#muslim couples cartoon

[rismadpermadi]

Title: A picture of a boy and girl jumping in the air with the words the word mosque on it

[mx-paint]

Deleted the post earlier bc I thought I was being stupid, but after seeing this shit for the fifth time in a half hour, I have to say that I really wish I lived in the supposed universe that the "anti-woke" people claim to live in by saying they can't have freedom of speech anymore because they can't be racist or homophobic or transphobic anymore or else they'll "be cancelled"

[runawaycarouselhorse]

was winx club censored too?

To preface, I am not the best person to ask because I was too tomboyish for Winx Club and I was not a fan growing up [the outfits put me off], so this is me having to look things up. ^o^; BUT, I gave it my best shot and now I have answers for you!

[This ask is following up on this post about W.I.T.C.H., most likely.]

Before looking it up, I was pretty sure Winx Club was not censored, because I have very vague memories of seeing it as is, because the art style is super-stylized and simplistic (with W.I.T.C.H., it's detailed and you can see the lines of their pelvic bones, etc.), but I'm pretty sure Winx Club simply wasn't picked up by the same group.

From the looks of things, no Arabic translation of the magazines for Winx Club even exists!

W.I.T.C.H.'s comics were not actually handled by anyone affiliated with the Syrian-based Space Toon, apparently, it was an Emirati company that translated the comics and censored them, which... actually makes sense, because Space Toon never aired the cartoon. Back then, Space Toon did not have the digital editing know-how to subtly recolour or edit outfits like they can now. Shows used to get a lot of random cuts or repeated scenes to avoid very short skirts, etc., nowadays, it's just slap-some-tights/long-socks-on-characters, presto!

Winx Club simply never got an Arabic translation for the comics, it seems. I'm googling and finding nothing, even found a cute (very dated, somewhat eye strain-inducing [the bright green and orange layout...]) fan forum dedicated to Winx Club and the fans are just sharing links to pictures of comics in western languages--it seems we never got it translated!

It gets interesting when you move onto the animated adaptations. Winx was dubbed by two completely different two companies!

Seasons 1-3 were dubbed by the Lebanon-based company, Ar-Riham (they also dubbed two movies, apparently!) without any censorship, as it was straight-to-DVD, with multiple audio tracks, so no cuts, while the fourth season was dubbed by the Syria-based Tanweer Studios.

Tanweer Studios, which dubbed the fourth season, dubbed it for airing on TV and MBC 3 insisted on no romance and no kissing, and edited out nudity in the transformation sequences it seems!

Get this, for the animated adaptation of W.I.T.C.H., it was dubbed by the same second group (Tanweer Studios) that covered season 4 of Winx Club. (No censorship of the outfits in the animated version, Arabic dubbing companies simply did not have the technical know-how for that back then + honestly, they're already toned down/less detailed/don't ride as low as the comics...)

(Had to use the fandom wiki, bear with me!)

Even the Arabic Wikipedia article on Winx Club does not mention anything about an Arabic translation for the magazines, although it does talk about the development and how the show came to be, and lists information on both Arabic dubbing companies and lists casts...

Not all Arabic dubs and translations censor like I mentioned earlier, it's Venus Centre (which dubs for Space Toon) that holds very high standards and is super careful about making shows developmentally age appropriate backed by child development experts (which is why their shows for little kids strip away nearly all romance and it can get goofy because they'll sometimes pull an accidental incest by turning couples into siblings that'd just be really weird if visually you can recognize it ends in a wedding?! I don't think they do things that awkwardly anymore, but--they only keep romance in shows for teens and there, the words boyfriend/girlfriend get replaced with fiance/fiancee since Muslims don't date--that's it, though, otherwise, their dubs are very, very high quality in terms of translation and voice acting, etc.) and inoffensive to a Muslim majority audience (so you get very amusingly transparent alcohol cover-ups, adults can tell it's alcohol, but little kids might buy the "juice" excuse, but characters are still red-faced and stumbling/angry/sleepy/what-have-you.)

The Arabic dubs that air on MBC3 and the like are generally less uncensored, but have... variable quality voice acting, some decent, others very wooden and dry, or are dubbed in a specific dialect rather than pure classical Arabic like Venus Centre, so it might not be as easy and universal for Arabic-speakers to understand.

I honestly had no idea MBC 3 had a no romance rule, this might be something that was true in the past! I can totally believe the no kissing rule because Khaleeji/Arabic Gulf Arabic shows even for adults do not show kissing.

[sadgirlnoga]

looking for people who can volenteer as sensitivity readers for my ao3 story!

i have this story on ao3 called dancing in the devils auditorium, its the first ever story i wrote and it has a pretty diverse cast. the story takes place in late 2012 and focuses on julian, a 13 year old cishet white boy that comes from an evangelical christian household, on his first day of 7th grade he notices this other girl in his class named aya, a mixed jewish girl(ashkenazic father and cuban jewish mother) with a unique style that can pretty much be described as a mix of many types of jfashion, alternative fashion and inspired by cartoons and anime. they bump into eachother and start talking, afterwhich she makes him a tumblr account. but when he comes home and mentions her name to his parents they snap, out her as a "homosexual male" and forbid him from talking to her ever again. so he decides to investigate after his friends, marco and ben, convince him to keep talking to her. 2 days later and julian is sitting with his extended family, in which his dad mentions that julian talked to aya, while also outing her as trans in a very dehumanizing and degrading way, which aya overhears from the table across them. the next day julian is forced to stay inside the house because he isnt feeling well, yet he isnt contagous, alloing him to do his on research about the trans community and also allowing allowing aya and her friend tina to sneak past his clueless housekeeper and visit him, tina gives them some alone time and they end up talking, and than julian asks aya about her trans identity. aya reveals that shes not only trans, but shes also intersex and has klinefelters syndrome 48, XXXY. she opens up to julian about her bullying, religious trauma and mistreatment by the town she used to live in. after talking some more they both kiss but before they can establish their status aya has to walk tina home. tina and marco create a plan to set julian and aya up on a free movie date, which they end up successfully as the date ends with a kiss and they become a couple. as the story continues, both of their world begin to collide. aya helps julian think for himself and be a good boyfriend, and julian makes aya feel loved and helps her get over her past trauma and expiriences with horrible online relationships. there are also other characters that play pretty big roles in the story.

Im looking for:

Exvangelical sensitivity readers

Transfem sensitivity readers

Nonbinary sensitivity readers

Intersex sensitivity readers(preferably ones with Klinefelter Syndrome.)

Jewish sensitivity readers

Muslim sensitivity readers

Latinx sensitivity readers(preferably Cuban and Dominican)

black sensitivity readers(preferably darkskin black girls)

East asian sensitivity readers

Southeast asian sensitivity readers

South asian sensitivity readers

Bipoc sensitivity readers

Readers with cluster B personality disorders(preferably ASPD and HPD, also people with conduct disorder can really help)

Indiginous sensitivity readers

Genderfluid sensitivity readers

WLW sensitivity readers

Pansexual sensitivity readers

Transracial adoptee sensitivity readers

Sensitivity readers who are children of divorce

Shut in sensitivity readers

Physically disabled sensitivity readers

Intellectually disabled sensitivity readers

Sensitivity readers with all kinds of mental illnesses

Low income sensitivity readers

Older Gen Z sensitivity readers who were on tumblr during the early 2010s

And sensitivity readers who were in middle school from 2010-2014.

if your interested you can either comment, DM me on here or simply read the story on ao3 and comment there.

[davekat-sucks]

i really don’t understand Disney, gay and trans is bad for children to them somehow but showing kids violence acts of murder, racism, sexism, and colorism isn’t? like i even heard that dipper from gravity falls was supposed to be trans but Disney denied it, that’s also why the owl house is gonna get canceled because there is a canon non binary character and a canon lesbian couple, i don’t see what is wrong with having gay and trans characters in cartoons? shouldn’t it be ok to show kids that stuff so they know that people are different? like Disney shows characters who are different religions (jewish, muslim etc.) like if we should teach kids there are poc people and different religions shouldn’t we also teach them that gay and trans people exist too?

I'm not sure where you get the idea of Dipper is trans as I also watched the show and barely see any signs, hints, or implications of it. But that's my jaded thinking of liking the characters as they are and only hate it if shitty writing makes them so. And it should be obvious the reasons for it is money. How can you air a TV show about LGBT to places like China, Middle East, Russia, and other countries that don't have the same beliefs as the Western? The same applies to things like manga, video games, and anime. Either they have to change it to make the other countries happy. And God knows shitty localization is already doing that with manga/anime/video games when being translated from Japan. Or bite the bullet and hope sales back them up and not be threatened by others, both in the Western and international countries. You should already know Disney is not a saint and is just another corporate among corporates. And people still follow them like sheep just because they show off one or two LGBT shows/movies and Disney claim to respect them every June, only for them to fall back and shit on them by canceling them and taking down the new shitty rainbow colored avatar on Twitter once July hits. People claim they want to show diversity, but don't do shit about the oppressive countries like parts in South America and Africa that ban that shit in the first place. They are better off preaching about it on Twitter or Tumblr blog than pay $1k+ of airline fee and hotel to travel to another poorer country, only be be killed in Saudi Arabia in an attempt to show homosexuality and lesbians are good.

[hbestonline-blog]

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[beanswrites]

"Encanto" is one of the best Disney movies ever, and here's why

1. Representation of mental health in a children's movie

This movie so brilliantly showed mental health issues in many of it's characters. Mirabel thinks that she isn't good enough because of Abuela, which is a good sign of Avoidant Personality Disorder. Luisa obviously has crippling anxiety from the weight that's been put on her shoulders, and Bruno is showing hints of depression and anxiety as well.

As the oldest sibling of my family who had severe anxiety all my life, never have I ever related to Disney songs as much as "Surface Pressure" and "Waiting On A Miracle". I think it's beautiful how Disney made not one but two songs about mental illness, and dealing with it. It teaches kids to not hide their feelings!

2. Showing diversity by having a Colombian family as the main characters

This movie is one of the rare ones which don't have a white protagonist. I noticed that in the last few years Disney started showing more and more diversity with non-white female leads (Tiana, Moana, Raya, and now Mirabel), and I especially love how it's a family! A great detail that needs to be recognized is that even tho they do look alike (because they are a family), none of the characters look the same. I feel like in the older movies, even when there was some diversity, all people of color would look the same. It shows how much Disney has improved!

It also shows toxic family relations in Latina families, like how Abuela favorited others over Mirabel, especially because Mirabel is a middle child. This movie is on all levels so realistic. Besides the magic.

3. Having a strong female lead with realist proportions and an actual personality

Since the beginning of 2000 up until now, Disney and Pixar have been doing a great job at making characters with realistic, complex personalities, and it really shows. They really went from having white princesses being saved by a prince charming to strong, diverse women who have enthusiasm and take charge by themselves. Don't get me wrong, I still love the older white princesses, but I'm glad that nowadays every little girl can look at the screen and see a princess that looks like them! Disney still has a long way ahead of them when it comes to diversity (would it KILL you to make an LGBTQIA+ character?? Or a Muslim character??), but we gotta appreciate how far they came!

I also loved this movie for it's lack of small waists, for it's realistically sized noses and actual hips on characters. Feels good to have realistically proportionate people in cartoons, it reminds kids that all shapes and sizes are gorgeous!

4. Awesome plot and great animation

The plot and even the idea of "Encanto" is really interesting, and it isn't one of the classical, overused tropes. The story is very original, and it isn't the classical family cliché.

I loved the animation, it's really raw and full of emotion. There were some scenes I didn't believe were actually animated because of how good they are, like Abuela crying.

5. Having an amazing soundtrack written by the legend Lin-Manuel Miranda himself

Name one bad song from this soundtrack. I'll wait.

From the beat to the lyrics and even the placement of the songs in the right moment, everything about this soundtrack is awesome! The tunes are so catchy (everybody has "We Don't Talk About Bruno" stuck in their heads) that it still reminds you that it's a Disney movie, but the lyrics are so deep and meaningful and clever and touching. The way Dolores smugly hid the fact that she can actually hear Bruno thru the walls in "We Don't Talk About Bruno" and then asked Mirabel "Do you understand?" was brilliant.

Also, "Dos Origuitas" is 2021's version of "Remember Me" from Coco. It has the same sad but also beautiful vibe.

Bonus:

Pepa and Felix being the best married couple ever

I- They are seriously the cutest. Pepa is so interesting and weird, and Felix is such an awesome, supportive husband that it's practically impossible to not love them. Felix is the type of a guy that would cause an unexpected rain all over the Encanto just and only because he tickled Pepa so hard that she started crying (brb gonna go write a fanfic like this). They are awesome partners, and even more amazing parents.

If you say that you don't simp (or at least love them) for Dolores or Camilo (or in my case both), you are lying. I don't make the rules.

--

All in all, Encanto is an awesome movie, in all aspects. I can just tell that one day, in like 30 years, kids are gonna be watching and loving this movie like we love "Beauty And The Beast" today. This one is gonna be one of the classics.

[hondacivictrucknuts]

I remember a decade ago, this seemed like a devastating blow in the front of the Clash of Civilizations that had opened over cartoon depictions of Muhammad. Surely, I thought, people who value free expression can't coexist indefinitely with people who kill artists merely for depicting their dead prophet!

This was a couple of years before the attack on Charlie Hebdo, and while there was a bit more of a response to that, we all went back to living side-by-side in short order.

Since October 7, the new front is “can we tolerate the organized killing of a large number of Jews?”

This is the debate! And obviously the Israelis take their own side, and the more anti-western Muslims support Hamas/Gaza, but then a lot of us are divided between “No, we all agreed, we’re not making that mistake again,” and “Well, it was sort of justified, and there aren’t any convenient options for not tolerating it in this case.”

No One Murdered Because Of This Image

[rismadpermadi]

Title: A boy and a girl are walking in front of a mosque

[myneighbortmnt]

Here’s a progress clip in the form of a terrible quality GIF because I’m absolutely horrible with computers and this is the best I could figure out lol.

On the bright side I just learned how to put the little read more function in on Tumblr so I have a couple better quality individual pics below the cut along with what’s basically the first draft of my autobiography bcos damn do I ramble.

Warning for an infodump sorry guys this is practically a novel. I keep remembering stories that happened while I was drawing. 

Here’s this bad boy I sketched in my org chem class bcos drawing helps me alleviate the incredible strain of having to sit still and pay attention for an entire hour. I was like haha wow! This looks cool! I should totally finish this!! 

That was in March. 

I started coloring this in when I went on a trip with friends to a cabin on a lake. I had to color it in with my fingers because I’m constantly losing my art pen or forgetting to put in new batteries. Since we’re all dumb teenagers there was booze every night. I’m not a huge fan of the taste of alcohol and already have terrible impulse control so I’d chill and draw instead of drinking. One of our friends is Muslim tho so at least I had a sober buddy. :P

It still absolutely sucked tho drunk people are annoying and they smell terrible and they throw up they’re like giant children but like not cute. I ended up locking myself up in my room to keep out the smell, putting on some music, and reading The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks just to cope. Good book by the way. It’s basically the world building he did to make World War Z. 

Little skip ahead and a color change. Still using precious little references because I only get super motivated to draw when I don’t have internet. I seem to have accidentally earned the respect of my 11 yr old cousin, as he says this picture is “okay” but sits down next to me to watch every time I draw. I showed him the Mystic Library episode, and then eventually got him to watch a pretty big chunk of the series with me. He says he likes the show but that the intro theme is kinda cringey and seems too much like a kids cartoon. 

....it IS a kids cartoon??? Also bro ur like eleven you ARE a kid.

I am super proud of the detail I put into this book when I finally hunted down a reference. I cannot even tell you how much time I have spent just flicking between the progress pics so I made yall a gif because I just learned how. 

85% of the shadows in this piece I made by airbrushing and then erasing bits. Gotta say I freaking love drawing shadows like this 10/10 can and will do again. 

I’m like “hey! this is starting to look sorta finished! I think I can post it soon! 

But then I decide to draw the bookcases by hand.

Why? I don’t know. Well I mean I do know the old ones sucked but STILL. 

...I couldn’t get myself to do it and dropped the whole piece for two months. 

Three color changes and ten trillion little tweaks later I’m finally done. By the time I’m finished I’ve spent so much time on this that my family members are almost begging me to just post the damn thing instead of complaining about drawing details asdfdasf

Also if you made it to the end of this and somehow aren’t bored yet:

1) Congratulations! 

2) DM me if you have any questions about technique or just wanna chat! Just be warned that I will probably gush and/or ramble--! 

[lulu-chaos-incarnation]

Villain name: The Creative Chaos

Civilian name: Avin Fantasmagorie (Avin is pronouced as A-veen)

pronouns: She/her, but doesn’t mind they/them

Powers: Cartoon logic and rubberhose powers

Orientation: Bisexual woman

Height: 5’8, but can adjust her height to be 4’9, 5’10, 6’2, etc.

Age: 24

Backstory: CC’s mom died when she was 9 years old in a car accident. This caused CC’s dad to go from being cheerful and caring to being neglectful and broken. CC’s dad knew that he wouldn’t be able to take care of both CC and her brother Michael (who was 5 at the time) by himself. So, a while after the funeral, CC’s grandmother, her dad’s mom, moved in with them.  

Funny thing tho, CC’s grandmother was emotionally and physically abusive towards both CC and Michael, and would often emotionally manipulate her dad into abusing his own kids.

CC’s childhood was cut short due to this, forcing her to grow up fast in order for her to protect and take care of Michael. She tried reporting her dad and grandmother to the police, but the police never believed her.

When CC was 14 years old, Michael went to hang out with some friends, leaving her alone their dad and grandmother at that moment. Later that day, CC’s dad and grandmother had snooped through her phone and discovered that she’s a Bisexual ex-Muslim, which made both of them furious at CC.  

That day, they confronted CC about this, and when they realized that she is indeed a bi ex-muslim, they got so mad they started beating her to death. CC managed to get away to the kitchen and had grabbed a knife in order to defend herself. She ended up killing both her grandmother and father that night.

CC started panicking, knowing that that she’ll be arrested if she stayed there. So with that in mind, CC had packed up and ran away.

While on the streets, CC got kidnapped by a group of scientists who took her to a laboratory outside of the city in order to use her as a test subject to do experiments on, these experiments are what gave her powers. After a couple of months, CC was able to escape using her powers while setting fire to the building, killing all the scientists there.

After setting the building on fire, a team of heroes arrived at the scene to see the building on fire with the scientists dead and CC standing in front of said building. They recognised CC as the kid they saw in the news who killed her dad and grandmother, and assumed that CC had set fire to the building out of malice.

CC tries to explain how she killed her dad, grandmother, and scientists out of self-defence, but the heroes didn’t believe her and had attempted to arrest her. But before the heroes could arrest her, CC ran deeper into the forest and the heroes ended up having to chase her through the forest. They eventually cornered her at a cliff with a waterfall, and seeing how she had nowhere else to go, CC jumped off the cliff and down the waterfall, making the heroes believe that she’s dead.

They were wrong tho since her cartoon powers had kept her alive when she hit the ground. When CC got up from where she fell, she felt as tho she had just lost everything, including her will to live.  

She tried to kill herself multiple times, but it was to no avail due to her powers keeping her alive. After realising that she can’t die, CC decided to become a villain since that was the only path left for her .

Extra notes: There are two lies that CC made up in order to fool the puplic. Lie 1 is that she’s a cartoon character from an unaired cancelled cartoon that came to life due to the creator of the show using the dark arts to make her real. The public also believe that CC had killed her creator.

Lie 2 is that CC can’t feel love or compassion towards anyone. She can feel emotions like anger, happiness, sadness, fear, etc, but she can’t love or care about other people. The only reason she likes and protects kids is because of an instinct she has to protect kids. She says that it’s probably because of her being a cartoon character from a show that was directed towards kids.

[samasmith23]

As a long-time committed fan of both the G. Willow Wilson and Saladin Ahmed runs on Ms. Marvel, I strongly disagree with the idea that Wilson's original run lacked any legitimate stakes or was equivalent to Johnny Test cartoon.

While it is true that Wilson's run was a lot more lighthearted and fun, there was simultaneously a lot of interpersonal and thematic drama surrounding Kamala's various relationships with her family & friends, her journey of self-discovery and acceptance in regards to her religious and ethnic identity, as well as her confronting various sociopolitical issues during her trials as a superhero. In relation to the latter, several arcs of Wilson's Ms. Marvel dealt with issues ranging from generational despair (the Inventor preying on Gen Z kid's fears and brainwashing them into becoming human batteries), gentrification (HYDRA disguising themselves as a real-estate company), profiling (Kamala's conflict with Captain Marvel and Basic Becky in the Civil War II tie-ins), cyberbullying (the living sentiment computer virus Doc.X outing Zoe), rape culture (Kamran being an abusive ex-boyfriend who tried to victim blame Kamala), and even an allegory for Donald Trump's Islamophobic policies (HYDRA seizing control of Jersey City's mayor's office to discriminate against super-powered peoples during the awesome Mecca arc; my personal favorite storyline of Wilson's entire run BTW). Additionally, we also saw legitimate character growth with Kamala forging her own unique path as a superhero, Bruno coming to terms with his disabled left arm and leg as he tries to repair his friendship with Kamala, as well as Zoe evolving from your generic school bully into a kindhearted quirky lesbian.

I honestly don't understand the argument that the Wilson run somehow lacks real stakes or doesn't have Kamala taking anything seriously when said-run features story & character elements like the ones I just cited. I just don't see it... I'm sorry, but I really don't...

Also, what exactly are the negative stereotypes associated with Kamala and Bruno potentially being a couple? I personally always viewed them simply as childhood best friends who naturally grew feelings for each other over time since they're now teenagers, and I feel that having Muslim writers like G. Willow Wilson & Saladin Ahmed, as well as Pakistani-American editor and Ms. Marvel co-creator Sana Amanat working on the series helps their relationship avoid any potential problematic tropes.

Why do fans hate Bruno from Ms. Marvel so much?

Back when I was still on Twitter and was reading Saladin Ahmed's run on Magnificent Ms. Marvel as it was being released on a monthly basis, something which really confused me was witnessing a fair number of Ms. Marvel fans talking about how they not only really disliked Kamala's childhood best friend Bruno Carrelli as a character, but even would go as far as to label Bruno as a "manipulative incel" and accuse his and Kamala's romance subplot in Magnificent Ms. Marvel as being "emotionally abusive."

Like... I've honestly never understood where these criticisms were coming from. Especially since I personally never got that impression of Bruno's character having read all 75-issues of G. Willow Wilson & Saladin Ahmed's initial runs. And while Ahmed did state in a tweet that the romance subplot between Bruno & Kamala was about "overcoming toxic pedestals," I still think a lot of the claims I've seen from fans that he somehow wrote Bruno as behaving like a manipulative incel or something is a massive stretch.

I personally took Ahmed's statement to instead mean that he was trying to convey that childhood-friendships-turned-teenage-romances don't always lead to the most healthy or naturally progressing relationships, especially one of them has an idealized version of the other even if both harbor similar romantic feelings for each other (which Kamala did for Bruno contrary to some fan claims).

And Kamala and Bruno both realized this and decided that even though things would always be weird between them, they should just "keep it weird but without the kissing" in Magnificent Ms. Marvel (2019) #15.

I always really loved this scene. Although I was personally a huge shipper of Kamala & Bruno as a couple, I honestly understood both of their perspectives about why they felt pursuing a romantic relationship together won’t work out them and feel they should just stay friends despite their feelings for one-another. Kamala acknowledges that she's not ready to commit to such a relationship since despite kissing Bruno she did so purely in a heat of passion when she was emotionally stressed due to outside factors like her Kree Stormranger Nanosuit negatively influencing her physical behavior to try and kill her nemesis Discord, as well as experiencing extreme grief and anger when her Abu dying in the hospital and receiving life-saving surgery and she was forced to go off and fight the supervillain Mister Hyde.

Conversely, Bruno realizes that the progression of his and Kamala's relationship has felt forced and unnatural due to him having an idealized version of Kamala in his head, and Kamala herself wasn’t ready to commit to romance due to all the hardships she was then-currently experiencing.

It's also worth noting that the worst thing Bruno did in Magnificent Ms. Marvel was briefly complain about them still not dating while on a trip to the state fair due to Kamala not being ready to do so despite previously kissing him, and angrily storming off (which he recognized was a mistake on his part in the very next issue).

But aside from that, Bruno never came across as particularly jerkish to me, since he never insulted or demeaned Kamala. And throughout Ahmed's run, Bruno was shown to be always willing to put Kamala's feelings and well-being into consideration. Whether it be helping her find her missing parents, comfort her when her father was dying, and saving her from being drowned by Stormranger.

Plus, it not like Kamala lacked any agency in their relationship, and she clearly held similar feelings towards him (both in Ahmed or Wilson's runs). And the fact that she and Bruno decided to simply remain friends felt very genuine and authentic to me when I read it.

So overall, the criticisms against Bruno always felt rather inflammatory to me, blowing the character's flaws wildly out of proportion to make him seem like the worst most unlikable irredeemable person ever.

I honestly just don't understand the outrage towards Bruno among other Ms. Marvel fans... I really don't...

[portfoliodesignwebid]

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[khodorkovskaya]

When I was nine years old, I had a crush on a girl in my class. We were in completely different friend groups and I feel like we’ve only spoken a couple of times. She was what one considered “popular” in primary school, meaning she was quite loud and obnoxious and was friends with boys. But she had long silky blond hair and that’s what I liked about her. I’d often imagine that I’d invite her to my house, and we’d watch cartoons together. In my imaginary scenario, I would show her my favourite Russian cartoons and translate them, and she would say “Wow, that’s so cute!” in her American accent and ask me to show more. We would sit on my bed and maybe – the best part of it all! - she would put her little blond head on my shoulder and I would hug her.

This imaginary scenario would come back every time I had a new crush. It would change a bit, but the overall storyline would stay the same. For instance, when I was sixteen and went to visit my dad in Montenegro over the summer, I would imagine that my then crush was there with me. I would, once again, explain things to him and show him my favourite places around the country. I liked the idea of being some sort of guide and having the upper hand in my imaginary relationships. The main message of my fantasy was to show the other person a world they had never seen before. Be it, like in the first case, a foreign cartoon, a foreign country or a meal they have never tried before. And every time, the other person would exclaim “Wow! This truly is the best thing I have ever seen” and hug me. Or, like in the Montenegrin scenario, we would fuck right then and there on the balcony of my dad’s house under the stars. But that’s beside the point.

Now that my sole object of adoration was B, I’d run the same scenario in my head again, but this time with him as the main character. Except, unlike the other times, this felt different. I actually knew B and what he liked. For everyone else, I could make up character traits on the spot. Of course, they would all gasp at whatever I showed them, their personalities were practically made up. Yes, the scenario included real people, but I was never in an actual relationship with them, neither did I know what they were like one-on-one. And the worst thing, B is very judgemental and not very expressive. He wouldn’t shout “Wow!” and tear off his clothes, if I showed him something cool. He would probably not even find it cool in the first place! How disappointing, right?

The worst part of it all, the longer I stayed here, the more I felt like B would hate it. Unlike the people I had imagined in my head before, he was sceptical from the start and never showed real interest in visiting Russia. He told me about his trip to Poland and how gross it was and was also mistrustful of Serbs. To him, Russia was a mix of the two: a place, where people drink, eat unseasoned food and decorate their houses with over-the-top distasteful Orthodox icons. Yes, he acknowledged Russian art, literature and ballet, but I had always felt like it was out of politeness. If he ever went into detail about it, it would always be summarised in a statement of the sort “yes, Russians are good at this thing, but only because their climate is shit and they have nothing better to do”. B had no interest in understanding Russian culture or the “mysterious Russian soul” because, after visiting a handful of Slavic countries, he was convinced that he knew everything about it.

In addition, B was a man of principles. To him, things would often be black and white, and it was impossible to convince him otherwise. On the topic of cultures, he also had a clear set of rules. Everything Oriental was high art, everything Slavic was tasteless; Lebanese food was delicious and healthy, while Serbs ate like pigs; Muslim girls were modest and desirable and Orthodox girls were dirty, easy and not “marriage material”. The list went on and on. Once B’s mind was set, it could not be changed. And, more importantly, he would never be interested in changing his mind in the first place.

I was also scared that if B were to see something “wrong”, he would assume that was always the case. For instance, when I told him about my aunt’s sometimes bland cooking, he immediately dismissed it as “à la russe”, even though I didn’t even mention Russian cuisine and was just talking about my aunt in particular. It felt like if he did come to Russia and see something weird, he would immediately judge the country as a whole and assume it was something normal here. And, being very hard headed, he would not be convinced otherwise. That’s why, the more I thought about bringing him to Russia with me, the more I was convinced it was a bad idea. All he would do is judge and it would be the exact opposite of my picture-perfect imaginary scenario.

[hecallsmehischild]

Recent Media Consumed

Books

The Princess Bride by William Goldman. I have mixed feelings about this book. I am torn between admiring the writing device the author employs and being annoyed by it every time it crops up. The idea is that the writer, Goldman, is actually presenting you with an abridged version of an antiquated Florinese novel while cutting out all the “boring political satire” bits and only keeping the action/adventure/romance portions just like his father did when reading the novel to him as a child. The author character continually interjects himself and this was distracting to me in a way that Lemony Snicket’s work was not (I cannot tell you why). Also there’s an awful lot of uncomfortable racial depictions in the original novel. Also I hated Buttercup’s guts, she truly comes across as someone who doesn’t deserve anyone, MUCH LESS WESTLEY. My end impression was that there are some parts of this novel that really elaborate on scenes in the movie and give an interesting depth to them (for example, we really get to know Inigo Montoya’s father and when he dies, it’s a character that we the reader can mourn as well) but in my estimation, the movie adapted the book marvelously and actually is one of the rare movies that I would say is overall better than the source material.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. Second read, I bought my own copy this time. This is such a chick flick book but it’s soul food for me because goshdarnit a novel took fanfiction writing seriously and it’s so comforting to read. It also re-inspires me to keep pegging away at my fanfic.

The Dancing Realms series by Sharon Hinck. Hidden Current and Forsaken Island are written by one of my current favorite Christian fantasy writers. This is her second developed fantasy world, and while there are some things that I didn’t care for as much (I thought some bits of characterization didn’t work as well in this series as her previous one) the world she built is really cool and there are moments in the story where real glimpses of something deep and beautiful bleed through. My favorite set of themes from this work is the damage that can be done by elevating one sort of gift above all the rest OR by losing yourself entirely to your gifting and seeking only the pleasure derived from your gift without any grounding. I’m not synopsizing very well, but it’s worth a read and I look forward to the upcoming third book, Windward Shore.

Momo by Michael Ende. I wish this story were as well known as The Neverending Story, which Michael Ende also wrote. This novel wielded a surgeon’s knife on my fears of being meaningless and wasting my time and my life. It’s one of those novels that really has something important to say about life, I think. I want to add this into my queue of books to read on my Youtube channel, when I get an opening.

Given by Taylor Nandi. The cover looked amazing, and I was intrigued that Wattpad now has its own publishing press. However I was (I really am sorry) disappointed. I had to put it down within a few pages. There is very much a “tell, not show” feel to the writing and I can’t keep on with it.

Movies

Soul. PIXAR KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK AGAIN, REPEAT, PIXAR KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK AGAIN ON BASICALLY EVERY LEVEL. The visuals and character designs were fantastic, the messages beautiful, the characters believable, relatable, and fully embraceable. And every five or ten minutes, Sergey and I would pause and discuss implications and theorize about different parts of the movie and lore which turned a ninety minute watch into a three hour one which made it EVEN BETTER (for me). This is THAT kind of movie. Hats off to you, Pixar.

It’s A Wonderful Life. It must have been well over ten years since I’ve seen this movie. First, I was shocked to see it has been colorized. Second, the colorizing actually helps me catch a few fantastic details I would never have noticed (like Mr. Potter’s giant gold-framed painting of himself in his own office). Also there’s so much adult context I missed watching this as a kid, it’s fantastic to re-watch it and get so much more out of it this time around. I don’t think all “great classics” deserve their crowns, but this one does for sure.

Batman: Hush. Fun! Not much else to say. Just, fun to watch.

Collective films I binge re-watched for whimsy value: Klaus, The Little Prince (recent re-imagining), Mary Poppins Returns, The Lego Move 2.

Shows

24. So I finally finished all (the good) seasons, 1-8. Talk about an emotional meat grinder. This is possibly one of the most well written, well acted TV shows I’ve ever seen in my life, and it just. Never. Stops. Punching you in the gut. I had to take massive cartoon binge-watching breaks in between seasons. But it was worth it. This is an amazing show for many reasons. One of the things that stands out most to me is how it tackles the post 9/11 racial tensions from almost every angle. *announcer’s voice* Now featuring, that time a Muslim was the bad guy, and then that OTHER time when a Muslim was the valiant head of the Counter Terrorist Unit tracking all the terrorists down, and that OTHER time when you were certain someone was being wrongfully accused of terrorism by a dumb racist but it turns out the dumb racist was right and you hated him for being right because he was right but all his reasons were wrong, and that OTHER time the Big Bad was from China/Russia/Africa/our own dang government/our big corporations, and that OTHER time when we got a whole scene of an Imam guiding our protagonist in a deathbed prayer that was so moving I was choking up, etc etc etc. There is no black and white, it is all shades of gray, and every moral you ever held will be challenged in the course of watching this show.

Batman Beyond (3 seasons + Movie). Kinda cheesy, kinda campy, and I will punch the next person who says “Schway” out loud. But it was fun to watch. And some individual episodes were really excellent, I think. Also Re: Return of the Joker movie, HOLY CRAP.

DuckTales (reboot) 3rd season. It felt… like they ran out of ideas? Like they ran out of caring? The first couple seasons were spectacular, but it kind of petered out at the end, there. Still, the first couple seasons were fantastic.

Animaniacs (reboot) 1st season. IT’S TIME FOR ANIMANIACS. THEY’RE STILL ZANY TO THE MAX. IT’S LIKE THEY NEVER LEFT, AND THEIR COMEDY’S STILL DEFT, THEY’RE ANIMANIACS!!!

[floa12]

A rant about representation

I recently saw a post on Marvel's Hero Project and I think it's incredible how Marvel (and Disney) have been integrating representation into a lot of their Disney+ content. Marvel's Hero Project is really cool because each episode focuses on a member of the youth that is a real life hero and stands up for really great causes. They've got kids fighting for lgtbq+ rights and kids advocating for disabilities and the homeless, but one thing they don't have is a Muslim kid. Now that isn't to say that in later episodes they won't have one, but as a Muslim and full time hijabi (a Muslim woman who covers her hair with a headscarf and wears modest clothes that covers most of her body) it's getting increasingly frustrating for all these TV shows and movies to get applauded for representation when I rarely, if ever, see any positive Muslim representation. Now I'm mostly gonna be touching on representation of Hijabi woman because I feel that is the most prominent and most easily recognizable image of a Muslim person to the general media.

First, I want to talk about a couple examples of representation that have really got me going (bad and good). I'm gonna start with Halo from Young Justice, mostly because I did a post about how much I appreciated her and am low key regretting it. Obviously they fucked that up and I can't put into words how disappointing it was to see her character lose sight of being Muslim (not that they made it very important to begin with) but I mean I guess I was blind sighted by the fact that she was a hijabi when really that was the only give away that she was Muslim at all. On the other side of the spectrum we have Kamala Khan, who is everyone's go to Muslim representation. I myself am a fan of Ms.Marvel but I can't help but find fault with her representation. I don't want to take away the fact that she's a Pakistani American practicing Muslim but I do want to point out that the fact that she's Muslim isn't really super vital to her story plots. It's a lot about her inhuman abilities and genes. This is a small detail to have a problem with, especially considering people are reading her comics to see a superhero in action and not the domestic day to day problems of a Muslim girl. Really I guess my biggest issue with her is that she doesn't wear a headscarf. I know this is something I'm sure will bug a lot of people that I'm picking on, because after all any representation is better than no representation, but it's the fact that being Muslim is something that she is known for and yet she doesn't fit the image of a Muslim woman in a way that most people would recognize. I'm not invalidating any of my non hijabi sisters, I'm just saying it's a lot easier to recognize a Muslim in a crowd if they're wearing a hijab, so to have a character that is Muslim and not have her look like someone anyone person would immediately recognize as Muslim is a little :/. Both these characters also to wildy different degrees help check off the representation box without having a lot of evidence to support it. (Please don't misunderstand this as hate for Kamala, I love her and am super proud of her as a character, I just think there should be more characters and done better.)

Getting away from animated/cartoon characters I want to talk about Ramy, a sitcom on Hulu, and Amira on Druck, part of Skam. Ramy is this sitcom on Hulu that revolves around a young Muslim Egyptian man and the struggles he encounters while trying to reconnect with his faith of Islam. I love this show and encourage people to check it out because it's created by Ramy Youssef who also stars in it. It's a wonderful show that is super relatable for young Muslim people who struggle with being part of American society and practicing their faith, also it's fucking funny. The show also has serious episodes about his sister and mother and how much a double standard can exist in some Muslim households. I know a lot of conservative Muslims who would HATE this show because it constantly shows Ramy sinning. But I love this show because it's relatable and real and in the end Ramy tries his best (more or less) to be a good Muslim. It shows you the inside of some Muslim practices like Ramadan that a lot of people might be ignorant about. Now before I talk about Amira I just want to say I'm not the most informed on Druck or Skam and the only things I really know for sure is that they do a lot in the way of positive representation. I just wanted to touch on Amira really quick because from what I've seen of her I'm in love. Just from a purely aesthetic point of view the way she fucking wraps her scarves and wears her clothes in the MOST fashionable ways while staying modest and covering her body is a breathe of fresh air (also I'm super jelly). Her arc also shows her struggle with falling for someone who isn't as strong in their beliefs as she is and how that strengthens instead of weakens her. She stays true to being a Muslim and learns how to integrate that aspect of herself into her social life. Imane from Skam is also a great example as well because she is not a full time hijabi and they show how much being Muslim means to her and how much she identifies as such and makes sure people know. It's also a great side to see because it shows her interested in dating a non Muslim and how she naviagtes that and it's lovely. I really love seeing these characters because they show me that despite there being so little representation for Muslims some people are coming around and they're proof that we're getting there...really fucking slowly.

This summer I was fortunate enough to intern at Cartoon Network in Atlanta and I got to attend an event that hosted one of the PR members involved with Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. Something he really wanted to hear about from the young audience (all highschoolers) was things that they loved about Cartoon Network but also things they could improve on. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people complained that CN lost the subtle edgy humour that was brought by their early 2000s shows, but what really stuck out to me is when a close friend of mine stood up and told him that while Cartoon Network was doing a great job on representation, they were far from perfect because full representation wasn't accomplished until every kid who tuned in could see a version of themselves on TV. I think it's amazing that we have shows that include LGBT couples like in Steven Universe and I love ALL the forms of representation we get in Craig of the Creek, but everytime I see them pump out a new show I get dissapointed to see the lack of Muslim characters. Now that isn't to say I don't get excited everytime I watch We Bare Bears or Craig of the Creek and I see a hijabi in the background, but obviously that is far from real representation. Of course I'm not criticizing CN only (they just are farther ahead than Disney and other channel's in my opinion), I'm waiting for Netflix to release a show where I get to see a hijabi woman who practices Islam and is proud of her religion and I can't help but wonder when seeing a practicing Muslim on TV will be trendy and cool and mainstream. Anyways this got long and I guess I'm just sad that representation of any group of minorities isn't where I hoped it would be in 2020.

tldr: the Muslim representation that we get is far from enough and in a lot of cases can hardly qualify as completely accurate representation and I'm tired of it.

edit: I forgot about Imane from Skam!!