Ya’ll don’t have any idea how fucking brave and needed these plot lines were.
This was before Ellen came out.
This was before civil unions.
This was before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
This was when your ass could be fired, blacklisted, and shunned with no legal protections for even being hinted at being gay.
And the Golden Girls said “Fuck you, Fuck this, we’re doing it anyway.”
I think it should be noted that Blanche’s quote about AIDS is also “It is not god punishing people for their sins” and that the episode also deals with slutshaming.
I don’t know if people realize how much activism these women did for gay right and during the aids crisis. If you think about it they were all long established in Hollywood and Broadway. They had tons of friends personally affected and dealing with the aids crisis. Estelle Getty lost a nephew. I think they helped plant seeds in people who watched Golden Girls that helped make things a little more normalized and mainstream.
Hey WTN! It’s time to kick off the countdown to our seven year anniversary, we’re bringing back #wtnweek, the aim being to get people seeing other characters, other plots and everything really. If you do all seven prompts (7 prompts, 7 years!) you’ll get a lovely member profile award. Make sure to have your first tags in each post as #wtnrp and #wtnweek so that we can find your posts to reblog them.
REBLOG THIS POST TO YOUR RP TUMBLR/REGULAR TUMBLR OR START A THREAD TITLED WTNWEEK IN YOUR DEVELOPMENT BY MAY 31ST AND INCLUDE YOUR INTRODUCTION!
#WTNWEEK will take place from June 1st to June 14th. Each prompt will span two days to give you enough time to post and try to post on the days specified.
RP is about partnership and collaboration. We choose to rp in this medium because of the connections we forge, no single character is greater than any interaction. Therefore, when reading the prompts choose character pairings/groups/threads that embody the word or feeling for you (ship, family, friends, group) These can involve you, or not - it is what you find brings you these feelings or defines these words! Below are the lists of prompts if you want to get a head start.
Prompt 1 - happiness (june 1 & 2)
Prompt 2 - pain (june 3 & 4)
Prompt 3 - excitement (june 5 & 6 )
Prompt 4 - sadness (june 7 & 8)
Prompt 5 - relevance (june 9 & 10)
Prompt 6 - innovation (june 11 & 12)
Prompt 7 - comfort (june 13 & 14)
You can do this in any way that you like! It’s really not supposed to take more than ten to fifteen minutes a day, just something fun, just a picture or a quick blurb. If you have any questions, create a ticket in the server!
for the introductions (post when you reblog)
Name: Pronouns: Timezone:
Characters: A fun fact about you: A link to a plotter that you want love for: A GIF to describe year 7:
Name: archer Pronouns: she/her Timezone: est (gmt-5)
Characters: Annie O’Keeffe, Carly Hawke, Dexter Alcott, Keahi Paoa, Kenadie O’Keeffe, Mina Armstrong, Noah Wallace A fun fact about you: One of my cats and her littermates were named after the kids from Bob’s Burgers. A link to a plotter that you want love for: Noah needs more things!! http://bigeasy.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=8895 A GIF to describe year 7:
You know before the pandemic I didn’t believe a school would stay open if there was a giant deadly snake in the pipes with the potential to kill students. Now I could see it.
