“Some of you have raised… concerns about the new substitute teacher, Mr. Notspiders. I’d like to address them once and for all: Mr. Notspiders is definitely NOT a poisonous giant spider. He is also not a gaggle
of poisonous spiders pretending to be a person. This is rude,
unacceptable behavior. He’s a well versed professional wizard like all
the other teachers, and I will not tolerate such disrespect towards a
member of our board.”
I do actually think there is a responsible way to write queer villains, and basically all it boils down to is “don’t make their queerness the villainous thing about them.”
They can be greedy, or violent or vicious or whatever, but these traits should be the thing that is terrifying about them, not their sexuality, gender, or gender expression. And the way they are presented, framed and reacted to by other characters should reflect that.
( also, imo if you have a queer villain, you should probably have some queer heroes too. :\ )
okok theres one part of elements i really liked but keep forgetting to talk about so ill post it b4 i forget again
but HEYO finn and pb’s platonic relationship is. really very important to me holy shit, AT’s been pushing the ‘moving on’ from his crush thing for a couple of seasons now and i still go hell yeah every time its reinforced
LSP tries to break the fire elemental curse on finn by telling him to go to his happy place but his brain automatically goes to all this past romantic stuff with PB at first, its real bad because its still wrapped in flames but Then
finn crushes it, puts out the fire (or rage and anger/pain as the element represents here)
and he goes back to his real happy place, back to pajama wars (still a super fav ep!!) where all they did was hang out like best friends w no hint of romance whatsoever
it felt like a real throwback to Dont Look where finn’s “true perception” of PB wasn’t an infatuated crush but just one of his bros
my boy’s moved on and is learning and enjoying his friendships and im proud of him
Yes!! And this is such an important thing to show young people
There was a lot of pain and awkwardness he had to deal with first. A common part of growing up when you have crushes. But he’s learned to appreciate and value his friendship with her, and of course PB values it too
Like he can actually enjoy his relationship with her now, now that he’s no longer chasing “the road that leads to nowhere”. The whole point of his crush on her has become to show how to deal with it and move on, and also to show that just because your crush doesn’t return those kinds of feelings, doesn’t mean they can’t be an important person in your life.
Basically, don’t ruin important friendships over unrequited infatuation. You don’t have to be ashamed of having those feelings, but your crush has worth beyond the potential of returning them. You shouldn’t have to lose them and they shouldn’t have to lose you because you weren’t satisfied with the nature of the relationship
so stop burning yourself up over them and chill!!! you and them both will be so much happier
