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Thinking about Lilo & Stitch makes me really appreciate certain things about the original + the series. Almost every single named [human] character in the movie isnโ€™t white: the only exception being Mertle, yโ€™know, the bratty little girl weโ€™re not supposed to like.

Besides all of the racial representation, Lilo herself is very much a neurodivergent icon, and her portrayal as the protagonist is amazing considering how characters like her are typically either sidelined or depicted in ways to make them less sympathetic/human (modern media does at least a slightly better job at adressing that kind of thing tho).

So all of that is great, but to anyone that hasnโ€™t seen Lilo & Stitch: The Series, it also does some extremely refreshing stuff.

Pleakley gets tons of validation to dress in drag, everyone always referring to Pleakley as โ€œsheโ€ when dressed up as โ€œaunt Pleakley.โ€ Thereโ€™s even an episode that tackles Pleakley dealing with the pressures of his family that wants him to marry a girl and settle down to have a โ€œnormal life.โ€ After the episode's shenanigans, there's a realistic depiction of the misunderstanding of a heteronormative/traditional parent with their non-traditional child: Pleakley's mom says that she just wants her children to be happy, but when Pleakley says that he is happy, she thinks he's only trying to console her as she insists, "How can you be happy? You aren't even married." But Pleakley finally gets it through to his mom when he says, "I don't want to be married, mother! I'm happy just as I am."

After getting to meet all of Pleakley's ohana throughout the episode and hearing from Pleakley himself -after all of the previous misunderstandings- that he really, truly, is happy, she's finally starting to understand.

Even though his mom comments as they leave that she wants him to โ€œtry wearing menโ€™s clothes more often,โ€ she still does walk away accepting that she simply doesnโ€™t understand her son's way of thinking. Itโ€™ll definitely be hard for her since sheโ€™s so much more โ€œtraditional,โ€ but sheโ€™s finally coming to grips with the fact that her son is who he is, and likes being that way, so sheโ€™ll love him regardless. She's trying her best.

The portrayal of people with physical disabilities is also great. Itโ€™s not because thereโ€™s one recurring character with some condition, but almost because there are non-recurring characters. It isnโ€™t in every episode, but hereโ€™s an example: they want to show someone at the park playing fetch with their dog for just one shot. They could very easily have it be any a random person, but they decided to make it a lady in a wheelchair. There's another episode where Nani's friends from highschool show up and one has forearm crutches, but not just because she had some recent accident. No one in the episode questions her condition or feels the need to point it out, the only comment on it being that the friend will use the crutches to lightly bonk the others' arms, and Nani jokes, "You are still deadly with that thing."

The fact that they include characters with disabilities when they "don't have to" makes it that much more normal. These people aren't some special case or the main highlight of the episode, they're just another person. They're normal.

There's so much that all of the original Lilo & Stitch media did right, but now the name will forever be tainted with the association of the remake, which I'm sure will have absolutely none of the tasteful writing and ideas of anything prior to it.

MONSTER CHAMPIONSHIP: ROUND 3

Hello there my lovelies, here we are another week. I have to say that I'm not that surprised by second round results (you can find round 1 here and round 2 here). I won't say who I think are going to win, but I think right at this moment I have a pretty good idea.

But here we are, round 3, semi finals!

Same as last round, I'm gonna add the polls in the reblogs and each poll will last for a week. We'll see each other for the next round Monday 24th.

Reminder that the two finalists will have stories from me and @monstersholygrail :)

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REBLOG: go to your blog and click the egg to see what hatches

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I got Sonic the Hedgehog.

Sonic the freaking Hedgehog.

Maybe I cracked the egg too fast.

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I GOT A SPARKLY NICHOLAS CAGE

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I GOT LUKE HEMMINGS ROLLING HIS EYES WHAT THE HELL

NICOLAS FREAKINโ€™ CAGE

I GOT A FUCKING GUN

wait does this work

edit: I hate everyone

Bendyโ€ฆ. Typical.

Bro, I got $10 million

My favorite moment when playing FFXIV for the first time was seeing the men in the same ridiculous subligars as the women.

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In order:

World of Warcraft

Dark Souls

Final Fantasy XIV

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Seriously, Dark Souls is so good about this, I accidentally became female and didnโ€™t even know about it until I was changing my gear.

Sorry, that last bit is funny to me because Iโ€™m just imagining this knight changing and looking at a pair of breasts like โ€œโ€ฆThose are new.โ€

THE LAST COMMENT KILLED ME

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The most important canon facts TailsTube has given us

-Tails uses tumblr -In his world, tumblr has a two-tailed icon -The fact above might imply Tails has created tumblr

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Just a friendly reminder that health insurance is a scam and they can suck a dick.

This is how long I was on hold before someone picked up. . . Then proceeded to put me on hold again because of a "technical issue" Sincerely- Fuck you Kaiser. I will continue to update this fucking stress test.

Apparently they're still working on that "issue" I will keep updating

I WILL NOT LET YOU SLIMY RAT FUCKS BEAT ME!

FINALLY GOT SOMEONE TO PICK UP!

AN HOUR OF MY FUCKING LIFE JUST FOR A 2 FFFFFUUUUUUUCKKKKKING MINUTE TRANSACTION!!!!!!

Now that my rage is at a homeostasis. I would like to sum up my unfortunate adventure as politely and concisely as possible.

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Just a friendly reminder that health insurance is a scam and they can suck a dick.

This is how long I was on hold before someone picked up. . . Then proceeded to put me on hold again because of a "technical issue" Sincerely- Fuck you Kaiser. I will continue to update this fucking stress test.

Apparently they're still working on that "issue" I will keep updating

I WILL NOT LET YOU SLIMY RAT FUCKS BEAT ME!

FINALLY GOT SOMEONE TO PICK UP!

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