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katara is one of those impossibly cool people who “has a guy” for everything. like run into any sort of problem and she’s just like “hang on i gotchu. just contact this number and they’ll know what to do.” but half the time that guy is just sokka

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Plush Bats // Molly Burgess

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Plush Bats // Molly Burgess

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One more joke hate: You may claim to be a woman but biologically you are a featherless biped and thus a man.

Finally a good argument for why I'm actually a man

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Eighty percent of murderers are the victims' lovers. Are you saying the one who hurts you, loves you?

Manner of Death Rewatch 2/14

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Gay courtship with Tan & Bunn

Manner of Death

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HAN ★ SUPER BOWL + SOCIAL PATH + 특 ASIA STAR ENTERTAINER AWARDS ⋆ 240410

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I wish I had the entertaining ADHD that people think people with ADHD have and not the catastrophically fucking bad with deadlines ADHD that makes me scream internally while doing nothing

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worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

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"Dragon," poem assembled using quotations from Wikipedia articles

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5x3 | 7x1

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anonymous requested: favorite dad!buck moments

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Also to add onto this further the idea of queer media being "too pg" plays into the negative narrative that queerness is for adults. That the pure act of being gay is for adults, that any non-heteronormative form of love is inappropriate for young people. If every piece of queer media is supposed to shake off the label of "too pg" what are queer kids supposed to watch? Queer teens? What about straight kids and straight teens that we want to grow up thinking being lgbt+ is a normal part of life? By claiming queer media needs to meet certain rating standard to not be (as far as I can tell) boring; we as a community are saying having children and teenagers be fairly and appropriately represented doesn't matter. And. By saying it doesn't matter we add fuel to biggotted fire that claims queerness is adult and that through it being adult; queerness is sexualised, violent, too much, too advanced, too inappropriate. It creates the idea of queerness being predatory.

Think of the children they scream.

Yeah. Can we? Think of the children and let them have a cute fun happy sweet movie that's cheesy and very normal. Cause really either you a) are a queer teen

b) you were a queer teen

c) you have/will have a queer teen

d) you know/will know a queer teen

And all of those options deserve to appreciate Love, Simon and Heartstopper and other sweet teeny bopper media that is safe and wholesome and gentle. And. YES I completely understand things targeted at a more adult audience can also be wholesome that isn't the point being made here.

The point is:

TL;DR complaining that a piece of media with queer representation is 'too childish" is a disservice to queer youth, and the queer community as a whole because it perpetuates a negative stereotype.

Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)

I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.

On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.

But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.

And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.

When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.

Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.