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Sleepover:

Pros: • Gay. The gayest to ever be gay in this gay world • women of color !! • RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WOMEN OF COLOR • Hayley’s voice is a goddamn angel call • stretch marks !!!! • fuckin aesthetic • makes you wana cry and dance all at once • bath water looks like tasty strawberry milk • relatable as fuck

Cons: •

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Sleepover:

Pros: • Gay. The gayest to ever be gay in this gay world • women of color !! • RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WOMEN OF COLOR • Hayley’s voice is a goddamn angel call • stretch marks !!!! • fuckin aesthetic • makes you wana cry and dance all at once • bath water looks like tasty strawberry milk • relatable as fuck

Cons: •

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Lefou’s gay.

Today Disney announced that Lefou will be an explicitly gay character, the first for Disney fairy tale films and films aimed at the all ages group from the company. A lot of people feel strongly about this on both sides, conservative extremists feel this is the utmost betrayal from Disney and think the film needs a new content rating. I think that is ridiculous for a number of reasons mostly that a gay man existing in a world where a girl falls in love with a beast is somehow the controversial topic. But on the other end of the discourse rainbow many feel that this is an insult to lgbt people and that Disney has insulted and made a grave mistake by having Lefou be canoically gay. I also think that’s a bit much. So here are some of my bullet points/thoughts on why I truly believe this is a good step for Disney and the LGBT community if you would so indulge me.

I understand many concerns revolving this piece of news, Lefou in this version is now a gay man who pines for his straight macho best friend/pack leader. Some are condemning that idea which I find a bit silly. I understand that a stereotype thrown upon our community is that we are unable to have straight friends because we will “always fall for them”. Which we all know is bullshit, that being said sometimes it also fucking happens but it’s no more different than the friendzone guy who is in love with his childhood best friend. Point is it’s an actual thing queer people do deal with so to prohibit as a storytelling device is just stupid and weird. A good lesson for lgbt people and anyone honestly is sometimes the people you will like, or even love will not reciprocate those feelings.

Not all lgbt people need to be portrayed as saintly or even good people to count as representation. For example one of my favorite things about the new Series of Unfortunate events show on netflix was that there was a gay couple in it. My favorite thing not being that they were gay, but that they were gay and just as bad as the rest of the adults in the show. Because I believe it’s important to show LGBT people as humans rather than amazing people with little flaws and great outcomes even though I understand the need for that. So Lefou can be in a bad relationship, he can be allowed to make poor decisions because he is blinded by love from someone who will never love him back, he is even allowed to be a bad person because him being gay shouldn’t excuse him from any of that. Because character flaws make for a interesting character shocking I know and can even be the payoff for character growth. Which leads me to my next point. 

This is a character arch Bill condon has even said it. Meaning Lefou will go through some sort of change or lesson in this film. Just because he starts following this awful person in the beginning of the film does not mean that’s where he story will end. Because again this is not the animated feature, we don’t know the exact context of their relationship nor do we have an idea of what will happen to Lefou through the course of the film. But for a movie about acceptance of those who are different and learning to love I have a hard time believing it’s going to end poorly for the now gay Lefou. Just remember Bill has said where they end with Lefou is something rather beautiful, and I personally cannot wait to see what that is.

Any bit of screen time in which a gay person is a person and given an actual story arc is something that I view as important. This is a company that for many years had to code in order to get away with anything. We are living in a day and age where they can openly say that a character is gay. Which I think is something huge and something I want to encourage from the company, so that we can get more of these kind of ideas. I am not saying you have to be inherently okay or accepting of this, but I am asking that you give the film a chance and watch it before having your final thoughts be a reblog slamming this from all angles. Because while you may disagree maybe some kid out there is going to watch what happens with lefou and feel better about themselves leaving that theater.

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Rock and Riot 14.10  

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Colourist for this chapter: tacogrande

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Ghostbusters theme song in Kate McKinnon’s best accents (x)

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Wonder Woman carrying Bats and Sups.

Trinity (2016), issue 6, page 14.

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I need this moment here.

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I’m a night-stalking, crime-fighting vigilante and heavy metal rapping machine. I don’t feel anything emotionally except for rage.

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going to college/university in gotham city would be so wild???

a student who forgets to sort out their accommodation until the last minute and ends up moving into mr freeze’s hideout because everywhere else in town is full. still beats dorms i guess.

the welcome assembly is 6 hours long and most of it is what to do if you encounter the joker or batman or some other hero or villain and how the police are essentially useless.

non-gothamite students being freaked out over why the gothamite students aren’t panicking when their campus coffee shop gets held up by harley quinn and poison ivy.

city-wide catastrophes are not an excuse for getting out of finals week.

the black market is incredibly easy to access in gotham and ends up getting used by students wanting to make a quick buck by writing other people’s essays or stealing answers off tests. beware ex-psychology professors who do not take kindly to cheaters.

not being sure whether the sound you’re hearing is an explosion somewhere in town or just your neighbor’s music at 3AM. 

did you just see nightwing pass by your window or are you hallucinating from lack of sleep? 

riddler crashes the university’s servers, causing untold fear and panic to the students who had left their essays to the very last minute to turn in.

iceberg lounge is to be avoided, the drinks are so damn expensive and the nightlife is usually lousy unless batman’s doing a raid on the place.  

any drunk student could easily be taken in as a new batman villain. one minute you’re at a fancy dress party having a good time, the next thing you know you’re waking up in a jail cell with a suspicious, batarang shaped scar and the tabloids calling you Donkey Girl. 

every student thinks they can be robin within the first two weeks of moving to gotham. this usually does not end well. 

seeing two-face chilling at mcdonald’s on your friend’s snapchat story and not even being surprised at this point. 

no need to set an alarm for a 14 minute nap, batgirl will probably come crashing through your window anyway. 

most people want to bang either someone from the batfam or the rogues gallery. some have even attempted it.

fear toxin is put in the vents one time but almost no one is affected. everybody is already terrified for exams. 

most dorm rooms have an “adopt me batman” sign hanging from the windows, or variations of that (”adopt me catwoman” is a pretty popular one too)

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“Who’s gonna defuse the bomb? It’s gotta be one or the other, Batman.”

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before we really get this party started i’d like to direct your attention to this image of concept joker

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