#xena warrior dyke

[queer-media-tourney]

Here are all 64 round 1 polls:

Rent vs Orphan Black

Heartstopper vs Orange is the New Black

Carol (2015) vs Bugsnax

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern vs Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Fienburg

Red, White and Royal Blue vs This is how you lose the time war by Amar el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Our Flag means Death vs Always human by Ari North

The last of us two vs On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Heartbreak High vs Shameless

Undertale vs The Handmaiden

Young Royals vs Revolutionary Girl Utena

Sens8 vs Carry on by Rainbow Rowell

Bee and puppycat vs The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Yuri on Ice vs Ranma ½

Q-force vs Feel Good

Torchwood vs The interview with a Vampire (2022)

Homestuck vs Good Omens

Some like it hot vs Killing Eve

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off vs Bound (1996)

It's a sin vs Magnus Chase by Rick Riordan

Doctor Who vs Portrait of a young lady on fire

Steven Universe vs Saltburn

Xena Warrior Princess vs Cyberpunk 2077

Welcome to Nightvale vs Schitt's creek

Night in the woods vs A league Of their own

Lisa Frankenstein vs The boys in the band (1970)

Black Sails vs Owl House

Hannibal vs The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Bottoms vs The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

The picture of Dorian Grey vs Adventure time

The Sandman (comic) vs Supernatural

Maurice (1987) vs Hazbin Hotel

Nimona vs Love Simon

Epithet Erased vs What we do in the shadows

Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs The Other Two

One Day at a time (2017) vs Falsettos

She-ra and the princesses of power vs Dykes to Watch Out for

Celluloid Closet vs Harley Quinn

But I'm a cheerleader vs Vida

Angels In America vs Glee

Hooky by Míriam Bonastre Tur vs They both die in the end by Adam Silvera

Will and Grace vs Paris is Burning

Sanders Sides vs The Magnus Archives

The L word vs Goncharov

Queer as Folk vs Paper Girls

Boys don't cry vs Dracula

All of us strangers vs Yellow jackets

The Song of Achilles vs D.E.B.S

Brokeback Mountain vs Dead end: paranormal park

Carmilla vs Pride (2014)

The Bifrost Incident vs Pink Flamingos

Call me by your name vs Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Grishaverse vs Roswell New Mexico

Riverdale vs We Know the Devil

Stardew Valley vs Pose

Disco Elysium vs Different For girls

Banana fish vs my own private Idaho

Celeste vs Tales of the City, by Armistead Maupin

Everything Everywhere all at once vs Outer Wilds

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar vs Victor/Victoria

Moonlight vs Stranger things

The birdcage vs Midnight Cowboy

The Watermelon Woman vs The Ritz

The haunting of Bly Manor vs Epic of Gilgamesh

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel vs How to survive a plague

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

⚔️⚔️ Sword gays showdown, grand finale ⚔️

*Camilla fanart by @friendamedes, used with permission

Propaganda:

For Camilla:

she prefers dual-wielding two short blades but can fight with pretty much anything. she's ambidextrous she's autistic she's even sex-repulsed ace. she sighs longingly when reunited with her weapons. she's from planet academia and dresses like an off-duty librarian. literally one of the most iconic moments of the entire series is when she gets challenged to a duel and absolutely wipes the floor with her opponent even though she doesn't even like rapiers that much. 'swords don't lie.' 

OK I’m sure you’re getting just about every character from The Locked Tomb but Cam is my favorite. She's a nerd AND a jock. She is in this deeply intense and loving and unhealthily codependent soulbond partnership with her best friend second cousin and prince. She is smart and deadpan snarky and fights like a grease fire and I have never been able to get that line out of my head.

For Gideon:

she's incredibly good w/ her two hander and less good with her rapier but she's still pretty good!! she is a horny lesbian who's taste in women seems to exclusively be "girls who have tried or are going to try to kill her". she's a redhead. i love her

Gideon’s a HUGE Butch lesbian and literally always wanted to use a broad sword. Specifically a broad sword. She said fuck rapiers. Uhhh literally dies to save the girl she cares for and the sword she uses then becomes like an altar for said girl. Gideon Nav Supremacy <3

oh she is the most badass swordswoman lesbian in media. she’s her gf’s cavalier, defends her in battle, she’s incredibly butch and buff

C'mon shes THE sword lesbian like... canonically 

Loves her broadsword more than anything on her home planet and practices whenever she can. Spoiler it’s possessed by her mom. Gave everything so her best enemy could eat her soul and become the new saint. The character of all time child of two separate threesomes, child of the god emperor, she’s dead, she’s butch, she’s a dork, she’s doomed by the narrative. She’s my favorite.

girlie is literally the swordswoman supreme. she’s the cavalier primary to her necromancer. she has a fuckoff huge longsword. she gets absorbed into another person SPECIFICALLY to swordfight for them. in a gay way too.

While everyone else was developing common sense, she studied the blade. This dyke's main weapon and true love is the long sword, but she's also passable with a rapier. The sword is, in her own estimation, pretty much all she's good for. That and her smoking hot bod and terribly charming sense of humor. 

"While we were developing common sense, she studied the blade." (Direct quote from the book). She's the most useless lesbian to ever exist, and she's obsessed with an absolute wet cat of a woman. Learned longsword mostly on her own and is such a genius with the sword she learned rapier in a few months (by personal experience, it's really really hard)

Most badass broadsword wielding lesbian easily slaying bone monsters and evil space wasps

The cavalier to her necromancer. very gay. in a complicated codependant lovehate relationship with the only other person her age she knew growing up.

For Xena:

It is HER! The OG woman with a blade! 

Her show was so iconic that any lesbian over the age of 30 knows her IMMEDIATELY because this show probably helped her have her awakening. Fandom foremothers and fathers rise up and get your gal a title.

An all around badass, bisexual woman, comfortable with many different bladed weapons. Her show was so much better than Hercules people forget his exists.

Xena is one of the OGs: once a baddie who turned good, she's a warrior who uses swords, daggers, and her trusty chakram to defeat evil and defend the innocent, while traveling with her kickass girlfriend Gabrielle. 

She has many skills

[lonesomedotmp3]

was born in the wrong generation cuz I should've had my dyke awakening to renee o connor in season one of xena warrior princess

[jessiesjaded]

I was tagged by @inloif thanks boo 😇

rules: share 10 of your comfort shows then tag 10 people

1. Uhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ngl rewatching the X files this year was very comforting. So I'll say x files. Especially the early seasons!

2. Xena warrior princess- quite literally have had a 20+ year relationship with this show by this point, it'll always be special to me.

3. Fringe. I still think it's one of the best scifis i've watched... also I love you, Olivia Dunham

4. Veronica mars, for all its faults, was my favourite show of all time until they rebooted it and the first 2 seasons will always be bangers. To me.

5. Always sunny. Terrible terrible people, whom I love.

6. I haven't watched it for a long time but the seasons of DW with 9 and 10 were very special to me as a teenager so.... :)

7. 90s Sailor moon! It's just good fun still.

8. Spirited, I mean a show about the ghost of a dead punk rocker haunting an uptight dentist? Who wouldn't love that.

9. Diagnosis murder... I love dick van dyke....

10. Love between fairy and devil.... it's just so whimsy and girly and silly 🥰

I tag @hotdadlicense @polyshow @pokerharem @queerb @saniremon @vivi-mire @ghostbonezzz @girlovessquirrels @shinydudunsparce @useful-boy @retconnedtimelord @woundedheartwithin @shanaraharlyah muah

[livvyofthelake]

like all i’m saying is what if we started watching xena: warrior princess. why can’t we do that. let me rephrase. I’M going to do that. you can join me if you don’t want to miss out on the it dyke fantasy show of the 90s. i feel like i’ve invested a lot into trying to sell supergirl to you people and very few took the bait so idk if it’s worth trying again with a different show about women but. i’ll be doing that

[lgbtqforeverything]

*yes i know that these aren’t all the shows on those channels it’s just the ones i have memories of watching while growing up. make your own poll about it

[generaleisenfaust]

"We were doing a show where the two leads were out lesbians." (Steven L. Sears, writer and producer, about Xena: WarriorPrincess)

[seraphbutch]

No one-

Not a single soul-

My lesbian brain- "xena in pants xena in pants xena in pants xe-"

[quinntamsin]

*Lets out an Amazonian war cry as she catches the Chakram.* Gabrielle and Xena are considered the OG OTP of the 90s by many. They are some of the foundation laid for the gay canon that gave us the infamous "Blond and Brunette" stereotypes we saw a lot in earlyyears of online lesbian fanfiction. Even more so, Gabrielle was the woman who needed to be introduced as gay or came out later in the story. This trope is easily cast aside, but it also is prevalent in a lot of stories. Most UBERS utilized the established gay history of the "Xena" character to established a long lasting relationship between the two.

Now why is Gabrielle just so entrancing of a character. From the star of the Xena story she's an ingenue. A girl without much experience and somehow her wittiness and her soul get her hooked up in the adventures of the infamous "Warrior Princess". All of Xena's story is in many ways an ongoing redemption story. It is Gabrielle who at points who turns and later becomes the rock for Xena's complications.

Much of Season 1 and 2 of the series is built up on the worry of the darkness in our Princess. Gabrielle the Bard must deal with the fact that she won't kill and that Xena almost seems to happy to take to violene. I think in many ways this story really does a good job of showing the complexity of relationships as well as friendship. Xena and Gabrielle loved each other, it was canonized by both the actresses and members of the production team. The only reason we never got a full on gay relationship is the time the series was set in.

But another thing to never forget, both Xena and Gabrielle are both easily seen as lesbian, bisexual or even pan. Gabrielle loves Xena at the end of the series in a romantic and platonia manner. Xena has many lovers and romantic partners throughout her life. This is a series with complex feelings of friendship and much more. Plus we can't all forgot Joxer!

So yeah, Gabrielle is the mythical Blonde of the gay canon. It was her who created that newly gay or afraid to out herself character. Gabrielle is every person who just wants to have their voice heard, and ends up on crazy adventures because they shack up with a wandering bad ass.

Cheers to you Gabbie, we'll never forget you Queen of the Amazons!

[jenjen4280]

The Hot Wife found me in our library having a Super Gay Moment: reading a Xena comic, listening to Melissa Ferrick, with my cat, sitting next to our mini Pride flags. So she took a photo. 😝

It also occurs to me that I’m fulfilling that stereotype of lesbians not being able to sit properly in a chair. I’m just so very gay.

[queer-media-tourney]

Here are the match ups for round 1:

Rent vs Orphan Black

Heartstopper vs Orange is the New Black

Carol (2015) vs Bugsnax

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern vs Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Fienburg

Red, White and Royal Blue vs This is how you lose the time war by Amar el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Our Flag means Death vs Always human by Ari North

The last of us two vs On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Heartbreak High vs Shameless

Undertale vs The Handmaiden

Young Royals vs Revolutionary Girl Utena

Sens8 vs Carry on by Rainbow Rowell

Bee and puppycat vs The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Yuri on Ice vs Ranma ½

Q-force vs Feel Good

Torchwood vs The interview with a Vampire (2022)

Homestuck vs Good Omens

Some like it hot vs Killing Eve

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off vs Bound (1996)

It's a sin vs Magnus Chase by Rick Riordan

Doctor Who vs Portrait of a young lady on fire

Steven Universe vs Saltburn

Xena Warrior Princess vs Cyberpunk 2077

Welcome to Nightvale vs Schitt's creek

Night in the woods vs A league Of their own

Lisa Frankenstein vs The boys in the band (1970)

Black Sails vs Owl House

Hannibal vs The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Bottoms vs The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

The picture of Dorian Grey vs Adventure time

The Sandman (comic) vs Supernatural

Maurice (1987) vs Hazbin Hotel

Nimona vs Love Simon

Epithet Erased vs What we do in the shadows

Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs The Other Two

One Day at a time (2017) vs Falsettos

She-ra and the princesses of power vs Dykes to Watch Out for

Celluloid Closet vs Harley Quinn

But I'm a cheerleader vs Vida

Angels In America vs Glee

Hooky by Míriam Bonastre Tur vs They both die in the end by Adam Silvera

[khaoticdyke]

Tell me all about your blorbo

Umm I'm assuming this was for that Fandom ask so since my current obsession is Xena I'll do that one

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): I'm basic so it's Xena herself....gotta love the og warrior dyke

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): Amarice. She's like their unruly daughter I'm so sad her character ended up having such a short run. Season 1 Gabrielle also deserves a mention here I think

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): MEG! She is the funniest character, 10/10 where is her comedy spin off

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): Minya. I love that they made a character that was like "this is our fans actually. You can be in the show too"

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): Callisto I guess? She's my favorite villain. Not really sure that she's pathetic or controversial tho

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): Ares. His constant mild suffering in Old Ares Had A Farm was what he deserved, I wish they'd left him on that farm with no powers forever. Also it was funny

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): Caesar, obviously, but also Virgil. Fuck that guy I wish they had thrown him into the portal to hell when they had the chance

[eddycurrents]

For the week of 7 May 2018

Quick Bits:

Accell #10 begins the next arc, largely focusing this issue on Danny trying to get back on his feet, and assess damage and reparations of his personal life. Joe Casey and Damion Scott are still giving us the most traditional superhero book of the line here.

| Published by Lion Forge / Catalyst Prime

Analog #2 is an interesting throwback. I like how Gerry Duggan, in creating this future, has effectively tossed us back to the stylistic action and intrigue of 70s and 80s thrillers.

| Published by Image

Backways #5 is the explosive conclusion to the first arc. The story reveals some of the extremes that Anna can go to with her powers as she attempts to save Sylvia. Eleonora Carlini and Silvia Tidei really shine with the art.

| Published by AfterShock

Despicable Deadpool #300 is a bit of a mess, but I get that was intentional. All of the “Marvel Universe Kills Deadpool” arc has been one failure after another as the assorted heroes and villains of Marvel have been unable to stop Deadpool. The ultimate solution leads to an opportunity for Gerry Duggan to travel through many of the highlights of his run on the series.

| Published by Marvel

Domino #2 continues the fun, action, and weird moments of self-reflection showing the true vulnerabilities and insecurities of tough-as-nails mercenaries of the first issue. Gail Simone is doing a great job at bringing out the depth of Domino’s character and the art from David Baldeón and Jesus Aburtov is gorgeous. I had pretty high hopes for this series, given how entertaining Simone’s previous work on Agent X and Deadpool were, and she’s exceeded expectations. 

| Published by Marvel

Exiles #3 is still following the whirlwind pace set by the first two issues as the team continues racing through the multiverse, gathering new and old allies, as they try to come up with a plan to stop the Time Eater. This, of course, allows Javier Rodríguez to really step up with his designs and layouts for the weird and crazy worlds the team is travelling to.

| Published by Marvel

The Highest House #4 is consistently some of the best art and storytelling in comics right now, with beautiful artwork from Peter Gross and Fabien Alquier, as the intrigue in Mike Carey’s script hits a fever pitch.

| Published by IDW

Hungry Ghosts #4 ends the series on a high note, with stories illustrated by Irene Koh and Francesco Francavilla. Like the previous issues, the stories from Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose are likely to be familiar to you, especially the Snow Woman as variants of it have been told and retold multiple times, but they’re well told here. And with wonderful artwork, all deftly elevated by José Villarrubia’s colours.

| Published by Dark Horse

Hunt for Wolverine: Adamantium Agenda #1 is the second of these mini-series, this one following a handful of Logan’s New Avengers compatriots. That remit at least makes more sense than the Weapon Lost premise, and leads to a flashback of Wolverine selflessly taking one for the team and thus having Iron Man, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Spider-Man start chasing down a lead for a DNA sequence sale in the present. Tom Taylor’s story gets more interesting from there and I look forward to seeing where this goes. Also, some really nice artwork from RB Silva, Andriano di Benedetto, and Jesus Aburtov. If given the chance, I wouldn’t mind seeing this creative team do more New Avengers, or even Defenders, material once this is over.

| Published by Marvel

Isola #2 is probably the most beautiful thing you’re going to find on the shelves this week, which is saying something since there’s also an issue of Monstress. Karl Kerschl and Msassyk are just raising the bar higher and higher on how gorgeous the comics page can look in the span of two simple issues. Apart from being a visual treat, the story is also captivating. Kerschl and Brenden Fletcher have a fable here that taps into the same kind of magical realism, whimsy, and ephemeral beauty of a Hayao Miyazaki film and it’s incredibly engrossing.

| Published by Image

Medieval Spawn & Witchblade #1 is some decent dark fantasy. Brian Holguin, Brian Haberlin, and Geirrod Van Dyke set up a pretty bleak, undead tainted past to throw what appears to be a new Medieval Spawn into, as much of this issue works to flesh out the mystery of his past and the blight that currently besets the land. No sign of a Witchblade yet. Some nice dark and moody art from Haberlin and Van Dyke.

| Published by Image

New Mutants: Dead Souls #3 is a turning point for the story, giving us essentially a reason for why all of this weird stuff is going on and more particularly why at least some of these former members of different incarnations of the New Mutants are present. All while the team starts turning on itself as Matthew Rosenberg begins to deal with some of the continuity and history of the team members. It’s good. If you’re a long time reader of these characters, you should love this. If you’re not and you’re a newcomer with this series, it’s still fun, with some great Adam Gorham art.

| Published by Marvel

Oblivion Song #3 raises some interesting questions about the people who were transported over into Oblivion. How living through that nightmare for ten years could have changed them, possibly made them go feral, and how troublesome it might be to have them readjust to life in a safe and sane world. Obviously the answer would seem to be to bring them back anyway, but it’s still an interesting question.

| Published by Image / Skybound

Old Man Logan #39 actually has a pretty clever play on one of the X-Men’s most prestigious stories in the title as “Glob Loves, Man Kills”. That should give you an idea as to the content of this issue, but I won’t spoil the surprise if you’re unsure. That said, we get more development on Old Man Logan’s problems with his healing factor, and Glob has a date. Nice artwork from Ibraim Roberson and Carlos Lopez, and it’s welcome again, like his run on Cable, that Ed Brisson is playing with the wider world of X-characters.

| Published by Marvel

Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #304 reminds you not to mess with the past, even if it’s ostensibly for a good reason. It never works out. Except in the art department. Adam Kubert gets to show off some nice redesigns for the heroes here and a really nice new version of a somewhat surprising villain.

| Published by Marvel

Port of Earth #5 returns us to Mac and Rice’s plight, with Rice not only dealing with the loss of his girlfriend, but finally figuring out what the alien was up to with his stolen badge. This is still a relatively slow moving series, with the issues fairly systematically broken down into an opening section that focuses on a documentary style analysis of the Port, the contract with the aliens, and the ESA and then the action following Mac and Rice, but it’s entertaining.

| Published by Image / Top Cow

Punks Not Dead #4 is still somehow raising the bar on how inexplicably strange this series can get, even as it’s making more and more sense.

| Published by IDW / Black Crown

Resident Alien: An Alien in New York #2 unfurls the mystery further as Harry and Dan try to figure out who wrote an NYC phone number in alien script. Steve Parkhouse’s art, as usual, really draws you in.

| Published by Dark Horse

Rough Riders: Ride or Die #4 is a fitting conclusion to the adventures of Teddy Roosevelt and his band of luminaries, even if we may see a different incarnation somewhere down the line. Adam Glass and Patrick Olliffe created a worthwhile real life analogue to literary supergroups like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the three series are worth picking up.

| Published by AfterShock

The Spider King #4 brings an end to this excellent mix of Viking action and weird science. It’s been a great story with amazing art, highly recommended.

| Published by IDW

Venom #1 is pretty damn good. The story from Donny Cates is compelling, building up a mystery for strange behaviour from the symbiote and expanding upon the Venom history, but stealing the spotlight is the art. Ryan Stegman was a good artist, with this issue he’s laying claim to being a great artist. With JP Mayer providing inks over Stegman’s pencils and Frank Martin delivering on the colour work, this is a damn fine looking comic. A great debut.

| Published by Marvel

World of Tanks: Citadel #1 is somewhere between Garth Ennis’ two usual war story extremes; the deeply serious realistic tales of historical war battles and incidents of series like War Stories and the over-the-top dark humour of Adventures in the Rifle Brigade. As such, it’s all right. Most of it is set up, allowing the tank drivers and gunners to get acquainted with their vehicles and crew. The art from PJ Holden and Michael Atiyeh is fairly nice.

| Published by Dark Horse

Other Highlights: Astonisher #7, Barbarella #6, Betrothed #3, Betty & Veronica: Vixens #6, Black Cloud #9, Calexit #3, Dejah Thoris #4, Dissonance #3, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call #5, Ghost Money #10, Green Hornet #3, Incredible Hulk #716, Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock #1, Maestros #6, Monstress #16, Outcast #35, Planet of the Apes: Ursus #5, Prism Stalker #3, Pumpkinhead #3, ROM & The Micronauts #5, Rose #11, Runaways #9, Savage Tales: Vampirella, Sleepless #6, Southern Bastards #20, Spider-Man vs. Deadpool #32, Star Trek: The Next Generation - Through the Mirror #2, Star Wars: Darth Vader #16, Star Wars: The Last Jedi #1, Star Wars Adventures #10, Star Wars: Thrawn #4, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #32, Xena: Warrior Princess #4, X-Men Blue #27, You Are Deadpool #2

Recommended Collections: Accell - Volume 2: Pop Quiz, Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc., Angelic - Volume 1: Heirs & Graces, Beasts of Burden: Animal Rights, Dark Fang - Volume 1: Earth Calling, Death of Wolverine - Complete Collection, Despicable Deadpool - Volume 2: Bucket List, Hawkeye - Volume 3: Family Reunion, The Shadow: Leviathan, Sheena: Queen of the Jungle - Volume 1, Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil

d. emerson eddy cannot be disassembled and reassembled like a Mr. Potato Head. So, please, stop trying.

[dykebarchronicles]

Sirens and Muses

Every year, toward the end of May and just before pride season something special happens at the dyke bar. New York, being a port city, and Henrietta Hudson being the last lesbian bar on the island, I like to imagine a Xena warrior princess led-crew of sailors finding their way to the dance floor, lured by the siren song and the enchanted island it resonated from. However, I also like to imagine Hens as an island of both sirens AND muses. But the older story goes like this…

According to Greek mythology the siren’s song was full of false promises, with Persephone, the abducted Goddess of Spring as the constant and tragic inspiration behind the addictive tune. In the story the most dangerous part was not the music itself, but the silence after it’s conclusion.

Supposedly, the end of the song was what robbed sailors of their will and spirit and caused them a lethargic, intoxicated death in it’s absence. Once given the musical experience of a lifetime, they could no longer live without it, and would throw themselves into the ocean and swim to the island, exhausted, where first their spirits would get consumed by the silence, and then their bodies eaten by the sirens.

  In the Odyssey, the way the sailors managed to pass by the island, and also allow for Odysseus, their captain, to hear the notorious siren song and survive it, was a cunning and dangerous workaround, that required total trust on the part of the whole team. He had them plug their own ears with beeswax, and strap his body tightly with ropes to the mast of the ship as it passed the island. As the vessel cruised by, Odysseus was seduced by the music and commanded the crew to untie him, but they tightened the cords against his flailing will until the sirens’ music became inaudible with distance (aka TEAMWORK). And so, Odysseus became the first person to hear the siren’s song without throwing himself obsessively into their deadly cannibal choir practice…

  The second part of the Siren story is that Hera, the queen of the Gods, convinced the Sirens to enter a singing contest against the Muses, who inspired literature science and the arts (as opposed to just lying around on an island seducing passing sailors and consuming their souls). According to this story, the muses won the contest and the sirens had to kill themselves out of embarrassment and their own inability to cope with failure, and then the muses made elaborate crowns out of the sirens’ feathers, which they pulled off them, and probably did an amazing victory dance afterwards because… muses. Meanwhile the plucked white bodies of the sirens became islands in the sea at Aptera known as Leukai/Souda. In Greek, Leukai means “white”.

  Moral of the story is, don’t be a siren, be a muse, or better yet, be Hera and set up a good show where there's some justice in the end. And if you must be a sailor passing by the island, make sure you protect your hearing and your heart, save those things for the muses, because that’s actually how stories like The Odyssey actually end up getting written.

[queer-media-tourney]

Here are the likely competitors for the next round:

Paris is Burning

Welcome to Nightvale

To Wong Foo! Thanks for everything, Julie Newmar

Brokeback Mountain

D.E.B.S

We Know the Devil

Interview with the Vampire (2022)

My Own Private Idaho

Paper Girls

Moonlight

Disco Elysium

The Handmaiden

Pose

Carmilla

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Fienburg

Bound (1996)

Homestuck

This is how you lose the time war by Amar el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Angels In America

The Sandman

Pink Flamingos

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Twin Peaks

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Xena Warrior Princess

The Birdcage

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Dykes To Watch Out For

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

Hannibal

Everything Everywhere All At once

Portrait of a lady on fire

Black Sails

The Watermelon Woman

Celeste

Rocky Horror Picture Show

[queer-media-tourney]

Here are the 72 works that are likely to advance to the next round of voting

Angels In America

A league Of their own

Black Sails

Homestuck

Celluloid Closet

Our Flag means Death

They both die in the end by Adam Silvera

Welcome to Nightvale

Magnus Chase by Rick Riordan

Portrait of a young lady on fire

Hannibal

Sens8

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Bound (1996)

Orange is the new black

Shameless

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

Feel Good

Nimona

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Steven Universe

Dykes to Watch Out for

The picture of Dorian Grey

Rent

Maurice (1987)

The interview with a Vampire (2022)

Carol (2015)

The Sandman

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Fienburg

Lisa Frankenstein

This is how you lose the time war by Amar el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Ranma ½

But I'm a cheerleader

Falsettos

Xena Warrior Princess

Some like it hot

What we do in the shadows

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

The Handmaiden

The Magnus Archives

Legend of Korra

Dracula

Yellow jackets

Brokeback Mountain

Paper Girls

D.E.B.S

Paris is Burning

Carmilla

Grishaverse

Pose

Disco Elysium

The Bifrost Incident

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

We know the Devil

My own private Idaho

Pink Flamingos

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar

Epic of Gilgamesh

Moonlight

The Watermelon Woman

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

The birdcage

Celeste

Everything Everywhere all at once

Twin Peaks

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

Bloom into you

Gentleman Jack

Annie on My Mind

Trick or Treat Scooby Doo