“You were forcing me to feel guilty about having wounds, you pretended my emotions weren’t real, you dramatized your most tiny problems until they looked more important than my whole life struggles, you punished me over and over again for “not following your rules” and you had the fucking nerve to pretend that I was the toxic one.”
I am a white female teenager and when I saw Black Panther, I liked it because it really is a great movie.
But I have a friend who is half Cameroonian and when she talked about Black Panther her eyes lit up when she said “It’s the best movie ever”
And that really made me think. It is so so important for people to see themselves represented on screen. That is why I will always support movies that provide good representation, be it “Wonder Woman”, “ Black Panther” or more recently “Love, Simon”. And the thing is that we might not even recognize the lack of representation in some areas as long as we are not affected. I for example did not consider representation of poc in Superhero movies to be a problem for the longest time. I did not really get why Black Panther was such an important movie until I looked into her eyes.
I was ignorant because it wasn’t my own problem.
That needs to stop. We need to raise awareness. We need to support projects that give a great diversity of people the possibility to see themselves on screen when they are able to connect with a character on a deeper level.
When I now think of “Black Panther” I like it because it really was a great movie. But most importantly I think about the way my friend felt when she watched it, about the fact that so many young teenagers, kids and adults felt important and understood for the first time.
I think about the way I felt when I watched the trailer for “Wonder Woman”.
Don’t we want to give everyone the chance to experience that kind of fulfilment?
the evolution of the bird’s-eye view of the iced coffees
4 coffees at the beginning
1 coffee when Simon is alone
5 at the end when everyone is back together
every single line the drama teacher Ms. Albright said
“This is going to look like a real German sex club! Don’t ask me how I know that.”
“Nuh-uh, this is mine now. Imma sell it. Get my tubes tied.”
the love of my life, Abby “at my old school that would’ve been settled with a knife fight” Suso
Bram’s toothy smile when he asks Simon for some fries
when Garrett points to the nerdy freshman and invites him to the Halloween party
“You’ll freak him out, man.”
“Yeah, he’s like nine.”
Simon owns a record player because he’s a useless #aestheticgay
when Simon googles how to dress like a gay guy and a pic of Greg Berlanti comes up
“You look like a drag queen rolled around in magnetic poetry.”
in his dream sequence about being gay in college the banners outside the school say “LIBERAL UNIVERSITY”
actually that entire gaydream is my favorite thing ever (the choreography!!!!)
“We’re good parents.” “Yeah, we’re good parents.”
the entire Waffle House scene
no one in the restaurant cares
that’s just how Waffle House is
the kid who ate poison ivy bc someone told him it was weed #JustPublicSchoolThings
THE REALLY TALL KID WITH THE TRUMPET WTF ICONIC
Martin’s never-ending graphic T-shirts
Simon’s all-hoodie wardrobe? rocks my world.
when Simon is gaydreaming about Bram and Keiynan Lonsdale looks directly into the camera and says, “I can’t stop thinking about kissing you.”
“KeEp YoUr EyEs On YoUr OwN tEsT, sImOn!!!”
when Simon is gaydreaming about Cal and he just gets up from the dinner table to make out with thin air????? a big gay mood
Nick and Abby arguing about Drake while Martin talks to himself in the backseat
the look Leah gives Simon behind his back
when Leah complains that Nick didn’t even fill in the letters on his costume and she does it for him but they’re not even colored in all the way???????????????
actually every single line by Leah??? is gold???
“Is this a Make-A-Wish situation?”
LEAH’S DOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHEN SIMON DRINKS THE BEER TO IMPRESS BRAM AND THEN SPITS IT UP A LITTLE YESSSS GAY MOOOOOOOOOD
the squinty-eyes Nick gives Simon when he says, “I just love all women!”
“I could never be just friends with someone that hot.” “Everyday’s a struggle.”
“Maybe it’s something you’re not seeing, right in front of your eyes.” “What am I not seeing?” “NO IDEA!!!” *changes radio station*
petition that after june is over we keep making pride month posts and articles and etc and just make it pride year instead. or hell pride century. we deserve it.
Baby boomers be like “I went to college without my parent’s help so you can do the same” like no I can’t do it after you fisted the economy you fucking walnut
