Who Was Your Childhood Crush, And Why Was It Bill From Eloise At Christmastime?

relates to 1 step forward, 3 steps back and enough for you except for not with an ex but with mommy issues

i'm not gonna lie i've always leaned into my headcanon that sally, and therefore percy, was of latin american descent. but after seeing walker scobell in the Adam Project i can really see him doing a great job in this role! his comedic timing is fantastic and he has an air of maturity for his age, plus i've seen that he's been a pjo fan for a while, which is always great!

bottom line is he's a kid who just got cast in probably one of the next iconic roles of the decade, it's a big opportunity with a lot of pressure. i hope that everyone supports him accordingly, and that his experience with the project is positive. so exciting!!

I can’t explain how much I love Julie and the Phantoms. Like it filled the Trollhunters/Wizards hole in my heart from last month, which is only worth mentioning because I was crying for days.

I need it to be renewed ASAP!!!

Please watch this incredible show, it’s got literally everything I would want in a show targeted towards kids (spoilers):

No douche-y or toxic masculine traits in the main male characters. I half expected the guys to be the typical bros when I started watching (since I decided to watch after 5 seconds into the trailer), but they weren’t and instead so adorable and supportive of each other.

A rival character that wasn’t villainized with her femininity. I really appreciated how Carrie was more than your typical rival/ex-best friend/ popular girl because that character is usually untalented/has bad songs (which doesn’t make sense given why she’s popular), only hates the main character out of jealousy and insecurity, and is very feminine to juxtapose the main. Instead, Carrie is seen as talented and no one mocks her more bubblegum pop music that a rock band could easily make fun of (but the band doesn’t and even dances along to it), and mentions how she’s worked hard on her music and choreography. 

The lgbt+ rep. I will admit, as much as I was excited that Alex has 1) gay and 2) out and 3) not one, present, had a problem with it, I was a little sad because he’s a ghost and I thought we would never see a gay love story for him as a ghost. Boy, was I wrong! I knew instantly that Alex was going too be awed by Willie with that slo-mo shot of him taking off his helmet. And then there were so many moments where I was thinking “Now, kiss” because of how close and intense they were.

Latinx rep. Having poc in lead roles is so important to me and I was excited and surprised that both female lead and her best friend were poc, instead of one of them being white. I loved that because it also means that their families will be poc. I will admit, I think it would also be great of the guys were less white, but I think the cast is great.

Incredible music. I told myself to finish watching before looking up the soundtrack and listening to it, but I couldn’t help myself.

Amazing outfits. Well, most of Julie and Flynn’s outfits and most of the bands’. I think my favorite of Julie’s in the camo jumpsuit from the 2/3 episode with her hair up, it was a nice transition from the more comfortable, passive outfit from the first episode to her fighting for her spot in the music program. (also, is anybody else confused by her school’s music program? my hs was a creative/performing arts hs and you literally had to apply as one of the majors, so being removed from yours would probably mean being kicked out)

Thank you if you read this unnecessary long rant about my new favorite show.

Watching Heartstopper has made me realize that we’re trained to expect that the other shoe will somehow drop in queer media. That something terrible is just going to happen. (Someone gets outed or worse)

And Heartstopper presented us with an opportunity to create queer media without NEEDING for something terrible to happen. Honestly, it was refreshing. I’d like to see more content like this.

Did I make an American Vandal vine compilation? Maybe. Is it the greatest thing I’ve ever done? Probably

As the media begins to dial back on their coverage of a particular view of the BlackLivesMatter protests, we need to stay vigilant to working towards social and institutional change for Blacks lives in America. We need to continue to educate ourselves on the history of the problem, how it has ultimately affects today, and what we must do to ensure that our mistakes aren’t repeated.

As a first generation Asian American, I’ve always felt a little out of place, because I was taught in school that racism was a black and white issue and didn’t consider the model minority myth a part of that problem until a couple of years ago. But now is a better time than any for anybody who never educated themselves to learn.

My process began years ago, and sadly it wasn’t because I came to the revelation myself, but out of necessity from being surrounded in mainly Black and Brown classmates. After years of learning the anti-black rhetoric in my family (subtle comments and attitudes), stereotypes in media, and in elementary school text books that teach me that racism is over and that it ended hundred of years ago, I moved to a middle school where even less of my classmates looked like me and came from low-income neighborhoods. There, I slowly became aware of the boundaries that race created, both as one of the only two Asian students and while being surrounded by Black and Brown students who grew up knowing about those boundaries.

At first, I gave in to the racism I was taught; I was weary around my Black and Brown peers and mainly only befriended my lighter-skinned peers. Becoming aware of how racism is still prevalent was a slow process, I was slow to learn about how racism is instilled in and helped build many of our current institutions. More embarrassingly, I played into the model minority myth by considering myself a victim because I felt like my classmates disliked me because of Asian stereotypes and the model minority myth (ironically, what I was doing to them). I honestly left middle school believing that I was more tolerant, when I was just beginning to chip that my racist behaviors and beliefs.

It wasn’t until high school that I actually did some hardcore unlearning and dismantling to my teachings. Before sophomore year, I learned about Brock Turner’s 6-month sentence, aka the Stanford Rapist. Even though I grew up with anti-blackness surrounding me, I managed to stay away from misogyny and was open to understanding feminism in the way I had yet to with fighting racism. I was disgusted by this news and educated myself on the problems with rape cases in America, white privilege, and toxic masculinity. As I researched and read more, and more racist attitudes became more public due to Trump’s presidential campaign, I became more politically aware and sympathetic to my Black and Brown peers. I looked for media that was made by minorities and judged where the media I was seeing came from. I saw the subtle microaggressions coming from my family. I began to have open conversations with my friends about feminism, LGBT+ issues, immigration, and racism, learning first hand from people who were directly affected, instead of mainly reading about it, like I was doing for a while. (Besides actually having conversations with people, I was also beginning dismantling the internal racism I had towards myself and acknowledging how some of my experiences in middle school contributed to that.)

As great as learning and reeducating myself seems, I’ve been having some trouble with the next step: taking action and confronting the system that taught me how to be racist. It was much more difficult talking to parents about their views on BlackLivesMatter because for a long time I lied to myself that it was okay because they grew up in more traditional settings and thus became rigid in those beliefs, and acted patriotic to America because they believed the rhetoric that it’s the land of opportunity and felt in debted after fleeing from their home countries. But I’m wrong, since they don’t/didn’t have the same exposure as me to culture differences, it’s my responsibility to teach them why they have to change, no matter how much time it takes. For my mom, she’s still processing institutional racism, I don’t think she ever properly reflected on the history with was more feeding into the idea of America since she came. For my dad, who consumes much more American media, he’s much more stubborn to recognize the racism he learns about and constantly reinforced with the news. But that’s just from a few talks, I have to the duty to do more.

We all have to do more, because if confronting yourself and your family is difficult or uncomfortable, think about how Black people feel everyday, knowing that being cautious of how they act or behave won’t save them from being murdered. That anything they did or didn’t do would justify their murder in the eyes of people in positions of power. I could never understand how that feels, but I can do what I can to making sure that no one feels that terror.

You can only reblog this on Nov 16 2023💥

The good bits of 2017

There’s Probably more things that aren’t here, I loved making the list last year to prove it’s not all bad, and this year is just the same, not everything this year has been bad, there’s tonnes of good things

Feel free to add your own stuff as well

Good things from 2017:

- Pokemon ultra sun and ultra moon

- jacksepticeye’s #overnightwatch stream

- the eclipse

- The switch’s amazing intro to gaming

- The moonlight v la la land slip up

- The Wonder Woman movie

- Harry Potter and the portrait of what looked like a large pile of ash

- Lord Buckethead running against Theresa may

- Covefefe

- A talk on North Korea being interrupted by the guy’s kids

- Dear Evan Hansen

- The disaster artist brought the room to thousands of new people

- Pixar’s Coco

- And the subsequent removal of the frozen short from before coco

- Spider-Man homecoming

- NBC’s the good place

- Baby drivers amazing choreographic fight scenes

- Ted Cruz liking porn on his official twitter

- Dream daddy dating sim

- Donald trump’s twitter being deleted for 11 minutes

- Fortnite gave pubg something to fight with

- Mario odyssey and Zelda breath of the wild put Nintendo on all gaming top 10 lists

- Stranger things 2

- The new IT movie was amazing

- Star Wars the last Jedi

- Thor Ragnarok

- The emoji movie was so shit it was stupidly hilarious

- The snowman, cause ya know what is deffo scary and not at all a hilarious idea, scary snowmen

- Jodie Whitaker as the doctor

- Blue planet 1 & 2

- A series of unfortunate things gave us a better evil Neil Patrick Harris than doctor horrible

- Castlevania got a cool gruesome anime

- Doki doki literature club defied expectations and creeped out many

- American vandal helped Netflix poke fun at itself and the education system

- Sonic forces let us all create our own fursonas

- Mario and rabbids: kingdom battle surprised everyone with its goodness

- Dodie Clark’s You EP

- dodie Clark’s “in the middle”

- Critical role had an amazing ending filed with heart ache and epic magic

- The adventure zone’s first big story came to an end with plot twist after plot twist we all loved it

- Disney added it’s first gay character in le fou (not a good start but a start)

- Pokemon for the switch was announced

- Brooklyn nine-nine just got better and better #BiRosa

- Guardians of the galaxy vol 2 has an amazing soundtrack yet again

- The Lego Batman movie gave us the best batman film since the dark night trilogy

- bendy and the ink machine

- life is strange: before the storm

- the final fanf game? Maybe??? Probably not

The more serious good stuff:

- The royal engagement

- Hundreds of nfl players took the knee

- A treatment for ALS has been found

- A device has been created to help heal burn victims

- Stefán Karl stefánsson becoming free of cancer

- A new record was set by Peggy whitson for the most days spent in space

- Malala yousafzai started college

- All the women’s marches

- Everyone from the #meToo movement

I’m honestly so glad that I still watch children’s television/ tv shows that have very general audiences, even as a university student. If not, I wouldn’t have decided to spontaneously watch Julie and the Phantoms after watching the beginning of the trailer. I thought that it would simply be a goofy show with one-sided characters and juvenile jokes. But I was hooked by the end of the second episode because of how it improved on so many tired and overdone tropes.

What if “Crooked Teeth” is about having a difficult home life/ family problems and that’s why it’s about Reggie or why Reggie and Alex think the song is about the other?