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Socrates, what is drag?
Jul. 4th, 2019 11:07 pmThis spring I discovered Natalie Wynn (aka ContraPoints). She does these videos (on pretty serious subjects) that often use a lot of drag tropes and crazy visual framing devices.
I’m thinking about how that kind of work clicks with me. I want to write like that, with wacky dialogues. But I don’t think I’m patient enough to produce much of that kind of writing outside a simple prose form.
Part of why she clicks with me is also the particular kind of what-I’m-calling-drag character of some of her recent videos. Super-femme, monstrous, & surreal all at once. Not for nothing is her (ever mis-aimed) fandom calling her “Dark Mother” now. Yeah, I guess there’s a reason that would click with me. I kind of want to be the hero, the crone, & the voice of the author all at once. And of course there are all those fantastical variants of my cartoon self.
(Oh, yeah! I forgot I mentioned her in a post about a strip I stopped working on. Yeah, there was a good reason I had to wait, I think. I had to get back into “what Nia thinks” about vanity & beauty, and away from what Natalie was saying–even though I already had lots of ideas of my own. It really was irritating to have her voice in my head. That’s not the main reason I have abandoned that strip, though.)
I’m thinking about how that kind of work clicks with me. I want to write like that, with wacky dialogues. But I don’t think I’m patient enough to produce much of that kind of writing outside a simple prose form.
Part of why she clicks with me is also the particular kind of what-I’m-calling-drag character of some of her recent videos. Super-femme, monstrous, & surreal all at once. Not for nothing is her (ever mis-aimed) fandom calling her “Dark Mother” now. Yeah, I guess there’s a reason that would click with me. I kind of want to be the hero, the crone, & the voice of the author all at once. And of course there are all those fantastical variants of my cartoon self.
(Oh, yeah! I forgot I mentioned her in a post about a strip I stopped working on. Yeah, there was a good reason I had to wait, I think. I had to get back into “what Nia thinks” about vanity & beauty, and away from what Natalie was saying–even though I already had lots of ideas of my own. It really was irritating to have her voice in my head. That’s not the main reason I have abandoned that strip, though.)
