#and not exactly “conventionally attractive”

[earlgraytay]

No actually I want to talk about this more, because I read a LOT of medieval monastic murder mysteries. I've read everything I can get my hands on, from Cadfael to Dame Frevisse to Name of the Rose to Shardlake.

The problem with these is that apart from Name of the Rose, most of these are written for one of two audiences:

Little old Christian ladies, who are shocked and scandalized by the slightest mention of homosexuality

Atheists who want to read about Christians Behaving Badly

So... in 90% of the ones I've read, if there's any gay, it's usually written as Someone Behaving Badly.

A lot of the time, it's meant to symbolize the corruption of the Church, how all these holy men have become blinded by their lusts- Name of the Rose and Shardlake both take this tack with some of their characters. Sometimes, it's just meant to be a threat to one of the protagonists- the one monk in Cadfael who goes chasing after a prettyboy (because his wife died and he's not taking it well) is a good example of the type. Very occasionally, you get a Tragic Prettyboy with a Dark Secret (he's gay) that makes him A Sinner and preoccupied with this.

On top of that, in current media in general and video games in particular, when there's a sympathetic gay male character... they're always conventionally attractive. And, like, video games, I get it, they're a love interest a lot of the time, but... if you've got a wonky looking gay guy, they're almost always evil, in a very specific way at that. They're corrupt and effeminate and mincing, and I love a good evil vizier but it just gets so old.

...So having a couple of gay monks who are just normal? Who are both kind of funny-looking, and whose gay relationship is treated with exactly as much seriousness and love as the straight monk and nun who get together?

That's a big deal. I don't think I've seen it before in the monk-mystery genre, and it's still depressingly rare outside of it.

Concussed gay penguins need love too.

One of the things I really appreciate about this game is that the gay monks are both funny-looking and very much in very real love

Neither of them are Hot Twinks. Brother Mathieu looks like a penguin with a concussion and Brother Rudger is like Abe Lincoln with a tonsure. But their love is genuine and they're both good.

[cinaminrolll]

okay, here me out… feyd-rautha 🥴

[elisedonut]

People picking some of the most stereotypically hot people as face claims for Percy when in reality he should look like uh

not like that

I know I'm a pretty Percy believer, but I just don't think it should be like a hot kind of pretty i think he should be divisive and a twig and should look Pretty in a way you could still argue some would not see the appeal

[aliciavance4228]

"Medusa x Perseus" Why don't you guys ship Bellerophon with Chimera? Or Heracles with the Hydra?

[strohller27]

Yes Hello to all my fellow Miss Lemon fans out there:

If you love her as much as I do, then 6.2 Hickory Dickory Dock is the episode for you

Now let us all just take a moment out of our busy day to bask in her glory:

That coat with those hats?? ICONIC she has such a flawless style

and this little scene where she's like 'this is just a quirk of Mr. Poirot's, don't worry about it' fellas help she's so cute

also HELP lads she took Poirot's comment about Inspector Japp's 'healthy appetite' way too literally!! LEMON SOLE! she's so funny aagh

Also she looks really damn good in burgundy wow

Also you know I hate the trope where guys tell ladies to take their glasses off and let their hair flow in the wind because they'd somehow be 'sexier' or whatever. That is just simply not true. Case in point: Look at how cute Miss Lemon is in her glasses!!

Just. Everyone just. Look at my favourite girl. Look at her!!! Her filing system is perfect! Her filing system could kick your ass!!!

[overly-hubristic-mad-scientist]

One thing about Dr. Daniel Cain is that he’s gonna be positively shit at his job

[borgialucrezia]

staring at all these david oakes gifs in the borgias and damn he's got such amazing bone structure as if sculpted by renaissance artists...someone dragged this man out of the 15th century to the modern day and you can't convince me otherwise!!

[voltrixz]

Auditor and phobos aroace spec. You agree with me.

[meneatyoghurt]

So since getting into sfth I've been watching a bit of other improv (having previously only like...seen Whose Line and watched a show from like a decade ago by the same production company that had a very brief run, called Fast and Loose) so I've seen a bit of Austentatious and got to know some of the performers in it a lot.

One of them is Graham Dickson, who I sort of feel like I've seen around somewhere before but I don't know where. Anyway. Just listening to a livestream and caught Tom saying "Sex and Improv: the Graham Dickson Story" and then going on to explain "he has sex with lots of students".* Sam and AJ loved it.

I love the insider improv gossip. The meta scene about Top Secret Comedy is really funny too. "There was asbestos in that basement." Little bitchy gossip boys. Fun when we get insight into how they operate as a group too and you can't quite tell how much of it is real and how much is made up. AJ going "we always argue!" really sticks in my head.

*Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with it if everyone is an adult but like he clearly has/had a bit of a reputation I wasn't aware of. Just thought that was funny.

(Also they have accused AJ of the same thing before and I'm never sure how much they're joking...)

[zukkaoru]

what is this fandom’s obsession with taking away dazai’s bandages. i don’t get it.

[elizabethrobertajones]

I am sad that we don't have the massive old people scales like Temulun or the Oronir storyteller for our WoLs. Let me give the men the scale porn stachs! And massive scales for all Au Ra!

Au Ra getting more and more scaled as they get older until Grandma is just chilling halfway up a warm brick wall :D

[soclearly]

i think there's a lot to say about the popular opinion of evan hansen and ableism... how people turn away from a story about mental health because it shows a realistic, not sugarcoated mentally ill teenager because it makes them uncomfortable and his characterization doesn't make them want to romanticize him or excuse his actions or give him the "he did all of it but i don't care" treatment. people don't like stories about mental health when they're about the not-cool, obviously mentally ill.

[millionsknives]

finnick sketch. btw

[genderdotcom]

i would draw japhet with cat ears but their hairstyle is the way it is specifically to accommodate for ears so if they didnt have ears there it would look weird but if they did have ears there they would have 2 sets of ears which is still weird

[theheadlessgroom]

@beatingheart-bride

"H-He...he is."

There was no denying it, Dave and the rest of his coworkers were indeed insufferable: They were complete snobs who looked down on most anyone who couldn't afford the higher-end products on hand, mocked customers' appearances behind their backs, and got patted on the backs for it by Minnie, who shared many of their small-minded views. They were less-than-pleasant people to work with, largely because, when there were no customers around to either tease or hit on, their attention would turn to Randall.

"I-I would get another job somewhere else if I could," Randall replied with a small sigh-there were lots of high end boutiques in New Orleans, very upscale places that could pay him a hell of a lot more than Minnie could (or was willing to, anyways).

"I've tried applying to them, but uh...they don't think I'm the right fit. I'm not...classy enough."

He then gave a small laugh, pausing to run a pale, bony hand through his curly black hair, saying, "I-I'm sorry, I don't mean to...unload all of that on you..."

He didn't know why he felt so comfortable telling her all of this; he only met her last night, and yet he felt so at ease with her, being so candid with her...it was funny, he still couldn't shake the feeling that they had met before...

[kitchensinksurrealism]

the genetics felt so bad for what they did to my parents' first kid's looks that they overcompensated massively on the second kid's looks