#YES REPRESENTATION IS IMPORTANT

[justbackgroundnoise]

Chappell Roan, a lesbian, went on a national broadcast tonight and performed a song about dating a closeted woman who refuses to acknowledge their relationship and denies the fact that she’s a lesbian. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that happening but here we are and it’s amazing.

As a lesbian woman, to have an artist go out and be so entirely herself in every way, to be so proud of her own sexuality and to perform a song like this and have it be broadcasted to millions of people…it makes me so emotional. All I have ever wanted as a queer woman is to have this sort of unabashed representation and we’re finally getting it in such an incredible way. What an era we are living in and all I can say is long may it continue and I am so proud to be a Chappell Roan fan.

[tadaxii-i]

I see so much autistic Regulus in ffs but it's always used as a quirky character trait and never really as a disorder with actual consequences. Yes to stimming, but also yes to meltdowns. Yes to apathy, but also yes to sensory hypersensitivity. Yes to special interests, but also yes to crying at every single inconvenience. Yes to rambling, but also yes to processing issues. Yes to difficult communication, but also yes to constant and uninterrupted speaking to himself when he's alone. Yes to saying he's autistic, but also yes to showing it.

[welcometogrouchland]

I love Steph's origin as told in the Secret Origins 80 page giant- I just overall think it strengthens her character by giving her a lot of pathos and adding to her heroism (which isn't something writers were focused on in her actual intro in detective comics #647 since she was just meant to act as a plot device back then) BUT there is one tiny detail in it i will begrudge, and that is the portrayal of her having a minor love at first sight moment for tim

Secret origins 80 page giant, ID in alt

(or well, technically this was their second meeting in that story (the brick was the first) so...love at second sight?)

Mostly because Stephanie showed no interest in her introduction and only showed romantic feelings towards Tim AFTER this moment here:

Robin (1993) #4, ID in alt

Straight up the progression here goes:

The adventure in 'tec where they first meet -> Tim investigating the same crime scene as Steph -> she beats him up not knowing it's him at first, apologizes but says he shouldn't have scared her -> he remembers her/the moniker she goes by -> they talk about plot for a few pages -> Stephanie starts flirting

Robin (1993) #4, ID in alt

Which...is so fascinating to me and says so much about Stephanie. She highlights the fact that Tim "remembered" her. Like. Steph. Girl. This is our bar? It's sweet but kind of speaks to how much Stephanie is ignored at home/how little and sporadically she's shown interacting with her peers (and rarely ever the same kids twice). Her idea of peak romance is just...being on someone's mind even when you're not there.

Kind of also adds layers to Steph's proclivity towards jealousy later on, a manifestation of her insecurity and loneliness (though don't get it twisted, she's not written this way bc Dixon and co think it's an interesting character flaw, they wrote it bc they think it's an inherent character flaw of (particularly young) women/girls, which is very apparent in how he approaches Ariana's character as well from what I've read)

Also the fact that Steph becomes so smitten for Tim almost immediately after this is (a few issues later she aggressively flirts with him during AN ACTIVE HOSTAGE SITUATION. WHERE SHE'S THE HOSTAGE) again is kind of a mixture of kind of funny and sad. One boy is nice to her once and she's fully ready to wife him. Girl you are deranged (affectionate) (concerned)

[nightvale359]

I feel like there needs to be more popular Aro rep

[bahoreal]

you know youre right im over queer storylines where people figure out that theyre queer. what i want is trans women as an integral part of a cast where its only mentioned offhand that shes trans because other parts of her character (being a meticulous scribe, processing expenses, being dumb of ass) are more important to her storyline. however she IS trans and its always there in her character even if the storyline doesnt focus on it. she got hair plugs bc she wanted long hair and likes her hair plaited cutely. when she got a wish she immediately used it to become a woman. this is a post about scribe elder ho tan from yonderland. i love her.

[msperfectsheep-posts]

non i7 mutuals this is your sign to watch IDOLiSH7. please 🥺🥺🥺

[trans-seraphim]

if i see one more person in this tag mention that hunter and willow is a "straight-passing relationship" when talking about their bi and pansexuality, i will come to your house and remove all the doors from your cabinets

edit: y'all i like the fucking ship, i am complaining about people saying "straight-passing" like that's an appropriate term to use when discussing representation

[modmad]

so we all agree billionaires are evil, but what about Scrooge McDuck? surely he's as mad about it as the rest of us? he made his money square so he must pay his workers fairly

oh alas anon, one of the eduring character traits is that Scrooge McDuck IS a billionaire and is GREEDY and has paid Donald Duck, his own nephew, 30 cents an hour over the past 80 years! but you know who is as mad as us about it all? a guy who's been here before-

[r0semultiverse]

I hope Jorge keeps the streams up until the next live stream like he did with the last Saga.

I had trouble getting into Epic: The Musical without the visual aid of the animatics as visuals help me absorb the material. I kinda wish he would upload each song with the lyrics and animatics in them instead of just the animatics by themselves without the full song, but maybe that’s just me. I’m an audio and visual gal otherwise I have trouble absorbing information. Besides the streams there’s no current way to watch the musical seamlessly with actual visuals and yet it is called a musical. A medium I’ve kinda expected to have visuals by this point, that was my one big criticism going into this series was “so it’s just songs? And I have to watch the script as I listen to know what’s happening? That’s hard to keep up with.”

Though if this is a consistent change going forward of having the full musical with visuals until the next iteration premiers, then great & honestly my only criticisms are a lack of trans voice actors (seemingly but I could be wrong) and a lack of fat characters in the animatics because Aphrodite was fat in her depictions throughout history in the very least. Which I’m not even sure if this counts as a criticism so much as an observation and something that gives me a bit of pause? Again, not series ruining, but just more an observation I guess?

That being said, I’m super excited for the Vengeance Saga tonight! Probably gonna stay up just to watch it! Sleep be damned I wanna see it as it comes out! 💜

Edit: Okay actually not risking tummy issues by napping and can’t stay awake any longer. If I have tummy issues I couldn’t even watch it as it premieres anyway because I’d be fighting for my life in the bathroom. ANYWAY DON’T GO ATTACKING ANYONE INVOLVED WITH THE PROJECT, I WAS JUST MAKING AN OBSERVATION.

[beclynn-herondale]

Someone: I don't care if this character is bisexual/pansexual in canon they're obviously gay

Also

Someone: I don't care if this character is gay in canon they're obviously straight

Me @ both:

[franki-lew-yo]

old: How not to talk about representation

Stupid fish faces. Also gotta love the blatant sexism imposed. Women and girls like characters cuz "they look like me" and none of the personality they see in them while boys show real love and admiration. It's impossible for men and boys to have shallow or badfaith standards from fictional characters.

Apparently Stonetoss -in his infinite wisdom- just KNOWS that people are shallow and can only ever like a character that looks exactly like them because of validation. Y'know I wonder if HE practices what he preaches and can love a nonwhite character that doesn't look like him. No reason I'm asking. Apparently, BIPOC people are physically unable to like white/white coded characters at all and this new trend of making people specific races is inherently bad for us on principle. I guess.

Nuff' snark. The reason racelifting an originally white character is not the same thing as whitewashing an originally BIPOC character is that whitewashing was and still is a common practice and white supremacy is still oppressive. It's NOT comparable to racelifting and 'reverse racism' and yeah you are just being a megaracist by suggesting we "make Tiana white" out of 'revenge' for this kind of approach to representation. Making a white character into a BIPOC one is not a guarantee to making them 'fixed' or 'better'(see also: 'Rowling loves black Hermonie'. Shaun and Princess Weekes know their Potter-cred). It's really sh!tty of people to assume otherwise and that we, the audience wanting representation and new stories, have no taste and will eat up anything placed before us.

Velma and Santa Inc would never be hated as much as they are if they weren't genuinely terrible. If anything this kind of sacrificial trash is frustrating BECAUSE it would be nice representation if they didn't suck: they are. Velma and Shaggy being nonwhite in that show should even be on the list of things wrong with Velma, and, if it's on YOUR list, then you're a bad critic with bad priorities. No one wants or needs your opinions on anything.

As a fan of the original film I'll admit it hurts to hear so many people talk about the new Little Mermaid being 'innovative' and 'good actually when it's...not. I'm sorry but nothing I've seen of these movies ever makes me want to watch it. Peete's Dragon and Christopher Robin are highkey the only Disney remakes that appear to have some kind of a soul and that in itself is soul crushing. The problem with Disney remakes is that they are just ip dictation with no real vision behind them- NOT that they decided to be progressive or give og 'white' roles to BIPOC actors. Retelling new versions of a familiar story has been done for years- I've seen a black woman play Belle in a production of the BatB stage play. Get used to people of color existing. Also get used to people (however successfully) talking about societal issues that you think were invented yesterday. They've always been here, you just weren't paying attention. If anything; I'm mad on the part of Halle Baily. She does look like a good Ariel. Halle's Ariel deserved better but sadly everything else about the film, including how the character is written, shows me that Disney wasted her Ariel just as they did Alan Menken's new songs; they didn't care about them. They rushed the film and that doesn't make me want to give the film a chance. If anything that just makes me infuriated on their behalf. And, to take some words out of the 'anticriticisms' playbook, I'm not going to watch something that makes me mad the whole way through.

Anyway, Stonetoss- you deserve to have your identity leaked and also your art is garbage. I made the post months ago and am only now going over it myself because I forgot I even made it.

[kaerinio]

there's something . . . about the iron throne being forged in dragonfire . . . and the fact that, over the years, it has taken blood from targaryen heirs.

[confusedgoldenflower]

I don’t fucking care. If you sing the praises of a show with only ~half the cast as actual characters, you’re morally bankrupt and should either grow actual standards or never, ever fucking talk to me.

[cuteallo]

so sorry but people being happy aloy kissed a girl isn’t biphobia and you guys really need to be careful about how you express that because you’re teetering on just hating lesbians

[designernishiki]

definition : a character who has an obsessive and possessive side in regards to their crush, ready to use violent and murderous means to maintain an exclusive bond.

this came up in a conversation with my friend and it’s stupid but im curious what other people think

[equalseleventhirds]

i hope you'll excuse me while i wax poetic about welcome to night vale, bcos i'm feelin sappy abt it rn and it's late and i am. emotions. u kno.

bcos when i first started listening to wtnv, it felt like coming home, in a way that actually physically going home never did. bcos i was isolated and strange then--yes, bcos i was young and newly figuring out my queerness and cecil helped me feel better about that, but also like

i felt strange, you know? like god yeah i know i'm not special, but i struggled with fitting in. had weird interests. head in the clouds. dressed funny. talked funny. at weird food no one else liked. didn't get social cues. did strange things, had unusual behaviors or movements or whatever. got called annoying and weird a lot. couldn't keep hold of friends, or a home, or a job, for a while, sometimes bcos they left me and sometimes bcos i left them for not very good reasons. cycled through different ones regularly, until i lost them. had dreams too big and unreachable, and tried my best to settle for what i could reach, even if i didn't love it, and still couldn't quite hold on.

and ok yeah some of that was neurodivergence (undiagnosed), and some of it was queerness, and some of it was cultural stuff goin on, and some of it was just that like, i was in my early 20s and moved far away from home without much in the way of support, right

but night vale took weirdness--my kind of weirdness, or other kinds of weirdness, spooky or horrifying or just deeply deeply strange--and embraced it. made it normal. made it all the same, all accepted. i felt like that was a place i would be allowed to be myself, because who cares if you dress weird or talk weird or whatever when there's five-headed dragons and angels and monster librarians? and what better place to put too-big-too-unreachable-too-odd-to-be-real dreams than somewhere like night vale, where big unreachable odd dreams are part of everyday life?

and through it all cecil speaking soothingly in my ears as i went about my uncomfortable, unfitting daily life, telling me things about community and togetherness and hope amidst the endless trials and void. of course that was the voice i listened to all the time. of course.

the first time i stopped listening to wtnv, it did sort of coincide with some big changes in my life, but more than that: i had become afraid that night vale would be un-weirded. some characters in canon had started to question some of what had previously been standard in town, and they were around some anniversaries, and i was, actually, pretty used to a lot of 'big magic adventure' media that ended with the heroes going home to mundanity, the lesson being about growing up or whatever. and i was so afraid that night vale would do that and take that away from me, so i drifted away and found other things.

and then i did go back and started listening again, and they never did any of that. they had some arcs about accountability, about changing old traditions for better ones, about examining beliefs, but never in a way that took away night vale's weirdness. there was always more, newer, better weirdness to come. and i fell in love with the show all over again.

(the second time i stopped listening was just bcos i was too busy, and i rly have just a handful of episodes to catch back up on. but even when i left, night vale was still there, waiting, ready to welcome me back.

i'm doing a little better with life and stuff now, made better friends, got a better home, found a better job, learned about myself a bit more, started chasing some of those big dreams and damn but i'm doin ok at it. but still night vale is a comfort and a joy to me, a strange little home i love.)