#canon but gayer

[mxnster-soul]

I went to check on him.

Never seen anyone sleep so dramatically before.

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[my-brain-is-rotting]

In my angsty bagginshield era again.

[waytooinvested]

So I just finished watching Supergirl for the first time, after years of it being vaguely on my radar via tumblr gifs.

I need to preface this by saying that I went into it determined not to get invested in Lena and Kara in any way. I knew they were not canon and assumed that supercorp was a ship built on the odd long look and friend thing that could be interpreted as gay if you want to make it so (which to be clear I am totally on board with - I mean why WOULDN'T you make it gay if you could?? But this time I was not going to get sucked in. Oh no, not me. This was strictly casual background noise viewing with no emotional investment whatsoever).

I am not that into superhero shows generally so I thought this would be easy.

Then I actually watched it and OH MY GOD.

That is supposed to be a platonic friendship?

THAT?

ARE THEY FREAKING KIDDING???

Now I’m over here writing supercorp fanfiction and I am MAD ABOUT IT.

(and also not because actually I have missed being invested enough in a ship to fic about it. But still)

[wistyxx]

And even still, the canon always manages to be gayer than the fanon

[butterflysonnets]

absolutely insane that mike literally p a n i c k e d when will was like "well what about us?" because will wasn't even really making things gay he was honest to god just inquiring about the state of their estranged friendship and wondering why mike didn't make time to talk to him when they're supposed to be best friends but MIKE was the one having an aneurysm like "🏳️‍🌈⁉️ W H AT!!"

“WE'RE FRIENDS” “i know mike” “WE'RE!!! F R I E N D S!!” “right so why don't you call me — ” “I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND” “… that in no way answers my question"

[i-wheeley-like-you]

Robin: Nance who do you have a crush on?

Nancy: Robin are you serious?

Robin: Yeah... who do you have a crush on?

Nancy: Rob, we just had sex... we've also been dating for four months.... what do you think?

Robin: Holy shit you have a crush on me?

Nancy: Oh my fucking god....

[getosbf]

"but they never kissed" my ao3 account will say otherwise

[lotus-pear]

guys stop asking me for bsd fic recs, i will tell u to go read the light novels

[cleo-serotonin]

was it casual when i touched your face and called you baby in front of everyone at my dad’s birthday party even when none of the canon couples in the show ever called each other baby? was it casual when i pulled you out of a trance like state when you ran off to an island in the middle of the night because you accidentally hurt me and were terrified you might do it again? was it???

[bylerthebros]

"Not possible" "I love you too"

[hualianisms]

finally got a copy of the revised tgcf novels and skimmed book 4 and the fenglian breakup hurts so much more in the revised version... fx's whole line about "i really don't know, then why have i followed you all this time" is removed. instead what happens is, right after xl says "no, it was the past me who was crazy", xl directly tells fx to leave:

XL: "You should go." FX: "What?" XL: "I said, I don't need you anymore, you should go."

all the other parts of the scene are the same. these revised lines, though, are so painful... it also makes it obvious that fx did not abandon xl, he only left bc xl literally dismissed him as a servant and directly told him to leave 😭 fx doesn't even have that line questioning why he followed xl anymore.

[yellowocaballero]

One of the many things that I've been doing instead of writing are these damn manwha binges and Villain To Kill is literally so funny. The comic premise is straightforward action, think Tokyo Ghoul meets Solo Leveling - local Genetically Superpowered Superhero Cop working for corrupt Hero Organization gets #betrayed and #murdered and is reincarnated into the body of a Genetically Superpowered Villain Teenager so now he has to join up with all the other villain superpower people to get justice.

It's so 5/10. Cassian is extremely OP and the story isn't well-written enough to pull that off well. The worldbuilding is so incredibly nonsensical and weak that it falls apart if you think about it for more than five minutes (tried to write fic for it and failed because I would have had to rework the entire world - which, I could have, but that's a lot of effort for Villain to Kill). The plot is mostly any OP action hero plot where guy gets increasingly powerful by fighting increasingly powerful guys. Cassian himself has almost nothing going on internally, to the point of elegance. And it is somehow the gayest manwha I've ever read.

It's the fucking character designs. And like its narrative but it's the fucking 100/10 character designs. The entire cast's design and characters slam. There's not that much depth but we don't care. You know if we don't like somebody if they look vaguely straight, and you know that we like somebody if they look like they were set to tumble dry in the queerness washing machine. The (great!) women are high femme or hard butch. The corrupt institution assassinated a man Cassian loved and framed & murdered him, at which point he was adopted by a rag-tag bunch of flamboyant homosexuals deemed unacceptable and undesired by society who all teamed up and decided to villainize society in exclusively funny ways and spend most of their time gossiping or hacking the Pentagon. An AFAB character dresses as a man and goes by he/him pronouns half the time for no good reason. Cassian is physiologically incapable of thinking about anything but violence so the heartwarming found family scenario's going over his head, but his Painfully Het Hero Foil Indoctrinated Into Homophobia caught the found family ball and now he's dancing in their gay bars and dressing in drag. There's only a few characters who are explicitly gay but this is gayer than that.

I talked a while back about how important a decent supporting cast is to a good story, and this is yet again good proof. Looking at this, I think I'd go further and say - it's an action manwha, we're reading it for a reason, we don't need character-driven story arcs or really complex characters. I think it's just charisma. A story can go really far on characters with charisma.

TV Shows that are carried on the lead actor (Columbo I love you) - it's because the actor has charisma. You watch it to see the actor hang out being himself. That's way way harder to do in fiction, but I think that "a complex character" isn't necessarily a "charismatic character". I'd rather have a cast of only charismatic characters rather than only complex ones. A story of any genre needs a strong cast of charismatic characters. They can be deep or they can just be chaotic lesbians. Charisma invests the reader in the story and the characters. It's simple but it's really powerful. And it is fucking hilarious how sometimes all you need to do on that front is "Rupaul this shit".

I can't genuinely recommend Villain to Kill and this is not a recommendation. But random stuff always interests me like this, and I really had no idea that I would read 120ch of a manwha bc the designs fuck so hard. Also, like, this is queerest manwha I've ever read. Somehow. Fucking somehow.

[very-feral-lesbian]

at this point if we don’t get buddie, ill mainly just be confused, like why are the interviews way that they are? are they f**king behind-the-scenes or something? because both of them are acting literally insane right now omg

[burritowitch]

tell me im wrong i dare you

[notatalltrue]

he is actively staring at his ass cheeks your honor that man is gay

[littlefankingdom]

Bruce is Nightwing

Straight male Batman fans: DOES THIS MEAN WE GET TO SEE HIS ASS? LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO!