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so this great discord server i’m in prompted people to draw stuff mimicking/mocking the snapchat updates that homestucks been relegated to
i basically had no ideas other than “what’s the next big holiday?” and imagined some characters participating in that holidayi hope you like it!
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also can i just say i’m so tired of how hard ppl try to make kanaya fucking BLAND
i get that gay ppl esp on tumblr are obsessed with “representation” being “wholesome” and “unproblematic” or whatever but kanaya maryam is a fantastic, funny, interesting lesbian whose personality meshes well with the story she was written into. she’s morbid. so is terezi. she’s funny and sometimes petty and dishonest. rose too!! rose and kanaya are full of incredibly human flaws, bad jokes, insensitivity, misunderstandings, and bad decisions… they’re interesting because they’re realistic. they’re funny and engaging.
stop making them bland and fucking boring to fufill some fantasy of whatever boring bullshit you think “gay representation SHOULD be”. i get where this is coming from (and i get that i occupy Camp Problematic Lesbian) but it genuinely doesn’t help. it doesn’t push back against harmful gay stereotypes like… at all. nobody needs or wants cardboard cutout ~wholesome~ lesbian couples to fill some shitty quota. nobody – esp not young bi and lesbian girls trying to find themselves – will engage with that in a meaningful way. don’t reduce interesting and funny gay characters to bland, “unproblematic”, and forgettable side characters. most “gay representation” already occupies this space, esp since they’re the easiest for other cishet creators to shoehorn into their otherwise mediocre content lol
as a side note this happens a lot in davekat circles because only m/m ships are allowed to be tragic and complex and beautiful, whereas w/w ships are background one note bland stories that exist to prop up the Yaoi. this happens in like every fucking fandom too LMAO but that’s another conversation for another day!!!
Like let them be PEOPLE.
Let Kanaya get uneasy about Rose hanging out with her old crush (John).
Let her say something that gets taken wrong.
Let her be Human (or, Troll, whatever) and make mistakes.
Make their love real. Not perfect and flawless. Make it healthy and strong because they worked at it.
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This might come as a shock to some of you but saying “I’m not informed enough on this particular topic to have an opinion” is about 100 times more respectable than being misinformed
shit that actually goes down in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
- a character is sent to the moon for 1000 years
- a war is started by a pink pony singing about sharing
- a bird dies on-screen (she gets better)
- a character performs a sonic boom that alters the course of history
- another character causes several alternate timelines just by preventing that sonic boom
- a god of chaos turns a small village into the capital of the world for about an hour
- the ruler of a country turns the worst day of her life into a national holiday
- love turns horrifying, shape-shifting bugs into beautiful, non-shape-shifting bugs
- a character casts a spell on a doll that causes everyone to fight each other over it
- she has done this before
- a dragon and a princess straight-up kill a man
- like, he dead
- he fuckin exploded
- a character enters a portal to an alternate dimension and becomes Alpha Bitch at a high school
- said dimension also houses creatures that feed on hatred and were banished there thousands of years ago
- the most powerful wizard in history would have been even more powerful if he had friends
- Weird Al Yankovic voices a pony
- said pony accidentally ruins the life of the pony who inspired him to throw parties
- three schoolchildren spend five seasons trying to find their purpose in life
- a character survives a cockatrice attack by giving it a stern talking-to
- a character alters reality, fixes it, and becomes a princess, all over the span of 24 hours
- an author writes a series of bestsellers about her own adventures
- the school bully is only as rich as she is because of her main target’s family
- the god of chaos is friends with a stage magician, a beetle, a former tyrant, and a shy girl who likes animals
- a baby is named after the catastrophic event she caused
- a character can predict the future based on how her body actsThe bugs can still shapeshift tho.
Movie Edition:
- cat attempts to sell ponies into slavery.
- warship and conquering army mistaken for clowns upon arrival
- magic potion acts just like dial-up
- colorful pony convinces colorful bird people to quit their unionless jobs and become pirates.
- musical number used to hide attempted theft
- spunky pirate lady in skimpy clothing jumps out of cake
- there are jiggle physics, but not on her. They’re on the really fat one to her left.
- dragon fire kills a guy, he doesn’t get up.
- villain fucks up the calendar by swapping the sun and moon around a lot.
- stoning enemies statistically effective.
shit that actually goes down in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
- a character is sent to the moon for 1000 years
- a war is started by a pink pony singing about sharing
- a bird dies on-screen (she gets better)
- a character performs a sonic boom that alters the course of history
- another character causes several alternate timelines just by preventing that sonic boom
- a god of chaos turns a small village into the capital of the world for about an hour
- the ruler of a country turns the worst day of her life into a national holiday
- love turns horrifying, shape-shifting bugs into beautiful, non-shape-shifting bugs
- a character casts a spell on a doll that causes everyone to fight each other over it
- she has done this before
- a dragon and a princess straight-up kill a man
- like, he dead
- he fuckin exploded
- a character enters a portal to an alternate dimension and becomes Alpha Bitch at a high school
- said dimension also houses creatures that feed on hatred and were banished there thousands of years ago
- the most powerful wizard in history would have been even more powerful if he had friends
- Weird Al Yankovic voices a pony
- said pony accidentally ruins the life of the pony who inspired him to throw parties
- three schoolchildren spend five seasons trying to find their purpose in life
- a character survives a cockatrice attack by giving it a stern talking-to
- a character alters reality, fixes it, and becomes a princess, all over the span of 24 hours
- an author writes a series of bestsellers about her own adventures
- the school bully is only as rich as she is because of her main target’s family
- the god of chaos is friends with a stage magician, a beetle, a former tyrant, and a shy girl who likes animals
- a baby is named after the catastrophic event she caused
- a character can predict the future based on how her body actsThe bugs can still shapeshift tho.
Movie Edition:
- cat attempts to sell ponies into slavery.
- warship and conquering army mistaken for clowns upon arrival
- magic potion acts just like dial-up
- colorful pony convinces colorful bird people to quit their unionless jobs and become pirates.
- musical number used to hide attempted theft
- spunky pirate lady in skimpy clothing jumps out of cake
- there are jiggle physics, but not on her. They’re on the really fat one to her left.
- dragon fire kills a guy, he doesn’t get up.
- villain fucks up the calendar by swapping the sun and moon around a lot.
- stoning enemies statistically effective.
