#g1 twyla

[barbiechick]

Sort of a comparsion between G1 Twyla and G3 Twyla!

Honestly, i adore them both, but... i smh adore G1 Twyla more, idk i feel wierdly attached to her bc she reminds me of one of my all time favorite bands "The Birthday Massacre"! The covers of their CDs is always in lilac/black colors and their logo is a bunny, so she fits perfectly into their aesthetic! 💜🖤💜🐇

[mooneonthings]

MH - Gen 3 Twyla (Creepover)

This is Twyla's Generation 3 outfit from the Creepover outfit line-- whatever. Her redesign is probably the closest to her original look and it is adorable! I do like it a lot and I'm glad for it.

BASE GAME COMPATIBLE

TEEN-ELDER

CUSTOM THUMBNAIL

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[waterlilylatte]

the Monster High Diaries art is unmatched <3

[horrorshowing]

Twyla!

[saliosis]

gay people showing up to the function (part 5)

1, 2, 3, 4 + breakdown/alts under cut

and also. alternative pink haired howleen to match her later g1 look. and an eye-glowing twyla 🙏🏼

[champion-of-love]

Monster High: 13 Wishes (2013) + Letterboxd Reviews

[dallenborry]

What if you suddenly changed species with your beasties? 👻 Heres Twyla as a werewolf!

[cowboyballads]

twyla is so eepygender shes so sleepy and i aspire to be like her. she needs more sleepwear

[purplepenguintime]

I can’t believe they invented homosexuality 🙏🏼

[thunderstomm]

I was originally not going to make a post about this, but after seeing a few other posts about it, I wanted to make my own. I have a LOT to talk about.

TW: Transphobia, Homophobia, Ableism

If you don’t know what I’m taking about- there was a post made by a user, who’s name I will not disclose or share, who discussed how they would rewrite the new Monster High G3 Cartoon. While some of the points were mundane, or points of preference, others made me very uncomfortable, as they got rid of much of the diversity that G3 has brought into the Monster High Universe. I want to quickly go through three of the points that I felt were erasing these steps in diversity, and my thoughts on each one, and why I think that it’s iffy, to say the least.

First is the statement “all of the couples from G1 will stay together”. While this may read to some as a preference for the old couples, in the context of rewriting G3- it comes across as the erasure of both couples involving a neurodivergent character being the subject of a crush, and being seen as desirable and loved (Manny x Twyla), and what probably was the intended couples they wanted to seperate, the canonically queer ships. In particular, this is most likely against Clankie (and POSSIBLY an s2 ship which I won’t say by name because some people want to go in blind. Instead I will refer to it as 🧡💚.). In this rewrite context, wanting to take away queer relationships which many writers and designers for Monster High have fought for in many shapes and forms. G1 never had explicit queer characters, the closest things being a scrapped SDCC diary entry (Valentine x Spelldon), Post-Ending 3rd party statements (Clawdeen is a Lesbian, Rebecca x Venus, etc.) and implied characters (Kiyomi). While these are okay, they are NOT the same as explicit queer couples, which are arguably more important to push forward in the talk and scope of present and future representation.

While it is okay to prefer the G1 ships, in the context of bringing them back for G3, it erases these queer couples, and ignores the lore and universe of G3. In G3, Cleo and Deuce are exes. And if you don’t like that, you can still watch G1!! It’s not magically disappeared, the movies and shows and music is all still out there, and most of it is free! But, erasing Clankie, 🧡💚, and other potential queer ships in G3, for the preservation of a m/f ship isn’t okay.

On the subject of erasure, there is the statement “Frankie is still non-binary, but now uses she/they pronouns”. A character canonically using they/them in cartoons, especially ones made for kids, are uncommon. Honestly, I don’t even know if I could name 10, and that says more about the state of non-binary representation than it does about me. While changing the pronouns of a cisgender character to gender neutral ones is often done in fandom, and often not a point of issue, taking a character who is canonically non-binary and solely uses they/them and giving them typically gendered pronouns erases that under represented group, and allows for transphobes to ignore the “they” in “she/they”, and only use “she” for the character. This is an issue in real life too, for many who use multiple sets of pronouns, including myself (they (preferred) / he) ! We deserve both of their sets of pronouns to be used, and people who only use they/them deserve to be referred to by and as they/them. These changes hurt everyone.

Then, we come to the one I see the most talk about, and the one that made me audibly yell “what the f-?!”- taking away Twyla’s canon autism diagnosis, and symptoms & traits, and replacing it with autism coding, so that she is easier to identify with. First of all- easier for who??? Neurotypicals ?? It is incredibly rare to see a character on kids TV outright say “I am autistic”, and Twyla is wonderful as representation. Twyla will not resonate or be relatable to every person- but that is true for all characters, not just autistic ones. Autistic people are not a monolith, it is a spectrum, with many different ways to present itself. Also… taking away all of her traits and symptoms to make her more relatable? These traits and symptoms are what would have made her “autistic coded”, and without them, you have a character who is NT.

Autism isn’t a quirky word you can use to describe anyone, it is a disability, that myself and many others have, and see misrepresented time and time again. And to say that a good example of it is not good, and would be better off to be erased and replaced with coding is insane. Coding is okay, but that’s all it is. Real spoken representation matters so much to me, and so many other people, even if the characters we see are not identical to us in those symptoms and traits they exhibit. These characters should not be changed, but rather, more autistic characters, with different presenting symptoms and traits, should be introduced !

You can like G1, you can prefer G1, but that does not mean that you have to make a sanitised version of G3, that makes it identical to G1. In terms of representation, there is no arguing that G3 has G1 beat. The poster said on their post that “any new characters would be made more relatable”, but… to who? Because I relate to a lot of the G3 characters more than the G1 ones, and I grew up loving G1! It’s not been wiped, all of the media still exists for you to watch, and make headcanons for ! If you like G1- good for you! But please, stop trying to make G3 exactly like it. Because change is inevitable in these kinds of reboots, and it allows for the representation some want to take away.

Thank-You for those who read all the way!

[kutsante]

Twyla

[jet-apologistmybadhomies]

twlya 🕊️

ik she does lil creppy things with good Intentions man i just know

[ancientpersacom]

Hypnos hades game 🤝 Twyla monster high

Autistic eepers w family issues

[dontwear-itout]

monster high art !! {¬ºཀ°}¬

[m0sst3r]

Monster High Zine ☠️🩷

this was my first time making a zine! so i wanted to do something i rly love to start!

definitely will make more! some serious others silly ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ

[fieldworm]

Twyla :)

This is from my sketchbook!!! It's about a year old and I really wanna redraw this but I couldn't get this quilt skirt idea out of my mind and I haven't since lol