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#vs getting it all from corps n conglomerates
seveneyesoup · 2 years
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look i’m gonna be as nice about this as i can but i genuinely earnestly think the reason we have a whole generation of queer teens happily begging for table scraps from the walt disney corporation is because no one listens to welcome to night vale anymore. wtnv was a generations introduction to explicit positive queer rep, and for some people, myself included, queer rep at all. and it sets the bar at a reasonable place. from the first episode, our narrator, a man, is outright stated to be in love with another man. this is taken seriously, and treated as healthy and normal, rather than secret or shameful. once you have that, you can’t go back to crumbs. and you certainly can’t go back to pretending crumbs are a four course meal.
#also the discourse machine branding popular queer made queer content as Problematic contributes as well#convince a bunch of kids they can only get media from mainsteam sources; tell them the explicitly queer stuff is bad; and youve effectively#blindfolded a population#and like it brings to mind the old ‘ooo dean winchester referenced a gay bar 👀’ people#but at least then there was less to choose from and it was harder to find#literally welcome to night vale changed the face of narrative podcasts#i just think if we taught these people to expect more and introduced them to the idea of independent storytellers telling queer stories#vs getting it all from corps n conglomerates#that they might end up with a healthier relationship to media and be willing to demand more from these corps or else forgo them entirely#you don’t need disney to tell your story when you know you can tell your own story; you know?#you wanna feel seen and so do your peers. go out and see each other then instead of begging for attention from netflix or the mouse#anyway also wtnv being my first experience w queer characters isn’t exactly true bc jack harkness#but that’s played somewhat for jokes yk and it’s not. you know that bit of writing about how all the definitions of homosexuality and they#never mentioned love? yeah. that#maybe it’s different in torchwood i never watched it but he has a bf there i think#but yeah#disney hate blog#whole rant bc it takes a week off my life when people say a disney movie is ‘for the gays.’ they’d sell you to satan for one corn chip
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