#happy death anniversary you lgbt icon

[i-shall-not-show-mercy]

Today David Rizzio died 458 years ago. RIP my dude.

[thoughts-on-bangtan]

Tae posted a movie scene with Leslie Cheung, an LGBTQ+ icon. Tae has posted a lot of queer art and artists and it always is such a big comfort to me. It feels so personal and tbh feels like he's giving me a big hug and support (i'm queer btw). Makes me so happy.

For those who didn't catch it before Tae, in true Tae fashion, deleted it, here are two screenshots of the post in question (one with the original caption and the second with the edited one):

The scene from a 1990 movie called Days of Being Wild showed actor Leslie Cheung dancing in a way that might seem quite familiar since Tae has been seen numerous times in the last year dancing like that as well. Here's a side by side one of our translators did over on twt.

Before ending his life in 2003 due to severe depression, Leslie was a celebrated and beloved Hong Kong actor and singer. He was also gay and had a partner who, till this day, still posts about him on his IG for their birthdays and the anniversary of his death even though it has been more than 18 years now.

And you're right, anon, both Tae and Bangtan as a whole have shown support and appreciation of members of the LGBT community, and the community in general, over the years. Admin 1 wrote a post about that which you can find here.

Not to be that person that makes everything about their ship but it's interesting how he posted that just past 4am, deleted it, and then posted a video to his IG story showing him lying in bed (with half the screen taken up by that picture of that guy paddling on the water which Tae took in Malta and which was seen in both his BE concept photo room and the Life Goes On MV hanging on the wall above Jimin's bed) while a song called Like Someone in Love plays in the background (which has since also been deleted). Make of that what you will.

[castorochiaro]

💔 📢 🔔 and 📝 for Scratch because I just enjoy hearing you talk about him :D (This is also a excuse for you to do all emojis if you want, no pressure!)

character ask game [ x ]

aaaa chy you're always so sweet, thank you for once again enable me to ramble about my favorite dead guy. i accept your challenge to do 'em all!

🏳️‍🌈lgbt+ headcanon - bisexual icon babeyyyyy. toyed with the idea of him being intersex at one point, just would hafta be something i did more research on before i would feel comfortable exploring it in more depth.

💌fluffy headcanon- he purrs. i don't care if it makes no sense i love it so i'm holding on to it.

💔angsty headcanon- scratch was placed in foster care from birth, and has never met his birth parents or learned anything about them. he idealizes being part of a family so much because his experience bouncing between foster families wasn't good. even if he doesn't actively remember his life anymore, those feelings of never quite belonging remain.

🧸 hurt/comfort headcanon- it's common practice for ghosts to honor their death anniversary. i think that's one of the few tidbits of his previous life he recalls, even if he doesn't know when or where or how he died (or "died", in the case of wraith!scratch tho he doesn't know that's what he is). he doesn't know his name, so there's no grave to visit. i think he just lights a candle and is still for a while, letting himself feel those feelings of mourning for a single night out of the year.

🪀silly headcanon- he sings to himself when he's SURE nobody is around. he loves showtunes, and gets musicals stuck in his head all the time.

💤sleep headcanon - wraith!scratch related, but i muse on this headcanon sometimes where while he's sleeping he can briefly end up back in his body again. but it's always such a weird experience, he assumes they're simply dreams and forgets about them. it doesn't happen every time or even most of the time, and occurs less and less the longer he's separated from it.

✨a ship i like with this character - there's quite a few, because he's my favorite and therefore everyone is mandated to love on him. BUT the top faves right now are him with sally, jinx, and alister. my gf and i have this whole headcanon canon-divergent backstory that involves some OCs of hers that i ship him with. and of course, your selfship always makes me feel all warm and smiley!

🔪a ship i Don't like with this character - uHH i mean outside of the obvious no-no stuff, i can't think of one?? i guess i don't really ship him with geoff, but i don't dislike it or anything. just kinda neutral on it?

🎃something i think they're afraid of - ok this is another headcanon-based one, but i've noticed scratch cringes very strongly at the idea of being punished by the ghost council (and by THEM specifically, not anything to do with being thrown in the flow since he mentions being yelled at being the thing he's worried about). so i think he experienced some amount of corporal punishment when he was alive, such that the instinct to brace for impact so to speak is still present, when dealing with authority figures.

📦overall feelings about them - it really takes a special kind of character to strike the spark that scratch does in me. he inspires me, he brings me immense comfort and happiness, and i just! really super appreciate the fact he exists. i get embarrassed about how crushy and silly i get over him, because i genuinely do find him loveable, so...it's nice that people enjoy hearing what i have to say and like the things i write and make about him. he's so special, he deserves all the love!

📢favorite thing about them in canon- it's a tie between his voice and his design/animation. i just have this THING with characters where if they have a unique voice and design, my brain hooks on to them and obsessively studies them. their vocal tics, little bits of animation i like, just...the LITTLE things, y'know?

scratch got me right off the bat because i've been a fan of "aqua teen hunger force" since i was a teenager (and it's a popular source of references in my family because we used to watch it together). but the more i watched how he moved and emoted the more entranced i was with him as his own character.

🧨least favorite thing about them in canon- DEALING WITH HIATUSES I MISS HIM SO MUCH

💬favorite line they've said- oh god i'm horrible with picking favorites on stuff like this. i guess when i think favorite lines, i think of stuff that i come back to a lot in writing/analyzing a character, and for scratch that's him awkwardly explaining to molly why he lied to her about knowing lincoln personally. you can hear in his voice that he's trying to sort out his feelings into words, and that's very new for him.

also really like his speech at the end of the s1 finale. it sums up what makes him work so well as a character: he doesn't look down on molly for caring so much, he finds it greatly admirable! even if that's not the way he is, he loves her personality and is proud to be her friend. his avoidance of caring and commitment stems from a fear of being hurt, rather than him just plain being an apathetic jerk.

he IS a bit of a jerk but with a soft and squishy center

ok one more him bein' a l'il bitch in "friend off" is also fantastic he's so pretty when he's mean

DID I MENTION I'M BAD AT PICKING FAVORITES

🔔unpopular opinion- i want the wraith!scratch theory to be canon and don't think it diminishes anything about his sadness or loneliness. hell, i think it's even SADDER to imagine he just plain gave up on being alive.

🔊a song that reminds me of them- "love like you" and "i'm still here" always give me big scratch vibes. would love to do an edit to one of them at some point!

📝misc thoughts/headcanons - i LOVE the aspiring actor headcanon! i like to think he always wanted to get into it, but was so terrified of failure he just never went for it. he'd memorize monologues (that he still remembers, even post mortem, and can recite very easily) and get all prepared, but...just end up sitting in the audience, too petrified of making a fool of himself to get on stage. just love the symbolism of him always being part of the audience, but never the show. feels like a good way to sum up how he lived his life, allowing it all to pass him by in order to avoid being hurt by caring too much.

[horrorlesbion]

Are there any good LGBT+ horror films?

WELL “good” is relative but there are a few!

thelma (2017) - lesbian from a religious family realises she has reality altering powers

what keeps you alive (2018) - lesbian couple celebrates their anniversary in a cabin in the woods but one of them is hiding something (not a happy ending but a high quality horror)

all cheerleaders die (2013) - lowkey male gaze-y mess BUT it’s about sapphic cheerleaders who eat men and whose love defeats death so like??? amazing

jennifers body (2009) - instant iconic classic about megan fox as a bisexual men eating demon (no happy ending but god the dialogue is iconic)

the perfection (2018) - american the handmaiden with slightly more horror elements and less quality

riot girls (2019) - post apocalyptic story where only teens are left in the world and the main characters are a lesbian couple who survive and adopt a dog 

women who kill (2016) -a true crime podcaster realises her new girlfriend may or may not be connected to a murder she covered on her show

brides to be (2016) - terrible quality lifetime-y lesbian horror movie that gets points for being literal gay love can pierce through the veil of death fluff

additional horror movies of questionable quality that feature gay characters who die at some point:

replace (2017) - woman realises her skin is decaying and she needs to steal other peoples

styria (2014) - carmilla retelling

the heretics (2017) - girl who escaped from being a human sacrifice years ago gets kidnapped again 

feral (2017) - group of friends goes into the woods and finds fucked up monsters

hostel 2 (2007): i think the lead is bi and she does survive but also like it’s a hostel sequel ure not exactly in for quality

bliss (2019): the lead is a bi artist vampire but everyone dies and the plot is???

honorary mention for living gay side characters

anna and the apocalypse (2017) - christmas zombie musical, among the group fighting zombies is an amazing lesbian who survives :) highly recommended for being full of bops and fun

the lure (2014) - one of the mermaids is bisexual but the focus is on her sisters het romance

tragedy girls (2017) - skirts the line to being explicitly gay but INCREDIBLY entertaining and they literally drive off into the sunset together so

carrie (2002) - written by a gay man and while not explicit gets VERY close and doesnt kill off carrie

somehow all of these are lesbian/bi girls??? sorry if you were looking for gay and trans ones if someone has more recs lmk but this is what i can come up with rn