“oh boy the WGA is on strike, prepare for years of awful movies and shows.”
so you agree. you agree that writers are an indispensable part of your favorite movies and shows and deserve a fair contract that pays them accordingly.
Steven Universe: Eh, I don’t really feel like saying “girlfriend” or “wife”. Maybe they’re together. They have a special connection…
(gets violently shoved aside)
The Loud House/Craig of the Creek/The Owl House: Pfft, amateur. “My GIRLFRIEND Sam and I…” “I’m texting my GIRLFRIEND, mind your business.” “Luz’s new GF showed her…”
Can we not do this thing? Do you realize that Rebecca had to fight for what we got with Rupphire and literally risked her job? and Pearl and Rose. Like, there is no need to knock other shows down because of Lumity.
These kids today, I tell you what. In my day you had to bury your girlfriends under subtext and then end the series when the truth was revealed.
Risked her job, hell, it’s an open secret now that the Rupphire wedding (which, may I remind folks, was the first queer wedding in a kids’ cartoon, which is a BIG DEAL) is why everything about the rest of the series felt rushed. They had to scramble to tell the rest of the story because they took a gamble and the network retaliated by shortening their production time.
Rebecca Sugar and the crewniverse risked the entire show getting flat-out cancelled in order to show that wedding, only for people to say it “wasn’t progressive enough” and was “giving in to stereotypes” to put Ruby in a wedding dress. Never mind that Ruby kept getting dubbed over as a guy in localization, Sapphire was unmistakably feminine in every version, and putting Ruby in the dress was a flagrant way to say, “fuck you, you can’t pretend this is a straight couple; this is a queer couple and a queer wedding.”
Dana Terrace has said that The Owl House only exists with its intended queerness because of what Rebecca Sugar and her team accomplished with Steven Universe. Hell, there are multiple members of the Steven Universe team who went on to work on the other shows mentioned in the OP–Steven Sugar, for example, who is Rebecca Sugar’s brother and inspiration for SU in the first place (as well a background artist on the show), is currently an artist on The Owl House. There are people who got their start on Steven Universe who now only have the opportunity to tell more queer stories because of Steven Universe’s success.
I’m not even 30 years old yet and I’m still old enough to remember when being gay was fully illegal in the United States. Not gay marriage, but literally just BEING GAY. It wasn’t that long ago, and the fact that today in 2021 I can turn on the TV and watch gay cartoons intended for children? I never thought I’d see it. Fucking ever.
So let’s stop pitting queer creators and media against each other, shall we?
So often older shows that seem pitifully lackluster by today’s audience’s standards were hard-fought, BIG-ASS DEALS in their contemporary context. (And for the record, calling SU or something like Korra ‘older’ to me feels bizarre af, I’m 28, this is all new to me in some ways. This is all extraordinary and the opposite of lackluster.) What you’re seeing is an extraordinary amount of progress over the last mere ten years. Don’t knock it.
what the shit, this “its not progressive enough compared to more recent show” argument has already been used in the past when the new show was steven universes rubphire wedding and the “not progressive enough” was korra and asami holding hands at the end of LoK. it was a bullshit argument then and its still a bullshit argument now. korra and asami holding hands so that rubphire wedding could run. rubphire wedding ran so that owl house could fly. the argument that something that was a big fucking deal when it happened should be looked down upon because its a nonissue by todays standards is bullshit. are people gonna say that star trek wasnt progressive enough because kirk and spock werent a couple completely overlooking the fact that it kirk and uhura had the first interracial kiss on TV?
a quick word about the writers guild strike, for those of you who currently AREN’T guild members but would like to be one day: the WGA has always strongly enforced its right to ban from future membership any non-member who crosses the picket line and engages in scab writing, aka writing for any of the struck companies during the WGA strike.
so if you’re seeing job openings for screenwriters at places like netflix, amazon, paramount, etc and you’re thinking “hey, maybe i’ll apply and get my foot in the door,” just know that you WILL be scabbing and you WILL be barred from ever obtaining WGA membership. permanently.
I think the funniest thing about true crime fans is they seem to be the fastest to fall for whatever tricks the murderers try to pull once on trial. “Ted Bundy said porn corrupted him and that’s actually why he committed the murders” OK yeah i’m sure fucking Ted Bundy is a trustworthy upstanding citizen we should listen to.
The truth is true crime fans want serial killers to be way more interesting and complex than they actually are, when in reality they’re mostly garden variety misogynists and racists that happen to have a sadistic streak.
“The purpose of the collar is to protect the dog wearing it when it has to fight the wolves. The collar base protects the dog’s throat and carotid arteries, while the spikes are intended to deter bites to the neck or even injure wolves trying to do so.”
“And what do you get from serving humans that you do not get from running free?” sneered the wolf.
“Free food, unconditional love and tactical upgrades,” replied the herding dog.
I see your anti-wolf dogs and raise you Spanish War Dogs.
I see your Spanish war dogs and raise you the Tibetan Mastiff, which was actually bred to fight tigers and has fur so thick that it doesn’t need armor
They’re also what I like to describe as ‘fuck you’ big
you want a fuck you dog ok i see your tibetan mastiffs, and raise you the caucasian shepherd dog
they were bred to hunt bears, and they are fuck you dogs.
All I see are Good Pupps.
All I see are Fereldans trying to one up each other on their knowledge of dog breeds
For more information and to support the WGA please:
Follow their official social media on all platforms and only trust statements from the union itself, and articles they promote (be wary of other articles).
Read up on the issues being fought for (there are articles supported by the union in their linktree)
Be vocal in your support and inform others in your communities.
Stop using ChatGPT and other AI tools, even for fun.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
