Media Blitz

Here are a few pieces of media I've been enjoying recently with some notable scenes I thought might be suitable for this blog so I thought I would ramble on for a bit about that. This was originally a short list which has gotten longer as I've put off writing it: 

Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)

This is a very enjoyable sequel from the dying embers of the DCU (more on that a bit later) but I'm just going to focus on the moment when the wizard (magical dude who gave Billy Batson his powers - played by Djimon Hounsou) appears to Billy in his dream just as he's going on a date with Wonder Woman to give him a warning. This of course means he appears with his face on Wonder Woman's body which is a lot of fun. A shame that Zachery Levi is a Trumper these days when nearly 20 years ago he was king of the nerds Chuck Bartowski in the action TV series Chuck which I fondly remember. Following watching the first film, I did contemplate cosplaying Mary Marvel.

Doctor Who: Wish World/The Reality War (2025)

Well this year's season finale was a bit of a mixed bag which sadly ended with the regeneration of the Fifteenth Doctor played by Ncuti Gatwa. It felt like we spent very little time with this incarnation and I was sorry to see him go however it looks like the next Doctor may be a woman in the shape of former companion Billie Piper. I have some scepticism around this casting and whether it may just be a bit of fan baiting but I'm not going to go into that. 

The main part I wanted to mention though is that the Fifteenth Doctor wore a few skirts over him time, albeit leaning towards the masculine rather than anything more femme, with the final episode seeing him in a pinstripe number. In Wish World the Doctor had woken up with no memory of his true self and believed himself to be wage slave John Smith who worked for an insurance company every day and wearing a very British blue pinstripe suit and bowler hat. When the spell is broken in The Reality War it's a delight to see the Doctor's more subversive take on the pinstripe suit with a vest and skirt. Very suitable for perhaps the most LGBTQ+ friendly Doctor. 

Rick and Morty: The Rick, The Mort & The Ugly (2025)

Multiple versions of the title characters have long been a staple of this sci-fi series with a whole citadel of AU Ricks and Mortys co-existing in previous episodes. This story sees the fallout from the citadel's destruction as some of the characters try to rebuild their lives. Here I just wanted to note that in a scene reminiscent of a western bar there are some flapper Ricks in the background in full showgirl garb. Maybe they are clones designed just to dance in the background (if Rick gets some kind of weird amusement out of it) or it's possible that alternate versions of the universe's smartest man just want to look pretty and dance. 

Cheerleader Camp (1988)

Cheaply made 80s horror that I only mention due to a crossdressing scene in which one pervy kid dons drag to spy on cheerleaders. Yup, best leave that one there and indeed in the past where it belongs. 

M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

I never watched the original but the trailers for this made me want to go back and see it. If you're in two minds I would say don't go in expecting a horror film akin to the original but something with a more action sci-fi flavour with a hint of MCU. I would totally watch a series with a snarky killer doll and her friends/team fight crime though and I had a lot of fun with this. I mention this mainly because of M3GAN's cute new outfit with miniskirt. I saw someone dressed like this at a recent convention and fair play to her, she really committed to it. 

M3GAN's new outfit in a scene from M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)

In my post Buffy rewatch efforts to watch the cinematic oeuvre of Sarah Michelle Gellar I watched this since it dropped on Amazon Prime. SMG was the perfect choice for Daphne blending many of the elements that made Buffy Summers such a great character namely her kick-ass skills matched with a little ditziness. This is my favourite of the two films and the scene I wanted to mention sees Scooby wearing Velma's jumper and Daphne's purple boots. Daphne herself simply comments that they don't go together but hey, nothing wrong with the Scoob trying a new look. 

Transaction (2025)

Sitcom written by and starring comedian Jordan Gray as Liv, a chaotic trans woman who starts working at a supermarket on the night shift and realises that she can't get fired. It's a lot of fun and a great premise for a sitcom. I think that we Brits seem to specialise in the kind of sitcom that makes you realise everyone's a bit shit really. No matter the struggles some have whether it's race, colour, creed or ability we all have the capacity to be a dick to everyone. It's certainly interesting to see Liv so certain in her identity but yet unsure about having surgery. 

Pretty Red Dress (2022)

Very touching drama about a family unit in south London rocked when the father is discovered crossdressing in the title garb which is used by his partner in an ongoing audition to play Tina Turner in a musical. It also ties in with the story of their teenage daughter who is dealing with her own issues around gender and sexuality. It's still on BBC iPlayer here in the UK but is worth tracking down if you have the same interest in this sort of media as I do.  

Ironheart (2025)

The latest TV offering from the MCU wasn't the best they've done but still a lot of fun as always. I mention this here only due to the appearance by Drag Race royalty Shea Couleé as nonbinary hacker Slug. 

Superman (2025)

One the big summer movies and one which I really enjoyed yet was not without it's faults. So does Superman get into the wrong phone box and end up in a dress? No but I mention it here due to Supergirl's cameo at the end. Supergirl is a character I have wanted to cosplay and seeing her saunter in with a dirty coat over her outfit made me want to do it more. 

Publicity teaser shot for the upcoming
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow film

Check-Up #37

Yes, 37 in a row (little Clerks reference there). See, I can get blogs out before the end of the month. I have got another I want to do about some stuff I've been watching but I wanted to get this one done while I still think of it.  

I went to a convention today and I was just thinking about the amount of prep I did for it for, well, not much really. Today I was Belinda Chandra, the latest Doctor Who companion, from the 1950s set episode Lux in which she wears a very nice yellow dress (please see below picture). The dress itself was good although the one thing wrong with it was that it was very generous in the chest department and despite the ravages of middle age, I really don't have much of, if at all, boobage. I tried pinning it back and I suppose the only other solution would be to wear falsies but I'd never done that before and can't be bothered to be honest. The dress is also backless which meant I would be showing more skin than usual so I got up early and did as much shaving as I could do. This is despite the fact that I bought a white cardigan to cover my shoulders. So I needn't have done so much shaving but part of me thought I might do a photo at some point although I would also say that perhaps not even the sudden heat death of the universe would have been warm enough to make me take the cardie off. Welcome to gender dysphoria. 

The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu)
take in a movie in Lux

The flip side of this though is when I tried the costume on all at once including the white shoes (which I had originally bought for Cher Horowitz) and I just felt so good. My hair is a bit longer and fluffier at the moment so that helped. Again only the lack of boobage let me down today. It was one of those moments when I remembered the feeling that made me want to do this over and over again. I felt so pretty in that moment. After a few arguments in the office at work recently when trans issues have come up it was a reminder of why I still like to do this. It also reminds me that I really should speak up more. 

So why did I do it? Basically to walk around a lot of stalls for 2 hours. Literally 2 hours. I changed clothes in a a small tent (luckily no-one else wanted to use it) and had some overpriced food so why bother? I felt wonderful walking around though. I carried myself a little differently and felt a bit like a proper lady as my heels clacked on the bare floor. The same heels that my feet are now recovering from. I had some nice comments and someone even asked for a photo which was nice. I've also just realised that this is a growing trend of companion period costumes I have (see also Rose Tyler's 1953 dress from The Idiot's Lantern and Ruby Sunday's mod dress from The Devil's Chord). This one I bought specifically because Varada Sethu, who plays Belinda, was at the convention.  

Elsewhere I also went to Birmingham for a talk. Despite travel issues I managed to get there ok but I needed to catch a cab which is how I ended up standing outside a rock pub wearing a t-shirt and red maxi skirt, trying to hide next to a mural. I was expecting a text or call from the driver as he drew near but this didn't stop the paranoia kicking in and me dashing across the road to ask a couple of taxi drivers if they were here for me which prompted one pub patron to shout "What are you doing?" at me. I almost had my face in my hands screaming "I don't know!" (please note I took this a more lightly than it sounds like I did. It's almost sitcom like). As I got in my cab I was treated to a rousing chorus inviting me to either get my tits or my dicks (plural?) out for the lads (still not sure which one it was). Charming. 

Apart from breaking a bracelet this weekend while trying it on in a store, that's about it. I will say though that I am taking the chance to dress more often while going out which does mean lugging a bag of clothes into work but I have found a nice secluded space to change. I will just leave you with a couple of stories I'm following at the moment:

Fake It Until You Make It by tithug - Another tale on The Changing Mirror, this is a fun, ongoing bimbofication story about a snooty literature graduate being taught how to 'fit in' at her new job at a local salon. 

The Underwear Situation by Lost Mind - not quite sure where this is going but it's an interesting mind control tale as Tom's roommate Rebekka tries to change his mind about her - and her underwear.