#Jackie rants

[crucified-bloodhound]

lesbian tumblr may have very well cured my body dysmorphia i feel so hot when i go on this site... even when i'm not posting myself just hearing dykez talk about bodies like they're so so precious makes me so content w myself in a way that the gay community never did 4 me when i id'd as a trans gay guy (i was repressing so much. oh my gawd.) so thank u dykez

[5t4r5and5uch01]

Im actually gonna SCREAM im getting SO spoiled this year and its only JANUARY. I already got the Mirage comics like not even a week ago man SVJSVDBSBDBDVDNDBD—-

[blueboltkatana]

life is so hard time to read my comfort fic *opens On both my knees by Pebr*

[jackiesconeyislanddiscopalace]

wow its actually really only hitting me now how exponentially less stressful this site is to use than twitter, i dont have to see constant transphobia and hatred on the TL because people are so fucking obnoxious they cant resist QRT’ing bigots to dunk on them, not caring that they are subjecting people like me to be always reminded of how the world wants them dead.

here i just get constantly fed TF2, kof, and street fighter content which pleases and soothes my little autism brain. why didnt i use this more before????

[biblicalhorror]

The yj subreddit is a cesspool of bad takes most of the time but I just saw someone make the connection between the strawberry lube and the fact that Shauna is shown eating "strawberries" when she's eating Jackie and I'm vibrating

[ideasarestuckinmyhead]

Ya I apologize who ima become when this drops

[khruschevshoe]

OFMD Critique: Izzy Hands, "Burying Your Cripples," and That Fucking Finale

(Note: this is a cleaned-up/expanded version of a post I made earlier regarding disability rep in this show bc I was chatting with @itswhatyougive and @notthewriteryourelookingfor about "Burying Your Gays" and the parallels with the "Burying Your Cripples" trope in media, which is often more insidious because people are less primed to notice it and call it out.

Also, although I am analyzing a trope in media in the most unbiased way I can, I am going to get angry. Because this is a show that did its job at making us care about its characters and their portrayals and you can't get mad at me that I did just that.)

On a fourth note when it comes to the problems with the writing in this season of ofmd...the handling of disability. Because good God.

To preface this before anyone jumps down my throat about getting upset: I am disabled myself, both physically and mentally. I carry a small laundry list of mild to moderate conditions that impair my daily functions. I understand what it is like to desire to see characters that carry disabilities similar and dissimilar to my own onscreen. I also understand that there ARE multiple disabled characters in OFMD (ex. Jackie with her wooden hand, Ed with his knee brace, Pete with his cleft palate, Lucius with his mentioned bad back/wooden finger). I UNDERSTAND that these were all generally handled decently well, incorporated without drawing attention to them (although the disappearance of Ed's knee brace was strange to me in season 2, even that I could get with bc personally I only need to use my cane when my knee flares bad and can walk perfectly normally the rest of the time without an aid).

Which is all to say: the way that Izzy's death was written is insidiously (likely unconsciously, but still) ableist. His entire arc this season revolves around community and recovering from trauma and accepting himself both in a queer sense and a DISTINCTLY DISABLED sense. The way he remarks upon his own disability and his acceptance of himself and the way that the show is written to have his crew member ACCOMODATE him joyfully as an EXPLICIT SYMBOL OF LOVE was a breath of fresh air when it comes to disabled characters. I also enjoyed the way that he pokes fun at it occasionally in the same way that I do with my coworkers/friends (joking "oh really, you're going to ask an invalid to do that?" *gestures at my cane*).

But that ending. God, that fucking ending. *vehemently taps table* The fact that this character who opens up, who is accepted for both sides of his identity after dragging himself through the fucking pits over them, is killed. BECAUSE HIS MOBILITY AID COULD BE SEEN BY THE ENEMY. BECAUSE HE WAS SEEN AS UNIQUELY VULNERABLE. And then they FUCKING PULL HIS MOBILITY AID, the very symbol of his acceptance, from his FUCKING BODY SO HE CANNOT BE BURIED WHOLE?

I'm sorry. I really am. I don't mean to get furious about this. But as a disabled person who saw such hope in this character, who saw a storyline about a part of myself that is rarely displayed onscreen (that slow acceptance of the part of yourself you considered broken + the acknowledgement of love by your family/community in the form of loving accommodation without complaint), this hurt me at a very primal level that I didn't know I could be hurt at.

Bringing this back around to the "Burying Your Cripples" trope: the reason why an ending like this is so horrifying is because it is very much telling you that you can have a healing arc, that you can finally find yourself accommodation and acceptance, and it doesn't matter. Your disability will be the thing that kills you.

To people who say that this ending is justified because sometimes death is just random like that, that saying that death makes healing not worth it, I get what you're saying. In real life, of course you're right.

But this is a CLOSED NARRATIVE. It is a story with BEATS that MATTER, made of decisions by writers who had to purposefully decide to put scenes together. There's a reason they're called "arcs"- they're supposed to aim at a specific point. IF YOU LET EVERY CHARACTER IN A SHOW LIVE THROUGH THINGS THAT SHOULD HAVE KILLED THEM EXCEPT FOR THE DISABLED CHARACTER, YOU ARE MAKING A FUCKING POINT WHETHER YOU REALIZE IT OR NOT. Izzy's death is not showing "random chance" or "the risks of piracy"- HE DIED BECAUSE HIS MOBILITY AID WAS VISIBLE.

Lemme repeat that: costume concepts showed that the original design of Izzy's naval outfit covered his wooden hoof. It was a conscious decision to have the shot of the naval officer looking down at Izzy's leg, at his exposed leg, and pinpointing him as the weak one despite there being entire scenes dedicated to showing that he was still as strong as the rest of them. In a show where the budget and runtime was restricted, not a single shot or costume decision was on accident. They had to pay more to green screen in that leg.

If Castiel went to superhell because of his gay confession for Dean, then I cannot think of a clearer way to Bury Your Cripples than having Izzy die because someone saw his mobility aid.

Do I think they did this on purpose? Well, no more on purpose than David Jenkins looking at Izzy's Hayes-Code-era gay coding/arc and saying that he knew that Izzy would have to die because that's what characters like that do. No more on purpose than saying that the mentor character had to die because that's what characters like that do.

Izzy's disability was visible, was the cause of his death, because "that's what happens" to pirates who gain disabilities. They are weaker. They are more at risk.

I'm sorry, but fuck that.

Fuck the idea that in a show that created a careful space in its narrative (for a season and a half at least) for queerness to be treated ahistorically kindly, that often disregarded geographic, historical, and medical accuracy to tell a compelling story, and that purposefully provided racial and body diversity while calling out racism, that the disabled character getting offed is a "kind ending." It's not. It never has been. And I'm tired of accepting that sort of thing.

I am SO GLAD that fanfic exists with better depictions of disabled arcs/endings in OFMD bc I don't know if I could recover otherwise. Hope my fellow disabled folk out there are recovering as well, and that they understand that there is positivity to be made out of poison- it just wasn't what the finale gave us.

[bugisawesomeasf]

you fuckers are really hating on travis when hes literally a he/him lesbian, also the wilderness is literally a metaphor for girlhood do you really think it wouldve let him survive if he wasnt at least a little girl coded ?

[itsdappleagain]

day 3: screencap redraw

im an angst whore, everyone knows this. the stockholm syndrome caper is my favorite <333

[super-nova5045]

i am so sick n tired of people comparing byler to shi like jackieshauna like what 😭 yall will not let sapphics have ANYTHING. byler isn't even a complex ship. its a simple coming of age best friends to lovers story. is there layers? is it beautifully written? ofc. but is it ANYWHERE near as well-written, crafted and complex as jackieshauna? no. not only does jackieshauna experience things unique to being sapphic, they also experience things unique to being a teen GIRL...which already i daresay is more difficult and complex than being a teen boy (simply bc of misogyny n all). are they both equally good ships? ofc ofc. are they alike at ALL? no....so pls stop comparing them

[crucified-bloodhound]

here r the lesbian ocs im worling on. denim butch and leather butch that met working at the same company after the rightmost butch lost her arm working at an oil rig. leftmost butch is insanely chivalrous and worked up the courage to ask rightmost butch if they needed help carring a box. boom 3 cats and a promise ring. (i have not named them and i do not know where they work). also they run an anarchist bookstore in the afternoons that they fund by selling art they make together in their living room. there are pawprints on some of the pieces. they also have late night queer parties at the bookstore and have a wonderful found family to call their own. the t4t parent friends couple are literally old enough to be their parents and they are the hottest silver foxes on the block. a nineteen year old who just moved to the city with her secretly gay grandfather's inheritance money, he left it all to her and came out to her in a note written in loopy cursive the day she came out to him. he adopted her dad at birth and raised him like his own, but life hardened him and he never treated his daughter right. a 30 something old soul that wears houndstooth and sews its own trench coats. a stray dog that they have a bed in the parking lot for.

these two butches have come together at the right time in the right place. both struggling with their complex identities, one in a new city and the other in one she wasn't sure if she could call home anymore. now it's home to both of them, full of lipstick kisses and trips to the piercing shop, the morning sun gracing their breakfast and a couch they had the audacity to build and upholster themselves.

[5t4r5and5uch01]

Woahh Aprilnardo!!

[blueboltkatana]

watched that horror-comedy movie “The Menu” with a friend. i loved it and found the chef morbidly hilarious. She disliked it and hated the chef so much she almost stopped watching, idk why but that made me more uncomfortable than the actual movie... 

[jackiesconeyislanddiscopalace]

writing this here cause i dont really dont want to put it to twitter this time, but i read something that cut particularly deep emotionally and reminded me of alot of things while i was trying to eat and i just broke into a crying fit on the spot. i have so many painful memories that i dont know what to do with.

[holylottie]

I cannot take the idea of a yellowjackets au where Jackie doesn't die frozen, but the hypothermia (+ the need of believing in some spiritual) leads her to a type of hallucinations where she believes Lottie is against her because Jackie is the true savior.

The group splits into two and the hunts are actually one against the other, the cabin is on fire over a member of the other group doing it, and so goes on with an insane jackie who needed so bad to believe in something that she becomes it in hope she could be in the control and not let it get too far.

[kevingotabigasschin]

Be a woman in Jackie Chan Adventures, you're either:

Super cool character who's only in one episode and never talked about again (Amber, Vanessa Barone, even though she made a cameo in another episode but she wasn't as prominent so I don't count it, Portia Martindale, Miss Kimber, Sumo Girl etc etc.)

Prominent for a few episodes then slowly gets pushed more and more to the background and loses all character and purpose (Viper, Miss Hartman).

Get dumbed down to being nothing but a love interest to one of the main characters (once again Viper).

Can't be a grown woman (as much as I love Jade, Viper needed more focus and storyline).

Sexist stereotype (Tohru's mother).

Can't be a Dark Hand enforcer (I still have no idea why they never employed one, Viper needs someone to beef with like come on)

Butt of every fat joke (Po Kong)

Women were constantly getting robbed in that show, either they were overshadowed by the men, not focused on enough or just there for background noise.

I know this technically isn't a "girl's" show but come on, the show treated women like they were such an alien concept, I want more women outside of just Jade and Viper.

Like doesn't Viper have any female friends outside of the J-Team, who are they? What are they like? Do they know about her work?

Jackie had a female friends named Amber, she was only in one episode but she was still very interesting to me with the little time she had onscreen.

Like I want to know more about her, what is her and Jackie's relationship, how did they meet, what does she do outside of work?

I would've liked to see her pair up with the J-Team in an episode but nah f**king around with El Toro and El Toro's #1 d**krider is obviously more important.

Seriously, as much as they tried to make El Toro interesting him and Paco just came off as annoying and unnecessary.

The fact that both of them have more episodes than Viper put together is evident of blatant favoritism in the writing room.

Why didn't they ever give the Dark Hand a female enforcer? Was Valmont sexist or something?

If Shendu had a son then who's the mother? What happened to her? Where is she? And do the other demons have offspring too?

Why were there no female Oni generals?

What would a female Dark Chi warrior look like?

Give me something dammit.