So hey, when proshippers say that anti arguments about the evils of darkfic and how Enjoying Morally Bad Fiction Is As Morally Wrong As Whatever Crimes It Depicts is tantamount to Evangelical Puritanism in a gay hat? THIS IS WHY. I’ve seen so many antis claim angrily that it’s a straw argument to call theirs even remotely relates to Evangelical logic, but please, by all means explain to me how the Evangelical belief that thought and action are morally the same is different to the idea that reading or writing something bad is as bad as doing it.
I guarantee that a solid 95% of antis have a trope or kink that they like but which they keep on the DL because they know that certain *other* antis would be too hardline about That One Thing, and maybe they feel a little ashamed about it but insist to themselves that it’s still OK because *they* know why they enjoy it, and it’s not because they’re morally fucked up like those proshippers, no: they’re the Special Exception who knows how to like it in exactly the right context to make it fine, which is why they get extra angry when they see proshippers defending that particular thing above all else -
and this is so achingly like every Evangelical who protests at the abortion clinic, but secretly takes their own teenage daughter there when she needs it, because they know THEIR child is different, not like all those other irresponsible sluts in the waiting room, which is why they’ll go back to protesting tomorrow - this is, I hasten to add for anyone who thinks this is a made-up person, a maddeningly real and common phenomenon in the experiences of abortion clinic workers - and I just [stares into the middle distance]
So hey, when proshippers say that anti arguments about the evils of darkfic and how Enjoying Morally Bad Fiction Is As Morally Wrong As Whatever Crimes It Depicts is tantamount to Evangelical Puritanism in a gay hat? THIS IS WHY. I’ve seen so many antis claim angrily that it’s a straw argument to call theirs even remotely relates to Evangelical logic, but please, by all means explain to me how the Evangelical belief that thought and action are morally the same is different to the idea that reading or writing something bad is as bad as doing it.
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face makeup is evil. i don’t care. like eyeshadow can be a fun and creative thing and it’s not like anybody is going to think you genuinely have purple eyelids but face makeup that’s made to look “natural” just ends up making you think your normal skin is something to be covered up and distorts your perception of your face. the whole “it makes ppl more confident!” thing is a lie because it’s not that the makeup itself is making you feel confident it’s that it creates an association with confidence and the results of that is you end up hating your face which is the opposite of building your self-confidence.
i keep getting (and blocking lol) comments like “let people do what they want with their appearance!!!” on this post when like that’s literally my point makeup should be a thing you wear because you feel like you want to be creative and fuck it why not have black eyelids and purple lips today. foundation and contouring and colour correcting that look “natural” are the opposite of that! you’re not doing it because you want to you’re doing it because you feel like your face is lacking without it after wearing it for so long and makeup companies prey on that. it’s a good business model because a foundation bottle is something you’re gonna have to replace once a year if you wear it every day but eyeshadow and lipstick will last you several years even with daily use like i’m a goth i wear heavy black eyeshadow on my eyelids every time i do my makeup and i haven’t had to replace it in years. “but foundation helps people go out in public because they have low self-confidence!” is a myth, and just because it’s a coping mechanism doesn’t mean it’s a good one like it will in the long run make you think your naked face is lacking which is fucked up because it’s your FACE. there’s nothing wrong with it and the industry that is selling you the foundation that “empowers” you is actively working to make sure you need to be empowered
“let’s totally erase cultural makeup!! you’re evil and mean!” i know the reading comprehension on this site is low but come on you know that’s not what i’m talking about at all. ah yes the ancestral and sacred practice of contouring your face and covering every single blemish you’ve ever had because god forbid someone sees you have acne like a real human person
Korra and Asami only held hands because Nickelodeon wouldn’t let them do more. Nick infamously cancelled Korra and put out the rest of season 4 as a webseries only.
Marceline and Princess Bubblegum only kiss in the very final episode because Cartoon Network wouldn’t let them do more. There are a ton of interviews with Pendelton and with the voice actresses where they talk about the CN censorship.
Steven Universe got as far as it did because Rebecca Sugar fought tooth and nail, and risked the show getting cancelled (which it did in many countries, if not heavily censored), because Cartoon Network wouldn’t let her. Ruby was often dubbed over with a male voice, and Pearl/Rose interactions were completely cut.
She-Ra managed to do it largely because it was specifically on Netflix only, and even then, Noelle has said they had to build 4 seasons of storyline very subtly around it so they had enough ammo to convince the execs that Catradora was the only logical conclusion to this show they had already aired. She didn’t just go in on Day 1 and make it gay; she had to plan many years in advance for how to set up her argument. Her argument, y’all.
And now we have The Owl House. Which is an absolutely wonderful show. And it’s so amazing that we actually get to see queer characters get the kind of representation that so many straight characters get. And it’s amazing we get to see the romance build up, instead of just a quick peck in the series finale!
Let’s not forget that in the US, it was illegal for gay people to get married until 2015. Korra aired in 2012. In Texas, it was a punishable felony to even be gay until the mid-90s. No, literally. Just being gay was an arrestable offense here in Texas until 1993. We have come a really long way in 20 years!
But don’t fucking dare disrespect any of these other shows by saying they didn’t try, or that their representation didn’t matter. The Owl House is standing on the shoulders of giants. Lumity is only where it is because Korrasami and Bubbline helped get them there.
Okay so clearly Tumblr is blocking the posts about the #ActiBlizzWalkout cause my reblogs aren’t showing up on my dash - anyway don’t cross the virtual picket line folks and let’s stand up for women and marginalized groups in the gaming workplace.
Avoid these games/companies, thanks
Boycotts work, yall
Keep avoiding these games for the time being, especially the ones that use online services.
that supergirl lesbian kiss where the girls look like they are going to quit after that take is the polar opposite of the scene in brokeback where alma sees jack and ennis making out and heath ledger almost broke jake gyllenhaals nose
the binary
#someone said ‘the supergirl kiss looks like when michael kissed oscar on the office’ and it does and i’m screaming
this is literally the same gif
I fucking choked
Hollywood cast queer folks to play queer characters challenge. And cast POC to play POC
This last point is absolutely true.
HOWEVER.
Having been in high school when Brokeback Mountain came out, I can tell you Heath and Jake took A LOT of heat for many of the scenes in it (including this one), because they WEREN’T all awkward and afraid to touch each other. They both went in with the attitude of “we’ve been hired to portray a relationship, and we’re going to do that.” I lost count of the number of times they were asked if it was weird/different to kiss another man. I think it was Jake who made the most confused face ever at the camera and kind of went “….no…..? A kiss is a kiss?” The speculation on their sexualities ran RAMPANT—at the same time that Heath started dating Michelle Williams (who played his wife, in the most positive-but-ironic turn of events ever). They literally were basically not allowed to say “queer people are people, and you don’t have to be queer to see that queer people can love and cherish each other emotionally and physically.” They did their best to do that, working against a mass media that was going “look, it’s a story about TWO MEN!! And they HAVE SEX!!! HOW FREAKY!!!”
So while I agree that in 2019 we should be aspiring to cast queer actors to play queer roles, please recognize that the fact we can aspire to that now is partly because of what two straight actors did fifteen years ago, when they decided they weren’t going to be afraid to risk breaking each other’s faces in a show of passion and longing.
#I’m happy that young queers are getting so much compared to my youth #but there’s such a lack of understanding at the same time #like you can tell they never grew up in a world where their first experience with queerness was a brutal violent murder
Brokeback Mountain was released in 2005.
Lawrence v Texas, the lawsuit that overturned sodomy laws that made gay sex illegal, was in 2003.
The cast was set before SCOTUS made that ruling. The film was already being planned at a time when gay sex was a crime in more than a dozen US states.
They couldn’t “get queer actors to play queer roles” because the majority of queer actors were deeply closeted, because it was a crime in a lot of places, including all of Texas and Florida. Your movie has a scene at Disneyworld? Can’t have known queer actors or they could be arrested during filming.
I don’t know how to get across how different it is now.
