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senorarelojes · 4 years

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Fic: Happiest Girl (Part 3)

Alan makes a bet that Dave would not be able to pass off as a woman in ladies’ clothing. Dave decides to prove him wrong.

Pairing: Dave/Alan Rating: Who am I kidding? Probably will end up Explicit Notes: Many thanks for @pinksyndication and @what-could-have-been for their awesome ideas! First part is here. Second part is here.

They were now in the thick of the West German leg of their tour, which was always the longest. Dave was pleased to arrive in Hamburg; he’d always loved the hedonistic seediness of the city and its dark underbelly which it never bothered to hide. It felt like a sister city to New York, in that sense.

Alan hadn’t brought up the bet again over the last three days since they’d shaken hands on it, but then again it’d been a nonstop whirlwind of back-to-back gigs, press interviews and travel. They were finally going to get a bit of a breather in Hamburg and West Berlin, which was fine by Dave. Alan looked tired too, even a little distracted, which was very unusual for him. Even Martin’s poofy hair looked like it was starting to wilt. They could all do with a break.

So when Alan rang Dave’s hotel room and asked him to come over on their very first day off in Hamburg, Dave imagined that it was Alan merely wanting to get lunch together or maybe talk about hitting some of the clubs on the Reeperbahn that night. Instead he was surprised to find Alan laying out dresses on his bed, methodically arranging them according to colour and length. “Which one d’you like?” Alan asked him, gesturing towards the dresses.

Dave goggled at him. “We’re doing the bet thing tonight?”

Alan looked at him like he had grown three heads. “Yeah, course we are.”

“But why?”

Alan started counting off on his fingers. “Firstly, it’s our day off. Secondly, I don’t want to keep lugging these dresses all over Europe. So the faster we get rid of them, the better. And thirdly, we’re in Hamburg, mate. I can’t think of a better place that’s more, uh, accepting of blokes in dresses. In case, y’know, we get caught.”

Dave didn’t miss the use of ‘we’ in that sentence, which was actually a little heartwarming. It reminded Dave that he wasn’t alone in this, that Alan wasn’t going to let him get punched by some homophobic bastard who found out he wasn’t a woman. “Alright, okay,” Dave conceded with a sigh, going over to look at the dresses.

They picked over the selections together as though they were discussing which samples they’d wanted to program into the Emulator. Dave was actually privately impressed with Alan’s tastes; it seemed that Alan was aware Dave preferred fitting clothes, and had chosen accordingly. Dave found his gaze continually drawn to a cute little black number that looked like it would be skimpy but comfortable. Alan must have noticed, because he was smiling as he nodded towards it. “Like that one, do you?”

Dave shrugged, wondering if it was normal for him to feel this eager about the proceedings. “It’s not bad.”

Something in Alan’s smile sharpened. “Go try it on, then.”

Dave gawked at him. “Wh- here? Right now?”

Alan looked confused. “Yeah, of course. We need to see if it works first.”

Muttering under his breath, Dave pulled off his t-shirt and unzipped his denim cut-offs, kicking them off so that he was only standing there in his boxers. He was figuring out how to slip the dress on when Alan looked over at him and chuckled. “You’re not going to wear those under that pretty dress tonight, are you?” he asked, pointing at Dave’s plaid boxers.

Dave looked down at them. “Why? What’s wrong with them?”

Alan’s face was riddled with doubt. “Hard to explain, really. It just-- it’ll look a bit weird, right?”

“To who?” Dave said incredulously. “I don’t know about you mate, but I’m not planning on letting anyone peek under my dress while I’m in this get-up.”

A shadow of something quickly passed over Alan’s face, but it was gone before Dave could fully process it. “Maybe briefs would be a better fit,” Alan said tentatively.

“Yeah, maybe,” Dave said. “I’m not wearing knickers though, so don’t bloody ask.”

That shadow was briefly back again. “Just wear the dress, will you?” Alan’s tone was one of fond exasperation, so Dave threw his t-shirt at Alan’s head with a laugh and proceeded to figure his way into the dress.

It was made out of a smooth and stretchy fabric that felt cool on Dave’s skin, and he liked the long sleeves that lent the dress an air of respectability and classiness, especially given that the hem stopped halfway down Dave’s thighs. He stared at himself in the hotel mirror, a little shocked at how nicely the dress outlined the planes of his body. The long sleeves helped to soften the hard curves of his shoulders, and the clingy fabric brought out the narrowness of his waist. Unfortunately, it also meant the bunchy material of his boxers was visible through the fabric. Bloody Alan had been right.

Alan walked over to look over his shoulder. “Looks pretty good. The boxers--”

“Yeah, yeah, I know,” an irritated Dave waved him away. “I’ll wear briefs later.”

“Don’t forget your legs.” Alan actually squatted down to run a hand up and down Dave’s hairy shins. “Have a go at them with the razor, that should sort them out.”

“Fuck.” Now Dave was beginning to finally feel a little out of his depth. Had he really bitten off more than he could chew?

It must have shown on his face, for Alan was taking pity on him. “Just come by my room later before we head out,” he offered as he stood up. “It’s easier if someone helps.”

Dave was rather curious why Alan was being so helpful if he truly wanted Dave to fail. Alan could be surprisingly competitive, despite his easygoing manner and generally chill attitude. Maybe Alan wanted to see Dave make a fool of himself in public. But then again, it didn’t explain why he’d spent so much on the dresses. There was something else afoot here, and Dave was determined to get to the bottom of the matter.

Which meant, unfortunately, that he had to play along.

(Just a note: I wanted to use the word ‘transphobic’ instead of ‘homophobic’, but I did some Googling and the word didn’t really take off till after the 90s so I figured ‘homophobic’ was a word more likely used in the 80s.)

#fanfic #lingerie #happiest girl #pinksyndication #what-could-have-been

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pip-n-flinx · 3 years

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Among Us

So this is going to get long, this is going to get personal, this is going to be about prejudice and race and self-serving bad-faith arguments and flawed rhetoric. And for all of these reasons I’m going to leave the rest of this under the cut.

As a few of my friends will know, earlier this week I was delivered an ultimatum from my landlord/roommate. He disguised it well, telling me he was ‘concerned for my mental health’ that my ‘negativity was dragging the whole house down’ and that I was simply too filthy to live with. I won’t pretend I’m a neat freak, and I can honestly say that I have taken some pains to clean more since, to his surprise and delight, though its particularly hard to take coming from him.

“You’re always so down. It’s making you lazy and thin skinned” You know its funny you should say that, now specifically, because I’ve actually been on the up and up this last week and you didn’t mention this at all in January when I was actually at my worst, or February when I was afraid I was going to have to quit my job, or back during the holiday season when retail work was breaking my back... Only now do you think to check in on me?

“You left a pair of gloves, a letter, and a small wooden trinket on the table!” Indeed I have, as you have left your pair of gloves, well over 21 letters, and regularly set your packages on this same table, including today two packages to be returned to amazon. I didn’t realize I didn’t get to use the table the same way you do.

“You don’t do dishes! except that you did this week, which is cool I guess but still!” You do realize that I actually hand-wash every dish I use within 24 hours of using it, right? And that often the dishes you come to me bitching that I never cleaned are in fact your fiances, yes? Ok good, next question.

“You’re always complaining about work. I don’t mind that you vent, but its all you talk about anymore!” I have either lost or walked away from 4 jobs in this last year, and that has not been easy, or fun. I have worked essential retail jobs the entire pandemic thus far. Additionally, in the months leading up to you storming out of your 75k a year salaried sales job, I had told you to leave it because I could see that it was killing you. You got so fed up with the job that for 4-5 months before you left your grandma-paid-off-my-second-mortgage capitalism-knows-best-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-ass spent more time playing valorant and league of legends on the clock than doing actual work. Need I remind you that every time I stepped into your office, or simply stepped upstairs to get ready for work, you would complain about how awful your managers were, or how shitty someone had been to you over the phone? DID I EVER BELITTLE YOU FOR ANY OF THESE THINGS????

The real kicker was that the spark, the moment that started this (at least for him) was me trying to explain why racism and ‘cultural supremecy’ was bad. I had brought to him something I thought we could both agree on, that we could both laugh at. I brought him a series of tweets about how problematic Van Gogh was for studying and imitating traditional japanese painting techniques. He took this, and immediately turned into a piece of the culture wars. Now, I agree, this is an egregious example of trying to ‘cancel’ someone. How cancelling a long dead artist who couldn’t sell his art while he was alive is important is beyond my comprehension, its not as though the market value of these comes up very often, and almost no-one will ever have a chance to buy or reject a Van Gogh. But to him this was emblematic of ‘liberals’ cancelling Seuss and Rowling.

He even went so far as to say that Van Gogh probably ‘did it better’ than the artists he was studying/imitating. Now, this is a huge red-flag to me because this is straight out of the Nazi playbook. This is William Shenker, proposing a theory of music to proof ‘German cultural superiority.’ This, if you will pardon my language, is the real culture war: trying to supplant other cultures art and history with western figures and events.

Now, for those of you who don’t know who I’m talking about, this man is sexist. He doesn’t believe women are equal, complains about women’s sports, and rejects a woman’s right to choose. This man is a transphobe, questioning the logic of ‘safe-spaces’ and allowing people to change their pronouns. This man is a Trump supporter, and voted for him twice. And all of these things I found out years after we became friends. I have in the past contemplated what it would take to cut him out of my life wholesale. Despite our wealth of shared experience and our shared interests, we’ve been drifting apart as he drifts further and further to the right. And he has been drifting. He’s parroted more bad-faith arguments from Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson in the last 6 months then he ever did when I first moved in with him.

I have been trying to push back, especially when he says the quiet parts out loud. I try to let him know that it is not acceptable to say he would rather an unarmed black man die that risk that a police officer might be injured. When he compares the people in control of Seuss’ intellectual property and works choose to stop printing less than 6% of his published works to the book burnings in Mao’s china. When he says that its more important to protect teacher from students trolling them by changing their pronouns than it is to protect trans or NB kids. When he espouses his belief that trans and NB kids are ‘just mentally ill.’ Whenever he says any of this shit, I have pushed back. I have tried to halt, or at least slow, his descent towards eugenics and white supremacy and fascism.

It has been to no avail.

And to be honest its exhausting. I wanted to believe that he would trust me, not just to be a moral and thoughtful person, but to be educated and informed on these issues. We went to school together, spent countless hours solving homework and trying to crack games together. If I don’t know the answer to his questions immediately, he often jokes ‘C’mon, you’re supposed to know everything!” and has frequently told me that I’m selling myself short.

But apparently all that trust and all that respect goes out the window when I challenge him. Suddenly I’m ‘overly negative’ or ‘too sensitive’ or he’ll ‘need to look into that, but...’

And the thing is, he is capable of great acts of kindness. He offered to rent me a room in his completely paid-off house, no mortgage at all, simply because he could see living at home was killing my mental health. He offered me 50-75% off of market rate. He buys gifts all the time, has landed tenants job interviews, set people back on their feet, and refused to press charges for several major financial loses he’s taken on the determination that it would do more harm to the defendant than he could ever recoup from it.

But he does not extend this kindness, this generous soul, to everyone. And lately, his circle grows smaller, and his kindess has waned, and it’s been so devastating to see him slip further and further towards his own worst impulses.

I know there will be people who think I should have cut him out of my life years ago, who can’t believe we never talked enough to know that he voted for Trump in 2016. I think back then he was genuinely ashamed, or at least guilty, about that vote. Now? It’s almost a matter of pride for him. I can’t tell you the number of times in the last 4 months that he’s told me that Biden “couldn’t possibly” be as “great” a President as Trump.

And he hides behind this “praise them when they do good, cuff them when they do bad” line and I used to take comfort in it but now... Now it’s clear that it was just a front or excuse for liking these abhorrent people.

I’ve had a couple of hard conversations with some of our mutual friends about what this means for me, and how I interract with the whole group of friends as a whole, in the last 3 days. None of our mutual friends seem to take any of these things as seriously as I do, with my oldest friend even telling me that he ‘can’t imagine’ breaking a friendship off over politics.... I know I know, the caucasity of it all, yes ha ha. And it does make me genuinely worried that I’ll wind up losing the 5-6 close friends that I actually rely on these days over this horrible sonuvabitch. But all this personal venting aside, there’s something bigger here I want to address:

I sat down this evening to watch Last Week Tonight and I was struck by this piece about Tucker Carlson, because while I knew some of what was said on his show, he is remarkably confident for a man who spouts the quiet parts of racism/sexism/homophobia on TV. I have a hard time imaging a more blatantly racist thing to do then declare that a woman who suggested ‘dismantling systems of oppression wherever they are found’ wants to dismantle the American system...

And I have to say, we should go back to punching Nazis. I want these fuckers afraid. I want them to crawl back to the furthest reaches of the internet, relegated to be laughed at for their bigotry by pundits of every political ideology. I want their vile vitriol hidden away where it doesn’t embolden others. I want them to know that they are out of line, out of touch, out of time. I want them to feel ashamed, like the relics of a bygone and worse era that they are, and for them to quietly fade to an ignominious death. I’m tired of seeing them on National News. I’m tired of Pewdiepie’s channel and influence refusing to die despite all the horrible things he’s said and done. I’m tired of Ben Shapiro spouting off about a woman’s place and rights, as if he has any fucking authority on the matter. I just want these people to lose their platforms and their followers. And for me the fact that they haven’t yet is so incredibly discouraging.

I know I didn’t offer any answers here I’m just tired of being alone with this defeated attitude and I guess I needed to get this off my chest as I try to disentangle myself from the losing battle of trying to save a friend from alt-right radicalization.

#tw/ white supremecy #tw/ sexism #tw/ racism #tw/ transphobia #wooow this got longer than I expected #meta: alt right radicalization #and how they're reaching people my age #plus a lot of personal venting

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karazor--el · 4 years

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The Beat

INTERVIEW: Nicole Maines on bringing trans issues to SUPERGIRL

Cori McCreery Cori McCreery

On March 15, 2020, an episode of Supergirl titled “Reality Bytes” aired on The CW, focused on the harrowing topic of violence against trans women. Actress Nicole Maines, a trans woman who portrays Nia Nal (aka Dreamer) on the series, led the way in the episode with an emotional and raw performance and with contributions in the writer’s room. On March 31st’s Trans Day of Visibility, The Beat got to sit down with Maines to discuss bringing trans issues to primetime television.

The Beat: Happy Trans Day of Visibility.

Nicole Maines: Happy Trans Day of Visibility to you too! Thank you very much.

The Beat: As one of the most prominent trans voices out there today, what does today mean to you?

Nicole Maines: Well it kinda feels like a double-edged sword for me. I feel like, on the one hand, it’s a victory lap for all of us because we’ve made so much progress. You know, we have reached all these milestones but then at the same time you know we have to take a moment and recognize, why our visibility is so radical and you have to remember everyone else who we’ve lost along the way and you have to keep in mind all the new legislation that’s being introduced amidst all this so there’s a lot of emotions, but I think it should first and foremost, be a happy day for us to celebrate that we can even be visible.

The Beat: Yeah. As someone who also has a history of activism in the trans community, I feel that very close to my heart. I’m from South Dakota, which has made news in recent years for all of the really vile anti-trans legislation that they have tried to pass. And I feel a little guilty because it all started coming out after I won a court case in South Dakota.

Maines: Well first of all, congratulations. Second of all, you know, I think we shouldn’t feel guilty about that because it’s kind of like, you know, how a “hit dog will holler,” that old saying? It’s kind of like that. I feel like that’s kind of the final thrashing for that kind of bigotry and way of thinking, they feel they feel threatened, which, you know, they should.

The Beat: So I know we’re all cooped up right now. Do you have any plans to celebrate today online at all with friends?

Maines: Yeah! So I did my social media posts and I did a really, I thought, cool video of like me transitioning from me when I was younger and I was still rocking a bowl cut to now as Dreamer to kind of show, you know, it gets better and look how again just looking how far we’ve come. And then also, I took a moment to kind of give a shout out to, there’s a lot of us who can’t post selfies for trans day of visibility, because you know we’re living at home with parents who aren’t supportive or we’re not in a safe school environment, we’d be facing harassment online from peers. So, I wanted to take a moment, also and kind of recognize, hey, y’all are just as much a part of this community and even if you can’t participate in Trans Day of Visibility, you’re still valid.

The Beat: Speaking of being stuck at home, what are you doing to pass all of your free time now?

Maines: Well, I finally broke down and I got Disney Plus. So lots of that. I binged the Mandalorian and now I’m doing an entire rewatch of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. I’m starting at season one, then I’m going to go right into the new season that just got released so I’m really excited about that. Lots of Disney movies. I tried to teach myself how to sew. Turns out that’s not in my skill set. And then lots of video games. Just yesterday I ate Ritz crackers, in the dark.

The Beat: I too ate Ritz crackers in the dark yesterday, so solidarity. What video games are you playing right now?

Maines: Right now my main one has been Warframe on Xbox. I have some friends who’ve been playing, so I’ve been playing that and then also League of Legends Teamfight Tactics because of course, they released a new mobile version, so I can sit in the dark, eat Ritz crackers and play that on my phone, so that’s great.

The Beat: All right, so let’s get to the matter at hand. You’re on your second season of playing Nia Nal on Supergirl. How has this season been different from your first?

Maines: This season feels a lot more of Dreamer, as she’s become her own force, I think. I mean, for the most part, season four was really kind of showing us who Nia Nal was and kind of showing us her growth and her transformation into Dreamer. And so season five has been more, you know, we’ve had Dreamer, from the season premiere, and so now we’ve kind of gotten to see Dreamer’s struggle as opposed to Nia’s struggle, I think. And we’ve gotten to see her come even more into her powers. And then, of course, also struggle with her relationship with Brainiac so it’s been, I think, it’s been a lot heavier of a season for Nia than season four, I think. Season four was kind of like her really coming into her own. and then season five has just been her getting like hit after hit after hit.

The Beat: Yeah, although it wasn’t all roses in season four either. You had the really impactful episode of the show, “Blood Memory”, that talked about the rejection of trans people by their family, which is an issue that affects so many of us. How involved were you in the planning of that episode? I know you were heavily involved in “Reality Bytes,” but how heavily were you involved in that one?

Maines: Yeah. I was still really involved. A little less so than in “Reality Bytes”, because of course “Reality Bytes” was kind of all about transness, whereas “Blood Memory” it was just a blip, it was much more about her relationship with her powers and with her family rather than about her transness. But as far as that conversation between Maive and Nia went, I sat in my trailer with the writer and with Jessica and we just talked kind of about what language should Maeve be using, what feels appropriate to say, and feels like it is accurate how that conversation would go but also not so overindulgent in transphobic verbiage that it would become triggering you know what I mean?

The Beat: Yeah.

Maines: Yeah, so we didn’t want to like lean too heavily into it but we also didn’t want to like, totally pull the punches, because that’s not really, you know, how those conversations go. So, when we eventually settled on just having Maeve say what, to her, made the most sense, which was “How did Nia get these powers if she’s not even a real woman?”

The Beat: Yeah, it was so important, and likewise this year’s “Reality Bytes” got to tackle violence against trans people and especially violence against trans women of color. How did it feel knowing that you’d be so involved in something so monumentally groundbreaking on network television?

Maines: It was really exciting, and also a little nerve-wracking. I have to give credit to our director Armen (Kevorkian) for his Saint-like patience with me. Looking back now, I’m like, oh my gosh, I was so overbearing. But I felt so protective of this episode. Just because they’d given me so much involvement in the writing of it and I knew how important this episode was to me, and how important it would be to everybody else watching it, so I wanted to have my hands in everything. I wanted to know what was going on, what we were doing. And I didn’t need to do that, they knew what they were doing and they were so fantastic. And so incredible and everyone on set just got it and they just knew what we were doing and they knew how important this episode was. And everyone was so excited and so proud to be part of it.

So getting to be involved in the writing process was really great. And then finally seeing it on television was so so rewarding because of course part of the conversation we’ve had leading up to that was that so much ends up on the cutting room floor. “What do we absolutely need to keep?” And seeing that a lot of it was actually kept. Because talking about it is one thing, and then going on and turning on the television and seeing them talk about the trans mortality rate. Giving accurate, statistics, having Yvette talk about her situation as a trans woman of color, addressing that very often trans violence is swept under the rug by law enforcement. Seeing all that talked about was so affirming.

The Beat: Yeah, it absolutely was, and you talked about how you worked hard to keep triggering language, out of “Blood Memory” and that’s something that I felt happened in “Reality Bytes” too, like it would have been perfectly in character for the villain of the episode use the T slur, but the fact that that didn’t come out of his mouth felt so important to me because that is such a triggering word.

Maines: I feel like using those kinds of slurs might have been a crutch, because that’s not what we were trying to do we didn’t want to have this character just throwing out hurtful words just for the sake of it, and realistically, that’s probably what he would have done, but we kind of wanted to show more of what his thought process was. And we wanted to see more, you know where this dude is. What is his motivation in trying to take down a superhero? And so we really want to use that screen time to more highlight this idea of “gay panic”. It’s just so much easier to just have someone come up, tell a slur, and then have a superhero beat him up. I think it’s much more important and impactful to show why that kind of thinking is dangerous. And to highlight those arguments that are being made, because a lot of people really didn’t believe that trans violence was an issue and they didn’t understand why people would attack trans people.

The Beat: So you talked about the statistics that you brought up in the episode, and a big point of debate online after the episode was the choice of having William being more knowledgeable about these issues than Kara, what drove that decision?

Maines: I saw those too. And I saw people talking, “Kara doesn’t need that explained to her, she doesn’t need that.” And I think it was good that William was the one to say and show her because one: he was a reporter, he was reporting that so it would make sense that he kind of had those statistics and he had those numbers, because he would have looked them up. And a lot of people thought that, because Kara was Nia’s friend, that she would have researched trans stuff and she would have… And I think no, you could go up to my best friend in the world, we’ve been inseparable since high school. If you asked him what the trans mortality rate is off the top of his head he wouldn’t know! Cis people, regardless of how supportive they are, I can ask my mother in the other room right now, she wouldn’t know. Because it’s not something that’s talked about, it’s not something that a lot of people think about and really if you’re not in the trenches, doing this kind of work. I think most trans people are unaware of exactly what the mortality rate is at any given time.

And so I think, for Kara, it was important to show that you can be very very supportive and not have all the answers and you can still learn. It was never a question of whether or not Kara was supportive of Nia. We’ve known that from the beginning and we really saw that in “Blood Memory”. We know how important Kara is to Nia and we know how important Nia is to Kara. But that doesn’t mean that Kara has magically become a trans activist and that she has all of this information that she would just know off the top of her head, because why would she? Why is it something she would have looked up? She just wanted Nia to know that she was supportive and that she had somebody. And that’s where that support was coming from it wasn’t coming from a place of “let me look up all these statistics and let’s go lobby together” that’s not what it was about.

The Beat: How did it feel to act out the anger and powerlessness that so many of us feel in the face of this violence. It was so cathartic watching you take action against the bigot. I can only imagine how it felt to portray it.

Maines: Part of it was, of course, exciting, because we’ve never really gotten to see Nia or Dreamer angry. You’ve never really got to see her vengeful. So that was exciting just from a character point of view. And then, acting it out. I really really wanted to show just how deep-rooted a lot of this frustration and anger is. And so, I don’t know if it read, I don’t know if it really played, but while we were actually fighting, we adjusted the choreography of the fight a little bit. Because Dreamer, of course, has been trained by Brainiac and by Supergirl and she knows, and she’s technical, she knows what to do with her hands and with her body when she fights. I wanted to kind of strip that away and I kind of wanted to give it this schoolyard fight feel where she’s not really throwing right hook, left hook, jab, jab, and it’s more just like she’s just going to slug him, like one punch just thrown after the other and really kind of physically show all of that frustration. And then when Supergirl arrives she kind of has this moment where she looks, and she kind of recognizes “What am I really doing?” Because she got so caught up in it that she just completely lost track of her situation. But it was really, it was really exciting to get to show that side of Nia. And it was really I mean cathartic for me to kind of, as he was, you know, listing off all his talking points, to just say like, “Oh yeah your fragile ego was shattered wasn’t it?” That felt really good and I was like “Yes, Nia, read him! Drag him!”.

The Beat: So I’ve got one last question. And that’s about the future of the show. Melissa recently announced her pregnancy and I’m so happy for her. Any idea if we’re going to see more of Dreamer to kind of fill that role to give her more time off?

Maines: I really have no idea what the plan is moving into it, because we kind of had a little bit of a plan. And then it was just kind of, you know, everything was thrown up in the air with the virus. Now we’re kind of unsure what’s gonna happen and when. I mean, I’m on call. Whenever they call me, beep me, I’ll be there. I don’t really know what is in store for season six, I just, I know kind of what we’re going to be doing but I’m not sure of any of the details.

Supergirl is currently on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. New episodes will return on April 26 starring Melissa Benoist, Nicole Maines, and the rest of the team.

Comicsbeat.

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no2da · 7 years

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also heres last nights (*cough cough* not todays morning till noon) dream

yesterday i locked my twitter account again cause my names in the description and im scared of classmates finding me now anyway in my dream the one i talked about was already following me

i dreamt i was writing a tumblr post about the bunnies i owned when i was like 10 and how my mom made me only read one book about how to care for pet bunnies (and my reading comprehension honestly sucked) and then got them and never helped me with anything and how much i did wrong cause i was a fucking child and teen with fuckin depression and i still feel the guilt and how id love to get bunnies again and do it better this time cause i know so much more now and then i went outside and just stole two out of someones garden and built them an enclosure from an old big bird cage while the family i stole them form drove by on really 3 tiny motorbikes and just threw me mean looks

i was at like a football game held in a mall during a pride. and the rivaling team kept kissing the local teams players to throw them off their game lol and then one of the local players changed into drag thats when shit started to get nasty cause local coach started yelling transphobic shit now and homophobic folks showed up with signs and one of the local players got exchanged and then interviewed about the guy in drag and he was like, i respect him and hes a good teammate but the gays are just wrong and going to hell and then he got a sign too that read soemthing like, spanish conservatives against gays and it was in the colors of the trans flag and that made me so so unbelievable angry

when the match was over i wormed my way through the crowd over to him an punched him the face and that escalated and i got arrested and then it was like, the camera panned out and a narrator going over to another character in the story and it was me again but with brown hair and my hair parted like hitler and the narrator was saying stuff like, queer youths dont have any role models to look up to and they feel misunderstood, just like hitler was this misunderstood loner, so today edi is here in civilian clothes but who knows what it looks like in its head? implying that im like, trying to impersonate this shit and the whole thing was like, a documentary claiming to be for lgbt rights but it was just a smear campaign or shit

also a thing were i was in a bus and the further you got into the back the cooler music was playing but also the people hanging out in the back were neo nazis. i dont know

#sweet dreams

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Zizek: *made at least one horribly racist "joke" to two black Americans, refused to apologize when other people called him out on it and instead went on some tirade about how "political correctness"*

Zizek: *literally thinks "political correctness" impedes progress as a society because it might encourage people to keep their oppressive comments to themselves but still secretly hold on to them, goes on to say that the only way to "overcome racism" and other oppressive beliefs is to openly yell offensive things in the street*

Zizek: *uses continental philosophy to basically make classic bullshit homophobic and transphobic comments, because he knows it would be too politically dangerous to imply things like "gay sex is the same as bestiality" or "knowing that trans people exist makes me upset, but thats ok" in ways that most people can understand

Zizek: *is not deaf/HoH, wrote that one really ableist article that basically reduced people who ARE deaf/HoH to some bizarre political metaphor, actually questioned whether sign language translators are "for the deaf" or if they're "really meant for those who cannot hear the spoken word" because "it makes us (who can hear) feel good to see the interpreter, giving us a satisfaction that we are doing the right thing, taking care of the underprivileged and hindered," somehow thought that was profound instead of...ableist and incredibly self-centered*

Zizek: *publicly endorsed Donald Trump, apparently for the sake of "accelerationism" because deliberately fucking over people who aren't as privileged as he is (and you've gotta be pretty dang privileged to be as disconnected from how things actually work as he is) is fine if you put a political spin on it*

Zizek: *rejects any radical critique of capitalism that addresses any oppression other than economic class as "identity politics," apparently thinks the purpose addressing these oppressions is to get more representation for identity groups among tv stars and CEOs and nothing else, because of course he does*

Zizek: *denounces trigger warnings, which is shit, bc tws are an accommodation for trauma victims and the reluctance to use them basically boils down to hating trauma victims so much that you can't even add a note at the beginning of triggering content to prevent them from experiencing severe distress and possibly reliving their trauma*

Zizek: *mocks "liberal infantilism" in the same interview where he denounced trigger warnings and "identity politics," except what he described as "infantilism" sounds a lot like mental illness or just being a sensitive person...implying that disregarding people's emotional needs is fine if they're a liberal apparently. How radical of him.*

Zizek: Listen guys, punching nazis is...it's just not good!! It's like, you know, Ghandi or whatever.

Some piece of media, idk: Sweet, we've been wanting to justify our fascists sympathies for a while...Let's take this guy seriously

#slavoj zizek hate club

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