what I was doing?

So the person I am reblogging from here left a tag saying that every now and then, they wished they knew how to get into Magic Story. I would like to help!

So first off, https://mtglore.com/ is your new best friend. It literally recaps or links to basically everything that's existed across the history of Magic, and can help you out bigtime.

New stories appear at https://magic.wizards.com/en/story as they are posted.

Sometimes when I'm doing Story, I get over-ambitious and do "behind the scenes" breakdowns, called "DVD extras," at my blog: https://seananmcguire.com/blog/

Magic Story is huge and sprawling and glorious and terrible and modern and vintage and it's waiting for you. Come join us. Walk the Planes, and let the Blind Eternities welcome you home.