#anyway we're greek we're here we're queer

[cute-chamomile]

My favourite responses from non-Greek people on the internet so far are the ones who are like "you mean this whole time you didn't have marriage? But gay sex and ancient Greece-" and it's funny, I agree! But a) orthodox christianity holds so much power over the people still and b) the people who are conservative and use ancient Greece to fuel their supremacist thoughts do pick and choose which parts of the ancient greek history to celebrate and boast about, they are supremacists, they wouldn't play fair. And there are a lot of people who place their bigoted views on some long lost "glory" days like that. This took a lot of effort to get done and I'm really proud of us.

[steddie-island]

20, 32, 43 for the book asks!!

20 - Where and how do you find new books to read?

Honestly everywhere. I follow authors on instagram and tiktok and a couple here, plus I have a friend who is super into books and we're always talking about books we're excited for. I also peruse the book aisle at the grocery store just to see what's new because I'm a goblin who is constantly adding to the stack of books beside my bed. 😂 32 - Name your favorite author(s).

Number one, hands down, Katee Robert. They're a nonbinary author who primarily writes romance. She has a Disney villains series (Wicked Villains) that is *chef's kiss*. There's also an ongoing Greek Gods series (Dark Olympus) that I've really enjoyed. PLUS! They have a monster series if you're into that (Deal with a Demon). All of their books (that I've read, anyway!) are queer. They have plus size MCs who are seen as sexy (I just finished Electric Idol which is Eros and Psyche and holy shit the way Eros thinks about Psyche is. Whoo. Hoo boy.) They're diverse and they're badass and I love them. ANYWAY Katee is fantastic and I could talk about them for literally hours.

43 - Title of a book you own that's in the worst physical condition you have. Explain what happened to it. Post a picture if you want.

Honestly most of our books are in pretty good condition, so I don't have a fun answer for this. 😅 I have second hand books that have been written in, and a couple of books with some water damage (that's what happens when you read in the tub lol) but for the post part, any books that have been in bad shape I just replace if it's a book that was important to me.

Thanks for asking!! 🥰

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Baby Boomer Classics: Rockin' Fifties 1985 Rock & Roll / Rockabilly

Bunch of early rock & roll hits from the mid-to-late 50s on this cheat code release from the Baby Boomer Classics series here. You won't find anything on this that could remotely be considered obscure, but this is still a pretty sweet selection of essential listening if you've never really taken the time to venture back into this paradigm-shifting era before. Beloved music critic Robert Christgau has compiled his own lists of what he calls the 'basic record library,' which distills eras down to their must-haves for any collector/serious listener, and I think if we're talking 50s rock & roll, a majority of these tunes would be indispensable entries on a list like that.

So let's get into some of these then, starting with one-hit wonder Frankie Ford's jaunty New Orleans-made "Sea Cruise," a #14 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 from 1959 that sees Ford donning a deliberately brazen vocal affect that delightfully creaks on the choruses. His version of "Sea Cruise" is actually a cover of a song by another New Orleans R&B and rock & roll legend, Huey "Piano" Smith, whose own recording of it didn't see the light of day until 1971. And the reason why this piece of information is particularly important is because Frankie Ford used the *same exact* backing track from Smith's version that went unreleased for so many years. And what's more is that that backing track itself is really a piece of proto-ska, predating the dawn of that genre by about half a decade in Jamaica, which would eventually lead into the formation of reggae. So, on the surface, a song like "Sea Cruise" might seem like just some fun and silly rock & roll hit from the late 50s, but it's really so much more than that!

Next, "Keep A Knockin'," by one of the freest spirits that rock & roll has ever known, Little Richard, whose contagious and unbridled amounts of seemingly limitless energy managed to help him sell millions of records while being both black and visibly queer during an virulently racist and homophobic American 1950s. Released in 1957, this terrific shouter of a tune, with loud and brash sax too, would achieve top-ten Billboard Hot 100 status, and on Led Zeppelin's own classic 1972 hit, "Rock and Roll," John Bonham would show tribute to it by kicking off with its very drumbeat.

And lastly, "Willie and the Hand Jive," by Johnny Otis, a first-generation Greek-American who grew up in a predominantly black community in Berkeley, California, and decided that, despite the fact that he was not black himself, he would live his life as a black American anyway, and then legitimately went on to become the "godfather of rhythm & blues," not only as a musician, but as someone who had a knack for spotting real talent before anyone else. We seriously may have never heard of people like Etta James, Jackie Wilson, and Big Mama Thornton had it not been for this guy! 🤯

And as he adopted black culture—and also helped grow it—his most famous song would adopt its sound from one of rock & roll's greatest black rockers too, Bo Diddley, whose own unique and signature style would get its own name as the Bo Diddley beat. The most prominent song to employ this 'beat' for a good period of time was not one of Diddley's own, but Otis' "Willie and the Hand Jive," which would reach #9 on the Hot 100 in 1958. Following that, though, its status as most iconic Bo Diddley beat-song would be usurped by The Strangeloves' 1965 piece of proto-punky garage rock bubblegum in "I Want Candy," which would then be famously covered in 1982 by new wave group Bow Wow Wow too.

So, again, nothing underheard on this album, but overall, a short collection of very popular songs that people should still know about. As time goes on and classic rock and oldies stations proceed to advance their playlists further forward in time, these songs find themselves less and less appreciated, but a lot of them are really no less important now than they were when they were first recorded, because they really represent the edifice that holds up so much of everything else.

Highlights:

Eddie Cochrane - "Summertime Blues" Frankie Ford - "Sea Cruise" Buddy Holly - "Peggy Sue" Jerry Lee Lewis - "Great Balls of Fire" Little Richard - "Keep A Knockin'" Johnny Otis Show - "Willie and the Hand Jive" Chuck Berry - "Maybellene"

[mariana-oconnor]

The Greek Interpreter pt 1

I remember this one. Yet again, I remember details, but no solutions. But I might recall more as I read along. I've definitely read this one multiple times and seen the Granada version of it. I will absolutely try not to spoil if I remember anything that gives the ending away.

I actually find it surprising how many times I have read some of these and how the thing I almost always forget is the solution. Weirdly, with Agatha Christie mysteries the who and how is usually the thing that sticks in my mind, apparently with Sherlock Holmes, I remember weird details rather than the relevant stuff.

Anyway, on with the tale:

During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr Sherlock Holmes I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his own early life. This reticence upon his part had increased the somewhat inhuman effect which he produced upon me, until sometimes I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in intelligence.

The first thing I thought was 'Spock', because that post kept going across my dash a little while ago about how many 'surprise' relatives Spock had during TOS. And this whole thing reads very vulcan. I'm going to assume that's because Spock was intentionally or subconsciously based on Sherlock Holmes.

However, here we get the modern and very uncomplimentary image of Sherlock as 'a brain without a heart', which we've seen multiple times to be untrue. I'd say that anyone can fake empathy and kindness, and that a lot of people affect having more of these than they actually feel, that in many ways is part of the social contract. Perhaps I am cynical.

But particularly in the case of Mary Sutherland, where Sherlock threatens her stepfather and appears genuinely angry on her behalf, and on several other occasions where he refers to villains in very scathing and angry terms, we see evidence of feeling that seems genuinely emotional on behalf of someone else. That seems less potentially fake to me than the gentleness. (I'm not saying the gentleness is faked, I'm just saying that there's more of an argument to say that he could/would be faking with that - to put people at ease, to get more information out of them - as opposed to the more negative emotions he declares to himself or to Watson in private which have little purpose other than to vent emotion.)

However, Watson's being a little unfair, here. Also, his reasoning is faulty.

His aversion to women and his disinclination to form new friendships were both typical of his unemotional character, but not more so than his complete suppression of every reference to his own people.

None of this is a sign of someone who doesn't have emotions. These are just signs of a queer introvert with a complicated relationship with their family, Watson. In fact, I'd also suggest that someone who effectively never mentions their family probably has quite strong emotions about that subject. You don't avoid talking about something you don't care about one way or the other.

I get that this is all set up, but I just wanted to say.

...one day, to my very great surprise, he began to talk to me about his brother.

Mycroft time is upon us!

In a bit we're going to get to one of the character descriptions that sticks in my brain the most out of all the things I have ever read. It's Watson's description of Mycroft and Roald Dahl's description of the Twits. Those two haunt me to this day.

...the conversation, which had roamed in a desultory, spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic, came round at last to the question of atavism and hereditary aptitudes.

I swear I'm not going to quote every paragraph of this part. But this is such a lot of words. 'Obliquity of the ecliptic'? I literally work with words and have a degree in them and I had to look that up.

Wikipedia tells me: 'Obliquity of the ecliptic is the term used by astronomers for the inclination of Earth's equator with respect to the ecliptic, or of Earth's rotation axis to a perpendicular to the ecliptic.'

The ecliptic being the orbital plane of the earth.

So it's the angle between the axis the earth spins around and the circle of the earth's orbit around the sun. Which... has Holmes learnt that the earth revolves around the sun now?

So I guess what Watson is saying is 'we were having a very clever discussion like very clever people'.

But now they've gone onto the classic nature vs nurture debate.

Watson is all for nurture, while Holmes is arguing for nature because... drumroll... of his brother Mycroft!

"My dear Watson," said he, "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. When I say, therefore, that Mycroft has better powers of observation than I, you may take it that I am speaking the exact and literal truth."

Holmes has an excellent sense of self-worth, and I like how this centres the fact that he is realistic about it. He doesn't believe in false modesty, but he is willing to acknowledge some people are better than him even at the things he prides himself on.

"The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men."

Yep. That's Mycroft. This is not the description I was talking about above. But boy, how the evolution of language changes the potential meanings of a text for readers.

"But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solution, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right."

Mycroft is also very relatable. He could try to prove himself right, but why bother when his chair is so comfortable and he already knows he's right? There's no point. And he'd have to move, ugh. I actually quite like Mycroft as a character, even in the original stories, and I like that he cares so little about other people's opinions that he doesn't care if they think he's wrong. Mycroft is a hobbit and you cannot convince me otherwise. He sits in his comfy hobbit hole, smokes pipeweed and eats food and people watches, and doesn't want anything to do with adventure, no sir. Why would he want that when there's a comfy chair, a nice pair of slippers and second breakfast about to be served?

Mycroft Holmes was a much larger and stouter man than Sherlock. His body was absolutely corpulent, but his face, though massive, had preserved something of the sharpness of expression which was so remarkable in that of his brother. His eyes, which were of a peculiarly light, watery grey, seemed to always retain that far-away, introspective look which I had only observed in Sherlock's when he was exerting his full powers. "I am glad to meet you, sir," said he, putting out a broad, fat hand like the flipper of a seal.

Here it is. The description that will stick with me forever: 'like the flipper of a seal'. That's just so... very evocative. And unflattering. All those wet, clammy implications. Also, Watson really wants you to know Mycroft is fat, btw. In case you didn't notice. But yeah, not a flattering description, but not as judgemental as his descriptions of other people. There is a certain respect in this description - until we get to that seal simile. Yeah... the seal thing really gets to me. It makes me shudder a bit every time. It's strange, because I always remember the bit before as being more scathing, but it's actually quite matter of fact, if repetitive. It's the seal thing that really adds a weird edge of mild disgust to the whole thing. And I love seals.

Is there an animated version of Sherlock Holmes where they're all animals and Mycroft is a seal? There should be.

"By the way, Sherlock, I expected to see you round last week, to consult me over that Manor House case. I thought you might be a little out of your depth." "No, I solved it," said my friend, smiling.

The sibling energy is strong in this whole exchange. Just that competitive little edge they have with each other.

"An old soldier, I perceive," said Sherlock. "And very recently discharged," remarked the brother. "Served in India, I see." "And a non-commissioned officer." "Royal Artillery, I fancy," said Sherlock. "And a widower." "But with a child." "Children, my dear boy, children."

Just the utter rhythm of this and the clear fact that this is a game they have played with each other for years, both trying to outdo the other, but it all seems quite amicable. It reminds me of playing games in the back of the car with my big brother on long car journeys. He was always better than me at them, but we still had fun.

The Sherlock-Mycroft double act is a well-practised performance. I love it. Then Watson gives them the opportunity to show off their working and they do that as a double act as well.

I think you can absolutely see Mycroft's existence as explaining things about Sherlock - why he enjoys having Watson around to explain things to and show off for. As a child, clearly he was always the one slightly behind his brother and it makes sense that he enjoys having someone impressed by him the same way he was probably impressed by Mycroft as a child.

Absolutely no case in this section. Just Mycroft. And honestly I am fine with that. This scene is iconic.

[geo-goes-hard-yall]

HEY GANG WHATS UP!

I'm Geo lol and uhhh I'm currently going through a religious crisis and have been for a couple years now like more than 4 kinda crazy right! Anyways I'll mainly reblog different posts about Artemis or Nyx two Greek goddesses Artemis being god of the wild and the moon while Nyx is a personification of the moon so we're kinda sensing a pattern here yall- I'm aroace and insanely queer! So if I post queer shit about them and it's offensive I apologize I'm still learning about what's right and what's not I've never been super religious but crisis go brr so yeah let me know if I'm being offensive or whatnot I apologize! I'm exploring the witchy side of Tumblr now

[plantdad-dante]

Book #110 - Goddess by Josephine Angelini

(at which point am I allowed to call all of this bullshit insulting)

How is it that I have yet to come upon an Iliad retelling that follows the "Helen actually wants to be there" idea which doesn't just straight up suck? I'd like to think I'm open to that. It shouldn't be a guarantee for failure.

So then why the fuck do all of those retellings/adaptations paint the Greeks as barbaric savages with DV eyes who never heard of compassion or decency, let alone hygiene, and all the Trojans as these kind, charming pretty people who could never do anything wrong, ever? Why do they all lack moral nuance. Why are they afraid of holding their protagonists accountable.

And even among those, I have never before witnessed one that flinched so hard at even the suggestion of narrative accountability. The book keeps making shit up to take as much responsibility from its faves as it is humanly possible, and it should have become comical at some point, but instead it just kept getting worse.

Anyway, some choice quotes and highlights fom my notes:

- So Orion's mum is "insane", "the kind of insane that is dangerous to be around" (yes, those are direct quotes). Such a tactful, nuanced portrail of mental illness. Bravo, truly. Bravo.

- If I understand this book correctly, then all the Starcrossed House of Atreus inherited from the actual House of Atreus (Agamemnon, Menelaus, etc.) is the name. Which is disappointing. Petition to rename it House of Helen or something?

-So... Paris looks like Lancelot who looks like Lucas who looks like Orion's dad who looks like Odysseus, and all of them look like Poseidon. I... I don't think this was thought through, tbh.

- light note: Hector went swimming in jeans. Was very astonished that he managed to keep his cool during the confrontation with Apollo, while his legs were in the grips of a denim boa constrictor. (who goes swimming in jeans????)

- speaking of that scene... "It was a queer-sounding cackle - not human, and a little less than sane." (again, direct quote.) Someone tell grandma that you can't say shit like this anymore, what the fuck. This came out in 2013, ffs. Jesus, you're lucky I read so much 19th/early 20th century lit, or I might have interpreted that sentence in a 100% less charitable light. (also, of course it has to be Apollo who gets described like this... not defending Apollo, just not a fan of biphobia or -erasure. which, yes, of course all his targets/victims here are female. did you expect anything else?).

- Since the presences of neither Demeter or Artemis get even alluded to at the duels/war, I'm choosing to picture them taking one long look at all of this and then saying "nah, we're good. we're just gonna sit this one out." and then they're just chilling on Olympus, maybe taking a nature walk while the rest of the fam go embarass themselves.

- Matt-as-Achilles looks at Hector and thinks "aw, him and his gf are reuinted. They were always such an awesome power couple. Hope it turns out better for them this time." And I ask, again, at what point am I allowed to call this insulting. Like, sorry, but if I suddenly got possessed by a magic dagger that sorta kinda turned me into a reincarnation of Achilles, I would not look at the splitting image of Hector of Troy and think anything other than "Hey. That's the guy who drove me into the deepest grief and the loudest wrath back in the war. I almost went insane because of him. Threw away my life and my principles just to kill him." Be serious.

- Why invoke shit you're never gonna follow up on. Why tease me with Arthuriana like this when you're not gonna do anything with it? Why promise me Nemesis when you don't even seem to be aware who she is??

- Why am I supposed to sympathize with God!Helen? Or any of her immortal posse? Also, why did this book end up punishing Ariadne so hard? She didn't do anything, did she?? She didn't even make a moral decision, she just sided with her bf. And everyone else got forgiven for that! Also, she deserved more than being a stand-in for the bland non-character that is Briseis. She only got that face so this version of Achilles would have a girlfriend (which hurts to type) and that's honestly just... yeah, it's insulting. To everyone involved.

- OH. Btw, Patroclus gets, like, name-dropped, once, when Helen remembers Achilles challenging OG Hector, "half-insane with grief", but nothing comes of that comment, it's a single sentence, and then the whole ordeal doesn't even get alluded to anymore. Matt fights Hector on moral grounds alone, on an issue that gets side-stepped later anyway, and- ugh.

- Every single relationship in this book is either a bad idea, rushed, toxic, or any combination of these. The Hector/Andromache speedrun especially was done in some very speaky clownshoes, and... ugh, did we have to make Orion a nonce? Did we? Did we really? You don't have to pair up everyone at the end, you can leave the fourteen-year-old prophet alone, Jesus. It's not that hard.

I wanted to do a contemplatative post for this last one. Look back on the series as a whole, reflect a bit... But no. No, I needed to yell, again. Because sometimes you just need to write a comprehensive list of why nobody should spend money on something. And I'm so very glad I didnt.

Reading this trilogy felt like chugging poison. Like I was doing a keg-stand, but the keg was full of poison. Well, folks, the keg is empty. And I'm gonna read some really fluffy shit now. Teeth-rotting queer fluff extravaganza. Fuck you.

[allofthebeanz]

@ds30below

Okay!

So, back when I was 19 - just starting college - my mother finds this 90s tv show she used to watch and tells me it's something I'd really like. Spoilers: I love it. We start watching Due South (seasons 1 and 2, my schedule changed later) before I go to class. It's a fun and relaxing show, I don't really become obsessed with it like I have now.

My nineteenth year is probably the most informative year in my life. At this point, I know that I'm not heterosexual. I'm pretty sure I'm somewhere on the ace spectrum, but still attracted to men. Maybe women? Who's to say. (We're not even gonna go into Gender because Baby Beanz knew fucking nothing)

Anyways, after I was scarred from watching Victoria Secret, the first half of season 2 is pretty nice. I'm having a grand old time watching Ray talking to an old girlfriend who became a nun, and knowing basic narrative structure, I recognize immediately that Fraser going 'oh, I have to step in somewhere, bye Ray' means the classic cross dressing episode's upon us.

Here we go. Fraser walks in with his heels and his dress and his wig, and I'm ready to see how they're gonna reveal the classic 'gag' (yuck). And then... oh. What. The. Fuck?

My mom's literally sitting next to me, unaware of her child having a full out sexuality crisis. I'm blushing like an idiot. I'm questioning everything I ever knew. Oh my god, he looks like Xena, that's why I think he's pretty, that's all. Oh, wait, fuck, I think Xena's pretty. Is that normal? Is that a straight girl thing? What what what

It suddenly dawns on me that I have never reacted to Fraser this way before. Women are throwing themselves at him, overcome with lust like he's some Greek god, and all I've been is 'he looks nice :)'. That's it. And here's Fraser doing hair flips and licking shoes and a Tragic Backstory and I'm in dire need of a swooning couch.

Fraser returns to presenting masculine and you know what? I still have some moments where I blush at him and he's not a woman. No other male character does this to me. I explore out in the wild. No man in real life has had this reaction. I'm more confused than ever.

I dwell on this for a few months until it finally hits me: I like women. I am attracted to women. When my friend's mom asked me if Ares on xwp was hot I just sort of went ???. Just the other day I asked my sister 'why are all girls so pretty but there's only like one in ten men that look nice :/'. Holy shit, I'm gay

Only... why do I still find Fraser attractive? He's a guy, right? Well, apparently the brain went: that character is nonbinary/genderqueer. This has been my headcanon since this episode. I look at a picture of Paul Gross, a man, and I get nothing. Is he pretty? Duh. Is he attractive to me? Nope. But Fraser is. Fraser, who honestly you could argue is agender or genderless or somewhere along those lines. Not a man.

Benton Fraser literally was my queer awakening. This is why this show will always hold a special place in my heart

For History Week, who wants to know the story of how Benton Fraser made me realize I wasn't attracted to men?

[planetwaving]

okay so um francis @by-thunder gave a brainworm with his tags abt a mamma mia monkees musical so. here's my ideas for

Monkee Mia (working title)

first of all this would have to be a fusion/crossover w some of the og mamma mia characters just bc there is Not enough recurring monkees characters to fill all the roles :')

SO

Micky as Donna -

i think he fits well as the wild character who was getting it on w all three of the others on some greek island . also because i love projecting wanted the story to make sense, micky is trans <3 i can't decide whether he was out when his kid was conceived and the Fathers knew, or if he's come out since and now its like surprise !!! that masc girl you got with 20 years ago is a guy now (and you still find him hot)

Mike as Sam -

basically mike is engaged and getting married too young to try n ignore the fact that he's gay, and obviously it's not going to be a very happy future for mike (or his fiance). and then he meets micky - so quick sidetrack here, i can't think of a way mike would get to greece? on his own? so either the whole story is actually just set in LA or cali wherever instead of greece OR micky gets w mike in california and then soon after goes to greece (this could work for the whole 'i came back 2 weeks later and you were gone' thing) - okay so yeah they have like a few weeks or aonth together? and they fall in love ofc, but then micky finds out about mike's fiance (phone call or letter or the classic finding a photo) and they fight and mike goes back (to texas? to his fiance anyways) and then yeah the whole 'i broke it off w my fiance and came back for you but you were already gone' thing - however that works out

Peter as Bill -

idk most of my reasoning here is that he's also a scandinavian hippy who would 100% just travel around in a boat if he could... he meets micky (if we're doing greece then they meet in greece and peter has a boat like bill does; if just cali then i think he's more of a roaming surfer) at like. the beach i guess, they have a fling for a couple noghts and then part amicably - i think peter's moving onto somewhere else, and they split as friends :)

Davy as Harry -

again my justification here is mainly that i can easily equate the characters - davy as a timid little queer-coded english guy isnt that hard to imagine lmao. anyways instead of how in the movie harry basically sleeps with donna to try n convince himself that ge's straight, this is davy having like. his first gay experience. i think if we do greece then they meet in greece bc davy's doing the whole english boy does the Med thing for like a gap year or whatever, and if we do cali then he's visiting the west coast from new england where he's doing broadway or uni or smth. either way they have like a one night stand, and davy afterwards somehow manages to briefly bump into peter - not knowing who he is of course but i think maybe pete helps him sort some stuff out (they probably meet in a bar or something)

uhhh in terms of the main storyline with the fathers showing up to the wedding, i'm just gonna leave sophie and skye as they are and have their same storyline lol .... that is not the focus here. obviously Sophie's dynamic w each of them will be different to the og dads:

i think mike is the one who teaches her some guitar and is all like omg... youre so quick to learn... and they have that cute little bond w him being a biiit awk over the whole 'micky's kid' thing but he gets over it eventually

peter teaches her about either the boat or surfing and they just have a super chill vibe.. he shows her some photos of him & mick in the hippy days (more later on time period setting)

davy & sophie go into hysterics over what a nutter micky was for just getting it on with this rando he found moping arnd the beach (and talk abt his awakening etc?) and they're besties from there i reckon

okay so about time period setting:

as much as the original mamma mia is iconic for being in like a timeless little greek town, i think it's important to have the time period when all of them met (and sophie was conceived) be the late 60s, bc well. thats when the show characters existed & were young. that doesnt mean it would be specifically set in the late 80s or whatever bc again - timeless greek island (unless we do the beach of course which . idk what would happen w that id just not refer to current events) but yeah . summer of love etc <3

if i did end up writing this i'd probably change sophie's character up a liiittle just to make her more matched with what micky's kid would be like, but probably not skye bc he's a bit 2D anyways (would def change the names but idk what to)

i'd keep tanya&rosie as micky's friends bc theyre honestly perfect as is, and would include them in flashbacks pre much the same as in mm:hwga (rosie would fancy peter etc)

me and my friend had the atrocious idea of calling their trio 'micky and the minnies' instead of donna and the dynamos, which i would definitely not do but i DO think they should still have their singing group bc !!!! micky can sing boy !!!!! and i love the idea of him doing the whole glam rock glitter thing for sophie's hen party <3

anyways yeah plot pretty much stays the same, sophie & sky end up travelling instead of getting married, i dont think mike would outright propose to micky (ambiguous setting is suddenly a bit questionable once you start thinking abt gay marriage/recognition of trans people etc) but they def get together in a more private moment that same day.. im not saying peter/rosie endgame if anything it's tanya/rosie endgame and peter/davy endgame even if both are ambiguous bc i believe thats how the og movie shoulda worked out anyways >:)

this is absolutely batshit wild all over the place. and i think i need to actually write this AU now.... but lmk if you guys have any further thoughts !!

[transastronautistic]

sometimes i really miss my good omens fic writing days......last one i wrote is an unfinished one from 2016 that i occasionally daydream about finishing. it was just so fun and a great way to practice writing and i loved being part of a fandom in that way.

writing fic was also a vital part of my coming into my own queerness. i moved from still-not-sure-about-the-whole-gay-thing to embracing and loving being queer. i started falling in love with my now-wife in the midst of my fic writing days and i swear i can mark the progression of my crush on her within how i wrote Aziraphale’s and Crowley’s relationship lmao. i also got to explore gender stuff through them. just. i love that about fic and fandom! i think it provides a medium for lots of us to explore in this way — with feedback and support from others!

the good omens fandom has changed drastically since the show came out and i’m not involved in it anymore and i miss it. those were good times.

anyway it’s 5am and i’m looking through my phone notes at fic fragments and ideas i never wrote....no clue what the majority of them are even supposed to mean! but here are my favorites — some cuz they are actually compelling and some cuz they’re completely nonsensical this many years out from jotting them down

[“This isn't about our ssstupid Arrangement, Aziraphale. It's about...it's about...An angel who couldn't bear to see those poor humans go cold and alone into the world."]

[Slightly older Adam

they come to chide him for using his powers

"Well how would you like living without powers, like boring humans?"

Makes them human, refuses to fix it for a while]

[For God's--no, for Satan's--no. No. Not for the sake of some distant and powerful being. He was doing this for someone smaller, less important in the eyes of the universe but all the universe to him.

For Aziraphale's sake.]

[In Greek myths, heroes must undertake a journey into the underworld to complete their quest.

Crowley would have been just fine with the underworld. It was no Herculean labor to get into Hell. Heaven, on the other hand...]

[Azi's new human form is shorter than usual--"Is heaven downsizing?" Crowley snickers]

[“Because we're friendsss, Aziraphale!"

Aziraphale's heart twisted at the word friend, but he refused to let it show. His kept his next words cold--he had to get Crowley to leave.

"You seem to be confused, demon. We are mortal enemies. I cannot help you. Good bye."

[then Aziraphale does lots of cute things to make it up to him]]

And finally, the most baffling of all...

[potato head bully factors]

*freckle voice* what does it mean, what does it all mean

[idiot-on-the-hill]

kill your darlings

so, after years of research and being queer, I have concluded that this is the gay aesthetic: water, battered greek gods, a yearning that will kill you, and crime. all the crimes. actual murder. If we're going to hell anyways, why not? I guess we want to feel like our place in hell was earned and justified. can you imagine? dinner with all of satan's damned souls, each with a sin worse than the last, and when your turn comes, and they ask "what're you in here for?" all you can say is "love." how lame would that be? how sad?

Inspired by @insomniac-arrest (completely true) post about gay imagery in media

[toomanywips]

To tell you some stuff about it...

NONE of the merpeople are white, only partly white passing but they're mostly Latinos (I need to read up more on the culture etc, pls don't judge me yet)

potential love story but maybe just a deep and meaningful friendship idk for sure yet? Maybe just a friendship based on the typical "wouldn't that be funny" fuckery of the Greek gods who knows

Thinking about good ways to include different disabilities (any ideas for disabilities or how to include it very welcome!!)

I don't know if some of the characters come up or are even alive already but there are definitely queer characters (including aros and aces)

Since we're here they can shapeshift, also basically making them not giving fucks about genders

Don't know if that clashes in any way but them literally not really having the whole gender nonsense (why would you if you can literally be genderless or switch in a heartbeat?)

Fucking rebels (dunno if the two main rebels and their generation is even born yet but they exist anyway)

Chaotic dynamics

Badass warrior bitches

My fave useless bitch boy (he is really dumb in some ways; also potentially not born yet don't ask me who the main one is, I don't even know what generation 😭)

Writing idea

About three years ago I started a fanfiction, adding characters (bc shame on all those series/movies about supernatural beings only having vampires and werewolves in it, maybe witches if you're lucky) and it got out of hand well thought out and since the plot I had back then makes literally no sense and I am no longer happy with squeezing the whole culture etc I came up with in a fanfic I want to make an original story out of it.

I talked to my partner and they came up with the idea of using a fisherman's tale to tell the story (which makes a lot of sense bc basically its about a group of merpeople, in the fanfic I basically made all the non-cannon creatures go into hiding in "secret communities" or live as humans due to hunting reasons to explain why they aren't common in the original media but the communities basically are still more or less in touch with each other so I made up characters of other species as well). We aren't sure how to design the story to tell everything I want to without it feeling forced but the idea literally came up while we were talking in bed before sleep yesterday so give us time.

The question I have is: are you interested in that idea?

Please let me know if you would want to read it