Want Frankenstein bit by bit in your email twice a week starting in February of 2023? We’re doing this Dracula Daily style! Twice a week (Wednesday and Sunday) I’ll drop a section of the book, in written order, in your email and we’ll meme poor Victor and cheer on Adam together! If you want to join in this, this is your chance to sign up!
I think substack will have an archive for anyone late to the party, but hopefully by spreading the word now (May 2022), we can all start together on February 1 2023. February 1 was chosen because it’s after Dracula Daily ends, and also Mary Shelley’s death anniversary. I think she’d like this shenanigans. She’d have a blast with tumblr!
Anyway, please join us in the fun and feel free to reblog this so word gets out with the sign up link!
ok i love our flag means death its great but seeing people refer to it as ’the gay pirate show’ like no. it’s a gay pirate show. black sails didnt pop its pussy being the gay prestige pirate drama of all time, making pirates not only cool again but also intrinsically linked to queerness, just for people to give credit to another show for doing it years later. black sails walked so that our flag means death could walk also, but in a sillier way. know your queerstory.
It’s interesting the pattern that emerges with historically gay professions. First, they happen and they’re known to be really gay. Piracy with its Matelotage, the MLM romance of cowboys. Then the straights claim these professions for a heterosexual archetype of masculinity; whitewash the queerness right out of them. Finally fiction uncovers what was painted over and gives us back the truth present in the premise; Brokeback Mountain, A Night At The Museum, Yo Ho Sebastian, Black Sails, Our Flag Means Death, & so on.
our flag means death but they’re all the tech crew and run of show for a community theatre stede bought
ed works as a technical director at a regional theatre and has to hear all about this stede guy who has open flames onstage and no safety chains on his lighting rigs
lucius stage manager of course. jim runs lights oluwande runs sound. frenchie and wee john are on costumes. swede on props. black pete run of show but specifically because it gives him the most opportunities to fuck off with lucius. roach concessions. buttons hospitality/front of house because that’s the funniest thing imaginable
The Buffalo shooting occurred in a food desert. That was the main groceries store and it’ll be closed for quite some time. So here is one concrete thing we can do to help and that’s donating to the link below:
Updated as BCF is no longer taking donations and asking for donations to other groups such as Black Love Resists in the Rust (I fundraised for them through 2020 Bakers Against Racism) and Rooted In Love.
Boba Fett’s reputation as the best bounty hunter in the galaxy comes from him pulling off an insane number of jobs throughout his life, some of which were even deemed impossible for a lone hunter to pull off
funnily enough, he doesn’t actually remember completing all of the ones people attribute to him, but after seeing the footage and biometric proof, he assumes that he’s been blacking out and entering some sort of exhaustion fugue state, or maybe he’s just had a few too many concussions
it’s not until he tries to claim a puck from the guild and is told that he’s already working that job that he starts to figure out that something more is going on, and decides to investigate who it is that’s been working this job
as it turns out, there’s actually like ten different escaped clones pulling bounties under his name, considering they all share the same DNA and face, who’ve put together a few fake versions of his father’s armor
many of them even work in teams, trading off who gets to ‘play Boba’ to the guild or clients
(they’ve also been using their shared DNA to access his space netflix account, which explains why the recommendation algorithm never seems to figure out what he likes and keeps telling him that he’s already watched shows he finds)
(strangely, he realizes that they haven’t touched any of his bank accounts, despite the fact that they could certainly have gotten through their security measures the same way)
after discovering this, he considers confronting them, killing them, even just turning them in to the guild
but then he’d lose some of his reputation if it comes out that impersonators can mimic him well enough to get the job done just as well as he could
so he just sends them all a message telling them to not fuck this up and continues with this life
