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also, i know this might sound corny but like.... please be nice to other people online. not even trying to say this in a like a, 'oh because you never know what they might be going throughhhh' kind of way just like. be nice man. stop hate following along with things. be more patient with strangers. stop trying to get off cunty one liners for your five seconds of smirking like a dreamworks poster protag.

ive said it before but as a tool and a 'place', i really love the internet, genuinely. i dont like the resignation that it has to be, and stay, a place thats full of misery and fighting. ive met a lot of really wonderful people here, and i think we could all have a nice time together if everyone did their part to make it so that was possible. im not speaking down to you as someone whos never made these mistakes, im asking as someone whos also made them alongside you.

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i stand by this post i am keeping the win of her music matching the book lmfao

taylor swift’s relationship w joe mirroring rwrb so well (joe and henrys physical similarities, american east coaster x londoner, keeping it secret from the world, happy/not toxic relationship, etc) is literally the best thing thats ever happened to me 

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nothing in the world makes me more evil than just being kind of annoyed

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santa saw you reading all that gay porn

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"maybe one day. but today you're my little bitch" "what he said" = "for what its worth, that is the bravest son of a bitch ive ever met" yk

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im going insane because this is EXACTLY the thing that was bothering me that i couldnt put my finger on. and the movie did not have queer joy or basically any character depth for anyone at all. not to mention the two primary poc in positions of power were both not in positions of power in the movie. and characters were MISSING cough june cough. anyways list goes on but YEAH!!

I’ve seen someone else mention this, but I also wanted to talk about this

The erasure of queerness in the movie is something I definitely did not expect.

Sure, it’s a love story between two men, but grab Alex and Henry and make them a man and a woman, the movie doesn’t change much. Maybe monarchy instead of being homophobic and racist now it’s only racist, and they hate Alex not because he’s a man but because he’s brown. They kept it a secret because of monarchy’s racism, but love triumphs at the end. That’s why the movie didn’t hit as hard as the book. The movie is just some forbidden love movie, rwrb is a book where the main characters are in a forbidden relationship, but it’s not the whole point of the book.

Alex discovering his sexuality, Nora being bisexual, whatever Pez had going on, whatever June and Nora had going on, Alex learning about queer history, the historical lgbt love letters at the ends of their e-mails, all the references to queer history and literature, THE SHELTERS, monarchy’s homophobia (yes, it appears on the movie but it’s really glossed over. It doesn’t show just how homophobic they actually are in the book), Alex stating how he knows more about himself the more intimate (both in the sexual and non sexual sense) he is with Henry, Luna being gay and unapologetic about it and being exactly Alex’s queer role model, even before Alex knew he was queer himself, THE FUCKING SHELTERS

I’m so so mad about the shelters being missing.

Henry and Pez made shelters for lgbt youth, so they can never feel as alone as Henry once felt, so they can always have a safe space so they know there’s nothing wrong with them no matter what the adults in their life might say, no matter what the preacher or their classmates or the right wing politicians in their tv might say, where they can find hope, and friends, and a home if they never had one before, or at least, one where they could truly be themselves. The shelters is, I would say, crucial to Henry’s character development. He went from hiding, believing being gay was “the most unforgivable part of him”, not even trying to come out because he just succumbed to live an unhappy life in the closet, to someone who’s out, living with his boyfriend and running lgbt shelters with his best friend so young queer people can move past all the things he felt and believed time ago, so they know they are perfectly normal and loved and safe in there, as long as Henry and Pez are there they’re safe, they don’t have to hide anymore.

Henry became the queer elder he needed in his life when he was younger. The lgbt adult who could tell him than it would get better, no matter how bad it was at the moment, no matter if he couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, because it was there, he just had to hold on a bit more. Than there was absolutely nothing wrong with him.

Another thing than I seen changed than a normal person might not notice, but I did, because im obsessed, is the karaoke scene.

In the book, it takes place in something resembling a gay bar (maybe not exactly, but it’s full of queer people), and look at this

Three rounds of shots appear —one from a drunk bachelorette party, one from a herd of surly butch chicks at the bar, and one from a table of drag queens. They raise a toast, and Alex feels more welcomed than he ever has before, even at his family’s victory rallies.

Look again

and Alex feels more welcomed than he ever has before, even at his family’s victory rallies.

This book is about about finding community, finding yourself, finding love and letting yourself accept that love.

Do you think Alex in the movie has felt “more welcomed than he ever has before, even at his family’s victory rallies” at any point? Has he been with another queer person in the whole movie, except Henry, and meanwhile I would say Nora except her sexuality was not mentioned at all

Henry and Alex in the movie are kind of without community, alienated from it, they are, in my personal opinion, the king of gay people republicans would consider “good gay people” who “don’t shove it on everyone’s faces and just wanna be left alone” (in the rwrb universe where they exist and are real not actual republican people watching the movie). They don’t really take a role on the community, in the book, Alex and Henry being queer is an important part of themselves, again, Alex feeling like he knows himself better, Henry whole internalized homophobia, their shared interest for lgbt history and literature, Henry and Pez making the shelters, etc etc meanwhile in the movie Alex and Henry just happen to be gay and bisexual, but it’s no deeper than that.

And don’t get me start on creating Miguel, a queer character, and making him the one to leak the e-mails or smth instead of a republican candidate

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just found out junora in any capacity is not something everyone in the fandom agrees is canon. distraught and confused

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i dont think we talk enough about how funny it is that nora slept with alex and then went “whoops, wrong sibling” and bopped on over to june 

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the hannibal fandom has NO right to be as fucking funny as they are 

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all of the girls you loved before is giving “alex makes a mental note to find out which shadowy gay noble taught henry all this and send the man a fruit basket”

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WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN

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and youre telling me i CANT be transported to the rwrb timeline? bruh

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this is exactly how Alex and Henry would interact

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https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Vote-Claremont-2024-by-Kaylaw144/95948169.EJUG5

this is the closest ive found lol

someone make me an “ellen claremont for president” sticker

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no because imagine being Mike and having to juggle between either liking both El and Will that are now officially brother and sister or liking only Will but literally dating his sister in front of him for a year????? like WHAT!!!! of course he's freaking awkward at the airport what do you even do in that situation like oh yeah I like a couple of siblings oh yeah I dated first the sister and now the brother. don't ask. skdhwkhsow like imagine the byler wedding and El saying stuff like "as the person that was once Mike's first girlfriend i just want to say, Will... good luck!"

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Please include what language your name comes from, if you know. I'm very curious

As someone who's last name is Polish and Welsh, so like if Europe's two most unpronounceable languages had a baby, this is important to me 😂

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types of guys there aren't enough of in horror for me:

- guy who says "i'm going to fucking kill myself" every 5 minutes, not out of any genuine desire to die but as a means of stress relief

- guy whose terror rapidly evolves into white-hot rage and culminates in them stumbling around covered in blood clutching an improvised weapon and screaming obscenities at the universe and everything in it for placing them in this situation ("I'M EXHAUSTED AND FILTHY AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH OF THIS IS MY OWN BLOOD AND I FEEL SICK, OH MY GOD I THINK I'M GONNA BE SICK. WHY ME? WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS?! WHAT HORRIFIC CRIME OF EXISTENCE DID I COMMIT THAT COSMICALLY SCREWED ME OVER IN THE KARMA DEPARTMENT?!?!?! I FUCKING HATE THIS SO FUCKING MUCH OH MY FUCKING GOD, I WISH I WAS DEAD, BUT NOOOOOO I HAVE TO STAY ALIVE AND KILL THIS STUPID FUCKING MURDERER BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE BEAT ME TO IT, GOD FUCKING DAMNIT. SHIT." *wordless blood-curdling scream that breaks off into angry sobbing and retching*)

- guy who straight up just doesn't know what's going on and never finds out