This was ad-libbed by the voice actor, Craig Ferguson and they chose to keep it in because they loved it. Kids won’t get it but adults will be thinking “did he just imply what I think he implied?”
And later the director confirmed it.
DeBlois revealed that, the reason Gobber never got married, is because he is homosexual. This makes him the first homosexual character of the franchise, and even DreamWorks itself.
This is the worst representation I’ve ever seen when will we actually get queer characters without having to deduce it from like 0.3 seconds of screen time and a vague hint
the worst? are we forgetting..
Shout out to Paranorman for showing people how it’s done.
Shout out to Paranorman for making it a punchline to a running gag making fun of a teenage girl! But hey, at least it’s obvious. Yeah.
ALL of these are fucking AWFUL representation.
Dragons is so vague that it winks by in a blink.
Dumbledore was never confirmed in text.
And Paranorman was ONE line at the END of the film that’s more punchline than anything, and spending 99% of your movie deliberately having you audience thinking a character is straight for you can have a “hahaha! You never would have guessed! He was gay all along!” moment at the very end is NOT the representation and visibility that the LGBTQIAP+ community needs.
All of these are PATHETIC and we deserve better.
Not to mention that they’re still all cis white men
ok wait I’m going to break this down cause I always dicuss this…
Yes you are correct, we deserve more/better queer representation in films.
But.
These are fucking stepping stones to the representation we want and deserve. Both Dreamworks and Disney have done small nudges towards queer representation which is a BIG DEAL for large companies like that where they have many stockholders/producers/PR departments/large holdings that make doing anything “non-conservitive” a large risk. These small steps show they WANT to represent queer people and are edging into it.
Companies like Laika are much smaller and are able to ‘risk’ doing more direct pointed representation, partially because it gives them lots of PR from discussions/boycotts/outrages/etc whereas a company like disney or dreamworks would be damaged in a small way by the same attention.
Guess how many queers work in animation - the answer is a fucking lot.
Its one thing to crit the representation in media but to completely shit on the small steps that are being made is shitting on the progress people are FIGHTING for. It is not perfect and it wont be perfect for a while, but these steps are just STEPS and no one is giving this to you saying “are you happy now you fucks?” what you are getting is directors and producers and animators getting excited that they are ABLE to start venturing into this in CHILDRENS FILMS
its not perfect, but please remember progress is slow and needs support!
This little fish lives deeeeeeeeeep down in the ocean and spits that little glob of bio luminescent liquid to momentarily distract predators and escape being eaten
I…I just realized…
After “Blood of Olympus” comes out, there’ll be no more Percy Jackson.
No more destroying monsters, no more running, no more demigods…
And his, and his friend’s, stories will come to a conclusion.
Reblog if you’ll remember Percy Jackson’s legacy.
His story may end, but it’ll never be forgotten.