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Tumblr just put a fcuking harry potter post on my feed as a "recommendation based on your likes"

Why not recommend me smallpox next. Or arthritis maybe.

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Who has better hair? I'm honestly not sure. Crowley has the variety but Crimm is so consistently excellent.

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you know constantly getting this attached to fictional men while not actually being into men is sort of hard to explain sometimes because it's like. yes I love him. yes i could stare at his face for hours on end. yes i end up spending the time he's not onscreen just waiting for him to come back, often at the expense of being less engaged in the rest of the story. yes i am obsessed with him to an arguably unhinged degree. but you must understand i am obsessed with him in the same way i'd be obsessed with a little lost kitten i found on the side of the road after taking it in and feeding it and giving it a much-needed bath. he's like a bedraggled stray cat to me

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It's my Boys of Stalag Luft III Calendar!

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Another 104 Days of Phineas and Ferb GIFs: Day 66

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Ngl angry Aziraphale is always a joy to watch and read. I will not be taking questions.

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Something I don’t think enough people recognize when it comes to making shows more diverse, there is so much going on behind the scene that you literally can’t “just add them.” 

Alex Hirsch had to wait until the end of Gravity Falls to show that Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland were in love so that way the show didn’t get prematurely cancelled. And even still, that was censored in other countries. 

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The Owl House has a bisexual afro Latina protagonist that falls in love with a white lesbian. They kiss several times on screen and say “my awesome girlfriend.” It also has Disney’s first nonbinary character (Raine Whispers), their bisexual love interest (Eda Clawthorne), and an aro/ace woman (Lilith Clawthorne). However, because like five people said that TOH wasn’t the “Disney brand” the show is prematurely cancelled. So even with everything that TOH did, it only won battle but lost the war. 

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The art crew for Encanto had to fight to make Luisa buff. And when they were finally able to make her buff, Disney didn’t make as much Luisa merchandise because they thought little girls would want Mirabel or Isabela’s since they’re more “feminine.” (I think the same thing happened with Namaari when RATLD came out but I’m not sure. So don’t quote me on that.)

*Also, Luisa out preformed. So that’s a win. 

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Bubblegum and Marceline couldn’t kiss until the series finale of Adventure Time because it would’ve been cancelled. So throughout the entire series, the crew always just had to imply undertones about their past. Since HBO produced Obsidian, they were able to kiss on screen.

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Korra and Asami’s relationship had to tempt down so that way Nick could continue airing the show and they weren’t allowed to kiss until the comics. 

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Turning Red got so much unwarranted criticism because not only did Mei’s mom say “pads” but she showed them on screen. (I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if that made you uncomfortable, that’s a sign that we need to do this more and not less.)

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Some countries marked She Ra as 18+ because Catra and Adora kissed on screen. (Once again, I’m not sure if this completely true but Nate Stevenson had to fight to actually show them kissing on screen instead of a fade to white.)

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Steven Universe is the gayest show I’ve ever seen in my life which was both good and bad. It was good for obvious reasons. Example being that it was the first show that introduced to me nonbinary people in a way that wasn’t “haha, look, she uses they/them pronouns. She’s so funny and quirky.” 

And it’s bad because it put a target on it’s back. SU has been censored so much that it’s honestly a miracle that we got an ending. And in most of the countries that censored SU, they usually portray Ruby as a man. So I can’t imagine how bad the censors were when the wedding happened and Ruby wore a dress and Sapphire wore a suit. 

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Also, you have to remember the outdated idea that gay/trans topics are “too mature” for kids to handle (there’s an episode of Adam Ruins Everything that talks about this). So it’s easier for shows with an older audience (like Arcane) to have queer/trans rep.

Not to mention, if you ever go on Insider’s website to look at the queer/trans characters in cartoons [here], most of the characters are revealed to be queer only online and not in the actual show.

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All of this BS because God forbid that kids find out that other people exist. 

Representation is important but please, just be aware of the actually struggles that go on that you don’t see and be thankful that this is where we are now because even though it might seem like it at times remember that this is actual progress. We need to keep pushing studios to do more. I’m sure that there’s millions of untold stories that would be made if not for this prejudice. 

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ik im never on here but like im sorry this is so vile to me

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Why good omens is so powerful from someone who grew up in the Catholic church

I want to preface this by saying this is not an attack in any way on Catholic people, or Christians as a whole for that matter, most of you are cool normal people. This is just based off of my weird experience and how Good Omens effected me after.

I was raised in a Catholic school despite my family being agnostic which kind of warped my view of the world for a very long time. My parents were too busy to explain things to me so almost everything I was taught at a young age was spoonfed to me by the church.

Even though I wasn't particularly religious and my school wasn't awful to me or anything, it was still very clear that at this school you were going to participate and if you weren't baptized you were different.

It was funny, despite the wildly different situations I related to Crowley so much when I first saw the show (when I was maybe 12?). Sometimes I was ostracized by my Catholic peers and it hurt a lot. As I got older I adopted the same sort of blasé attitude Crowley has because it's what people expected of me.

Then I saw prefall Crowley in season two, and wow. That destroyed me. It reminded me of when I was younger and believed in the church and religion despite the fact I wasn't baptized. Then I started asking questions. Why was being gay a sin? Why was knowing the difference between good and evil bad? Why was everyone so angry?

And that was it. When I stopped trying to be Catholic because it felt like they didn't want me, I was different. Crowley is a great character not only because of how multifaceted he is, but because he is a great parallel to how people can be and ARE treated by the church.

Maybe this is obvious and I'm only catching it now, but Good Omens and religious trauma kind of go hand in hand. Thanks Neil for helping me realize what I went through as a kid wasn't normal and giving me a piece of media that made it so much easier to break down all the weird stuff I was taught.

TL;DR: I was a weird traumatized little kid and Good Omens helped me cope. Also Crowley is a metaphor.

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What your favorite stardew ship says about you!

(this is just a joke, all of this is for funsies)

Farmer x any of the bachelors/bachelorettes: you're an average player

Farmer x Robin: it was love at first sight at the beginning of the game and were heartbroken when you learned she's married

Farmer x Wizard: you're a bit of a freak

Haley x Alex: You like the cheerleader/jock trope

Haley x Leah: you either like lesbians or you're a lesbian

Harvey x Maru: you like smart people together and root for the underdog

Harvey x Shane: you desperately want Shane to go to therapy and this is the next best thing. You also probably enjoy older gay couples

Emily x Shane: you saw that she was nice to him and shipped it because good lord Shane needs friends

Emily x Clint: you're an incel

Elliott x Leah: you're an artist, and you like ships that are pretty bland

Marnie x Lewis: you live for drama

Sam x Penny: hi there the 80s called, they want their trope back

Sam x Sebastian: you enjoy alternative aesthetics and like the way they both enjoy each other's hobbies while having their own. You're also probably some kind of neurodivergent

Abigail x Sebastian: you think alternative couples are cute and prefer to stick with the canon

Abigail x Haley: YOUR HIGHSCHOOL BULLY IS NOT HOT, YOU JUST NEED THERAPY. Also angry lesbians that can and would kill you, love to see it

Abigail x Sam: you live to cause issues, don't you?

Caroline x Wizard: refer to the last ship

Alex x Sebastian: you love to see the highschool bully have a redemption arc

Linus x Morris: who hurt you?

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based on of my dear twitter mooties tweets about why oz immediatly thought stol wanted a love potion 🤭

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If I had a nickel for every time a Hellaverse father was a depressed, lonely, wacky little guy, who is sort of alienated from his daughter due to circumstances but is trying his best, then I’D HAVE THREE GODDAMN NICKELS GODDAMMIT VIV I’M ALREADY SO ATTACHED GIVE ME A BREAK

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If I had a nickel for every time Kieth David voiced a weird wise otherworldly cat demon thing, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

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Okay so yes he kidnapped children, but like LOOK AT HIM HE'S SUCH A LITTLE GUY HE'S A SILLY LITTLE MAN

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I love having a teen brother that's in that fun "I'm a manly man" phase who also plays smash. Broham refuses to show any weakness or write cards to his friends for Christmas (apparently boys don't do that according to him) but the MOMENT he dies in smash bros his screams reach a pitch only dogs can hear.

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Being a part of the Wings Of Fire fandom was wild. I started reading the books when I was in fourth grade and my small gang of nerdy friends and I built a society around them.

We designated different parts of the playground/recess area to different kingdoms, and assigned different people different characters. I can still remember everyone's dragon counterpart to this day.

The best part was that we were like 11 and the laws we established were sacrosanct (except for territorial disputes). My little 11 year old ass was adamant about the integrity of our council meetings.

I also have memories of drama going on with Turtle's character? He kept going to different kingdoms (bro was bouncing between the rain garden and slide) and being such a nuisance that different tribes started to declare war on him. Then Turtle got upset because he felt ganged up on and Deathbringer had a heart to heart with him on the concrete stairs.

We talk a lot about warrior cats roleplay and the sheer chaos of it on this site, but we don't talk about the other books that were blessed with playground debauchery.