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Friends, fellow Willow fans old and new, and shippers of Princess Knight - people over at youtube are calling Willow the series "Woke garbage" and trashing the queer coupling at the heart of the series. Let's all come together to tweet, blog, re-blog, vlog,draw fan art, write fanfic for Willow to counter all that homophobic, sexist garbage. This is the first time Disney actually does something a bit bolder for LGBT representation on its platform. Let's not allow homophobes to win.

People of all orientations unite!

Let's keep pushing for more representation!

#willow 2022 #princess kit #kit x jade #ruby cruz #representation matters #erin kellyman #love wins

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Already obsessed with these two.

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I am so beyond excited for the Willow Disney+ series. I'll just expose myself and say it - I'm in it for the gays. BUT it genuinely looks so good and like such fun, and I did get around to watching the original Willow, which was honestly a blast!!!

Anyways, excited to see my girl Erin Kellyman slay.

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Yeah, [you're] superior in every way, Your Highness.

Kit & Jade

Willow (2022) - s01e01 - "The Gales"

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THE WILLOW SHOW IS GONNA BE AWESOME Y'ALL!

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stream willow on disney+ for good health and clear skin

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KIT & JADE - WILLOW (2022-)

EPISODE 1 - THE GALES

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Oh she's got it bad, bad

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I need everybody to know that according to this: Willow’s gay romance wasn’t challenged by Disney, says creator - Polygon, Kit and Jade's romance will be front and center.

I need all my Avatrice, Raylla, and Wenclair girlies to know this. WE'RE GETTING FANTASY LESBIANS!!! Anywaysssss, what are they? Kade? Jit? Princess Knight??? :)

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Willow (2022) - Teaser - Premiering November 30, 2022

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...This is obviously the natural progression of a Disney princess: being gay.

Are Princess Kit and Jade your new ship, or are you not into healthy friendships-turned-romances?

Ruby Cruz as Princess Kit & Erin Kellyman as Jade in WILLOW (2022 - PRESENT) Season 1, Episode 1: The Gales

#willow 2022 #princess kit #kit x jade #jade

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In this life...or the next.

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...So, we've been reading a few posts about how "Warrior Nun" is the best because it isn't like all the other queer shows, where apparently the queer couples have sex right away or non-queer shows that queer bait viewers, etc.

Let's just get something straight:

The original L-Word came out in 2004. That show was criticized for being too white, too narrow, too limiting in its depiction of gay women. In fact, it was mostly lesbians, and one bi woman (Tina) and most were femmes. Over the years, the show tried to course correct with the addition of other characters, most notably Max (Daniela Sea) and even that was fraught with controversy. At the time, Daniela Sea was interviewed about this and she had said (and we're paraphrasing here, that was a long time ago), that L-Word doesn't claim to represent all gay women, and she had hoped that there would be more representation of gay women, more movies, more tv shows to show the diversity, the variety, the spectrum of the gay experience.

At the time, pre-L-Word, there were only a handful of les/bi movies, mostly indie, some of questionable quality (there were a lot, we're not going to name names), some good (our favorite being "When Night is Falling" and "Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love"). On TV, we had "Ellen" which was groundbreaking and promptly cancelled, and there was "Carol the Lesbian" on "Friends", who was treated more as a joke, along with Chandler's trans-mom.

Cut to now - where we have so much more to choose from: we have period dramas with A-List directors and actors ("Carol", "Tell it to the Bees", "Portrait of a Lady on Fire"), we have shows on TV networks and online streaming platforms (tho the line between those are blurring). So we can watch Cyrano de Bergerac style movies ("The Half of It") or Asian American ones ("Saving Face") or pretty straightforward ones, really ("Imagine Me and You"), and though some, if not half or most series/shows have been cancelled ("Teenage Bounty Hunters", "I Am Not Okay with This", etc.), we still have more shows/series now that tell our queer stories than ever before ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "The 100", "Glee", etc.) and we still think that's better than the time the only thing we had was stories with only subtext to keep us company ("Fried Green Tomatoes", "Thelma and Louise", "A League of their Own").

So, whenever we feel like it's getting bad, let's also remember the time when queer stories weren't even mainstream, when directors and actors wouldn't even touch or go near our stories, when we didn't have as many allies in the industry willing to put our stories out there. A lot of our queer stories from before, though far from perfect, paved the way for stories like "Warrior Nun"to see the light of day. And we love that yeah, "Warrior Nun" is about a friends-to-lovers queer story, but that isn't just the one queer story that can be told. The diversity and complexity of the queer experience can hardly be encompassed by just one series and it's not fair to ignore or put the others down just because they don't fit what you like. We like that we have the more adult, they-had-a-one-night-stand-right-away-and-fell-in-love story of Kacy on NCIS Hawai'i, the sex-positive one of Leighton on "The Sex Lives of College Girls", the stranded-on-an-island one of "The Wilds", the vampire-and-vampire-slayer-falling-in-love narrative of "First Kill", etc.

So, let's keep celebrating the diversity and complexity of the queer female experience onscreen but still honor the stories that came before them. They may not have been perfect, hell, they were even problematic, but, again, at least we got these stories and our lives are better for it.

And let's keep pushing for "Warrior Nun"and other stories to keep getting made and renewed.

Like and reblog if you agree.

Drop your favorite queer women story (movie, series, show) below.

#alba baptista #ava silva #avatrice #kristina tonteri young #warrior nun season 2 #warrior nun #buffy the vampire slayer #lword(original) #the half of it #imagine me and you #saving face #when night is falling #incredibly true adventure of 2 girls in love #portrait of a lady on fire

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WELL HERE YOU GO BUD

JESUS CHRIST THE AMOUNT OF TIME AND TUTORIALS THIS TOOK IS ASTOUNDING BUT ALSO WORTH IT

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What we all felt at the end of season 2 of Warrior Nun.

Warrior Nun really gave us "I'm in spain without the s" huh

#warrior nun #avatrice #ava x beatrice #ava silva #sister beatrice #alba baptista #kristina tonteri young

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Obviously, the best part of season 2 is seeing Ava come into her own: the lonely, selfish, sarcastic, untrained quadriplegic who eventually learns to be a fighter, then a warrior, then finally a hero, is one of the best journeys of any character we've ever seen.

Also, the fight scenes are pretty awesome.

WARRIOR NUN SEASON 2 : THE HALO

Ava's Halo powers

#warrior nun season 2 #ava silva #avatrice #alba baptista #kristina tonteri young

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...Honestly, the most amusing part of Warrior Nun is watching it and thinking about all the nuns you've ever seen, hang out with and worked with and thinking, well, most of them were actually more Mother Superion than anything. Also, watching this reminded us also of the few times nuns would try to recruit us to their order and our answer was always, "Hard pass", not only because of the vows we had to take, but because, honestly, as a queer person, a room full of women in habits would probably break us...

Like or reblog if you've ever

1. been recruited by a nun

2.considered being a nun

3.had a crush on a nun

4. all of the above

#warrior nun #ava silva #avatrice #alba baptista #kristina tonteri young #nuns! #nuff said