#no rep is better than bad rep

[paloma-ascends-into-hellfire]

”bad rep is better than no rep-“

no not always. like i recently read a book with a salvadoran character and i was so excited because i’d never seen a character from my country. but this character… was an undocumented immigrant… escaping gang violence and poverty…

not that that doesn’t happen but a) most salvadoran immigrants left el salvador during the civil war. like back in the 70s/80s.

and also… there were a bunch of well meaning people on goodreads going “i had no idea about the Central American Crisis/the situation in El Salvador!”

and that is harmful. because it makes latin america seem worse than it is. it ignores the beauty, like the waves hitting the rocks or coconut water in the dry season and the smell in the garden after a downpour and the warm rain and the vibrant sunsets and the smell of mango ripening. the smell of pupusas and the feeling of a snow cone on a hot day and swinging in a hammock on a warm, humid day. the feeling of your abuela braiding your hair and the smell of your aunt straightening hers. the rapid spanish and the shades of brown and white together and palm trees and kids playing fútbol barefoot in the streets and the sounds of wii video games and soccer and the price is right and big brother and jeopardy.

that is my el salvador. my country has its problems but it’s a lie to say that it’s ugly and ridden with gangs. latin america is beautiful. brown people and poor people are beautiful. indigeneity is beautiful. white supremacy is not.

[starjunkyard]

"Im not even sure anymore if we get to choose who our friends are" There is a part of me that resents you for making me a worse person than i want to be but i am inexplicably uncontrollably drawn to you. You make me a worse person which is the last thing i want yet i want you in every way. If i could leave i would. Maybe i can but i dont want to. I have fun with you. You challenge me and you captivate me and you push me and pull and run circles around me and it makes me feel like a younger man. For the price of being a worse person i get to feel truly, wholly alive. You are the blood that runs through my veins; vital, inseparable. I was reborn when i met you and you are the womb that haunts me. You are the one person on planet earth who knows me. I wish i could leave, move on and be the man im supposed to be but my heart is tied to yours in a gordian knot. There is a part of my soul that rests in yours, magnetic. For as long as i love you i cannot be better than i am. But maybe thats something i can learn to live with. Gregory House-- I think you're worth it.

[ballsalsdaa]

Why havent i seen anyone talk about how fucking bad the ADHD rep in pjo is

[asterdust]

my favorite part is whenever gun atthaphan is on the verge of tears

[katyspersonal]

[itstheheebiejeebies]

As good as the finale was I am still left in serious want for more storyline for the Tuskegee Airmen because wow they really got a quarter of an episode in ep8 and maybe 3 lines in this ep and we're supposed to be good?

We really should have had scenes with them across more episodes, and gotten at least a fraction of their story because the way they were shown really showed almost nothing

[paintedhyenadogs]

Reverse 1999 please... Malay characters... That'd be so cool...

[twelvemonkeyswere]

me: I hate when on tv the latinos are involved in drug dealing

also me:

[best-fictional-cat]

(tw for ableism)

not to bring anything up on the blog but- i would VERY much argue that the way warriors portrays disabled life is not good. theres a handful of disabled cats, but the narrative and other characters treat them like theyre unwhole, like theyre pitiable, like they will never be worth it because of their disability. its rare that the books allow them to be warriors or even relevent to the story. none of it is portrayed well. i love warriors but: Briarlight is the only cat handled okay. Love her to bits, but even she is called unwhole by her own mother, and its. just. labelled as "shes just worried". sorry for bringing this up, its just very worrying to see people think that the disabled rep in warriors is good :(

I'm not a good judge of that since i haven't read the books so I'm just going to leave it for the more knowledgeable people to see

[whatudottu]

Total Drama All Stars AU where instead of being a one-dimensional “evil alter” stereotype Mal is this chaotic neutral Eric Andre-esque trickster who primarily just wants fuck with literally everyone he comes across and troll the other alters solely to see their reactions to it

Because I saw that one clip of the Eric Andre show where Tony Hawk was in it, I immediately pictured that with Mal and Chester; despite the fact that Mal trapping everyone and getting them to do things like - in Chester’s case - make skateboards doesn’t make sense. Mal’s chaotic fuckery and Chester’s frustration wrecking shop until skateboards get turned into weapons- and Mal would seem the type to go down the whole ‘hey look at me. look at me. bitch’ route hah-

I’ve seen and read many All Stars rewrites and otherwise ‘I researched DID/am a system, let’s make Mike’s system better’ fanfics (one of which - Navigating the System - I binged nearly immediately) that turns Mal into more a prosecutor/protector that does the things Mike wouldn’t to make sure the body doesn’t keel over and die. Mal WAS fronting throughout Juvie after all, even if he may be less king of the hall (wait shit oh my god Hall of the Mountain King) and more ‘mess with me i mess you up: trickster edition’.

Literally any different version of Mal than what was on screen would’ve been better, and chaotic neutral Eric Andre trickster would pair off with the sometimes goodie two-shoes sometimes straight-up jerk Mike.

[biromantic-nerd]

I think representation in characters is so funny bc some people are like "I'm [rep] and that is the WORST rep I've ever seen" and some people are like "I'm [rep] and this rep is so important to me this is exactly my experience"

and by funny I mean no character is going to match every single person's experience simultaneously. Someone might criticize a character for being a stereotype and someone else might recognize themselves in that portrayal. And vice versa, etc, and so on and on forth.

[moonlitlex]

based on the dms i just got i am starting to believe the vote blue no matter who thing this time around is actually a psyop

[sakebytheriver]

....

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

the one time my show's (not mine but yk very small fandom) tag is actually used and it's for ridicule and discourse. now that stuff will be the only stuff you can see :/

[priestfrommidnightmass]

sometimes i see people calling an older (specifically 2000s) movie homophobic and i’m like ? what do you mean. and then i’m like oh did you mean when they said faggot? is that homophobia?

[batking-lich]

"i'm not like those Other People, i only consume Unproblematic Media™ with Good Representation™ and i don't like Irredeemable Media™"

"i'm not like those Other People, i don't like this Sanitized Media™, i only like Real Art™ with Bad Messy Representation™"

you are literally the same people wearing different hats the only things you disagree about are what counts as bad media and what counts as good representation