#representation?

[duckielover151]

Not anime for once.

I’ve been keeping up with Law and Order SVU for a long time... And I just watched the most recent episode... There was just no avoiding this rant, okay?

I can’t believe we lost Kat and Garland in the same episode. There’s a lot to be said-- by someone more qualified to talk about it-- about the show’s main cast being so overwhelmingly... white. So the fact that they just wrote off two POC characters in the main cast... when there were only three to begin with... is also upsetting.

Personally, losing these two hurt me in two different ways.

I really liked Garland. For so long, we had a string of upper bosses who were just assholes. Chief Dodds kind of came around after his son died, but it was usually something to groan about when the chief was coming by. Garland was likable, genuinely cared about doing right by the people they were helping--not just winning cases and purporting a good image-- and felt like he was actually working with our main crew, not just barking orders.  SVU’s storylines have always been strongly influenced by current events, so of course the heightened racial tensions were going to come into play. It leaves such a bad taste in my mouth that Garland was chased out of office-- there’s no other way to put it-- for acknowledging that they’ve been wrong and supporting making changes in the department.  But I’m also just going to genuinely miss him as a character. And Chief McGrath better have some awful end coming for him.

Kat’s a little more difficult. Because I did like her character... but mostly for the representation in her case, as she was barely developed as a person. SVU has always had an eye on LGBT+ issues. But it only really sunk in once Kat joined the team that it took them 20+ years to have an LGBT main character. (It was a big thing for a while that Fin’s son is gay, but we hardly ever see him. Frankly, early on, it would have been more impactful if it was one of Elliot’s kids, as his family played such a role in his life and the show.) And now Kat’s already gone. And I’ve been reading that it wasn’t even the actress’s decision.

It’s disappointing in a way that the show’s never really disappointed me before. Even when I was going back and watching some of the earlier episodes that are a little dated now. 

You’ve always had my support in the past, SVU. Do better. 

[supermandy1977]

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[the-romantic-lady]

It has been an issue for POC not being able to play themselves in movies. You haven’t been in the world particularly in places like America, when for YEARS white guys have played, Asian, Native American, Black, by wearing Black & brown face to change their look, that’s NOT the same for POC to put “white face” lol In India Indians still play INDIANS! You have NO IDEA what it’s like not to see your representation. POC have talent to play themselves, the issue is lack of opportunity.

“You have NO IDEA what it’s like not to see your representation.” Are you seriously assuming what my experiences are? I am just going to say that it’s a little embarrassing that there are people in this world even now that are dying based on their race and there are people concerned over this. And fyi, it’s not always Indian women. A lot of white women are cast because you know, they are white. These petty liberal ideals stop y’all from actually doing crap. I’m sorry if the race of the actor they cast in a movie doesn’t matter to me. I am busy thinking about people that die in Myanmar simply for being Muslims. 

[deerstalkerdeathfrisbee]

So I’ve been thinking...

I kind of want to write a fic involving a character living with high-functioning OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) since, well, OCD characters are few and far between and typically the handful you do see are extreme, overt cases (Adrian Monk from the show ‘Monk’ and Slav from Voltron are the only ones I can think of). As a person with high-functioning OCD I’d like to see some representation out there.

But.  I’m kind of nervous about writing a fic that would be so heavily based on my own experiences? I really don’t want to do this thing, which would be personally risky for me, just to get yelled at by strangers on the internet for not representing the condition ‘right’ when it would be based on my experiences. Essentially I’m afraid that if I write a fic with, say, a high-functioning OCD Keith (which I’ve been considering off and on for a while) people will come out of the woodwork to tell me the way I write OCD is wrong, essentially saying the way I experience OCD is ‘wrong’. (which is shit - literally everyone with OCD experiences it slightly differently because every human being is a unique and special individual)

I don’t know why I’m posting this, I kind of just want some constructive feedback because this is something that’s been on my mind a lot recently. Fandom is so discourse-heavy and so many people seem so ready to jump at each other’s throats over little things that I’m a little spooked about writing anything based on my experiences that has a chance to be torn apart by people spoiling for a fight or a Discourse.  

Thoughts?

[stephanie568]

Little Mermaid idea except the little mermaid (lets call her...Bay) falls in-love with the first princess (lets call her Blaze) (bonus points if she a transgender girl) and the temple girl/princess (lets call her Fawn) and Blaze and/or Fawn find out that Bay's feet hurt immensely when she walks/dances and such and confine her to a wheelchair to save her from all the pain and they all realize they love each other and they all get married and live happily ever after.

[i-am-not-a-poet01]

My little brother (autistic) went to his first job today! At one point in the afternoon, his coworker came up to him, said that he reminded him of a man, and pulled up this photo:

[futchplease]

Reblog this if most of the queer women you saw on tv growing up were chefs in cooking competitions