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Understanding the unique grief of <i>Supernatural</i> fans, and the power of stories to liberate and to punish. [Warning: spoilers for seaso
The importance of how stories are told and who gets to tell them. [Warning: Spoilers for season fifteen of Supernatural.]
Reflecting on queer storytelling, representation, and the cost of a failed escape.
a home for madame @chill-legilimens' articles for easy access.
them: this show has great lgb rep!
me: what about the t?
offensive caricature of trans women: *comes out of the shadows, snapping its fingers*
Ayo, Okoye and the wink
I’m already seeing some return of the speculation that Ayo and Okoye are dating in the film Black Panther. (You’ll remember there was a rumor early last year about a scene being removed.)
This is all still just speculation. We’ve had no confirmation about the sexuality of various characters.
We know the character of Ayo (played by Florence Kasumba) is in a lesbian relationship with her fellow dora milaje ANEKA. (This character,as far as we know, does not appear in the film.)
Would it be super cool to have a queer relationship in the MCU? Obviously, yes.
Is it likely? Unknown. Marvel is said to have cut a scene that made it explicit that Valkyrie was in a relationship with a woman in Thor: Ragnarok. (Valkyrie is bisexual in the comics.) Actress Tessa Thompson lamented it’s erasure.
Adding to this complication, the character of Ayo was first portrayed as queer in the “Black Panther” arc by Ta-Nehisi Coates which began in June 2016. But production on Black Panther the film began before that issue appeared on newsstands. (Lupita Nyong’o was announced to star in May 2016, for example of how closely these two stories were being developed.)
So if she is based on the Coates run, it would have to be something added during filming.
I’m just saying, we should start our prayer circles now.
So...I know people really DONT like Cassandra Clair and her books but in case anyone DOES there is a canon bisexual character in Lady Midnight and a canon autistic character and of course in her shadow hunter series we have. Canon pansexual and gay character
Hello anon! Those are very valid things, so to my followers, these series do exist, and they do have representation - I don’t want to act like they don’t.
However while I haven’t read Lady Midnight, I have read Shadowhunters, and there are many problematic aspects to CC and her books, which is why I personally cannot support her book series. Obviously I cannot stop anyone from reading her books - especially if they find representation in there - but I don’t want to pretend like I support the books, and I do want to give people warnings before they read the series:
Magnus and Alec are canon bi & gay characters (not pansexual, as the ask says, but we’ll get to that in a second). However, Alec was consistently biphobic to his boyfriend, expressing distaste that Magnus dated females before, and claiming, “Is there anything you aren’t into?” with disgust. Magnus is the second character to be slut shamed - the first being Izzy, who is also shamed for her clothes (and her TV counterpart was also slammed by CC, who has tweeted disrespectful things about the show in general).
Here’s a post that puts in the problems with Malec (and also compares it to the show).
The character of Magnus Bane is bisexual in the books; however, Cassandra Clare tweeted that she thinks he’s pansexual but currently identifies as bi (the question was if he would date a nb person, and when asked if that would make him pan instead of bi, she stated “yes”, and as a bi woman that is frustrating, because bisexual people can be attracted to non-binary people).
She does this to another character - Raphael is asexual purely through “Word of God” (and while this blog does accept Word of God as canon, and Raphael’s situation is fine, it can be problematic in situations like Magnus’s where a sexuality is changed by the author after the fact, even though he had been bisexual in the entire book series).
*SPOILER ALERT* Raphael (one of the few POC characters in the books, and asexual from CC’s own word) gets killed off.
Major coddling of the abusive character Jordan - he often gets more sympathy than Maia, the one he abused.
Jace himself, who has been abused, can be extremely rude and prejudiced towards others.
There’s also emotional abuse between him and Clary after a while and it can be triggering for people to read.
While it does not relate to representation, there are reports that CC plagiarized her books.
Besides plagiarism, those are the issues that relate to CC’s Shadowhunter series that relate to representation, and there are more that go beyond that. I won’t ever stop someone from reading the books or even submitting the characters from the books (as long as they mention the problems in the “issues” section), because yes, there is representation. Maia and Jace are abuse survivors, Alec is gay, Raphael is asexual, Magnus is bisexual. However, there is a difference between having diverse characters and actually treating them - and by extension, the audience who relates to them - well.
Pretty sure Amazing Spider-Man Annual #19 here, from 1985, was the first Big Two superhero comic book to be written, drawn and lettered by women. (It does pass the Bechdel Test, just barely.)
Why a modern reboot misses the point.
same soup, just reheated. this article brings to light the problems this walker reboot already presents, and how the cw continues to work against the “inclusive” message it’s peddling.
This is a show that, in the midst of longstanding sociopolitical crises that have been actively fostered by the enabling bothsidesism which— in the name of balance— elevates extreme viewpoints with the credibility of fact, is choosing the same tactics to paint itself as a safe middle road while claiming progressive credentials. It is this call for a fair and balanced approach, perhaps, that allows Walker to just as easily advertise on Fox News as Tumblr.
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Reflecting on queer storytelling, representation, and the cost of a failed escape.
This was not a program greenlit with queer leads, its audiences were fraught and miscalculated, and it was playing by a different rulebook from the seeming contemporaries ten years its junior that are afforded queerness with varying privilege. Supernatural was playing a sophisticated, risky game. Push the subtextual restraints until they break. Hold the pieces up to the world’s eyes. Dare it to put them back.
written by @chill-legilimens, the author of supernatural’s legacy: the trauma of silence and the tv gods are watching: why supernatural’s metanarrative matters.
so like, what is “good representation” anyway? everyone’s idea of what that would look like is different; goalposts continue to shift. if you eliminate the stories that don’t have quote unquote “good rep,” you continue to make it harder to get any sort of rep. that’s not to say we shouldn’t demand for better rep for ANYTHING. just... don’t go shitting on something because it wasn’t “good.” i mean, yeah, sometimes there’s some Really Shitty portrayals of queer folk, poc, disabled people, etc. and of course that’s no bueno. often times the issue there is that the content/media/whatever was created by somebody who’s Not that, and they use stereotypes and harmful narratives. anyway, so denying queercoded characters as “not good enough” is... actually not the argument you think it is. like you’re essentially saying they’re not queer The Right Way™ and that’s kinda gross, dudes.
