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lyn | 21 | queer and nb | i used to be meddling | never spoiler free | reblog blog is @letruinendhere-reblogs

[letruinendhere]

hi if you follow me and want to see the posts i enjoy daily i created a separate acc for it so that you don’t have to have it clogging up your feed . this blog will only feature posts that i wrote or added onto. it is @letruinendhere-reblogs

i also have a writing blog! @step-by-step-by-step

[lenkarza]

it's a long way to erid, and sometimes grace gets a bit dramatic and in his head about things. rocky, as always, is more of a practical kinda guy 🪨

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a silly comic drawn at the behest of my good friend @letruinendhere, who came up with both the concept (inspired by this post) and the paneling/dialogue after i dragged them along to my third viewing of phm. i simply provided my dubious artistic skill to their vision ✨

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bonus panel bc i thought the idea of rocky being able to take the (human, christian) lord's name in vain was conceptually hilarious

you jump and say "jesus christ!" once and suddenly you have to explain catholicism to an alien, happened to my good friend ryland grace—

[letruinendhere]

here is the original concept art for anyone curious

[letruinendhere]

i cannot emphasize how much i thought this was never gonna happen like good for them but holy shit

[queer-as-city-folk]

You have this post till midnight September 1st 2025, you may do whatever you like with it, but afterwards reblogs will be turned off

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i am going to cleave myself open starting from the jaw

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i'm having a case of the scaries and i made this to represent my emotions

[letruinendhere]

bdubs is such a mistress

[letruinendhere]

CHAT SETHBLING IS LIVE ???????

[letruinendhere]

what if,,,,,, and hear me out,,,,,, what if (i know this is crazy but bear with me) we were normal about women. just for once. to try it out.

[letruinendhere]

i woke up this morning and said to myself that i think an ethoslab episode would fix me. and i was right.

[letruinendhere]

i am experiencing. symptoms

[frownyalfred]

gently grabs you by the chin hey. if an author selects “chose not to use archive warnings” on a fic, they’re allowed. even if you don’t like it or disagree.

[letruinendhere]

and if you'd like some clarification or a reminder about what the tag is for, the ao3 TOS spotlight this last week can help you out.

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AO3 DOWN

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love inciting reactions

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end of the semester got me feeling some things

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i was so real for this btw

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still real for this

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i am once again feeling this

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scrolling through the minecraft movie tag and sitting there like

(or queerbait or propaganda or cashgrabs or namedropping or—)

[letruinendhere]

first i want to add this post by @wooshofficial about the colonialism i mentioned bc i honestly think that is one of the largest issues with the movie and this post does a good job at explaining that.

the racism is largely tied in with the aforementioned colonialism, but also goes hand in hand with the misogynistic writing for dawn. for one thing, all the characters were very flat and poorly introduced to begin with but what i found most notable was the rather glaring differences in how the narrative treated the women in the cast compared to the men.

to begin with, the boys are really the only ones given any weight or significance to their introductions. we get a steve exposition dump where he explains his life before and after finding minecraft, a fairly lengthy series of scenes of jason momoa showcasing his fall from fame and financial struggles, and a montage of henry at school to showcase his creativity.

on the flip side, we really only see natalie when shes being used as a prop for henry's character. her driving them to the town and making breakfast have some spark of character motivation (dead parents, taking responsibility at a young age) that is never followed up on. we get a couple seconds of her at work before the factory is destroyed and then her on the lawn talking to dawn, and neither of these scenes are actually about her or given the same length or weight as the male characters' segments.

then we have dawn, who is never given her own motivations or hints of character beyond being the human equivalent of chekov's animal whisperer. she shows up on the lawn, briefly tells us her whole character, and then comes back to stress with natalie on the lawn in a scene that is, again, not actually about either of them. dawn's whole character is to be a motherly black woman that can give sassy grown-up advice to the two white children—though primarily natalie for how little the girls are allowed to interact with the boys—in the movie (see: mammy stereotype).

when they actually go through the portal and meet steve, the boys get a lengthy world introduction and crafting lesson while the girls are conspicuously absent for a while. they get a much shorter scene about trying to trade with a villager before the village is attacked and the cast becomes split by gender.

from here it becomes even more glaringly obvious that this movie is about the boys. they adventure, they face peril, they make daring plans, they further their character arcs. the girls don't. natalie fails to make a boat (because girls don't know how to craft) and then she and dawn just disappear for like thirty to forty five minutes. at some point there was a brief talking scene about adulthood and then dawn gets to use her Special Ability to Befriend Animal and manages to get the dog to lead them to the boys so that they can save the boys (and note that this is not an empowered moment. the girls do not gain any character work or show how awesome they are by doing this. they need a reason to reunite the cast and further the boys' storyline and abandon any hope we had of pursuing their own). of course, the girls are shown to be naturally talented at building bc this is not a thing that could come naturally to boys or that the girls might struggle with (this is gender roles 101 here).

the film ends. there's no culmination or payoff to any potential or meaningful arcs natalie had. dawn didn't even have an arc unless you count Liking Animals. neither female lead is treated with the same respect or time as their male counterparts.

while watching, during the boat scene, i remarked to my friends that it genuinely felt like the message that the movie was saying was "only boys get to minecraft," which was a real sentiment i heard in my childhood. i watched it and aside from all of the other painfully obvious pacing and writing and tone issues, i felt sad for a younger me that could have watched this. the writing was incredibly misogynistic in ways that are obvious to me as an adult with developed critical thinking skills and knowledge of theory, but would have been just a bad feeling in my chest as a kid who didn't understand all of why i didn't love that part of the movie.

this post got really long but it needed to be for me to get all my thoughts out so i'm not apologizing for it. aside from all the rest of the stuff i mentioned in my original tags, this alone makes the movie an enraging and disappointing watch. do not watch the minecraft movie. the only reason i did was so that i could know exactly how to respond to people who didn't pick up on its flaws on their own.

[letruinendhere]

scrolling through the minecraft movie tag and sitting there like

(or queerbait or propaganda or cashgrabs or namedropping or—)