#I like queer joy

[respectthepetty]

I FOLLOW THE TRASHY PATH BECAUSE I TOO HAVE TRASH TASTE PETTY but even though on every level except physical I am a radioactive possum swimming through the hazardous waste dumpster that is life, living in hardcore ignorance doesn’t sound half bad actually. I skipped right to Close to You after Trapped and that was definitely the move I loved Close to You so so so much. BLISSFUL IGNORANCE IT IS

Anon, I want to watch Absolute Zero, but I'm very afraid of how it will pan out, and Only Friends and I Feel You Linger in the Air are already staring at me each week ready to beat me up outside with bottles of Oishi green tea, so I completely understand skipping out on even the slightest hint of a painful experience. However, I'm completion-ist. Therefore, even if I see the pain coming, I must finish the series once I begin it.

I was very quiet watching Eternal Yesterday, Something in My Room, and Kissable Lips last year because I could feel the pain coming, yet I still finished them.

This is why I like trash.

Even if there is pain, at least it'll be a fun ride. HIStory 5: Love in the Future had the possibility of the leads being split up due to time traveling reasons, but there was a tiny man with UFOs on his suit who was trying to kill one of the second pair's guys by locking him in a freezer, and I secretly lived for it.

We all know Yi and Diao are going to end up together in Naughty Babe, but I'm loving this adventure so much more than Cutie Pie all because of a terrible CGI tiger.

I've watched and forgotten more tragic queer content than most people have even heard of, so when I sit down to enjoy my international BLs, I want pendejos. I want dramatics. I want trash.

AND NO PAIN!

I know sad stuff is some people's jam and butter. No hate and no shade. To each their own. Which is why I'm thrilled to exist in this era of BL riches. There is something for everyone, and there is plenty of happy trashy shows for me to enjoy weekly.

. . .

But know that if y'all could see my face sometimes watching this sad stuff, I'd look like Chadwick Boseman did at the 2019 Oscars when Green Book beat Black Panther for Best Picture because I think writers feel offering up queer trauma somehow legitimatizes their work in a way they believe queer joy doesn't because mainstream media has taught us we must detail the ways in which societal norms have harmed us in order to be accepted by the people who continue to uphold those norms.

But anywho,

I like trash.

[stil-lindigo]

warmth.

a comic about not being alone.

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[ridibulous]

Hey. Hey. You. Person with breasts who's considering mastectomy and feeling anxious that they'll regret it after. Consider the following:

- No longer having to accomodate your chest when wearing clothes

- Being able to publicly go topless (ex. for swimming)

- Don't have to worry about bras and other supports

- Back pain from a large chest? Who's that?

- Laying on your stomach just got easier

- Less worry about potential breast cancer, especially if you may be at risk (if you are, talk to a doctor about it, prophylactic mastectomy is awesome and reduces the chance of cancer way more than FTM top surgery)

- You could get rid of your nipples, if you wanted

- And you could just get them tattooed on... or have a blank slate for whatever art you wanted instead

- Being able to move around (running, going up/down stairs, etc) without feeling any jiggle

- And if you wanted the appearance of breasts? You can wear fake boobs as long as you want, and be able to take them on & off whenever you want. And they can be any size, too. It's a much safer option, as opposed to binding.

If you really want it, why are you hesitating? Be happier built in your own image, instead of the one other people want to paint on you.

[the-geeky-fangirl]

yes i know heartstopper is "cringe" and yes I know you think it's not that deep but you've endured years of cringe oversexualized shows about high schoolers where the gays are delegated to sub plots I'm sure a few hours of queer people being safe and happy and loved won't kill you so please shut the fuck up

[angel-armed]

Trigun Stampede director Kenji Muto is the man ever, thank you for my life popping bottles for Nonbinary Vash Canon

[stargirl230]

I’m so late to this but i started watching ofmd and jim has stolen my whole heart 🍊

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

[itty-bitty-sunshine]

"You said you love me exactly the way I am"

[schwoobzilla]

i got him in my sights, sir. taking the shot.

*transgenderfication beam powers up*

[tippenfunkaport]

That viral post that's going around about how people who write "book quality" mlm fic are too "normal" to publish and have real jobs so only "weird" people publish their "shitty" fanfic is so completely out of touch with reality and I am giving a massive side eye to everyone reblogging it.

Not only is it completely, easily verifiably untrue (you cannot enter any professional writing space without tripping over a dozen grizzled scifi writers who got their start by filing off the serial numbers and publishing their Star Trek fanfic even going back decades ago??? it's a whole thing?? plus how can you look at the mlm category on Amazon right now and say with a straight face that people aren't publishing shitty Spirk and Stucky fanfic??? Oh, honey...) it's also the perfect example of this kind of sneering elitism that true artists would never sully themselves by seeking profit, they do it only for the purity of the thing that always somehow leads back to, "no one should be paid to make art, actually."

The only reason you're seeing more published fanfic right now has nothing to do with the idealistic purity of your hypothetical government employee written smut of the past vs the debased scribbles of those awful straights of today and everything to do with the fact that a) self-publishing has created a voracious readership that wants a ton of content so it's become a viable, flexible income stream for many, especially disabled people b) anyone can publish now with self-publishing tools so there are less gatekeepers and c) lockdown got a lot of people into fandom and therefore writing who never tried it before.

And if you really think there's no "shitty" published mlm and no "book-quality" m/f writing out there that started as fanfic, then you are clearly not a reader so why are you even talking about this?

[anoddrock]

Reminder: romantic love is not inherently greater than platonic love.

I always see it phrased the other way around, saying platonic love isn’t less valuable. That irks me a bit.

Believe me, both are amazing. But I Definitely feel platonic love more strongly than romantic love. If the romantic love isn’t an addon to preexisting platonic love, then personally I just don’t get it.

Because I am deeply in love with some of my friends. I forget it sometimes, and then I hang out with them and it’s just. Joy. Giddy. I’m me again. But it’s truly platonic! It’s not ‘Just Platonic’ - that’s undermining!! I legitimately feel this love to my core! It’s in my heart and soul and bones! But it just…isn’t romantic. To me, it’s much bigger, because romance is bonus content, not a standalone.

Romance fills out spaces that you didn’t know were there. It’s like having dessert. It’s connecting dots you might not have otherwise connected, but that aren’t essential to the story. It’s deciding to paint your nails this week instead of just trimming them.

I want to spend my life with the people I love, but romantic attraction isn’t its own book in my library of feelings. Romantic attraction is taking a well-worn copy of one of your favorite books, and filling it with annotations and sticky notes, double underlines and exclamation points. But the book itself isn’t romantic attraction, it’s the friendship that you have, familiar and well worn and deeply, deeply loved.

I couldn’t annotate a book I didn’t have. But I have a vast library around me full of books, and maybe I’ve tried annotating one or two, but as of right now, there’s only one book that’s felt right to have properly annotated.

But even if I’ve only annotated this one book, that doesn’t mean I’ll stop reading the others. No, I couldn’t ever stop reading. Sometimes there are new books that I end up not keeping, but there will always be a shelf of books that I could reread endlessly. The fact that I don’t annotate them doesn’t mean I don’t love them, and that they haven’t impacted me to my core. It just means I didn’t annotate them.

[stil-lindigo]

bedside bouquet.

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[radioactive-earthshine]

NGL I have STRONG opinions about digital releases omitting the letters to the editor section of older comics. I feel like the letters are a part of comic history and should be aggressively preserved.

[mintjeru]

companionship and understanding happy pride from my beloveds!!

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[usertoxicyaoi]

"It's my first time laughing like this with a friend. This is ... kind of fun!"

SMELLS LIKE GREEN SPIRIT (2024). EPISODE TWO.

[psecho]

So, has the Bi Buck explosion completely fucked over anyone else's hyperfixation or is it just me?

I litteraly do not have enough content to satisfy my ADHD right now, no other fandom content gives me the good brain feel right now. All of my app games on my phone are useless. YouTube, TV and even rewatchin 911 doesn't work.

I just keep refreshing the AO3 Evan "Buck" Buckley tag and latching onto anything that fits the very specific need that my brain has as soon as it's posted and checking 911 spoiler/speculation accounts on TikTok.

I am litteraly going to go insane before Friday (when I can watch 911 in my time zone).

[visualtaehyun]

Okay i'm in my feels now!! I mean I Have Been the entire day, watching New's concert but-

I've been following NuNew and ZNN for almost two entire years now and I've seen them both grow as artists, people, and in their relationship with the fans and how much and what they choose to share with us. If you don't follow them at all or not much, this might not hit you the same way as it did me but let me try to explain.

P'Zee is the type of person who constantly seems on the verge of yelling out his feelings because he can't contain them. He's mostly the one who's slowly been spilling small details of their private relationship to fans and the public, almost soft launching, really.

I will never move on from the closing scene & last kiss scene in Cutie Pie because P'Zee suggested it himself, he really wanted a scene to publicly show affection and express love:

So today, when I heard him say he's been wanting to do this for a long time and I saw New get nervous, I immediately got the same brand of nervous that I always get when coming out to people. I don't know if it's just me who felt like this was momentous but here it is in full, translations by me below the clip:

Z: Well... one thing that I've been wanting to do for a long time.

NN: Hm?

Z: That [I've? we've?] never done anywhere before, that you said is giving encouragement and expressing love. I also think that's what it is.

NN: Do what?

Z: And I'm a person who has to ask first, like, [I] can't just go right in.

NN: ...

Z: 🫴 Can [I] (sniff) kiss [you]? *NN starts crying here 🥺* 🫂 Hm? Just now you said you wouldn't cry. [You] did so well! 🫂 Mh! 💋 [You] did so well! (×2) (keeps comforting and praising him softly) Why are you crying? Hm? Tissues-

NN: Crying again...

Z: Crying again.

NN: Why am [I] such a crybaby!

Z: [I] don't see it being a big deal. ... Isn't he talented, everyone?

🗣: He is!

Z: Please be his encouragement as I am as well! Today you did it. You did- in my opinion, you've achieved such a success. And you should be happy for yourself. [I] believe that everyone is super happy for you, as well.

NN: Thank you.

Z: This time I won't be stealing the tissues. (referring to day1 lol)

NN: 😸