First Kill is a feat and needs a Second Season

VE Schwab wrote the short story and knew what she wanted when it got ordered as a show. If you read the story, it literally is almost exactly like the first episode. The author just worked with a diverse team of like queer and BIPOC writers to expand the tiny story into the show it is today.

She wanted to provide more sapphic, lesbian and black representation in a genre that never cared to include depictions of people like her unless they were dying or being punished. A problem not only for white queer characters but very much also for black characters, queer or not.

She saw a problem, a lack, and she set out to make exactly what she made. A campy and earnest lesbian Romeo and Juliet vampire story with frankly comical CGI that has a nostalgic feel despite having just been made. She created nostalgia for us in a show about a teenage lesbian vampire and black teenage lesbian monster hunter that could NEVER have been made during the time she is referencing. This show is a feat!

Cancellation Watch: First Kill and Ms. Marvel Enter the Nielsen Streaming Top 10, Westworld Improves, and More - Cancelled Sci Fi

Guys! First Kill is 9th in most minutes watched for Nielsen ratings this week! (June 6th to June 12th) The Netflix Top 10 was mentioned, and that FK was no longer in the Netflix Top 10. But across streaming platforms, First Kill is 9th in the Nielsen ratings!!

When you met me tied up on that cross, what did I say? [...] Oh, that you made a promise to someone a long time ago to be the world's greatest swordsman.

I think what makes Our Flag Means Death so remarkable in terms of representation is not just the broadness of it, but the depth.

We have an indigenous lead character, but he's not only that. He's also queer. He's a romantic interest. He's middle-aged. His arc portrays surviving trauma and abuse. It also portrays mental illness. And it portrays breaking free from toxic masculinity. And it never tries to put him in a box when he explores his masculinity and femininity.

We have a non-binary character, played by a Puerto Rican NB actor, but their arc is not about their gender identity and their coming out is simply a case of "Just keep calling me Jim". They have a romantic/sexual relationship with a black character, and never is this relationship or either of their sexual orientations or Olu's sex appeal as a fat person or "who even is the man in this relationship hahaha" questioned. When they get into a poly relationship, it's just accepted, instead of questioned or even defined.

These are just a couple of examples. It's not that Our Flag Means Death is the only or the first show with queer/BIPOC/disabled representation, because it's not. What makes the show remarkable is the unique combination of queerness, ethnicity, age, disabilities, life experiences, etc. that each character carries within themselves, yet none of these characters exist solely to appear as representation of any minority on screen. Their identities are not glued onto them, they're ingrained, but in the end, they're just people. Just like in real life. Identities do not work as plot points. Being queer is not a plot point. Being non-binary is not a plot point. It's just a small part of the whole complex experience of life.

OFMD is a perfect example of telling a queer story that doesn't focus on telling a story directly about the queerness itself. Because we have stories about queerness already. We have so many of them that it just feels like tokenism at this point to see yet another story about coming out or forbidden love or anything like that, even if it's well made.

This show took me by surprise with every new way of representation it offered, because each time it did the total opposite of what I expected. It took all the tired tropes and said, "Yeah, see these? We're not gonna do any of that." It delivered something I never thought I'd see on screen.

It never explains the characters' identities to the audience. It simply shows them exactly the way they are and lets you decide whether you see yourself in them, and I think that also allows the audience to question their own identities, to explore gender and sexuality freely without immediately putting labels on things.

People who never thought they might be trans or non-binary or queer in any way discovered their identities through the show. People who struggle with mental illness or trauma saw someone like themselves portrayed with kindness and respect on screen and were finally able to extend the same kindness to themselves. People who are always left out of romantic stories because of their age or body shape or the color of their skin finally saw themselves portrayed as desirable and worthy of love and romance.

That is why so many of us feel that, in the words of Ruibo Qian: "OFMD woke me up."

We should give The Promised Neverland an award for just,, letting Lucas not have an arm

No "robot arm that's the same or better than a regular arm", no "I got it back by magic or something", he just doesn't have it. And that's ok. And he's still a valued family member. And he can still fight when the need arises. We need more of that in fiction tbh.

sentifelix is one of those annoying vegans. in this essay i will...

oh stars save us. save us save us save us save us🙏🏻

While the representation of a black mermaid is great it should not distract us from the glaring truth that Disney Live Action Movies are terrible.

Good Time Zone Y'all!! We asked and you voted for Calypso's Bday episode (2x06) reaction video is now live! Go check it out :) (sneak peak below!)

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I'm so damn tired and gay, can we just get a renewal announcement from Netflix already? I want to watch my wonderful sapphic cheesy vampire show in peace. But instead my joy at having this representation and well-written and acted at that, is colored by massive anxiety that Netflix will not renew it. This show has cut all the corners, it is costing Netflix basically nothing. It's such a damn good show.

Cal is a book nerd and it's the first thing we find out about her!

I've said before that Cal is a Shakespeare nerd. But she's also a bookworm! The first two times we see Cal through Juliette's eyes, she is reading. Juliette is drawn to Cal's intelligence and curiosity. And that's how we meet her as an audience. A strong, smart, nerdy black girl being absolutely pined over by the first character we meet. The fact that Calliope Antigone Burns is desired by someone and a main character given her own narrative shouldn't be so groundbreaking. But it is. And she's such a gloriously nerdy character in little ways that make me really happy. I'm really just so glad she exists and I need more of her idiosyncrasies in Season 2 and beyond.

from good omens to heartstopper to rwrb, i think my brain chemistry is forever altered by all the gayness and i'm here for it!

looks at my hands

I made the mistake of going into the annihilation tag again

Adult science fiction standalone novel

In near-future America, struggling documentary filmmaker Hayes Figuerido learns that an alternate version of himself from a parallel universe created the Envisioner, a device that can predict the future, and sent it to his reality

When he joins a team of scientists studying the Envisioner, Hayes meets physicist Yusuf and learns the two of them are married in another universe and finds himself falling for Yusuf in this one

As Hayes learns more about the multiverse, however, it becomes clear that while their lives are inextricably linked, their story often ends in tragedy and saving Yusuf could risk the univerise

Explores multiverse theory and questions of how far you will go to save the one you love

Gay main character with depression; Egyptian, Muslim love interest; M/M romance; aromantic asexual Japanese side character

My two 70s themed Sims!!

Crystal Sunshine, a young painter and dancer and Russian Immigrant and her best friend in the whole world- Weston Applegate, a young Cherokee singer songwriter.

They started out as completely randomized with no real idea in mind but tbh I love them

Some guy: I hate everybody I am mean and angry and all I want to do is save lives and punch people in the face fuck you all and also I’ll save your life but angrily. I won’t be happy about it.

Me: I know this about you and I love you