#I'll just have to post my gay little thoughts in the tags like everyone else

[zo1nkss]

I was super excited when I saw your post about watching A League of Their Own. I have to ask, are you enjoying it ? Do you have a favorite character?

I FINISHED IT!!! Boy Howdy did I fucking love it, oh my gosh!

It's so hard to pick a favorite!!

I mean you've got Carson, our adorable and awkward housewife without children who just wants to FEEL SOMETHING. She wants to experience the world and know joy and adventure and freedom. She wants to see the world differently and change her stars. She wants to PLAY FUCKIN BASEBALL babe!

Then you have Max, who I truly feel is such a parallel to Carson, despite being opposites in just about every way. Where Max self-advocates and is spirited, Carson is docile and agreeable. But in many ways, they are both being wrapped up neatly in these little boxes by everyone they know and expected to fail because of their upbringing/where they came from.

Even Shirley was just paranoid from lies ppl told her I can't rlly be mad about that???? I kind of get an OCD vibe from her with the whole "believing something bad will happen if she does or doesn't do X" and the very obvious reality that her homophobia was taught is just so forgivable.

Then there's Greta. Oh My God Greta. She's like if Good and Bad Janet had a kid and she was really gay, I'm IN LOVE with her. I want her to call me Doll and Babe and slap my ass and bully me a little bit, it would be so h o t.

And WE CANNOT NEGLECT how fucking hot and butch Jo is, since we're on the topic of Greta. A woman with a fire in her soul and a passion she finally decides to hold on to. Plus the CONFIDENCE baybee, absolutely one of my favorite characters.

This has gotten unreasonably long and I know there are countless other amazing characters to showcase how and why I love them. But if I ever EVER want to post this and don't just want to spend the next ten years adding random details I loved about this show, I have to stop now and just give it to you as it is.

[ultimate-shipper-trash-blog]

Pt.9

For the first time in her life Lydia shut up.

She was sitting in the middle of the room while everyone else was frantic around her.

"How can this happen? How does he even know she exists!"

"He must be in our minds that's it!"

"He wasn't supposed to come till 1995. We had time!"

"Yeah well obviously we don't!"

"I don't care about the facts I want my daughter safe!"

The room is silent.

"Oh my god." Dustin is the first to start.

"Your daughter?!" Lucas squeaks.

Eddie raises his hand. "Yeah um, mine too."

"WHAT!" Mike roars.

Robin is giggling, Nancy is shaking her head while smiling. Everyone else looks generally unsurprised.

"Relax dipshit," Max says. "People have children all the time, including gay people. No big deal."

"Well it's just-"

"If you think Steve ending up with Eddie is the biggest surprise and not that there's a time traveler in your living room you're even stupider than I thought. I can't be the only one who thought they were already dating." Everyone else nods their head in agreement and that seems to be the end of that.

"Back to planning," Nancy starts. "Lydia knows how the first round went. If Vecna knows everything we've discussed then you can't know anything else. We have to treat this as a two-way camera. Only the bare bones."

"But I can help!" Lydia argues.

"No Lydia, you've already told us everything you know. You are no longer a part in this plan. For your safety and ours."

The two engage in a staring contest. Lydia is the first to break away with a huff. Leaving the room in a flurry.

Eddie trails after her.

"Hey! Wait up!"

He finds her outside on the porch, her face in her knees. He sits next to her giving her room to breathe.

"What's going on munchkin?"

"I'm no use to anyone! I don't even know why I'm here. I'm useless. This is life or death and I'm only in the way, I'm a hazard."

"No babe that's not true. You didn't ask to get possessed by the scary wizard man did you? That stupid bastard. He won't hurt you. I won't let him."

Understanding seems to pass on her face but she doesn't say anything.

"Let's go back inside huh?"

"Yeah."

---

When they go inside Lydia pulls Nancy aside. "Can I talk to you? I know why I was brought here."

---

"Ok so the plan is," Nancy has a large sheet of paper on the table, she has little monopoly pieces representing everyone and a large marked she's drawing little connecting lines with. Lydia and Eddie were sent to do something, anything but be involved. Eddie would get caught up later. He didn't want to miss the chance to babysit his daughter.

"El will be our manpower. The kids will be sent to the Creel house to burn the body like we did." She gestures to Steve and Robin. "This time he won't get a chance to heal."

Robin and Steve are looking at her for their next instructions. "Robin you're with me. Steve, you and Eddie watch over Lydia. All she has to do is stand there and try to summon him."

Steve crosses the room in anger. "My daughter will not be bait!"

"Steve," Robin puts a hand on his chest. "Babe you know as well as I do that it's the only way to get him here."

Steve won't stop. "Why do we have to chase him down?! Huh?! Aren't we speeding up the timeline? Shouldn't we wait for him to find us?"

Nancy shakes her head at him. "Steve. He nearly killed us once on his time. This time we have an upper hand. Do you really want to see what he's like when he's had time to plan? To put Lydia in more danger?"

"You know I'd never-"

"Then trust me...it's the only way."

---

All chapters will be posted today!!!! Woo-hoo! Maybe I'll wait till tomorrow to post the epilogue idk.

Tag:

@tinyplanet95 @jaytriesstrangerthings @bookworm0690

[dredgen-dumbass]

Redo of my pinned post, again, because I'm indecisive.

At a glance:

No screen name, he/him. Predominantly SFW blog, tws follow the normal content of Destiny 2. I swear like a sailor. Not the type for dni lists, just don't be a bigot. Asks are open to all. I don't mind mass likes/reblogs, and dw about derailing. The rest is under the cut.

Message from yours truly,

I genuinely thought I was going to just spam Drifter content for a few days, and then go delete Tumblr again once my brain calmed down about it. As it turns out, that isn't happening. I like the community here so far, which isn't something I've been able to say about Tumblr for some time now, and it seems like I'm going to stick around a while longer. That, and I thought I was just fixated on the one character, but Destiny itself is becoming a pretty big interest of mine, and I know I'll need somewhere to talk about it, so this is going to shift more towards that. I'm going to try to be a bit more cautious with tags so I'm not filling them with every Destiny related through that crosses into my brain, so I'm going to set up an (albeit shoddy) tagging system and be a bit more conservative with what gets put in the main D2 tag. Apologies if I flooded anything you follow, I'm used to posting in a much larger fandom where things get buried really quick, I didn't realize how bad it was until I tried to go through those tags myself, and... eesh.

So, me.

I know it's Tumblr culture to put every last detail in your bio, but personally I'm not comfortable with that. If you need more than I give, then just click off and move on. I understand wanting some idea of who you're talking to, but I think the things that matter will come up naturally through my posts. What I do think should be clarified, just as a matter of perspective with all the queer stuff in this fandom, is that I'm a gay dude. Other than that, I don't think any labels are relevant to this account. If something else becomes relevant, feel free to ask for clarification, I understand that some things read differently depending on who's saying them. Otherwise, respect my privacy, thanks.

Fandom chaos & such,

I want to keep discourse away from my blog, both fandom and real-world. Especially real-world, because Destiny is an escape for me, and I want to keep this as a separate space I've carved for myself, in the same way as the game is for me. That said, bigots can fuck off to hell. Y'all ain't welcome here just because I'm not interacting with the arguments. This is a safe space for everyone, provided you ain't making it unsafe for anyone else.

Destiny stuff,

I'm a casual player, have been going for about 3 years now. I'm a solar titan main.

My favorite character is drifter, I've been pretty clear on that, I think (/s). I'm still learning the game lore and such, so at the moment he's the only character I've actually gone in-depth reading about.

My other favorites are saint-14, saladin, shaxx, and ghost.

Expect my posts to mostly be about them.

This isn't a ship blog, though I may reblog ship content occasionally. I don't have any I particularly care for, aside from O14, but to me they're different because it's canon. Again, asks are open if you want to hear me talk about a specific ship.

I have been asked specifically about drifteris because I post sm about Drifter, and no I'm not a drifteris shipper. I read their relationship as platonic, and if I post about both of 'em it's not a shipping thing. I'm glad the ship brings more attention to the characters, though.

Fanart & fics,

I'll be honest, I've written a few short pieces of my yw. I don't plan on posting them, and even if I do I'm not sure that I'll connect them to this blog in any way. that's a question for future me, whether that's tomorrow or years from now.

Fanart is a pain for me right now. I want to make stuff, and I've done a little, but I'm currently in the traditional artist picks up digital art learning curve, so I'll probably continue to post and delete and post and delete. Feel free to repost my art, just credit me. Honestly, I haven't signed anything atp because I just don't expect anyone to repost it anyways, but as I progress that may become an issue and I don't want to be updating this weekly. Fanart requests are entirely open, destiny ocs included, I need the practice anyway. I do already have some sitting in my asks, so I'll be doing those first, but still.

I don't sit and vet all every account I reblog, so if I reblog something stolen or just uncredited let me know and I'll tag the artist.

If you have m/m or m/neutral (or just platonic) fic recommendations feel free to send em over. Gotta have something to keep me occupied.

Tagging system?

I've never made one of these before. I don't think I have the time to go through all of my previous posts and set them up with this, but from now on the structure will be:

#dredgenposting - all of my destiny-related rambling, because I don't want to fill the destiny 2 tag with my post spam.

#reblogs

#mild nsft - probably just sex jokes

#nsft - probably won't be used, but leaving it here in case it is so that I'm not coming back again to edit this

#discourse - not sure how much this will be used, but I'm bound to have a public opinion on something eventually

#fanart - my own fanart

#asks

if there's something you'd like tagged to filter in/out while looking through my blog, lmk. chances are I'm fine with incorporating it.

and that's it. thanks for reading, live long and prosper y'all.

[ghastmaskzombie]

this blog is a safe place

this blog is safe for queers of all kinds: it is safe for gay men and lesbians, for bi and pan people, for aro and ace people, for allosexual aromantics and alloromantic asexuals, for polyamorous people, for trans people and nonbinary people, agender and pangender and genderfluid and others i haven’t heard of, for he/him women and she/her men, for cis people with unconventional gender presentation who are tired of being called ‘eggs’, for two-spirit people, and probably for someone else i haven’t thought of.

this blog is safe for people of all faiths and races and nationalities. it is safe for people white or black, asian, indian, hispanic, the natives peoples of all places, and anyone else i may have missed. for people atheist, christian, jewish, muslim, hindu, buddhist, sikh, for believers of obscure mysticisms and religions most think of as old mythology, and so on.

this blog will never condemn ordinary people for the actions of the governments that have authority over them or the religious institutions that have indoctrinated them. i have no ill will for the collective populaces or the individual people of red states and conservative nations, or common believers of historically destructive christian denominations and the like (i can’t just condemn every catholic now, can i?). some people are kind gears in cruel machines.

this blog is safe for people with neurodivergences and mental illnesses that are stigmatised and demonised even among people familiar with psychiatric ableism (is there a proper term for that?). i don’t know what many of those are but suffice it to say i’m working to scrub words like ‘psychopath’ and ‘narcissist’ from my casual vocabulary.

i will not interact with bigots or exclusionists on this blog in any way. i will never subject my followers to the sight of a debate about the validity of their existence, no matter how well i think i or anyone else can defend them. this blog will not share bad opinions for the sake of mocking them, or attempt to ‘own’ someone trying to make a point that doesn’t deserve consideration to begin with.

if it’s ever necessary, i will attempt to resolve conflicts privately, where they are not seen, such as in DMs. this is civility, not cowardice. anyone trying to get me to argue with them on a public post will be given this warning once, then blocked. (not that anything like that’s ever happened to me, anyway.)

this blog does not confuse doomscrolling for activism; it will not reblog out of guilt. there is a time and place to learn about the horrors of current events and i don’t know when that time is but my silly little blog is not the place.

this blog attempts to tag common triggers and phobias* and gets the obvious ones right sometimes, but i don’t know what i’m doing so always feel free to ask for your triggers to be tagged.

this post will be edited as time goes on, as i learn new things and i remember things i’ve forgotten to mention and i think of better ways to say what i’ve already said. this post takes suggestions. i think everyone who isn’t perfectly privileged is a little bit afraid that someone will claim to be safe and inclusive but then turn around and say “no, but not you,” when it really counts. i never want to be the source of that fear. i want you to know that you (yes, you), are safe here, and what ‘safe’ means when i say it.

*i use “#[trigger] cw” as my standard syntax for these tags

...Gosh, this post needs an update. I'll work on that.

[homo-ousios]

Watch list tag game!

Tagged by @benkaaoi <3

I have a discord server for organizing my life, and one channel on there is exclusively dedicated to keeping track of shows. If I were this organized about my research, the book would be published already. Oh well.

☼ Currently Watching (Binging)

Previous seasons of Take Guy Out Thailand (yt). Not only is it gay and stupid and a great way to listen to unscripted colloquial Thai, but Lek Davika is one of the podium leaders <3 Downside is almost no subtitles, but it'll really bootcamp your listening skills.

Merry Queer (gaga). After His Man finished airing last week, I went looking for other gay reality shows and found this. Obviously it's meant mostly to educate straight viewers, so it's very gender theory 101 and all, but you do get to learn a decent amount about queer history and culture in South Korea, which I found interesting. Plus, the stories are incredibly sweet.

☼ Currently Watching (Airing)

180 Degrees Longitude (gaga). This is excellent. I'm worried about how it will end because it's serious gay media, so it might be tragic. It's not protected by the bl/romcom genre conventions. I hate sad endings, so prayer circle for this one.

Minato's Laundromat (gaga). I hate age-gap romances, but this is done pretty considerately. It's a sweet, slow-paced, slice-of-life drama, and to me it's worth watching for Japanese practice.

In a similar vein, Takara to Amagi (gaga). Again, it uses a lot of tropes that I hate (infantilized uke, oh no sex is terrifying/so sorry for having a libido, we would rather die than communicate clearly, etc.). But Japan produces relatively little bl, and it's always short, so I just watch it anyway. I need listening practice and I refuse to watch anything hetero. They need to put out a second season of Rea(L)ove, with more queers this time.

Returning to Thailand, The Eclipse (yt). I like it well enough so far. It's weird to try to see First as a high school student after Not Me, but he's a delight to watch regardless. I like that GMMTV is producing this subgenre of queer-directed anti-establishment bl. Very cash money of them.

Vice Versa (yt). I'm trying y'all, but I just don't like this one very much. It's much more in GMMTV's normal mode: cute but sexless, and without much of substance to say. Which is fine obviously, romcoms don't need to say anything. Make as much gay cotton candy as you want. So long as someone else is making KinnPorsche, Not Me, and the Pornographer, I'll be happy.

Love in the Air (yt). I've actually only watched 1 ep of this, but I'll catch up eventually. I know everyone clutches their pearls about how problematic MAME's stuff is, but I've honestly never thought it was as bad as all that, and at least it's not boring.

☼ Rewatching:

I'm not rewatching anything at the moment. It's been a few weeks, so I might take KinnPorsche for another spin. I've also been thinking about rewatching Bad Buddy, just to try and figure out what everyone's so into. I mean I enjoyed the show when it aired, but to me it was just more GMMTV normie fluff. Perfectly nice, but forgettable. People are still posting about it though, so maybe I should give it another chance?

☼ Looking forward to

Be On Cloud's new movie. I have watched that trailer 900 times and I will watch it again.

The announcement of KinnPorsche season 2. Come on, Be On Cloud, I know you got me. Don't leave me hanging.

The Cherry Magic movie. Speaking of cute and sexless fluff. Whatever though, Kurodachi can give me diabetes for all I care. I just wanna see them live happily ever after.

GAP the series. Woahhh, lesbians.

Tagging: @liyazaki @nerasvalhalla @decaffeinatedmate @snake-and-mouse @bwatchesdramas @rythyme @bitacrytic @scarefox i mean literally whoever feels like it, i will read and like your post

[vanderwoodlings]

tagged by @strideofpride

Rules: List all of your WIPs and tag as many people as the WIPs and whichever fic you (followers/anyone reading this) find interesting, you can ask about it and I'll either tell you about it or post a snippet or both!

(The first section of this is the gg stuff, near the end is the Other Fandoms—either way, I have more WIPs than tags, so…)

The last having gay thoughts fic: this is the Serena one! It’s really an excuse for me to talk about my complex thoughts on Serena’s relationship with her sexuality and with the idea of being in the closet and, also, some derena being supportive of each other’s Healthy Adult Endeavors

Something entitled “?????” in my docs: it’s about Nate having a post-things nightmare, but really about the way that everything ch*ck does in canon is just. Fine somehow, and about what it means to continue to have a relationship with someone who hurts other people and to ignore what they’re doing, and I’m just stealing Nate so I can scream.

The pre-series crossover au: pll and gg both start with a gap year and a missing blonde, and so somehow that means that Serena is in Rosewood instead of in Connecticut

The sequel to the dair single parents fic: if I’m being honest, I should probably call this abandoned, but never say never I guess. Anyway it’s about relationship negotiations ft. A six year old and also Blair’s issues

The heroes & villains au: everyone has superpowers, no one is coping. Starring former villain Serena, baby hero Dan, local vigilante Nate, actual supervillain Jenny, and Blair and Vanessa as themselves

The one where Georgina dies: so Dan is on Milo’s birth certificate, and he and Georgina don’t have a custody agreement. Which means that he legally has a right to Milo still. Not that he really figures this out until he’s being handed a freshly traumatized teenager. Also, married queerplatonic derena and nonbinary dan guest star. (This is not abandoned, but it is on pause because of real life things that made it hit too close.)

Zombie road trip: arrowverse au! Sara brings Laurel back while shutting down the spear, and then they do a post-s2/pre-s3 road trip to star, central, and wherever Nyssa is to explain exactly what’s going on. Featuring sibling bonding, explanations for how the multiverse fits into time travel, and nice things happening to Laurel Lance for once.

Feral teenage metahumans: also arrowverse! Flash introduced the Eiling subplot, which is like… crack to me, and then never gave it a proper resolution. This is kind of that except metahumans aren’t dependent on the particle accelerator, but present under stress like in the comics. Which means the black ops guys have been active for longer and gotten their hands on more than just one, even if they did kind of escape. Also Captain Cold is accidentally the hero of Central City, and Iris West has the most intense conspiracy board known to man or God.

The imperfect vessels fic: supernatural. Au where angels leave stylized scars when they exit a vessel. Sam Winchester is kinda messed up.

The one with the Russian teenagers: mcu. Nat defects a little earlier, and somehow this leads to Clint and Laura watching twenty-eight teenage assassins do ballet in their living room

Tagging: I do not know ten people. I do know @natearchie, if you’d like. Anyone else who wants to can absolutely feel free, though, I love hearing about people’s writing!

[thatpinkbetch]

I'm going to answer it this way, because I'm actually not a fan of some of those, and I've heard this is the way to do it if you don't want it ending up in the tag or the search I think? If i censor any of the ship names it's not out of malice! I simply don't want any of this to end up in front of eyes that just want to enjoy their ships 💖💖💖 if there is anyone who doesn't want to see opinions against t*d*d*ku, k*r*b*ku, or even iz**ch*ka, please don't read any further! Oh my goodness i hope this is all legible...

Anyways, hello!! Thank you so much for the ask!! I love talking about my opinion avkvmsocnaocjsoxks it also makes me really happy you like my blog 🥺🥺🥺 (I hope this answer doesn't ruin that avskvneognsocjs)

I'll start out by confirming that I'm not a multishipper. It makes me excited to see how the act of shipping itself can make others happy, but it's just not that way for me. I actually never read fanfic until I got into bnha (bkdk is just that powerful 😁😁) I'm actually...a little serious when i ship, or when i enjoy media, i analyze pretty heavily, so also, if that doesn't sound like anyone's cup of tea, i would once again recommend to stop reading and enjoy your day please!

I love analyzing characters and storylines and dynamics, but i will admit, I'm not a fan of most of the ships - not romantically. I think all the characters have interesting relationships to each other, all of the kids are great friends, and I love bonds and friendships so much 🥺🥺🥺

Those first two are perhaps the biggest, at least they definitely were the biggest when I first entered. Once i caught up, I didn't really understand the enthusiasm, but people have fun shipping, so that's nice! I think of those two as easy ships, if that makes sense? They're pretty simple, and easy to digest.

I personally am not a fan of romantic t*d*d*ku for a very specific reason; it feels weird to me for Todo to immediately fall in love with the first person who's ever shown him kindness (since his mother of course). Todo had never had any friends, nor any want for friends, obviously because of the abuse he faced as a child. Mido was his first exploration at a life outside of his father, a life he got to make for himself, it just doesn't feel right to me that he should immediately think "oh, is this romantic love? Is this the one and only for me?" Well, perhaps a teenager might think that way, but i don't think that's actually how he feels deep down, and I'm sure that's something a lot of us have to learn as we grow (I've definitely struggled with my own understanding of romance for the past 8 years). I think he still is trying to learn how to socialize and to make friends and to be a friend (and he's doing SUCH a good job!) But to immediately plunge into romance, which can be complicated, i don't think that would be right for him. I hope that makes sense! I know they're a very cute ship, which makes for fun! But again, I can be a little serious when i ship...

K*r*b*ku kind of falls into similar territory for me? Baku definitely had friends growing up, but he's seemed to always have trouble understanding his feelings and where he stands with others, causing trust issues. Kiri is really the first person he knew where he stood with, a person for him to be comfortable with and feel on equal ground, which i think is such a huge and positive role in his life, and i don't necessarily think that it needs to be romantic - for both of these, i think these relationships are incredibly important, to everyone involved, and making them romantic doesn't make them any more important!! In fact, i feel like them as friends actually can offer a more complex, interesting, and human dynamic between these characters, as sometimes people simply default to romance and then end up pushing for the same old tropes and ignore all the intricacies Horikoshi includes in his writing.

Again, I love Mido's friendship with Todo, and I love Baku's friendship with Kiri. I think these relationships are incredibly important, and friends are incredibly important. People who ship them are having fun, which is so lovely, and i hope they continue to have fun! I hope you personally find more fics about them that make you smile and brighten your day 💖💖💖

Iz**ch*ka is a little difficult, because they certainly are cute, separately and together. I thought they were cutest before Ura was told about her potential crush on Mido, when she was simply a source of bubbly energy and positivity that helped Mido open up and feel comfortable around other people. I feel though that, romantically, it's extraordinarily one-sided, and at this point, i have to wonder if they really are "end goal." End goal for shounen, of course, is hardly ever explicit ahzovndlfjsoxo but i feel like a better storyline for Horikoshi to take would be for Ura to realize that she's been confused, and these feelings haven't really been a positive experience for her. I've definitely gone through things like that as a teenager. Now, the ship can be very cute! They're basically the same person, and they're cute and bubbly! But again, it simply isn't for me.

I think Momjirou is very cute!! Of course, as a lesbian, i sense strong lesbian vibes from Momo, and strong bi vibes from Jirou, and I also saw the ship potential ever since the USJ attack - which i think, so did everyone else ahaovndofjsojfsk they're best friends without a doubt, though i have to say, i really like Kamijirou. She just makes him so soft, and he's so in awe of her, and she thinks he's so funny, I love how supportive he is of her, especially since she can be really insecure 🥺🥺🥺

I also think Ura and Tsu are very cute but another easy ship, and i kind of really like Ochamina 🥺 they're both pink and space themed, they're bubbly and energetic and kick ass, and i think they'd be super cute...

I saved todobaku for last, because, you know what they say, best for last! 😇😇😇

I've said it before, but if there was no Mido (impossible obviously, and i would never want that) then todobaku is where my heart would lie. Baku has never really been shown chasing after anyone except for Mido...and Todo, which really gets at my heart. There's a grudging respect there - very, very grudging ahakckdkfjskdk which i find very appealing! Todo is very important to Baku and he has also been able to show Baku some things about himself that he needed to question and reevaluate. Meanwhile, Todo puts up with exactly 0% of Baku's shit, which i find absolutely hilarious. It's funny to me how Baku wishes to intimidate Todo as he does everyone else, and Todo simply does not care. And Baku wants to be mad, and ends up mad that he can't be mad since Todo is a strong and worthy opponent. They just have such an interesting chemistry, there's so much friction, so much tension, and I enjoy it, particularly since they clearly should be friends, would be great friends, want to be friends, but Baku simply won't get over it 😂😂 I do prefer them as friends, but friends that are incredibly close, two people that understand each other on almost a telepathic level, two people that give each other shit while also refusing to take the other's shit.

I do agree that many people in this fandom seem to think their ship stands on some moral high ground? It could be a disconnect from the previous generations of fandom, or it could also be the growing mentality on this site that everything needs to be a battle of moral superiority, and also that what you like is part of your personality, and if someone doesn't like what you like, then they don't like you or that they think you're factually incorrect. I personally have stopped going into the bn/ha tag simply because I don't enjoy, well, many things i find there, and I'm happy with those that i follow. I've definitely seen hatred and invalidation for both LGBT ships and m|w ships, neither of which I'm comfortable with. I definitely don't go off tumblr for fandom stuff because there's practically no acceptance for any same gender ships, or any queer headcanoning, which, I'll be honest, makes me scared, as i am a very anxious person avdkvndkfje i do think it should be noted that we should be as accepting of cishet ships as we are of queer ships - no debate on this one - but again, you are right when you say that many cishet headcanons have been used to invalidate LGBT voices, and any and all allies must always be aware of this! It is much more often that queer voices are silenced, that queer ships are ridiculed, that queer shippers aren't allowed to enjoy or see themselves. And to anybody that doesn't want to be an ally... Whelp ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what are you doing here ajxkvmdogjdicjsicjsodj I'm gay

I haven't really read much of anything recently, let alone other ships, platonic or otherwise, because energy has been low for me for a long time. I wish i could participate more and support all my friends and other fans, but it's been a bit of a struggle 😣😣😣 I'm so sorry! Something that I can do is make posts and analyses and metas, as those are quick and make me excited, so I'm always happy to respond to asks like these! (I say as i take two hours to write this response...)

I hope people have been taking care of themselves and remember that tumblr is really good at letting you cater to your own interests! I hope if you've made it to the end of this response that you enjoyed it, and you're not mad at me ahsovjekgjsocjwodkso if you are, that's fine, I'm sorry, I probably am really bad at social/internet etiquette and such that help you filter 😣😣

To any who are curious, you cannot change my mind ahdogmdocjdidk thank you to whoever sent this ask!!! A lot of this is a bunch of rambling I've always wanted to talk about but was frankly too scared to post! I hope I made sense and answered everything you were asking!! Please have a good day/night/life!!! 💖💖💖💖💖

[james-stark-the-writer]

So I just saw Weird City S01E01...

And can I just say how Gay™ it is and how much I love it???

Okay, so, first off, as always, opinions are subjective blah blah blah just because I like something doesn't mean you will. Especially today, since we're talking about Comedy. And Satire. And it's so fucking good.

Okay, so, if you don't want many spoilers, the first episode, which is what I've seen so far, is very very gay and funny and awesome and ED O'NEILL AND DYLAN O'BRIEN ARE DATING. AND IT'S FUCKING ADORABLE ASDFGHHJK. GO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW.

Okay, so, it's a YouTube premium show. There's a three month free trial and the full show is only 3 hours long (6 twenty something minute episodes) but with those three months you get background play, so shit still plays while you're doing something else, you get to watch awesome shows (Ones I highly highly highly recommend are I'm Poppy, Mind Field, Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television*, Lifeline, Origin, Impulse, Escape the Night [fair warning its a very niche show and not everyone will like it. The first episodes are free so go check it out for yourself] and Bad Internet). THEY ARE ALL ABSOLUTELY AWESOME AND YOU'LL GET TO WATCH THEM ALL FOR FREE WITH THE TRIAL. GO DO IT BEFORE IT EXPIRES. PLUS PREMIUM ISN'T EVEN THAT EXPENSIVE AND YOUTUBE IS ACTUALLY MAKING SOME GOOD ORIGINALS NOW. There's other good ones too you'll have to see for yourself. I promise I'm not sponsored by YouTube but, uh, YouTube, if you are reading this, I'd love to get paid to talk about the shows. K thanks.

Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked. Also, if you want someone else's opinion, I believe it was Leo KM who said it best.

Seriously, that's the best way to describe this show. Black Mirror but not grimdark. And it's so fucking awesome.

Anyway, back to review. So, it's not South Park levels of Satire. But it's there and it's really fucking fun. It's well done, it's funny, it's a bit on the nose but that's the point. And, if you need more incentive, it's directed by Jordan fucking Peele. One of the funniest people alive.

Ed and Dylan are fucking adorable and I never thought I needed a show about a couple more than I do about them. Maybe with the exception of WayHaught, Queliot and Bughead. And a few others. But I mean in like one episode. Everyone else took at least a few episodes.

For episode one, they have the city divided into two parts: Above the Line and Below the Line. I said it was a bit on the nose.

Here's the episode's opening screen:

So, Dylan is always late for stuff and we are introduced to his friend and his other friends. We find out everyone above the line is assigned 'the one'. Their soulmate. But, those below the line aren't. And since Dylan was born below the line, he has to 'date' people instead of just being told who his soulmate is. Well, he finds and app (or rather an app gets recommended to him) called 'The One That's The One' which promises to find him his 'the one'.

And because of a fuck up, he gets matched with Ed's character. They're basically the exact same person. They like the same things, they have similar characteristics, Ed is just older.

But here's the catch: they're NOT GAY.

But the show goes from 1 to 10 and 10 to 100 really really quickly. It's fun, we get a cute montage and it's believable with what we've seen of them.

I think this is an anthology series and especially for a 20 something minute episode, this was a fantastic little thing. Go watch. I don't want to spoil much. Please. I hate giving scores as you know but if I had to I'd give it a big gay outta ten. That's a 8.5/10 for you normies. That's it. Go watch it. Stat. K thanks.

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I just thought about my growth and I just wanted to put it down somewhere, so y'all can ignore this cause it's gonna be long I'll be sure to tag it as #long post lol

When I was growing up I changed schools in 1st grade to a private Catholic school cause my family moved houses and the school was majority frequented by WHITE Latines (my previous Kindergarten year being a majority black catholic school, RIP Mercy you were the fucking best I loved everyone there) and got in to the new school through scholarships and grants and my parents wanted me to go there, so I was one of the few low income students in my class of like 15 students while everyone else was middle class and above. And let me tell you that shit was hellish, I was literally bullied from like 1st through 8th grade essentially because I was far more connected to Mexican culture (most of these kids were like 5 generations removed from Mexican culture their parents were like mostly white) because I wasn't pale like those cave dwellers were, and because I was poor (not to mention I had to go home and deal with the colorism of my white passing father :/). My school wouldnt do shit to help me out, only ONE of my teachers ever looked out for me and encouraged me to never be ashamed of who I was and what made me special. He influenced me to continue to draw, write, make music, etc. And don't get me started on how they felt aboug gay kids lol I suspected I was Bi around like 6th grade, I'd always known I was different I just didnt have a name for it yet. So you can imagine how it hurt to sit in religion class going over the church's ideas on gay people. So anyway, when I left that school I was so fucking elated. It was the most painful fucking 8 years of my life. There was the source of most of my anxiety and depression that STILL lingers with me today.

So when I finally got to go to public high school in my neighborhood it was THE most beautiful fucking culture shock, I was actually mad my parents ever made me go to private school. My high school was majority black and latines of color, I never once in my four years of high school felt othered or bullied. If anything the people around me we're so open, inclusivity and difference was the norm. I finally knew people who were like me but most importantly people who WEREN'T lile me: people who were poor, people whos parents were immigrants, people who were proudly brown and black, people who themselves were immigrants and refugees, people whos families were as mixed as mine, people who were gay!! I'm not saying there wasnt racism or any negative -isms, there always is, BUT whatever lil anti-black, xenophobic, homophobic, etc. stupid ass was dishing that shit out, got their ass handed to them deservedly by whoever was willing to do something about it. Those four years of high school taught me to love myself little by little and set me up for the better. And it especially taught me to stand up for OTHER people, because other people ALWAYS had my back, unlike the one friend at my old school who would pretend like she didn't see me get hurt.

But I especially owe a great debt to the black lesbians and bi women I knew and was friends with near my junior and senior year. These were girls who were fearless and self loving enough to take up space, to say I'm right here this is who I am, these are ALL parts of me and there isn't a fucking thing you can do about it. They taught me to love myself and to help others love themselves, that my same sex attraction wasn't a problem, that the bonds you make with other women but ESPECIALLY other woc are SO SO fucking special, that there is a time to speak and a time to shut up and listen, that there are times where you NEED to speak up for other people because its important that support comes from someone who looks like you, that you owe it to other people to keep your community in check if you really care about your community and theirs, that you need to take care of the people you call your friends because you never know if they'll ultimately become your family.

I owe so much of who I am today because I finally knew what it was like to have a community who knew the value of how difference can create a sense of unity and inclusion. I only ever got to this point where I am proud of my identities and proud of what I have to offer the world because I was allowed to learn and change through the kindness and love of other people who knew what it was like to live every day with the feeling of otheredness. And I'm just so so fucking grateful and I only ever want to continue to learn and to spread that kindess to other people who might've grown up hating the unchangeable part of who they are because they were raised in unsafe and uninclusive environments.