Special snowflake

Aloha cuties! Fandom and random. Enjoy your stay.

[vespaaurinkos]

an autobiography:

[bookofjudith]

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[gelatins]

idk how you guys can send anon hate, like i can’t even send a nice anon without being scared that i didn’t hit anon and now they know

[altargrl]

[thatwitchrevan]

I personally wanna see less ‘you are not a burden/it’s not work to love you’ and more ‘you are worth the work it takes to love you.’ I KNOW I’m a burden sometimes. that isn’t such a terrible thing! humans are strong. we can carry burdens. and it is work for me to be there for my friends, but it’s work I’m willing to do.

we need to acknowledge this because pretending love isn’t work will never make people like me feel less guilty for accepting love. we need to talk about it so people don’t feel bad for having boundaries and not always being up to do the work. we need to accept it so we can properly appreciate what others do for us and what we’re doing for them.

yes it does take work to love you. but guess what? you still deserve love, and you deserve people who are willing to do the work to love you. it doesn’t make you bad. all love take work. and everyone is worth it.

[garfleas]

[stargiirl27]

toxic mothers are wild they'll really be like "I never said that" like ma'am yes you did cause it's been ingrained in my head since I was twelve

[raedas]

it just hit me that there are children watching toh . there are children growing up with a queer cast and children seeing that as, above all, NORMAL, and children seeing luz and amity being treated like any other teenage love story, and children seeing two older queers, raine and eda, loving each other and getting second chances, and children just seeing toh . there are children growing up with the owl house and i am so happy for them

[imconfusedallthetimehelp]

[hannimatior]

the other day I saw a tweet where someone asked why pride flags only had colors instead of featuring flames, explosions, and dinosaurs and my brain thought, you know. that seems exactly like the kind of flag they might have on the boiling isles

also please appreciate my flag it’s so small in the comic I spent longer making it than I did drawing the panels

[expobeau-deactivated20211020]

Korra and Asami only held hands because Nickelodeon wouldn’t let them do more.  Nick infamously cancelled Korra and put out the rest of season 4 as a webseries only.

Marceline and Princess Bubblegum only kiss in the very final episode because Cartoon Network wouldn’t let them do more.  There are a ton of interviews with Pendelton and with the voice actresses where they talk about the CN censorship.

Steven Universe got as far as it did because Rebecca Sugar fought tooth and nail, and risked the show getting cancelled (which it did in many countries, if not heavily censored), because Cartoon Network wouldn’t let her.  Ruby was often dubbed over with a male voice, and Pearl/Rose interactions were completely cut.

She-Ra managed to do it largely because it was specifically on Netflix only, and even then, Noelle has said they had to build 4 seasons of storyline very subtly around it so they had enough ammo to convince the execs that Catradora was the only logical conclusion to this show they had already aired.  She didn’t just go in on Day 1 and make it gay; she had to plan many years in advance for how to set up her argument.  Her argument, y’all.

And now we have The Owl House.  Which is an absolutely wonderful show.  And it’s so amazing that we actually get to see queer characters get the kind of representation that so many straight characters get.  And it’s amazing we get to see the romance build up, instead of just a quick peck in the series finale!

Let’s not forget that in the US, it was illegal for gay people to get married until 2015.  Korra aired in 2012.  In Texas, it was a punishable felony to even be gay until 2003.  No, literally.  Just being gay was an arrestable offense here in Texas until 2003.  We have come a really long way in 20 years!

But don’t fucking dare disrespect any of these other shows by saying they didn’t try, or that their representation didn’t matter.  The Owl House is standing on the shoulders of giants.  Lumity is only where it is because Korrasami and Bubbline helped get them there.

[mengyan]

THE OWL HOUSE + incorrect tweets, part (1/?)

made with tweetgen!

[elumish]

Friendly reminder that bi, pan, trans, aro, and ace people in relationships with someone of a different gender aren't less queer than people in relationships with someone of the same gender, and they aren't bad representation or "less good" in any way

[house-of-crows]

Also, REAL WORLD RELATIONSHIPS aren’t fucking REPRESENTATION.  They are QUEER PEOPLE living THEIR damn lives

[deactivationgocrazy-deactivated]

"the education system traumatizes students it deems stupid" and "the education system traumatizes students it deems gifted" are two concepts that can and should coexist.

[doubleca5t]

I think I've got a compromise

[scarybrained]

Thinking about self love.

[apolloendymion]

tbh it doesn't rly hurt teenagers to incorrectly id as ace like... what's the worst than could happen? they don't have sex till they're older?? lol

[apolloendymion]

"ohh but it'll take them longer to realize they're actually gay" i know my experiences aren't universal but like. if i wasn't ready to face my lesbianism then i was Not Ready, you could've eliminated every other label in existence and i still wouldn't have accepted it. if anything, the ability to try out different labels helped me learn about myself, explore the community, and accept that maybe not being straight wasn't so bad.

[apolloendymion]

also lots of people identify as bi before realizing they are gay, lots of people identify as gay before realizing they're bi, lots of people identify as gay before realizing they're trans, etc etc etc!!! exploring and getting it wrong is a necessary part of the process!!! why is it so different for aroace identities?????

[allthezipofnukacola]

Honestly, I really side-eye people who say shit like, “I hate all hetero romances. If a guy and girl kiss, I totally lose all investment.”

Male-female pairings are not all the same and I’m kind of sick of people acting like they are. Similarly, I’m sick of people forgetting that there are LGBT+ people in male-female relationships.

[allthezipofnukacola]

I see white LGBT+ people say shit like this about positive male-female relationships between POC and I legit GROAN.

[allthezipofnukacola]

I saw someone say the relationship in If Beale Street Could Talk didn’t interest them because it was “hetero nonsense” as if young, poor black couples dealing with unjust incarceration regularly get positive, healthy representation.

[allthezipofnukacola]

If you’re tired of love stories focusing on relationships between traditionally attractive, able bodied, neurotypical, white, cishet people–especially when they’re void of chemistry and commonality and abusive but pushed as ideal (see: The Notebook)–then, I totally get it. I am, too.

But if you disparage a positive, healthy love story that features marginalized people because it’s between a man and a woman, your grasp of things like representation and intersectionality is likely weak.