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attila. she/her/hers.
I write stories (...sometimes), which either get posted directly here or to my AO3 (linked to the right), based on a mysterious set of criteria I don't totally understand myself.
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Anonymous asked:

Hey sorry if you're just like way beyond this fic at this point but was there ever an ending written to hidden track? I just found it and really enjoyed it so I was wondering. Sorry if this is annoying though, feel free to ignore it!

lol.

*hangs head in shame*

so, first of all, you're not annoying at all. I'M really sorry for taking so long to reply to this. and also for, uh, not finishing that fic.

nope, there's no ending!

so the problem with Hidden Track (which I am fond of!) is that it was never, uh, like. I mean, I wrote the first bit for a prompt. and then I kept writing it because people asked and because I like to make people happy. in my head, it never had an ENDING. or even a middle, really. in its initial conception, it wasn't GOING anywhere. and adding bits to it never really helped with that! I never really knew where it was going (or if it was going anywhere at all).

this is actually why I don't usually write serial fiction! I prefer my fic submitted to the universe in complete thoughts, with a coherent arc. even my beta doesn't usually get to read my fic until I've got a finished draft (though she'll be the first to tell you that that doesn't always mean it's got a coherent arc).

anyway! maybe I'll finish it someday! maybe I'll figure it out!

but, uh. don't hold me to that.

#attila replies to things#Anonymous
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lettheweirdnessin

Xena doing solidarity right. 

Here She Comes…Miss Amphipolis.

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lorbanery

This episode is so fucking wild to me.

Not just because an arguably trans woman (I don’t remember it really being made explicit whether she’s trans or GNC) is the guest protagonist and is written as a whole ass normal person who is beautiful and her cis dude romantic partner knows and he’s just desperately, hopelessly in love with her and wants everything for her, and she ends up winning the beauty pageant and this episode came out in 1997 when we, as a culture, were still calling things “gay” because we thought they were dumb or cringey.

Like, that’s why this episode is beautiful and important.

But less important but also wild to me is that the entire episode is the plot of Miss Congeniality three years before Miss Congeniality was released. I don’t remember what the specific threat was, but Xena’s there because she had to go undercover in the pageant because there was a plot against it and the women in the pageant were going to get hurt. And Xena is, of course, not a girly-girl, so she complained and was awkward and did some very Not Pageant-y things on stage, but inexplicably still ended getting pretty far. But instead of winning the way you might expect it to go, she ends up losing to a supporting character who you’ve come to love and sympathize with, who the pageant means so much to, and who’s worked so hard to be there and really deserves it.

Oh and also, even wilder, if you’re looking at Gabrielle up there in the turban and the high collared robe and thinking the whole Look seems familiar? It’s probably because you’ve watched Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends because she’s dressed (and also kind of talks!) suspiciously like The Duchess

Do I know for certain that The Duchess was at all inspired by Gabrielle’s undercover persona in this random Xena episode that aired 7 years before Foster’s premiered? Absolutely not. But it’s a hilarious coincidence if not.

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vaspider

I don’t know if Karen Dior ever said definitely if she was a trans woman or a drag performer - in those days, there was a lot more muddiness about drag vs trans, which I kind of miss sometimes tbh. Not everyone wants that kind of clear-cut line and it can be restrictive but anyway:

I don’t think it matters much if it was GNC vs drag vs trans. What matters more to me personally is that Lucy Lawless kissed Karen Dior on camera in 1997, and Karen Dior very publicly had AIDS (it’s why she left adult films). This was a big deal bc ppl still had very confused ideas about how AIDS could spread. That kiss wasn’t just a queer kiss no matter how you slice it, it was “you can’t get AIDS by kissing someone.”

When Lucy Lawless appeared at the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras in 1999, she wore the gown that Miss Amphipolis wears in those last gifs.

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aqueerkettleofish

Also, I can’t find the reference now, but I’m like 75% sure I read somewhere that they wanted to cut the kiss, and Lucy Lawless said “No.”

#xena#was iconic#queue
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shadowtraveled

"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

#dungeon meshi#queue
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