vaspider:

oodlenoodleroodle:

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jenroses:

vaspider:

Ok, friends, listen up.

I’m gonna need you to find two hours of your life ASAP and watch the pilot of Pose. I’m totally serious. If I have to arrange a group watch via Discord, I WILL DO THAT. (Do I need to do that? I will. I bought the season on Amazon because we don’t have cable and supporting this is really fucking important to me.)

Why? I mean, Tumblr, y’all have to have been talking about this, because I heard about it through Tumblr, but let’s talk about it again:

1.  TV about QPOC starring and made by QPOC, *especially* TWOC. #ownvoices beyond measure. This is the largest transgender cast ever organized for a scripted series. 
2. The series is expected to include over fifty transgender characters total. FIFTY. f i f t y.
3.  A blunt history lesson wrapped up in two hours of drama. There will be things you knew or knew about or heard about kinda and then you’ll realize how much you can learn, even if Queer History is one of your Special Interests.
4. One of the main characters is from Allentown. This is only vaguely relevant but it made me go ‘yey’.
5. Seriously, this media only gets made if people watch it. Vote with your eyeballs. Vote with your eyeballs and let’s bring more of this to TV, to the screens. We need this. I was honestly really nervous that something was gonna blow up or this was going to be somehow terrible and so I was nervously chewing my lower lip until I could actually watch the pilot and it’s not perfect but it’s a pilot and like… it’s … this is our history and our present. We need to make this shit happen. 
6. It’s REALLY GOOD. Look at that Rotten Tomatoes score! 95% right now, y’all. 
7. Seriously, I’m probably going to watch this with @mistresskabooms this summer. Kids These Days need to know some dang history. We can trade off between RWBY and Pose. 
8. Look, I can knit during anything. I have knitted during concerts, I have knitted in the car on cross-country trips, I knit my way through hurricanes and migraines and medical procedures and movies, I don’t have to look at my hands anymore when I knit kippot. There were a couple of points when I realized only after I had stopped knitting to stare at the television, totally entranced, that I had stopped knitting so I could concentrate on the screen. I cannot express enough how much that just does not happen.

I feel very passionately about this show already, now that I’ve stopped holding my breath and have allowed myself to feel things about it, aaaand I’ve only seen the pilot. Is it perfect? No. But it doesn’t need to be.

It’s real and raw and vulnerable and beautiful and triumphant and the MC’s name is Pray Tell which I found out in the first 2m from the subtitles and I love him already and we need to make it happen.

So who wants to do a watch party on this with me? @thebibliosphere, you wanna do something on the Discord? Seriously. Watch Party at the Wizard House, I’ll bring the popcorn.

fx nominally has it on their site but I couldn’t get it to load, even turning off adblockers.

I know, that’s why I’m offering to do a watch party if need be, bc I bought it from Amazon. I figured if I could spend $20 and do a watch party for folx, then we could at least get eyeballs in front of it if ppl don’t have cable, or want to watch it with a group.

Also available on iTunes store https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/pose-season-1/id1380483381

Good to know!