Wednesday, May 24, 2023

THE DOWNFALL OF WILLOW: A CRAPPY REPRESENTATION SAGA.

 

Willow: The Series will be gone from Disney Plus in a couple of days after premiering the last day of November of 2022. I’m writing this on May 24th, 2023. Yep. The Mighty Mouse has decided to get rid of its own spawn before it became 6 months old. I’m about to give you my head canon as to why.

The year of our Mousy Lord 2022 saw an explosion of content like never before from the loins of the corporate corpse that is Disney. Moon Knight, National Treasure, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ms. Marvel, Tales of the Jedi, and Willow were among those. But also the cinema genitals of said corpse gave us, Wakanda Forever, Multiverse of Madness, and Thor: Love & Thunder. Most of these things have a very dark theme in common: the use of a known male character as hook, only to deliver a female-centric narrative.

Proper representation aims to give voice to groups that have been silenced for a long time. The problem is that those who have been given the opportunity to use their voices have not known how to use that moment to tell stories of triumph. They’d rather take revenge for the grievances, real and imaginary, suffered by their peers. Women writers decided they needed to humiliate as many male characters as possible. POC creators decided it was more important to change the race of known characters than share real stories from their ancestry. Gender and sexual diverse storytellers thought it was cute to eradicate heterosexuality, basically imitating their detractors. You know, the old “fight fire with fire” because that shit had gone well every single time. Nevertheless, not one of those groups has come with an actual good story to tell.

Sad, ain’t it?

Underrepresented groups are not trying to tell their stories anymore; they are just checking boxes on a propaganda list. Forget character development, plot, good world building; nah, we only need to mention a character’s race and sexuality for they/them to be epic— and remember to insult those who hated us before to round the narrative.

And that’s how we arrive at Willow: The Series. First of all, who the fukk asked for this? That 1988 movie was not a big hit; yeah, people kind of liked it, but no one was doing hunger strikes for more of that. It’s not a great movie either, neither by the 80s standards nor today’s nostalgia. So why did we need a TV series based on it?

It’s in the title of this piece: CRAPPY REPRESENTATION.

By the time this aberration came to life, we, the audience, were tired of the bait and switch. Call things by what they are, and maybe we’ll give them a chance. Don’t title it Willow, if the guy is going to be a mere sidekick to all the females in the story. Now, in all fairness, Willow Ufgood was barely half of the movie’s story. Val Kilmer’s hunkiness was very distracting and it was more about the destined child than about Willow’s journey, but still he was important to the plot. In the TV show, Willow Ufgood is there, but none of it is about him, it’s about female empowerment.

In two more years, having a lesbian lead is going to be as tired and rehashed as any big burly macho man in 1990s action movies. Funny thing is those BBMM at least have character arcs. Our Sapphic heroines do not grow, they only kick ass and munch muffins. Not so funny is the fact that they are so boring and wooden their girl-on-girl antics can’t even excite straight men who enjoy those vignettes in their porn stash.

The point of representation is to promote a message of hope. That narrative that we need to SEE people like us on TV is bullshit. Logical human beings do not need a character to be identical to them to be relatable. For starters no one looks like you, unless you have a twin. Even within the same race, not everybody is identical. And don’t get me started about the representation of sexuality because not all sexually diverse people are created equal. So yes, it’s nice to see someone who sort of looks like you on the screen, but that person does not have your story, did not have your struggles; their reality is not the same as yours.

Interestingly, products cannot be better than those who create them. Poor storytelling comes from lacking, ineffectual storytellers. People with zero real qualifications are giving projects because they check boxes of representation. In turn these individuals check some more boxes of diversity/representation in a narrative without foundation and think they have created massive hits. If they were only clueless as to why others decry their product we’d be more lenient with them, but they get angry, and that is fukken annoying.

You’re giving us shit sandwiches and then get mad when we say they stink.

I wonder if Willow: The Series will evaporate from the internet in the same way it’s being erased from the monstrosity which created it.

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

REPUBLICA DE SAN CORNELIO

The 7THMOONVERSE has more than one fictional country, but today we will focus on the Republic of Saint Cornelius, playground for soon to be released THE GUY WITH THE LOTUS TATTOO.



 

HISTORY

PART ONE

During the Thirty Years' War in Europe, King Phillip IV of Spain grew tired of hearing about revolts in the New Indies, so in concert with his favorite (the Count-Duke Olivares) designed a strategy to kill two birds with one stone. A royal proclamation ordered the heads of ultramarine territories to round up all troublesome individuals, especially those not of Spanish origin and send them to a place where they could be someone else’s problem or die, whichever happened first.

Thus, the Spanish colonies started sending their most problematic slaves and indios to an area under Portuguese control but close enough also to French and Dutch settlements to be problematic for all of them.

Somehow the different factions found a way not just to coexist but become allies against all European settlers. Many European “undesirables” also joined forced with indios and former slaves.

In time the area became its own thing, allying themselves with English Pirates, who in turn taught them the language to use it as vehicle to create a deeper unification. Until that moment slaves and indios who spoke Spanish and other original tongues needed interpreters to communicate among themselves and with the locals. These happened in less than two generations, and by 1670 the unnamed conglomerate had become a force to be reckoned with— both in land and sea.

According to legend, the heads of the Aboriginal and African councils had the same vision of a man in the garb of the Roman soldiers destroying a cross. Wisepeople from both groups, knowing the story of Cornelius (the first gentile to convert, according to the Bible), concluded it was a sign of the saint; expressing his obvious remorse after embracing the Christian faith, which has done nothing but enslave and mistreat them in the New World.

What it’s known as the Cornelian Pact created a scheme where the unified people would let the Europeans think they would accept their dominance only to do the same thing the Spaniards did with the Jews and kick them out once they have built cities and other things needed to improve the nascent nation's way of life. This is also known as the “Long Con.” Thrice they expelled their benefactors: First the Portuguese (1700), then the French (1725), and lastly the Spaniards (1750).

The multicultural conglomerate sent a letter to the Holy See in 1757 stating their independence from all foreign government, not asking for the Pope blessing but to remind him that free will was a God-given gift which no man regardless of color or wealth had the right to obstruct. Legend also implies that the letter contained a prophecy that scared the fuck out of the Pope and he instructed all Christians to stay away from those mixed heathens. Benedict XIV was never the same and died in 1758 of kidney problems but the legend insist his attempt to reverse his decision is what send him to his tomb. Remember this is the pope who condemned any form of ancestors reverence in conjunction with Christian rites in China.

Next week Part Two


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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

ODA AL PITO

 A proposito del dia de los Inocentes

 

VERGA

 

CON LA VERGA RIES

CON LA VERGA LLORAS

CON LA VERGA GOZAS

CON LA VERGA TE ENOJAS

 

USAS LA VERGA PA MALDECIR

TAMBIEN LA USAS PARA BENDECIR

LA USAS PA DISTANCIAS

LA USAS PA SABORES

 

CON LA VERGA SEÑALAS

CON LA VERGA JURAS

CON LA VERGA TE VAS

CON LA VERGA TE VIENES

 

USAS LA VERGA PA MATAR

TAMBIEN LA USAS PA CREAR

LA USAS PA CHANTAJEAR

LA USAS PA RECOMPENSAR

 

LA VERGA ES UNA

PERO LA USAS PA MULTIPLICAR

LA VERGA ES SOLA

PERO SIEMPRE ENCUENTRA COMPAÑÍA

 

LA VERGA EMPIEZA CON “VER”

PERO NO MIRA

LA VERGA TERMINA CON “GA”

Y SI LA DEJAS

SE CAGA EN TU VIDA

#español #hombres #vida #realidad 

Friday, July 2, 2021

Merode & Gladius * 100 words story

“You think this a joke?” Merodes growled, handsome face scrunched.

“’Course not!” Gladius hid his delight poorly. They’d done many jobs for the gods together, but this was the first time one of those godly errands had coincided with Merodes’s mating period. “Just let me take care of that big ol’ javelin between your hinder legs, and we could be on our way.”

“It’s embarrassing,” Merodes sighed. “If I could only reach.”

Gladius had been dreaming about this for a while, so that inconvenience was his gain. “Just a hand job, horsey,” he said happily as he moved mouth first...


 


Tuesday, May 11, 2021

HAPPY BDAY LEONARDO - WHERE OCEANS MEET

#WOCEANSM
WHERE OCEANS MEET
Today is Leo's #birthday






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 Smashwords – Where Oceans Meet – a book by Gabbo de la Parra

 Where Oceans Meet - Kindle edition by De La Parra, Gabbo. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.