the avengers suck*

they'll be the fantastic 3 once im done with them.

I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.

on an even more basic level than that, also, I simply just think some of y’all NEED to learn how to interact with media and storytelling without ships and fandom in mind. like if not being able to write fic about two men kissing is genuinely going to be a dealbreaker for you I think that’s actually something you need to work on within yourself because at that point I think you’re no longer really interacting with art and themes and narrative so much as just kind of playing with toys. which is, like, fine I guess. have fun. but it wouldn’t kill you to disengage from that from time to time. especially if would allow you to actually appreciate rich and deeply moving cultural stories from communities of color that you desperately need to learn how to see as human

I was on call yesterday watching summers @darkholme play marvel rivals and theres a squirrel girl on his team and its the kunlun capture the point and push the cart match and theyre on defense and sg jumps up to that little onclave and spends the entire game spamming mouse 1 not aiming just firing nuts into the enemy team across the map they cannot move forward they are stuck they have a venom that tries to slay the squirrel but otherwise they cannot get to the point until everyone except the squirrel dies. I see the squirrel get down and ask for healing and im like summers dont heal that squirrel they immediately jump back to their perch and start spamming mouse 1 and I go on this rant. this enraged manifesto about how you should be able report players for that behavior because its not fun for anyone. im not even playing im so mad like I rant until the end of the game. then im like we have to watch the replay. we all watch the replay and guess what! squirrel posts up on that perch for the ENTIRE FUCKING MATCH!! im not even playing and im fuming. theyre on summers side and im fuming. I genuinely believe that you should be able to report people for that behavior. I also believe you should be able to report people for spawn camping. its evil and its sick and we shouldn't allow it

doreen green from marvel comics is my friend. squirrel girl from marvel rivals is an evil that needs to be stopped.