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mad-maddie:

regalswag:

mad-maddie:

mad-maddie:

I came on Tumblr expecting cool art of my new purple hacker girlfriend I’ve seen like 3 types of discourse about her instead can you enjoy an awesome latina synthwave aesthetic character without fucking everything up for once

And like I’m not even saying some of the discourse is “bad” or unwarranted like let’s just settle it all in one post:

She’s thirty and she “doesn’t look thirty”. Fair – media does not like depicting woman thirty or older with any semblance that they aged past 20. I’m also almost 30 and am constantly mistaken for 20 or younger. Like I can go both ways on this argument so I can deal.

She’s a “sassy latina stereotype”. Fair. Also funny, likeable, INCREDIBLY intelligent, non-sexualized in design and outfit and pretty cool. Also sometimes I’m just THAT happy to see latina characters in things so I can deal.

“Fanon’s ‘Sombrat’ is infantilizing to a grown ass woman just like Gremlin D.Va”. Fair, especially when Sombra is twelve years older than D.Va. I am also fully aware that fandom makes these sort of depictions based largely on shallow character personality cues for the sake silly comics and doodles only and do not effect the actual canon character or my interpretation of how rad she is so I can deal.

As a question without any bias to it.

Do you feel it’s coincidence that both Latinx characters are villains?

Nope. Somehow no one is discussing that point though, I only highlighted what I’ve seen.

Still love this character, not a fan of that transparent BS on Blizz’s part. Like it’s super suspect but people are tight-lipped about it HMM.

Or how the Russians are being protrayed as corrupt, scheming psuedo-villains.

So what villainous things has Sombra done?

pickle-kun:

– Reaper stays true to his roll as tank buster by obliterating the big Mech

– Widowmaker stays true to her roll as offensive sniper by being completely fucking useless in the back line.

emilygayvis:

i luv the fact that Pharah is canonically super tall so i can bring out all my fav tall headcanons based on personal experience

like that since half the cast is short/average height they’re all at boob level and have to look way up at her when she talks so she doesn’t think they’re staring at her chest

and everything at the OW headquarters is made for short/average people (bc they had to accommodate for the shortest among them, like Torbjorn), so when she sits in the chairs her limbs are all scrunched and her knees come up to her chest bc the chair is so close to the ground

people are always telling her she should’ve been a basketball player so when she sees the basketball at headquarters she picks it up and just flings it out of annoyance. it goes right in the basket. now everyone at Overwatch thinks she should play basketball too and she wants to die

the first mech suit she was given as a rookie was standard-issue for female pilots, and when she couldnt fit in it everybody make a big deal and was like For Fuck’s Sake Fareeha and she was like Fuck You Guys I Cant Exactly Go To A Tailor With This

she’s built up an immunity to hitting her head on things so the first time she took off and smacked her head on the ceiling everyone was like “holy shit are you okay??” and she was just. yeah im fine it happens all the time

she owns a t-shirt that says “the weather is exactly the same up here” and wears it whenever she’s hanging around with one of the shorter members of Overwatch (Reinhardt thinks it’s the funniest thing ever and the next time she sees him he has one too)

Ana making her bend down when she’s being scolded so it feels more effective. everyone else is trying not to laugh and she’s shooting them all death glares

she would rather literally fly herself across the world to her next destination in her Raptora suit than cram herself into an airplane with those god awful seats with no leg room and a ceiling so low she cant stand up all the way (Tracer: “Oy, what does Fareeha never wanna fly with us?” Torbjorn, D.Va, Lucio: *all shrug*)

whattheshimada:

How fucking pissed would you be if you were McCree and you can line up and kill 6 guys that are going to hurt your friends and then suddenly some bubblegum purple princess is like BOOP and you slap yourself in the face with your mechanical arm so you can’t fan the hammer

nbtorchwick:

stop. having it be closed. 

thejennawynn:

She can be 30 and still be perky and energetic.
She can be 30 and still be youthful looking. 

30 is not old. 30 is not the cryptkeeper. 30 does not mean wrinkles everywhere and/or being unable to be athletic. 

Can we please stop acting like she can’t be 30 because she’s active, sarcastic, and Millennial-esque and also stop acting like you have to make her wrinkly to make her look 30?

Your friendly, neighborhood 33 year old meme-loving, video gaming Millennial. 

oblivionheart:

vin-robles:

Because some days, the blog format just ain’t doin’ it.