the mighty nein show reminded me of my love for essek so i went back and rewatched all my favorite essek moments from the stream. suffice to say i am excited to see jester and essek interactions becomes ✨animated✨
we’ve gone from the yee haw agenda to the ye olde thot programme
Ah yes, those slutty slutty Landsknecht shorts:
The bare-legged / hot-pants look was fairly common, since the whole point about being a Landsknecht (or Reislaufer, their Swiss equivalent) was to look outrageous.
Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…
…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.
If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.
In short - or in shorts - those reenactor costumes are spot on.
:->
Something mentioned nowhere in this post that I have just learned from googling: these guys were not Ye Olde Medieval Dandies. They were 15th-16th century mercenaries. Pretty hardcore, too. They were exempt from sumptuary laws (ie the rules that said you couldn’t wear certain colours or cloth or styles) and apparently their response to that was technicolour thotpants.
I was complaining earlier about costuming in both “historical” settings and in fantasy/scifi. This is exactly what I mean when I say a knowledge of actual history would enrich the conceptual creative palette for things like “hardcore mercenary outfits.”
Actually on the topic of Sailor Moon abridged, (fucking amazing btw. You and Kaleigh killed it.) was there ever a discussion that it might be a bit odd having two trans women voicing the main villains? I was super happy to see you both get awesome roles and then it sorta rubbed me the wrong way.
So Scott and I talked about it during our recording session and he was like “You both were perfect but it feels weird that-”
And I stopped him and said the same thing I always say:
DID! WE! AUDITION! FOR! THAT! ROLE!
If the answer is yes, we’re more than happy to play the role. It’s a role. It’s a character. It’s not us and does not reflect on us as people or as trans women.
Scott was awesome about it, was super cool to work with, and very kind and considerate throughout the whole process.
THAT SAID! I do think everyone, fans especially, kinda needs to get over these hang ups because it’s that kinda thinking that lead trans women to not get cast in most things. And if the fans say it the people in charge feel that they can use that as an excuse to just not include us in general because it’s “easier than dealing with trans women.”
I, personally, fucking love voicing villains or evil characters because they get to be far more grandiose, theatric and often have the best dialogue in the entire project.
If I only ever played villain roles for the rest of my entire life I’d be pleased as punch.
So I think fans, over all, need to kinda realize that if a trans woman auditions for something and gets the role there should be nothing but celebration and never shutting up about how cool it is that there’s a trans woman (Or in this case MULTIPLE TRANS WOMEN)cast in something.
Fandom spaces have to, and I mean this fully, get off their asses and SCREAM FROM THE ROOFTOPS any time a trans woman gets cast in anything when it comes to voice over.
I had this same thing happen when Sena and I got cast in Unicorn Overlord. Because folks were like “Happy to see two trans women in this… but you’re both playing men. That sucks.”
Sena and I fucking LOVED being in Unicorn Overlord and we’ve both waxed poetic about how AWESOME it was that they let us flex our range and play as much as they did in the booth for that project.
If fandom spaces keep saying “:< I can’t believe you cast a trans woman in a role that the trans woman actress auditioned for” and harass the casting directors, producers, creators over this shit trans women aren’t going to get cast in fucking anything.
Spoilers, the other trans woman playing opposite me as the other primary villain in TFS’s Sailor Moon Abridged is that very same trans woman from Knights of Guinevere, Kayleigh McKee. She’s also a casual friend of mine and is very sweet and kind.
The circle of working industry trans woman voice actresses is so intensely small and most of us either know eachother or exist in the same circles casually.
But anyway, yes. It’s very frustrating to see the VERY FEW creators, casting directors, producers, etc who are willing to cast a trans woman in something getting harassed for casting that trans woman as a role that she auditioned for ON TOP of the trans woman actress ALSO getting harassed.
It’s happened to Kayleigh, it’s happened to me, it’s happened to all of us.
I need y’all to please, when you see a trans woman get cast in something… especially a BIG THING or a VIRAL POPULAR thing to take a second and realize that even if (AND ESPECIALLY IF) it’s the villain or a male character. Because we AUDITIONED FOR IT and GOT IT!
We’re actresses like anyone else in our craft. We can, and will, play roles that are absolutely nothing like us as human beings. So stop seeing us being cast as “this or that” as reflecting back on us as human beings because that’s absolutely ridiculous.
Anywho…
YES there’s two trans women VA’s in TFS’s Sailor Moon Abridged! GO WATCH IT! Send us some love in the comments!
YES! There’s ALSO two trans women VA’s in Unicorn Overlord! Tell SEGA USA you loved us in the game and want us in more games!
“So this fic has been abandoned but you should read it anyways because…” hold up. Have you not been reading all promising fics regardless of completion this entire time
Today I learned that an alarming number of yall are filtering fic by “completed works only” which is WILD to me because some of the best shit I ever read was incomplete. Just like how some of the best friendships fade, the best experiences end, the best partners pass away before you’re ready. Nobody wants good things to end but they do and that doesn’t make them less meaningful. And sometimes a tree must be nurtured before it can grow
“objectively physically attractive but in possession of negative rizz” is one of my favorite character concepts. i think it’s so great when there’s an absurdly hot person who’s just a complete fucking loser. the mood is unsalvageable the moment they open their mouth kind of deal. you get no bitches because you’re so sucks.
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