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Peter Vulfranckenstein
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Trans guy, library page, writer & podcaster. Virgo into astrology but only to the degree that itā€™s fun, not worrying. He/him/his. Ojibwe/Odawa/Potawatomi land (Chicago).
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New episode is up! We talk about singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour and his starring role in Truffaut's iconic Shoot the Piano Player! Link in replies

Charles Aznavour embracing Miss Piggy
Charles Aznavour at the end of his episode of the Muppet Show, he is with Kermit the Frog and a loaf of bread who is French. Aznavour and the bread have become fast friends
Charles Aznavour and Marie Dubois in Shoot the Piano Player. They're walking down the street, Dubois looks ahead while Aznavour looks at her
Charles Aznavour as Charlie Koller/Edouard Saroyan in Shoot the Piano Player (1960) he is seated at a piano
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Fun fact: the art for our show was done by ingforart.bsky.social! Give him a follow!

The title of our show Muppet Watch, the logo is comprised of letters in different fonts that are taken from different Muppet titles. the art was done by ingforart.bsky.social
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Not as good as Kirk and Chewbacca

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meme of nasa photo of astronaut standing in front of the american flag on the lunar surface. it says ā€œYOU HATE THE MOON LANDING VIDEO BECAUSE ITā€™S FAKE; I HATE IT BECAUSE IT DOESNā€™T PASS THE BECHDEL TESTā€
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More women & children have been killed in Gaza than in ā€œany other conflict in the past two decades.ā€ Doctors describe the horrors they witnessed this year as Palestinian Americans plead for the US to stop supporting mass slaughter, Neha Madhira reports. prismreports.org/2024/10/07/o...

One year of genocide backed by American tax dollars
One year of genocide backed by American tax dollars

Doctors describe the horrors they witnessed during a year of Israelā€™s genocide in Gaza as Palestinian Americans plead for the U.S. to stop supporting mass slaughter

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These paragraphs from Tom Palmer and Earl Duvallā€™s respective Wikipedias are funnier than anything in any Buddy cartoon

Palmer's approach in directing Buddy's Day Out was reportedly rather loose. In the story conferences which determined the contents of the film, Palmer would suggest adding "a funny piece of business", a visual gag, but only in a broad manner. According to later interviews with Bernard B. Brown and Bob Clampett, Palmer's original version of the film was virtually devoid of gags. The Warner Bros. studio rejected this version and the film had to be reworked extensively. Palmer was fired by Schlesinger after Warner Bros. rejected the cartoons that he had produced. Friz Freleng was called in to rework Palmer's cartoons and ultimately replaced him as the studio's head director. Palmer's initial replacement as director, however, was Earl Duvall.
Tom Palmer left the Schlesinger studio after completing only two animated short films.
Duvall replaced him as the director of the next few films of the studio. Duvall had experience as a story man for both Disney and Harman and Ising. Norman McCabe, who worked as an inbeetweener for the
studio, recalled Duvall's resemblance to Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales. Animation historian Michael Barrier considers that Duvall's princely looks and "aura of sophistication" helped him get ahead.
Wherever Duvall worked, people were at least giving him the benefit of the doubt.
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Also I might just be salty because Itty Bitty Titty Committee, from the same director, has aā€¦ not great depiction of a trans guy

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On its own, not necessarily, but when mainstream depictions of butch lesbians as actual characters are rare and the actual lesbians in the film itself are both pretty femme, it falls into an unfortunate pattern.

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Between The L Word and But Iā€™m A Cheerleader thereā€™s probably a fascinating essay to be written about butchphobia/anti-transmasculinity in lesbian media

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Peter Vulfranckenstein
@petervulfranc.bsky.social
Trans guy, library page, writer & podcaster. Virgo into astrology but only to the degree that itā€™s fun, not worrying. He/him/his. Ojibwe/Odawa/Potawatomi land (Chicago).
370 followers450 following3.8k posts