#gay ponderings

[funky-brainedwhaletransgender]

Okay so gender is socially constructed and some of us decided that it wasn’t enough so we constructed queerness to defy, nuance and tailor the social construction of gender. We have been very intentionally working and reworking this queerness we constructed since we laid the foundation. I think that intentionality of the process of building the concept of queerness is odd. We regularly, through less than ideal means unfortunately because we have a bad habit of yelling at each other about it, redefine transness amongst ourselves. Ask the first people who identified as transsexual what that identity meant to them and you will get a wildly different answer than you would get from your average modern day trans kid. We are weirdly self aware about this process. I mean. Not totally. Obviously. But in comparison to straight people who are typically mind blown when the 13 year old nonbinary child of someone they graduated with explains to them that gender is a social construct we are hyper conscious of how we’re talking about our genders and attractions. Spend some time scrolling through old asexual forums. Watch the four hour video essay YouTuber X made about respectability politics and transmedicalism. Straight people generally put less thought into being straight over the course of their entire lives than a gay teen spent thinking about gayness in the month following the realization that they’re not straight. This level of intentional consideration going into the development of this social construct is weird, right?

I will be thinking more about why we do this (probably as a way to defend our existence and because queerness in its current form has only really gained traction in this recent age of science and philosophy where we think about everything more but that’s its own thought soup to cook) and what effect this intentionality has on our community and society at large. Are there benefits to this method of social construction? Harms? Are other concepts being socially constructed in a similar way right now? In the past?

Anyone have thoughts on this? Sources? Has someone else already done this thinking for me that you’re familiar with? Strategies for sleeping when your brain won’t shut up about your gay ponderings?

[ionomycin]

Mother of Pearl

[formerprincewille]

Something that really sets Wille and Simon apart from other queer ships is that when we say their love language is physical touch, IT REALLY IS PHYSICAL TOUCH. And I’m not speaking of just sex. Over the course of the show, the amount of touching between them is astronomical. And that’s really something rarely seen in queer media. There may be moments here or there, but often times there’s a lack of physical contact unless it’s for “the plot”. Wille and Simon feel like a real couple in the way they’re always physically reaching out for each other.

[l0n3l]

i wanted to imagine what it would be like if Ford has convinced Fiddleford to stay, if instead of being in shock at Fiddlefords reaction he was calm and collected, as if he knew the reason for that horror.

Ford is not what he seems, and oddly enough, even when Ford asked for Stanley to come, while Ford greeted stan with open arms, Fiddleford couldn't help but have his suspicion rise the more he stuck around.

Eventually, fiddleford pushed Ford into the portal.

And that was when Stanford Pines was lost from the fall.

Its when Stanford Cipher rose.

Post-portal Stanford design, i'll move it digitally ... Eventually!!

This au is called LostFalls btw:)

[scrimblyscrorblo]

I need a human’s touch but you don’t need me.

[dustykneed]

i am attached to my daily posting streak to a worrying degree!! anyways the universe called and asked for stained glass mcspirk soldier poet king

i do have some character analysis for these actually but thatll be tomorrows post because im all tuckered out (also happy bday deforest kelley!!)

[felsicveins]

The second Floyd I ever drew : 0 (feat. Clay)

[monostardust]

Wait I just like realized this. This is a very serious and genuine question. Who is the top between Armand and Daniel? Like? Bro's have both bottom energy. So like how? Who? You know what I mean?

[tu-es-gegg]

this is just a part of the ad section in the slmccl vid I kid you not

[zero-is-nebulous]

I want Dark supersonic in sonic 3 movie very badly pls give me this paramount 😫🙏

[schooltown-follies]

“how did annabeth ever think nico liked her?? he’s obviously gay”

literally one of the top ways to tell me you do not understand nico di angelo. nico is not a stereotypical flamboyant effeminate gay man. he is very much far from it, and it would be especially strange for him to act anything similar to that for that part of his character arc. nico di angelo hated himself for being gay. he would have rather probably killed a man than admit he liked percy jackson! thus he would probably mask his queerness as much as possible (and wholeheartedly stray from the heteronormative perception of what a gay man is) so he would never be assumed to be one

[snowflake-sage]

I want to run through the woods and go for hikes and be out in nature and explore and watch the sunset

[cuntylestat]

absolutely unbelievable that i'm expected to work when iwtv is airing. like hello. my brain is occupied

[ellzilla]

Yknow I've seen a handful of people say they've been bashed for having differing hcs and shit in this fandom meanwhile I've never had that issue over the few years, despite how VASTLY different mine are to the point I'm completely rewriting a character's story and, admittedly, scraping away the once-unique idea of 'Evil imaginary friend'. It makes me wonder, have I simply planted myself in a glass jar and help foster a wonderful ecosystem where people just see a variation of a character n' go "Yeah that's cool" meanwhile outside the jar's a wasteland or am I just a small fish that's somehow avoided bubbles of brine

[ilovebathandbodyworks]

chat does a love exist where we love each other because of our quirks not in spite of them

[xylophone888]

please ignore that the last one is grindr messages :praying_hands_emoji: