#I’m Yaoifying them too

[sealamp666]

[crazylittlejester]

so I headcanon flora as a Tboy yea?? So when wild tells them he’s dating him he’s like

wild: guys, I’m dating flora..

the chain: but your gay wild???

wild: exactly!

(I yaoified them heheheh)

I love when people make one or both of em trans, i headcanon Flora as a trans girl, they’re t4t bisexuals to me, and I love your headcanon too 🫶

[nellynee]

Couple of thoughts on Creek since the episode “Put it Down” and the new game came out. 

Can I just take a moment to say that I’m really glad that Craig and Tweek’s relationship hasn’t become a mean joke? Because I’ve been really scared for a while after “Craig x Tweek” that it would.

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Like in the second to last scene of “Put it Down” when Tweek was going on and on about how he felt like he had no control over his life, I think his exact words were....

(Tweek) “I don’t know it’s- it’s like, maybe... maybe I have to find a way to feel a little in charge of me again.”

(Craig) “That sounds so insurmountable though, how would you even start?”

(Tweek) “I don’t know but, I-I gotta do something about this. There’s gotta be a way I can...”

You have no idea how terrified I was of that moment right there. I had to pause the show and come back because of genuine fear. Because there’s some key words in there. “Something to take control of me again.” that’s literally adult media shorthand for “I’m going to use sex with you that’s the thing that’s gonna give me some sense of self control” and that little pause, the gentle music, it was setting up the perfect punchline to cut to these poor ten year old boys violently making out at the BEST case scenario. That would have been the perfect South Park punchline.

Because South Park has absolutely gone there. “Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy” comes to mind (granted that was the definition of satire, and even taken to extreams it was treated real enough that lots of people get really uncomfortable thinking about that episode.) As does the prevalence of anal rape as humor, or jokes about Kenny having ALL the STDs. It’s just that, this could have gone horribly wrong.

But no, THANK GOD. I don’t know if Trey Parker and Matt Stone are bad at genuine emotion, or simply can’t help themselves in making the joke, or if they’ve tied their hands with the tone of the show, but you don’t get a lot of pure, simple, niceness in South Park, and that little “Thank you Craig” got to be that little bit we got, just, genuinely sweet and pure and untwisted to make a joke. 

South Park seems to finally be touching it’s old roots again with the children and their relationships to each other. South Park used to be good at that, back when the kids acted like kids. The joke was that these were kids, and the punchline was when the adult tone was suddenly ripped away to reveal a bunch of precocious children. 

And then these kids acting like adults stopped being a joke and started being the norm and things got uncomfortable. And I’m totally thanking the new games for this gradual shift back to the older tones. In the time since “Stick of Truth” came out South Park has been very preoccupied with time sensitive satire and it’s kinda overwhelmed the show, but incorporating the games in as canon has sort of forced the show to acknowledge that these are children. 

Children who are still of an age to get together with cardboard and cooking pans and play huge epics with their imagination, and now a lot of the more adult themes are being fostered on the actual adults of the show.

(I’d like to make a little sidenote here. There’s this huge gap in fandom I’m starting to see more between people who are like “OMG YES CREEK MY CHILD SELF IS VALIDATED”  and the one’s who are like “these are children stop shipping this ew” and on the second half... I see where you’re coming from, because I have a similar sort of fear, in that this show doesn’t exactly touch children’s sexuality (ew) with tweezers, and the fandom is no better. But I do want to note two things here. One, in that shipping doesn’t necessarily pertain to wanting a sexual relationship between characters. I wince a little in Craig x Tweek when Mr. Tweak leans in the doorway, sighs, and says “They’re so gay for each other” because... that’s me, I’ve done that. Not in real life, because shipping live people is just not ok in my opinion and I won’t get into that now, but.... Creek is the first positively shown potentially long term relationship we’ve had in South Park in potentially decades. Sometimes we want prepuberty softrock fluff. That really gross part of the fandom is not intrical to shipping, but I respect your preference to stay away. I ship Creek and I stay the fuck away too.

As for the show, why I’m making this side not in the first place, there was a joke in “Dude Mars Rules” that wouldn’t have been a joke if it wasn’t Cartman and I’m proud of the restraint. I’m talking of course of the first time Cartman saw a vagina. The joke is that it’s Cartman, in that he’s overreacting. But like, if it was anyone other than Cartman that exact scene could have been played completely straight as it was. 

I hate using the term children’s sexuality, because it’s fucking gross but I lack any other term, but it’s a thing that exists. There’s a certain age when everyone’s starting to dip the toes into puberty when everyone is just so fucking curious. I’m as close to Ace as Grey can get, but I have very distinct memories of experiencing the same thing, of other kids experiencing and talking about nothing but the same thing at that same age. Sitting across the room from each other with the lights off, “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours”, having nothing to do with attraction or sex or eroticism and everything to do with not understanding what’s gong on, wanting to know what’s different and what’s normal. Mine was in a bush in the back of a playground with another girl, which was probably a big sign back then, but the fact remains. 

We don’t like to think about it, and certainly don’t like to see it, but kids get curious and kids figure stuff out and this is Another of those things that could have gone horribly, horribly wrong in South Park and didn’t)

Back on track though, Creek is a joke yes, but the joke is not that they’re together. The joke isn’t even that they act like adults in their relationship. (Though they do, that’s never the joke. The joke in their more mature interactions isn’t that it’s mature as in “racy” but mature as in “emotionally mature”. The joke is that the two gay ten year olds faking it work harder and are better at being in a relationship than virtually every adult and other child in the show. Using these two as a juxtaposition with ever other bit of nasty relationship is refreshing.) 

The Joke is that the public perceives their relationship as being a lot more sexual and unstable than it is. The joke is the public’s perception, not the relationship it’self. 

I don’t really see anyone talking about the “eros ultimate combo” from FBW in this context either, in that the cut scene we get is the really obviously “yaoified” version of what’s actually happening. The reference to Yuri on Ice’s “ambiguous” kiss, the flying off clothes, how they go from almost kissing back to the hand holding. I think I’m the only person in the world who thinks that they didn’t kiss (Because what yaoi fangirl wouldn’t squeal and flail and immortalize such a kiss in every exquisite detail if it did happen?)

we are playing into that joke, flailing about it when what actually happens is these two boys go up to each other and hold hands because it grosses everyone out and that’s funny.

So yeah, please don’t let them become a mean joke Trey and Matt. Let these two boys be kids. 

Let them break up over something really stupid and be the end of the world and play out like a sitcom divorce and be super emotional because that’s what it feels like at that age, and then get back together right away and break up and get back together because that’s what kids do when they get a little bored.

Let them hold hands and yell about how they’re dating and gay to everyone who will listen because that’s a big deal to ten year olds and they’re figuring themselves out and as young boys in a fairly machismo saturated town its funny.

Let their first kiss be all puckered lips and chaste and smooshed noses and incredibly awkward and feel like fireworks and the chorus of Whitney Houston’s “I will away love you” because to kids it feels perfect and a huge deal at the time.

Let them do stupid kid things that seem like a big deal.

Feel free to use these boys to showcase the one healthy relationship we’ve seen in this series, for the love of god it’s funny, refreshing, and woefully needed in media, but let👏the👏boys👏be👏children👏! Precocious as hell to back and yes but PLEASE.