#I wish this was how she had said it

[fandomsarefamily1966]

Growing up is not the problem. Forgetting is.

Polly, about Susan

#source: the little prince #incorrect narnia quotes #incorrect quotes #I wish this was how she had said it #then we wouldn't have people assuming that Susan got kicked out for growing up #instead of realizing that she chose to forget because it was easier that way #and to be honest? #haven't we all given up something that we thought was childish? #because we wanted to be seen as grown up and mature? #I know I have #and Susan does this too! #although she definitely didn't deserve to lose all her loved ones in a train crash #but that's for another day #:/

[quietwingsinthesky]

it ever hit you out of nowhere that castiel is living in a dead guy's body and the show just does not care. it does not care. jimmy novak might as well not exist the moment he or claire is out of sight. cas stole a guy's body and his face and his life, and we can't ever talk about it or discuss it in detail because of how fucking horrifying it is that sam and dean's best friend just walks around in a dead guy suit. there's not even a human soul in there anymore. it's just a corpse. stone-cold body snatcher indeed.

#castiel spn #spn #this is not like a Castiel Crime (tm) to be clear. this is more me being (un)surprised that the show is Like This. #castiel is a horror story he is so much a horror story in the rapture #and then they just uh. never bring up again how horrifying and fucked up this is for another like 7 seasons #and when they do its to briefly go :( claire lost her dad :) but its okay! she forgives cas for it! #which!! NO SHE SHOULD FUCKING NOT!!! #but we can't have that discussion. we can't talk about that. because to acknowledge that it's fucked up would mean making cas kind of. evil #in a way that would vastly improve his later character arcs btw. if we had to reckon with not only this massive transgression #but with the fact that cas himself STILL DOESN'T SEE IT AS ONE. #that on a lot of fundamental levels. he is still functioning as he did in s4. a lot of that base programming is still there. #something something how cas never changes out of his suit under his trenchcoat #but it's like. jimmy said yes. so it's fine. that's what it is to him. #anyway. i wish they hadn't been scared of making all three of the boys more fucked up in later seasons. #thank GOD for dean being interesting in how he becomes Worse <3 because they were not bringing that for castiel. #again. good version of spn where jimmy's bloodline is an off-shoot of the lucifer vessel bloodline. explaining a) how lucifer Got In There #and b) letting lucifer possess claire later so that the two of them can have daddy issues together. #something about cas being the monster-not monster that jimmy let in that destroyed his life. #something about lucifer being the monster-not monster that castiel lets in later. the cycles. they are cycling.

[thepoisonroom]

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

#this quote always moves me almost to tears when i remember it #i'm not a trans woman and i don't share the author's specific experiences with transition #but it really moves me that she frame transition as joyfully giving yourself permission to approach your body #not as something that has to be disciplined and deprived and made small in all these various ways #but as a means for experiencing pleasure and joy and delight and for insisting that our feelings and desires are worth #valuing and exploring and treasuring #i always used to think of prioritizing those things for myself as selfish and irresponsible #but who does it harm to want to experience pleasure in your own body? #it's such a beautifully simple and powerful switch to have flip in your head #and equally why are we forced to deny our own pleasure in transition and anything else related to our bodies in the name of moral rectitude #this is why i get so confused and pissed off when other trans people are fatphobic for example #like why are you so invested in politics of shame and disgust that never had any purpose other than #violently disciplining people as if they've violated moral codes by existing in a body #to say nothing of white people being racist in gay and trans communities #like again this system of violence is foundational to homophobia and transphobia #so why are you acting like it has nothing to do with you #even if you are unmoved by the urgency of other people's suffering which btw you should be moved by #what do you hope to gain by acting a collaborator and handmaiden to those systems #Casey Plett #she really is one of my favorite authors i wish more non-canadians read her #this quote is from a series of columns she did ont transition and every single one is a banger #i love when she talks about the people-pleasing elements of dysphoria and transition denial #she's so sharp about noting how many of us deny our own dysphoria on the grounds that others like and validate our bodies #that's how i always felt during my cis conventionally feminine era #it pleased other people so much and also that reception felt so hollow and joyless to me because i hated it #i get less of that positive feedback but that feels so unimportant next to the joy and pleasure i get to experience #said with the understanding that i'm very privileged in being able to prioritize those things without fear. but it was a switch flip #personal nonsense

[seraphicalsuccubus]

well. it’s officially ‘I like your tats’ weather. aka the bane of every tattooed girl’s existence 🙃

#my Instacart shopper was the girl’s boyfriend instead of her just using her profile to do the shopping #and he literally sat here and fucking hit on me and tried to get me to tell him about my tattoos and told me how good they look and #I shit you not said ‘damn lil mama you got some ink huh? I bet you look real good without them clothes’ #because my nipple tattoos were peeking out of my tank top …… #like you have a whole ass woman at home get the fuck outta my face with that shit ugh #I wish I had a way to contact her about how sleazy her fucking man is being to random customers while using her profile like #she deserves to know he’s fuckin scum and hitting on random women he delivers shit to #god I fucking hate scummy and cheating men like y’all don’t even know what it means to be faithful clearly #so many of yall motherfuckers get ‘loyalty’ and ‘devotion’ shitty ass script fuckin tattoos and clearly don’t even know what the words mean

[skitskatdacat63]

I was showing my mom various eras of Nando, AND SHE SAID PUPPY DOG MCHONDA ERA LOOKS LIKE PUSS IN BOOTS HAHAHAHHAA

I'm not gonna be able to stop thinking about this comparison for a while 😭😭😭😭😭

#my mom constantly says things and makes comments that makes me wish she had a tumblr blog #you know actually if we're gonna keep calling nando a cartoon character #i think puss in boots suits him by far the best #but especially bcs of this 😭😭😭😭 #anyways my mom is so me fr. she only finds the older f1 drivers attractive 😭 #she said nando's linen outfit from today was hot and that hes the only REAL MAN on the grid #and i was showing her the other various dilfs and she got so excited at mark 😭 #im gonna bully her forever about how she excitingly pointed at mark in a pic and said 'WHO HE!?' #f1 #formula 1 #fernando alonso #catie.rambling.txt

[glittershvck]

the way nat was the one jackie took all of her insecurities and frustrations out on and yet it was nat and only nat to truly give jackie any sort of dignity and apology after cannibalising her. even goes as far as thanking her. nat was the only one to refuse to freeze out their teammate in the pilot and now, despite it all, she’s doing that for her team captain, even after they’re gone.

#i SO wish we got to see more of their dynamic #the way in the pilot jackie said she admired how unapologetically nat was herself #while jackie herself felt like she had no identity #i am. having thoughts. #yellowjackets

[eighthwholove]

When she saw him, she knew he was her destiny!

FOX Promo for Doctor Who, The Movie (1996)

#everytime I watch this promo #it only makes me wish even more that they kept their original plan #and had grace go with him at the end #because she was supposed to until it got changed :/ #though I do still think eight & grace had more adventures together #daphne ashbrook said so in an interview that they did #so that makes it canon now #on another note #I love how dramatic these fox promos were #they really tried to get you riled up for the movie #paul mcgann #daphne ashbrook #eric roberts #eighth doctor #grace holloway #roberts!master #doctor who #doctor who the tv movie #mcgann monday

[aphrogeneias]

women who talk too much and later are always left with the feeling that they're always saying the wrong thing and that's why no one likes them (1 member)

#i was talking to a friend the other day about this #and she said that she always feels like she's never doing anything right #she feels like she's never doing the right thing or saying the right thing and all she does is wrong wrong wrong #and it's like? i don't see her like that at all #but i feel the same way #no one's given us a manual on how to do things and what's the right thing to say and i wish i had one #like that scene in fleabag #you know the one #luiza.txt

[utilitycaster]

#see previous post about people closing themself off to canon solely because it doesn't do what they had decided was correct #like. fwiw during this scene i was like fearne i don't think that's right! but also this is what she literally said! #again! it's fine if you dislike ashton though some of you have real shitty reasons. it's fine if you wish fearne had gotten it #but you are denying fearne's agency here. Ashley in and out of game was extremely reluctant. #why don't we discuss how laudna repeatedly said she should get it and never asked her how she felt #and ashton did in fact ask. they had a whole conversation. #cr tag

[hiskillingjar]

Okay, now I want to hear more about Strade's queer alternative scene phase, it sounds so interesting and I can see the potential.

WOE, STRADE HEADCANONS BE UPON YE!!!!!!!

cw for BRIEF mention of underage sex n...typical strade nastiness lmao. gore, necro, the fun stuff!!

so. he lost his virginity to a boy he worked with when he was sixteen (he was on top)

wasn’t really that satisfied by Regular Gay Sex but chalked it up to maybe not being as gay as he thought he was. whatever, nothing lost

moved to berlin after his dad passed

figured "okay maybe i'm just into weird sex" so gets involved with the queer S/M scene of berlin. goes to local dungeons, gets a tattoo in a basement, pierces his ears with a needle, has a few shitty D/S relationships here and there, the lot

things still aren't working

he also had a couple of on-and-off relationships with men again. just to see if he was still into gay sex

figured out that he liked men just the same as women, but he was STILL not satisfied with what was going on. was he just not into sex? he sure as shit jerked off a lot, so what's the deal?

definitely doesn’t label his sexuality. he’d never call himself straight but he’d also never say he’s bi or gay (maybe queer just to be subversive cus hey it’s the early 2000s and he likes making people uncomfortable lol)

had a somewhat long-term relationship with an older man (he’s a verse :)) called stefan that he didn’t like thaaaat much (despite being into the tattooed-pierced-eurofag look) but it was stable and stefan was well off and basically paid for his lifestyle in berlin, it's whatever

stefan liked that strade was basically sweaty trade who fucks like a jackhammer when he's high on poppers and slapped him around. it's win-win

they lived in a warehouse apartment in berlin together, due to stefan’s work (he was writer for a gay lifestyle magazine).

it's here that strade kinda gets plugged into the internet, early social media, anddddd livestreaming, since stefan covered the early introductions of live porn shows

this is a big deal. for obvious reasons.

he gets pretty plugged into the digital stuff, and quickly finds out about the existence of shock sites, liveleaks, ogrish, best gore. that's interesting! maybe this was the thing he needed?

AND THEN MURDER HAPPENED. AND SUDDENLY EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE.

okay so it wasn’t exactly murder.

stefan asks to get choked during sex and strade went wayyyyyy too far and accidentally killed the guy. and then fucked the corpse. multiple times. and buried it in the middle of the night.

immediately packs his shit and moves. for obvious reasons lol.

and the rest is history! :)

#if gato said anything to contradict this. no she didn't #oh how i wish i had the attention span to write this properly. i want to so bad #strade btd #strade ykmet #grease trap #qs #headcanons

[dootznbootz]

I went on tiktok to just watch some silly Odysseus videos but then I mostly saw people going like "Yeah, maybe Odysseus cried on Calypso' island every day but honestly he had that coming after what he did Achilles and Patroclous/Circe!!!" and "Everything that happens in Odyssey is deserved cuz he took Patrochilles to war!!!" and "I feel so bad for Circe and Calypso and Penelope, they deserved better!!!"

For fucks sake I beg you, read anything different from Millers bs and like educate yourself- And please stop goddamn saying that rape victim. deserved it.

Circe probably didn't give a flying fuck, Calypso is a rapist and abuser and Penelope deserved everything she wanted and SHE WANTED ODYSSEUS

I think I've had enough internet for today, imma go wash my eyes with bleach. Anyways sorry for ranting here, i hope you don't mind it lmao

It's alright. I absolutely understand the vents about the whole thing. :'D No one deserves to be a victim of such a thing no matter WHAT they've done. I hope your eyes are okay after the bleach

Like Odysseus does so many fucked up things but Calypso and Circe? He is the victim. Period. It's very clear that Odysseus is in extreme distress on Ogygia. And Circe wasn't some sort of FwB situation. There's fear and numbness in the language he uses when talking about it. There's so much victim blaming and it SUCKS.

While back then it probably wouldn't be considered SA but now? It clearly is.

Even then, Odysseus' journey was kind of about "temptation" or just straight up "Die or get out of my sea." From Poseidon. "I don't want you in my waters so I'm gonna try and give you things that will keep you on land or just kill you."

Immortal goddesses wanting you would be many people's dream come true but not for Odysseus. And I think that's the point. His determination, how he clawed his way back into the arms he never wanted to leave in the first place, is incredible. Many people would've given up and just started a new life but he never would because no life he could ever create would compare to the life he had before. Even if it's different, it's what he's always wanted.

He literally tells Calypso "I'm not stopping until I'm home. I don't care if I suffer more until I do. I'm going home."

“Mighty goddess, do not be angry with me over this. I myself know very well Penelope, although intelligent, is not your match                                          to look at, not in stature or in beauty. But she’s a human being and you’re a god. You’ll never die or age. But still I wish, every moment to get back to my home,                                                       to see the day of my return. And so, even if out there on the wine-dark sea some god breaks me apart, I will go on— the heart here in my chest is quite prepared to bear affliction. I’ve already had so many troubles, and I’ve worked so hard                                  through waves and warfare. Let what’s yet to come be added in with those.”

(Book 5, Johnston)

Circe's a goddess and what happened is nothing like Dionysus and Ariadne and Apollo and Hyacinthus for example. Circe never gave Odysseus a crown of stars and he would never go out of his way to kill 120 people for bothering her. They did not love each other and he can't refuse as she's a goddess.

If you interpret them sleeping together the entire year,(It's only explicitly said that they had sex once so that's what I go with personally.) that doesn't mean he was happy with it! Even then, the whole situation is not what a healthy FwB should look like! I'm asexual and even I know that no one in a FwB situation should have to BEG in any way that basically says "Please let me go or kill me" with supplication!!! The fact that he leaves so quickly he forgets one of his men? The fact that during Elpenor's funeral, he doesn't greet Circe himself? He was avoiding her. Wouldn't he want to get "one last night together" during Book 12 if they were fwb? 🙄

It's bonkers to me that people hate him for being a "cheater" when A.) having multiple lovers wasn't uncommon in Ancient Greece, and B.) the two people he is explicitly said to have "cheated" with, weren't his choice. He wasn't actively searching for pretty women either!!!

As mentioned, while it was common for men to have many lovers, Odysseus never had any listed unlike some of the other men. (not bashing any of them. I'm just making a point in comparison.) He also has no other children besides Telemachus in Homer's works. There's no evidence of him having other lovers other than speculation. (funny enough, I once read somewhere that the reason why Odysseus is so mean is because he doesn't "bond" enough with the other soldiers. 😂)

Does that mean he didn't have other lovers? Technically, Nope! It's just never explicitly stated either way. He has slaves but none were ever said to be concubines or that he sleeps with them. He has deep bonds with his fellow soldiers but that doesn't mean he sleeps with them. That doesn't mean people can't write or talk about him doing so even though it's not mentioned! Just like it also means that someone can write him not doing so as there's nothing that says it either way in Homer's Works! :D

It's fucked up when people say "He didn't try to leave Calypso enough" or something of the like. It just tells you how A.) they didn't read the Odyssey or have piss on the poor reading comprehension or B.) ...you should probably stay away from that person...

With Circe though??? I can understand the confusion but digging deeper and looking at the text, he wasn't having a good time. Or at the very least was walking on Eggshells the whole time. I hate bringing up that essay over and over again but like...I literally wrote everything there.

I also don't like how people take Circe's morally gray-ness away from her. Let her do something fucked up to be fucked up!!! Let her traumatize Odysseus!

Idk, I kind of hate that I'm "known" for this but I relate to this idiot asshole a lot and it means a lot to me that his story, despite what happens to him, has a happy ending :'D

#Thank goodness I don't have tiktok >:) #I wish there was a way to like. have anonymous posts? because I made that PTSD post to show how him refusing to be bathed #by Nausica's maids and him choking Euryclea and was giving reference to make a point but I wish I wasn't like. Known for this??? #but like... I HAVE something to say. Having specific knowledge of some things just...really makes it clear in what happened that I don't #think others have considered. #And I was afraid if I was “vague” then people would say “You're just saying that to get sympathy points” and I didn't want to deal with #that :'D plus like in his outbursts I saw myself you know? #I just kept thinking “oh shit. I KNOW what you're doing because I did it too aAAAAAHHHHHHHHh” #I relate to Helen too but in a way. The Odyssey shows her “HEALED” (which fuck yeah!!! YESSS!!!😭) it doesn't show the #PTSD in the same way as she's had many years to recover. Watching it happen in “real time” for Odysseus was...really nice. #i said it before but the Odyssey feels REAL compared to the “girlboss queen slay” shit. Him tryiing to force himself into normalcy #only to act out is...yeah. #save me morally gray circe #ask #anon #Mad rambles #tw sa #tw ptsd #tw sex assault #anti madeline miller #anti circe #essay

[truelyaccuracy]

DustBunny thoughts

Okay i know that this is a small ship and i get why ppl would ship Mirko and Shigaraki but also, as someone who has re-read/re-watched the anime n manga… Shigaraki and her would not get along- lemme explain-

First of all, ppl can ship whatever they want! I just want to talk about the ship bc ive been thinking of it a lot lately

So, lets start with; Miriko would def put herself to a high standard cuz thats obv. Now, her and tomura r prob masochists and have high durability, but, she literally calls shigaraki (prob other villains too) “things” and “it”, shes the hero to dehumanize villains and shigaraki would def not like her 😔

Like shes cool and shes fast, shes actually one of the few heroes who actually do their job snd hurry to the scene, example being Hood (a nomu) vs Endeavor while other heroes (annoyingly enough) just watched from the TV

Mirko wouldn’t like Tomura either, she’d prob say shit about him (not so blatantly tho) while just referring him as a thing. Shigaraki prob expects that from heroes but godd, we know he still gets pissed off at things he says hes moved on from, and we know he gets annoyed with how heroes r towards villains, its in his whole speech during the first war. He’d just use Mirko against other heroes and herself

Idk just put miriko with hawks or smth, two toxic heroes should stay together and not degrade villains by dehumanizing them and their disabilities yknow?

I mean, they’re literally barbie and ken.

#I just had to say all this cuz ive been seeing dustbunny a lot recently #and i want them to be as heartfelt as ppl make them out to be #everytime i see them like that after kicking my legs about them i think (no way she’d do that - i wish she’d do that) #ppl can ship them im not saying to stop- im judt saying what ive been thinking of for months on end lol #someone said on twitter that ppl just want a strong woman to peg tomura #and valid #but it’d be so degrading bc of how she woulf be towards tomura #he’d hate it #he wouldn’t like anything coming from her mouth #tomura definitely hates to be degraded too #that much is obv- #bnha #mha #tomura shigaraki #mha mirko #rumi usagiyama #dustbunny #keigo takami #hawks

[derpinette]

SPERG YOUR HEART OUT

#EVERYONE #NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #& FOREVER #i love it when my friends &/or mutuals post about their interest & Passions i will like your posts but really i Loved them. #i deleted some tags because they might be interpreted as weird(er than usual) but 0_0 i am ♯Passionate about ♯Passion (for fashion - Bratz) #still kind of feel like a worthless human being but i secured another hangout in like a week so yayyy ^_^ #I GET TO BOTHER SOMEONE TOO NOW i just wish people did that to me too why am i like always the one raving #literally have to beg my friend to give me updates on her things even if i normally hate it even i go out of my way to look for things #for us to discuss -_- GIRL please i am for real not just faking for politeness who do you think i am I WANT TO KNOW #so effin excited OMG i have like so much to say & the greatest thing is that this girl has no knowledge at all about my Thing #so i can explain from the very beginning You literally have no idea how much i practiced the conversation in my head #ever since she told me & she said she wanted me to go on & talk about it more i have been Devising My Plan #OMG YAYYYY ^_^_^_^_^_^ AIMU SO HEPI AAARRRGHHHHHGSJDJSHSJDHSHSG #& OFC i had to plug it in the first time i met her in person i just could not help myself there was an NF on that day & i told her i wanted #to catch it i had to go in the end for a different reason & BTW it was such a whiplash the show itself was so fun but the winner... 0_0 NO. #next i will ask her about berserk & maybe even read it so we can talk about it because she really likes it #i dropped it when i was 14 because the laptop i was using to read it was complete crap Just like mine is RN #like a section of my keyboard is completely dead T_T so i have to use the on-screen one...

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#i walked into a situation today where my mom was effectively already dead. effectively bc her body was and is still alive. still breathing #painful groaning purrs. but her mind was gone yesterday. my dad said he showed her a picture of the mountains i took that day and told her #i loved her and she smiled. thats what he said. maybe he was just being nice. or maybe thats the last time she thought of me. i dunno. but #the human body is an incredible thing. shes got a heart still powering a broken body. too full of tumors to function anymore. stomach #streched like a pregnant mother. it happed really fast and now its happening very slow #im somehow probably better off than the rest of them. i only got here for the aftermath of a downslide. my daily life will b least effected #i only really saw her twice a year living so far away and she didnt text much. didnt call often. so life wont change much ill just kno shes #not there. which is sad. but theres nothing to b done abt it. life goes on. it hasnt been all bad tho. its nice to talk to my family abt her #how incredible she was. bc she was. wish her mom wasnt here tho. she doesn't deserve to b here. my mom wouldnt want her here. she didnt want #her here. but anyway. i wish her body would just let her go now. so we can sleep. so this can be over. so she can rest #but even like this shes stubborn and resilient. they say it could go on for days but i hope not. may the universe let her rest shes gotta b #so tired after 10 years of this. but i have no regrets. she knew how i felt abt her. and i dont think she had regrets either. she did so #much up to the very end. went out on a high note without the burdon of knowing it was coming #i dunno. its just such a strange experience to watch the empty shell of your mother sleeping like a gurgling baby #unrelated

[aaandbackstabbed]

Goldie needs to be able to one up Scrooge (it’s practically an addiction). So when the twins arrived and she hated them she needed a new approach. And she already had stocks in Scrooges business and maybe she’s been neglecting them sooo perhaps she should pay some special attention.

#wink wink #that’s right #Goldie decided to be a business woman in the 90s #((not that she wasn’t already she had a successful hotel empire by this time but still)) #there was no way she’d gone the entire 60s 70s and 80s regularly interacting with Scrooge #((that’s right I said it they spoke regularly for 30 years fight me)) #only for her to allow them to go back to no contact #just because some stupid kids live there now #nah ah #she will get her fix one way or another #and if means sporting business suits instead of her usual adventure gear then so be it #and if she happened to use this to her advantage #to say show off her assets #((or maybe just feel clean rather than dirty and sweaty when she was him)) #like Goldie is fashion icon #we all know this #so when I say she turned up looking her absolute BEST #I need you to know how badly I mean this #ugh I wish I could draw #I would show you guys all the outfits that are in my mind rn #goldie o'gilt #scrooge mcduck #ducktales #scroldie #the duck twins #Goldie is addicted to inconveniencing Scrooge #nothing will stop her

[sukibenders]

Looking back at Girl Meets World, it will forever irritate me especially for how they handled/treated Angela. Oh this show really hated black women because how do you not only 1.) describe her, one of (correct me if I'm wrong) only few black and MAIN characters of the og show, as a "concept" 2.) have characters show obvious disgust at the small mention of her name 3.) depict her as a homewrecker for a new relationship that, really, shouldn't have ever happened 4.) have her old friends treat her like dirt and her old lover like she is the root of his problems, when there was nothing but positive love there 5.) reuse all the concepts from said previous love story just to elevate the new ship with a yte woman and 6.) compare her to Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes that caused significant numbers of death, harm, misplacement, and trauma to people, largely of whom were black? Mind you, all these points I mentioned were toward the only main black character of the OG show before the spinoff, and the only, from what I can remember, black female character of the spinoff who didn't even stay long. Not even getting into the racist drama with some of the members on set, but you cannot look me in the eye and tell me that the way the show handled Angela, her story, and her relationship with the other characters + Shawn wasn't fucking disrespectful, you can't because I won't believe you.

#boy meets world #girl meets world #like this show had so many issues (from its depiction of autism to religious intolerance to supporting grooming) #but this was a whole other level #it was especially hurtful as a young black girl to see growing bc i really tried to like this show with its lacking diversity #but coming from watching bmw to this a show from the 90s that depicted a black character better than a 2010s show- u get my point #and its so wrong bc it depicts angela as being the one to end the relationship when all she said in bmw how she #didn't want to see her leaving as a goodbye and there was ambiguous hope for the future #also shoving shawn to be with maya's mom was really unnecessary #not only bc of how it depicted being raised in a single parent household so negatively #but that the only way to solve maya's problems was for her...to have a dad? like that really isn't how it works #i blissfully live in the delulu where angela and shawn came back together once she left europe and he eventually married her #after they graduated college and have a beautiful family together #shawn x angela #don't even get me started on how whenever there was a guest cameo it was met audience applause and happy reactions #but when it was for angela: crickets 😬 #back to maya- i feel like it would have been better for her story if shawn didn't marry her mother (and was with angela) and u would see her #hope and wish for the opposite to where it nearly consumes her only to finally be sat down and informed that #even if shawn isn't with your mom he'll still be in your life as a father figure no matter what #i personally feel like that would've been better #but this is largely just s rant so forgive the structure of it al