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repbeyondthedefaults · 2 years

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First Kill does not center or even give quarter to gross men. The one gross man we see is Cook from the Guild who just isn't actually hitting on or creeping on Calliope but he's got a vibe like he would if he got the chance. And he is unequivocally gone in the ep after he is introduced. Thank you Cal and subsequently, Juliette!

But even in the scenes between teenagers, they literally have the song Slumber Party playing in the background with lyrics about cunnilingus, but when Ben turns Juliette's spun bottle towards Calliope, there is no whooping and hollering, no lewd comments about wanting to watch, or complaints about the game now being unfair because it landed on someone else. Everyone just kinda goes "Alright, cool." And backs off smiling. It centers a lot of things I love about this show.

Consent. No one is forcing Juliette to kiss someone she's uncomfortable with, especially as a lesbian but also in general.

A complete and total LACK of homophobia. Like these kids don't bat an eye about Juliette and Cal going in the closet to kiss. They're just there to have fun and no one is under any impression that coercion or skeevey commentary is fun.

There's not even the for some reason obligatory in this kind of media creepy "misunderstood" white guy.

The centered narratives are for the girls', a balance between both of their experiences in the story.

People saying it caters to the male gaze are not watching the show. There isn't even a fictional character to whom this show is catering. The girls are in their world. No one is watching.

#first kill #calliette #calliope burns #juliette fairmont #lgbtq #consent #representation in media #more media like this please #literally I am not skeeved out truly by any moment in this show #not with regards to sexuality and sexualization #people keep saying it's a problem #this show honestly has a lot of layers #netflix please renew first kill for several more seasons #it has the range!#mine

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itraceswhenyoulie · 2 years

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Obsessed with the fact that Juliette is a vampire and attracted to Cal but not in a predatory way, even though, by virtue of her species, Jules is technically a predator. They didn't do the predatory lesbian trope at all. Like how did they pull that off? She's literally a vampire?! 🥰 I love this show with my whole entire heart and I always will.

#first kill #calliette #calliope burns #juliette fairmont #calliope x juliette #first kill netflix #juliette x calliope #renew first kill #netflix first kill #caliette #and that calliope played by a dark-skinned black actress is pursued romantically by Juliette #who is gone for her the second she sees her #i will always love this cheesy adorable vampire show no matter what happens #netflix please renew first kill for several more seasons #it has the range!#mine #Riley rewatches first kill again

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transpidergwen · 1 year

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Queer TV PSA!

Hello fellow Netflix watchers! Every week Netflix publishes their Top 10 charts for us to see what's doing well (and what isn't). And every week I check to see how the new queer shows are doing. This year has been a real mixed bag for us. Netflix has renewed several big hits like Heartstopper, Heartbreak High, & The Sandman, but buried others like First Kill and The Imperfects under bigger releases and no marketing campaign. It's frustrating and exhausting to say the least, and it might be happening again.

If you have been meaning to watch the Bastard Son and the Devil Himself but you haven't yet, you should do it now while your viewing matters (only the first 28 days are counted, yes it's stupid). It had a big increase for its second week and then dropped off the map for week three, not a good sign. If you already watched it, you should throw it on in the background a couple times, volume low but not muted (or it won't be counted), and make sure to stream the entire season. Netflix cares about two things: hours viewed and completion rates. Good hours but a low completion rate is still bad as it signals a lack of interest in future seasons. This is why the Sandman's renewal took so long, because people were watching it slowly. That's nobody’s fault, bingeing isn't for everyone, and some shows are better as a slow burn experience. Unfortunately it's how Netflix gathers its data.

So, what I recommend is re-streaming your faves after you finish them, several times if you can. If you're not ready to watch a show yet, or don't have interest in it, but still want to support queer media, you can stream it on a laptop or your phone while you're not using it (I stream on my laptop while I'm watching on my TV). It might not seem like much, but it's what we can do.

Here's the link to the charts as well as some visuals.

More than doubling hours, great!

Dropping by more than half off the global chart, yikes. Dropping off more than 2/3 of countries top 10 charts, yikes. You can't save a cancelled show, but you can stream it while it still counts! And while we're here, please go check out Dead End: Paranormal Park (trans, gay, bisexual and autism rep!), Warrior Nun and Young Royals, all just released new seasons. Let's grow their audience and give Netflix every reason to renew them again!

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noora-nora · 4 years

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yes hello it is me, i have returned from the dead

I am honestly sorry for my lack of posting in these past couple of weeks it has been really hard for me to adjust and adapt (most of my family including me suffers from severe depression so this situation is nowhere near ideal)

but I feel it’s only fair for me to share what I have been up to while I have been m.i.a.

-i’ve reread the guinevere deception three times and my love for Guinevere and mordred has only grown and I saw the cover and synopsis for book two hell yes I am so excited (it’s going in an a way that ngl I wasn’t expecting but I’m not mad at and it’s low key giving me reylo vibes which I am living for!!!!)

-as you could probably tell from my last ten posts I watched Emma (2020) the first adaption I had ever seen (well to my knowledge at the time because I had no idea clueless was an Emma remake until I saw a gif set after I watched the movie my mind was totally blown) I think the first third was kind of slow for me I felt like there really wasn’t a lot going on but the latter half of the movie was FANTASTIC I was screaming and clapping!!!! From the ball scene afterwards I was livid every scene was just chef’s kiss uhhh so good my fav scene was either the post ball shenanigans or when the dad moved the screens at the end that was legit the definition of wholesome!!! I think I’m going to rewatch tomorrow and maybe I’ll blog about it as I watch

-okay so if anyone else has seen my brilliant friend please contact me immediately we have to talk especially if you saw this weeks episode oh my god I was standing on my couch screaming at my tv. The show is so good but I for real hate every single one of the characters in some way shape or form. But the real questions is HOW HAS LENU NOT BITCHSLAPPED LILA AT LEAST ONCE AT THIS POINT!!!!???!?? Also mr. Warbury Parker or whatever his name is needs to fucking leave Italy ASAP and the teaser for the next episode oooooohohhogifogohkhhgndjdj I swear I might have to break my tv

-elite season three low key a disappointment season two was so good and this season was just eh. Also is that the last season because the end felt very finaleish but i discreetly remember somewhere seeing that it was renewed for seasons three and four. So??????

-I finally watched and am fully caught up with Eagles I had only seen the first two episodes when they had come out a year ago but then lost interest and almost nothing has changed. SEASON TWO IS SO BADDDDD my girl Amie who was my absolute fav character in season one is my least fav this season she just feels really off and why hasn’t she made any attempts to explain herself to Felicia???? Also I never have and never will give two shits about Ludde I just physically can’t. And I was so excited about season two exploring Elias and Amie but then they just threw that away in the trash bin bitch that was the only reason I was watching in the first place. Jack and Felicia had good potential during their first episode but now I really don’t care. The couples this season Amie and Ludde????? Elias and Klara????? Don’t even get me started. You know they darn fucked up season two when currently my fave character is Mattias

- my legit saving grace of this whole situation has been Trixie Mattel and Katya oh my god I have never laughed so hard I have seen every episode of UNHhhh and I like to watch at least twice. Please watch their videos they are hilarious I’ll link a good one to start off to but can I just say that I physically choked and blacked out for fifteen seconds from laughing so hard when they were going on a rant about poop and then Trixie just turns to the camera and goes “shopping” because that’s the topic they were supposed to be on oh my god that killed me!!!! https://youtu.be/OOOcJGar2zI

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-I also got into my number one college and they offered my a huge scholarship (thank god because it’s a private school) so that helps get me going through the days

-guys I just saw the zoenne video chat my hearrttttt I wish Zoë would be more open into just plain talking to Senne he is such a sweetheart 🤧😞

-also has anyone fully watched the Netflix show vampires because i got two thirds through it and I gave up it was so lackluster and the romance?????????? nonexsistant. Poor girl has to choose between goat man and stoner

-also Austenland is such a good movie I always forget how fun it is I highly recommend

anyways please share what you guys have been up to and I’ll try to post a lot more!!!

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samtheflamingomain · 3 years

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remember when tik tok was a song?

A lot has changed in my short time on this planet. I grew up to the sound of the ole dial-up and now I can watch someone talk about why the Earth is flat for an hour from anywhere on the disc!

The way we create, consume and criticize media is one of the things whose recent evolution is probably what piques my interest the most. Not necessarily the content of the media, which is always changing, but trends in the structure behind it.

Tech has obviously improved exponentially. Health, science, education - all significantly changed in the past few decades. But same goes for the past few centuries.

Media has, necessarily, been slower to evolve. Can't have TV shows without a TV. It basically went from book to newspaper to radio to TV to Internet. There's at least a few decades between all those things, if not longer. However, from TV to today is what I'm most interested in.

For decades, for generations, TV was channel-surfing via an antenna or a satellite dish served by your cable provider. A lot of those words mean nothing to a teenager now.

I'm 26. I started with cable (10 channels), then we got satellite (500 channels), then by the time I was 16 or 17, Netflix the streaming service came out. So I'm in a very small window of people who were young enough for all of these things to happen in my childhood. 5 years older than me and you didn't get Netflix as a teen. 5 years younger and you didn't have cable as a teen. Maybe 10 years. You see the point.

Then realize that the 16 year-old of today hasn't grown up without Netflix being a household word. If the 16 year-old of today wanted to watch Peter Pan, he would boot up Disney+. I would've gone to Blockbuster and rented it for $3. If he wanted to see a kitten falling down stairs and then doing a backflip, that's probably somewhere on Youtube. If I wanted to see that as a kid, well, I'd better start looking for a very gymnastic cat with all its lives.

So to sum up so far, a lot has changed very quickly - about how we consume media. What about how it's formatted?

And how we consume it always necessarily comes before what it is we're consuming changes. Remember when "Netflix Originals" didn't exist? The platform was built, the people came, and then new media came from it.

We've seen TV shows go from the binary of "22 minutes or 44 minutes" to "however long we fucking want". The disintegration of the binary of "comedy or drama". When I was a kid, sitcoms had seasons of 22 episodes, once a week, in the fall. Drama shows usually had 16 episodes. Now Netflix puts out "Mike Tyson Mysteries", with any number of episodes in a season, with each only 11-13 minutes long, pretty much at random. Letterkenny puts out 6-episode seasons once a year on Christmas. Back in my day, we never knew if this season would be the last. Even if the last episode was a cliffhanger, there was no promise of a resolution. Sitcoms kissed the rings of the networks every year hoping to be renewed. The other day South Park announced it was making 6 more seasons and a bunch of movies.

There are a few TV formats that I consider "evolution proof" - game shows (not reality, game), soap operas, late night and standup. All of these date back to radio times and have rarely if ever changed format. I'm personally hoping that, within my lifetime, I'm able to see a change in the way standup is done. We've seen very few attempts to break the mold, and the only example I can think of right now is Mulaney's Sack Lunch Bunch, and to be honest I think it left a lot to be desired. But that's to be expected if media itself is going to change formats - it'll take a lot of trial-and-error.

Quick tangent: I'm not talking about comedy itself. Comedy is constantly changing formats. Vine made absolute stars out of SIX SECOND-LONG content creators. I mean standup. I'd like to see its definition change from "70 minutes of uncut, unedited, scripted jokes told in story form on a stage in front of an audience with a microphone and maybe a few props done by one person, with pauses for laughter and applause, sometimes with audience interaction" to "long-format comedic content delivered by one person to an audience", taking away the mic, the stage, the very structured format. With the exception of maybe Bo Burnham, even if you've never seen a specific comedian, you know what to expect and when to expect it. You can Just Tell when the last joke is about to begin. You're not going to be surprised when the guy picks someone out of the crowd to make a few jokes with. You probably even know the definition of a call-back by name because they're so common. I don't know how it would necessarily change, but I don't think it's impossible.

Back to the main post for one more point: fandom. We've talked about the evolution of the consumption of media and what format we're watching it in. We know the content has evolved. But I think one of the most interesting changes in this category is the way we interact with shows now.

I'm currently sitting in my Simpsons-character-covered tracksuit I bought for $15 on Wish, next to my closet which contains about 15-20 t-shirts. At least 8 of them are Simpsons-themed. When I started building this collection, it started about 5 years ago when I saw my very first Simpsons shirt in a Bluenotes, and it was the only one I had for a few years. I would buy any Simpsons shirt I saw for a while. Today I went to the mall, and if I still had that policy I'd have blown through my savings in one trip.

I actually consider myself lucky; The Simpsons isn't as popular on merch you'd find at the mall as say Rick and Morty, Adventure Time, or Spongebob. I've seen giant stuffed Pickle Ricks, but never an oversized Homer.

My point being, I'm a superfan, but of a slightly older show that isn't nearly as popular as it used to be. If you walk into a Hot Topic, you can probably find any pop culture property on a t-shirt, mug, keychain and temporary face tattoo. This was not the case 10 years ago.

And that's just fandom with regard to the physical world. Did you know that John Mulaney, who did 3 Netflix specials 4 years ago, has THREE subreddits? Every time I get into something new it used to cross my mind, "Hey, I wonder if there's a subreddit for this yet". Now it's "I wonder which of the several subreddits that surely exist for this show/movie/vague concept is best".

A lot of the time when I see the concept of fandom discussed in mainstream media, it's still a severely outdated depiction. Even documentaries tend to stop at "and then Comic-con was invented. The End". I hate to praise it for anything, but if it did anything good, The Big Bang Theory did properly define "fandom" for the world.

I remember when 99% of people polled would not have heard of "fan fiction". I started writing it at 12 when the category for Harry Potter fan fiction on fanfiction.net had but a few thousand entries. My show of choice, Death Note, had a few hundred. I got in on the ground floor and built my way to the top. I abandoned that account 6 years ago and I still get 10-20 story comments or favorites per week.

Now try finding someone who hasn't heard of fan fiction. Find someone who's too old to have written on AO3.

Finally, and I know it's been a long ramble but bear with me, I want to address the homicidal, drunk-driving, pregnant-wife-killing elephant in the room: stans.

If you don't get the reference I just made, please google "origin of the term stan". Caught up? Good, so now answer me this: how did we take a term that refers so very, very obviously to a very, very negative situation and turn it into something someone says casually or even proudly of themselves?

Obviously when I say I stan Green Day that doesn't mean I'm going to write Billie Joe threatening letters and kill my girlfriend, it means I consider myself one of their biggest fans. I think in all of English vocabulary, there's only one other word that's taken such a 180 in definition and it's one I can't say.

Anyway, that's me done. Now that there's more streaming platforms than people who've fucked your mom, I'm interested to see where we go from here.

Stay Greater, Flamingos.

#media #media consumption #evolution of media #tv #sam

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stuffers34 · 7 years

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Zoo Review - 3x13, "The Barrier"

AKA Jackson gets all self-righteous and continues to blame everyone else but himself for not stopping Abigail.

~ That's a lot of hybrids :/

~ A Mitch/Jamie kiss! *squee* ❤️❤️I love how she wanted to stay with him, although I do get why people were not happy about how she didn't really do much in this episode.

~ "Little Peanut" is cute and all, but just give the baby a proper name kthanks.

~ I am not a dog person but that little guy is cute.

~ is it just me or did I spot a little smile on Mitch's lips when Jamie came back into the control room?

~ Sam? You're thinking of naming the baby Sam? That's great and all but seriously Clem, think about naming him after your late grandfather. Just sayin'.

~ Bloody hell. Jackson says ILY to Tessa after thirteen episodes, yet we have to practically beg the writers to have Mitch and Jamie say the same thing to each other. If the show is renewed I swear to God they better say ILY.

~ As for Logan...figures, just as I start to actually tolerate him he dies.

Then Abigail appears like SURPRISE BITCH. Someone kill her, please.

~ A hug! ❤️❤️

~ Holy fuck that zombie dog is creepy.

~ The ending had me feeling all sorts of feels. First of all, initially I was concerned over Jamie's reaction to Logan's death but @kateschechterxthorwasmyfirstotp calmed my nerves (thank you dear!). I was upset because to me it sounded like she was far more upset over his death than the baby being kidnapped. I get it though, she was in a relationship with him for a while and he was the only one who knew what she went through while in the Canadian wilderness. At least Mitch didn't seem upset?

Also, why must everyone fight?! I don't like it when the dream team fights and pulls guns on each other.

Jackson, bro don't you dare get mad at my girl Jamie. You had several chances to "put her down" yet each time you let your crazy sister go. It's like he's totally forgotten he locked Jamie in that cage.

Of course Abigail has the baby :/ I was under the impression things would be resolved in case there isn't a fourth season. Oops. Anyways, I loved how Mitch protected Clem and Jamie when the plane crashes through the barrier(even if it managed to do so without so much as a scratch)

Overall, a good finale. The season as a whole had its issues but I thought it was a good one. Like everyone else I really hope we get another season. There are still so many unanswered questions, not to mention our ship finally saying those three words. If CBS doesn't pick up the show maybe Netflix will. A renewal would certainly make for a nice wedding present :)

#zoo cbs #mitch x jamie #hopefully not #my last one #jamie campbell #mitch morgan #my beautiful babies

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