#Representation sins

[mamacarlyle]

I'm gonna complain about the presentation is trans women in horror movies. The bride in black (insidious) IS NOT A WOMAN. Angela Baker (Sleep Away Camp) IS NOT A GIRL. Norman Bates (Pycho) IS NOT A WOMAN. There's probably more, but these characters do not identify as female, they were abused and (in the case of BIB and Angela) forced to present as female. There's a whole ass scene in Insidious 2 where Little BIB gets in trouble with his mom for using the 'Name his father gave him'. If you wanna talk about trans serial killers, let's talk about Buffalo Bill... I'm sure there are others but it's almost 1 am here and I will most likely edit/reblog with changes later.

[moominmanoneandonly]

I present to you my favorite love piramid!

The three genders: Malewife, Furry and Gaslight

Like, you do not realize how insane this shit is. The green guy/Sakuya is probably like the most brain changing character to me couse like..

What do you mean you can brainwash an entire school district? What do you mean you can be remebered as a school klown and a social butterfly by everybody just like that

What do you mean you saw a guy once, trought he's cool(pretty gay btw) and make him believe you are his childhood best friend and that you bonded over lost parents and that you are his everything?!!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE A SHRINE OF THAT GUY, AND ARE A CONFIRMED YANDERE

What do you mean your backstory is having your older sister pushed from the balcony by your parents for insurance money and then them doing the same to you?!

What do you mean you stuck in the war between your found family who slowly going insane and the love of your life?!

Like sakuya is such an insane character, he should be on some power scaling list for sure. And the fact that Mahiru still wanted to have him as a friend after all that is amazing.

HOW ARE THEY NOT CANON?!!

+ kuromahi of course since they are the main characters

They got that old married couple dynamic perfected and get to trauma bond half of the time.

Just three biches who would rather die than deal with their problems. They deserve each other

The fact that this manga is under "horror" is the biggest 4ss pull I ever seen. Just an avarage gay person experience. You never had a sin of Sloth sleep in your house and had to handle his family drama while your worldview entirely colapses, you start to question morality of imortality, some deppresed dude tries to become an only child and your best friend turns out to be a creep? Clearly you're not gay enough.

[girl4music]

For straight allies they really were such good sports about this stuff.

Other straight allies that play queer or queer-coded characters would be much more hesitant to talk about the queer representation. But they always acknowledged the parts of the show that resonated for the LGBTQ community and they talked about it openly and lovingly.

I'll always have such gratitude to Lucy and Renee because I know that this is something that could have ruined their careers. But they didn't ever ignore. They didn't even recoil. They really embraced us as fans and they listened to what it was that made these characters so important for us. They fully acknowledged the interpretation that these characters were queer and they even understood as to why.

They wouldn't have paid any attention to a queer narrative otherwise.

I would have loved to have seen those other takes where they had Gabrielle go back to Potidaea and have Xena chase after her instead because that poker face she had on never fooled me. She was just as affected and influenced by their "first meeting" as Gabrielle was. 🥰

[kat-chan02]

oh. my. god. i swear if i see one more person hating on and complaining about the caitvi sex scene im gonna throw hands!!! it's like they've forgotten that,, you know THERE WAS ANOTHER SEX SCENE IN SEASON 1 ?! don't remember hearing any complaints over that. just because it's a queer couple doesn't mean that people should just hate on the scene. if you weren't mad about Mel and Jayce getting it on,, you shouldn't be mad about Cait and Vi either.

[itz-pandora]

Just yapped for like 1-2 hours about my (main) Sonic AU to my mother and now she knows some of the lore of the Babylon Rogues, Blaze, Grim, Cove, Solaris, Infinite, Sonic Forces, the phantom ruby, (mention of Misc Eggman also dying there, mention of Sage, mention of Misc Sonic being kinda the worst), what happens to Shadow without inhibitor rings, Sonic and Shadow's dynamic, Shadow in Unleashed, and Sonic and Shadow recovering from Forces together

She wants to hear more about my AUs and I'm like haha mom! Yay! I love talking! 🥰💭(😰 Everything else is QUEER!!!!)

[harbingerofsoup]

i actually really like when sex is in media i fully believe that it’s important and relevant to the plot and themes

especially when it’s queer

[dailycrippledcharacters]

Lee Sin (League of Legends)

[Image Description: From the official game. Lee Sin, a fit man with pale skin and dark hair. His head is shaved apart from a high ponytail. He is wearing no shirt and baggy black pants with a white, red, and gold belt. There are white and red ribbons tied up his shins and forearms. He has a red blindfold with a blue jewel over his eyes. He is in a fighting stance. End ID.]

Lee Sin is blind.

[girl4music]

Gabrielle’s “gift of prophecy” characteristic was a lot more prominent in the dialogue in this script. They still brought it up every now and again in the show that she believed she was an Oracle but it wasn’t a huge plot point like it was in the original script of the episode in trying to convince Xena to take her along because she’d be “very valuable” to her in that way. I like that they never made a big deal about it in the final production but it was still something that she believed about herself. That left it up to us to decide whether it was true or not and with the foresight she had in ‘One Against An Army’ of Xena being killed, it was very possible she could be an Oracle or a Clairvoyant.

But if this is indeed the original script for ‘Sins Of The Past’, it’s interesting how that was a bigger plot point. In actual fact it ended up being Xena that had visions that could predict the future later on in the show. Not Gabrielle. Xena seemed to possess many psychic abilities actually. Most of which she learned from Lao Ma through her book of wisdom. But a fair few of them were also just innate within her. The visions were one of them that she just seemed to naturally manifest at the start of Season 4 once Alti had shown her her future of dying on the cross alongside Gabrielle. After that, she seemed to get those visions quite frequently. Including visions of the past. They weren’t memories, they were visceral retroactive visions. Retrocognition is what they’re called. Whereas the future visions are called precognition. Either way, it was still psychic ability that she already possessed and so wouldn’t be of any value.

Which begs the question - what did Gabrielle have of “value” to bring to Xena in travelling with her and helping her in her endeavours for the greater good?

In this script they used the characteristics of the “gift of prophecy” and “good cooking” as incentive valuables. But there was no such mention of either in the episode.

Gabrielle did not have to convince Xena to take her along with her. She did not have to prove her “value” to Xena at all. Xena just took her along. I say it was that mutual feeling of being an outsider. Of not belonging.

XENA: “You know, I’m sending you home in the morning.”

GABRIELLE: “I won’t stay home. I don’t belong there, Xena. I’m not the little girl that my parents wanted me to be. You wouldn’t understand.”

XENA: “It’s not easy proving you’re a different person.

*Gabrielle eyes her curiously, Xena throws a bundle of blankets at her, gestures to the other side of the fire*

You can sleep over there.”

“Value” was never really the incentive for Xena. Meaning it wasn’t what made Xena want her keep Gabrielle around. Connecting was. What Gabrielle provided Xena was someone to connect with. So I definitely prefer what they ended up with as opposed to this original script (if it is real) because there is this quiet nuanced subtext of THIS IS QUEER all throughout Season 1 and no matter how much they tried to spin it that way, Xena did not view Gabrielle as a “kid”. Yeah, she may have reminded her of herself when she was that age… but at no point did Xena ever see Gabrielle as a child. And that played perfectly into her immediate attraction to her in the first episode and why she was a lot more interested in her than she was ever letting on.

It was that soulmate connection that they had between them. They had found their missing “other half”. They just didn’t know it. That also had to be discovered. So I like what they ended up doing with ‘Sins Of The Past’ compared to how it allegedly originally started out. And (if it is real) it does confirm they hadn’t planned it. None of the writers even remotely contemplated this. It just serendipitously ended up as a very queer narrative. Or maybe it was destiny. I don’t know. But it works a lot better than what they were originally going to do with it when you consider the progression of their relationship.

Having a connection is much better than giving value. If they had done that instead, then the deep love between them wouldn’t have looked or felt as sincere as it did. The queer narrative started from the very first episode. It didn’t matter that it wasn’t put in there intentionally. What matters is that once it was pointed out to them, they took it, ran with it and never fucking looked back despite the studio consistently telling them to censor.

[rotten-vivs]

i love that every once in a while someone likes all my shadowrot posts because i know damn well they are going through the #shadowrot tag. like yes please, we need more shadowrot enjoyers

[variousqueerthings]

In anticipation of RTD's next season of Doctor Who and all the contributions he's made to queer representations onscreen.

Couple of takeaways:

I cannot believe people are out there slandering RTD's good name because they personally haven't heard of him, when he's possibly one of the - if not the - most prominent names that created queer television when it was barely legal to do so within Britain and put queerness into mainstream British television (and by extension global television) in a way that's still setting precedents today

"Daddy Davies" thank you for that VB, you're so right

a reminder that queer people writing community stories cannot be considered "bad representation" in the way we describe it when straight cis people phone it in, and RTD's depictions of queerness have been complicated from day one (one can make arguments about how well he's always managed intersectionality within that, but not because he hasn't always been trying!)

demand better yeah. we can do so much better. Listen to Daddy Davies. you don't need disney

also a reminder that -- and granted the plot could be terrible but aside for now (and I doubt it) -- there's several trans and queer actors cast within this next season, and RTD has always been known for writing interesting female characters to boot, he has never given a fuck about conforming

It's a Sin is one of the best narratives set during the AIDS crisis ever made and he had to fight for it every step of the way, even though he was already by then well beyond being a well-established prominent creator within Britain

once I was working at the Attitude Awards and he won an award and had the most delightful speech against conformity and simplification of queerness and fear-mongering against the trans community and went on a whole ramble about wanting every letter of the alphabet and numbers and greek letters in the acronym, because more diversity is always better

literally, nobody doing it like RTD

[readingtillmidnight]

The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin

Source: NetGalley ARC

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Release date: 7 May 2024

Genre: dark fantasy

If you like:

Jewish folklore

(Mutual) gay yearning

Queernorm

Villain POV

Lovers to enemies

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫/5

Synopsis

Dimitri Alexeyev used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo. Now, he is merely a broken man, languishing in exile after losing a devastating civil war instigated by his estranged husband, Alexey Balakin. In hiding with what remains of his court, Dimitri and his spymaster, Vasily Sokolov, engineer a dangerous ruse. Vasily will sneak into Alexey’s court under a false identity to gather information, paving the way for the usurper’s downfall, while Dimitri finds a way to kill him for good.

But stopping Alexey is not so easy as plotting to kill an ordinary man. Through a perversion of the Ludayzim religion that he terms the Holy Science, Alexey has died and resurrected himself in an immortal, indestructible body—and now claims he is guided by the voice of God Himself. Able to summon forth creatures from the realm of demons, he seeks to build an army, turning Novo-Svitsevo into the greatest empire that history has ever seen.

Dimitri is determined not to let Alexey corrupt his country, but saving Novo-Svitsevo and its people will mean forfeiting the soul of the husband he can’t bring himself to forsake—or the spymaster he’s come to love.

Content warnings

Domestic and emotional abuse

Implied grooming

Death, war, gore, body horror, blood, injury

Torture

Past sexual assualt

Alcohol and drug use

Vomit

Mental illness/depression

Review

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC!!

I love unconventional fantasy novels, where the main characters aren't powerful and heroic, where they have lost everything, where they doubt themselves and their decisions at every turn, but still choose to forge on regardless.

Dimitri is depressed and going through it mentally, after his ex-husband's betrayal and usurpation, and a lot of the beginning of this book is about picking up the pieces in order to move forward. I appreciate how his depression is taken seriously as a legit illness, which is something you don't see a lot of in high fantasy. Vasily is his loyal spymaster who is devoted to his country and to Dimitri, and is willing to do whatever it takes in order to reinstate Dimitri as Tzar. At times, things look hopeless, but Vasily manages to persevere and act under pressure. Alexey reminds me of the Darkling from Shadow & Bone, so take that as you will. He's power hungry and delusional in his quest for more power, under the misguided belief that he must do it for the good of the country. I hadn't expected to get his point of view in this book, and I won't say it was a pleasant surprise, but it was fascinating to read from his perspective and see how differently he interprets things.

A lot of the negative reviews critique the pacing as ""too slow"", but honestly, I didn't even notice? In hindsight I can see how people might find this book slow, as it takes about halfway into this book for the main plot to get going, but I really enjoyed being able to spend more time with the cast, learning about them and their backstories before getting swept up in the plot.

I've also seem some criticism of the amount of sex scenes in this book, which is perfectly fine and everyone's preferences are valid. However, I do feel that some people are coming at this from the perspective that sex scenes are written purely for the purpose of titillating the audience, which is definitely not the case here. The characters have sex for a variety of reasons, ranging from using it as a coping mechanism for trauma, or as a way to exert power or control, or as a method of manipulation, which I think is important to keep in mind before dismissing this book as ""smut"". (But if you're into it that's fine too!)

Another aspect of this book I found rather interesting was how Jewish folklore and customs were written into the world-building. I have zero knowledge of Judaism so I lowkey thought some of it was made up for fantasy world-building purposes, but the author's note at the end of the book was enlightening and gives some great insight into how the author constructed this world with Jewish culture in mind.

One thing that bugs me about this is, I was under the impression that this book was a standalone until I got to the ending. You could still read it as a standalone, I guess. And like, I'm glad that there could be more of this world, but it irks me that I didn't know this going into it.

TLDR; This book weaves a complex tapestry of past and present, love and betrayal, loss and healing. It's about finding light in the darkest of times. 5 stars.

[libertasforte]

when you're keeping both of them

[arcsin27]

I integrated this into my belief system btw

[dualisume]

|| I'm not certain if i should consider this a headcanon but it's more of a study to furina & focalors biblical references but that i want to establish in my way of writing them but here we go !

The thing is everyone claims that furina is a representation of Jesus, the perfect human, but i think that mihoyo had made Furina be referenced to many more biblical figures. First, is furina being referenced to Mary && focalors being Angel Gabriel. Focalors && furina's first meeting is the enactment of the beginning of new testament , basically the creation of jesus. When focalors, showed up into the mirror, saying the same thing as what Angel Gabriel stated to Mary when he announces the great news, although for furina, the great news isn't as great since she is the same person who have to carry all the sins after all she was a perfect human but No. She isn't , which contradicts to what focalors claim because Furina, is also a reference to people's sin, worshipping Fake Idols, instead of the real God in the bible.

Furina in her 500 years of acting as the Hydro Archon , had earned her a lot of fanatics, not for her being the ' archon' but being the ' idol ' of Opera Epiclese , the diety of being able to show twist and giving a good spectacle && good time . You can see in the bible, that people have sinned multiple times, again && again with them praising a Fake Idol , one popular story is the book of Exodus, where Moses broke the 10 commandments due to his people praising the wrong idol. This is the same with the people of fontaine, they do not praise the hydro archon as the archon that protects them but instead she is being praised as someone who can give temporary amusement && enjoyment. It's so easy how people of fontaine turned their backs to Furina, whenever there's no good trial being offered, cause just like in the bible the fake idols are only there for worshipping && praising when there's happiness && no problems, but when there are problems they immediately blame and toss them away.

another popular depiction of furina is the story of whore of Babylon but everyone knows about it already being the reference to the ruler who believed that she would reign over the earth forever. She said in her heart: “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children" , so I'll not dwell much to that for now

and lastly the whole act 5 finale, in which furina && the cast i being referenced to as the last supper , although furina is said to be jesus here but that isn't quite true, i see that furina is just the reference to enactment of the crucifiction process in the bible.

The whole trial is a reference to the part of the bible where the Romans are asking for jesus to be crucified , the shit show of where everyone is turning their back and screaming at her was a reference to jesus parading himself carrying the cross , where people would insult jesus , spit & call him fake && the other cast , most especially Traveler, is a reference to Judas, turning his back and betraying furina, with their whole plot to make her stand in trial && admit her sins, ( i see Neuvilette here as more of pontius pilate, cause i do believe that he thinks furina is innocent but due to everyone's desire to know that truth, he was forced to do it.) but after the death sentence is being in the process, furina for me doesn't reference jesus here but more of like the sins of the people on the process of forginess, && neuvilette is the one who reference him , since it was his rebirth after the death of Focalors, gaining all his powers and very whole divinity, like how jesus was resurrected, after 3 days, with him being powerful and divine enough to escape the death.

[florencetypemaniacs]

Would tho Ros be okay with an MC who’s ace/ on the ace spectrum?

Hello, darling, Thank you for ask! To answer your question...

Of course! What you will learn about the ROs is that they have lived a very long life, and romantic connection is all they need. However, there are ROs that have certain wants, sexually, and they will be able to solve those themselves through self-pleasure.

[shiroselia]

I'm gonna say it

SSE fuckade up redan vid Alex's nyaste konceptart för det ser fanomig ut som att de försökte få henne o se orten ut (vad som basically är adidasbyxor + hoodie I Varenda Koncept? Hallå?)