#catherine gayer

[jahsession2]

Lifelong fascination with this friggin game

[nobigsecrets]

H50 Fic Recs

Light At The End Of The Tunnel by bluflamingo Rating: T, Words: 3,191 The first time Catherine meets Steve, he's a voice on the other end of the radio, asking for her help.

Where lies the final harbor? by @missslothy Rating: M, Words: 48,643 Steve and Danny had finally admitted their feelings for each other just three days before the events of Season 10 Episode 7. Can their new relationship survive the fallout from what happened in Mexico and Doris's death? (Coda to 10x07)

Agitated States of Amazement by @emphasisonthehomo Rating: T, Words: 5,823 He meets Stef when he’s like 18, on a sub-reddit that doesn’t exist anymore. She’s kind of a huge fucking cunt. Danny’s kind of in love with her. OR: Sometimes the people you meet on the internet stick with you.

I’m dumb she’s a lesbian (I thought I had found the one) by @five-wow Rating: G, Words: 1,299 Danny waves his coffee around a little more. The lid is the only thing that prevents them from having to dig up a mop. “What’d I do? All I did is tell her you’re handsome and single and free Friday night.” “You were setting us up,” Quinn summarizes. Or: Just another morning in the life of Steve McGarrett, whose best friend is deeply concerned with getting him a date.

COMPETITIVE BY NATURE by alizarin_nyc Rating: E, Words: 2,701 "Oh come on, that isn’t gay," Steve says. "I was in high school. You’re gay, you’re totally gayer than me. Your pants are tight across the ass!” Steve has his little protesty face on and it’s exactly like his earnest, don’t-worry-we’ll-catch-your-husband’s-killer face. It is so, so gay.

Does This Marriage Come With Any Perks? by @pterawaters Rating: T, Words: 3,369 After Danny suffers a life-threatening injury, he finds himself in Steve’s care. He doesn’t remember much about what happened after getting shot, but he’s pretty sure signing a marriage certificate wasn’t something he’d forget.

Sometimes You Just Need a Decoder Ring by kho Rating: T, Words: 2,849 Danny follows Steve into the kitchen and sticks the beers in the fridge. “Actually I’m of the mind that it takes two to tango so I don’t know who started and who fueled but you’re both in this fight, so I’m just trying to figure out how to diffuse this situation so I don’t wind up as collateral damage.” (Mary & Steve centric)

You Move Me by dogeared Rating: M, Words: 486 Yoga, and waffles, and kisses.

Pick up line by kaige68 Rating: T, Words: 100 Prompt from kapuahi, Hawaii Five-0, McDanno, Steve loses a bet with his Navy mates and has to dress in drag Bonus points if someone (Danny) tries to chat up Lady!Steve

Careful, or you'll end up in my novel by kaige68 Rating: M, Words: 2,200 Former Newark police detective, now mystery, writer Danny Williams follows his daughter to Hawaii, and meets his biggest fan.

I Want A Man With A Slow Hand by thefourofswords Rating: E, Words: 6,597 “Can I ask you a question?” he asked on their way to a crime scene, because no time like the present, and Danny believed in ripping off band-aids. “Why not?” Steve replied, eyes on the road. “You’re gonna even if I say no.” “What do you like in bed?” Or: Danny undertakes a very important mission to get Steve laid. For his health. Ahem.

As You Wish by Brumeier Rating: M, Words: 4,077 When Steve comes back to Hawaii to find the man who killed his father he finds much more when he stumbles across a mysterious bottle on the beach.

Just Enough Hope by aries_taurus Rating: T, Words: 2,594 He hopes for a lot of things: that he didn’t make a mistake taking on this taskforce, that the ache he’s feeling in his soul will go away, that he can sleep at night without seeing his best friend being ripped to shreds by bullets, without remembering he left him behind for nothing, or hear a gunshot killing his father over a bad sat connection and he just hopes he wakes up one day without a scream dying in his throat.

All Hearts Come Home For Christmas by @cowandcalf Rating: E, Words: 12,198 Steve debates for four days if he should eat this year's Christmas dinner in the charity Christmas tent organized for the veterans by HPD.

Built For Tough Battles by thefourofswords Rating: E, Words: 20,770 Adam nudges his shoulder, “He’ll find his way back, you know.” Danny blows out a breath. “I dunno anymore about that. The stuff he’s gone through in the last year...” “He’s had a lot go very wrong, very quickly,” Adam says. “I’m sure it feels like he’s slowly been losing parts of his family and when you reach a certain point, loss aversion takes over. It can make you do crazy things…” Or: Danny waits for Steve to be ready to come back.

Friends don't let friends... by kaige68 Rating: E, Words: 2,008 Steve finds a desolate Adam in a bar. (Steve/Adam)

Foreplay by @stellarmeadow Rating: M, Words: 4,305 When sparring isn't just sparring.

[gascon-en-exil]

Do you have any thoughts on the way Edelcultists are so weird about stanning for Monica?

Ooh, more Houses (technically Hopes discourse). Haven't heard about that in forever.

I feel like I pretty much covered my thoughts on Monica in her section of my Which Game Are They Gayer In? video from 2022. I'll also be talking about her for a bit in my upcoming video in early October, so there's that as well. In both cases it's less about any specific fandom discourse, which as mentioned I've not been paying much attention to for a long time now, so much as it is my frustrations with how much the writing treats her as a joke and makes her come off as more ridiculous and/or less developed in contrast to various other characters in comparable positions: Shamir, Dedue, Catherine, Hubert, etc.

If there's any particular wank on what Monigard shippers have been up to in the last two years or so, I'm probably unaware of it.

[incorrect-gentleman-jack]

Ann Walker: In that outfit?

Catherine Rawson: This has been so obvious since I started stalking you. 

Mariana Lawton: You still owe me $45.

Eliza Priestly: Are you queerebaiting me?

Marian Lister: How do you know?

Anne Lister: I’m gayer.

Aunt Anne Lister: Would you like to go on record stating that for our organization’s diversity initiative? 

[diansaprince]

just watched mafia mamma because of toni collette and it felt like i got hit by a steel chair when the credits rolled and read 'directed by catherine hardwicke'.

10/10. way gayer than expected.

[archer3-13]

The that some people read subtext between siblings remind me of people reading subtext in m/m frienship and f/f frienship. I mean IS is catering with Catherine and Shamir, but i don't see anything romantic in Sain and Keith's relationship

two dudes, sitting five feet apart in a hot tube cause they arent gay. what can be gayer then that.

its been a bit since i played all of fe7, but i dont think its impossible to read into. but thats also arguably part of the issue here, in that a solid romantic relationship often bears similarities to a solid friendship [and that any strong romantic relation is going to be built on a strong friendship regardless]. im not saying its impossible for two people on any point of the gender spectrum to just be really close friends, and there are plenty of characters i view just in those terms.

but ya know. romance isnt always defined by the snogging. sometimes people are going to ship characters together because they enjoy seeing them be absolutely catty to each other or just enjoy the dynamic of their interactions enough to also include snogging.

[theodoradove]

Excellent starting list! As chasers for those, I'd especially recommend:

Design for Living: Trouble in Paradise (1932, dir. Ernst Lubitsch, Paramount) - Same director, also featuring Miriam Hopkins in the lead trio. I think this is the purest expression of "the Lubitsch touch": sophisticated, sly comedy that is above all highly cinematic.

Morocco: The Scarlet Empress (1934, dir. Josef von Sternberg, Paramount) - All the von Sternberg/Dietrich films are worth watching, but I love this tale of Catherine the Great for its especially bonkers costuming and set design, and von Sternberg indulging his "I'd rather you project my films backward and upside down so you can truly enjoy the patterns of LIGHT and SHADOW" tendencies.

Some more favorites (not intended to be in any way representative or comprehensive, just films I think are fun and/or interesting in the order I think of them).

Cat People (1942, dir. Jacques Tourneur, RKO) - Really all of the low-budget horror films Val Lewton made for RKO are worth watching as well, but this is the first and best. Lewton was given the title and told to make a movie based on it, and worked with his collaborators to create something far more subtle and evocative than its title suggests.

The Old Dark House (1932, dir. James Whale, Universal) - This unclassifiable little horror-comedy-melodrama gem showcases Whale's queer campy humor.

Now, Voyager (1942, dir. Irving Rapper, Warner Bros.) - Transcendent melodrama of a spinster's self-discovery, with Bette Davis at her finest (plus bonus Claude Raines).

The Women (1939, dir. George Cukor, MGM) - An all-female cast, an eminently quotable screenplay, and a Technicolor fashion show.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 20th Century Fox) - A delightful and surprisingly feminist romantic comedy romp with bittersweet touches.

The Night of the Hunter (1955, dir. Charles Laughton, United Artists) - Another film that defies categorization, often called a pastoral noir or a dark fairy tale. Laughton's unique vision was unappreciated at the time, and sadly he never directed another film.

Laura (1944, dir. Otto Preminger, 20th Century Fox) - Classic lush noir with a fantastic cast and an indelible score. The interactions between Clifton Webb and Dana Andrews are delectable.

Holiday (1938, dir. George Cukor, Columbia) - The Katharine Hepburn-Cary Grant misfit4misfit romance with (I think) the most heart of any of their pairings.

Queen Christina (1933, dir. Rouben Mamoulian, MGM) - Greta Garbo in drag. "Can we make this gayer?" Irving Thalberg asked. And then they did. (Thalberg was talking specifically about the Queen's relationship with her lady in waiting, but the inn sequence also manages to be incredibly queer for a scene of a man and a woman getting into bed together in 1933).

Nightmare Alley (1947, dir. Edmund Goulding, 20th Century Fox) - Carnival noir with Tyrone Power in less dashing mode and the always marvelous Joan Blondell. I recommend watching this after Queen Christina, as the juxtaposition of Ian Keith's smug courtier there with his fallen carny here adds a nice little exegetic frisson.

And a few from outside Hollywood:

A Matter of Life and Death (1946, dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, UK) - Again really all the Powell-Pressburger films are worth watching, but this WWII romance is my favorite for its wry humor, inventive storytelling, and delicate skating on the edge of fantasy.

Children of Paradise (1945, dir. Marcel Carné, France) - Art, love, and betrayal in 1830s Paris.

The Seventh Seal (1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman, Sweden) - An expansively human film, allegorical and yet deeply personal.

So I've decided to set myself a fun goal for 2024, and that is to watch at least three Old Hollywood and Elsewhere movies a month from January through December. I am laughably not good at actually sitting down to watch a movie, but I really want to strengthen my grasp of the medium, and so I begin.

For January my list is:

Design for Living, 1933

Morocco, 1930

The Prisoner of Zenda, 1937

I will watch these movies and write up my thoughts on them. But! I will need suggestions! And so I am tagging @theodoradove, @oldshrewsburyian, @counterwiddershins, and anyone else who can recommend films to me.

I do think this will be a fun project. :-)

[toasty-owl-arts]

@waterloobasin this is for you my beloved💙

My latest work in progress :3

I’m pushing my buff Catalina agenda again 😌

I’ll clean this up soon someday I swear hahah

[mugiwara-lucy]

This is gay.

[madelgard]

Oh I love making lists ✨

No order to these specifically but:

1. Pride and Prejudice (2005). The soundtrack is magical, the costuming/set design is gorgeous, and Matty Mac's reading of "you have bewitched me body and soul" makes me coo in a dove-like fashion. Also Judy Dench as Lady Catherine is everything.

2. The Great Mouse Detective. The gay mouse and the even gayer rat are extremely important to me. They're exes but hopefully they'll work things out ♥️🐭

3. My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Idk it's just so feel-good? And so quotable? And so... slice of life in its energy? Perfect romcom.

4. Mean Girls. Do I need to explain this one?

5. Emma (2020). Another Austen adaptation with a stunning aesthetic and SUCH good comedy. And Josh O'Connor didn't have to go as hard as he did to play Elton, but he did it for us.

6. Step Brothers. Sorry gang but I love a good idiot comedy, cheers me right up.

7. Father Ted Christmas Special. Not a movie but when I had what was probably COVID I watched this like four times in one day. Ireland's largest lingerie section brought me back to full health.

8. Drop Dead Gorgeous. Faux documentary of a small town beauty pageant in Minnesota. It is screamingly 90s in the best possible way.

9. Shrek 2. Prince Charming is my idiot son.

10. The Wizard of Oz (1939). Still a marvel, decades later. I have all the time in the world for Glinda saying "only bad witches are ugly" and then moments later asking Dorothy if she's a good witch or a bad one. Passive aggressive queen.

Tagging @retro-hussy

10 Comfort Movies

Thanks for the tag @alexx-dax!

Rules: post 10 of your favorite comfort movies then tag 10 people.

These are in no particular order beyond the ordering they occurred to me in my head.

Return of the King (1980). I saw this before the lotr films and it's something that's fun to return to every once in a while. The music is amazing (my favorite is the Towers of the Teeth). The hobbits look a little goofy but Eowyn and Aragorn are gorgeous.

Rise of the Guardians (2012). Yes the one with the Australian easter bunny. It's funny and looks amazing and I love Pitch Black.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Will always remember when my father bet my brother and I $10 that we couldn't get through the entire movie without laughing. my brother didn't even make it through the credits.

LOTR: Extended edition (2001-2003). Just because I love the animated one doesn't mean I don't utterly adore these ones.

The Hobbit (1977). I like to pretend that this is the only hobbit movie in existence. Same studio as Return of the King(1980).

The Original Trilogy (1977-1983). I love Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher and Julian Glover.

Rogue One(2016). Does it count as a comfort movie if it makes me cry? Eh, it's cathartic.

I also don't have ten movies, so I'll only tag @musewrangler and @shakespeareaddict (very gently)

[comicsbyrm]

13 Y/O me watching the cell block tango on loop: this better not awaken anything in me

[pakaplus]

Shamir: "And... Catherine, if you insist, I'll think about becoming more than partners."

Catherine: "More than partners? What's that mean?"

Shamir: "It's more common for people of the same sex to get married in Dagda than it is in Fodlan."

Shamir: "...What's wrong? Your face is red, partner."

[empress-things]

BATTLE WIVES!!

[kindness-and-charm]

as a fandom, i don’t think we talk about this enough

[becausecosima]

Sarah Catherine is gayer than me to be honest my god how she praises every move Imani makes lol excessive and GAY.