[antiquesintheattic]

[throatoftheworld]

Pomegranate War by Takuya Mitani, 2024

[valarrs]

Zendaya via ernestocasillas

[youre-only-gay-once]

[sosuperawesome]

Vintage Saturn Ceiling Light // RoyalArtDecolighting

[slayerbuffy]

BUFFY & SPIKE in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (seasons 6/7). — requested by @sarahmae101

[freakoutgirl]

the internet seems like a distant dream

[freakoutgirl]

whatever we are on rn is not the internet. It's ads

[sobcat]

[horror-aesthete]

Rosemary's Baby, 1968, dir. Roman Polanski

[leahzepam]

iPod mini dress ✮⋆˙

[twelvemonkeyswere]

I was suddenly head-slammed into remembering The Young Pope. he was young. he was the pope. he was Jude Law. he was a saint. he was asexual. he had been raised by hippies. he truly believed in god. he conjured miracles. he was a despot. he had god kill a nun. he smoked cigarettes. he believed in the institution of the catholic church. he had cherry coke zero for breakfast. he was a gringo. this was the intro:

what a show. what a character. what a soundtrack. absence is presence.

[godlessondheimite]

it’s actually really easy to satisfy audiences with Good Representation. you can’t depict someone struggling with their Otherness because that portrays it in a bad light but you have to depict them struggling with their Otherness because if you don’t, then you’re romanticizing how hard it is to be Othered. be super careful not to depict anything that might be adjacent to a common stereotype but if you go too far to avoid all stereotypes, then you’re still building the characters around stereotypes, which is a stereotype in its own way. if your storyline uses tropes, then it’s cliche, but if it avoids tropes, then it’s inauthentic. if you lampshade any of this, then you’re speaking down to your audience but if you don’t acknowledge this, you’re also speaking down to your audience. this is all really easy stuff i don’t know why people don’t get it.

[theuniceon]

OP thank u thank u for the words

God forbid a minority in a piece of fiction is a character, a person even, and not just representation

We used to complain about characters being reduced to “the gay one” or the “black one” or “the trans one” etc, but now people are literally reducing characters, no matter how nuanced and interesting and well written, to “the gay one” or “the black one” or “the trans one”

They’re expected to represent the entire spectrum of whatever label they have, having to be Impossibly Perfect as if they’re the ONLY minority character that exists. That they hold the people’s perception of that group on their shoulders. If they are imperfect, equality will never be achieved

What we need is to have such a wide range of diversity (racial, gender, sexual, etc) across all forms of media, and a world that doesn’t ‘other’ these groups, and creates a world where no one person or character is expected to represent everyone like them.

We need to accept sometimes people are “stereotypical” - sometimes gay men are feminine, sometimes lesbians are butch. It’s okay, there’s nothing wrong with that; the issue is when media ONLY depicts them that way. This is why we need to see a RANGE, to show that hey, minorities are people too and you can’t put them in a box.

Some stereotypes can be harmful, and of course we should be mindful of this! But that can also end up in “these characters can NEVER be X”, which limits the range we could be seeing. Yes, queer coding villains of the past WAS often fuelled by homophobia, but are you saying that villains (some of the most fun chatters to explore) can ONLY be straight? Yes, we need to push back on queerness being seen as predatory, but a gay villain can exist without being homophobic.

The stereotypes are kept alive. Sometime a character (or real human being) is X and Y, but they’re not X because they’re Y. Not everyone is aware of every stereotype either, as different cultures and countries have different ones for different groups.

This sort of attitude towards representation is going to scare people away from minority rep in their media, because imperfect rep (which apparently it all is) is treated as bad as intentionally bigoted rep or no rep at all

It’s sending us backwards

[captainclickycat]

Also if your story is low-stakes and optimistic with a happy ending it's too saccharine and childish and erases the difficulties that queer people face in the world. If it's dark and full of conflict and doesn't end happily it's defeatist and burying its gays. If it's general-audience palatable and doesn't focus on sex it's too sanitised. If it's raunchy and appeals to niche groups it's gross and paints us in a bad light. If it's centred around romance it's reinforcing the idea that that's all being queer is about, but if there's no romance it's erasive and not proper representation. Don't have your characters' relationship be too traditional and conformist, but don't make it too unconventional either because that reinforces the idea that queer people are weird and can't just do things the normal way. If your story isn't fully representative of the whole rich tapestry of queer experience by itself then it's basically worthless. And don't forget to ditch any piece of queer media the second anyone on the internet finds fault with it, you're an evil bigot for enjoying anything imperfect. What? Why are people acting like this is hard?

[godlessondheimite]

it’s actually really easy to satisfy audiences with Good Representation. you can’t depict someone struggling with their Otherness because that portrays it in a bad light but you have to depict them struggling with their Otherness because if you don’t, then you’re romanticizing how hard it is to be Othered. be super careful not to depict anything that might be adjacent to a common stereotype but if you go too far to avoid all stereotypes, then you’re still building the characters around stereotypes, which is a stereotype in its own way. if your storyline uses tropes, then it’s cliche, but if it avoids tropes, then it’s inauthentic. if you lampshade any of this, then you’re speaking down to your audience but if you don’t acknowledge this, you’re also speaking down to your audience. this is all really easy stuff i don’t know why people don’t get it.

[metamorphesque]

— Lament, Edna St. Vincent Millay

[doomdaysdecays-deactivated20251]

if i had to explain what tumblr is like i’d only show this

[the-moonbug]

No one seems to be acknowledging the far funnier element of this, which is, that when you go to the commenter’s account, you find out they are actually fucking roleplaying as a sexually repressed skeleton and jjst really committed to the bit while everyone in the reblogs is talking about how much they hate minors or whatever. thank you kharak the skeleton servant of the almighty lich king

[nerdragons-hoard]

if i had to explain what tumblr is like i’d only show this

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

“i only like art that makes me feel good” completely foreign and repulsive idea to me. i would rather die than live your life

[anthropoetics]

by james thurber