Okay but
You gotta admit this one looks pretty cool
NEW FAVORITE POKEMON FUSION EVER
fuckin legendary-ass piece of shit look at this
okay yeah my headcanon about hinata is that hes ftm and pre-op by super dangan ronpa 2, togami offers to pay for all his surgeries but hinata insists its something he wants to do for himself.
weeps with joy
Can I just say how cool it was that both of these superheroines’ personalities and powers were explored in this episode? And how well it was done?
Starfire was not shamed for being emotional. Her powers come from her emotions.
Raven was not shamed for suppressing her emotions. Her power requires amazing control.
They both. Work. They are both different kinds of strength, and they are both heroic and powerful and good. And they each learned from the other, and helped each other out by seeing from each others’ perspective, and finding the value in their differing approaches! Wow!
Fuck yes, this is how you write super-ladies, okay. There’s more than one way to be a “strong female character.” There’s all different kinds of strength. Why don’t more people GET this?
(Source: titans-tower)
But You Could Never Be My Prince
“trying too hard to be diverse/inclusive” is such a bullshit complaint. you get people sneering at a show (or movie or book or OH NO someone’s headcanon) that isn’t all 100% straight white dudes, rolling their eyes at ~the PC police~, talking over marginalized people and their experiences, etc. there were a bunch of posts along that line of thought in the elementary tag a while ago. I’ve thought a lot about it and it’s still……..bullshit.
like?? oh no? some people in the world are making an active attempt to include PoC and queer people and trans* people in media and stories and stuff instead of lazily sticking to the same old repetitive straight-white-cis-dudebro-bromance formula? how is this a bad thing what is the problem here
are you blogging your complaints from some magical alternate universe with a surplus of queer women of color in every important role ever? do you have too many well-written trans* lead characters in your super popular BBC shows? (also is your strange mirror universe technologically advanced enough to create some kind of universe-crossing portal machine)
what are you criticizing when you say something is “trying to hard to be diverse”? is it the idea of effort? the idea that queer people/trans* people/PoC exist? (and exist outside of narratives that serve to place straight white cis protagonists on a pedestal while teaching said protag a mystical lesson about ~different walks of life~?) are you under the impression that the world is full of white people and that everyone else is a minority because oh boy lemme tell you that is not even close to being mathematically correct?? or is that you feel the only stories worth telling are white ones?
also for all your rainbow puking gifs and declarations of “SO GAY!!” whenever two white male characters glance vaguely in each other’s directions, you seem to have the idea that queer people are but fleeting metaphorical unicorns existing on an unearthly plane, summoned hither-thither by the whims of straight fans. this honor, of course, is reserved solely for white cis dudes you can imagine fucking each other, as the idea of, say, a queer trans* WoC would just be too much in comparison to your very tasteful and subtle t-shirt about how “SOME CONSULTING DETECTIVES MARRY ARMY DOCTORS!” right
like we get a lot of lip service from people about how more representation of “”“”minorities”“”“” would be great, but when you get right down to it, what a lot of ~allies~ really want is the bare minimum of possible representation that won’t make them too uncomfortable or make them think too hard about their own prejudices, that will create the illusion of challenging oppression in society, the kind that will expend the least amount of effort from themselves but will earn them the maximum amount of masturbatory applause
and when we actually do get some well-written representation, you either shit all over it or say “well isn’t that nice! aren’t we nice to let you have this one single character? now let’s get back to making straight white characters, you know, the normal kind!” so when you say something is “too diverse” or “trying too hard”, what you’re saying really is that you want complacency and passive behavior, you want wacky side characters and fetishized cliches, you want “”“”minorities”“” to keep their mouths shut unless they have something nice to say about the bones you throw them when you’re feeling charitable, you want to take away their history and desires and anger
it all becomes about how the stories of PoC and queer and trans* people can be made about you, how they can accommodate you, how they can entertain you, and you’re all so busy patting yourselves on the back for faking being a decent human being so well that you’d rather patronize and dismiss the concerns of real life marginalized people than consider how much of a giant shining asshole you are
tyrannosaurus rex noises
- COUPLES CAN BE INTIMATE WITHOUT BEING SEXUAL
- COUPLES CAN BE INTIMATE WITHOUT BEING SEXUAL
- COUPLES CAN BE INTIMATE WITHOUT BEING SEXUAL
