tangle of rainbows

- Andrea Gibson

Isn’t this the babadook’s lesbian sister?

a Thought about why villain rep, especially cool villain rep in particular, is so appealing to me 

being a queer neurodivergent person IRL is so difficult, and you’re constantly calculating whether people are going to react badly to you, and there’s a huge amount of pressure to be Nice and Normal and always ready to accommodate and explain and put up with, while you’re still dealing with the constant stress of ‘i never know when someone’s going to hate me/try to hurt me because of what I am’

and the thing about villains is that they aren’t Nice, they’re definitely not Normal, and they’re not going to apologize for that; they take pride in it. If they have boundaries, they get to enforce them hard. Flaunting what you are and destroying anyone who has a problem with it is a helluva power fantasy if you spend every day trying to be nice and presentable and are still rightfully nervous about getting hurt. 

so yeah this is why even tho I love good queer &/or ND characters you can pry my flamboyantly queer mentally ill villains from my cold dead fingers