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Fight It Out (Diana Prince x Barbara Minerva)

Video: Wonder Woman 1984

Audio: Pat Benatar 

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Photosensitivity warning: heavy stuttering and flashing effects 0:20-0:26 and 2:20-2:42

Premiered at (virtual) wiscon_vidparty, 30 May 2021. Xposted at AO3.

Deepest thanks to metatxt for everything, starting with the song. And to chaila and beccatoria, my Wonder Woman mentors who helped talk this through.

We waited so long for this movie! Many things about it delighted me; some things were tiresome or downright inexcusable. It wasn't really the movie I wanted (the one with a lot less about Max and Steve and a lot more about Diana and Barbara – friends, lovers, mirrors, foes). So I made this vid to fix it.

When Barbara wishes herself into Diana's powers, she becomes Diana's perfect foil. They experience the same reality – most significantly sexism, here – but choose different (perhaps equally valid and equally sad) ways of responding to it. I've said before that one of the superpowers bequeathed on Diana by her origins is that she grew up outside of patriarchy, so she has an ability to not lose herself in it. The consequences of Barbara's wish show us something profound about what Diana achieves and what Diana sacrifices. "Fight it out with your heart."

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Never forget that Steve and Diana are anti-fascist.

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The History of Wonder Woman

Hey kid, wanna know the history of Wonder Woman? The whole messy lot of it, not just the very start?

Wanna know HOW her books ended up the biggest mess in the entire comics industry? Big clues as to why her movie took so long to make?

It has feminism, racism, sexism, blasphemy, infanticide, and bees…

Wonder Woman was created by Dr. William Moulton Marston, noted psychologist, inventor of the lie detector, writer, and feminist.  He secretly lived in a polyamorous relationship with two women who helped him come up with Wonder Woman: his wife, Elizabeth Marston, and Olive Byrne, daughter of the major women’s rights crusader Ethel Byrne (known for helping her sister, Margaret Sanger, to create Planned Parenthood). He was heavily influenced by early-twentieth-century suffragists,  birth-control advocates, and feminists.

Even putting aside how jaw-droppingly progressive his woman superhero was, the comics still stand out for how whimsical they were.  Wonder Woman/Diana had an invisible plane and a telepathic radio. She jousted on a giant battle-kangaroo, and, like all Amazons, enjoyed deflecting bullets with her bracelets.  She fought Nazis, mad scientists, valkyries, mole-men, tiger-ape hybrids, flying mer-sharks, a subatomic army, and her arch-enemy: Mars, the god of war. She regularly battled aliens well before it became common for her peers (including Superman, who in those days was usually taking on gangsters and corrupt politicians). When not kicking back with her mother and sister Amazons she hung out with a short and stout firecracker of a girl called Etta Candy, a slew of college girls, and an Air Force pilot named Steve Trevor that was as disaster-prone as Lois Lane. And while later writers said that gods gave her superpowers  under Marston everything she could do was just from training real hard.

Analysis often puts attention on some elements that are – let’s not beat around the bush – kinky as hell (like the “bondage” aspect of Wonder Woman typing people up and getting tied up), but just focusing on that is a massive disservice to Marston.  Early Wonder Woman comics were far ahead of the curve in sheer quirkiness and how progressive they were in their depiction of women (even stating there would be a woman President one day).  It certainly helped that s Marston was often helped by his assistant, 19-year old Joye Hummel (I’ll come back to her in a moment), particularly when his health began deteriorating.

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REPOSTING with complete PROJECT NOTES: see visitthemyscira.tumblr.com/transmission -or- cyborganize on Dreamwidth because Tumblr will no longer include entries with links in search

“Transmission” by cyborganize - Wonder Woman’s Amazons in film/TV/comics

audio - Ibeyi, “Transmission/Michaelion” from Ash (abridged)

premiered at WisCon 42 (May 25, 2018) in my “Foremothers” playlist

warning - comic book images of gendered sexual violence

Visit the long post and you will find:

high quality download + subtitle file

full list of video sources + links or short descriptions

full list of comics sources + mini-reviews

chronological table of clips/images in the vid + transcriptions of most onscreen text

my tl;dr commentary on the vid’s style and themes

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This standalone Amazon saga is set outside of Themyscira and involves a wandering band of original female characters created by Kevin Grevioux (best known for writing and acting in the film Underworld, although he also has a number of comics credits). The global approach to Amazon lore leans heavily on multiculturalism, with black women at the center. The main storyline in this limited series deals with Norse monsters and mythology and the Amazons’ conflict and eventual alliance with the Valkyries, which is kind of random but fun. (The Odyssey of the Amazons No. 1) [2017]

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an apocryphal origin from Kevin Grevioux (The Odyssey of the Amazons No. 4) [2017]

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Some named Amazons in Wonder Woman (2017).

Ann Ogbomo as Philippus Ann Wolfe as Artemis Eleanor Matsuura as Epione Josette Simon as Mnemosyne Jacqui-Lee Pryce as Niobe Mayling Ng as Orana Samantha Jo as Euboea Florence Kasumba as Senator Acantha

[Based off my first post]

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decided to put these in a bit of a chronological order as i can’t help but form a story behind the scenes. it’s a storyteller’s habit. and yeah i do have an idea i would genuinely like to explore with gail simone as a crossover comic. 

i don’t want to be the writer for this. but at the same time i always found diving into these things and exploring the character chemistry was the best way to get an artistic feeling for it.

this is also how i usually develop my own stories.

anyhow, while many think this is me drawing some shipping, in fact this a proof of concept for an adventure story  featuring lara and diana. Gail simone at some point asked if they would kiss and i gave it some genuine thought. i am a character first kind of a writer, myself, so i contemplated this. then i decided, yes, probably.

after all, romantic subplots have been the bread and butter of adventure writing since its inception and i always liked that aspect of adventure stories.

 i hope this puts some things in context from my end XD

and while there will probably be a few more of these, there will be no nsfw pics. after all, camera pans away from indiana jones in those moments as well  XD

okay… there may be a chance of a kiss… but that’s about it. 

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The Amazons of Themyscira

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KISS, August Karl Edouard Amazon 1834 (cast 1842) Bronze Altes Museum, Berlin

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Wonder Woman 1x03 - Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman (1976)

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HÉBERT, Pierre-Eugène-Emile Amazon Preparing for Battle 1660s Bronze, height 65 cm National Gallery o Art, Washington

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WONDER WOMAN // The Feminum Mystique: Part 2 (1976)

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I hope it doesn't take another millenium...

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petition to start using “suffering sappho” as an interjection irl

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Wonder Woman Day blessings! Fight the Patriarchy!

Did the Amazons really exist? | Ted Ed

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flashback - “our daughter” (Vol. 3 No. 43) [2010]