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The typo just brings it home.

ndiecity-deactivated20241101

keeping up with the news about covid coming from right-wingers must be fucking exhausting, like let me get this straight: this is a FAKE virus that was made in a REAL lab in China and it was made as an advanced bioweapon that isnt that serious and doesnt kill that many people and also the vaccine puts a chip in you so the government can know your location so instead i read on social media that you can take horse dewormer and its supposed to do. something

brainless-moe-white-lotus

If no one else posts the subway 9/11 ad I will

brainless-moe-white-lotus

catasters

betsy-cola

What if I were a butterfly and you were the prettiest flower in the garden 🌷🦋

colorful-horses

animal crossing ponies

k-eke

Small friend!

knightofleo

Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.

astarlingdiscovery

mycroftrh

When I was about 4 or 5, my dad worked in software implementation (installing very complicated programs for entire companies, basically). And sometimes when people had a problem with the program, they’d call my dad.

If he wasn’t in the room, I was assigned to answer the house phone and say “Hello, Edward will be here in jutht a moment,” in my high-pitched lisp typically described by family members as “elfin”, and then yell for my dad. Then I’d listen to him walking them through the issue because I found it interesting.

One time my dad went in for a meeting with the CEO of a large company, like, one you’ve heard of, and the CEO said “Oh, by the way, your assistant is amazing! Fixed my problem immediately."

After some very subtle investigative work - because if the CEO of a billion dollar company is pleased you don’t answer with ‘wtf are you talking about’ - he determined that what happened was the following:

The CEO called my dad at a very odd time of day, because rich people are like that.

The phone was answered by an elfin, lisping voice, which said “Hello, I’m thorry, Edward ithn’t here right now. Can I help you?”

“…okay, do you thee the power button? Can you rethtart the computer? …that means turning it off.”

Five minutes later, the CEO hung up, very pleased that an elf with a speech impediment had fixed his million-dollar software.

laughingfish

You're the mythical 20 years old with 20 years experience.

kyoryu

they are canon your honor!

itneedsmoargayz

Steven Universe: Eh, I don't really feel like saying "girlfriend" or "wife". Maybe they're together. They have a special connection...

(gets violently shoved aside)

The Loud House/Craig of the Creek/The Owl House: Pfft, amateur. "My GIRLFRIEND Sam and I..." "I'm texting my GIRLFRIEND, mind your business." "Luz's new GF showed her..."

raulziito

Can we not do this thing? Do you realize that Rebecca had to fight for what we got with Rupphire and literally risked her job? and Pearl and Rose. Like, there is no need to knock other shows down because of Lumity.

missgreeneyartz

These kids today, I tell you what. In my day you had to bury your girlfriends under subtext and then end the series when the truth was revealed.

renthony

Risked her job, hell, it's an open secret now that the Rupphire wedding (which, may I remind folks, was the first queer wedding in a kids' cartoon, which is a BIG DEAL) is why everything about the rest of the series felt rushed. They had to scramble to tell the rest of the story because they took a gamble and the network retaliated by shortening their production time.

Rebecca Sugar and the crewniverse risked the entire show getting flat-out cancelled in order to show that wedding, only for people to say it "wasn't progressive enough" and was "giving in to stereotypes" to put Ruby in a wedding dress. Never mind that Ruby kept getting dubbed over as a guy in localization, Sapphire was unmistakably feminine in every version, and putting Ruby in the dress was a flagrant way to say, "fuck you, you can't pretend this is a straight couple; this is a queer couple and a queer wedding."

Dana Terrace has said that The Owl House only exists with its intended queerness because of what Rebecca Sugar and her team accomplished with Steven Universe. Hell, there are multiple members of the Steven Universe team who went on to work on the other shows mentioned in the OP--Steven Sugar, for example, who is Rebecca Sugar's brother and inspiration for SU in the first place (as well a background artist on the show), is currently an artist on The Owl House. There are people who got their start on Steven Universe who now only have the opportunity to tell more queer stories because of Steven Universe's success.

I'm not even 30 years old yet and I'm still old enough to remember when being gay was fully illegal in the United States. Not gay marriage, but literally just BEING GAY. It wasn't that long ago, and the fact that today in 2021 I can turn on the TV and watch gay cartoons intended for children? I never thought I'd see it. Fucking ever.

So let's stop pitting queer creators and media against each other, shall we?

moonkitty

remember when the legend of korra aired, and there was the scene where Korra and Asami held hands at the very end of the series to confirm that they got together? in 2014, that was quite litterally revolutionary. i remember when it aired and young lgbt people who watched the show were absolutely ECSTATIC about it. for many, it was the first gay relationship they saw in media aimed at children EVER. and its very very strange to grow up and be in the year 2021 and have now seen young lgbt kids who HAVE seen the show compare it to more recent shows and act like "what is this? they were just holding hands. thats nothing" like i dont know how to tell you this kid but there was straight up a time where alot of people in the community thought that would of never happened.