“all I Want Is To Be By Your Side” Is Slowly Starting To Become The Gayest Thing You Can Tell Someone…

sometimes it seems to me that this meme does not lose its relevance

my favorite thing so far about season 2 is how, no matter what, the crew of the revenge actively chooses their found family, over and over again

• swede loves and is married to jackie, but double crosses her anyway because of his love and “life debt” for his family

• stede leaves ricky at jackie’z, despite ricky being inexperienced, because he’s fucking around and they all need to leave. stede’s not gonna risk his family just because ricky wants some sort of recognition for something he barely helped with

• oluwande leaves zheng yi sao because he’ll be damned if he leaves jim, who he’s reiterated that they’re family for him

• frenchie and jim disobeys ed’s orders and save izzy’s life because, as jim says, “he’s THEIR dick.” archie follows along cause she knows it’s fucked up and wants to stay by jim’s side

• izzy has chosen ed over and over again, and would’ve continued to if ed had accepted the help he desperately needed, but ed isolates himself and pushes izzy to the point where he HAS to choose the rest of the crew instead

• roach, wee john, and pete all get jobs on the red flag that play to their strengths and they enjoy IMMENSELY, but they go back to the revenge cause there’s no world where they wouldn’t. buttons had the opportunity to probably get more sea witch info and tools from auntie, but he also wouldn’t ever choose that over the crew

• lucius is PISSED at stede, and has a ton of ptsd to work through. i imagine he probably felt somewhat safe finally on the red flag. but after talking things through with stede and pete, i know that it was a no brainer for him as well. he’d never give pete up again after that kind of separation

• even though stede is loving the experience of seeing zheng yi sao doing what she does best and the (seemingly) warm and comforting environment on the red flag, he chooses to rescue the crew, even izzy, and take back their ship. because he knows they would choose him (and did during the act of grace, minus izzy). he’s bringing their family back together despite everything else

• i would say that the crew still with ed DID choose him, constantly. any other crew would’ve mutinied WAY before they did, but they love ed and hoped things would get better despite his behavior saying otherwise. the only times they didn’t choose him was out of self-preservation

• ed became a self-fulfilling prophecy and isolated himself. i would argue that he’s the one exception here. he actively chooses to disregard his family because of his self-loathing and deluded himself into thinking they wouldn’t choose him. BUT, in the end, he finally does because stede cast him that line. he chose to live for himself, of course, but i like to think that that decision was also to come back to the one person that truly felt like family for him

i am so fucking excited to see all of the other ways they’re going to choose each other, yet also keep each other accountable for the things they do. because they’re family

he gets me

zuko is already a hilarious character but he becomes even funnier if you give him a crush on sokka

So.

bakugo katsuki kacchan through the years

THE BOYS!!!!!! they make me ill i love them sm

These men are the true switches

I fell into a rabbit hole for MLP Friendship is Magic and I learned some people still believe the show has no representation of culture/race/ethnicities or any diversities like LGBT+.

I'm gonna use this as an excuse to talk about MLP and their stories about discrimination.

Man, they had a whole episode dedicated to the mane six being "racist" toward Zecora who's supposed to represent African women. And it's not even like a mention or hint that she's African, she's a literal Zebra with an accent, African clothing, and practices magic that originates from Africa. By the end, the six realize they were in the wrong and welcome Zecora.

And then the entire 8th season was dedicated to talking about racism and discrimination. Remember the young six? A group of teens who were being discriminated from Twilights school because they aren't ponies. And treated like they didn't belong with the other students. They weren't even subtle either. One of the characters calls them "you're kind" to which another character takes massive offense. And that same "racist" character tries to pull Sandbar, the only Pony in the friend group, away from them. I still remember a cute episode that talked about interracial relationships where Yona tries to change herself to be like a pony instead of a yak. Something she was always proud of until Sandbar wanted to be her date. And by the end of the season, the young six get wrongfully accused of treason by the school, so the "racist" locks them up. Everything does get resolved and the "racist" becomes more accepting.

And then we have the original six, the pillars. One was Eytyption, Roman, Chinese, African I think, and Norwegian I believe. And again, not subtle. Their back stories include mythical creatures and traditions from those cultures.

And then we have relationships. I will fight off anyone who says Applejack and Rainbow Dash aren't married in season 9. Or so help me, I will never stop throwing punches. But it is funny how both Rainbow Dash and Applejack had guys obsessing over them only for the two to come out as lesbians. 🤣 And we then have Lyra and Bon Bon. And finally, Scoots aunts. I would also like to note they handled divorce in one episode. Where a character couldn't decide if he wanted to live in the sea as a sea pony or live on land as a hippogriff. By the end, it's shown that his parents live separately and they don't interact like a married couple. People can take this as a metaphor for being a mixed kid, trying to identify yourself as one culture/race. While others take it as a kid dealing with divorce parents and trying to figure out where to live. I say it's both.

Ok, fan girl rant over!!! 🤣 I just had a lot of nostalgia to let out.