#this show owes me money and a producer credit i fucking swear

[zaritarazi]

now i gotta ask. how did dctv teth-adam and zari meet?

well. i acidentally plotted out what season 8 would've been, and the tragic thing is if i'd even posted this in january of this year we would've gotten a season 8 on tv. nevermind that the cw had negative dollars. phil ran out of material bc i got too horny for matthias and we all know it bc really who contributed more to the legends canon than me? no one. a lot of people would be scared to admit that. a lot of people would be scared. and i'll

so please read this knowing it would've been exactly how the show would've gone. phil is going to read this tonight and fucking sob in the shower for 6 hours about what could've been

we know the legends are going to time-jail. in my little universe, we get the scene where they do the going into the jail catwalk in their little jumpsuits- WHICH, by the WAY, are styled in ways that appropriately reflect everyone's personalities, because i know what i'm fucking about- and there's general chaos and probably a song over it and zari, who is the focus of the season alongside booster (they're foils baby), is somewhere towards the back of the group, like maybe astra and spooner are behind her, and she just sees this guy who's kind of pointedly ignoring them sort of all the way in the back of the crowd and she's like huh it's weird that i'm noticing him and it's also notable that he has some kind of like- she thinks it's a breathing device, like maybe he's from space or something, and later finds out it's a gag of some kind

and listen. it looks like a respirator mask without the parts you put the filters on bc this is legends, we went to the store and we got a 3m half face and we spray-painted it like dark green and it's attached with spirit gum, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

and just as she looks at This Guy he finally looks up at the legends, her specifically, and there's this moment of very bizarre eye contact where she kind of just stands and stares at him and he's staring at her and astra walks into her and is like what are you even looking- sees teth-adam in the crowd- do you have a radar for finding the worst guy in any room? is this your gift?

so for me 8a would be very much like when dutch, johnny, & d'av were in jail in killjoys, specifically the part where everyone seems able to just wander around and bother each other, why not it's not like this is a prison or anything (side note big part of this season is about how prisons need to be abolished <3) where zari has this fixation on this guy and he seems equally fixated on her and everyone else is like. hey. is this getting weird should we intervene?

i would also love to actually create zari and behrad conflict as they start to go in very separate directions because tala and shayan could make that shit hurt. haven't fully plotted this. more on that as i think it up

part a.2 is booster's plot, which i haven't figured out yet but will be sexy. it would probably build on him trying to find ted and/or bring him back to life, as was alluded to in the 1 dc's legends of tomorrow comic based on the TV show we will ever get, and i actually love the idea of zari and booster basically being an investigating team where they're both the charmer and neither one of them has any lock picking skills but they're literally like. they'd be perfect for each other if they didn't have fixations on other people at the moment. but there's chemistry.

the b plot is spooner basically becoming the most popular person in time jail and astra getting jealous and then they make up and it's gay you know this trope you've seen it that's what's happening they kiss emmy please

anyway the midseason finale, to me, would be zari finally getting this guys mask off at the same time that astra finally figures out who he is and is like well. shit fuck shit fuck i guess! and zari thinks he's going to kiss her and instead he cups her cheek and says that magic word and the two of them get struck by lightning <3 couple goals <3 <3 <3 and this would be how we give zari her comics powers without her totem. listen they've bent so much canon in the dctv universe let me have this. i deserve this

8b is about zari getting the "heroism" she wanted and weighing it against the cost of the strain it now has caused on her relationships with the legends, especially with behrad, who's like hey. we can share the totem again but this isn't you. zari needs a rebellious phase! behrad needs to call her to the mat! black adam needs to be like kind of unconditionally in love with zari but also she's not entirely sure he doesn't just love a different character she's putting on, like she's ditched the dragon girl for what she thought she wanted- but maybe what she really needs is balance? parallel this to finding out how booster ended up trapped by the time cops the first time, and how being a hero maybe cost him ted? and him reconciling what he'd have to give up to get ted back?

i'm literally a genius and i've read at least 2 books.

anyway this ends with zari realizing she wants to be captain of the waverider after behrad with his totem saves her even though she's all shazamed out, so while she doesn't give up her powers, she at least un-shazams herself for the time being with explicit confirmation, leigh bardugo, that she can re-shazam whenever she wants, and black adam agrees to support her but won't un-shazam and we can tell if this series were to continue (but it won't this is the series finale) they would have conflicts over this bc i know how to keep a relationship fucking interesting, phil,

my c plot is that gary is no longer an alien and he starts a jewish prison gang like the one in arrested development

#long post #lot headcanon #lot au #zari tarazi #listen i'd apologize but if you wanted a season 8 here it is! this is it! i'm the kingmaker! #this show owes me money and a producer credit i fucking swear #zari x teth adam #also some boostle in there for the connoisseur

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Queer History: No Really, They Fucking Did It

“And if sexual minorities were historically central to the emergence of dance music culture, where are they now? If you take a look at who is running the clubs, managing the labels, booking the artists, and play the records, the demographics are starkly different from the crowds that got this music started. Considering how big a role the gay community played in the genesis of the music, it’s strange to see that the majority of the stakeholders nowadays are of the straight male variety. It would be great to see promoters, artists, producers and club owners take a stronger stand to be more inclusive of the culture from which they take profit so liberally.” – Loren Granic

One thing that brought me into the electronic scene was a vast acceptance and appreciation of everyone for who they were. Coming from a small Bible Belt town, I swear to god I found heaven as a young gay man. It was everything I hoped for, I could dance around, wear whatever mismatched outfit I pleased and adorn my arms, head and neck with kandi jewelry. It was a safe space for so many individuals. People came to dance to beats that created happiness and be surrounded by people who had nothing but positive energy to give and return. The more I delved into the scene the more curious I was about the history of what became a home for me. I wanted to know where this all began; how random places and venues could create such magical experiences and safe spaces to be yourself—how such happy places could exist in places where the outside world was not as accepting. That is when I found out about the underground parties in places like Detroit, Chicago and New York but not only were they underground they were pioneered by queer individuals, specifically queer people of color.

In times where it was not as acceptable to be outright queer or people were not accepted on a basis of melanin within their skin, these individuals were creating spaces and experiences that accepted everyone for who they were, what they were and who they portrayed themselves to be.

People were uniting and techno, very literally, was their song. Producers from Wendy Carlos, Honey Dijon, Ken Collier, Frankie Knuckles and so many more helped to pave a path of House and Techno that became the foundation of acceptance and freedom of self-expression. So many artists are looked to from the good ‘ole days as memorable and pioneers and inspiring yet when glancing at the industry today and what it has become you no longer see the warm embrace that was paved so many years ago. Wendy Carlos is given credit for the commercialization of electronic music back in 1968. She began producing with a synthesizer and flipped what we may know as Bach on its head into something brand new. This brought the genre so many of us have come to love into the commercial brackets of music which was a complete game changer. Pushing the genre into a mainstream medium that it was not in before by turning something so classical into something fitting new standards of music. 

Honey Dijon is another pioneer in this community who played underground and learned under some of the greats in the techno and house game—she worked hard and has made a name for herself and is widely known within the music and fashion world. Honey Dijon commented in an interview “[…]the music that’s being made and played; It’s just not connecting with people of color. People are making tools, not music. It’s extremely monotonous.” Which in several respects I agree with. When attending a club or event the demographic is starkly white versus what I am sure the underground days in the beginning were. The haven that was does not seem to be anymore – a tool for money not a tool for creating an environment of acceptance and passion it is seeming.

The amount of openly queer and trans producers and DJs has diminished and dwindled over the years and so have the ones of color, at least within the American sector of electronic music. While incredibly talented musicians are at the forefront of the industry today and many women are beginning to receive the recognition they deserve I still have to beg the question, “Where the hell are my queer and trans peers?” It is 2017 and world-wide the idea of being queer and trans is becoming more accepted, it is shocking that now when things have progressed so far that an industry that owes its life to the queer, trans and black communities has little representation of these groups. I take issue with this for a few reasons. First of which being, for the work and livelihood put on the line by these early pioneers in Chicago and New York the credit is slimming and the legacies are being forgotten by little to no allowance of people in these communities to have the ability to rise to the top. Let’s face it, being queer or anything other than white doesn’t sell. The legacy that the new movie Wonder Woman left is much due to a powerful female lead but more importantly a female of color as the lead. The reviews of women exclaiming how nice it would have been to have this representation as a kid was insurmountable and the same extends into music. I longed as a younger guy to hear a song or lyrics that exclaimed what and how I felt about who I loved. That I could sing or listen to a song and it not just represent a heterosexual, cisgendered life that those in the Queer community do not always relate to. We long for representation, we always have. We fought for it legally and we don’t seem to be fighting as much within the arts—but honey, I want it and by god I will get it.

Within this discussion of where those representing the Queer and trans communities are—I think one solid point should be made: our community does not sell under capitalistic motives. A white man or white looking man will always sell before a queer man/woman and especially a queer man/woman of color. I think now more than ever we are beginning to realize a lot of underlying racism within this country and how it plays into our day to day lives. Those working within the circuits of social justice have long been proclaiming the unfair playing field between people of different genders, races, and sexualities. The world is not and has not been as fair as we are all lead to believe and it becomes extremely relevant when looking at our community. This scene went from being a place to find serenity and peace from the outside world to a place where it is more important to show off the financial stability one has and who can bring in the most money. Obviously, I understand this very literally is a lot of people’s livelihood—this is how they survive and live day to day but at the same retrospect why is it at the cost of losing everything this scene started as and was built for?

I long to know if those who pioneered this incredible scene and community would be content or happy with where it has come? Am I finding an issue with something that is not there or have we as a community completely lost track of what this was meant to be? https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/mbakvy/honey-dijon-profile https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/53agdb/meet-wendy-carlos-the-trans-godmother-of-electronic-music

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