Lockwood & Co is up for Spoiler TV's "Show of the Year" 2023.
PLEASE vote frequently!
Voting closes Dec 31st at 5 am EST (10 am GMT). You can literally vote every hour or so.
I'm hoping that winning or getting good results at least (I know a certain fandom that's very active right now for the same reason ;)) might further help get our point across towards Netflix or other streaming services.
platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine
edit: @saffronlesbian made a video description for this post!!
[vd: a screen recording of a tweet from the 20th of April 2024 with 2.5 million views, from Ruhi @/ruhi_hi. the caption reads, "This video of this little Palestinian angel celebrating his bday in a refugee camp" followed by three emoji of a smiling face with teary eyes. the video clip is 11 seconds long and shows a one-year-old baby seated on the sandy ground, smiling hugely and clapping his hands while people sing to him from offscreen and a large cake is placed in front of him. stuck into the top of the cake is a decoration that reads "happy birthday" in english. the video has the tiktok handle @/ibrahim.jamal99 visible in it. /end vd.]
"A Palestinian family in Tal al-Sultan camp, west of Rafah, decorates its tent in preparation for the month of Ramadan in order to preserve Ramadan customs and bring joy and happiness to the children to alleviate the effects of war." from Belal Khaled, 02/Mar/2024:
In front of the Journalists' Syndicate, Cairo, Egypt, on 15th January 2024.
The crowd chants:
مصر مشاركة في الحصار
معبر بيننا و بين اهالينا
الصهيوني متحكم فينا
طول ما الدم العربي رخيص
يسقط يسقط اي رئيس
عملوها احفاد مانديلا
و احنا فخوف و فعار و مزلة
عايزين المعبر مفتوح
Translation:
Egypt participates in this siege!
A crossing between us and our people!
Controlled by Zionists!
As long as Arab blood is seen as cheap,
Any and every president must fall!
Mandela's grandchildren have done it,
While we are seized by fear, shame, and humiliation!
We demand Rafah Crossing open!
80s fantasy movies have a very specific type of feeling to them that modern fantasy cannot replicate because they refuse to do what 80s movies did. Which is take 8 trees, a few puppets, a couple young actors, 1000 pounds of glitter and possibly a live animal stick them on a soundstage and build a dream
A couple weeks ago, when I still had access to an account, for the 1st time EVER, I found Lockwood & Co in a collection on Netflix!
"International Ghost-story Fantasy TV" - so international that L&Co was not only the only English-speaking show, but one of only 2 Western shows. Out of the 9 shows in the collection, 5 don't even have English or local (German) dubbing!
That's how niche Netflix apparently views L&Co. Oh & needless to say, it's also last on the list, only seen when you slide all the way.
A few days later, eventually I also found L&Co in another collection, "Binge-worthy Suspenseful TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy". Again, last on a list of full of non-English speaking shows of which several aren't even dubbed for local language.
Digging deeper, I managed to find it in a few other collections:
- bingeworthy supernatural TV mysteries
- binge-worthy supernatural TV sci-fi & fantasy
- supernatural TV sci-fi & fantasy (all seemingly iterations of one another),
and even
- British TV thrillers & mysteries
- European TV mysteries
- exciting TV shows based on books
- fantasy TV based on books
- supernatural TV sci-fi & fantasy
- international TV Sci-fi & Fantasy
- international TV mysteries
Most of these seem to predominantly contain either non-English (non-dubbed) titles or comics & save from the last two, L&Co was ALWAYS last or close to last, only visible when you scrolled far.
Also: either none of these categories had been shown to me before (even though I predominantly watched Sci-Fi/Fantasy!) or they hadn't included L&Co.
The "big ones" such as the regular "based on books", bingeworthy/suspenseful/you name it, "only on Netflix" etc that pop up frequently still don't include it.
So still, even if you frequently watch Sci-Fi/Fantasy, the show is still mostly kind of hidden from you, you have to dig for it & despite sharing the same language as the US, it's apparently considered as international as e.g. non-dubbed Korean titles.