SO on brand for Six to be like hi. here’s our new US Tour. for the first preview one of our principals will be out with covid. we will have an emergency cover fly in from a different production, leaving her usual production with no cleves cover. then we will have her leave and have both of our cleves covers debut for 2-3 shows each. don’t ask why it’s not just one of them debuting. then we will have no covers for two weeks. then an alt will debut two roles in the space of a week. then we will go back to all principals for several weeks (minus one random cover while our cleves sees a show in new york). we will all collectively be lulled into a false sense of security. then. BAM. another boleyn debut. BAM. seymour debut. BAM. aragon debut. our original boleyn debut starts covering boleyn again instead. boleyn and seymour are out with no advance warning. we will likely have a three alt show tomorrow. it is less than two months after the first preview and barely a month after opening. everyone have fun!
Can we add being a queen away from having not enough covers for apparently the entire weekend. And one alt being out for a while.
I’ve seen what Tony Cervone, a former producer for Scooby Doo Mystery Inc who actually contributed very little to the show’s writing, had to say about Velma’s sexuality. (i.e. that while she’s commonly interpreted as bi, she was supposedly always intended to be a lesbian)
And I reject it.
Not because I’m homophobic or have a thing against lesbians, but because I believe that Retroactive Representation does not count as representation.
If you really intended for Velma to be a lesbian, then you should have actually fucking written her as a lesbian. You don’t get to suddenly declare, years after the show ended, “um actually she was intended to be a lesbian the whole time, we just never got to show it”, and expect us to just accept it as canon.
Retroactive Representation DOES NOT COUNT!
If it’s not on screen, on a page, or in a picture, it might as well not be canon at all.
“This character, who we were borrowing from a pre-existing brand, and for whom we actually have very little actual call to make decisions on compared to the ACTUAL owners of the IP, was secretly meant to be X tho really if that was intended it was so subtly that everyone else assumed it was Y. You can trust me that this was so, because I was one of the people running the business side of the operation not one of the creatives.’
[ID: Meme picture that on one side says “people who like Connor” with a picture of Connor in front of a huge wall of unreadable text. The other side says “people who like Ezio” with a picture of Ezio simply captioned “he’s hot lol” /end ID]
