REAPERS….. ”DANCE” 

more to come :D! Not trying to be a vidya game comic, but super inspired by genjicat shenanigans right now ~

result of a convo i had with @goingloco

posting it here because twitter fucked it up to the next century and beyond

like can we talk about how fandom treats latino men? specifically the blatant and unapologetic sexualization of them?

poe dameron. cassian andor. gabriel reyes. jesse mccree. james vega. reyes vidal. raphael santiago. lance mcclain.

(and before you argue that jesse isn’t canonically latino, every single latino jesse fic/post/art comes hand in hand with some transparent “latin lover” bullshit where he sweet talks someone in spanish or uses his ~latin charm~ in some way or another)

and this is specifically about the treatment in lgbt fandom spaces. you guys aren’t immune to perpetuating racist tropes and you do it without any sort of acknowledgement or desire to change. even if there’s been some retrospection into the poorly written bilingual characters in fic recently, yet people continue to write and spread posts about every other racist aspect of the latin lover trope.

making them all promiscuous and overtly sexual? making them all “rough and dirty in bed”? giving them all “dirty mouths” and describing them with “deep, low voices” and talking about their accents using sexual descriptors? these all tie back to racist tropes that contribute to the sexualization of latino men.

it’s not subtle. it’s not “sexy”. it’s tiring and the lack of acknowledgement that it’s happening outside of reblogging a post about it every once in a while is really fucking transparent

Marcello Melo Jr !

Jack’s the kind of guy who has to dip his toes into the water and wade around a bit before he goes swimming. 

Gabe’s the type who needs to sit by the side of the pool for at least twenty minutes before he feels sufficiently hot enough to dive in.

And Jesse is the one who cannonballs in, splashes both of them, and ends up with two grown men attempting to drown their cowboy son in retaliation, while a sunglassed Genji watches and sips margaritas from a pool chair ten feet away.

So I wanted to talk about Gabriel’s pre-reaper voice (it’s been suggested to me that possibly his mask acts as a voice modulator, Darth Vader style, which I am hella down with). 

Reaper has always been very soft spoken. Even when he snaps (e.g. ‘We’re losing the objective!’, ‘We’re going to lose! Attack!’ etc) his change of voice for those lines is more in tone rather than volume. 

So now we have Reyes’ voice, which, imo, perfectly demonstrates why - even if he deserved the Strike Commander position - Blackwatch suits him so well. 

During the brawl, the script shows the different leadership styles between Reyes and Morrison. Morrison is very US Army, meaning that he’s used to sharp, loud commands that convey a sense of urgency. His worry bleeds through in his commands (e.g. Tracer’s down! Revive her!) but even when no one’s in danger, his commands are, again, very loud and harsh to one’s ear. Perhaps it’s just me, but Morrison’s commands make me a little anxious, because I feel as if, somehow, I should be rushing more than I am (or will ever be able to, since it’s gameplay). 

This isn’t bad by any means because it certainly is a situation that requires rapid execution, but I felt it necessary to point this out because, when Gabriel takes over at the hardest part of the brawl, he doesn’t seem hurried at all. 

Now of course you do need to hurry, because people’s lives are in danger here, but Gabriel’s voice is nonetheless very calm and even. Even when he says “Get this door open, now!” it’s still relatively soft spoken. Whereas Morrison would’ve sounded a little harsh (e.g. ‘Get these jokers off my point!’ ‘Get this payload moving already!’) Gabriel has an almost subtle sense of urgency in his tone, and an almost unnoticeable change in volume. Morrison speaks as if he’s telling you that you must do something and do it immediately, whereas Gabriel speaks as if he’s given you a task and expecting (as if it’s merely a given) that you’ll faithfully do it and thus he has no need to worry about it. 

In high risk Blackwatch missions, Gabriel’s style of leadership is ideal. Blackwatch agents are the cleanup crew and handle the “dirty” missions that Overwatch won’t. According to lore, this included assassination, coercion, kidnapping, and human rights abuses such as torture, all things that would need the agents executing these tasks to be in calm, orderly states of mind. 

Consider Talon, for instance, Sombra refers to Gabriel as ‘boss’ and seems fairly genuine about it, and he’s clearly leading the mission in Infiltration (even if Sombra sorta…twists the whole thing a little). You can see Widowmaker quickly grow frustrated at missing her shot at Ms. Volskaya, and Reaper’s immediately in her comm….and doesn’t sound particularly angry about the loss of the element of surprise.  

Gabriel seems very much like the type to roll with the punches, at least until everything goes to absolute shit (see: escaping target, thank you Sombra) and deal with the consequences when everything’s all said and done, while Morrison seems more the type to express displeasure the moment it happens. Again, neither of these are wrong styles of leadership from a military standpoint, but I think it’s very interesting that Blizzard managed to work these styles in with just a few bits of dialogue in the brawl. 

TL;DR Gabriel’s very soft spoken and calming, but factual and to the point, which is why I think the Blackwatch Commander position suited him nicely. 

Also the man sounds like angel? Have you ever heard a voice as soft and smooth as milk and honey

i’ve got something in my eye

In 👏 this 👏 house 👏 we 👏 love 👏 Gabe 👏 Reyes 👏 .

Jack Morrison Thinks Salt Is A Spice Pass It On

i said i was gonna do it and i did it im sorry for my bad handwriting asadfghjfdss based off this post that made me laugh rly hard 

who said it was tracer’s idea?

Todays sequential art practice turned into r76 bants, so here you go

(also the omnics are motion activated and don’t hear them talking shhh)

Part 2 of Don’t You People Have Important Jobs

Part 1

someone please post a gif of genji’s dance in HOTS so i can use it as all my reaction gifs from now on

I just went and made these gifs real quick for ya please use any of them

thank you so much i love that he matches this invader zim gif