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#theyre gay your honor#in my opinion book sherlock is asexual but it is very difficult to make a film adaptation without making him gay#especially when the actor is queer#but thats besides the point#sherlock holmes#Sherlock#holmes#granada holmes#jeremy brett#the adventures of sherlock holmes#screenshots#granada#david burke
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:) i certainly have no issue dressing in drag :)
^guy who has no issue dressing in drag btw
glenn said that dennis' drag name is victoria von hemen btw
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#glenn howerton#guy who should get to dress in drag#im just. ill never be over the fact that glenn wrote Two episodes in season 3 that involve dennis doing drag#i know he doesn't really want to write for the show but there's something so special abt how early sunny was an actor's sandbox#esp hearing glenn talk abt how den is like. an outlet for him and a way to play around with shit he would never do for one reason or anothe#my point being that i think its been a while since he was able to utilize dennis again in that way#but 16 was a definite change. especially with dtamhd it feels like dennis is becoming more glenn again. like he was in the early days#theres a pretty good stretch of the show once it got into the double digits that feels like den was. co-opted.#but like i wonder how it feels to explore sexuality and gender via your character#it must be similar to doing that through fandom and OCs but there's a whole other layer to it here#esp when its not Just being presented as comedic as it was in past seasons. like dennis is Actually queer and this is a normal plot point#its not the punchline like den's femininity often is its literally just part of what makes him able to help mac and dee#id argue we've gotten this in the form of. dennis doing dee's makeup and shit. but#anyway. glenn. now that you have two of your former writing assistants in that writers room i hope you get to do drag again 💀#its been 16 years. show us the new and improved victoria.#i honestly can't imagine pitching something like that to a room of people Without some sort of comedic twist but#man.#ada speaks#iasip#it's always sunny in philadelphia#rcg#i won't ever forget the way he lit up talking abt queer dennis jhksvfjhksvdfgjhkds#love u king...... i hope you get something in s17 that you Certainly Don't Mind
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here’s the thing.
if you’re one of the people celebrating our flag means death’s cancellation for whatever reason right now, i need you to realize that this is just a sign that whatever you love is next.
and i’m not saying that out of spite. having your favourite show cancelled is awful, i wouldn’t wish it on anyone. but if our little-gay-pirate-show-that-could can’t get its third and final season, the future of queer media is extremely grim.
ofmd was the definition of a sleeper hit. hbo max had no faith in it when the first season came out. it gained popularity purely through word-of-mouth. but it became one of max’s biggest shows, and it’s since been marketed as their flagship series.
it was the #1 most in-demand series in the world for 8 weeks (7 of those weeks consecutively). it’s currently in the 99.7th percentile of the comedy genre, meaning it’s in higher demand than 99.7% of all comedy series in the u.s. it has a 94% audience and critics score on rotten tomatoes. it’s the most in-demand hbo original series even above euphoria, succession, and the last of us.
it was nominated for 16 awards for the first season alone, including a GLAAD award and a peabody award. the second season was just nominated for an art directors guild award, which it was previously nominated for and won in the same category for season one.
besides awards, ofmd is critically-acclaimed and praised for its representation (including a cast of majority queer, bipoc, and disabled characters) and themes of anti-colonialism, challenging gender norms/toxic masculinity, and self-discovery/acceptance. it also has a diverse team of directors and writers consisting of several bipoc, women, and queer/trans/non-binary people.
on top of all of this, the plan for the show all along was only ever for three seasons. david jenkins only wanted three seasons for the full romcom structure to tell ed and stede’s story. that’s it. nothing more.
this isn’t an attempt to make you care about the show. but ofmd’s cancellation isn’t just a loss for the fanbase and the cast/crew. it’s a sign that it does not matter how successful or profitable shows highlighting lgbtq+ (or otherwise inclusive) narratives are or how many big names are involved. ofmd would not have been cancelled if it were a straight romcom. they would’ve magically found the budget. but corporate greed doesn’t care about us. they have no respect for queer people or queer media. and in the age of streaming, it’s only a matter of time until we lose all of it.
#also if you’re happy that ‘taika waititi’s pirate show got cancelled’ because of baseless accusations against him#1) it’s not taika’s show. it’s david jenkins’ show.#taika is just an actor/director/EP#2) even if you don’t like him celebrating the cancellation of a show because someone was falsely accused of zionism#especially when that person (like it or not) is a huge voice for minorities and is the reason so many of them get to tell their stories#is gross and makes you a gross person!#ofmd#our flag means death#ofmd season 3#save ofmd#renew as a crew#fuck david zaslav#queer media
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A female artist/celebrity: Hey, while I'm really happy for all the support you guys as my fans have shown me, can we please establish some boundaries? Some things are starting to make me uncomfortable. Again, I'm grateful but--
Said people the response was aimed towards: Oh so now she thinks she's too good for us? She's so ungrateful, letting all the fame get to her head. Doesn't she know that without us, she wouldn't be as famous? She should just suck it up!
#tell me im wrong bc you can't#this is how some are acting towards chappell roane right now and all she asked for was boundaries to be established#there's this common theme still where people will treat celebs as less than human just bc they're famous & that's so wrong#they share their talent with u as fans and can't even get any decency in response#it's also alarming how quick people are to victim blame these celebs especially female celebs/artist as if they asked to be harassed#there's always a threat of harm to women (especially if they are a woc or queer) already and getting upset with them for wanting to take#caution seems like a bad hill to die on#its also annoying when sadly something does happens and the response following is “how could this happen? we need more boundaries!” and will#then turn right back to their old ways 🙄#lowkey reminds of how there was a wave of hate towards actors (eg. penn badgerly) for saying they didn't feel comfortable doing sex scenes#(which they are within their right to set up boundaries) and yet some fans made it seem like they were in the wrong for wanting autonomy#even tho countless other celebs before that talked about how uncomfortable and evasive the treatment on sets were for them#so their concerns aren't without merit#is it really that hard to establish parasocial relationships with famous people?#chappell roan#megan thee stallion#beyonce#taylor swift
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hey this is the opposite of what I wanted from season 6, actually. Why do these writers hate me personally
#screaming crying throwing up#you mean to tell me Tory can't just have some peace. FOR FIVE SECONDS#actually diabolical to kill her mother right when she was finally getting some goddamn stability#not to mention the LaRussos (accidentally) boomerang launching her right back into Cobra Kai#I get they were trying to help but jesus read the room#I'm not even gonna touch the hawkmetri situation#(mostly cuz I think this is actually a very necessary fight and there's hope at the end of this tunnel)#but god damn if those actors don't shove as much Queer Yearning into every scene they had this season#especially Eli jesus christ#oh hey I'm caught up now I can use the tags#cobra kai#ck spoilers#tory nichols#hawkmetri#hawk moskowitz#demetri alexopoulos#crane-talk
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Genuinely, my favorite thing in the world is actors going “I know she ain’t gay on the page…but you DID cast me.”
#I especially appreciate when the character then BECOMES queer#but it’s somehow even funnier when the text isn’t gay but the actor is like ‘hold my rainbow flag gotta do something real quick’#(is this about Renee’s Regina? yes. yes it is. among others.)
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The lead singer of Ruby's band is called 'Trudy' in the credits, and she's played by Mary Malone!
#doctor who#unrelated post#every time I see another queer actor on this show ISTG I get so excited#even when it's just a background character. ESPECIALLY when it's a background character#just seeing trans people casually existing is nice I hope they keep doing it
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Just scanned the tag and while there are plenty of posts about Kit Harrington doing SLAVE PLAY in the UK, and much fewer noting that Olivia Washington (I'm A Virgo), the co-star is Denzel Washington's daughter in a big stage production debut. In this particular promo interview for it, the idea of Black audiences being invited on certain nights is questioned... And I have to wonder if senior nights, ladies nights (for gender-based performances of shows) or nights for the hearing impaired, or family nights in a theatre setting (all of which occur) have been questioned like this?? It's also interesting that she addressed Kit about it. I know the show is controversial. White people and Black people hate it for varying reasons. Having not seen it but only reading the various opinions and gazes of those who have... I know it covers one Black man's own psychological wrangling with his own perception of his interracial experiences in sexuality entangled with his Blackness and the racialized/racist perceptions of that, entangled with ancestral memory in enslavement, and embodied by several people ranging in color and shade from Black to white. ...And it's comedy/drama(trauma). So I'm not surprised. Theatre that is challenging and offensive and at the margins should always be an essential thing, regardless of my own personal disgust about a piece. Anyway, I'm ending w/ this video of Janelle Monae's Screwed for no reason, whatsoever...except maybe because that sexualized gaze, especially when on Blackness and queerness is always fucked up/exploited/etc, etc...:
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Will probably add more when/if I read the play... All that said, I'm glad both lead performers handled those questions well.
#I'll say this as someone who grew up watching roots#the apha/z's will regret avoiding slavery media#especially in the era when white people are banning crt#it's giving 'so you agree we shouldn't talk about this because it triggers and/or discomforts us.' -white man who wants to forget slavery#and the black intellectuals agree#sigh#anyway...#even if it weren't my cuppa or isn't exploring it 'correctly' it's still just jeremy o'harris' baggage#not the entirety of the black diaspora.#in the same way coppola's marie antionette as cotton candy white femininity is just her gaze on that situation pre-revolution#blah...#kit harrington#olivia washington#slave play#jeremy o. harris#I may read it and get back to edit in my opinion more indepth#race#racism#blackness#queerness#sexuality#hope olivia is a better actor than her brother#Youtube
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George Segal as Corporal King & Tom Courtenay as Lt Robin Grey 1965 · KING RAT · dir. Bryan Forbes · WWII · LGBTQ+
#gosh these two being in the same frame IN THIS FILM ESPECIALLY 🫦🫦🫦💦💦💦☔☔#george segal#tom courtenay#filmedit#king rat#king rat 1965#film#perioddramaedit#movie#period drama#1940s#wwii#when actors were movie st☆rs™#classic hollywood#old hollywood#classic film#classic movies#1960s#based on a novel#queer media#beautiful men
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I just watched Austentatious: The Queer Eye for the Regency Guy and it truly has everything. A man with the foulest walk who has a hyperfixation on Napoleon. A homosexual cousin. A woman whose father has been “dead” for seven years despite being alive up in the study the whole time. A murderous butler who’s gaslighting everyone. Saucy Sally’s Sausage Shop where all of the actors broke and one was in literal tears over the sexual innuendos. Dream sequence hats. The Chekov reference not being understood and that being baked into the sister’s character. Love wins. A marriage between two freaks who sat next to each other every day at Sunday (everyday) school who both love Napoleon. I’m obsessed.
#it’s so funny#also Lord Harlowe mistaking his sister for his daughter was one of the first clips I saw of it that got my attention#the scene with Millicent and her mother realizing her father was alive had me rolling#I love improv stuff where the actors break though#everytime they broke I was dying#especially Antony when Francis exclaims ‘Moscow!’ like what did he expect#and when Antony claims he brought a hat back from the dream world because he accidentally ended the dream sequence with the hat#but Saucy Sally really takes the cake for putting Francis’ actor in tears#I do not regret spending two hours of my life watching this it was so enjoyable#austentatious#a queer eye for a regency guy
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Ajdldlflf delete later but...
It's kinda annoying to me how in euromusical fandom [actor x] is kinda hated sometimes and ppl assume the worst of him and his conduct towards minority groups etc just because he's kinda bland and heterosexual (some say "too masculine/aggressive") in some roles, while [actor y] is equally if not more bland, "masculine/aggressive" & heterosexual in most of his roles but people like him and nobody complains because ????? idk he's a skinny twink or smth
#like its so hypocritical. the way someone looks doesn't have a bearing on whether their portrayal is more queer or more interesting#especially since the former. genuinely engages in queer projects and doesn't shy away from camp when it's in his control not to.#while the latter just gives nothing 💀#granted i am NOT saying that [recent casting announcement] is justified. just talking abt the discourse surrounding it#ppl often make excuses for why actor y is allowed to be bland just because they find him pretty & find actor x's looks not to their taste#as a lesbian who doesn't care for either of them lookswise i am once again cassandra /hj 😭🤣
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i always think i'm normal. and then BOOM. mini series eddie
#mhac.txt#it (1990)#he is STILL one of those characters that fills me with overwhelming feeling.#including the overwhelming urge to bite him and shake him around.#i think it's because he's so cute physically and in personality. but i don't mean that in an infantalizing way.#especially because there's so much more nuance to him. like. the amount of times he's trying to be brave and stand on his feet#despite being scared or cowardly and vulnerable. a vulnerability particularly fed AND taken advantage of by the manipulation of his mom.#which if you cross compare that against bev and her dad it's. explosions.#i think also there's a sort of Softness in dennis christopher as 1990 era eddie. because he's just a soft cutie guy.#but also the way that eddie himself is kind. still easy to frighten and not always willing to take the reigns. but can be pushed to#and is compassionate with the guys of his company and all. still has a particular compassion for the losers as well. even richie.#which is. its own can of worms. as much as i love the idea of them i won't try to find and implant queer subtext where there might be none.#but. pennywise calling young eddie girlboy. and also the way in which both eddie actors. they deal out teases and agitation with richie.#that's inevitable when it comes to richie. but there's. TO ME. more of a fondness for him by these actors than the hard line irritation#in 2017/2019. which i'm not faulting jack dylan grazer or james ransone for. especially not when it's just part of the stylistic choices.#but. miniseries eddie holds so much more power to me than 2017/2019 eddie.#i didn't mean to write a whole essay in the tags but here we are
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finally watched heartstopper because one of the part time kids from when i worked at the bakery really wanted me to for the longest time and i was feeling sentimental. i don’t think i have ever wished so strongly to have had a piece of media as a teenager + have never felt so much gratitude that kids get to have it now
#‘it’s corny’ is such a lame and wilfully obtuse criticism#charlie and nick are 14 and 15 when it starts!!!! kids that age are more than allowed to be corny!!!!!#as the actors have said it’s an optimistic and idealized in some ways version of reality#but it’s so grounded in reality!!! especially from the viewpoint of the age group of the characters#I also think even in the brief beginning of charlie’s storyline with anorexia and self harm the portrayal is already so much healthier and#safer for a show geared towards an audience who statistically has mental health struggles more often#than 13 reasons why for example#i wish to god that show had never gotten made#also YEAH DUDE it’s so normal for 15 year olds to not drink or do drugs or even know where to get drugs#and to not be ready for sex!!!!!!!!!#also A REALISTIC PORTRAL OF LESBIAN TEENAGERS !!!! THAT IS SO CUTE AND SWEET#anyway im. looking into masters of information programs#thinking about being a librarian just has me emotional about recent censorship and book bans surrounding queer literature#really and truly breaks my heart that heart stopper the graphic novels are on those lists#heartstopper
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i despise when people bring up how noah auditioned for theo for the goldfinch and they make it about byler like plz for the love of god try to separate finns characters if you hear that and only think “omg think of the byler edits!!1!1” i am so embarrassed it feels like youre shipping the actors not any characters
#especially when its people saying this who havent even read or watched tgf like you dont even know the characters you literally just want#those actors to kiss#ITS EMBARRASSING STOP SHIPPING REAL PEOPLE I KNOW YOULL SAY YOU DONT BUT GIRL YOU DO#boris and theo are deprived and abused drug addicts who committed major art theft#mike and will are dnd losers#THEY HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON#ive bitched about this so many times#finn was a great boris but man would i be at peace if someone else played him some of his fans are fucking annoying#and im glad noah didnt get it oakes fegley SLAYED#byler#the goldfinch#i guarentee you people will do this with his new queer character in when you finish saving the world#theyll add that character to ao3 crossovers
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yeah, I just spend like 5 minutes on tumblr, and I already get enough of it, I need a long break.
Y'all need to read up on queer theory, because that shit isn't cool. Queer theory is build on advocating for and normalizing literal sexual assault on children*, and also doesn't make any fucking sense, it isn't even really about gay or trans people's rights, so no, I don't want to build a beautiful queer world with you.
Not a coincidence so many people here support an actual child rape religion and at the same time see cops as their worse enemy, is it?
Like what the fuck are y'all doing?
Honestly this website is so nasty sometimes, and why I think the complete lack of critical thinking and idealization of extreme ideology is so damn dangerous, and I will never back down from that hill.
(I'm not blaming individual people from using the word queer, I used it in the past too, but goddamn it is time people open their eyes to what this theory actually says and does).
*this isn't about someone making an ideological critique of queer theory, people can believe whatever they want. This is literally ACTUALLY FUCKING DIRECTLY STATED with direct quotes by those fuckers who made queer theory and is also a natural implication of the way it operates - it is not about normalizing a specific group of marginalized people, but breaking down all boundaries and norms surrounding sex, which to me at least sounds far more helpful for sicko freaks with evil intentions than it does for good and normal gay and trans people.
#too bad even bryke used the word queer in their essay back in the day#actually I too used the word at that time!#it just seemed like the concept to use!#but I have learned since then I am so goddamn grossed out how this weirdo religion is spreading stop it#ac post#bitter post#posting this here bc i feel weird posting about especially the live action which involves actual child actors#when y'all worship this nasty nasty shit#im aware a lot of you ofc are completely innocent and have none of these intentions#i just get grossed out y'kno#im no better I was fooled by all this but it is time to STOP it
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@gay-jewish-bucky IT REALLY FUCKING IS. No matter what if it’s a canon gay couple it’s just not going to be good enough for the exact same people who complain about wanting more gay rep. Part of getting gay rep is accepting that we’re going to get rep for all kinds of gays, all kinds of relationships, all levels of relevance - not just the kind that some people want or deem acceptable.
We finally have what is, in my opinion, a pretty well balanced canon queer ship that isn’t just ~hints and eye contact~, that isn’t squeaky clean, that have meaningful conversations and show love and affection like it’s not a big deal. It’s treated on equal levels to any straight ship on the show and I think that’s a breath of fresh goddamn air tbh.
I know people are always going to complain, but this topic has gotta be one of the most annoying and most exhausting ones. People should be happy we get any kind of lgbtqa+ rep, and that that rep is getting not just more diverse over the years but better too. There’s never going to be Perfect Queer Representation and to bitch and hold out for it?? To nitpick the fuck out of every ship?? Why would you, y’know??
#sorry for ranting jksdhfkds#i feel ancient saying this - like a grandma regaling her grandkids with tales of walking to and from school in the snow barefoot - but#i remember when there were no canon queer ships on tv or in movies#there wasnt shit for any of us#no matter what your label was#and now we have enough canon ships and canon lgbtqa+ characters that people feel they're entitled to be picky??#like my dude we just started getting this kind of content in my teen + adult life#maybe appreciate how far we've gotten studios and companies to come in a relatively short amount of time#maybe appreciate the positive for 2 seconds before you start demanding stuff and whining when you dont get it. especially when it#wasnt promised to you - btw. in regards to the ship i was talking about the showrunners said it was going to go down differently from#the books. they aged up the characters afterall + they were smashing 2 series together to create a whole new thing. they warned people#we got the canon ship. they put a lot of thought into writing it and the actors - who are big fans of the books - put a lot of thought#into acting it. that's the other thing!! actors who give a shit a bout providing quality queer rep!!! why are y'all not talking about that?#that's also not a given when it comes to people playing queer roles. there's a lot special going on here and to be so negative..#idk man it's doing a huge disservice to a lot of people + it ignores the progress made + it's whiny and annoying#i'm annoyed. does it show?? i think it might show#sdhjfsdkfs#sorry again for turning my reply into a rant. cole ur an angel and i love u#replies#maison speaks
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