Nichelle Nichols on filming the first interracial kiss on television:
The director whom I knew, and had a great deal of respect for, a very fine director…
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This is a beautiful pencil test by my friend Tina Nawrocki, you might know her from her work on the ‘Cuphead’ game. She is making a hand drawn animated short about a Polish mermaid called ‘Syrenka: Legend of the Warsaw Mermaid’. Hand drawn animation is very important to me - nothing else seems as magical as drawings that come to life! If you love hand drawn animation as much as I do, please consider supporting her crowdfunding campaign. Time is running out!
Best fandom history commentary ever, courtesy of @tardistara
For your viewing pleasure:
P.S. For people who are not 40 have not watched The X-Files, that other guy in the red speedo scene is Mulder’s new partner, the apparent woobie whom Mulder is a jerk to because he’s not Scully… but who later turns out to be a Secret Villain.
1 guess what the big slash ship was back then.
And the Secret Villain (with tragic backstory) kissed Mulder in one scene! In an angry non-romantic way but whooooo, the fic it generated.
Um, excuse me, you can’t just SAY that. The Youth need PICS!
(aka I am way too lazy to go find X-Files screencaps myself.)
It’s a SUPER DARK scene so the caps are awful - plus caps can’t get across just how startling it was to see Krycek pointing a handgun at Mulder, threatening his life, and then just….. lunge forward, and kiss Mulder on the cheek. Because this was 1998 and one of the most popular shows on TV and you just didn’t SEE THAT. So here’s a GIF instead.
Edited for @olderthannetfic
Dear fandom: please enjoy this EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL.
It was such a cultural phenomenon even The Simpsons had their take on it:
Is it a good time to remind everyone this song exists
Heheheheheh.
This gets stuck in my head regularly.
Who wrote this song? Is it a fan song? It’s a serious fan song to have ALL those celebrities in on it. I’m in awe!
Bree Sharp.
There’s a wikipedia article.
Basically, somebody on the crew got sent the song, thought it was fucking hilarious, and ran around the Fox lot getting all the people who were there at the time to participate in what was essentially a prank for the set Christmas party—hence the really random selection of non-X-Files celebrities. It was just whomever was working with Fox right then.
So. Somehow. I honestly do not remember how. I was sent a VHS of a gag reel that had been put together by the crew for some cast party.
To my knowledge, the footage it contained had never been, or never was, publicly released. But someone had gotten ahold of a copy, perhaps from someone on the crew or at a con, and copies were distributed through a whisper network of message boards and email groups.
I carried it to England when I went to meet my internet pen pal/Fandom buddy, and we sent it off to be converted to the local standard.
It spread across Europe from there, and I got letters and emails for years thanking me for it.
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We have our election date! On June 16th, SoA will vote whether or not to form a union, so we need visible fan support more than ever! If you’ve ever played a Persona or Yakuza game, have fond memories of Jet Set Radio or Space Channel 5, and of course are friends with a certain speedy blue hedgehog, please sign our petition, follow our twitter, and use our hashtag to show management your appreciation for the hardworking people making the games you love!
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I am so excited to leave twitter permanently as soon as possible
and i made a powerpoint for twitter migrants so they can use this hellsite correctly lmao
im very proud of it :)
okay i finished dinner heres the whole thing!
thank you @foxxlology, this is a fantabulous resource
if thousands of conservatives could quit bud light over making a SINGLE can with a trans persons face on it, you can quit chic fil a for them donating millions to anti lgbtq groups and harry potter for being written by the face of TERFS.
big brain only
the English Major in me loathes this but the word-play lover in me adores this