Since this is blowing up: I know Billie and Ari are straight but their aesthetics here are both ping as queercoding via fashion b/c neither of them - one high femme to appeal to women, the other a direct rebuke of male sexualisation - is catering to a straight male gaze.
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If you’ve never heard the term queercoding before or heard about its historic use with villains, especially in cartoons, don’t credit me for inventing it: it’s a documented phenomenon and really fascinating to read about. And enlightening.
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Real villains look like the GOP and techbro CEOs. These folks look stunning.
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I think Kingpin from Into the Spiderverse is a great villian design for this reason. He’s just a businessman made to be incredibly physically imposing
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hi what makes ariana and billie queer in this instance?
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Read my follow up tweets
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Billy Porter is magnificent. (Of course) Ariana is a beautiful thundercloud. That person on the upper left (sorry...I'm old...I don't know who they are) has a potentially wonderfully wacky outfit ruined because they look like a little kid playing in their parent's clothes.
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Yah but she does that on purpose so people don’t specialize her body
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That’s actually a really interesting observation I hadn’t realized.
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One of my favorite tweets on the phenomenon https://t.co/3i2UnvfJ5Q https://twitter.com/therobotjay/status/1115031849657622530?s=21 …
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