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[fratboykate]

Thought I’d share: A great short thread about rep+diversity & parts of it are things that have been mentioned on here time & again. The amount of engagement the thread has gives me some hope in terms of how audiences (fandoms especially) view these issues.. cautious hope, but still..

I’ve been saying the same thing for...ever except when I say it I get called a “hater” and receive endless anons telling me that I should die and when this person says it they go viral lol.

To recap for the billionth time: things that are diverse aren’t automatically good. Let me repeat that for good measure: JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS DIVERSE OR HAS REP IN IT DOESN’T MEAN IT’S GOOD. Matter of fact things that are both diverse AND good are so rare that I can probably count them in one hand. Yet those awful ones that are poorly done or have bottom of the barrel, shitty representation get propped up. That’s because y’all are like toddlers where the moment someone dangles something shiny in front of you you chase after it. Y’all will keep running after it even after it turns out that it was cubic zirconia not the diamond you believed it was. That’s why, for as long as y’all keep this up, we’ll never get better rep. When you let the projects that are both diverse and good fail/fly under the radar while you reward the creators and/or shows with praise for doing THE ABSOLUTE BARE FUCKING MINIMUM then no one is ever going to try harder. You give them no motivation to. At all. I’ve been telling y’all this same thing for years and you keep looping the pattern every damn fucking time.

“It also doesn’t mean the cast isn’t a ploy for diversity points” is really important because this is something y’all also repeatedly fall for. I can think of one particular showrunner that legit uses queer characters for brownie points and nothing else while giving y’all two minutes of screentime (that are not even well written two minutes mind you) and you STILL fall for it. You prop this person up like they’re the LGBT messiah when all they’ve done is consistently write shitty queer storylines and give y’all less than a handful of minutes per episode. You can’t even see you’re being used and that’s insanely troubling to me. Stop falling for it jfc. It’s not that hard.

[slightly---obsessed]

Gay people’s relationships are underrepresented, totally, and their deaths are overrepresented.

Dominique Provost-Chalkley talking to TV Insider about queer representation  in television

[n1ghtwr1ter]

An open letter

Dear @the100writers, @kimshum, @aaronginsburg, and the rest of you,

I know what you’re thinking. “It’s been a year, most of them are probably over it by now, this is their final hurrah before they go on to other things.”

While I’m sure that’s true of some of us, however, I can assure you that the majority of us will never forget what you did. We will never forget what you took from us. And we will NEVER, ever forgive.

Our Heda tried to institute Jus drein nou jus daun, but that ended when you took her life. Shot her for no other reason than loving who she loved. In doing so you reminded us that as LGBTQ people, her life - and ours - meant nothing to you. Just like Lexa, we were nothing more than a vehicle for attracting viewers for your “groundbreaking storytelling.”

So thank you. Thank you for reminding us that we have so much more work to do. Thank you for reminding us that just like the Commander, our fight is never over.

Ste yuj, Clexakru. Our fight is just beginning.

Jus drein, jus daun.

[theconqueeror]

if I see one more post vagueing about the lgbt viewers deserve better movement and implying we’re somehow responsible for all other shows that messed up or got cancelled, i’m deleting

[riovidalll]

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[lgbtviewersdeservebetter-blog]

Lexa Deserved Better:  Our Fight Continues

March 3rd, 2016 was supposed to be the best episode of The loo’s Season 3 for Clexa shippers, or at least, that was Jason Rothenberg had wanted us to believe. Unfortunately, all of the hype and excitement was for nought. What Jason Rothenberg thought to be a “groundbreaking” episode was just another example of the LGBT community being used for views and having their representation taken away from them for shock value.

 The immediate aftermath to Lexa’s death was one of the darkest moments I’ve ever experienced. There were countless posts about young LGBT fans that were triggered and relapsed after watching the episode. There were talks of suicide and substance abuse. It was then you could see just how much Lexa meant to the community and just how much television affects real life. I was fortunate enough to have heard all your stories and to have witnessed the strength our community has. Strangers were helping one another and trusting each other to be there. There was a sense of trust and familiarity within the community that I had never seen before and will probably never see again.

Amidst all the pain and the betrayal, the Lexa fandom had organized itself and began mobilizing efforts towards holding Jason Rothenberg accountable for what he had done. Through the combined efforts of everyone in the community, we were able to achieve things no other fandom has done before. Multiple worldwide trends on Twitter, accompanied by international recognition from multiple media outlets. Thousands of dollars were raised to put up billboards in the heart of Los Angeles to raise awareness about the Bury Your Gays trope and donated to IraQueer, an organization that seeks to help LGBT in the Iraq/Kurdistan region.

A year has passed and much has changed. Some of us have moved on to greener (super green) pastures and some of us continue to stay with Clarke and follow her story. Regardless of whatever path you’ve chosen, be proud of how far we’ve come and how much we’ve done. Keep your head held high and keep moving forward. Our fight is far from over.

[bogappreciation]

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I wrote this soon after 307, but I hadn’t recorded it and wasn’t sure if I intended to share it. Now it’s been almost a year, and we’ve made headlines fighting in Lexa’s name- putting up billboards, raising awareness of tropes and representation, raising over $100,000 for the trevor project.

I’m so proud to be a part of this fandom, and I wanted to contribute. I don’t know if it’s much, but I hope you all enjoy it.

In the spirit of this song, I hope we will never give up the fight- no matter what that fight may be.

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[fratboykate]

twitter(.)com/petrovablake/status/1315337834585350144?s=21 This is.... the worst take I’ve read. “Ugh, I hate that all these bi female characters are giving us wlw rep and not adding one more boring m/f ship to the thousands that already exist”

They legitimately do have turds inside their skulls. They do. They really do. That whole thread is just......oh my god lkjhjgkdhfgjk