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Cape Dear

[Id: Digital drawing of Taako kissing Kravitz on the nose. Taako is a light brown skinned elf with blond and pink hair and Kravitz is a black man with vitiligo on his face and neck. Only their heads and Taako’s hand is showing, rest of their bodies being covered by large capes. Taako’s cape is made of many different and colorful fabrics, while Kravitz’s is made of dark feathers/fur. ]

A Taakitz Taakiss for you all

#this is so damn cute #taz #the adventure zone #taz balance #the adventure zone balance #taako #kravitz #taakitz

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i couldnt decide whether i liked the hat shadow, so you get both

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in much more interesting news, today at work I got to explore an abandoned 500-year-old castle, seized by the state because of the owner's massive tax evasion

we spent an hour and half going all over the grounds, I'd never felt so #urbex

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first piece i’ve finished in a while :)

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seeing cis women get called men by transphobes, seeing men on that "take her swimming on the first date" shit, seeing people think celebrities aren't wearing make up if they don't have red lipstick, all of that shit really black-pilled me to the idea of passing. like nobody knows what women actually look like not even cis people

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Dusk true form sketch

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seeing cis women get called men by transphobes, seeing men on that "take her swimming on the first date" shit, seeing people think celebrities aren't wearing make up if they don't have red lipstick, all of that shit really black-pilled me to the idea of passing. like nobody knows what women actually look like not even cis people

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[ID: A tweet from Erika Ishii @.erikaishii which reads: “Look at this Polaroid 🎶 Now they’ll always be real paranoid 🎶” in all caps. There’s a picture attached of a Polaroid photo lying on the Critical Role table, showing Erika’s view as Liam laid his chest down on the table so that Laura and Taliesin could discuss something privately while leaning behind him. /end ID]

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the sun, the moon and all her stars 💫

#can I please have more gay indian art #i love this so much

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deer lady 🌿🔥

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Anytime I see those “God that rep from two years ago was so bad” posts, I think about Gravity Falls.

I think about the fact that Alex Hirsch wanted the cupid character (who appeared in ONE episode) to have the MLM/WLW symbols on his necklace, but Disney shot it down because it was seen as inappropriate for a kid’s show.

I think about the sheriff characters, who’s “relationship” was used as a running gag to laugh at. Who’s kiss in the last scene at the end of the series damn near made people go INSANE. These were two characters who were no one’s favorites and who served as comedy relief, but it was still seen as a huge win for rep because it happened at all.

I think about the fact that Gravity Falls, a show where dead animals speak in tongues as blood drips from their eyes, couldn’t have anywhere near the amount of rep that the creators wanted to add because it “wasn’t for kids”

And now we have men getting married to their husbands and women getting married to their wives on screen. We have boys with boyfriends and girls with girlfriends and characters that are purposely gnc or androgynous. We have characters with pride pins or flags in their rooms. We have cartoons like Blues Clues that have been around for AGES making entire videos dedicated to pride for kids.

Just… things get better. Representation gets better because people fight to make it happen. We can’t act like they were “basically nothing” because without them we would HAVE nothing.

Edit: the Cupid necklace was likely the trans symbol and the cops didn’t kiss. They just said they’re in love. The Cupid was also supposed to make two old women fall in love

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I feel all of you who choose to dunk on Steven Universe, TLOK, She-Ra etc every time a new queer show has the liberty to do more than them, thanks to THEIR groundbreaking success, need to hear this one-year-old statement.

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Korra and Asami only held hands because Nickelodeon wouldn’t let them do more.  Nick infamously cancelled Korra and put out the rest of season 4 as a webseries only.

Marceline and Princess Bubblegum only kiss in the very final episode because Cartoon Network wouldn’t let them do more.  There are a ton of interviews with Pendelton and with the voice actresses where they talk about the CN censorship.

Steven Universe got as far as it did because Rebecca Sugar fought tooth and nail, and risked the show getting cancelled (which it did in many countries, if not heavily censored), because Cartoon Network wouldn’t let her.  Ruby was often dubbed over with a male voice, and Pearl/Rose interactions were completely cut.

She-Ra managed to do it largely because it was specifically on Netflix only, and even then, Noelle has said they had to build 4 seasons of storyline very subtly around it so they had enough ammo to convince the execs that Catradora was the only logical conclusion to this show they had already aired.  She didn’t just go in on Day 1 and make it gay; she had to plan many years in advance for how to set up her argument.  Her argument, y’all.

And now we have The Owl House.  Which is an absolutely wonderful show.  And it’s so amazing that we actually get to see queer characters get the kind of representation that so many straight characters get.  And it’s amazing we get to see the romance build up, instead of just a quick peck in the series finale!

Let’s not forget that in the US, it was illegal for gay people to get married until 2015.  Korra aired in 2012.  In Texas, it was a punishable felony to even be gay until 2003.  No, literally.  Just being gay was an arrestable offense here in Texas until 2003.  We have come a really long way in 20 years!

But don’t fucking dare disrespect any of these other shows by saying they didn’t try, or that their representation didn’t matter.  The Owl House is standing on the shoulders of giants.  Lumity is only where it is because Korrasami and Bubbline helped get them there.

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still don’t really understand how some people have trouble just being nice

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Do u think sci-fi writers realize how massively Bad destroying a planet is. Like, an Entire Planet, Exploded. Cool visual! Explosions. As we typically think of them are not possible in a vacuum but that's besides the point. The Point Is uh that's a whole planet? That is a Whole planet. If it can sustain life this is Infinitely Worse. I'm the kind of dumb ass that will think about it too hard and I just

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Slow Time

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