bae-in-maine:

naamahdarling:

spiritscraft:

werewolfetude:

fandomsandfeminism:

pikkulaku:

Imagine being a kid in school. Your teacher comes up with an idea for class picture. Every student will draw pictures of their friends.

Everyone starts drawing enthusiasticly, and can’t wait to see what they look like in the drawings. When pictures are ready you notice that popular students have more pictures than rest, but nobody has done a drawing of you. The teacher notices that too, and asks if someone would do your picture. To your horror the class clown takes the job, and comes up with a caricature of you. Others are laughing, but you’re not. You feel awful. The teacher notices that. and asks again someone to do a drawing of you. One of the ‘good students’ starts drawing, but the result is forced. It’s just a drawing of a generic child wearing a shirt of same color as you a wearing. There’s no spirit, no soul in it. You start sensing that the class is geting frustrated with you. They want to be done with this. You ask quietly the teacher if you could do a drawing yourself.

After school your classmates confront you. Why did you have to make such a big deal out of it? The first picture was funny. The second picture was just fine! The drawing you did yourself wasn’t right, do you think you are that good-looking? There were other kids who got only one or two pictures of themselves. Who are you to demand special treatment? Maybe there would have been a picture of you if you weren’t such annoying baby, nobody likes you anyway, and nobody’s going to if you keep on being like that, you don’t deserve a drawing!

This could be story of bullying, but it’s also about how I see portraying LGBTQ+-people and PoC in mainstream entertainment.

Thanks to Fandoms and Feminism for inspiration!

This is a great metaphor. 

This is the most accurate fucking post I’ve ever seen in my life oh my god.

weeping

This is incredible. A perfect metaphor. And it really points out how fucking childish it is to insist that representation does not matter.

That is a hell of a metaphor! And true!

thesnadger:

I’m not even being funny when I say Chuck Tingle is deeply inspiring.

  1. He’s neuroatypical and has a history of mental health problems and self harm, but seems to be thriving and manages to keep an incredibly positive attitude.
  2. He found something he loves to do, has made a living off it, and no one else can do it the way he does it. No one writes books like him. Even if you read a few of his stories and copied his style and formula to make a “Tingler,” no one could put them out as quickly as him or go in the unexpected, bizarre directions he does.
  3. He’s aware that most people just find his stories funny and is okay with it. He’s comfortable being ridiculous and makes jokes about himself.
  4. While he’s not exactly political, he’s been using his books to take jabs at the Trump administration and reactionary conservatism which is always entertaining, and tries to use his position as someone who has a huge audience for good.
  5. After he got some internet fame for his weird titles and book covers, a Gamergate group that was mad at the Hugo Awards (for what they called “forced diversity” i.e., they let women and minorities in) decided it would be funny to get one of Chuck’s books nominated and see if they could get it to win, as a way to de-legitimize the Hugos. Chuck absolutely denounced the group that was trying to use him to attack the Hugos, mocking their leaders and calling them “devilmen.” He arranged for Zoe Quinn to accept the award on his behalf should he win, as a fuck-you to Gamergate. (He also wrote three books about the experience, all of which contain butt-pounding.)
  6. Everything he posts on social media is incredibly positive and loving. His catchphrase is “love is real,” and he frequently talks about “proving love” through kindness to yourself and others.

He just seems like a really good, weird, positive guy, the type of which the world needs more of.