#the sheer representation.

[motionpic-by-alterpetrus]

#animation #disney #wdas #animazione #walt disney animation studios #once upon a studio #wow! #the sheer size of wdas representation is astonishing

[themthistles]

so sexy of beyond evil to present us with a creepy spooky serial killer and then turn around and say that's not it. real monsters aren't hiding in the shadows. they're among big important cops, local politicians, sleazy businessmen. they're your co worker, your boss, your father, your mother, your ex. they're boring, bland and unimaginative. they ruin lives and get away with it because they can, because it suits them and because others let them. the system lets them. they don't plan it, they don't look back. you're an afterthought to them. evil is obvious. evil is stupid. you want it to be clever but it's not. you want this clear split between light and shadow but there isn't one. monsters are everywhere. they don't have to hide when no one's looking

#beyond evil #reveal that always floors is that do haewon knew #she knew it was him the whole time #she killed all those women through sheer inaction #true representation of a girlboss who'd step over bodies of thousands 'disposable' women and feel justified #lcj kills hkh orders to kill but somehow dhw makes me the angriest #there are so many like her out there who just look away

[nikoisme]

i just had the most insane au idea for the odyssey in class today and it's all i've been able to think about. holy shit. holy shit. i'm free so i hope draw it because oh my god. it's taken my thoughts

#oh my god ahbfjsjakbfs #i don't want to write it down because it just won't encompass the sheer EMOTION I FEEL RN!!!! #plus some parts can't be explained by writing. i need visual representation #niko rambles

[lunar-years]

I don't want to speak too much on the "if Jack is portrayed as manipulative or otherwise Bad for Keeley it is problematic on part of the writers because they are our only wlw ship and that is bad queer rep" conversation, because while I definitely do have my own thoughts, I can also see both sides of the argument and at the end of the day, I think it's a very personal thing that is going to vary for each of us.

What I will say is that I both appreciated 1) the stark conversation between Rebecca and Keeley, particularly how real Rebecca's concerns felt and how respectfully she voiced them without it being "Jack is just as bad as Rupert and you need to stay away" and 2) That Keeley took that, thought about it, and made an effort to establish boundaries with Jack, who then agreed to take a step back. They had an open and productive conversation about it like adults.

Whether Jack will follow through on the stepping back...well, we'll find out. I will say the part that most concerned me was Jack telling Keeley she can be the jealous type, followed by Jack paying for Keeley & Rebecca's dinner. Keeley herself seemed visibly uncomfortable with this, but it was unclear if that was just because she could suddenly see what Rebecca was talking about, or perhaps had additional concerning realizations (Had Jack prodded Keeley for a bunch of information about this night out beforehand? Where she was going and when and who with etc.? Something Keeley might have taken as just general interest and conversation at the time, but now has different undertones?) Ultimately, it felt overbearing and possessive in a "I want to remind you I'm still here while you're out with a friend and that is why I will foot the bill" way.

It IS so early in the relationship and Jack IS coming on strong. It felt like planting the seeds for a quick break between them, to me. That said, I certainly don't think Jack is "Keeley's Rupert" like some people are saying. And I never know quite what this show is going to do, so I have no doubt there will be at least a few surprises along the way.

#keeley jones #jack danvers #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #i'm really open to seeing how it ends up #and i don't hate Jack of course. we barely know her! #but I also don't love the relationship (for various reasons. some of which are sheer personal preference others that feel more discourse-y) #(see the above lol) #(and to speak a teeny tiny bit on the first part: my opinion is that our good wlw representation is KEELEY F*CKING JONES) #(regardless of whether this relationship works out or who she ends up with... if anyone) #(but i understand why it is a very complicated issue)

[weirdprophetess]

been thinking a lot lately about all the sapphic shows getting canceled for low viewership and how like realistically i know things need money to run but also fuck money. fuck every decision being about money fuck amazing stories being left unfinished over money fuck representation being dropped in favor of spending millions of dollars on the exact same regurgitated straight people plot again fuck cool weird innovative things being overwhelmingly overshadowed by safe bullshit scared to think outside the box fuck corporations that turn entertainment into a churning out shit maximizing the profit from all of it machine fuck it all fuck netflix fuck amazon prime fuck hbo max fuck disney fuck hulu fuck all of you

#i just finished watching paper girls and it being cancelled after one season is making me lose my mind #the sheer amount of shows like this that have just been stopped short in the middle make me want to commit violence #paper girls #the wilds #warrior nun #i am not okay with this #owl house #cancelled shows #lesbian representation

[mossflower]

loki season two has me screaming crying throwing up trying not to get dragged back into the mcu trenches

#i am stronger than this. i am better than this!! #by the trenches i mean consuming fanfiction at an unhealthy rate. fourteen year old me was insane i think i was on ao3 more than i slept #that’s not exaggeration. i was getting four hours of sleep on school nights and frequently went to bed at 5am on weekends #it is ONE good story. one. literally not worth it. i don’t even care about ninety percent of the mcu characters #i will ignore the little voice in my head reminding of the sheer amount of fanfiction. this was my pre-tumblr days #so my fandom interaction was like. youtube and ao3. maybe instagram posts sometimes. it was so much fun like. zero drama zero discourse #i was honestly living my best life. got less interested when i joined tumblr and went full doctor who mode #and after endgame i watched i think wandavision and loki and that was it. just didnt care anymore lol #i know exactly why this is happening tho. currently the thing i am insane about is my own damn project. which i am in the process of writin #for obvious reasons no fandom there. bc it lives in my mind twenty four fucking seven #i do wonder if i’m kind of growing away from fandom anyway? the closest i’ve got since toh ended was homestuck tbh #i want to feel obsessed with something again!! everything i’m into now - tma tlt and the like - i love them #but it doesnt hit like it used to. i don’t know it’s hard to explain #like video essays that i would have loved a few years ago!! the hour long ones about representation and queer media #they just irritate me now! i got halfway through one last week and had to bail i just could not care less #how did 2020 social media have me convinced that x character being gay was super important politically economically socially etc #ofc the answer is that i was a baby lesbian getting even less social interaction than normal #like representation is important obviously but also. sometimes it was not that deep #i don’t know if i’m making sense tbh but you get my drift #morganposting

[ichayalovesyou]

Gray-Ace/Sex Repulsed SNW Spock: Feeling Seen as a Graysexual Man 💜🖤🤍

Spock being gray-asexual and sex repulsed/neutral is basically 100% canon at this point thanks to Strange New Worlds, there’s very little denying it. And! I am SO happy!!

We never get talked about, especially not us ace dudes, and certainly not on-screen! I feel so goddamn seen by SNW Spock in this regard it’s kinda crazy.

Spock is out here RUNNING away from T’Pring, his own goddamn fiancé, because he’s not emotionally attracted to her enough and/or hasn’t known her long enough to be comfortable having sex with her for the most part. That absolutely tracks!

I mean, he’d rather cut his shore leave short to go help space dad than have obligatory highly logically commemorative engagement sex after T’Pring proposed to him! Even though he said yes! (Because he’s An Idiot 💕)

The one time they did do the deed was because they hit an emotional breakthrough understanding each other, or at least felt like they did. *cue Looking For Love (In All The Wrong Places)*

And even AFTER that, Spock NOPES the fuck out (complete with a tea spit take) when T’Pring brings up human sex stuff in Serene Squall. And they’re not even in person it’s a fucking Zoom call! 😂😂😂 They are SO not at all on the same page! Poor guy!! Chapel, Christine honey please help a guy out and tell him what asexuality is! Please! It’ll make things so much less painful for him for the love of gods!

If y’all think SNW’s Spock arc changed the fact that he canonically has an extreme aversion to sex (at the very least sex with T’Pring) I really don’t think we’ve been watching the same show??

The fundamental thing wrong with their relationship is Spock straight up doesn’t wanna have sex with her. But he has NO idea how to articulate it! That’s a BIG deal! And super relatable!! He’s doing literally everything else other than tell her he doesn’t like sex. He’s avoiding her through work, he has sex with her because it feels like he should, he cuts the most casual conversation about sex short because he’s uncomfortable!

Like, I have BEEN where Spock is right now, with so many relationships!! Some partners understood, some of them really, r e a l l y did not. And I didn’t know how to label it until a while after I started having serious adult relationships.

I also definitely know what it’s like to feel compelled by the expectations of your culture or partner or family to be more intimate with somebody than your ever going to be comfortable with. No matter how much you love or feel emotionally/physically/aesthetically attracted to them.

None of that is gonna change the fact that you Do Not Like Sex, you can experience sexual thoughts/desires and still dislike having sex! Spock is struggling the way a lot of people who fall on the ace spectrum do, myself included!

Anyway, Spock is and always has been ace and I am HERE for the queer representation, even if they aren’t saying it out loud 🖖🏻 (yet?)

#the sheer amount of aphobia Spock has received from even the aro/ace community has been fucking INSANE actually #the amount of aphobia I HAVE RECEIVED regarding my opinions on Ace Spock has been crazy #there’s not one universal kind of ace #Spock has always been sex repulsed #SNW has not changed that at all! #he’s just not completely unwilling to have sex if he feels attracted to a person (or feels like he should be attracted to them) #anyway #representation matters #queer representation #ace representation #ace spectrum #ace spectrum representation #asexual #graysexual #asexuality #graysexuality #sex repulsed #sex neutral #cw sex mention #star trek #spock #t’pring #nurse chapel #snw spock #strange new worlds #Star Trek strange new worlds #snw #Star Trek snw #spock amok #the serene squall

[comradekatara]

Inuit have never been cast in atla therefore atla castin has always been wrong yes even in 2005

i mean they literally did mostly cast white ppl to voice the main kids and while i can definitely see an argument that it's not as bad as casting white people in live action roles i mean i still think it's not uhhh great. anyway not sure why you phrased this like i would disagree with you? obviously i don't

#paranomosaic-potato #asks #there has definitely been a shift in the conversation re: voice acting & representation recently #like w the diane controversy in bojack #and obv everything to do w the simpsons #but yeah the sheer number of white VAs behind the scenes for avatar...... cant say im a fan!!!!! #and there def isnt enough inuit involvement in the franchise there never has been #frankly its mostly white ppl and east asians #and uh. it shows

[theseventhveil1945]

if i may something. the naruto fandom may not have invented fanfiction but they did perfect it

#just the sheer amount plus a vast and diverse representation of pairings esp of the cracky/unconventional #variety like im not saying it’s all good but it’s definitely a garden

[asimpledreamwanderer]

emily haters just do not understand what it means to be an eldest sibling (usually sister) and having to put up with everyone else's dumbassery all day and i will die on this hill.

#thomas the tank engine #ttte #t&f #thomas and friends #thomas the train #thomas the tank engine and friends #ttte emily #emily the stirling engine #she is my favorite representation #i will die for her #i will die on this hill. #also the people who hate her for apparently being added just for including girls is so stupid because?? #the main reason she was just made into a female engine was bc one of the guys were bored and it looks like she has long luscious locks lol #like her model was made out of sheer boredom by a set member as a side project its lit on the wiki

[whorevader]

I love blocking proud Catholics who frame - in the context of Star Wars for fuck's sake - expecting a "religious institution to change their rules for one person" as wrong ♡ I have no idea what you're smoking. Is it God

#like what rule are you even talking about. #the jedi order literally kidnaps babies and christians will be like they did nothing wrong !!! #like ofc YOU think that. look what your spiritual ancestors did to indigenous people for centuries. hacks. #to delete #im vaguing bc holy shit #but i will delete later once ive regained some sense i know #but like seriously this is so funny #stop acting as though the jedi order is real representation of buddhism or a closed religion like judaism. #it is a FANTASY RELIGION that was INSPIRED by a WHITE MAN'S understanding of BUDDHISM #and if im not wrong it was drawn from a film he watched not even any real engagement with buddhism or buddhists? #the sheer audacity of trying to pretend that fans who criticize the jedi order are ATTACKING BUDDHISM. get over yourselves im begging

[spruffle]

i don't identify as bisexual anymore, but if i see any biphobia on the tl then i will come for you. i'm getting defensive

#the fact that kit connor starred in a groundbreaking tv series #that broadened the horizons of queer tv and cut through with real true representation #in the role of a bi character who didn't want to be outed #and then #after ALL of that #after inspiring thousands of viewers #after making tv history #you still all bullied him into outing himself #(the exact thing his character was scarex of) #because he had the AUDACITY #to be with someone of the opposite gender #disgusting #hell isn't enough #yall deserve sheer oblivion #heartstopper #twitter is the bad place

[macroglossus]

i am so tired of queerbating... stale take obviously but man. MAN! yes platonic relationships exist i agree but i would like to be able to look at two characters that are written extremely tenderly and not be like 'wow it'd be nice :/' why cant it just BE

but instead there's these moments of unparalleled devotion that are never addressed again, most of the time even platonically bc the writers want to keep you on the hook. often times they're one of the driving points behind the narrative/a particular character's motivation! and u say something and a family member or something looks at you like youre crazy. but why am i crazy for seeing myself in media! or wanting to see myself!! why do people always say that i'm trying too hard to make things gay!!

also i think it's funny how the whole 'theyre just FRIENDS come on dont make it out to be romantic when it's not' never applies to het pairings lmfao. no one's ever like 'well i just don't see it like that...'

idk man. more mainstream queer media that isn't just romcoms or minuscule sidepairings (i am holding out my clasped hands on my knees begging)

#havent actually watched wednesday but the sheer vitriol with which everyone responds to ppl shipping her and enid is wild #and then theyre like no wednesday HAS a boyfriend. this boy she has not made an expression towards. him #but i had like. MANY other things primarily in mind while writing #idk im just tired and i hate watching smth and knowing like. oh hey one of the actors is homophobic so we had to play it this way to #appease him :) but otherwise we would TOTALLY have made it queer. promise #or the biggest one for me again is the unexplained devotion! that spans enormously and is never ever addressed in the narrative #and it's in all the classic queerbaits #and newer stuff obviously #and it's so easy for 1.) people with very little representation to recognize and 2.) people with abundant representation to brush aside #anyways. this is cringe my bad #actually one more thing. the disdain of straight people when u say smth is SO humiliating every time LMFAO

[tmblrfuckingsucksass]

Ariana DeBose - ELLE Magazine (November 2022)

photographed by Sharif Hamza

#ariana debose #photoshoot #elle magazine #ebony beauty #actress #dancer #singer #ladies in suits #high heels #thick thighs #sheer leggings #queer representation #lgbtq #stunning curves #classy sexy #luscious latina

[kurokoros]

hmmm gonna have to add r/nance to the blocked tags

#the sheer number of r/nance shippers that hate steve is... something #also rbin has a canon love interest right there #i'm queer. i get wanting representation with ships. but y'all pick the fucking worst mlm and wlw ships in this fandom #except byler #byler gets a pass because they're actually fucking friends #with more than a single season of interaction that's barely (or not at all) friendly #harringwhatever is objectively garbage #r/nance and st/ddie i'm more apathetic towards #but wow the shippers are obnoxious and have terrible takes #i'm not tagging this #do not add your obnoxious opinions to this post #i will be block happy

[mossflower]

sorry if I'm bothering you, but the annoying fandom poll IS SO FUCKING FUNNY to me ESPECIALLY the one with toh vs danganropa because while toh is a better show than danganropan(and dng fans are annoying as hell too), THERE'S SO MANY GOD AWFUL TAKES LATELY SINCE TtT and FtF aired because the show and fandom SUDDENLY GOT MASSIVE IN THE SPAN OF A FEW MONTHS, and one thing I'm looking forward to for when the finale airs in a few days is that more than half of these people SHUT THEIR FUCKING MOUTHS and it'll calm down like what happened with the Amphibia fandom did lol

no don't worry you're not bothering me!! i didn't see the poll til after it had closed, and i have literally no idea what danganronpa is. but yes i agree 100%. like i lurk on tohtwt because twitter scares me and i've seen like. three people get cancelled this week alone. the number of bad takes is astronomical. and i won't lie it could be exactly the same environment on tumblr and i would have no idea because i avoid the main tags like the plague most of the time. i am actively counting down the days until the fandom 'dies' because it is such a fucking trainwreck rn

#i am kinda fascinated with the sheer horrendousness of some of the takes though #like. 'writing a character to fulfil a role within a story is problematic' was GENUINE discourse #'shipping an m/f ship is proship and problematic' is discourse i have seen literally this week #'this show is EVIL because it shows the villain doing bad things. which must mean it condones it' GIRL. #and yet when people criticise like. the representation of black people in toh it's fucking crickets #look maybe it's just me. but if you are wholeheartedly having discourse over people editing cat ears on the villain of a kid's cartoon? #log off. there are so many other things that you could be doing #asks