#mcafee westbrook

[yung-sriracha]

The Politician 1x01 ❝ Pilot ❞

#the politician #the politican netflix #ben platt #laura dreyfuss #theo germaine #julia schlaepfer #peyton hobart #mcafee westbrook #james sullivan #alice charles #filmedit #filmtvcentral #filmgifs #filmandtv #film edit #userstream #smallscreensource #finally getting around to giffing this show so i can delete it from my computer #starting with this scene bc i quote this alice line ALL the time #also julia bb im so sorry for how dirty they did you s1 youre actually a gorgeous gorgeous girl #also the coloring on this show is so weird i tried fixing it as much as i could and i still feel like it looks off #mine

[coffeelovinggayidiot]

I cannot believe that I spent a month looking for inspiration for how to play my character in theatre when Laura Dreyfuss's preformence as both Zoe Murphy and Mcafee Westbrook exist and are literally perfect!

#zoe murphy #mcafee westbrook #laura dreyfuss #dear evan hansen #the politician

[stitched-mouth]

CHARACTERS I WILL NO LONGER WRITE FOR

So I’m doing a bit of a page remodel.

I am removing some masterlists and some characters from masterlist. I have no desire to write for these characters anymore so I won’t be. These characters, so far, are not characters I have ever written for but added to masterlists because at some point I did want to write for them. So no worries about deleting fics or any work.

But please understand that I only write for characters that I’m interested in writing for, I won’t write for characters just because others might want to read something about them.

Also my Diabolik Lovers masterlist is missing. I have not stopped writing for these characters, I just want to redo the actual masterlist. As well as my Black Butler masterlist and My Hero Academia, these masterlists are still up though.

Anyway, the characters I will not be writing for anymore are:

• All Hazbin Hotel characters

• Sylvie (Loki)

• Steve Rogers/ Captain America

• Stephen Strange/ Doctor Strange

• Miriam Wexler (Turning Red)

• Jang Deok-Su (Squid Game)

• Kang Sae-Byeok (Squid Game)

• Enid Sinclair (Wednesday)

• Eugene Ottington (Wednesday)

• Jack (Last Night In Soho)

• John (Last Night In Soho)

• Alan Zervi (Russian Doll)

• Sandie Milkovich (Shameless US)

• Monica Gallagher (Shameless US)

• Nina Locke (Locke & Key)

• Tenya Ida (My Hero Academia)

• Shoto Todoroki (My Hero Academia)

• Rei Todoroki (My Hero Academia)

• Himiko Toga (My Hero Academia)

• Kurogiri (My Hero Academia)

• Rachel Phantomhive (Black Butler)

• Elizabeth Midford (Black Butler)

• Edward Midford (Black Butler)

• Francis Midford (Black Butler)

• Alois Trancy (Black Butler)

• Hannah Annafellows (Black Butler)

• Charles Phipps (Black Butler)

• Tanaka (Black Butler)

• Baldroy (Black Butler)

• Nina Hopkins (Black Butler)

• Beast (Black Butler)

• Dagger (Black Butler)

• Doll (Black Butler)

• Black Star (Soul Eater)

• Light Yagami (Death Note)

• Near (Death Note)

• Matsudo (Death Note)

• Luther Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)

• Otis Milburn (Sex Education)

• Jackson Marchetti (Sex Education)

• Lily Igehart (Sex Education)

• Payton Hobart (The Politican)

• Skye Jackson (The Politican)

• James Sullivan (The Politican)

• McAfee Westbrook (The Politican)

• Johanna Constantine (The Sandman)

• Lucifer Morningstar (The Sandman)

• Catwoman (The Batman)

• Nega Scott (Scott Pilgrim Vs The World)

• Ashley Campbell (Sally Face)

• Todd Morrison (Sally Face)

• Tommy Maximoff (WandaVision)

• Billy Maximoff (WandaVision)

• Peter Quill (Guardians of The Galaxy)

• Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire)

Watch me add half these characters back when the next season of their shows comes out

#stitched #stitched talks #stitched writes #netflix #wednesday #squid game #marvel #hazbin hotel #turning red #last night in soho

[davidsfincher]

[crowd cheering]

#* #McAfee Westbrook #the politician #the politican netflix #laura dreyfuss #theo germaine #james sullivan #payton hobart #ben platt #thepoliticianedit #mcafee is my wife and i love her #handmade #tvedit

[haylani]

McAfee Westbrook in The Politician Season 2

I'm tired of working for someone who I know I'm smarter than. You were right. I'm ambitious and you saw it the moment you met me. I don't care about a state senate seat. I want to go to Washington.

#the politician #mcafee westbrook #laura dreyfuss #the politician edit #laura dreyfuss edit #smart queen fashion icon ilysm/ #she got good screentime this season/ #but they retconned her sexuality so at what cost/ #mygifs

[autym73]

Has this been done before? idk here ya go anyway

#the politician #the politican netflix #the politican season 2 #payton hobart #ben platt #david corenswet #river barkley #mcafee westbrook #laura drefuss #hobarkley #payton x river #fuk

[rainbowkarolina]

Laura Dreyfuss as McAfee in The Politician 

#laura dreyfuss #the politician #bbelcher #tvedit #wlw #mcafee westbrook #me at everyone else in this show: what a mess #me at mcafee: bby girl bby #my gifs

[jimjimenezzz]

everyone in The Politician all the time:

#the politician #netflix #payton hobart #infinity jackson #alice charles #james sullivan #mcafee westbrook #astrid sloan #skye leighton #meme #mine

[supervisorkenadams]

Ok as much as I adore The Politician, it really rubs me the wrong way the way queer characters are treated on this show

So while I have absolutely no problem with bi characters ending up in male/female relationships, the fact that all the queer women on this show ended up either with male love interests or single, especially with the fact that McAfee and Georgina both perpetuate the idea that bi-women with eventually leave the women they’re with to be with a guy is NOT a vibe

Plus I’m not gonna even start on whatever that “No Homo” bullshit thing was with Payton and River (probably some shitty ass biphobic way of rationalizing Payton and Alices little nuclear family by invalidating Payton’s only mlm relationship because CLEARLY he’s straight guys, he’s not gay, and there’s OBVIOUSLY no middle ground between the two)

I also really hate the way polyamorous relationships were depicted in season 2 as something that can never actually work out and no one will ever be genuinely happy unless they leave the polyam relationship to be in a “normal” relationship (adding to the list of biphobic shit this show did when they claimed that one of Dede’s partners was “basically gay” once they split up)

#when theyre in a samesex relationship theyre gay #and when theyre in a male/female relationship theyre straight #and the only time bisexual is said is when its describing what River is not #as much as i love this show it really has its issues #ryan murphy needs to pull his head out of his ass #the politician #the politician netflix #payton hobart #georgina hobart #river barkley #mcafee westbrook #alice charles #astrid sloan #sky leighton

[mistah-steel]

My friend made this for me and y’all I am WHEEZING (follow her @\rebekahwittman on Twitter)

#the politician #astrid sloan #payton hobart #river barkley #the politican netflix #ryan murphy #biphobia #alice charles #mcafee westbrook #lucy boynton #david corenswet #ben platt #iz originals

[rosesocietyy]

Me running to Tumblr after finishing the politician thinking it was going to blow up like riverdale

#the fandom is damn near non-existent #the politician spoilers #the politician #Netflix #payton hobart #river barkley #astrid sloan #mcafee westbrook #james sullivan #skye leighton #ben platt #david corenswet #gwyneth paltrow #alice #infinity jackson #dusty jackson #Georgia Hobart

[filmicvns]

the politican icons, like if you save

#the politician #the politician icons #astrid sloan icona #river barkley icons #mcafee westbrook icons #payton hobart icons #payton hobart #river barkley #mcafee westbrook #astrid sloan #the politician season 2 #the politician s2 #ben platt icons #lucy boynton icons #laura dreyfuss icons #david corenswet icons #ben platt #laura dreyfuss #lucy boynton #david corenswet

[coffeelovinggayidiot]

Mcafee Westbrook is my gender, sexuality, and general idol

#the politician #mcafee westbrook

[paytonthepolitician]

#this isn’t the meme i was referring to i just have a lot of memes running around in my mind lol #ryan murphy #the politician #hobarkley #astrid sloan #river barkley #the politician meme #payton hobart #mcafee westbrook #original post #literally like ALL the characters i’m too tired to tag them rn #i’ll come back for tags

[cardiganloser]

You guys, please go watch The Politician it's a bunch of crazy, rich, sexually fluid teenagers trying to kill each other and doing insane shit for politics and s2 is out in two days, please stream it, the cast is incredibly talented and I don't see a lot of content for it. Season one is free in its entirety on Netflix, s2 out Friday, I beg you a to stream it okay thank you.

#the politican netflix #the politician #ryan murphy #ben platt #payton hobart #river barkley #astrid sloan #alice charles #mcafee westbrook #james sullivan #georgina hobart #skye leighton #infinity jackson #dusty jackson #netflix #tv streaming #netflix shows

[haylani]

I really enjoyed The Politician season 2 (heavy spoilers ahead) but the handling of LGBTQ characters was nothing short of a mess, and frankly felt kind of hurtful, which is being echoed by a lot of LGBTQ viewers. For a show with eight+ major LGBTQ characters (Payton, Astrid, McAfee, Georgina, Skye, James, River, and Alice as revealed in S2), this season had little to show for it except on the polyamory front (which was good to see represented). All these LGBTQ characters ended up with someone of the opposite gender or single. Making a conscious decision not to verbally confirm sexualities and gender identities and not centering on gay pain-type storylines was a smart and refreshing choice in the first season. But the second season crossed a line into implying these defined sexualities can’t exist at all and are obsolete in this post-modern world of ‘everybody is fluid’ progressivism. Not only does that invalidate the sexualities of many LGBTQ individuals, but it excuses how the representation this season was conveniently... hetero.

Specifying that River was not bisexual despite his love for Payton and Astrid was so unnecessary. Clarifying that Payton wasn’t attracted to him ‘in that way’ was in direct contrast with the first season ‘he made me feel things not in a traditional heteronormative way.’ And for not mentioning most sexualities in the first season, it was disheartening to hear the term “bisexual” used only to qualify what the characters are not.

Putting McAfee in a sex scene with a man and especially having her engaged to a man at the end even tho based on the first season many saw her as a lesbian felt like an attack. Unless the point is to in the future explore her blatant overcompensating and insecurity in her sexuality as was shown during the second season, then her story becomes lesbian (or otherwise queer girl with an established preference for women) ends up with a man. Many of the characters are bi/pan/fluid which is completely valid but adding McAfee there when she showed no interest in men during the first season felt highly uncomfortable and aggressively invalidating.

It was nice to see Georgina with an accomplished woman after she and Brigette didn’t work out... until she dumped her to have an affair with a man who ends up being a terrible person (especially when his plot was mostly useless). Another long sigh.

Lastly, Alice and Astrid’s threesome revolved around Payton, to the extent that Astrid seemed emotionally detached from Alice. Then there was the negative jealousy trope common with how the media treats three-way relationships. Also they somehow managed to queerbait with canon fluid/queer characters (didn’t know this could be done) by showing this possibility of Alice and Astrid running away only to have Payton and Alice get back together and start a family.

We see a quick moment of Skye in an inappropriate relationship with a female professor and a shot of James but the remaining lesbian and trans characters, respectively, end up single at the end, and moreover had notably less screentime. Additionally, we don’t see Astrid after the time jump at all, and all we know is that she’s on her own since Alice went back to Payton.

All of these outcomes together created an unsettling tapestry when it came to LGBTQ representation. A lot of the progress in queer storytelling made during the first season was undermined in the second. Thankfully we’re beyond the need to argue a lack of representation, but now exists a new problem of the lack of positive representation. While it’s great that everyone in this show is so unapologetically queer and fluid, it‘s hurtful to see them only end up in hetero relationships.

Please feel free to leave your thoughts!

#the politician #just ranting im sad/ #why did they do that they could have not/ #the politician spoilers #payton hobart #mcafee westbrook #river barkley #astrid sloan #alice charles #georgina hobart #skye leighton #james sullivan