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Racist, Sexist Boy
The Linda Lindas
I have no love for racism and/or sexism, but gosh, it is nice to hear some rad teens respond to boys who "say mean stuff" by calling them "blockhead" and "jerkface" in a perfect punk-rock bop.
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dana terrace knows how fandoms work. she knows if you show ppl even the barest hint of an m/f couple, especially one involving an angsty white boy, ppl will jump on that shit like rabid dogs and itll completely overshadow whatever queer rep you want ppl to actually pay attention to. that’s why she introduced hunter the way she did. first they have an episode where luz gets kissed by a girl and it’s made clear to the audience that they’re on track to be each others love interests. and only then does she introduce hunter’s angsty blond YA love interest looking ass.
and even then they tried SUPER hard to hammer in how much hunter is NOT luz’s love interest. they make luz lean in as if she was going to kiss him and then smack him to show that she isn’t going to. and then they do that thing where hunter licks luz’s hand and luz wipes it on his face. which is something that has been memed to death with siblings. just so the audience immediately understands what kind of dynamic the show wants these two to have. if they skipped any of these steps they were worried the fandom would see luz have a close relationship with a conventionally attractive white boy and start foaming at the mouth for this ship to replace lumity. maybe if disney saw a boy and a girl who aren’t immediately sibling coded they’d also start foaming at the mouth for it to replace lumity. so the crew had to play it safe.
anyway my point is i hope the crew also knows what they’re doing with the huntlow ship. idk what they’re setting up but if the huntlow ship gets together and it’s not wedged between a full 10 minute clip of the raeda wedding and a full 10 minute clip of a sappy slice of life lumity date then every toh related tag is going to be INSUFFERABLE and i hope dana knows it.
#toh#the owl house#luz noceda#lumity#hunter noceda#hunter toh#huntlow#shipping#dana terrace#granted i dont see how the tags wouldnt be insufferable either way#if they get together and its not immediately overshadowed by lumity or raeda the tags are going to be filled with huntlow shippers#completely ignoring the beautifully queer romances the crew fought tooth and nail to get in favor of an easy m/f ship anyone could have done#if they do the rejection idea ppl have been bouncing around the tags are going to still be filled with huntlow shippers#who have done a 180 on their opinion on willow bc they only ever cared about her as a decoration for hunter#saying the most vile and likely sexist and racist stuff about this very lovable character for daring to reject their pet white boi#if they just leave it ambiguous then both the huntlow likers AND the huntlow dislikers are going to start chomping at the bit#and rant about how it was super badly written and how it either didnt make sense that they didnt get together#or how it didnt make sense that willow didnt outright reject him#and basically overshadow everything else that happens in the show#this is the least insufferable option but i hope they go for the second one bc in story i think it would be the best for the characters#anyway this isnt to say in these options all of this annoying whining and circlejerking will be by the same people#just different groups of people who will be annoying under different circumstances#but no matter the circumstance there will at least be one annoying group#a worthy price for participating in fandom i suppose
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ludodraws · 11 months
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me on a random wednesday night after hating him for no reason for the past 5 years
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thelastspeecher · 5 months
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btw here's what is possibly my hottest take of all time:
Ghostbusters (2016) is better than Ghostbusters (1984)
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albatris · 1 year
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blog-of-reaction · 4 months
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My Get Smart ships
Max/99 obviously
Max/Hymie (it’s never stated that he loves Max in more than a platonic way, due to the time Get Smart takes place that would probably be a bad idea, jeopardizing if not both of them than Hymie for sure. I am of the firm opinion that Max/Hymie is canon as much as it can be, it’s just that it’s unrequited love on Hymie’s part.)
Max/Siegfried do I even need to explain why? Just look at them.
Starker/Larabee no reason other than I think it’s funny.
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vigilantedean · 1 year
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wilsons and houses relationship is so fucking crazy actually. wilson keeps going to the ends of the earth for this fucking jackass who acts like he doesnt even give a shit about him. he ignored house basically helping someone kill themself, constantly gives him money almost no questions asked, commits literal crimes for him by lying to the cops, all of his wives have hated house, yet he never ever even thought about no longer being friends with him. house has screwed him over, over and over again, yet he stays. dr james wilson is in love with gregory house and in this essay i will
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jensensitive · 11 months
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the idea of a kripke spn continuation manages to give me anxiety every day, i wish i was normal
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totalshockwaves · 2 years
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DC: whoops we made it too easy for people to be attracted to postdeath!Jason Todd personality-wise; we don't like it
DC: let's make him ugly in the majority of offical media to compensate!
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kitkatabasis · 1 year
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“By your letter to Mina last night. I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself. Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.”
This quote is like…the perfect summation of everything I love and hate about Dracula. It’s a bunch of lines of this beautiful prose showing Stoker’s real understanding of his character’s psychology and trauma in a way that modern writers often have trouble with…and then it’s juxtaposed with absolutely BATSHIT* pseudoscience (and, since this is physiognomy** very racist pseudoscience at that!)
*by modern standards at least; I’m aware it was considered science at the time
**and because of who Stoker was as a person racist even for his time
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fuckyourtriangles · 8 months
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Evan “I just want to sketch” MacMillan vs Archie “I’ll give you something to cry about” MacMillan.
This family is so DYSFUNCTIONAL.
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The main joke of stede's character is that he's an idiot boss. Like yes he's the romantic lead, but it's a *workplace* romcom. He's basically more deliberate and focused speedran Michael Scott to the nth degree, an idiot (and even bit of an jackass) boss unaware of his privileges treating things like a game and acting like their family, the employees don't like learn to care about him as we learn of his issues and that he does truly mean well and is slowly learning to be better and gaining confidence. The arc doesn't work if he isn't a bit of an ass. The show never makes Stede a joke in bad faith, like the bullying or harassment of the Badmintons'. It's only teasing him or pokes fun of him when he's being a foolish or a jerk. Sometimes you tease your mates, it's all out of love and fun. That's what the show does to Stede, because it likes him and want him to learn, but also knows he's not perfect. It's not fair to Ed to have a partner that doesn't grow and is perfect, and it's not fair to Stede's character arc and growth to simplify him. I do not get why stans of any character are so adamant that the story being told is not allowed to be a story it is telling.
lol i thought i'd posted it already but in my drafts i had a post i was working on abt the "workplace comedy" angle on ofmd that i never finished:
idk if this is just my take but i feel like the "it's a workplace comedy, on a boat!" thing was supposed to be, like. a joke. and then people started actually incorporating it into how they analyze character dynamics in this show. like. this is not The Office. they're not clocking into a 9-to-5 here. they kill and steal for a living, and when they're not killing and stealing, they're stuck in the place where they make their living. the Revenge isn't like, an office building, they fucking live there. it's their house. the setting of a goddamn pirate ship in the middle of the ocean in 1717 is very fucking different from the setting of an office building in a small town where everyone can drive away when work is done. the atmosphere on the Revenge is a LOT less professional than the settings of actual workplace comedies. and more importantly, the relationships and the character dynamics on the Revenge are different from what you'd expect from professional coworkers in a modern setting. what i'm saying is that some of the ofmd analysis i've seen seems like… really focused on putting everyone into "boss" and "employee" categories. and like, to a certain degree, thinking about it that was is helpful—if you think of izzy as a shitty middle manager for a different company, it makes sense why none of stede's crew ever fucking listen to him. but trying to analyze these characters like they have normal modern jobs and trying to look at the power dynamics between these characters like how you'd analyze the power dynamics that exist between you and your boss at McDonald's is like, extremely reductive. and also wrong???
idk where i was going with this post anymore lol BUT im going to use it here to say that anon... please don't compare my beloved blorbo stede bonnet to michael scott ever again fhsgjkhfdjgfj
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i think what would make the huntlow ship a lot more palatable for me is if they arent portrayed with such an imbalance of physical power. i know fandom flanderizes any popular ship/characters to a single dynamic/trait but i will still grump about it.
the dynamic between hunter and willow is most often willow being the physically stronger and more powerful of the two and hunter being her simp, usually either being fearful of her power (in a funny way bc “hes a guy”) or otherwise portrayed as weak and kind of pathetic.
(and socially he is kind of pathetic i guess, although we as a fandom are sleeping on hunters pathological need to be seen as cool and intimidating in favor of framing him as a helpless lost puppy.)
(i’ve grumped about the implications of hunter, an abuse victim, joking about his romantic partner being able to beat him up, and how his support of willow, especially in fanworks, seems to be an extension of his blind trust in authority figures. but im sure there are good fanworks that address this and portrays their dynamic as more healthy.)
my beef is that the portrayal of hunter being weaker than willow in terms of strength/combat abilities is just. not true. willow has powerful magic and yeah she yoinked hunter with her vines that one time but hunter has been trained since childhood to fight. he’s visibly more built than every other kid his age and even some of the adults. he beat up kikimora TWICE.
(i count the offscreen minecart chase in eclipse lake as one of their fights) (also in that fight he was fighting kikimora AND that EC captain AND two scouts AND a few abomatons) (also i dislike the scaling down of power of the coven heads in fandom too these ppl have been fighting with magic for decades kikimora is not a weak toddler she is a powerful witch)
hunter has shown in every episode he appeared in that hes highly skilled in combat. they had to injure him, exhaust him, and give him a new staff and a mental breakdown in eclipse lake for his fight with amity to be fair.
willow, in comparison, just grows vines everywhere because she’s never had to fight. this is very evident in the hexside fight in labyrinth runners, where hunter’s the only student doing any physical fighting while the other kids haphazardly throw spells around. hunter saying willow wouldn’t be afraid of him isn’t him saying that she would beat him in a fair fight. hes pointing out her general proactive attitude.
yes, willow can tie people up with vines but only if she has a timing advantage. hunter and willow wouldn’t fight because they’re friends. but in a theoretical fair fight between them, she would have to catch hunter off guard and completely restrain and disarm him before he can make a move. (the hunter vs amity fight shows that even when she tied him up hunter could still teleport out if he had his staff. also i think he PUNCHED that abomination bubble open???)
the point is that hunter is a child soldier and willow is not. he is much more skilled in combat than she is, and his hand to hand and staff-based combat obviously can compensate for magic uses considering he’s survived this long in the EC. (the magic duels in scout training, anyone?)
also, even if willow is stronger than hunter in terms of muscle (which i sincerely doubt bc of all the child soldier training but idk some people just naturally have more muscle than others) like her friends, willow isn’t the type of resort to fighting unless absolutely necessary. shes ride or die for her friends but she usually tries to “ride” until they get cornered and HAVE to “die.” just because hunter’s first instinct for everything is “flight” doesn’t mean willow’s first instinct has to be “fight.”
the portrayal of willow as everyones cutesy therapist who solves all her friends problems with violence is an unfortunate mischaracterization. the portrayal of hunter as a helpless, depressed, and traumatized child in need for everyone to take care of him all the time is also an unfortunate mischaracterization. these portrayals are only vaguely based in canon and i suggest fans rewatch the show during the hiatus to remember their other character traits.
for every charming fanwork with willow lifting hunter like a dumbell for her workout i want another charming fanwork with hunter lifting willow like a dumbell for HIS workout. the huntlow ship is BOTH strong enough to lift each other like dumbells and if i saw that more i might even stop calling them “the huntlow ship” and maybe indulge the thought that they might end up canon.
anyway all of this is to say. if in season 3 they deal with a minor villain like that museum guy and he still doesn’t back off after willow and the rest of the hexsquad gives him an emotional shounen protag speech. and also after hunter tries to get everyone to run away but it doesnt work bc the museum guy traps them or he falls face first into a puddle. what if willow beats the shit out of him. and after shes done she hands the reins to hunter and he beats the shit out of him. and somewhere during all that gus gives one of them a metal chair like that one MoringMark comic would that be the shit or what
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armeniuslaurant · 1 year
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Whipped up a mini-playlist for Jenn, because she’s got a lot of rage she needs to get out. (And all because it kind of annoyed me how bland the angry music Jenn from Dead to Me listened to, and it was always more of a throwaway joke than her loving metal) I gave my self semi-strict rules because otherwise I would just flood it with Poppy and Delilah Bon. They are *semi* strict because I had to get Elliot Lee in there, and the live version of Stardust with the legit scream isn’t on Spotify.
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t4tbedehopmar · 11 months
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school over :]
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alwysblue · 1 year
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