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#I am not sorry#if the game tell us Pearl bought the bot#this is straightwashing#We all know Pearl don't have the capacity to be engeniering anything#marina tho#she did it for her#splatoon#mem#meme#drake#drake meme#hotline bling#pearl#marina#pearlina#pearlbot#bot#robot#side order#dlc
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people who draw link as taller than zelda are cowards.
#COWARDS.#like how is it possible to straightwash an already straight relationship#zelda is taller than him.#loz#legend of zelda#the legend of zelda#tloz#zelda#link#zelink#tears of the kingdom#totk#botw#botw2#breath of the wild
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not to talk about the james somerton thing for the 284837627th time, but I'm surprised no one has pointed out how stupid his 'queer women have it easier' take is considering the fucker literally makes it harder for them by erasing their persecution and even the repercussions they face when making media
#personal crap#hbomberguy#james somerton#like he really said 'queer women get to represent themselves look at su and she-ra!'#hbomb rightly called him out for misgendering but also su and she-ra got a lot of network hostility for being so gay#how does a supposed queer media analyst not know that? there's articles and books discussing it you could steal james!#not to mention straightwashing becky albertelli because he didn't like love simon that's just gross#though the fact hbomb pointed out he did that in 2022 makes it even worse bc this was after she'd come out#(and after rebecca sugar and nd stevenson had been out as not cis women) for years
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I think one of my “favorite” things is when people misinterpret what it means to be aroace. Watching people so clearly not understand the complexity behind the spectrum of aromatic and asexuality and then proceed to say they “stand with” aroace as an ally is so hilarious to me. Especially when they use this to start bashing on a perfectly fine ship, especially because said ship gets in the way of theirs.
Aroace does not mean no attraction. The plastered poster face for it is people who don’t feel ANY types of attraction, but that does not mean everyone. Aromantic people can date and fall in love. Asexual people can fuck. Aroace people can do both.
Yes, aroace rep IS needed. But we still have it via Luffy—just because Luffy kisses someone (hypothetically) doesn’t mean we just yeeted the aroace label off of him. He is STILL aroace. You know who else is aroace? Bon Clay, for one. Zoro as well. Yet I don’t see people screaming that shipping Zoro with someone completely erases the aroace label, now do I?
Ugh, I’d totally make a whole ass essay about this, but it’s half till midnight. It’s just. Been on my mind for a few hours and I need to say a little shit
#iykyk#zolu#I got so worked up reading that one post lol#as someone who used to not ship zolu because Luffy felt aroace to me I found it hilarious#while also quite insulting#says someone started bashing on a ship that’s done literally nothing wrong#plus they also started bashing on zonami and said it’s because Zoro’s canonically gay#like ??? no??? he isn’t???#“never explicitly said but heavily implied” is ridiculous really#Zoro is Zoro. he is a fictional character who is up to interpretation until the original creator states otherwise#also the “straightwashing Sanji” comment had me dead I’m sorry#like did we WATCH the same anime/live action?#sanji’s been straight from the start. if anything opla made him less straight with all those soft looks he was giving Luffy#like dudes bi at most#but truly Zoro is so aroace to me#that dude has nothing on his mind but being the best swordsman#booze#and making sure his captain doesn’t die like#seriously. people need to understand that aroace is much more complex than they think it is#oh and yes#we definitely need more non-dating aroace rep
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’had’ a boyfriend shut up do not disrespect Hyacinthus in this house
psh what are you implying
we pay him only the deepest respect here
#ok i'm sorry that was in such bad taste but i couldn't resist-#i've never had a more perfect opportunity to use that gif and i couldn't pass it up#we truly do respect hyacinthus in this house#and we're gonna do right by apollo and his love for a man who is no longer with us u.u </3#justice for apollo#justice for hyacinthus#justice for all the queer characters who were straightwashed in LO ✊#ama#ask me anything#anon ama#anon ask me anything#lore rekindled ama
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What upsets me about Spock being straightwashed is that since it isn't officially ""canon"" that he's gay, writers can keep getting away with it. But if the OG Spock wasn't gay-coded, then why are modern writers so frantic to distance themselves from any aspect of him that could be construed as queer? Why so quick to run away from the (LONG and complex) history of the character? Why so insistent on proving his attraction to women (particularly, women he clearly expressed disinterest in, in TOS). Why so afraid of his undying love and devotion to the captain?
It's not just heterosexual writing, it's aggressively heterosexual writing. It's taking a sexually ambiguous character and assigning heterosexuality to him because they are afraid of the alternatives. It's a subtle retcon that is anything but subtle to queer audiences.
I'm sick of reboots because these people don't know how to handle a character like that with any tact. Spock meant a LOT to a LOT of minorities and it really does just piss me off that gay interpretations get written off as NonsenseTM for no reason that doesn't more or less boil down to good-old-fashioned homophobia. Straight is NOT the default damnit.
No more reboots please, it's like they took our homie Spock and sent him through conversion therapy and I'm disgusted. I can't watch. I am angry. You haven't seen the last of me venting on this topic I promise
#besides the fact that I really just dont care for his characterizations in AOS or SNW#the acting is good its the writing i hate#yes im pissed and will continue to be pissed#sttos#star trek#queer#Spock#its not a retcon its a fucking HETCON#straight spock fucking haunts me#venting#straightwashing#homophobia
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i think people that use mods that whitewash isabela, vivienne, and dorian deserve to be hunted for sport.
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Amazed to see this review of Good Omens from four years ago that calls it exactly what it is: A gay cosmic rom-com. Such a refreshing and remarkable change of pace from "buddy movie" and "unlikely friendship" and other such euphemisms, which unfortunately seem to be just as (if not more) prevalent in the reviews today than in 2019. Hopefully Michael and David will get to do a full-on sex scene won't have to keep screaming about how in love Aziraphale and Crowley are by the time season 3 comes out...
(With thanks to @fangirl-muse for sharing this gem!)
#good omens#good omens 2#aziraphale#crowley#ineffable husbands#michael sheen#welsh seduction machine#david tennant#soft scottish hipster gigolo#it's nice to know that at least one reviewer was paying attention 4 years ago#bless#media literacy#the sooner the media stops straightwashing GO the better#because maybe poor Michael can finally rest#bless his bisexual Welsh chaos#thoughts#discourse
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I just realised that there are probably show-only fans out there shipping inej and tolya and I just 💀
#netflix are you actually daring to straightwash tolya#shadow and bone#netflix shadow and bone#grishaverse#inej ghafa#tolya yul bataar#sab spoilers
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rating thawne's deaths on a 10 point scale
snapped neck: 6/10. ok. not good, not bad, well-deserved, timeless, impactful. i love the way thawne is still complaining about that one though.
flashpoint: 9/10. imagine becoming a living paradox and proceeding to rant about how your speedster nemesis cant hurt you now (very normal way to put it btw.) only to be pierced by a fucking sword. dumb and classic, all good here.
the button: 100/10 THE DUMBEST DEATH OF THEM ALL AND MY ALL TIME FAVORITE. also a classic, imagine being told multiple times that youre going to die and fucking carry on like youre the Smartest here and nothing could ever happen to you and actually ima adopt you barry. thawne's character at its finest.
running scared: 8/10. not bad. ironic last words and 'on my life i swear' about the promise he intended to break all along. once again, dead because he couldnt shut the fuck up and look around him. iris, my beautiful tired of thawne's shit queen, I STAN.
the flash cw season 1: 5/10. dont remember it much asides from being totally pointless as it has 0 effect on thawne's existence further and our beloved Genius of Time Travel, who can Calculate Every Single Timeline Consequence To His Actions revealing his fucking name to his ancestor and bullying him into murder by suicide.
legends of tomorrow season 2: 10/10. love this one. top 10 reverse-flash moments. my dude got together like 15 other versions of himself for each to do practically fucking nothing other than to group pose and die. an honorable mention: poor black flash who got called a monster just for trying to do his timeline protection job and who endured all of thawne's shit only for it to turn out completely pointless as well. then again if you think about it, everything that happens in cw is pointless.
the flash cw season 6: 2/10. does that even count as a death. makes zero fucking sense. 2 points only for thawne being a total loser and resembling negaduck's 'crisis on infinite darkwings' death.
suicude squad: hell to pay: 10/10. i gave this 10 points already just for his last words 'fuck my life'. again, DOESNT KNOW HOW TO SHUT THE FUCK UP WHICH GETS HIM KILLED. thawne believing in the afterlife in the first place feels out of character to me though.
finish line: 0/10. it was very hard to waste a character like that without even realising it AFTER WRITING HIM WITH SUCH A DEEP UNDERSTANDING BEFORE but you've done it, williamson ⭐
legends of tomorrow season 7: 7/10. very balanced death, little bit of thawne having zero fucking braincells, little bit of meaning. not even complaining about the concept, silly little domesticated rat doing his silly little job of preserving the timeline. i approve.
jurassic league: 10/10. first i suggest we just stop and think for a moment about the fact that we got a DINOSAUR THAWNE in a list of deaths. second THIS PREHISTORIC DUMPLING GOT FUCKING EATEN. third insert an extinction pun. perfect understanding of thawne being a fucking joke of a character and meme potential.
flashpoint beyond: 12/10. did NOTHING in the plot. meant NOTHING for the plot. just spawned as a corpse and looked pretty in the morgue (10 points already purely for The Page) and i respect that. 1 more point for the button encore and another to martha wayne. thank you for your service queen, we'll never forget your impact on this one.
knight terrors: the flash: 8/10. this mf lasted exactly 3 pages. neat but a bit sad if you think about it. not only got killed unprovokedly but his prescious museum he just tried to protect got damaged as well. didnt even get to finish neither the tour or his point about barry not being able to wake up (again, only tried to help in a way by that?). also i like the way he's once again a creation of barry's subconsciousness acting suspiciously fruity.
#feel free to make this into a challenge lmao#its a full list of his deaths btw with the little exception of fp paradox and whatever might have happened in cw after straightwashing#if its not. please let me know bc i Have To review them all#eobard thawne#reverse flash#professor zoom#the flash#the flash cw#legends of tomorrow
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Oh my Christ, there are still people bitching in the tags about how they made Sauron look like ~just some guy~ in ROP? Yeah, it's almost like the whole series was about him being in hiding and trying not to draw attention to himself or something.
#The Rings of Power#fandom wankery#remember when they were all saying the show was Straightwashing™ because he had stubble or whatever the fuck it was
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I fucking called it!!
I was texting my friend Kayden and he asked me about mkulia (because I'm a massive gay enthusiast for them) and he was like
"What the fuck is an mkulia? Is that a new Mercedes car??" im giggling ☹️
And so I said that mkulia were "a pair of evil lesbians in which one of them was bi and the other a non-binary lesbian (headcanons btw) and they bonded over being evil" (this was in season 1 when mkulia wasn't massive in the community) and then he asked me the chances of them being together go king and I said that "season 1 would be denial of any woman kissy lovey feelings and season 2 they would embrace those woman kissy silly feelings and love eachother" and I FUCKING CALLED IT!! MKULIA CANON RAAAAHHHHHH
thanks kayden I love you <3
#mkulia#let them be gay#let women kiss#cancel freshTV if otherwise#praying that julia doesnt get straightwashed#keep the fruitiness in this#total drama#td reboot#trent total drama#mk total drama#mk x julia#tdi#td mk#td julia#julia/mk
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THERE BETTER BE SOME GAY COWBOYS IN THOSE CARDS OR I SWEAR TO GOD
#mtg#mtg outlaws#magic the gathering#ig more likr gaythering this time#please for the love of god don’t straightwash my cowboys#outlaws of thunder junction#I’VE WANTED THIS FOR YEARS I’M NOT KIDDING
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no sub (1m28s) 02.02.24
#you heard the man#they straightwashed it because of the big names in the cast most probably#why take on bl as adaptation if you take out the bl#just find a het story like this to adapt or write your own#smh#i a gangster became a highschooler series#i gangster became a highschooler the series#official trailer#thomas baudinette#vs twitter#blmpff
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I think that it's possible to believe that being the love interest is good for a black female character, that spuhura is a popular ship that has the fandom in a chokehold, that fans made it even more beautiful, and still recognize that 2009 spuhura wasn't greenlighted out of love for black feminism but rather to try to extinguish any gay readings of spock
#not that they succeded#hey. hey you reading. if you don't agree? don't harass. keep on scrolling. or block w/e. ✌️#star trek aos#this is just to say that I'm tired of seeing spirk shippers being accused of racism and misogyny#when they say that spuhura was made canon to straightwash spock#and always being told ''but being the love interest is better for a black woman than being single''#yes friend i can see that and i bet that there were people on the crew who genuinely shipped spuhura and were happy to make it real#but do you really believe that the paramount higher-ups thought about all that?#when spock has been gay-coded and gay representation for gay people for more than 50 years#it was plain and simple homophobia and I'll thank you that you don't downplay it#literally it's not even about spirk it's just that spock has been always gay coded and any reboot made ever since tos always tries to erase#that part of his character. there is no longer even space for nuance#spock is no longer portrayed as mostly disinterested in women except for extraordinary occasions#it's spock x woman or else
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this art book is talking about the myth of Apollo and Hyacinthus and it called them friends
it called them “the lovers” once, but the rest of it was just “his beloved friend” this, “his friend” that. i’m furious. it’s literally talking about how Cupid is a prominent figure in this painting, and then it goes back to pretending like the only thing they were doing while naked was playing discus.
like, yeah, rubbing oil onto your friend’s naked body, sounds like bros being bros. giving up all of your favorite hobbies to spend time with him? absolutely platonic. wanting to bring him to Olympus? hey, sometimes you just love your homies.
#not trying to minimize the value of close platonic male friendships#but they were so explicitly gay it’s not even up for debate#I’m tired of straightwashing gay myths#apollo#hyacinthus#greek mythology#apollo is bisexual
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