Wolfgang In That Pink Jacket

blue pearl is valid 

I wish I have a better camera

animation is an art 

Man, you know who I really feel sorry for?

Blue Pearl.

Even by pearl standards her existence has got to be pretty horrifying. Imagine getting hit by sudden bouts of depression every time your boss loses control of her emotions (which is almost always). Blue Diamond was channeling that power into an outright attack in the last episode, but it’s clear that her emotional output is just something she DOES. Constantly.

You’ve got to imagine that ever since the end of the war, anyone in close proximity to Blue Diamond feels slightly worse than they would normally, and Blue Pearl is forced to be by her side almost 24/7. She’s been carrying the weight of another person’s grief around for so long, she probably doesn’t even realize it doesn’t belong to her anymore.

Back at it with the John Mulaney memes ✨✨✨

Here you go: SU x QE crossover magic 

This is a parody comic I made for myself to hand out at SDCC2018 and isn’t official so don’t sweat the small stuff!

Many thanks to ghostdigits for her help. She is my spell checker extraordinaire and listened to me bounce ideas around in the eleventh hour while I worried if I ever knew anything about comedy in the first place. Hahaha…haha….aaa.… go, fight, win/finish a comic!

As soon as I saw her gem, I knew

Hi! I really like your post about how femininity vs. badassery and female characters so often wanting to be mothers. I saw you mentioned Marinette in your tags, and I definitely agree that the way her crush on Adrien is portrayed as this elaborate plan for the future is,, weird and unrealistic, especially for a character with so many other interests. (Not to mention the narrative punishes her for it, but that's a dif issue) I think That Guy probably assumes that's the only way a girl can crush

(i have more sorry) This bit is more based on me, but another reason I think having Marinette want kids enough to already have names doesn't fit is that she's pressured into babysitting against her wishes pretty often. Like, if that happened to me, I would get tired of kids pretty fast and probably wouldn't be as eager to have my own (if I wanted them). I had more but ofc now it's gone. Thanks!

no thank YOU for giving me the opportunity to tackle this directly because. honestly i don’t like any of the little kid characters and there could be some commentary on how young teenage girls are forced into motherly roles over their younger siblings/family friends but i think that’s just my own personal beef about how Marinette “can never say no” and how it’s always framed as her own fault when being Ladybug conflicts with babysitting like. Let her say no! Let her refuse! She doesn’t have the TIME.

marinette is just. they literally said this in the licensing trailer!!! that she was to be a relatable female superhero!!! but they ONLY made her relatable to what they believe young girls are. 

“Marinette is a character that girls will really identify with. She likes fashion, she makes her own accessories.”

“She’s an innocent, happy little girl, who is very kind and clumsy.”

“[...] what makes her stand out is her generosity, that’s what makes her an exemplary heroine.”

The last line is said by Astruc and ESPECIALLY pisses me off because girls are already told to be generous and kind to the point whereas with guys it’s “boys will be boys” when a guy’s a dick as if being respectful and giving is inherent to being a girl.

Marinette is OVERWHELMINGLY generous to other people, but instead of a lesson where it’s about “you can be kind and have boundaries” or “you can be helpful without neglecting yourself” or “you are not defined by what you can do for others”, the show just doubles down on all of it! Marinette’s not allowed to NOT help people around her or else they get akumatised. Marinette’s not allowed to snap at Lila or Chloe or else they will get akumatised or take it out on someone else and get them akumatised. Marinette’s not allowed to reject Chat Noir and refuse to go on his dates, otherwise he throws a fit about it and stops helping her during akumatisations.

And THEN. when she isn’t being the thirteen year old version of the perfect fucking 1950s housewife who will never deny you and do everything you ask, the one (1) somewhat gender subversive trait she has is that she’s a great gamer, and it doesn’t even come up BECAUSE she likes gaming! She does it specifically because Adrien is involved.

and it’s not HARD to make these traits into genuine actually progressive lessons. She-Ra already did that and they didn’t even need to boast about how woke they were when they gave Adora the lesson of being allowed to do things for herself and that she isn’t solely what she can do for other people.

Maybe Marinette takes on too much responsibility because she doesn’t want to cause more akumatisations by asserting her own boundaries, maybe she lets Chloe do whatever she wants and gives up on exposing Lila because in the short-term it keeps Ladybug from having to fight more akumas. Maybe all of this turns into an analogy for how kids (especially girls) are told not to fight back against bullies because “you have to be better than them” and how adults don’t always keep you safe and how complacency can be a coping mechanism AND cause a lot more harm.

Maybe Chat Noir constantly pursuing Ladybug despite her rejections becomes a lesson on how much harder it is for girls to refuse guys because some of them won’t take ‘no’ for an answer, and if you’re mad at me for saying that you can blame that on boys being raised to “never give up on true love” and that you just need to wear girls down until they say yes because they’re just “playing hard to get”.

I am just so increasingly livid about how many GOOD lessons we could have gotten if this show weren’t produced and written by straight white men, if it were written by women who understand the nuances of being constantly told as a child to be “kind” and not rock the boat, if it were written by WOC who know how your race affects how “kindly” other people will perceive you, if it were written by queer women who understood how stifling it is to grow up in a heteronormative society and trying to be pushed back into the role of “proper femininity”, or trying to be a girl in a world that refuses to see you as one.

diverse characters do not start and end with what’s on the screen, but who puts those characters on-screen. what’s the point in having a female superhero if there is only one female writer in s2 and s3, and that singular writer is up against the many straight white producers and executives and a head director/writer who refuses to take any criticism and can fire you if he disagrees with you?

Mattle’s ideas

Mattle: Let’s put Apple White and Raven Queen in the same room! totaly cool!

Mattle: let’s for now Apple to be a fanatic for a fucking pathetic destiny and push Raven to be bad, so very fanatic hug her whenever she does something bad.

Matle: now we make them hold hands! It is totally friendly!

Matle: and now what about  Raven  telling to Apple that she is not being the Apple White that Raven loves and knows? Friends do that!

Mattle: And now let’s make them look to each other like cute thing!

Mattle: Wait! even better! now they paint their hair the color of each other? for school spirit! good idea! best enemies! And take a picture together! holding hands! and in the end they decide to do it together and take a picture to put in frames!

Mattle: NO! much better !!! we climb the scenes! a film where Apple releases the evil queen, almost kills herself, cries holding her picture whit Raven holding hands with warm smiles and does not sleep, and just think in Raven! Where she go to the enchanted forest and melts all looking at Raven! So cute and friendly! And Raven cries and confess that she really likes Apple and she wants ravenge against her mother! HER FUKING MOTHER (Okay she is evil, but stills Raven’s mother)

Mattle: And still, we always like! where they now begin to do more scenes together! Even take Briar of the new opening and put Apple down one funking   bean, style heroic and  Raven in the window with a charmingly beautiful to look at her!

Mattle’s ideas are so not gay!