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ok do you see this Legendary Epic woman right here? this is wendy fucking carlos and i’m going to describe to you why wendy carlos is 30 thousand times better than you

  1. she is a 74 year old trans fucking woman. she remembers having dysphoria at age five and started hrt in 1968. you think transitioning is difficult now? try doing it in 1968. the thought scares the shit out of me.
  2. her first album, switched on bach, is a literal hour of her playing bach’s music on synthesizers. that’s classical edm. edm wouldn’t exist if she hadn’t brought synthesizers to prominence. the catch? synthesizers in 1968 were monophonic. that means you can only play one note at a time. wendy carlos sat there and played each instrument’s piece of bachs music at least 6 times per symphony, painstakingly overdubbing and rerecording each line, one at a time.
  3. oh yeah, switched on bach was the first classical album to sell more than 500k copies and she won 3 grammies and stayed on the billboard #1 pop charts for 17 weeks.
  4. you know tron? that really awesome movie whose sequel daft punk made the ost for? wendy is the original daft punk. tron’s soundtrack was all her; not only that, but so was a clockwork orange and the shining. 
  5. in 1998 this piece of shit momus (aka nick currie on wired) made a song mocking wendy’s sexual orientation. $50k of currie’ money later, she forced him to remove that song from his entire collection, have the master destroyed, and his music career fucking died after that.

figured i’d post this since daft punk keep getting a lot of love. i love daft punk, but they owe their lives to this fucking badass.

Perkins, a playwright, is the second female writer to join a DC series starring a high-profile female character in November — along with Meredith Finch, who’s taking over “Wonder Woman” with her husband David Finch. Supergirl #36 is slated to be illustrated by regular series artist Emanuela Lupacchino, also a female creator.

Kate Perkins joins Supergirl over at DC as co-writer in November. As the CBR quote above points out, Perkins is the second female writer to join a DC title in November alongside Meredith Finch — but that’s also following October’s addition of Genevieve Valentine as new Catwoman writer, and Becky Cloonan as co-writer on Gotham Academy.

Currently, the female writer/artist list with regular DC gigs goes Perkins, Finch, Valentine, Cloonan, Emanuela Lupacchino, Margueritte Bennett, Amanda Connor, Ann Nocenti, Babs Tarr, Caitlin Kittredge, Cat Staggs and Yuko Shimizu, right? Oh, and Sandra Hope, too. With Ming Doyle, Meghan Hetrick and Tula Lotay on minis, Gail Simone on a secret project yet to be announced and a handful of fill-in/irregular creators on other books (Joelle Jones on He-Man in November was a nice surprise).

Worth pointing out that neither Perkins nor Valentine were comic book writers previous to their new gigs, too — so it’s expanding the overall talent pool as well as expanding DC’s female creator count. A nice counterpoint to commentary about “the big leagues” and “running a business” from other publishers out there, he writes, pointedly.

(via graemem)