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In honor of pride month, here are some of my favorite pieces of media with canon queer representation (and not just, like, random people in the background, significant characters)

- The Owl House (Cartoon show on Disney+)

- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Cartoon show on Netflix)

- Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (Cartoon show on Netflix)

- Dead End Paranormal Park (Cartoon show on Netflix)

- Helluva Boss (Adult cartoon show on YouTube)

- Hazbin Hotel (Adult cartoon show on YouTube)

- Steven Universe (Cartoon show on Hulu)

- What We do in the Shadows (TV show on Hulu)

- Our Flag Means Death (TV show on HBO)

- Umbrella Academy (TV show on Netflix)

- Stranger Things (TV show on Netflix)

- Haunting of Bly Manor (TV show on Netflix)

- Rise of the Pink Ladies (TV show on Paramount+)

- Severance (TV show on AppleTV+)

- Nightmare Time (Show on YouTube)

- Night in the Woods (Video game)

- Last of Us (Video game)

- Life is Strange (Video game)

- Spies are Forever (Musical free to watch on YouTube)

- Firebringer (Musical free to watch on YouTube)

- Love in Hate Nation (Musical)

- Ride the Cyclone (Musical)

- The Prom (Musical)

- She Kills Monsters (Play)

- The Magnus Archives (Fiction podcast)

- Welcome to Nightvale (Fiction podcast)

- The Penumbra Podcast (Fiction podcast)

Reblog or comment if you have more or more places to find these!!!

Make their comment section about Dead Boy Detectives

Netflix has dropped its official Geeked Week trailer on Youtube. I don't know about you, but I'm about to be in the comments section telling them what I'd have REALLY liked to see for Geeked Week.

And it’s not just media with flawed characters and darker themes.

Queer media that has more fluff, like Heartstopper gets criticized by the same people, who say it’s too wholesome, unrealistic and that automatically means the author is homophobic and fetichizes the characters (even when the author is queer).

Point is, there is no winning with queer media, it’s never good enough. There should be more skepticism when it comes to media critiques, critics aren’t and shouldn’t be authorities that dictate whether or not a piece of media is good representation. Especially when they put themselves in a higher position and bash the ones who enjoy it all while purposely misinterpreting said media.

We aren’t jerks for liking and feeling properly represented by certain pieces of media.

Something that I learned about queer media: nothing will never be enough. The stupiest reasons will cause people to create a witch hunt against authors and accuse them of real bigotry. "Your representation didn't go exactly as I wanted, therefore you are a monster and a real danger to real people."

If your media has flawless heroic little puppies queers, it's trash and horrible and liking it makes you a terrible person. If your queer characters are not flawless heroic little puppies, then they're evil and you hate queer people (even if you are queer yourself).

It's sad that the same people preaching about love and acceptance are the same and first ones to attack and harrass queer creators and built unsafe space for people that love and relate to flawed characters. And I'm not even entering the anti-sex positivity discussion and how liking porn and including it in your stories is bad and fetishization and dirty, some "progressive" people have the same views as alt right boomers

Remember how I said the last drawing was a bit simple?.. Welp…

In all seriousness though, I think this came out adorable and was like the most calming thing ever to do. So without further ado, I present!..

LGBallT Charles and Edwin!

watching castiel’s impact on queer media feels like when jesus died and his disciples were devastated but they still saw all the good his death did for the world

So, just curious how many writers and creators will have to be forcibly outed by relentless harassment before we acknowledge that "This queer characters was written by a cishet person and that's why they're bad" is not good criticism.

my problem really deeply is how shallow a tolerance younger people have for old queer media. like yes, it's dated and some of the politics don't hold water anymore, but to ignore older media simply based on that is to loose EVERYTHING we have bc we don't have a lot. just because queer themes caught up more recently doesn't mean we should rehash everything to fit into a more "presentable" format that is only considered modern bc of the puritanical blacklash of the last several years and sanitization of queer themes.

Tumblr is cool because every day I find out that other people noticed the same gay ships in tv shows I watched years ago that I thought was just me being delusional at the time.

An example of why LGBTQ+ representation in media matters, especially children's media.

As a child I didn't know LGBTQ+ people existed. There were no queer people in my family, or in family friends. (At least, that I was aware of) I remember one time we went to the library and there was an educational table set up outside with information about pride. I asked my mom what all the rainbows were for. I don't remember what she said, other than I remember her mentioning one of my older brother's friends who apparently had two moms. I was very little. I forgot about that conversation and was no more aware of queer people.

I don't remember seeing queer characters in media. The first time I can remember seeing LGBTQ+ people depicted in anything was in the music video for Avichii's "Addicted to You" the plot of the music video follows a pair of female robbers who are explicitly in a romantic relationship. I was absolutely fascinated by this music video when I saw my brother watching it. I was eleven. This music video follows a lot of the common queer TV tropes. The women are criminals, the "bad guys" and they die in the end. But this was the first time I can remember seeing lesbians.

Even as a teenager, I don't remember seeing much LGBTQ+ characters in media. I was intrigued when the token gay side character would show up in a TV show, but that wasn't really representation. I still knew nothing about queer people. A boy in my art class came out to me as trans. The exact words he used were "I'm a trans guy." and I legitimately didn't know if that meant ftm or mtf. I accidentally misgendered him once because of it.

In my early teens, I said some pretty ignorant things. Luckily just to my family, but still. It wasn't until I started questioning my sexuality in my late teens that I actually started to learn anything about the LGBTQ+ community. I did a lot of research, not all related to figuring out my sexuality, just about LGBTQ+ experiences and identities. I watched videos by LGBTQ+ YouTubers, listened to podcasts, read articles, all by queer creators.

I especially made a point of understanding transgender people, because that was something at the time that greatly confused me. So I looked for videos, podcasts, articles etc, made by transgender people themselves where they talked about their feelings and experiences. It made a huge difference. I wasn't confused anymore, I couldn't relate to how they felt, but I had understanding and empathy. I went from confused and unaware, to understanding and supportive. Just from a bit of research.

But even at this point, there was still little to no LGBTQ+ media representation. When I came out at 18 and felt comfortable picking movies focused on queer characters, I had a heck of a time finding any. I did find some, and while a lot of them weren't great, I did find a few really good ones. (Saving Face and Late Bloomers are two of my favourites)

Things are getting better, slowly. We're starting to see more media focused around LGBTQ+ characters, and children's media including the topic. It's long overdue and we're still not quite there yet. You're gonna have a hard time finding media focused on LGBTQ+ characters that aren't white, able bodied gay, lesbian, or bisexual characters. Representation for trans, non binary, asexual and aromantic identifies, queer people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, religious queer people, and disabled queer people, and any combination of the above, is still lacking. We still have more work to do.

Having these kinds of shows and movies would have made a big difference for me growing up, and it will make a big difference for thousands of other kids who are growing up right now.

This isn't a negative post to complain about the lack of media, it's an example of it's importance and optimism for the future. I do believe this will continue to get better, however slow that may be. This is just my little reminder of why it needs to.

I hope anyone who reads this is having a good day. You're valid and loved, no matter who you are. Stay safe.

Link to the gay porn library of Alexandria.

Happy pride.

Say hi if you'd date a trans barbie 💖

Can be both at the same time 😜🍆🍑

Need a new toy, wanna watch me play naughty 😜🍑🍆💦

Hey daddy 🤪

😘😘😘

rose quartz is so transfem coded. wdym she "killed" her old self and chose a different name and body that she felt was her true self and lived that way for the rest of her life?

I’m not surprised 🫤

Disney+ has a “pride” collection and it’s so abysmal it’s almost funny. They don’t even have enough movies to fill a full category so they lump them in with short films. There are still only eight pieces of media in the category. 

The other two categories are series (which I’ll get back to later cause boy do I have things to say) and episodes. Episodes is a really shitty category. It’s literally just episodes from random shows that have queer plot lines or characters in that one single episode. Half of them are from shows mentioned in series. I’m convinced they only added this one so the page would feel less barren, but it’s a very poor attempt. 

Which brings me back to series. It’s here that it goes from funny to infuriating. There are shows on there like glee and the high school musical series which I haven’t seen and can’t really speak on, but what really caught my interest was their inclusion of gravity falls and the owl house. 

Gravity falls has two characters that are revealed to be gay in the finale and I think that’s about it as far as any queer rep goes so it feels cheap to put it in a pride collection. Gravity falls is only tangentially queer, and that’s thanks to disney. Gravity falls had to fight just so that two men could say they loved each other, and they could only do it in the last episode. 

But the owl house. The owl house. This is a show that disney is cancelling for “not fitting the brand,” a show the creators have had to fight just to get it as far as it has already come, and disney has the audacity to tout it in a pride collection. 

Disney works against queer characters and storylines in media, yet still shows them off when it’s time for rainbow capitalism. They’re trying to pander to the queer community while also pleasing homophobes. They’re pretending they care about queer people while also silencing them.