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dotthings · 2 years

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It seems the Nexstar acquisition of CW is near completion.

A summary: Nexstar takes a 75% stake, Paramount Global (which owns CBS, which co-owns CW) and Warner Bros Discovery (which recently acquired WB, which co-owns CW) with 12.5% each. Instead of paying cash, Nexstar would take on the network losses which are over $100 million per year.

Some ramblings:

Previous industry spec was Nexstar mostly be interested in CW’s digital assets—streaming. Now the reporting says Nexstar is interested in making CW a “fully sustainable broadcast network" which changes the spec a bit.

Reminder again, it's important NOW to support the kinds of shows you want to see more of, and going forward. While their streaming value still matters, the emphasis on a fleshed-out broadcast network means Nielsen ratings get more weight.

I'm just throwing around spec myself, but it seems unlikely Nexstar is therefore going to ditch scripted programming to become a 24/7 conservative news platform like I saw tossed around as an idea on twitter.

And I'd be careful about making hard assumptions on what kinds of scripted programming they want. Yes, they want to tilt older and the “homeland-heartland” spec from last year might be a factor and we know what that means. But to be a successful broadcast network, they need a variety of programming, appeal to different demos and different interests. If Nexstar accounting sees diverse shows as money-makers, they'll be assets. It comes down to money. If they think they can make a profit, they’ll still want those shows, not solely series that appeal to a middle aged straight white male demo.

Long term, I think WBD and Paramount want their shows on their own native platforms.

Short term, I don’t think that’s happening yet, but...it's a real thing.

SPN on HBO Max isn’t a fandom pipe dream, down the line this could actually happen.

Anyway, CW was never a full network. It has no studio of its own. It’s a delivery platform for WB and CBS, effectively a loss-leading tax shelter, and I don't think they cared about it much, or about the quality of the programming or marketing. The model wasn’t sustainable. It was never profitable.

CW had some great moments and great shows, there are some talented creative people and actors who have worked there, I'm not here to put down people's shows. But it often was a dumpster fire, across shows. Which is why a lot of us fans cold turkey boycotted it. Why there's been a lot of rage and backlash, from more than one fandom.

I ended my boycotting--which I stuck with for a year--because of the announced sale. It opened up the chance for a clean-up and needed changes.

No it isn't because of my faves. But I feel a lot better about the projects my faves are involved in because when I settled down to watch some shows I chose for targeted support, I found a lot of improvement. I’m not knocking the diversity that was there before, but the intersectionality, the depth of the usually under-represented pov's, is going farther. There used to be a lot more tokenization, more mishandling, or half-way good and bad.

There’s also a recent vibe of “no such thing as too much rep” which is refreshing to see. Shows that started out diverse keep adding more.

The shows I’m supporting: Kung Fu, All American (and I will be watching All American: Homecoming), Nancy Drew, Tom Swift (please, please check out Tom Swift, it’s a goddamn DELIGHT). I’ll be watching The Winchesters — which looks like a promising start to a far more expensive and inclusive SPN universe, as well as giving us some much needed Dean pov after the disastrous finale — and Gotham Knights — which intrigues me as a dc fan as a sort of elseworlds type scenario, and centers queer characters, women, women of color, PoC, along with having the treat of Misha Collins portraying Harvey Dent.

(There’s still some tokenization, on some shows, mixed with at least some attempts to do a little better, it’s not perfect across the board).

Other thing to note: The death of the Arrowverse wasn’t really because of the sale. I think that ‘verse winding down was inevitable, after many years and lbr--declining quality, and I'm saying this as a former big fan of the Arrowverse shows. That was also WBD and DC wanting an overhaul of the DCEU. Arrowverse had some great shows, but they were underperforming by DCTV standards. No, CW did not cut those series to get rid of the diversity, if you look at the new gen diverse CW series that line of thinking makes no sense. It was a cull based on lowest performers, and a DC show with a diverse cast—Gotham Knights—was added.

I'm here to support the shows and the people who make the shows, I don't stan for corporations. Some fans seem to think their brand loyalty should be to CW and they evangelized in a baffling way, but their brand loyalty was not to CW. It was to a particular show, or a set of shows, it's brand loyalty to franchises, and sometimes it's brand loyalty to a favorite actor. Don't get mixed up about this.

And if things go fully pear-shaped with Nexstar, I'm happy to support those shows on other platforms.

#Kung Fu CW #All American #The Winchesters #Gotham Knights #Tom Swift #CW Network #Nancy Drew

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r-fenghuang-fanfiction · 1 year

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Watched Black Panther Wakanda Forever and had some real mixed feelings about it.

It was beautiful, it was well done, I loved watching M'Baku get emotional over the loss of his friend and his king, I loved seeing Shuri deal with her grief and come into her adulthood, I loved how they acknowledged N'Jadaka as a member of the family, I loved the respect paid between Namor and Shuri as the rulers of their countries, I loved that the whole film had that cool, modern feel that I associate with Coogler films, but...

Honestly, it felt too fresh. I watched it in a theatre with giggling white people and cried through almost the entire film. It was so much about losing Chadwick and it was a beautiful way to honour him and what he brought to the role and I loved seeing indigenous rep, but I just had the weirdest experience with it. As a native Hawaiian/Pinoy American it was so upsetting to see the Talokan and Wakandans killing each other and harming each other. In the middle of grieving for Chadwick, I then had to wince through every fight scene (which were well shot but so upsetting) and then peppered into that was the unecessary white man plot (saying this as someone who likes Martin Freeman and appreciates his work) which I had no patience for and then the whole time, I just kept thinking : Disney made this movie. Disney, an incredibly harmful monopoly known for mistreating and exploiting people and only ever doing the bare minimum to support queer people and people of colour. Disney made this movie. Ryan Coogler and Chadwick Boseman and so many others loved this film and made this film with the best of intentions, but that will always be undercut by the reality that Disney made this movie for a profit. We're Disney's token POC friend that they bring up everytime someone accuses them of being racist.

I don't really have anything bad to say about the actors or the film itself, but the emotional reality of it was just too much for me and I definitely watched it with the wrong people.

7/10. It hurt and it was frustrating and I hated seeing people who have so much to gain from understanding and supporting each other, tear each other down instead (even if they do eventually learn their lesson.)

#black panther #messy #wakanda forever #talokan #poc #queer #it just feels wrong #it feels like being the only minority in a room full of people debating how you should feel about being descriminated against #it doesnt feel good #but i like so many parts of it #i just dont know #maybe ill watch it again in a year or two

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thefirsthogokage · 1 year

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So Help Me Todd 111:

'Side Effects May Include Murder'

Where to Watch: Paramount+

Spoilers: No. And I probably went overboard on that. I'm not sure I can find the proper middle ground. I had plenty I could still say though.

Genre: Helping The Little Guy While Being a Bite Shady, Legal, Procedural

Similar Shows: Leverage (FreeVee), Sprung (FreeVee)

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Oh? What's this?

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Margaret helps a lot of Black women. That could be white-savior-y, but I think it's really to show how disadvantaged Black women are when it comes to the system. They had to do it with a white protagonist because that's how they could sell it to CBS. And they still get to show how women can be treated differently through Margaret.

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I love how Marcia Gay Harden is a producer on this show, even though she wasn't the one originally set to star. Wasn't that Geena Davis? Checked: It was, dropped out during the Pilot. Character was named Joan then. Glad they changed it, it didn't fit either actress.

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Todd got a - Oh, that's why he got called.

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Oh god no Todd, don't let her think that! Don't cover! Please!

Oh good. Oh no. NO! Please tell me this gets righted in the end.

Marcia is really good at these bits of yelling.

What an ungrateful bitch.

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(so, I have ADHD. I left a juice box on the couch yesterday or the day before and I totally spaced on that, and just sipped the last bit out of the bottom. If I stop posting in the coming days, that's what killed me. Maybe. I mean other things could happen, but that should be a suspect.)

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It's been a while since I've been made to laugh by a [word gets said many times and then someone else says, "I'm starting to think"]kind of joke. Excellent delivery by Todd's actor.

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That's not the right name of that movie, Margaret.

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Oh the title was too much of a hint. Sort of. I mean, I guess we could have guessed at it from the court scene, though. (Guess twice, I know, I'm tired.)

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So much...I was just going to writes something but I went back and wrote something and now I don't know what I was going to saw.

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Susan nodding 😂

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Oh hey! Black person with a lot of money rep!

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Oh yay! Glad you told her!

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Their rep is great in every episode. POC guest casting always, not just main cast.

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Oh god, Margaret. No, Todd was trying to be good. UGH, MARGARET!

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Opposite order would probably happen, Margaret.

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Two POC docs! What kind of last name is Featherstone. Seems like a name for a Native American person. But I don't think the actor looked Native. More SE Asian (I watch a lot of things with different people from different SE Asian countries), but from one of the island countries. But I could be wrong. Looks like he's from Canada. So he could be Inuk, I guess. Or a miss-casted Asian. I'm kind of curious about that. I'm also very tired,.some maybe I'm going insane.

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No! I can't really say more, but god that doesn't feel right for him! UGGGHHH!

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Oh. She told her mother about that! Wait Todd told her too? I thought he wasn't going to tell her? We never say that, right?

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Someone is really looking to get permission to cheat on their spouse. Their amazing, losing spouse, and we're supposed to feel bad for them? UGH! Who writes some of these characters!

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This is absolutely a trans actor, or a an androgynous enby person. No way this person isn't a fellow queer. LOVE IT!

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Oh he didn't tell her. Good boy!

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He's so defensive of his mother and helpful to his sister, and they are both terrible. I'm sure he's a self-insert character, but damn do I hate this family. Well, as a family.

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Oh no! This'll be bad! That's not what they intended!

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Todd is every member of the Leverage team, but not as good at all their jobs as they are.

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Get out! They might think you're bad too! Get out!

(wait, wouldn't really know you're a doctor if you don't do it from your place if work, right?)

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I am so tired. Bed time soon.

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Oh boy.

Oh no!

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L.burton. OHHHH Lyle was a nod to LeVar Burton! Brilliant!

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Yeah.

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This episode is so anti big pharma. Leverage creators would be so proud! I'm to nervous to tell them they should watch it.

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How did you know that happened to your sister?

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I don't like either of these women. They are not why I like/watch the show. I don't watch it for the main family, I watch it for the rest of the story.

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More POC guest stars!

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Oh god.

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Impeached? I don't believe that would be an impeachment.

Don't ask question you don't know the answer to. Number one lawyer rule. She couldn't have known the answer to that for sure.

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I'm too tired to call out the bad legal stuff here. I'm sure there's more.

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Oh Margaret, I you you both suck, but stop being horrible to your kid. Please.

I guess she did learn something though.

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White women tears. This wouldn't work for Black woman. A white person wrote this. Not moving at all. I'm tired, but, yeah, I don't like her at all.

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Oh good, Todd deserved an apology.

#so help me todd #shmt 111 #riley watches tv #riley watches so help me todd

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acesydneysage · 3 years

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The end goal of representation politics, as flawed as it can be, isn't to abolish acting and to have characters only be played by people exactly like them. There's a specific history of oppression that makes certain things problematic. That's why whitewashing is a thing and blackwashing is not.

Cultural erasure is sad and disappointing, but the reason people don't treat it as something as bad as whitewashing is because it's categorically not, it does not have nearly the same history of violence attached to it.

The US doesn't have a history of minstrel shows about eastern Europeans. There isn't a problem with lack of pale skin representation. If what you're interested in is pale skin and not actually a complex portrayal of Slavic cultures, there's plenty of content for you out there.

There can be perfectly valid and respectful critiques, expressed politely. Russians have actually being demonized on Western media, so I understand wishing for a Russian actor, I did too. But it's more a matter of authenticity in the portrayal, having a different type of white guy play Dimitri is not whitewashing. But you can be wary about how good a job he can do, certainly.

As for Rose, I wish her Turkish ethnicity had been actually represented, and you can be black and have Turkish heritage at the same time. That would have been cool, but it's not the actress' background as far as I know. I don't know if casting would be different under different circumstances, without covid restrictions, but it is what it is. I wished she had been Turkish in the movie too, but I still watched it, and I think Sisi will make a beautiful Rose.

To be honest, a lot of Turkish people look white to me, but if their experience is racialized in the US I won't erase that. But I think they look white to a lot of people who are raging right now too, because lots of them are much more focused on the exact shade of Rose's skin than in her actual heritage, funny that. Or they're praising white actresses who are also not Turkish at all. Very intriguing. The things people will pretend to care about in order to dress up their racism in social justice language are astonishing.

And Lissa was never albino, btw. Would be cool to have more rep for that, but she wasn't it. Most other characters are American, and they're descended from Europeans because that's how white Americans work, it's stolen land, they aren't native to it.

Hopefully the writers of the show will do alot of research and know what they're talking about, and portray the slavic inspiration of the books in the respectful and complex way these beautiful cultures deserve.

But you know what other culture the books draw heavily from too? You know what these books written by an American woman that deal with racism as one of their central themes also take inspiration from? The culture and oppressive structures of the country she lived in her whole life.

The oppression suffered by dhampirs is very related to racism and specially antiblackness/misogynoir experienced by people in real life, so using their plight for inspiration while featuring next to no black people in the books isn't great. I'm happy they're changing that at least, it's an improvement. I think the themes of the books could be enhanced by these choices.

The same way, if we get to Bloodlines, if you're gonna have a conversion therapy inspired plot you should have more queer rep. If the main couple draws from the struggles faced by interracial and queer couples, there should be more representation.

The cast looks beautiful and I need to see them actually acting to know if they're good. You're allowed to care about external descriptions of the characters. But in my opinion capturing the spirit of the character is much more important, and real life sociopolitics should be taken into account.

You can't please everyone, and you're never gonna get exactly what's in your head. But most of the fandom is grown adults now, and you should be able to handle disappointment without having a breakdown or harassing anyone. Keep things civil.

#va #vampire academy #rose hathaway #vampire academy tv series #va tv #va tv show #also entitled fan petitions are a sign of the apocalypse #I'm making a petition for more tuxedo cat rep my cat should be oscar #Rapha's VA tag #not Bloodlines

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crushing-on-nico-di-angelo · 3 years

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This is kind of a random question but...

Do you know why people hate Rick Riordan?

I just have no information, and I’ve seen a lot of stuff lately talking about how he’s problematic.

hi!! yes, I've seen things about this as well. I can list the reasons I've seen. I don't agree with all the points made, but its just what I've seen and I think it may answer your question. I also recommend going through the tag #rr crit, as it will give you a lot more and detailed information regarding him (beware: there are quite a few buzzwords. I recommend taking the facts and forming your own conclusions). I also think it's important to note that many people don't hate him, but they acknowledge that since he's a cishet white man there's things he didn't handle well and he needs to listen to critisicm.

Completely mishandled Piper's native American heritage. From the feather in her hair, to her dad being from a reservation that doesn't exist in Oklahoma, to having kaleidoscope eyes (some say that it suggests brown eyes aren't beautiful enough for aphrodite, more on this in the next bullet), to being a kleptomaniac, her character is, ignorantly or purposefully, chock full of stereotypes. having a cornucopia being her weapon. when Rick was told that this isn't good he became defensive and didn't listen to any critisicm

not giving female characters chances to be young, or not have a boyfriend or be unconventionally attractive. if they do get to not have a boyfriend, they're thrown into the Hunters of Artemis. their eyes are anything but brown (I do disagree with the eye thing but it's important to note), suggesting that having brown eyes should be considered less than. Sadie got a 1000 year old boyfriend when she was 14. 13 year old Hazel had a 16 year old boyfriend-- that could be a seventh grader and a junior or a freshman and sophomore depending on how you look at it (and I LOVE frazel, don't get me wrong. the age gap is just,,). in fact, the only female non-hunter without a significant other I can name is Meg, and she's 12.

Sadie Kane and the fanart he boosts of her. he frequently shows her looking completely white, despite saying she "stood out in class for being mixed." It honestly wouldn't surprise me if a white girl were cast to play her in the Netflix movies.

treatment of characters with invisible disabilities. this can range from the coment of "You anemic loser" targeted at Octavian (as someone with an iron deficiency, I don't see anything wrong with it, but cmon. kids can see that, rick. you can't control anemia) to Clovis' chronic fatigue being treated as a joke. invisible disabilities are hard and just as painful as physical ones. it doesn't help if you treat them like that.

too much misogyny to list all of it, but we can start with young girls being expected to be, and acting, more mature than they are; the strong female characters portraying the "I'm not like other girls" trope; the entire way Hera was treated.

The way Nico's outing was handled (this is one I especially disagree with, and this post said it best, thanks ghost). A violent outing by the God of love taking place before Nico was ready, according to some, was not what younger gay people needed to see. he should have had a loving environment and, at the very least, it should have been from his own point of view and not Jason's.

anti-acne and fat phobia: Apollo having a deep hatred towards his acne and Frank's glow up including severe weight loss (not being a cuddly teddybear anymore, getting taller) isn't the best thing for kids who have acne or are fat to see.

Samirah al-Abbas: "reversing the stereotype (Rick's words)" of an arranged marriage by having her be in love with a distant cousin is... not reversing the stereotype at all actually. it just falls into it. Having her take off her hijab around floor 19 because they feel like family is also not great, because, to my understanding as a non-hijabi and non-muslim, that is not how being hijabi works. similar to the piper situation, when Rick was told that this isn't good he became defensive and didn't listen to any critisicm

ANTISEMITISM, ANTISEMETISM, ANTISEMITISM. this is one of the ones I agree with the most. Having Hades' children be Nazis, having a plot point revolve around one of the most traumatic events in world history, ignoring the fact of generational trauma and ignoring the fact that It Didn't Matter That It Took Place In World War Three, it could have not had any correlation to the death of over six million Jewish people. it legitimizes evilsurrounding Hades and death, and -- well, this one makes me so mad, I can't explain all of it so here is a post explaining more in depth

Slavery issues: similar to the holocaust, Rick Riordan made one of the most terrible issues in American History into a fight between demigods. this lowers the legitimacy of the issue, makes it seem fictional, makes Camp Jupiter seem terrible and awful, except it doesn't. because camp Jupiter isn't terrible. but the confederacy was. if children, especially white children, learn about the confederacy through camp Jupiter, it makes it seem way less bad than it was.

again, I don't agree with all of this, it's just reasoning as to why. in my eyes, Rick Riordan is a man who has grown in his telling of his stories. he started with a canonical all white, all straight, all cis cast. he has now a series featuring a latino genderfluid queer person. This Post said it better than I ever could.

I know that it's impact over intent in so many situations. and this isn't to say I disagree with all, or even most of his critisim. I just think that he has good intent, and I hate him for absolutely none of it.

I am gay, I am Latino, and I am trans. that is all I can speak on, and I think his rep for that was great. I hope this answered your question, dear anon. again, I encourage you to do your own research and form your own opinions. I only touched on a few issues that Rick has had and there's a lot more to be talked about. I would say to keep in mind his intent and his growth. thank you for the ask, thank you for directing it to me that made me feel happy lol. ily I hope you have a good day

if anyone else has anything to add, by all means please do!!

#rr crit #ask #anon ask #you can click that tag dear anon!!#pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #piper mclean #nico di angelo #samirah al abbas #long post #rick riordan criticism

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lee-scribbles-and-doodles · 3 years

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My Top Ten Overlooked Movies With Female Leads In No Particular Order

Note: When you see this emoji (⚠️) I will be talking about things people may find triggering, which are spoilery more often then not. I mention things that I think may count as triggers so that people with them will be aware before going in to watch any of these.

Edited: 3/16/21

Hanna (2011)

So, before I get into why you should watch this movie, I just want to take a moment to say why it's near and dear to my heart. Growing up as a queer kid in the early 2000s, seeing portrayals of people like or similar to myself on anything was rare at best. It was mostly in more "adult" movies or shows that my parents would occasionally let me watch with them that I'd see any lgbtq+ rep at all. Often times they were either walking stereotypes, designed to be buried, evil, or all three.

Then here comes this PG-13 action thriller with a wonderfully written main female lead who, at the time, was close to my age, and who got to kiss another girl (her very first friend, Sophie) on screen in an extremely tender and heartwarming scene. To say the least, it was a life changing moment for me personally.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way, Hanna is a suspenseful movie about a child super-soldier named, you guessed it, Hanna (played by Saoirse Ronan) and her adoptive (?) father Erik Heller (played by Eric Bana) exiting the snowy and isolated wilderness of their home and taking on the shadowy CIA operative, Marissa Wiegler (played by Cate Blanchette) who wants Erik dead and Hanna for herself for mysterious reasons.

It also has an amazing soundtrack by the Chemical Brothers, great action scenes, and it has an over arching fairytale motif, which I'm always a sucker for.

⚠️ Mild blood effects, some painful looking strikes, various character deaths, and child endangerment all feature in this film. However, given its PG-13 rating, a majority of viewers are presumably able to handle this one. Still, be aware of these going in.

Sidenote: It's recently gotten a TV adaptation on Amazon TV, although I have not watched it, and do not know if Hanna and Sophie's romantic/semi-romantic relationship has transferred over.

A Simple Favor

A Simple Favor is a "black-comedy mystery thriller" centered entirely around the relationship between two mothers, the reclusive, rich, mysterious, and regal Emily (played by Blake Lively), and the local recently widowed but plucky mommy blogger, Stephanie (played by Anna Kendrick). When Emily suddenly goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to find out what happened to her new best friend.

It's a fantastic and entertaining movie throughout, with fun, flawed and interesting characters. The relationship between the two female leads is also implied to be at least somewhat romantic in nature, and they even share a kiss.

⚠️ The only major warnings I can think of is that the movie contains an instance of incest and one of the main plotlines revolves around child abuse, although both of these potentially triggering topics are not connected to each other, so there is thankfully no csa going on.

Edit: I legitimately forgot there was drug use in this movie until now. So, yeah, if that's a trigger, be careful of that.

I Am Mother

I became mildly obsessed with this movie when it came out. I Am Mother is a sci-fi film that centers entirely around a cast of two woman, and a female-adjacent robot who is brought to life on screen with absolutely amazing practical effects.

The plot is such, after an extinction-level event, a lone robot known only as Mother tasks herself with replenishing the human race via artifical means. She begins with the film's main protagonist, Daughter. Years go by as Mother raises her human child and the two prepare for Daughter's first sibling (a brother) to be born. However, on Daughter's 16th birthday, the arrival of an outsider known only as Woman shakes Daughter's entire world view. She begins to question Mother's very nature, as well as what's really going on outside the bunker she and her caretaker call home.

⚠️ This movie features child endangerment and reference to child death.

Lilo and Stitch

When I decided to add a single Disney film to this list I initially thought it was going to be hard but almost immediately my brain went to Lilo and Stitch, and specifically about the relationship between Lilo and Nani.

On the surface, this film is about a lonely little girl accidentally adopting a fugitive alien creature as a "dog," but underneath that the story is also about two orphaned sisters and the older sister's attempts to not let social services tear them apart by stepping up as the younger sister's primary guardian. Despite its seemingly goofy premise, Lilo and Stitch has a very emotional and thoughtful center. It's little wonder how this movie managed to spawn an entire franchise.

Despite the franchise it spawned (or possibly because of it), I often find that Lilo and Stitch is overlooked and many people only remember it for the "little girl adopts an alien as a pet" portion of its plot, and I very rarely see it on people's top 10 Disney lists.

⚠️ This movie could be potentially triggering to people who were separated from their siblings or other family members due to social service intervention. There's also a bit of child endangerment, including a scene where Lilo and Stitch both almost drown.

Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind

Unlike the above entry, I did struggle a little bit with picking a single Studio Ghibli film. Most media of the Ghibli catalogue have strong, well-written, unique, and interesting female leads so selecting just one seemed like quite the task.

However, I eventually settled on this particular film. In recent months, Princess Nausicaä has become my absolute favorite Ghibli protagonist and I'm absolutely enchanted by the world she lives in.

Set in a post-apocalyptic world overun by giant insects and under threat of a toxic forest and its poisoness spores, Nausicaä must try to protect the Valley of the Wind from invaders as she also tries to understand the science behind the toxic forest and attempts to bridge the gap between the insects and the humans.

For those who have never seen the film, I think Nausicaä's personality can best be described as being similar to OT Luke Skywalker. Both are caring, compassionate, and gentle souls who are able to see the best in nearly anyone or anything. She's an absolutely enthralling protagonist and after rewatching the film again for the first time in well over a decade she has easily become one of my all time favorite protagonists.

Whenever I see people talk about Ghibli films, they rarely mention this one, and when they do mention it, it's often in passing. In my opinion it's a must watch.

⚠️ This movie contains some blood, and the folks who either don't like insects or who have entomophobia may not appreciate the giant bugs running about throughout the movie. (Although most insects do not directly relate to real life bugs, and are fantasy creatures).

A Silent Voice

A Silent Voice is an animated movie adaptation of a manga of the same name. While I've never had the pleasure to read the manga, the movie is phenomenal. It covers topics such a bullying, living in the world with a disability, the desire for atonement, social anxiety, and depression in a well thought out manner that ties itself together through the progression of the relationship between its two leads, Shoya and Shouko. It's also beautifully animated. Although very popular among anime viewers, I've noticed that it's often overlooked by people who watch little to no anime. So I suppose this is me urging non-anime viewers to give this film a chance.

⚠️ As mentioned above, the movie deals with bullying, anxiety, and depression (with this last one including suicidal thoughts and behaviour). If discussion of those topics are triggering to you, than you may want to proceed with caution or skip this movie all together.

In This Corner of The World

Another manga adaptation, this one taking place during WWII-era Japan. In This Corner of The World follows the life of a civilian Japanese woman, Suzu Urano, as she navigates simply living and her new marriage as the wartime invades nearly all aspects of everyday life. I think this movie is a good representation of what it must be like to be living as civilian in a country at war where the fight is sometimes fought on one's own soil. It was also an interesting look into pre-50s Japanese culture in my opinion. It's also beautifully animated featuring an art style I don't see often.

Despite it being well known among anime fans, I never really see it be brought up, even among said anime fans themselves.

Side note: I've seen many WWII dramas centering around civilians but they've almost always been about American or UK civilians. This was the first movie I'd seen that features the perspective of a Japanese civilain.

⚠️ Features the death of a child and limb loss. There's also a disturbing scene featuring a victim of one of the atomic bombs near the end.

Wolf Children: Ame and Yuki

This film follows Hana, a Japan-native woman who fell in love with a magical shape-shifting wolf-man, and her trials with raising their children, who can also magically shape-shift into wolves, on her own. It's a very heartfelt movie about a mother's love and the struggles of doing right by your children when you have limited resources to actively guide and care for them. All the characters feel unique and alive in my opinion. Also, the animation is so good that my sister and I initially mistook it for a Ghibli film.

Again, like the previous two anime entries, I don't see it ever brought up outside of anime circles.

⚠️ There's some child endangerment present in the film, although none of it is the fault of Hana as far as I can remember.

Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday is about the fictional Princess Ann (played by Audrey Hepburn), who while on a whirlwind tour of Europe, finally reaches her breaking point over having her entire life be one big schedule and all her words and actions being rehearsed. In the spur of the moment, she runs away in hopes of experiencing what life is like for other women. Unfortunately, she was previously given a sedative, meaning she doesn't get too far before it takes effect. Fortunately, she is found by the kind reporter Joe Bradley (played by Gregory Peck). Believing her to be drunk and unable to get an address from her (because she has none) he ends up taking her home for safety's sake and allows her to sleep off her suppose drunken stupor. The next day, he realizes who she is, and decides to take her on a fun sight seeing trip across Rome in hopes of getting the big scoop. Along the way, they begin to fall for each other.

This is my favorite black and white, old romance film. I think the relationship between the main characters is absolutely beautiful and I have a lot of fun watching it.

⚠️ I'm not entirely sure what kind of warning this film would need. However, it was released in 1953, so values dissonance will probably be at play for many viewers to at least some extent. For example, early in the film Ann is given sedation drugs by her doctor for her behavior, something that is very unlikely to happen today. Also, Mr Bradley deciding to take Ann home to keep her safe rather than call the police or an ambulance is a very pre-90s decision in my opinion.

#hanna 2011 #a simple favor #i am mother #lilo and stitch #nausicaä of the valley of the wind #a silent voice #in this corner of the world #wolf chilren ame and yuki #wolf children #roman holiday #black and white film #anime #disney #studio ghibli #movie recs #top 10

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I know this is old discourse but in light of destiel becoming canon, what are your thoughts on neil gaiman not allowing Crowley and Aziraphale to be gay lovers? He said that they're angels, not men, so is that supposed to imply that they're not gay simply cuz they're non-binary (so they're asexual)? I just wanna know if they'e in love or not lol. I ship them so much.

yeah okay this is gonna have to be tagged neil discourse because thinking about this over a year later i’m still mad huh

so like. i know very well what he said at the time. he was basically like, and i’m paraphrasing but that’s because i simply do not care enough to give a direct quote but on twitter he was like ‘oh well angels don’t UNDERSTAND human concepts like GENDER and SEXUAL ATTRACTION so NO they’re NOT GAY’ and then someone was like ‘but they’re in love right?’ and he was like ‘of course.’ right? everyone agrees that’s what happened right after the show aired? and like, okay, i’m not going to begrudge people seeing this as representative of themselves if they’re nb and/or ace, that’s cool and fine, and you do you. i find it interesting that i saw a ton more criticism about it on here than on twitter, but that’s probably just more indicative of who i’m following and how much i’m on here than anything else. anyway.

let’s break this bullshit down and explain piece by piece why i think neil’s quote unquote representation in gomens is a hot garbage fire and why it kind of rubbed me the wrong way from the moment i saw it.

1. he posted it on twitter. he wrote the script and could have like, you know, put it into the show, if them being In Love was like, actually part of the story. he had the ability to do that. gomens was already going to piss off right wing groups because of how it treats religion, this wasn’t something i legitimately think amazon/the beeb would have just said ‘no’ to if neil was serious about it. mean, maybe that’s a bit far into conspiracy territory, but i truly believe if they really wanted to make azcrow canon the one person who could have managed getting a scene would have been the author/showrunner. and because he didn’t if you’re a casual viewer who’s not fucking following his goddamned twitter seeing gay representation is now a rorschach test

‘they don’t adhere to human ways of thinking about gender and sexuality’ MANY THOUGHTS HERE but let’s start with

2. i think hallie originally said this and neil i know you wrote the book but like. did you read the book neil. because i thought one of the main points of it was that aziraphale and crowley had effectively ‘gone native’ and saw themselves more like humans than like celestial beings. and they’d been on earth for all of human history. it’s a bad take i’m sorry i know he literally wrote it but like really. really.

3. look i’m nb and i’d love some nb rep. but that was not nb rep. those were two cis male actors playing (largely) male presenting characters with absolutely no in-text indications that they aren’t cis. there’s one (a few? god it’s been a minute since i watched the show) character referred to by singular ‘they’ and it’s not aziraphale or crowley. and like, look, i get that in real life there’s nb people who don’t go by gender neutral pronouns and that’s cool and fine because that’s what those people feel inside. but, like, this isn’t real life, it’s a tv show, and referring to male presenting characters as he/him and then occasionally putting them in feminine clothing isn’t representation because people who aren’t looking for that kind of representation aren’t going to see it, they’re going to see a joke about a man in a dress

4. and i’m not ace so i can’t speak on that, but i do remember at the time ace people being like ‘that....was not ace rep’ so like, make of that what you will. again, i’m not going to tell you you can’t see them as nb and/or ace, but like, i’m just asking you, was that really representation? like, was it? in your heart like, would you have been happy with that representation if neil didn’t tell you it was representation? because if you’re just starved for content, that’s FINE, you’re ALLOWED, all i’m asking you is to not praise the creator for doing fuck all.

5. ‘of course [they’re in love]’ again where??? where??? where is it neil. where is it in the actual text of the show. like there’s in text evidence that they love each other platonically and there’s lots of jokes made by other characters but like. i hate to say that but that’s it. i don’t know why this off the cusp response still makes my blood boil but boy does it

6. i don’t want to go looking for it because i’ve done that like six times but there’s a post on neil’s tumblr from before the show dropped about how there would be moments that people who ship it would be happy with but it wouldn’t become canon. you can look it up i swear he said that in like....december of 2018ish? something like that. which, again, is fine on its own, but combined with the fact that after he was like ‘lmao that’s what i was going for’......not my favorite look

what i’m saying is like, if he wanted to create an actual queer narrative he could have but he just like, chose not to and then when he realized he could have people watching his show just because they’re thirsty for representation that isn’t there i think he went ‘oh i’ll jk rowling this’ i don’t KNOW that that’s what happened but, like, that’s what it looks like to me.

i used to regularly refer to the “representation” in gomens as nu-queerbaiting, which i still like as a term, because to me it’s the person in charge (not the actors, usually, unless they have some say in the writing process) going, oh no they’re totally in love with each other totally trust me :) and then like, they’re not, not really, not to the people who like, watch the show but don’t fucking follow the author on twitter. and that’s. i’m sorry, that’s not canon to me.

and, to be honest, how this is presented honestly makes me more angry than if it was just maybe in-universe wink wink nudge nudge, because i’m USED to queerbaiting and i know that like, almost nothing ever ever ever comes of it and i get it and i like having fun anyways, so i deal. and like, i was a book fan before the show came out. the book was written in the late 80s, and i knew that it wasn’t going to be anywhere near as gay as the fandom has made that work for thirty goddamned years, and i was fine with that. like, going into it, i joked, but it was fine because it was a relatively faithful adaption of a book i like. i wasn’t looking for gay representation, even though i ship aziraphale and crowley.

but like, there was this wave of people who came looking for representation, and the show is so vague on that concept that they saw it, but it’s like. it’s not actually really there. there’s no one saying ‘yes they’re really irl in love.’ there’s two male-presenting characters who COULD be in love, if you choose to view it like that, but maybe aren’t. and like, that’s FINE, on it’s own, but i hate that someone in a position of power said ‘no you’re right lmao’ even though he didn’t do shit. it was made in 2019. queer representation should be better than that. i’m not patting neil on the back for doing literally nothing.

so like, tldr: yeah the rep is bad in my opinion!!! it’s not good!!!! i don’t like how neil handled it and it’s gross!!!! i hope this answers your question!!!!

anyway that being said azcrow is such a good ship anyway, so like, why does it matter if they’re canon? ship em anyways no one can stop me from doing it even though how it was handled by the actual creator is a garbage fire when you look at it for more than like, thirty seconds. like......why must a ship be ‘canon’? is it not enough to read a book and see two celestial beings, in love with humanity?

#neil if you're searching your name again and see this no you didn't #neil discourse #go #go tv #nonny mouse #inquiries

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swanlakebybelalugosi · 3 years

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This realization was in part due to @anarchistettin talking about the acronym's version of the queer community, the family as it appears the queer elders called it, that the reason I ever had to be a label (outside of my autism's desire to sort things and label things so I understand myself in relation to the world around me) my queerness down to its minutiae, its particularities, the way I was different from Others, was in part due to the acronym.

Pardon the long running sentence, but the acronym did more to instill infighting than anything. There was the base letters, LGBT(Q was sometimes included, + was sometimes added on).

L for the lesbians, G for the gays, B for the bis, T for us trans folks, nonbinary or not. Then, if they cared to include the q: q for questioning or q for queer. Then you had the IA, sometimes IPA, if you added P on there. I being intersex, P being pansexual, A being a-spec, or if you were annoying, Ally.

The acronym is separatist, inherently. And you see this by the fact that exclusionist lesbian radfems/terfs wanted to separate themselves from the radical "tra" cult by "Dropping the L" or lesbian separatism. Or how they wanted to drop the B for not being oppressed enough for being able to pass as heterosexual or getting "heterosexual privilege".

Then, its the longstanding transphobia of consistently trying to exclude trans people, trans women and trans women of color especially, from the queer community. Excluding the A for not being oppressed enough.

Isn't the entire goal of the community to overcome oppression? You'd think, but no, it is merely a way for those to cling to whatever privilege the boots that force their faces into the dirt have. They'll sacrifice solidarity for a half meal of the privilege and will wield their new tools of oppression against their very own "community".

The Lgbtqipa+, what have you, community was never about community but using each other as rungs on a ladder to the seat of power. It was never about equality, it was about access to privilege previously denied to them. Similarly to how being a girlboss isn't about feminism, it's about normalizing making women our oppressors too. Diversity win! The person shoving a gun in your face goes by they/them pronouns!

(and not even in a hot, homoerotic romance-rivalry way!)

Diversity win! The person forcibly evicting you from your home to let you die on the streets got married to her girlfriend (now wife) this weekend! It was a summer wedding, they went to Honolulu, (and exploited the Natives there! Win!)

It's a farce, really.

Glad I wisened up less than four days away from turning 23. There are still people who think being a lesbian or gay cop makes for good queer rep! They don't and they don't deserve pride any more than cishet cops do. They are not my family, they are traitors.

The minute they let you think separating ourselves based on labels and who contributes "more" to the community (while offering negative contributions!* Which is worse than No contribution.), they win. Stop letting political bootlickers with shitty privilege ladders win. Divorce yourself from the acronym. Do not reform the acronym, abolish the acronym.

*Negative contribution = gatekeeping and abuse/harassment. Well, I'm allowed to gatekeep, it's correct when I do it, because I gatekeep radfems and terfs and queerphobes. And cops and landlords.

It's amazing what you'll come to terms with about yourself when you stop worrying about pleasing the acronymical overlords who want to sacrifice you for just a little taste of supremacy, of privilege.

Solidarity isn't in the acronym, the acronym is inherently antithetical to the idea of solidarity while creating language to make you think it was about family. It wasn't.

I'm probably not done talking about this but this is the end of this post for rn.

#queer #anarchistettin once again inspiring my queer brain to Say Things #speaking of #if you have thoughts 👀 interact since you got my brain thinking #or a reblog 😌

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littlx-songbxrd · 3 years

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Ok I meant to answer you're question about what I thought of the show ages ago but I forgot.

I LOVED IT OMGGGG! I got so many kitty vibes from Wilhelm and Simon! The touching! The softness! It's those vibes exactly! I want that energy in TWP.

COMRADE SIMON!! We stan! That speech he made at the very beginning about the differences in attitudes towards "tax evasion" vs. "Welfare fraud." Legend behavior.

Sara!!!! My girl!!!!!! An autistic/adhd character PLAYED BY AN AUTISTIC ACTRESS!!!! THIS IS SO HUGE!!! I would die for my problematic queen. I made an entire post on her but the gist is, I get where she's coming from and understand why she feels the way she feels but dear God girl make better choices and stay the hell away from August.

Speaking of.... I wanna run August over several times. Vroom vroom motherfucker. The fact that he

- filmed MINORS HAVING SEX AND TGE POSTED IT ONLINE

-kissed Sara behind Felice's back when they were still dating WITHOUT HER CONSENT BTW

- Wanted to blame Simon for the drugs because he knew it would be easy because Simon's family is lower class and doesnt have the same social standing as one of the "members of the society"

- Also it didn't escape my notice that the cult like faternety type group with all the rich, mainly white boys is called The Society. This shows commentary on class is vv interesting. Especially the little things like two girls just randomly advocating for THE DEATH PENALTY. The rich people audacity.

-Anyways back to August, when he tried to excuse his actions with Wilhelm and get all teary like no bitch you can't manipulate your way out of this one. And again with Sara! When he said "Wilhelm has everything" I wanted to scream! Like he's fucking closeted and clearly suffering from panic attacks and extreme anxiety you moron.

-Anyways!! I also think that Wilhem might be autistic because he just feels autistic. Like the vibes are there.

- The girl group is so sweet? And to have the popular girl be a Black girl who isn't "stereotypically attractive" with a more medium sized body and bad acne. As someone who has really bad skin I needed that. Felice is kinda awesome imo.

Let me see what else??

-Simon and his mom speaking Spanish consistently throughout the show. It sounded pretty natural to me? But I'm not a native speaker. (Or even fluent honestly lol.)

- Simon and Wilhelm are honestly so adorable and in love and it made my heart ache. (I am so touch starved I swear..)

-My only main beef is the outing plotline and the show using an outdated medical term for Sara, aspergers. It's literally just autism. Also it's kind of offensive because Hans Asperger was a n*zi who literally killed autistic children because they weren't useful to capitalism. SOOOO yeah.

As for the outing plotline, I feel like the cishets have like three plotlines that they use for queer stories. Outing/coming out, one of them dies, or one if them bullies the other until they both fall in love. It's tired.

But overall I really loved it.

HI SORRY I HADNT REPLIED

I wanted to correctly talk to you about this series so I logged in through my computer to make it easier for me :D

LOOK AT THIS POINT IVE RELATED THEM TO LITERALLY EVERY COMFORT SHIP I HAVE LIKE. I've compared this to kitty, I've compared this to Thomastair, I've compared this to my friends to ocs who she has obsessed me with (youd actually like them if you liked this tbh) IVE COMPARED ME TO MY OCS

BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY I JUST LOVE THEM

IF KITTY DOESNT HAVE THIS ENERGY IN TWP WHAT WAS THE POINT

what was the point cc??

S I M O N

OH GOD WHEN HE SAID THAT I WENT OMG YEAH

new favorite character

Great

SHES PLAYED BY AN AUTISTIC ACTRESS?? Sorry I hadn't known! Haven't actually gotten to obsessively look at the cast I've been trying to get over the last episode BUT THATS SO COOL. SARA IS AMAZING AND I ADORE HER. I'll read your post after this! But of course STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM AUGUST GIRL PLEASE

Tbh I understood where she was coming from with everything with Simons image falling apart and her having to suffer when she had just started having friends , just after finding he had been lying to her. But love, AUGUST?

A U G U S T ???

WHO JUST FOUND OUT OUTED YOUR BROTHER

Also random and stealing this from @marzzinaa i totally hc Sara as a demi girl for some reason

Im kinda sad we didnt see her speak spanish as much we did simon :(

But oh well I LOVE HER AND YEAH STAY AWAY FROM AUGUST GOD

FAE WE RUN HIM OVER TOGETHER BROOM BROOM

You already said it all, I just agree

Ok I'll bring a machete you bring whatever you wish and we kill him sound good?

ALSO YEAH I TOTALLY NOTICED HOW THE ECONOMIC DINAMICS CAME INTO PLAY AND HOW IT BASICALLY LET YOU KNOW HOW THE PRIVILEGED ELITES COULD GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING

meanwhile they wanted to pass off to Simon who came from a lower class family the blame

Also I'd like to mention how that would also play into the stereotype latinos are all drug dealers

Which I love how they didnt make his dead beat alcoholic man the latino parent, when I first read the description I thought they might do that, but im so glad they didnt

I think it might have been a comentary idk i liked that they DIDNT make the poc parent the dead beat

THE FRIEND GROUP WAS SO COOL AND I LOVED ALL OF THEM AND YES FELICE WAS JUST <3

I love how they didnt make her stereotypically perfect AND YES MID SIZED REP WAS AMAZING TO SEE

Also im so glad you got to see that represented!!

So I am a native speaker and him talking to his mom MADE ME CRY

it was WONDERFUL I WANT MORE OF IT

pls most her phrases reminded me to my own mom

Autistic wilhelm you say?? omg tell me more (if you want)

Oh thats awful, well I'll just refer to Sara as autistic and hope the showrunners fix that next season because if they dont-

Yikes

Oh yeah, thats valid critisism. But in my opinion they actually wrote it pretty well so I wont really be complaining about an overall media problem with queer stories rn. If so I'll be here all day. But yeah its an overall problem but it wasnt done bad in my opinion so!

I'll shut up, for now

IM SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT FEEL FREE TO KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT WITH ME PLS ITS MY OBSESSION NOW IM GONNA BE ANNOYING ABOUT IT ALL MONTH

#young royal spoilers #young royals

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dragynkeep · 3 years

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For the character ask meme: Ilia!

meme, not accepting.

my top three ships for the character.

non canon catmeleon ( ilia / blake. ) non canon lava lamp ( ilia / yang. ) illiad ( ilia / pyrrha. )

my three least favourite ships for the character.

catmeleon ( ilia / blake. ) prismatic ponytails ( ilia / weiss. ) lava lamp ( ilia / yang. )

my biggest criticism for the character.

definitely her coming out scene. now, ilia being an antagonist & a lesbian is not a bad thing on the surface — but there are a few influencing factors that make this scene & her as a character super yikes in retrospect. one, that she was not only the first confirmed lesbian rep on the show, but the first confirmed queer rep overall. for that to come in the form of an antagonist, considering the queer coding of villains in media only reinforces negative stereotypes that queer people, especially lesbians who are stereotyped as aggressive & predatory, still fight today.

secondly was the way she was confirmed a lesbian. in the scene she confesses her love for blake, blake is also restrained on her knees, terrified & begging ilia to let her go & stop this while ilia is complaining that blake never looked at her the way she looked at her male love interest. it also frames ilia sending blake to her abuser & then going off to murder blake’s parents as some form of petty revenge, much like an incel killing a woman who rejected them — rather than a far better motivation in that blake had chosen humans over the white fang, humans who had gotten ilia’s parents killed & do nothing about faunus suffering in remnant.

ilia was an important character for queer & lesbian rep in a show that had spent five years with only cishet characters. but that doesn’t mean that the way she came out or the coding of her character, packaged with her piss poor redemption arc, should be accepted or endorsed as the way for these cishet writers to write queer stories.

my favourite thing about the character.

her story. ilia’s the daughter of miners who tragically died in a mine accident, had to hide herself to fit into an oppressive society — which more fits a queer representation of oppression than a racial one — & eventually she chose to abandon those lies to live her true self. ilia is unapologetically angry, as she should be for the racial abuse & oppression she’s suffered, but there was also a lot of good traits that prevented her from being irredeemable to a larger audience. she was cruel & violent, but she was also caring & loving & just wanted justice for her parents, for her people & for herself. while i think her story could’ve been done far better, the core elements to it are relatable & endear me to her, through similar experiences.

a headcanon i have about them.

ilia loved to jot down small stories in a notebook, stemming from her father’s past time of telling her wild bedtime stories of heroic faunus who saved the day & gained the adoration of all, bringing their people into a new era. her favourite was of kimimila, the butterfly warrior who stole the heart of the faunus queen & their romance.

what i would change about them if i was making a re-write.

erase that fucking confession scene & actually give her a proper redemption arc ; especially when we had such good motivators for her behaviour already like her parents deaths & the oppression she faced.

what i think of their character allusion and what (if anything) i would change about it.

oh my god, just give her one besides gay. the fact that ilia’s name is meant to mean rainbow in lakota but doesn’t because mkek’s research fails that bad is so frustrating, especially when there’s a depth of native american mythologies to draw from for ilia as a character.

however, if you wanted to keep her in line with the jungle book allusion of the white fang, i saw someone suggest kaa & change her faunus type which could be interesting.

#rwby #ilia amitola #owl.txt #answered #q #racism /#character ask

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sureuncertainty · 3 years

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so i just started playing Tell Me Why (a game from Dontnod, the same studio that did Life is Strange) and I immediately almost started crying because I.... get to play as a trans character who looks like me??

maybe its bc it’s almost 3am and i’m feeling a lot of things but this is kinda huge for me, and i’m still reeling over it. i wish i’d known bc I’ve had this game sitting downloaded on my laptop for literally months since I bought it in January and it’s been on my wishlist since the summer before it came out but i had NO IDEA that it had a trans main character???

i knew that it had queer characters but i just assumed that meant like. gay characters. i’m a bit through the first episode and will probably play through this game in the next couple weeks or so depending on how long it is but y’all should check it out if you’re into story based games and stuff like that!

the art is amazing, gameplay is pretty much the same as life is strange, it’s story and dialogue/choice based, and it also has Native representation! Trigger warning for heavy themes of abuse and transphobia, however, even just from the first episode, but so far, it hasn’t been too bad for me. we’ll see how it goes, i’m tentatively really really hopeful about this game and i know they hired a lot of people for sensitivity and such and so far the rep is just. really really good, and i feel so fucking seen holy shit

#i really hope there's a fandom on tumblr but i'm avoiding checking a tag bc spoilers #also the game has only been out for a few months the last episode came out in september 2020 #which i guess is over half a year wow wait what is time #but STILL tho it's relatively new and i HOPE that's the only reason people aren't talking about it #cause EVERYONE should be talking about it #i want it to do well so badly i want it to be popular #win rambles #tell me why

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Oh man, don't get me started on LGBTQ rep in kdramas, it is TRULY abysmal to the core,the last year, we've been getting more gay men and by more I mean 5 of them and there was a trans woman in itaewon class and they have generally such tiny teeny roles, and my fave one which was looney in prison playbook got such a shitty ending bc "it's realistic" what a load of crap, they need to do so much better idek how frustrating it must be for korean queer people, they basically have 0 rights and 0 rep

You are right. This is a major problem, and we are watching as Korean society learns how to honor and portray LGBT+ characters in media. And like every society with oppressed individuals (that’s literally every society) you’re going to see different levels of woke-ness.

We all want our queer ships in K-dramas. (I’m going to assume we are just focusing on Queer representation for this ask, or things will get very complicated.) I watch as our fandom begs for the gay ships (fan fics anyone?) So many of us Queer folks love our K-dramas and definitely want to see more queer representation. You have never seen anyone as excited as our fandom when there is a Good Gay Character and finally there are more and more good ones.

But (yes, I have one), I don’t like to specifically pick on K-dramas as being the only media without good representation. America (where I live) has good examples of Queer representation but they also make LOTS of bad stuff too rampant with homophobia and sexism. They put out a lot more media than South Korea so it’s unfair to compare apples with oranges. I mean, are we talking about Drag race or Hallmark movies? Can we talk about HBO or really any movies at all from the 90′s and before? And then the rampant sexism and racism (oh yeah, I said I’d only talk about Queer representation sorry!.)

Anyways, I hear you and I want the same thing, but I’m excited that in the last year they are starting to hear us and include LGBTQ+ characters a bit more: Itaewon Class did it and I didn’t find her part to be small (but I’m in love with her so whatever), Be Melodramatic had a great character who was gay but that wasn’t his only trait (finally), XX had a gay best friend and roomie, and Where Your Eyes Linger is soft boys who love each other!

Any native Koreans want to weigh in? I’d love to hear from you!

#kdrama #gay ships #asianlgbtqdramas #lgbt representation #ask #answer #where your eyes linger #be melodramatic

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jupitermelichios · 4 years

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My cape-comics wishlist

I, somehow, turned thirty today. I don’t know how that happened, but I’m very glad I’m still here for it.

Anyway, since it’s my birthday I get to make wishes, and there’s lot of big important stuff to wish for, but none of that is fun to read about so here’s my wishes for shit I want Marvel and DC to do.

Marvel

1. Bring back Echo and give her a solo comic written by a native writer - I couldn’t tell you exactly what it is about Echo I love so much, although I’m always drawn to characters who’s communication is limited in some way, but I just think she’s such a cool character, and we need way more disabled characters generally, and especially way more disabled characters whose power doesn’t magically cure their disability.

2. An MI:13 ongoing written by Si Spurrier - Pete Wisdom is what you’d get if James Bond and John Constantine had a baby, and he’s always fun to read. Plus Marvel could do with some more robust magic stuff in their books, and Marvel UK was always where that happened. Give Spurrier free reign over the supporting cast, put Spitfire in it, have cameos from Meggan and Brian, a crossover with the next book on my list, it would be great.

3. Black Knight & Excalibur - the world could really do with more possitive representation of muslim women, especially women in hijab, and Marvel just has Excalibur sitting there unused! She’s got an amazing power set, Dane makes a great foil for her quiet optimism, and there’s even room for a will they-won’t they romance if you want that from them. Give it to a british muslim writer, give them free reign to get as weird and magical and existential and political as they want, and tell stories the world actually needs, instead of just writing the 845th iron man villain heal-turn.

4. A 20XX comic written by Al Ewing - the canon 20XX stuff is great, and we’ve seen glimpses of unnumbered futures that could be incorporated here as well, and the great thing with a branching timeline future comic is you’ve got Exiles levels of freedom to do what you want with the world. I hope we can all agree why a comic about Captain America being a bullet-proof black woman could be an important story to tell.

5. Make Quentin Quire canonically a transman - there’s a lot of characters who are well past needing to come out but this is one that feels possible. We’re not going to get Wolvie coming out any time soon, or Storm, or Cap, but Quentin is still small scale enough that editorial might actually agree to it. Plus they keep trying to put him in books but no one knows what to do with him, at least this storyline would give him something to do that isn’t just start fights with his teammates. We desperately need more trans rep in comics, and while I’m all for creating new diverse characters, queering existing characters is a much better way to ensure they actually stick around.

1. Give Batman to Gail Simone - or Detective, I don’t really care which. I don’t know what she’d do with it, but there’s no one in the business better at writing found family bonding moments, and we need someone to bring the Gothamites into a cohesive whole, becase they’ve never really fuctioned as one since Nu52 (or before it all that much, lets be honest). It’s something that would make the characters and their solo books stronger, and it’s even something that usually goes down well with fans, there’s really no downside here.

2. JLA vs The Authority - I know putting an event comics on this sounds completely bonkers, no one actually likes event comics as a concept even if some indivual ones are really good, but a lot of the Authority are knocking around the place in DC not really doing anything, and I think we can all agree that no matter now dumb the concept is, watching Apollo and Supes duke it out would just be really damn cool. Plus The Wildstorm was one of the best comics of the decade, and if I want it to get the sequel it deserves, raising the profile of ex-Wild Storm characters can’t do any harm.

3. Bring back Connor Hawke - of all of the characters to quietly disappear with Nu52, Connor is the one I can’t get over. He was so interesting, and so high profile, and I really can’t see how Arrow comics benefitted from him not being around. (Oh, and just make him canon-Ace while you’re at it).

4. Let Dick Grayson come out - I ummed and ahhhed about which batkid I most wanted to out, since they’re all pretty heavily queer coded, but if the last few years have been anything to go by, no one knows what to do with Nightwing. We seem to have run out of Nightwing story ideas, and it’s not like Nightwing is bi is going to be less popular as a story than the whole Rick thing. Plus he’s the exact right level of famous to get that good-good controversy marketing companies are all about at the moment without terrifying the shareholders, so it even makes sense in a capitalist hellscape.

5. Suicide Squad written by Christopher Yost - Yost writes some of my all time favourite anti-heroes, he writes great reluctant friendships, and he can do both wacky and heartbreaking in the same issue when called for, and a good run of Suicide Squad absolutely always does. (Admittedly prying him back from Hollywood might be a challenge. I don’t know what he got paid for the Thor: Ragnarok script, but it’s probably more than he got paid for his run on New Warriors). People who actually read the Kaine Scarlet Spider solo tell me you don’t want to see what he’d do with Boomerang?

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