#MY representation MY rules

[4rrenstep]

Lotf + Peter Pan AU Scene 12

- CW: Implied transphobia (but not really)

Ralph: [sudden outburst]

I’m not anyone’s mother! Not here. Not back home. Not anywhere.

Jack: [perched lazily on his throne of driftwood and bone, blinking slowly]

…What?

Ralph: [the outburst catches up to him--he hesitates, frowns, his voice smaller now]

I told you… I’m Ralph. That’s my name. I’m not a-- [he glances down at the nightgown] --not a girl. I’m not your guys's mother. I’m just...me.

Jack: [rises from his seat and tilts his head, genuinely puzzled. not cruel, just oblivious in the way children can be]

But you look like one. Your hands are clean. You’ve got that ribbon. And the dress.

Ralph: [defensive]

It’s not a dress, it’s a nightgown.

Jack: [floating back slowly, kicking his legs in the air]

…For girls.

Ralph: [grits his teeth, sighs--not in anger now, but in tiredness, and he’s had this conversation a thousand times in his own head]

You really don’t get it, do you?

Jack: [shrugs, still upside down mid air]

I don’t have to. You said your name’s Ralph. That’s good enough for me. Besides, you don't feel like a mother anyway.

[Ralph looks at Jack--really looks--and something settles in him. Jack’s confusion isn’t cruel, and it isn’t judgment. There was no ridicule in his voice, no edge of mockery, just a child’s simple acceptance: Ralph was Ralph. Jack doesn’t see Ralph the way others do--not as wrong, not as broken, not even as different. He just sees Ralph. Not because he understands, but because he doesn’t think there’s anything to understand. And somehow, that felt… enough. Not right, not fair, but enough.]

[xx-r0t-dot-com-xx]

posting zatr on tumblr.........wow...... full circle moment..............

[glitter-hound]

TUCA AND BERTIE 1x5 "Plumage"

[hylianengineer]

Brilliant Minds is growing on me. Dr. Wolf is like... breaking all the rules about not getting personally attached to his patients, and consistently proves that can be a good thing. He doesn't give up on people. He takes on every case like their problems are his problems, like every patient he meets is deeply important. Which they are - but most doctors don't treat them that way. Nobody is just a list of symptoms or a name on a chart to him. He wants to know them as people - "ask not what disease the person has, ask what sort of person the disease has."

And I am having Feelings about that John Doe in episode 2. Carol said nobody cares about him anymore, he has no identity, no family, no ability to move or communicate, and everyone thinks he's as good as dead. Wolf said no, that's my patient now. Mine. No one else in the whole world seems to care about this man, so Wolf stepped up. Someone needs to care, might as well be him.

[yardsards]

i frequently think about how, back in the mid 2010s, swathes of chronically online motherfuckers accused a queer jewish artist of writing "nazi apologist propaganda" just cuz she made a children's cartoon about how you should be real niceys to everyone

[minecraftfan11onscratch]

GOTTA FOLLOW THE LAWS OF THE WILD! 🎸

Two of my favorite Roblox games! I wanted to make this partially as a homage to the moment I beat Pressure for the first time and the moment I beat Combat Initiation entirely on my own for the first time (the latter happened first), and partially because I realized both the Searchlight(s) and the Great Drakobloxxer are ginormous and challenging bosses with glowing eyes.

I'm especially proud of Drakobloxxer! (I don't usually draw animal-shaped characters nor mecha characters)

[summergoodwife]

"If you want well-written women/queer representation/nuanced character arcs/less wish fulfillment/etc. just consume something other than shounen" completely misses the point of the original complaint. Like no, I don't just want representation. I want representation in shounen, the genre that I otherwise love but that never seems to respect people like me. And shounen can have representation. The idea that there's somehow a contradiction between those two things may come from a different place when it's shared by underrepresented people themselves, but it ultimately arrives at the exact same conclusion as anti-woke dudebros who think trans people and women existing is an assault. I have had too many other marginalized folks recite anti-representation, anti-diversification, pro-identity-based-gatekeeping arguments to me word-for-word without seeming to realize the logical end of what they're saying.

[wyatcallowsprotector]

I love my tiny babies 5'1 Maysilee and 5'5 Wyatt

So smol🤭 so cute🤭 MY SHAYLASSSS

[gabrielsantar]

lorgar lying down, chin on his palms, kicking his feet, letting erebus & kor phaeron read buzzfeed quizzes to him: and if i was in a horror movie, what trope do you think i would be?

[moonilit]

sometimes reading Kory’s talk about love and how her culture normalizes poly relationships and love is separate from marriage as in yeah sometimes you marry for politics but doesn’t mean you ‘love’ that other person or they you and thats OK is so weird because, you don’t even need to go to space for that?? Its already somewhere on earth??

[beneathashadytree]

Gentle reminder that I write for a gender-neutral MC with zero physical descriptions! Only when pregnancy is involved do I write that they’re AFAB. Other than those cases, it’s as vague as possible to make sure that everyone in the fandom feels included!

[more ranting in the tags oops]

[fayewoodss]

Though I love the word neurodivergent and how it's helped destigmatize certain disorders, conditions, and traits, I really don't like when people use it as a broad term in response to someone describing a specific disorder. There are many disorders that fall under the neurodivergent umbrella and while there is overlap and comorbidity among a lot of those, there are some things that really should be described with their actual diagnostic label.

Not that it has to be that way every single time, especially when describing the overlaps, but there are many instances where I am talking about experiences that are very specific to autism and allistic people will co-opt my story or my language and use it for all forms of neurodivergency when it just doesn't apply. I find a lot of allistic people like to encroach on autistic spaces simply because they are neurodivergent, but neurodivergent and autistic are not interchangeable. If I am using the word autism, saying I am autistic, talking about research about autism, and traits heavily prevalent in autism, I am talking about autism. Not ADHD, not AuDHD, not ADD. Autism.

I also see this done with OCD or PTSD as well where people will take specific criteria and widen it to "general neurodivergency," ultimately minimizing the individual disorders and the support an individual may need. I think it's important that anyone that is neurodivergent be able to unite under that label, but we also need to stay respectful of the very real medical attributes of our disorders and how we aren't just all "neuro-spicy gremlins" requiring the same treatment, support, and attention.

[cringecorp]

Watching Boy Meets World and thinking that Boy needs to Meet a Person of Color

[cjbolan]

More Emily Windsnap goodness. This time fanart of someone else’s fanart! @artistic-moth-man ‘s Jake and genderbent Mary P. a.k.a. “Marty”. It’s rare to find someone do both fanart and fanfiction for this series. The series has strong LGBTQ+ allegories, so I like their idea depicting Mary & Jake as a same-sex couple.

[Image description: Sketches of a man eating donuts, swimming, swimming with a merman,and that same merman sitting. Based on someone else’s drawings of that man and merman. End description.]

[futchmoding]

i do think its a little bit (by which i mean deeply deeply deeply) silly to pretend that a 'bipartisan' cheering on of the death of a health insurance ceo will somehow manifest into a broader socialist movement. lest we not forget that most americans think communism is Evil and/or Literally Satanic

[violetreminder]

If (/when) Kamala loses we're gonna see a bunch of freaks crawling out of the woodwork using her and Hillary as "proof that women are unelectable as president" or some similar garbage and I just want to say I think this is true but ONLY within the context of the Democratic Party bc their brand of #girlboss feminism is just so blatantly devoid of substance and class consciousness that it devolves into a sort of entitlement for representations sake instead of striving to make any real difference. And this becomes so obviously artificial to everyone but the most die-hard/desperate democratic sycophants when displayed in front of the nation like it has. Like in the absence of presenting any meaningful policy or anything beyond empty platitudes vaguely about progression and feminism (that more often than not descend into bioessentialism) both Hillary and Kamala just lean(ed) on "Well isnt it about time we had a female president?" as a way to block criticism and legitimize their place as the tool of the establishment.