Our animated queer scifi comedy series is out now!
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All the animated episodes are out now everyone!! 😭🥳
Please like/share/comment on the YouTube videos! We’re part of an initiative where 3/10 teams will get to make a full pilot and potentially a series - so supporting the video really helps!
Gender shifting comedy using the Hulk as a narrative frame.
Every time Specific Emotion is felt, protagonist’s gender shifts, along with physical size and dimensional shape of physical attraction.
Episode 01: Protagonist is getting ready for date but Wacky Roommate has drank the last of the coffee.
Protagonist shifts gender and is frantically trying to calm down. Wacky Roommate is trying to help but is offering increasingly useless advice, shifting protagonist gender presentation further.
Emotionally Smooth Cool friend enters at last minute, solving the problem with an Improbably Dense Suitcase of clothing and accessories, ensuring Protagonist is extremely fashionable and attractive by the time Date shows up —
— whom is flustered and apologies because they have the same issue, but was not able to resolve in time.
Emotionally Smooth Cool Friend points finger-guns at the couple and turns around Improbably Dense Suitcase and its full of appropriate items for Date.
The flustering embarrassment shifts both and now neither are dressed to their comfort but Wacky Roommate enters, revealing they found the spare coffee and it was all for naught.
Laugh track and end credits.
(One of the great frustrations of my life is the near infinite scope of queer comedy that exists just outside of reach to make. There is a goddamn gold mine just humming for someone to tap into. Our landscape is full of Things Are Bad And You Should Feel Bad — I have no appetite for suppression, and, I feel like we are missing out over tremendous opportunities of comedy because we only pain should be represented in full.)
“Ruth the Butch” by Karen Williams, published in Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go (2002) ed. Michelle Gibson & Deborah Meem
image description: A screenshot of an image from a book. At the top is a black and white photograph of a Black femme smiling at the camera. she has short curls and is wearing wire-framed glasses, long tassel earrings, and a blouse or dress with spaghetti straps. the photo is captioned with her name, Karen Williams, in white. the rest of the image is black text on a gray background:
I have to have roles ‘cause when I get to a closed door I want to know who’s going to open it. I am standing there waiting for a butch to come along. And all those androgynous people and codependent people line up right behind me. Actually, we are really waiting for the UPS or Federal Express truck to come because we know that’s where all the butches work. I used to be a secretary and I had my favorite butch from UPS: Ruth the Butch. I was putting in requests. I was wrapping up huge packages with nothing in them but paper clips.
“Can Ruth come by today? I got 49 boxes just for her.” And, sure enough, she’d come over there and I’d say, “Ruth, please pick up that box,” and she’d pick it up with the two paper clips and say, “Oh, this is so light!” And I’d say, “That’s because you’re so strong!”
I had a refreshing conversation with someone at a queer meetup and honestly wish more people were like that. I said someone got upset at my jokes despite I'm lgbt and it kinda could be summed up as "There's this constant expectation of positivity and can't handle when someone has a sense of humor that veers from that. It's obvious the joke is made by someone lgbt, why else would they joke about it in the first place?"
Yeah like why infight among people within the community. We're all the same.
I find the theme's of the novel by Michael Downing and the screen adaptation to be very compelling. Exploration of found families, stable queer couple navigating parenthood, potentially queer/gender nonconforming kids, coming out, self-acceptance.
I am a big fan of contemporary fiction, real-life situations meets romance/rom-com. I am not really into YA or fantasy, fandom can be heavily skewed in that direction. I also like more mature protagonists beyond the early 20s into adulthood.
Love a totally stable and in love m/m couple with careers and a house in the suburbs. No romantic drama. Just a wholesome queer marriage.
LOVE that the NHL and Toronto Maple Leafs gave permission to use the logos and branding in a queer-themed film.
I love both stories, novel and film. I think that the characters stand up really well in both. Particularly, I think Eric is entirely justified in remaining in the closet professionally and as a public figure. It was 2007! Ellen was recently out. Very few celebrities and next to no sports figures were out in that time period.
Tom Cavanagh and Ben Shenkman are just so fine, this should be self-evident.
I just love the wholesome, feel-good comfort of the film. I know it isn't perfect but for its time, I think it did well and was pretty ground breaking. Queer-themed films were usually tragedies back then.
LOVE that they incorporated hockey!!!
Love the supporting characters and feeling of a sitcom. That found family and found community comes through very strongly.
And most of all, I love that there is so much story to tell. How did Eric end up getting together with Sam if he can't even say the word gay out loud yet is ok talking about their bedsheets on the street for anyone to hear? How do they deal with Scot's trauma about losing his mom? How is Sam a sports attorney yet knows nothing about hockey? Did Scot finish the hockey season? I want to know all about Nula and George Jr's wedding! I want Eric/Sam commitment ceremony. Hell, I'd even enjoy Billy and Mia's wedding lol. I want to see Scot graduate from high school and Ryan Burlington get drafted.
Now available to read for free on Kindle Unlimited - Rena Butler's Snapshots: An M/M Comic Romance Novella, about two hot messes - Bryce and Alex - who find each other on the bathroom floor of a nightclub. It only gets more romantic from there. Read now for a romcom with snap, spark, and sass.
When you’re doing hand drawn frame-by-frame animation - you don’t need to draw thing that won’t end up in the final frame. But zoom out from the shot posted above, and you end up with beautiful shots like this 😂
On July 19, I'll be representing Team USA at the 4th Annual Boom Chicago Comedy Festival in Amsterdam. Looking forward to performing alongside comedians from all over the world!