911 Side blog . You may have interacted with my main but figured a seperate blog would keep me from spoilers and one dash. I write a bit, occasionally edit . Came for the -canon- gay firefighters stayed for the found family.
911 ABC refugee balancing on the deck off the fandom boat.
Other fandoms:
Anime/Manga : Sk8 Infinity, NANA, Given, Yuri on Ice, Heaven Officals Blessing, Carole & Tuesday, She Loves to Cook She Loves to Eat, Green Yuri.
MISC Media: She-Ra and Princesses of Power (RIP Netflix) , ALOHO, Clexa Survivor, Sense8, One Day at a Time, EEAAO, Fionna and Cake, Heated Rivalry, RIP Lesbian shows that never got to shine.
Finishing Up Black Sails & Will eventually read more The Locked Tomb.
Enjoys writing and making edits!
** Fandom critical in general! Not everything is queerbait & we need to bring back to FICTION in Real Person Fiction **
My fics : 911 | Sk8 the Infinity
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(Main account is bodyintheabyssy but started this alt acct for 911 fandom. I sometimes reblog myself.)
we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback
we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback
so many governments are trying to ban social media for kids under 16 but they’re not doing anything to prevent parents from exploiting their kids online with family channels/accounts
Treated as a hurdle to a m/m pairing that's not even that interesting. Despite the man she likes being like 30 and her being a high schooler, she's treated as the one who should supposedly know better than to get involved with him. A lot of the fandom likes to put this male character on a pedestal and ignore the fact he was attracted to her even before he knew she was 18.
Her relationship to Laura and Donna is so interesting. She's strong and smart but also can be vulnerable. She has dreams outside of what her little town can offer. My personal favorite twin peaks character behind Laura.
Hen Wilson:
Constantly overlooked by the fandom in favor of men, and when people do focus on her it's all about how she helps the m/m ship du jour get together, or supports them, or guides a man in his sexuality discovery. People outside the fandom are constantly being bombarded with the noncanon ship between two white (passing) men, and never even hear about the Black lesbian main character. The OG animals facts girlie but everyone gives that trait to her (white) male coworker.
BADASS Black lesbian firefighter who joined the crew at a time when it was rife with racism and misogyny. Had to fight three times as hard to earn her place and boy did she! Multifaceted, makes devastating mistakes, lashes out, is sososo compassionate, funny, and the smartest character on the show! And her wife is so hot
Hen is a main character who has been in a lesbian relationship since the very first episode(!!!), and yet it's only when the white male lead comes out as bi that fandom celebrates how wonderfully queer the show is and put his face on all the fandom Pride events and artwork! I guess it's not queer rep until it's a white man doing it…
Hen is brave, kind, has a huge heart, makes mistakes, loves, laughs… She's such a wonderful and vibrant character and she doesn't deserve to be overlooked by both the writers and the fandom!
Fandom turns her into a cheerleader for their fave m/m ship, usually Buddie but sometimes Bucktmmy (the latter being especially crazy considering her history with Tommy). Fans also hated on her for what she said about feeling like no one supported her after Bobby died because Buck made her fill out a grief checklist one time, even though that speech (while maybe not super supported by the previous episodes) had very clear subtext about her being the only black woman at her workplace.
Hen is a friend to all animals and is extremely messy in her personal life, two great qualities for any character.
fandom refuses to give her the same rich inner live her male coworkers have, because she's just allowed to be the mothering, wise, funny black woman. it's not that fans hate her, they proclaim to love her, but everytime she gets a storyline they complain. everytime she behaves like a human being, with flaws, on the show they complain. anyone's guess whether that's misogyny, racism or misogy-noir
Henrietta fucking Wilson, smartest person you'll ever know (except for her rocket scientist wife) is a firefighter/paramedic, she is badass, she's a mom, she's a lesbian, she's a great friend and she has this incredibly dry wit sometimes. she has flaws, she's stubborn, she tries so hard not to burden anyone that it's burdening, she makes decisions and takes the fall for them. she!!!
This is a complicated answer but here's my thesis. Hen (main character) is sometimes (sometimes!) not served that well by the canon, and I think it's because they are (since s1) afraid to let a black lesbian character be too messy. But this is about fandom, not canon. And she does have some really juicy storylines. And what I have noticed is that fans love to hate the show and they like to say Because Hen Has No Story as one of the reasons. And then when Hen has a juicy story, many of these some fans will insist it's Bad Actually and will come up with some of the most convoluted nonsensical reasons the storyline is objectively bad, when they are in fact clearly just upset their fave didn't get more attention that ep, but they can't say that because that would be racist and they are Not Racist, you see. So some really fun and interesting stories gets crickets at best and torn up and discarded at worst and sucks.
She marches to the beat of her own drum. She's compassionate and kind and brilliant. She's Judging You. She is SUCH a good friend. She is constantly celebrating people and making sure they feel appreciated. She had a really cool villain foil in s5 and nobody ever talks about how good it was. She loves animals. She's had to carve out her place wherever she goes. She has excellent intuition and she's daring and kind of egotistical about her ability to save lives with risky ad hoc medical hail marys. It's hard to sum her up, she's been here 9 seasons. In some ways the family dynamics of the team started with her.
god i never told you guys but a couple weeks ago at work i heard a guy say, and i closely paraphrase, "So I was out with my partner--republicans hate it when i say that. My heterosexual partner Jessica--" and i was straight up crying before he finished his sentence. fully diegetic convergent linguistic evolution live in the workplace
i'm talking about 911 here but this spans across any fandom space and targets specifically lesbians and queer poc. there was a poll not too long ago asking spn fans to pick between charlie and castiel. people referred to castiel as "home grown" queerness and charlie as an "industry plant." now obviously there are circumstances where a queer character is written for a straight audience and it's obvious but it's not the fault of that character, it's the fault of the writers for being too afraid to openly show this character's real queerness. charlie is a real dyke throughout the entire show. but for some reason, she's an "industry plant." if you actually wanted her real queerness, instead of pushing her to the sidelines, maybe advocate for her ability to show the full extent her lesbianism in whatever way you want to see. this issue here is that i don't think you actually DO want to her queerness. you want the homoerotic subtext and non-canon queerness that you get to argue about online and never really see on screen.
911 has been a queer show since its start, it has had multiple main and recurring queer characters that are central to the show and have fully developed personalities outside of being a token gay character. there have been multiple gay sex scenes, countless minor queer romances in the emergencies treated lovingly and normally, and several storylines that center the actual gay characters queerness.
and yet it's the canonically straight cis man that people put on a pedestal of "real" queerness because it's something you have to read into, it's never something you actually get to see. i think some of you just like the chase lol. but i also think you're specifically adverse to the actual queerness that the show presents. are hen and karen not gay enough? is josh not gay enough? are michael and david not gay enough? is buck not bisexual enough unless he kisses eddie? why could you only celebrate buck's bisexuality if it meant a lead up to bvddie? why are tk and carlos "discount bvddie" to you? why is a completely different gay relationship that develops fully on its own on their own show not gay enough? because it's not the fake queerness you've developed in your head? because it's real and tangible and you're not being baited over it? i don't know you but maybe think about why it's so hard for you to connect with actual REAL queerness more than non-existent queerness that you don't actually have to deal with.
people also like non-canonical queerness because they can make it whatever they want it to be.
they can make it as schmoopy and overdramatic as they like. they can make it the most over the top, you-are-my-soul destined-lovers wish fulfillment fantasy they ever had.
this is also why they love the "straight guys falling in love" rather than "queer men falling in love." they want their love to be so overpowering, so all-encompassing that it can transcend someone's sexual orientation (which is a whole other thing to unpack but it's undeniably there). they yearn for a love so transformative that one's gender or stated orientation is irrelevant. the love is the ne plus ultra of everything that's canonical about these characters.
but a canon relationship is written by real world writers, not fanficcers, and they're gonna make it at least somewhat realistic, make the characters humans with flaws. they might even (gasp) fight or disagree.
this is not the overwhelming love passion of soulmates i ordered, dang it!
That's exactly the point - a canon relationship, as written by writers employed by the network, very often is self-aware of being about two queer characters falling in love, othering them from the rest of the either straight or ambiguous and therefore straight by default characters in very uncomfortable ways. I like Josh as a character, but Josh being in a relationship with, say, Tommy or Buck... I don't know if I would be all that interested in seeing it onscreen. Whereas fanfic is more often than not written about two people falling in love. They aren't invisibly marked by their queerness, they simply exist in this world, and there is nothing different about them from the rest of the characters. In fanfic, ambiguous is usually by default some flavor of queer. They don't speak some queer lingo, they don't adopt visual cues, which are often rooted in boring or mildly insulting stereotypes, just to signal to everyone watching "this one is gay!", they don't have to remind everyone at least once per episode, "oh, by the way, - still gay!" to earn imaginary representation points.
On one hand, it is also annoying if all you have is subtext, because it means that should the network with to cater to China or decide otherwise, suddenly all your representation can be retconned in a blink of an eye, but on the hand, goddammit, isn't it nice to simply be in a world without having to prove your queerness every fucking moment???
i'm so confused by this argument. 911 has never force fed its audience a constant reminder that any of its gay characters are queer though. in fact, i could see an argument here, which i included when i said there are clearly queer characters who are written to be palatable to a straight audience, where some queer characters DON'T remind the audience that they are queer. they don't reference it as much as they should, they don't call themselves anything. hell, buck hasn't even called himself bisexual yet. but thats an issue of writers not wanting to say gay, not an excuse to further ignore them as queer characters deserving of a story that treats their identity as normal and valid.
fanfiction has wayyy more constant gay jokes and references to their queerness. my point here is that its fandom dictating what is "gay enough" for queer representation. you say you wouldn't be all that interested in seeing a gay romance between buck and josh on screen but that's my fucking point. fandom ISN'T interested in seeing gay romances on screen. at least not that as much as they say they are. if it's not the pre approved gayness they've decided is acceptable.
i'm also not talking about fanfiction here. i'm not complaining that fandoms have queer headcanons. i'm talking about how fandom puts those headcanons first. i'm talking about fandom speaking over real canon queer representation for non-canon straight character. i'm talking about how a Black butch lesbian is swept under the rug because she's a "gay person written for straight people." i'm talking about how a gay man who in text battled internalized homophobia is reduced to competition and has slurs hurled at his character and his actor for getting "in the way" of a non-canon ship. i'm talking about how a canonically straight male character is placed front and center of the fandom's pride parade despite the fact that he's stated several times that he's heterosexual and has never shown signs of being interested in men. i'm talking about how a canon queer relationship is barely talked about in interviews because it's not profitable or clickable enough. i'm talking about every single gay character who has ever been ignored and othered even by the fandom that claims to care about representation.
yeah you caught me im actually in the pocket of Big Body Hair. they're paying me crazy amounts of money to brainwash impressionable women into ruining their bodies by not shaving their legs.
i've said this before but i think this show was at its best when the opening season disasters set up some themes/storylines that continued on into the season. i think the tsunami arc was so great not just because those eps themselves were high quality, high drama, great effects, wonderful character moments etc., but because of how the eps set up some stuff that lingered for so many characters. for may, for buck, for chris; just to name a few.
the past few seasons we haven't had that. i enjoyed beenado and the plane landing but if you removed that from the season does it affect anything that's happened since?
