#does that sound like friendship?
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Whether you believe Gob is bi, gay, or some other queer identity, at least we can all band together on the fact that, whatever he is, Gob is certainly not straight.
People will bring up that one line about friendship from the narrator and ignore literally everything else about the character shown before and after that one comment.
“The narrator said it was just friendship!”
The narrator was also confused immediately after making that comment as to why they agreed to have sex on Cinco when they could’ve just avoided it altogether. He was under the assumption that they weren’t attracted to each other and, by them agreeing to just talk that night instead of sleeping together right then, it meant they were trying to avoid it...only for them to excitedly plan to sleep together on Cinco a second later. They wanted to sleep together; they just also liked each other as people.
Also, friendship doesn’t rule out feelings of attraction. Gob wasn’t emotionally invested in any of his other relationships but he genuinely cares about and likes Tony. And, even if it was purely friendship at the time(which I don’t believe it was, but for the sake of the argument let’s say that was the case), is it impossible for him to develop feelings and realize he’s attracted to Tony later?
Also, Gob slept with him and said it confirmed to him that his feelings were real and that he was truly in love with him. I don’t- I don’t understand how you could interpret that as a straight man who is mistaking friendship for romantic feelings.
“He wasn’t shown to like men before Tony so it doesn’t make sense for him to be gay now!”
Hmm…It’s almost like he was a repressed queer man with internalized homophobia and comphet and a toxically masculine father and was hiding it in fear of what his family and the world would think, which was, like, a major part of his S4 and S5 arc…
A fun little thing I like to do when watching TV is take new information that is revealed to the audience and see how that shines a new light on a character or situation that we may have understood as one thing and now, because of that new information, we now understand was something else the whole time.
So, when given new information regarding his sexuality in seasons four and five, behavior in the first three seasons that wouldn’t necessarily be indicative of him not being straight can be looked back upon with this new information and we can understand what was truly going on the whole time.
Also, that’s just not true. He’s said himself and has been implied to have slept with men in the first three seasons.
Gob likes men. Does he like only men? Or, does he also like other genders? Some other third option that’s applicable here? We may divert on this path but what we can say is that Gob likes men. That, we know.
#gob bluth literally slept with a man#and said it confirmed to him that he was actually in love with this man#does#does that sound like friendship?#Fellas is it gay to like sleeping with men?#listen#i think gob is gay#but the only thing I wholeheartedly disagree with when it comes to an interpretation of his character#is him being straight#i understand that we’re all looking at media from different points of view#and some people aren’t as informed and/or are viewing him through their own experience as a straight person#but he isn’t straight#the lengths people will go to in order to prove a queer character isn’t queer#is bananas#whatever the identity#gob likes men
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deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao
not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad
#people ask me sometimes why ill occasionally talk about something i like and then go 'but it's bad' and the answer is usually because it is#i love teen wolf. i love genshin impact. i love detective conan. and i fucking LOVE taylor swift. that doesnt mean theyre good#it just means i like them. and recognizing their flaws actually helps me better identify what i like about them!#it's like. in my mind bad > good is the x axis and i like it > i dont like it is the y axis yk. they're not mutually exclusive#tldr it's not that serious. we can all relax a little#irt taylor swift i do also think she has done some real harm to her fans in enabling them to deflect all criticism of her as misogyny#and i don't think it's fully the fault of these people who are parroting that response bc so much of her marketing has deliberately#reinforced this idea that to be a swiftie is to be a part of a sisterhood and that any attack on taylor is an attack on all of those women#who are in that in-group. when that's obviously not the case. but she's marketed herself as. for lack of a better term. 'girl music'#to the point where it makes her fans feel as though any criticism of the music or the woman responsible for it is an attack on their#personal experience of womanhood/girlhood/sisterhood/etc. and that's how you get all of thess bad-faith accusations of misogyny#i don't necessarily think this was her deliberate goal with her marketing tho because like. on first glance such a strong sense of communit#among fans sounds like a great thing. the friendship bracelets i got at the eras tour movie are really genuinely special to me.#but it does present a problem when your fans are unable to separate how they feel about the community and experience your music has fostere#from how they feel about you as a person. especially when you are a billionaire who absolutely CANNOT be above criticism in this economy#anyway. tldr i love taylor's music and i don't think swiftie hivemind is as deliberately malicious as it may seem#but it's obviously necessary to be able to take a step back and look objectively at what you're participating in.#anyway stream ttpd or don't idc <3#taylor swift
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Okay hear me out--
-Per The Living Force, Sifo-Dyas is a Seeker with a bad reputation for bringing in kids who "make poor candidates" for Jedi training
-Dooku trains Rael Averross as his Padawan, who, brought to the Temple at age 5, is the oldest child accepted to the Jedi before Anakin IS THIS ANYTHING????? Does Sifo-Dyas, super early in his Seeker career, get puppy-eyed by a hungry little street kid Rael and brings him home? The Council isn't too happy, leaning toward no, and Sifo-Dyas goes to his best friend about it? Is this the reason that in TPM, Qui-Gon thinks just demanding that the nine-year-old is his apprentice now is the way around the Council's decision that he's too old to be trained?? Council: We've decided and we're sorry, Sifo-Dyas, at five he's just too old to... Dooku: *lunging into the room* Dooku: ItakeRaelAverrossasmyPadawanLearner!!!! Council: Aren't you like 23?? Council: Also you can't take a five year old as Padawan??? Council: ...actually, this is a closed session, how did you even get in here?!
#sifo dyas#dooku#rael averross#star wars au#or is this a theory#star wars theories#as you can see I have accepted Seeker Sifo into the nest of my head canons firmly#it's just kind of beautiful right and it sounds like it was before their friendship breakup#Sifo: I brought you a baby to train!! :D#he knows Dooku's love language is training apprentices#⛏️⛏️⛏️#and sifo does has a canonical history of hearing the Council say no about something and going to Dooku instead
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yknow i've seen a few posts talking about people hoping their Rooks can bond with Lucanis over them raiding his chamber-pantry for a midnight snack, but never in a platonic way yet
so i'll be the first. i very much want to experience the profound understanding (and, yeah, very mild judgement) that exists between a woman who just got done experiencing that legendary Grey Warden stamina for the first time and is having difficulty walking, and the man who guards the cheeses.
#i'm picturing Ver dragging her thoroughly ravished body down there on shaky fawn-legs at the asscrack of dawn#to fetch a drink and some snacks for dinner/breakfast/whatever sounds more appropriate considering the state of things#and being met with a very much awake look that is equal parts amused and knowing#and that silent “you just got your back blown the fuck out for an impressively long time; didn't you spongebob” smirk#oc: verbena mercar#squirrel plays datv#davrin#lucanis dellamorte#“My regards to your paramour;” he says; trying and failing not to sound too sarcastic#“Fuck you too very kindly;” she snorts; and does the medieval equivalent of bumping the fridge closed with her hip#ah; nothing quite like friendship between adult roommates#(she doesn't mean it as an insult btw; it will eventually be his turn)#(though perhaps not the way he thinks)
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I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS
#OLD MAN FRIENDSHIP WHAT THE HELL#its not real. but you get it#inside no 9#in9#steve pemberton#reece shearsmith#im so excited about this documentary ohh my days#the pause inbetween sentences omfg.#somebody sedate me#he sounds so much more snappy here than he does in the ep#like there hes just. desperate. miserable But Here#ohhh my days#i need a minute to think about this.
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I just finished watching Scavengers Reign last night and what a fucking show. The most alien alien world I've ever seen in anything, but with a clear internal logic where everything fits together and feels like a real ecosystem. It's wonderful and beautiful and also contains every kind of body horror you can imagine and especially every kind of body horror you can't imagine.
It feels kind of funny to say this, but if I had to compare it to something, it actually feels very much to me like a grown-up version of Hilda.
Hilda is a show about a fantastical version of nature. People have a lot of superstitions about the various creatures and forces that Hilda encounters. Many of them are seen as pests to be scared off or dangerous monsters to be killed. But, whenever Hilda interacts with them, we come to realize that every creature in that show is either 1) just a different kind of people, or 2) just weird magical animals. That crucially doesn't mean none of them can be dangerous or that you don't need to be careful, but just that everything can be understood if you take the time, and most of it you can even make friends with!
Of course that's a pretty optimistic, kid's show friendly view of things. It's a very sweet show and a big part of the appeal is seeing Hilda befriend all kinds of strange things.
Scavengers Reign is a show full of horrors. It's an alien world with an alien ecosystem that humans just don't fit into. The show doesn't shy away from the fact that these creatures prey on each other. They parasitize each other (they especially do this). They live and die and new life grows in the remains. It at times feels like a nature documentary of an alien world, showing the beautiful and disturbing reality of the lives that these creatures live.
But despite all the scary and gross and dangerous things, they're still just creatures. Animals and plants and fungi and other much harder to classify things. And like anything else they can be understood, and you can learn how to avoid them or placate them or how to cure the wounds they inflict if that happens. And you can find uses for some of them too, ways you can adapt to this ecosystem and survive in it. It's a show about symbiosis in all the gory detail that entails. About adapting and growing and becoming something new. It doesn't shy away from the danger and horror of that but it doesn't shy away from the beauty and love of it, either. And despite everything I feel like the show is full of a sense of wonder and fondness for the setting.
But ANYWAY the point is that it's a really good show with a really unique setting and a unique perspective. It completely blew me away.
#scavengers reign#hilda#symbiosis is just a fancy word for the magic of friendship#another similarity is that Azi sounds a lot like Johanna#so much so that when I heard her voice I was like#'wait no they didn't cast that white actress for this role did they?'#(they didn't of course)#also as an aside I haven't seen Hilda season 3 yet so don't tell me about it on this post#ALSO even though the show was canceled and is kind of sort of maybe up for getting another season if it does well#it's not a cliffhanger ending it's a good satisfying ending#there's just definite ways the story could continue from there#so don't worry about getting attached to a story that might not get finished
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#my characters#mmofail#HIS name is Beta Burst but he is played by a woman named Haley#and shes chill correcting people that hes a she irl but also just doesnt mind which pronouns people use online#irl though shes a she/her through and through#also she tells one of her employees at work (shes a manager at a convenience store) to get a hobby or find a fun online game#cause he always looks super tired and he tells her he doesnt wanna socialize out of work in person people are tiring#and then hes like hmmmm a hobby or game hmmm#and then he gets the same game and goes on the same server and lets his sister design his character#while he naps then he just picks a name and chooses ETA 1400 bc he works overnight and if he logs in#he plans to log in at like 2pm so why not make that his name#however there is a guild owner who wants to collect all the greek letters (her own name in game is Omega Rising)#so she makes the executive decision to include eta 1400 and when he and beta are talking one day in game#hes like oh yeah im just playing cause my boss at work told me i needed a hobby#and beta is like oh shit thats me im the boss who told him he needs a hobby#so eta starts calling beta boss in game just like he calls her irl#and its just a nice lil friendship and shes happy when eta starts to make friends in the guild#he still has a lost lil puppy like following vibe when hes around boss but eta does do some growing socially#mostly with betas friends in the guild which are: a guy with no backbone and a guy playing a girl who doesnt tell anyone shes a he#anyway thank you thats my oc essay tags and i love beta and shes just really funny to me#bc she just is there to vibe and play pvp#which the horn lore is those are high ranking pvp rewards for heavy blade users#and when eta finds out the pvp reward for a healer is a bloodied crown#hes like please please please help me learn pvp that sounds really cool ill do my best boss
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Ignore if you don’t want to read about me being stupid once again
#pls dont read if you cant handle venting and whining#once again i am here to say that i am the loneliest person alive and i feel like i can’t grasp the basic consept of friendship and do it lol#like idk how to be friends#i feel like i will forever be sad and lonely#and i know everyone will say you can talk to me and i know that but i’ve just been by myself for so long that i don’t remember how to have#actual conversations with people i feel like i am disconnected from reality#i feel like i am an extremely unlikeable person and that’s why i was all alone in highschool and idk i am oversharing on the internet again#because it’s the only place i kind of feel safe doing it#pls take care of yourselves first before comfoting me or anything im sorry i sound very pathetic#how do i start living again#how does one live anyway#im just in my head all the time#this was supposed to be hot girl summer but it’s once again summertime sadness#im so stupid!!!#im so anxious and depressed that i dont know what to do with myself#im so sorry for oversharing i have a therapist dont worry im kind of taking care of myself#but the eternal loneliness just wont let me go#idk how to be a person anymore#i’m just sad#thinking of going to a church and pretend to be a believer so i could have a community again lol
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IF YOU SHIP SOUNDWAVE WITH RAVAGE DO NOT FOLLOW ME. DO NOT INTERACT WITH ME. DO NOT TOUCH MY ART
AND SURE AS HELL DO NOT EXPLAIN HOW MY ART IS SEXUAL IN ANY WAY. ITS WEIRD. ITS GROSS. AND ITS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE
If you think cuddling with your family/friends is inherently sexual and/or romantic you’re weird and I don’t want you near my stuff. I’m sorry your family doesn’t show affection but spoiler alert: it’s normal to show familial/platonic affection with people you care about.
If you follow @ / dontpetmeibite or any of their adjacent accounts, BLOCK ME. I’ve already blocked the people who tagged them in my art and I am more than happy to block you weirdos first.
#WEIRD AND GROSS#OH MY GOD#DUDE WENT INTO DETAIL ABOUT HOW MY ART OF A GUY CUDDLING HIS CAT IS SUGGESTIVE#and went like ‘I don’t know anyone who does that (cuddle) with their friends and definitely not with their mom’#sounds like you don’t have many healthy friendships and definitely don’t have good relationships with your parents#IM SO MAD YALL HAVE NO IDEA#THATS HIS CAT#THATS A MAN AND HIS CAT#ohh my godddd
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I love how much attention and new content dunmeshi has gotten since the anime started airing and especially after the red dragon episodes, but I can't help but miss the smaller fandom
#i feel like we used to focus a lot more on laios and marcille's friendship than the current fandom does and i miss that#not only that but a lot of other things too#dungeon meshi#gi talks#trying very hard not to gatekeep and sound like a hater i just miss when it was less popular ok 😕
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msp is so nice because this gaggle of teenage boys resolves everything by actually talking about their feelings and the main love interest's defining trait is being the most whipped guy in the history of guys in love and somehow it's genuine enough that it does not come across as boring or overly didactic... like the screenwriters aren't trying to show you An Example, they're just telling a nice story and since they're also making it not just earnest but also silly and goofy at times they're succeeding at actually making television you watch for entertainment. this is probably why it reminds me of shoujo manga like kimi ni todoke. they're just applying the same storytelling methods but on guys. it could've been incredibly boring but it's really well-executed so instead it's a highlight of the week
#idk it's just... they're a bunch of guys but none of their problems are resolved via posturing or anything#but everything written for them feels natural and unforced it's like genuinely a very positive example of male friendships and romance#some may find it overly sweet and that just means this is not the show for them and that's ok#my school president#hilariously enough on paper it does not sound like a show for me either but they're selling it because it's just really well-made#idk every once in a while you need a silly sweet sincere show and then you can go back to your regular tastes
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ik he's witty but i always forget just how easily fenris quips back and forth with almost everyone
#every time its like ah ok i remember now why liam got on with him so easily so quickly xd#(they also vibe with each other in general but i digress)#liam: silly one liner that he said before thinking and that probably sounds stupid - fen: plays along - liam: :0#friendship cancelled with bethany now fenris is my best friend (SEE bethy he APPRECIATES my jokes 😤)#laya plays dragon age#i always imagine that when fen does his silly 'perhaps i shall practice my flattery [...]' line liam goes out of that kind of perplexed lik#was that a flirt did he flirt with me???#(cus even if the dialogue that prompts it is marked as a romance option liam wouldnt have intended it as flirtatious)#and usually hed not pay it any further mind but he Does have vague interest in/curiosity about fen so hes overthinking lolol#oc: liam hawke#my ocs#<- once again for the tags xD
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Callback to Black Tea. 💗
#eichi you have too much money 😂#but awww eichi-ritsu friendship#they've come so far from ritsu slapping eichi and them trying to use each other to get at rei#how does eichi's terrible people skills still turn to his favour and earn him friends lol#also ritsu is so real about that owning land 'n stuff sounds like a pain#ensemble stars#ritsu sakuma#eichi tenshouin#from ritsu's fs1 story
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what do you do when the friendship was ruined bc the other person refused to ever communicate with you and blamed it on you? like i had no clue this person was ever upset with me then suddenly a 180 with them calling me shit at communicating before ending it
I know this is the last thing you want to hear cuz this shit is crazy upsetting to have happen to you but that is NOT someone worth being around and they probably did you a favor getting out of your life that’s the kind of behavior that I’d expect from a 13 year old
#asks#anonymous#unbelievably childish I don’t know how someone who acts like that expects to maintain friendships with anyone#also I’ve found sometimes shit doesn’t end till someone does something that really shows you they’re not worth it and this sounds like that
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fruity is the new metrosexual and my honest to god belief is if you want to call a stranger kind of zesty for wearing too tight pants just replace the new buzzword of the day with the f slur and reconsider your statement
#LOOK. i GET we like to joke about so and so is in gay cahoots with so and so#but yall we canNOT be this comfortable with sayin some real life teenager sounds gay by the way he talks#its a derogatory term (even if youre fine using them for yourself youre talkin up a whole second guy)#and its loaded to associate like MEN HAVING BODY LANGUAGE. or having ANY SORTA FRIENDSHIP#as an inherently queer or less masculine thing#this isnt sayin being gay is bad . but the tone im seein people USE it in does have that implication as a stereotype#big neon sign thats says I ROCK WITH GAY PEOPLE.
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narukana bffs. you agree 🫶
#listen listen. theyre friends#i think they shouldve bonded more during the moonlight disco story#i think arashi should've painted kanata's nails blue with waterproof nailpolish#i think they would have fun “swimming” together too (kanata floating while arashi splashes around)#arashi would make kanata wear sunscreen lmao#omg now im imagining kanata cooking arashi dinner as thanks for doing his nails/hanging out with him/etc#it'd probably just be sushi or smth similar since he only likes cooking cold food + loves fish#but i feel like arashi would l o v e sushi so there's no problem there (if there's any story that says she doesnt please lmk)#anyways i also think arashi would love just like. venting/gossiping to kanata too because he's really chill and a good listener#like she can just vent without worrying that he's gonna try to give her advice she doesn't want#she's like “i had the *worst* experience with someone at my modeling shoot today” and goes on a long rant#all kanata says at the end of it is “puka-puka-ing makes all bad ”emotions“ float away~”#and arashi's like “omg you're right a bath *does* sound good right now”#they have matching friendship bracelets also. i think that would be cute#okay headcanon dump over for now#ensemble stars#enstars#kanata shinkai#arashi narukami#narukana#idk what their ship name is 🤔#arashi x kanata#kanata x arashi#<- figured i'd go ahead and tag these even though i dont ship them romantically
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