#lmaoo but yeah im catholic

[achillesreborn]

antidepressants worked too good, i've converted to Catholicism

[morwensteelsheen]

Please say more about farawyn as queer relationship projection, pretty please??

oh my god im so drunk this isn’t going to make as much sense as it needs to be please don’t flame me for my incoherence lmao:

éowyn and faramir have a level of immediate emotional intimacy and fragility to me that’s quite appealing to queer people. like i think one level of queerness is that, when you identify yourself as queer, you open yourself up to immediate emotional danger. like, being the first person in a conversation to say you’re queer is a huge emotional step into the unknown. you can be immediately rejected, you could even be ostracised. i think éowyn especially represents that step into the unknown because she’s having to negotiate gender in a world where she doesn’t seem to Fit. but i also think faramir, as someone who is very, very open about going against the grain in his beliefs and conduct, also fits that, though perhaps at a level less recognisable to the queer youths (not a knock on them, but back in the day we did have to lean on the Respectable Gays for representation, rip). again, i don’t think this makes them inherently queer, but i think it makes them appealing to queer people because we look at them and we’re like, yeah, this is the forced vulnerability I’ve come to expect in life, this is the level of risk, etc etc

also, like, as has been said by cleverer people than me, they both find each other in the depths of their misery. that in itself is not inherently queer, but it’s something loads of queer people understand, we often find our relationships when we feel slightly less than human, and maintain them because we know we’ve found someone who doesn’t expect or demand anything of us, but loves us even at our worst. and i think that’s quite a rare quality in most fictional relationships, all things considered, and so i think they provide super fertile ground for queer people to project their relationships onto and really reimagine them in new and exciting ways.

plus, obviously, éowyn’s extended dialogue with gender identity and faramir’s ability to recognise the outcome of that without belittling her experimentation with gender is pretty exciting, especially considering it’s coming from a hella trad catholic lmao

god sorry i will write something serious about this later when im not pished but yeah I think there’s a reason all the queers love them, and it’s because we see ourselves in them lmaoo

[gunsatthaphan]

hi! hope you're having a good day! i love your blog a lot and i just wanted to add that i what i think that anon meant by "when was he canonised" when they asked about Saint is because canonisation is the official admission of a (dead) person into sainthood(at least in the catholic church; might be even only in a more specific subdivision of the church im not sure) so it was a pun with his name, hope this clarifies!

hii anon!!

thank you so much!! 🥺💓

ohmygod sjfhsd sometimes I can’t keep up with my anons lmaoo. But yeah. good... pun? 😂 

thank you for clarifying anon! 😊 I hope you have a good day too!! 💜 

xxx