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why does a story have to be true? is it not enough for it to give me indescribable power and authority over my peers

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Hunger by Nightjar art of Adam Burke

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Things! Burn them, burn them! Make a beautiful fire! More room in your heart for love, for the trees! For the birds who own nothing-the reason they can fly.

Mary Oliver, from “Storage”

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Marathon watching the Spaghetti Order of Season 6 of ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’ hasn’t really given me a new or fresh way of perceiving or interpreting the show. It’s just all the more validated the perception and interpretation I’ve always had of it to begin with.

The one I’ve written about in my character study thesis that attests that Xena and Gabrielle became each other and passed into each other as one being.

I think the Spaghetti Order gives you more evidence of that truth because the show ends on Gabrielle’s arc and in ending on Gabrielle’s arc instead of Xena’s, what it does is it shows you how much ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’ is about the BOTH of them. Not just Xena.

I really appreciate that because Gabrielle is my favourite female character in all of TV art/entertainment. She’s has the greatest, most detailed character representation and development I’ve ever seen and she’s extremely well written and portrayed.

I’m glad I did this. I’m glad I decided to watch Season 6 of the show in the Spaghetti Order because it just all the more validates to me that Gabrielle is as lead as Xena as a main character and therefore their love relationship is incredibly profound because everything they are as individuals informs what they become as a ship and you don’t get that in WLW/queer ships now.

You just don’t.

So censored or not - they’re absolutely the greatest representation of WLW or queer love in TV history.

I stand by that statement so adamantly and I know I always will because what’s really missing in WLW or queer ships in TV art/entertainment today is that of which they had absolutely no problem giving in Xena. Providing and representing two lead female main characters that had a love relationship that was fully cultivated because of the massive focus on both as lead characters individually as well as a WLW ship.

It was an interesting experience but it hasn’t told me anything I didn’t already know or understand about it.

All it’s done is made me double down on all of that. I mean I watch this show extremely differently to most people because I view the whole thing as an epic love story. I view it as a romance over all else. So no matter which order I watch the episodes in, I’ll always see and believe of it as an epic love story between two women and I don’t care if it’s severely censored. I don’t think it matters at all. In fact I think it’s what makes it better. I think the WLW representation is greater because it is censored and the creators/cast/crew had to navigate around those restrictions and limitations in such a way where writers or producers wouldn’t even bother today. And so you’d never get the epic adventures both these lead female MAIN CHARACTERS go on that just ends up making their relationship stronger.

You know… maybe writers and producers of WLW ships should try to censor themselves every once in awhile so that they can force themselves to dig deeper than the surface of what they think representation is because Xena is a whole other fucking level of quality that you just don’t get today regardless of censorship. So you don’t see them kiss and have sex every other episode. It’s not a loss. It isn’t because everything else of which makes it valid is there 10x to the power of what we are given today. It is much greater WLW representation. You can’t convince me otherwise.

I really think the only thing that matters is what the creator’s intention with it is. You figure that out and you’re good to go. You don’t need anything else.

“It is in its own way a great romantic love story even though we didn’t want to play any of the lovey-dovey stuff out of it. We just wanted the characters to encounter that and act in a certain way that told us that they had those feelings.” - Robert Tapert. (Executive producer and co-creator of Xena)

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Xena Warrior Princess is a better show for not having to say in words that the two main characters are in love and that’s a hill I’ll die on

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She’s not mad. She is adrift. Alone in the most terrifying way. What she will do next, I do not know. But I refuse to proclaim myself to be yet another one of her enemies by acting like I have something to fear from her.

BLACK SAILS XIV

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inside the actors' studio with Colin Firth

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20 min anne doodle with a lot of mistakes from the beginning of the end because i love her too much and one day i will figure her out

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*sits straight up in bed* john silver refers to madi as his wife when he says "do not ask me to choose between a war and a wife" but madi notably does not refer to him as her husband when she says "flint's war, my war, will not be sacrificed to save john silver's life". which could mean nothing.

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Just restarted Black Sails yet again (Rewatch 5? 6?)

Dangerous, dangerous stuff.

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If I’m not what I was when I was born, and I ain’t what I’ve become instead…

Anne Bonny, Charles Vane, and gender. That’s it, that’s the post.

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I haven’t looked at my own blog for a while (which is the point). More fishing than I expected.

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Xena Frazetta style cover (closeup) by David Finch and Triona Farrell

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nobody is women want me fish fear me more than xena herself tbh but also they keep making fishing a metaphor for gay sex so like its all begun to blur

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that one scene in xena where she emerges naked from a pool and beats the shit out of a bunch of religious zealots with a fish > every big dramatic fight scene in a marvel movie ever

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Things that the show “Xena: Warrior Princess” might have more of than you were expecting: 

1: plots involving fish and fishing 

2: musical numbers 

3: crucifixions 

(feel free to add more)