Tag: b99

randomthingsthatilike123:

Honestly I appreciate and love All of Rosa Diaz’s coming out
but one thing that I loved so much that is, in a way, glossed over is Captain
Holt’s response to Rosa because with a lot of the “straight” characters (no way
is anyone on this show but the Vulture straight) they would say thank you for
trusting me and I’m honored by your trust or I love you and this doesn’t change
anything which are all great responses but what Holt said was not thank you for
your trust, but thank you for being you, for saying who you are to the world

—because I think a lot about how I want people to react to me coming out to
them and lbr so would Raymond Holt and it’s not any of that “I love you anyway” crap, as if being something
other than cishet is something to get
over but to be apologized to, or be thanked
for coming out????? For someone to make you feel joy right off the bat about
being who you are and just trying to make sure that Rosa also has the kind of
positive experience from her Captain and friend that he almost definitely
wanted when he was in her position?

I love Brooklyn Nine-Nine so much you guys.

Important things in b99:

kimaofvord:

violetkirjava:

  • portrayals of black men as caring and having depth to their character, and jokes about them never being stereotypical, instead having things like “Love is like oatmeal, it sustains you”.
  • and on that topic, one of the main characters is a gay black man who, unlike many portrayals of gay men is wealthy and in a stable relationship.
  • gay sex is mentioned just as casually as straight sex would be.
  • As close as they are, Jake and Charles never have a “no homo” moment.
  • characters like Rosa and Amy aren’t based whatsoever on stereotypes of latin american women, but their identities aren’t erased either, like when you meet Amy’s parents or Rosa speaks fluent Spanish.
  • “And then Terry got RIIIPPED” “No, and then Terry got self confidence”

#i was honestly shocked (in a good way) that there was a whole subplot revolving around “captain holt needs to get laid’ ’#i mean honestly… ’‘a satisfying sex life is (for many) a necessary part of a good marriage” #would be considered too risque for many sitcoms even with a straight couple #and they made no attempt to be coy: you got holt stalking around the precinct bellowing “B O N E ? ? ?” and it was beautifu l#“rosa! those are our DADS!” #anyway please watch brooklyn 99 (via inkandcayenne)

fourdrinksantiago:

cipollakate:

I think one of the reasons the Rosa Diaz news is, for me, so exciting is because we now have a “safe” bisexual character on mainstream television.

Brooklyn Nine Nine is a half hour sitcom. That’s not to say that bad things don’t happen to the characters, because they do, and it’s not to say there isn’t a certain amount of dangerous elements, I mean, it’s about cops, for Christ’s sake. But major characters don’t die. And death is a standard trap for LGBT characters. There is a reason we all know what someone means when they say kill your gays.

Rosa’s not going to fall victim to that. Unless the show is taken in a vastly different direction from where it is right now, Rosa is not going to be killed senselessly.

Whenever I tune into Brooklyn Nine Nine, I’m not going to have to worry that she’s about to bite it for no good reason. I don’t have to keep it in the back of my mind that she might not make it through this episode by virtue of her sexuality.

tl;dr, Rosa Diaz is an honest to god safe bisexual character in a form of media, I’ve been crying a little since I found out, and that’s one of the reasons.

steph actually adressed this in an interview!

“I was really excited about it. I hadn’t really seen much of that representation in television that I personally watch. I know it’s out there, but often times it’s written in a specific way. “Let’s introduce a gay character and quickly kill them off,” so you have the ride of the complexity of this amazing character, but also [you do] not necessarily deal with them over the course of our entire show. Obviously, that’s probably not going to happen in this case [laughs], because Rosa is a core member of this ensemble. It’s not like she’s going to come out and then get hit by a car and get killed off. It’s really cool to me that our show is exploring something with almost the safety net underneath it, telling the audience, “Look, we’re not doing this so that we can explore a story and simply throw it away when it’s convenient for us. We are going to keep this person around because we love this person already.” It’s part of the family.”