I just watched Season of Love and Christmas at the Ranch for the first time and this might be an unpopular opinion but I actually liked Christmas at the Ranch better. And as much as I like Dominique I did not like their character in Season of Love and I didnât think them and their girlfriend in the film had any chemistry. I guess Iâm just used to wayhaught lol. But, the other two couples definitely did and they were really cute, especially iris and mardou. But, Christmas at the ranch is so cheesy but itâs so great. Itâs only $7 to rent and itâs a great watch.
We all want the CW to pay. To suffer for the years of abuse, silencing, and murdering of LGBTQ characters. We need to show them just how important that audience is, and how unacceptable we find what they've done.
The 100 fandom had Clexa. Supergirl has Supercorp. Supernatural had Destiel. The most "inclusive" network has been queerbaiting and hurting it's LBGT fandom for years.
Here's how we get back at them:
How do you hurt a network? Money. Plain and simple. All the steps we've been trying to do to hit them - unfollowing official accounts, stepping off hashtags so they can't track engagement - all good. But we need to be doing all of that when they're paying the most attention. We need to go one step further and coordinate an attack at a time when it will really have an impact.
Let's hit them where it really hurts - advertising.
Every year there are four key periods spaced throughout the year where Nielsen data is collected which essentially takes a census of how many people are watching. They use that to decide which are the popular shows and therefore which shows the networks can charge advertisers more to advertise in. Sweeps week (or these days, sweeps month) is the reason why we have midseason finales, why the Big Episodes are usually in February, May, July, November. In scripted TV, that's why series finales/midseason finales are in May and November.
Here's what I'm proposing. In the next sweeps which will occur this Feb 2021, we organise a mass boycott. Not only do we all stop watching the CW, but we encourage everyone else we know to skip their favourite CW shows for one week. 1-7th February. Get everyone you know to ignore the CW. Delete the app. Unfollow all accounts and not tweet about any of their shows. Tweet only our new cross fandom hashtag which is a protest not against anything that happened in Supernatural or any particular show, but against the systemic practices of queerbaiting, "bury your gays" and all other forms of queer silencing and erasure. (potential hashtag: #queerstrike or queer&allystrike which we can also call #q&astrike)
If we do this right, it will be painful for the CW because this is like being well behaved all throughout the year and then setting fire to the school when the school inspector is in. This is one of the few times of the year when they NEED to prove to the industry that they have an audience. A dramatic drop in audience figures would be CRIPPLING for their business model. All 5 networks agree that these periods are the most important, they can't turn around and say "hey so we pissed off a big portion of our audience so they're on strike but please can we have a do over next month?" Advertisers don't care about any of the fandom drama, all they care about is whether or not the network can get eyeballs on their screens when they need them. If they can't, then they've failed at the one thing they're asking for.
Aren't we already doing this anyway? Yes, but there are a lot of shows people like on the CW like so asking the fandom to boycott every single show they have indefinitely is unsustainable. Eventually people will drift back. Plus there are lot of people and actors who work hard on the shows aired on the network and we don't want to hurt their future careers by suggesting that they can't make shows people want to watch. This isn't about them, it's about the network. That's why this coordinated attack, a sudden drop as the result of a movement against the CW and not the shows, is the most effective strike.
Plus, it's only one week which is enough to make an impact on them but not massively disrupt our lives thereby encouraging maximum participation. Live your normal lives, go about your usual viewing habits, and for this one week, switch off. Get your mum/dad/sister/bestie/anyone else who usually doesn't care but cares about you and say could you do this for me.
One week for us. Millions and millions of dollars for them.
Why one week and not the whole month? Hey if we could get people to do the whole month then I'd say let's go for it but momentum is very hard to keep up for that period of time and they purposefully write these shows so that the big twists happen in these time periods. We have to be realistic. The most important thing is that we have an impact, that we make a sizeable dent that they can't ignore.
People love a cause so let's try and get as many casual viewers as possible knowing that they'll win massive ally points if they stand with us on this. And they don't even have to do anything! Just watch Netflix for a week and tweet out our hashtag and boom, they're helping us out.
Spread it around, shout it from the rooftops, let them know we're coming. Let them underestimate us once more and see where it gets them.
#theysilencedthem. They silenced us. Show them what out silence sounds like.
Tagging everyone cause let's spread this far and wide. Trust me, this will hurt them. More than a petition, more than a hashtag, a coordinated effort like this will HURT them. And they deserve it.
I hope the second season of The Wilds doesnât focus on the group of boys on the island cause I really donât give a single shit about watching a group of dudes having a giant masculinity contest
Tried this out today. It works well, no adds, itâs unobtrusive, and the kids like the cute animals. Itâs quite easy to substitute harm for other dangerous coping skills, too. The average length of a craving is about 8 minutes and anything that can ground you through it will help.
Was literally looking for something to calm myself down because Iâm in a constant anxiety state atm and when I opened tumblr, the first recommended blog was @puppydeathfarts and the first post I saw was this one. I have never seen or heard of the blog, but thank you, lovely entity, for unknowingly having a strangerâs back.
but anyway!!!!! if youâre tired of period dramas about white lesbians in forbidden love, just watch more movies about wlwoc!!! our movies exist! our stories exist!!! just because they donât get as much hype as carol/poalof/ammonite doesnât mean they donât exist!!! do your research and support more lesbian/bi/trans women filmmakers of colour! support dee rees! support cheryl dunye! support desiree akhavan, maryam keshavarz, sydney freeland, alice wu, tracey choi, shamim sarif, gazal dhaliwal, isabel sandoval, vera egito, vicky du, nisha ganatra, nahnatchka khan, zero chou, just to name a few!! yes it sucks that white stories are given precendence over theirs, but complaining about it while doing nothing to support them isnât going to fix the problem. we shouldnât just wait for the content we want to be spoonfed to us. itâs important to seek it out.
Other (some of these are available for rental on amazon, others you may have to dig for)
I Canât Think Straight
The World Unseen
Pariah
Mississippi Damned
Circumstance
Mosquita y Mari
Signature Move
Set It Off
Bessie
Stud Life
Desiâs Looking for a New Girl
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
Her Story
Chutney Popcorn
The Substitute
Spider Lilies
Drifting Flowers
We Are Gamily
Please note that I havenât seen all of these movies, so I canât necessarily make recommendations or warn for triggers. This list is meant to be a starting point.
âyoung adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.â
This isnât a coincidence. Revolutions almost always happen when the population of a country is at its youngest and thatâs a lot more true nowadays with social media.
Claudette Colvin was actually the first one to refuse her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. The movement chose to promote Rosa Parks as the figure for that form of protest because Claudette was a pregnant 15-year-old girl.
Barbara Rose Johns was a 16-year-old who organized a student strike protesting segregated schools. This strike, after gaining support of the NAACP, became a lawsuit that turned into Brown vs. The Board of Education and resulted in the desegregation of U.S schools nationally.
7th-grader Mary Beth Tinker, disturbed by the Vietnam War, decided to wear an arm band with a peace sign on it in protest. Her school suspended her. Her family filed a suit, Tinker vs. Des Moines, which reached the Supreme Court and ruled in her favor, ensuring that students and teachers maintain their right to free speech while in school.
Freddie & Truus Oversteegen were sisters who joined a Dutch resistance movement in WWII in their teens. They lured, ambushed, and assassinated Nazis and Dutch collaborators. They also blew up a railway line, transported Jewish refugees to new hiding places, and worked in an emergency hospital.Â
Our history books may like to showcase male figures, but behind every movement is a young girl ready to make a change. It was true then, itâs true now, and future generations of teenage girls will go on to inspire progress, whether theyâre credited or not.
We were raised on these stories of fighting back against oppression, but then the people who wrote them or read them to us act shocked we turned out ready to fight facism even while being anti-social.
yaâll this cool new site lets you know if a certain movie or TV show has any affiliation with anyone who was accused of sexual assault. this is important for those of us who are passionate about not supporting work that associates itself with sexual abusers, for the sake of the victims.
For all the hype that Happiest Season has been getting, then I would like to say that A New York Christmas wedding deserves just as much hype. I know that a lot of people didnât like Happiest Season because it wasnât the cheesy wlw holiday movie they were looking for, but A New York Christmas Wedding on Netflix is that cheesy wlw holiday movie that youâre looking for.
and if you call pedophilia an âorientationâ or in any way compare it to being LGBP+ you can unfollow, delete your blog, and set yourself on fire.Â
Iâve seen this circulating forever and genuinely thought âno way do I have any of them following meâ until this week when it turned out I had all these fuckin âMAPâ (pedophile) followers sad to find out Iâm an âantiâ (normal person)
Please leave and also please get guinea worm.
I hope that none of my Totoros are like this, but if so, just in case: pls get yourself mental help.
(When I was 7-8 y/o I was sexually harassed by a pedophile so I know what Iâm talkinâ about. Knowing someone like that could be following me here creeps me out.)
