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Donna/Cameron - True Blue

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spartacus fashion: ilithyia’s draped cyan gown in spartacus: blood and sand (s1e5)

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many shows would be content with just one or two things but xenas like we are having the whole buffet why just have village of women or obsessive dark mirror gay villains why not also other gay villains or evil gay exes cherished life changing gay exes... gay love triangles... turning gay thru the power of community theater.. butch femme indiana jones.. reincarnation tropes.. literally who is doing it like xena warrior princess

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Things used to be more real, right? See the way things work - this connects to this. Now it’s just all on a chip.

pilot episode bonus:

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xena warrior princess was the closest we ever got to a mass attempt to make straight men into femslash fujoshis that is making straight men appreciate and engage with f/f relationships in the way that women play with their tortured tormented gay barbie dolls in great works of literature it all starts with the placement of women in battle against and beside other women and this being a place of bonding camaraderie and love and by placing this in ancient greece it begins to attempt its bold rewriting of history and working as a grand femslash manifesto by yurifying one of the great root yaois of the western canon but also this ultimately understands that in the same way many of the most high octane and insane homoerotic relationships between men often appeal most to women that xena is positioned with a foot in the hot babes breasting boobily genre of previous attempts at lesbicious homoeroticism between women aimed at men of things like barbarella and lesbian vampire films while also understanding that women watch these films but also that this is the girl power 90s and that lesbians will be tuned in and so also engages in a tongue in cheek fashion with the feminist rewriting of mythology and constructs a world a beautiful mirror of yaoi world the world of men where all the most important relationships are between women and men are evil exes or mediocre husbands or enemies to vanquish or silly jesters kept around to laugh at much in the way women can be set dressing or romantic rivals for the main relationship in great works of homoerotic literature about men sadly this did not seem to work as a manifesto to inspire grand change within the genre as the only straight men converted to this cause were the straight men writing for xena and the straight women believed it was unfeminist to make women lesbians and that by seeing xena as a great work of homoerotic television it was undermining its feminist message and television decided that only the worlds most boring lesbians and bisexual women would be allowed to write for tv thus unable to truly construct a grand second generation of xena inspired works with even more homoeroticism rather than less thus leaving it somewhat of an evolutionary dead end in that regard tragically

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Some more commissions

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They’re all you. All the versions.

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group hug!!

cameron, donna, haley and joanie for @jamiesinverguenza

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donna looking at cameron in halt and catch fire (4.10)

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cameron looking at donna in halt and catch fire (4.10)

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'Triumph of the Will - The Challenge'. James Tissot. 1877.

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Often credited to a pseudonymous figure known as Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web was in fact invented by a closeted divorcee just so she could lure her former female business partner back to California #WomenInSTEM

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the tegu at the reptile rescue i volunteer at got a fed a crayfish this week and it was notated on the feeding chart as "1 cray" and i was like omggg just like in soremachi

i've been thinking about "i feel like a cray* that just shed it's skin! *short for crayfish" for several days now...

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Hoisting the enormous golden face of the Tower of the Sun on it's place. Early 1970, Osaka. Around the same time, the 'space frame' was constructed around it.