Actor Dick Sargent appeared on the 1970s game show “Tattle Tales” with comedian Fanny Flagg as his partner. The show quizzed celebrity couples about secrets in their relationship. But both Sargent and Flagg had secrets they wouldn’t have never revealed on the program - they were both gay.
Sargent is best known as “The Second Darrin” in the sitcom “Bewitched”, replacing Dick York at the start of the 6th season (1969). York needed to leave the show due to severe back problems.
Personally I preferred Sargent over York as Darrin. York was too crabby. While I think Sargent and co-Star Elizabeth Montgomery showed more affection to each other.
Oddly enough “Bewitched” echoed the plight of gays and lesbians who had to hide their true selves to better fit into society. And the show was no stranger to gay actors - there was campy Uncle Arthur played by Paul Lynde and even Maurice Evans, who played Samantha’s father, was been rumored to be gay.
Sargent continued to act on television after “Bewitched” ended with 50+ film and TV credits through 1993. He also developed a 5 year relationship with producer Albert Williams.
In 1989, Sargent was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer and initially the prognosis was good. But later his health began to deteriorate. He knew some might think he was suffering from AIDS, so in 1991 he decided to publicly reveal he was gay on National Coming Out Day. He said he was also motivated to help present a positive role model to young gay men who struggle with their sexuality.
The next year he and close friend Elizabeth Montgomery were asked to be Grand Marshals of the Los Angeles Gay Pride parade.
Sargent succumbed to cancer in July 1994, at age 64. He was survived by his partner Williams.
from “Bewitched”, “Wanda Vision” and “I dream of Jeannie”.
I had this idea after second episode of Wanda Vision - 3 magical Girls from their cartoon intro. ;] Well I gave Jeannie her outfit from show, because in intro she looks a little bit different.
Watched the clip of Bewitched where Samantha tells Darrin the truth about her being a witch and a Harry Potter AU came to mind before remembering Seamus’ infamous line. So I kinda ran with it.
I felt the need to make this post because @saintobio and @lalunanymph are both writers I look up to and that I respect a lot. Their writing really motivated me to write more for the JJK universe, so to see this clash and groundless accusations is really disheartening to see. As someone who read both Dawn’s Bewitched series and Saint’s Sincerely series, I can assure you 100% that there are very little similarities. Also, to accuse someone of copying another’s blog setup is ridiculous considering the amount of templates available here on tumblr for blogs to use, so you’re bound to find some blogs having similar looking themes and masterlists. Also, a lot, and I mean A LOT of fic writers get inspired by music so we’re bound to create playlists or include links to music in our fic descriptions or masterlists. This isn’t anything original or unique, it’s literally very overused, but we all do it anyway.
And to emphasize just how different these two works are, I’m going to be comparing and contrasting them. Spoilers ahead, duh.
Let’s start with the similarities:
Both are based on The Remarried Empress
Both involve love triangles(of sorts)
The premise of both is an arranged marriage
Both MCs come from well off families yet are quite humble
There’s another woman(there always another woman ffs)
Male leads both have some sort of mommy issues fueled even further by their shitty dads
Male leads really want an heir
Widowed Toji throwing massive shade at the male leads for not appreciating their living wives as they should
That’s literally about it. Deadass.
Now if you want me to into the differences, I totally can, and I will. I’m not going to go deeply into all the differences because this would be one hell of a long post, and we’d be here for quite some time. I’ll be focusing on the main points, or the ones I feel are important, anyway.
Thedifferences consist of:
TheSincerely series is set in the modern era, whereas Bewitched is a historical AU, so both reference things respective to the time periods they’re set in.
Sincerely sees Satoru Gojou as its male lead, and Bewitched has Naoya Zenin as its male lead.
In the Sincerely series, Satoru and the MC were childhood sweethearts that drifted apart in adolescence, and in Bewitched Naoya and the MC had no prior connection with each other whatsoever and quite literally met at the alter.
InBewitched, Naoya is a known womanizer and his affair involving a kitchen aid happened out of pettiness rather than love, as opposed to Satoru in Sincerely who was in love and had a secret relationship with one of his office workers prior to his marriage to the MC.
InBewitched, the MC is very close with her mother, and in Sincerely, the MC’s mother passed away when she was quite young
The relationship the MC has with her mother in law in the Sincerely series is complex. In the first part of the series the mother in law adores MC, but due to certain events grows to despise the MC in the second part of the series. In Bewitched, MC’s mother in law has been deceased for quite some time so there’s no way of knowing what their relationship would be like, however it is alluded that the Zenin matriarch would have taken quite the liking to the MC considering she’s the daughter of one of her closest friends and former lady in waiting.
InBewitched, the MC belongs to the Kamo family and only married Naoya in order for there to be a ceasefire between both of their clans and so that both can reap the benefits of the unified clans/territories. In the Sincerely series, the MC doesn’t hold ties to any pre-existing families from the Jujutsu Kaisen universe until her marriage to Satoru, and in the second series, her partnership/relationship to Toji Fushiguro.
InBewitched, there is a lot of bloodshed between the families of the MC and Naoya. In Sincerely, the only bloodshed is the one following Satoru’s stepmother.
InBewitched, MC eventually grows to love Naoya, whereas in Sincerely, the MC has always been fond of Satoru and the two had made childhood promises to marry someday.
InSincerely, MC takes birth control to prevent pregnancy, as she does not want a child born into a loveless marriage. In Bewitched, the MC struggles to conceive and even fears she might be infertile and of “no use” to her husband.
As trivial as this difference seems, in Bewitched the MC becomes pregnant with twin sons and later on with a daughter, presumably, and in Sincerely, the MC only becomes pregnant with a singular son although Satoru strongly desires for them to have a daughter eventually.
Satoru isn’t as much of an asshole to the MC as Naoya, to be quite honest. At times, although rarely, Satoru demonstrated feelings of remorse and wistfulness when it came to his respective MC, and Naoya was more of a gradual self-realization of him being an asshole.
InSincerely, it is evident Toji feels some sort of way towards the MC, which eventually does blossom further into the second part of the series. In Bewitched, he functions more as a confidant for the MC and conscience for Naoya.
InBewitched, Naoya and the MC learn to make their relationship work and develop together and as individuals, but unfortunately, in the Sincerely series, this is not the case for Satoru and the MC.
