props to pauline for having possibly the most specific reason to be cancelled in history
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Can everyone please go watch Dead End: Paranormal Park? It’s a comedy/horror cartoon on Netflix that has some of the best representation I’ve ever seen in any piece of media.
Netflix didn’t do shit to advertise it but it’s amazing!
One of the main characters is a Pakistani-American autistic bi girl with anxiety whose special interest actively contributes to the plot. The other is a fat, Jewish, gay trans man with blue hair, pronouns, and a pug voiced by Beetlejuice.
Not only that, but they’re also allowed to say the words! Barney says he’s trans, Norma says she’s bi, and Logs says he’s gay!
Also, several episodes acknowledge the ways in which those things affect these characters : Barney deals with transphobia(without anyone ever misgendering/dead-naming him on-screen. Also, he deals with a type of quiet (??) transphobia that is almost never acknowledged in tv shows and I could talk about just that for so long), an episode of season 2 is mostly dedicated to coming out, episode 3 of season 1 has a scarily accurate representation of Norma’s anxiety, etc.
Also, despite the fact that Barney is trans and fat, no one ever gives him that look for having feelings for someone who’s cis, fitter, taller and more ‘typically attractive’ than him. It’s made clear early-on that his feelings are reciprocated, and no one gives him shit(however, he does briefly talk about being body-shamed when at the gym).
Honorable mentions :
-“I’m sorry you’re straight.”
-Gord
-Amazing worldbuilding
-No punching bag character (I mean that as, like, degrading jokes. Because physically there absolutely is)
-Courtney
-Time travel but done right
-There’s a main character who dies twice
-It has actually funny moments, which is great for a comedy
-It has actually scary moments, which is great for horror
-The way Logs talks about coming out(I know it’s already in the post but that scene was so fucking great)
-MUSICAL EPISODE (the music is AWESOME)
-Barney asks Norma for permission to hug her because he knows she doesn’t like being touched
-‘theydies and gentlethems’
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Ok but Pugsly and Temaluchus seeing each other at a party like awkward exes but then reminiscing about the shared moments has me feeling so many things
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Yeah, yeah, Fingers is quite literally the “hand of God”, but have you considered:
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So uh, him
I tried to make his hair look like fingers, because uh, well u know, haha ;)
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What if they had human desguises or were humans?
Time for me to point out detail no one will notice or cares about
courtney, she/they
-i gave her a snake tongue since they have one and i thought itd be cool
-I gave her a gap between her canine teeth and all of her front teeths cuz i thought itd be a nice replacement for the two point teeth
-the spike piercings on her ear are a reference to her tiny horns, and the piercing on the nose is a reference to her tail
-the jacket is the same jacket she wears on the comic
-her bracelets are a replacement/reference of her shackles
-the hoop earrings are meaning to something (halo)
-yes. I gave em a non-binary pin(i thought it'd go well with her outfit)
pugsley, he/him
-i really didnt wanna make him too similar to the comic and i accidently went ALL THE WAY TO THE OTHER SIDE
-i gave him vitiligo cuz i thought itd be kinda cool cuz of those darker spots he has
-i gave him green eyes cuz he has green eyes in the comic(or at least in the cover)
-i gave him some bruises cuz i think if he was human he most likely would be just as hyperactive as a dog
-the bite mark is cuz i thought itd be a cool way to translate a dog's bite into everything, thats also why his finger is patched, he bites on it too much
-hes also supposed to be a kid(tho i dont think i made him look like it)
-i kinda wanted to make him look like the guttman family but as i kept getting ideas i accidently made him TOO far from the family and now he's actually adopted
-(funny moment: as i drew him i thought "huh, i think he'd be autistic if he was a human" but i think ADHD fits a bit better)
fingers, he/they
-i thought making him white would be PAINFULLY OBVIOUS so i made him a darker skin
-i didnt add the blush cuz i thought it looked weird
-i decided to make the eyes tatto into a suit pin(but its definitly tattoed somewhere)
-(Not much to say he was actually pretty easy, tho i wanted to make him older but i dont think it looks like it)
(small hc time, i think its cool that all paranormal creatures uses they/them with/without any other pronouns like he/she/it etc)
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Dead end season 2, the owl house finale and dragon prince season 4 being so close to each other is going to make me explode in the best way possible
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