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Anybody have any Boy Meets World tattoo ideas? I’m really looking for a good one, was thinking celery or a Plays With Squirrels reference but nothing’s clicking rn !!
Also open to multiple BMW tattoos and also H E Double Hockey Sticks ideas
First Griffelkin in a little while:
I still love him so dearly forever and always
Seriously was up till 4:30 AM with H E Double Hockey Sticks brain anyway I was trying to think of matching sticker concepts for the boys.. what do we think and would anyone be interested in actual stickers or do we just think they’re cute to look at (I will of COURSE color and shade and make them extra pretty but you wonderful people get the behind the scenes)
Yah Griffelkin Posting
Okay so I'm assuming you people enjoy the Griffelkin sticker idea,, here's him colored, I'm gonna wait on Dave cause I have a feeling our H E Double Hockey Sticks fandom's a little too niche for me to go all out, but here's Griff!! If y'all actually would buy a sticker I will gladly order some and set it up on my Etsy!!
He won't have my watermark on the actual sticker lolol
Consider This: Little Sheldon
HELLO HELLO MY SHELDON KEYCHAINS ARE HERE AND FOR SALE !! THERE ARE ONLY 3 SO BUY THEM NOW :3
He even has a little kitty keychain clasp for his lovely soft kitty song hehe !!
Customers in PlateUp be like
there is a lack of shawn hunter content on here and i’m not here for it
WHY ARE NONE OF MY FAVORITE SHIPS ENDGAME DJSJDNXNXNHSJSJSJSNSNARGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
There’s kinda a sad reason behind this drawing :/
My bsf is moving away to Florida tomorrow morning and I decided to make them an oc based off of them. They requested that the oc had red hair like James the splendid engine because he’s their favorite ❤️ I’m going to really miss them, but it is not goodbye forever.
here’s some info about the oc:
✨They are nonconforming person✨
✨Fav color is purple✨
✨Currently in a relationship✨
✨Has a younger brother✨
✨Half Indian and half Caucasian (That’s their real ethnicity too)✨
✨Likes mlp and Boy meets World✨
Why did I just notice this?? 😭😭😭💞💞💞💞
I have no idea who you are or why you’re into Jeric/Boy Meets World but I love you and I need you to know having your notifs on my phone are beautiful. Thank you, elmodoescrimes 🫶
Your welcome random stranger.
Why Trina McGee deserves better
People need to know what Trina McGee, the actress who played Angela Moore on Boy Meets World, went through. Some people know bits and pieces: how her character was done dirty on the spin-off Girl Meets World, or the racism she endured on the set of BMW. I have been following her for a while and I want what she went though to be documented for posterity. (I don’t usually ask for reblogs, but share this post on whatever platform you can, because Michael Jacobs needs to run her a fat cheque).
During Boy Meets World
Angela Moore was a series regular who joined in season 5 episode 7 of Boy Meets World; the show had been entirely white before that point. Angela was the love interest of Shawn Hunter, which was (and still remains) extremely rare to have an interracial relationship involving a Black woman on TV, let alone with a main character. Beyond that, Angela was a fully realised character: she enjoyed poetry, classical music, had some abandonment issues that she worked through with her father, and spoke about her blackness.
Unfortunately, behind the scenes Trina McGee had to deal with racism and microagressions. She had to do her own hair and makeup on set and was called ‘Aunt Jemima’ by Will Friedle when her hair was wrapped. She was also treated coldly by Danielle Fishel and other cast members; one requested that there be no women with them in the scene. The only castmate who was unreservedly nice to Trina was Rider Strong. Rider and Trina maintain a good relationship, and described her coming into his life as “huge” because, at the time, he no longer wanted to be part of the show. He also cut off racist family members after they were not alright with the relationship.
Despite Angela’s popularity on the show, she was the only main cast member to be written of the show *one* episode before the finale. Again, this was a product of the racism she experienced from cast mates but also the writers.
Girl Meets World
When production began for Girl Meets World, they secured Danielle Fishel and Dan Savage to once again play Cory and Topanga. Will Friedle also joined for five episodes over two seasons without issue. Rider Strong, who already had a fraught history with his child actor upbringing, eventually agreed to star in some episodes on the condition that he would also be allowed to direct; he went on to play in 7 episodes. The actors who play Cory’s parents also cameod in two episodes, and William Daniels, who played Mr Feeny, appeared in four.
So, what about Trina? Despite show creator of BMW and GMW, Michael Jacobs, extending an open invitation that “Whoever wants to be part of this show will be and whoever wants to move on will” and Trina being openly enthusiastic to join, even visiting the set before the filming of season 2, she was in one episode. It aired on 19th June 2015.
Anyone who has seen Boy Meets World, does not need me to explain what misogynoiristic trash the season 2 episode 8 ‘Girl Meets Hurricane’ was. Firstly, it compared Angela’s reappearance to that of a hurricane which would ‘ruin’ Shawn’s new chance at romance with the white character of Katy (one of the main characters - Maya’s - mother). She was treated with open hostility by the protagonist of the series Riley, aka the daughter of Angela’s supposed best friends.
The writers straight up lied to the younger audience of this show, stating that Shawn Hunter “fell in love with a concept” and that Angela “broke Shawn’s heart.” To the first point, Shawn breaks up with Angela in season 5 because he want to learn how to like her outside of his frame of reference to Cory and Topanga (which he does). Also, no, Angela did not break his heart, she asks for his permission to go to Europe where her dad is stationed in order for them to repair their relationship in the penultimate episode. Shawn says yes because he understood what it was like to have a bad relationship with his father. Angela literally says “let’s not say goodbye, let’s just say ‘I love you’”!
Angela was made out to be an antagonist in this episode; she was villainised, whilst every other BMW alumnus had warm greetings and was treated as family that kept in touch.
Neither Trina nor the fans were happy about this. Micahel Jacobs knew this would be the case.
Before the episode he said “You guys are going to kill me for what we decided to do with Shawn and Angela, but I will tell you that it is right, it is real, and you’re going to have to watch the episode six times before you put the guns down.” Afterwards, he justified breaking up a vital piece of interracial and Black representation by stating (I kid you not) “Forget the color. They never meshed. Every episode was about why Shawn and Angela would not sustain.” “There can only be one Cory and Topanga and if Cory and Topanga and Shawn and Angela succeed, it lessens what I always thought was the mantra of the core show.”
Quick aside: if “real” is the aim, why was Eric the mayor of a town called St Upidtown? Why was Shawn marrying the neglectful mother of his best friend’s daughter’s best friend realistic? Why was Jonathan Turner, a chracter last seen in a coma in Philadelphia in BMW, the superintendent of the school district Cory works at in New York? How is any of that “real”?
Don’t gaslight us - the reason was misogynoir and racism.
Even after her treatment, Trina still had hope to go in and correct the representation. Many fans were outraged on her behalf and voiced this on social media to the point where the writers said that her character would be back. They never followed through.
Post-GMW Conventions
Girl Meets World was cancelled after its third season (I was very happy that day), but unfortunaltely the racism that pervaded the show failed to cease.
Firstly, ‘Angela Moore’ trended on twitter in 2019, because Candice Patton had expressed how grateful she was to have a character like Angela. Both Will Friedle and a writer on the show attempted to reaffirm the ‘importance’ of the show. This was before Will apologised (and the writers never even attempted to address their racism).
There were numerous conventions that took place after Girl Meets World was cancelled. Trina was not invited to any even though, when GMW needed buzz before it’s pilot episode aired, she was invited for a full cast reunion convention in 2013. The excuse was that she did not have the ‘correct’ agent, yet when she got the same agent as her castmates, she was still not invited.
It’s no surprise that after Trina went public with some of the racism she recieved from the cast (in April 2020, but they didn’t get picked up by major news organisations until the BLM protests in the summer) she was finally given the chance to attend one convention.
To summarise: Trina McGee faced some of the most blatant racism at every stage of her job as an actress. She was very open about this, but many fans were reluctant to call the treatment of her character racism. Michael Jacobs owes Trina an apology and some money!
𝐓𝐎𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐀 𝐋𝐀𝐖𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬 ⟩ Boy Meets World
Appreciation Post / Boy Meets World
"ERIC MATTHEWS & JACK HUNTER FRIENDSHIP"
Jack Hunter:
Favorite color on three.
Eric Matthews:
Go.
Eric Matthews, Jack Hunter:
One, two, three. Blue!
Jack Hunter:
See ya later, man!
Eric Matthews:
Yeah, good to meet you. [aside to Cory] I don't like him.
Please anyone do a gif hunt of Rider strong please. That would be amazing
Please create more gifs of him please @lifemakesyourich
He’s so hot Rider oh my gosh
Started Season 3 of Party of Five…look who showed up.
To any one who has a Shawn hunter account or Boy meets world account, please do a gif hunt of Rider’s moments in other stuff he was in please
https://youtu.be/_pLJkGn603k