Even LGBT people are afraid to create LGBT rep half the time because you fucking goblins critique things with LGBT rep so harshly that the second it does something that you personally don’t like it gets treated even worse than the shows that have absolutely no rep in them.
Demonizing every show that is earnestly trying to provide the rep we’ve been lacking is NOT THE WAY TO GET BETTER REP
honey: lipstick, a sweet voice, confident laughter, handwritten notes, tries their best, loves fashion and dogs, bright eyes like the sun, new cities, good grades
woodsmoke: tired souls, ticket stubs and street maps from places they’ve visited, bodies full of untold stories, missing the train, coffee, gentle words
wisteria: dreamy evenings, freshly-baked cinnamon rolls, sipping tea, writing in a diary, thick, worn-out jumpers, handfuls of flowers, falling in love, book piles
saltwater: dark, tousled hair, ripped jeans, paintbrushes, lofty grins, swallowing hard, a little broken, trying desperately to be a good person
ink: soft aching hands buried in messy hair, tragic smiles, scribbling on dusty parchment, ancient ruins, attic windows, stars, cups of tea gone cold
thunderstorms: leather jackets, eyeliner wings, sharpening their smiles, lace-up boots, vinyl records, wikipedia articles, tangled earphones, cigarette afternoons
mood.
“Behind that steel mask, there’s a very handsome guy. Okay, he’s a good looking guy. But there’s one thing wrong with him. He’s got a scratch on his chin. And he’s frustrated; he knows he’s extremely handsome. He knows he’s got the scratch on his chin, but you haven’t.
He doesn’t realize his own anger and frustration is mounting. He’s not a bad guy, as you saw in the Fantastic Four. He’d give the Fantastic Four a wonderful meal… before he’d kill them. Doctor Doom isn’t all bad. And he’s got a lot of class, he’s got a lot of culture. Doctor Doom is a college man, he’s a knowledgeable man.
I can tell you that the gangsters in my own section lived very short lives, not because they were villains or different from anybody else, but because they wanted that $200 suit a little faster than the average guy. And they were willing to do things that would put them in jeopardy and put everyone else in jeopardy. But I can tell you they were good to their mothers.”
- Jack Kirby on Doctor Doom, 1985.
"i want more media with zero drama, no tension, and zero problematic characters and i am not joking"
Great! Here are my recommendations:
lord take all of my pain and sufferig and give it to elon musk
Yemen asked the West to stop aiding in the genocide of the Palestinian people and uphold international law. The West said no.
Then Yemen conducted sanctions and blockaded a sea bordering their nation to prevent the illegal sail of those funding and abetting genocide and did so nonviolently while upholding the very international law that West refused to uphold. The West bombed them.
Yeah.
a little edit i made inspired by @latveriastrong ‘s fancast of dominic rains as victor von doom.
I think people need to realize that like, the darker you are the more types of oppression you will face if you are labeled as a non-white group–that’s just how it is. If you are light skinned or white passing, but also a person of color (or black), acknowledging that darker skinned people in your community will be treated worse isn’t taking away from your oppression. We are not saying that you have white privilege or that you don’t face racism or oppression at all. But no matter how you see things or what you think you will ALWAYS be treated better than darker skinned people in your group. Even if it is just a little better, you still will be treated better, will still get better or even representation in general and still be seen as the more acceptable/visible person in that ethnic group. That is how colorism works. It isn’t your fault, but it’s also not your job to ignore that. Colorism isn’t an American centric thing, it exists in EVERY community even those who haven’t had western influence. So that’s just something that needs to be understood. Someone discussing how they face oppression based on being darker skinned isnt taking away from your oppression—
I noticed that Hannibal was often compared with the devil. For me, he is more like an Aztec devinity, a god of chaos who is both bestial and sublime. Tezcatlipoca, the “Smoking Mirror”, is for instance is a divinity associated to discord, war as well as memory, time and devine providence. In his honor, the Aztecs priests chose a young man who would be sacrificed and then eaten. Cannibalism was indeed quite common in the Aztec world. I believe that Hannibal would have been quite popular in such a society.