Some dude bro on the internet talking about the new She-Ra reboot: Ugh SJWs are taking over cartoons and making them all preachy. I hate it when shows try to push an agenda on kids. Why can’t they be like they used to be, you know?
Original He-Man, looking straight at the audience: We had a lot of fun here today, but you know what isn’t fun? Judging others based on how they look. Not liking a person because he or she is a different race or religion is wrong. Also, plant a tree, and don’t do drugs.
Lou Scheimer was born to a German Jewish family and believed that his cartoons had a responsibility to teach children kindness and respect for everybody.
Back then there were also MILITANT divides between “boy’s” and “girl’s” entertainment but when he found out He-Man had at least a small following of little girls he pitched the concept of He-Man’s sister She-Ra and was insistent she be as tough a warrior as her brother. He saw that girls actually did like “scary” sword and sorcery and had a WHOLE NEW FUCKING SHOW made so they could feel acknowledged and have a heroine to look up to with her very own series.
Later he would help design a whole new sci-fi fantasy setting with the most creative control he ever had, Bravestarr, and was adamant that the hero be a Native American man, the first ever in a starring role on a kid’s action show. He also wanted Bravestarr to be a positive role model by being a patient, gentle, soft spoken man who abhors violence and avoids using guns at all costs.
These cartoons are remembered as schlocky toy commercials and they ARE entertaining that way but real love went into them by a really wonderful guy who sincerely hoped he’d make his fans at least a little more sensitive even as he reeled them in with barbarians and robots.
And Erika Schemier, a producer and voice actor at Filmation, once had this to say about the company:
“I was a strong female voice myself, and-guess what?-I happened to be gay. Does that make any difference about anything? I’ll tell you one thing, it didn’t matter, because Filmation was one of the gayest places in town.”
Quote from a 2011 interview by the way, unfortunately the original interview went down so we only have this secondary article on it.
Erika is Lou’s daughter, a lesbian, and was the actual voice of She-Ra. She’s also said “If we were doing it today and if I had any say in it, we absolutely would introduce a gay character.”
It’s okay if you don’t like the new art style, characters they’ve dropped or some other major changes, that’s unavoidable, but anyone complaining that gayness has been shoehorned into it (and there really isn’t even that much) they really don’t understand or respect what the original creators were about.
Here’s an audio interview still up in which she discusses how He-Man and She-Ra were meant to integrate “pro social messages” and they refused to stop no matter how much their network higher-ups complained about it (and they did, constantly, but the shows made them too much money)
Someone’s impersonating the CEO and trying to get me to send him a thousand dollars’ worth of gift cards and I gotta say this is the most exciting thing to happen to me in months
He stopped responding after I requested that he fill out a funding request form with the proper client ID codes attached. Idk what he expected trying to scam a corporate office swimming in red tape
“Julia…I’m the penniless CEO…you have to pay me..you have to pay me in gift cards”
“I’m…not doing that”
“AND JUST LET HIM FUCKING DIE?”
This is the funniest fucking addition and I dont know anything about this franchise
I need everyone to know that Anne Rice and guy who started Popeyes (the fried chicken place not the cartoon) hated each other and once spent weeks/monthes taking out page length ads against each other in New Orleans newspapers because the Popeyes guy opened a tacky restaurant where Lestat was supposed to have died, or something like that
why am i not at all surprised to read of Anne Rice being litigious about petty bullshit
It gets even better when you realize that, before the restaurant opened, it was an abandoned used car lot. She was literally complaining about an abandoned property being bought and actually USED for something. Because in Lestat’s final scene he walked by the car lot and looked at his reflection in one of the car windows.
I have never enjoyed anything more as I have enjoyed imagining Lestat’s reaction to learning that his final resting place is a restaurant owned by a fast food executive.
The Intergalactic Journal of Biology and Mechanics
In the past few galactic rotations, the study of human endeavors
has become a popular science of interest. Hundreds of articles have been
published, in a relatively short time that details the unique and unbelievable
adaptations the human has undergone in order to survive as the number one top predator
on a class A death planet.
While many species, like the human, poses a superior
intelelegence, humans also have the added advantage of physiological durability
that is often lacking in their sentient counter species across other worlds.
Scientists have, and continue, to uncover many human
physiological advantages seen in complete isolation in their species.
For example, we can examine the hand, wrist, elbow and
shoulder of a human, which together produce the altogether unique ability: to
throw, and do it accurately. Of course there are many species out there capable
of lobbing objects form one area to another, but none so fast or as accurate as
humans. Both the males and females are capable of an extreme degree of accuracy
and speed, the power, of which can be fatal to other humans if the object is
thrown with sufficient strength and accuracy.
In human sports, a pitcher (baseball: see footnotes) can
throw a ball at speeds a little over 100mph into a two foot diameter square,
though this is putting it mildly.
Human theories suggest that it helped them capture food
against faster more agile prey species of their planet, while others suggest
some connection to language acquisition.
Over the centuries, humans have augmented this ability
with technologies like the sling, but even without these additions, the human
ability to throw is still adaptively astonishing.
Krill hated war, and he especially hated being involved in
it, on the front lines, crouching in holes, and listening to the screaming as
people died around him. He didn’t like it and he really just wanted to get back
on the ship and go home.
Captain Vir had made a point to lecture Krill and the
importance of helping other people, and of course, he understood that, but this
had not been his idea of helping. However the galactic assembly seemed to
disagree greatly with him, and had used their, all too considerable, power to commandeer
every human crew within a five quadrant radius for the job, not to mention that
the U.S.S Stabby was a freelance vessel with a freelance crew, so they went
where the money was.
Too bad for Krill that money happened to be on the planet
Daxton fighting the Kree war-lords in order to free the subjugated Banti.
how did jk manage to write ootp and not come to the conclusion that the only career w any true meaning for harry james potter was as a goddamn professor at hogwarts like how do u write the da scenes and say “nah he’d want to be a wizard cop”
#but it would be so perfect??? #bc it would help normalize his life so much #like there would just be this generation of kids who are like #‘ugh who cares that he killed the dark lord he gAVE US HOMEWORK OVER BREAK’ #like the beginning of every year there would be the new first years who would freak out a little #but then it would calm down #and most of the students would literally forget #until like clockwork the fifth years would have their history of magic class on the second war #and they’d all show up to DADA looking a little awestruck and everyone would be extra quiet #and harry would give this kind of annoyed sigh—except it’s fake bc he TOTALLY knew this was coming #bc binns is a bro and he totally gives him a heads up every year #and harry wouldn’t have any lesson plans for the day and instead he would just sit at the front of the room and answer everyone’s questions #but otherwise everyone would just be like ‘professor potter!! i can’t get my patronus to work! help me!’ #and like they’d go home at the end of the year or for break and their parents—who ARE still starstruck by harry james potter #would pester their kids with questions#and the kids would just be like ‘merlin i don’t know?? potter’s such a huge dork you should hear him talk about proper wand movements’ #but they would all love him #and he would feel safe and normal and utterly accepted #AND I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE (via @cinematicnomad)
Not to mention it would be an ultimate Fuck You to Voldemort, who put a curse on the teaching position in the first place.
Like, Jo, I don’t want to tell you how to do your job, but COME ON
I already queued this but also, you do this, but still have Ginny become a famous Quidditch player. Imagine the first time Harry gets called “Ginny’s husband” before “the boy who lived” or “the chosen one.” Imagine how fucking pleased he’d be.
Imagine the first time a student comes up to him looking starry-eyed and Harry’s thinking “Oh no” because he doesn’t want to talk about Voldemort or the war but instead this little eleven year old is like “ARE YOU REALLY MARRIED TO WEASLEY FROM THE HOLLYHEAD HARPIES???!?? WHAT’S SHE LIKE?” and he’s like “oh thank god” because he could talk about Ginny all day.
Yes. Good.
Actually, all three of them should have become professors. Hermione would have become Headmistress, of course–youngest Headmistress of Hogwarts ever, and the only one willing to turn the portraits of her predecessors to the wall if they gave her too much lip about her efforts to modernize the curriculum. (She probably started as Transfiguration professor after McGonagall became Headmistress, but it wouldn’t surprise me if McGonagall was grooming her for the Headmistress job all along.)
And Ron took over as flying instructor for Professor Hooch; everyone thinks he’s an easy A because he’s so mellow and silly and hands out candy for good performances and his brother and sister sometimes visit the class to show off some of their old Quidditch moves and give away Wizard Wheezes to the best fliers, and it’s not until they talk to someone else from a different school or era that they realize that flying is actually really difficult to learn and Ron just found ways to slip all the teaching in under the fun so that they didn’t even notice. Things that seemed like silly tricks or goofy jokes turned out to be mnemonics for complex maneuvers, and of course nobody ever wanted to skip a class under his tutelage.
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Okay all other canon epilogues can go home, this is the best.
Republicans are literally the dumbest people I’ve ever met.
Lmao and they call liberals sensitive sksksksk
Didn’t this already happen once with idiots boycotting Starbucks by buying more Starbucks?
Yeup, people felt like the christmas cups weren’t christmassy enough (- inline with the “oh god people are saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas we are DOOMED” fiasco -), and i believe also another year starbucks had a design on their christmas cups and people tried to boycott because two of the hands holding on the cup seemed too feminine for their tastes (- despite the hands not actually being illustrated on the rest of a person. I for one accept our disembodied lesbian hands -)
Both times resulted in people buying from starbucks as a “"boycott”“ lol
Count Dooku’s iconic curved lightsaber hilt is coincidentally similar to the curved hilt sabre of historic king and emperor Charlemagne, of whom Christopher Lee (who portrayed Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus) was a direct descendant.
why limit yourself between choosing between a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? if persephone can be the goddess of spring & queen of the underworld at the same time so can you
This is both against the gender roles that God put forth and in favor of the worship of pagan God’s. This is blatant satanic blasphemy
frollo has logged tf on
Reblog if you too are against the gender roles that God put forth and in favor of the worship of pagan Gods.
Dama Cherepaha 