Hello and happy midweek to you, my friends! I’ve just been out at the little frame shop near my house getting my new cat peet arts matted and framed! What if I convince my wife that we should only have art in our house painted by animals? Am I a secret interior design genius?? Probably. What I definitely am is your humble servant and this is your Wednesday Pop Culture Fix!
+ Boom! Studios’ new Buffy the Vampire Slayer Slayerverse has made Xander queer. No thanks!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics have recently embraced the “Slayerverse,” Buffy’s answer to the multiverse, and the concept has unlocked bold new iterations of the classic characters. The newest version of Xander is very different to the classic one, with his most problematic elements removed for a simple reason; he’s interested in guys instead.
+ Freeform has renewed Single Drunk Female for a second season.
+ Harry Styles and Lizzo dueted on “I Will Survive” at Coachella, in case you missed it. I promised my bisexual sister I would make sure you knew this.
+ Welcome to Janelle Monáe’s dreamworld.
+ An energetic Hacks season two trailer for you!
https://youtu.be/QIg9MuEbpoM
+ Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are just getting started.
+ The breezy bisexuality of Anaïs in Love.
+ 18 new queer songs that landed in April.
+ Does Taika Waititi’s involvement in the explicitly queer Our Flag Means Death spell a bright, rainbow-colored future for Thor: Love and Thunder? (I personally doubt it, not because of Taika Waititi but because of Disney.)
+ Here’s the first trailer for satirical queer slasher Bodies Bodies Bodies.
+ I sincerely cannot believe this movie exists.
Here's your look at Margot Robbie as #Barbie: https://t.co/jNxkFTjCiT pic.twitter.com/BUBN6kajUt
— Variety (@Variety) April 26, 2022
