#like i'm all here for reclaiming this trope and using it for actual queer representation! especially in such a queernormative dw era | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

purplespacecats · 11 months ago

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okay i continue to catch up on dw and re: the devil's chord, it is weird to see the classic campy queer-coded drag queen-esque villain be replicated exactly except explicitly queer now

not bad! but weird

#the devil's chord #like i'm all here for reclaiming this trope and using it for actual queer representation! especially in such a queernormative dw era #and i mean it's been a vehicle for queer expression even when it couldn't be overt like how ursula is based on divine #but yeah. like just straight up casting a drag queen and establishing they/them pronouns in the first scene was. wild when the character was #so so so molded after queer-coded villains of yore that could never ever actually explicitly queer #doctor who

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