soonerdog

Mostly reblogging gay cartoon nonsense

[soffomo]

Strike a pose!

[micheline2poke]

Two diamonds under the dark sky

[geospiral]

Because that's how a prince is supposed to act.

[jimmyjeans]

homosexual

[suchscary]

counting sheep . . .

[realrosielol]

“Just throw it away…”

[northern-punk-lad]

The guardian trying to find who’s responsible for increased transphobia in this country

[hadalplumes]

The Apothecary Diaries: Volume 2 - Natsu Hyuuga

[quasi-normalcy]

I'm just saying, "We created a computer to make decisions for us, but it assimilated all of the bias that was implicit in the dataset and now makes incredibly racist decisions that we don't question because computers are logical and don't make mistakes" literally sounds like a planet-of-the-week morality play on the original Star Trek.

[quasi-normalcy]

[merliren]

that one fucking scene in nimona... what do you mean she tried to kill herself in her rawest "monster" form in center of the city by impaling her heart on the sword of the statue of her first friend, the one that first betrayed her like that and made her feel like a monster, and then she got stopped by her other friend, the one that made her feel like a monster again but realized he fucked up, apologized and touched her heart with the replacement of an arm that got chopped off by none other than his loved one, while also standing on the said sword of the statue. the layeeeers. that's literally fucking cinema

[miaomiaoisms]

Afterword to Revolutionary Girl Utena Volume 2 from Kunihiko Ikuhara

— Taken from the Revolutionary Girl Utena: Shojo Beat Deluxe Box Set Edition

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

Unfortunately I paused on this image and I can never take anything seriously.

[stray-tori]

colored some sketches to post for today! :)

first one is pose practise, pose by AdorkaStock

[aqukana]

"Nothing is completely irrelevant to you."

A university disregarding female applicants that will affect you as a woman even if you're not applying to that university or even any college, just the fact that your sex is being discriminated in the society you live in, because immediately after that scene two boys don't even bother to apologize after bumping into Asa. Trivial things you say out of a whim might hurt someone; Asa indulging in light gossip about boyfriends to Emiri without really listening to what she says, words that she'll forget but brings anxiety to her friend.

Asa thinking that things don't apply to her if she's not interested mirrors how her father lived as a void thinking his opinions and his words doesn't affect his child at all. Her reaction to the word "void" is far stronger than other else she heard from Makio. Her fear of "standing out" encourages her to essentially become her father, a wallflower, a follower, a void, a child who can't make her own decisions despite her personality being the complete opposite— eating away her feelings when she's full of it. Before she knew it, she turned into her mother.

It's why she can't look away at Morimoto's rage even if it puts her in a bad spotlight, at Tamashiro's attempt to have friends even if she stands out, at Makio who lives her life outside the norm. Even if she tries to believe certain experiences are irrelevant to her, everything influences her. I love how they're portraying her coming of age, reflection and sincere consideration of others and one's self are what makes a person grow into their own.

[renthony]

I see so many arguments over what is and isn't "good queer representation" that really just boil down to "y'all are actually arguing over matters of taste and genre preference, which is incredibly subjective and personal."

Worldbuilding where being queer is normalized and queerphobia has no impact on the plot? THAT'S FINE. Worldbuilding that includes queerphobia and tackles the effects of it as part of the story? THAT'S ALSO FINE.

Low-stakes queer romcom where the characters are fluffy and cute? THAT'S COOL. Messy queer drama with toxic people who fuck each other over and clash repeatedly? THAT'S ALSO COOL.

Stories that center the characters' queerness, show a trans character's transition, and are about the queerness as much as the rest of the plot? AWESOME. Stories where the characters' queerness isn't treated as a big deal, and have trans characters whose transition happened before the story entirely? ALSO AWESOME.

You may PREFER one thing or another, but it is actually good to have all these things. It's about variety. It's about queer characters being allowed to exist without censorship. It's about queer artists getting to make things without being told we're a "niche issue" or "adult content." It's about having as many goddamn cakes as the bakery can produce.

At the end of the day, I'd prefer a media landscape with fifty pieces of problematic queer representation over a media landscape with one single piece of queer representation that's trying (and usually failing) to be 100% perfect for everything and everyone.

[whooiew]

An Ogutama silly

Which is funny enough, technically a commission for an Anon

[pangur-and-grim]