#biggest gay icon

[companion-showdown]

Who is the Biggest Gay Icon?

this tournament was suggested by @thenugking

GRAND FINAL:

Bill Potts vs Jack Harkness

previous rounds under the cut

SEMIFINALS:

Bill Potts vs Ianto Jones WINNER: Bill Potts

Jack Harkness vs Vastra & Jenny WINNER: Jack Harkness

QUARTERFINALS:

Yasmin Khan vs Bill Potts WINNER: Bill Potts

Izzy Sinclair vs Ianto Jones WINNER: Ianto Jones

Jack Harkness vs Ace McShane WINNER: Jack Harkness

Vastra & Jenny vs Jamie McCrimmon WINNER: Vastra & Jenny

ROUND 3:

Liv Chenka vs Yasmin Khan WINNER: Yasmin Khan

Leela & Romana vs Bill Potts WINNER: Bill Potts

Izzy Sinclair vs Clara Oswald WINNER: Izzy Sinclair

Iris Wildthyme vs Ianto Jones WINNER: Ianto Jones

Jack Harkness vs Liz Shaw WINNER: Jack Harkness

Ace McShane vs Fitz Kreiner WINNER: Ace McShane

Vastra & Jenny vs Jo Grant WINNER: Vastra & Jenny

Jamie McCrimmon vs River Song WINNER: Jamie McCrimmon

ROUND 2 (minor adjustments to placements in the bracket):

Liv Chenka vs Dodo Chaplet WINNER: Liv Chenka

Susan Foreman vs Yasmin Khan WINNER: Yasmin Khan

Leela & Romana II vs Mike Yates WINNER: Leela & Romana

Bernice Summerfield vs Bill Potts WINNER: Bill Potts

Izzy Sinclair vs Victoria Waterfield WINNER: Izzy Sinclair

Kate Stewart vs Clara Oswald WINNER: Clara Oswald

Iris Wildthyme vs Tegan Jovanka WINNER: Iris Wildthyme

Frobisher vs Ianto Jones WINNER: Ianto Jones

Jack Harkness vs Mel Bush WINNER: Jack Harkness

Zoe Heriot vs Liz Shaw WINNER: Liz Shaw

Ace McShane vs Vislor Turlough WINNER: Ace McShane

Harry Sullivan vs Fitz Kreiner WINNER: Fitz Kreiner

Vastra & Jenny vs Sarah-Jane Smith WINNER: Sarah-Jane Smith

Jo Grant vs Adric WINNER: Jo Grant

Jamie McCrimmon vs Nyssa WINNER: Jamie McCrimmon

The Brigadier vs River Song WINNER: River Song

ROUND 1:

Vastra & Jenny vs Ryan Sinclair WINNER: Vastra & Jenny

Romana I vs Sarah-Jane Smith WINNER: Sarah-Jane Smith

Steven Taylor vs Jo Grant WINNER: Jo Grant

Polly Wright vs Adric WINNER: Adric

Jamie McCrimmon vs Evelyn Smythe WINNER: Jamie McCrimmon

Donna Noble vs Nyssa WINNER: Nyssa

The Brigadier vs Mickey Smith WINNER: The Brigadier

Ben Jackson vs River Song WINNER: River Song

Izzy Sinclair vs Graham O'Brien WINNER: Izzy Sinclair

Victoria Waterfield vs Rose Tyler WINNER: Victoria Waterfield

Kate Stewart vs Alison Cheney WINNER: Kate Stewart

Grace Holloway vs Clara Oswald WINNER: Clara Oswald

Iris Wildthyme vs Rory Williams WINNER: Iris Wildthyme

Charley Pollard vs Tegan Jovanka WINNER: Tegan Jovanka

Frobisher vs Vicki Pallister WINNER: Frobisher

C'rizz vs Ianto Jones WINNER: Ianto Jones

Jack Harkness vs Hex Schofield WINNER: Jack Harkness

Mel Bush vs Sergeant Benton WINNER: Mel Bush

Zoe Heriot vs Ian Chesterton WINNER: Zoe Heriot

Martha Jones vs Liz Shaw WINNER: Liz Shaw

Ace McShane vs Sara Kingdom WINNER: Ace McShane

Lucie Miller vs Vislor Turlough WINNER: Vislor Turlough

Harry Sullivan vs Peri Brown WINNER: Harry Sullivan

Katarina vs Fitz Kreiner WINNER: Fitz Kreiner

Liv Chenka vs Adam Mitchell WINNER: Liv Chenka

Chang Lee vs Dodo Chaplet WINNER: Dodo Chaplet

Susan Foreman vs Amy Pond WINNER: Susan Foreman

Nardole vs Yasmin Khan WINNER: Yasmin Khan

Bernice Summerfield vs Dan Lewis WINNER: Bernice Summerfield

Barbara Wright vs Mike Yates WINNER: Mike Yates

Romana II vs Leela TIE: Advance Together

Wilfred Mott vs Bill Potts WINNER: Bill Potts

Previous Tournaments

[companion-showdown-dot-org]

for biggest gay icon, dont really want to include the robots (k9, kamelion, handles), so that would leave 4 slots to fill, so while the seeding round is going on with everyone else, my thought is to run one elimination group for the final 4 places, at the moment for that group I've got

Vastra

Jenny

Heather

Ianto Jones

Luke Smith

Sam Jones

Fey Truscott Sade

Izzy Sinclair

Chris Cwej

Liv Chenka

Helen Sinclair

Oliver Harper

Tania Bell

Valarie Lockwood

Cindy Wu

Cassini Sisters

The Roman Legion

Tosh

Owen

Gwen

Any suggestions have to be explicitly queer, no head-cannons

[rolandkaros]

i read that you don’t find iga/karo that compelling, but i have to know if you’ve read ‘the fine line’ by delacourt on ao3. like that fic is so well done even if u don’t ship it 😭 i highly recommend it because it’s a beautiful piece of fiction (and personally it turned me into a karo/iga truther) :)

oh i have read it and i greatly enjoyed it. dont get me wrong, not being 100% on a ship does not mean i wont read it or even that i wont casually ship it/have fun with it. mostly it just means i wont write it myself or explore the dynamic on my own. but that whole series was very good, plus i love both karo and iga so much that it wouldn't have even mattered if i wasn't into shipping them because i'll take any fics i can get 😭

[musical-chick-13]

UGH Why do so many songs I want to sing require a huge amount of charisma to pull off.

[cringecompanionapologist]

What we have learned today is that Ace has a more aggressive fandom than Jack. And basically every other character. As someone we considers Ace to be one of the best companions in the show, someone who likes Ace as a character more than Jack, I still think Ace’s fandom has become too powerful and no one else can compete.

[eklisindecisive]

The evolution of the impact that “Good Luck Babe,” and Chappell Roan’s music has had on myself and others should be studied.

Because I kinda knew her from Red Wine Supernova, but WHAT DO YOU MEAN this:

“When you wake up next to him in the middle of the night

With your head in your hands,

You’re nothing more than his wife,

And when you think about me,

All of those years ago

You’re standing face to face with

I told you so.

You know I hate to say,

I told you so.

You know I hate to say, but, I told you so”

IS NOW SEARED INTO MY SOUL.

[minthological]

happy pride i finally accepted that i'm ace after ten thousand years of denial. :) anyways i maybe will do pride commissions even though i do not have a following... but maybe soon i will make a post about it anyways because it's neat to do that....

[hippiecockatoo]

Bonnie's actual earring is blue in the cutout, but it's just interesting why here it appears red. Also fun fact, in the 80s (which is the era of the Glamrock style), one earring worn by men was a sign to others that they were gay :)

Another fun fact if you don't already know, Glamrock Freddy is heavily inspired by Freddie Mercury (lead singer of Queen) who is still known as one of the biggest gay icons!

These two found by @devilgirl7 ! ❤️

Found a screenshot of a bowling pin and ball (and a child's shoe for some reason) in Freddy's green room. Can't help but notice the ball is blue... 🤔

Glittering-Bat2106 over on Reddit mentioned that both Freddy and Chica have bowling balls in their green rooms (just them) which makes sense since they're part of the original 4 and we're probably the closest with Bonnie- but it's also important to note that the bowling balls they have are their own signature colors and are in the open more easily visible. The blue bowling ball is a completely different ball and is specifically hidden with a pin in a darker corner of the room.

[xamag-draws]

the new blog icon is the nb icon- [INCORRECT BUZZER] frank's biggest pride is his collection- [INCORRECT BUZZER] if you have any queeries about the butterflies- [LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER] it's the gay mo(n)th- [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

[companion-showdown]

i mean … we ALL know who the winner is gonna be right. likes it’s gonna be a sweep all the way through . good luck everyone else but only one person here has a whole sexuality test named after them because it’s so canon how gay they are for every living thing lol. much love xo

vote for Jack here

[companion-showdown-dot-org]

For the biggest gay icon tournament, Fitz Kreiner is bi and I'm also 90% sure Sam Jones (also from the EDAs) is bisexual too but I think it's more ambiguous

Fitz is on the list for a standard tournament so he's definitely going to be included, and TARDIS wiki says Sam is bi so I'll add her to the group the last 3 slots will qualify from

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Madhubala (Mughal-e-Azam, Barsaat Ki Raat, Mr. & Mrs. '55)—The Venus of India; heart-throb of all who saw her; responsible for the sexual awakening of every single desi lesbian I know (including me!) And my god, she is breathtakingly beautiful. Look at the subtle grace with which she moves, and that smile - the kind of radiant smile that can make you laugh with sheer delight, or cry because of its hidden pain. Those wild curls! That Cupid's bow! The way she tilts back her head and smiles at you with mischief dancing in her eyes! She has a way of looking at the camera that makes you feel she's sharing a private joke just with you; it's something about that quizzical twist of the lips and eyebrows. As an actress, she is inimitable; she seems to effortlessly inhabit roles ranging from a heart-broken courtesan to a laughter-loving socialite. Fun fact : she's had quite the fan following in Greece! Stelios Kazantidis even wrote a song as a tribute to her.

Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight, Casablanca, Notorious)—Where do I even begin with Ingrid Bergman? I fell in love with her with her astounding performance in the 1956 version of Anastasia -- the best Anastasia movie in large part due to her wonderful and touching performance. She's got this amazing, fascinating intensity to her in whatever role she's in. She commits 100%, and she's got this light in whatever she's in that's stunning. She's utterly convincing no matter what she plays, from an amnesiac possible lost princess, from a nun, from a woman taking her revenge on the town that wronged her, to light romantic comedy. She's never missed in any role I've seen her in! Also she became quite the MILF.

This is round 5 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Madhubala:

An icon of Bollywood, who was well known for her beauty and has continued to inspire performances and songs into the 21st century. She was at times described as "the number one beauty of the Indian screen" and "the biggest star in the world".

SHE IS EVERYTHING AHHH. JUST LOOK AT HER SMILE-

She's been nicknamed the Marilyn Monroe of India and was one of the highest paid actresses in the Hindi film industry (the term Bollywood did not exist yet) during the 1950s. Also an extremely talented dancer and singer

SHE'S JUST SO STUNNING, like seeing her eyes IMMEDIATELY CAPTIVATES YOU, THE DANCING, THE BEAUTY!!!!!!!!! She worked in Bollywood for over 20 years and passed away at a sad early age of 36, BUT THE IMPACT SHE HAD WAS UNMATCHED!!!!!

That sassy sideways glance she does always has me WEAK AT THE KNEES. And when she's making silly faces at the camera to mimic someone ahhhh my gay little heart <3

Ingrid Bergman:

God, she's fantastic. She's both beautiful and a compelling actor who's more than capable of putting the whole movie on her shoulders if necessary. It's worth noting that while her beauty is conventional, she was seen as refreshingly "natural" with more eyebrows and less makeup than many other leading ladies of the time. She's well known for her role in Casablanca, but in Notorious, Spellbound, (both available on archive.org ) and Gaslight (1944) she shows how immensely capable she is.

I mean...she's Ingrid Bergman. I feel like that should be enough, you know? She's physically beautiful (her eyes!) but watching her is like a transcendent experience. Her voice, her expressions... beautiful woman, beautiful actor.

I'm a gay man but even I understand her appeal. I'll watch any movie she shows up in. Gorgeous woman.

Just try and watch her movies without sighing wistfully, then get back to me!

Choosing 1-3 movies where Bergman was at her hottest was agony because, of course, she was always at her hottest. Not just because she was beautiful but because she was absolutely willing to go up against the bs women in Hollywood were constantly dealing with. When exiled from Hollywood for having an affair with Roberto Rossellini, not only did she refuse to apologize at any point, but she went on to say that Hollywood's films had grown stagnant and boring to her. Though she said she appreciated her time working there, she wanted to try new, different techniques (hence starring in Italian neorealist films, working on stage, and acting under directors like Ingmar Bergman). She was not afraid to chase after her artistic ideals and go outside the box regardless of what society had to say about it. From her first movie to her last she killed it. There's so much more to say about Bergman's career and life, but I've already written five million words so I'll stop at that.

ion words so I'll stop at that.

One of the most incredible actors I've ever seen on film. Her facial expressions are so intricate and poignant that I cannot look away. I'm either ace or straight, but damn she made me question that.

SEVEN TIME OSCAR NOMINEE QUEEN. Girl also PULLED, having affairs with famously hot men Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck IN ADDITION to her three marriages...sexy

She has a very natural beauty to her, and she's from Sweden!

She left Hollywood and only became more beautiful. You could drown in her eyes. She can look innocent AND like she's seen it all. She is effortlessly elegant. She's played Joan of Arc (automatically hot) AND was in the movie that coined gaslight as a term. And where would we be without that!

She was known for being a breath of fresh air on the movie scene at the time with her windswept hair, dreamy smile and soulful eyes. I have loved her in every movie I have seen her in - she was just magnetic!

Where do I even start. There's a neighborly quality to this beautiful, talented actress that makes her hotness one of a kind and her looks impossible to forget

With a career spanning five decades, Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history. Known for her naturally luminous beauty, Bergman spoke five languages – Swedish, English, German, Italian and French – and acted in each.

She's hot, don't get me wrong, but I've always found her very approachable, like she could easily be a member of my friend group

A lot of the time hotness in a movie is just about words and framing. "You're the most beautiful person here" [vaseline lens] well I sure hope so because that's who you cast. But when, in Casablanca, they call Ingrid Bergman the most beautiful woman in the world... they were not fucking lying. And such a dynamite actor too!! I'd only seen Casablanca up until last year, and there she's confined to love interest. But in Gaslight she was maybe one of the most incredible actors I've ever seen!!!! Goddddd shes so fucking hot and cool.

[rainbowsky]

Help me! I am about to pass out right now!! It appears that one of my biggest wishes is about to come true. I don't know what to do! 😭

I posted a while back my GG Request List Part 1, and in it I said that I really want to see GG perform this song. 😭😭😭

It is a song that was famously sung by Leslie Cheung to his lover Daffy.

I have long felt that it is inevitable that GG would be a Leslie Cheung fan. He was not only an iconic figure in entertainment, and a beautiful actor who performed in some of my favorite Chinese language movies (playing some of my favorite gay roles of all time), but he was also famously the first major celebrity to come out openly as gay in that region.

Pie made a really beautiful post that gives a heartfelt perspective on his life and career. I highly recommend this post as it is a fantastic read.

The thought that GG is going to be performing this song in less than 24 hours from now? I feel like my soul has left its body. 😭😭😭

[rootspiral]

Agatha All Along deep dive: episode 2 part 3

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agatha going UGH!!!!! when she sees jen's name. are you a toddler?? are you four????

"bougie probiotique" lmao

AGATHA

she's here she's queer she's gonna put an egg up her vajeer

sasheer zamata the glorious gay goddess that you are

"jen the potions guy" sounds amazing. I'd use that on my business cards

aaand once again I'm billy

I love that these two have clearly known and hated each other for centuries - sometimes you just see an enemy and immediately go, oh it's you motherfucker. and I think that's beautiful. (dear lord that store is so pink)

and once again: hilarious dialogue, heavy and dark undertones. jen has very, very legitimate reasons to hate and mistrust agatha, even more than she realizes. she will never open up to agatha like the others, and that's both fair and sexy of her. tbh she was too kind all things considered, that bitch deserved her ass kicked from here to the afterlife

case in point, agatha knows jen well enough to manipulate her into joining them. and jen knows agatha well enough to say what will hurt her. she picked the worst thing she could come up with

billy and the audience don't notice that agatha has just been stabbed in the heart

partners in crime, once again! agatha is so proud of her boy's lil manipulative side. and yep, billy is not as naive as he tries to appear. he's still a bit clueless, but he tries.

love how they're so deliberate in depicting the witches as a legit community with its own culture and history.

watch this scene again. now think about the rage and soul and desperation jen pours into winning her powers back from agatha. look at the way these two are being both so casual and so callous about jen's deep, bleeding trauma. not so funny a scene anymore, is it?

agatha shoving a fistful of paper in her mouth so she doesn't have to say rio's name also goes to the top five funniest list. she'll never beat the toddler allegations

and now she's gobbling a corn dog! see what I have to deal with here?? how can I keep it classy?

what's really iconic is bringing your gay son to hot topic

alice always looks a little hunched down, as if she had, idk, a giant disgusting harpy sitting on her shoulders. the more I think about it the sadder it gets

oooh, those are dorothy pigtails. i get it now.

you know, I said yesterday that agatha successfully cons jen and alice, but that's not true. she couldn't have swayed jen without billy's help, and she had alice completely wrong. she thought alice was looking for her mom, but Lorna didn't die on the Road and alice always knew it was a con - she's actually the world's biggest Road expert after agatha herself. seems like Agatha is pretty desperate and out of her depth without her mind reading powers. (wait, do we think billy is the one doing the mind reading, is that why he got to jen so easily?)

seeing her being so cruel with people's deep seated traumas is really upsetting me. especially considering how she guards her own trauma. feeling guilty afterwards is no justification, she knows exactly what she's doing.

these two need their own show. oh wait, they already have it.

but agatha saying "we don't need her" and then pushing people around in the mall - she is upset about what she just did to alice. and she's almost relieved she said no, that she gets to spare her. sweet, sad alice, so spiky on the outside, soft as a marshmallow on the inside. she did not deserve any of this. her death is entirely on agatha.

sighing and looking wistfully out of the window, she's in pain but determined to go on

meanwhile detective agnes is working hard to figure billy out, you can practically see the gears turning inside her head. I think at this point she already kind of knew, tbh. "I have a theory, but I need more."

aw

see you next for the ending of episode 2. and this time I'm giving a shoutout to @one-step-at-a-time25, who was having a lot of fun in the tags!

go to episode 2 part 4

[kaffkanya]

city on the edge of forever except when they go through the portal they come out in a 2024 pride parade and spocks immediately swarmed by DTF gays, they work at a gay bar for money

bones changes time by becoming the biggest bi icon in history

[omgthatdress]

Karl fucking sucked.