#queer repersentation

[sleepdeprivedadngay622]

Will: you know, I’m starting to regret showing you how that blender works

Nico, having not known what a blender was, drinking toast: why do you say that?

[elfboyeros]

The Importance of The Owl House {A Thesis (?) on Good LGBTQIA+ Representation in Media}

I don't think I have to talk the lot of you all on Tumblr that The Owl House has good LGBTQIA+ representation, this is a microblogging website for ✨the gays✨ but I have thoughts on the show and its representation, especially because this is "children's show" on the Disney Channel!

The Owl House came out in 202O and was created by the lovely Dana Terrace, who as I understand it worked on beloved Gravity Falls (2012, Alex Hirsch) back in the day, {*Gently Holds* THANK YOU DANA TERRACE, MY BELOVED} and is, as Wikipedia describes it, a Fantasy Horror Comedy.

The show is great! It ticks all the boxes for me, chief, which also means it has good LGBTQIA+ representation! As an Asexual and Nonbinary person, I feel seen!

And yes, other shows have the representation I am looking for. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) have queer representation thanks to Noelle Stevenson, and no matter how to feel about Steven Universe (2013) Rebecca Sugar moved a mountain in queer representation, so shows that wanted to include queer topics could thrive in a cable space! Although they don't do it like The Owl House!

First off, She-ra and the Princesses of Power is on Netflix, and despite the fact that She-ra target audience is children, a stream serves like Netflix can and does get away with "walking the line," plus beside a few references to two women being in a relationship and queer undertones, most of the queer representation happened in the final season.

Secondly, it is public knowledge that Rebecca Sugar at to twist the truth about what Steven Universe was about so Cartoon Network would consider putting it on the air, and dispute fighting for a lesbian wedding later in the series run, language like wife, and girlfriend are never use when talking about queer characters.

Compared to The Owl House, Danna Terrace was open and honest with those at Disney that Luz, The show's main character, would be Bisexual!

“In [development] I was very open about my intention to put queer kids in the main cast. I’m a horrible liar so sneaking it in would’ve been hard,” Terrace wrote. “When we were greenlit I was told by certain Disney leadership that I could not represent any form of bi or gay relationship on the channel.” (Variety) “I’m bi! I want to write a bi character, dammit!” Terrace tweeted. “Luckily my stubbornness paid off and now I am very supported by current Disney leadership.”

To add recent episodes have not to beat around the bush and showed the term "girlfriend" to reference the relationship that has now form between Luz and Amity!

THIS IS A SHOW ON THE DISNEY CHANNEL AND HAS BEEN MAKING HISTORY!

Alex Hirsch had to tell someone that works on Gravity Falls that they couldn't add an old lesbian couple in a few frames because Disney would not approve!

The language and the force are important for that watching! The young queer kids that are consuming the media and the cishet adults that are having to watch it alongside their children. Using the term Girlfriends with "extreme" force like in "Eclipse Lake" shows that these two young female-presenting characters are not "just friends". The use of Them/they pronouns in "Eda's Requiem" and other episodes not only refer to the character of Raine Whispers and other characters that we don't know the identity of, normalize the use of they/them pronouns to refer to a single person!

The Owl House is making history thanks to Dana Terrance's "studdorness", the queer fans that are starved for quality reperestation, and the progressing society that is allowing it to say on the air instead of setting it on fire because it is "abnormal".

Granted there are still people out there that wish The Owl House would not be a piece of Queer media, and are trying to do everything to kill it on sight, although let's enjoy the fact that we have made this far in the world of media and we have a beautiful show with amazing resperantation for LGBTQIA+ individuals!

-Eros/Cupid!

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I would like a wife...a husband will do but mostly I’m after a wife. That is all. Back to your tumbling

[absolxguardian]

I know it's generally accepted that if you want to kill a gay character, but avoid the bury your gays trope, the trick is to have more gays. But what's the ruling on killing off your only gay character(s) when the entire main cast dies? Not the game of thrones "anyone can die at any moment" deal, but a real shakespearian tragedy ending. Like a good faith depiction of a gay Mercuito. Or Les Mis but Enjolras is explicitly gay/ace and Graintaire is clearly bi instead of just "wow this queer subtext is very obvious for a book published in the 1800s"

[sleepdeprivedadngay622]

Will, regretting his decision: stop buying plastic skeletons for Halloween!!!! It’s terrible for the environmen!!!!

Nico, thinking back to when Will specifically told him not to raise the dead: Yeah!! Locally sourced!! All natural skeletons are much more environmentally friendly!!!

[sleepdeprivedadngay622]

So last night Pablo (my brother) was randomly awake at like one am. He is in the room next to me, and then my mother wakes up. And my mother goes into him and starts giving out to him. And this entire time I was just in my room with my earphones in watching a fucking movie. And they didn’t notice??? LIEK I’m not complaining, but I was just right next door watching whatever fuckery this is;

(Btw this movie is called Alex Strangelove. Not the best, but enjoyable enough. Solid 6.5/10)

[elfboyeros]

You do realize since Owl House isn’t getting a third season but rather 3 specials, it does have most of its queer rep in the final season

iYes...

I can't tell if this is supposed to be like giving me information, or kinda passive-aggressive, but here we go I'm gonna explain myself!

Yes, because of the 3 specials we'll get we will possibly get queer rep, in large amounts because it will be the "end" of The Owl House. Knowing how Dana is with this show it will go hard on that front.

BUT the difference between The Owl House and let say She-ra (Given that fact that it took until its the final season to get the kiss.) Is that the Owl House is doing it in the middle of its run rather than its end! "Eclipse Lake" since a season or series final, it's a "random" episode that falls in the middle of the ep. list at number 9. "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" was ep. 5, and that's where Amity kissed Luz on the cheek! "KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCKIN' ON HOOTY'S DOOR," WAS EP. 8 THAT BITCH MADE HISTORY, for Disney!

She-ra did most of its stuff during its last season, not only for plot purposes but because they knew that didn't have to risk not getting canceled, or whatever.

PLUS, Owl House is going hard on terms and language, that She-ra rarely or hardly used:

"MY awesome GIRLFRIEND..."

Using them/they pronouns NOT ONLY to refer to Raine Whispers who uses those pronouns, but to refer to people in general, when we don't know the pronouns they use:

She-ra AND Steven U only did that with the character that used those pronouns!

I understand that shows, in general, could go harder on Queer rep and that I shouldn't put The Owl House on a high horse because of the queer rep that has. BUT damn it I'm going to because the show is on the FUCKING DISNEY CHANNEL.

The whole point with my previous post and this one is that The Owl House is making strides now, in the height of its run then rather at/towards the end of it, and that's is super important on so many fronts, not only for its cable network but for children's television as while!

[absolxguardian]

Just got an email about the goodreads best books of the year contests, and for the middle grade section we got:

2 books with bi protags (Apollo trials and star crossed)

1 book with a lesbian couple of supporting characters (apollo trials)

1 book with a genderfuild side character and said side character in a relationship (ship of the dead)

What a time to be alive.