#elle argent

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if i dont draw self-indulgent pinterest collageslop every 7 months i will die

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character of the day

this is Elle Argent, she is transgender and from Heartstopper.

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Elle Argent 🎨

season 1

season 2

season 3

movie

[sageandred]

I'm feeling the need to talk, and I'm gonna explain why the "Heartstopper is such good rep in this climate" argument does not hold up:

The supporting characters, consisting of non-white, lesbian, nonbinary and asexual characters have gotten way less screentime from the start of last season to this movie. Issac gets barely any storyline throughout the entire series...

The sapphics get barely any arcs and/or romantic happy endings, making that a norm of most programs...

The Brown/Black characters of Sahar and Michael (who was race-swapped) exist solely to inform of the white, questioning characters' sexual identity and get nothing else in the movie (I get the limited screentime, and I give grace in this instance, though neither exist outside of supporting roles within the comics, aside from Solitaire). Sahar is specifically only of significance for a character that doesn't exist at all...aka Imogen, who now gets the most decent attention and continuous arc outside of Nick and Charlie with her dating updates, in this film...

Tara's significance dwindled with each season, and Elle's did too, while characters like Imogen and Tao remained more connected outside of romance in consistent scenes with the main boys through friendship, even forming the entirely new bond with Nick and Tao, that resembled off-screen. In the movie, Tara and Elle are treated like footnotes, when their storylines were previously much more essential and focal points to the plot...

Elle Argent, a trans female receives 1 significant scene to show representation to her trans identity (which has basically cut in half to the limited scenes included last season); they throw in a Pride parade chant and call it a day--It's what the Barbie movie does for representation of feminism: surface-level and contrived commentaries for exposure for the mainstream...

(I don't wanna come down on the actor, who already gets hate for unfair and disingenuous reasons but) Charlie was whitewashed with Joe Locke, as was Tori from the original characters being of Spanish heritage...

Darcy and Tara are a background relationship, who've been dwindling down with each new series installment and get 2 scenes of interaction...

And where is Isaac...other than reading somewhere?!

These are problems that existed well before the film, getting worse through the years, if you revisit the entire series...

The movie consists of Nick and Charlie. Great! a representation of love for queer, white, cis young men, but run-of-the-mill story for television of gender and racial priviledge

The disappointment of the story, on top of the lack of focus on other gender identities, sexualities, and races, are Nick and Charlie's reliance on poor coping mechanisms within the whirlwind romance, how the series doesn't resolve their codependency, and making their love seem like an uncertain "live in the moment" teenage romance...when we all know that's not their essence...

I did love the inclusion of having Nick's sexuality being misperceived in the workplace and showing his reluctance to go with it, Charlie's therapy scenes + his almost relapse, what we did get of the mental health struggles in general (for both), and the one conversation on Tori's asexuality. But the lack of attention or rep outside of white, gay, males is an unsurprising, yet disappointing result. I completely understand that Nick and Charlie are the focal characters, and have always been, but acting like Heartstopper is monumental for queer television or "all-inclusive" when it includes just a fraction more identities than other media and the portrayal is the same that every other television series delivers is an insane declaration. People wonder why Alice, an aroace, white writer is given flack, and it is because of the content they choose to display both in the comic and contribution over the whole course of the series.

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