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You guys I’m literally kamala khan. This is no joke. I’m literally her in a different dimension where superpowers aren’t real and I’m 100% serious. You guys you gotta believe me.
#we’re both muslim#we’re both woc#except she’s desi and I’m arab#we both probably adhd (I didn’t get my diagnosis yet)#we’re both obsessed with carol danvers#we’re both the odd one’s out of our families#we’re both hyper and talkative and extroverted#we both spend a lot of time doing our hobbies#we’re both super super nerds#should I change my name?#kamala khan#ms marvel#marvel#comics#marvel comics
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Pretty sure the only two reasons people don’t like Jennifer is either because they don’t seem to understand that this is a game and they all want to win and not everyone is here on the competition show just to make friends, or they hate Brett because of BB and it’s so annoying to see because they played their strategy VERY well from what we can see and the only reasons they didn’t do so well at the end were Shubby dropping the bomb about the revolution no one else wanted (which screwed over both Jen and Tom) and the Circle allowing Sam and Chaz to talk after the ratings therefore screwing over Jen and not letting them get Tamira out (which they absolutely could’ve accomplished otherwise). Maybe they wouldn’t have won anyways and maybe they didn’t “deserve” to, but I think they played a very good game and, frankly, were very entertaining to watch
#the circle#the circle netflix#i loved Tom and I wish he would have stayed and had a chance at winning#but It’s not even Jen’s fault#she had to choose between herself and Tom#if she hadn’t voted Tom low it would’ve been her to go#so maybe her chances of winning we’re still zero but it gave her a fighting chance#the biggest person to blame for the Tom situation is Shubby#He’s the one that revealed the revolution and pushed Tom under the bus for it#whether he meant to or not that is what happened#and i saw someone say that she kept targeting poc espexially woc#and baby girl#every other player was poc except Tom#who she bonded with because they came in together#there was no one else to target#and she explained that she went after Tamira because Tamira started a fight with her literally that day#they weren’t the best players ever and they weren’t my favorites#but i genuinely don’t see why everyone hates them#both my siblings liked them too so I know it’s not just me
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I really wish the HOTD fandom would stop with the false “concern” they claim to have for black characters, specifically in regards to Laena.
Alicent did not ‘steal’ Laena’s storyline, Laena was sidelined for Daemyra. If the writers wanted to, they could’ve included both Rhaenicent & Laenyra.
It doesn’t help that the same people saying this, are the same people harping on the idea that Laena would be okay with Daemon sleeping with his niece on the day of her funeral instead of comforting his daughters. Polygamous or not, she’s a mother, her children would’ve been her first priority.
And while we’re on the topic of polygamy, this fandom only uses it to justify the ill treatment of woc and reduce them down to yes men for the white women yall self insert into.
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i see your stand point of cc. and i’m not trying to defend her in any way, but as a woc myself, i don’t see how this is fair to her at all. im a personal believer that your actions and words reflect you, and other people’s actions and words reflect them. i believe it’s in the way you treat people as a human being that deems you a ‘good’ person. as far as i’ve seen, cc has given praise to legends and poc before her. i do think color has a major factor in the way her fans act, but i don’t believe her fans are a reflection of her at all. she’s spoken out about how there’s no room for racism or bigotry in her fanbase/the wnba. i genuinely believe she wants to play the game of basketball and get her money. i don’t think there should be anything wrong with that. i don’t think any other wnba player has been asked to ‘talk to’ their fan base about the way they act on social media, because i don’t think any other wnba player has had the amount of fans that cc has had. i just don’t really understand why it’s expected of her to say something to a group of people that support her, while also supporting things (out of their own delusion) that she clearly does not support. we saw it in the way tom brady fans reacted to people calling mahomes the greatest of all time. brady wasn’t asked to or expected to quiet his supporters (even with the amount of racist remarks that were unnecessarily brought into the conversation). i don’t mean to come across as trying to start an argument, but i just want to understand why you believe it’s her responsibility to try to control a mass of people that don’t reflect her beliefs (that she has made public) in the slightest?
i appreciate this discourse!!
i think firstly, the nfl is a bad comparison. the nfl has a really shitty history dealing with political statement, or even statements of dissent. you can look to colin kaepernick for this; the expectation of the nfl is to remain a largely apolitical league.
the same is not true of the wnba. a league full of queer, black women cannot afford to be apolitical. conversely, a league full of straight men can largely afford that. the wnba can’t, nor has it ever attempted to.
you’re talking about a league that rallied for black lives matter, who came together to bring bg home from russia, who has and will continue to speak about injustices as frequently as possible. cc either needs to get with the program or get the fuck out.
that’s the other issue with comparing her to tom brady. we’re not going to sit around and say that they had the same impact on both their sports. are new england sports fans just generally and largely racist? absolutely. is it tom brady who brought them into the sport? certainly not. they were there before.
so when caitlin clark is bringing her fans into this black, queer space, she has to be aware of her privilege as a straight, white woman. “she just wants to play basketball and get her money” doesn’t work here. she chose to declare for THIS league. if she wanted to play in an apolitical space, she could’ve gone and played overseas. but she chose the wnba. so she’s just gonna have to suck it up.
and i know we want to say “she spoke out about this this and this”. no the fuck she didn’t?? she answered a question asked of her in a presser that most people didn’t and will not see. a statement made AFTER her teammates girlfriend tweeted out saying: “damn, this mfker needa say smth”. what was she going to say “yes, i condone racism”?? there’s no statement made of her own will, no instagram post, no tweet, no nothing. her “speaking out” was lazy, it was forced, and it was ineffective. it’s just not enough.
i don’t expect her to control her mass of racist fans. i expect her to make any attempt to do so. i expect her to make an effort to distance herself from that narrative.
and it is immensely disappointing that she hasn’t even really tried.
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The timeline is broken 😭
The structure both worked n didn’t work? I think it’s really more for Tully than Vic, cos Vic already has sufficient backstory, n buildup -only a trigger is nec. Esp that late into the last season when we’re eager to see where the characters r going, not where they’ve gone or rehash some things? 704-5 worked well cos there was a balanced focus on the main not guest characters. Also imo flashbacks work better when anchored by familiar events, not vague period of multiple timeframes while jumping back and forth to the present?
I think due to the time crunch they want to condense the indiv arcs into single episodes. Like 703 for Travis with his dad, 706 for Vic & Tully with Morris, 707 for Maya with Mason.
The non-linear structure did allow for building a sense of history with Morris n the emotional impact that came after. It was a better way to incorporate the story of the guest actors, and it allowed for the inclusion of as many of the main cast as possible. The team hasn’t been really like a team since Maya was captain. There hasn't been any sort of real, shared n lasting experiences.
Imagine if we had a format like that that tied a season together, instead of the captainship n political drama, n tonally different n sometimes inconsequential scenes strung together to make up episodes, which went on to make up seasons. 704-6 r better than 701-3 imo, in an already better season, despite some issues. Sadly only upon cancellation r they focusing their resources n efforts to make it more dynamic n cohesive... n we didn't get more much-needed fresh takes from new writers n directors sooner...
We got to see the progression of how Vic came into her own as the leader for Crisis One. How it led to her emotional burnout n compassion fatigue - she truly cared for people, taking on their pain, while not being able to release her own unresolved pain or seek help when she needed it. A reality of mental health professionals, of women, esp woc.
The Travic scenes are the best scenes in a while now. It resonates the most when the writing felt true to the characters. Underneath the goofiness, they tell each other brutally honest truths. Like how they fought over their way to cope with trauma - Travis feeling the full brunt of the grief over Michael's death n struggling to really move on. While Vic quickly tried to move on after Ripley cos to let herself feel the pain fully was impossible. Or when they talked about the blatant racism/ homophobia or microaggressions each faced n how they buried instead of dealing with the pain.
Their friendship is my fav of the show and it took a backseat for a long time. Barrett n Jay have great chemistry n they always crushed it in their scenes - the emotional ones, the funny ones... But Travis hasn't been Travis, Vic hasn't been Vic, n Travic hasn't been Travic. The show tends to put relationships on hold and isolate characters n shoehorn their actions to fit the multiple new storylines they start, but don't always follow thru. A waste of the talent of the actors. When given good material like this, see them shine, case in point - Barrett here.
In a way it also felt like part damage control.
Tully thru Boris's eyes...
A rose-tinted look at a relationship built on conflicts which the show is working around instead of facing head on? Just like how OOC Vic was written in s6 when it came to Maya. It's like they realized they went too far, n now they are retconning instead of ever addressing their attitudes n actions towards Maya.
Filling in some blanks to substantiate their relationship in the lead-up to their wedding? It's valid for the shortened season - to some extent. They had been writing them as very selfish n egoistic people. Now they want to show their better sides to make people like them as a couple ... so the show can end in a big celebration of them? But just showing their good side doesn't work for me if they don't also acknowledge their darker sides.
Basically a chief n a captain ganged up to haze a junior colleague for months. An ex-battalion chief watched on n mocked - the same person who rallied the team behind him n gave him a job when he had none; the same person whose job he tried to steal. But after the extended saga, only Maya should apologize repeatedly?
I find it hard to root for Tully as a couple. The same reason why I don't find Beckett's arc fully earned. If they want to move on, yet keep making Maya be the only one addressing her own actions directly after she faced devastating consequences. While finding other ways to justify/ explain away/ minimize/ ignore/ retcon etc the actions of the others... It just makes for a very conflicting watch.
// b/w the new mayor n Ross? Also is it considered her growth? Since the brief Maya's "sit-down" of immediately shutting her down and calling her insubordinate... To when she later reconsidered and praised Andy about the "mutiny" which she jumped to conclusions to reprimand with no context... To now being okay with insubordination towards her boss cos she thought she was fighting for the right reasons... ?
Is that subtle subtext again? Is it me or is the writing for her confusing? Or is she a conflicted person who's not very self-aware?
#i like merle n boris#but they have better comedic than romantic chemistry?#their 704 coffee scene was gold#the comedy would prob win me over#more than#either declaring undying love for each other#or extended sexy time or kisses#it's more of a love that created chaos all around#than a love despite all odds?#again not angry#kind of tired with the narrative#of “strong female ch”#just given plot armors#instead of acknowledging their complexities as humans#got long again#station 19 comments#station 19
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The Bear
If there’s anything more frustrating is doing a series for a show that has writers who don’t properly go about their job. For example, for my series Bear in the Wild which is based on and follows The Bear tv show, Storer and whoever else is co-writing the show - probably - don’t know how they want to go about the show or what to do.
Cause what I remember reading, is that the show wasn’t even supposed to go on for this long which is a congratulations well deserved. However, I don’t think Storer was ideally prepared to take the show higher. Hear me out…
The viewers are split between those who want Carmen to find the light within his life and heal, those who wish to see him be in a relationship with Sydney, and some who may want him with Claire or any BETTER character that can be added in.
From my perspective, I can see how Sydney and Carmen can be a couple. For those who are too hooked onto the fact that they work together - Carmen’s ENTIRE family is heavily involved with the restaurant since he was a kid. That separation is non-existent.
However, the point of this post isn’t about ships. It’s about the writing and the caring of the show. The first two seasons were killer, amazing. The pacing was perfect, the plot of each season was explored within their episodes consistently, and there’s obvious chemistry between Sydney and Carmen.
Romantic or Platonic, who gives a fuck. It's there, that's material that they can work on.
Season 3 fails because it’s inconsistent, it removes our deuteragonist Sydney and replaces her with tertiary characters like the Faks. THE FAKS??
If this season’s theme, its plot, was to dive into each character’s background and how they’re tied within one another, GO FOR IT. Even better, do that but stick to your focal cast which consists of Carmen, Sydney, Richie, Natalie, Tina, Marcus, Ebra, and… maybe the Faks.
Tell us about our seven fishes, how’d they come across Michael? What was his role in their life, outside of being the boss? It’s The Beef/The Bear. Everybody is family. Tell us how The Beef became a home. Talk to us about Sydney’s family, hell Marcus’ mother died at the end of Season 2… let’s dive into that.
Instead, I’m staring at John Cena as a Fak and I’m learning about Thing 1 and Thing 2? I’m receiving vague hints that Claire’s best friend can’t read red flags to save her fucking life and got associated with a Fak? Why would anyone to do that to themselves?
How does this contribute to The Bear? Or to the Season in general?
Claire is the type of girl in reality where you have to tell them to shut the fuck up or else you’ll punch the shit out of them. She pushes and she pushes until you give her the answer she wants.
In the eyes of a WOC, she acts like a typical white woman that was never told no because she was too pretty or talked so soft when in reality, she looked like everyone else and talks as if she’s being stalked and needs saved. Claire ain’t no different than any other plain jane.
So, what makes her so special in Storer’s eyes that she gets to be Carmen’s love interest?
Can’t say that it’s the nostalgia that holds them together cause I’m pretty sure that while they were both acquainted, she wasn’t an actual friend of Carmen’s. She was the out of reach girl who he had a crush on and knew of. Instead of initiating that bond during those times, she initiates it through his family.
Specifically, Michael, Richie, The Faks, and Donna.
Instead of understanding that the fake number meant he didn’t want to talk to her, she goes through Fak and proceeds to keep calling him. He doesn’t owe her shit, not even the toilet paper he used to wipe his ass and yet, we’re watching this grown ass woman hunt this man down when he didn’t want to talk.
If this was the other way around, it would immediately be an example of harassment against women. But Claire? Oh no, this is apparently supposed to be her fighting for her chance at love or getting close to his heart.
Girl, you're a damn pest. Get sprayed.
And let's not even get into one of the promotion interviews. Why is the cast split by the comedic reliefs, the siblings, and the Blacks?? Um... Tell us how you really feel, say that shit with your chest whoever set that up.
Storer was not prepared to create another season and that happens to all shows. I mean, how many shows you've start strong but then there was either a change on staff or it received crazy hype and decided to add seasons to follow the momentum but things went to shit?
There's ways to recover from that. However, here's where Storer really fucked up.
In recent years, the generation of BIPOC have been wishing to see themselves as characters who do the things that the most overhyped white character does.
Cook? Farm? Paint? Rich? Anxious? Depressed? Happy family?
After so many years of "progression" within the industry, we receive these characters that are supposedly in these non-stereotypical roles and won't be used for the plot (especially if they're a woman of color) but then when the final product is out...
Where was that regular-degular character you had?
And thankfully, there's some shows who have been successful with giving us that representation. And it's not about us wanting white directors and writers to tell our story as people. Y'all already had that control and look where we're at now.
We want y'all to get your head out of your asses and realize that there's more to the world than Ashley with the blonde hair, pale skin, and blue eyes.
In The Bear, we get that with Sydney, Ebra, Tina, and Marcus. Now, with Sydney, as I said, she's the deuteragonist. Both her and Richie. Where the fuck was she this season? Why is her role being pushed to the back and the likes of the Faks and the Pest being pushed to the front?
They're for damn sure not on the promotional posters. Especially, Claire. They're not one of the main characters. If anything, they're foil characters and/or tertiary characters.
They are either to help further the plot to reach our ending destination, especially if they surround the main character(s), or add little substance here and there before disappearing.
Storer fucked up. He knew what type of audience he had, he saw the reception that both Sydney and Carmen (Ayo and Jeremy) received for their roles and yet when it came to this season, he played in their faces and with their time. And that's fucked up.
#carmen berzatto#Jeremy allen white#ayo edebiri#Sydney adamu#ebon moss bachrach#richie jerimovich#The Bear#christopher storer#Carmen berzatto fanfic#soulc.hilde thoughts
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”Democrats have continued to drift rightward and have failed millions of people with they’re support for genocide rightfully turning people away and people all over the globe have every right to hate Americans and not sympathize with them” can coexist with “some people do have valid reasons to be afraid of a republican presidency and that it’s not punching up to celebrate people losing rights just because the white liberals are hurt too” as the latter take is often ignored.
Before continuing I want to clarify some things. This is not telling Palestinians or those in the global south that they should be nice to Americans. That is not my place to say after what America has done to them. I merely want to offer another perspective which is often ignored.
We live in a society that often forces people to make selfish decisions. A lot of people feel like they can’t participate in any social movement because of their own hardships. Not saying that’s okay but that’s the world we live in. Democrats use our rights as a way to guilt us into voting for them while barely doing shit against the GOP. A lot of us who are concerned about a Trump presidency while also supporting Palestine have been at the forefront of the issue. I’m a trans woc and live in Desantis’s backyard. I’ve seen how much the democrats have failed people like me while simultaneously knowing how difficult it is to live under republican policies.
What I’m trying to say is that people are complex as are their motivations. I want a Free Palestine but I’m still one person. One who wants to be able to transition and not have to worry about bathroom bills. I am aware of both how much Kamala has failed trans people while also knowing what kind of policies Trump will enact. Not all of us signed up to be activists but chose to do so because it’s the right thing to do, yet it’s not easy. A lot of us are working low income jobs and can’t afford to donate to every gofundme we’re sent. Just because some people can tough it out and stay in red states doesn’t mean everyone can and packing up and moving is a valid option. Not everyone wants to be a martyr and some having it worse doesn’t erase that person’s problems.
Again, none of this is to demand Palestinians start coddling Americans. It’s just to offer a different perspective from people who aren’t vote blue racist libs but do have genuine concerns about Trump being re-elected. It’s much harder to give support for a movement when you can’t get HRT and are depressed and suicidal. We’ve all been radicalized by the war and are rightly angry but in our zeal and desire for justice, we forget that even the strongest willed still need some love and support at times. Helping Palestinians is the top priority but others do need solidarity and support and just because the democrats are bad people who perpetuate imperialism doesn’t mean everyone who feels like they have to vote for them is irredeemable.
#free palestine#free gaza#us politics#voting#fuck liberals#lgbtq+#lgbt#trans#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#fuck republicans#2024 election#Hot take
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Train of thought:
Drawing Julieta for the first time and I am honestly shocked by how light she actually is, like I went through and color picked from a few scenes and even in the darkest one she just wasn’t as dark as I remember. Probably because she’s always next to one of the lighter people in her family like Agustín and/or Pepa. At the same time her skin tone is so warm and it really puts things into perspective like how Agustín and Pepa are lighter than Julieta, but Bruno is paler. And that got me thinking about how one of the advantages of having such a big cast is that they can show off the diversity of skin tones, especially in the case of a Latino family.
And that got me thinking about that one interview Stephanie Beatriz did where she said when she got cast for Brooklyn Nine Nine, she hadn’t been expecting it because they had already cast a Latina actress and it’s sort of unheard of to cast two actors of the same gender and color unless the story requires it or that color is white. But because Brooklyn Nine Nine had two Latina women they had more freedom to characterize both because they weren’t saying something about Latinas as a whole if Rosa is angry while Amy is anxious, they were saying something about just those characters as individuals.
And that got me thinking about how there being so many Madrigals means there’s technically room for so many different forms of representation. You can headcanon that Camilo and Antonio have completely different relationships with their race, because there being two black boys who have mixed race parents means there’s room to tell more stories about those experiences. You can headcanon Bruno and Pepa as having varying anxiety disorders whether they be OCD or something else, because there’s room for that. You can headcanon that multiple Madrigals are bi or demi or gay and they all have very different experiences when it comes to exploring their sexualities because there’s room for that. And you can headcanon that these characters are dealing with the way their race, their sexualities, and their potential mental health disorders all mesh together to form small parts of their complicated identities because that’s realistic to people’s lived experiences there’s room for that too.
And that got me thinking that Disney probably won’t get into any of that if we get more canon content, because they’re motivated by profit margins. I can sit here and think about how being GNC in a small catholic village would affect Luisa’s relationship to her gender, but Disney definitely isn’t going to give us an episode about how racism and sexism blend together to tell WOC they’re not feminine enough. That won’t sell well in conservative markets. I can sit here and wonder how long it took Camilo to notice that the difference between transforming into a man and transforming into a woman is way less distinct than he thought it’d be, but Disney definitely isn’t going to give us a Pride month special about how biological sex is more of a spectrum than we think and gender is a cultural construct. That won’t sell well in conservative markets. And I can play around with a fic idea about Luisa and Camilo eventually comparing their relationships with gender, but I know Disney is never going to show that sorta discussion happening in one of their IP’s. Because that won’t sell well in conservative markets.
(Wait, my dog needs to go out. Seriously? It’s almost 3 am? If I get murdered taking you on a walk at 3am then you’re grounded from milkbones for a week. Not enough stars out tonight. Hold on, let me pick it up, you might be an animal but I’m not, can’t just leave your mess where somebody might step on it. Ok, let’s go back. No, you don’t get another chicken jerky just because we’re doing bedtime again, the bag says a dog your size should only have one a day. Ready for lights out? I love you too, sleep well.)
And that got me thinking that I sorta hope Disney never confirms any of the Madrigals genders or sexuality. Would it be awesome if Disney took advantage of this giant cast to introduce kids to the sheer variety of experiences life holds? Of course! Do I believe for one second that’s what’s going to happen? Not with the current leadership. If we’re lucky, they’ll give Bruno a “friend” who happens to be a man, and Bruno will hold his hand once right before the show gets canceled because it “isn’t doing well with its target audience”. Then because they won’t have confirmed if he’s bi, gay, sexually fluid, ace and gay-romantic, demi and pan-romantic, or any one of the many sexual identities a person can be when they hold hands with somebody the same gender as them, there’ll be fandom wars over it. I will once again have to see somebody say that saying a character is bi is LGBT erasure because it means you can ship that character in a het ship. And I don’t want to deal with that.
And that got me thinking about all the people that are “not marginalized enough to count”. People who supposedly have passing privilege, people whose gender or sexuality is considered trendy, people whose disabilities are invisible. I’m hungry for discussions about those folks, about people like myself. I don’t think I’m going to find a nuanced discussion about identity on the Disney channel, but I wish that when I was a kid there had been a Saturday morning cartoon that sat me down and said “Someday people might tell you there ain’t a place for you in the mainstream, so you’ll go find other folks who don’t fit, but they’ll tell you you’re too mainstream to belong with them. All of those people will be wrong, almost nobody gets a full privilege bingo, life isn’t a dichotomy between mainstream and weirdos. We’re all shades of gray”. But that’s an incredibly complex thing to teach a kid, and again, it doesn’t sell well.
And now I am thinking about how incredibly nuanced the original movie is, and maybe I shouldn’t be so pessimistic, maybe Disney will let the original creative team take the helm. Sure, it’s still doubtful that we would get to see all the shades of queer on a Disney show, but we might get good representation for mental illness. And if the original creative team is in charge it will definitely have a plethora of fleshed out, complex female characters. Not to mention, while I may not be qualified to judge whether or not they’re giving accurate representation to people of color and folks from Colombia, I did read a lot of happy reviews from people who are qualified to judge that. I wouldn’t have gotten so invested in the movie if the writing team hadn’t done such a good job making believable characters, maybe I should trust them.
My dog is snoring, can’t see her but it sounds like she settled in the bed next to her water. I should sleep too. Good night.
#personal#encanto#stream of consciousness#long post#foggy rambles#I don’t trust Disney#but I also love how much potential the world of Encanto has#Encanto thoughts
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i feel like we’re finally at the age of information transparency on the internet that studio head execs are showing their own asses in an unprecendented way. like we all knew they were bigoted old farts who hate minorities and animation as a medium BUT now we have the entire hbo max tobacle, and that’s only the most obvious.
recently two tv shows for wings of fire and phoebe and her unicorn were cancelled– the first because of netflix budget cuts and the second because “nobody wants to watch a female-led show.” as for the latter, that’s so obviously not true that it’s laughable, what with basically every disney animated show being female-led and extremely popular incl. owl house and amphibia, legend of korra being revered rightfully for its badass queer woc main, the female-led infinity train seasons being just as popular as the male-led, my little pony getting a terrifying number of fans... i don’t even have to explain this to y’all i don’t know why i am, it’s just obvious that isn’t the case. the reason i lumped it in with wings of fire though is it shows that these execs literally have their heads so far up their own asses they don’t realize that they’re literally throwing away money. both wings of fire and phoebe are EXTREMELY popular with their target demographic– i work at a library and go to bookstores like, once a week, and wings of fire is THE kids’ series right now– every library and bookstore has a dedicated shelf just for it, every kid in the us and canada reads these gay lil dragon books. i don’t know much about phoebe but i do know that i have to shelf her graphic novels every goddamn day so they’re getting checked out constantly. making these shows would give these studios an immediate HUGE audience but they don’t want it because.......... ???? honestly the only thing i can think of is bias against animation, but also i do know that while WoF is very cishet in the first few books, later books add quite a few queer dragons and that could def be a reason.
netflix also recently told craig mccracken, creator of some of the most beloved kids shows of the 2000s, that “original content doesn’t sell anymore” and they need to do reboots and remakes instead. which is funny coming from the company that made stranger things which, while nostalgia-bait for the 80s, is an original fucking story. also the owl house and amphibia are disney’s top shows rn. the most popular kids movie right now is encanto, a completely original story. and that’s just in KIDS MEDIA, do i need to bring up the popularity around everything everywhere all at once, squid game, the knives out franchise, etc? we’re in an age of remakes and reboots yeah but original stories can still make money and gain fans if you make a good fucking product. but netflix doesn’t care about that, as evidenced by how fast they cancelled first kill and also every other show that was good.
and idk what it is but something about the state of the internet right now means that we’re all seeing this in a way we hadn’t before. we’re all seeing how fucking dumb these execs are– well, dumb or actively malicious. or even trying to commit corporate suicide for some reason. it’s just interesting to me that all this is happening now when in the past we were just kinda like. stuck with whatever we got
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this is just my two cents but i think it’s true to say that men will often be more violent toward women if they grew up in an environment where that was more acceptable, and sometimes due to systemic or cultural reasons moc could be more likely to have grown up in those environments. that being said, if that’s true i feel like we should be focusing our efforts on the women that are ALSO in those environments and are more likely to be the target of their misogyny rather than acting like moc pose a more significant threat to white women than white men do. it’s insane to me that people are saying (with no evidence, from what i’ve seen) that moc are a greater danger to white women, and they’re concluding that white men are safer??? a man is a man, and while there are other factors that can impact the way a man sees women, that should be cause to support and protect woc rather than make it all about white women
i mostly agree with u tbh although i’d phrase it slightly differently. woc face high rates of rape & DV & are more likely to be murdered by men in our communities and it’s because violence against us is so normalised and bc our societies centre men so heavily. this isn’t just the case in the ~inferior muslim countries~ as some ppl pretend but rather an issue in minority communities in general (to varying degrees and in different ways). some argue it’s bc we have some sort of inferior culture.. but i think the effects of colonialism, exploitation, and racism has ensured that women of colour did not get the environments we needed to combat misogyny the same way white women did. this is a real problem that should be addressed but instead people often make it about white women and immigration and that’s where my problem is. instead of fighting to ensure the system holds men accountable for rape & abuse and therefore male abusers & rapists & murderers of every race will not have a system enabling their misogyny (the current actual issue in europe is that things like DV & rape are often unpunished and dismissed, when they aren’t then the punishment is so tame considering the crime), they instead reiterate far-right rhetoric about how the Real problem is immigrants and how poc are just more dangerous from inferior cultures or something. this then puts woc, who are especially vulnerable to abuse & rape from men in our communities, in a difficult position where we feel forced to choose between two different aspects of our reality, the aspect that faces racism & xenophobia or the aspect that faces misogyny. if we disagree with the racist rhetoric, we are told by racist white women that we agree with the misogyny that WE (woc) are overwhelmingly subjected to
i have not once seen the far-right rhetoric they use actually help woc in any way. they use the same arguments used to demonise us, and then expect us to agree with it. and if we don’t agree with it, they pretend like we’re saying it’s racist to criticise moc. they don’t realise moc often use their same type of rhetoric against us to keep us from criticising their misogyny too! and in the end, both sides isolate woc and ensure we cannot feel safe anywhere and that our struggles take a backseat to people more privileged to us’ concerns.
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Why do you hate Jordelia? Lol I don't mind, I'm not very emotionally invested in them either way, but I'm super curious
Alright Herondaisy stans please scroll im about to be very mean
tw for incoherency
It’s just aaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhh in a bad way yk. Like there is no growth in this ship. Nothing happens apart from James talks about Cordelia’s tits. Like, you’re not special for that James. Your literal sister had more chemistry with your literal wife.
chog herondaisy is basically cordelia going ‘when will he notice me :(((((‘ while james goes ‘hm. 🙂’
and THEN Cordelia decides to defend James for fucking burning a house down by saying that she fucked him. Now, if I’d had a crush on a guy for years and he hadn’t even noticed me, I would most likely cheered when his ass went to jail. You’re better then me daisy.
and then we have that stupid fucking fake marriage. I want to preface by saying I really fucking hate fake marriage. basically all that happens there is horny chess playing for sooooo fucking long. Also that fucking whispering room scene. seriously it’s such a fucking cliche. ‘oh no we’re in trouble we should kiss’ AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHBKVOKFJFGUFFSQTHJVF
and then we finally get to chot Herondaisy. this is where i enter my will wood era. In his words: ‘I am shitting. I am pissing. I am holding a toaster over a bath and sobbing the merciful name of G-d.’
the only good thing i got from chot herondaisy was james when fairstairs walked in making out because that shit was hilarious to me.
but oh my godddddd. Cordelia going ‘actually i choose my own man 💪💪💪’ WE ALL KNOW YOURE GOING TO PICK JAMES HOLY SHIT
Anyway they angsted for a bit then Christopher ‘The Cupid Of This Shit’ Lightwood came and single-handedly (well he had grace to help him) saved their marriage.
THEN they fucked. a lot. the end.
also cordelia is like very weirdly sexualised through the whole thing? like yes cc we get it this seventeen year old woc has massive tits okay???
ALSO it seriously feels like to me that it’s a childhood crush on both of their parts that they should have grown out of years ago.
so yeah it’s just a very flat and annoying ship to me and i am genuinely wishing divorce on them.
#anti herondaisy#anti jordelia#the last hours#tlh#the shadowhunter chronicles#tsc#cordelia carstairs#james herondale#anti cc
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Mae I wanna clarify I didn't request the drunk reader Remus fic but omg I love it!!!! I'm a big reader and I always worry I'm annoying to take care of so it really hit the spot!! It's hard sometimes for fic to feel super relatable to me bc I'm a WOC and sometimes writers will write stuff that makes it diff but ur writing always hits bb so thank u for being inclusive
Awe sweetheart it makes me so happy to hear that! I’m really glad you liked it. I think it’s a nearly universal experience to feel a bit like a burden when you’re drunk and someone else isn’t, but I was actually talking to a friend about this recently and neither of us have ever been truly annoyed by someone we’re taking care of so I have to imagine that goes both ways! Thank you for reading <3
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I'm all for POC solitary but the simple truth is that the other nonblack WOC Disney Princesses are afforded more attention by Disney than Tiana. Aladdin has two sequels and a series. Pocahontas and Mulan both have two movies. The princess and the frog doesn't have a sequel (and it's not like it's a new movie like Moana! It's older thank Frozen, which has two movies and an actual section on disney plus dedicated to all the extra Frozen content. Also, Tangled also has a series despite being older than TPATF)
Tiana simply isn't getting enough attention.
Tiana has been ignored by Disney for ages and it is just so unfair. It’s clear at this point that they made her as a quota to make Black women shut up because they didn’t even put any heart in it. They made her the “Strong Black Woman” and had her overwork herself while giving her a pink-clad and feminine white blonde “princess” best friend. Then they turned her into a frog, made her literally only a human for the beginning and end of the movie. And THEN AND THEN RIGHT AFTER THAT they made a pretty delicate white blonde princess with shimmering golden magical hair in a typical fantasy fake-German setting, like I see what you did there Disney...just a huge slap in the face to Black girls feeling represented by Tiana that only served to remind us that Black women will never be worthy of the fairytale life to Disney’s eyes...they couldn’t even give us a genuine African/African-American fairytale...they forced Tiana’s story to be “realist”, set in the 1920s during segregation where racism was rife and she had to sit in the back of the bus, showing how Black girls can never be fairytale princesses, we can only struggle and suffer oppression.
And then right after that made a genuine light-hearted and magical fairytale with a pretty girly white princess Rapunzel. And then they made Brave. And then they made Frozen. Even the other princesses of color got this, Pocahontas even got a whimsical romance and that is arguably even worse as they made her adultified/sexualized fall in love with a colonizing piece of shit, but back to Tiana...they never truly cared about her or her story or the Black girls with princess dreams that they claimed to represent...I mean for goodness sake her name was originally going to be “Maddy” and she was conceptualized as a chamber maid to a white Southern Belle(who eventually became her best friend in the final product...🫤). And I like Tiana, as well as Charlotte, as well as the movie on a whole, but umm...
It shows that Disney does not care. Or at least didn’t care when they made it. The worst part is that they DID do Black girls right with Cinderella(1997), my all-time favorite movie, but it’s relatively obscure outside of the Black community. Cinderella was excellent. What’s stopping them from doing it again? Hopefully they’ll do right by us with the new The Little Mermaid movie, but I have my doubts already with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Aquafina being a part of it...and according to a friend of mine they didn’t even give Ariel a Black family and her prince also isn’t Black(I don’t think Disney has ever had a Black prince despite having three Black princesses 😭 ik we’re talking about misogynoir here but that’s still...well...not great...). But I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
#black women#misogynoir#we are alone and isolated in our experiences with oppression and that is just a sad fact#misogynoir in media#woc#black princess#black disney princess#black female characters#black female representation#the princess and the frog#disney salt#white femininity#charlotte la bouff#tiana and charlotte#alldramaisvalidstorytales
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i fuck with julie because we’re both california girls
but i fuck with ana more because final girls are the shit plus we need more leading woc in horror!
#my mains basically#texas chainsaw massacre game#texas chainsaw massacre#tcm 1974#tcm game#tcm ana#tcm julie#ana flores#julie crawford
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https://www.tumblr.com/numbersareimaginary/755560820049657856/if-people-cant-change-cant-grow-as-people?source=share
I kinda would like to hear people's opinions on the entire thread, but last addition is just golden
(Screenshots go in order from left to right)
In the first part, I agreed. I see both sides: on one hand, people can grow and change and leave their hateful views behind, and that’s a good thing. My grandpa was homophobic as a young adult but as he met more people, had civil debates that allowed him to see different perspectives, and accepted me for coming out, he became very supportive of gay rights.
On the other hand, even if you become a better person, you are not entitled to forgiveness from the people you’ve hurt. When I was depressed in my teens, I took that out on other people. I said some horrible things to my sister that I regret deeply. Even though we’re best friends now, she hasn’t forgiven me for saying those things and she still feels a bit hurt, and she is completely in the right to feel that way. I’m not entitled to her forgiveness, even if I’ve apologized and changed my ways.
HOWEVER I don’t think everyone and every action gets redemption, in my opinion. For example: rapists. I know it’s a common argument in leftist circles but I believe that rapists can’t be rehabilitated and they don’t get redemption. There is never a reason to rape someone, ever. Therefore they will never get any redemption in my book. In screenshot 3, someone implies this by saying “we’re never getting prison abolition.” That’s one of the few liberal views I disagree with- some people cannot be redeemed. I also dgaf if anyone wants to argue about this with me, I’m a victim myself and I get to decide how I feel about rapists and stand on my opinion. TL:DR: fuck off.
And the last screenshot?? LMAOOO. That’s just another example of the male privilege that trans women have. Women, especially WOC and gay women, don’t get to have a “red pilled anti-sjw” phase because we’re the people that they hate. Trans women can say “lol I was a misogynist before I transitioned, isn’t that funny?” because they had the privilege of not caring about oppressed groups like women. That whole screenshot is hilarious to me.
Anyway any additions or opinions on this topic are welcome!❤️
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i’m back to yell again bitch! why are characters grieving vision vs gamora treated so differently by both mcu canon and fandom???
i’ve been saying for the past 5 years how, when ppl blame peter for the avengers losing in iw when he lost his cool on titan after hearing thanos literally killed gamora, it’s hypocritical for these ppl to not also blame wanda and the other avengers, bc them delaying sacrificing vision to the literal last minute also directly contributed to thanos winning.
while vision had put wanda in the position to sacrifice him and she said no, gamora had also put peter in that very same position—and he said yes. and he was gonna do it, even though it pained him. wanda was only ready to do it when their backs were fully, completely, against the wall, and it was literally the final thing standing between them and thanos getting all 6 stones.
while my problem for years has been the lack of equally blaming wanda while blaming peter for behaving out of the same motivations—acting out of love for their partners, who were reduced to thanos’ pawns, and wanting to defend/avenge them—now considering everything else going on with gamora in the time since, there’s an extra layer to this that just has me...hm.
when wanda and the others act on behalf of their love, and eventually grief, for a white male character...it’s understandable, it’s valid, it’s relatable, it’s fine.
but any time peter has acted on behalf of his love and grief for a woc character...it’s treated as the reason thanos won and half the universe died. it’s considered an impediment to other characters, even in his own team who also once called gamora their family. it’s still relatable and understandable, but it is emphasized as an obstacle to overcome in a way that i don’t think wanda’s love and grief ever was.
wanda’s grief was so complex, so tangible, it spawned a whole show abt the ways we grieve and how it can become a dangerous part of our lives. and in the end, we’re made to sympathize with wanda still.
peter’s grief has still gotten its moments, but it’s been treated as a solitary experience the rest of the gotg don’t partake in, for whatever reason. when his grief causes him to act destructively or disruptively, it’s not given the “i support women’s wrongs” empathy by fandom. sure, it’s still made out to be something we can sympathize or even empathize with—but there’s a certain grace given to wanda and her occasionally villainous actions, motivated by her grief, that i’ve just never rly seen given to peter when he fucked up the fight against thanos.
frankly, i don’t know exactly what this means. is it yet another byproduct of both audiences and marvel studios themselves prioritizing and upholding the avengers franchise over the gotg? probably, in part. is it bc w*ndavision is a more profitable ship and (white) wanda is a more profitable character to explore the complex emotional turmoil of? oh, i’m sure that’s an element at play. is it bc ppl like (white) wanda more than peter? that’s definitely part of it and comes as a surprise to no one.
is it an intentional disparity in canon about how much a white character deserves to be grieved vs a woc character? i don’t work at marvel so i could never prove or disprove this with certainty.....but i think it’s an awfully interesting element to consider, bc regardless of intentions, it sure has a certain....impact.
it sure just leaves a Taste in my mouth abt what makes a character more or less worthy of grief than another. when vision died, wanda could uproot the very fabric of the universe in her grief and we maybe want to root for her. when gamora died, peter simply reacted in the moment, and suddenly he’s the worst character in the mcu and the sole reason that an entirely separate character, the actual abuser and murderer, killed half the universe and now we have to hold peter accountable for it like lmao bro???
#long post#everyone who's been following me since the iw days....y'all are the real ones for still putting up with my occasional essays abt it#thank you 😭 truly.#madi.txt#the gamora situation
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