#isabel stop

[ohwickedsoul]

sometimes I get quietly sad looking at turn of the century photographs because I look like the women in them, with their moon pale moon round faces. Curve of their arms. The length and half burnished nature of their hair, with an imprecise wave. I would’ve been better suited there. Less out of place.

[amphibianaday]

day 1421

[eva-birdman-art]

Kepcobi and Minlace cuddles :3

[wikitpowers]

THEY’RE SUCH DORKS I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

[jonahmagnus]

My girl :]

[they-them-van]

god gives his gayest soldiers (me) the hardest battles (not spending every free minute rewatching bottoms)

[mewsplainer]

LIVE LAUGH JOSABEL

[princessgiggles333]

so rarely are comedy movies targeted towards teenage girls. so rarely are the ones “for” teenage girls actually funny. so rarely do comedy movies for teenage girls incorporate lgbt characters as part of the main theme without directly mocking the gay community with bigoted “jokes”.

and yet here we have: Bottoms 2023.

[booksandwillowtrees]

an absolutely batshit plot line in Paranatural is when Middle Schooler Isabel Guerra and 26 (I think) year old Richard Spender, her mentor and arguably parental figure have a really important heart to heart where she says “ I know you well enough to know when you’re not well.” And he communicates the same notion. But then actually it wasn’t Mr. Spender at all, it was a three year old Wii sports loving brain monster who was possessing him for like an hour, who somehow was a better mentor than Mr. Spender because actually Mr. spender doesn’t see Isabel, he just sees her facade. Her facade that she desperately has been trying to get rid of since she was six. A facade she begged him to see past all those years ago, and he must’ve forgotten. Because now in the relationship Isabel is the only one making the effort to see that he’s not okay. And so with this realization that she can’t really trust spender to take care of her she takes responsibility for everyone onto herself. She doubles down into this role she’s been begging not be assigned her whole childhood. A role that 7 years ago, Spender promised he wouldn’t let her inherit.

[midnightmah07]

*slams fists against table* NEW AU IDEA... CHILDHOOD FRENEMIES LEOBELLE

[weirdbabs]

i hope isabel can one day use the power of friendship and also weapons to beat up a dog lady that sent 3 unkillable pixel hounds that kicked one of her friends out of a train, almost killed another (and kicked him out of the train as well), and fucked up her shoulder

[hubba1892]

Florian Wirtz scoring a wonder goal feat. Xabi Alonso and Christian Streich

[crossguild]

things about lovelace that are canon:

went to west point

played basketball in high school and college

basketball career cut short because of a car accident that shattered her knee

deployed in iraq

born & raised in brooklyn, NY

broke her wrist trying (unsuccessfully) rescue mason fisher in an asteroid shower

brilliant tactician, has problems with authority

described as 'both a workaholic and a prankster'

dad is a district judge, her mom was a marine

both a career military woman and a staunch liberal

the only thing about lovelace the fandom seems to talk about:

lesbian

also she's very hot

... like listen. my point here isn't that no one should headcanon her as a lesbian (i do most of the time as well!) or find her hot (i also do this), it's that it's just very obviously something primarily white fandoms do to characters of color, to project their own non-canon experience onto them rather than relating to the character on the things that are explicitly canon about them. it's also highkey fetishistic when all people can talk about with her is how she's a lesbian and they find her hot.

like, non-polish fans can relate to minkowski's desire to be taken seriously and fit in, which are things she actually has. people who aren't white men from texas are capable of relating to eiffel's self esteem and impulse control issues, which he actually has. people who aren't AIs are capable of sympathizing with hera's struggles with anxiety and disability, and extrapolate on her experiences on her terms, without projecting their own. what is it like to be a disembodied voice whose best option for 'friend' still doesn't hold you in high enough regard to not call you derogatory nicknames?

why are white fans so deeply incapable of taking isabel sofia lovelace as a character in her own right and analyzing her as she is without projecting their own experiences onto her?? why do i never hear anyone talk about how her relationship with her dad and her mom might have influenced both her decision to join the military and her political views? or about like. fucking literally anything about her that isn't predicated on their attraction to her? can we get maybe a mention of the all-but-diagnosed ptsd? that's a rhetorical question. we know why.

[lady-dulcinea]

Isabel Adomakoh Young’s performance in today’s episode of @re-dracula was honestly one of the most haunting things I’ve ever listened to. There has never been a time when I reach this point of the book and don’t cry for Mina, not there ever will be, but the way she delivered it… Holy Shit. HOLY SHIT

[anxiouscordyceps]

so im on episode like 51 now

and wow these last like 10 episodes been CRAZY holy anyways i loved this moment. they really just said YOINK

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

Isabelle Huppert in LA CÉRÉMONIE (1995)