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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻

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🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 Disaster lesbian in spaaaace Mostly Star Wars, Trek, & LGBTQIA+ ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜 @StarWarsQueeries.bsky.social swficreference.fandom.com lgbtqia.fandom.com More who-am-I: bsky.app/profile/immithrax.bsky.soc… 🍎🎃👻💗😈

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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I love @archive.org and libraries, I really do. But. Fucking Blaire White the transphobic trans woman is at the bottom of Body Alchemy's page. Shouldn't even appear once, yet she's 2 out of 4 "SIMILAR ITEMS (based on metadata)". Refreshed repeatedly; stayed 2/4 videos by her while others changed.
A screenshot from the URL https://archive.org/details/body_alchemy/, cropped to show the bottommost portion of the page. It is labeled "SIMILAR ITEMS (based on metadata) and contains four content boxes, each with an archived item's thumbnail, title, and author; an icon representing the media type; an icon and number of views; an icon and number of times marked as a favorite; and an icon and number of comments. Two of the items are authored by "the blaire white project" [sic]. One video item is titled "Biological Sex Isn't Real Because Woke TikTok", with 73 views and 1 favorite. The other is "How 'TransTrenders' Destroyed the Trans" [sic; cut off text: "Community"], with 36 views and 0 favorite. Blaire White is a trans woman who creates transphobic content.
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Additionally:
Four tweets by Maggie Lovitt regarding an Uncanny X-Men issue by Gail Simone, in which Lovitt misreads or misrepresents the issue in question.
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I love Mystique, I've loved her since childhood, but LET HER BE COMPLICATED AND SELFISH. She adopted poor abandoned Rogue with her wife... but raised Rogue to join them in TERRORISM. Graydon Creed failed to be a mutant despite two evil mutant parents, ew, gross, yeet that teen. Obvious mutant Kurt?
A woman wears a big grin and a yellow sleeveless top, has black bobbed hair and brown skin, and has her arms over her head with her hands extended in a way that indicates she just threw an object. The flying object is a chubby, bald, brown-skinned, diaper-wearing baby who is also grinning. The image is commonly referred to as "baby yeet".

Art by Joan Cornellà at https://cornellajoan.tumblr.com/post/174746837743
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy ~ I do, I DO have to give Amidala that.
Screenshot of Bowen Yang, styled in glasses and a white suit, seated to speak into a microphone as he presents the nominees for "Arguably the Best Choice Natalie Portman Has Made":
- "The scene at the back of the pet shop, when she fully goes for it by herself, you know what I'm saying? - May/December"
- "'Natalie's rap', all"
- "To do those Miss Dior campaigns, Mama is glowing. REALLY underrated."
- "One thing you have to give Amidala is her COSTUMES. They are unforgettable."
- "Sobbing while shaving head in... what's that movie? It's something about 'November'..."

From: "The Las Culturistas Culture Awards 2026 Nominations - PART ONE | Las Culturistas with Matt and Bowen" 
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECW0Z3BiIJI
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Fake Star Trek: Deep Space Nine title card of text superimposed in space above the station, reading: "DAX AND HER EX-WIFE CONFIRM I'M A LESBIAN." Anyone else watch "Rejoined" at a formative age?
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"HIS PARTNER-IN-ETERNITY" 🥺❤️ #GoodOmens3 #GoodOmensSpoilers
Cropped screenshot of the store listing for the red-and-black Crowley Christmas Jumper, back view, which depicts Crowley extending a wing over Aziraphale. This specific sentence from the description has been highlighted in blue: "He shelters his partner-in-eternity Aziraphale under his wing on the jumper's reverse."
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I turn to @artyewok.bsky.social to illustrate such moments.
A gray-furred Ewok wearing green and blue uses to thick marker to update the number on a paper hanging under a label. The label: "DAYS WITHOUT WOOKIEEPEDIA NONSENSE:"; the paper: "0". Art by Robin Pronovost (2024).
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
MOON! MOON!! MOOOOON!!! (Y'all she was so big when they cut over on the Artemis II live mission coverage. Sharing their "moon joy"!)
In SPACE, the Orion (aka Integrity) lunar orbiter is the viewer's left, our BIG OL' BEAUTIFUL MOON on the right, and a tiiiiny white dot is about to go behind her. (I don't know if that dot was us, one of our neighbors, the ISS, or what, but it went by on the screen and then disappeared into shadow.)
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Screenshot of a tweet by the late Carrie Fisher with her characteristic typos. Below her text is a GIF, not animated because this is a screenshot, of Shaquille O'Neal facepalming with one ginormous hand. Her words parody a classic Princess Leia line:
"See?i don't know how to write someone privately.....Help me obi Juan whoever the fuck you are....
You're my only ho"

The URL is https://twitter.com/carrieffisher/status/717403735169761280
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Sloppily-edited advertisement for the app Monopoly Go! plus Harry Potter, depicting Dobby forcing a smile as he holds up an item. The text is modified to read: "Monopoly Go fuck yourselves, transphobes! Claim your Free Dobby Dick Shield!* (used)". Dobby holds up a wet condom. No wonder he's cringing like that. Dobby is free, but at what cost? (Your soul; your money helps JK Rowling hurt trans people!)
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Alt specific to this modified screenshot of the original post: an added pink arrow points to the number of likes/hearts, which is 69 (nice).

The original alt:
Spider-Man is surrounded by tentacles, with limbs wrapping around his arms and legs, and one inappropriately slithering under his costumed torso. In the background the Looter is thrown against a rock wall.

Spider-Man: AAAH! I'M BEING FELT UP BY A PERVERT FROM BEYOND SPACE AND TIME!!

A real panel from Amazing Spider-Man #653 (2011)
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Using one photo already in your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Pink lettering indicates newborn Jaina Solo going *UEEEEEHH! UEEEE* off-panel. A doctor, who wears excessive personal protective equipment for delivering babies—specifically, Leia Organa Solo's—looks creepy instead of reassuring as he looms way too close to her groin while giving her a thumbs-up.
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
❤️ @justinaireland.com
From Justina Ireland's "Star Wars: The High Republic: Out of the Shadows", chapter 7. The italicized and all-caps text represents how Nubarron's words are projected into Vernestra's mind:

“NO SHIP FOR YOU. YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PILOT, VERNESTRA RWOH, AND I WILL NOT LET YOU RUIN WHAT IS LEFT OF MY FLEET, Master Nubarron sent, the message ringing with finality in Vernestra’s mind.”
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
For anyone else who'll want to follow, the case number is 2025-CF-011312-A-O via myeclerk.myorangeclerk.com/Cases/search ... and are you fucking kidding me with this CAPTCHA
Screenshot from the Orange County Clerk website showing that the reCAPTCHA happens to be "crosswalks" while performing a court records search for a case with a felony charge alleging the defendant Orestes Sebastian Suarez defaced a traffic device—specifically, the crosswalk between Pulse and Dunkin' Donuts.
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Email sent by Pulse Families and Survivors for Justice to @equalityflorida.bsky.social leadership. It was one screenshot, but I've divided it in two because it was too many characters for one ALT. In summary: Equality FL harmed people with crosswalk rally; needs to apologize and respect Pulse site.
Email screenshot posted at https://www.instagram.com/p/DN2KjSmXBeM

Subject: Written Public Apology to PULSE victims/survivors for hijacking the sacred PULSE site
Sender: Pulse Families and Survivors for Justice
Recipients: Several (BCC)

Body of message:
Dear Equality Florida Leadership,

We are writing to express deep concern and disappointment regarding Equality Florida's recent decision to use the Pulse massacre site as the stage for a political rally. This marks the first time a nonprofit has done so, and it has caused profound harm to survivors and victims' families.

What unfolded was not only inappropriate but also retraumatizing. The deployment of the bomb squad-for the first time since the night of the massacre and not due to an actual bomb, just as on June 12, 2016, but due to a box of chalk-created a frightening and triggering situation for many. Survivors and families should never again be forced to relive that kind of terror at the very site where our loved ones were murdered and many of us barely survived.

This is not Stonewall. Pulse is the site of a tragedy, of unresolved and unacknowledged violence that continues to harm those of us most directly impacted.

Equality Florida's actions transformed sacred ground into a media circus and you used victims for publicity as part of a media strategy. That is unacceptable.

For years, survivors and families have endured repeated exploitation-by onePULSE Foundation, politicians, and others-who have used our trauma for profit, publicity, or votes. We know what exploitation looks like. We recognize it immediately. And it is devastating each time it happens.

[REDACTED] does not speak for the 49 families whose loved ones were murdered there. So, please stop tokenizing him as the representative of the PULSE victim base, which he is NOT.

[Continues in second image.][Continued from first image]

We ask that Equality Florida:
1. Issue a formal public written apology to survivors, victims' families, and the community and publish this on all social media sites ASAP.
2. Commit clearly and unequivocally in writing to never again using the Pulse site as a stage for political events or rallies.

The victims, their families, and survivors deserve peace and respect. We will not allow their memories—or our lived trauma—to be reduced to political theater. We deserve a dignified space for solemn remembrance that is not co-opted by either political party for political stunts. We refuse to be abused by another nonprofit.

Your marketing decisions also subjected survivors to abusive attacks from your own supporters on social media, simply because we spoke out against your poor judgment. The harm you have caused is irreparable.

Sincerely,
Pulse Families and Survivors for Justice

Email footer:
Pulse Families and Survivors for Justice
The Largest Grassroots Coalition of PULSE Victims/Survivors
Formerly Known as the Community Coalition Against a Pulse Museum (CCAPM)
http://www.pulsefamilies.com
https://www.nopulsemuseum.into
https://www.youtube.com/@nopulsemuseum
https://www.instagram.com/nopulsemuseum/
https://www.facebook.com/NoPulseMuseum
https://www.tiktok.com/@nopulsemuseum
We endorse: https://thepulseshooting.com
RIP onePULSE Foundation
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
IDK what it is about me last month at NOLA's Aubodon and elsewhere yesterday but stingrays love me?! Keep coming to ME for touches??? AND LOOK AT BABY COWNOSE RAY! BABY COWNOSE RAY! BABY! COWNOSE! RAY! Ocean ravioli just a few months old and visitors like me can (with one finger) GENTLY TOUCH HIM 🥹
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The poor, poor court reporter who had to keep up with that Laura Loomer v. Bill Maher et al deposition. ☹️ The record is suffering ☹️
Screenshot from deposition in the case Laura Loomer v. Bill Maher et al. Lines are highlighter to emphasize what the poor suffering court reporter said to Loomer and the lawyers:
THE REPORTER: One at a time for the record. Do not let the record suffer.
THE REPORTER: One at a time. Do not let the record suffer. The record is suffering.

From pages 165 and 166 of https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.434676/gov.uscourts.flmd.434676.100.0.pdf
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This just in: Gail Simone would punch woklings* in the face. @artyewok.bsky.social asked for comment. *yes, there's a proper name for baby ewoks
From Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, a baby ewok (aka a "wokling") in a nest, looking like an unpunchable teddy bear
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I THOUGHT I got a clear phone snap of "Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything" by co-authors @lydiakang.bsky.social and Nate Pedersen at the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum pharmacymuseum.org. But nooo, it shooketh. (Guided tour EXTREMELY WORTH IT; will go again!)
A hardback book is displayed on antique wooden pharmacy shelves. It's blurry, as if the old pharmacy's ghost jostled the phone.
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, on the 9th anniversary of 49 people's murders in the Pulse nightclub mass shooting, called one of the victim's family members or a family's support person an "instigator" and "a second terrorist". 3:23 to 3:56: www.facebook.com/share/v/1Ahk...
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer addresses WESH 2 News from outside of the Pulse nightclub. He's wearing a black t-shirt with a rainbow City of Orlando logo that's obscured by the added quote text. In the quote, his last phrase after "um" is emphasized in yellow:
"I think it was really just one instigator who has not been productive in the process that caused whatever issues there were. So, I don't think that's a general feeling among 95% of the families. I get from the rest of the families that they're thankful for what's been done for them and the opportunity to go in the building. There has been somebody that has been very troublesome to staff and, um, really has been a second terrorist."

Source: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AhkJ3eBmN/
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Reskeet with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)
Screencapture from the PC game "Death Gate", based on the Death Gate Cycle fantasy novels by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. There's a wood background behind the text options and a character portrait in the top-left corner depicts a classical wizard type: old white man, pointy hat, beard, robes. The video game dialogue this wizard's spouting is less classical: "Something wrong with you? I told you. I'm Bond. James Bond." (He leans over to the sleeping dragon and whispers rather loudly.) "I don't think this boy's playing with a full deck."

The player is given two response options:
1) No you're not. You're Zifnab. The children told me.
2) Try to keep it together, Sartan. I need some information.

(He's Zifnab.)

(No, he's Bond! JAMES Bond!)
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This way if you're balls!
From the 2D "Clone Wars" microseries. In a sci-fi subway station, near the top center of the screen, there's what looks like a stylized sign for restrooms/toilets. It has a green-yellow arrow pointed to the right below silhouettes of a person with a dress, a person without a dress, and a ball with a V-shape sprouting from the top. (Antenna? Ears?) The image also has a lightsaber-wielding alien (Shaak Ti) fare-evading by flipping over turnstiles and a poster of Yoda giving a thumbs-up.
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If Wookieepedia could refrain from taking credit for *my* achievement, that'd be great. I took advantage of the wiki's interest in countering its transphobic reputation to found WP:PRIDE. I still got pushback on acknowledging LGBTQIA+ characters, with excuses that the language wasn't "in-universe".
In this excerpt from Wookieepedia's current main page, the following phrase has a magenta underline to emphasize it: "Project Pride's efforts to improve the wiki's coverage of LGBTQIA+ topics."

The complete sentences leading up to that are: "Since 2015, editor recruitment has advanced on Wookieepedia, with the great majority of the current administrators and review board members having joined those groups in recent years. The past ten years has also seen the progress of the Discussions forum and the launch of twenty-two new collaborative WookieeProjects. These include the Project Stardust initiative focusing on essential topics and Project Pride's efforts to improve the wiki's coverage of LGBTQIA+ topics." (Image cropping has left an incomplete sentence, sorry!)

Seen on Wookieepedia's main page, but text produced by this: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Template:Mainpage_Box_Welcome?oldid=14483305
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Oh, it is! Misspelling, what misspelling, I didn't see a misspelling~
Three soldiers in white-and-blue armor and helmets block the passage of Bail Organa, who is wearing dark armor pieces and a somber expression. His words are in white text: "And so it is."
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Of all the misspellings... they just had to do it the way that people intentionally do it when they hate the guy and/or his work. (It's FILONI) 💀 deadline.com/2025/02/kath...
Dave Filoni name is highlighted because it is misspelled in the following sentence: "According to insiders, Kennedy has been working on a succession plan for a couple years, eyeing candidates from within in process with Bob Iger and Alan Bergman (that puts someone like Dave Feloni who knows the universe inside out in a strong position)."
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Sylvia Rivera and the trans community have been erased from the live version of "Pride in the 1990's" (last archive: web.archive.org/web/20250204...)
This depicts the page BEFORE changes. All text that reads "LGBTQ+" has been changed to "LGB" in the next screenshot. Another change was made to the following sentence: "There were separate marches to celebrate those at the Stonewall Riots for respective groups within the community like the trans community, led by Sylvia Riveria." The live version shown in the next screenshot no longer contains the phrase "within the community like the trans community, led by Sylvia Riveria."

The full text in this BEFORE screenshot is:
"The first EuroPride march, starting in 1992, saw over 100,000 participants. Demonstrations would only grow in the next decade for countries throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. In addition to pride marches being organized in other countries and individual cities in the United States, people began to break down the specific groups in the LGBTQ+ community and celebrate them individually. For example, the ‘90s would see an increase in black LBGTQ+ marches, which were trying to bring awareness to the specific issues that faced that community. This could also be seen in the highly anticipated 25th anniversary celebrations of the Stonewall Uprising during Stonewall ‘94. In New York City, this celebration would number over 1.1 million marchers. Not all the LGBTQ+ community would be at this march. There were separate marches to celebrate those at the Stonewall Riots for respective groups within the community like the trans community, led by Sylvia Riveria. Just like in the previous decades, not everyone within the community was in agreement. This decade was not an easy decade for the LGBTQ+ community but the next two decades would be seen as a referendum on the policies of the nineties."

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20250204132246/https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/pride-in-the-1990-s.htmThis screenshot depicts the page AFTER changes. All text that is now "LGB" used to be "LGBTQ+", which can be seen in the previous screenshot. Another change was made to the following sentence, which now reads: "There were separate marches to celebrate those at the Stonewall Riots for respective groups." The sentence was originally: "There were separate marches to celebrate those at the Stonewall Riots for respective groups within the community like the trans community, led by Sylvia Riveria."

The full text in this AFTER screenshot is:
"The first EuroPride march, starting in 1992, saw over 100,000 participants. Demonstrations would only grow in the next decade for countries throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. In addition to pride marches being organized in other countries and individual cities in the United States, people began to break down the specific groups in the LGB community and celebrate them individually. For example, the ‘90s would see an increase in black LBG marches, which were trying to bring awareness to the specific issues that faced that community. This could also be seen in the highly anticipated 25th anniversary celebrations of the Stonewall Uprising during Stonewall ‘94. In New York City, this celebration would number over 1.1 million marchers. Not all the LGB community would be at this march. There were separate marches to celebrate those at the Stonewall Riots for respective groups. Just like in the previous decades, not everyone within the community was in agreement. This decade was not an easy decade for the LGB community but the next two decades would be seen as a referendum on the policies of the nineties."

Source: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/pride-in-the-1990-s.htm
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Has @cherriielle.bsky.social talked about designing Lula and Zeen's wedding spectacular looks besides brief "I did this!" and I just missed it and can't find it, or something that hasn't happened (...yet?)? Everyone should be talking, like when @taraphillips.bsky.social did Leia's wedding dress!
Ella Poworoznik @cherriielle.bsky.social cover for THE WEDDING SPECTACULAR special issue of Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures. Lula Talisola, a young Black human woman with her hair in bantu knots, smiles at Zeen Mrala, a young alien woman with pink skin and tendrils instead of hair. Lula wears a white and blue wedding gown and Zeen wears blue and teal; they both have matching silver bracelets. Confetti falls around them.
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
omg while I was MID-REPORTING someone's anti-trans trolling and harassment, their replies suddenly blanked and refreshed: the account was suspended. Beautiful. IDK if they were already being investigated or if the moderation team was just THAT QUICK.
Bluesky error message: 
"Not Found
Account has been suspended
Try again"
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Person A: "Hmm, we named this fish alien 'Meena Tills' after Tina Mills, but Hasbro used he/him on the toy packaging and the EU went with it. How can we make her more fem for The Clone Wars?" Person B: "What about fish breasts?" - www.starwars.com/series/clone... - www.starwars.com/series/clone...
Photograph of a live-action performer costumed as Meena Tills, a fish-headed alien with webbed fingers, for Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. The character has a flat, broad chest in this image.Computer generated image of Meena Tills, a fish-headed alien with webbed fingers and toes, for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. In this image, the character design has breasts emphasized by a skintight shirt.
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Cover of Hole's "Celebrity Skin" album, a black-and-white photograph of three women and one man with a fire behind them.
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
They really, really are! Continued to look and I'd forgotten the Port in a Storm is ALSO wrong-- "reddish amber" in Bloodline, photographed red in Galaxy's Edge cookbook. And I thought I was fully prepared to survive in the GFFA after reading this book! (Image added: what Shane and I are on about)
The image header has a warning label: "WATCH OUT!" It describes further: "MIXING DRINKS: At best, the wrong drink combination can be unfashionable. At worst, it can be fatal. Make sure you know your mixology or have a trustworthy bartender." Labels point to various beverages on a bar top and behind the bar. The labels are untrustworthy.

The text and labeling are from "Star Wars: How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks and Other Galactic Survival Skills" by Christian Blauvelt. They were added to a photograph of a portion of the Outlander Club set built for "Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones".
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Vroom, vroom.
Screenshot from the video, in which a black-and-white rat drives a rodent car, and the narrator says: "Vroom, vroom."
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Worth highlighting: Bea Arthur was an ally and gave $ for LGBTQ+ youth housing. She played Ackmena, who became sapphic with her mentioned wife, Sorschi, in @chuckwendig.bsky.social's "We Don't Serve Their Kind Here", From A Certain Point of View 2017. Bob Mackie's costume illustration for Ackmena
Costume illustration by Bob Mackie for Bea Arthur's bartender character, Ackmena, in The Star Wars Holiday Special. It depicts a woman with a wavy gray ponytail, a brown neckerchief, an off-shoulder brown dress with a torn hemline, and an apron. Image from https://bid.juliensauctions.com/lot-details/index/catalog/381/lot/154370/BEA-ARTHUR-ACKMENA-BOB-MACKIE-COSTUME-ILLUSTRATION-FROM-THE-STAR-WARS-HOLIDAY-SPECIAL
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Happy Life Day! Guess what? We have multiple queer people to thank/blame for The Star Wars Holiday Special! One of them is co-writer Bruce Vilanch, out forEVER as a gay man. Gotta remember that question: "Is [thing] bad, or is it gay, and people don't get it?" www.bkmag.com/2023/12/14/b...
BKMAG asks Bruce Vilanch:
"You mentioned you also wrote “The Star Wars Holiday Special.” I haven’t seen the new documentary about it, “A Disturbance in the Force,” but see that you’re in it. What’s the filmmaker’s take on the special?"

Bruce Vilanch answers:
"Well, it answers the basic question, “How did this happen?” Because ever since Star Wars became the Scientology of the nerds, whenever they discover this thing on the internet, they say, “George Lucas, how could you betray us with this?” A lot of the documentary is about how it actually happened and nerd parsing of the Star Wars mythology. A lot of it is also funny people talking about how bad it was. That includes some of the people who worked on it, myself among them. Even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about Star Wars or about television, the whole idea of it is kind of funny.

It inspired me to write a book. I answer the question of how they happened. The book is called, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time.” It’s a chronicle of all of these shows that I wrote, including the first Oscars show, which was the notorious Rob Lowe/Snow White show. They’re all in there. I’ve also expanded it to include Broadway and movies, you know, legendary disasters I’ve been involved in like “Can’t Stop the Music.” I discovered when I plumb the depths that they were rich with incident."

BKMAG asks: "When does the book come out?"
Bruce Vilanch answers: "Good question. I’m talking to the publisher now. Next year sometime."BKMAG asks Bruce Vilanch: "Is 'The Star Wars Holiday Special' bad, or is it gay, and people don’t get it?"
Bruce Vilanch answers: "I believe I was the only gay writer on the show and everybody else was straight. Bea Arthur and Harvey Korman were my contributions. I must have had a loud voice in the room to get that stuff through. I write in the book that making it gay was never my intention. Only looking with a backward gaze you can say that was gay."

BKMAG's question is: "Is there anything else about the special that gets interpreted with a 'backward gaze'?"
Bruce Vilanch's answer is: "I get these emails from people saying, 'How could they allow that blackface to happen on the special?' And I say, 'Blackface? What are you talking about?' First of all, Harvey Korman is playing an alien creature. It’s a humanoid, but it’s not a person. And then I went to look at it and I realized, when we made it, the makeup was purple and green. When someone is watching today through a 45th-generation knockoff of the tape, it could actually look like it was blackface. So I get what they were saying, but that’s the backward gaze again. That has nothing whatsoever to do with what we did."
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
FOR LIGHT AND LIFE AND LESBIANS!
Tenth Doctor (played by David Tennant), looking up thoughtfully and uncomfortable with his own mouth, says, "that's weird".
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🎃 Immi Thrax 👻 @immithrax.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
One of my 2021 tweets: Apparently pronouns have ruined Star Wars, but now, you* can enjoy pronoun-free Star Wars. *... shit, that's a pronoun
Screencaptures from The Empire Strikes back with new captions.
Leia looks imploringly at Han as she says: "Leia loves Han."
Han responds: "Han knows."Screencapture from A New Hope with new caption. Han, dressed as a stormtrooper, looks confused as he leans over a microphone and says: "Uh, Han had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. Han's fine. Han's all fine here now."Screencapture from A New Hope with new caption. Princess Leia, wearing a white hooded dress and in hologram form, says: "Leia Organa regrets that Leia is unable to present Leia's father's request to General Kenobi in person, but Leia's ship has fallen under attack, and Leia's afraid Leia's mission to bring Kenobi to Alderaan has failed."Screencapture from Return of the Jedi with new caption. Luke Skywalker, expression full of conviction, says: "The Emperor has failed, the Emperor's highness. Luke Skywalker is a Jedi, like Luke's father before Luke."
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