#can a cat be queercoded?

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"why are you calling nayu "medako"?" she's based on andromedako from nayutalien and old habits die hard, i guess

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if they get more guest voice actors i will lose my shit and then die

"you like chiaki and nayu/elzemekia's vas though!" THEY KNOW HOW TO ACT. MOST OF THE OTHER GUEST VAS DON'T.

... i don't know who this guy is, though. i was talking about the actual character he represents

in case you missed the ranto slander (i'm sorry @crystal-meloetta12) (i have a pq liveblog where i kind of slander yosuke too. i don't think we'll ever truly see eye-to-eye character-wise) (i actually really like yosuke lmao)

i then proceeded to scream at ranto because he ran away before discovering what the dogs were up to. after following a dog for 3 hours.

i don't dislike kengo benimaru, it's just that wild boy is better

... and so is goromi!

what's important is that goromi was there, and that she tried

not his brightest moment. but when does he even have one of those

he said creatures, as in, not jinpei himself, but still

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[howicked]

[It was] partly because of Bridget's work, and then the character is a departure from what I usually play – sunny characters. But at the heart of him, he represents an extreme reaction to progressiveness and [the idea of] a different future. Like many people who attach themselves to these views, he’s just desperately sad and lonely and angry. I think that's at the heart of him, really… just sort of naive and ignorant and not genuinely hateful. He represents that kind of person who hasn't experienced any change and is desperately interested in his environment. (x)

Jim Howick as The Verderer / Jim in THE CHANGE (2023-)

[beliscary]

there's a tower in belisaere called dolorous bastion

[howler-moon]

HI EVERYONE AGAIN!!!! I'm scared of Tumblr and idk how it works but a lot of people seemed to like the previous post I made so!!thanks !! I honestly don't know how much content I'm going to make of it so I leave this morsel for now like a cat leaving a dead mouse on your doorstep as a present.

I've decided to call this the MoonSol Au because there's actually no possible way for the Erin's to do this so yeah. It was just one of the silly little brainstorms I like doing where I grab at the most vague of strings and try and tie some sort of au together, I've not really taken it too serious it's literally me that I can't take seriously please help me.

I've thought of some more little titbits if anyone's interested

-Tawnypelt and Leafstar have shared custody of Moonpaw Buddy Daddy style. It's not actually clear whether they're queercoded or they're just two random old women adopting a child together. Moonpaw keeps queerbaiting everyone with them because she wants people to know she's an ally.

-Moonpaw hates her parents, not because they are ginger but because they are cousins.

-the ideal Moonpaw personality in this Au is that she's stupid in an endearing way. She's reckless, impulsive and naive who genuinely means well but lacks the forward thinking skills to stick the landing. Maybe she's a bit of a hothead too.

-Moonpaw is the one poisoning the Moonpool on Sol's behalf. Like half way through the arc something happens that puts her in a bit of a funk and she embraces that she was Sol in a past life. She's angry hurt and confused. Angry tears Erin's we need angry tears!!! Tawny and Leaf are heartbroken to see what their happy little daughter has become.

-The new territory will be in Cleveland

-Moonpaw (like Hollypaw before her) mistakes Sol as being a lion and thinks that means she's special maybe??? Idk I heard Ivypool might be going to the zoo in her special edition so maybe I can tie it in there somehow. Moonpaw also has never heard of Sol before and Sol is building up a false narrative about himself to her obviously.

-Midnight the badger makes an appearance and she is in possession of a gun.

That's all for now!!!

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Ernest Thesiger—who could forget him camping up the screen as doctor pretorius in bride of frankenstein??? a few years before that legendary role he also appeared as the haughty horace femm in the old dark house, creating another memorable weirdo in another witty horror classic from his friend james whale. thesiger was a seasoned theater actor renowned for his comic abilities who moved in many literary and artistic circles, where he was a notorious eccentric and wit and is said to have made no particular secret of his queerness, and his friends included george bernard shaw, john sargent sargent, somerset maugham, radclyffe hall, and ivy compton-burnett, several of whom based fictional characters on him or wrote parts specifically for him (also if anyone here happens to know the gormenghast books, mervyn peake loosely based doctor prunesquallor on him). when he wasn't acting he occupied himself with many artistic endeavors and was particularly expert at petit point embroidery, exhibiting his work internationally and publishing a book on embroidery; he was also skilled at painting, knitting, crochet, lacelace-making, beadwork, costume and jewelry design, and probably more. his screen appearances are always delightful and i just can't imagine a world where we didn't have his signature flamboyant, comic, and menacing gaunt weirdos enriching cinema (supposedly the studio wanted claude rains for pretorius which would have been a wildly different vibe), so give it up for my man ernest.

ZaSu Pitts (Greed, The Bad Sister, Shopworn, Dames, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)—The vocal inspiration for Olive Oyl in the Popeye cartoons! ZaSu Pitts started out doing a variety of roles during the silent era, but audiences couldn't take her seriously after the advent of sound, to the extent that preview audiences laughed at her dramatic performance in All Quiet on the Western Front and the role had to be recast. Her doleful eyes, fretful handwringing and quavery voice brought interest to what might otherwise have been forgettable supporting roles, often as flighty spinster types, and it's that wonderfully cartoonish voice and pathetic demeanour that give her true scrungle quality.

This is round 1 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you're confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here.

[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Ernest Thesiger:

He just... has the right vibes. He's so eccentric, but he has so much scrungle that goes with that. I don't think he's ever played a "normal" character in his life!

He's the OG queercoded villain to me. He often plays mad scientists or morally dubious eccentrics, so he's got the perfect scrungly combo of being physically non-intimidating and arch yet vaguely threatening in his presentation and behaviour. He is extremely camp.

Just look at him. He looks like a cat became human

ZaSu Pitts:

2:15-5:23 in the film below [editor's note: I haven't watched the whole film, so no content warnings if you choose to watch all of it.]

[simonxriley]

Skylar "Phoenix" Jackson (r6s) // Liz Walker (cod) Kaiya Kobayashi (oshi no ko) // Homura Kobu (kaiju no.8)

I was tagged by the wonderful @cloudofbutterflies92 to use this picrew and take this uquiz. Thank you! 💜

taglist (opt in/out) @playstationmademe @nightbloodbix @carlosoliveiraa @captmactavish @alexxmason @leviiackrman @illmetbymoonlight @cassietrn @shegetsburned @voidika @inafieldofdaisies @collinnmckinley @dickytwister @statichvm @killerspinal @carrionsflower @chloekistune

below the cut are the answers for the quiz.

Skylar:

So Much Fanfiction

You have so, so much fanfiction, either because you're so shippable, or because you're hot. Maybe both. Probably both. You definitely flirt with everyone, either way. Tumblr and Twitter love you and showers you with queer headcanons. Reddit keeps a safe distance.

Liz:

Bastard (Good)

You're a bastard. A wet cat, if you will. And we love you for it. You're a little shit, but in the good way. You are the baddest babygirl. You killed a man, but you looked good doing it. You flirted with the hero and the enemy. All of Tumblr is madly in love with you. Congrats, I guess?

Kaiya:

Queercoded

Everyone sees how you look at your best friend. Everyone sees the way all your icons are queer. Everyone sees the way you dress. Everyone sees your lack of proper love interest. Well, except for Reddit, but what can you do, really?

Homura:

Morally Grey

You helped the hero's once, but only for money. And you sold them out later, but only to save your daughter from slavers. Your actions and motives are constantly contradicting, with no end in sight. Twitter and Reddit are divided in very different ways. Tumblr wants to eat you raw.

[fireburial]

HOW FANDOM WOULD SEE YOU IF YOU WERE A FICTIONAL CHARACTER

Very Complex

You hold the fandom record for most angst edits. The fandom is divided over "I can fix them" and "I can make them worse." You have some severe past trauma and are probably queercoded. The writers had a lot of fun giving you more layers than an onion.

tagged by @vikasgarden @kettensaege

tagging @nepnthc @th-ousndwinter @doomed-cat @schwarzpulverherz

[quietwingsinthesky]

Final Doctor Who TV Movie Thoughts

incredibly homosexual undercurrents. why’s the master Like That. they had to be doing that on purpose. i mean, just the robes alone. he dresses for the occasion. oh there’s definitely queercoding here. also he got tardis vored. nuwho bring up that time he got tardis vored challenge. no im not being weird about it i just want him to describe to the doctor what being digested by a time machine was like. did he enjoy it. wait come back i have more things to say about the movie-

eight is a sopping wet cat. i understand why he is beloved. i too wish to wrap him in a warm towel and/or beat him with hammers. he’s adorable. he’s fun. once again, somehow they managed to find a perfect guy to cast as the doctor. how do they do that. not a single miss so far??? out of the seven i’ve met??? not one????? incredible. loved his little vest, loved his humming, loved how he had absolutely zero chill ever and did not know how to Not talk about being a freak alien man, loved that he had amnesia for all of like seven minutes for no reason.

i really liked grace and lee. grace is a great straight man to the doctor’s bouncy nonsense, and she saved the day by figuring out the tardis :D also swerved the bullet of loving that man, thank GOD. get out of there girl. you saw what his ex was like. lee is my favorite kind of doctor who character, of which right now the category is him and lucy saxon. the master’s temp companions <3 love when that awful terrible man has to play nice to achieve his goals. love when he has to bond with people against his will. also hilarious to me that lee was just like ‘no, i really am just in this cause he’s gonna give me money and power.’ and the movie says he is RIGHT to want this, just wrong for trusting the master to give it to him, so he gets it in the end. good for him. direct action.

the plot was bonkers nonsense and that made it better. so funny to me that they retconned in the doctor being half-human but it never comes up as plot relevant ever and it will never be mentioned again. the eye of harmony is <3 bless <3 so fucking stupid <3 whys it take a human to open it. why can you open it when all it seems to do is suck up planets and time lord lives. why do they even have that lever. there’s like a horrifying implication here that time lords would keep a human onboard just so that they’d have a way to open their tardis’s eye of harmony. same energy as having a canary for your coal mine. i know this wasn’t intentional but it’s just fucked up enough that i almost want it to be canon despite it being so stupid, if only because it adds another layer to the doctor mostly seeming to gravitate towards human companions. but probably best if, like a lot of things this movie decides should be canon, we ignore it.

we shouldn’t ignore the master being able to goop people with his spit though. that’s hilarious. i wanna see them bring that back in modern who. look, any master would do BUT. i feel like for the best effect we gotta bring mr simm back so he can spit goop on people like a feral beast. here’s how saxteen can still win-

what else. what else. guys. that’s a really fun movie. it was Not good. but it was amazing. you get me? i had a great time. structurally it was a mess, the story was in shambles, but i do not care. all the characters were fun, the eighth doctor is fantastic, and i loved it. its probably gonna be a comfort movie of mine from now on. its just so silly.

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i revive this blog after 4 years to do what it was born to do: hold level 5 anime screenshots

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i wish the anime decided that too. not even that, actually, i just wanted them to interact more. OR HAVE EMMA BE MORE PROMINENT. WISH THAT WAS THE CASE.

this is really neat foreshadowing because i love chiaki and nozu. the boyfriends ever

you're lucky i'm saving you from all the "AWWW HE'S SO CUTE! LOOK AS HIS TINY KITTYCAT FACE, I WANNA SQUISH HIS FACE" comments i made because they're half of this liveblog. anyways look at him going catboy mode

i find it really funny that jinpei being jibanyan's reincarnation is supposed to be a spoiler when i went in like "oh, jibanyan is dead(er)? okay"

i said this as a joke but just wait a few more minutes and it won't be.

and i won't for a very long time!

YOLO SWAG PERSON IS PROBABLY THE WORST THING EVER AND THAT'S WHY I LOVE IT. it's so... jinpei

there's lore, too. i told my brother about yolo swag person and he'd randomly say it because my reaction was funny. he no longer says it. until he remembers i found it annoying and he starts again

i really like jinpei's design because he's a cutie patootie and also he looks like his brain is empty and has zero braincells. which is accurate because he really doesn't. he has many heartcells though!

another constant that i will be most likely skipping is me calling matarou "the bisexual ever" but i think that's p much clear i don't need to hammer it in

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Peter and the Starcatcher: A young orphan named Boy and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island. They know nothing of the trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains an otherworldly cargo. Aboard the Neverland, the boys are discovered by a young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure. As they head for a faraway land, Molly and Boy learn about love & friendship and forge an unbreakable bond.

Born With Teeth: An aging ruler, an oppressive police state, a restless polarized people seething with paranoia: it’s a dangerous time for poets. Two of them—the great Kit Marlowe and the up-and-comer Will Shakespeare—meet in the back room of a pub to collaborate on a history play cycle, navigate the perils of art under a totalitarian regime, and flirt like young men with everything to lose. One of them may well be the death of the other.

Propaganda under the cut!

Peter and the Starcatcher: 

hands down best adaptation of the peter pan stories ever

this is literally the most heartwarming and heartbreaking play i have ever witnessed. its about the origins of peter pan. its insanely funny. its so sad. its about friendship and family and maturity and growing up. i cried so hard. the line "it has to hurt - thats how you know it meant something" has really stuck with me. 

play of all time forever. silly goofy for like 90% of it and then goes and makes you cry in the last scene. the protagonists are all thirteen and it fucking shows (positive). the villain is captain hook minus the hook and one million times more queercoded. the other "villain" is a small italian man living on an island nowhere near italy. the other other villain fails to flirt with a girl and then dies because he gets a cat thrown in his face. the word "dyke" is in the script. christian borle was in it can we get the christian borle girlies in on this please. i still have a worm in my bag from the production i did. this show is my best friend forever

Born With Teeth:

two-hander featuring william shakespeare and kit marlowe and it does it all. it's gay, it's witty, it's heartbreaking, there's spies & political intrigue, there's flirting via writing a play together. um it opens with a torture fake-out. and it has some banging monologues. read it rn

[dreamalottie]

15 Questions + 15 Friends

Thanks for the tag @shinraalpha 💜

Are you named after anyone?

A little bit Brontë, a little bit my great-grandmother.

When was the last time you cried?

Friday, when I was feeling very lonely.

Do you have kids?

Don't have a partner and I would be an overstimulated, impatient mess, so no.

What sports do you play/have you played?

rollerskating! Been doing it for two years starting as a total beginner, and it's been wonderful for my mental health, doing something physical away from screens/not using my eyes too much, and meeting amazing new people totally unrelated to my dayjob. I also like swimming and badminton but tend to do it like once a year.

Do you use sarcasm?

No. Never. 😐

What is the first thing you notice about people?

Physically: if they've got a cool queercoded haircut, piercings/tattoos, or intriguing personal style. Personality wise: kindness, patience, good at listening to and making space for the quiet people in the room.

What's your eye color?

Hazel

Scary movies or happy endings?

yes. I like both, probably leaning a tiny bit more towards happy endings in what I watch and read more regularly, because I'm more a ghost/gothic person than a gore/bodyhorror person. And I love a love story *studies them like a bug*

Any talents?

I can stand backwards, I write a little, good at remember obscure facts about tv shows and finding links to sources for trivia online to back up my facts.

Where were you born?

the town over from where I grew up in south east England.

What are your hobbies?

Collecting books, trying to find time to read said books, talking about books to my friends. Watching the same show over and over and over and over whilst making lists of other shows I'd quite like to watch. Going to the theatre!! LOVE the theatre. Please come to the theatre with me. Collecting new queer artists/museums/music/markets.

Do you have any pets

Yes, my little tortoiseshell cat, she's currently curled up snoozing against my leg.

How tall are you?

i am 5ft 7in with bad posture.

Favorite subject in school?

I was best at English, loved writing and reading and analysing stories and the lateral thinking of it all. But LOVED drama and media studies. ...I was not good at much else and now realise that was likely adhd/autism/burnout.

Dream job?

I want to own a queer bookshop specialising in fiction for young people, and have a space for community activities.

Tagging?

@excitedrainbow @nonthepratt @plasticterrarium @hypermania @swordofsun @wigglebox @ilarual @profoundly-locked @luckshiptoshore @allthoseskeletons and anyone who wants to (and totally no pressure to do so if I tagged you!)

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Hi Cat :D

Top 10 things* about Sirius? Remus? SiriusandRemus?

*anything: fav traits, moments; canon, headcanon. go wild cat :D

hi nyx! ✨

ok here we go, in no particular order and also not saying these are the only things, these are just the first 10 things that come to mind!!

Sirius:

he's just such a cool, badass character, no wonder baby teenage cat had a crush on him i mean look at him and how he handsomely handsomes around!!!

how loyal he is and how much he loves the people he cares about, especially James and Harry

his sense of justice, or idk if justice is the right word, but the way he looks at the world I guess? that's so vague but idk how to put it into words better. but basically that he doesn't just accept the status quo but challenges and wants to change it

HE'S A DOGGO!!!!!!!!

his tragic storyline, like he has been through SO MUCH and it's ALL SO HEARTBREAKING and yet he still tries to show up for harry as best as he can HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE HIM FFS

I love that he became an illegal animagus to help his friend

the fact that he joined an antifascist resistance group as a teenager. have I mentioned I like what a badass he is?!

the fact that he chose the name snuffles

how acecoded/queercoded teenage sirius is written in the books

the fact that he actually came back from behind the veil and lived happily ever after with remus!!!! <3

okay now Remus:

I love that his solution to a problem in PoA seems to be chocolate, A+ problem solving skills

I know some of his teaching methods are a bit unhinged (ahem, boggart), but when I read the books as a kid I really loved him and wished I had a teacher as cool as him!

I love how much of a damp puppy he is

That whole interaction with Snape and the marauders map in PoA

I love how he never learnt to trust that he might be wanted somewhere, and by I love it I mean it rips my heart out and also makes me want to shake him and scream at him that he is loved and wanted

how quickly he goes from thinking Sirius was responsible for James and Lily's death to "let's kill peter together", very normal behaviour

how much of a hot mess he is

same as for sirius, I love that he joined an antifascist resistance group as a teenager

I love how he reacts to the mention of James' name

I love that he actually never got married or had a kid, and also didn't die and actually lived happily ever after with Sirius!! <3

WOLFSTAR

they're both puppies

all the angsty sad stuff in their storylines but also all the potential for softness and post azkaban domestic fluff and healing and hair washing etc

how they reunite for the first time in 12 years, hug like the bros that they are and are already in sync and ready to commit murder <3

that remus just moves in with sirius at GP12

that sirius lies low at lupin's

the "sirius sit down" moment

they're the gay uncles harry deserves!!

i love it in fics when they both have their own shit to deal with and their own traumas etc and both believe they're not worthy of love but then find love in each other and ughhhhh just them healing together and being soft in fics is so gooodddd

i love that they're close friends first, before they are lovers

i love that they canonically didn't die and lived happily ever after forever and ever and ever 🫶🏼🫶🏼

[historiavn]

HOW FANDOM WOULD SEE YOUR MUSE IF THEY WERE CANON

CASSANDRA FATESWORTH

Neurodivergent Coded

You're the one weirdo character who's a weirdo in just the right way. You miss the social cues, you can't flirt, you like things purely on color or texture. You fidget, you can't sit still, your house is either extremely dirty or very neat. Reddit hates you, Tumblr loves you.

ETHAN CLAY

Very Complex

You hold the fandom record for most angst edits. The fandom is divided over "I can fix them" and "I can make them worse." You have some severe past trauma and are probably queercoded. The writers had a lot of fun giving you more layers than an onion.

CONSTANCE MORGAN

Bastard (Good)

You're a bastard. A wet cat, if you will. And we love you for it. You're a little shit, but in the good way. You are the baddest babygirl. You killed a man, but you looked good doing it. You flirted with the hero and the enemy. All of Tumblr is madly in love with you. Congrats, I guess?

JUSTINE JAVERT

Should Be In A Different Genre

You're a good character, you should just be somewhere else. You're too serious, or funny, or kind, or mean, or ruthless, or lenient. You were truly born in the wrong universe. You’d do so well, if it weren't for the genre.

STOLEN FROM @monmuses

TAGGING @bloodyxballet, @reverdies, @girlsurvive, @wolfvirago, @rh4egar, @kissofthemuses, @deficd, @magikborn, @timeguardians, @realmyths, @intothewildsea, @officerwaltons, @audaciiae, and YOU.

[muirneach]

well sure i suppose return of sabata is so fucking insane that we have to talk about it more but i think sabata 1 is just SO…. everyone in that movie is such a freak fr. i cant stop thinking about stengel like what the FUCK was he about. they literally did queercode that villain. sabata decides any problem can be fixed by blowing things up. and also he escalates problems on purpose like dont meet my demands so what ill make my demands higher lmao. banjo is. certainly a character. carrincha x alley cat undeniably true. absolute insanity all around

[highlysuspiciouslovergirl]

My take on the prologue discourse is- Taylor is asking to just stop all relationship speculation. Not saying she disliked the speculation for one gender more than another but that ALL relationship speculation makes her uncomfortable.

I understand where she's coming from, she doesn't have any privacy and relationships can be difficult to navigate for non-famous people without onlookers analyzing every step, every date, every word.

I guess I struggle a little with the line she's drawing of no muse speculation for songs but writes so many love songs and has withdrawn from the public eye everything except her very very public 'relationship' (in quotes bc she hasn't defined it as such herself).

Her fans are interested in her, and knowing about her but the crumbs of her life she has left us recently have mostly been romantic relationship related, which leads to convos about her romantic relationships which she doesn't want! I don't think she cares to hear any of us tell her what she should be doing, and nor would I, if I were in her shoes. But I do feel that maybe if she were more public with her cats, or her hobbies outside of songwriting, or anything in addition to or besides romantic relationships, then conversations had between fans about her would shift to those topics away from discussing her romantic endeavors!

My final thoughts:

She's made it clear she wants no muse speculation, and specifically no creepy analysis of pap pictures or timelines with those muses finding lyrics relating to them. But lyrical analysis is still on the table, and I think queer (or non-queer) interpretation of her writing is also still okay. Finding parallels between different songs or albums and potential inspiration from other people's bodies of work is also okay for discussion. This leaves A TON that she is still okay with people discussing. Shes setting a boundary here and it's a totally reasonable boundary that still leaves a lot for us to talk about while making sure she's comfortable.

I saw one or two different posts from people expressing discomfort with lover being extremely queercoded yet she is not allowing queer speculation which would be really disgusting to have a queer album but not be queer herself. I think that take jumps the gun- she's not saying she's straight in the prologue! And we cannot demand a 'coming out' from her to 'allow' her to have a queer album. That's an unacceptable standard. She simply wants the extremely detailed and creepy following of her relationships and muses to stop.

[origami-butterfly]

Cool dice (for the ask game)

Thank you <3333

Currently my hyperfixation is The Mandela Catalogue and you can blame @that-one-cat-alternate.

I love it because there is a lot of mystery involved, and almost every detail can be analysed. I was up til 1 last night theorising with F. I love almost all the characters, (they're all queercoded as fuck) and then there is ome specific character, who as F puts it "I want to wrap in a blanket like a burrito, then beat him brutally with a lead pipe." There's also a lot of references to Christianity, and theorising is so fun with a Christian background- previously I was addicted to Good Omens, so maybe that says something. It's kind of difficult to explain what tmc is about, but it has me in a chokehold.