#to Provide Representation

[rollercoasterwords]

ummmmm fyi i do not write stories about lesbians to "provide wlw representation" 😐 please get a grip 😐

[triptychofvoids]

Silly in the best way have a gold star

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danke schön, na na, danke schön~

[lazycranberrydoodles]

through a cruel twist of fate, the brocade immortal escaped again!! and now it is ESSENTIAL to the PLOT that they wear maid dresses. follow for more clownery <3

HUA CHENG IS NOT TAKING THE MAID ROLEPLAY SERIOUSLY!!! relatedly go read the practical use of good stamina by @fullmetalpotterhead its hilarious

[averlym]

"now, doesn't that look nice?" [insp]

[luhvey-duhvey]

I need to speak on this because it’s happened far too many times and seems to be a recurring pattern with Fusebox.

It’s really shameful and disheartening to see how often Fusebox puts black women characters into couples with people that don’t actually like them, and proceeds to villainize them in the eyes of MC/other characters in the game.

We’ve seen it in S2 with Hope being loyal to Noah then getting disrespected by him when he confessed to MC in the end.

We’ve seen it with Grace in S6, sticking with Ozzy although he’s disrespected her and clearly wasted her time by staying with her when he was pining for MC all along. And even when he does tell her he’s not interested anymore, she does everything in her power to “win him over” instead of allowing her to rightfully look elsewhere for love.

And if you’re going the Jin route in S8, it happens with Luna. Jin doesn’t want her but he sticks around to spare her feelings. She embarrasses herself trying to win him over only to get booted off the show.

Next, they love to turn them into the “mean ones” by getting upset with MC/defending their relationship when romance (often initiated by the one they’re coupled up with) strikes.

Then they’re the enemy and everyone is waiting for them to be voted out of their game.

Yeah, sure, they’re just characters. It’s just a game. But it blows my mind, especially seeing this as a black player, that time and time again they’ve done this with the black women characters in the exact SAME way:

1. Couple with someone that’s not interested

2. argue/be a jerk to MC/refuse to take hints that their love interest doesn’t like them

3. do acrobatics to win said love interest over

4. get heartbroken, kicked off

If you’re going to put black women in your show, is it too much to ask them to be respected? To be deserving of a happy ending too? Reflect on how you’ve been representing black women, Fusebox.

Then do better.

[eugeniedanglars]

if you ever try to claim any type of platonic friendship between men is underrepresented in media i am not only blocking you i am exploding you with my mind

[morsmortish]

“Chinese black family doesn’t make sense” why do you have to be so white all the time? Just say you’re racist and you hate fun

i’ve never understood the fixation on presenting regulus and sirius as some sort of wondrous aryan paragons…let them be silly little poc kids!!! if they want to be!!!! it wouldn’t evoke such aggressive reactions from you if you were normal tbh

[sketching-shark]

Starting Journey to the West assuming its the story about a silly goofy monkey going on monster-of-the-week adventures with his friends:

Reading about Sun "was-definitely-a-warlord" Wukong smashing the upteenth person's head into a meat patty but a few chapters in:

[elf-kid2]

Old-School Animation, from like the 1940's, would include unattractive women as the butt of the joke.

Modern Animation will simply not depict unattractive women.

Neither of these things are great.

[charlottejoancheng]

My sketch on Juniper Lee’s grown up version, with her new superhero outfit as the fully fledged Te Xuan Ze

[blazeeblake]

*small disclaimer since I know things are a little wild/pressure cookery atm: this is by no means a call or rallying cry or whatever to go after people that don’t agree with me or anything like that, this is just how I feel. We’re all looking at the same thing from different vantage points and there’s going to be things that don’t line up or even clash. It’s all good. I saw something essentially saying that it’s [unhinged? Too much? A sign someone needs to touch grass] if someone decides they’re done with the show if the pairing doesn’t happen in canon, and honestly? *tired shrug* I get that no one is owed anything from fiction, but I think you’re allowed to be frustrated when valid tropes and narrative structures don’t pay off, especially when there aren’t many places to turn to for the kinds of stories someone still in the proverbial margins might be looking for. As long as you don’t go around attacking the real life people acting/writing out/reasonably enjoying this fiction, it’s cool to be bothered and make an exit. I see something I don’t like here? I mute it and move on, no harm no foul. I’m giving myself and strangers space to feel how we feel and not catch hell for it. Fiction is supposed to be enjoyable, and by all means if you don’t enjoy something feel free to unpack that and work it out, but in the meantime you can also wash your hands of something, even if it’s just temporary. Life is too short and this is too minor to choose this kind of misery for the sake of being someone else’s definition of “getting it.”

I will also say, q*eerb*iting (yeah, I’m partially censoring it because I’m always kind of nervous and tetchy bringing up a phrase that’s been very loaded for a long time and incorrectly used in the worst of instances) doesn’t go away just because a show already has some good representation. I don’t have the energy or the credentials to go on at length about how, for better or for worse and in spite of its continued censorship/marginalization, wlw representation has typically come easier to major network productions than mlm representation, especially when the actors are conventionally handsome male leads; I also don’t want to get into the lack of queer men being allowed to show the same amount of physical intimacy as wlw and straight couples on said show, but that’s there too.

and finally, yeah, as a queer Black woman, I am happy for the representation I’ve got and am getting more recently in this instance, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t love to see a queer relationship get the same treatment as all the straight couples (who started as friends or coworkers or rivals) that I’ve seen get after multiple seasons of speculation and hope.

You’re allowed to want more or better, you’re allowed to get frustrated, just make sure you don’t hurt anyone (including yourself).

[kidneys-and-custard]

Queer representation in the book Mr Monk Goes to the Firehouse? It’s more likely than you think.

[goatwithaplan]

my dds headcanon is that Roland has to stop the embryon from doing some very stupid and questionable things just because they were raised as warriors in the apocalypse and have 0 common sense

"No Gale, were not giving a gun to Fred, no not even a 9 mm, he is a kid" "Argilla I think thats not a good idea. What do you mean you did that every day?! that sounds incredible dangerous" "CIELO NO!"

[clumsycapitolunicorn]

it's been nearly 6 months since the ted lasso finale and im still pretty much:

[girl4music]

I don’t want to say Cordy makes Angel happy because we all know that’s a no no. He can’t be happy. But he is brighter as a person. Radiant. Dare I even use William the Bloody Awful Poet’s own term? Yeah I think I’m gonna… Around her he is Effulgent.

And it just makes a hell of a difference to him as a person, as a character. Constant broody, moping, miserable, guilt-ridden, self-hating, self-contemptuous, pained Angel is not fun to watch. Sure - his mission is about redemption but take it from another brooding dark stoic character whose mission is also about redemption - Xena was never this depressing of a character throughout the entirety of her show. Why does Angel need to be?

A character that comes into their lives that helps these two tortured, hopeless people find a light in themselves by being their light is the whole point to a redemption arc because you can’t receive a redemption if you can’t allow yourself it. For Xena, that person was Gabrielle. For Angel, that person is Cordy. A vampire burdened with a conscience and were he ever to feel even one ounce of happiness, revert back to the soulless evil monster he once was is not an ideal situation but not everything has to be doom and gloom. And with Cordy around - it won’t be because there is no danger it will tip the scale. She knows she needs to be careful and cautious around him in a way Buffy never truly understood because Buffy is the Slayer. Fighting evil vampires and demons is her unwanted “destiny”, it wasn’t something she “wanted” to do because she “chose” it. Cordelia is different. She’s chosen this life - this path. Even more so now she’s become part-demon. Of course it’s not entirely the same but now she’s his equal partner she can provide for him and be a light in the dark. This matters. This balances the scale. This is the whole point to what she’s there for. She’s there for him.

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

The huge irony in The Little Mermaid (1989) essentially being about a teenage girl who desired to be understood by those around her, so she went to a drastically different society in order to achieve that, and it's one of the most misunderstood movies that Disney has ever released. Disney Princess movies already get a bad rap, but this movie, in particular, gets the worst of it. It's truly amazing.