Last Evolution 🦋
Chillin’ Celeste!
Got some new clothes for my special boys here are some of them
Shocking to me that there's such a fandom for Breaking Bad here on this website, full of people who found the moral nuance of Steven Universe to be unmanageable.
not to take this post too seriously but if i had to hazard a guess, its because, at least according to my understanding, breaking bad is full of characters who suck as people, and the show wants its audience to think they suck, and when they go through a lot of bad shit you're generally supposed to think they deserve it because they caused it to themselves, making bad decisions chasing patriarchal ideals and fantasies. When you don't think a character deserves their fate, its usually because those characters are presented as victims to the decisions of the ones that suck.
while SU presents you with characters who suck, and who want you to look at that and examine "okay, but why do they suck. what happened in their lives that made them that way. can we help them not be that way and heal from that damage, while not simply excusing their behavior." It also takes characters that you love and peels them apart and shows you their most damaged and fucked up parts, and asks you to still love them even through their flaws, because everyone in the world has nastiness inside them that they are trying to get past or hide, and still deserve love and a chance to improve themselves anyways.
both these shows are great and i think they do what they set out to do well. And you would think that the more adult out of these shows would be the more challenging of the two. But nobody goes into breaking bad expecting there to be only love and light, because its an adults show with adult themes
Basically nobody went into SU expecting challenging topics. "Everyone should be given compassion" is a common lesson given to children through cartoons, but its rarely given in conjunction with characters that are as realistically fucked up, traumatized, bigoted, and neglectful as some characters in SU are. And at the end of the day, the very unfortunate reality is that people in this world are much quicker to accept the idea of "there are some people who have been inherently broken by our society, who become assholes and ruin everything around them" than they are willing to accept the idea that those people could be healed and stop being an asshole under the right circumstances, with the right help, and that it might (god forbid) be our responsibility sometimes to be that help.
Suffice to say, this was simply not what people realized they were signing up for when they started watching a show about a little boy and his magical gay family. People just assumed that the show asking you to empathize with some very fucked up characters, was asking you to forgive them and let them continue hurting people scotch free, because they weren't killed off or punished for eternity or made to suffer in some way before they got their healing. Ignoring that this was the very idea the show was challenging. And instead of adjusting their expectations by realizing what the show was aiming for, or just not watching if the show was not what they wanted it to be, they just decided to argue that the show was so problematic that it couldn't possibly be ethically enjoyed.
trans girls not tucking needs to be seen as a completely normal and nonsexual thing. chasers go die.
trans women’s genitals are not so repulsive that they need to be totally hidden through our clothes at the expense of our health and safety and for the sake of your comfort.
if cis men don’t have to tuck then neither do trans women.
Tucking is way more dangerous than people seem to realize. Tucking can cause irritation, blisters, urinary tract infections, and may increase the chances of getting testicular cancer.
Forcing trans people to tuck is violence.
all of this!! it can also cause inguinal hernias, which is basically when the abdominal muscles in the inguinal cavity (where the testes go when u tuck) weaken and part of ur intestines slip through that wall and either get the blood supply cut off or worse. its fixable with surgery but if left alone can be life threatening.
and like you say, its violence. its society forcing many trans women to choose between either self inflicted violence or violence from a hate crime. trans bodies need to be normalised and accepted. we deserve to live safely and happily.
This includes if said trans girl is wearing a swimsuit/leggings/short shorts
the chris pratt thing makes me so mad cause of how voice actors get treated.
charles martinet came up with the mario voice himself in a last minute audition and became the canon mario voice after doing a little booth thing to promote mario 64 at E3, where fans asked mario questions while motion censors captured his face movements on a 3d model. he even created luigi’s voice and personality on a whim, making him more anxious to explain why he wouldn’t come on screen with his brother and giving him that specific voice so his facial movements wouldn’t appear on the mario model and break the realism. then he added even more little details into luigi’s personality based on himself, like him whistling when he’s nervous and relying a lot on his older brother.
he has been there to make this character fun and interesting and lively. but decades of work and effort doesn’t mean shit when bigger names will pull in views, even when the stars don’t care about the role they’re playing
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