#i was gay in 2010

[julieverne]

Sasha really went ahead and said this in 2010 <2010 is in CAPS> and then served 7 season of whatever Rizzoli & Isles was.

[pinbones]

I've seen a few posts about women and pants now and many of them are very good, and not to nitpick those posts or downplay religious sexism or anything, but I have to emphasise:

Somebody who DOESN'T live in a controlling religious country/cult/family is also affected by sexism. We all know that, right? Secular parts of the first world also have opinions about how women dress, including when it comes to trousers, especially in childhood and in institutions like schools and the workplace

Me and many people my age (20s) remember being forced into skirts, punished and shamed by parents & teachers & peers & possibly then bosses about what we wear not being feminine enough, and it wasn't by deeply religious sects. Many updates to dress codes are very new and sexist views are still in place in many institutions. Normalised societal misogyny wants women (and people they want to treat as women) to dress femininely, down to what KIND of pants they're allowed to wear (compare a pink top and jeggings to mens jeans and tell me these two women are treated the same. Hating women in pantsuits is still a sexist office joke today, and even those outfits are feminine compared to male suits, which raise eyebrows when worn by women). The women I know who wear trousers regularly are literally otherwise feminine, and all wear dresses to events.

I know trousers have become much more normalised over the past few decades in secular society (yay!! the result of many many years of effort and lawbreaking) but let's not be absolute when we talk about the pants concept lol. Especially within a larger conversation about female/transmasc/intersex/transfem masculinity and social perceptions, especially in an age of rising fascism

[moonyflesh]

Scott Patterson behind the scenes of Saw lV - (2007) as “(Special Agent) Peter Strahm”.

[k-wame]

Aaron Taylor Johnson & Matthew Beard CHATROOM (2010) | dir. Hideo Nakata

[johnlockbbc]

Guys guys who else thinks it’s time for a resurrection of the Sherlock fandom I feel like we need a fourth wave who’s down

[ratsdontmurder]

people really need to learn the difference between queerbait and complex queer media

[stanfordzk1tty]

emo ford hatez nazis!! \(⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)/

[intramoon]

Work in progress on Wednesday's teen bedroom (lots of eclectic nicknacks from her mom & NANA posters) ... 🦋

[queeringclassiclit]

Enjolras

from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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[palmettoshenanigans]

Wait, so aftg is set in early 2000s right? So like, it wasn't just that being gay was still so bad that everyone is practically like "he's... ya know..." *whispers* "...gay..." *shudders*

it's ALSO the early 2000s where everyone is practically like "he's... ya know..." *whispers* "... in therapy..." *shudders*

So like, double whammy. I'm assuming when shit talking Andrew behind his back, his stint in juvie and attempted murder is MORE acceptable than him being gay, in therapy, and taking psychiatric medication, depending on the crowd.

The early 2000s man. What a time.

[takaraphoenix]

It is truly just so fucking telling when someone in the Teen Wolf fandom decides to make a post clutching their pearls about evil age gap ships and only ever brings up queer non-canon ships.

Let me be clear: I would not condone Parrish/Lydia shippers getting harassed, this isn't a "they should get shit too!!" take. Nobody should be harassed over the silly little fiction they enjoy.

But it stands out so glaringly obvious when this fandom routinely loses their mind about people shipping Stiles with Derek, while Parrish and Lydia were literally canon and nobody batted an eyelash, it never gets brought up in the posts about how morally wrong age-gap ships are. When discussing "harmful" ships in this fandom, it's always the gay non-canon ships that get demonized.

The age-gap between Parrish and Lydia is the exact same as between Stiles and Derek.

There is exactly two differences between these ships. One of them is a queer ship, the other is a straight ship. And one of them is a fanon ship that you literally never have to interact with if you would just learn to block tags and not seek out content you hate, while the other is one that was ""condoned"" by the writers by making it canon and thus unavoidable to the people interacting with the show.

But strangely, it's only one of these that gets brought up all the fucking time as being "illegal" and "morally wrong". And even stranger still, it is never the canon one that is aired to a broad audience of innocent watchers who would have no way to avoid this vile, evil ship dynamic.

Don't get me wrong, the "moral" approach to shipping and the stupid pearl-clutching is always ridiculous and always wrong, but when the hypocrisy of it is so blatant, it is somehow even more ridiculous because it makes you just look homophobic. After all, you have no problem with the straight ship, it's only the queer ship that's "problematic" and that... just looks like you find the queer of it problematic, since you clearly don't have an issue with age-gaps in general, only with queer age-gaps. Only with queer ships.

That aside, this show aired over a decade ago!! Get over it! They're fictional characters. There is nothing morally wrong about fiction, it doesn't harm anyone because it is fiction. How have you not learned to block tags yet, how have you not learned to focus on the things that spark joy instead of the things you hate, how are you still getting on everyone's nerves with your decade-old homophobic takes on shipping, dressed up in new modern purity cult language?

[jesse-pinko]

Okay I’ve never really been more than a casual enjoyer of WWDITS and I recognize that some people definitely took shipping in the vampire comedy show too seriously as fandom is wont to do but imo even if it isn’t queerbaiting the ending left a bad taste in my mouth. Deliberately marketing your show by teasing a popular gay ship that you purposefully wrote with that subtext behind it, and then not delivering on the dynamic you set up and implying that queer fans were just being delusional and entitled and perverse by wanting these two characters to be explicitly together in the year 2024… it’s giving BBC Sherlock like there’s so much contempt here for queer fans wanting to see onscreen representation of what could have been a pretty well developed gay relationship. Maybe it’s bc I grew up w this shit being the norm but I kind of think people have the right to be pissed by getting cucked out of gay rep in goddamn 2024

[kilopascals]

PLEASE i need tokyo ghoul reanimated. i want the hype. i want the same accuracy as the fullmetal alchemist reboot. the hype for hidekane would be so unreal i just need it please

[apfelkvchen]

HAL No worries bro, there is absolutely nothing wrong

Frank 🤨🤨🤨

HAL ;)

[petr1kov]

sometimes i feel like queerbaiting is a lost art form that both peaked and was left on the 2010s. the cultural moment was such that we had shows wanting to be 'modern' and 'open-minded' enough to acknowledge that yes, gay people exist, so logically speaking our main characters could be gay and a portion of the audience would be interested in seeing it happen, but also still being homophobic enough that openly embracing and portraying any non heterosexual relationship was never even remotely considered as a real, actual possibility. and that's how we ended up with like. the guys from house and destiel and bbc sherlock etc

[deanlighful]

idk why but i find it funny when people are like

“they where actually making gay jokes about those characters because of the time. So just so you know that ship isn’t valid or doesn’t count”

I watched most of these shows when they came out. I know these shows have jokes that are suppose to be at our expense. that’s been the way media was until recently.

However they’re fictional characters. If i as a gay person read that haha gay joke as repressed gay person i’m allowed to.

Also even with the gay jokes some of these characters have queer coding. it made not have been intentional at all but it’s how i as a queer person read that character.

It’s fiction. After the writer puts it out in the world i’m allowed to interpret a story through my own lens. I should take into account who wrote it and why but i’m still allowed to see it the way i do.

i don’t know why people feel the need to pull a gotcha about our ships. Most of us are well aware