companions being “muses” to historical writers
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So Disney just announced that Cyrus Goodman, a character from their TV show ‘Andi Mack,’ is going to have a coming out story next season.
A 13 year old kid, on a Disney show, is going to come out. And you can bet your ass I’m gonna watch it idc if it’s a kids show cause I never had anything like that as a kid. I never had a character on the kids channels I watched that was my age go through the same thing I was going through. This is going to mean so much to so many people, adults and kids alike and I honestly can’t believe it’s happening.
Character: Todd Rodriguez
From: The Last Man on Earth
Representation: Polyamorous, Racial, Body Type
Their Importance: Todd is one of the few canonically polyamorous characters I’ve seen on a tv show. He explicitly expresses attraction to two women in the show – Melissa and Gail – and offers up the idea of dating both of them. He asks for their permission and says he doesn’t expect them to date (unless they want to), but just wants to date and support both of them. The two agree by the end of the episode, and Todd enters into a V relationship with the two. I thought it was really great seeing the two women express a deep attraction for Todd – characters who are overweight are sometimes portrayed as unattractive and romances will be played for laughs, but the two women genuinely love Todd, find him sexy, and have fallen for him based on his personality and because he’s a genuinely good person.
While the trio eventually breaks up – both women end their relationship with Todd, and by the time jump, Gail is in a relationship with a woman named Erica and Todd and Melissa are together in a seemingly monogamous relationship – it was still amazing to see them in a polyamorous relationship, and not a necessarily closed one where all three characters date each other (as most polyamorous rep I’ve seen has been like). And, despite them breaking up, it doesn’t change the fact that Todd is canonically polyamorous.
Issues: While I think TLMOE has done an excellent job on Todd, he does initially try to date both women without telling them. This could obviously be portrayed as problematic; I personally don’t mind as it opened up the opportunity to have a canon polyamorous relationship instead of a love triangle plot, and discussed the actual terms of how their relationship would be.
Thanks to @starklinqs for the write up!
I really hope the Guardians reach a point where they are healed so far that they can joke about some of their dangerous experiences and laugh together about them like inside jokes.
Gamora and Peter carefully and loosely holding hands while everybody else is busy with themselves, and Rocket catches sight of it, immediately commenting, “Now that’s a terrible idea.”
“What?”
“Rocket…”
“I’m just saying! Last time you held Star Munch’s hand, you almost died, I mean, that’s not the best thing to start off from.”
“Oh, shut your muzzle, before I start holding your hand, too,” Peter shoots back while Gamora laughs next to him.
Or somebody calling Groot a “twig” and everybody just, freezes.
“He did not call him that.”
“I think ‘e did.”
“Uh-oh.”
“Preach for that poor guy.”
And there is just a loud, growled “I. Am. Groot!” and then the screams of the fools who were dumb enough to call Groot by a nickname they had no right to call him by.
And, last but not least, Peter crash-landing – no, let’s be honest, it’s just crashing – the ship into an enemy and when Gamora snaps “Peter!” afterwards he calls back, “What?! I’m honoring a family tradition here!”
“That is not why you did it, and we both know it – Rocket, you stop laughing right now!”
Just, them to be so far healed that they can deal with that stuff, instead of swallowing it down until they break, you get my meaning?
And some happy, dorky family moments on top of it.
