Why is it that shows like Sueños De Libertad and Amar Es Para Siempre get how to write WLW ships better than American Soap Operas?

As an American who ADORES Luimelia and has been sucked down the Mafin rabbit hole…American WLW ships are terrible compared to them.

Being a fan of wlw representation is exhausting.

riley inside out 2 is already the most relatable protagonist in the history of cinema as i really understand the experience of having new emotions surrounding cool women introduced to me by maya hawke

important edit: FORGOT TO MENTION!!! i am boycotting disney atm so please do not watch this film legally!

I've talked about it a lot over the last 6 months, but with the year ending, I want to express my feelings once again, with more clarity.

There may never be a character who means as much to me as Suletta Mercury does. There may never be a fictional couple that means as much to me as Suletta & Miorine do. Not just because I love them so much, but also because of what their representation meant to me.

I've been a Gundam fan for over 20 years. I'd basically given up on a female main character in a main series before G-Witch. Suletta Mercury gave me representation I desperately wanted from a franchise I'd loved for decades. Representation that I'd lost hope of ever seeing.

And then they gave me even more representation by making her a queer woman. You could not have convinced me before G-Witch aired that Suletta would fall in love with another woman. That Gundam would take that step with it's first female main character, especially with a target demographic of mostly teen boys. But it did. Suletta Mercury fell in love with a woman, and not just that, she fought and earned a happy ending married to that woman. A woman who is just as equally amazing as she is.

(And while it's not representation for me personally, I think Suletta providing representation for women of color and disabled fans is also a big deal.)

I'm sure as I grow up, queer and sapphic media will continue to push boundaries, and we'll get more queer female leads in mainstream media. But I can't think of any other franchise I love where making the main character a sapphic woman would mean close to what it meant to me when Gundam did it.

Certainly there's "better" anime out there, even Gundam anime. But none of them mean to me what The Witch From Mercury meant to me. None of them come close to the love I have for this show and these two women.

Apple White and Darling Charming walked so Frankie Stein and Cleo DeNile could run

“two halves of the same soul”

happy korrasami day my gays, here’s to these amazing trailblazers and to more beautiful queer representation! 🏳️‍🌈

"Star Wars needs more non white characters"

High Republic

"Star wars needs more women"

High Republic

"Star wars needs queer rep"

High Republic

We reached 50k!!!!

Let’s keep being loud!

SAVE WARRIOR NUN!⚔️

A little queer fangirl daydreaming 😶‍🌫️ while sketching Star Wars baddie Shin Hati 🧡🤍💖 Next I’m drawing her lover Sabine 😉

Graphite drawing on paper

one of the funniest experiences i ever had as a young sapphic was watching miraculous ladybug and getting like a 1.5 second glimpse of their history textbook and immediately going, "hey, wait a minute... isn't that sappho?"

I'm seeing people worry about talking about Wednesday (2022) in a queer adjacent manner because of Netflix cancelling Warrior Nun after Warrior Nun's last season committed to the gay romance, but I think despite the hurt brought on from the loss of Warrior Nun and what it meant, we shouldn't be scared into silence because of the very suspicious choice from Netflix. People hurting from the loss should get the chance to mourn, but we should try to not let homophobia (because let's be real homophobes will weaponize the WN cancellation via "Go woke, go broke" type bait arguments) silence us about wanting better representation or keep us down.

Your Honor, I love them. ❤️🥹

Simon posted a link on Twitter: Warrior Nun saved email sign up for updates and a countdown timer.

https://www.warriornunsaved.com/

I hate to tell you this, but many gays also love Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. (A musical show about discovering your identity and the negative effects of internalizing harmful societal ideas about relationships, which also has canonically queer characters in it.)

I'm seeing a lot of "This is normal for the industry, they don't do explicit queer characters like this, why are you angry/surprised." and to that I say...

Yes, we know it's normal. And?

If queer characters are forever subtext in mainstream media, especially anime in this case, things will never get better for representation. We need shows like this that push the envelope for better representation, even if it's just little by little, so erasing our identities and stories stops being normal. That's why we're angry, because the staff pushed the envelope, gave us a textual explicit sapphic relationship in a mainstream anime that's basically unheard of outside of niche yuri adaptations, and some execs are desperately trying to stuff them back into the old "subtext" box. And we're not going to stand for that.

No one is really that surprised that Bandai took this route. In fact, I think a lot of us expected it, especially those of us who have been around anime, Bandai, and other mainstream queer stories. But shitty corporations are just as allergic to losing money as they are to taking stances on controversial issues, and it is surprising Bandai went this route when it will definitely cost them short-term and long-term profits. That they tried to sweep this under the rug, and tried to have their cake and eat it too isn't surprising, but as fans we can't just let them get away with that. We can't say nothing when companies court queer people and their money with representation, and then turn around and try to deny or erase that representation to appease people who would deny our rights and existence.

So no, I'm not surprised. But I am angry, and myself and others have every right to be. Whether they meant to or not, Bandai's series pushed the envelope for textual and explicit queer stories and relationships in a mainstream anime, and we can't just stay quiet while Bandai tries to walk that back. Every inch of representation we earn is hard fought and we can't just give up that ground by letting things go back to "normal" without a fight.

Sorry for the long rant, it's just frustrating when I see otherwise well meaning people try to even slightly excuse homophobic behavior because it's "normal." Queer people don't need the prevalence of homophobia in the world explained to us. Trust me, we KNOW things are homophobic, we all fucking know.

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