#it can be queer without being gay

[wonder-and-wildflowers]

Unpopular opinion but I actually like that Kazuki and Rei aren't romantically/sexually involved with eachother.

I know a lot of other people would rather it be a bl, but personally I'm genuinely super happy with them being familial and platonic.

Why? Because its still queer. They just aren't gay. This is clearly a queer platonic relationship 🫶🏾💕

[sporesgalaxy]

fuck everything else ive ever said about making a video essay. Ive just had a divine epiphany. My first youtube video essay NEEDS to be "Why Is Roronoa Zoro Gay?"

[ebenelephant]

don't get me wrong, 'rogue' is a great episode, but i've been buzzing with anger since it came out because what the fuck do you mean "first gay kiss"? and this isn't just because i'm a ninejackrose truther (i am), it's because jack harkness has been openly canonically in love with the doctor since 2005. he kissed him on the mouth in 2005 and it was earnest and flagrantly queer. jack harkness has been an unkillable faggot on family television since 2005 and you WILL put some fucking respect on his name because that shit is important. and even if jack harkness hadn't initiated the first gay kiss on doctor who, then there have still been times when the doctor has kissed men. and even if you write those off as platonic, what about the fucking sapphics that all of you are deciding to ignore? what about madame vastra and jenny, a married couple. or, more recently, the very notably lesbian bill kissing heather. and even all of this flippantly treats the historical queer subtext of the show as unimportant.

tl;dr, the fifteen did not have the first gay kiss on doctor who so stop fucking saying that

[ultrakill-confessions]

I kinda wonder what it is about ultrakill that uh (how do I say this without being an asshole) that attracts so many systems (?)

I like statistics so I wanna like, study what it is about certain games or series that seems to collect folks like that. Is it how the fandom treats a piece of media? Is it the demographic? I donno!

Like if we all just decided to treat doom 2016 the same way we treat ultrakill would introjects n stuff start popping up over there too? (I picked doom cause it's a bloody shoot em up with religious undertones and insano angst potential, but feel free to insert any other game here too) I'm just genuinely curious about it all

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[ysines]

somebody said alnst was an example of burying your gays bc theyre doomed and its like. no? that isnt what burying your gays is? at all? media literacy please come back i need you

[shit-sorry-fuck-mybad]

Iceman and Maverick (enemies to lovers) and Hollywood and Wolfman (friends to lovers) have the most intense game nights

[makorragal-312]

The only way I can think about Eddie's storyline without having a panic attack is if I think of his whole storyline in parts instead of a whole collective arc.

As in:

Part 1 is the Shannon aspect.

Part 2 is the catholic guilt/religious trauma aspect.

Part 3 is the queer awakening itself.

[readyfreddy]

Being visibly queer is sometimes very funny.

I'm volunteering at an art gallery, getting ready for an upcoming event. I've met a lot of queer people there, and it is a very progressive environment. I've spent a lot of time at that art gallery this past year as it has been a safe space for me in a variety of ways.

Prior to leaving to go to the gallery, I throw on a hat as I always do, this one happened to be my leafs pride hat. I know that I'm safe to wear it there, it's one of my favourite hats anyways and I don't wear it that often.

I'm doing my volunteer stuff, bouncing around from one thing to another; folding and placing tablecloths, washing chairs, on ladders putting up decor, etc... I love being at the gallery and I'm glad that this is what I can do to give back to them.

I'm done my shift about to head home after staying an extra 30 minutes. Telling the coordinators that I'm on the way out and I'm looking forward to tomorrow night. Right as I'm leaving, someone comes up to me. I offered him help with something earlier in the afternoon, but he said that he was good. I did take his ladder though.

I know that this man is probably not a heterosexual to begin with. Says that he's noticed all the hard work I've been doing and my hat all afternoon and wanted to tell me how much he loves it. Asks me if I bought it in Toronto, and we get talking a bit about sports, tells me about an upcoming leafs that he's going to soon, etc... He was also hoping that I was volunteering later in the evening and seemed moderately disappointed that I wasn't (sadly, I've neglected most academic responsibility this week and I need to lock in).

That man was definitely flirting with me, I was too oblivious to notice, and I definitely fumbled it <3

[weedle-testaburger]

I'm honestly not fond of the 'this piece of media is about the x experience so only x people can truly enjoy it' mentality bc the second part just makes it exclusionary. the point of media from a marginalised group's perspective should be to show the world what it's like rather than just going 'you wouldn't get it'

[arcane-vagabond]

I need some of you to stop trying to find homosexual romances in straight media and actually sit down and start supporting the LGBTQ+ media that’s already out there.

[biceratops7]

You know what I have to talk about it a LITTLE because something is pissing me off. I won’t be explicit about what exactly is shown but in an over abundance of caution the rest of this post is under a cut.

I’m sorry you were made cynical by queerbaiting but guess what, we were ALL queer baited at least once. It doesn’t give you an excuse to shit on people being excited about a thing or assuming the worst about a creator who, at worst, doesn’t understand literally every solidarity detail of the queer experience there is to know. There is absolutely no context to indicate this is going to be a big fuck you no homo moment, I would expect it from Supernatural but I’m sorry, good omens has always been aggressively queer friendly in many casual and colorful ways. I’m sorry, but fans are not stupid for trusting a creator who has been nothing but trustworthy, and not assuming we’ll be smacked in the face by a show that has always made us feel safe and accepted.

[6okuto]

one day people will stop looking at misogynistic men and saying they're secretly gay, and finally realize implicitly associating non-queer men's hatred with queerness as well as disregarding the patriarchy's pervasiveness helps (checks notes) literally nobody

[chaotic-history]

"While waiting [for Émilie], [Voltaire] seemed attached to several horses, for he had made the little 'abbé' Linant come to Rouen and even offered hospitality to another young man named Lefebvre, a budding poet aged 20 like the other, and like a certain Lamare, the third ephebos that he cosseted and who was also an abbot. The first had already made a trip to Paris to keep his acquaintance with [Lord Bolingbroke]. This boy seems to have had equivocal relations with Cideville, which makes this phrase from a letter from Voltaire from May 29 to this advisor, a letter prior to the return of the 'chubby abbot', amusing: 'When he wants to come back to Paris, I will rent him a hole near my house; he will furthermore be the master of dinner and supper every day in my retreat.' He practically offered him to share his bed. The presence of these two young men by him distinctly reminds one of the young 'writers' that the abbé Desfontaines, the famous pederast, had had near him for so long, and who served at once as mignons and secretaries. Even if he did not take up with them the liberties that he had formerly had with Thieriot in M. Alain's study, he still cherished this extreme familiarity with young people." - Voltaire et Frédéric II by Roger Peyrefitte.

FIRST off, why are we stating as fact that any "liberties" happened with Thieriot. There is zero proof. There is circumstantial evidence in that you could interpret V's letters to Thieriot as being kinda gay and then infer that "liberties" occurred, but even if we are interpreting the letters as gay, that's still a big jump to make from 'V felt more than just friendship for Thieriot' to 'they definitely slept together', which there's no real evidence for.

Second of all, there is no evidence of anything going on with Linant. Nancy Mitford suggested it as well, with the reasoning being that Linant was stupid and useless and why else would V keep him around, which is the same argument that's been used for V and Thieriot being gay. But a relationship between V and Linant being a possible explanation for something does not mean that that's evidence for a relationship, and Mitford doesn't cite anything V wrote as potential proof. And also like. The man resorted to full-on referring to his plays + la Henriade as his children to an extent and (unofficially) adopted Marie-Françoise and pretty much Reine Philiberte and Villette as well. And reading the letters about Linant from V to Cideville, and V talking about Linant's improvements in writing, it very much sounds like he's just proud of Linant and sees himself as a father figure. Again, also just a possibility, but it works equally well as an explanation and it fits into an already established pattern, plus it's based on what V actually wrote.

Thirdly, I would like to emphasise the "aged 20". "Aged 20" is not the same as what the "famous pederast" was doing.

Fourthly, saying that that quote about Linant coming back to Paris is "practically offering him to share his bed" is the single most batshit far-fetched gay interpretation I have ever seen in my life, and I was in the Hamilton fandom for three years. Genuinely how do you even get there. Bitch could've invited Linant to stay with him but he specifically said he'd rent him a different place. How does that equate to inviting him into his bed. This part alone is what's gonna convince me of Peyrefitte's bottom V thesis cause I can interpret two letters in that way and I can no longer be self-conscious about how I interpret literally anything, because it's still gonna be 10 miles more sane and evidenced than anything Peyrefitte's said.

@enlitment I apologise deeply for making you read this, but here's a taste of why the book sucks... Turns out I actually stopped reading on page 20 lol cause that's where my yelling at Peyrefitte in the margins stops.

[la0istouden]

literally begging people to take 5 minutes to learn about the american military industrial complex, the poor/poverty to military pipeline, and how the american military treats its soldiers before condemning every single veteran because you think "muhmuh all soldiers evil!!1!!!1!1!11".

[yourplasticpal]

Ok, but... this is the show that it is. Mark me as on Con O'Neill watch until season 3, same as I was on Nathan Foad watch. If Buttons is a bird, nothing is impossible.

If Izzy comes back as an animal too, what are we thinking? Literal unicorn?

[crowleysfall]

Already seeing some people calling Izzy’s death a bury your gays thing ffs Izzy dying had NOTHING to do with him being queer, y’all can be pissed but please be serious