(but actually some optimism on fandoms and queer media)

took a break from my rewrite to draw my boy jonathan bc i remembered this scene and how seen i felt by it. i WAS will. i needed to hear jonathan's words when i did- and the message was executed so fucking beautifully.

-and had some thoughts.

because these SAME writers wrote the "and me" scene????

and are suddenly handling representation so clumsily, and in general turning these established and complex characters and relationships into caricatures of who they were, who only have needs and wants and relationships when it is necessary for the plot.

i genuinely think the duffers were just trying to get the show over with. (yes ideally they would have stopped until they had passion again, but ig thats not how netflix works. or maybe they were just ready for the paycheck. or wanted to please the crowd. or got lazy. or ran out of ideas. or got greedy. or never gave a shit anyways.)

but whatever it was, it makes me SO fucking grateful for fandoms.

i feel like this is the thing we need to remember when we get queerbaited. its obviously evil and gutwrenching and unfair. but a small bit of hope is in the knowledge that there are SO many storytellers around us in fandom spaces who DO and WILL tell queer stories, and there is a MASSIVE audience searching for them.

hermes has upgraded from his bowl into a tiny (soon to have soil once safe) terrarium and is living the best snail life i can give him rn <333

he also created my favourite photo ever-

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about ➤ munsch! (or ollie), 19, australian, sapphic, any pronouns, ADHD

trying my best to be mindfully online & not just a ghost consuming things- but that shit is hard so i made a blog instead ( -△-)੭

interests ➤ digital art, drawing, painting, sewing badly, customising clothes also badly, digital minimalism/decentralising phones, the indie web! (neocities, currently learning HTML & CSS veryyy slowly), 3DS games (acnl, pokemon, tomodachi life), sociology, politics, political cartoons, history, queer & art history, ROCKS!!, big fan of 2000s (tech, music & pop culture), 80s fashion, animation, storyboarding, old-ish disney & ghibli animation (ily treasure planet), d&d, comics, rlly want to get more into pixel art & animation, hozier, sappho, secondhand stores, wandering the streets, emoticons bring me much joy

fandoms ➤ dan and phil, critical role, good omens!!, starkid, much indie animation, arcane, stranger things, drawtectives, adventure time

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