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noelle’s comic on pronouns and gender from her twitter
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ok i have one more traumatized church gay post and then ill shut up
“Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy?” Romans 9:22-23 ESV
this is a hotly contested passage in the bible. the “free will vs predestination” debate has raged for centuries, about if peoples choices actually make a difference in whether you go to heaven or hell or if god decides before you’re even born (it sounds insane when i say it like that lmaoo im sorry there actually is like logic and analysis behind it).
anyway Noelle Stevenson was the writer on Save The Cat and the fact that she wrote this specific line referencing Romans 9 is absolutely sending me rn
because in general christians believe if someones gay it means god probably chose them as a “creature destined for destruction” and then this random childrens cartoon showrunner busts in the room like ACTUALLY,
noelle wrote this line too lkdjf
what im saying is this woman rly took the “hero with a destiny” trope and made it gay and turned it into a practically scholarly commentary on a centuries old theological debate
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“The biggest change in my worldview was that I stopped believing in fate, I guess. That I stopped believing that I had a destiny, or that I was destined to be something, which is a really big part of Christianity. Especially the Protestant… It is kind of like “God has a plan, it’s all figured out.” And I was terrified growing up because there’s the idea that you’re either saved or you’re not. And you might not know which one you are. But it’s already decided for you. So I was always terrified that I was one of the bad ones. This is why I got this tattoo. There’s a Bible verse that’s like ‘at the end of days, God will separate the sheep from the goats.’ And I was like, well, how do you know if you’re a goat? You don’t choose to be a goat, you’re born a goat. You never have a choice. You can’t become a sheep. So I think that was the biggest conflict for me, the biggest source of tension. I want to believe that we have a choice, that we have power over our own lives. I don’t know if that’s true. I still don’t fully know if that’s true, because it’s so much more complicated than that. But I want to believe that’s true.”
-Noelle Stevenson discussing her experience leaving Christianity, from her Between The Sheets Interview
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“shadow weaver does sort of embody homophobia in a metaphorical sense, even though it’s not literal because there isn’t homophobia [in etheria]”
You have to go through a lot of channels to get things okayed. It’s not just your executives, it’s also the rights holders, it’s also all of this interconnected group of people who all have the right of refusal. And so it was something that, like, I knew that I wanted the show to end the way it did, but knowing how to get there? That was a different story. So it was something that was just, like, working at it from as many different angles as possible and sometimes being upfront about it and sometimes being like, “I’m going to wait for the perfect moment to ask," and by that point have built such a strong argument that it doesn’t work without it. And that’s ultimately what ended up happening with the final season of She-Ra. I was like, “Look. This is how much we’ve built, like if they don’t kiss, it doesn’t work.”
Noelle Stevenson on pushing for LGBT representation in animation
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noelle fought so hard for catradora canon and all of the lgbt rep within spop. i cant thank her enough
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Molly said that as the Adora in her relationship with Noelle, she also thinks that Adora would be the one to propose to Catra :’)
Noelle said, “I feel like they would sit around until one day they were just like, “Do you wanna get married?””
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The wives are live! Click here to watch their donation livestream for Black Lives Matter!
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Hey guys! Noelle and Molly are doing a donation livestream for Black Lives Matter on Tuesday 6/9 at 5pm PST. Check out this Twitter thread for more info!
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aksdlfdslf she just wanted to make her look gayer (x)
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"There’s something I find so cathartic about female villains," Stevenson says. "I love male villains too, I love almost every villain, but with female villains there’s a catharsis to their anger and rage. It holds an extra meaning to me because I think almost all women have that core of anger in them that is never ever appropriate to express. For some people it comes out, but for many it doesn’t and it simmers. It affects your actions in different ways. I really wanted to explore that because it felt like something that a lot of people were going to relate if it was uncomfortable. I think Adora has her own version of that, too; Adora struggles with her anger and stress and the burden of the role that’s been assigned to her. But having Catra go pretty far down that path of villainy, and not in a way where we could always justify what she’s doing, was to take a hard look at that and not sand those edges down."
— Noelle Stevenson
Source: ew.com
I think [Catra's] haircut makes her a lot more outwardly vulnerable than she's ever been. Like in season 4, she has this mask that she's been wearing the whole show, she's always smoothing her hair down. She's trying to hide her emotions. She doesn't really use her ears or her tail to emote as much as she used to. She's not showing all her cat aspects as much. And then, you know, she goes through this traumatic incident in season 5 where Horde Prime, he takes her mask, cuts her hair, and it's not her choice, but because of that he sort of forces her to be vulnerable and I think that after that, she starts reclaiming those aspects of her identity. You know, she lets her hair get kind of messy, she starts expressing herself more in this kind of cat-like way, and for the first time, I think we're really seeing her be vulnerable. We're really seeing her kind of, like, she doesn't have this hard mask on anymore. She's letting herself be this softer version of herself and so I think that, like, that haircut and that outfit change really show that.
sea hawk dated a man named falcon
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