Warble

Constantly confused and mildly upset. Too much RWBY, not enough Utena, intense bursts of politics and a steady background pulse of cute birds.

[lordtrash-deactivated20161201]

Under capitalism, we are all the April Fool

[birdfacts-deactivated20200802]

Ah yes, tomorrow is the time to remove the mystery cubes from beneath the festive cone and tell tales of a large red intruder

[violetsaffron73]

[yekkes]

Love my dad

[simonalkenmayer]

Well…the OP did leave a hole approximately 2 meters wide.

[mandalorianreynolds]

[thefunkyweapon]

[inkskinned]

me, watching people surpass me in literally every possible way: haha! great for them :) also! starting at noon i will be burying myself under leaves and decaying slowly, feel free to stop by!

[skarchomp]

when ur straight friend about to do something stupid

[hoooshii-deactivated20231002]

WHY DID I LAUGH SO HARD

[rosewater1997]

My favorite feeling is when it’s winter and you wake up in the middle of the night and you look out the window and there’s snow on the ground and the sky is kind of light colored and it looks misplaced and kind of eerie but also comforting i love it the most 

[the-devil-wears-zara]

[pizzaback-deactivated20201011]

thank you for the advice, allison bechdel’s gay club college friend

[glumshoe]

What is it with you outdoorsy men and your plaid?

-plaid is usually flannel or wool, which means warm and fairly tough-hides stains-traditional-gay-Bigfoot thinks it’s hot

[cams-archive]

having anxiety and depression at the same time

[fuckblast]

i want to write the kind of short stories you read in english class that are on this weird level of surrealism that they still haunt you years down the road

[isthistakenalready-deactivated2]

Aoi Honoo is Too Real

[rakubell-deactivated20180711]

this was like, my greatest fear when I first ever wanted to make comics.

[vengeancect]

an untextured man was last seeing t-posing and sliding away from the underpass at 7:52pm

[just-shower-thoughts]

When an earthquake happens coffins become underground maracas.

[allsnotwellinthegalaxy-deactiva]

thanks for that not at all terrifying image 

[paradoxpig]

Tell us how you really feel

[animar-seal-of-elephants]

Her saying ‘ye’ makes it seem like she’s speaking with a Scottish accent and now I can’t get it out of my head

[onion-souls]

Ye ever wanty just wrap yersel aroun an Electrode nice and cosy and then just fucking tel it tae seldestruct and blow yersel up tae fuck

[autopotion]

OK I don’t want to #discourse but the amount of people in the rwde tag missing the point about making an antagonist gay and have her enact terrible things on her love interest are astounding.

It literally doesn’t matter if ilia is sympathetic or redeemable material right now (which she is but I digress). This isn’t even necessarily about her as an individual character. It’s about the fact that the first main character that RT decided to reveal as LGBT is a direct antagonistic force to our heroes. It is neither new nor interesting to make antagonists non-straight. Think about the sheer amount of villains in all kinds of media who are queercoded in some fashion. It’s a powerful holdover from old censorship laws that forced any depiction of gayness to have implications of immorality so that the gay lifestyle was explicitly seen as condemnable, tragic (such in the case of Bury Your Gays which often goes hand in hand with this), and deviant. There is also the longrunning trope of lesbians enacting horrible things upon their poor straight love interests. Whether ilia is doing these things to blake because of her feelings or not is completely irrelevant. Because of the sordid history of how media portrays gay women, the unfortunate implications run deep.

If heroic characters had been revealed to be LGBT before ilia was, her revelation would have been less of a problem, because we would have some indisputable good guys to be LGBT rep. LGBT characters are so rarely portrayed as undeniably kind and heroic and just and good because of the longstanding media association of gayness with deviancy, immorality, selfishness, and tragedy. RT revealing ilia as gay does not break from this trend in the slightest, whether ilia is redeemable or not, whether they are aware of this history or not.

And for that matter, these tropes exist whether or not you are personally aware of their existence. Your ignorance to the history LGBT representation is your personal problem, not the problem of the people pointing out these unfortunate trends. Also noticing these trends is not homophobia, I can’t believe I have to actually explain that.