ok but isn’t it fucked up that people infantilized OCD so much that neurotypicals actually use the term as a synonym for neatness? when a vast majority of people with OCD aren’t even neat.
imagine taking a debilitating and tortuous mental illness and changing it into a colloquial term for quirky, perfectionist behavior, leaving millions of isolated people without so much as a label they can seek comfort in.
in fact, anyone who has ever used the term ‘OCD’ as a joke now owes me $5. sorry, but if you can make up your own rules then so can i.
- Praise the living daylights out of a show and shove its greatness in everyone’s face
- 2 years later, pick it apart violently and insult everyone who still enjoys it in as edgy a way as possible because negativity is cool
!!!
uhh maybe marginalized ppl were excited at the possibility of a show (such as su) representing them, only to be rightfully angry when the show ends up racist, homophobic etc. anyway, super bad post all around
I feel like a lot of hardcore accusations of problematic and offensive content that get thrown at media that was previously lauded as progressive come from a few sources; first, the creators are often a lot more accessible than the creators of mainstream media. you can message rebecca sugar on twitter personally to call her a racist bitch, but you can’t do the same to, say, jj abrhams or another large-scale creator. likewise, you can’t stand on a streetcorner and scream at people until they agree to stop watching law and order, but you can certainly bully large groups of people online until they stop supporting an independent creator.
second, the fandoms that tend to form around progressive media tend to be younger, more volatile, looking to media and fandom as forms of activism. mainstream media they can write off as garbage, but progressive niche media that makes a sincere attempt to represent marginalized folks must be Absolutely Perfect. the idea that a piece of media can have good parts and bad parts, that it can try and only partially succeed, but that that partial success is still worth something, is completely lost on many young fans. either its irredeemable garbage or its the literal messiah, there’s no in-between. so if a show falls short of perfect, as is inevitable, then it goes straight into the “total garbage” pile and must be condemned by the masses.
genuinely trying to represent certain groups and making a few missteps is not the same thing as being ignorant or malicious. making a sincere effort to mean something to folks who don’t get a lot of things made for them is something to be proud of. would you rather go back to the times when fucking nothing got made for us? when the only characters we saw that we could relate to were only there to be made fun of? you’re spoiled by a rush of new creators who took “go make your own thing then” to heart and set out to make content for people like them, you have the gall to look at what they’re trying to do and spit on it for not being better. no creator owes you shit, no creator has to bow to a bunch of teenage bullies who do nothing but demand and harass, that’s all there is to it.
highkey one of my absolute fav visual parallels for lotor & keith
Tbh I kind of love the implication here that when Team Voltron walks up and starts talking about Shiro in the abstract—he’s a hero, he’s a legend, like he’s anything besides a person who Keith loves (platonically or otherwise) who’s lost and could be hurt—and encourage Keith to give up on him, it’s a betrayal all the same
!! you really put that eloquently thanks for voicing what i’ve struggled to articulate for a long time about this scene because i think about this scene so much in terms of how keith’s grief was handled. the team may think they’re doing a good job in consoling him but it’s very clear looking at keith it just is everything he does not want to hear right now. to him shiro isn’t some grand hero, a legend - shiro has always been his dear friend the most important person to him, someone who literally changed his life and really means so much.
i wrote a bit about this scene briefly over here, but there’s way more to say this scene is such a telling one. notably, keith remains pretty damn unresponsive and visibly on edge until Allura steps in and brings up the fact that shiro is completely irreplaceable. it’s only at that point he actually seems to be receptive and considers their words.
from where keith is standing in his outlook of this situation, this is how things look, he pretty much makes it clear what he thinks about all of this prior too:
and it says a lot the the team seem utterly baffledand puzzled at the start of the black lion scene on how to approach keith and why he’s behaving this way - it really is of the same tone as acxa ezor and zethrid watching lotor who is also detached and: “uh so what the heck do we do?” - they really cannot seem to comprehend that keith is deeply grieving the loss of someone close to him.
take it a step further and bring in another interesting parallel - take a look visually and also verballyhow the team offer their condolences and comfort to Allura in a period of grief having parted with her father in 01x09 (that’s for another time though - too much to say on that haha) the circumstances are different in some respects, but at the nexus of it is the same thing: someone is hurting because they have lost someone close to them.
we should consider that at this stage in S3 honestly, it’s p clear that they are not really expecting shiro to return. allura herself kind of confirms what keith suspects in 03x01 - that keith really is the only one still hanging onto shreds of belief that they will actually find shiro - by already honouring shiro as basically a fallen warrior:
S1x09: we all are sorry about YOUR loss allura
S3x01: we all miss shiro* it’s not just you but come on keith we have things to do so you need to get out of this funk
*- i can understand the “we all do” was probably intended to be comforting and inclusionary, and no this is not an attack on any of the team just an assessment of how effective their methods were overall to keith. and it’s p clear from keith’s reactions it just doesn’t translate the way they think it will to him. not with what he’s seen and the way the team are pushing on and from where he’s stood pushing any real consideration for his emotions and shiro being gone aside too. this is all about perception!!!!! between keith + the team, between keith + himself, perception is such a big thing.
mm yea anyway all of this really puts a massive spotlight on that gaping disparity of understanding and emotional communication between keith + the team that stretches and comes to a head in 4x01(for whatever reasons…. lots going on - but not going into that here lol).
Millie Bobby Brown was awarded sexiest actress and she’s 13 years old.
THIRTEEN YEARS OLD. She’s still a child and she doesn’t need to be subjected to disgusting sexualisation because male producers and media workers can’t keep their junk in their pants for 2 seconds and want to be able to make pedophilia look okay.
She’s a thirteen year old girl and you’re sexualising her the same way you’ve sexualised every child star.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Legal adults shouldn’t be sexualising child actors, this includes the IT cast and the STs cast. These kids are exactly that, KIDS.
As someone who was subjected to years of abuse as a child I can’t fathom why anyone thinks it’s okay to openly sexualise and make sexual comments about minors?
