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Earper Homestead Con - Cast Panel 8/11 (Part 2)

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Still amazed by that amazing fight scene with @DominiqueP_C@KatBarrell & @DaniKind that we were lucky enough to see filmed! #WynonnaEarp

source: Bridget Liszewski

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Great interview this afternoon with Barbelle’s series star/co-creator, Gwenlyn Cumyn by the talented Bridget Liszewski: http://www.thetvjunkies.com/barbelle-gwenlyn-cumyn-interview/?utm_content=buffer3afac&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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If you have the means to donate, here’s the link! Bridget’s goal is to raise $500 

This was targeted for the Wynonna Earp fandom but how about some PLL fandom love? <3

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Supergirl’s Responsiblity When It Comes to Kara and Lena’s Friendship http://dlvr.it/P6HRDS

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Happy birthday to the Mother of Unicorns, Emily Andras! Can’t wait to meet her at Clexacon 2018

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Happy birthday, Emily Andras! In honor of your birthday we figured some reminiscing was in order. 

We hope you’re celebrating with a bang!

We’ll see you again real soon!

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via Bridget Liszewski (@BridgetOnTV) on Twitter

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An Ode to Doc Holliday & Tim is Good To

As a fandom we spend a lot of time talking about Wynonna Earp being an unapologetically feminist show and what that means to many female viewers. I’ve certainly spent my fair share of time gushing about all the complex female characters on the show and how validating it feels. We all cheer every time the show takes a punch at misogyny, homophobia, & patriarchy. But a couple of weeks ago TV Junkies’ Bridget Liszewski wrote a great article on the feminist men of both Wynonna Earp and Killjoys. The article focused mostly on the ways these characters supported the female leads rather than being obstacles in their stories. It talked about the ways in which these characters were fully fleshed out and three dimensional without needing to dominate the narrative. That their deference to the female characters did not some how make them marginalized or less compelling. It was a really important point but was still primarily focused on what that meant to telling stories about women. The article got me thinking though, I talk so much about what it means to see women portrayed differently and what a relief it is to enter this feminist world of Wynonna Earp (even using the phrase “a chance to breath” on more than one occasion) that I started to wonder what it might mean to male viewers to see these feminist men on screen. Or more specifically what it might mean to them to see characters that offer a counter example to the toxic masculinity that saturates our culture. A thing that is not only dangerous to women and the LGBTQ community but is a source of shame and pain for boys and men. Toxic masculinity binds them in masks. Masks that suppress emotions other than anger, punishes them for showing vulnerability, and defines their self-worth through their ability to dominate those, especially women, around them.

Enter Doc Holliday, not only a feminist male character but a character that increasingly embodies a counter narrative to toxic masculinity. And in true Wynonna Earp style he’s not just a refreshing character, he’s a subverted trope. Emily Andras decided she wasn’t just going to have this amazing feminist alternative to toxic masculinity, she was going to have him invoke one of the most recognizable images of traditional masculinity, the Western gun slinger. This immediately put our Doc Holliday in conversation with some of the most foundational icons of that definition of “being a man”. To be clear here, I am specifically talking about season 2 Doc. The Doc of season 1 was by no means a dudebro or anything like that. You could still make the argument that he was a feminist character and there were certainly signs of what he would become even in the beginning. But it’s season 2 Doc that has stepped it up into something truly special. In almost every episode this season we see him bust through those dangerous cultural expectations and come out the other side cooler and more admirable for it.

The examples of toxic masculinity being messaged to people are everywhere. In our movies, music, tv, and news you see men being told that vulnerability or emotion is weakness. But then there’s Doc Holliday in episode 7 with Wynonna showing that the most courageous thing a man can do is take a risk and step into an emotionally vulnerable space that puts his heart in the hands of another with no guarantee he’ll get the answer he’s looking for, or even any resolution to what he’s feeling. When there are so many examples in popular culture that tell men Jeremy having a crush on Doc or Wynonna out shining him should send him into an emasculated panic, Doc is never more sure of himself or who he is than in those moments. Doc is the example that tells viewers that male heroes aren’t defined by power or dominance. That they don’t need to carry those burdens to be worthy. Doc isn’t perfect. We’ve seen him occasionally slip that mask back on and shut down when he’s hurt. There is still a decent amount of season 2 to go and he may slip again as he deals with the fact that he may not be the father of Wynonna’s baby. But time and again, Doc’s most heroic moments come when he takes that mask off and we see his heart, his compassion & his assuredness that neither is a liability.

I could go on about the different moments in the show where Doc subverts toxic masculinity on screen, but I want to get to my favorite thing about Doc, which is actually Tim Rozon. Because for all the great Doc moments in the show, the best thing is that it all carries over off screen. The best way I can think of to describe Tim is to say he’s a mensch, because by all appearances it seems that so much of what we love about Doc are things Tim shares with him and that matters. It matters when he walks Comic Con’s floor wearing his “Support LGBT representation shirt,” when he talks so sincerely about what working with Mel this season meant to him, and when he embraces so completely all the feminist themes of this series. It makes everything the show stands for seem that much more genuine and important. It means when viewers watch and see this different version of masculinity they can also see that it’s not just part of show, that it’s an aspirational way to be in real life to.

I don’t know how many boys or men watch Wynonna Earp. I don’t know if most of them take from Doc what I take from him. But I do have a little brother who is significantly younger than me. I was old enough that I remember being heart broken when he first bumped up against the “be a man” expectations from both other boys and some of the women in his life. Without giving away any of his secrets I remember watching him try to make sense of it and as his very protective big sister wanting to jump in and shield him from it for just a little bit longer. So even if there is just one boy or young man in our Earper fandom who sees Doc and listens to Tim and feels like that they aren’t bound by the more unhealthy expectations of masculinity, then it matters and it’s as important and feminist as what we get from Wynonna, Nicole, or Waverly.

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9 Reasons You Need to Know Legend of Tomorrow's Sara Lance Bridget Liszewski | December 7, 2017 | Fun Stuff | 2 Comments, thetvjunkies.com

Are you watching the rowdy bunch of misfits that is DC’s Legends of Tomorrow? Maybe you recently caught the four-way DCTV crossover on the CW and found yourself curious to know more about the Legends? …

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Chat w Actress “Evelyne Brochu” on 3rd & final season of war drama “X Company” on CBC 中字 Wednesday January 11th,2017 https://soundcloud.com/rudy-blair/chat-w-actress-evelyne-brochu

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X COMPANY SEASON 3 ON CBC Wed 9PM (ET) from JAN 11, 2017 Translation in creatives commons. 翻譯創名CC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS

Footage based on teaser trailer and interview Chat w Co-Creators Stephanie Morgenstern and Mark Ellis on Season 3 of �� X Company” on CBC https://soundcloud.com/rudy-blair/chat-w-co-creators-stephanie

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X COMPANY’S EVELYNE BROCHU PREVIEWS ANOTHER EPIC YEAR FOR AURORA by Bridget Liszewski on The TV Junkies http://www.thetvjunkies.com/x-company-evelyne-brochu-season-3-interview/

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Viva Las Gaygas! ClexaCon is the place to be in 2017

Occasionally something good comes out of something pretty awful. For example, out of the ashes of The 100’s choice to kill off Commander Lexa in the trope-iest way possible, the LGBTQ focused ClexaCon was born. Fan inspired and focused, ClexaCon is a direct response to the Bury Your Gays epidemic. “ClexaCon aims to empower media creators to produce and distribute more positive LGBTQ content, providing educational resources for the community to aid in the push for better representation,” the site’s mission statement says. “ClexaCon will strive to lay the foundation for improved visibility within the media while encouraging more LGBTQ women to participate in creating the stories they desire.” Sounds pretty good, right? Well it gets better. What originally started out as a way to empower queer viewers and fans, has become so much more, according to ClexaCon organizers. “The idea for ClexaCon was to create an event for the community in which we can celebrate the characters and shows we love while providing a positive space to come together. We received an overwhelming reaction and realized that the larger LGBT+ community was hungry for this type of event. ClexaCon has since morphed into so much more than we had originally imagined. We are currently expecting thousands of attendees over three days along with celebrity guests, panelists, content creators, journalists, media personalities, vendors and artists.” Celebrity guests, you say? Yep. Guests like the stars of Wynonna Earp, Dominique Provost-Chalkley and Katherine Barrell, and of course, WE showrunner Emily Andras. (You know you’re a fandras.)   Lost Girl’s Zoie Palmer and Rachel Skarsten, Ali Liebert of Bomb Girls fame, Saving Face’s Lynn Chen and Michelle Krusiec, and more! Basically, it’s a who’s who of women who have made a huge impact as actors and creators of content for LGBTQ audiences. Spashley fans will get a chance to see South of Nowhere‘s Gabrielle Christian and Mandy Musgrave reunite to talk about the groundbreaking show and its impact on queer audiences. Writers /directors Alice Wu (Saving Face) and Shamin Sarif (I Can’t Even Think Straight) will be on hand to discuss their famous films. Eden Riegel, who played the iconic role of Bianca Montgomery on All My Children, will join former castmate Elizabeth Hendrickson to celebrate daytime’s first major lesbian character and the relationship Bianca and Maggie shared. And that’s not even all!  The full list of attendees is here, and it’s pretty freaking unbelievable.   In addition to seeing all these famous ladies, ClexaCon will be chock full of wonderful and fascinating panels on everything from queer fandom to blogging to creating and developing your own webseries. Panelists will include writers and entertainment journalists from your favorite sites like Autostraddle, TV Junkies, Tagg Magazine, Huffington Post, and more (including yours truly). There are also fantastic panelists from queer owned business, entertainment companies, academia, activism, Youtube and fandom. This sort of meeting of the minds and focus on LGBTQ women that really makes ClexaCon special. “At most conventions you’re hard-pressed to find actresses and content that are LGBT-friendly, let alone geared specifically toward LGBT audiences,” says ClexaCon’s team. “While there are a couple of LGBT conventions popping up (check out Flame Con in NYC!), there have never been any conventions geared specifically towards LGBT women. ClexaCon will be the first convention, that we know of, that is run by LGBT women for LGBT women. We will focus entirely on queer female characters and stories from film, TV and online while highlighting LGBT actresses and content creators. This is the only con where we have the opportunity to celebrate the media we love for an entire weekend with a community of thousands of other like-minded people.” So I might be a little biased, but I’ll be attending ClexaCon and moderating a few panels (including The Power of Queer Social Media with panelists Emily Andras, Chelsea Steiner, Bridget Liszewski (TV Junkies), and Tara Stuart (LGBT Fans Deserve Better) and I’m thrilled to be a part of this event. ClexaCon is offering a special event called Table Talk with the Panelists, so if you’d like to grab a bite with me or one of the other lovely panelists, tickets are available now. And if these panels and special events, plus happy hours and trips to the buffet aren’t enough, there’s going to be a film festival and vendors as well. So, what are you waiting for? See you in Vegas!       http://dlvr.it/N4CC5h

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World: A horror Western, quick on the draw

It’s a striking level of commitment for a program that only debuted two years ago and has aired a total of 25 episodes.

A fan encounter at the first EarperCon UK in London in 2017 brought up none of those things. Rather than discuss an obscure plot point, a young woman wanted to share how the show, which has a number of LGBT characters, had helped her come out to her father, who brought her to the convention.

“It was awesome and overwhelming,” Rozon said. “I was thinking, this is about way more than my character running from a tentacle.”

The relationships among the cast and showrunner and “Wynonna Earp” fans — known as “Earpers” — are so intense, the next year will bring conventions devoted solely to the show in Toronto, Minneapolis, New Orleans and London (again).

It’s a striking level of commitment for a program that only debuted two years ago and has aired a total of 25 episodes. But it’s a bond that has helped the Syfy series, which returns July 20 for its third season, not just survive but thrive within the ever-changing pressure cooker of peak TV.

With its modest Nielsen ratings, which average less than 900,000 viewers a week, “Wynonna Earp” may not have made it past its first season. But as social media and a growing array of viewing platforms give networks more ways to gauge the value of niche audiences — and executives become more creative about monetizing them — “Wynonna Earp” demonstrates how a distinctive premise, a passionate fan base and a creative team that respects and nurtures that enthusiasm can help an under-the-radar program flourish in a TV landscape that is tough even on acclaimed shows.

Case in point: The space opera “The Expanse” was canceled by Syfy after three seasons, though it debuted with stronger ratings and more media coverage than “Wynonna Earp.” But the network had only one notable revenue stream for “The Expanse”: The money from advertisements within linear airings of the drama, which wasn’t enough to offset its cost. So the network grounded the series (which was then picked up by Amazon).

By contrast, Syfy’s deal with IDW Entertainment, the studio behind “Wynonna” — struck a couple of years after it signed contracts for “The Expanse” — gives the network more ways to make money. Commercials in on-air broadcasts, ads within online and app views and a Netflix streaming deal all bring Syfy revenue. It also helps that “Wynonna Earp” costs less than “The Expanse.”

But “Wynonna Earp,” the tale of a woman and her allies battling monsters, has a value for Syfy beyond balance sheets, according to Chris McCumber, president of Syfy. Viewership among women aged 18-34 was up 44 percent in the show’s second year, and more than half the audience is women — the highest ratio within the otherwise male-skewing Syfy viewership.

“That sense of perseverance and fighting against all odds is relevant right now,” he said.

According to the lore of the show, Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) is a descendant of Wyatt Earp, who got the clan put under a curse. As the Earp heir, Wynonna is fated to protect the hamlet of Purgatory — and the world — from the demons that bedevil the town. She has the special ability to wield Peacemaker, Wyatt’s gun, which she uses to send Purgatory’s “Revenants” back to hell, usually with a quip — and whiskey — at the ready.

It’s not for every taste — nor was it meant to be.

“It’s such a relief to not have to make TV for everyone,” said Emily Andras, the executive producer and showrunner, who described the comedy-infused, character-driven drama as a combination of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Justified” and “Frozen.” (Wynonna and her younger sister, Waverly, have a tight bond.) “In a world of 500 [scripted] shows, if nothing else, you have to say, ‘Well, I haven’t seen that before.'”

The show has “exceeded expectations” on the social-media front, McCumber said. In 2017, "Wynonna Earp” had an average 224,000 day-of-air Twitter engagements — seven times the next highest Syfy series. Overall, Twitter activity was up 874 percent in Season 2, according to the firm ListenFirst. “I’m a real believer in social media and people using word-of-mouth — that matters more than ever,” McCumber said.

A year ago, Syfy made the slogan “It’s a Fan Thing” key to its marketing campaigns, thus “Wynonna Earp” and its energetic supporters “fit in perfectly with where we were going with the rebrand,” McCumber said.

The core elements of the premise — rogue tentacles, prickly villains, a found family and swoon-worthy romances — are familiar to aficionados of genre entertainment. But the twist it put on those basics helped “Wynonna Earp” stand out and win fans.

Andras’ feminist outlook is much in evidence. This past season, Wynonna was pregnant (as was Scrofano), but she didn’t let that slow her down. Both Doc and the former federal agent Xavier Dolls (Shamier Anderson) are attracted to Wynonna, but the romantic possibilities are just a part of the story, not the main point.

“She’s a female protagonist who is likable, but I think she’s likable because of the freedom we had — she didn’t have to live up to this weird archetype of the ‘strong female character,’ whatever that means,” Scrofano said.

From the start, Andras and the cast have had unusually tight bonds with the show’s enthusiastic, inclusive fan community. The well-known genre entertainment site Den of Geek noted recently, “[In] an era in which internet discourse can bring to light some of the most hateful and divisive values in the world, ‘Wynonna Earp’ fandom is a pretty wonderful, safe place to be.”

“It’s like you’re moving into a new neighborhood and everyone’s there with cookies. It’s an openhearted fandom,” said David Ozer, the president of IDW Entertainment.

Among the most influential fans are Kevin Bachelder and Bonnie Ferrar, who co-host Tales of the Black Badge, a podcast devoted to the show, and weekly video hangouts that sometimes include Andras and cast members. (Ferrar also runs the Twitter account @WynonnaFans.)

They and other fandom leaders, like Bridget Liszewski, the editor of the site The TV Junkies, actively promote and encourage a friendly, tolerant Earper culture that emphasizes consideration and community-building over factional flame wars or personal attacks. Respectful differences are accommodated; toxic meltdowns, like the ones glimpsed in certain sectors of the “Star Wars” fandom, are not. They don’t even record the video hangouts, a decision that aims to make guests, famous and not, “feel comfortable popping in to have fun,” Bachelder said. “It’s not going to live forever on the internet — everybody can just be themselves.”

Awareness, at least in geeky circles, was relatively high from the start, in part thanks to a vocal cadre of fans of a prior show Andras worked on, Syfy’s “Lost Girl.” Within six weeks of the show’s debut in April 2016, #WynonnaEarp began trending on Twitter for the first time. But soon there was a potential snag. In the first half of that year, a large number of LGBT women — who aren’t easy to find on TV in the first place — were killed off on an array of shows. The resulting furor left many gay TV fans angry and wary.

At that point, the most high-profile “Wynonna Earp” couple was Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) and Purgatory cop Nicole Haught (Katherine Barrell) — a pairing known as “WayHaught.”

“I remember someone tweeting to me ‘I’m scared to fall in love with WayHaught,’ and it broke my heart,” Ferrar said.

Aware of the worry, Andras made a bold and unusual move, in this era of spoiler-phobic showrunners. She told Liszewski and others in the media that Waverly and Nicole would survive the first season, and those TV writers spread the news weeks before the season finale.

“The feeling was, ‘We can enjoy the rest of this ride,'” Liszewski said.

“Wynonna Earp’s” profile only grew once LGBT fans came on board in a big way. Twitter trending happened regularly during Season 2 and WayHaught fan art, fan fiction and T-shirts proliferated.

“Fans love the exploration of LGBT romance on television. Contrary to the media’s obsession with toxic male fandom, female fandom right now is pushing hard for more diverse and inclusive representation,” said Henry Jenkins, a professor at the University of Southern California and a leading scholar of fan communities. “These changes can’t happen fast enough, and this show is out front on those issues.”

Being out front on the business side, in creative arenas and in the realms of inclusion and representation has led to a “bright future,” according to McCumber. And to a packed travel schedule for Andras and the cast, many of whom will be trekking to multiple conventions during the next year.

“I wouldn’t trade the cult success of this show for billions of dollars,” Andras said, and then paused. “Maybe one more dollar.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Maureen Ryan © 2018 The New York Times

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