#same with heartstopper and first kill

[oreolesbian]

something fulfilling in watching two projects (stranger things, thor: love & thunder) hype up their “queer content” as if they’re doing something groundbreaking by doing the same bullshit we’ve seen w/ poorly done queer rep for ages

meanwhile projects like our flag means death, a league of their own, heartstopper, first kill, the owl house, etc. (all in the same year as the other two projects, may i add) perfectly demonstrate how behind those projects are when it comes to rep. how dumb they look for even attempting the dumb “up-for-interpretation”, token queer character shit.

showing how simple it is to, if you are marketing for a queer audience, not to treat us like shit. showing queer people in casual lights, showing our stories in multiple genres for multiple ages, showing multiple queer characters across a spectrum of identities, whether that be sexuality, gender, race, etc.

all it shows me is that i won’t settle for the bullshit queerbaiting. not anymore.

[love-laugh-daydreamarevolt]

The main reason cute MLM shows stream longer or are more "accepted" than WLW shows is because the gay ones have a straight female fanbase who are oh so supportive and not at all fetishizing this shows there i said it

MLM shows live because of fetishization

and WLW shows die for the same reason

I'm so sick of it

[thelilylav]

ok so i’ve been re blogging a lot abt first kill getting cancelled and how it relates to heartstopper and i just wanna mention something that ppl who r defending heartstopper rn don’t seem to be acknowledging which is that yes, the show has wlw rep and the comic did too but i feel like it’s important to point out that in the comic darcy and tara we’re featured MUCH less than nick and charlie (which makes sense in context bc the format alice ose man was working w didn’t rlly allow for the same kind of pacing the netflix show had, but don’t try to act like darcy and tara weren’t heavily sidelined throughout the whole thing - getting minor plots at best when they got any attention at all) and that people are comparing the two specifically because they came out only a few months apart and first kill had way less traction (even without considering that it was competing against mf stranger things and the umbrella academy, heartstopper had the benefit of being adapted of an already well known comic that was guaranteed to bring viewers in and had a major advantage - and STILL got outperformed by first kill) and the point is really this: heartstopper has really, really good rep and it’s important and i like it i genuinely do but there is a constant pattern of sapphic media being shoved to the sidelines while mlm media gets to flourish under fetishization (WHICH IS ALSO A PROBLEM BUT AGAIN NOT THE POINT RN) and wlw people are t i r e d of seeing our shit constantly sidelined and being told that it wasn’t important in the first place. you can probably quote several pieces of mlm media right now that center around the main characters just getting to discover themselves and explore their sexuality that’s been franchised to death but sapphics don’t have that luxury. i’m not that old and i remember watching everything sucks for the first time and crying when i saw someone like me on a screen for the first time and i remember how heartbroken i was and that has happened so many fucking times since and sapphic people are tired of our rep getting thrown down the fucking drain time and time again and it’s not a coincidence anymore, it’s because these shows don’t center around white cis men and it’s an attack and we have a right to be pissed so i don’t want to hear it

[nahdogyouarenthavingit]

You can be mad and sad about First Kill getting cancelled without shitting on Heartstopper.

It’s a concept that talked about all the time but never seems to get followed through with: YOU WILL NOT RISE UP BY PUTTING OTHERS DOWN.

The only things these two very specific shows have in common is their rough release date and queer leads. Besides this they are incomparable - different genres, tones, style etc etc. I am sick and tired of people putting them in the same conversation but only to shit on the other.

Be mad about things like the kissing booth being continued. Or any other show that does a piss poor job of any kind of representation, not just queer rep.

[proudtobealuthor]

So fucking pissed rn. First Kill literally does better than Heartstopper and then gets cancelled meanwhile Heartstopper already got greenlit for another 2 seasons barely any time after it first aired. This is literally lesbophobia

[bellamygate]

straight show with no queers whatsoever the most basic early 00s straight couples thrown together in pairs bc they have an equal amount of male and female characters:

netflix: *renews it before the season even releases thus before knowing how well it will perform or how bad the reviews will turn out to be*

queer show: *performs well*

netflix: *cancels it immediately after first season claiming its because it didn't capture viewer interest good enough*

[appalachianapologies]

Haha no it's fine I didn't even want sapphic representation in the first place :)))))))))))))

[tenaciousarcadeexpert]

list of young actresses of color who deserve to have more recognition and opportunities as actors like Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy, Kathryn Newton, Millie Bobby Brown etc. It would be refreshing to see more of these talented and underrated actresses of color

*Note, the list consists of actors born within the mid 90s-2000s. This might not be a complete list so whoever sees this is welcome to add more actors that I missed. I might update this post from time to time

This list has gotten so long that I have to make a separate one for male actors of color

Rachel Zegler-(she deserved way better than the hate over snow white)

Lana Condor-(aside from x-men apocalypse and the to all the boys trilogy, she hasn't done much blockbusters compared to Noah, despite her being the lead in the latter films)

Dominique Thorne-(She has her Ironheart and deserves more opportunities, both in the mcu and outside)

Halle Bailey

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan

Lola Tung-(same example with Lana, pretty jarring how her male co-stars are getting work beyond the summer i turned pretty and yet there's nothing from Lola)

Ashley Liao

Megan Suri-(another cast member from Never Have I Ever who also deserves all the opportunites)

Joy Sunday-(Bianca from Wednesday, deserves as much love as Emma Myers)

Iman Vellani-(Ms Marvel/Kamala Khan herself, deserves to have a thriving career and be as big like Tom Holland)

Ayo Edebiri-(2023 was a big year for her, hopefully it continues and she's not overlooked or overshadowed by her white co-stars in The Bear)

Savannah Smith-(Carried the gossip girl reboot, she deserves to have as much recognition as Leighton and Blake did after the original Gossip Girl series)

Madison Reyes-(Julie and the Phantoms deserved better than to be cancelled after one season and with a cliffhanger. Let her star in a musical and or disney film)

Simone Ashley-(One of the main leads in Bridgerton yet Phoebe and Nicola have more upcoming projects than her in Hollywood)

Charithra Chandran

Arsema Thomas

India Amarteifio

Madeleine Madden-(Carried season 2 of The Wheel of Time and if you watched the whole season, you'll understand why)

Moses Ingram-(Did not deserve the hate over the Obi Wan Kenobi series)

Minnie Mills-(She deserved to appear in season 2 of The Summer I Turned Pretty)

Amrit Kaur

Alyah Chanelle Scott-(it's frustrating that both the main leading ladies of color are overshadowed by Renee Rapp and Pauline, who's related to Timothy)

Letitia Wright-(Pretty jarring how she's been in plenty of mcu projects yet it's easy to count the number of roles she's been in outside the mcu, and has been acting since 2011, longer than Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor Joy and Millie Bobby Brown. Wright has even acted as long as Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams and they've been in more projects than her)

Yasmin Finney-(She's done both Heartstopper and Doctor Who)

Imani Lewis-(First Kill deserved better than being cancelled after one season. Let her do more horror and supernatural themed

Leah Jeffries-(Deserves all the support especially once the Percy Jackson series comes out)

Auli'i Cravahlo

Erin Kellyman-(After the Han Solo film, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Willow, let her appear in more sci-fi and action blockbusters)

Sadly, tumblr has a 30 limit on adding gifs. I definitely missed so many on the list. Anyone is welcome to add more to the list. All of these talented actresses deserve all the love, appreciation and more opportunities and roles

I might do a part 2 which will include male actors

[randompoetemogirl]

Mizu is not who you want her to be

Okay, so I’ve seen a LOT of headcanons about Mizu, and that’s fine, but I’ve seen a lot of people take their headcanons and try to make them a fact. The first two that greatly annoyed me was Mizu and Ringo being asexual. This both irks and confuses me because we have seen both characters having enjoyable and consensual sex, yet people are trying to label both of them as asexual. I have noticed this a lot in media, people will take a character that is quiter, stone cold, and/or not in a relationship and label them as an asexual simply because they aren’t running around having sex. Some people have lower sex drives, some people want to wait until marriage, it doesn’t make them asexual.

Second, people claiming that Mizu is autistic. As someone with an autistic sibling this really aggravates me because again, I’ve seen people do this before in media. People will take a lone wolf, cold blooded character and slap the autism label on them for those two qualities.

Third, people claiming that Mizu is not a cis woman. As of season one, we have not seen Mizu show any romantic interest in another woman, but we have two situations of her falling for men. Since Mizu does not feel any attraction to the same sex, this makes her heterosexual. Again, have your headcanons, but the canon Mizu is not that way. People then try to say that Mizu would either want they/them or he/him pronouns. Claiming that Mizu feels comfortable as a man.

People do not realize that Mizu being a man is built off of trauma. Mizu was nearly killed at birth for being biracial, forcing her to hide. Mizu was then forced to have her head shaved as a child by her “mother”. For everyone claiming that Mizu is transgender, go back and watch that scene of Mizu having her head shaved, does she look happy? Now, look at Mizu being a dutiful, loving wife. She actually looks happy there, doesn’t she? Mizu did not choose to be a man, she was forced to be. In saying that Mizu is transgender, you are condoning the fact that a literal child was told that they couldn’t be a girl because they would be killed. Being transgender is wanting to be your true gender, not being forced into it. It’s borderline toxic to say that Mizu is canonically transgender.

I have also seen others trying to label this as a queer show, which is straight up misleading. This isn’t Heartstopper, it’s a show about a warrior seeking revenge that happens to have queer elements. I would honestly be disappointed if I was actually looking for a queer show and someone recommended Blue Eye Samurai.

But the thing that that really bothers me is a post I read that said that Blue Eye Samurai was great until it “confirmed” Mizu to be heterosexual. That sounds an awful like a homophobe claiming that a show/character was good until they were confirmed to gay. People have claimed that the show will be disappointing if Mizu turns out to just be a cisgender woman and it honestly saddens me how much people are overlooking the plot. How come Mulan didn’t have this problem? Mulan is still referred as a strong woman after pretending to be a man, why isn’t Mizu getting the same treatment?

Mizu is not asexual.

Mizu is not transgender or nonbinary.

Blue Eye Samurai is not a queer show.

Mizu is not autistic.

Mizu is a woman forced to become something else by the world around her on a quest for revenge.

[pleasestopdeletingmyaccount]

I broke

40 days

That's how many days left until season 7 premiere of 9-1-1. Just 40 days until my blorbos come back from war.

And I couldn't hold out

We're at least 2 years away from season 3 of Good Omens and probably 9 months away from season 3 of Heartstopper. Yes I am doing splendidly thanks for asking.

I couldn't take it anymore and started a new show, my brain need a new hyperfixation

Like an idiot, I chose Hawaii 5-0 because what could be better than a 10 season show ?

I'm 10 minutes into the first episode and already I'm putting clown makeup on 🤡. I swear I cannot get my brain to quit shoving dudes together. I seriously think I'm just lowkey delusional at this point

It's honestly so embarrassing of me but also they are gay. Gay

Sorry, nothing could get you to stay to run this operation ? Not even a task force to find the man who killed your father ? Not free reign over EVERYTHING ? PASS ?

But a hot hunk of man point a gun at you and suddenly you're interested ? Something (someone) changed your mind ? Gay

Oh what's that ? He's blond and buff and competent ? Oh he's witty ? Oh he's also bratty and you want to push him against a couple different surfaces ? Gay

Oh you feel like he can step to you and he's not interested in buttering you up or listening to you but obviously still respect you? Gay

Oh he had your back and saved your life ?

And as the petty ass man you are you "appointed" him your "partner" ?

Shameful Mr.Mcgarret

Shameful

But also I woulda done the same

Now if I had a nickle for every show a hard, jaded brown hair brown eyes soldier was suddenly captivated by a blond bimbo (affectionate), I'd have two nickles (scratch that 4, forgot about GO and OFMD), which isn't a lot but it's strange that it's happened twice.

Anyway, imagine how unsurprised I was when I curiously looked on Tumblr to see if the two dudes from 5-0 was a hot item and saw this tag with thousands of people :)))

I guess this is my humble request for the McDanno fanbase to accept me as one of their own.

I promise to bring much delusion

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[meraki-yao]

Way back when a few months ago, I mentioned that the Chinese fan translation of Taylor's name 忒樂 meaning "really happy", which is adorable and fits him pretty well

Never got around talking about Nick's name's translation, but since I'm translating a couple of Chinese rwrb fan content, I might as well share this too lmao

The official translation of Nick's name is 尼古拉斯 · 加利齊納 which is weird to me because the pronunciation is not that similar:" Ni Gu La Si · Jia Li Qi Na." In English, it ends with "zine", a close-mouth sound, but in Chinese the same syllable is translated to "na", an open-mouth sound. What the fuck.

So most of the fans when talking about Nick for most of the time, say fuck that and use a translation they made up: 妮寇拉 嘎了心 Ni Kou La Ga La Xin, which sounds a lot closer to his actual name, but also is fun when you look at the meaning of the characters

So to start with his first name Nicholas:

妮 Ni: young girl

蔻 Kou: Caradom

啦 La: just a sound/expressive sound

The thing is, this ends up sounding more like "Nicola", or they sometimes simplify it to only the first two character so it's "Nicole", than "Nicholas", which is the Chinese equivalent of calling him "baby girl"

But the fun comes with his surname: see, 了 Le is a word to indicate past tense, and 心 Xin means heart. But 嘎 Ga, the first character, is originally just a character for the sound ducks make but recently developed into slang meaning "killed/died/cut off"

So Nick's surname literally translates to "killed your heart", which after translated, is closing to the meaning of "heartstopper" in a romantic sense, like you're so pretty you made my heart stop and killed me

So Nick's Chinese Fan Translation Name

Means

Babygirl - You made my heart stop

Which, hey, also suits him!!!

Gotta love me some wordplay :D

[fryingpan1234567]

shows and movies that are the same flavor, inexplicably

🍒cherry limeade🥤

Heartbreak High

Boo, Bitch

Do Revenge

Mean Girls (2024)

🍬saltwater taffy🍥

Mean Girls (2004)

Legally Blonde

Clueless

Mamma Mia

🍫dark chocolate and cinnamon🌰

13 Reasons Why

I Am Not Okay With This

Moxie

Ginny and Georgia

🍪graham crackers and molasses🥃

X

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2020)

☕️burnt black coffee🫘

It Follows

The Bye Bye Man

The Candyman

🍋‍🟩lime and honey🍯

Umbrella Academy

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Enola Holmes

Dead Boy Detectives

🍮white chocolate w coffee center🫘

Young Royals

Tiny Pretty Things

First Kill

🥯everything bagels w cream cheese🧈

Work It

Feel the Beat

the Kissing Booth trilogy

Dash & Lily

Dumplin’

Pitch Perfect

Red White & Royal Blue

Senior Year

🍓strawberries🍭

Heartstopper

the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy

The Prom

🍒zero sugar cherry coke🥤

Black Phone

Stranger Things

the Fear Street trilogy

IT (chapters 1 and 2)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

🥂champagne and buffalo sauce (don’t ask)🥡

The Adam Project

Red Notice

every Fast and Furious movie after the fifth one

Uncharted

Free Guy

🍬bubblegum lollipop🍭

Zombieland

Army of the Dead

Warm Bodies

Deadpool

Birds of Prey

Suicide Squad (2021)

Violent Night

🍯butterscotch and hot chocolate☕️

Harry Potter

Wonka

Mary Poppins

Magic Schoolbus

Winnie the Pooh

Paddington

Slumberland

Narnia

[just-antithings]

Said in response to a gay woman posting her excitement about new mlm content (good omens heartstopper wwdits etc)

i hate when non men are this obsessed with gay boys like are you aware of how weird and fetishizing that sounds

gay men dont be even be watching shows like that most of the time…. Like i haven’t met any gay man in college that gaf about heartstopper

like PLEASE watch something that u can actually relate to like something with LESBIAN couples… Or work on ur gender identity idk u might have issues w it

this is a if shoe fits situation and if ur mad… Well! also lesbian shows getting cancelled is literally because they don’t reach the same viewership and internet hype as the gay shows (aka first kill being compared to heartstopper) hope this help!

Like where the hell do I even start?? (Not to mention the other person who responded being like 'this is why we don't have gay POC content' as though that's obviously a random 20something lesbian's fault)

😬😬😬😬

[tarlosislove]

The cancellation of all these sapphic shows has me thinking, if all of the successful MLM shows were exactly the same as they're now but instead of MLM it was WLW would they still be as successful as they are..?

Like if T.K and Carlos were Lesbians instead of gay men would Lone Star have the fanbase it does now?

Would 9-1-1 If Buddie were two women?

Would Young Royals or Heartstopper be this successful if they were sapphic?

We really need to treat sapphic shows with the same excitement and intensity as we do MLM shows.

Because they're just as great and just as worthy, great sapphic representation is sorely lacking and when we actually have it they cancel it because of "low viewership", while some I can see that but others like Warrior Nun and First Kill? Everybody talking about these shows and promoting and watching and they just get taken away from us 🙄

[people-will-definitely-talk]

"We should welcome twitter users coming to tumblr" yeah okay but have you ever had to interact with twitter fandom people? They're some of the nastiest beings to ever exist on this fucking planet.

They're the same who stalked Joseph Quinn wherever he went after season 4 of Stranger Things dropped and Eddie Munson became a fan favourite, leaking his dating app profile and his private cellphone number. (They also leaked Gaten Matarazzo’s cellphone number from what I got.)

They’re the same who harassed the Heartstopper cast so much that one of the main actors deactivated his twitter profile and the other was forced into coming out as bi.

And god forbid if you DARE criticizing the show they like, even if you’re a fan of it yourself. Just this morning I got a load of shit thrown at me on twitter because I dared pointing out how netflix acts in different ways towards wlw shows than mlm shows. I went about it logically looking at stats, and used First Kill and Young Royals as an example, because I watched both and the stats were very different in terms of budget, of views, etc. so overall, an easier comparison to make than between two shows who had almost identical stats.

Somehow (considering I usually get, at most 10 interactions under a tweet on a good day), my tweet blew up among Young Royals fans and I got 1000+ among replies and qrts of people who disagreed and I thought okay, not everybody has the same opinion right? Conctructive criticism is a thing right?

Well, on the goddamn blue bird app it is not.

People just said stuff like “it’s just because that First Kill sucks ass” and I tried explaining why (aka the tanking starting budget), so they went on to straight up calling me stupid, dumb, ignorant, they said I did not understand that one is Netflix USA and the other is from Netflix Nordic, mixed with a lot of swearwords in the crassest display ever.

And like. The fun thing is, I’m completing a master’s degree in Swedish. With my main faculty being media criticism. It will literally be my job, one day, to translate and criticize Swedish-speaking and English-speaking media.

Plus, though it’s not one of my favourites, I’m a fan of Young Royals myself because I started watching it to practice my Swedish language skills, and actually worked with its subtitles for a project of translation I had to do for class.

Tumblr may be a hellsite (affectionate) bit it’s really chill now, and kind of a safe heaven for me where I can interact with any kind of fandom and talk freely about which shows, characters and ships/pairings I love (i.e. apparently everyone on twitter is a Billy Hargrove anti. Seriously. Went to see if there were some fanarts, hcs, or other pieces of fanon really, but there was nothing except for hate tweets against both the characters and fans who like him), even when it comes to more serious and technical stuff like why netflix dooms certain shows from the start (cough cough First Kill cough cough) and I would hate to see it become full of hate just like twitter is.

Soooo, tl;dr: Like hell am I welcoming people you can’t have a civil discussion over anything with here.

[phoenixxxlily]

Favorite TV Shows I Watched in 2022

Bridgerton (2020-?)

"Losing races to strange women in parks at dawn, imagine the questions I would face."

Outlander (2014-?)

"I just need a cup of tea. If I can find any. Bloody taxes."

The O.C. (2003-2007)

"Welcome to the O.C., bitch."

Heartstopper (2022-?)

"You are the kindest, most thoughtful, and caring, and amazing person in the whole world."

Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)

"I believe that in order to stand proud before our Savior on the last day, mothers must defend our families from evil, to help men see past themselves, and to stand up to those even in our church who would lead us astray."

Stranger Things (2016-?)

"I say you're asking me to follow you into Mordor. But the shire -- is burning. So Mordor it is."

First Kill (2022)

"Like I said, everybody has tells if you look hard enough. And I couldn't keep my eyes off you."

The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022-?)

"For me, everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June until August."

Kenobi (2022)

"The light will fade, but is never forgotten."

Becoming Elizabeth (2022)

"People talk of her enough. People well know and remember Anne Boleyn was my mother. Why can I not? Is that wrong to love my mother?"

Locke & Key (2020-2022)

"This was the real magic. This was all I ever needed."

House of the Dragon (2022-?)

"The idea that we control the dragons is an illusion. They're a power man should never have trifled with. One that brought Valyria its doom. If we don't mind our own histories, it will do the same to us."

Sex Lives of College Girls (2021-?)

"Which group of butts looks more approachable?"

Anne With an E (2017-2019)

"To bring it into daylight, and realize nightmares aren't so scary without the protection of the dark."