Some Style Practice W/ My Boy, Jimbo

this is such a good headline i wish all news started with Stinky!

Thinking about the possibilities of Holly Robinson in the Reevesverse.

How Selina finds a young teenage girl who was disregarded and neglected-- a stray. How she takes her in because she knows no one else is going to without leaving her completely alone. Despite Selina's inner guilt from Annika and fear that she only endangers those she loves, Holly makes it worth it. Selina helps her recover physically/emotionally, all while not realizing that Holly's doing the same to her. Holly becomes a bright sister-figure and encourages Selina to be more optimistic and have fun.

Let's see how Selina often neglects herself if it's for Holly's sake; how she wants to see her grow up better than she did, have better chances for normalcy. Holly always insists on assisting Selina on her cat-burglaries, but she refuses to get her involved. If ever left alone in the apartment, Holly has a gun and escape plan, all compiled by Selina. She gets lessons on how to defend herself-- Selina can't manage to lose someone else.

Holly's lesbian and Selina encourges her to talk to the cute girl, Karon, down at the gas station. Holly sees obvious sparks with Selina and Bruce, often leading her to interrogate him when she can (just to see if he's good enough). Holly doesnt pressure Selina to talk about her past, especially regarding her late roommate. We see a heart-warming relationship between two female characters about healing and growing into their skin.

mutuals whenever i like your posts please remember that i am twirling my hair and giggling and saying “ohmigod really?? thats soooo cool”

I was a brown kid raised among other brown kids in South East Asia and yet, every single time I wrote a story in class or I came up with an idea for a play, I used traditional white European names and all my characters were white. So were those of the other kids. Even with no white people around us, the default race in anything fictional was white.

Every single book I read was white. Enid Blyton, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl all wrote books about white kids. The Hardy Boys, Harry Potter, the Meg Cabot novels. All the cartoons, all the early 2000s Disney channel shows, all the made for TV movies. Everything features straight, white children and all anyone wanted to do was to emulate them. When there was some representation of other races, it was secondary, tertiary characters. Or white passing actors. To think that our own stories aren’t worth it unless we acted white enough.

I didn’t want to be Shanti in the jungle or Jasmine in the Taj Mahal or the weird kid in the background everyone made fun of for being an “other”.I wanted to be Hermione and Annabeth and Nancy Drew. I would pretend my name wasn’t my full long Indian name but Keira, or Kara, or Katie and insert myself into the fantasies of my childhood. Even in my own head, I didn’t think I was good enough to be myself. I grew older and called myself Keer when I moved to the UK to compensate and shorten it for white people to pronounce better (why? racism.)

It took me a long time to accept that my story was worth telling, that my skin colour and heritage and religion were not inferior both in real life and on the page. It took me an even longer time to realize that I deserved to see people like me on the screen and the page in a way that doesn’t burden the character to be an ambassador for my entire race but she just exists, like I do. I still am shocked that I can’t even name one single Asian leading character from any of my childhood novels - Asian! The continent with 60% of all humans!

I want the default race to be non existent. I want a class of children to think up a story and not have 90% of them come up with straight white characters. White is not the default. Representation matters.

Steli (or stelija) on an outdoor date??

it seems like all i’ve been posting was cursed shit lately, how about i relieve y’all with some cute wholesome cloudgazing shit instead?

so like what do you do at amusement parks anyway

get aroused

Batcat shenanigans 🙈

jewish =/= israeli btw

not all jews are israeli and most jews worldwide are abhorred by israel’s actions. there are palestinian jews too. dont turn this into antisemitism (hatred of All jews), make sure it stays anti-Zionism (anti-israel’s colonization of palestine)

I'm gonna draw Claire with a wolfcut and/or mullet at some point. And Douxie too probably. No one can stop me.