#it never dies

[comrade-shrimp]

So y’all see that fallout trailer

[xoxoemynn]

hi!! I am a super new fan of queer as folk, and have seen a lot of your meta posts in my recent flurry of searches for fellow fan thoughts, and ALSO your incredible master list of recs, and i wanted to say thank you for all that time and effort you put into it! i know it's like a whole thing to curate and compile and post lists like that, but honestly it has been incredible for me to read through! You have wonderful fanfic taste and it really was so generous of you to share your time on a task like the master list. So thank you from nearly ten years ago for so kindly benefitting me today!! We (new fans) stand on the shoulders of giants (og fans who put in all the elbow grease) for real. I hope all is well with you in your current fandoms and actual real life! Sending you all the best :)

Awwww this was such a sweet message to wake up to, thank you!! QAF will always hold a very special place in my heart and I love knowing there are still new fans discovering it and falling in love with the residents of Liberty Ave all the time. As they say, we came for the queer, and stayed for the folk. I hope you find many new stories and friends in the fandom; that's what it's all about.

And because it's the first day of Pride, you know I had to include this gif:

[ranboo5]

"Oh we're not gonna hear from cRanboo anymore"

c!Ranboo:

[blueinsunlight]

ive been coping about as well as i could be after being metaphysically assaulted by a capybara made of pure life

[selfspinninglies]

My hyperfixation for body horror came back time to torture my blorbos

[stormyaxolotl]

homestuck is everyday

its almost here…

[liberumalas]

Such a fun duo.

[prouvaireafterdark]

listen I know it's heartbreaking that Claudia dies and it's understandable to wish she didn't, but let's please not accuse the writers of fridging her. to do so is a fundamental misunderstanding of the story and is frankly insulting to the intelligence and skill of the writers of the show.

Claudia's death, and the overwhelming grief and regret her parents experience because of it, is quite literally the point of the entire story. she dies because Anne's daughter Michele died of leukemia when she was five years old and there was nothing she or her husband could do to prevent it.

writing IWTV was how Anne coped with the unimaginable loss of a parent losing her child. she created a story about a little girl that could not die and then killed her anyway. Claudia's death is a senseless, unavoidable tragedy, just like Michele's was. the grief that haunts Louis and Lestat for the rest of their lives is the same grief that haunted Anne and her husband.

so when you're accusing people of killing Claudia off to benefit a story about two men, please remember that in real life sometimes parents lose their children. please remember Michele Rice.

she's the reason Claudia exists.

she's also the reason Claudia cannot be saved.

[teamcapwasrightandishouldsayit]

the prophecy is true

[aroaceleovaldez]

one of my favorite parts about Percy being Obviously Bi™ is he doesn't universally describe one gender as attractive. Like he doesn't just say all girls are cute and guys are just okay or whatever or vice versa. No, he has specific girls he finds pretty and specific guys he finds pretty, and he voices that opinion.

For example - Clarisse? Thalia? Meh. Even Silena, who is canonically very pretty, Percy is relatively neutral on. But Annabeth? Rachel? Calypso? 100%. And based on differences in descriptions like that we can tell when Percy is attracted to somebody versus isn't. He calls everybody else in Beckendorf's cabin ugly and then waxes poetic about how hot Beckendorf is specifically. He'll describe most guys as just "eh" with plain physical descriptors but every time he sees Luke he feels the need to specify that Luke is extremely hot while being very evil and how much he hates Luke's stupid very very pretty face. love that for you Percy. great work.

[dirt-goth]

As much as I want to be a wholly joyous about the fact that Henry Kissinger is finally fucking dead, as he deserves... There's a lot of me that can't help being upset with. With the fact that he lived to 100 years old. He got better medical care, better housing, and a better, more stable life for those 100 years than billions on this planet ever going to see and he did it specifically through exploitation, state sanctioned murder, and lies. He lived to 100 years comfortably on a legacy of violence that rarely threatened his personal comfort. I want to be joyous that he's finally dead, because the world IS better with him dead, but the reality is he won a long time ago.

[eydilily]

would you bite the hand that feeds you?

[gh0sdae]

there's no time to explain

after seeing the possuminnit post, I got the community post on youtube as well :)

[str1wberry7thyme]

Ren turning to Martyn and asking him if they got married in third life when the bot quizzed them about it and Martyn saying “Well I did cut your head off” as if that’s their version of a wedding ceremony ohh god I hate them so much

[hinamie]

I don't want to regret the way I lived