#nb rep

Like, remember the one who gave us the most despicable yet frighteningly realistic villain of Bev Keane and the one who's heart-wrenching Hannah Grose performance from Bly captured our hearts and freakin shattered it in one episode it left us sobbing messily on our couch?

Yeah, they're gonna be back.

And do you remember that one NB-eminence who gave us Sweet punny- and who was also one very vivid and intense hallucination, Owen from Bly to hardened and Tired yet still a dependable action hero on a crisis Sheriff and the Bi-Queen of Delivering Epic Monologues and A Master of every freakin scenes she's in?

YES THEYRE GONNA BE FUCKING BACK

Speaking of, I'm also very glad to have MORE NB-rep in the future. Check the fuck out-

And like- there's so much more BUT the most important thing is the Flanaverse keeps getting bigger and bigger AND EVEN MORE EPIC HOLY HELL! (And I STILL cannot get over Mark Hamill joining btw) IM

And, just there's so much more so just click this entire thread and just- get hyped cause once again I have a feeling the Flanafam's gonna give us one heck of a ride.

Just-

My favourite comment:

Sorry for replying to this so late. I can totally see where you’re coming from here about Double Trouble. Part 1 of this ask was about Catradora being toxic and honestly I feel like we’ve had this conversation enough and clarified our views on it so I’m going to focus on this part of the ask.

There definitely are both positives and negatives to the character of Double Trouble. They’re an explicitly non binary character on a children’s show played by a non binary actor, yet they’re not human, and even though no one on the show is really human, they’re...significantly less human looking. Any other character from the original series could have been chosen to be their nb character who wasn’t Double Trouble.

I can definitely see that interpretation of their Flutterina disguise as well. I think it’s important that we clarify again Double Trouble is non binary, not a man, and disguises themself as other characters, but I can see how younger viewers who don’t really understand what non binary is might interpret them as a man disguising themself as a woman. I don’t think Noelle and the writers are transphobic, at least not intentionally. They cast a transgender actor for the role of Jewelstar and confirmed that he’s a trans man and they’ve been incredibly supportive of headcanons of Bow and Perfuma being trans while also admitting they don’t want to take credit for putting in that representation since they didn’t. And of course, Noelle tweeted this in response to the whole JK Rowling situation: https://twitter.com/Gingerhazing/status/1269690737660051456

But that doesn’t mean they’re immune to transphobic tropes unintentionally being perpetuated in their work.

As a Jewish person, I have a complicated relationship with the lizard people thing. When I was younger I wasn’t aware of its antisemitic roots and used to make those jokes myself until I found out and was horrified. But I’ve met so many goyish people in real life who make those jokes who also have no idea of their origins until I explain it to them. So I kind of have a visceral gut reaction to anything about lizard people and it’s not great that this is tied to a non binary character.. I’m reluctant to call it intentional because I can’t really think of anything else about them that ties them to Jewish stereotypes so it’s not quite as explicit an example as say the goblins in the HP series, but I definitely think there are underlying stereotypes there that we should be aware of and critique.

In general, I am very aware of more attempts being made to ‘cancel’ the work of marginalized creators who make conscious attempts to include representation, especially with this being a children’s show, while non-marginalized creators who don’t really include representation are often left untouched. This point can extend to part 1 of the ask, about how Catra and Adora’s relationship is held to much higher standards than M/F presumed straight couples are on shows by cishet writers. Does this mean we shouldn’t ever criticize marginalized creators? No, we should be able to critique any piece of media and let the writers know where they could have done better. Double Trouble has many problematic elements to them and the history being the lizard people trope needs to be understood and honestly just tossed in the trash. But we also need to think about why we’re so determined to criticize this children’s show that is a big step forward in lots of ways

"Nb peeps who actually want to write or have their own stories with characters that are nb that also include aliens and robots and such is very valid you make the rep you wanna make"

And

"Nb peoples only rep in this chunk of media is one nb character who is a emotionless robot is not really very good rep"