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Corrie things

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audio seemed fitting

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Thinking about Lilo & Stitch makes me really appreciate certain things about the original + the series. Almost every single named [human] character in the movie isn’t white: the only exception being Mertle, y’know, the bratty little girl we’re not supposed to like.

Besides all of the racial representation, Lilo herself is very much a neurodivergent icon, and her portrayal as the protagonist is amazing considering how characters like her are typically either sidelined or depicted in ways to make them less sympathetic/human (modern media does at least a slightly better job at adressing that kind of thing tho).

So all of that is great, but to anyone that hasn’t seen Lilo & Stitch: The Series, it also does some extremely refreshing stuff.

Pleakley gets tons of validation to dress in drag, everyone always referring to Pleakley as “she” when dressed up as “aunt Pleakley.” There’s even an episode that tackles Pleakley dealing with the pressures of his family that wants him to marry a girl and settle down to have a “normal life.” After the episode's shenanigans, there's a realistic depiction of the misunderstanding of a heteronormative/traditional parent with their non-traditional child: Pleakley's mom says that she just wants her children to be happy, but when Pleakley says that he is happy, she thinks he's only trying to console her as she insists, "How can you be happy? You aren't even married." But Pleakley finally gets it through to his mom when he says, "I don't want to be married, mother! I'm happy just as I am."

After getting to meet all of Pleakley's ohana throughout the episode and hearing from Pleakley himself -after all of the previous misunderstandings- that he really, truly, is happy, she's finally starting to understand.

Even though his mom comments as they leave that she wants him to “try wearing men’s clothes more often,” she still does walk away accepting that she simply doesn’t understand her son's way of thinking. It’ll definitely be hard for her since she’s so much more “traditional,” but she’s finally coming to grips with the fact that her son is who he is, and likes being that way, so she’ll love him regardless. She's trying her best.

The portrayal of people with physical disabilities is also great. It’s not because there’s one recurring character with some condition, but almost because there are non-recurring characters. It isn’t in every episode, but here’s an example: they want to show someone at the park playing fetch with their dog for just one shot. They could very easily have it be any a random person, but they decided to make it a lady in a wheelchair. There's another episode where Nani's friends from highschool show up and one has forearm crutches, but not just because she had some recent accident. No one in the episode questions her condition or feels the need to point it out, the only comment on it being that the friend will use the crutches to lightly bonk the others' arms, and Nani jokes, "You are still deadly with that thing."

The fact that they include characters with disabilities when they "don't have to" makes it that much more normal. These people aren't some special case or the main highlight of the episode, they're just another person. They're normal.

There's so much that all of the original Lilo & Stitch media did right, but now the name will forever be tainted with the association of the remake, which I'm sure will have absolutely none of the tasteful writing and ideas of anything prior to it.

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Clown weekly check in!!!

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! 

It's that time again, I hope you've been having a good week so far! And if it's not been the best, I hope it gets better! Because you deserve the best!!!

Question of the week:

What is a plot twist in a story or show you've watched, that's made your jaw drop to the floor?

HELLO HELLO!! HAPPY PRIDE!!

My week has been pretty good, I’m seeing my girlfriend tmr and I’m very excited she’s so cool

A plot twist that made my jaw drop was in the Clone Wars. One of my fav characters had died earlier on in the series and in the last season it was found he was alive and was being used as a sick science experiment. My jaw dropped man it was so good.

He then proceeded to be a main character in another show and I was ecstatic!!

What about you clown?

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Me at this moment:

(She called me darling)

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I've been meaning to draw this for a while now but kept forgetting to, glad to finally have done it. (If this had been done before I apologize.)

Happy pride month!

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Art for the event hosted by @vaderkin-is-a-lightning-rod.

Thank you @fanfictasia for the prompts, I had a lot of fun :)

Little bonus under the cut :3

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Obi-Wan: Today I realized I am old.

Cody: What do you mean?

Obi-Wan: I fell over while training with Anakin, and instead of laughing, he ran over to see if I was okay.

Cody:

Obi-Wan, tearing up: I saw genuine fear in his eyes.

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I think he would.

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Cuddle pile

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The real reason Ahsoka left the Jedi was bc she loved the beach but her master was Anakin (sand) so she left for a well-needed vacation

conspiracy what conspiracy they’re all fine no I’m not in denial

you're so right!! good thing that nothing bad happened and the extended skywalker fam all got to go on that beach trip ahsoka wanted!

(commission info // tip jar!)

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YOU GOT THIS CLOWN

Me: *asks my crush about their sexuality*

Crush: idk ... Haven't thought about it

Me: *in my head* I STILL HAVE A CHANCE! LET'S GOOO!!!

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Guys I think I just got a girlfriend..

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHDJFJFKFJFIDOSHAGWTTWVANFLGORYEGE

Ahem.

I’m chill

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The headcannon that Kallus had a balls to the wall insane upbringing on the lower levels of Coruscant is actually hilarious because it allows for some of the CRAZIEST lore drops

Kallus: Yeah when I was 12 i actually fist fought a grown man in an arbys parking lot over a spork

Sabine: Im sorry?????

Ezra: wtf do ppl even use tinfoil for

Kallus: Oh when I was 14 I wired our holoprojector to connect to cable tv with a roll of tinfoil and it worked for two days

Ezra: only 2 days?

Kallus: it blew up :(

Hera: we cant go through that sector, its controlled by the pykes

Ezra: we could be sneaky about it

Kanan: idk, Ezra, people can get pretty violent over spice

Kallus: which is crazy because its honestly not that fun

Kanan: what

Kallus: what

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Kallus got interrupted to fix a problem on the Ghost and forgot to finish his previous task