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Wizards and Warriors (1983)

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Prince Dirk Blackpool

(Handmade Soft Toy Fox inspired by the 1983 television series Wizards and Warriors and beautifully portrayed on screen by Duncan Regehr)

~ Wishing the multi talented actor, artist and writer Duncan Regehr a very Happy Birthday ~

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So, story time!

Back in the eighties when I was a kid there was a TV show that ran for 1 season called Wizards and Warriors. It was a parody of a fantasy show starring Jeff Conway (Kinicki in Grease) as the hero and Julia Duffy as a spoiled princes.  But the villain of the show was a character named Prince Dirk Blackpool. He was played by a Canadian actor named Duncan Regher who had black hair (admittedly badly styled - it was the 80′s), great cheekbones, dressed in black leather and metal, and had a tragic back story that involved something about his father being cruel to him, emotionally abusive, and his turning evil in an effort to prove himself.

So, there I was, all of 9 or 10 years old, watching this with my family, and I knew AT THAT MOMENT that I could care less about Good Prince Eric or Sweet Princess whatever her name was, my heart irrevocably belonged to the eeeeevil (but really misunderstood) Dirk Blackpool. No one understood this (although my mother thought he was hot), but I would fantasize at night about him kidnapping me and all the hazy, not quite understood eeeeevil things that he would do to me. 

I don’t know why I suddenly felt the need to share this, but as I was reading Loki fic tonight, it sudden popped into my mind that after thirty-some years my taste has not changed one single iota. I am still a sucker for the dark prince with piercing eyes and a lifetime of daddy issues. 

I guess my point is, isn’t it interesting how we deviants are what we are from such a young age? So, here’s to the ones who have always known that the troubled souls and tormented minds are where the true blorbos lie. And that they are the ones who really, really know how to fuck.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 

And thank you, Dirk Blackpool, for awakening my young libido. 

[theobscurepotato]

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