#i need to see the representation

[myceliumtrees]

boygenius this boygenius that when are we going to talk about girlmorons

#i need to see the representation #boygenius #pheobe bridgers #julien baker #lucy dacus #yes i had to google who the members of boygenius were

[suiheisen]

"You can tell that there was a wealth of love that went into making this film so I hope people can take just a little bit of that love out with them." - Eugene Lee Yang | Go Behind The Animation for Nimona

#to the people who keep going: aw they made ballister look like pedro pascal..... have you never seen the beautiful riz ahmed................ #anyway here he is <3 #also eugene drop your makeup line i would buy everything #i’ve been obsessesing over this movie the past few days. beautiful representation 🥹 #anyway. i need to see eugene and riz be boyfriends in a non animated movie now #nimona #nimonaedit #nimona spoilers #riz ahmed #chloe grace moretz #eugene lee yang #lgbtq #lgbt #long post

[melancholyofautvmn]

hbo max, it's pride month now. surely as a gift for the gays you're going to announce the news of an ofmd season 2 renewal??

#not a big fan of rainbow capitalism honestly #but at least we get to see queer representation on a larger scale #and i am just THAT desperate to get a season 2 #i need a season 2 or i don't know what i'm going to do #ofmd #our flag means death #our flag means gay #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #blackstede #edward teach #stede bonnet #lucius spriggs #jim jimenez #black pete #oluwande x jim #lucius x black pete #pride month #pride #lgbt #lgbtq #gay #enby #1k #2k #3k #5k

[pastlivesfilm]

every day i’m not sitting in the movie theater watching dev patel’s feature film directorial debut monkey man where he fights shirtless with a gang of badass trans women is a day wasted!

#I NEED TO SEE IT ALREADY #EVERYONE IS SAYING ITS SOOOO GOOD #monkey man #dev patel #trans representation #lgbt film

[beanghostprincess]

I think constantly about Pudding and Sanji being obviously parallels of each other and how fucked up it is that Pudding had to live the life Sanji managed to escape but she constantly gets hate online as if she hadn't been literally manipulated by her mother through the whole fucking arc. But okay. Yes. God forbid women have any sort of trauma response and if they do they're not allowed to have a redemption arc because of course they're extremely evil for making your silly baby boy cry and they don't have a heart even though it's explicitly shown in screen that they do and they regret their past actions.

#sorry every time i see people hating on pudding i have to defend her with my whole soul #it's a physical need it's a condition if i don't do it i collapse #sick and tired of people babying male villains but the second a woman does something wrong she's a monster #ofc what she did was wrong and it honestly fucked me up too but give the girl a chance she obviously regrets that and she's not like that #i mean she IS like that she's a little bitch and i love her BUT you know what i mean #also even if she were evil like that ??? i've seen so many people complain about her as if they didn't love worse villains lmfao #pudding is the representation of a teenage girl with mommy issues and a lot of drama going on in her life leave her alone #one piece #charlotte pudding #black leg sanji #whole cake island

[rythyme]

really not a fan of boston very explicitly saying "I want to be exclusive romantically but not sexually" only to be told "You're lying to yourself. I think you should be alone."

#like... p'jojo. you gave us 3wbf??? what's going on bud #only friends the series #ofts #am i misinterpreting boston? did I miss something? is this just a poorly executed representation of something else entirely?? #idk this really just did not sit well with me #i love pretty much everything else in this show so i'm disappointed that this was the last thing we got #bc I've been saying this the whole time!! boston DOES want a romantic relationship and he's spent the whole show coming to terms with that #he really does love nick #and he wants romantic exclusivity (see: Boston getting upset and jealous when Nick is with other people) #but physical stuff doesn't need to have the same exclusiveness for him and that's literally fine #idk i just wish that last conversation had been written slightly differently. a couple different wordings could have fixed it all for me #like if Nick had SAID ''i can't do a non-exclusive relationship but i hope you find someone someday who wants that with you'' #that would have been fine #not ''i think you should be alone'' #idk. just really sat wrong with me #lgbt drama #thai drama #theo.txt #100

[uncanny-tranny]

Two things can be true at once:

1. Wanting queer people to be the storytellers of queer narratives is important, and it's okay to want queer people representing many queer experiences.

2. This does not, however, mean that queer people should put themselves in danger in order to be "good representation". We are not entitled to the queerness of others, just like nobody is entitled to yours.

#lesbian #gay #bi #bisexual #trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #queerphobia #i hate the expectation that queer people *need* to become representation for the broad queer community... #...i dunno i do NOT see myself as a queer representative and i think it'd be hella creepy if i WAS seen that way. i'm legit Some Guy Always #not /necessarily/ about the recent debacle that's happened but it has sparked this discussion once again (ad infinitum)

[varilien]

(dress ref)

there's aus where u try to recreate the "effect" of a character's personality and behavior through an alternative "cause", and then there's this shit where i Just think umm well personally wolfwood being down to kill for vash is hot and it's a bummer vash doesn't think so too, but what if an au where he does ?

it's not a true "villain" vash au, basically it goes that vash decided to stick it out with knives in the hopes he could mitigate the damage knives planned to do to mankind, and it's worked for the most part-- at the expense of vash taking on much of knives' ire himself. this vash is even more isolated than in canon, unable to meet the standard knives enforces for what a god is supposed to look like, and constantly concerned with appeasing knives: dressing and styling his hair in a way that doesn't annoy him, talking very little, always offering compromises that put himself at a disadvantage

it's a wholly bad deal, up until the eye (yeah i'm blending stuff from other triguns in even tho it's a 98 au lol) offer vash their latest up-and-coming disciple to protect and serve him directly, though the "protecting" thing ends up being extremely mutual. wolfwood is the first bright spot in vash's life in a hundred years, and he's not going to allow anybody to take that away

#trigun #trigun anime #trigun fanart #vash #vash the stampede #wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #vashwood #shared devotions au #<- in case i ever draw it again lol. it's an abba reference cuz abba is delightful villain music fhdhdjdj #literally my motivations here was just. i wanna see a situation where wolfwood has to do something fucked up for vash #and instead of vash proselytizing and projecting his trauma at him vash is like. Oh. you really do care for me don't you. #and EQUALLY AS MUCH SO i need vash covered in someone else's blood having thrashed a fucker for getting near wolfwood fhdhdjdjjs #wolfwood can have a lil religious moment realizing how much this traumatized godthing loves him. as little a treat. #love drawing vash's hair all fucked up as a visual representation of his decaying mental state dhfkgdkf #also love vash and knives' opposing color schemes and what you could interpret about their self-perceptions from that alone <3

[mswyrr]

THG is the only pop culture story I can think of where the heroes (Katniss and Peeta) are disabled* and their happy ending doesn't require that they be "fixed" in order to be happy. IMO, part of why there's such controversy over the ending of the books in particular is that Collins wrote the pov of Katniss as a woman who is content and loves her life and her spouse and kids, but she's still very clearly mentally ill (and arguably somewhere on the spectrum). She has coping strategies and her life is good, but she will never be "normal" and Collins doesn't let the audience think that.

The one part, where she talks about how she handles the darker days, when she's really struggling, never fails to move me:

I’ll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I’m afraid it could be taken away. That’s when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I’ve seen someone do. It’s like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. But there are much worse games to play. (Mockingjay, 332)

It's hard to express how important that is to me. Someone doesn't have to be "normal" to lead a good life. Someone doesn't have to be "normal" to have a life worth living, to give and receive love in good ways.

And, so, when people look at the villain in the prequel and say "he's just crazy, that's why he's evil. He's just a psycho, he's nuts," it's so out of place, it's so dissonant to me -- I think that's absolutely not the kind of story Collins would tell, given her prior handling of disability.

I don't think she's suddenly turned into a Victorian writer where you can know someone is evil because they're disabled because the writer thinks disabled people are warped creatures incapable of doing anything but bringing evil into the world. And the way people assert this, as if it's the pure, wholesome, most politically advanced reading of the prequel, is just - it doesn't compute for me. I don't understand how people get there.

I studied (for years) the treatment of mentally ill people in the mid-20th Century US. It was horrific. US forced sterilization and eugenics laws actually inspired N/azi Germany's forced sterilization, eugenics, and mass murder campaigns against mentally ill and disabled people. Nice, normal people have repeatedly convinced themselves that torturing and killing disabled people is how they will "purify" their society - they've done great evil in the name of rooting out the people evil is supposedly located within biologically.

Is it so hard to believe that people with normal brains do evil? Is it truly so impossible? Even in a story where the Games are about how a lot of people, the majority of whom are neurotypical, can be brought, via media presentation and entertainment techniques, into taking pleasure in their participation in evil? It's so hard to fathom that evil can't simply be located in someone being "psycho"?

Ballad already has Dr Gaul, who is evil and clearly neurodivergent. If Snow is too then the message starts to get kind of worrying? IMO, Coriolanus is more effective as a kind of “everyman” as an 18 year old - an example of the incentive structures (rewards and punishments) and propaganda that motivate “normal” people to go along. Of course, he will later become something far worse than that, someone who takes control of this thing, who uses his intimate knowledge of it and his insight into other “normal” people to make it worse, but that’s not the part of his life we see the most of. The part the book focuses on provides what I consider a powerful depiction of how ordinary people are acculturated into corrupt societies.

It's fiction so there's all kinds of interpretations that the text can support and exploring those is good. It's a stronger text because it has ambiguities and can be interpreted more than one way. But the intensity of some of the rhetoric is an unsettling contrast to what I've thought, for over a decade, Collins' themes and pov are as a writer.

*Shame on the films for removing Peeta's physical disability, though; in the books he lost a leg during their first Games

#thg meta #my meta #i'm gonna try to leave it at this now - i don't want to keep letting this bother me so much #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #maybe Coriolanus Snow is the evil neurotypical representation we need lol #i'm going to unsubscribe from the reddit i think #that is where i am seeing a lot of this #and it's just not worth it

[exhaustedalien]

I struggle to put this into words but the way Arthur deals with his illness is so upsettingly relatable as someone who deals with chronic illness/disability.

How he's not honest with the people around him about his illness. Going along with what people ask of him because the alternative is admitting to them (and maybe himself) just how sick he is and his physical limits.

The frustration that those physical limits make easy, simple, everyday tasks, things he has always been able to do, things he thinks he should still be able to do, embarrassingly complicated and difficult.

Struggling to pace himself even after he knows he's sick, even after he discovers his new limits, because things still need to get done, he just needs to push through it. Just this one more thing, even though every last thing he pushes through will just make him sicker and make the next "last thing" even harder.

Losing his status/position within his community as a direct result of losing his strength and ability. Losing all the parts of his identity that were tied up in that position and ability. Reckoning with who he is after all that is taken away.

#me seeing a very bleak depiction of a man contracting an often terminal illness and doing everything he can to make it kill him faster: #chronic illness king! representation i needed! comfort character!! #rdr2 #arthur morgan #rdr

[soulless-bex]

i wasn’t expecting my fellow aroace folks to claim barbie and ken as our own, but by the gods, i’m living for it

#i REALLY need to see this movie #but i’ve seen the clips of them being essentially confused by amonormativity and i’m loving it #aroace barbie #aroace ken #and yeah. they might not exactly be fully aroace but they’re still somewhere on the spectrum #they’re just lovely #aroace #aromantic representation #aromantism #aromantic positivity #ace pride #asexuality #asexual #asexual representation #asexual positivity

[rosefires20]

God.

I love the QSMP so damn much.

All of the individual storylines, main plot points, and small interactions give me so much life.

It's just this close-knit community of characters that have come to love each other and become fast friends and family.

There's angst and drama and horror and mystery and just about everything else but there is always this core feeling of community and care that has been created.

It's not even exclusive to the server itself either. Seeing all of these different communities come together and get to know each other and become more comfortable with themselves has been so incredible. The streamers themselves have become such good friends they are all planning when they can next meet everyone or travel to someone's home country. It's just incredible.

The world feels so damn negative these days, but here is this Minecraft server actively standing a bright beacon of light. Yes. It's not perfect, but it's incredibly human and very enjoyable to be able to see and interact with.

Every admin and player who has even remotely had a hand in the QSMP has made something truly incredible, and we are shown that every day.

#qsmp #god i love this server #i dont know how to put it into words how much it matters to me #seeing like Tallulah finally asking Phil to consider her his daughter was like a gut punch in a positive way #tallulahs whole story has been to love everyone and be loved #she has become the islands daughter more than any other egg at this point because of that #that story and representation of that situation is so impactful #everyone deserves love #everyone deserves love and to be shown it and Tallulah represents that on the QSMP #qsmp rant #ramble #qsmp ramble #quackity #even just Jaidens story line lately has been the same way #Bad foolish cellbit and richas following her to make sure she is okay and safe #fighting the dungeon with her to help protect her but still let her do what she needs to #its just so cool to see

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the doctor isnt neurodivergent or autistic or adhd or nonbinary or genderqueer or asexual. what the doctor is, is Not From Here

#which necessarily of course says something abt their (non)whiteness #(i had all these words in quotation marks first so mentally add those to whiteness too) #but we've them be black for all of 1.5 episode now so #lets see how that develops you know #also i dont think i understand the politics of that part well enough to say much abt it #not that i probably understand the politics of these parts better but #im annoyed enough abt this Thing happening these years. in these 20s i guess. the 'representation' thing #to complain abt it anyway #the dsm isnt real and it isnt gonna fuck you buddy #maybe i'll read some books and then one day i'll write an essay driven by spite and pettiness #i wonder if i can make the thesis statement about the tension between their status of main character #in a 60 year running family adventure show vs this therapy thing we're doing now #like. you cant do that. in terms of like. what story is and does. what a character is and does. it strains #in an interesting way. like im not saying they Shouldnt have done it. im just observing. that you cant do that really. i think #or maybe you can! but i'll find that out #i also dont know shit abt narratology or whatever so. need to read books first. sigh #always have to pause my thoughts to read myself in first its so annoying. esp bc i rarely really do #bc then new thoughts new things to do you cant do EVERYTHING. you can do almost nothing. bane of my existence really #but like you might even be able to say smth interesting here about whether you can call them traumatised at all #remember that article i saw around on tumblr a few years ago i think that was abt like. some scholar in the middle east maybe #saying that ptsd is a western thing bc it necessitates a Post #all of this is western. psychiatry is western. its all stories. how you conceptualise trauma is a story #whos Other is story #where youre from is a story what you stand for is a story who you are is a story #ah. checked the article. dr samah jabr. palestinian. i'll start with her book maybe

[stardestroyer81]

Today, April 4th, is World Rat Day, and to celebrate, the funny Noise is wearing his Thursday best!

Seeing as I drew and modded a custom sheep outfit into Pizza Tower just last year, it only felt appropriate to ring in my first celebrated World Rat Day by modding a Brick-inspired outfit into the Playable Noise update! 🐀✨

(Check under the cut to see a selection of in-game screenshots I took of the Noise wearing the Ratty Rags clothes, as well as a special bonus to top it all off!)

#⭐ Star's Art ⭐ #Pizza Tower #The Noise #Peppino Spaghetti #Noisette #Brick Pizza Tower #Brick the Rat #Rats #World Rat Day #Sprite Art #Aseprite #Coolness #At last... a worthy successor to the Sheepish Cook clothes... THE RATTY RAGS CLOTHES!!! #I noticed a few updates ago that the pattern I had overwritten to mod Sheepish Cook into the game overwrote itself back in #And so I needed an excuse to re-add it into Pizza Tower... but since I learned today is World Rat Day... #I figured I ought to add another custom pattern modeled after one of my favorite animals! #It took a lot more trial and error than modding Sheepish Cook into the game did but once it finally turned out #Seeing it in motion was nothing short of SPECTACULAR #Right now only the Noise has it but I absolutely intend on modding it over one of Peppino's outfits too #Rats need all the representation I can get... #... and who better to deliver than a mischievous little gremlin who the fandom collectively agrees IS a rat? 🐀✨

[vaggieslefteye]

THEY ARE LITERALLY 5 YEARS OLD LMFAO

#hazbin hotel #lucifer morningstar #hazbin lucifer #alastor #hazbin alastor #lucifer #radio demon #dad beat dad #song: hell's greatest dad #my gifs #BLESS this show for fucking SPOILING US with this entire fucking episode holy shit #i wasn't expecting to see fucking scary-creepy-ass elkdude ALASTOR get to be BOTH TERRIFYING #and fucking SILLY all in the same episode. with LUCIFER. who turned out to be #NOT SCARY but in fact the anxious-ridden autistic depressed nerd representation that we desperately needed LMAO

[beaulesbian]

Listen, the truth is, the last year has been weird, you know? And I mean, you know, Max and Lucas and Dustin, they’re great. They’re great. It’s just… It’s Hawkins. It’s not the same without you. And I feel like maybe I was worrying too much about El, and, I don’t know, maybe I feel like I lost you or something. - Mike to Will in s04e04

#if mike gets vecna'd i want this song to start playing bc its the representation of him feeling like he lost will #and that could be one of his worst fears and nightmares #plus its bowie and iconic! #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #stranger things #byleredit #stranger things s4 #stranger things spoilers #byeler #mine #gif:byler #theres always the distinction between will and mike and the rest of their friends ok #the way the ending of s3 was framed as mike already missing el was incredible when you rewatch it after s4 bc you see all the other things #he looked back at wills house and then he needed his mom's hug the same way after he thought will died in s1 #he just keeps losing will and i want it to escalate until he needs to shout what will truly means to him so he will stay!! #i live for these parallels ;_;