Stephanie Beatriz on Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season 5, Episodes 10 and 11
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I never really thought that I would had a chance like yesterday. The art I submitted was l what I drew before I knew about the fan art contest so this is extra special in that my usual, everyday art is good enough to be up there. I’m very excited about seeing Rose Tico and having my art of her up there is extra special. Thank you everyone for giving us fans who draw this opportunity ❤️
Please don’t mind me I’m just chronicling my SWTLJ red carpet stuff for archival purposes 😊
MINT!!!! This is amazing!!!! I’m freaking out!!! 🎉🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻😭😭😭
I am in tears. People are nice. People are so nice about my art and also other people’s fan art 😭😭😭😭😭
A friend of mine on Facebook was able to attend the Last Jedi premiere in Los Angeles last night with some friends of his from the Rebel Legion and the 501st, all in costume, including a young woman who was dressed as Rose Tico. Kelly Marie Tran saw her while she was walking the red carpet, and this was her reaction to seeing someone dressed as Rose. According to my friend, there were tears all around and it was a very emotional moment. Representation matters, you guys, and it is so important. These photos made me emotional just seeing them, and I was given permission to share them with the rest of you here.
Rose Tico: ForeverSongCosplay (photo by MarkEdwardsPhotographer)
Premiere photos by Brandon Jackson of ChiefGeekPhotography
Has this been done yet
Just a note: like that people are using this to make sure their own native characters aren’t offensive, and that’s good, but also remember how bingo cards function! If you get a straight line, it’s a bingo. Like if your native character just so happens to live on the reserve, or likes to wear leather, you don’t have to scrap their story entirely because it’s not necessarily bad. While some other parts of the tropes I gave are bad on their own (ex: a redskinned native, a caricature) others can be harmless. But if your character falls under an entire line or more if the tropes I gave THEN it’s definitely time to rethink your character.
I will never get over the les miserables fandom like… Jean Valjean is the main character and he has like…NOOOO content. At all. Instead everyone lost their minds over the fucking less amis de l’a/b/o or whatever even though each one of them has like literally a one or two sentence personality. It was literally like a once-ler esque treatment where they randomly zoomed in on the most fuckable twink, except theres like 10 of them. Ten fucking oncelers. I literally was never able to remember them or tell them apart despite reading the entire unabridged book several times. Jean Valjean was so good and these ungrateful fucks did THIS to him.
oh no, you’re omitting the worst part: no one was interested on the true personalities and appearances of these ‘fuckable twinks’ [who happened to be cool characters after all], they collectively agreed that the only acceptable way of writing/drawng them would be cutesy modern AU’s where Enjolras was a hypersexual homosexual, Grantaire was a hipster, Romanticism ™ became ‘cutesy flower and female empowerment tumblr aesthetics’ and everyone would be gay, black, disabled, fat and mentally ill.
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This little piece of nastiness from an anti-sjw blog has, ironically, neatly summed up the importance of Les Amis far better than I ever could.
most of us know how important representation is, but i feel like we don’t always realize how vital it is for white cishet people to see representation as well. like my white cishet 65 year old mom’s favorite show is brooklyn nine nine, and when she first began watching it she was so perplexed by ray holt. she had never really seen black gay characters in television before, and the very few times she has they were stereotypes, so she was just so interested by him bc “gay people can be like this?”
like obviously it would be great if she already knew lgbt+ people aren’t the tired stereotypes that society tries to portray us as, and it would be great if she was more educated that Yes black gay men exist and are common. but she didn’t know that, because she’s never really seen it. but just watching brooklyn nine nine has educated her so much!! she’s seeing a black gay man run a police squad, she’s seeing a large black man be one of the most gentle people ever, she’s seeing women of color empowering each other and totally kicking ass, she’s seeing a jewish man repeatedly talking about issues such as transphobia, homophobia, anti-semitism, racism, and she’s also seeing all these characters understand when it ISNT their place to talk about certain issues
so my mom sees stuff like this and thinks “oh i was so wrong about these groups” and then she recommends these types of shows to her other ignorant friends, and she also corrects people when they say bigoted things that enforce the toxic stereotypes she is now educated on. all from some proper representation on a half-hour tv show!! like representation doesn’t just help minorities, it helps the privelage people who have ingrained bigotry in them to see what minorities are really like and what they can be and it’s so important!! and then these privelage people can move forward and use their privelage to try and help minorities. representation of minorities helps the privileged too, and helps society to evolve!! so can bigots stop saying that it only benefits minorities. even if it did only help minorities that wouldn’t be a bad thing, but that isn’t the case so?? stop??
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.
At Target this lady told her son he couldn’t have a Wonder Woman doll because “that’s for girls” and then bought her daughter the same one. It got me thinking about how often I see people bar young boys from appreciating girls/women as protagonists and heroes, and my own experience with it as a kid.
One of my good friends just came out to her boyfriend about being ace. She was so worried about it, and she’s used to having to explain what asexuality even is, even before she can worry about getting acceptance for it.
So she asked him if he knew what that meant, and he was like, “Oh, yeah! One of my favorite characters on TV is ace! (Todd, from BoJack Horseman) I get that,” and it just made her entire coming out to him so much easier and more accepting and she’s so much happier now.
Just. Like. Representation matters.