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sun surfer · 02-12-2019, 02:57 PM

I have two main possibilities in mind for March:

-Queer as Folk. This could have LGBT themes, but I mean it more as the original turn of the phrase, that people can be odd and different. So, the topic could be about any character or group of characters with 'differences' whatever that may be, or considered strange by others or those around them. Or it could be about seemingly ordinary people who turn out not to be so ordinary after all.

-Mad as a March Hare. I thought it might be apropos for next month.

In a way it could be a bit similar to Queer as Folk, though this one would probably lend itself to a focus on more extreme eccentricity or 'madness', but there's many possible ways to interpret this topic. It could have something to do with pronounced mental illness, it could be about 'mad' taken as anger, it could be about hares or rabbits, it could be something to do with the actual character of the March Hare, it could be something to do with the month of March, it could be something to do with the original source of the phrase being that hares act more erratic and excitedly in their mating season and so about characters who act erratic and excitedly, etc. Lots of diverging possibilities with this one.

I'll probably think on it a couple of days or so. If anyone has any preference or either of these or any other suggestions for our next topic then please post!

02-12-2019, 02:57 PM	#352
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