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I stumbled onto your blog by accident. It's funny seeing an active blog about an old tv show. My mom made me watch reruns of this show growing up, AND my parents loved this show so much that they named my older brother Thomas.
oh wow your parents REALLY loved this show, damn!
unfortunately I'm not as active as I used to be but I'm glad people still enjoy the blog!
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sherlock holmes deduces you are trans before you've figured it out yourself and refers to you with those pronouns and then when you look confused is like "ah...had you not arrived at that conclusion yet?" and wafts away in his dressing gown to smoke seventeen pipes, leaving you in a gender crisis
Hercule Poirot deduces you are trans by accident because he suspected you of murder and broke into your house and searched your stuff then puts 2 and 2 together when Hastings makes an innocuous observation about your fashion sense or something and he jumps up and cries “mon dieu!!!” before striding over to you kissing you on both cheeks and saying “ah, cher ami, you must live as you choose!” and then running off to confront the real culprit while you stand there in befuddlement
Columbo deduces you're trans from context clues while he's talking to you about the area, immediately uses your preferred pronouns and starts telling you about his cousin, who's also transgender, and how they got this job doing security, and how they told him that a security guard always locks up, and asks you if the guard locked up last night, and isn't it weird the place was open? And you're like, well, someone else must have opened it up. Maybe the guy in charge? He has a spare key. And then he nods and goes "the guy in charge has a spare key... well, how about that?" And then he offers you a cigar and wanders off, and a day later your boss gets arrested for murder.
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Jessica Fletcher deduces you're trans because the murder victim was seen with an unknown man who becomes people's main suspect, but because of the way you talk about the murder victim she realises you are the mysterious fella, but not the murderer, and helpfully directs the sheriff's attention away from the mystery man and towards the real culprit, while telling you that the same way the murder victim loved and accepted the real you, so will many others once you're ready and winks at you every time she tells the sheriff she is certain the "mystery" man has nothing to do with the murder.
Thomas Magnum deduces you're trans because you both frequent the same gay club
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Magnum P.I. - 1980 1.04 | Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too
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Magnum P.I. - 1980 1.03
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the first rule of detective fiction is that the detective in question should ALWAYS just be the nosiest person alive and never be a cop
ok I get that this is a joke but I would like to point out that Magnum P.I. was not copaganda. Magnum is a private investigator who frequently works against the local police. There was even an episode where he investigated the rape and murder of a woman by a cop who was being protected by his colleagues and the system (the same episode dealt with how cops' primary function is enforcing a system under which mentally ill people are designed to suffer because they frame a homeless vet with severe PTSD for the crime).
There is a recurring character, Lt. Tanaka, who is part of the police force and who Magnum sometimes gets important information and access from, but his characterisation as someone who is easily bribed is not exactly a favourable portrayal of the police either.
Magnum P.I. definitely has its flaws and maybe isn't exactly radical by today's standards, it's not like every episode exposes the corrupt and violent police force or anything like that, but it was definitely not a classic case of copaganda. And as someone who watches a lot of crime shows, I even perceived it as refreshing and unusual because it was very openly critical of institutions like the military and the police.
#now I've never seen the reboot but I've heard that does fall under copaganda#which is... disappointing but not surprisingly#whenever magnum worked with police it was shown as a necessary ''evil'' rather than praise for their so-called work#magnum pi#magnum p.i.#80s magnum#80s magnum pi#rape mention#you gotta remember: magnum is a technically homeless vet with ptsd#it's not a coincidence he's that and not a cop
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I wish @julialepetit knew how much this joke is catering to me, a huge Columbo fan who also runs a Magnum P.I. blog literally called @bisexualmagnum
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I just found a blog called @bisexualmagnum today and let it be known I have never been more bisexual
did I do this?
did my out of context screenshot post that went viral on tumblr and beyond cause this scene to become widely shared in all sorts of formats, going viral over and over again??
#magnum pi#tom selleck#thomas magnum#magnum p.i.#I'm... just gonna go ahead and take credit for it#seeing this in my youtube recs absolutely took me out#I mean every instance of this scene being shared was made after my post and specifically after it went viral#maybe I WILL create a magnum renaissance after all#nuns don't work on sunday#all it took for me to reshape the internet