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stunie Ā· 4 months ago
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itā€™s so easy to forget that you can literally write whatever you want
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jakeperalta Ā· 3 months ago
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the thing is I already know that men and society at large hate women. I know that young men in particular increasingly skew right and towards misogyny (I've read the articles, although all I really need to do is spend any time on any part of the internet to see the evidence). but then every so often something like this happens where it still somehow surprises me. like my god.. they really hate us this much.
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squids-and-waffles7 Ā· 3 months ago
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characters who hate themselves so much that they physically rip theirselves in half my beloved
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redshoes-blues Ā· 5 months ago
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By the way, Will is explicitly written not only as a gay character who is in love with his best friend, but also as a character who grew up believing that heā€™d never fall in love. Heā€™s someone who still believes that he doesnā€™t deserve to be loved, because he feels like his feelings are a mistake. This isnā€™t the type of character arc that will end with him watching the only person he has ever expressed interest in, the boy heā€™s in love with, be with with someone else. That wouldnā€™t be satisfying for viewers, wouldnā€™t make sense for Will as a character, and it would be needlessly cruel. In a story focused on demonstrating why societyā€™s outsiders deserve love and acceptance, heā€™s going to find just that. Itā€™s the only end for him that fits with his arc and the showā€™s narrative themes. To have it end otherwise is terrible writing.
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marypsue Ā· 1 month ago
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Man, it's cool and all if you see a metaphor for marginalisation in the monstrous, and if you want the power fantasy of 'what if you could just eat anybody who threatened you/pissed you off'. Me too.
However, as soon as you start saying 'no, these monsters are a 1:1 on Specific Marginalised Group, and you have to treat them in the fiction like they are directly representative of real human members of the marginalised group', BUT you also, in the fiction, make them hurt/kill/eat humans? And then try to shame me, your audience, for noticing or engaging with the bit where they kill people, because you made them directly representative of a real-world marginalised group? You have lost me, and also, I think, the plot.
#hear yourself. for the love of whatever you cherish.#'but they only kill bigots so ACTUALLY they're the GOOD GUYS -' your metaphor of monstrosity is entirely premised on the question of#'what if what you went around righteously killing; believing your actions to be justified;#were actually people and it was not in fact righteous or justified to just kill them'#'what if the world isn't neatly split into 'good guys' and 'bad guys'#who gets to decide who or what is 'bad'? because that's the original problem of monstrosity-as-metaphor-for-marginalisation#(if as a creator you say 'oh my intention with this was X' cool!#if instead you go with something like. well.#'well in this setting monsters are so rare it doesn't matter that they kill people and you'd have to be a homicidal sadistic psychopath >#< to hunt them; but sure I guess if you want to play a Bad Person' well I might have#but if you're going to explicitly judge me for wanting to engage with the moral question of 'how justified is this and who would do it#versus how justified are these monsters if they do have to harm or kill people to continue to exist'#then maybe I just don't want to play your game at all)#anyway I'm sick to death of poor uwu cozy vampires who are SO marginalised so I'm not Allowed to care about all the people they murder#it being fucked up is what's fun about it! do all the other shit but let me take the murders seriously!#and inb4 someone accuses me of being a bigot for saying 'actually I don't think you get a free pass to kill and eat people if you're gay'#remember when the CW's famously reactionary and conservative Supernatural tried to just gloss over the part where every time its heroes >#< killed a demon with a magic knife it also killed the person the demon was possessing#and say 'oh no it's fine we don't care about those killings; they don't matter; don't bother caring about them either'#but they were doing it to glorify exactly the kind of people that these 'monster as metaphor' stories are trying to cast as expendable?#I have other examples that are like. real dramas. but That Paranormal Show is the one that's in the same niche that I'm talking about here#it feels more insidious when it comes through a fantasy show where there are monsters involved#so you can say 'no it's not real so it doesn't matter'#but then ALL of it is equally not real. and vampires are not actually an oppressed group. because they don't exist.#you can say 'these vampires are a metaphor for an oppressed group so this fiction matters in real life'#or you can say 'don't care about the murders because they weren't actually real'#but you can't say both and then get mad at ME for treating the murders as seriously as the vampires#let me engage with your premise and don't waste my fucking time#or just set your fluff in the Sesame Street universe where vampires drink cherry Kool-Aid and help kids learn to count
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mugentakeda Ā· 1 year ago
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more jetko tomfoolery
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r-aindr0p Ā· 5 months ago
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At this point I'm just waiting for Yuu to give Rollo a smooch, since he's now held hostage living in the guest room. Doubt he has the nerve though. šŸ˜… Maybe give one to the mini Rollos on the forehead, that seems more plausible. (Feel free to ignore this, I'm just expressing my thoughts.)
Lmao it would be a miracle if he even managed to express his interest voluntarily. He's absolutely a coward :)
Though he absolutely gives smooches on the mini rollo's foreheads ! He sees them as pets kind of and just hugs them or gives them a peck on the head like you would do with your cat or dog whenever you see them. Might have accidentally done that in Rollo's presence just because he's so used to it.... Really?? In front of his croissant ???!
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And proceed to make everything worse by trying to justify it, then avoid eye contact for the rest of the day
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mayahawkeswife Ā· 6 months ago
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i think people really do lack the understanding of just how much representation matters.
like, chappell roan. not only is she an out and proud LESBIAN, but i just saw a interview where she opens up about how she is also demisexual. that truly struck a chord with me personally, because iā€™ve been struggling with figuring myself out in those terms and just hearing someone talk about it, knowing iā€™m not alone in my feelings and that itā€™s okay, really does help.
representation MATTERS. DIVERSE representation matters.
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did-i-do-this-write Ā· 2 years ago
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wuntrum Ā· 11 months ago
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i personally have an internal monologue, and while i can "see" words/images in my head, my default thoughts are all audio...it sounds like i'm saying them out loud in my head (i have to consciously try to "see" things i'm thinking about)
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uncanny-tranny Ā· 1 year ago
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Hey, gentle recognition for the people who are taking care of themselves in "not aesthetically-pleasing" ways. To the people who have to do things they don't want to because they know they would suffer more if they didn't, to the people who have to brush their teeth with their fingers, to the people who have to use washcloths to bathe, to the people who need to punch pillows or scream into them to express their intense emotions, to anybody ashamed about the way they need to live and take care of themselves.
You are doing the very best you can with the hand you've been dealt. It's not easy, it's not pretty, but it sure as fuck takes so much to do these things. You are doing what is best for yourself, and I, for one, think you deserve to be proud of that. Self-care isn't easy. It isn't pretty, often, but it's something you shouldn't be ashamed of or hide away because it's deemed "grotesque" or "not really self-care (because self-care is pretty and non-threatening to 'normal peoples' senses)"
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aardvaark Ā· 8 months ago
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im so glad that we never get a clear picture of sophieā€™s background in leverage & i hope we never do. however i also really like making up various, often conflicting backstories for her in my head. perhaps theyā€™re all backstories for an alias of hers, ones she laid to rest back in season two.
#leverageposting#leverage#sophie devereaux#particularly that one of or both her parents had to move around a lot for work & so she would change herself to fit in at every new school#or new town etc etc. and that whatever original identity she had was dropped due to some kind of really awful event and her bio family think#sheā€™s dead. eg she got into some kind of extreme legal trouble for the first time & she faked her death & everyone she knew as a kid thinks#sheā€™s dead too. like. astrid wasnā€™t the first person she left to miss/mourn her.#but also that she was a teen runaway at like age ~16 and pretended to be an adult (like. 18/19) cause theres not much you can do by yourself#as a minor like booking flights or renting an apartment. and so began her first proper alias. and she was a pickpocket until she could fund#her life fully through grifting & cons.#or alternatively her parents died when she was a teen & she was old enough to become an emancipated minor (everyone in lev is an orphan)#and she kind of just fell into crime from there bc she had no one#or perhaps she got married at 17 and realised how fucked it all was and stashed money until she could run away & leave it all behind. thatā€™s#bc of a single vague sentence on john rogersā€™ blog saying she was married at 17 and in context it was quite possibly a joke or random#hypothetical example but i was like what if???? What If???????#i also like the hc that sheā€™s trans which iā€™ve seen a few times#in some versions in my mind her parents were okay and in some versions they were awful and in some versions it was so complicated.#i think tara has heard one story and parker or hardison have heard another and nate has never heard any story. heā€™s never asked.#she is here now and thatā€™s all that needs knowing. and sophie devereaux is her real name in any way it matters.#eliot has also never asked and she asked if he was curious once and he just asked if she was curious about What He Did and that was answer#enough for the both of them. just a mutual agreement not to ask and it actually solidified their bond.#i think she struggled for a long time about whether to tell her new family The Real Story but in much the same way we never hear her birth#name bc itā€™s not Her anymoreā€¦ she never gives The Real Story. bc it no longer defines who she is. sheā€™s so much more than whatever happened.#lvg
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island-ofthelost Ā· 4 days ago
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ā€œgob is actually bi!ā€ ā€œmac is actually bi!ā€
šŸ¤ shut
these are two characters that have been explicitly confirmed to be gay. Itā€™s been confirmed by the creators of Arrested Development that Gob is gay. Mac has flat out said ā€œIā€™m gayā€ meaning he came out explicitly as gay. ā€œbut theyā€™ve shown attraction to women which means theyā€™re-ā€
šŸ¤ SHUT
Do you not know what compulsory heterosexuality is? Would you go up to a real life gay person whoā€™s dated someone of the opposite gender and tell them theyā€™re actually bi? No, right? Because that would be disrespectful. Hot take? But headcanon is over when that aspect of the character has been explicitly confirmed. ESPECIALLY if youā€™re going to negate it.
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brutally-loving Ā· 24 days ago
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Fun fact! Being an idiot, as in, HARASSING PEOPLE, about other people selfshipping with your f/o would not make your f/o like you any more. At all. Also you're the worst kind of person and you make everyone in this community look horrendous.
Sending hateful anons and making alts to harass people is cringe and you are beyond childish. Get over yourself. Point and laugh at the clown, class.
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wewerebornsextuplets Ā· 4 months ago
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everyone should think too deeply about small oc details forever btw. it makes life better
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castingpods Ā· 3 months ago
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Representation is so important bc im sitting here crying again to foolish from the bright sessions musical episode. I never DID dream I never DID hope I never did have the time!!!! I never dared I never tried to yearn for something that never could be mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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