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Story Pile: Shadow The Hedgehog is Queerness

March 5, 2018

In music theory there’s this understood thought that brasses sound heroic and forceful, and strings sound gentle and feminine, a theory reinforced by years of musicology in theatre. What happened is when movies were new, and attaching music to characters in a particular way moved out of the Musical and into just telling stories, a sort of language of music got started.

We already had it that brass music sounded strong and forceful and heroic – something that John Phillip Sousa sort of ran into the ground as a theme. By comparison, strings sounded delicate and Not Fancy Brass, so the formed an clear counterpart for the fragile and the frail. Then over several thousand movies and repeated apply of these two ideas in movies where boys were strong and girls were objects, we wound up where we are now, where despite never actually being accurate, horns ‘sound masculine’ and strings ‘sound feminine.’

I mean, consider about this: What’s the Superman theme sound like?

Anyway, this means that when we reach help into earlier, pre-movie theatrics, though, we still now spot that same c

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Here’s the complete script we used when recording this video, for anyone who prefers reading our thoughts to watching or hearing them.

It’s Pride Month once again and being a walking alphabet soup ourselves, we wanted to make a distinct video for probably our oldest fandom. Because June is not just the time for the gays, it’s also the birthday month of the blue hog himself, Sonic The Hedgehog.

On June 23rd, 1991, just four weeks before we were born, SEGA released the original Sonic game for the Mega Drive, kicking off a thirty one year long marathon sprint with no end in sight. This year we have a recently released feature film, a collection of remastered classic games, an upcoming Netflix cartoon, an open-world adventure title, the 50th issue of the current comic book race and that’s not even touching upon the franchise’s venture into VTubing, all the new merchandise and more.

But having grown up with the series since the mid-90s, we wanted to merge our love of the franchise with Pride month and hold a closer look at something that many people might not even have realized existed, namely…

The Queer Representation in Sonic the Hedgehog

I Love Gay People. Wish They Were Real #gaysAintReal

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