#queer cartoons

[starnosedmoles]

Occasional Trouble Passing…

“What do you mean I can’t go in there? You can just suck my sock, buddy!”

found in “FTM Newsletter”, 1990s

#ftm #ftm history #transgender #transgender history #trans #trans history #transmasc #trans man #pride #queer history #gay community #trans humor #queer humor #queer cartoons #lgbt comic #trans comic #inclus #inclusionist #90s #1990s #ftm newsletter

[thegoosetyrant]

“Steven Universe is so problematic because they didn’t kill the diamonds who are fascist dictators.”

Ok VERY COOL. The CHILDREN’S SHOW for AGES 8 TO 12 said MAYBE IF YOUR PARENTS DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU RIGHT AWAY YOU SHOULD KILL THEM. Because that’s what all you people sound like to me.

MAYBE sometimes being a queer child in a family that doesn’t accept you feels like a dictatorship. Maybe that’s what that’s supposed to be.

MAYBE if your family ends up still not understanding or accepting you, the correct answer is to perhaps distance yourself from them, or if they get a bit better but still are pretty weird about it, maybe just limit your interactions. JUST LIKE WHAT STEVEN DID IN FUTURE. Perhaps don’t jump to conclusions about your parents because they don’t get it at first. Perhaps people, especially parents who love their children, are capable of growth and change and can grow to understand and respect their child’s queerness.

Maybe you should think of a children’s show from the perspective of a child. Maybe every piece of art or literature should be judged from the perspective of the target audience and not someone who quite literally, it wasn’t made for.

#steven universe #queer cartoons #cartoon network #adventure time #the owl house #amphibia #steven universe future

[morgangalaxy43]

Queer kids cartoons are so cool I wish gay people were real

#the owl house #she ra and the princesses of power #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #adventure time #dead end paranormal park #queer cartoons #lgbtq shows

[auri-ace]

The Owl House moodboard!

#the owl house #toh #luz noceda #toh luz #toh moodboard #queer cartoons

[bluebelleisabelle]

❗HI! PLEASE REBLOG! SPREAD THE WORD!!❗

I hadn’t realized that this was a thing until recently, but there is this conservative “advocacy” group referred to as One Million Moms that is proving to be one of the main reasons why shows like Dead End Paranormal Park and The Owl House (both shows with queer rep) have been cancelled recently.

Their motive is to try and “provide kids with a safe entertainment experience” by erasing queer rep, but that will do more harm than good. Queer representation does not “turn one gay”; it provides viewers authentic representation that reflects how they feel/identify, allowing themselves to flourish within their own identities. As a queer person myself, this deeply hurts me. As well as an aspiring film writer with so many queer characters that I adore, the idea of having my (and other’s) work shut down is enough to break my heart entirely. And I know that so many others are feeling the same way! Representation is so beyond important!! 

Here is the link to a petition to remove the One Million Moms website! Please sign if you can!

If you wish for more information, I learned about this through --Silver--’s video on Tik Tok!

#remove one million moms website #anti one million moms #one million moms #queer representation #lgbtq #love is love #petition #please sign this petition #boost #reblog #dead end paranormal park #the owl house #inside job #netflix cancel #monster high #toh #mh #queer cartoons #queer tv

[fruity-phrog]

wlw relationships have our sacred Red x Blue dynamic:

mlm relationships have the yellow x blue dynamic:

What do enby relationships have? Green x Red?

Red x Yellow?

#sapphic #lumity #caitvi #garnet #catradora #bubbline #achillien #byler #nick and charlie #enby #enby relationships #queer cartoons #raeda #shep and sadie #red and blue sapphics

[kmcarras]

i'm baaaaaaaaack! happy new year :) idk when the next part will be yet but it won't be as long of a wait as this one was. i very much lost steam on this one alongside going thru a bunch of life stuff. i made this part because people got confused about why eddie was acting like he didnt think richie liked him. i made this part to remind people why he would act that way, not realizing that people were actually confused because the order of events was unclear. all this phone call stuff with beverly is a flashback, before richie even confessed to eddie. whoops. but yeah in retrospect, i kinda worry when the whole thing cuts together that this would be jarring in a tonal/pacing sort of way, but at least we got to see some of the other losers in some compacity, which i know people had been asking about. (plus my voice actors kicked ass, please check them out, especially Mike's actor, who streams on youtube and on twitch) trigger warning at very bottom

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Voice Actors

 Mike - James Brown Jr.

Youtube - @JamBudsVO

Twitter - JambudsVO

Twitch - JambudsVO

 Stan - Kollin Stewart

Instagram - kollinupsomestew

 Bill - Ben Swimmer

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 as usual, i voiced richie/eddie/beverly/ben and did all the writing/drawing/editing/etc. if you message me to tell me that you hate a character's voice and that i should recast them as you, i will laugh at you

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 Song: "Enola Gay" by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

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Trigger warnings - Internalized homophobia, homophobia, gay slur ("fairy"), character(s) have 1980's period typical poor understanding of sexuality and gender (not knowing there is more than simply "gay" or "straight" as well as implied not knowing there is more than the gender binary), misogyny, mocking of Valley Girl accent, song referencing the bombing of Hiroshima by the United States in WWII ("Enola Gay" was adopted by the queer community as an anthem and was chosen for the tone of the melody, but I want to acknowledge the lyrics are in fact about the bomber plane for which the song is named for), a pony pees a considerable amount, arachnophobia/tarantulas/spiders

#reddie #reddie fanart #reddie storyboard #lbgtq #lgbtq characters #lgbt art #lgbt representation #queer art #queer romance #queer cartoons #lgbt animation #lgbt storyboard #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #it 2017 #it 2019 #reddie fanfic #reddie fanfiction #stranger things #byler #byler fanart #byler fanfic #finn wolfhard #bill hader #jack dylan grazer #noah schnapp #wenclair #lumity #luberto #queer youth

[mxstarartz]

''It's They for me not "He or She", cause labels ain't a thing for me"

+sorry about their right arm

#frankie stein #frankie g3 #monster high g3 #nonbinary #enby pride #queer representation #queer cartoons

[aphantpoet]

Queer rep is not a vacuum

There is so much debate over what is and is not queer rep and it seems to change with each new show. For this I’m going to explore four series that I’m personally a fan of and break down their rep individually ;LOK, SPOP, TOH and Arcane. I will do it this way because Queer rep is not a vacuum.

It is first important to understand the perspective I’m coming at from this: so Yaama, if you don’t know me I’m a queer [Enby and Demi sexual lesbian]and indigenous [Australian] writer; I mainly write about queer people for queer people. I also want to say that I am not bashing any of these series, I love them all.

1. Korrasami

Korra and Asami have a slightly rocky relationship when they first meet but they become fast friends. Both characters are confirmed Bisexual and their relationship is far more obvious from a  queer perspective. They are far less explicit than other shows on this list but that is due to studio censorship.

The ship itself is really sweet. Both women are close and support each other with Korra writing to only Asami at one of the roughest times of her life.

This ship, being the first queer rep in Avatar, followed by Kya being confirmed as a lesbian, gets a lot of flack for being too subtle and not built up enough. As much as I do not like Some writers on the Avatar team, I do genuinely believe they were trying their best here.

The ship itself isn’t problematic and came at a time when there was little rep in mainstream media, let alone kids media. While it has it’s issues, it is some of the first rep kids in my generation saw. Sue me, I’ve got nostalgia.

2.SPOP

This is a contentious one but it cannot be denied that SPOP was full of Queer rep. Spinetossa, catradora, None of the princesses were straight and Double Trouble.

SPOP is unashamed of it’s queer rep and as world where no one is straight, no one is homophobic. This provides escapism that we as queer people sometimes need.

While Catradora has it’s criticisms, it’s a beautiful ship that underpins the narrative  and drives the plot. to call it “toxic” or “abusive” ignores the nuance of the story.

Spinetossa is a solid relationship that provides fluff and comedic relief in the darker episodes. they’re background characters but the nature of their relationship is clear from the start. they’re always together, they wear chokers with each other's colours . From the get go, before we even hear the cute nicknames we know they are a unit. 

Double Trouble , while  stemming from a problematic trope, is a solid character with complexities and comedy gold to spare. While the trope of making nonbinary characters non human is dodgy at best in a show where cis characters are also not human they don’t stand out too much so they can have a pass.

3. TOH

TOH is also unashamedly queer, Eda, Raine, Willow’s dads, Lumity, Edric.I’ve also seen commendations on the Neurodivergent rep  but that’s not my place.

Disney was obviously trying to censor things earlier on but around late season two A Dana stopped giving a shit and good for her. We got Edric having a partner, to quote his sister Emira “ After he accidentally sent  a love poem to THEIR mum”. Love that for him. The first Lumity kiss and them getting together and everything after it.

Willows dads’, minor and cliched as they may be do not come of a tokenistic, a nice change from other shows there the Mc’s best friend’s queer parents is often some of the only rep.

And Raine, a nonbinary person, who while not quite human isn’t an alien/robot/demon/spirit. They’re also a prominent character and their relationship with Eda is just a delight.

Cool Aunt Lilith, AroAce queen and all the flags in season three and it’s only the first episode.

there are some issues with Luz dating her friends ex bully but they address it and smooth it over.

4.Arcane

The biggest thing to come out of Arcane was CatVi/Violyn. I’ve seen some people ship Caitlyn and Jayce but that’s a small group.

Both character’s are confirmed as lesbians.While I love Luz I do find that lesbians do often get left behind in representation or claimed as Bi when they aren’t.

there’s not much else in terms of queer rep for Arcane but it’s very clearly a world where homophobia isn’t an issue.

The CatVi relationship is also important to the story and builds up over the first season. the show isn’t concerned with it but it’s nice to see.

All this to say, Queer rep isn’t a vacum, just because one series shows wholesome queer people and another shows messy,complicated queer love does not make either superior to the other. To put wholesome queer relationships over messy ones perpetuates respectability politics. Both can be good queer rep, both can be bad queer rep.

#queer representation #queer cartoons #lesbian #lgbtq community #lok #korrasami #spop #catradora #toh #toh raeda #TOH lumity #willow's dads #lillith clawthorne #Arcane #catvi #violyn #queer meta #bisexual

[lazulidrawzalot]

@hamishsteele your boys are rotting my brain again

#dead end paranormal park #logan nguyen #barney guttman #deadendia #dead end art #dead end logs #dead end barney #queer cartoons

[sorryicantquitequeeryou]

Season 2 of Dead End made me cry! Not because of Courtney actually- I have just been meaning to draw the little red friend for quite some time now!

I highly recommend watching Dead End Paranormal Park the Netflix original cartoon based on a series of graphic novels: DeadEndia by Hamish Steele

Fan Art of Courtney inspired by season 2 that is a bit spoilery below

#dead end #dead end paranormal park #dead end courtney #dead end season 2 #dead end paranormal park season 2 #dead end s2 #dead end paranormal park s2 #dead end fanart #dead end paranormal park fanart #cartoon fanart #queer cartoons

[thegoosetyrant]

I feel a very specific way about discussing the flaws in Steven Universe. I love Steven Universe, I’ve been a fan since 2014. I acknowledge many of its flaws and debate against the ones I believe to not be there or blown out of proportion. Overall I think it’s a very good show, and was essential for queer representation in cartoons to become more mainstream.

However when people try to discuss its flaws, or in too many cases simply express hatred for the shows and it’s fans, I get very angry and defensive, which I feel is in my right. Because for years people did nothing but beat this show to death without even acknowledging that hey, the show has so many good things about it as well. Like, people beat this show so much for so many years that I don’t think it ever deserves to be beaten ever again. Everyone that made any Steven Universe hate content (not actual criticism, but those made in bad faith) should all apologize to Rebecca Sugar and Ian Jones-Quartey like right now, and every young fan that you made feel like a bad person for enjoying a gay little show that made them happy. Because at the end of the day, that show did a good thing.

All that show got was hatred for years. Please just let us show it some love to reclaim the years when it was considered cringe to like Steven Universe. This show never deserved the massive bashing it got all those years ago.

Also, shows can be flawed and still be good. I see so many very flawed movies and shows and books get so much love. Why did everyone wanna tear down SU so much while other shows just got to live in peace.

#steven universe #steven universe future #su #queer cartoons

[zany-clam-palace]

hunters blush

(i actually dk if i ship them or not but it’s just cute that he’s so embarrassed about having people who care for him)

#toh #toh finale #hunter toh #willow park #luz noceda #amity blight #the owl house gus #the owl house spoilers #the owl house #the collector #toh lumity #lumity #queer cartoons #cartoon #toh luz #willow x hunter

[comedybun]

ALERT NEW EPISODE OF GRINDCOVE INCOMING! It will be out next week Saturday Feb 24th first live FurSquared then online for the rest of the world to see.

#furry #indy animation #animation #queer cartoons #kidcore #fursquared

[torakosama]

Queer Cartoonist a Day #1-4

As part of a pride month challenge, I chose to illustrate queer cartoonists for all 30 days. (already fell behind on day 3 but I'll keep trying!)

Day 1: April "Pinkie" Davis (she/they), butch lesbian, horse girl, storyboard artist and director.

Day 2: Rebecca Sugar (she/they), non-binary bisexual person, creator of Steven Universe and Pug Davis. Has worked on Adventure Time and other assorted shows in various positions.

Day 3: Alison Bechdel (she/her), lesbian, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For.

Day 4: Dana Terrace (she/her), bisexual, creator of The Owl House, director on DuckTales 2017.

#queer cartoons #queer cartoonists #pinkietoons #rebecca sugar #alison bechdel #dana terrace #queer women #bisexual #non binary #lesbian #butch

[sleepy-head-5]

I apologize for the person I'll become when Deadendia gets released in June, my queer ass won't be able to keep it down

#deadendia #queer #dead end paranormal park #lgbtq+ #queer cartoons #netflix #trans main character