gaynbowquartz:

When I remember there are children growing up with Steven universe and being able to see positive representations of LGBT characters on tv with themes of love and acceptance and understanding that their identities are valid and that straight and cis aren’t the defaults

saiyanshredder:

starrycari:

STEVEN UNIVERSE IS TEACHING CHILDREN THAT BEING ABUSED ISNT NORMAL BEHAVIOR FOR THEIR PARENTS AND ADULT FIGURES EVEN IF THE CHILD IS QUEER, AND THAT IS SOMETHING I HAVE NEVER. HEARD ANYONE ELSE SAY.

biggest-gaudiest-fish:

oftimelordsandwizards:

whoareyouandwhyshouldicare:

fightbee:

whoareyouandwhyshouldicare:

Representation Matters

I’m a preschool teacher and theres a black boy in my class named Miles and when I showed him the trailer he got SO excited, everytime I see him I say what’s up spiderman and he practically yells “IM SPIDERMAN!!!!” With the biggest smile on his face. Representation DOES matter and I’m happy that my kids are able to see more people who look like us in positive media :’)

Same thing happened with my daughter when was 7 and Annie came out. All of a sudden she wanted to go to Broadway to try out for the lead role. We had seen the original one several times but it never occurred to her that she could be any too. One more time for the cheap seats

I work at a bookstore and a few weeks ago a little black boy came in wearing a spider-man shirt. I asked him who his favorite spider man was. He replied Peter Parker. I told him mine was Miles.He didn’t know who Miles was so I took him to see the cover of a book with Miles on it. I watched a look of confusion come over his face. He looked up at me and said. “But he is black.” I said “Yeah. Spider-man is black is those comics.” His eyes got big and he grabbed the comics from my hand before running off yelling. “Mom! Mom! Spider-man looks like me! Spider-man looks like me!”

MY HEART IS MELTING

animeismybestfriend104:

ironinkpen:

ironinkpen:

• there are different types of bilinguals
• the All Around: speaks, reads, and writes both languages pretty well
• the Conversational: one language is stronger than the other; can speak the other language a lot better than they read/write it (a lot of kids of immigrants are this type)
• the High Schooler: understands what’s being said to them in the other language, can’t really speak it
• don’t have your characters randomly drop words from their other language mid-sentence around people who don’t speak it lol
• languages are a mindset thing. like personally if i’m around english-speakers, i’m speaking english and i don’t really switch to my other language (which is portuguese)
• so like if you’re writing a bilingual character who speaks spanish and have them say something like “hey chad let’s go to the biblioteca” to an english speaker i’ll probably spend 5 minutes laughing and then close your story lmao
• exception: the character is speaking in their weaker language and forgot a word (”where are the…? uh… llaves…. keys! keys, where are they?”)
• otherwise really the only time your character should be randomly switching languages mid-sentence is if they’re talking to another bilingual
• like i don’t speak spanish but i’ve legit never heard a spanish speaker say “ay dios mio” to gringos lmao
• conversations between two bilingual people can take a few different forms:
• Pick One: they pick one language and kinda stick with it for the whole conversation (a conversation i might have with my portuguese-speaking mom: ”you okay?” “yeah, i’m good. how’re you?” “i’m fine, but your dad-”)
• Back-and-Forth: someone says something in one language, the other person replies in the other (”tudo bem?” “yeah, i’m good. how’re you?” “tou bem, mas o seu pai-”)
• Combo: they speak a combo of the two languages, a popular example being spanglish, though basically every bilingual has their own combo language (”tudo bem?” “sim, tou bem. how’re you?” “i’m fine, mas o seu pai-”)
• when in doubt: just ask a bilingual to look at your stuff and tell you if anything sounds weird

• combo languages can look different depending on the bilingual
• me and my cousin (native english speakers) speaking our portuguese/english combo sounds a lot different than my mom and my godmother (native portguese speakers) doing the same thing
• the kids of immigrants usually come up with their own unique way of saying things that are different than native speakers
• if you’re writing a bilingual family the older kids’ll probably be more bilingual than the younger ones
• also, to clarify: bilingual characters might say words in another language on purpose in front of non-speakers
• either to fuck with them or just ‘cause the word captures what they’re feeling more (i use “caralho” a lot)– basically the point is that accidental switching is relatively uncommon
• i know earlier i said that people will forget words if they’re speaking their weaker language but tbh i do it with my stronger language too so really it works both ways
• filler words are weirdly universal
• so like while bilingual people don’t usually switch languages around people who aren’t bilingual we’ll throw filler words in
• “ele me olhou e, like, eu juro que eu quase deu um soco nele-”
• a lot of languages borrow words from english so it’s not too weird to have a random english word in an otherwise non-english conversation (my aunt @ my mom: “lilian você viu meu post no Facebook?”)
• also sounds in general are just kind of a language transcending thing
• you wanna find out what someone’s first language was?? break one of their bones lol
• legit me when i cracked my rib: “AIIIIIII JESUS CHRIST TAKE ME TO THE HOSPITAL”
• so if your character gets hurt they might make a sound of pain associated with their native language but will probably still speak in the language of the people they’re surrounded by. probably. it depends on just how much pain they’re in
• if two people start speaking another language in public there’s a 40% chance they’re talking shit and a 60% chance they’re having a conversation like: “where’s the bathroom” “i don’t know, ask the waitress she’s right here” “i can’t just ask-”

this is the most accurate bi/multilingual reference post on here y’all should take notes 👀

dement09:

owlinadayswork:

imonlyadumpling:

blue-eyed-thing:

alwaysabeautifullife:

cloudfreed:

bibleforboys:

grumpy-soul:

This is the cutest thing I have ever seen

this is a lot

that baby/young elephant is so cute I love animals

Don’t ignore the baby.

Elephants are so precious ✨

I love him

I LVO#EHIm

oceanic-panic-panic:

Begone….

THOT!!!!!!!!!