#Paul Sexton

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I've never had a conversation with Richards in which he didn't mention how honoured and lucky he felt to have Watts behind him on stage and in the studio. Now he wears his heart even more openly.

“I have a picture of him, as I walk out of my bedroom every day," he says. "The first thing I see is a portrait of Charlie Watts, and we tip our hats.”

"He's right there, over the shoulder, and all I know is that he's very happy that the band's still going. So now I work for lan Stewart and Charlie Watts. They're both my bosses now, and I've got to keep it going, man."

(Paul Sexton in The Independent: October, 2023)

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How Britain's Boldest Band Swaggered Far From Home To Find Fame And 'Truth' - Billboard, 2005-08-27, Vol.117 (35), p.32-41

Text version of the interview with Paul Sexton below.

Section: STARS

How Britain's Boldest Band Swaggered Far From Home To Find Fame And 'Truth'

It has often been a rocky decade, but Oasis has rolled with it.

Reinvigorating the dreary British music scene of the pre-Britpop 1990s, these dropouts hailing from a Manchester, England, housing project sparkled and soared like the champagne supernova of their famous song.

Steadfast in the belief that it is better to risk a bad opinion than excite no opinion at all, the band raced up the rankings in U.K. rock without looking back. When it hit the top 10 for the first time in the summer of 1994 with "Live Forever," fans knew the title was no empty promise.

The swagger of Oasis' first chart singles earlier that year, "Supersonic" and "Shakermaker," presented an offer that a somnambulant British music industry could not, and did not, want to resist.

But the group's braggadocio was founded in hard work, endless rehearsals and gigs with little glamour from as early as 1991.

Noel Gallagher, then 24, was a Stone Roses fan who had been turned down as the frontman by another popular local act, Inspiral Carpets, and went to work instead as their roadie. Younger brother Liam was a mere 19. The pair even then were prone to the public sparring that would colorfully punctuate their eventual rock conquest.

The decision by Creation Records founder Alan McGee to sign and champion Oasis produced more than just personal riches. Beginning with the band's debut album, "Definitely Maybe," the Creation collaboration sparked a decade-plus career that has grown into a musical landmark for a generation, first in Britain and then around the world.

The history of a truly larger-than-life British rock band has unfolded in the last 10 years. Working with a variety of band members from that day through to the release of their current album, "Don't Believe the Truth," the Gallaghers have walked it exactly as they've talked it.

Except, of course, on those occasions when either or both of the brothers do not care to talk at all and fail to show for interviews. It is a frustration this writer already has experienced and one which, true to form, Liam chose to reprise for this report.

Nevertheless, his older brother was in an expansive yet thoughtful mood as he reflected on the past, present and future of Oasis.

What do you recall of the British music scene you gate-crashed in 1994?

Let me see. Suede were the great white hopes. Blur were a fucking mess. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine were still getting front covers. It wasn't that long since Ned's Atomic Dustbin. Primal Scream were in absolute limbo, and it was all kind of going down the toilet.

As I remember, nobody looked good, nobody sounded good, nobody was pointing to the sky and going, "Come on, let's have it!" The music press, the writers and photographers were shit; it was horrible.

We were in a rehearsal space in Manchester, in a little room at the Boardwalk. We were doing this set with "Live Forever," "Rock & Roll Star," "Bring It On Down" and "I Am the Walrus." And we were just waiting for somebody. We weren't going to go into East West Records or XL and say, "We're the greatest band in England, you've got to sign us," because then you're automatically in debt to them before they've even given you a pound.

We knew that if we got it right, we would wipe the floor with everyone. Added to that, me and Liam were eminently quotable the whole time.

Now that you have become a long-serving band, does that help you to understand better the motivation behind groups like U2, R.E.M. and even the Rolling Stones?

I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.

In the case of R.E.M., I don't own any of their records, but we kind of meet them on the road every now and again. Peter Buck and the bass player are great, but it's the big blue stripe, there's no need for that.

U2, I love, I grew up listening to them, and I own all their albums. I remember going to see them on the Zoo TV tour and Bono in his alter ego as the Fly was ridiculing the guy with the mullet and the campaigning rock star. It's funny how it's now come full circle, and he's back.

The longer you go on, it magnifies more of what you are. The longer we do it, the more we look like where we come from.

In the case of me and Liam, who've been there the longest, we look like a couple of guys from a council estate in Burnage and always will be. We never went to college, we were kicked out of school and went straight onto building sites. There was no time for pretension.

But you were very single-minded about going after success, weren't you?

When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats . . . we never got to the leather trousers though, thank God. It wasn't like an act, it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas. I've got a fleet of cars I bought at that period, and I've never had a driving license, ever. But it was just, "Fuck it, man! I want a Rolls Royce!" You're in that position for a couple of years, and then you think, "This is bullshit. Who am I?"

Do you think it's possible for a long-running band to be on an upward curve all the time? Don't there have to be bad times?

I wrote the first three Oasis albums all before I had a record deal. So I never had to sit down and reinvent the band until [2000's] "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants," and I kind of took that too far. The band never needed reinventing, it was great as it was. You start using different techniques, like drum loops, and we kind of went away from what we were, and it was difficult to get that back.

All the songs off "Definitely Maybe" and "Morning Glory" I wrote when I was 21, so I was then trying to rewrite the script at the age of 31, and you're a completely different character. I do like all the words on "Giants," but I lost the formula, whatever it was.

After a band achieves the iconic status that you did, is that when you start questioning your motivation?

There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made shitloads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question. It comes back every time we're at the end of a tour and you have three or four months off and then you've got to get back on the saddle. More often than not, the answer that comes back from me is, "What else are you going to do?"

I struggle with this conundrum. It's not a very noble thing to carry on, it's not very dashing. But I often meet people who've been in great bands and you go, "What are you doing now?" and they say, "I'm not doing anything," and I think that's more sad.

So I'd rather be doing something that I think is good. I never even rated that song "Lyla" [the first single off "Don't Believe the Truth"], and then you see 70,000 people going mad to it and singing the song, and you think, "What do I know?"

And watching people doing that on the recent tour, they're not just celebrating their favorite band or some of their favorite songs. They respond to Oasis almost as a complete validation of their lives.

You'll look up at the stands, particularly doing "Don't Look Back in Anger" [the band's second British No. 1, in 1996], and there'll be groups of people just hugging each other, not even watching the band, just singing that song to themselves. It's obviously something that means so much to them. Those songs are now kind of part of British culture. It's a great position to be in.

Did it make a big difference working with American producer Dave Sardy on this album?

There's two things to this. We decided early on that we wanted to use a producer, then it was a case of "We're going to let somebody else make all the major decisions." Luckily for us by the time we got to Dave Sardy, we'd already written all the songs and arranged them all, so all he really had to do was put them on tape.

It's opened our eyes a little bit. I was sick of being a songwriter/producer/band member. I just wanted to be in a band again—I didn't want to be a producer, just the guy that plays guitar and writes a few songs.

Even being the main songwriter and everybody looking to me for approval on everything, it was like, "Hang on, I'm an equal part of this band in songwriting terms now, so it's all our problem if it goes wrong but we'll all share the glory if it goes right." That's why this album being a success, especially with critics in America, it makes it more special.

Your trials and tribulations with band in-fighting and canceled tours soured your reputation, especially in America. Do you feel more well-disposed toward the American market now?

I've never had a blatant disregard for it in the first place. It's just that America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention, and we're not those kind of people.

The reason U2 and R.E.M. and Coldplay are the biggest white rock bands in America is because of their frontmen. Not being negative towards Liam, he's just not Chris Martin, he's not Bono, he's not Michael Stipe. He's Liam. For all intents and purposes, Americans don't get Liams. I think we're musically as strong as those three bands put together, but as characters we're different.

Did starting your own label Big Brother, in 2000, change the way you view the record industry?

Big Brother was started in a haze of ideals: "We're going to sign loads of bands." Then it was like, "How much? Fuck that!" I take all my money out of Big Brother and put it into my own little label, Sour Mash. I've just signed the [Liverpool] band Shack, and I've done a few little things.

But the thing about bands these days is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."

It's all about advances these days, and most managers of these new bands are idiots. We signed to Creation for 50 grand, and we didn't get any money for about three years. You tell that to a kid these days, and they'll vomit.

Have you ever thought seriously about going solo?

I think about it all the time. I'm doing a bit of a soundtrack for some film that's coming out next year. But because I enjoy time off so much, by the time I've had my time off, it's time to do Oasis again. I always think I'll write the songs on the road, come back and in the six months Oasis are not doing anything, I'll put out a solo album. But because I'm [lazy], it never gets done, and by the time I want to start doing stuff, it's Oasis time. I hope it happens before I'm 40, but I'm 38 now.

What about Liam?

I think he'll do it before I will. He's got more songs, and he's a lot more driven in that department, because although he's 30-odd, he's only just started writing songs, so he's kind of where I was when I was 21.

But now, in the United Kingdom, you can't move for bands paying tribute to your influence.

We thought bands would read [our interviews in] NME and immediately form groups, which they did. But it's only becoming apparent now, [with] the likes of Razorlight, the Libertines, the Killers, the Strokes, Kings of Leon and Jet, all these bands are [citing] "Definitely Maybe." They don't even go "Oasis, Oasis," it's that album.

We were the first people to come out and say, "The world's a great place, life is for living. Forget grunge music. Get a pint of Guinness down your neck, and pick that guitar up."

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Paul Sexton „Charlie gra dziś dobrze”

Harper Collins Polska, 2023 Charlie Watts doczekał się wreszcie swojej biografii. Chociaż książkę Paula Sextona określić by raczej trzeba jako zbiór wspomnień o zmarłym w 2021 roku wybitnym muzyku. Książka Sextona ma w podtytule miano biografii autoryzowanej. Niesie więc ze sobą zarówno wszystkie zalety jak i wady tego typu rozwiązań. I chociaż o prywatnej stronie życia Wattsa możemy się z niej…

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hello <3 could you please do a webweaving on losing someone you love? thank you!

Either way, you're not coming back.

For whatever reason, I really struggled with this one. I wasn't sure if you meant loss as in dying or loss as in leaving, so I tried to make it applicable to both.

tender is not a bad word, K.C Cramm | Planet of Love, Richard Siken | A Self-Portrait in Letters, Anne Sexton | Count the Almonds, Paul Celan | Come Over (Again), Crawlers | A Valentine That Can’t Be Sent, Rosmarie Waldrop | Poetic Regulations, Mahmoud Darwish | Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi | @/small-planets | The Torn-Up Road, Richard Siken | Instructions for the End, Jen Benka | Norwegian Woods, Haruki Murakami

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Collin Sexton, Victor Wembanyama, and Chris Paul 2024-25 NBA Regular Season

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Thinking way too hard about the queer possibilities of X-Men ‘97

When X-Men ‘97 was first announced, I’ll admit I was kind of ambivelent to the entire project... It felt very nostalgia-focused and was just less interesting to me then an all-new X-Men cartoon that could do its own thing without being burdened with established canon...

...and then I listened to the X-Men 60 Uncanny Years event earlier this year and hearing the executive producer of the series discuss what the X-Men meant to him as a kid as a gay black man in Florida basically changed my mind about the entire project. Now I’m excited for it!

The X-Men are so fucking queer. Even ignoring the ways that the mutant metaphor have been used to discuss queer issues before queer issues could be discussed textually, Marvel’s merry mutants just have... so many queer members and even more when you expand the list to include sub-textual and intended queerness.

So, with all that in mind, I did a little thinking and decided to take some guesses about who could make for queer representation in '97... Let’s dive in!

Part One: The Comic Canon Gays

Let’s start with the characters who are explicitly no-subtext-required queer in the comic books themselves. These are a few of the characters Marvel uses in Pride events and generally parades around every June.

Northstar

Jean-Paul Beaubier may seem like the vanilla ice cream of this rainbow sundae, but there’s far more going on with this character then the “Marvel’s first explicitly gay superhero” title that he is so often boiled down to. A French-Canadian superstar athlete, he’s lived never being entirely sure if his skiing career success was a result of his talent or his mutant abilities.

While his depiction in X-Men The Animated Series just had him be painfully French-Canadian with an on-the-nose accent and French exclamations, there’s a mean catty gay under the surface that is just waiting to be unleashed. They could also adapt his famous wedding arc, wherein he married his husband Kyle Jinadu...

Also he hates cops, so y’know... Maybe Marvel did nail the queer experience on their first try?

Iceman

Bobby Drake is arguably the most famous queer character at Marvel. A member of the original five X-Men, he was famously confirmed as gay when his teenage self was transported to the present and, with some unsolicited help from a teenage Jean Grey, questioned why his older self remaining closeted, even in a world that was (comparatively at least) accepting of queer desire.

In the original show, he showed unrequited interest in Polaris, as he had in the comics before his coming-out. This reboot could potentially give a more grounded and less fantastical take on coming-out then what he had in the comics... or maybe time travel will be involved again - who knows really!

Prodigy

David Allyene, aka Prodigy, is one of the most notable bi men at Marvel with one of the most distinctive coming-out stories. His mutant powers cause him to instantly learn things that other people know, hence the name Prodigy, and, through his powers, he also learned his own sexuality. How’s that for a crazy journey of self-discovery.

Prodigy is a newer character who did not appear in the original animated series at all, so there’s no continuity concerns there...

Mystique and Destiny

Destiny, also known as Irene Adler, met her lover Mystique when he was presenting as male and operating as a consulting detective in Victorian London.

Yeah uh. This is implying what you think it is.

The two of them have been lovers for centuries now, though both took other partners at different points during their relationship. Their love is something special though and together they raised Rogue as a child - as well as maybe sired Nightcrawler together? That was once intended to be Nightcrawler’s origin, but it was famously scrapped due to Marvel editorial not wanting to depict a child that is a product of a queer relationship at the time... but now this November a new comic will explore the “true” origin of Nightcrawler, so maybe Mystique/Destiny having a biological child is back on the table!

Mystique was, of course, in the original series. I’m not sure the actual odds of her relationship with Irene being acknowledged in ‘97 - partially just because I imagine Marvel would be concerned about backlash to queer villains... but also they’re adorable and good to me so I’d like them!

Captain Britain and Askani

Betsy Braddock and Rachel Summers are two incredibly complicated characters to summarize. Rachel is the time-displaced daughter of Scott and Jean from a hypothetical alternate feature, while Betsy Braddock spent like 30 years of her publication history trapped in the body of Kwannon, a Japanese assassin. While these two characters are some of Marvel’s most actively in-your-face unquestionably queer characters - the last Betsy story had a surprising amount of implied sex for only five issues - they’ve never really had a chance to shine in a multimedia way (well, at least not with Betsy in her own body and not being merged with Kwannon).

In the original show, Rachel cameoed briefly as a prisoner of Apocalypse while Pyslocke appeared without being named - assumedly they didn’t want to bother explaining the body-swap storyline. Personally, if they were to be in the show, I’d suggest that Betsy should be introduced as having inherited her brother’s title of Captain Britain, with Pyslocke of the original show being revealed to have been Kwannon in her own body all along...

Part Two: The New Mutants

There’s so many queer New Mutants that I’m just giving them their own category here... plus, with Sunspot being in the main cast, I wouldn’t be surprised if the rest of the time got (Sun)spotlighted as well!

Note that the sapphics of the first generation of New Mutants can also be mixed and matched when it comes to shipping. I present them based on the pairings that are currently canon/teased in the present comics, but Dani/Xuan, Xuan/Kitty, Kitty/Rahcel, etc. are all valid too and could be within the cards for the show.

Karma & Galura

The first explicit lesbian of the X-Men line, Xuân Cao Mạnh is a refugee of the Vietnam Boat Crisis, a thing which makes no sense when you consider that she is still canonically like 20-something years old in 2023. Her coming-out was a much lower-key affair then Jean-Paul’s, with her friends just casually running into her at the Exploding Person festival (i.e., Burning Man) with a shaved pink haircut and already travelling with her two “girlfriends”.

After the musical festival, she proceeded to fall in love with her roommate Kitty Pryde and then her co-worker Dani Moonstar, both of which were never (textually) requited. Recently, she’s started dating the winged mutant Galura and finally gotten to do stuff like “kiss a woman on-panel regularly” after two decades of being a lesbian denied a girlfriend...

She has cameoed in X-Men ‘92-related media with a design that is truly terrible IMO, but I think she could be rebooted and appear in this series in her full glory... especially after the New Mutants movie left her out entirely!

Mirage and Wolfsbane

Introduced in the original New Mutants run, Dani Moonstar and Rahne Sinclair share a unique telepathic connection, helpfully described as them being “soul-mates.” The Comic Book Code prohibited depictions of queer people, but uh. This first run is incredibly not subtle, even as Rahne nominally has interest her male teammate Cannonball.

Unfortunately, post-Claremont, their relationship was more or less abandoned for a few decades (coinciding with a massive downward spiral in Rahne content in general) climaxing with Rahne being killed off entirely in an allegory for transphobic violence... Thankfully, she recovered from her death and has recently been written by a non-binary author and now a trans author, both of whom have leaned back into the idea that these “soul-mates” may, in fact, have romantic feelings for each other.

Oh, also they were explicitly gay in the movie. So. Good for them for that!

Magik and Shadowkat

Another classic pair of X-Men “roommates,” Illyana Rasputina and Kate Pryde are another Claremont-created “soul-mate” duo - albeit without the telepathic bond. After decades of queer-coding, both were able to do queer-adjacent things explicitly for the first time in the Krakoa era, with Illyana asking a group of people of various gender presentations to make out with her and Kate kissing a tattoo artist who looks suspiciously like her bestie on-panel.

Pryde famously lost the spot of “Teen X-Men PoV character” to Jubilee in the show, but maybe X-Men ‘97 could give her a second chance... plus Illyana is one of the most popular X-Men characters not given a full spotlight in the original show, in spite of her more or less being an A-list X-Men in 2023. I don’t know if Marvel is brave enough to make this one canon, but I do think these two are two of the most obviously missing characters from the ‘97 line-up.

Escapade

Shela Sexton, aka Escapade, is a transgender sapphic who debuted in Marvel Pride last year and has since then had a starring role in the most recent New Mutants series. She has the incredibly unique power of the ability to “steal” things from people - including everything from stealing physical objects like their wallet to stealing abstract concepts like their emotional or physical state. Her character also generally has embodied the intersectional approach to mutant identity which has become more and more prevalent in the modern era - her mutant identity and trans identity are both important to her character, but neither are allegories for the other.

I think she’s probably too new to be added to the X-Men ‘97 cast pragmatically, but maybe they could have snuck in a cameo at the last minute? Idk. I figured I’d include her on the list.

Part Three: Let’s Get Wild!

Okay. Fuck it. Let’s talk about some comic book justifications that could be used to queer up the actual main cast from the original classic X-Men The Animated Series.

Jubilee

Jubilation Lee, the teen PoV lead of the X-Men, has been written as queer a handful of times, but never explicitly in 616. Most notably, she was gay in an AU Runaways story (written by N.D. Stevenson), where she dated a bisexual version of Pixie as well as an ice-powered sapphic named Frostbite. Monet also had a crush on her in the X-Men ‘92 animation-inspired comic book series. In terms of 616 content, her relationship with Laura Kinney has often been read in a sapphic way, especially in Liu’s X-23 series where Laura notably breaks up with her boyfriend only for Jubilee to be waiting back at her apartment to go out with her.

Storm

Ororo Munroe, aka Storm, famously has had a subtextual Sapphic fling with the bundle of chaos that is Yukio. They two met for the first time when Ororo went to Japan and their time together was almost immediately followed by her famous punk Storm era, which is very queer when you consider that context. Yukio was also later made explicitly queer in Fox’s Deadpool 2 movie, though the movie character doesn’t share much of the personality and thrill-seeking antics of her comic book counterpart...

Storm is the central protagonist of the original Claremont Uncanny X-Men and will be central to the ‘97 series as well. It’d be really bold to confirm her as queer, but I’d say this is the kind of move that would be worth it if they want this to stand out among X-Men adaptations.

Wolverine, Phoenix, and Cyclops

Finally, Jean Grey, Scott Summers, and Logan were implied to have been in a poly relationship throughout most of the Krakoa era - though they have fallen on hard times recently in the run-up to Fall of X.

I’ll be blunt: I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that Marvel corporate would approve this being textual... but I’m willing to be proven wrong, I guess!

WHEW. Okay. That’s my list. This is nowhere near definitive of course - I didn’t discuss Shatterstar’s bisexuality, Deadpool’s pansexuality, Gwenpool’s aroace identity, et al - but also basically every X-Men character is either textually queer or could be justified as being queer based on comic book lore. This entire brand has a queer poly energy that even the straightest writers weren’t able to fully shake off of it... so, while this is my list, they could really do anything they wanted (and that Mickey Mouse lets them do, at least)... We’ll see what happens!

[PS: In light of the strike and the general shitty way that megacorporations in entertainment have been treating their workers for years now, I’d be remissed if I made this post and didn’t encourage people to consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund as well!]

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Pride month is already over...(1/2)

I posted a LGBTQ+ superhero comics character every day to my Threads account

Enjoy this recap of every single one. Take care y'all 💙🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💙

These are (sort of) in chronological order.

Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: America Chavez .

Needs: A good on-going series, the MCU not f*cking up her backstory as bad as the comics did.

Qualifactions: Super DUPER f*cking gay (was born in a Sapphic paradise, f*ck the f*cking retcon in it's *sshole)

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Jean-Paul Beaubier, Aka Northstar

Needs: his own x-team (with or without his awesome sister) of which, of course, he would be the leader because, well, duh.

Qualifications: Snarky prideful gay dude💅 (his wit is LEGENDARY)

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character, Aldrif Angela Odinsdottir.

Needs a movie/more comics respresentation/possibly a cooler costume (Love the helmet though)

Qualifactions: Super duper gay.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: David Alleyne aka Prodigy

Needs: His version of young Avengers to come back, for good. And he should hook up with Marvel Boy, just sayin'.

Qualifications: Baby bi boi 🩵

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Gwendolyn Poole, Aka Gwenpool

Needs: For people to start buying her comics, so Marvel understands she's a WAY better character than Deadpool. I said what I f*cking said.

Qualifications: Aroace gurl 🩵

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Nico Minoru aka Sister Grimm (although I struggle to remember when exactly she used that alias 🤷🏽‍♀️)

Needs: Nothing. She's perfect. I'll fight you if you say otherwise.

Qualifications: Buh-buh-buh-Baby biiiii bye byeeeeee... Ahem. Bi. She's bi.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Noh-Varr aka Marvel Boy

Needs: More comics with him in it wtf? I get writing for him after the great Grant Morrison can be intimidating, but come on !

Qualifications: Bi alien guy.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: James Howlett, aka Logan, aka Wolverine (the least cool one imo but hey 🤷🏽‍♀️)

Needs: Marvel to grow a f*cking spine already. For real. Like yesterday.

Qualifications: Bi and polyamorous. That's right. I went there. Deal. With. It. Do you think Jean had connecting doors to both Scott AND Logan's room for what ? BINGO NIGHT ? WAKE/GROW UP PEOPLE !

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Raven Darkholme aka Mystique aka Sherlock Holmes (not joking) aka my blue mom

Needs: NOTHING. Perfection doesn't even BEGIN to describe it.

Qualifications: I still struggle with the concept of a Bi lesbian, but I'm thinking she fits the "label" PERFECTLY 💙

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Charlene McGowan

Needs: Nothing. She was written perfectly. The fact she's trans is addressed ONCE, because it's PLOT RELEVENT, SHE'S THE ONE WHO ADRESSES IT, saves the day thanks to her experience as a trans woman, then she goes on with her f*cking life. Queen 💅

Qualifications: Badass trans scientist. Read. Immortal. Hulk.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Shela Sexton aka Escapade

Needs: More comics. I love seeing her in every year's pride comics, but we don't stop existing after pride y'all.

Qualifications: Trans nerd with socializing issues, it's like she was written for me

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Eloïse Phimister aka Ellie aka Negasonic Teenage Warhead

Needs: For Marvel to actually DO something with her character, like wtf was the point in bringing her back from the dead, rebooting her then NEVER F*CKING USING HER?

Qualifications: Badass angry dyke 💙.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Vivian Vision aka Viv aka... Vivid... Vessel? (wait, what ?)

Needs: MORE CHAMPIONS PLEASE.

Qualifications: Lesbian android girl

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Bobby Drake aka Iceman (Ice ice baby)

Needs: Another case of a character being perfect. Nothing to see here. Kindly move along. I'd hug him. Even in his ice form.

Qualifications: Gay as f*ck.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Julio Richter aka Rictor aka Druid

Needs: For artists to stop drawing him so light skinned. Other than that, no comment (if any writer dares TOUCH his relationship with star again, I WILL bite them though)

Qualifications: Gay warlock. The best kind.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Martha Johansson aka Cerebella and another alias I will not use as it's basically her deadname.

Needs: To be happy. Her origin is so dark, she deserves it.

Qualifications: Gay telepathic prodigy

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Phylla Vell aka Captain Marvel (one of the many) aka Martyr aka Qasar

Needs: To survive her use in the MCU. I still have nightmares of what happened to Kamala.

Qualifications: Gay inter dimensional alien

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Teddy Altman aka motherf*cking Emperor Dorrek-Vell (I added the mothef*cking)

Needs: Why exactly don't I have a ongoing about him and his husband ruling over the empire already? Like wtf Marvel.

Qualifications: Buff gay alien boi

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: William Kaplan aka Billy aka Wiccan

Needs: I won't repeat what I addressed on his husband's presentation. Nothing else to add.

Qualifications: Romani magician gay boi

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Xuan Cao Manh aka Karma

Needs: Nothing. The fact she speaks French makes me like her that much more. Just in case being a badass Vietnamese mutant telepath with a cyberleg didn't already sell me 🤷🏽‍♀️

Qualifications: Badass mutie lesbian.

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Today's LGBTQ+ superhero comics character: Kitty Pryde aka Shadowkat aka Ariel aka too many to remember

Needs: A female love interest she doesn't sexually assaults, like wtf Marvel, who okayed this?

Qualifications: Bi Jewish techie with a heart of gold.

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PART TWO- HERE

[lascitasdelashoras]

Poetas, citas

[yorgunherakles]

kader yazıtında burada bu insan formunda sıkışıp kaldığım yazıyor.

anne sexton - kilitli kapılar

[roysexton]

Are the kids all right? My thoughts on marketing, BD and AI in The BD Ladder’s latest eBook

Are the kids all right? Are we too concerned with trend-chasing as opposed to delivering real value? Find out my thoughts on marketing, BD and AI in my article in The BD Ladder’s latest eBook. Download your copy today and read the thoughts and opinions of industry leaders including Ben Chiriboga, Lynn Tellefsen Stehle, Ben Trott, David MacDonald, Megan Senese, Jennifer Ramsey, Richard W Smith,…

[waugh-bao]

(From Charlie’s Good Tonight by Paul Sexton, 2022)

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Martin Sexton - “A Day in the Life” (Live, Oct. 8, 2022)

Of all the songs Martin Sexton could’ve chosen to perform in honor of John Lennon, he opted for “A Day in the Life.”

He erred.

For while Sexton and his band of acoustic and electric guitars, keys, rhythm section and sax succeeded by transforming Paul McCartney’s bridge into a playfully slow lope, they were unable to fit Lennon’s bookends into their wheelhouse.

Despite his game efforts at the 42nd Annual John Lennon Tribute, Sexton couldn’t sing Lennon’s “Life” and it was only late in the track that a helpful echo effect began working on his mic. The arrangement was also off - hitting the mark only on the building up to waking up and falling out of bed and on the closing chord.

Judging from the reaction at the Oct. 8, 2022, event, the audience loved it. Sound Bites, watching the recently released video on Jan. 25, 2024, merely tolerated it.

Grade card: Martin Sexton - “A Day in the Life” (Live - 10/8/22) - C-

1/25/24

[asoftepiloguemylove]

AND I'LL NEVER GO HOME AGAIN // YOUR CHILDHOOD HOME AND THE PAST INSIDE OF IT

Maya Angelou // @filmnoirsbian // BoJack Horseman (2014-2020) from The Old Sugarman Place dir. Anne Walker Farrell // Tennessee Williams The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore // Anne Sexton A Story For Rose On The Midnight Flight To Boston // Noah Kahan Paul Revere // pinterest // The Woman in Black (2012) dir. James Watkins // Ariel Gore We Were Witches // Katherine Fabrizio A Poem From the Good Daughter to the Difficult Mother // Marble Hornets cr. Troy Wagner // AroarA #6

[corruptedtwinks]

may i stop dreaming of you this 2025

eternaldroplets // charles dickens // inkskinned // numenrot // eternaldroplets // anne sexton // david st john // paul auster

[eddy25960]

Alexander Sexton by Paul Freeman photography

[theheirofthesharingan]

Anne Sexton // Lyric Hunter // Jean-Paul Sartre // Albert Camus // Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù // (...) // Richey Edwards // Franz Kafka // Franz Wright // @/inkskinned // Anais Nin // Sophocles // Richard Siken // @/pjackk // @/ICHORTALE