#Gilbert dresses like a lesbian

[sunnylolli]

I’ve been thinking a lot about them :,)

A lot

[derangedbookworm]

ok guys, here are some of my marauders headcanons. they're pretty modern (mentions of modern artists, technology, and media), and are not hogwarts/canon specific. i think the only ships i directly mention are dorlene, marylily, jily, and rosekiller, but they also aren't specific to any ship. i'll also add picrews of how i imagine each of them.

also, hey! if you don't agree with some of these, that's ok! please do not come into my tags or ask box hating just bc you don't agree! thank you!

(tw: colleen hoover mentions 😔)

~marlene: -lesbian -irish (galway or derry) (she and peter grew up together, and were childhood best friends) -i also love filipino marlene (i literally cannot decide anything) -very blonde hair -has hetechromia (one blue eye and one green eye) -she has cystic acne (dorcas thinks it's so hot) (me too dorcas) -LOVES messy buns with her entire being -cannot sing for the life of her -girl in red -renee rapp -5'8 -she and dorcas like to match outfits -her favorite color is orange -most septum piercing to ever septum pierce

~mary: -pansexual ~colombian (she speaks spanish) (her and james talk shit all the time) ~black (her skin is really dark) -has rosacea (you can't really see it bc her skin is dark, but when it gets hot she gets RED) -she likes wearing her natural hair (in the summer she gets protective styles though) -hazel eyes -showtunes and chappell roan -5'7 -waitress and wicked are her favorite musicals (she thinks glenda and elphaba should have been lesbians) (doesn't everybody?) -loves experimenting with makeup -yellow is her favorite color -wants to wear a yellow sun dress and go frolic in a meadow (real)

~lily: -bisexual -has curtain bangs for sure -scottish or irish (probably scottish) (and she speaks gaelic) -cheek dimples -she's a ginger so she freckles super easily (they're mary's favorite physical attributes of lily's) -anne of green gables (gilbert and anne are such a jily varient) -ambidextrous -she can sing really well -5'6 -PLUS SIZED LILY MY LOVE (i feel very strongly about this) (she's my baby) (i love her so much) -green eyes -six, waitress, and ride the cyclone are her favorite musicals -olivia rodrigo and maisie peters -loves experimenting with makeup -wears very boring clothes (never wears graphic tees or anything like that) (dresses like a beige mom most of the time) (it's ok though) (we forgive her) -her make up always eats (it has not missed once) (her eyeshadow and eyeliner skills are unmatched) -chappell roan

~dorcas: -lesbian -has a very wide nose (marlene worships it, so i had to give it an honorary mention) -5'10 -sza -wears a few different styles, but box braids are her favorite -doesn't actually wear that much makeup (probably just does mascara and eyeliner) -eyebrow piercing -BILLIE EILISH -very dark brown eyes (almost black) -lets pandora try different makeup looks on her and dress her up all the time -naturally very clear skin (marlene is jealous)

~pandora: -pansexual/queer/demisexual (i literally cannot choose) -probably polyamorous as well (she just loves) -black (lightskinned) -she and evan both have vitiligo -5'5 -blonde dreads (her and evan both) -loves those star and heart shaped pimple patches (she wears them even if she doesn't have a pimple) -pink doc martens and those valentines converse -either pheobe bridgers, penelope scott, gracie abrams, or ppcocaine, meg thee stallion, nicki minaj (and there's no in between) -sza -strawberries are her favorite food (she LOVES them) (wears clothes with strawberry patterns, watched strawberry shortcake growing up, strawberry flavored candy is her favorite) -refuses to wear wireless earbuds (1. she's scared one would fall out and she'd lose it) (2. she likes the aesthetic of wired ones better) -autism -light brown eyes -tooth gap (😍) -rock collection

~evan: -gay/asexual (i can't decide) -vitiligo -ocd -i love trans evan as well as cis evan -5'10 -black (lightskinned) -he and pandora have matching jewellery and he wears it all the time -the best brother EVER tbh -would literally kill someone who looked at panda wrong -snake bite piercings (he got them as a dare but ended up loving them) (barty also loves them) (they're so bad for your teeth though 😔) -his favorite color is pink but he pretends it's light blue (he's fooling no one) -blonde dreads -light brown eyes -deviated septum (he hates it but barty loves it) -nirvana, korn, and slipknot

~barty: -pansexual or unlabeled -italian -mullet (the underside is died neon green, and the top is black with some green highlights) -6'2 -raised catholic -BLUE eyes (seriously, someone get this man some brown contacts) -wears those collar chokers unironically (evan secretly loves it) -piercings everywhere (eyebrows, bridge, septum, tongue, ears)(evan won't let him get an albert though) (he's afraid it would get infected/heal wrong) -his favorite color is dark forest green -black clothes (he doesn't own any other color istg) -graphic tees and wife beaters -ripped black skinny jeans -black doc martens but he colors the yellow lining in with sharpie bc he doesn't like it -low-key kind of emo -metalhead but secretly enjoys all genres of music -ethel cain (was raised queer and catholic) -mother mother -mama's boy -him and evan are so fucking freaky (it's actually insane)

~regulus: -gay -autistic (got the good at school autism) -chronic insomnia -5'9 -loves oscar wilde -him and remus DESPISE colleen hoover (me too) -wireless headphones (probably beats bc he's rich) -half-deaf in his right ear, and no one knows why or how -left-handed but was forced to write with his right so he uses his right

-the original sad boi poetry writer -french -gray eyes -gets hot super easily and turns red -but has poor circulation in his hands (he's so me) -hozier -paris paloma (no one knows, don't ask) -ethel cain -loves greek mythology (his favorites are icarus, and pyramus and thisbe) (he just loves doomed love) (i may be projecting a little) -evan and barty have asked him for a threesome at least once -on earth we're briefly gorgeous, the picture of dorian gray, the song of achilles, and a good girl's guide to murder

~james: -pansexual -bpd -adhd or audhd -6'1 -desi (monty) and latino (effie) (i couldn't decide so now he's both ❤) -only wears gold jewelry -speaks spanish -listens to traditional music and abba -taylor swift and hozier -super smart but got burnt out by the time he was 13/14 -bluey and paw patrol (tell me i'm wrong) (this man would eat up paw patrol) (marshall and chase would be his favorites) (and everyone loves bluey) -has the best singing voice of the group -a singular lobe piercing -his favorite color is red -VERY long lashes (the girls are so jealous) -scared of deep bodies of water and abandonment (omg reggie?) -prettiest hazel eyes you've ever seen -can dance really well -red converse -big pants, little shirt typa guy

~sirius: -bisexual or demisexual -french -gray/blue eyes -anxiety disorder and seasonal depression -cptsd -5'8/5'9 (he's shorter than regulus) (i have decided it) -freckles that only come out in the summer -poor circulation in his feet -left-handed -black converse and doc martens -draws on his converse -has a tattoo of the leo constellation on his chest (right above his heart) (☺) -is math and science smart -can't write for the life of him -pheobe bridgers, boygenius, conan gray, and olivia rodrigo -hozier -metallica and dream theatre -band t-shirts and ripped black skinny jeans -leather bracelets -double lobe, septum, and lip piercings

~remus: -gay -welsh -dyslexic -very tan skin and freckles -scared of heights -english and history smart -colleen hoover's biggest hater (real) -6'4 -scoliosis -chronic migraines -ren (go listen to him rn, he's amazing) -david bowie -brown eyes (hazel or dark brown, depending on his mood) -hates red velvet cake but loves chocolate (?) -greek mythology (likes medusa, and achilles and patroclus) -grandpa sweaters and cardigans -levi jeans and fuck-boy pajama pants -sleeper build -awkward as hell -fucking loser (and we love him for it) -bde -song of achilles, they both die at the end, the fault in our stars, the invisible life of addie larue, the picture of dorian gray, and the seven husbands of evelyn hugo

~peter: -omnisexual/straight/unlabeled -irish (galway or derry) -or german -learning disability -anxiety disorder -5'7 -plus sized -his hair is almost brown but still kinda dirty blonde -green/hazel eyes -favorite color is yellow or orange -probably listens to basic white girl music, or rap (idk which one😭) -like, he's either listening to taylor and ariana or he's listening to kendrick and tupac (i don't make the rules 🤷) (both are great anyways so it doesn't really matter) -wears button up shirts and khakis (his parents were super religious and proper growing up, and he hasn't been able to kick the habit) -loves christmas but hates new years -would be fantastic in american football (trust me on this one) (he's a little short but he'd do great) -he's an only child, but he grew up in a more suburban area, so he had lots of neighbors (marlene) -his parents struggled to conceive, and he was a rainbow baby after 2-3 miscarriages (he and james are kinda similar in that sense)

[proosh]

I feel and intense urge to tell you this, but back in the day of Fanfic hetalia stories, there was this one where a bunch of nations vanished for like sixteenish or more years to get married to each other and have kids and it was like hgjfkdsl Mpreg not omegaverse.... So someone had to dress as a wife obviously and now all I can imagine is Gilbert, the gayest military mother dressing as somehow extremely femininely masculine?? Like he passes well either or and I think if people saw him topless they just assume 'she's flat.' Local centuries old man in drag and with a gaggle of children chills topless in his back yard and gets the cops called on him for public indecency and having his tits out in the back yard LMAOOO Enjoy my brain rot, thank u, bye <3 P.S love ur posts

Anon I remember those fics fondly and know exactly what you're talking about but god. isn't that a blast from the past. it was one of those kinds of fics (from, like, 2012?) that infected me with the "Ludwig nursed from Gil" brainworms, actually.

But milf Gil oughghghghhg....... please yes. I do think that he makes a rather handsome dyke tbh, he's got those long legs and is fairly androgynous and after having a bunch of kids I do think he'd be more inclined to be casual with his dress. and, hell, it's not like he hasn't been intermittently dressing in drag since, like, the 1750s -- even besides that period in the '20s when he ID'd as a lesbian.

when he's lounging topless in the back yard or just ass-out naked at the beach or park (a common and mostly-legal practice in Germany) I think perhaps that he's less worried about the cops and more about the wandering, greedy hands (and mouth) of the partner that gave him that gaggle of children >;3c because. well. that sort of indecency is a surefire way to draw the ire of local authorities.

(ty for the ask!!!)

[yr-obedt-cicero]

I was reading some of Allan McLane's work, for those that don't know, he was a grandson of Alexander Hamilton, being the second son of Philip Hamilton II and Rebecca McLane. I noticed something intriguing about one of his books. In the second volume of A System of legal medicine, by McLane and Lawrence Godkin published in 1894, there is an article titled; ‘Sexual Crimes’. The section is written by one of the many collaborates, Charles Gilbert Chaddock. Chaddock was a Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System, and neurologist to Rebekah Hospital. An additional fun fact, the first known use of the term homosexual was in Chaddock's 1892 translation of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis, a study of sexual practices.

Chaddock discusses a lot of sexual topics but one is “sexual inversion”, which was a theory of homosexuality popular primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century. Sexual inversion was believed to be an inborn reversal of gender traits: male inverts were, to a greater or lesser degree, inclined to traditionally female pursuits and dress and vice versa.

The most common sexological theory of same-sex desire was that it was the result of physical, emotional, or psychological “inversion.” In other words, the gender of persons who desired their own sex was somehow reversed. When a man desired a man, it was actually a woman—presumably existing within the man's body—who was desiring a man. When a woman desired a woman, it was actually a male essence within the woman's body who felt that desire. This metaphysical explanation, accepted as scientific (at this point of the emergence of psychology as a science), had a substantial effect on the public imagination for the next fifty years. It became how many people understood the phenomenon of same-sex desire. Theories of Inversing were published widely, and sexologists were understood by the average person to be the experts on a “new science.” The idea of the “invert,” or “third sex,” also quickly and profoundly informed two popular and lasting stereotypes: the mannish lesbian and the effeminate homosexual man. (Although there were preexisting stereotypes of the effeminate male, sexological taxonomy invented him as a homosexual man.)

Source — A Queer History of the United States, by Michael Bronski · 2011

Chaddock wrote that;

Since in any case sexual inversion is but a phenomenon arising from a neuropsychopathic condition, as previously indicated, it is seldom an isolated manifestation, but is most frequently observed in combination with other sexual perversions. In accordance with this, the medico-legal questions arising in sexual inversion may be identical with those raised in the sexual perversions previously considered. The further possibilities of a criminal character are related to the crimes of pederasty. The individual affected with contrary sexuality satisfies himself with men by means of passive or mutual onanism, or by coitus-like acts (coitus inter femora); if active pederasty is performed, it is only as a result of intense sexual desire, or out of wish to please another. Passive pederasty may be performed by contrary sexual individuals to please the active party, or out of lust where they feel themselves entirely in the feminine role. To distinguish such cases from pederasty not dependent upon a pathological condition, it is but necessary to exclude the existence of psychosexual inversion, and to remember that where this crime is performed apart from perversion it is as a means of sexual indulgence in the absence of opportunity for natural satisfaction, and as a new means. of sexual gratification where natural methods of sexual pleasure have been exhausted by excess. Non-pathological passive pederasty is practiced only for gain.

Source — A System of legal medicine, Volume 2, by Allan McLane Hamilton · 1900

[goofyahhteachers]

IMPORTANT

Before you follow this blog have a reminder that this is just all of my headcanons of the teachers and students!

small reminder that my version of yellow is a CHILD. DO NOT ask anything weird about her! I will also put their age (the students will have their actual age while the teachers are basically ageless)

Mod posts will be under the tag of “mod colin/devil” (main mod), and “mod larriebarie”. Asks post will be about “goofy ahh responses”

BYF:

-This account will not be schedule for updates

-This ask blog will have lore in it I’ll just try my best to do it lol

- may have ships you don’t like oops... I might not put it in here cuz I’ll make it a surprise if I ever get the ask

- the drawings may either be full drawings, if I’m not feeling motivated enough to draw it will just be a sketch, if I’m in school and I want to answer the question I’ll draw it in my sketchbook

- M!A is allowed just don’t add weird stuff :/

- I would rarely draw the teachers in their object forms sorry </3 if I get an M!A about it then ofc I’ll draw them in their objects form - This might have gore in it and abuse, but I will tag them! - THIS IS JUST MY AU. If none of the hc’s fits with yours, and you get mad then oops

DNI:

- BASIC DNI CATERIA

- NSFW

- MCYT/DSMP fans

- Vizipop fans/ watches habzin hotel or helluva boss

- proshippers

- age up minors

- proshippers

- zoophiles

- toothpaste flag users

- under 13

- pronouns = gender

ABOUT THE CHARACTERS

Yellow - 10, Transfem, aroace, She/her

Red - 38, Transmasc, Gay, He/him they/them [NOT AVALIABLE FOR ASKS YET]

Duck - 32, Cis, Pansexual, He/him, [NOT AVALIABLE FOR ASKS YET]

Sketch - 20-22, Agender, Polyam Pansexual, Any pronouns

Tony - 23-25, Demi-boy, Polyam Pansexual, He/him

Shrignold - 22-24, Transmasc Nonbinary, Polyam Gay, They/them

Colin - 26-28, Transmasc (although dresses feminine) Agender, Bisexual, He/him they/them it/its + neo pronouns (can ask if interested)

Lia (laptop) - 20-22, Demi-girl, Lesbian, She/her they/them

Gilbert - 20-22, Cis, Gay, He/him they/them

Stephan (steak guy) - 33-35, Cis, Pansexual, He/him

Fredrick (fridge) - 38-40-, Transmasc, Gay, They/them

Vegaline (spinach) - 8-10, Transfem, Lesbian, She/her they/them it/its

Benson (bread) - 18-20, Nonbinary, Aroace, They/them

Lazarus (lamp) - 24-26, Nonbinary, Polyam pansexual, Xe/xem

Keith/Mean Steve (key guy) - 28-30, Cis, Omnisexual, He/him

?? - 22-24, Cis, Lesbian, She/her [NOT AVAILABLE FOR ASKS YET]

?? - 67, cis, gay, he/him [NOT AVAILABLE FOR ASKS YET]

Stan (briefcase) - 24-26, Cis, Aroace, He/Him

Unemployed Brendon - 30-32, Transmasc, Bisexual, He/Him

Telly (carehound dog speaker) - 34-36, Agender, Bisexual, it/its

Morgue (Coffin) - 27-29, Nonbinary, Polyam Bisexual, He/Him She/Her

Lilith (Tissue box) - 32-34, Nonbinary, Lesbian, She/her

Todney - 10, transmasc, questioning, he/him

Lily - 10, cis, lesbian, she/her

Warren - 25-27, Transmasc, Bisexual, He/him it/its

Tank (train) - 78-80, Cis, Straightie…, He/him

Electracey - 25-27, Agender, She/her it/its

[unapologeticallygay]

Interview with Femi Otitoju (in the dress) with Gay Times, June 21st, 2021:

In 1985 there was a severe lack of queer female representation at Pride. The Pride Flag, designed by artist and gay rights activist Gilbert Baker, had, by now, been widely adopted throughout the LGBTQ+ community. But Pride itself was mostly men. Lesbian Strength was formed to create a space where lesbians could be seen on the street – and as a visible and an identifiable group. “When I was coming out, most people I saw who were out, or able to come out and live openly as gay men and lesbians were white,” says Femi. “And so I made it my mission to ensure, if there was a camera, or a microphone, I’d be right in front of it! It was really important for me to carry the Black Lesbian banner. I wanted to show different images of what lesbians could be like.” Living at the intersection of being a Black queer person in the 80s came with its challenges. It was common for LGBTQ+ people to be rejected by their families after they had come out. But while white LGBTQ+ people would move to a big city and create chosen families, LGBTQ+ people of colour were faced with not seeing themselves properly represented within that community. Femi was adamant she’d be that positive representation that was so sorely needed. “I didn’t have those ties,” says Femi. “So I felt very responsible to young lesbian and gay men who were coming up who might not have seen anybody like me, and looking happy about it. So I wanted to be visible. I wanted them to see that it could be fun, no matter how tough it might be.” “The other reason I was there,” Femi jokes, “was because you could wear a dress to Lesbian Strength and stand out! If you were a lesbian and you wore a dress to Gay Pride, the drag queens would outshine you. When I attended Gay Pride, I was more butchy, less campy because the competition was much higher. A bit of a shallow reason, but there you go!”

Black lesbians

Lesbian Strength March, June 22nd, 1985, London, England, © Photofusion/REX/Shutterstock

[7r0773r]

The Opposite House by Claudia Emerson

Ephemeris

The household sells in a morning, but when they cannot let the house itself go for the near-nothing it brings at auction, the children, all beyond their middle years, carry her back to it, the mortgage now a dead pledge of patience. Almost emptied, there is little evidence that she ever lived in it: a rented hospital bed in the kitchen where the breakfast table stood, a borrowed coffee pot, chair, a cot for the daughter she knows, and then does not. But the world seems almost right, the near- familiar curtainless windows, the room neat, shadow-severed, her body's thinness, like her gown's, a comfort now. Perhaps she thinks it death and the place a lesser heaven, the hereafter a bed, the night to herself, rain percussive in the gutters— enough. But like hers, the light sleep of spring has worsened—forsythia blooming in what should be deep winter outside the window—until it resembles the shallow sleep of a house with a newborn in it, a middle child she never saw, a boy who lived not one whole day (an afternoon? an evening?) sixty years ago in late August. And as though born without a mouth, like a summer moth, he never suckled and was buried without a name. She had waked to that— that cusp of summer, crape myrtles' clotted blooms languishing, anemic, the cicadas exuberant as they have always been in their clumsy dying. This middle-born is now the nearer, no, the only child. The undertaker's wife has not bathed and dressed him; the first day's night instead has passed, quickening into another day, and another, and he is again awake, his fist gripping a spindle of turned light, and he is ravenous in his cradle of air.

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Lock

After the Emily Dickinson traveling exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 12 April 2012

I noticed the quick wore off those things... - EMILY DICKINSON, ON DAGUERREOTYPES

The evening includes a reception, wine and hors d'oeuvres with the curator, lighthearted discussion of the various diagnoses, hypotheses long debated—depression, lesbianism, grief, agoraphobia, the kind of anxiety a cat has about the threshold, and the most recent theory—epilepsy; that would explain it all, they say, spasmodic punctuation, reclusiveness, the shame, everything, the hour of lead, at last, unlocked. On display: one of her beloved nephew Gilbert's boyhood suits, velveteen, and beside it the contents of his morning's pocket—a bullet's spent casing, a wad of tangled string; drafts of more famous poems bearing clearly the needle-piercings where she sewed one to another—the sutures of a fascicle's finishing undone; what is thought to be the only image ever made of her, of which she disapproved, here, itself, as yet without compare; and next to it, the something rare, unexpected, lock of her hair—the shape and circumference reminiscent of a sparrow's nest, the color she likened to a chestnut bur. She had brushed, cut, coiled, and folded it into an envelope, then sent it to someone, letter-like. Everyone lines up to photograph it with their phones, when what they must truly desire is to touch it, as though they might feel the sheen it retains. And while they can never get close enough, they will never be any closer than this to what it does not tell them, and they are desperate for all that that might mean.

[fancyemmabovary]

Proust's heroines from "In search of lost time":

⚜ Odette de Crecy - a cocotte who marries Charles Swann, an art collector, member of the exclusive Jockey Club; after his death she marries again and becomes Mme. de Forcheville

⚜ Gilberte Swann - the narrator, Marcel, falls in love with her, but her mother, Odette, encourages her to go out with another boy

⚜ Oriane de Guermantes - duchess, beautiful, elegant, intelligent, sarcastic; her husband has numerous mistresses; the narrator is fascinated by her and stalks her before becoming friends

⚜ Albertine Simonet - a young orphan of average intelligenge and beauty, liar, vicious; Marcel is not sure if he really loves her, but jealous of her lesbian affairs, he grows more and more irrational in his attempts to control her, keeping her prisoner in his parent's apartment and buying her expensive things like dresses from Fortuny, silver tea sets, furs, a vanity bag from Cartier; he promises her a yacht and a Rolls Royce

[kiss-my-freckle]

– Mikaelson Mansion – Millennial Children –

Klaus: Hi Rebekah! So I hear you went after my Werepire Blood Supply last night! And I also hear that you’d like to spend the next century with a magic dagger in your heart!

Kol: Really? You plan on daggering someone? Because I have six cans of whoop-ass that says the only one sticking anything into Rebekah tonight is Damon Salvatore.

Esther: Yeah, if we can all stop with the “thousand year old child” routine? That would be sweet.

Klaus: But mooooooooooom, she almost broke my tooooooooy.

Esther: Yeah, and you rammed magic metal into their chests and carted them around in boxes for a few centuries. No one’s perfect here, so let’s forgive and forget. Now! Who are you bringing to the ball?

Klaus: Mooooooom! Girls are icky! They have cooties! Blushes.

– The Gilbert House – Invitation to the Trap Party –

Stefan Salvatore: So, who wants to throw Elena to the lions?

Elena Gilbert: Oh, me! I do! I do!

Damon Salvatore: …I’ll get my tux. Idiots.

– Chateau Forbes – Say It To Her Face –

Tyler Lockwood (via voicemail): Hi Caroline! Sorry your father is dead, and that I’m at least partially responsible. Anyway, I thought you’d like to know that I’ve decided his advice was a steaming pile of crap, so I’m going to go out into the woods and fix myself, then come back and hump you like the mailman’s leg. -xoxo Tyler

Klaus (via note): Hi Caroline! Fancy a shag? Then throw on this fancy dress! See you at seven! -xoxo Klaus (who’s way better than Tyler, by the way)

Neville the Devilcorgipire: This episode suffers from a distinct lack of werewolves!

– Mystic Grill – Lesbian Bodyguards and Lost Boyfriends –

Elena Gilbert: Hi Caroline! Esther wants to see me for no nefarious purpose whatsoever! Wanna be my bodyguard?

Caroline Forbes: Well, as much as I think we’d make an awesome lesbian couple, I think you should take a Salvatore! And as much as I know Stefan has harassed you, threatened you, and endangered you in the last couple of months, I still think he’s better for you than Damon!

Rebekah: Hi girls! You both dated Matt at one time, right?

Elena Gilbert and Caroline Forbes: Uh huh…

Rebekah: Great! Hi Matt! I have boobies! Wanna come to the dance with me! I promise not to kill you at all!

Matt Donovan: 😀

Elena Gilbert and Caroline Forbes: D-:

– Mikaelson Mansion – Perfect Planning Powers Activate –

The Lady of the Manor: Look! They imported classy people!

Damon Salvatore: Hi Carol! So tell me, how does Klaus’ butt taste? You know, since you spend so much time kissing it.

Carol Lockwood: It tastes a lot better than my own blood, which is what I’d be choking on if I actually grew a spine and stood up to them!

Kol: Hi Damon! You’re totally unimportant!

Elena Gilbert: Hi guys! Despite all common sense I decided to show up at Murder Mansion for the Genocide Gala! Would you boys care to bookend me?

Damon Salvatore and Stefan Salvatore: I get to be on top.

Damon Salvatore and Stefan Salvatore: …

Damon Salvatore and Stefan Salvatore: Dammit.

lmfao!! 3x14 is hilarious, yet tragic. Stefan is prolonging the inevitable. Thing is... he doesn't allow anyone to know what he knows, but he remembers everything by that episode. Like Elena, who remembers everything before focusing on her hate. Stefan remembers every Delena moment from the very beginning.

I agree, Klaus is better than Tyler even on his worst day. I didn't like Tyler as a character. He felt more like a plot device. Well.... we need a werewolf to bite someone, so...

[nerdygaymormon]

The Pride Month We Know & Love

In 1969, the Stonewall Riots occurred. This is considered the beginning of the modern queer rights movement. At the time, it was called the gay rights movement and the word gay, while meaning homosexual, also was an umbrella term that included all of what we now call the queer community.

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On November 2, 1969, a group of people proposed the first gay parade be held in New York City, both to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots and to be an annual reminder that we are in a struggle for fundamental human rights. They called on homophile organizations throughout the country to hold demonstrations the same day to show nationwide support. 

On June 28, 1970, the Christopher Street Liberation Day marked the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots with a march. Christopher Street is the road in front of the Stonewall Inn and the road participants marched down. The New York Times reported (on the front page) that the marchers took up the entire street for 15 city blocks. Marches were also held in Chicago & Los Angeles while San Francisco held a “gay-in.”

In 1971, marches took place in Boston, Dallas, Milwaukee, London, Paris, West Berlin, and Stockholm.

By 1972 the participating cities included Atlanta, Brighton, Buffalo, Detroit, Washington D.C., Miami, and Philadelphia, as well as San Francisco.

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The first marches were both serious and fun and served to inspire the widening activist movement. There was a dramatic increase in the number of people organizing for queer rights. In 1969, there were 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. In 1970 that increased to at least 1500. In 1972 it was 2500.

Prior to 1969, the organizations called themselves the homophile movement. They focused on showing that gay people are respectable and politely asked for discriminatory policies to be removed. Their marches had dress requirements, age limits as to who could participate, and even the signs held had to be pre-approved.

The Stonewall riots with images of gays retaliating against police changed things and inspired new activists. They considered the movement an uprising and renamed it the gay liberation movement. We are gonna be who we are and live as we want, respectability be damned. Parades and festivals were to specifically to not have dress requirements or age limits. 

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In Nazi Germany, gay men were prisoners in the concentration camps and their clothes had inverted pink triangles sewn on them to mark them as homosexual men (this also included bisexual men and trans women). This pink triangle was extra large so they could be easily identified from a distance. 

After the concentration camps were shut down at the end of World War II and prisoners freed, the gay survivors were not released but locked up in prison. Homosexuality was illegal in Germany. West Germany continued to imprison them until 1994!

In 1973, Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin, a German gay liberation group, called for gay men to wear the pink triangle as a memorial to past victims and to protest continuing discrimination. This pink triangle became a symbol of the gay rights movement and many displayed it proudly, but the symbol couldn’t shake its association with the horrors of the Nazis. 

Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S., urged artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, to create a new inspiring symbol for the gay community to replace the Nazi symbol. 

It’s thought that Baker was at least partially inspired by the Judy Garland song "Over the Rainbow" (Garland being among the first gay icons). He also liked the idea of a flag, as that is a way of being visible. The rainbow flag was unveiled at the 1978 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade. After the parade, hot pink was removed from new flags due to fabric unavailability. The murder of Harvey Milk in November 1978 led to a surge of requests for the Rainbow flag, which led to it being adopted by people around the country.

For the 1979 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade, the organizers reduced the number of colors from 7 to 6 so that they could divide it in half and have 3 colors decorating one side of the street, and the other three colors on the other side. This 6-colored rainbow flag became the standard and quickly replaced pink triangles.

In 2003, a mile-long version of the rainbow flag was made by Baker for the 35th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, this recognized the rainbow flag as THE international symbol for LGBTQ pride, it can be seen all around the world.

On June 26, 2015, the White House was illuminated in the rainbow flag colors to mark the legalization of same-sex marriages across the country.

In June 2017, the city of Philadelphia adopted a revised version of the flag that adds black and brown stripes to the top of the standard six-colors to draw attention to issues of people of color within the LGBTQ community.

In June 2018 designer Daniel Quasar released a redesign incorporating elements from both the Philadelphia flag and trans pride flag to bring focus on inclusion and progress within the community.

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But when did it go from Gay Liberation to Pride? 

Meetings to organize the first march in New York City began in early January 1970. Brenda Howard, a bisexual activist, is known as the "Mother of Pride" for her work in coordinating the march. She also originated the idea for a week-long series of events around the march.

She wanted to create a number of events to bring in people from out of town and wanted to unite the events under a label. The first idea was 'Gay Power,’ however gay activist L. Craig Schoonmaker didn’t like that suggestion. He explained, “There's very little chance for [gay] people in the world to have power...But anyone can have pride in themselves, and that would make them happier as people, and produce the movement likely to produce change."

Brenda Howard, L. Craig Schoonmaker and bisexual activist Robert A. Martin (aka Donny the Punk) are credited with popularizing the word "Pride" to describe the festivities in New York.

As the 1980s approached, there was a cultural shift in the gay movement. Just as the elections of Ronald Reagan & Margaret Thatcher indicated a conservative shift in their countries, activists of a less radical, more conservative nature began taking over the march committees in different cities. They dropped "Gay Liberation" and "Gay Freedom" from the names, replacing them with Schoomaker’s idea of "Gay Pride." This also coincided with the replacement of the more radical pink triangles for the more positive rainbow flags.

The word "pride" was embraced as it defies the bigotry and hatred against the LGBTQIA+ community. It also teaches people they should be proud of themselves rather than feel shame. Replacing shame with pride helps people to come out and to be more assertive about who they are and that they deserve the same rights as others. 

In 1999, President Bill Clinton issued a proclamation declaring that the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies would "celebrate the anniversary of Stonewall every June in America as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month." President Barack Obama issued a proclamation in 2009 declaring June LGBTQIA+ Pride Month. 

This is how we got Pride Month!

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Part of the original ideas of parades was to bring queer people and queer culture into what was considered heteronormative spaces. Queer lives were seen as dissident and radical. 

Today Pride events have taken on a festive character and it’s fun to join hundreds or thousands of other queer people. 

Pride events still have some of the original political or activist character. Most offer some aspect dedicated to remembering victims of AIDS and anti-LGBT violence. Booths are often on hand with people collecting signatures in support of constitutional amendments or petitions for laws & policies to change.

Large parades often involve floats, dancers, drag queens and amplified music, and they usually include political and educational contingents, such as local politicians, and groups from LGBT institutions of various kinds, such as PFLAG. Other typical parade participants include local LGBT-friendly churches and LGBT-employee associations from large corporations. 

The Stonewall riots, as well as the immediate and the ongoing political organizing that occurred following them, were fully participated in by lesbians, bisexuals, transgender people, and gays, from all races and backgrounds. Pride festivals and parades continue to be inclusive spaces. 

Historically these events were first named Gay, the word at that time being used to cover the entire spectrum of what is now called the queer. Today these festivals & parades are often called Pride.

[autistic-stedebonnet]

oh my god why do i dress like season 1 gilbert.

gonna rewatch some anne with an e tonight, will probably fall into an obsession again because that is simply what i do

[sroloc--elbisivni]

GUESS WHAT MOTHERFUCKERS I WROTE THE ESSAY

the thesis is slightly different, and i talk a lot about camp and also a jj cohen essay about monster culture (summarized here) but it’s still 2000 words plus references devoted to explaining why, exactly, i watched the castlevania video and immediately went ‘this is the queer content we deserve’

under the cut or google doc here

“I Do Think We Need A Sexy Skeleton”: Camp, Counterculture, and Queer Monstrosity in Polygon’s Castlevania Unraveled video

         According to the Global Market Report of game analytics website Newzoo, the video game industry totaled nearly $138 billion in revenue from game sales alone in 2018. This number doesn’t begin to account for the secondary industries, like merchandise, statistical aggregation sites, or journalism, all fueled by their connection to the obscenely large audience of people who play video games. While these secondary industries may tap existing audiences, they are part of a field large enough to demand unique approaches to reach success. In the case of Polygon, an online magazine with origins in gaming journalism, notable content tends toward long-form articles and entertainment videos (Pearson). Said entertainment ranges from editorial staff playing board games to a man “put in a suit and locked in a room,” in the case of Brian David Gilbert’s Unraveled YouTube series (“I read all…”).

The subheading of the series advertises it as “Absurdly Comprehensive Video Game Lore,” and, as of April 2019, it contains 11 videos, each averaging 15 minutes long, on subjects ranging from every book in Skyrim to Super Smash Brothers Ultimate’s many OSHA violations to a ranking of Castlevania’s hottest monsters. This last proved the most interesting to me. Not only have queer love and eroticisms historically been connected to the monstrous (see the various lesbian interests in and adaptations of Carmilla), but Gilbert’s analysis hardly matches what might be considered the “normal” approach to sexually attractive monsters. His presentation style itself can be considered queer, acting as a textbook example of camp. J. J. Cohen, in his essay “Monster Culture (Seven Theses) makes the argument that cultures may be understood through their monsters. I propose an addendum to this argument: a counter-culture, particularly one as built on appearance and theatricality as Esther Newton’s definition of queer camp, may be understood by its response to the monsters of the mainstream.

         Before I can argue for “I wasted 3 weeks of my life finding Castlevania’s hottest monster” as an enactment of the relations of a counterculture to the mainstream, I would like to solidify the video’s connection to the counterculture in question. When arguing for the queerness of a mainstream text—even a mainstream text as niche as a popular YouTube video—one must take into account the nebulous nature of queerness. Even those who openly identify as queer can and have been considered in ways that ignore or erase their queerness. This is what makes Esther Newton’s definition of camp so very useful; she relates an anecdote from one of her sources regarding the “campiest thing he had seen recently” involving a football player who had worn a dress to a Halloween ball with no intent to camp (106). Gilbert’s own queer status is, true to form, nebulous in the video itself—although he does define the “type” he is attracted to as male (2:25) and displays a familiarity with queer slang, describing one creature as coming “in two forms, twink and twunk” (5:45). However, this does not preclude a camp analysis. Newton makes it clear that camp is in the eye of the beholder, and locates identifying characteristics in the act, not the performer.

         Newton identifies the three primary recurrent themes of camp, whether in sustained performance or brief interaction, as incongruity, theatricality, and humor (206). She marks the “moral deviation” of sexual object choice as the link between incongruity, homosexuality, and camp (207). The sexual object choice in that case involves two men or two women, but a similar incongruity is made a locus of the video by assuming a human attraction to monsters, regardless of gender. Incongruity is also evoked by the editing and presentation style of the video, as much as by the subject matter. The video begins with Gilbert claiming his intention to recite the full bestiary of the game’s enemies, and then abruptly cuts off partway through the title presentation as he explains how his efforts were frustrated by the sheer number of enemies. After relating his struggles (and admitting “That has nothing to do with the video, I just wanted you to know my pain” (0:46)) he declares his intent to only do the sexy monsters and presents the actual title screen of the video with a theatrical parody of the introduction of The Bachelor. Disjointed moments and phrases crop up throughout the rest of the video, from having his head animated to fly off his neck in emulation of a chon chon to inserting a title creator mini-game by physically kicking the current footage out of frame to randomly calling for revolt and the return of the guillotine. This is all without taking into account the juxtaposition at the heart of the Unraveled series, which is that of a man in a very professional suit spending a great deal of time and effort explaining absolutely ridiculous things.

         The suit is, of course, also part of the theatricality of the production, which Newton identifies as a further element of camp. Everything about the setup and performer is meant to be theatrical—the tailored suit and flowery ascot, the black studio background, the exaggerated motions and facial gestures, the production Gilbert makes of throwing himself into the ocean at the conclusion. The video is designed to be as entertaining as possible, to make sure that even those people with no interest in the game under analysis will potentially become an audience. Camp, as entertainment, must have an audience. Newton highlights the importance of camp in the performer’s interactions with the audience, or simply in conversations as part of everyday life. The video medium complicates the situation because the audience is not immediately visible, but the cameramen serve as a stand-in for audience interactions. One exchange, at 3:40, has Gilbert calling out to the cameramen for feedback in the form of a “WOOP,” only to joke that “We’ll work on it” when one of the cameramen gives a lackluster response.

         The humor of the video is as inherent as its theatricality, for much the same reasons and if I listed everything intended to be funny, I would never get to the second point of this paper. I would like to instead highlight a particularly campy comeback, and the tradition of humor as a weapon, in Gilbert’s exchange with cameraman Patrick regarding the Tsuchinoko between 10:44 and 10:59 where Patrick disagrees with the choice to rate the cryptid so highly. As the editor, Gilbert could have removed this exchange from the video to remain unchallenged, but he includes Patrick’s doubts as well as his own firm dismissal of them. This fits neatly into Newton’s analysis that “a camp role depends…on verbal agility.” By beginning the video listing his woes in production, Gilbert also exemplifies what Newton calls “a system of laughing at one’s incongruous position instead of crying” (109). 

         While the word ‘camp’ is not mentioned once in the video, the editing, performance, and writing are undeniably camp, and therefore, an example of queer culture. ‘Counterculture’ as a term has been in use since at least the surge of anti-authority movements of the 50’s and has applied to various groups going against the grain of mainstream society. Queer culture has been considered as a counterculture by many writers, and Julia Bryan-Wilson specifically links drag and camp to counterculture in her chapter “Handmade Genders” when discussing costuming in 1970’s San Francisco (79). While Bryan-Wilson was interested in the handcrafting movement of the drag costume scene, I find it interesting how Gilbert’s campy video takes an approach that readily contradicts several of J.J. Cohen’s assertions of “Monster Culture.” The greatest reason for the disparity would be, of course, that Gilbert is not creating the monsters of a unique camp culture, but merely reacting to the creatures asserted as monstrous by a mainstream video game. We can more thoroughly explicate the queerness of this video, and the nature of queer camp as a counterculture, by charting the contrast between the video’s assertions and Cohen’s cultural lens.

The most obvious contrast is that, for a video whose title claims an interest in sex appeal, Gilbert makes it clear that his ranking of the monsters is only partly dependent on physical attractiveness (4:00). He prioritizes the appeal of “dateability,” what he defines as the ability “to have a conversation with this monster, can you take it to Applebees” (3:55). This attitude is hardly in line with what J.J. Cohen lists in his fifth thesis of “Monster Culture,” where he insists the monster is attractive to mainstream society because it “embodies those sexual practices that…may be committed only through the body of the monster” (14). Cohen’s sixth thesis, that repulsion is linked to attraction and that the appeals of monstrous romances are the ‘pleasures of the body,’ doesn’t explain Gilbert rating the Nominon low on the sexiness scale for being “not a very supportive partner” (Cohen, 17; Gilbert, 4:35).

Cohen’s fourth thesis is that “The Monster Dwells at the Gates of Difference,” and he illustrates this with historical examples of cultural differences converted to a mythology of freakishness (7). This leaves no room to explain what would lead to an embrace of the monstrous figure, or what might prompt an overcoming of cultural differences, other than pure sexual attraction. Cohen believes the process of monster-making is performed to make cultural divisions insurmountable, transforming the Other into total aberration.  But Gilbert elevates the Mandrake, by insisting that it “kind of gives you a blank slate,” that despite origins in the ground where hanged men bleed the mandrakes are hardly at fault (14:12). He follows by rambling about “the metaphors of how our family raises us” that rings in a tone similar to various coming-out stories and goes on to claim that the mandrake is “a perfect idea” of rising above one’s place of creation (14:28). While this best exemplifies a cultural understanding that seems unimaginable to Cohen’s monsters, the entire video is full of moments where Gilbert acknowledges a monstrous origin and finds something appealing to embrace. Like in the case of Keremet, the goop creature that comes out of a pot, which Gilbert declares has “a good face” he could talk to for hours (10:00).

There are, of course, many incidents where Gilbert expresses a purely sexual or physical attraction to the various monsters—notably the Jersey Devil (8:29) and Duke Mirage (11:57)—but they remain only singular aspects of a remarkably nuanced whole. It is difficult to argue that simply expressing an attraction to monsters is counterculture, especially after the massive commercial success of the Twilight series, and yet various aspects of Gilbert’s video break the mold.  Perhaps the most interesting creative decision is to entirely eliminate vampires for having already been portrayed as sexy monsters. This decision made the video an explicit rejection of mainstream straight vampire romance, which began to grow as a genre after the popularity of the Twilight and Sookie Stackhouse series in the 2000’s (Bailie, 141). Gilbert’s attitude of embracing the monstrous expresses a tacit rejection of the same genre—Helen T. Bailie outlines the tropes of the vampire novel, particularly the virtuous maiden saving the vampire hero from his evil nature, in a way that matches Cohen’s claim that threatening aspects of a monster must be neutralized (Bailie, 144; Cohen, 18). Gilbert, on the other hand, not only highlights the spooky aspects of the Banshee, but extolls them (9:11).

Both the content and execution of Gilbert’s video are queer, providing a queered perspective on creatures positioned as enemies not only by folklore, but by the nature of the game itself. In this one presentation, Gilbert expands the queer community’s modern tradition of embracing cryptids—perhaps one spurred by decades of queer-coding villains and monsters (Brammer, Martinez). The video itself exemplifies many aspects of queer attraction and queer camp as counterculture by collecting them in a fashion that contradicts mainstream texts, and the resulting video, artist orientation aside, is undeniably queer. As such, it presents us with a vision of a counterculture that notices appearance but prefers to prioritize personality and compatibility, that does not take society’s word on what is or is not unredeemable, and that seeks and values inherent good qualities instead of focusing on the bad—all traits that, once again, are very, very, queer.

(I made this unavailable for a couple years when publishing it was a viable option; I’ve since veered fields enough it wouldn’t do me much good to send out, so I’m putting it back where it can be enjoyed)

[clairebeauchampfan]

Anne with an ‘E’: a personal review

I loved this book as a child (well, as a teenager....I discovered it very late into my teens). I loved the Kim Braden BBC TV version too, which was very faithful to the book, if memory serves me right. So it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I began watching the CBC/Netflix version produced by Moira Walley-Beckett and staring Amybeth McNulty as Anne, because I knew it had taken liberties with the Book and injected a lot of late 20th and 21st Century ‘woke’ issues, into what I remembered as an innocent, sweet book about an odd little white orphan girl adopted by an elderly spinster and her brother, growing up in a late 19th century all-white farming community. in Canada’s smallest province, Prince Edward Island.

Would revisionist Anne of Green Gables therefore be a Afro-Canadian  or First Nations (that’s Red Indian to you, if you are still asleep) girl with a physical disability,  adding to her already disadvantaged status as the abandonned waif reluctantly adopted in place of the boy that Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had asked for?  Would Anne and Diana, her bosom pal, discover the delights of teen lesbian sex? Would we be treated to Anne indulging in a bit of onanism, or giving Gilbert a hand-job, or worse, and Marilla and Matthew ejoying incestuous relations  (see ‘Sanditon’ for more of this kind of revisionist and grindingly ‘woke’ television)? 

Fortunately for lovers of Anne of Green Gables, the wildest excesses of ‘woke’TV were avoided. We DID have one of the schoolboys, Cole the pretty, artistic type( spot the cliche!), 

being bullied by the sporting jock Billy Andrews and his gang of brainless acolytes (more cliches), before finding shelter and a release for his artistic talent at the home of Diana’s  Aunt Josephine, who in this series is a Sapphic and hosts amazingly decadent parties for her gay and arty friends ( I had no idea PEI was so advanced in the late 19th Century: gay central and great fun!). We had the minor character of the French boy Jerry Baynard (Buote in the book?) become a major character, in love with Diana but spurned because ...well, he’s French, and of course the English people are baaaad (all the wealthiest people are English English with cut glass accents with which to cut people dead, the snaaabs). 

And, we are introduced to Sebatsian (’Bash’) a Trinidadian friend of Gilbert, who starts his own Afro-Caribbean family , also outsiders in Avonlea and struggling with racism and former slave cultural cringe whilst setting his hand to farming.

 Plus, lest we forget, we have the horrific tale of Ka’kwet, the Mi’kmaq friend of Anne whyo is forcibly sent to a government boarding school to have the Indianness beaten out of her. 

 Naturally the perpetrators are Catholic nuns (hiss, boo!), whilst the character in the book who Anne describes as her kindred spirit, Rev. Allen, is of course here a bigotted clergyman leading the group of reactionary old white men (hiss!) who endeavour to get beautiful, trouser wearing, motor-bike riding feminist teacher Miss Stacy fired, and burn down the school for good measure. (Yah boo and double hiss! )

So much for the wokeness. Which is what  we old snaaabs who like traditional opera and theatre performances find infuriating, where for example  the director strives desparately to make things relevant by dressing Puritan-era soldiers in Nazi uniforms (see! fascist parallels! Boo, hiss!) , or having the cringingly ‘woke’ Shakespeare you can see these days at London’s Sam Wanamaker theatre, with HenryV played as a transexual-of-colour. just in case you needed to be woken from your slumber with right-on wokeness beaten into your brain with a mallet. Ah, it’s such fun to ‘epater les bourgeois’ and signal your virtue at the same time. 

But in this version of Anne’s story I’m  glad to say that although forced and didactic at times  the new characters and novel situations,  were extremely well acted and put together, ( notably Bash and his tragic wife Mary) whilst for the most part fans of the original book will be very, very happy. 

All the leading roles, especially Matthew (RH Thomson) and Marilla (Geraldine James).  (spoiler alert: Matthew doesn’t die in the only three seasons allowed us by those buffoons in Netflix), were well played. 

Fascinating, character revealing  back-stories were put into the basic story. I loved the evocation of 1880′s Prince Edward Island (I can’t wait to go there),  and what is was to be  school-children in a one-room school-house. I liked Rachel Lynde’s feisty character and her love for her bumbling husband. And I’m always fond of dear old dutiful Diana,

 and earnest Gilbert Blythe. 

But the crown should go to AmyBeth McNulty for her sparkling performance as Anne, struggling with her insecurity, her awkwardness, her gaucheness,  her worldly knowledge of how cruel the world can be, and her determination to do something about it,  all among the perils of growing up from innocent child  (the first period episode is priceless) to barely adult college student.  Anne.   With an E. I think you’ll love it

#anne with an ‘e’# anne of green gables  #anne cancelled after only three seasons

[hypothetical-menace]

he cares about dressing himself and is a genuinely good person. But hes also a feral goblin man and i just love that.

Me: well i thought i was bi but im kind of just not interested in men, guess im a lesbian now

Polygon dot com’s recently hired employee, Brian David Gilbert: wags finger like an instagram makeup artist

[cinnamon-toast-cronch]

comprehensive list of characters that truly encapsulate how I experience womanhood

kissin kate barlow

dani midsommar

anyone sophia lillis has ever played or ever will play

that girl from ready or not when she sat at the bottom of the steps covered in blood with her ripped wedding dress and converse while the house burned to the ground behind her

any of the march sisters, but specifically jo and amy

eleven stranger things, but like especially when she just screams in rage and also that entire episode where she just runs around the mall wreaking havoc

hailee steinfeld in the edge of seventeen when after she completely loses her shit in front of her history teacher and has to go calm down with a frozen yogurt

juno macguff every second that she didnt have to pretend to be sexually attracted to michael cera, but specifically when she shakes around her hamburger phone and drags an entire living room set across several blocks after drinking like 6 jugs of sunny d

max caulfield but when she says really dumb shit like "are you cereal" and kisses her childhood best friend on a dare

amy from booksmart

any female aligned character from the extended moomin universe. like any time little my is being a little freak, and tooticky ice fishing I fucking love her

wonder woman but like specifically when she broke a machine gun with her shield, screaming in fury

anything any of the women in birds of prey do. like I swear to god, every fucking second of it.

when anne shirley loses her fucking shit and smashes a chalkboard over gilberts head

when kate messner's under the black lights after she kisses luke and shes got like smeared neon makeup on her face and luke is in awe of her and shes just like "I think I'm a lesbian"

that one part in the breakfast club where allison dumps a bunch of captain crunch on her sandwich

brie larson in unicorn store

when jessica day is in the bathroom with a pair of safety scissors and nick walks in and shes like "just cuttin off my underwear! girl stuufff...!"

when rue bennett embarrasses herself in front of her crush and shes like squinting into the sun and gripping the handlebars of her bike and her internal monologue sighs and says "I'm such a loser"

when the 13th doctor is sitting criss cross on the floor making daisy chains w dandelions in her hair and shes like "I never did this when I was a man!! :D"

basically all of the women in terminator dark fate

when saorsie ronan just throws herself out of the fucking car in ladybird

everything the ladies in ghostbusters (2016) did

[seawolvesanddragons]

AWAE S3E4

Please, please let something happy happen this time. 

Spoilers Below! 

-Oh man, all those openings had me. Listening to Ms Stacy talk about what a cherished relationship she had with her husband, Gilbert and Bash just trying to make it through the morning, and then the whole Ka’kwet goodbye scene, I CAN’T 

-Imma be real for a moment Bash is exactly how I felt when I lost someone and seeing it was something I wasn’t prepared for. 

-I hope Rachel later finds out just what goes on in those schools and actually starts to repent her constant interference and judgement. Same with her storyline with Ms Stacy. 

-Anne gave her the dress and has been visiting Ka’Kwet! That’s so wonderful and I’m not ready for the truth to hit these two pure wonderful girls. 

-Is Anne not grounded anymore? Oh nope she definetly is if she’s that worried about Rachel seeing her lol. 

-Oh these poor awkward school boys. I feel for you Moody and Charlie, talking to smart, pretty, amazing girls is scary. Also, Moody can play the guitar?

-YES DIANA 

-Oh no no no not the fight between Anne and Marilla again no no no no no 

-Not gonna lie I thought this was going to be Jerry comforting Anne and I was HERE for some sibling bonding but I’ll settle for his look of total concern and then the scene with Matthew. We need more Jerry and Anne interaction this season though. 

-Matthew’s face when Anne said she would LEAVE AND NEVER COME BACK ANNE DON’T SAY THAT TO DEAR SWEET MATTHEW 

-Matthew is DONE and also 100 percent right Anne deserves all the happiness 

-to those on the train: fuck yall. And Anne, knowing a simple gesture can be enough? Our girl is growing up so well guys.

-Jerry I know you’re excited for Anne but her finding her birth family is NOT what Marilla wants 

-Everything about the bog was painful and also fuck Elijah “I guess that’s that then.” 

-Cole is wonderful and I hope we still see more of him this season. “Not with those braids, Aunt Jo?” 

-I know a lot of people are upset about Winifred but seriously Gilbert is hurting and yall are gonna deny him a person who has been kind and supportive to him? We literally know our ship is endgame, let these kids live. 

-YES DIANA 

-ANNE LOOKED SO GROWN UP!!!! that whole scene was just beautiful; I’m glad she found her closure 

-Wait is this Jerry’s family? 

-YESSSSSS DIANAAAA

-Ka’kwet is being so fucking brave and everything in this scene is sickening. She looked so desperate when she spotted Anne out the window 

-I’ll admit it I went from “eh Jerry and Diana are cute but I kind of want single lesbian Diana more” to full out shipping it cause this was so damn CUTE. And we still get at least one more scene with them where he’s walking with her. 

-We all know Jerry’s brothers just teased him mercilessly after this right? His sisters all ship it. 

-MARILLA AND ANNE MADE UP MARILLA AND ANNE MADE UP MARILLA AND ANNE MADE UP MARILLA AND ANNE MADE UP 

-”I love you forever and a day” wow the tears 

-Look I got so swept up in Anne’s adventure and Diana and Marilla that i forgot we still had a funeral and I was NOT PREPARED 

-But also look how many people came from Avonlea alone, I liked that 

-This is not the last we will see of Elijah, and I hope for Mary’s sake he turns around 

-Bash and the Minister and the story of Mary was wonderful; “and young Mary she was not having it!” Mary was just such a great character. 

-What are the three for Nova Scotia? 

-All in all, this episode was not all light and sunshine, but of course it wasn’t with Mary having just died. But I’m glad Anne got her closure, that she and Marilla made up and their bond is even stronger now, and that Diana is TAKING CHARGE OF HER LIFE YES GIRL