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itwoodbeprefect · 1 month ago

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happy 1 year anniversary to the election results that were so fucked they had me trying to take my mind off of things by watching what seemed like a toxic chinese queerbait show only to find something far more thoughtful and genuinely queer and interesting than expected and end up watching a bunch more unrelated things that are talked about in vaguely the same realms of the internet and then watch bad buddy twice in a row and fall into an endless bingewatch of thai media (some of which is mediocre, some of which is bad, much of which is simply pretty good, and some of which is genuinely incredible) and go, well, it would be a waste of all this language input i'm accidentally giving myself right now if i didn't at least learn a few words. thus accidentally locking myself into watching even more thai media because now i gain serotonin from hearing a sentence i know i could write

#this is about the dutch general elections of 2023. i know another election is probably still on most people's minds #it feels WILD that it's only been a year. and at the same time. the government they eventually formed based on those votes #is still hanging in there. and it feels like THAT's been going on for way longer than a year #*#ah well in happier news! i think it's the way part of me is forever roaming the internet in 2011 #but even when a BL (or GL! which is finally picking up!) series is bad. or just boring.#there is something in me that can't help but go !! oh my god? there's a hundred of these out there??#and we can argue definitions and representation and fetishization. but there are So Many queer people working on them these days #and not all but many of these stories are insightful and kind and clever and have a very queer beating heart inside of them #(and there's also something to be said for queer trash tv. that has a place! but i won't get into it)#and this is really truly only a thing of the past few years!!! this did not exist when i was a teen!!!#i'm still so young but i'm EASILY old enough to remember that. and now All Of That is just out there. often on youtube for free #if you are a teen TODAY you don't need to pick between settling for watching tara die on btvs. watching ianto die on torchwood #or watching queer as folk. which is not a knock on qaf but it's not necessarily tv for teens #instead there's like. dozens of queer people on modern western tv! there are ever more queer movies where nobody dies!#and there's just a goddamn fucking impossible-to-watch-in-one-lifetime amount of guaranteed happy end BL series out there #and it's insane!!! that is insane to me!!!#and is also maybe a good thing to remember in current times. things can and do change for the better #sometimes in ways you might not expect. sometimes you might not even know it's happening. but it does

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