I thought of this while waiting outside at Dairy Queen
Max: She’s been self-quarantining and having a good time of it. She hasn’t left home in… I don’t know, at least three months? Is Extremely nervous about the possibility of contracting the virus. She’s very cautious as a result, almost to the point of obsessiveness. Hasn’t been doing very many online hangout things. Her schoolwork is… not going great.
Chloe: She’s… kind of just going about life as usual. She’s avoiding masks like the plague; it bugs her to wear one. She’s, at the very least, kind of staying socially distant. Joyce has to keep reprimanding her.
Rachel: Hasn’t been heard from in two weeks. Nobody knows what happened to her. Her Discord has been set to Do Not Disturb for 29 days. She’s still turning in assignments, though. God knows how.
Kate: Is following all the rules and regulations to the letter. However, she is suffering, because she is deprived of hugs. She has missed two homework assignments. This is a very bad sign. She has one of those standard-issue surgeon masks, and she drew some cute cartoons on it.
Victoria: Is Trying. She’s still trying her very hardest to get all her homework and everything done. She’s still trying her very hardest to keep in touch with all her friends. As an extrovert, this has been very hard on her. She’s been following the rules to the letter, and will absolutely yell at you if you’re not wearing a mask.
Warren: Will Not Stop making memes about the virus and sending them to everyone. Attends all his online classes, but hasn’t actually done any work in three weeks. Wears his mask.
Nathan: Claims to have gone to a Covid party. Hasn’t been doing anything school-related, if he can help it. If he shows up to a Zoom meeting, expect his father to be lurking in the background. Wears a mask, but only over his mouth.
Brooke: Her mom got sick and her dad got furloughed. She’s having a really rough time right now. She’s being almost obsessively cautious. Turns in all her homework assignments, but doesn’t always turn them in completed.
Steph: Hasn’t done any homework since April. Only exists through Discord. Is running three separate DnD campaigns and is getting 3 hours of sleep a night at maximum. Hasn’t left her house in God knows how long.
Mikey: He’s chilling. He’s actually not having a tough time completing schoolwork because he actually has motivation and likes that he can complete it as soon as it’s assigned so that he has more free time later on. He’s been playing a lot of Minecraft. Almost never leaves his house.
Korra and Asami only held hands because Nickelodeon wouldn’t let them do more. Nick infamously cancelled Korra and put out the rest of season 4 as a webseries only.
Marceline and Princess Bubblegum only kiss in the very final episode because Cartoon Network wouldn’t let them do more. There are a ton of interviews with Pendelton and with the voice actresses where they talk about the CN censorship.
Steven Universe got as far as it did because Rebecca Sugar fought tooth and nail, and risked the show getting cancelled (which it did in many countries, if not heavily censored), because Cartoon Network wouldn’t let her. Ruby was often dubbed over with a male voice, and Pearl/Rose interactions were completely cut.
She-Ra managed to do it largely because it was specifically on Netflix only, and even then, Noelle has said they had to build 4 seasons of storyline very subtly around it so they had enough ammo to convince the execs that Catradora was the only logical conclusion to this show they had already aired. She didn’t just go in on Day 1 and make it gay; she had to plan many years in advance for how to set up her argument. Her argument, y’all.
And now we have The Owl House. Which is an absolutely wonderful show. And it’s so amazing that we actually get to see queer characters get the kind of representation that so many straight characters get. And it’s amazing we get to see the romance build up, instead of just a quick peck in the series finale!
Let’s not forget that in the US, it was illegal for gay people to get married until 2015. Korra aired in 2012. In Texas, it was a punishable felony to even be gay until 2003. No, literally. Just being gay was an arrestable offense here in Texas until 2003. We have come a really long way in 20 years!
But don’t fucking dare disrespect any of these other shows by saying they didn’t try, or that their representation didn’t matter. The Owl House is standing on the shoulders of giants. Lumity is only where it is because Korrasami and Bubbline helped get them there.
THEY SAID I LOVE YOU TO EACH OTHER
People leave. Life gets hard.
Just look at how Kat smiles and lights up when Dom does her thing. ♥️🌹
Heyyy, guys.
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im in episode 5 rn and i get more gay every episode