#and he thinks it’s funny and refreshing

[catmomjudy]

(@stevenrogered)

I know this is not going to be a popular opinion, but I read a fic earlier (linked at end of post) that had me wondering about 8x05 and 8x06, which Oliver Stark has alluded to really liking:

“Then Episodes 5 and 6 are really big episodes for Buck, and I’m really excited about where that’s going to move him as a character. We’re still shooting those.”

“They really have some funny moments, and they will have some really moving moments,” he continued. “And I think it’s gonna lead to big movement in Buck’s life.”

(Telltale TV, 9/26/24)

Episode 8x01 (“Buzzkill”) featured moments of Buck listing random bee facts; fumbling with the change in leadership; contemplating quitting his job; and developing and deploying some innovative solutions rapidly and under time pressure. The pattern seems prominent and LOUD in retrospect.

It also featured a moment at the end where he blocked out Gerrard’s tirade by fixating on a stream of messages related to the work situation and to various sensory inputs around the station, and then somehow miraculously tackled Gerrard, saving his life from a flying sawblade.

So, I’m wondering if what’s going to be explored is not Buck’s sexuality (which they seem to be trying to lead people to think), but the possibility of him being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult.

And, really, if handled well, wouldn’t THAT be a refreshing bit of television?

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[lovebugdotcom]

Bug who gets away with calling Lord Diavolo babygirl because nothing they say is ever that serious. They’re like a court jester. Diavolo doesn’t even care.

[digitalcarcrash]

"go watch the passenger it's the closest thing at the moment" daughter or "i do think benson is probably fluid" son

[martyrbat]

im so considerate.... (<- guy not ranting about a thing it hates before its friend is done with the media)

[respondedinkind]

@oceansfirst asked: “ it’s just my job five days a week . ” -> Linda

"Five days a week?"

Khan sounds genuinely surprised, at least for a fraction of a moment; The tone of his voice is accompanied by him lifting his head to properly look at her, his bright blue eyes taking in the sight of the woman in front of him.

She's a nurse, obviously so, currently taking his vitals while running a few other checks on his physique. Khan hasn't met her before; It's usually the doctor himself, McCoy, who treats him whenever something needs to be done on him. Perhaps he's busy, or perhaps McCoy gets bored by needing to work on him, who knows.

"---I didn't expect Starfleet to offer their medical staff a two-day-weekend."

In fact, he expected her to get one day off every two weeks - maybe every week if things went slow within medbay for once. Having two days off almost sounds humane to him; And yes, surprising as well.

[flovverworks]

gah i need to ramble. i dont know how itd work/how to not make it push things too far/itd be useless anyway since akira knows 0 about fighting/does noooot have the stamina most ppl who end up fighting does<3, but taking the whole "can help oz use magic at night" into a buffer concept.......cuz i dont find a way to use that stuff/the sages book/etc in aus enough T_T something something when akira forms bonds with ppl............. so i was like "ig their evol could be something where i can work around it into that" BUT I DONT WANT THEM TO HAVE ONE........my normal little guy............who somehow can enhance u should the need come......

BUT it means i end up thinking about the time oz killed someone in front of akira. cuz it was at night/dawn. 'have u seen a wizard turn to stone' 'no' and holding them in a way so they wouldnt see auughhhhhh...........->figaro who ALSO has killed someon(something) in front of akira. and how quiet akira is after. no further comment i should reread that spot story now that its voiced

[dumbthiccbitch666]

Tell us about your date. Maybe in video format?

it was very nice , we walked 6 miles through the metroparks. we clicked pretty well, kissed and hugged goodbye. we’ve been talking pretty consistently every since , he asked to make me his phone background. Also said he deleted hinge, he’s not trying to rush things or make it exclusive but he has no want of meeting anyone else. we also just met to grocery shop together lol so that was also nice

[keeps-ache]

thinking of fairies that look like ferret + mourning doves. uh huh yep :>

[antleramnesia]

i just remembered mikell bright existed. the world is suddenly a much better place

[princekirijo]

I'm designing Riku's SEES battle outfit for the CATT AU and the actual reason for his coat being a longer version of the regular SEES battle coat is that I want to keep his silhouette similar to his Phantom Thief outfit (his thief outfit has a long leather jacket). However the in-lore reason is kinda funny to think about because there is literally no other reason for him wanting to extend the jacket length other than "I will look way cooler trust me". And somehow he gets the scientists who designed the suits to agree.

[poke-poke-poke]

pls remember to water your goomy

(... yes, that is a bootleg lotad watering can---)

[sysig]

Huh?? Whuh??? Okay (Patreon)

[abyssalpriest]

Me asking Leviathan questions: What is consciousness? What is your connection to dreaming? Wait can you come over and write about magic? How does one connect to the sky?

Leviathan asking me questions: give me your phone. Youtube what is skibidi toilet

[zemnarihah]

me n erik went to the music thrift store i got a yes cd i havent heard yet and also i got paul simon graceland and a cassette i dont remember the name but he said its good 60's psychedelic prog and it was like 2 bucks so i got it. im not getting up to check the name but its playing rn its okay so far. anyway i love erik i think he and i could have been best friends if he wasnt moving away in a month hopefully i will still see him often. were getting matching tattoos im not even joking

[mxdotpng]

i want to put sophie colette luke and estelle in a room together and see what happens

[magentagalaxies]

Jessamine Accidentally Writes An Essay About Two Conversations Ze's Totally Normal About

one of my beloved mutuals (@souplover13) is reblogging a lot of queerpunk posts tonight which just reminded me of two conversations i want to document. yes this story involves paul bellini why wouldn't it (fr tho i was considering not making this a post bc i was like oh god do people really want to hear me ramble about these 63-year-old gay dudes again maybe i should give it a rest but whatever it's my blog and if people don't like it why are they even following me this is all we do here)

anyway the story actually begins with a conversation i had with my parents earlier today. now, i'm lucky enough to have parents that are constantly trying their best to be good allys and are always learning to do better. they're not perfect, but they want to learn. while at lunch today my dad took a picture of me and my mom together since i won't be home again for a few months and he affectionately said "my girls." i've been out to my parents as nonbinary for around a year, but i let it slide since my gender wasn't the most important part of that sentiment, more the fact that it was a nice family moment.

a beat later my mom corrects "girl and person," and while i am grateful for her seeing that i'm not a girl, this type of correction always makes me feel more awkward than being misgendered. like, the point of my dad calling me "his girl" was this tone of familial affection, but the word "person" just feels cold and distant, which is something i struggle with in a lot of gender neutral language. but beyond that, it's just this weird separation. i jokingly correct my mom again, saying "hey, we're both people."

the conversation continues and eventually my mom asks if it bothers me when people call me "girl" like that. and the truth is: i don't know. it bothers me a little, but the forced neutrality bothers me more, and honestly i don't really care what gendered language someone uses for me as long as they mean it in a way that shows me they care. like, i'd rather be called girl affectionately than be called "genderqueer nonbinary person with a strained relationship to androgyny who uses ze/zir pronouns and feels represented by the word transfeminine" in a derogatory way. I respond "it's contextual," but that's not a satisfactory answer. the conversation moves on to a nonbinary person who stops by my mom's work often and how my mom's had to correct some of the older employees to stop calling them a girl, since times are changing.

the second conversation is from a few weeks ago when i first visited canada to help with the mouth congress concert and got to have lunch with paul bellini beforehand. at one point the conversation developed into paul asking me what being "nonbinary" means for me personally. it was clear he wasn't intimately familiar with the concept (though to his credit he did have more experience with it than i expected), and some of his assumptions were inaccurate to my experience, but he listened intently as i described my experience not knowing how to specifically label my gender but just knowing i don't want to be seen as a cis woman while also having no desire to be fully male. he related it to his own experience as a gay man with his own complex relationship to masculinity and femininity, acknowledging it's not the exact same, and by the end of our conversation i truly felt like he respected my unique relationship to gender even if there were certain parts he still needed to process.

but most importantly, it was funny. granted our conversation was a unique case since both individuals were queer comedians from different generations, but approaching the strange concept of gender identity with humor made it so much more comfortable. paul described being a little feminine gay kid and thinking "i'm not a boy or a girl, i'm a god" and i responded that's it exactly. i brought up the mouth congress song she-male: master of the universe, saying the vision of a vengeful genderqueer space goddess is the most represented i've felt by a piece of media, only half joking. but also there were times when i made jokes about failing at gender (e.g. referencing a group of "girls" at my high school who made me realize i'm nonbinary since i always felt weird for being the least feminine person when we hung out, and then the fact that several of them came out as transmasc after graduation meaning now they can be better than me at being trans as well) and while paul acknowledged the joke he also assured me i was exactly where i needed to be in terms of my gender presentation, and honestly i'm kind of tearing up just thinking about it.

paul never asked me for my pronouns, but to be fair i did somewhat volunteer them in the form of a joke: "i use any pronouns, but i will silently judge you based on what you do with that information." that line got a laugh.

I told the same line to my parents after our "girl" conversation today, earning only confusion, and it made me realize something: so much of modern trans allyship centers entirely around language, be it pronouns or recognizing the lack of neutrality in our everyday speech. and while these things are certainly important, that's not understanding. cishet allys so often want to be able to say the right thing, so they approach the subject as learning the rules for how to incorporate this new approach to gender into their lexicon. i think there's something to be said for how this parallels how we're often taught about cis gender roles: these are the rules you follow to be a man or woman. when you find out someone doesn't fit neatly into those boxes, it's natural to ask "okay, what are your rules?" this also leads to some cis people (even gay cis people) complaining about how "you can't say anything these days" since it's portrayed as just another set of rules you need to learn.

but honestly, i don't know what my gender rules should be. my approach to gender lately has been the equivalent of "idk dude i just work here," i don't know where i specifically fit in but i do know how i feel inside. the answer "it's contextual" doesn't give you the cheat codes to gendering me correctly, because even i don't know how to gender myself correctly half the time. however, more importantly imo it gives you a window into how it feels to be me, a nonbinary person with complicated relationships to every facet of gender who's decided to stop expecting language to fully represent me but still has to deal with language being applied to me all the time. my nonbinary gender is confusing as hell, and i'm tired of having to pretend it's not as if that's the only way it's worthy of respect. every gender (including cis genders) is confusing as hell, and it's only when we all accept this fact that we can actually make a meaningful connection.

as my parents and i were driving away from the restaurant my only thought was i wonder how my dad would've referred to that photo if it was my brother and my mom in the picture. would he have said "girl and boy?" or "girl and person?" or would he have simply said "family"