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didnt know if i should post these now or on christmas but i dont wanna forget to post it so here’s one extra tiny holiday chuuya & dazai 🎄🎁

huffylemon

Important update

funnytwittertweets

bringmetoquiznack

They spent all of the budget in this shot

alisonzai

loverfighter

dangers of perusing my screenshot collection part 1

ossuarycat

Dog training

#oh my god him…

honeybun-bay

A Forehead Kiss.

#soft boys #i care them so much

beast-feast

Taking full control of the fact he's goopy gooey

#i don’t go here but this is giving me gender envy

replicariku

raedmagdon

You’ve got to understand that this was 2014. I’ve seen some younger lesbian, bi, and queer folks today going, “So what? They held hands. They didn’t even kiss.” Or people watching it for the first time, saying, “I don’t see what the big deal is. There wasn’t any build-up!”

But the landscape of children’s TV was very different six years ago. Like, that moment when they looked into each other’s eyes in a beam of golden light was revolutionary. I was living in a house with other queer people and we ALL screamed and cried, just like this.

Korrasami paved the way for Steven Universe and She-Ra to do what they did in the following years. And, yes, those were leaps forward whereas this was a step. But I saw it on another post, and I’ll echo the sentiment: Korrasami walked so Catradora could sprint.

korra-comics

Same-sex marriage wasn’t legal in the US in 2014.

Not until 2016. Before that, the marriage was only recognized in a few states.

It might not seem like much now, but HOLY FUCK this moment in the finale was huge in 2014.

mentalisttraceur-long

The first norm-penetrating precedent rarely looks like some great achievement or change. It looks like a small violation of an established norm, radical only in how public it is. Sometimes you use tameness to buy the publicity needed to make progress.

prismatic-bell

Yo. I was born in 1988.

My canon queer couple?

WAS TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH AS COUSINS.

Cloverway gave one of them an offscreen boyfriend and, any time an uncuttable kissy scene came up, they started calling each other “cuz.” Another queer couple from the same show suffered the fate of being heterocized by one of them literally being genderswapped.

(Guess who became the girl. Go on, guess. At least it’s not as bad as France, where they became … brothers.)

That was my mainstream queer rep.

Oh. Until this came out.

… . yeah.

I’m not even in Avatar fandom and when those first gifs popped up on my dash, I started crying. I was 24 years old and crying over a show I had never watched because a pair of women held hands.

You can’t possibly understand what it was like before that.

You don’t want to understand what it was like before that.

I don’t want you to understand what it was like before that.

But there’s a reason we reacted like this.

I pray you never have cause to learn it yourselves.

sonneillonv-deactivated20220218

I do actually want y'all to know and understand what it was like before that because some of the hot takes coming out of younger community members make it staggeringly obvious you know nothing about our history.

Like, I don’t want you to experience it, but I really am going to need y'all to move into Formal Operational Cognitive Development and start considering that yours isn’t the only perspective and that things have changed drastically for queer people WITHIN MY LIFETIME and I am a relatively young queer who was born AFTER like ¾ of our population died of AIDS and we lost nearly an entire generation along with all their history.

#some of the kids today don’t have like real clear memories from before gay marriage was legal in the us #but i do #and in my country it was legalised even more recently #canon on screen queer rep was ridiculously few and far between #yes. they only held hands. they didn’t kiss or confess their undying love for each other #but at the time holding hands was kind of revolutionary #especially in a show directed towards kids and younger audiences #and yeah it literally paved the way for every piece of queer rep in more recent cartoons #like showrunners have had to fight tooth and nail to give us scraps of canon queerness like this #and it’s only because of them that shows like kipo and the owl house are allowed to be as progressive as they are #in conclusion: remember your queer history kids

cvntyblogger

relationships with ur parents are so weird, arent they? like... i hate you for what you did, i love you because you bring me soup when im sick. i want to get away from you. i feel safe with you. i want to run away from you. i want your hugs. i wish you understood me. i wish i understood you.

alicedemettrie

when im listening to my own library and playlists i feel like a powerful wizard but when im trying to show my music taste to anyone it feels like i have a shame cone on