#gay men make me sad

[future-mr-red-lion]

Here’s my issue-

Dirty laundry, when you take out the stereotypes is a fun read, and in the end kinda cute. BUT ITS VERY PROBLEMATIC

Can we please elect a new fanfic to be the MAIN KLANCE fic- I really think there are some great ones.

I mean we have Ikimaru posting great comics and stand alone art, but we need a better fanfic writer 

Photo of Lance undercut

[teafromthemicrowave]

Take this angsty jonmartin art, looking at it might hurt a bit but turned out pretty

Song: Don't you dare forget the sun - Get Scared

[thewizardofozz]

gay people scary af

[bi-dykes]

“What do you mean there’s still so much biphobia in fan spaces? Bisexuals are like some of the most popular characters!”

Yeah, and they either get treated like this:

Or like this:

“Biphobia isn’t real” neither are your braincells

[foolssoup]

germs i wanna know if im amongst my peers cuz i feel like im the only gay man watching this show

[bassguitarinablackt-shirt]

everytime i see someone complaining abt being attracted to men its like bbg if u dont want him ill have him.

[boxofthings]

Hello! I have a question I want to ask but you don't have to answer if you don't want to.

I'm recently found out about Ghost x Roach ship and looked it up along with others ghostroach fics you and other recommended.

What I'm curious is, what made you ship it? What moments of them made you ship them? What hints have you seen from them? Or was it "I think it's a neat ship"? And I don't play cod nor likely would play it in the future. But I did watch the walkthrough of the og cod mw and still trying to finish it.

If you can answer this, thank you very much!

Hi! Completely happy to answer this and it's nice to see new people getting into ghostroach haha :)

I'll admit, there honestly isn't much in terms of hints in the games/in canon that prove these two would be a good couple/in love, and it's mostly due to the early fandom efforts that helped elevate the likability of ghostroach.

That being said I'm sure me and other ghostroach shippers can agree that a large reason why this ship is so appealing is more or less the "they died together" and the "doomed love/lovers" trope that makes room for so much angst (which we all know fandoms EAT UP) <-- This is the reason why I personally ship them I just love tragic couples

The og MW games came out when I was pretty young and yk how kids tend to hyperfixate on the most random things. Mine just happened to be og Ghost, and since we play as Roach I suppose me getting into GhostRoach was a bit like self insert?

But at the same time I thought of Roach as his own character and the fact that he didn't have a backstory (or really any info), that gave people the opportunity to give Roach any personality/quirks that they desired lol.

He was like a blank canvas for writers/artists to just throw their ideas on, and it's pretty common for people to ship their OCs with the most popular character, who, for MW2, would've been Ghost.

It's harder now to find the older content, but back then I remember GhostRoach being pretty popular (or as popular as a ship from COD back then could be) and I did notice people liked to make Roach out to be Ghost's perfect dichotomy, which seems to have stuck, as a lot of GR writers/artists nowadays, including myself, like to portray these two as two opposites that attract.

And with Ghost having a hella angsty backstory combined with him being a bit of a closed off, cold, soldier, it kinda seemed inevitable that ghostroach would become a thing, with people back them headcanoning Roach as a more optimistic, wide-eyed, type of person (and we all know people LOVE the brooding, hardassed, broken character falling in love with the caring, more lively and human character)

Even tho canon doesn't really offer much, there are still small moments that people love to bring up when justifying this ship. Like when Ghost specifically requests to be teamed with Roach on the op to raid Makarov's safehouse, as well as near the end of the Loose Ends mission where Ghost is the one dragging Roach's injured body to safety whilst reassuring Roach that he's got his back. And of course, when Shepherd betrays them, Ghost screams when Roach gets shot and immediately tries to apprehend Shepherd (him screaming "No!" just sounded so shocked and pained). All these moments made it seem like Ghost really cared about Roach.

The way these two died was pretty jarring, if I remember correctly I think even news articles were talking about this plot twist and their deaths. So these two are pretty well-cemented in video game history.

At the end of the day, though, GhostRoach is a pretty "I think this is neat" kind of ship. It's definitely enhanced by the nostalgia of the old games and the factor of being able to project onto Roach as a blank character lmao, but yeah you can't deny that people are gonna hyperfixate the hell outta the pairing that's always doomed to end tragically.

I feel like I could go on and on about them but I don't want to subject y'all to my messy rambles haha but if anyone wants to add their own thoughts I'd love to see it!

[goatman647]

THEY MAKE ME SO SAD THE GAY PEOPLE THEY MAKE ME SO SAD

[future-mr-red-lion]

Drew some dead plate fanart!! Played it last night and I’m stuck now

Spoilers under the cut

This is based off of the ending where Rody burns the place down

(Bros gotta be haunted by Vince forever like hello??)

[drinkinggblood]

One crushed their egg with his boot. Then the adults were killed. “I took him by the neck,” said one of the men of the last bird, “and he flapped his wings.”

“He made no cry. I strangled him.”

[fortheb0ys]

My homie comes to me all eepy and fucking sits on my lap

Didn't say anything (I was bout to faint) but I squeezed his waist cuz i wanted to annoy him and he CURLS in me

I wanna fuck my homie now (kinda desperate cuz my luck with men hasn't been the best ngl)

Kiss the homies goodnight :33

AHHH HOMOSEXUAL THOUGHTS FOR THE HOMIES ARE SOOO VALID!!

I hoping for you he feels the same way! Cause if that's not fuck me behavior idk what is.

It definitely isn't gay to kiss or fuck your to sleep <3

[simcardiac-arrested]

i don’t think we’re ever getting out of the “we’re just friends” “oh yeah those characters are such good friends (sarcasm)” “they’re not friends they’re gay” etc etc hole. we’re never getting out of that hole

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

If there is at least one thing I can credit FE for doing better than Tales in localization, it's not trying to actively go out of their way for an entire game to avoid subtext or direct text between two men that is romantic or implied romantic. Funny when it's so present that the attempt doesn't even work; infuriating that it was attempted to begin with.

So as much as I often have issues with some of FE's localizations, at least they have a leg up on loc Tales for that.

[paragal]

Day 7: 30-Day SMP Jack my evil little communist dictator

[superiorkenshi]

I love the ship name ineffable husbands but I find it sad that they are called husbands even tho neither of them is a man. The two of them are non binary they should be ineffable partners!

[yappacadaver]

I do miss having gay and straight characters in dragon age though. Even race-locked characters. It was such a juicy bit of characterization