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willgrahamscock · 2 years ago
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I'm sorry that the audience is perceiving your main characters in your tv show as homoerotic, you made them gaze into each others eyes far too long while covered in blood
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askblueandviolet · 11 months ago
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you two are SO gay i love you
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boxwinebaddie · 1 month ago
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rip in honor of an anon who asked me to have ravenstan and jerseykyle write them something cute ( smh jk )
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this never fails to be funny to me
#i am shit posting but at least i am free if i could do cursive this would be so good bc u know jks cursive is so beautiful#and so scary i would kms#also jks teacher handwriting and ravenstans lopsided lefthanded scribble scrabble ( not him spelling it wrong ) god bless you baby#why do the handwriting posts amuse me so much#u know when they leave each other notes it’s so funny#rip all my lost anons#i loved u so bad#CHOKE!#not ravenstan being so lovely and jersekyle being NASTY#LIKE YOU ARE IN TIME OUT#GO RIGHT NOW#like i could tell him to do anything#just kidding bestie do whatever u want#HOPE THAT HELPS!#HTH IS THE NEW HOPE YOU HEAL#I AM IN PAAAAAAIN#EVIL EVIL MAN#sorry they both kinda look like me...trying to write in two different handwriting styles is...uh harder than it looks#but ravenstan only writes in captial letters and texts in lower case letters and its basically illegible but very enthusiastic#and he draws cute things and is so so so nice and wonderful#and jerseykyle is only formal and MEAN and horrible#jfc ravenstan really Does have rockstarboy starpower handwring like its messy as fuck but you can tell he loves you so much#ly goodboy badboy king ur my hero and jerseykyle one chance u would kick me in the face and kick me out the fire escape#but it would be worth it ( he wont let u kiss him above the collar bone tho so thats an L and if u leave a mark he will kill u )#*me thinking abt jk kissing rs on the cheek after their hate and slamming the door hsadklhas* EEEW LIKE WE GET IT! UR GAY#ITS NOT PRIDE MONTH PACK IT UP HOMOS EEEEEeWWW
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findingcrow · 1 year ago
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Halt: I can’t tell which I’m more surprised by- the fact that you didn’t realize you have intense trauma, or that you thought you were straight.
Will: Okay now that’s not fair
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homolobotomized · 1 year ago
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such a big fan of this page. nagumo's text emboldened, yotsumura's expression,, "shaddup ab why im keeping this dude who has no chance of recovery (barely) alive. let's talk ab the reason im keeping this dude who has no chance of recovery (barely) alive",,, good shit
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cptnjeanlucpicard · 6 months ago
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Which is exactly why Q spending time with you is important for his 'enrichment'. As long as he obsessed with you and focused on spending time with you then he is not causing anyones death or invent games for 'lesser' beings. I am sure that the universe as a whole gave a sigh of relief at the thought of you two getting together. I mean, considering Q could have fallen in love with someone who would encourage his worse aspects it is quite fortunate that cupid decided to send one hell of an arrow through Qs heart and have him fall in love with someone who perfectly works as the immovable object and moral conscience to his chaos.
Well. I suppose you make a fair point, Anon. However displeasing it is to have to be the anchor for one such as Q, if it were anyone else he'd taken an interest in, he would likely have a much easier time pushing them around--and that wouldn't be much good for anyone.
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hedgehogofvictory · 11 months ago
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if I wasn't gay before, being picked up and spun around in lindy hop class like I weigh nothing certainly did the job
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javic-piotr-thane · 2 years ago
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Tyler's trip
*muffled club music, snogging sounds, Tyler and his dealer talking* *door being opened* Colchester: I beg your pardon? Tyler: Whaa-? [dealer]: Is there a problem? Colchester: *angry* I should coco. [dealer]: Don't like gays? Colchester: Let's just say, if I had the two of you together, I'm not getting a 10. And Tyler's an 8. Tyler: *slightly confused voice* Ah... thank you. *sounds of a struggle, likely Colchester manhandling the dealer away from Tyler* [dealer]: *indignant* Hey, hey! I've been waiting all night to get a turn on that! Colchester: Find someone else to prey on. He's in no fit state. [dealer]: Let go of me! Colchester: With pleasure. *throws him away* *door closes* Colchester: *sighs* Tyler: *confused noises* Where did... where did thingy go? Colchester: *patient* Elsewhere. Tyler: Ah, not your type? Colchester: *still patient* Not anyone's. Tyler: Eh, that doesn't mean you get to... *swallows, attempts to collect himself* you get to... *seems to give up* you know. *little breathy laugh* You jealous? Colchester: Not really. Look at you. Tyler: *petulant* You're not my daddy. *pause* Not unless you want to be. Colchester: *exasperated sound* Tyler! Tyler: *annoyed* Come on!!! I just wanted some fun. *suddenly thoughtful* We could pull over and fool around. Colchester: *disbelieving voice* 'Fool around'! *disbelieving chuckle* What have you taken! Tyler: *almost dreamy sigh* Stuff. *almost wistful tone* Lots of stuff. Colchester: *blunt* You're a mess. Are you up to this assignment? Tyler: Of course I am! Just taking the edge off. Colchester: *reprimanding* Mr. Steele! Tyler: You don't have to do what I have to. Spending all day scrolling through all that shit. Ah, the stuff people... *cuts self off, swallows* The things they say. All day. Reading it, I... *raises voice suddenly* You know, I'm not like you! Stuff gets to me! Colchester: *sighs* Tyler... Tyler: *briefly sounds like he's fighting tears* I just want to be numb for a few hours, okay? The stuff I let people do to me, you know I- I- I deserve it. 'Cause of what I let them say about her. It's sick. *working himself up* Bullets on her doorstep. *sputters helplessly* I mean why do they leave bullets?! Colchester: How long were you in that club. Tyler: *desperate* Not long enough. Don't you know? *bitter* You're following my every movement. And loving it. *huffs and puffs* Colchester: *picking his battles, trying a different angle* The tracker is not in your phone, so don't bother throwing that away. Tyler: *bursts out angrily* Just stop following me! Okay? Petra's a friend, and I wanna keep her safe. *petulant* Not that you'd understand that. *swallows back tears again* And I know what they wanna do to her. *on the verge of crying* Gosh I just wanna feel nothing for a few hours, alright? Colchester: Well next time just ask me, I'd be delighted to hit you with a rolling pin. Now, let's get you home. Tyler: *wet breath, wet voice* You're nice. You're nice to me, you're nice. *another deep, bracing breath; voice picking up again* How do I stop them killing her?
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hauntingblue · 6 months ago
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This volume is called ace's introduction. Nothing more to say.
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"You hire comedians here?" He is so funny....
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Who's gonna tell him..... He literally will never get a break
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Ace being so proud of Luffy not accepting to join and being a little shit... Also right here is where I got ROBBED of my acesan content.... Also he does fight whitebeard... In marineford... GOD!!!!!
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GOOOD TAKE ME INSTEAD!!!! TAKE MEEEE!!!! AAAAHHHHHHHH
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You cannot see me but I am on the floor on my knees and I am crying and sobbing and hitting my chest asking the gods to spare him
#ace's knife is so big for no reason. and he hasn't used it once. major tragedy#im just staring at the page when he wakes up at this point. enjoying myself very much thank youu#ace no ototo...... yeaaaaaah#ace telling smoker to calm down man... he was eating bc he had the munchies...#i forgot ace asks luffy to join whitebeard omg....#WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE LEAVES RIGHT NOW??? I AM GOING TO CRY!!! LUFFY ASKING HIM TO STAY A BIT LONGER BC THEY HAVENT SEEN EACHOTHER IN A WHILE#NOOOOOO#i am crying. what do you mean he leaves now..... no sanji homo moment.... no wandering thru the desert... they literally dont see each othe#until ace fucking dies. should we all kill ourselves......... that is so vile#now i am sad....now what.....#goodbye my beautiful wife............ AAAARGGGHHHH#i am writing this down so i dont forget.... it rains in alubarna just bcuz and crocodile made it look like the king was using dance powder#since then the climate in arabasta has changed bc of crocodile i am assuming who dries up the place... and elumalu has dried up#bc the river hasnt been as strong and the city has fed off it#vivi making friends with khoza by fighting and luffy gettint it thru her head that she needs to let her friends help her by fighting is so.#like yeah yeah he knew.... he is an empath... he knows she is insane in the head... she needs to rumble...#vivi not wanting people to die for her.... understandable but necessary maybe when you are a princess akdhaksjsk#you know kohza being leader of the rebellion is good bc you know he does it bc he loves his country... and if that means doubting the king#then so be it.... like thats a good backstory and motivation for a character bc god knows how rebellion leaders are portrayed usually 💀#also just realised there is no ace lighting sanjis cigarette scene in the manga.... critical hit. devastating loss#it's like an angel lost its wings#is there a reversal in roles with vivi not wanting anybody to die in a war in arabasta and luffy going to marineford to save ace???#like i can barely see it#if luffy and vivi dont fight in the la i am killing someone btw. like idk why they are so adverse to fighting. HIT WOMEN AND CHILDREN!!!#the ace lighting up sanji scene didnt happen but the zoro calling sanji prince is from the manga... oda has his favorites....#'what does vip mean?' smash cut to tem behind bars akdhaksjaosk#not showing robin's powers until she uses them to lie to pell and then you can see how she lied.... chefs kiss...#mr prince in action... and crocodile ignoring robin telling him to leave mr prince alone.... she gives good advice but alas#talking tag#reading one piece
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drchucktingle · 2 months ago
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a moment to check the gears and cogs
feel like i want to talk a little on the message of a recent post because i think it is an important point. when i say that you do not need to QUALIFY OR DEFEND your love of tinglers or my work in general, i am pointing out an interesting social anomaly that happens with my art and with queer art.
as an autistic buckaroo i notice patterns, and on social media i see them a lot. little phrases that come up again and again with my art. ‘yes THAT chuck tingle’ ‘its ACTUALLY good’ ’my favorite author i have never read’ ‘so bad its good’. these are always added after a POSITIVE comment about me
they also all have something in common. they are trying to distance the posters SINCERE JOY and give them an out socially. it is very very very subtle, but they are all saying ‘yes i like this but here is a sliver of acknowledgment that it is also weird or bad or ironic. in not REALLY fully in'
essentially these are added because it means the poster can escape their very real joy if needed. try applying these phrases to any other popular author. its much more subtle with the first two: ‘i liked all fours by miranda july, yes THAT miranda july. its ACTUALLY good’. what does this imply?
the other examples are a little more blatant but lets try them with other authors anyway. imagine saying ‘youre my favorite author i have never read’ to stephen king. would you EVER say that to someone? what does that imply? how about 'i love your books theyre so bad theyre good'. horrifyingly rude
lets dive into saying 'CHUCK TINGLE is my favorite author i have never read’ sounds unusual when substituting other authors because theyre usually not queer or autistic or making outsider art. to be blunt, why CHUCK gets it all the time is because it really means 'i like chuck tingle but im not gay’
while we have mostly culturally evolved past the idea that saying ‘no homo’ is some kind of joke, that FEELING is still around. it has just burrowed a little deeper. honestly it might never go away, or at least take centuries. remember these people GENUINELY LIKE MY BOOKS but feel they MUST qualify
should also be pointed out that LEFT and LIBERAL people are the ones who say this stuff to chuck. they do not MEAN to harm, and if you ask them directly how they feel about queer or neurodivergent people they would not express the same opinion as their subliminal comments might imply
the final elephant trotting by is while some of this is homophobia and fear of a neurodivergent other, it is also just plain old IRONY POISONING. its conditioning from being raised on an internet where sincerity was ‘cringe' and loving something was a weakness or joke. these problems work in tandem
so whats the point? what can we do? first of all, just recognizing these patterns is a start. i didnt HAVE to write all of this today but i think its important to be aware and to look inward and think about the gears and cogs that churn behind the things we say. NEXT step is trying to push past it
if you have done these things in the past, i want you to know i am NOT AT ALL UPSET. i am not mad or hurt and i do not think any less of you. you can trot by my side any day and you are trying your best to prove love. we are ALL just tryin our best, just consider this a friendly chat between buds
proving love can happen in BIG WAYS and it can happen in SMALL WAYS that we barely see. just take a moment and think ‘WHY am i saying this? WHY am i in this pattern to distance myself from outsider or queer art?’ a little moment of consideration goes a LONG way buckaroos. LOVE IS REAL
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wizardpink · 8 months ago
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@iamanoccasionaldoodler
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Okay so,
There seems to be this negative reaction to the finale from a lot of Devil's Minion fans and I don't understand it for a lot of reasons, but one of them is ... I don't get why people are upset that, when read at it's worst, Armand and Daniel are seemingly not on good terms after Daniel is turned. I keep seeing this belief that Armand "abandoned" him, which I think is fully pulled from y'alls collective ass, and a disappointment that Daniel would call Armand a "fucking asshole."
But the thing about Armand/Daniel everyone seems to be forgetting is that even in the source material, they first had to tear each other down to their bare bones before they could see each other well enough to love one another -- REALLY love one another. Because Armand is a russian nesting doll of lies, masks, and emotional walls, and with Daniel, idek if I can explain it properly, but I think its some combination of Armand needing to break him a bit to get him on his level of broken freakitude, and also Armand not being able to relate to the 20th Century Human period and needing to drill down into Daniel's core, straight down into the monkey brain that every homo sapien has shared for eons, before he can find something he understands.
If we were to ever get a proper Devil's Minion storyline on this show (and we will), they've laid the perfect groundwork by having Daniel EVISCERATE Armand right to his face, slicing his Gorgon's knot of lies and schemes in half and leaving it lay on that table. And Armand's face! HIS FACE! He can't believe it! Seventy-seven years with Louis who never could unravel all the strings, or simply didn't care to even bother. And THIS guy who seemingly hates him found Armand fascinating enough to try. AND succeed!
And why wouldn't he? Daniel may not have remembered until they were nearing the end of the interview, but Armand SHOWED Daniel what was beneath the mask years ago, the very first time they met. The jealous, insecure, desperate creature that was hiding under there, that IS Armand to Daniel.
I'm getting off track here, but what I'm trying to say is that as much as Armand turning Daniel in the books is SUCH a flawless scene, ultimately, if you believe in the infinite and eternal nature of their love story, it doesn't matter whether Armand turned Daniel before they fell for each other, afterward, during a break-up or at the climax of their most romantic streak. Like Lestat said, "We'll be together ten thousand nights, a hundred thousand. What we're doing is hard."
So maybe Armand turned Daniel shortly after Daniel stripped him bare in front of Louis, and Louis was so disgusted by what he saw, he threw him into a stone wall. Daniel could have run, too. For some reason, he didnt. Armand could have killed him in an instant, sitting at that table or after Louis left. He didn't. Armand made a conscious decision to tie himself to this man who just exposed him for ETERNITY. Because as horrific an experience as it was, as devastating and life-altering, he was seen.
"It is difficult to explain how his words disarmed me, how efficiently succinct and impenetrable his argument was. All my conceptions, even my guilt and my wish to die, seemed utterly unimportant, and I completely forgot myself and the barbaric scene that surrounded me. For the first time in my life, I was seen."
Louis said those words about Lestat as he described being made a vampire, when he kissed Lestat on the altar.
That feeling, of someone cutting to the core of you and telling you exactly what you are as no one else has ever been able to understand, made Louis accept the Dark Gift from Lestat.
And it made Armand give that Gift to Daniel.
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dragzo · 5 months ago
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Chapter 10 - Shared Feelings
Ahhh, it’s been a while since I’ve been able to draw some good ol’ spicynoodles. Back to my roots, you could even say. This was something I had a lot of fun working on; I experimented with my art process, and I had to consult some peers for advice. It took many glorious hours of my life (10+ hours…) but in the end I still wound up with something I’m very proud of.
I know this is going to flop, cause most of my posts have been recently. I don’t really care, because I still get to cherish this and remember how much these two mean to me, and how they’re the reason I gave LMK a chance.
Anyways! Chapter 10 for my fic ‘Prank Gone Wrong’ is up and this masterpiece is a direct scene from it. If you like horribly oblivious homos, devious scheming, and discussions about aromanticism — my fic is perfect for you. I hope you give it a chance, especially as it will be reaching its end soon. And if you’ve already been keeping up with my chapters, I hope you enjoy this rollercoaster of a chapter :)
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ash-and-starlight · 2 months ago
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BOOKS OF 2024
the list nobody asked for. again <3 i think this time around i read less books than the previous year?? but still 😤 we did it boys we read some fine books. reviews under the cut since i love yapping and i cant be fucked to make a goodreads account
Cromorama - Riccardo Falcinelli this book was sooo cool so engaging so interesting, its a look into the history and science of colors but its also so much more rlly one of my favorite nonfictions of all time
The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells disclaimer I only read this series up to Rogue Protocol, but I enjoyed it, I rlly liked the characters and the worldbuilding and the short novel format and most of all murderbooottt my best friend murderbot. when im in the mood for scifi again ill read the rest asw I prommyy
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong this is one of those books that as u read it you can already tell it will stay with you forever, dont be fooled by the shortness every single line will Kill You. it will kill you dead.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka probably my fav book of the year, it's beautiful it's gripping it's deep it's scathing it's irreverent it has a careful and deeply cultural magical surrealism it has sociopolitical satire it won the booker prize of 2022 and deserved it so much
Fuori le Palle! Privilegi e Trappole della Mascolinità - Victoire Tuaillon ill be hoooneestt I didn't find this uhh as groundbreaking as I was kinda expecting it to be?? but still it was a nice read and the "flipped" perspective to center the myth of """masculinity""" in a feminist text was interesting. also rlly pretty cover
Lavinia - Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula girl u did it again! constantly rising the bar for all of us!! another stunning book that sadly fell victim to the #girlboss tiktokification but DONT LET THAT STOP YOUUU its sooo good. bitches Love pre-hellenistic latin society <333 bitches love even more when the boundaries between story and characters and reality and fiction blur in such a masterful way that Lavinia can have a conversation with Vergil and it doesn't feel not even the littlest bit forced or out of place <333
Exordia - Seth Dickinson Went in for the giant snake alien/human toxic yuri stayed for the weird mystery body horror stuff almost left for the overabundance of USA military stuff that I just can't be bothered to care about. I liked it way less than the masquerade but it Does have all the classical elements that make it a Seth Dickinson book aka fucked up women. Imperialism Critique. the horrors. the trolley problem. being Very Long. etc
Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao wow guys. this book fucking sucked. like I'm speechless. you'd think that with the crazy popular rep it has it would have smth worth salvaging but uhhh- anyway go stream cocoon by corrupter which is iron widow if it was actually good
Fire from Heaven - Mary Renault nothing more special than a cultured fujo and her special golden shiny perfumed blorbo that everyone wants to fuck so bad <333 finally a book that healed my tsoa related trauma, the only thing that could've made it better is if hephaestion discovered brat taming
The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez beautiful and with such a dreamy magical atmosphere once again I LOVEEE interwoven stories, and I feel like some of the writing's style Choices are so original. it starts a bit slow tbh but I found it impossible to put down from the second half of the book til the end
Voyage of the Damned - Frances White well. it was a cherished super pretty shiny gift from a beloved friend so that's why I finished it but uh. uhhMMMMM uhghhh whhhhfhhmmm uhhhhh hmmmmm uhhhhh. yeah. I'm iconic 💅
Bad Gays: a Homosexual History - Ben Miller, Huw Lemmey ill be honest I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did but its really nice!! its a critique and analysis of white male gayness told through the lives of some Notable Controversial Homos, and I liked how it rlly paints a full picture not only of their lives but also of the socio-political landscape that shaped them and the concept of queernes of the time. only lil gripe tho is why there was only One woman and One Japanese guy then-
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merrysithmas · 5 months ago
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ok but there's so much meaning when charles says that they have it in them to be better men, because although erik AND charles (as a literal geneticist - coolest field woot woot) are BOTH obsessed with evolution, they have VERY different ideas of what evolution means
to erik, essentially kidnapped by an evil supremacist & grown up in a situation of horror and trauma, evolution for him meant the blanket "we are stronger then the humans, therefore better than them - we will overcome them" . to erik evolution is very physical. it is what has happened thousands of times before, but this time Erik wants to be the victor, Erik wants the safety, the power, the self-determination.
charles, a scientist, literally wrote his dissertation on this phenomenon exactly. he said when homo sapiens and neanderthals clashed, neanderthalis died out almost immediately. charles KNOWS what erik is saying is inevitable (one species replacing another) but CHARLES DOESNT BELIEVE THAT PHENOMENON IS EVOLUTION IN THIS CASE, because through time this situation has been the continual and never-ending cycle: one species dies and replaced another. it's the status quo. it's NOT evolution.
to charles, evolution is an EMOTIONAL, psychological event. one that he pushes for with every mission, struggle, and wish. his idea of evolution supercedes the physical struggle for space and resources and breaks into the realm of yes, peace and coexistence. the truly evolved being, regardless of species, would simply share. the truly evolved being is compassionate, emotional, breaks free of patterns of replacement and domination.
he is WELL AWARE of the reality of the theory of evolution (he wrote his dissertation on it) yet he continues to challenge and push the idea that this is hardly evolution at all, but its rather repetition and falling victim to pattern.
that's why Charles' POV is special - even if people aren't ready for it (because of the cycles of pain and anger) it is truly the only way forward- the only way to truly become a better world, by not trying to dominate one another.
he knows it may not be the time or the place but he tries continually at every opportunity - testing and challenging and becoming the first step.
and in the future, eventually through Erik's companionship, he learns how complicated life is. it isn't a theory, but a hard and hurting lived experience. Erik, a survivor of genocide and a man changed by genocide (humanity's worst offenses), is the PERFECT slap of reality for Charles. the understanding he develops for Erik both crushes/disproves his own life's work and redefines it. charles learns you can't skip over the pain to find peace. that would also be callous and cruel. just as cruel as one species replacing another.
emotional evolution isn't about replacing pain with "being better", it's about integration, processing, and forgiveness. sometimes its accepting there will be no healing, sometimes its accepting you can only heal if you realize that.
evolution is a slow and painful process - even loving is hard, though they both make their way to it in the end
For old time's sake🤍
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natequarter · 9 days ago
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thinking about the fourth doctor (again) (it happens often). often labelled as one of the most alien incarnations of the doctor - especially in contrast to his successor, the fifth doctor - and yet i just don't see it. or rather, i do, but i think i'm disagreeing with the wrong thing. the doctor is alien. and certainly, across the fourth doctor's tenure, he spends his time as anything from errand boy to president for his home planet. he's very aware of his status as a perpetual outsider; he remarks as much to sarah, sulking. but sarah is the clue here. the doctor is an anglophile, a post-imperial successor to the victorian inventor. when he travels with humans - contemporary humans, that is, harry and sarah - he is held at a distance from humanity, but clearly partakes in their culture: homo sapiens, he asserts, indomitable. this is clearly not the proclamation of someone who is human, but it is also clearly not the proclamation of someone who doesn't give a shit about humanity. he exists outside of human culture - but he conforms to its eccentricities; that is, he locates himself on the peripheries of english culture by the very act of adopting english eccentricities. would you like a jelly baby? he's a bohemian - strange, but strange by the standards of humans. he sticks out like a sore thumb on gallifrey. there is a stark shift across his tenure from earth to the rest of the universe - first the doctor ditches unit in robot, then he ditches contemporary earth in the hand of fear, then he ditches humanity full stop in the invasion of time, then he even ditches our universe in full circle. and yet at the end of it all he comes back, to die in england in the presence of contemporary humans. the doctor's humanity - the spirit of humanity, not the literal species - is arguably ever more present the longer he spends with Literally Anyone Other Than Sarah. he's the teaboo who explains leela's own heritage to her when they land in england - more often than not in the victorian era, as it happens. he's that freak who's obsessed with irrelevant humans to romana, who is completely detached from humanity-slash-emotion and argues for what we might now recognise as ai art (computer logic) in city of death, whilst the doctor angrily insists on the importance of earth culture and human, indistinguishable here from non-machine, sentient, artistic touch. he coaches adric through the typical idioms and customs of twentieth century. ironically, the longer the doctor spends with the obviously non-human - with romana, who is handily from the same cultural background, or k9, a literal robot - the more the doctor's humanity becomes evident. in a sense he drags romana down with him - he attempts to instil in her a sense of humanity, varying from desperately trying to go on holiday to literally taking her to cambridge university. and to some extent, it works! but the doctor will always be the more human one. contrasted with harry and sarah, he naturally appears more distant, more alien - they are recognisable as pov characters, similar to us. but contrasted as he is with the cold logic of k9, the distance in time of leela, or the alien worldview of romana, and the doctor becomes the torchbearer for us, the human audience. the doctor becomes the one who is overly familiar with english culture. the doctor becomes the one who edits shakespeare and advises da vinci, or maybe it was the other way round. when he quotes shakespeare to sarah, it's an irritating distraction because she knows what he's talking about and wishes he would stop trying to get them killed. when he quotes shakespeare to romana, it's a baffling irrelevance with no meaning or weight to her. the doctor is no longer an alien burdened by his exile on a planet he doesn't even like all that much; the doctor is an ambassador for humanity, an inheritor of its literary allusions. he defends the spirit of humanity, joie de vivre, imagination, passion and love. he is not physically human - but he is its byronic hero. maybe next time he'll even play cricket.
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tac-the-unseen · 10 months ago
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What the Lost boys think about vampire related media
Fluff, x reader but just barely
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•While making conversation with your four Vampire lovers you were suddenly plagued with a question.
“How do you guys feel about vampire related media?”
-That question was an immediate head turner. The cave goes dead quite before Dwayne speaks up, “Well…vampires are in hiding so…”
-This sparks a conversation about how media representation of vampires may not be accurate, but that's a good thing. “If a book or movie comes out and it is shockingly accurate to what being a vampire is really like, the creator isn't going to last long.” David explained
-That's because there's a set of rules vampires have to follow and one of those rules is to never publicly reveal your double life identity
-”If something like that comes out, that means a vampire has broken that rule OR somebody knows vampires very closely and is creating media they know shouldn't exist.”
-Turns out if a vampire breaks that rule it's basically open season to kill and destroy their creations.
•You turn the conversation and begin to ask how they, specifically, feel about certain vampire representation
•Bram Stoker's Dracula
-Dwayne is the first to buy in his opinion.
-Dwayne feels that while it is a cult classic and well written, The characters are exceedingly dumb.
-”Johnathan spends a ridiculous amount of time talking about other characters ‘Breasts’ and trying to figure out why his host climbs walls ‘like a lizard's.”
-David is the next one to speak up
-David thinks it's not really worth the read
-”Unless you're trying to brag to people there's no point in reading it.”
-”Also why was Mina talking to that old sailor so much?”
-Paul laughs as he remembers “how fucking crazy he wrote Dracula to be”
-”I'm pretty sure the real Dracula thinks it's a heinous crime against him”
-Paul hasn't read it but have heard enough about it to know even the more obscure references
-Marko comments on the graceful writing style and the beautiful descriptions
-”I've only read it because Dwayne thought I would like it"
-Marko also loves how oblivious Jonathan and most of the other characters are
-All of them think the movie adaptation is hilarious and love the shitty special effects
•Interview with a vampire
-Paul chimes in immediately
-”God it's so homo erotic it hurts…in a good way.”
-Paul thinks its a nice horror novel mixed with a weird cozy atmosphere
-Dwayne thinks it's another well written classic and He actually begins to rave about all the themes involved within Anne Rice’s work
-”It's a beautiful Gothic thriller with a deep, sadly comedic energy.”
-He even offers to read it too you sometime
-Marko chimes in quickly about “Claudia’s rebellious behavior and persona”
-”imagine watching your family choose somebody else over you. It's so deeply upsetting but to an understandable level.”
-”I would have hated to turn so young. I look like a teenager and other people can respect that to a certain point. But being five years old with the mind of an adult, No one would respect you.”
-Marko relates to Claudia on an internal level and loves unraveling her character. When you ask why he quickly responds "Some people call me a cherub... You think I enjoy that?"
-David says he doesn't have much to say other than it was a decent read (That's his version of a compliments)
•Twilight
-All of them agree that it's laughably horrendous
-Almost immediately at the same time they say “This is the skin of a killer Bella”
-This leads to banshee like laughter
David speaks up immediately
-”Why do you humans want us to sparkle so bad?”
-”I personally hate the idea of being a walking disco ball, but to each their own.”
-Marko chimes in quickly
-”Would you like it if we sparkled?” He asked while leans on you affectionately
-Marko thinks the only reason to read it is to have a nice laugh
-”Why did Edward have such a violent reaction of Bella standing by a fan? That makes no sense…like I have mates and I enjoy the smell of you guys but…I'm not nearly clawing off my face at your smell”
-”Yeah yeah, I get he's trying not to overreact but running out of class to get away is crazy.”
-Paul even adds that even thought it's very dumb even he can appreciate the message it's trying to said.
-”something something, coming over adversary, something something, love wins, something something..”
-”Also that Jacob imprinting on Bella's infant daughter is super fucking creepy.”
-when you asked Dwayne about his feels he scoffed and said It's insulting at best and borderline sexual harassment at worst.
-He refused to go into depth
•You thank them for humoring you and they tell you that it's no problem
-David kisses the side of your head in an uncharacteristically soft way “We don't ever mind answering your vampire related question.” He tells you
-Marko turns to you “But seriously do you want us to sparkle?”
-”I think I have some roll on body glitter somewhere..” Paul says while getting up to look for it
Thanks for reading <3
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