Writer/Prof/Other. They/Them. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
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Jes Battis
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Remember for Pride Month:
- don't talk to cops
- trans rights are your rights
- be ready to protest
- everyone's free or nobody's free
- queer spaces must be accessible
- ace folks are queer
- the apps only care about your money
- build community, not capital
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Critics: He-Man was an old IP that no one cares about
My dudes, you think we were clamouring for an Ant Man movie? Not everything needs to be immediately relevant to the current pop culture/social media cycle. Stories can just be fun and campy and weird.
My only complaint was 1) more battle cat please, and 2) more Evil Lyn being passive-aggressively evil.
The Sorceress was also played pitch-perfect by Morena Baccarin, and I loved how she deconstructs the idea of “power” so that it’s about tenderness and self-knowledge, but also inner strength, rather than brute force. The movie understands what it is for queer people to survive.
Just gonna leave this link here: against-a-i.com/short-readin...
Masters of the Universe was a campy queer masterpiece. Having a queer writer who understood the significance of the show for young queer viewers was vital, and it definitely felt like a film for us, with a joyfully queer villain and a focus on empathy and acceptance. I loved it.
Skeletor is just 1000% gay and absolutely glories in his evil. Both the hero and the villain are queer fantasies of power, and we all get to be both halves of that wild and dangerous magic.
I saw it with my mom, and we exchanged so many knowing looks. Getting to see it 40 years after we first watched the cartoon—and seeing it with a parent who always accepted me for my queerness, my neurodiversity, my differences—was magical. The queerness of a self-conscious campy movie was delicious.
It's backlist time! The Occult Special Investigator series was shortlisted for a Sunburst Award, and has been optioned for film and TV. Lots of queer characters, Vancouver setting, Buffy/X-Files vibes, found family, and Kay Scarpetta-with-magic energy: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/BL4/o...
Backlist time! The Parallel Parks Series asks: what if a bunch of traumatized queer grad students had to save the world by navigating a living RPG? Prairie Canadian setting, dark academia, Ancient Rome inspired magic: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/312206...
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) has released an updated Know Your Rights: Protesters guide. The guide helps people understand: their rights when taking part in protests, and what to do...
