These are not inspired by me listening to these songs on repeat, I swear (hurriedly shoving all my mummy/daddy issues into an overflowing box that refuses to shut) but check out what I made
Safer in the Fire - average138 - Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle [Archive of Our Own]
There will come a day when I write a Holmes fic that doesn't include gay panic homosexual angst* and a love confession in front of the Baker Street fireplace.
Today is not that day.
CHAS is such an interesting story. This fic ended up including the topics of mental health conditions, murder, queer history and the criminalization of homosexuality, on top of gay panic homosexual angst* and confessions of love. I'm very grateful for @julienbakerstreet and @friday411 for giving me feedback and encouragement, as well as catching my mistakes.
I hope you enjoy.
*edit/note: Thanks to Anonymous for pointing out my piss poor wording which implies the “gay panic defense”, the legal defense used in the US and other countries which refers to a situation in which a heterosexual individual charged with a violent crime against a homosexual (or bisexual) individual claims they lost control and reacted violently because of an unwanted sexual advance that was made upon them. That is not what I mean to convey here, that term is triggering, and I apologize.
Neither do I mean to imply “gay freak out” in the sense of “omg, I like someone of the same sex.” I mean something along the lines of the angst one feels when in the face of targeted aggression because of one’s sexuality (as this is set against a time when male homosexuality was criminalized in Britain) or perhaps when faced with intense homophobia in an unsafe space. It’s the danger we felt during the 80s AIDS crisis where the LGBTQ community was demonized, and the angst many of us feel today as we watch US states pass anti-trans legislation and generally work to systematically disenfranchise and oppress us.
Marginalized and oppressed groups have always created language to represent our lived experiences. There’s no need for a heteronormative word for “I have feelings for someone and am therefore faced with dangerous societal/legal repercussions because of our genders.” Is there a term for that? As a queer person who loves words, I’m asking genuinely, because growing up in the time before the 2000s it was such a visceral feeling and specific taste in one’s mouth. Anyway, sorry for the soapbox. This is an edit and apology!
I like to think his fanbase is half men who admire him and want to be like him in a good way and half toxic masculinity dudebros
The latter are gonna shit themselves when they learn that Kirishima couldn't help anyone back then and that Mina was the one who saved people even though she was scared. Imagine he gives a big shoutout to Mina and finishes with a big "Women can be manly too! Any gender can!" (similar to Crimson Riot's video)
I know it's more of a Zack thing, but hearing Sephiroth call Cloud "Puppy" as a nickname with voice acting in the flashback did cause my brain to short circuit
Especially with just how much more fucked up and unstable Remake Cloud is
lawrence going away for some work thing and missing adam an insane amount because they can’t be apart from each other for an extended amount of time and while adam’s back at their place with lawrences shirts, lawrence has nothing of his. nothing to remind him of adam, nothing that smells like him etc. so he buys a pack of cigarettes and just kinda lights one and let’s it sit there for a bit but it’s not enough so he’s like ah what the hell .. and then adam, who came to surprise him, walks in on dr. lawrence gordon md sitting in the little hotel room armchair with a cigarette halfway to his mouth and drops to his knees instantly with the speed of a sleeper agent being activated. or something
day 1 of convincing you to watch demons and daughters by sharing the most gay, heart wrenching, agonising sapphic love confession scene u will ever witness
you do not need any prior knowledge of dnd to enjoy this show, only a desire to see pining teenage regency era lesbians be gay and yearning and feral on a madcap journey to find their missing fathers, fight demons and break free of their patriarchal roles. the show is free on youtube!!
(ps if you watch to the end of the video you will giggle)