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So Disney doesn't advertise this show much, meaning I'll have to do it myself. Sorry if I'm bad at explaining

Diary of a Future President: A show about Cuban girl, Elena Cañero-Reed, growing up and one day becoming president

Seasons: 1. Season 2 just finished filming and will be out later this year

Episodes: 10

Characters: Elena (main), Bobby (older brother), Gabi (mom), Sam (mom's boyfriend), Sasha (Elena's best friend), Camila (Gabi's friend and coworker), Danielle (Camila's girlfriend), Jessica (Elena's ex friend), Danny and Ziggy (Bobby's friends), Liam (Bobby's friend and later love interest)

This show has amazing representation and it is so worth it

Hispanic Representation:

The main character and her family are Cuban. Mom's best friend is also Hispanic

One of the episodes deals with the main character's older brother being made fun of for his last name

Lgbtq Representation

The mom's best friend, Camila, has a girlfriend. The show talks about how she hasn't come out to her parents, due to homophobia

There are many brief lgbtq character appearances (including Gabi's boss, who is played by a Transgender actress)

The main plot of Bobby is him dealing with his sexuality after he starts to have feelings for his friend Liam

Feminism in the series

The main character grows up to be president

One of the episodes shows Elena fighting against sexism at her school

The show is run by a mainly female crew, including the show creator Ilana Peña and producer Gina Rodriguez

The show also deals with losing friends, the death of a parent, and standing up for yourself

This is a MUST WATCH and is absolutely amazing. Thx if you read through the whole thing

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Never Have I Ever | Season 2

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The BEST way to solve this love triangle is for Devi and Aneesa to get together and for Paxton and Ben to get together. 

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NEVER HAVE I EVER …been a perfect girl

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gays speaking to each other "exactly" "exactly" "exactly" "exactly"

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Are you sad that June is over and you don't have a pride month anymore? Fear not, friends! There's a different pride month just beginning! lgballt

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The whole current Millie Bobby Brown situation makes me sick to my stomach.

I hate how people are blaming a child for being with an adult. When she was clearly being groomed when she was 15-16.

A child cannot legally consent. This is the Zoe Laverne situation all over a-fucking-gain, except this time. Hunter Echo admits that he groomed Millie and proceeded to make disgusting comments about her. Someone who's still a minor, while he's a grown ass adult

Stop blaming the victims for fuck sakes

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me when i just used tumblr to fill the andi mack void in my life

apparently, I joined this tumblr place at 06/23/2019 10:41:28 PM.

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3X02 | “Chapter Two: The Mall Rats”

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Victor & Rahim + Slow dance scene LOVE VICTOR | 1x10

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How it feels to be a Vahim shipper.

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Honestly, I feel like we really need to start addressing the treatment of Rahim (and to some degrees, Vahim) by white love Victor fans. The second season hasn’t even been out for a MONTH and it’s become so overwhelming to deal with the microagressive or blatantly ignorant comments towards him by the white members of the fanbase. Which is even more upsetting because this is a fandom for a show about a family of color + a mostly PoC cast.

Rahim/Vahim fans aren’t upset because their ship won’t be canon, but the way that white venji fans are going about invalidating the ship and Rahim’s character is borderline racist and we need to address it. It’s completely fine to not like the character, the ship, or even prefer him and Victor to be friends, but there’s a lot of reasons why PoC fans are exciting for the character and the relationship.

It’s so rare to see an interracial queer couple between two people of color. “Interracial couple” are almost always depicted as being white/(often light skinned)PoC, and the person of color is often never seen as the main character but as a love interest, underdeveloped, etc. Not that all of these characters fit that description, but think of popular interracial queer couples on tv: Rue/Jules, Nico/Karolina, Alec/Magnus, Eric/Adam, Santana/Britney. They fit this portrayal, and while we adore these couples and their characters it’s so invalidating to never see QPOC couples. Seeing White Venji fans try to claim that it’s more important to see an white/poc interracial couple than a QPOC couple is so ignorant.

There’s a reason why Rahim points out the lack of awareness that Benji gives to his and Victor’s relationship. It’s not to “drive a wedge” like white fans are claiming he is doing (which is portraying a person of color as antagonistic), but to illustrate that benji is both racially and economically privileged compared to Victor, and his failure to realize that is dismissive of Victor’s dilemma with his mother. In fact, there’s a whole scene where Benji “apologizes” to Victor for not giving his mother a benefit of a doubt for improving, then immediately continues that behavior until Victor calls him out for it. Benji isn’t a bad person, but his lack of willingness to recognize his privilege and see Victor is very reflective of the struggles QPOC experience in white spaces/relationships.

Love Victor is an unapologetic queer person of color story, and QPOC deserve to see theirselves in Victor, Rahim, and the relationship. And if Vahim doesn’t become canon that’s completely fine, but there shouldn’t be so much casual racism simply bc Rahim “threatens” your white favs position.

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Also Mike: *literally ZOOMS to Will's house in heavy rain to apologise for something he said ENTIRELY in reactionary defence to an insult on El (probably dragging poor Lucas behind him lmao), after spending the last twenty minutes agonising over how he did 'nothing wrong' to warrant being dumped by HER and not even trying to use the PHONE to apologise to HER* General public: yeah so Mike's a jerk to Will and hates him and is also a heterosexual, oh yeah also he's definitely in love with El

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Lesbians are homosexual women I’m sorry you’ve been brainwashed to think otherwise

Lesbians are Homosexual non-men, I'm sorry you've been brainwashed to think otherwise.

And Non men includes all Nonbinaries, Genderfluids, Agenders and others unless you're transphobic 🤡

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just a reminder that ian and mickey

have random little conversations with each other throughout the day

know each other’s favorites; probably know tmi things about each other that no one else in the entire world knows, even us

lie in bed together at night before they fall asleep

share a bedroom and a bed with little things that are theirs

get naked in front of each other in a completely non-sexual context, just like changing or coming into the bedroom after a shower and drying off while the other sits on the bed

share clothes; probably share socks, boxers, T-shirt drawers

probably know each other’s phone passcode; are definitely on each other’s phone plan

text each other; have probably texted some sort of expression of love

check “married” on the marital status section of official forms

have secrets–things they’ve done or know about together and will never tell anyone else

have inside jokes

regularly see each other when they have crusty eyes, gross morning breath, and b.o.; still love each other more than anything

pick up stuff at the store for each other; mickey sometimes picks up ian’s meds at walgreens for him, saying they’re for his husband and giving ian’s d.o.b. to the pharmacist

casually say “i love you” and it’s not even a big deal

are literally regular, old fashioned, tale as old as time married to each other and are making a conscious decision every day to live their lives together, sharing their existence on this earth because they make each other happy 🥺️♥️