breeeliss:

let me tell you something: a lot of you need to remember that queer representation is not the only type of representation in the world. 

all of you who are mad that “shiro and adam couldn’t get a happy ending but a het relationship (i.e. allura and lance) could” are honestly slimy as hell because allura and lance isn’t just a het pairing. it’s a pairing between two brown people of color and we should be fucking standing on the rooftops celebrating that. 

the fact that we have as many people of color in our main cast with such engaging and well developed characters arcs is a blessing by itself, but to see a woman of color be desired by a man of color and vice versa isn’t something to scorn. it’s very rare that we have two main characters of color fall in love on screen in a children’s animated television show. we don’t get that very often. especially since brown/black folk are conditioned by society to be seen as undesirable, unlovable, and unattractive, i better see each and every one of you celebrating the fact that we have two brown characters in love on screen. 

the lack of intersectionality in this fandom is very telling because people will complain about the fact that lance isn’t bi but don’t care that his cubanidad is something that is barely mentioned or highlighted throughout the entirety of the series. people will shit on allurance for being straight and forget to celebrate it because it consists of two people of color. people will call shiro bad representation because it wasn’t obvious enough that he was gay and forget that east asian fans worship the ground he walks on because he’s such an amazing example of asian representation. 

be very careful with your metas folks, because a lot of them are sounding very fucking racist right now. 

stargazershiro:

Okay you know what FUCK politeness and fuck laying low. I am so goddamn ashamed of this fandom.

I am so ashamed that JDS felt the need to apologize for telling a fucking story. I’m sorry, but lgbt characters shouldn’t always be immortal – especially when there’s another, lead lgbt character who we should be focusing on, the character who we’ve spent 6 seasons getting to know and hopefully growing to love. But you know, fuck it he doesn’t matter. The only way he could be happy was if he was in a relationship at the end. Not only that, if was in a relationship with one specific person at the end.

I’m so fucking angry I don’t even have the words for it right now.

inkskinned:

penfairy:

Dismissing Romeo and Juliet as dumb horny teens is OUT, crying because every attempt these children made to show love, kindness and tolerance in the face of senseless hate only led to more violence and death is IN

crosspoint: the entire thing was that they were dumb kids. reading R&J growing up goes in stages: “this was so sad” “they’re so fucking dumb what the fuck” “this was so fucking sad”. 

they’re dumb kids. there’s plenty of textual evidence they are both sort of selfish in their love (ie Romeo’s on the rebound, Juliet just super doesn’t want to get married to Paris and is desperate for anything-except-that-guy) and a lot of evidence they didn’t truly know each other/see each other for anything but for a romantic ideal (the entire “but soft” monologue intentionally uses grandiose terms and basically translates to “oh fuck she’s pretty”). they literally can’t even communicate essential information correctly. in my opinion they’re not a good match – and shakespeare knows how to write a good match.

but they should have been allowed to be dumb kids. 

the families had gotten to a point that even love – even stupid, selfish, childish love – devolved into violence. while the scenes they share are peaceful until the end, their solo scenes are dominated by violence – romeo with physical violence and juliet suffering the violence of having been essentially sold to an older man. they took the violence that they were surrounded by and turned it onto themselves. they had been raised in it, had been cultivated by it, and when they faced adversity, violence was inevitably the only thing they knew how to control. juliet – soft, innocent, sympathetic juliet – is the final death. and hers is by a wielded blade.

they weren’t trying to be a beacon of kindness or tolerance. but they were just kids. and what had seemed perfectly sensible (after all, the feud had resulted in death in either side, the rage made sense), the suddenness of a truly…. senseless death – who else can the families blame but themselves. no more finger pointing. after trying to hurt each other for so long, they only hurt themselves.

i’m convinced r&j isn’t about a one true love. juliet is the only one who calls it true love, the narrator certainly doesn’t. the first monologue describes it as “piteous“. instead, i think it’s about how it shouldn’t have been their last love. romeo and juliet could have been a romantic comedy about how fast kids fall in love with the stupidest things, how they make declarations of true love by the hour, how they float from one person to another, how they call crushes true love without knowing each other’s middle names.

it could have been a comedy. and i think, kind of, that’s what makes it such a perfect, terrible tragedy.