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#gravity falls and the owl house are also up there but the amount of representation in this show is incredible
inkskinned · 3 months
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she's three years younger than i am, and i put on cascada as a throwback, cackling - before your time! i've been borrowing my brother's car, and it's older than dirt, so the trunk is like, maybe permanently locked. when the sun comes through the window to frame her cheekbones, i feel like i'm 16 again. i shake when i'm kissing her, worried i won't get it right.
in 2003, my state made gay marriage legal. where she grew up, it wasn't legal until 11 years later - 10 years ago. if legal protections for gay marriage were a person, that person would be entering 5th grade. online, a white gay man calls the fight for legal marriage boring, which isn't kind of him but it is a common enough opinion.
it has only been 9 years since gay marriage was nationally official. it is already boring to have gay people in your tv. it is already boring to mention being gay - "why make it your entire personality?" i know siblings that have a larger age gap than the amount of time it's been legally protected. i recently saw a grown man record himself crying about how evil gay people are. he was begging us, red in the face - just do better.
i am absolutely ruined any time my girlfriend talks about being 27 (i know!! a child!), but we actually attended undergrad at the same time since i had taken off time to work between high school and college. while walking through the city, we drop our hands, try not to look too often at each other. the other day i went to an open mic in a basement. the headlining comedian said being lesbian isn't interesting, but i am a lesbian, if you care. as a joke, she had any lesbian raise their hand if present. i raised mine, weirdly embarrassed at being the single hand in a sea of other faces. she had everyone give me a round of applause. i felt something between pride and also throwing up.
sometimes one thing is also another thing. i keep thinking about my uncle. he died in the hospital without his husband of 35 years - they were not legally wed, so his husband could not enter. this sounds like it should be from 1950. it happened in 2007. harassment and abuse and financial hardship still follow any person who is trying to get married while disabled. marriage equality isn't really equal yet.
and i don't know that i can ever put a name to what i'm experiencing. sometimes it just feels... so odd to watch the balance. people are fundamentally uninterested in your identity, but also - like, there's a whole fucking bastion of rabid men and women who want to kill you. your friends roll their eyes you're gay we get it and that is funny but like. when you asked your father do you still love me? he just said go to your room. you haven't told your grandmother. disney is on their 390th "first" gay representation, but also cancelled owl house and censored the fuck out of gravity falls. you actively got bullied for being gay, but your advisor told you to find a different gimmick for your college essay - everyone says they're gay these days.
once while you were having a hard day you cried about the fact that the reason our story is so fucking boring to so many people is that it is so similar. that it is rare for one of us to just, like, have a good experience across the board. that our stories often have very parallel bends - the dehumanization, the trauma, the trouble with trusting again. these become rote instead of disgusting. how bad could it be if it is happening to so many people?
i kiss my girlfriend when nobody is looking. i like her jawline and how her hands splay when she's making a joke. there is nothing new about this story, sappho. i love her like opening up the sun. like folding peace between the layers of my life, a buttercream of euphoria, freckles and laughter and wonder.
my dad knows about her. i've been out to him since i was 18 - roughly four years before the supreme court would protect us. the other day he flipped down the sun visor while driving me to the eye doctor. "you need to accept that your body was made for a husband. you want to be a mother because you were made for men, not women." he wants me to date my old high school boyfriend. i gagged about it, and he shook his head. he said - "don't be so dramatic. you can get used to anything."
the other day a straight friend of mine snorted down her nose about it, accidentally echoing him - she said there are bigger problems in this world than planning a wedding.
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theowlsarequeer · 3 years
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So Dana said on a stream that it's too late for a full Season 3 of The Owl House (there are going to be three 44-minute episodes instead of the 20-ish the crew had in mind,) probably because the crew has already started working on the episodes and scheduling and stuff. However, it's not yet too late for us to possibly get a season 4 and beyond. The Owl House is an amazing show with off the charts animation, lovable and relatable characters, and A+ representation, and it deserves more than what Disney is giving it.
So many people of different ages love it (I watch it with my siblings and it's our favorite show and there's a significant age gap between me and the youngest,) and the cast and crew have obviously poured their heart and souls into every episode and it shows, so it would be incredibly sad to see it get only 2 and a half seasons.
On a slightly different note, I have heard some stuff on Twitter about some kind of graphic novel based on TOH, kind of like we got with Gravity Falls. I'll let you know if I hear anything about that.
So, what can we do to get more seasons? It's pretty similar to what we were doing before when we wanted a full season 3, except now that we're 5 episodes into Season 2, we have a little more information as to what's working and what's not.
Snail Mail is still the most effective way to persuade Disney to extend a show. This is partially because people who send letters are slightly more likely to be adults, aka people who can pay for a Disney channel/Disney+ subscription, but also because the amount of letters they get is tiny compared to the amount of notifications they get on social media. The address you send these to is: Disney TVA, 811 Sonora Ave., Glendale, California, USA. For people who can't send letters, someone might be willing to mail letters for you. I only found one person and they stopped doing it before I could submit, but if I find someone else I'll definitely tell you. If you know anyone, drop the link in the notes! Another important note: I've heard that Disney will throw out letters they classify as "hate mail," aka anything accusatory, and while I don't know how accurate this is, we probably shouldn't take chances. Explain how much the show means to you/your friends or family, say that it's a wonderful show, talk about your favorite parts, and maybe throw in some fanart if you're an artist! Also mention the queer representation if you can, because that's the part Disney was most against doing, and if they can see that people think positively of it (aka they can get money from it) they'll likely allow more, either in The Owl House or future projects.
Every time we get a new episode, the show trends to a certain extent on Tumblr, Twitter, or both. Disney execs see this. Keep posting! I might try to organize a trend event like with Infinity Train in between seasons 2 and 3 if that's something people would be interested in.
Stream the show on Disney+. I know we hate supporting the mouse, but if you have access to a Disney+ account this is absolutely one of the best ways to support the show. Season 1 recently became available in Canada, and I heard something about it becoming available in Columbia a few months ago. The first five episodes of season 2 will be available in the US on Disney+ starting July 21. (Separate Tides, Escaping Expulsion, Echoes of the Past, Keeping Up A-Fear-Ances, and Through the Looking Glass Ruins.
Petitions only go so far, but it takes 2 seconds and can't hurt. Here's 2 I've signed, feel free to add more if you know more: Petition for The Owl House Season 4 and Petition I've been spreading for awhile now
Create content! Fanart, fanfics, animatics, et cetera. This helps us trend and gives us less artistically talented fans some much-needed content. I'm considering giving 1 TOH-focused artist a week a special boost in addition to my regular art/fic reblogs but idk if my platform's quite big enough for that.
If you have Twitter, consider giving some crew members a follow. Infinity Train creator Owen Dennis has said that networks will often look at a creator's follower count before greenlighting their show, to see how much support the show would get. The crew is also filled with some very cool people who post very cool things.
Animated TV shows are the most popular they've been in a long time among teen and adult audiences, and TOH has a pretty big fanbase. I believe we can harness that power for good and get some more of the show we all love. I'll be updating whenever I get more information, and feel free to drop any petitions, information, et cetera in the notes. I'll make a separate post later to boost content creators. In the meantime, hoot hoot, let's get a Season 4.
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amimons · 3 years
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France is supposed to be an lgbt friendly county, so why is mL lacking lgbt ?
Getting LGBTQ+ representation in media (specifically in this case children’s media) is a struggle and something that most creators have to fight for. It’s easier said than done. When working on television even though it's the creator's vision the story concept and script have to go through multiple hands before being released. Every TV series belongs to a studio that is under a bigger television corporation. In the case of Miraculous Ladybug, it is now a Disney property. There are higher up executives that certain story elements have to go through to get approval and if they feel that certain stuff may be controversial (to a conservative parental audience let’s be real) they will tell them to remove it from their story. 
When we do see that representation it comes with the creators having to fight for it and that shouldn’t be ignored. So French creators like Astruc may want to have more of that representation and the country itself may be accepting of the LGBTQ+ but there is always a big corporation getting in the way and thinking that representation makes the show less marketable. Just in the last five years, we’ve seen really amazing LGBTQ+ representation and that was something that did not come easy. 
In Miraculous Ladybug, although it hasn’t been explicitly stated only shown we can gather that Juleka and Rose are supposed to be interpreted in a romantic relationship and the same goes with Marc and Nathanial. Speaking of Marc, the character was based on one of Astruc’s friends who is genderfluid and bisexual. Most recently Astruc said that Max was ace and Alix was aro. So there are characters that are supposed to be a part of the community and even though the characters never explicitly stated it in words there are incidents where camera shots and character's actions are alluding to it. And maybe one day they will be able to openly have the characters discuss their sexualities/gender identities but they just did not get the opportunity to be able to because some higher up is only allowing the show so only show so much of it.  
In the most recent Miraculous special, the New York special, Majestia’s (aka Olympia Hill) romantic interest is a fellow superhero Knight Owl (aka Barbara Keynes) where the two shared small gestures between the two implying a romantic relationship or at least that they both have established romantic feelings for one another. This is also a special that was created and released while being owned by Disney. 
Disney in general has been pretty stubborn with some of their media’s representation. Back when Gravity Falls was airing they shut down a lot of Alex Hirsch’s ideas for LGBTQ+ representation. Even if it was the smallest thing. He planned in Love God something minor like having the cupid character include the transgender symbol on his necklace and stuff like a same-sex romantic kiss was shut down. (In the finale he was finally at least able to get the characters officer characters Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland to admit they were in love) A show that premiered a few years later, Star vs the Force of Evil, had a same-sex couple kiss in the background...and when I mean background I mean background. The amount of outrage that sparked from that minor background detail was a lot. Disney now has a show called The Owl House whose lead is bisexual and her love interest is a lesbian and it’s not something that they are trying to allude to it’s very much written out like any of the kids show the couple. 
The reason why I brought up these shows is that they all pushed for some sort of representation while premiering shows in the same network. Gravity falls started in 2012, Star Vs the Forces of Evil premiered the same year as Miraculous Ladybug, 2015. Now we are in 2020 with one of Disney’s current shows the Owl House having an LGBTQ+ lead.  It wasn’t easy to get there but Disney is now going in the right direction in terms of representation and now that Miraculous Ladybug is a Disney property maybe the characters that we know are apart of the LGBTQ+ but didn’t get their fair chance of showing it explicitly on TV will get the opportunity to do so in the new seasons and specials. We just have to hope that Astruc and ZAG will also push more for those characters part of those communities get the chance to be properly represented as well. 
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i was on twitter and someone tweeted a pic of catra/dora and lumity (wlw shipp from The Owl House, it’s cute and healthy, i really reccomend watching it — one person commented on the creator’s post with a lumity pic and said “there’s nothing heterossexual about them” and the creator replied “there really isn’t.”) and i got SO triggered. now i’m afraid c/a stans (esp the toxic ones) will go to the owl house
I hardly know anything about Owl House, so I had to look it up. From my limited knowledge though, it looks to me like a cartoon that’s similar to Gravity Falls, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, etc. (please correct me if I’m wrong) It’s appeared to me like most people who are fans of She-Ra are also fans of cartoons in general (especially “Netflix exclusive” cartoons like The Dragon Prince and Voltron), and a lot of these types of fans love seeing cartoons with LGBT representation. It’s very likely that a good amount of C//A shippers are also fans of Owl House; but I wouldn’t worry about it too much, as long as they keep the two fandoms separate from each other. If there’s constant references though between She-Ra and Owl House (or other cartoons in general) being made. I can definitely understand why this would be a concern of yours.  It’s extremely annoying when you’re trying to enjoy one thing, and people keep comparing it to, or making references from something you hate from a completely different fandom. 
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nytfythfhtyf · 3 years
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craig of the creek is the best kids show ever
#gravity falls and the owl house are also up there but the amount of representation in this show is incredible#the way the kids act is so accurate and funny and#the animation of their imagination makes it so fun and silly#and the character designs are all so awesome!!#and the lessons are good!!#its such a good and pure depiction of childhood#and theres so much DIVERSITY#with race but also like!#gender and sexuality and family dynamics and so much more#like the majority of the characters (as far as i can tell) are not white#the main character is black and his whole family its not like#they just took a white family and changed the skin color they actually made an effort to show the differences in culture and mannerisms#in such a good way#like they change the moms hairstyles and even show them going to a salon to get box braids#and they pretty much explicitly show that his grandparents were part of the civil rights movement#and the love between everyone in this family is so wonderful they all love each other so much#and the two other main characters have unconventional families too#kelseys mom died and she lives with her dad#and jps parents are divorced and he lives with his mom but shes a pilot and isnt home often so his older sister takes care of him#and hes autistic and they show it in such a good way!!#like they never make it a degrading joke he just does silly things and everyone is just like yeah thats just jp hes silly and we love him#i could go on forever im going to make another post#i say things#craig of the creek
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