@ this entire website did u know it’s possible to make an informative post about a tragedy and/or national disaster without guilting and/or blaming your entire reader base for not posting about it when they PROBABLY simply haven’t heard about it?
It’s not that all the awful Americans on the American owned and run site hate Greece and Sweden and the rest of Europe that’s on fire and want to ignore them, it’s really not. We care, and when we find out information, we do share it and we do want to help. We’re just also really busy, dealing with
California is also on fire—yet again
Our primaries already occurring across the country and the dire need to get people voting to get the GOP ousted
The continuing daily breaking updates on the treason of the entire White House and the investigation for that, as well as the Cheeto in Chief himself meeting with his bff and telling the world how obviously our entire intelligence network is wrong
Trying to hold our nightmare government accountable for the citizens in Peurto Rico who are still suffering months after the hurricanes
711 children remaining in custody in the trumpcamps past the deadline for reuniting them with their families who have no documentation because the country never intended to return them and is currently trying to make their families pay all costs to return for saving their children after they were forcibly denied assulum and ejected from the country
A very real threat of an extremely anti-choice trashbag being named to the open Supreme Court seat in a bid to re-criminalize abortions so we can go back to back-alley arrangements and using phone chains
Actual Nazis running for office and marching in our streets and showing up at the funeral for the murdered Nia Wilson to just generally be fucking monsters
Guns now being legalized on 3D printing sharing networks, because we didn’t have enough problems with firearms
Yet another food-borne disease outbreak, and another, and an additional one, as more and more of our regulations get tossed out left and right
A gyno at USC finally is having lawsuits filed against him from sexually assaulting over 50 women over decades with the school that were covered up
The EPA has fucked us yet again, now by rolling back regulations on coal ash (which is Extremly Harmful, despite the simple name)
The White House is still continuing to try and bully journalists and have them removed from press briefings
Not only does Flint still not have clean water, additional warnings have just been announced for other areas of Michigan where their water has been deemed entirely unsafe for use
And like… this is just the shit from the last week or two that I can remember off the top of my head. We’re really tired, and constantly bombarded daily with Severely Awful Shit happening in our country as the conservative bloc does their damnedest to ruin not only the planet but also all of our lives for more more more money and power.
unpopular opinion but it’s cool if you don’t want to be in love
like, idk. I used to feel so compelled to make excuses for being single, whether it was self-deprecating jokes about myself or insisting that I was too busy for a relationship or making myself go out on uncomfortable and pointless dates just to make a show of trying to not be single. there’s such an expectation that if you’re single you should be actively working of changing that, and it’s like. nah. there are 9999 other things you can be focusing your time and energy on and if you don’t really feel like being in a relationship now or ever that’s cool.
just throwing this out there but if blake tries to talk to yang and yang tries to shrug it off and walk away and blake stops her by grabbing her hand, you will never hear another word from me again because i’ll be no longer alive
Ah being a trans person in fandoms and trying to side step everybodies bullshit just to get to see yourself in a character. Btw this is why we need way more trans characters in media, because even when we try to make our own connections we get told we aren’t allowed to
not to be dramatic, but Okoye telling her bitch ass husband she would end him without hesitation when he tried to manipulate her changed me as a person and cured my depression.
“would you kill me my love?”
“for wakanda? No question.”
a woman in my theater: “oH I HEARD THAT!!!!”
Listen. LISTEN. *cups your face in my hands* Listen to me. I have never so perfectly and purely seen a Paladin depicted in a movie as I saw in Okoye. Lawful good to her core. Pure, unvarnished loyalty to Wakanda and her people evident in every goddamned motion. Dignified, graceful, reverent respect for the rules of her country and its greater good.
There is something so beautiful about faith, something that just burns through with a beautiful glow that lights up someone’s eyes and every expression. There is a confidence and a peace that is both palpable and enviable when faith has been tested and come through intact. You could so hear it in her voice.
Personal shit is great, and I’m glad she was seen in a loving relationship. The Lone Woman Warrior trope is worn thin, and I’m sure even thinner for black women who are often not allowed to be lovable people on screen. But the core of the Paladin is ‘there is something greater than I, and I will sacrifice everything for it’, and it was beautiful to not only see that happen on screen but see her proved right, see her win, in one case by not even raising her weapon. She stood firm in her faith and the narrative said yes, it said this is just, it said your very faith will protect you from harm. And she’s not seen as hard or cold edged weapon for that. The imagery around her in that moment is more like a saint or an angel, glowing and reaching out a peaceful hand to a symbol of one of the tribes of her country. Her country loves her back.
Okoye doesn’t just love her country. She doesn’t just serve her country. She doesn’t just believe in her country. She has unshakable faith in an absolute truth: Wakanda Forever.
She is elevated for her faith as much as her skill.
Queerbaiting is when two same-sex characters act like they’re in a romantic relationship, get really close to kissing or otherwise put into intimate positions, etc on screen without actually doing anything that would confirm them to be in a relationship. Queerbaiting is not when the creators shoot down a ship you like, between two characters who have neither expressed any romantic interest in one another nor been put into fanservice-y positions with each other in canon. You searched for chemistry that wasn’t there, read too far into every line they said to one another, intentionally misinterpreted their anger and insults toward one another as “romantic”, used fucking colors in the backgrounds to say that the showrunners were going to make this relationship canon. That’s all you.
The showrunners haven’t queerbaited anyone. Go back to watching shojo anime if you want to see queerbaiting.
Being actually bisexual, this.
Queerbaiting is what OP described. It’s having characters of the same sex get into really intimate, romantic situations, but never have them get together. It’s not having a ship you thought would happen, misinterpreting insults as romantic interest, get shot down.
Animation, like the interview said, takes time and is planned out in advance. Whatever they planned, it was set in stone long before the show even aired.
They haven’t queer-baited at all. Trust me on that.
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