madamebomb:

echolalaphile:

spatscolombo:

So I accidentally learned today about this thing where lots of people ship Carmen Sandiego and Waldo from Where’s Waldo?

And on the one hand I love it, because it’s silly and hilarious and you can learn about it and giggle and move on OR you can think about it for a long time and get really into it and that’s a great thing about the Internet

But it really grinds my gears that all the fanart visions of the couple I could immediately see on google showed this really conventionally gendered arrangement where Waldo is like leading/supporting Carmen or rescuing her?

And it’s like exCUSE ME I get that they’d be a cute couple because they’re both hard to find, and because why not, but like she’s an ex-detective criminal mastermind unbound by time and space and he’s a tourist who can’t find his map they are hard to find for VERY DIFFERENT REASONS and you cannot convince me that fucking adorable bespectacled soft butch brings-a-walking-stick-to-the-beach dazed and confused WALDO would be in the driver’s seat of that operation I mean GOD

Right, i mean obviously you can’t find Waldo because CARMEN SANDIEGO STOLE HIM.

She is absolutely the pursuer here. They met at a marketplace in Morocco, on accident. Waldo spilled his street food on her jacket–not realizing she had just robbed a museum two blocks over and that’s why she was rushing. The police ran past and she grabbed him and kissed him, you know, that old “avoid the cops” tactic, but jokes on her; it’s the kiss of her life.

This adorable, bespectacled little hipster with a shy mumble and those indecent blue eyes knocks her for a loop. So she decides to steal him. Immediately.

Waldo never stood a chance. And now he’s wanted in connection for six heists in four different countries, but Waldo knows the best places to hide, so they never get caught.

……….shit, I got really into this.