waters-and-the-wilde:
anyway it’s been *checks notes* *waves at @mia-ugly* at least three weeks since chapter 11 of Slow Show dropped and i’m still thinking about the Cast Party Coming Out Dance
now, a lot of this is tied into those two Coming Out Dances in Torchwood bc that was really Baby’s First Fandom (and also incidentally what primed baby’s first gay feelings about A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square)
but it’s also got me thinking back on that time i danced to Glenn Miller at a cast party back in the day when my friend and i still publicly girl-presenting entities who were at that point dressed in m/m Torchwood couple’s cosplay, and i thought i understood how daring that was given the nature of that particular community at the time but i’m really only now coming to recognize the sheer amount of teenage audacity it took for that Queer Power Move in hindsight.
so yeah shoutout to @phoenixtawnyflower ya entity is now Properly Out As Nonbinary and wants to say thank u for being friends with me in a gay way and gay with me in a friends way in more genders than i knew were even possible at the time and i want you to know i cherish the memory of that entire business. (honestly while i’m here i cherish the entire business of our friendship and how much you were willing to share and model all the things with me but that’s a moment really sticks out for me rn)
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Welcome to the club, my dear! That’s a fabulous replacement for ‘girl,’ I’m always wanting to say ‘ya girl’ or ‘guess who…this girl’ except Not A Girl Anymore, so I think I’ll steal ‘entity’. Also, ‘friends in a gay way and gay in a friends way’ is a beautiful way to describe going to prom together, among everything else.
Those were the days! My memories get all mixed up, but are you sure that was a cast party? Only show we were in together would’ve been Alice, and I wouldn’t have dressed up for that because I was planning to leave it early all along to go to the same gay prom, two years earlier. (And I swear Glenn Miller has played at every event I attended that involved music since 2010.)
I think, wherever it was, it was the same night a certain 11th Doctor enthusiast saw us and went “Oh! You’re… I knew about [phoenix], but not [wilde]!” And I had to go explain to him that whatever conclusion he’d just come to, it wasn’t the right one. I didn’t even know whether I’d inadvertently outed you or not at that point. Not like we ever formally came out to one another, at least in regards to orientation. As for a power move, I certainly wouldn’t have been brave enough if we’d been boys–it was only the ‘gal pal’ phenomenon that made me feel safe.
Funny story about
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square–I was watching Good Omens, and that played at the end, like you do. “Angels dining at the Ritz.” And I laughed and said, “Guess they changed the words to fit the image.”
Mother says, “Why, what was it before?”
“Angels dancing at the Ritz.”
“Really?”
So I googled it. And, no. The lyrics are, in fact, dining at the Ritz.
Huh, I said to myself. Did I totally misremember it from that Torchwood scene I watched a hundred times? So I pulled up YouTube, found that scene and…
“Angels dancing at the Ritz.”
Plus most of the google hits for those lyrics turn up Torchwood art/fic.
So. Torchwood changed it to fit the image?
Anyway, I hope you’re safe where you are, and well, and happy!
I’m feeling nostalgic, so check your discord later, I’mma send you some photos.