Pam, like I just. That they went with the worst ending. I'm just tired of bait and switch no happy endings for black women.
I think whats worse is that all along in the back of my mind I thought this was a very viable outcome, but I thought nah it’s a kid show they wouldn’t be that tacky at the very worst Allura becomes Larry’s Space Waifu Barbie(which still sucks but at least she’d be alive) or she fucks off to be some grand ruler to the new Alteans and like NONE of that happens.
So yeah no, just like that reblog said you have black girls coming up now having to contend with yt writers only putting characters into shit for woke bae coins and little else, backburning them until they are irrelevant and then ultimately killing them because that’s edgy and grimdark and ultimately makes for ‘deep’ storytelling or whatever is going on with this generation of hack writers.
Like I thought this was something you’d only see in things aimed at adults, but yeah no it’s a little terrifying that this is the kind of message being pushed more and more into something that’s for a Y7 audience.
you’re a strong black woman who mules and self-sacrifices rolls her neck with no time for love and thats your only facet because that’s ‘ good feminism’
If she does have time for love she gets paired with some dude she has to help grow or mature or someone she doesn’t even like in the beginning(and not even in the iconic Usagi/Mamoru Han/Leia way) (also also, this isn’t even a dig at LuLarry this was also Tiana and Naveen for our first fucking black princess) but ultimately either one or both parties will die.
Alternatively(and rarely) a black woman finds someone who is her equal, who is perfect for her in every way and he’s either playing her, stuck between picking her or his ex Becky Alabaster(who he will always choose) or if nonee of those apply and he’s got no baggae and is good will die anyway, if she also doesn’t die with him.
And your final option is to just not exist, you just aren’t important enough to have a story sorry, there’s a black guy here tho! :D