• First two letters of your last name
• First vowel of your first name
• Third letter of your middle name (or parent’s first name if you don’t have a middle name
• Last consonant of your last name
• Add IEL or EL to the end!
Who told them this was okay. Who told them that announcing to a fan base of mostly lgbt youth that a character they look up to and admire is a gay man, who has a partner back on earth called Adam. Who told them it would be funny to get us lgbt fans excited at the idea of us FINALLY getting the lgbt representation we were promised.
Who told them it would be okay to take that excitement and use it to fuel our emotions towards their shitty show once it’s revealed that the second gay character they promised to introduce us to, is immediately confirmed to be dead.
Nobody told them. They knew what they were doing when they introduced Adam. When they confirmed that Shiro was a gay man. They knew they were building up hope and excitement. And they knew how devastating it was going to be when it was revealed that Adam was killed and that him and Shiro could never possibly get a happy ending.
As I type this out, I’m crying. I’m crying for myself as a lesbian, I’m crying for younger lgbt fans who will grow up thinking that they aren’t allowed to have happy endings. I’m crying for the gay men out there who felt they could finally see themselves fully in two characters who were in love. I’m crying as a member of the lgbt community. And I know I’m not the only one.
Lauren Montgomery. JDS. Fuck you. You know what you did. There aren’t words to describe how much this hurts.
You promised us lgbt rep and then laughed in our faces. You let yourselves take credit for having a gay man be the hero of Voltron. KNOWING what was in store for him and his lover. Knowing what was in store for lgbt fans. For lgbt KIDS who watch this show.
Fuck you. I hope you know you aren’t living this down. And we’re going to raise hell until the very end of this ugly show.
You ugly fucking homophobic pieces of human garbage. You’re done.
Let’s not forget that they said Keith was close to shiro because of his connection to Adam, or that lance would be someone’s first choice. How about how they said that allura wouldn’t be lances endgame and that he’d get what he needed and not wanted. Or when Lauren said she preferred the name laith. How about when she drew lance with the lgbt+ sign? Or when Jeremy hinted at lance being bi. How about the fans who thought they’d get not one, but two happy lgbt+ couples and that this show would be groundbreaking for lgbt+ people. How about when we got our hopes so high bc they said facial expressions mattered and put rainbows and bullshit in the bg. How about when they said Keith would be the one supporting lance. They lied, again and again and again until they got what they wanted. I hope you fucking realize what you’ve done, and that you never, ever forget the pain you’ve cause thousands of people, and the lessons you’re teaching lgbt+ kids across the world. You deserve the hate you get for this. Fuck you, you despicable, vile, homophobic pieces of shit.
@thebestlaurenmontgomery @2-cents @voltron @dreamworksanimation
Tampons are a “luxury item”
Once I worked as an intern in the state capital. One of the representatives I worked for was this middle-aged guy. And he hated the tampon and napkin machines in the women’s bathrooms. Hated them. He insisted that they weren’t necessary.
I found out why after I’d been working there, oh, about a month. My period started suddenly, as it sometimes does, and I asked to excuse myself to go to the ladies’ room. He wanted to know why. I told him.
He started ranting about how lazy women were. How we wasted time. How we were so careless and unhygenic, and that there was no call for that. He finished by telling me that I certainly was NOT going to the ladies’ room and that I was just going to sit there and work. He finished this off with a decisive nod, as if I’d just been told and there could be no possible argument.
“If I don’t go,” I said in an overly patient tone, “the blood is going to soak through my pants, stain my new skirt that I just bought, and possibly get on this chair I’m sitting in. I need something to soak up the blood. That’s why I need to go to the bathroom.”
His face turned oatmeal-gray; an expression of pure horror spread across his face. He leaned forward and whispered, “Wait, you mean that if you don’t go, you’ll just keep on bleeding? I thought that women could turn it off any time that they wanted!”
I thought, You have got to be kidding.
Several horrified whispers later, I learned that he wasn’t. He actually thought a) that women could shut down the menstrual cycle at will, b) that we essentially picked a week per month to spend more time in the bathroom, i.e. to goof off, and c) that napkins and tampons were sex toys paid for by Health and Human Services. I didn’t know the term then, but he believed that tampons were dildos. Which was why he and a good number of his friends considered them luxuries.
And that’s how, at twenty, I had to give a talk on menstruation to a middle-aged married state representative who was one of my bosses. American politics, ladies and gentlemen.
That’s.., that’s insane.
what the fuck did i just read
when you’re a gay lion and you accidentally tried to introduce your lesbian lioness friend to one of her own exes at a gay bar and she goes into the bathroom and bitches you out for not being able to tell her endlessly rotating cast of girlfriends apart which isn’t really fair because first of all they all keep dyeing their hair different colors and second of all she keeps getting back together with different ones at different times and meanwhile you’ve been “single” for like 8 months but are spending a lot of time with one specific guy who works at your old co-op and were going to excitedly tell her about it tonight but now you’ve ruined the whole subject of dating by trying to introduce her to her own ex at a gay bar (which is a watering hole. because you’re lions.)
this is it, my thesis film
not the best or most inspiring cartoon in the world, but it’s my non-inspiring cartoon. it’s definitely not cal arts level. but. i gave it about 65%.
STORY: a young boy tries to prove himself to his mother who constantly compares him to his more accomplished older brother.
animated purely with photoshop (lighting, vfx, and all) with audio done on premiere.
DISCLAIMER: i don’t own any of the music or sound effects used here. only the dialogue is mine (and let me warn you, the boy’s VA is shit).
charminglyantiquated
dancingwdinosaurs
She wasn’t interested in telling other people’s futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.
