me checking the bottoms of very expensive ceramic plant pots for drainage

Sigourney Weaver to a bunch of children in the desert

me at a mountain designed by Junji Ito

how do you draw bread

Oh boy!! It’s a fucking mystery?? A spooky scary mystery!! Better get fucking Sherlock Holmes on this one! It’s a big fucking mystery, with no obvious answer!

This is not a Sherlock Holmes mystery. This is a Scooby-Doo mystery, where the villain is an old white guy pulling a real estate / inheritance scam.

Guys 2014 is in two months

Guys 2024 is in two months

behind the music with @taylorswift

Ok I'll kill myself

okay but say don't go is so catchy???? like who gave her the RIGHT to have a vault full of ONLY BANGERS

YOU KISS ME AND IT STOPS TIME

I AM YOURS BUT YOU'RE NOT MINE

Why'd you have to lead me on? Why you'd have to twist the knife? Walk away and leave me bleeding, bleeding? Why'd you whisper in the dark just to leave me in the night? Now your silence has me screamin' SCREAMINNNN'

best friends best friends best friends

"you only deserve food and shelter if you contribute to society" says people living in countries where nobody's labor actually feeds or benefits their neighbors anymore but exclusively benefits the companies keeping the food and shelter behind the artificial paywalls

You're not nomads relying on each other to hunt and gather anymore, you're talking about stocking shelves for fucking wal marts

And even the oldest societies on earth all took care of the elderly or sick anyway

nobody tears through library books quite as fast as a 12 yr old girl with no friends

only ppl on this post who matter r the ppl who r saying "me except im not a girl anymore" & "me except i wasnt a girl yet"

Steven Universe got blatantly and unapologetically cancelled by the network because the creators pushed for a lesbian wedding, and instead of going, "oh, fuck, that's incredibly homophobic, we should give Cartoon Network hell for that for the rest of forever, holy shit," everyone collectively decided to blame the crew for "rushing the ending" as if it wasn't completely out of their hands. Fuck's sake.

"Ren why do you even care so much?"

Because I study queer media history as a hobby, am working on an intense project on media censorship, and the way Steven Universe was treated is a fucking textbook example of queer content getting shut down by the powers-that-be.

It was literally censored in reaction to its inclusion of queer content. This isn't a secret and it never has been. Rebecca Sugar has been completely open about how hard they had to fight against homophobia at Cartoon Network. Steven Universe is a case study of anti-queer censorship from a mindset of "think of the children."

Steven Universe is a historically significant piece of queer media, and watching in real-time as it went from "progressive queer show" to "the subject of the most rancid bad-faith discourse I have ever seen" is genuinely alarming to me as a queer media hobby-historian.

[ID: A screenshot of a comment from tumblr user mechfried, saying, "Wait, that isn't working out here, they wouldn't cancel the show for having a gay wedding, but than [sic] give the same creator a movie and a second show to continue that story." End ID.]

"Cancellation" doesn't just mean "immediately ended." Cancellations can include shortenings.

These photos are from the "End of an Era" artbook.

Transcript:

Rebecca Sugar: After the publication of The Answer in 2016, I was pulled into a meeting and asked to explain myself. I had been told to play down this relationship, and now it existed as a book. In every meeting like this, I would defend our stories and our audience of queer youth--they deserve cartoons and picture books, too. I would leave these meetings feeling rattled. I drew this self-portrait the night of The Answer book meeting. [Portrait not included in this photo.]

Transcription:

We decided it would be an inexorable part of the story. And then the back-and-forth started, and no one wanted to say the real concerns, so instead it was, "Will this appeal to our demographic of six-to-eleven-year-old boys?" But Ben 10 had an alien wedding, Powerpuff Girls had a wedding--there was no question that the Cartoon Network audience would definitely watch a wedding. Arguments were made that it was "out of character" for Steven to want a wedding, but we'd covered our bases there with the episode "Open Book" [S1E51], which had already aired ages ago. It's old news that Steven loves weddings. I wouldn't bend on the story, and every time there was a concern about it not being entertaining enough, I would add more: A big musical number! A huge fight! A half-hour special! This thing will be so entertaining it'll blow kids' hair back!

"But if Steven Universe gets a gay wedding, then every show is going to want a gay wedding!" "YES!" I said. "GOOD! WHY NOT???"

Eventually the decision came down from on high: We could have the wedding. I knew that was an extremely difficult call to make, and that we were going to be censored heavily and pulled in many countries because of it. And we didn't know at that time if this would mean the end of the show. It looked as if the writing was on the wall, and we were working toward the end.

I had been told this would be the final pickup for us, and I campaigned for an additional six episodes on the end of the season in order to wrap up the story--this became the Era 3 arc.

Navigating a cosmos of relationships was a lot for a young person like Steven as he attempted to find the good in everyone and hook that connection that would allow positive change to blossom in the minds of others. His powers were going to be put into the test in so many more ways as the series moved through this slate of episodes, building steam toward an interplanetary conflict.

End transcript.

I will never understand people who don’t care about context.  Rebecca Sugar fought as hard as she could for what we got, and there was a hell of a price to be paid for it, and people shriek about how the show is horrible because it doesn’t do enough.  The same people accuse the writers of Legend of Korra of cynical, intentional queerbaiting because it didn’t do enough.  They’re whinging about how She-Ra didn’t do enough.  Are they already bitching about how The Owl House sucks because IT doesn’t do enough?

And not fucking once have these people stopped to think that Korrasami being confirmed with handholding and a loving gaze was literally as far as things could be pushed at the time, or that Ruby and Sapphire’s wedding could not have happened without that.  She-Ra and The Owl House couldn’t go where they did without Legend of Korra and Steven Universe going where they did first.

You know what that’s called, where things get better one step at a time?  Progress.

You know what that’s called,

where things get better one step

at a time? Progress.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

midnights 🌙

'romance is not dead if you keep it just yours' is such a succinct way of saying that love's not for public consumption and it's not quantified by how much you talk about it, how much you perform your love so it's believable for an outsider, that those things actively kill romance and what makes love real is keeping it your own.

✧ TAYLOR SWIFT the 2022 American Music Awards (November 20, 2022)

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