anika!

“and this is why i married emily and not you guys”

me on an average day: i need a treat

Hey this movie is really important in queer history! It was the first feature length film directed by a black lesbian! You can watch it here for free!

Okay, real talk now. People love to tag male characters in posts about women, but this post is gonna take this seriously. Is there actually a canonically male character you believe is a trans woman? Or at least has made into a trans woman for a fanart or a fanfic? Excluding the ones canonically implied.

That picture of him with his handbag is giving Lady Di. He's the people's princess.

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

in honor of karinas time at drawfee, here's a playlist I made cataloging some of karinas most iconic fucked up critters she designed. there's 26 drawfee episodes in it, I've had this playlist for years and have been occasionally updating it as I see fit and I may add more as I rewatch older episodes or as the last of the karina episodes get posted. I tried to add episodes where I thought karina specifically stole the show, so it's got some really iconic karina moments in there! if you think I missed anything feel free to link other iconic karina episodes so we can all celebrate her together and wish her well on her future projects 💕 (also no speculating what happened I will straight up block you, we don't need that energy rn)