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[echosong971]

lil sneak peek wip of a comic for one of my fav loretabs <3

[poisonheiress]

Vivziepop and Queer Rep

As we all know, many fans and media reps alike have commented on the apparent "queer rep" seen in both Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel with many sighting their MLM relationships and use of Sallie May as proof of Vivzie's dedication to queer rep. Yet for how much this idea is spouted across social media, I cannot say that Viv truly cares about Queer Representation in her shows. The apex of this disagreement comes from phrase that man people seem to not remember when it comes down to queer rep: Representation for one is not Representation for all.

In her hyperfocus on thin, cis mlm relationships, Vivzie creates rep for only those relationships, leaving behind countless other queer identities and relationships that also heavily need queer rep. The largest dismissal of queer individuals/relationships in HH or HB appears in characters that fall into one of three categories, The Fat, Sapphic, and The Nonbinary.

The Fat

When some of you look at this, you may be confused as to what fatness has to do with queer rep, I would tell you that it has a lot to do with it. Fat people are not inherently removed from queerness and have been there since the beginning, the creation of the term Bear is proof of that. This is the first strike on HH and HB's records.

As many other creators have thoroughly pointed out, fat representation is abysmal in both HH and HB with either shows either lacking fat rep completely or having fat characters made using more fatphobic stereotypes than I could count. With this poor managing of fat representation, its no surprise that Vivzie pop ignores all possible avenues of queer rep with fat people involved. This also impacts her presentation of mlm ships with all those in these ships only appear as thin cis men, not a single bear or trans man in sight.

The Sapphic

The second largest and arguably most obvious strike against Viv comes in her disturbing lack of sapphic relationships in both shows. While HH has at least one sapphic ship (Charlie and Vaggie), HH has none to speak of. As a result, Viv's ratio of Sapphic to Achillean relationships is heavily one-sided.

It shouldn't take me having to say this for many of you to realize that you cannot claim to have true or complete queer representation when you ignore a whole side of the queer community. While this issue in sapphic relationships likely tied to Vivzie's smaller amount of women in her stories, this does not excuse it. Having one or two of these secondary characters be in a sapphic relationship (especially Sallie May) be shown or even mentioned in passing (not random background shoots) has having a girlfriend would fix this issue, but we cannot even get that.

The Nonbinary

The final strike against Vivzie's queer rep comes in both shows ignoring the existence of nonbinary characters as a whole. While we get some presentation for the binary trans community (even though most are background characters never seen again besides Sallie May), we have yet to see a single nonbinary character in either show's canon.

This is honestly fucking ridiculous. To ignore an entire gender identity because its easier or you simply don't want to is ridiculous and should strip any claimed queer rep media from their title. Nonbinary people have always existed throughout time in different countries and cultures. To think that they're wouldn't be a single nonbinary sinner or demon in hell after all this time does not make sense.

Trans people on the binary and nonbinary side have the right to representation equally, and even if we were to ignore the concerns about Viv's current trans rep, trans people deserve more rep than random background characters and a one dimensional trans woman.

The Finale

As I end this essay, I do want to say that I wanted to discuss HH and HB's treatment and ignorance of asexuality and aromanticism as they are both highly relevant to the discussion. However, I need to do more digging on Alastor and his ace situation first before I do so in order to prevent spreading misinformation.

But even without this section, I still stand on my belief that neither of Viv's shows should be paraded around as good queer media or as truly supporting queer rep. While HH has a little more leeway with Viv's only sapphic ship, HH and HB still ignore large sections of the queer community. It feels more like Viv is picking at the parts of the community she likes more, grabbing at the more marketable identities and appearances until she has enough to call her show queer.

I hope one day Viv will listen to her fans and critiques about this lack of other queer identities but I will not hold my breath. All that is left to say is that queer people deserve better especially in adult shows and in animation. Picking and choose what queer people you include in your media simply because you like one more is the farthest thing from queer rep.

[yams-here]

Karen canonically reading fanfic and with my hcs of Carter being the most chronically offline person ever I had a really funny idea

[liminal-chickenskin]

Yall i have a new headcanon for how i see Ghost…

As soon as i seen Eugene Sledge from The pacific I was like 😱 THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I IMAGINE SIMON TO LOOK LIKE😱

And obviously ghost looks a little older but these facial features are exactly what imagine Ghost to have under that mask… LMK WHAT YALL THINK 💭

[carnelianfoxx]

ALL HALO 3 FANS LISTEN UP.

September 25th marks the 4 year anniversary of Halo 3. We will celebrate this day by keeping the Halo 3 community alive and playing it at 2pm Eastern Time. We will hopefully make the servers as populated as they were before, and prevent Bungie from taking down the Halo 3 online servers to make us play Halo Reach, while also bringing the original Halo experience back to life. Pass this on to other videos and thumbs up so people will know!

[ask-shane]

hello shane enjoyers,

i was wondering… since the new tumblr update allows side blog comments, would it be engaging if i replied (roleplaying) as shane (via this sideblog)?

as in, replying to comments under my own blog posts here! feel free to comment on a post, i wanna test it out 🤭

i love this new feature and wanna make use of it 😳

[bellamyblakru]

can yall do me a favor for a research project:

in the tags, reblog and use first three adjectives that come to mind to describe one of your favorite fictional characters (you can tell me who they are or not, can also be oc or not)

in the next tags or comment, use the first three adjectives that come to mind to describe one real person you are a fan of (again, you can tell me the names or not)

[the-anime-hermit---mus-musculus]

Yall rate my art set up?

I think it is a 10 out of 10 personally 🤧

[notsocooljess]

facebook reminded me that 13 years ago today i started reading the hunger games trilogy for the first time!!! glad i have this seemingly insignificant moment in my life documented like this lol

[charliegoober]

Funny new texture brush

[birb-boyo]

Linked Universe(but not really) Hunger Games pt.3

Added that one again because I find it funny and ironic that the only person Malon sparred was Twilight

Anyway

RAVIO SWEEP

[le-guy]

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Is this it?

Is this what humanity has come to?

Please tell me no

Because if so

I officially hate the entirety of tumblr

I do not care

I will not stand for this slander on Wade Whipple’s name

Yes

I know

ACAB

But

Its fucking Wade Whipple

And it’s fucking doctor Don’t

Look at them

Look at their faces

And tell me Wade is worse

Tell me

Tell me

[miljandeerus-06]

Hi guys! I decided to do QnA! Leave me some questions in comments! 🤗💝🪻🤗

Rules:

-No NSFW!

-No profanity!

-Be nice

-No r@cism!

-No lgbtq phobia!

[ramicorn]

MY BELOVED FUCKED UP CHILDREN

[do-angels-dream-of-starry-seas]

Why do people like theneedledrop exist. Yeah sure so much (for) stardust isn't the best ever but it always feels so negative do you not know how to have fun