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woodsborocinemaclub · 11 months

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I love thinking about Mindy and Amber’s relationship but like. Specifically how Mindy probably impacted her personality-

Like, even though they probably weren’t friends until highschool, it’s a small town and they would have a good idea of each other’s existence even if they never hung out. There’s a lot of similarities between the two, being both girls who are v into horror movies and both being queer. (Yes I know Amber is not technically canonically, but as a fandom I think we’ve unanimously decided fuck you she is)

Mindy really strikes me as someone who found out she was gay and came out pretty early (not at all me projecting my experience on to her wdym ahahah),,,, but like. I can see her having come out at 12-14 and like, is very open about it. And even though Woodsboro isn’t like a particularly conservative place, especially not compared to the typical small town, but Mindy did have a bit of social difficulty with peers. She was bullied, not really in the cartoony slamming against locker and forced to give over lunch money way, but in more subtle teenage girl bullying. She constantly got excluded and othered, and just generally avoided by any girl who wanted to be “cool.”

Amber saw a lot of herself in Mindy and kinda watched from a observer’s point of view of this all going down, and grew to despise the fact that she saw herself in Mindy, not wanting to call victim to the same fate-

She does what a lot of high school girls too and adopts this whole mean girl persona, never coming out and never telling others about her interests- In scream 5 she admits to being a Jordan Peele fan but pretends she’s not a stab fan, she is able to express some of her interests if they are considered cool, like being a fan of a very critically acclaimed director, but not interests that are nerdy, like being a fan of the stab franchise.

I feel like she also hides the fact that she’s a stab fan bc she really dislikes most of the series (hence the motivation to make a real life requel), if someone were to insult the stab franchise it would literally be like an insult to herself.

A few years before scream 5 she becomes friends with Tara, and then is accumulated into her squad of childhood friends (the twins and wes) and like, as she gets to know Mindy she just gets increasingly more jealous. Mindy is totally unapologetically nerdy and openly lesbian, and even though she takes shit and really isn’t seen as that cool because of it, she really doesn’t care. She’s very much of the mindset that she doesn’t need to be liked by everyone but only really by those that she cares about.

Mindy kinda senses that Amber’s mean girl persona is very much a wall she put up as a defence mechanism, and quite actively tries to connect w her (in her own way), like the basement scene in 5- Mindy isn’t the best at socialisation, tending to be very blunt, but connects w people well through humor, tending to rely on that when trying to befriend someone.

Anyways, I have so many thoughts about the two of them bc I feel like they have a dynamic w so much potential that ofc can’t be fit into a lighthearted slasher movie. Also I think it’s pretty obvious that a lot of this is based off projection and personal experience as an autistic lesbian who literally came out at 12 and was always the weird kid with the nerdy interests lmao lmao

#amber freeman #mindy meeks martin #scream 5 #scream 2022 #scream movie #scream #scream headcanons #autistic lesbian psychoanalysis

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anissapierce · 2 years

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An ongoing and exhaustive examination of gay velma

the creators for trick or treat have not released a statement Abt Velma being a lesbian.

What we do have is a live action adaption that in it's starting stages a rated r comedy had Velma as lesbian but then when higher ups decided the film was no longer rated r the film got retooled for a new audience and references to Velma being a lesbian were scrapped or retooled.

We also have mystery Inc where creators say that they wrote her to be a lesbian and her relationship with shaggy was intended to reflect her struggles with sexuality and the ending with Marcie was intended to reflect how once she realized who she was she could be in a happy fulfilling relationship. But WB had an axe to grind for the show in the first place and didn't allow them to be as explicit about that journey as they wanted to be in season two so it was left as subtext

Trick or Treat Scooby Doo made no indication as being in any of those continuities and in fact is more clearly based on the original cartoon from both plot and design wise. The thing about this Velma is that she's a new Velma but I guess if you want to argue 'canon' you could pull from the original series. She could b bi or she could be lesbian but breaking out pitchforks and arguing over it is silly when there's no indication of either in the text or in creator comments Abt the film.

Also people not getting that Velma the TV show? Entirely different production only difference is the higher ups which like frankly ? Considering the implication at the panel that the reason why they didn't have Scooby Doo is bc WB didn't want their tentpole character involved in something this rated r (rmbr the batman can't eat pussy from like 2020) ... I do think that they'd push back possibly on this Velma being bi queer lesbian gay ... The show hasn't come out yet and white lgbt ppl are calling trick or treat More progressive. (I loved trick or treat but let's not get into how the racial politics of it are retrograde, not racist but ... Edging a line)

Velma isn't Replacing Trick or Treat in Scooby Doo canon bc Scooby Doo as a property is big enough to have different iterations out at the same time with different characterizations, Pup named Scooby Doo came out same year as Zombie Island. There's too many examples to name.

If you want a lesbian Velma take it up w WB bc if they wanted they could enforce it as a part of her character and they could've informed Mindy kaling Abt trick or treat (but I'd bet my bank savings that they didn't and bc they released it knowing that comic con was coming soon to increase buzz ... It could've been handled better)

I can see the callous calculations from execs in various depts that like it was fine for Velma to have a crush on Coco bc the movie wasn't focused on her but it wouldnt be fine to have her be gay/bi/lesbian in a show focusing on her. I can write a whole essay Abt how fucked that mentality is but I won't bc I've gone on long enough

Edit : one of the people credited as writing it and in story by reposted this article calling her a lesbian

https://twitter.com/daniel_mclellan/status/1577325605279789057?t=P9_W3Y94f9_5v-5BscSXpA&s=19

But again I genuinely don't think that like the delineations we're especially drawn in the sand and they probably kept it vague on purpose bc God forbid we have those scary sexuality words in a kids cartoon

The other person credited for story who was Also the director was quoted in this article that calls her queer

https://twitter.com/RepresentPledge/status/1577707381458636800?t=AaqLv_huO4XrTZjGVadjwg&s=19

#velma dinkley #trick or treat scooby doo #also the velma & Daphne movie didn't have the boys at all Scooby shaggy or fred #i think its fine if theres a show in the universe without scooby and in fact i think its a step in the right direction bc without scooby tl #they can obviously do things they otherwise wouldn't

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