I just started watching the amrican adaptation of bbc ghosts and i fucking hate it.
Especially Isaac. He replaces the Captain as the new gay character who's in the military. However, unlike the Captain, being gay becomes his whole personality. Every joke turns into "oh, haha, get it, he's feminine because he's gay!!!".
The reason i loved the Captain so much, was because he WASN'T a stereotypical depiction of a gay man. He technically fit male gender roles (strong, authoritarian, stern, fit, literally in the military) despite being queer. Sure, there's jokes about him finding men attractive, but they are the same as the jokes about Thomas's crush. He doesn't get turned into some stereotypical caricature of a gay guy. He has a couple moments like that, like when he played the fairy godmother, but he doesn't constantly get portrayed as feminine just because he's gay.
Isaac however? Any joke related to him is tied to him being gay. Even the military stuff. He finds out that Hamilton is way more famous than him, and of course, the thing that bothers him the most it that there's a musical about him. (get it? Because obviously gay men love musicals. And girls like pink and boys like blue.) Hell, even when he sits, he does exaggerated fem poses.
Especially with the American adaptation, it just feels like they turned an amazing depiction of a queer character, with a personality outside of their queerness, into a very flat and stereotyped one.
I don't mind fem depictions of gay men. There IS gay men, who behave exactly like Isaac. And, this is a comedy show that relies on stereotypes: all ghosts are some sort of stereotype.
However, I'm sick of media trying to frame it as "gay man = feminine". There's so, so many queer characters who are portrayed as inherently "different". In so many shows, lesbians are always butch and gay men always feminine and it's framed in a way that suggests that they are gnc BECAUSE of their queerness, and not in addition to it, and i hate it.
Its just a way to enforce gender roles despite queer identities. Because if a woman likes other women, that must mean shes similar to a man, right?
What about straight gnc characters. Why do we rarely see cishet characters break gender roles, without it being depicted as something bad? (the few examples of gnc characters in popular media that i can think of, are like, guys who out on a dress and got made fun of because of it.)
Can we please stop with the whole "boys are blue, pinks are girls and queer people are gnc!" shit? It's really annoying. And it frames queerness as something different, something that fundementally changes/affects a person's whole personality. Like seriously. Do you not think that the depiction of "same gender attraction = your whole personality is different" is really really fucking weird? I know that it has historical context and everything, because many gay man do behave stereotypically feminine (either as a subtle hint at their queerness, or just because they are already a "deviation" from the norm, so why not say fuck you to the whole system and live your life however you want?) but. But please please please stop pretending like queer people are inherently different from cishets. That just gives people an excuse to be homophobic.
(feel free to add your own take, im sure there's plenty of other interesting perspectives on this that are different from mine, but be nice about it! I wanna have a discussion, not an argument.)
Here's the second artwork for this chapter :D It's Xornoth destroying a building! Yay! Death!
(if you saw me post this yesterday... NOT YOU DIDNT. my sleep deprived ass definitely didn't accidentally post this yesterday at 2am...)
Close ups below!
Decided to redraw the art for chapter 1 of wolau :D
Close ups below!
Go check out the fic it's for!
[Day 27]: Grian! The pesky bird, the bad boy, the guy who got me into watching hermitcraft during season 7!
Look at him and his silly big eyes! Yep. They r ginormous, just like the moon. And its definitely the only odd thing about them... Don't look too closely tho :)
Ik this is a hermitcraft art challange, but just HAD to draw his badboy skin.
Oh and i gave him a silly necklace (that's hidden underneath his shirt) with absolutely no hidden meaning (<-lie) that i will definitely not elaborate on in future art! (<-depends on whether i remember to actually do it LMFAO)
(meme about grians eyes below!)
"Mumbo is the moon big" no grian, it's not, not as big as your soulless eyes at least! /j/ref
Bdubs forgetting his horse in the shopping district the second he buys an elytra. -Chandelier
[Day 21]: Bdubbleo!
The man, the myth, the legendary sleeper: Bdubs! Ty for the request, i hope u like the final result! I've been experimenting w/ more simplified / comic like artstyles and i think im p happy with how much I've been improving at them :3
Close ups of Climb10 and Jevins shop below!
Im usually p bad drawing horses, I'm surprised about how well this one turned out?
Can I request literally anything evil Xisuma related
OH IVE BEEN WAITING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY LIKE THIS ONE!
(In zedaphs voice) I present to you, created from a milk snake and an evil xisumavoid,…
*pow cachow, awesome evil transformation noises, woooo*
MILK SNAKE EVIL XISUMA!!! THE EVILIEST SNAKE OF ALLLLLLL
Here's my original post about snake ex
how did you explain your two year long no call no show to your boss at the gas station?
“In the end, I didn’t really have to explain anything?”
[transcript below]
Anonymous Caller:
how did you explain your two year long no call no show to your boss at the gas station?
Wilbur Soot:
[editorial note: its a flashback; artist rendition. Wilbur has just returned to Utah]
Yes! Finally!
[Wilbur calls his boss]
Hey, It’s Wilbur. [unintelligible] Wilbur Soot. [unintelligible] Yes- Yeah, the British sounding one. Listen, I was wondering-
[unintelligible] My two week notice didn’t get processed? Are you kidding? [unintelligible] Oh... [unintelligible] Ok... Ok That makes sense. [unintelligible] Sure. [unintelligible] Alright, see you Monday.
I PROMISE IM WORKING ON WOLAU YALL, I JUST KEEP STARTING WITH NEW CHAPTERS INSTEAD OF EDITING THE OLD ONES 😭
Imma post chapter 7 this week tho, it's alr finished, i just gotta draw the artwork for it first 👍
Beef painting the Iskall bedroom in his house. -Chandelier
Here u go!
Decided to do a sketchy animation for this one, i hope you like it :D it was a lot of fun to draw, I've really been enjoying animating these lil gifs! If you guys have any suggestions (especially if it could be turned into a lil gif 👁️👁️) my ask is open :3
❗Hermitcraft / Life series art requests open❗
Hermitcraft season 10 is hermitcraft season 10 bc the lore is 10 times more insane than the other seasons were