K.Mosher

Digital Art. Traditional Art. Nostalgia cartoons and stuff. Also 9-1-1 and Hellraiser are my jam. I write smut... both in fanfiction and fiction 😏😏

[redbelles]

Damn it, man!

[andreii-tarkovsky]

To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

Dir. Beeban Kidron

[brehaaorgana]

This was such a formative movie

[musicalhell]

This shit was revolutionary for the mid-90s. Among other things it helped me understand that transgender and cross-dressing were completely separate things.

[aqueerkettleofish]

To this day, I am in awe of the fact that Patrick Swayze not only campaigned hard to get the audition, not only auditioned in dress and makeup, but spent most of the day leading up to the audition walking around LA in dress and makeup.

This was a man who could sing, dance, act, ride a horse, fight, and walk in heels, he had nothing to prove to anyone, and he is MISSED.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Okay, I’m not done feeling about this.

If you’re younger, you may not know Patrick Swayze; he was Taken From Us in 2009. But Patrick Swayze was an icon of masculinity. Men were willing to watch romantic movies because Patrick Swayze was in them.

Patrick Swayze was fucking beefcake.

And this man didn’t just agree to do a movie where the only time he’s not actually in drag is the first three minutes, which involve stepping out of the shower, doing make up, and getting Dressed. He has ONE LINE that is delivered in a man’s voice, and it’s not during those three minutes.

And if you watch those three minutes, you see a stark difference between his portrayal of Miss Vida Bohéme and Wesley Snipes as Noxeema Jackson. (I am not criticizing Snipes’ performance. They were different roles.) Noxeema was a comedy character. Chi-Chi was a comedy character. But Miss Vida Bohéme was a dramatic role, played by a dramatic powerhouse.

When Vida sits down in front of the mirror, she sees a man. And she doesn’t like it.

Then she puts her hair up, and her face lights up.

“Ready or not,” she says. “Here comes Mama.”

And while Noxeema is having fun with her transformation (at one point breaking into a giggling fit after putting on pantyhose), Vida is simply taking pleasure in bringing out her true self. And when she’s done, she sees this:

And you can FEEL her pride.

All of this from an actor who, up to this point, walked on to the screen and dripped testosterone.

[impossiblemonsters]

the fact that some of you history-ignorant children in the notes are trying to shit on groundbreaking historical queer cinema because it doesn’t meet 2021 standards is infuriating. sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen to the elders in the room for fucking once

[darkshrimpemotions]

This. If you have never lived in a world where queerness was universally pathologized and criminalized to the point that even IMAGINING a world where it wasn’t constituted a radical and potentially dangerous act, you don’t have any business judging those of us who have for how we survived it and how we found (or still find) comfort in the few imperfect representations we got.

You don’t have to like it. You probably aren’t capable of “getting” it. And to be honest, I don’t want you to! I am glad that young queer people will never know exactly what it was like “back then.” But what you also will not do is refuse to learn your own history and then shit on everything that came before you, because like it or not what came before you is the reason you will never have to get what it was like back then.

[hussyknee]

On Wesley Snipes’s role Noxeema and John Leguizamo as Chi-Chi Rodriguez.

“I grew up in the ‘70s and even within the street culture, there was a lot of flamboyancy,” Snipes told TODAY of his perception of drag before filming. “Pimps wore the same furs as theprostitutes wore.

“Some of the great musicians of the world, like Parliament-Funkadelic, were very androgynous. So it wasn’t really new for me to see men dressed as women or men dressed as drag queens.”

Snipes attended the famed LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts and then State University of New York at Purchase. He wasn’t a dance major, but most of his friends were. “That exposed me to the world of glam, vogue, drag, transgender and gay people, LGBTQ… but it wasn’t in fashion those days. But it existed and I was around it.”

Not only did “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” pave the way for “To Wong Foo,” so did films like the 1968 documentary “The Queen” and “Paris Is Burning,” the 1990 doc that chronicled ball culture of New York and the various Black and queer communities involved in it.

Even though he was known for his action roles, Snipes’ portrayal of Noxeema wasn’t the first time he played a drag queen. In 1986, he made his Broadway debut in the play “Execution of Justice,” playing Sister Boom Boom, a real-life AIDS activist and drag nun who acted as the show’s voice of conscience. Snipes pointed out, “Sister Boom Boom did not have Noxeema’s makeup kit.”

On whether he got any pushback for stepping into Noxeema’s pumps, he said, “Not so much professionally but the streets weren’t feeling it, and there were certain community circles. The martial arts community… they were not feeling it at all.”

“In fact, when the movie came out and they would come down the street, I would see them in Brooklyn sometimes, they started listing all my movies. I noticed they would always skip that one. I would correct them, ‘Now you don’t got the full count!’”

Lesser-known than his co-stars at the time, Lequizamo didn’t really anticipate becoming a transgender icon, but he did know that they were working on something special when they started filming.

“Drag didn’t really exist in movies,” Lequizamo, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal, told TODAY. “There were straight men pretending to be women to get out of trouble or into trouble but this was not that. I was trying to make Chi-Chi a real life trans character and Patty and Wesley were trying to be real drag queens.” Never fully articulated in the film, Chi-Chi Rodriguez has always been perceived as transgender, something that ending up making an indelible mark on LGBTQ people in the late ‘90s as trans representation in media was limited.

“Chi-Chi was a trans icon, but she also showed us that gay men and trans women can both perform and work in drag side by side, and that those relationships are symbiotic,” Cayne explained.

“It was a powerful thing. I get lots of fan mail from LGBTQ teens telling me how my character helped them come out to their parents,” Leguizamo said. “They didn’t feel like they were seen, so that was a beautiful gift from the movie.”

Lequizamo also articulates that if “To Wong Foo” were cast today, a trans actor should be cast in his role. (And that just may happen, since Beane is developing a musical for Broadway.) “Anybody can play anything, but the playing field is not fair that way,” he said. “Not everybody is allowed to play everything. So until we get to that place, it is important for trans actors to get a chance to act which they don’t. In the project I’m doing, I’m making sure that the person playing trans is a trans person so we can make it legit, make it real. That just needs to be done right now.”

Source: How Hollywood heartthrobs and Steven Spielberg helped make a drag queen cult classic

[fedorahead]

a monumental film in the library of queer history.

it was formative for modern society, too.

there are a lot of action fans out there who learned from their idols that respect doesn’t cost a damn thing to give. i know plenty of people who aren’t queer saw trans women and drag queens presented as people to them for the first time in wong fu. suddenly, strange and foreign queer identities that had only been presented to them as jokes if they’d even heard of them, seemed a little more relatable, and very human.

we’re all just people.

snipes, swayze, and leguizamo were willing to play people a lot of their fans didn’t respect yet or didn’t even know how to respect and demand they figure it the fuck out.

[friendlyfrankenstein]

It’s also worth noting Leguizamo has gone on the record to say he brought his own experiences to the role; Chichi is wearing makeup too light for her natural skin tone through most of the movie, and swearing to stop doing so is part of her growth. Leguizamo based this on observation of his own female family members growing up.

“It was all about accepting my ethnicity in it. I had my face done really light all the time. I have family members who have issues with self-hate and race and so their skin will be five times lighter than the color of their neck, and that always tripped me out, so I wanted to put a little bit of that into it,” he said. “At the end of the movie, my neck and my face matched. My face is much darker. So that was the arc. Chi Chi becomes polished but accepting of herself, mature, romantically grows. Instead of a taker, she becomes a giver.”

-John Leguizamo, Out Magazine

[wakewithgiggli]

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monzterzack

Dec 16, 2023

#one of the reasons this movie even made it into production is because Robin Williams did a cold read for Steven Spielberg#and Robin (being the king of allys that he was) put his all into it so much that Spielberg was quote “mesmerized”#and made the efforts to get into full production#Robin was also considered for a lead role but (rightly) felt he would overshadow the other leads#so he instead took a small UNCREDITED roll in the beginning#Spielberg meanwhile fought tooth and nail to keep the director (Beeban Kidron) from being let go because she was pregnant#and also fought to have the original script changed to have Chichi achieve her dream and win the pageant at the end#what I’m saying is there’s a whole lot of love and a whole lot of allyship and a whole lot of respect in here#and i’ll be DAMNED if I hear a bunch of young queers shit talk it because they weren’t there when it happened

[cluelessrebel1988]

I stumbled across this movie on TV one day years ago and was fascinated by it. By the sincerity of it to the love within it to the story itself, every part if it was imbedded in my brain. I’m cisgender, but I think this was the first time I’d seen a drag or a trans character in any media where 1) they were the main characters, and 2) they weren’t there to set up some sort of ‘oh my god, you actually dated a man!’ punchline/reveal. And that alone is something that stuck with me.

I haven’t seen the movie since that one time, but it’s one I’ve always wanted to revisit and I recently bought it on DVD and can’t wait to watch it again.

[aqueerkettleofish]

That’s exactly it. This was a mainstream movie, released nationwide, and it was the first time most people– queer or not– got to see that. Straight people (even most queer people hadn’t heard the term “cisgendger” yet, as it had been coined on a usenet newsgroup only a year before– and if you need me to explain what a usenet newsgroup is, no you don’t, because that’s my point) went to the see this movie because it was a comedy starring Patrick Fucking Swayze and Wesley Goddamn Snipes (John Leguizamo was great, but he wasn’t a draw yet), and came out with a little perspective that they’d never been exposed to before.

[iguanodonwildman]

Hey! Just a reminder! AO3 does NOT have an app. This garbage was made by theives who steal fan artist’s work and sell it back to you.

“Oh, but it’s free!” There are ads. They are making money off of this. They are stealing from the creators you love and you are hurting those same creators if you use this app or any similar app.

Don’t use it. Report it at every opportunity.

[kidamosher]

So a friend of mine from work made this for me and my dorky, fangirl heart loves it ❤️❤️

[kidamosher]

When you try to NOT write your character as a Mary-Sue and then you realise that she actually is one and now you hate yourself because you don't know where to go to change it...

And, for the record, I am 100% talking about myself...

Please don't hate yourself, okay?

[kidamosher]

Chapter 10 has been updated! for "Every Time" my Highwire/OC Transformers Armada Fanfiction. You can find it on Wattpad, Fanfiction.Net, Ao3, and QuoteTV

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Armada: Takes place during "Prehistory". Mariah could only watch in horror as Highwire got knocked back several feet by the explosion that w

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Every Time [Transformers Armada Fanfiction]

Armada: Takes place during "Prehistory". Mariah could only watch in horror as Highwire got knocked back several feet by the explosion that w

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who's my best friend in the world and recently he was like "you're too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!" and I was like "a niece might be more up my alley" and he just got more excited and said "ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful"

[caustic-pixie]

OP the tags!!

[euphoricfez]

Get up girls we have another day of obsessing over fictional characters to cope with reality ahead of us

[kidamosher]

Oh goodie, I get to be called out today lol

[kidamosher]

Chapter Six of "Every Time" was updated.

It's a hurt/comfort Transformers Armada fanfiction that includes Highwire (defacto leader of the Street Action Team) and a original human female character.

They're partners, but not really in a romantic sense...

Summary: Armada: Takes place during "Prehistory". Mariah could only watch in horror as Highwire got knocked back several feet by the explosion that was caused by Cyclonus' shot. What was more worrisome was that he wasn't getting up...

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

You can find it also on Wattpad and fanfiction.net and QuoteTV

[kidamosher]

AO3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/76748966/chapters/200889326

Wattpad link:

https://www.wattpad.com/story/406126400?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=KM_Warcop

FFN link:

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/14535555/1/Every-Time

Summary:

Armada: Takes place during "Prehistory". Mariah could only watch in horror as Highwire got knocked back several feet by the explosion that was caused by Cyclonus' shot. What was more worrisome was that he wasn't getting up...

[kidamosher]

Every Time [Transformers Armada Fanfiction]

Summary: Armada: Takes place during "Prehistory". Mariah watched in horror as the shot caused Highwire to get knocked back several feet. What was more worrying was that he wasn't getting up. Highwire/OC

Author's Note: So this fic is up on Wattpad, Ao3, and FFN. It was also written on my phone too. As well, I know I have it as a pairing, but like the relationship you have with your best friend...

xxx

Chapter One

"No!" They all cried out as they watched their friends - their family get shot at.

Mariah felt helpless as she watched from the sidelines of the battle, watching the Minicons fight back; fighting for their freedom.

Fighting for peace.

A peace that they've craved for million of years.

Peace that they very well deserve for a war not of their doing.

Each time she thought about it, it made her angry, they shouldn't be forced to do something that they never wanted to do. And when she heard of powerlinxing and what it is... And what it activates in the Minicons system made Mariah physically sick.

She couldn't even imagine.

But here they were; fighting the good fight and doing what it takes to win.

Mariah's heart hammered in her chest and her hands shook as both Cyclonus and Starscream began firing at the Minicons. She hoped, prayed to their God and hers, that they wouldn't be hit.

That they wouldn't get hurt.

Unfortunately, her request was denied, as she witnessed one of the shots, hit the armament that Highwire was at, sending him flying back multiple feet.

Time seemed to slow down to a snails pace as Mariah when one of the kids mentioned that Highwire wasn't getting up.

"Highwire... Come on! Come on! Come on! Get up!" Mariah muttered, her hands now shaking as she looked over to the leader of the Street Action Team.

What felt like an eternity passed before Mariah felt her limbs moving what seemed to be on their own accord as she ignored the gasps, shouts, and frantic beeps from everyone on her team trying to get her to go back to safety as she continued sprinting to where Highwire was still laying, face down, still unmoving.

She saw energon leaking from an open gash on his side near the Minicon emblem with a few other large scratches here and there. She knew she had to be careful of the energon as it was toxic, and it could burn her if she touched it, but she also didn't care.

She needed to get him out of the immediate area.

Now!

"Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Please be ok!" Mariah murmured as she carefully, yet quickly, turned him over onto his back, got behind him and then sat him up before she knelt in front of him with her back to him while she grabbed onto one arm and then the other, placing them both over her front.

Placing herself into a slightly different position to help her stand up, she grabbed hold of one of his legs, bringing it up to her hip and holding it close while she pushed up and was standing.

Highwire's helm bounced painfully off the back of her head as she ran as fast as she could back to where the others were. She cried out as a blast knocked them both down to the ground, debris spraying over them. Panting, she managed to get them up and continued going on.

Within a couple of minutes she was back with them. Her entire body shook and she could vaguely feel a burning sensation on her forearm and the back of her hand, but she didn't care.

"What were you thinking?" Alexis began chastising, followed by Rad and Carlos too.

"You could've been hurt!"

"Or worse!"

"I am doing my job, first and foremost! And then a friend!" She shot back. "I need my damn bag! Now!"

She was quickly given it and she grabbed electrical tape, face cloths, gauze, two extra large ziplock bags, and a pair of nitrile gloves then quickly got to work.

"Help me get Highwire onto his side."

The battle sounded so distant in that moment as she focused on Highwire and trying to stop...the bleeding? Or would it be considered a leak? In any case, she knew that she had to do what she could to stop it.

"Ok ok ok...um...cloths..." She murmured to herself after getting the gloves on and then shoving the face cloths down as much as possible into the large gash to try and soak up the energon. Then she placed her finger over the hole to stop the flow for the time being until she could figure out how to fix the hose or at least, a temporary fix on the hose with the nick in it.

She looked to the kids, not missing the look of worry upon their faces as they focused their attention on her. With her free hand she gestured to the electrical tape, "I need someone to rip off a few pieces, approximately two or three inches and give them to me one at a time."

Carlos grabbed it and did as instructed.

With the hand plugging the hole, she pulled gently up and with her other hand, placed another cloth under it, then wiped some energon away with some gauze. Then, taking one of the pieces of electrical tape, she placed the end just above her finger, then slowly and every couple of millimetres, she moved her finger back and back and back until the tape completely covered the hole. Then with a shaky sigh, placed the other two over them.

"Okay, well it's not a permanent fix, but it'll do until we get back to base and have it taken care of properly." Mariah said while looking up at the kids and grabbing the energon soaked cloths and putting them quickly into one of the ziplock bags, then grabbing the other bag she placed it over the gash and started to tape it in place.

And, of course, the very last thing she did was take her gloves off and threw them into the bag with the contaminated cloths and sat back on her haunches, her mind going a mile a minute.

She was pulled out of her thoughts by a loud gasp. Mariah blinked then looked up to see Alexis looking down at her hands with wide, fearful eyes.

"What? What's wrong?"

"Your... Your hands are burnt..." Alexis said while Mariah frowned, "you don't feel that?!"

Mariah turned her attention to her hands and her own eyes widened when she looked at her hands. The back of both hands were red, almost purple, the skin peeling at her fingers. Turning them over, Mariah saw that blisters were forming on the palms of her hands. "Uhm...I do now..."

A grimace formed on her face as she sat heavily down onto the ground when she began to feel her skin burning. Not to mention, she was feeling nauseous and dizzy, and her heart pounded.

Large, metallic footsteps came over to them, the voices of the Transformers surrounding them. Some sounded angry, some were worried, and some were relieved. In her mind, they sounded slightly muffled, and she couldn't really pay attention to what they were really saying.

Suddenly, an electrical static sensation washed over her for a moment. Immediately, she was being picked up and cradled to one of the Autobots chassis. Mariah could vaguely hear the hum of their spark.

"We have to get back to base right away." Red Alert's voice was right above her, "She's experienced energon poisoning."

She was coming in and out of consciousness by the time they got to base.

When she was placed on one of the lightly padded metal tables, it jostled her body and sent almost what she could only describe as an electric shock through her body and she cried out.

"Don't worry, you'll be alright, Mariah, just hang for a little while longer." Red Alert's voice said above her, then she felt a warmth wash over her and darkness soon followed.

[lets-try-some-writing]

How do you think the bots and cons will recast learning how humans give birth

Oh good gracious this is going to be so very fun to write.

Human Birth

The bots were well aware that humans reproduced biologically and gestated their young within their bodies. That much they knew. And Ratchet had been made aware of some of the complexities of human gestation and... reproduction after flipping out after Miko's period started in base. However most of the finer details of the human birthing process were not known to them. And since it had no real bearing on their mission on earth, none of the team every really bothered to ask about it.

But eventually curiosity led one thing to another and a few months after Smokescreen's arrival and upon having nothing better to do, he couldn't help but ask.

Smokescreen: So you humans have this weird mark on your abdomen. What is it? I've seen it when you stretch sometimes.

Jack: Ah, that's what we call a bellybutton.

Smokescreen: Alright, so what is it?

Rafael: It's a bunch of scar tissue that covers up where we were attached to our mothers during our development.

Smokescreen: So you were attached to your carrier by a chord of sorts?

Miko: Yep, and when we are born it gets cut so that it doesn't hurt us during or after the birth.

Smokescreen: Interesting, but how do you humans get out of your carrier once you finish developing? Your females don't seem to have a hatch or anything.

Jack: About that...

Hearing the conversation the team began to start gathering around. Optimus lingered a ways back, Arcee and Bulkhead went about their duties pretending to not be interested, Bumblebee turned down the volume on his video game to listen, and Ratchet paused in his efforts to hear what was said. The children noted this but did not comment as June made her appearance to teach Smokescreen about the process that is human childbirth.

First she made the bots aware of the process involved in the production of offspring which earned her a few odd looks but beyond that no real signs of disgust. The bots were not exactly enamored with the process, but they understood the concept of materials needing to come from the Sire to assist in the gestation of the young within the Carrier.

Ratchet found it odd that Carriers were left so wildly unprotected during the later stages of their gestation, not having any armor to guard the vital place where her young developed. Optimus seemed more concerned over the fact that the process of starting the gestation process was so unreliable. On Cybertron if a bot wanted offspring they would go to the well and collect a newspark, but the human method seemed littered with uncertainty and it bothered him. Arcee and Bulkhead were left a little weirded out by the idea of intercourse as a whole but accepted it as a quirk of organics. Bumblebee and Smokescreen however were more interested in how the human infant got out of the Carrier rather than how it got in.

Seeing this June continued, sending the children away and pulling up a video of childbirth used for educational purposes. She expected the bots to take it as apathetically as they had accepted the knowledge of how human children are conceived.

She was wrong.

Smokescreen purged the moment the birthing process began, falling to the ground and unable to stop himself from clearing his tanks in response to the horrifying sight. Bumblebee crushed his video game controller in terror as he watched the human woman in the video be practically split in half. He would have purged too if it weren't for the fact that Optimus hastily covered his optics and audio receptors moments after the video began. Bulkhead however was not as fortunate and booked it out of the room to purge slightly more eloquently the second the baby's head started to come through.

Arcee didn't move and just watched in increasing horror as blood and fluid and all other things she had learned were vital to humans came out with the infant. Ratchet died a little more inside as he observed, taking notes but growing increasingly more terrified with the whole thing, especially when the baby finally came out and looked like a deformed slug. At the same time Optimus kept Bumblebee from watching while still observing himself. The Matrix and his archivist coding urged him to collect the data, but even he felt his tanks churn enough that he was forced to activate his battlemask and rely on the Matrix to dull his increasing disgust and concern.

When the video was over the bots that remained in the room were rather shaky, all of them remaining silent as June packed up and then called out into the base.

June: So that was human birth. Any questions?

The team: ....

Ratchet: How is your species not extinct?

The team were absolutely shook. Discussion of human birthing processes was silently outlawed and the team gained a deep and newfound respect for any and all females.

The male humans may be the strong ones who provide for and protect their mates, (an important role all the same) but the females tear themselves to pieces just to produce one screaming and dependent human infant who will rely on her for nearly two decades. Not only that but every single month they suffer pains and bleed everywhere when they don't go through what appeared to be the hellish experience of producing offspring. Miko suddenly found herself with a lot more sympathy and understanding the next time her period came.

As for the Decepticons? They learned about the human birthing process by accident.

Soundwave was having a grand old time scrolling the internet searching for valuable data on humans when he found videos of the human birthing process. He has never been particularly squeamish, but after reviewing the whole video he vowed to never do so again and sent a copy of it to everyone else of note on the nemesis as payback of sorts.

Knockout lost his scrap at seeing what humans go through to spawn more of themselves. Disgust took precedence above all else and he swore off touching the females whenever possible since obviously they had to be deathworlder monsters to survive that process. Breakdown and Dreadwing despite being both powerful and experienced soldiers felt queasy just watching and the former ended up purging later when recalling the video after refueling. Starscream straight up threw his datapad at the wall upon looking at the video for 0.2 seconds. He is still haunted by the sights he saw.

Shockwave was fascinated by the process more than anything else but found it ultimately a very flawed procedure. What species would willingly tear themselves apart just to birth a singular and largely useless organism? As for Megatron? He watched the whole video through with increasing horror before putting it away and banning the viewing of the video without a second thought. Disgusting and surprisingly resilient organics both awed and terrified him.

[kidamosher]

You've no idea how much I fucking laughed at this little number 😂😂😂

[ad-wills]

[thememedaddy]

[just-a-keeper911]

Benjamin Jones, season 1 episode 1 appreciation post.

[dozydawn]

[caitlikescoffee]

[the-acid-pear]

[jennserr]

[anatargmova]

“fictional men have raised my standards” oh you mean Bobby Nash ?? because, see, Bobby Nash is actually The Standard. men out here struggling to come up with good date ideas and good gifts while my man Bobby Nash will clear a whole freeway without hesitation for you to land a damaged plane on it. and he will even wait for you on top of his firetruck with a sweet smile and eyes full of love. also. He’s Hot

[kidamosher]

Mmhmm pretty much