#the representation they deserve

[donttellmyroommate]

delightful

A comic (?) about my love of weird little bats for this halloween

[am3ya]

the issue with shipping aro/ace characters isn't putting them into relationships, it's the fact that no one adds how their sexuality impacts the relationship at large. And how it'll always be different from your average romantic relationship in some way.

[decaffeinatedpartymuggoop]

“If you want more representation” okay but what if they did a better job than all the other actors???

Like, with PJO Rick didn’t go “only black people can audition for Annabeth!! Grover has to be Indian! Zeus has to be black!”

No, the actors auditioned, did a good job, and got the gig.

Like instead of crying cause all these white actors didn’t get it, ask yourself if they even deserved the position.

Everything isn’t some “woke” propaganda or “more representation.” They just deserved the job.

[moksutinn]

gallagher and sampo doodles..........

[sleepysebris]

that's one way to find out @halfahelix brought up imagine adrien with the peacock and I didn't get very far with the rest of that thought cause this was the first horror to enter my brain after

[milesgmorales]

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS (2023- ) — 1x01: I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher

[buqbite]

My thoughts here mainly revolve around YSA as the mary sue/female lead type character:

She goes from being this perfect woman to. just being a woman. And my idea is that the weight gain isn't there to make her "unconventionally attractive," or whatever other dumb phrase you wanna use to avoid calling someone ugly, but to make her conventionally attractive, yet realistic.

Instead of looking like a skinny waifu character, she looks like a skinny human woman. Her hair swaying in the nonexistent wind isn't as perfect, her magic blush is missing and she has eyebags. She's still hot, just more human.

[xamiipholia]

This is a really important read. (fyi the title refers to the upcoming LIS, not True Colors)

Rebekkah Valentine is the real deal, she does great fucking investigative journalism.

Honestly it seems like a miracle that True Colors is as good as it is. Fuck Square Enix.

[squydworm]

Brennan was like “G13 has a relationship that he doesn’t want to think about with Slicer” and I was immediately like THIS STICK FIGURE GREASY ASSHOLE IS FUCKING GAY

[bisexualnonsense]

My partner made a comment about how this episode fed into “bury your gays” and like, while his heart was in the right place with the critique, I felt so strongly the opposite way

Like on its face, yes, two gay men died…. But like, in a show about a zombie apocalypse where we’re tracking at least 1 Major Character Death per episode, Bill & Frank are triumphant compared to every other character. They got to live to be old and gray together after a life of relatively peaceful flourishing. They chose their deaths on their own terms, a luxury most people don’t get in this world. They got to die together, in each others arms, neither left to live and suffer alone. They got to go with dignity, autonomy, and love, in peace, together. They got to choose. They made their end meaningful. They were happy and satisfied and fulfilled. Everything that gay characters are so often not afforded in life, much less in death.

Not only that, but narratively speaking, their deaths were used in exact opposition to “bury your gays.” The trope was created to reinforce that being gay is a sin, that gays must die as punishment for their evil ways. It’s intended to be a narrative consequence, the moral of the story, a warning to its audience.

But the deaths of Bill and Frank were used as closure to a story arc about living a happy, fulfilled life with your partner. Even further than that, their arc was used to demonstrate that there is meaning in life because we choose to create meaning, that purpose is found in each other, in loving someone, even at the end of the world. They are held up as an example of what to strive for, of a reason to keep living, of something to pursue. It is completely antithetical to bury your gays and is in fact a brilliant subversion of it in that it grounds the purpose of the narrative itself.

Tl;dr: TLOU really said love wins.

[fiona-fififi]

Call me homophobic, but I don't actually think it's great representation to stick a complex, dynamic, newly-realized bisexual character permanently with a flat, boring, underdeveloped love interest just because that was the first guy who showed interest.

[therian-cat-mitzy]

Shoutout to the angelkins who aren't the soft, ethereal stereotype most people think of!!

Shoutout to the angels who are firm and unyielding, who represent justice and make no exceptions!!

Shoutout to the angels that aren't inhumanly beautiful and dressed in white robes, but wear dark armor and hardened faces to battle!!!

Shoutout to the angels that don't tie themselves to a religion, who are beautiful because they are terrible forces of divinity!

Shoutout to all angels, whether you're fallen or not, no matter what form you take or who you serve!!

[raiidsol]

insane how tori ALWAYS always >always< looks like she's 2 minutes away from a mental breakdown and no one finds it weird. everyone assumes that's she's just weird like that and that's it.

literally older sister magic.

[cult-of-the-eye]

no cause you don't understand samama khalid means so much to me? brown guy who is actually perceived as a 3D person and not just a ball of stereotypes, who is seen as attractive, who is a burnt out gifted kid, who hums while he works, who has an accent that isn't made fun of, who has an ethnic name, who is obsessed with the one place that made him feel inadequate, who is most probably undiagnosed autistic i just love him so much

[angarchive]

drew this for my friend who just had his top surgery today!!! i’m so happy for him rn yall can’t even imagine, this is for u dude and ur jegulus brainrot