#cuffingseason

[matumogs]

👀😳He's finally hereeeeee❤🖤

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[offscreenfamous]

The lighting is in my favor tonight

[piercedprincessxoxo]

What are you hoping to find under the tree?

[lostntimelostnspace]

I wish I was falling in love. I miss having someone so much but the timing never feels right.

[vamp-geekz]

Ok but i get huge MBVA vibes from the band Beach Bunny if anyone is up for some soft punk rock there song ‘Prom Queen’ is pretty famous but if you want the MBVA vibes i g ot you!

6 Weeks (this one kind of reminds me Ethan simping over Sarah but like from Benny's POV) 

Cuffing Season (this song is just Erica's insincerities) 

Colorblind (Benny thinking about Ethan)

April (just think about Rory. its a bit sad but still)

Sports (Ethan in Friday night frights) 

Boys (hard core this is a song for Sarah taking about the comparison between Ethan and Jessie)

Ms. California (this one always reminds me of Benny talking about Ethan and his Sarah problem.)   

Promises (Benny just Benny)

[somegaydisaster]

oh to have someone to cuddle with and watch cheesy holiday movies with while drinking hot chocolate this winter

[joshualunacreations]

(Please don’t repost or edit my work. Reblogs are always appreciated. Support my work here: https://www.patreon.com/joshualuna)

Hollywood pitch: The characters who usually play the "best friends" of the white leads instead get to be the protagonists and love interests. And they stay human and alive the whole time!

There are so few instances of (romantic) leads of color but even when we get them they're often reduced to being non-human entities (frog, llama, bear, pigeon, soul, alien, cyborg, etc.) or dead for most of the film. White-controlled media erases faces of color any way it can.

I experienced this myself when CBS adapted my first comic ULTRA into a TV pilot and cast Lena Headey as Pearl Penalosa, the Latina superheroine lead. Not a criticism of Headey—she's a great actress—but it speaks to the institutional expectation of whiteness as the default.

Even when I created stories for the white gaze, it wasn't enough. On many occasions gatekeepers would suggest adding more white characters, making characters of color white or white-mixed, changing names, and changing women into men.

Some even expressed glee at the fact one of my books didn't have a bigger fanbase, so they could freely make changes with no threat of public backlash. What this means is creators of color often have to "earn the right" to prevent whitewashing of our stories—the "be twice as good" problem.

I'm tired of creating stories that audiences enjoy and then being told a) they're not white enough or b) I'm no longer qualified to tell my own stories once Hollywood decides they're worth adapting. I'm tired of being told a white screenwriter is necessary to "improve" my work.

That's why I made this mock film poster. I want to see Asian male and Black female leads as love interests and I want to write that story myself. It's so rare I can only name a few examples, like Romeo Must Die and Ninja Assassin.

Oh and by the way, unlike those movies, these characters will actually get to kiss on screen! 😘

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