#finally had good rep

[luisleyyaoi]

So fucking mad about dead end paranormal park getting cancelled btw I loved that show

#I #your friendly neighborhood transmasc #finally had good rep #which was a gay trans man in a relationship #as the protag #and the show gets canned after 2 amazing seasons and a cliffhanger #pissed beyond belief

[fansonfansonfansonfans]

AOAOAOA Ep #72: Five mall santas discuss their craft. Featuring comedian Amanda Lehan-Canto!

#i wanted to make a gifset from this episode because 1. someone requested it and 2. we have had a dearth of amangela content this week #but sadly my editing software crashed before i could make the final gif (i will finish it tomorrow once i figure out how to fix the bug) #but there are so many amazing moments from this ep #angela playing a misogynist who is bullying amanda's character but also can't help but look out for #so adorable! they love each other your honor #angela giarratana #amanda lehan canto #patrick mcdonald #jeremy culhane #kylie brakeman #aoaoaoa videos #amangela #how do queue know that my reps aren't good? back off!

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF THE NORMANDY SUMMIT

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Primarch Adrien Victus, Dalatrass Linron, and Urdnot Wrex With: Comm. Specialist Samantha Traynor Commander, you need to keep Cerberus at bay- I can't overstate what a victory a treaty between the Turians and the Krogan would be for the Alliance. We need all the help we can get... Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #sophie shepard #urdnot wrex #samantha traynor #mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #finally got around to gif'ing the sur'kesh footage and i ended up splitting it in half bc the summit just had too many good wrex moments #by best of: the normandy summit i really just mean best of: wrex bc this is literally just every wrex moment from the summit LMAO #i was gonna stuff this in with the priority sur'kesh set but literally when i had like 10 gifs of just the summit i was like #sur'kesh is getting the mars split bc wrex has too many good moments to just start cutting half of them out tbh #also victus in his fancy primarch robes with THAT VOICE??? i'm not down bad for most turians but DAMN victus #maybe we talk about how fucking real he was for hearing wrex say that the krogan were the ones who spilled their blood to stop the rachni #and immediately looked at the dalatrass and said that wrex was fucking right #and then said that the dalatrass was helping wrex or she'd never see another friendly turian again?? like he's a fucking ICON for that tbh #and soph in the dress blues????? HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT (mass effect women in uniforms and armor 😍) #her angy face coming back at the dalatrass to defend wrex is everything to me #and wrex's expressions during the summit are so fucking good #there's so much raw emotion on his face that you can see and you can tell how like angry and frustrated he is with the dalatrass and victus #and how much he's holding back!! especially when linron insults him!! when she basically calls his people useless!! #like there's just a thousand+ years of pent up krogan rage about the genophage just boiling behind wrex's eyes #and he somehow manages to keep somewhat cool during the summit? like obvi wrex isn't a thousand+ years old but he's his people's rep #he's such a fucking interesting character especially during this scene when you think about a thousand+ years of the genophage #bc you get to watch him balance keeping his cool in a political situation he's a leader in #vs. remembering he's a krogan in the presence of the leadership of the people who literally created a sterility plague for his people?? #and the raw emotions of that for him??? #wrex my love you deserve the world for dealing with the summit in the cool-headed way that you did bc it was 100% bullshit for you #canon soph would have thrown the dalatrass off the normandy so fucking fast for insulting wrex and his people and you cannot change my mind

[thefirstknife]

can we please. go one (1) week without the PVP obsessed people going off about how PVP is the only thing that matters in the game. im so very tired. "PVE people are probably about to find out that PVE can't carry the game because PVP is ruined and we're all gonna quit and play better games" please just can they shut up and go already instead of threatening us with a good time they never follow through on??

I saw that stuff as well, I know exactly what you're talking about. It's incredibly disingenuous and deliberately incendiary to cause more people to bitch about the game being doomed or whatever.

They are constantly using "steam numbers" to show that this is the lowest population count that Destiny 2 ever had and how that's proof that the game is being ruined and dying, that pvp bros and content creators are more important than we think they are, that Bungie needs to make Destiny 3 (yes, that is unironically stuff that people are saying) and other really incredibly tiring things.

Not to mention the vitriol towards the devs. Every time they bitch, more and more people show up in the comments saying awful shit about devs and how they are lazy, they don't work, they don't care, they are bad at development and so on. This is what eventually fuels harassment.

These "steam numbers" are disingenuous because they are taken out of context and they strip all other external reasons from the "low player count."

Is there a low player count? Yes! That is correct. Even when we account for console players, it's still low.

This is nothing new. This is a constant trend. Last month of the season ALWAYS has low numbers. People finished their story and their pinnacle grind and their seals and are doing other things.

More under for length:

Is this the lowest it's been so far? It seems to be, though the final month on steam charts isn't over so we can't fully tell yet, but it seems to be one of the lowest. However, there's been similar numbers before during seasonal end. It's quite literally nothing new. We go through this every season, except this season it's slightly lower than usual.

Why is that? Well, the chart Aztecross put to prove there's not many people playing happened on a Monday before the final Tuesday reset of the final week of the season. Yeah bro, very few people have things left to do in the season. They're not bothering. Unlike you, other people have other hobbies and games to play. I haven't played in days, I only got on on Saturday to finish my King's Fall seal and that took 10 minutes. This is what I mean by "disingenuous." It's a cheap bait tactic. Find the lowest number and ship it for cheap outrage engagement.

Others are constantly also posting the cummulative steam chart for every month of Destiny since the game came to steam and they're pointing out that we have lowest numbers now. Which is, again, posted for cheap outrage. They look at the number and see it's low and their conclusion is "game is dying." They don't care about the trend (every season end is "dying"), they don't care about external reasons (other game releases), they don't care about overall how some seasons are just weaker and have less interest (not the first time), they don't care about anything.

They just want people to be mad enough to harass the devs. Because like, what do they think is going to happen when they spend 2 months blogging to hundreds of thousands of people about the game being ruined by evil devs who don't do their job? When they constantly talk about how everything in the game is bad, pvp is bad, pve is boring and easy, story is bad, seasons are bad, events made for fun are bad, small community event is bad. What's going to happen is thousands of people are going to harass the devs. That's what going to happen.

I took the "steam numbers" chart that people are throwing around and I went into it in-depth to explain what the numbers mean and add context to them. You can see it here. It's a big image but you can zoom in and explore. It makes more sense when you see it separated by seasons; you can CLEARLY see the main trend of "low population at season end."

Another thing to consider with these numbers is the scheduling pattern. Shadowkeep released in October, Beyond Light released in November after a delay. October-November are usually months with a lot of other game releases and holidays. In 2019 and 2020, Bungie had an expansion themselves to cover that time. In 2021, there was no expansion in Oct-Nov; and that was the last time the game had the lowest population record ever. WHAT A SURPRISE. In this period, if Destiny doesn't have an expansion, people move on to play other games!!!! WOW! We have the technology to decipher the low numbers!

It's important to also note that back in 2021, that was the first time a game was delayed properly and significantly, so the year was without an expansion and there was a lull in Oct-Nov period. However, at that time, it was the first time this schedule happened and people generally didn't know how will it go. We were also kept in the dark about the seasonal story end (the infamous When Is Exorcism incident) so people had to keep coming back. Now, we're in the same situation; no new expansion in Oct-Nov, seasonal lull, nothing is happening. However, now, we know how this goes. People know how this schedule works AND we're not dealing with an extended season. We know when this season ends and there's nothing to wait for. People are more comfortable taking a break. So there's less people in Oct-Nov 2022 than there were in the previous lowest point, Oct-Nov 2021. It's almost as if there are reasons for this that go beyond "game is obviously dying."

These people also seem to be incapable of understanding that some players just... stop playing. For no specific reason. The game isn't dying, some people just lose interest. Content creators are especially guilty of this, because THEY can't stop playing, because they tied their income to a single live service game. To them, quitting the game is losing a job. Curious, maybe that influences their views about the game and about burnout and taking breaks and the quality of the content?

They simultaneously want Bungie to drop FOMO and reduce burnout, but they ALSO want for there to never be "content droughts." Which one is it? Because these two things cannot both be gone. If you want less FOMO and less burnout, then there will be less content. If you want more content, then you have to get on that burnout grindset.

It's the end of the god damn season. Yeah, nothing is happening. Yeah, fewer people are playing. Players finished their grind in the Destiny mines and are doing other things before the new season drops. Stop catastrophising it for cheap outrage bait. You not being able to take a break and having to keep making new content even when the season is ending and there no new content is your problem. Not Bungie's, not the other players'.

Bungie is not going to force their devs to crunch 80 hours per week so you can have brand new content every Tuesday that no regular player can catch up with. As it currently is, I want MORE downtime. I want seasons to be 4 months and to have less time and more downtime to catch up with stuff. Imagine the outrage though. Genuinely, society if these people would actually deliver on their promise and leave. Someone else will take your place, bro.

Also, as a final note before a dissertation in the tags: these pvp mains are weak. They whine about only having 2 new maps in 2 years. Gambit got -2 new maps. Like, literally we had 6 maps and now we have 4. LMAO. Crucible has a total of 24 maps and 8+ modes, constant updates, Iron Banner rework, multiple Trials reworks, incoming competitive rework, Crucible labs, three different sets of armour, prestige weapon loot, three different seals, entire twabs dedicated just to it. And they whine about not enough attention for the Crucible?

It's getting more attention than any other core playlist. Their problem is that they're not the ones being catered to. An update doesn't count if it doesn't satisfy mister Crucible Main #37. Fuck everyone else I guess! They are the most entitled selfish childish little pricks I've ever seen. They do not deserve Bungie talking the players at all.

#destiny 2 #community #bungie #long post #ask #genuinely though. for the love of god. every 3 months the same horror #just take a break. I am begging #are there issues with the game? absolutely. this season had a lot of them especially with all the weird stuff with challenges and quests #quests that are too grindy and make no sense and requirements that go through the roof #and some content creators eventually ended up mocking players for wanting it changed. because they have infinite time to play and we dont #there are issues. always. i can write a post three times as long detailing stuff i would love to see addressed #but instead we have to explain the concept of other games existing to destiny youtubers #i would love to be able to get some good conversation going with bungie but alas #we're talking about a monday before the final week of the season having less people playing #no fucking shit. nobody is playing on the final monday at 11 am? wow. how peculiar /s #most are done and those that aren't done are waiting for the final week having double rep in all playlists #also like. i said in the image i posted but. do they think bungie doesn't know this? lmao. trust me their marketing department knows #the execs know about how many people are playing. you're not the first one to notice #i'm so tired of this being the topic instead of actual real issues that we can work on solving with meaningful feedback

[greenvillainredemption]

I’m halfway through final girl support group and,, is lynette autistic? Some of the other characters call her names of bad autism/disability representation (ex. rain man, forrest gump) as insults, but nothing she actually does herself screams autism to me, except maybe naming and talking to her plant (she got that attachment/humanization of objects babeyy) but that could also just be a trauma thing so ?? Also like I said I haven’t finished it yet, but at halfway you’d think it’d be confirmed? But what’s with those specific references if she’s not autistic or otherwise disabled yknow? Am I missing something?

#I may have jumped the gun and got all excited n told my sister the book had an autistic protag #horror #actually autistic #final girl support group #grady hendrix #bookblr #but good news there’s other good rep that feels real and not forced or like patronizing #one woman is a wheelchair user and another is a butch lesbian which like I never see #maybe it’s more common in book form but in tv and movies and stuff I’ve never really seen actual butches #tv lesbians usually just look the same as the other straight characters. nothing wrong with a more girly girl lesbian but #where are the butches?????? the rep is very very skewed #please let the tv adaptation I’ve read is confirmed keep her butch swag 😔 #my words

[battle-of-alberta]

Don't know if anyone will get this, but … are any of you guys "Nature Nuts?"

if this was a reference to John Acorn the Nature Nut, then yes :) The show was produced in Acorn's hometown of Edmonton, so I've taken us on a little trip to the John Janzen Nature Centre as the setting for this ask. Here's another (literal) hat Ed wears for the City and he Will talk your ear off about backyard composting.

...of course I haven't been myself since I was around that age, so I've pieced together some images of the new hive from insta...

The show itself is hard to find which is a shame. I don't remember watching it as a kid even though I was the prime demographic for it and it sounds so familiar - I didn't watch as much TV as a kid and then I left the country before it finished airing - but thankfully I know someone who did!

I do have John Acorn's Alberta Bird book, though, which has to count for something. I didn't realize how coveted a copy of this was until I saw how quickly they seem to sell out!

#projectcanada cities #pc: edmonton #hapo art #traditional art #pencil crayon #ink #mixed media #boab ask #edward murphy #fragmentaryremains #i think ed is way better with kids than i am so he is usually good at the docent stuff #hes also a fan of science and nature too and takes any excuse to hang out in the river valley #edith may be the southside rep but she does not take to it like he does haha #shes getting kicked out of fort ed next door for impersonating staff #ive had this comic scripted for AGES i just finally picked a bee fact and drew it

[supercantaloupe]

top 5 oboe concertos 👀

kalliwoda. yes i am counting it even though it's labelled a concertino. idc. it's great and i love it

mozart. yes i know this answer is Basic. but if it was good enough for flutes to steal it's good enough for this list

marcello. i have a soft spot for baroque, sue me. also if this counts then the kalliwoda definitely does. play it in c minor if you're a real one

strauss. idk i just like strauss

vaughan williams. honestly not my thing to play but with the orchestra accompaniment it really is something special to listen to

also honorable mention has to go out to the grunge concerto by scott mcallister. i heard someone play two movements of this at oboe camp a couple summers ago and it's like...the concentrated essence of contemporary composition. it is So

[ask meme]

#sasha speaks #ask meme #sleepover saturday #nablah #ty! #limited myself to oboe and excluded EH here but if i didn't know that the fiala EH and clarient concerto would be on this list #this was tough! i don't actually listen to or play concerti that much. i am very much not a soloist #(<- says the person playing kalliwoda for her recital next month. and played the donizetti EH concertino for the competition last fall.) #(well the rest of my recital material is chamber music. and i have a collab piano major accompanying the kalliwoda. #so i won't be alone up there. i always play better when i have someone to play with anyway) #and tbh once you push past like. the 1840s. a lot of solo oboe rep starts to lose me... #idk i just do not stylistically Get a lot of late romantic and modern stuff from a musicality pov #like it's lovely to listen to but i have such a hard time interpreting it in my own playing #i had a haaard time learning the vaughan williams. i gave up on it ngl. not for me #and i'm not really into a lot of modern concerti. i think they tend to prioritize crazy technique over like...sounding good #and i'm in it for the musicality anyway not the technique. no one will call me a virtuoso by any stretch and i am fine with that #anyway. the grunge concerto gets an honorable mention cause it kind of broke my brain when i first saw it performed lmao #the third mvt is titled 'headbanging' and when i heard it i was like. wow. someone invented metal for oboe. finally #anyway albrecht mayer has an album called Lost And Found that's just a bunch of lesser known 18th century oboe and EH concerti #and i'm obsessed with it. i would list all of those here but that's cheating since...i mean they're Extremely Classical and they all #kiiind of sound the same lmao. but idc!! classical is my bread and butter i LOVE that shit #i really ought to get the sheets to some of those and learn em myself. and the strauss too. finally a late romantic i can get behind... #well my eyes were on something fiala next i think. so we'll see #oboeposting #LONG RAMBLING IN THE TAGS. sorry lmao. i have a lot of thoughts #sorry goossens but i don't care about you <3 idc if you win competitions i'm keeping kalliwoda

[bird-likes-to-fandom]

the lumity date chibi cartoon came on today while we were watching big city greens and. i was so terrified

#my mom is conservative and when she saw the steven universe pride commercials on cn this june she was Not Happy #she said 'i had no idea that was a gay show' and 'is this what made you think you were gay when you were like 5?' and made it clear #she didn't want me to watch su anymore (not that i do much nowadays anyway) #so i was Dreading the lumity date cartoon #because i love toh so much and i love lumity and i don't want to give that up or not be able to talk about it #like on one hand it's so amazing that kids are finally getting to see queer rep in shows specifically made for them #and im trying to teach my little brother that being queer is okay (by showing him su and toh clips and occasionally b99 clips #of kevin and holt) #but i have no idea if it's working or not #and with my mom and her beliefs im so scared she'll see the commercial or the show and say something #luckily i don't think the was looking because toh isn't really her thing even without the queer rep #it's a good thing those chibi cartoons are silent #toh #the owl house #lumity #bird likes to chirp

[edalynn]

.

#i like desperately want to rant somewhere other than just to slog and fox #and just do it in a tag post ig bc I don’t want to be annoying and beat a dead horse #but everything abt the huntlow arguments from fans rubs me the wrong way #fandom seems to think Willow is this happy go lucky loving unconditionally without question sweetheart #when in reality she’s actually kind of a bitch #like to anyone outside of her immediate inner circle and sure she wasn’t confident at the start of the series but she was still kinda #self absorbed ie was a jerk to king in the carnival ep had convinced Luz to disobey Eda multiple times (yet admonishes Gus when he does it?) #like I’m not saying she’s EVIL or BAD she just doesn’t have the highest empathy AND ALSO she’s a fucking badass too #so not some shy quiet girl like huntlow shippers pretend #also have seen ppl say she turned 15 and I’ve seen no canonical evidence to back that up unless I missed something but the age gap bothers m #also seen shippers say huntlow interracial rep is better and more needed than a main character interracial wlw ship #also abt it being good bc Willow is curvy and that exists in no other shows which 1. willows lack of confidence never came from her looks #but came from her abilities as a witch & 2. practically every modern cartoon has fat or curvy girls in love now this isn’t new #and finally it’s irks me that this is how everyone views it but in reality the only times she’s interacted with hunter were to use him for #her own gain. 1. starting a flyer derby team 2. saving Gus #she literally didnt care abt him being there at all until she was like oh bump let’s use him to find Gus like didn’t pay attention to him #at ALL. if anything IF hunter has a ‘confirmed crush’ I want it to be oh no sweetie ur experiencing friendship and admiration not love #and for everyone to get straightbaited lmao #not putting in tag bc I’m not THAT MEAN #and also no one try to “’convince me’ of anything bc u wont #taako talks

[snekdood]

the sooner ppl recognize “persecution delusions” aren’t just some “narcissist” thing and are also a schizophrenic thing, the better off we’ll all be

#infact theres a couple delusions that schizophrenic ppl have that 'narcissists' have but the reasons and they way they go about it is #usually different. its not that i think im special and im the only person i focus on and bc im so special ppl want to attack me or whatever #im literally just terrified every day someones going to hurt me (probably bc of trauma and other factors growing up) #theres ppl in my past who totally were the types to stalk ppl on social media and try to ruin their rep #idk if they're still doing it or found a new target or what but sometimes yeah i might over assume about what those ppl are up to #because im tired and theyre abusive and it stresses me out to feel like im constantly being watched #and since i have paranoia and schizophrenic tendencies my minds constantly going 'well what if they're still watching you? what if they're #still trying to fuck with you?' #im not doing this bc i think im special im doing this bc im scared of my abuser and have had abusive stalker ppl before in my past #so much of my delusions about being stalked and watched growing up has come from a specific individual threatening to do that w my family #and not even threaten he has actually done it before and we got a restraining order #but after that he would still continue to threaten doing that #so tyhat trauma mixed w paranoia and schizphrenic tendencies was uh... not a great mix to say the least #thats literally the only reason im constantly combative on here. bc i feel like im still being watched. #and like. ill never know when they stop watching me either #which isnt great bc i cant just be like 'finally i can relax and not feel like theres someone inspecting my asshole every 5 seconds' #which to be fair is 100% intentional on their end. they know what theyre doing to me. theyve convinced ppl its moral somehow #ig constantly trying to trigger me enough to go offline is The Move but yall still dont even wanna consider for second if they're lying #hell. you probably come up with excuses for why any of their bad behavior is good actually and anything i do thats good is bad or whatever #theyre 100% pure and good witrh good intentions no nuance no grey areas and im 100% horrible and bad with bad intentions always and also #'my vibes ar eoff' so thats how you know im prolly the abuser here

[kalesera]

        satine’s  favorite  color  has  always  been  purple.    her  name  means  violet,    and  that  led  her  to  have  a  fascination  with  the  flowers,    as  a  child.

#eventually lilies overtook violets as her favorite flowers but she had a good long phase there as a kid where she was very into them #and the color stuck as her favorite #the amount of blue that she wears as an adult is all clan kryze rep rather than a particular fondness for the color on satine's part #she likes blue but it's not a personal favorite or anything #there's no purpose to this i was just having baby satine thoughts #i'll be here later and hopefully get some writing done! but rn my little brother wants to watch the clone wars movie #he's finally willing to watch tcw i must convert him #don’t you dare believe that my kindness makes me anything but insurmountable / headcanon

[x-for-a-y]

if the winner of mwm ends up being incredibly normie i think that'll change the tourney community from front to back

#>other tournies feature less & less ''commonplace'' reps on average #>orbiters of the scene begin leaving #>the body of the community shrinks & condenses #>the insularity makes it feel even more outsider-unfriendly. maybe there's a shot of drama but i won't assume that #>eventually someone goes oh you know what would actually get a sizeable injection of new faces in the community? normie reps #and then. i don't even know. i don't think another kfad-like could happen. nor another soundclown-heavy tournament #i want it to be some kind of dariacore-focused tournament. or something that otherwise pulls on a preexisting #(soundcloud) base of mashup/plunderphonic edm enjoyers #this is pretty far in the future though. maybe we could end up pulling in people from like. ttgd. or #someone finally makes a mashup tourney video essay that gets Some traction. i think that's an equally good possibility #p.s. this post has had me type the word normie far more than i'd really like to

[sorenlionheart]

when i look back at my t/oh hyperfixation i do find it a little surprising i kept up with the show past season 1, not to say the show is bad but it went in a different direction than what i expected for better or for worse

#soren.txt #for better (found family trope stays dominating + good disability rep) or for worse (friend group getting split into l/umity + h/untlow) #and season 3 was an organized mess at best. not that that was the crews fault entirely #but i think them killing flapjack off at the end of his character arc when they're already on a time crunch as it is #is probably one of the dumbest writing choices #like you already had all that screentime for hunter. just to smash the reset button and try to shovel together some semblance of completion #this would've worked pretty well in a longer season. but you only have two episodes left in the show so *why* are you doing it now #when other characters need that screentime so much more #<- which is funny because he wasn't even involved with the final fight with his abuser so what was the fucking point lol #it really reeks of 'this character is the writers favorite' so they wanted an excuse to write more for him #i should've been suspicious the moment someone on the crew said how much they loved traumatizing him tbh

[versary]

i am a FITNESS INFLUENCER. i pride myself on taking VERY MEDIOCRE training videos in the gym. DM to start your MEDIOCRE JOURNEY TODAY!

#but truly what is this #i thought i had such a good angle #anyway this was my final set at 77.5%/48 kg - supposed to be an AMRAP and i got 10 reps #which means i get to increase my training max!!!! :^)

[kaijutegu]

I'm trying to come up with something clever to say here but I feel like I've been hit by a truck. In a good way. I never thought anything like this would pass in the Midwest, not even in a blue state like IL, because it's simply not the kind of thing anybody campaigns on or even talks about at the gubernatorial level.

This is honestly the perfect legal addendum to NAGPRA, and I'm thrilled it's at the state level. This type of legislation would be way too complex at the federal level, but the individual state responsibilities are manageable, and more importantly, doable.

Here's some of the highlights of what the law does:

It is now the state's responsibility to help return ancestral remains, funerary objects and other important cultural items to tribal nations

The state must follow the lead of tribal nations throughout the repatriation process.

Money must be allocated as part of the state Repatriation and Reinterment Fund to help with the costs of reburial, tribal consultation and the repair of any damage to burial sites, remains or sacred items.

Criminal penalties for the looting and desecration of gravesites are increased, and the law adds a ban on profiteering from human remains and funerary objects through their sale, purchase or exhibition.

Tribal nations must be consulted as soon as possible when Indigenous gravesites are unintentionally disturbed or unearthed — such as during construction projects. (We already had kind of a version of this, but it wasn't strong enough.)

IDNR must set aside and maintain land solely for the reburial of repatriated Native American ancestors and their belongings, as tribal nations have pointed to the lack of protected places for reburial in Illinois as among the highest barriers to repatriation.

Institutions that display human remains that are Native American and any items that were originally buried with those individuals (funerary items) cannot charge admission. You want to display looted grave goods? No money for you. (This is specifically targeting the Dickinson Mounds Museum, which is... well, it started as a guy's private display of Native American skeletons he personally looted. The state took it over in the 90s, but they didn't rebury any of the 230~ human skeletons.)

My favorite comment is this: When asked about what he would say to museums that may push back against the law, Illinois State Rep. Mark L. Walker said: “Too bad.”

#anthropology #archaeology #NAGPRA

[fruity-phrog]

Okay, I saw someone say that Nimona, while being good representation, “didn’t take the big step forward in queer rep that everyone says it did”.

That is wrong. So wrong, my dude.

Yes, an explicit and open queer relationship in children’s cartoons is not new, per ce. Hell, just this year, two popular kids’ cartoons had the main character in an open, adorable, plot-based queer romance. But this is different for a few reasons.

Reason number one, it isn’t left in suspense. Yes, they had that split for three odd weeks, but they started the film as a couple. One of the very first scenes is them together as a couple, Ambrosius saying he loves Ballister, them holding hands, Ballister leaning on Ambrosius’ shoulder. Ambrosius says he loves Ballister three times during the film, and none of them are any more than halfway in. It’s very clear, from their very first interaction, that they are an established relationship, which isn’t something I’ve seen...at all in other animation.

Secondly, they are the plot. Ambrosius not believing Ballister, Ambrosius cutting off Ballister’s arm, Ballister trying to get the video to Ambrosius - this is what drives the plot. In any other children’s animation with queer relationships, the relationship is not the main focus. Even The Owl House, which is so amazing with its constant representation, would still make sense if Luz and Amity never happened. But Nimona’s plot wouldn’t make sense without Ballister and Ambrosius’ relationship. It, quite simply, can’t be erased. It could work as a friendship, yes, but that’s the point. They could have just been two close friends that fell on opposite sides of a fight, but they weren’t. They were two lovers that fell on opposite sides of a fight. 

Thirdly, they aren’t sanitized for “family viewing”. An emerging trend in children’s animation is to only have mlm relationships as fathers to make them seem more “family friendly”. With the exception of Kipo, there really isn’t many tv shows or films that places light upon an mlm relationship. And if it does, it'll be a teen relationship because teenagers being queer tends to come across as less “dirty” and more “innocent”. But Goldenheart is none of these things. They are adults without the mollifying aspect of having a family. And on top of that, they fight. They wield swords and they get bloody and they shoot at things and get angry and yell. They aren’t “clean” and “innocent”.

As well as this, they are in a film. Films are far more accessible than tv shows. You have to watch twenty seven episodes before Lumity in toh is canon. Troy kisses Benson on the eleventh episode of Kipo. And there are two hundred and eighty three episodes of Adventure Time before Marceline and Bonnie kiss. But with a film, the queerness is much more forward - especially in Nimona, where it’s literally the second scene. Animated films hardly ever display queer relationships, but Nimona did.

Finally - they aren’t perfect. I don’t know about you, but three weeks of thinking your boyfriend/maybe ex is a murderer? Doesn’t sound like a healthy few weeks to me. I have only seen big relationship arguments portrayed in straight relationships in cartoons - think Star Vs The Forces Of Evil - whereas queer relationships either have the massive fight prior to being canonically gay - She Ra - or have conflict, not arguments, that are dealt with quickly - Dead End/The Owl House. But Goldenheart? Goldenheart suffers. Their relationship is pushed to such extreme boundaries as for them to be pretty much exes throughout most of the movie. And yet, they are clearly healthy, happy and very much in love at the end. 

TL;DR - Nimona is amazing with the queer representation, and it is a milestone for LGBTQ+ cartoons. Not only is the relationship romantic for the entire movie, the plot is driven by Ambrosius and Ballister’s sort-of-break-up. In short, they are treated the same way straight people are. They have flaws, they have massive arguments, they have plot importance, they have backstory. They are in love. And that’s what matters more than anything else. 

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