fucking incredible dude. proud of him.

pack your bags nerds we’re moving to Antarctica

the only lgbt friendly continent is a frozen tundra that can barely sustain human life

penguins can’t be homophobic it’s scientifically impossible

concept: casual lgbt+ representation

a man taking off his shirt to reveal a binder underneath. he settles down, has a beer, watches tv. no tragic backstory about his transition, no negativity. just a trans dude being a trans dude. 

a businesswoman talking on her cellphone while she stops by the pharmacy to pick up her estrogen.

people asking for pronouns without a second thought, using they/them even when the person isn’t in the room.

a woman getting hit on at a club, getting respectful responses when she says she’s ace. 

two men holding hands, three women in a healthy polyamorous relationship. a pan man living with his nonbinary datefriend. 

romcoms, sitcoms, slice-of-life stories.

not everyone is cishet; media should represent that. 

LGBTFRCLMYEICTBCNTPH lesbian gay bisexual trans friends romans countrymen lend me your ears, i come to bury caesar, not to praise him

Pivotal and Revolutionary Moments in Current Children’s Animation

Hopefully more will be added to this post soon

i have cried about so many things in the last day. i have been reading articles, fan sites, and blogs expressing many of the same feelings i am experiencing. i am reading them all… even the ones i don’t understand.

no matter the opinion, so many people feel great passion for legend of korra.

… if i may, i would like to share something very personal. the avatar universe won my heart through its honesty. we may not like the truth, but we cannot grow without it.

i am a mother to 3 boys. when i tell people, they often say, “oh you POOR thing!”, as if i have been saddled with parasites. sometimes they “kindly” offer me hope.

"Maybe one day you will have a girl!"

for years, those encounters angered me. it became worse when strong women in my life pitied me. it was as if they believed my feminism would be lost and wasted on my “boys”.

this is hardly the case. i never treated my sons as “boys”. they were first and foremost my “satellites”. i love the universe… i love my satellites. i would never dishonor their place in this universe by narrowing the roads ahead of them. i am here to help them discover who they are, not tell them who they are…

before i continue, i would like everyone to know that i was given permission to share the following story… it’s not entirely my story. i share it with my oldest son, kai…

by the age of two, he was obsessed with reading. i remember books in his lap that were half his size. i have a vivid memory of taking a warm book out of my sleeping son’s arms and holding it to my face to feel the energy they shared. he loved talking to me about the stories he read, and he began to write his own.

when kai was older, life became complicated (as it does for everyone), and i felt my son was “searching”. i could feel that something was missing. when my son told me that he is gay, i smiled. not because “i knew”, but because of his trust. of course i had questions, but i never felt that i had done anything wrong. until the one day i was arranging books on his shelf… a lump was in my throat. never had i read a single story to my son that represented who he is. in our lives, he was never taught he was wrong to be himself, but he knew that not everyone in society agreed with his feelings. but i still felt horrid… every “happily ever after” from fairy tale to disney film failed to represent him.

last night, watching korra’s finale, i suddenly remembered the books on my son’s shelf. after all this time, i could finally share a “happily ever after” that connected our family. we cheered, i reached out for my son’s shoulder… korra is about love… the avatar universe is about love. bolin and mako’s love for one another, kuvira’s love for her people…

often, i thank the avatar crew for treating their audience (and my satellites) with respect. did you ever think that a boy in an iceberg could pave the way to what the avatar universe has become?

i did… always

thank you for all the love, honor, and respect… thank you for the truth. thank you for taking risks for every girl AND boy. i wish i could somehow describe what it feels like to be affected by these stories… i wish i could share the energy you’ve given me… my satellites… my friends.

So beautiful. Thank you for sharing your family’s story and for your years of support of the show and the fandom.

attention all gender neutral people

guys, just in case you didnt know, there is a gender neutral honorific

it’s Mx. (pronounced “mix” or “mux”) 

examples: Mx. Huntley; Mx. Jones

It’s commonly used for someone who doesn’t wish to reveal their gender or nonbinary people, and is gaining acceptance in the UK.

🙏🙏🙏🙏

dont cry for makorra

cry for korrasami because yes it’s canon but you never gonna have this 

korra and asami prolly bangin in the spirit world right now so suck my fuckin ass

"hahaha, gay/bi peoples relationships are censored and viewed as unsafe for children so they don’t get to see representations of themselves kissing onscreen but i do, hahaha gay people suck im not a homophobe…"

Leelah Alcorn was a 17 year old transgender woman artist. She grew up in a very religious Christian family. When she came out as trangender to her parents they told her it was a phase and sent her to therapy. The therapies they sent her to were religious ones that told her things like god makes no mistakes, told her she was selfish, and that the only way to cure depression was to follow gods path. She came out as “gay” at school so people wouldn’t be as shocked when she came out as trans. Her friends were accepting but her parents called her an embarrassment. They took away all electronics for 5 months and kicked her out of public school.

She was an artist. he drawing above was drawn by her. 

She committed suicide on December 29th due to the transphobia caused by her family. Please remember her and the other transgender people how lose their lives to transphobia. 

Link to her tumblr (warning that it contains her suicide note and sensitive materiel)

Link to news article

R.I.P LEELAH ALCORN 

I am super sad to hear about senseless death and suicide, but I am SUPER happy to see this story blow up everywhere with positive support! If only Leelah knew that there ARE good people out there that would have supported her through this, if she reached out to the right…

I seriously, seriously, getting tired of all the favoritism when it comes to mod talk. “Making Dorian straight is worse than making Cass gay” BULLSHIT. They are both wrong. If you are gay and your best friend is straight you wouldn’t want people to erase their sexuality anymore than your straight friend would want people to erase yours. Stop acting like its more important to be gay than any other sexuality.

It’s not that it’s more important to be gay.

It’s that it’s important for more visibility for non-straight orientations.

Because ROUTINELY, the best option for anyone who is not straight is to be the ‘sassy gay BFF’ who, at most, has an offscreen love life. Shows and networks run the risk of being boycotted and, if they’re aimed towards kids, PULLED for just explicitly SAYING ‘I’m gay/bi/pan/trans/anything not straight.’ And meanwhile, those same shows and networks can have EVERY OTHER CHARACTER in a romantic relationship of varying degrees, so long as they’re straight.

In a perfect world, it would be the same. But we do not live in that world. So the importance is in seeing this reflection of non-straight orientations, of seeing it normalized, and feeling that by us being non-straight, WE’RE STILL DESERVING OF LOVE AND EQUALITY.

This is the assumption straight people make that bothers me: “stop acting like it’s more important to be gay than any other sexuality.”

It really shows how much straight people aren’t listening to what we’re actually saying and that they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s being said, undoubtedly because of some perceived personal attack.

We’re not acting like it’s “more important to be gay than any other sexuality” - we’re advocating for visibilityin our media. And that’s what is important to us. That we be seen, acknowledged, and allowed to see representation of ourselves just like straight people do in literally everything.

The sad part is I wrote that confession and I am not straight. I am bisexual who is heteroromantic. And everyone wants to play it as “Oh straight people had to say this”. No someone who is queer said it and I meant it. You wouldn’t do it to a friend in real life. Don’t do it to a character someone worked really hard on. You want visibility? Tell game designers to give you that. Otherwise shut up and romance the character the way they are written to be romanced.

I wasn’t going to reply, but then you were rude.

Don’t use your sexuality as a weapon to silence other mogai people. Just because you’re bisexual doesn’t mean you get to speak for all of us when we say this is upsetting. You’re not our ‘elected voice’ and it damn well doesn’t mean you don’t have some internalized biphobia/homophobia of your own. You don’t necessarily see issues clearer just because you’re bisexual, so don’t act like it.

The difference in this case is the fact that characters like Cullen were written to be bisexual in the first place and that was taken out due to time constraints. So who’s “fixing the character” here, hmm? Is it the developers, who have to make that choice because of time constraints? Is it the people who say, hey, he was bisexual originally, let’s make him bisexual now. Or is it people like you who say “the game is law, what’s in the game is what there is so shut up everyone else”?

You know why people headcanon straight characters as bi/queer? For representation. This isn’t about ‘fixing straight people’ so grow up and stop acting like it is. It’s about representation. It’s about visibility. It’s about the fact that when time constraints are factored into romance arcs, the straight arc is the one that gets put into the game instead. It’s about people coming into our inboxes/blogs/safe spaces and telling us we’re wrong for wanting to see ourselves in the media we consume. People telling us that changing straight to bisexual in fictional stories about fictional characters is the same thing as gay to straight.

As if straight people don’t have enough representation and aren’t already considered first. As if straight people need protection in real life because of their orientation. As if straight people can’t look at literally any character in anything and see an essential aspect of themselves represented in it. As if straight people suffer crippling anxiety simply for being straight.

You know what else? BioWare pays attention to its fandom. Enough that people talking loudly and headcanoning characters certain ways from their previous media that they took footsteps to make these changes. Headcanons are one way we express the desire to see more. If we don’t do it, how the hell are the people making content supposed to know we want it? We talk about it, we say “it would be better if”, we meta and headcanon and show the fandom that these things are fucking okay, that mogai people aren’t broken or wrong for wanting to see more representation. 

You know when this argument will shut down and your point will actually be a ‘good’ one? When mogai people are no longer shat on and given the ass end of the stick simply for not being straight. When all sexualities are actually treated equally. Because right now, there isn’t equality. And if you think there is, you’re fooling yourself.

So if you don’t like it, fine. But don’t sit there on your fucking high horse, telling everyone else that you’re bisexual so it’s fucking okay for you to say this really shitty thing, and expect everyone else to just swallow it up like it’s nothing. Because it’s not. Far from it.

Their Story.