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Would the ugly, untalented gays please report to the Wizard's palace

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I’m sorry Jon M Chu, what do you MEAN your first idea was to have Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth play Galinda’s parents. WHAT

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my interests overlap in strange ways

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Here's my vision of Seven becoming a captain (note that I am disregarding pretty much everything that happened in Star Trek: Picard because I simply do not like it. If you are wedded to nuTrek canon escape now)

-Seven of Nine becomes captain of an intrepid class ship. Maybe call it Voyager-B. There is still exploring to do out there. It's primarily a science vessel. I have more thoughts about why this would be a good character choice but I will save that for another time.

-She calls B'elanna Torres and says, Commander, I need a Chief Engineer and these people will not suffice. They are not...as efficient as you. And I need someone to help me modify this ship the way we did Voyager. This Starfleet tech is hopeless without us. And it would be imprudent to trust a senior staff of only die-hard Federation bootlickers. Join me.

-B'elanna says, are you insane. And then B'elanna says I will be there in 2 days don't fuck up my engines before I get there.

-First Officer Raffi Musiker quickly becomes accustomed to the fact that most staff meetings and communications with engineering involve a lot of yelling from B'elanna and a lot of snark from Seven. Since the ship runs like a dream she concludes that this is simply how they work and decides as first officer to classify this Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys. She does get used to getting an earful from B'elanna about catching Seven fucking with something in the Jeffries Tubes at 2 in the morning without consulting her, and she is impressed Seven manages to find time to step on B'elanna's toes what with all her captainly duties, but she is beginning to think this is what constitutes fun for these two and decides not to probe further.

-The first command Seven gives, which becomes her trademark phrase, is "Proceed." It's the most efficient word. Some habits die hard.

-There is an exchange like this:

"The Enterprise is hailing us, Captain."

"Onscreen."

Captain Seven inclines her head, raises her ocular implant, and smiles.

"Naomi Wildman, Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise-G."

On the screen, Captain Wildman grins.

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It is a fervent belief of mine that B’Elanna Torres has, at least once, snuck into Cargo Bay 2 and drawn on Seven's face while she's regenerating. At least once.

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Crazy ALOTO Wizard of Oz Thought

The 3 butch Peaches, Jess, Lupe, and Jo are the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion respectively.  

Each of them appears at first to lack, and then turns out to possess, a personal quality in the same manner as each of these characters.  

Let me explain.

Jess: The Scarecrow.  A Brain.

Jess appears at first glance to be an uncouth and uneducated heathen from the Canadian hinterlands.  She lacks refinement, shall we say. She also lacks the ability to pass, which is a strategy even the other butches seem to be able to employ.  The fact that she is so outwardly masculine further compounds her rural vibe to give off a (prejudiced) impression that she probably won’t be that intelligent (I could write a whole thing about why people associate female masculinity with stupidity but that is for another time), and definitely won’t be emotionally intelligent.

This turns out to be wrong very quickly.  Jess is smart.  She is highly observant, ridiculously emotionally intuitive, great baseball iq, good musical ability, at least a decent understanding of math, plus whatever you would call the rural version of street smarts (woods wits).  She’s not a book smart genius or anything, but honestly, she seems like a genius in her own way particularly when it comes to reading people.  Like the Scarecrow, people assume she’s dumb.  Like with the Scarecrow, they are wrong.  

Lupe: The Tin Man.  A Heart.

Lupe seems like a complete hard ass from the first moment we meet her and in a lot of ways she is.  She’s harsh with Esti, weirdly abrasive in her first interactions with Jess, defensive with Carson, etc.  She is competitive, she is here to play.  (I am in no way saying this is unjustified, by the way; I think Lupe’s overall harshness is a defensive strategy that makes perfect sense in a world that is coming for her on so many fronts, especially when she’s dealing with racist BS from within her own team.) She tries very hard to seem like she doesn’t care about anything or anyone.  

This also turns out to be blatantly untrue, though, often to particularly entertaining effect.  It makes for a great laugh, actually- especially in the scene in the bar with her date from the other team (Wait, baby.!..I mean, I don’t know her) and the scene where she and Jess search for Esti (No I don’t care...we need her, I’m worried about the team).  Despite her carefully callous exterior (and genuinely tough personality), it becomes clear that she cares.  This is especially true where Esti is concerned.   Yeah, she cannot show it, but it’s not caring too little that makes her lash out at Esti; if anything it’s the opposite.  Like the Tin Man, Lupe seems harsh and cold.  Like the Tin Man, she had a heart all along.

Incidentally, Jess and Lupe’s friendship/brotherhood showcases this well for both of them: Lupe’s heart first shows in her bond with Jess, and Jess’s weird little genius enables her to see through/facilitate fixing some of Lupe’s bullshit with Esti. 

Jo:  The Cowardly Lion.  Courage (The Nerve).

Jo is such an under appreciated character, in my opinion.  She had one of the best arcs on the show.  

From the moment we first meet her, Jo is placed as the more cautious “voice of reason” to Greta’s antics.  She is wary of Carson as baseball competition when they first encounter her.  She is constantly concerned with Greta breaking the rules, and interrupts and reminds her of them.  She is the most reluctant to go to the bar.  But through all of this, which we are mostly seeing from a more Greta or Carson based POV, there’s something else happening on the inside.  Jo starts urging Greta to go for it.  She does go to the bar, and when the worst thing happens, instead of turning tail and running she is bolder than ever.  She doesn’t want to hide anymore.  She’s not the scared one-Greta is.  And she is going to take her moment to shine, goddamn it.  She faces the future with courage, and defiance, and even a kind of joy, in the face of everything.

When I first watched the show, I was so expecting it to go a different way, with Jo blaming Greta for talking her into going to the bar and thus getting her trapped in the raid.  That would have been the predictable fight.  But instead, it went for something so much richer and more interesting, and in that it revealed that Jo, like the Cowardly Lion, had the nerve all along-she was finally ready to use it.  

This concludes my rambling unedited analysis. 

Who is Dorothy in this situation? Carson, obviously, and I do think these 3 all play a role in her journey pretty similar to their Oz counterparts (Lupe and Jess guiding her at the bar, a more contentious back and forth with Jo-it’s not a perfect match but I see something there).  Also I would like to shout out the butch trio dynamic which I wish we’d seen more of-”showering” Lupe with praise, Jess and Jo bonding over boxers, etc.-I think their interactions were awesome and they only reinforce this reading for me as well. 

I do also think they each share some physical traits with their Oz counterparts (Lupe is physically rigid, Jo is big and strong, Jess...literally looks like a scarecrow IDK what to tell you) which is certainly a coincidence but entertaining none the less.  

Finally, I doubt this reading was written into the text intentionally, but I think it’s a fun way to look at it and thought I would share.  I couldn’t fit all of my thoughts in here, unfortunately, but I did my best.  This is unedited so apologies for the rough spots.  I love this show and its butches!  Go Peaches!

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She’s not like other girls. She’s a farm boy shortstop from Moosejaw who hasn’t showered for nine games. She’s been on several sinking boats. She has perfect gaydar. She doesn’t trust paper money. She owns a guitar. All the girls want her.

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My favorite angry lesbians, just trying to keep their shit together.

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Anybody else make the logical progression from a childhood obsession with the Percy Jackson books to being a raging Xena: Warrior Princess stan or is that just a me thing?

And if you did do you still have a big old lesbian crush on Annabeth Chase be honest

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So there is no way that the New Directions should have beat the Troubletones performance at Sectionals based on what we see. But, ND performs 3 numbers, and we only see one by the Troubletones. So I posit that it is an unseen Troubletones number that lost them the competition. And I have 5 words for you on how it happened:

Sugar Motta My Cup solo.