Because @staff is too cowardly…

reblog. bigger sample size asap

So, just curious how many writers and creators will have to be forcibly outed by relentless harassment before we acknowledge that "This queer characters was written by a cishet person and that's why they're bad" is not good criticism.

Also I cannot overstate how much "We should scrutinize out queer authors MORE" was not the point of this post, or my tags on it. Queer creators already cannot fucking win. If they're not out loud and clear, they get ripped to pieces. If they're out and proud and make art that doesn't rise to the impossible standard of perfectly representing all queer people everywhere they get ripped to pieces.

There isn't a way forward from this without being willing to admit that what is good representation is subjective. There isn't a way forward from this without admitting that we aren't all looking for the same thing in queer media and queer characters, that something not being for me doesn't make it necessarily bad and harmful, and that what we need is more and a greater variety of queer characters, not to force them all into one arbitrary formula.

Less than a day after I posted this, the notes were already filling up with testimonials from creators afraid to represent themselves in their own work because they are aware of the unforgiving scrutiny applied to all marginalized characters and they know their characters will be seen as imperfect representation.

You have to realize that the rigid view of what constitutes "good representation" is not just hurting the privileged creators you deem acceptable targets. It is hurting marginalized creators who want to represent themselves and share their stories in their voices.

I know classic Star Trek always had a mix of serious business and wacky shenanigans, but I don't know if anything will ever beat the seesaw of earnestness and ridiculousness that was Deep Space Nine season six?

then you get to ep 16 which is kind of a twofer because the main story is Worf having to choose between duty and saving his wife but the b plot is Julian helping Miles win at Ferengi Monopoly

then in ep 17 Dukat calls Kira at midnight on her dead mom's birthday to announce he banged her mom 30 years ago and Kira decides to use time travel to see if it's true

then in ep 18 they introduce fucking Section 31

ep 19 is In the Pale Moonlight, aka the “I can live with that” Garak Romulan assassination episode, aka the one many people list as a fav because it's so nuanced and conflicting and well written

they follow that up with Odo getting dating advice from a hologram of a 1960s Las Vegas lounge singer

that is followed by an apocalyptic demon prophecy showdown and a bunch of kids dying in a war they weren't ready for, followed by fucking Profit and Lace, aka the very problematic Quark Sex Change episode, where Quark has to put on a dress and get molested by a soft drink tycoon because his mom is dating the president now

let's hear it for 100% platonic love. friends, both in-person and online, who remind you how fucking fun and exciting and beautiful the world can be. siblings and cousins and sometimes parents or grandparents or aunts or uncles who stick by you and support you when you're feeling low. strangers who show you unexpected kindness, or to whom you have showed the same. artists you'll never meet whose work helped you better meet yourself.

all too often, pop culture tells us that the only satisfying ending is one neatly tied up with a romantic bow, but there are a million ways to love out there, and a lot of them are really fucking great!

Talking meaning chatting online, interacting irl, or even exchanging one or two messages. I just want to see how much tumblr users actually talk to each other!

One of those ‘pick two pills’ things but it’s things I actually want

Awwwwwww

Another Encanto art dump yeaaaahhhh!! It’s been I while 🥲

Back at it again with the ✨ family fluff ✨

I would say that I missed drawing them but— I didn’t— because I never stopped 😂

I just take forever to finish and post things nowadays

not asking if you like it, im asking if it's objectively a good movie.

Great Mouse Detective version of Dracula happening simultaneously as the events of Dracula, so there’s just five mice in Victorian clothes unnoticed by the human cast desperately trying to kill a bat.

Or they’re also trying to kill Dracula, but exclusively during the parts of the book when he’s turned into a bat.

Dracula invited a human realtor and a mouse realtor to his castle and there were extended periods of time where he would say to his human realtor “Ah please excuse me I have business to attend to” and turn into a bat to talk to his mouse realtor.

PIKE TRICKFOOT & SCANLAN SHORTHALT IN THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA SEASON 2 (EPISODES 10-12)

Ahh, it’s back

i have disproportionately strong feelings about this.

every time i say “nah i’m not gonna watch it again.” BUT I STILL DO EVERY TIME.

YEAUGH

Hey, could you do me a favor?

Could you just RB this?

The little RB statistics chart is so pleasant and stimmy to look at and I want to see what it looks like when it gets really REALLY huge because it makes me think of some deep sea lifeform

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing (comedic)

also the whole 'straight actors can't play gay characters' thing is actually damaging and harmful to me personally because what if i want to watch anne hathaway kiss more women. what about that huh

isnt it insane that merry and pippin spent like the span of weeks apart in different countries and immediately made new besties whose lives they save in their final battles. like merry strikes the blow on the witch king that lets eowyn kill him and pippin pulls faramir out of denethor's pyre. and then eowyn and faramir ended up marrying each other. isn't that wild. were merry and pippin conspiring in the houses of healing like hey i think my new best friend would be great with your new best friend how quickly do you think we can get them to fall in love. was there great hobbit cacophony when faramir kisses eowyn on the ramparts. i think yes.

So apparently, if you sign up for Threads and later decide to delete it, it will also nuke your Instagram account.

Source: Techcrunch.com

Think carefully before creating a Threads account (or anywhere else, really).