#The Wozzard

[spacevixenmusic]

You'd think in a universe full of fringe extremists, eccentrics and weirdos, its inhabitants would be long past things like fatphobia and revulsion to disfigurement. But then again, Lexx came out in the late 90s/00s, and media was ESPECIALLY rife with that shit back then. (It has always been this way, especially after all the decades of brainwashing advertising we’ve endured). This next episode was rough, but I wanted to examine it because it left me with a lot of thoughts that I want to keep fresh in my mind next time I feel like world-building and subverting these ideas.

The Dark Lady (left) is some kind of powerful witch who thinks no one can ever love her because of her disfigurement, and she invites willing participants to use her bimbofication machine (I cannot stress enough that it is literally a bimbofication machine) to make themselves desirable and/or to imbue themselves with Love Slave personalities. The Wozzard (right) thinks this process robs women of their inherent natural beauty, and that The Dark Lady is bimbofying these women simply to sell them off as sex slaves, and cites that they have an “expiration date”. Being that Xev herself was also transformed into a Love Slave, she too has an expiration date, and may die soon if she is not re-bimbofied. She becomes a key instrument in fueling this ongoing war between the two of them.

Anyway, the scene I wanted to talk about. While searching for the machine to extend Xev’s life, the crew gets sucked into the war and the Wozzard uses his own machine to forcibly transform Xev back into her original, fat, disfigured, pre-Love Slave body, then forces her to watch “propaganda” about how wonderful her natural original body is. She hates this idea and begs him to change her back, even with the knowledge of the Love Slave body having an expiration date. The whole scene is framed around how Xev looks, and makes little effort to hide its fatphobia - as many other episodes previously have already demonstrated. The whole conflict boils down to “which body is truly more beautiful”, and ends with both leaders destroying each other as Xev is re-restored to her Love Slave body by her own choice (and technically needed it to extend her expiration date, but I digress).

Now, if you were to remove the fatphobic framing and simply focus on the act of choosing which body to remain in, even with bimbofication, this story becomes an easy trans allegory. At the very least, the core idea changes to "you are most beautiful in the body you CHOOSE for yourself, whether natural OR transformed". And in a universe where magically changing your body overnight is possible, you would think such phobias about fat, trans, and disfigured bodies would stop existing pretty quickly, because anyone could simply change themselves at any time. It’s an interesting concept to explore, and one I think more sci-fi would be keen to dig deeper into. I’m not giving brownie points to this show for “doing it right”, but I am glad it at least approached the topic in a way that made me think about it.

ANYWAY, enough word vomiting. Let’s wrap up this season in the next post!

[teledyn]

I've Been Over The Rainbow

It was a therapy happening, but all it leaves you with are memories, and memories aren't where it's at. Boy, getting to where it's at is a long search!

[llatimeria]

basically a big part of the premise of Lexx is one of the main trio, Xev, is a woman who got subjected to a "love slave" transformation; she used to be fat and "ugly" and then got turned into a slim supermodel superbeauty, but the love slave transformation was incomplete; she only got the looks and the extra horniness, but didn't get the slavelike brainwashing. About a season and a half later, Xev finds out that as a love slave, she has a set expiration date, and goes somewhere to have that turned off.

The planet she goes to is occupied by two factions; one led by The Dark Lady and one led by The Wozzard (who is a man). The Dark Lady takes insecure young women and makes them beautiful with a machine called a Lusticon (the same thing that made Xev pretty), and the Wozzard has a small resistance of women fighting back against her. Xev comes to the Wozzard to get her expiration date removed, but instead, he undoes her love slave transformation... against her will. She'd come to like her new body and didn't want to be transformed back into her old form. The Wozzard and his girls are portrayed as cult-like stereotypical feminists (but if anything they actually remind me of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the group that kidnapped Patty Hearst, even though the SLA wasn't a feminist group), while The Dark Lady and entourage of identical beautiful clone women are portrayed strikingly sympathetically.

A lot to be fucking said about feminism, beauty standards, fatphobia, bodily autonomy, and also the deliberate parody of the Wizard of Oz but I don't really want to rewatch the episode and take notes when I know no one gives a shit about this late 90's sci-fi cult classic

Absolutely fascinating episode of lexx tonight. once again not good, not bad, just fascinating

[noirandchocolate]

Good Things Today: Lunch out with mom and Bast where I got really good bruschetta pizza with burrata on it. A walk with Penny at the park where she got to smell many smells and be joyful. Some birthday cards. Finding out our team (Bast, Kat, and me) for the escape room we did last week had the best winning time for the week for that room. Wozzards 4 ever!!! Ordering dad’s Father’s Day steaks in advance. Remembering that Kat left us an entire sleeve of thin mints omg unexpected Girl Scout cookies. Reading a lot of Night Watch with Bast just in time for the Glorious 25th!

[stop-entropy-lie-down]

war iff to saw the wozzard, the winderful wozzard if is

[staircasewitch]

26

rogue wozzard undermining the magiarchy

[ask-the-virtual-council]

Wozzard. He is the wizard of worms and he is very friend-shaped.

Why is the tumblr icon a wizard

[swordrobe]

This engineer at work was telling me how he likes dnd because of like statistics and stuff and I was just like hhhhhhh l wozzard

[staircasewitch]

wip wozzard

[staircasewitch]

23

hey lady wozzard that's not guild dress code WHOA

[redpandababy]

Well second try now.

So I think the way the discribed it for you was just a different way to get rid of happiness. Becuase if you see what you fear you can't be happy. So we might just go with that, but to find the real answer to that we might need a specialist on Potter lore.

About Sehun, when I read in the first chapter that he was a pure blood wozzard from a slytherin family with his brother in slytherin as well. The whole concept of it just screamed trouble, whether it be from slytherins because he wasn't with them, or just the other houses because he had the stigma around him you know. So a bit bullying had to be expected from him, even if it only was his brother.

The Wizarding World of EXO [Chapter 7: Oh Sehun and the Dementor’s Kiss]

Hogwarts!AU

All EXO members

Summary: Welcome to the Wizarding World, ten years after the Second Wizarding War. Now, nine students at Hogwarts each have their own story to tell, secrets to discover and identities to grow.

Chapter 1│Chapter 2│Chapter 3│Chapter 4│Chapter 5│Chapter 6│ Chapter 7│Chapter 8

Oh, there she is again.

Sehun tries hard not to roll his eyes into another dimension as he sees her walk by. It feels like wherever he goes, she’s always there—sarcastic remarks and all. For two years now it seems like she has locked her eyes on him as someone to bully and tease. He’s never done anything to her before, and yet somehow she loves to pick on him.

He begins to look for a way to go around and avoid her. He is not in the mood to hear her speak today.

“Oh, look who’s here?”

Sehun mentally groans, turning towards her with a scowl, not amused by her pun—a pun which she says literally every time they meet. “What do you want?”

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[staircasewitch]

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don't mess with wozzards