#like I saw that coming from a mile away

[hopelessfandomfreak]

lesbians exist in ted lasso!! hooray!

I still think roy/keeley will be endgame but I also think jack is exactly what keeley needs right now. she needs someone she can pour her heart and soul to, which she’s already started to do with jack, and who can validate her. eventually I think jack will be the one to tell keeley the obvious fact that she still loves roy, or jack will be a big part of keeley accepting that for herself. either way, jack is going to be important to keeley’s arc this season.

and I mean if I were in keeley’s place I would have done the same thing, can’t say I blame her

[majunju]

attention seeker

[veemark]

YinWar's reactions to people complaining about the series not showing how Jack and Joke feel about each other and lacking romance because they haven't had any "sweet moments" yet:

Bonus: Yin clapping back at people hating on him for Jack's choices last week.

[themanwhomadeamonster]

me knowing arthur and aoi are doomed by the narrative and we will have to witness them transform into infested proto-frames

[nucleqr]

i was never really a fan of the emperor but i am absolutely so mad at him now

[neilsracquet]

nora pretending she didn’t always know that andrew and neil were going to happen when this scene literally exists

[lonestarss]

💍 Tighnari for the doodle game por favor

i hc that cyno first tried proposing at like, the single least romantic time (forest patrol in this case) and tighnari immediately shut him tf down, partly because he didn't want such a display at such a time, and partly because he wanted to be the one to propose instead.

[daisyachain]

Restorative or Transformative?: Homoerotic Subtext, The Closet, and Ciphers in Pop Culture. The nature of commercial art is that it’s sometimes bad and inconsistent. Notably it’s also misogynistic. One way in which audiences try to reconcile massive plot holes or gaps in character motivation is by reading secrets or hidden information into a plot.

Commonly, male characters are interpreted as closeted gay or bisexual to reconcile the absence of women from commercial narratives with the generally stunted and poorly-written male characters that form the focus on said texts. This reading has become especially common among a non-heterosexual milieu. Rather than transforming the original text into some radically different new form, this closeted interpretation seeks to make the original text stand on its own as a story rather than a Swiss cheese of dumb writing decisions.

This interpretation only works for a specific type of pop, usually genre fiction. Any story in which tortured male leads eschew women in favour of male-male bonds (because female characters are constantly killed off, written sparsely, or written out, because the production team keeps casting their male buddies, because actors demand to keep having scenes with their bros, whatever) can become a sounder structure if you put one of them in a closet.

The gay interpretation is the natural consequence of shoddy misogynistic writing from ventures like Supernatural, Naruto, all the biggest hits. It’s also the natural consequence of more benignly misogynistic writing like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or The Lord of the Rings, where women aren’t necessarily rejected but are simply absent from the worlds of the protagonists. When the emotional crux of the story falls on male-male interactions, this reads as romantic because society at large priorities (definitively heterosexual) romance as the pinnacle of human connection. Two forces are in conflict, the primacy of heterosexuality (read as: romance) and the primacy of men.

Anyway. All that is to say that the typical gay or bisexual reading of male characters in pop fiction comes from a very real place. But, in some places, that’s the default interpretation. Angst, insecurity, secrets, double lives, fatigue, disappointment, restrained passion, stunted personal growth, anyone living in the closet can tell you that it impacts and defines your whole life to know that you live in a way fundamentally incompatible with The Proper Way that life is structured around down to tax law and superstore prices (which assume a heterosexual nuclear family unit). Characters in fiction also tend to have personal problems because that makes them interesting and tasty.

If you’ve grown up on stories with the specific type of misogyny that can be papered over with a closeted interpretation of the male leads, carrying this interpretation over to any male character will make sense more often than not. Even a bit of angst or insecurity? Well of course that makes sense if a character is closeted.

Except that’s hurt a normal part of fiction, and sometimes the closeted interpretation takes away from the point of a character. If a male character is on another axis of marginalization, the closeted interpretation imposed by the slash reading community downplays or trivializes the effects of that marginalization in the plot by overwriting it with another type of marginalization. Alternately, sometimes a character’s heterosexuality is a part of the story. There are some sorts of critiques or investigations of misogyny or masculinity that don’t work if the character has an ‘opt out’ of the cisheteropatriarchal perspective. Not that gay/bisexual men aren’t except from misogyny, but misogyny masculinity and heterosexuality are so tightly linked that it sort of defeats the point if you interpret that character outside of heterosexuality.

All that is to say—the closet interpretation is a quick and easy spice to apply to the weaker parts of action-adventure genre fiction to make it taste better. It draws from a large enough sample of art that it’s pretty widely applicable. Because of that, it’s part of some people’s [my] default interpretation package just because the semi-dull macho show at least gets less dull if you imagine there’s a reason for there to be no girls besides simple hatred. That then forms its own problem where the interpretation that works with your average genre work gets then blanket-applied to all genre works and obscures the places where the closet interpretation doesn’t fix the work, and actually makes it less interesting.

[perenlop]

in general i think im really tired of kirby antagonists that are like “ohhhh this is the main antagonist- actually they’re just being possessed and they’re not actually responsible for their actions at all”

[orchidsangel]

pregnancy trope is AWFUL like let me speak my truth. like jtv and the originals is different because the entire plot is centered around it but if i'm watching a show or reading a book and it supposedly comes out of nowhere (i've never not successfully predicted it) then it's over. i'm done. i'm out. LIKE DON'T PISS ME AWF !!!!! just sick and awful !!! especially when they're surprised like they weren't literally raw doggin every day, no birth control...you just made me angry. "i don't understand how this could happen ???" i'm literally under your bed rn.

[ratstuckinamarble]

I was hanging up a Halloween garland to get a little more into the spirit of things, when I lost hold of the damn thing and it flung itself against my shelf.

The one with a vase on it. Which immediately got dragged down to the floor.

I could already hear the crash of glass... except it never came. There I am on my stepstool, looking at my scattered dried flowers, absolutely confused as to where the hell that vase went. I thought it had disappeared. Somehow. I was properly befuddled.

...It had fallen into one of my backpacks, which basically swallowed the whole thing up without looking like anything had happened. Thanks for making me think I was losing it dude. At least I didn't have to clean up any glass (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠；⁠)

[photondoesstuff]

I don't even play Splatoon 3 anymore and yet I'm still disappointed to hear that Shiver won the Splatfest yet again.

[akkivee]

who made you get into hypmic

“i opened “i locked it” “i threw away the door” the key”

[itzmangoyumego]

I'm devastated, like why couldn't Jang Uk and Mu Deok just stay as PLATONIC FRIENDS, they so CLEARLY have the chemistry for it, I would've loved it if they kept the Master/Pupil relationship throughout rather than falling in love with each other when theres so many other (better) choices.

God what I won't give for them just having this big sis/lil bro relationship to NOT blossom into something else, just stick with it, let them have a relationship that is sort of rocky but clearly out of mutual respect and trust.

[noahstayed]

One of the most frustrating things about the Irreverent trailer is that it feels like Christian propaganda. Like IT FEELS LIKE A HALMARK MOVIE level of 'feel good' junk food. Where a big time criminal finds himself and god and learns to love his fellow man in a small beach town. It is not. OH BOY IS IT NOT.

[dani-luminae]

“But why is Galactic Starcruiser closing?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!”

Wow, it’s almost like no one was willing to fork out an exorbitant amount of money to be locked in a windowless building for two days, even if it was chock-full of Star Wars minigames to play.

And compared to all the actors, Cast Members, and other employees they had to pay to keep the “experience” running? It just wasn’t efficient.