#“must be really good friends”

[logosbot-tm]

*gestures to Grumbo *

And historians would call them "good friends"

[canichangemyblogname]

Hot take? A show with queer people in it from the beginning was never queerbaiting and— very literally and technically— never could. In the first episode, a gay man comes out to his family. And he doesn’t stop being gay after that; it’s a major plot point and part of his character going forward. You’ve had a married lesbian couple from the jump who are proud and unapologetic about their love for each other. The story has also portrayed several queer couples and stories in episodic plots, including featuring queer weddings.

Buck didn’t suddenly “become” bi. Queerness is not when straight people “turn” queer. He has been attracted to men the entire time; he has always been bi. Understanding yourself and your sexuality as a queer person is often so difficult under heteronormativity. Sometimes, it takes time.

Hell— Buck checking a guy out some time in season 3 or getting flustered by the idea he might like a guy, etc, etc, are not even examples “queerbaiting,” nevermind how the show already features queer stories.

I genuinely think some of y’all are just mad that he’s not sucking face with the man you want him to, and are being weirdly homophobic about it. “Buck kissing this man is kinda off-putting, lmao.” “Buck and his bf’s relationship is awkward. IDK, but it weirds me out.” “There’s something so cringe about Buck’s relationship—” “Who dates someone they haven’t been friends with for years first? It’s kinda creepy…” “I think their relationship is a weird mess. It’s not as meaningful as a slow burn.”

Life isn’t fanfiction and fanfiction tropes don’t make good writing. Most relationships start out with a “hey, I’m interested in you, let’s get to know each other.” You’re just transparently uncomfortable with two men expressing that interest in each other outside the arbitrary rules you’ve established to make a mlm relationship “legitimate” or “meaningful.”

[Fanfiction] tropes— from “there’s only one bed” to “we’re forced together, but fall in love anyway”— are responses to the sex-negativity and purity culture norms forced upon gender and sexual minorities. They provide a workaround for these norms but never a direct challenge. It’s like the Family Guy episode “Prick Up Your Ears,” where conservative Christian abstinence-only sex education leads to kids having ear sex. Ear sex is the workaround to the abstinence and purity rules they’d been taught, not the challenge. We still have stringent rules around who can touch whom and under what circumstances. Tropes reflect this. So, a trope like “there’s only one bed” provides the characters with a justification for their intimacy without directly challenging why it is taboo.

You’ve convinced yourself that shipping— and thus the tropes it employs— is more subversive than actual representation, and the people caught in the crossfire are actual queer people.

Also— for the love of fuck— stop comparing every mlm relationship to RW&RB.

[fairymonk]

thinking about the fact that orym has been told multiple times that he's basically expected to take out any of his friends if they turn to side ludinus. thinking about how orym keeps trying to talk his friends out of agreeing with ludinus. thinking about how upset orym got with dorian specifically for agreeing with things ludinus said. thinking about how orym loves dorian and is trying to do what he can, even if it's being too harsh, to keep from having to hurt dorian.

[johnnyshrine]

★ 076 // “Lucky Potato”

[bikefuckersoftheworldunite]

“Ciao Ciao Sete” or The Third, Secret T-Shirt of 2004

so, a while ago I’ve stumbled upon this tidbit in some article:

and my first reaction was “WAIT WHATTTT?!?? CIAO CIAO SETE?? Another tshirt?!?!?” So, I went googling to find out more but found no articles mentioning it or any photos. And I thought that that was gonna be it but then I found this thread on a GERMAN motorsports forum….. [autotranslated from german obv]

so, people back in the day saw it and were discussing the tshirt on forums and even posted the pics!! and more info on when and where vale wore it - post valencia at yamaha party! but tragically those were not preserved because the original forum thread was from 2004……

at which point I gave up on ever finding the photos but then, absolutely randomly, while scrolling a french vale fan blog (the op of it would have loved tumblr I’m sure) I found it!!!!

‘CIAO CIAO SETE’ TSHIRT (REAL, CONFIRMED)

so, vale wore this t-shirt at some yamaha party either post phillip island or post valencia! and it indeed does have a neck bottle there! because sete does mean “thirst” in italian, so yep playing on that. but lmao it was very obviously a dig at Sete!

there we have it!

[iwannarunawayandbeapirate]

zolf smith is so relatable actually

today a friend of mine was really rude when i mentioned having read a romance book over the weekend, implying that it wasn't "intellectual" enough and judging both me and the book despite not even having read it

and now i completely understand zolf's decision to leave the london rangers after hamid critiqued harrison cambell's novels

[kaytheday]

The fact that I literally went outside and sat on the curb to read this and get one moment of quiet before I had the craziest night ever is proof that this year might be okay. At least fanfiction writers are looking out for me 😭😂

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

me stubbornly forcing myself to drink green tea and rest from my THIRD COLD THIS MONTH

[skunkes]

thank god for the rarity of befriending ppl you really click with. It hadn't happened to me in so long... <- and this will start making you feel like you're unlovable and that there's something wrong with u

[quirkwall]

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Don't look at my Hawke romancing Fenris.

I love Anders I love Anders I love Anders I love Anders I love Anders -

[boyquiet]

i think that we need to get over the narrative that you can’t have gay villains because that’s a harmful stereotype because there’s a huge difference between “this character is gay and a bad person” and “this character was written specifically to equate being gay and being evil/depraved/degenerate”. it’s just such a narrow minded view of fiction that leads to people afraid to write queer characters as anything less than morally perfect and then to a bunch of palatable but bland and boring queer characters that are arguably worse representation than a gay villain because they are not allowed to do anything wrong. while it is important to write all types of gay characters a work isn’t instantly “problematic” because the villain is queer and the hero isn’t. I think this is also related to the idea of subtext vs text in gay media and how I see a lot of people get mad bc the homoerotic subtext isn’t made canon without considering the context of it at all—sometimes creators make artistic decisions for reasons other than that they didn’t want the gay people to kiss because they’re homophobic. well written queer subtext can be better than a canon gay couple with no personality or relevance and a queer villain can be a better queer character than a gay hero because the characters in-universe morality isn’t inherently tied to how much care they are written with and the quality of “queer representation” isn’t determined by the amount of times they kiss on screen.

[tennessoui]

I am a greedy monster who wants MORE MORE and is like, "big bang Christmas epilogue?" But also - THE VOLCANO. Quinlan making the kind of ruthless choices for the greater good that he does and then being bewildered that people on Team Good are objecting! ANAKIN KNOWING WHEN OBIWAN WOKE UP AND ASKING FOR IMMEDIATE EXTRACTION.

at first I read this as asking for a Christmas themed continuation of the Big Bang fic and i was fascinated by what that would look like. Vader has a crisis of conscience and gives obi-wan space for life day. Obi-Wan has a crisis in response and regifts that cause why would he want that. Be serious.

Vader and obi-wan also gift the council with valuable information via encrypted comm link from Obi-Wan to Windu (“not kidnapped, taking a holiday/sabbatical, don’t respond cause I can’t talk to yall right now, Sidious is Palpatine apparently xoxo obi-wan”)

obi-wan eventually gifts anakin a kiss on the forehead cause he believes in baby steps when rehabilitating a sith. anakin freezes over for 2-4 hours in response

[moeblob]

WOW it's way later than I planned to just be finishing art but here we go! I did manage!

[veththeebrave]

Does anyone else ever think about the "when i met him he was a scared little boy in a jail cell" part of the he's my boy speech. I don't need him he needs me because I am his foundation. He was nothing before he met me. I built him from the ground up and will be damned if anybody gets in the way of his growth. I love the mix of possessiveness and pride throughout that whole speech.

[chompmon]

I was so fascinated with Yo too. Standard shonen protag that keeps slipping up and sayin wierd shit- this push and pull between these angry frustrated impulses and the instant regret and understanding that he can't act like that. He's stressed and doesnt really know himself and the only 2 people that do know him either hate his guts or are lying to him about it- not that he has time to dwell on it, since he's been made lead of this entire game, and he has to be the one making all the decisions- all the right decisions.

But he can't! He's an amnesiac speedrunning all kinds of trauma, easily swayed and just wants the pain to stop- at the first opportunity, or rather promise, to stop fighting, he latched onto it so strongly.... I didnt care for Yo but as the story progressed i was starting to get really invested and was really lookin forward to more of his development. Sad!

[aquard-skaii]

one's broadcast moodboard <3