#no one will convince me theyre not gay

[copdog1234]

Hi, yes, I can't stop thinking about the Lesbian Honkai short, as someone who doesn't play the game. A piece of queer art, it is

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Sometimes a day makes you want a Starscream to bite and squeeze

[willgrahams-rotten-fishing-lure]

5+1 things hannigram established private relationship, professors au

5 times hannibal is publicly affectionate with will simply because hes curious about how will would react + 1 time will is publicly affectionate because he's curious about how hannibal would react

this is also just because i love 5+1 things and would love to see this trope in any and everything

[wellhungspeaker]

sometimes i feel a little weird doing fandom-y things for rhps (because ive never been in a fandom this small before also because it just feels a little weird sometimes) and ill doubt myself and think "does everything NEED a fandom?? scoffs" even though. im hyperfixated super crazy style.

but then i remember that i have no mouth and i must scream has a fandom and i realize that life (fandoms) finds a way and if there is at least one person who likes something, there's probably going to be fanfic about it and some kind of ship WILL be involved

[cowboy-robooty]

what if i told u all my always sunny otp is the lawyer x charlie. what if.

[sweetlittlestarbursts]

Henry: I've already sent good vibes your way… they’re coming. There’s nothing you can do to stop them. Victor: This is the most threatening way I’ve ever been cheered up.

[everyurlithinkofistoolong]

When ST fans interpret every antagonistic character to be a child molester for some reason

[maximus-gluteus]

nothing to see here

[koluniie]

he tried the cat filter

[spidermanifested]

heres MY rambly black sails analysis for the day, after watching the show twice in as many months i wholeheartedly believe in the "long john silvers quote unquote missus in treasure island is max, not madi" theory

the most obvious thing, as others have pointed out, is that in treasure island long john silver runs an inn with his wife, a black woman, in bristol, which is absolutely not madi behavior-- i cannot imagine madi would take him back in the first place much less move with him TO ENGLAND-- but IS maxs exact area of expertise. but theres so many other things that cement it for me

as early as episode 2, max tries to convince eleanor to buy out the inn and run it together with her when england takes nassau back. this is her dream-- to share power over her life with a woman she loves, free of the pressures of the outside world. (youll note this also happens to be silvers dream for himself and madi. the parallels)

in season 4 shes faced with the suspiciously similar option to take a husband to be the face of her business, completely on paper, for the sake of the public eye. and she refuses! she doesnt want to give a man that kind of power over her. not only that but she desperately wants to retain some kind of truth in her identity-- she admires anne for her honesty, her courage. these are things she can rarely afford to express. in refusing a marriage of convenience, she asserts her autonomy.

But. black sails tells us over and over again that an oppressive society will always find ways to batter down these private boundaries. there is no island safe from colonial rule. mirandas peaceful house in the interior is burnt to the ground. the maroons are forced to accept a freedom that comes at the price of abandoning those still enslaved and taking part in their continued subjugation. the things it takes to make these spaces are terrible, and unsustainable, and when it comes to being gay in the 1700s there is a tightrope to walk between privilege and privacy, one that destroyed flint and the hamiltons, thats even narrower to max as a self-made woman of color.

given all that, i do not believe she can girlboss her way out of her circumstances no matter how many lessons she took from what happened to eleanor. nor do i think the show believes it. i think the political-marriage-offer plot point is another illustration of that theme-- maxs desire, and silvers desire, to build a warm, happy room in the middle of the imperial machine, without meaningfully striking out against the machine itself, is destined to be futile no matter how strong they are as individuals.

max and silver are mirror images of one another. each of them is essentially the narrator of one half of the story. it is absolutely agonizing how BOTH of them tried to convince their lovers to abandon their ambitions, to settle for a quiet life with them, and in doing so saw that relationship destroyed by their own fear of an uncertain future....

....And its even MORE agonizing to imagine them finally securing the trappings of a domestic life... but without the love. and they know the love was what mattered! theyre always going to know!!!

it bookends PERFECTLY with their alliance at the start of the series. theyre right where they started, trusting no one, pretending to be humble and harmless, planning to steal the EXACT SAME TREASURE, except now theyre 50 years old and jaded and bitter and both pining after their lost loves. silver probably pictures madi whenever he tells people about his wife. when he and max have time to themselves they talk solely about finances and nothing else. its honestly impressive how miserable this is for every single person involved. im losing my mind

[terminallyapologetic]

GGYSGSGGSGGSGDGDDG I LOVE THEM ENTIRELY TOO MUCH

I adore ships and I could literally talk about them all day, everyday. Today I will be talking about Cooliver and the reasons why I adore them together.

1) Best-friends to lovers is such an elite trope, especially when these best friends spend every second of the day together yet still never get sick of each other.

2) Oliver himself said that Cooper understands him.

3) There are multiple times where Cooper either changes Oliver’s perspective on a situation or convinces him to do something he didn’t want to do and he is the only one that can do this. The best example is the episode where the Ottos recreate their family photo for Katie’s birthday, Greg tries to convince Oliver to help him but Oliver only listens when Copper tells him to.

4) They are both always so smiley around each other. This is more shocking for a character like Oliver who is not bubbly at all and more closed off. He has never looked at any person, not his girlfriends or his family members the way he has looked at Cooper. It is very clear that they are each other’s person.

5) They are a perfect match. Wealthy boy who does not have a loving family + boy with a loving family who wants wealth.

6) Neither of them are their parents’ favourites. They both deserve to be someone’s favourite person.

7) Cooper finally has someone (in fact a whole family) that loves him for who he is and not for his money.

8) Both of them accept each other for who they are and encourage each other to follow their dreams. The episode where Cooper realizes he wants to be a chef and the episode where Oliver tries to get an internship are good examples of this.

9) They don’t enable each other. Cooper straight goes to Katie when he is concerned about the Oliver wanting to take medication that wasn’t prescribed to him.

10) In Franklin’s words, Cooper follows Oliver around like a lost puppy.

11) They parallel all the canon couples, most notably Katie and Greg.

12) All the little jokes the other characters make about them being married.

13) Certain lines in the script, such as Oliver joking about marrying rich in season 1 and Cooper wanting to be an Otto.

14)Cooper was in Oliver’s vision board.

15) Multiple characters think that they are dating, most notably Taylor.

16) Trip is actually paralled to Cooper in his introduction. This character’s intro was Katie not liking him and thinking he is rich and vapid and a bad influence on her kid, then at the end after doing something nice for a member of the Otto family, which proves to Katie that she was wrong and that softens her towards this character. Whose intro am I talking about? Both Cooper and Trip but Cooper’s intro was done first, which makes me think that Trip’s introduction was inspired by Cooper’s because they are very similar.

17) They could have had any one of Oliver’s girlfriends parallel Franklin and Trip but they never did. Cooper always paralleled them placing him in ‘boyfriend category’.

18) Greg said that Cooper (and Trip) might be around for a very long time. I think Greg might be half-right about this.

19) They gave themselves a ship name.

20) They wore matching tuxedos to prom.

21) This is probably a reach, but they are the only couple who didn’t get engaged in the last episode. The engagement could symbolize an omen, therefore they are safe.

22) Their dreams are compatible. Their dream schools are in the same area.

23) They planned their future together.

24) Oliver’s sadness and his speech to Katie about how much he’ll miss Cooper affected Katie so much that she decided to move Cooper into the Otto home.

25) Cooper’s dynamic with the Otto family, especially his dynamic with Katie.

[dnptarot]

-The Lovers by Timothy Liu

Alright here it is!!! The final collection of everybody's fantastic art for the dnp tarot deck!

here's a little sample of the kind of fantastic art we've had in the past two months of the event, with a bunch more in the google drive (linked here). this event has been such a joy to create! all the artist i've worked with have been so kind and amazing and i've made some really good friends throughout the process 😊 this one goes out to dan and phil for being so hot and gay that they look good as every card in the tarot deck, and to all the artists who made this a reality!

now for the technical stuff- i don't currently have the ability to print these and make them into a physic deck that can be sold as was suggested to me, but i do know that the website makeplayingcards.com has some pretty good options available to make your own for fairly cheap! in the google drive are .png files of every card as well as one for the back design, so go crazy!!! ofc remember that these are actual artists so don't sell their work as your own or anything 💖 let's keep being a kind and collaborative community guys- the phandom rocks!!!

and honestly, one more big thank you to the artists who participated. i'll tag everyone under the cut, but thank you so much for being such an amazing community to work with and such great artists!! and lastly, happy birthday @danielhowell !!! this started as a joke about a birthday present for dan and @amazingphil and turned into this fantastic monstrosity, so thank you guys for inspiring so many people to make such fantastic art 😊 this has been a blast 💖

okay here are the artists in the sample art, in groups of three from left to right

@viewerspookyhappenings @koyalime @psychicmoth

@ardenpng @saturnisfallingdown @queercatwithhat

@queenusagiblog @macaronimars @azuphere

and the rest of the artists!!

@jupiter-pls @serendipnpipity @danrifics

@thelibertini @hiwatari-art @freshbaked-bread

@rainytastemakeralpaca @wannieswifey @undead-queer

@thistooisphanyuri @spittykin @an-internet-introvert

@littlegreenfrog @macabremaxx @bogboygremlinthing

@all-star-lester @leanned-too-hard @fromemotoangel

@ayushikuu @shlebbie @obv10usly

@lumintsu @lesterlatte @littlestormofmess

@lovelydeps @catzoomies @precalamity

@emojackolantern @artsyangely @atomicjellycat

@lgbtspaghetti @i-remain-convinced @hingefreelester

@opossoomed @jutsomethoughtsihave @dapg-otmebytheballs

@anironsidh @ghoulish-art-tendencies @firehologram

i ran out of mentions SO i will put the rest in the replies everyone go check it out theyre amazing artists

[noihavenosanitythanksforasking]

i cannot express how much i adore the dinner scene in 1x01. i think about it constantly. theres so much covert queercoding for mike that it literally drives me crazy.

the fact that just a bit before this we have the scene with joyce and hop where they imply that they are scared that will has been a victim of a gay hate crime. and throughout the season its implied over and over and no one really seems to give a shit. not even lucas and dustin. they care about will DEEPLY ofc but the fact that most ppl are expecting him to be dead and killed bc hes gay doesnt seem to bother them? the scene where troy is bullshitting about will in the gym they both just stand there, they dont make any move to stop him or call him out. no one does (this isnt me calling lucas and dustin bad ppl or not allys or wtv but u get the point).

mike however does give a shit. he gives QUITE A FEW shits.

in the dinner scene mike is clearly distressed about his friend. which is a perfectly heterosexual thing to do. in general. however hes not straight so its gay when he does it. ANYWAYS. he is clearly distressed about it but his entire family is completely unconcerned. nancy is preoccupied and doesnt give a shit. hollys a baby. ted is well ted. and karen. i need to talk about karen for a sec.

karen ADRESSES that she thinks something bad happened to will by telling nancy she cant go to barbs house until will is found. however she acts very dismissive of wills situation in general. im sure she was worried for him but she does it (or at least expresses it) is a very passive way. she is not focused on will being missing or what may have happened to him, just the fact that something bad happened in general to a person in hawkins.

the fact is, besides mike, karen is the only one worried at all. and shes not even close to matching mikes energy in the slightest.

when mike mentions steve, the conversation is totally derailed from will. as if it wasnt an important conversation in the first place.

nancy storms off. and ted. oh ted you son of a bitch. ted says the classic

"you see what happens"

line. and what a line it is. due to all of the references prior to this and the fact that most ppl believe that somehting bad happened to will. its not hard to see that ted is once again referring to will being hate crimed.

you see what happens when youre gay? bad things happen to you. and then everyone you care about is just inconvenienced. theyre lives are disrupted.

karen glances at ted, clearly understanding what he means. and mike does too.

"what happens when what"

hes not asking. hes angry. and you can just see the exasperation on mikes face the whole scene

why is it not weird for will to go missing. why is no one surprised that something mad happened to him. why is no one else frantic to get him back. why is no one else worried about will. why is it considered normal for this to happen. why arent ppl upset like he is. just bc ppl think will is gay? that makes it all make sense? bullshit.

mike storms downstairs and calls lucas. when trying to convince him to come look for will his argument is the fact that will took a risk to help the party when he could have protected himself. but he didnt.

mike knows what ppl think happened to will. if he just thought will was lost or something looking for him wouldnt be a risk. it would just be an opportunity to find him. but he calls it a risk. will sacrificed something to protect the party (mike) when he could have saved himself from all that suffering. but he didnt. and now mike will do the same for him.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

wibta if i keep having sex with my friends dad? nsfw warning

i (20s cismale) got invited by my friend (20s nonbinary) to try out some new edibles they made last thursday. this isnt too weird because both of us are unemployed (they get disability, i get money from unemployment, and we both live with our parents) and usually during the day their dad (50s cismale) is at work so we get the house to ourselves. well last thursday was different because i came over late in the night when their dad was home, and he offered to make me some dinner too. i get the munchies really bad so i was immediately like yes please and thank you while i fucked off to my friends room. we played some smash bros while we waited for the cookies to kick in, and when it started to hit his dad called us both out for dinner. dinner was great, and his dad is super chill — so he let us raid his alcohol cabinet. i dont think he knew either of us were stoned for the record (im naturally really quiet/dont make eye contact, my friend sounds high 24/7 naturally) so i dont think he was like trying to get anyone drunk or anything. my tolerance is pretty good but my friends is shit so it didnt take long until they were like blackout drunk and passing out on the couch, while their dad and i were both drunk too (not blackout but pretty drunk, and i was still high) and sitting on the opposite side of the couch next to eachother

important fact about me - i crossdress like femboys or whatever theyre called. i like looking really feminine and cute and confusing people. im not trans or anything like that gender is just a game and i am winning it. but i do tend to dress up in very egirl/goth gf clothes if you know what i mean, and i look pretty convincing ive been told (friend tells me i would pass for ciswoman with the makeup on). i think their dad maybe forgot that i was me (he usually sees me in boy clothes) and he started hitting on me? i didnt think i was gay or bi either until he started doing it and i got really flustered but i didnt stop him? again i was fucked up so the attention felt really nice despite it being my friends dad. but anyways he kept getting closer until he kissed me, and it felt nice so i let it keep going? which was probably super fucked up in retrospect. but anyways stuff gets hot and steamy, their dad doesnt bother lifting up my skirt, one thing leads to another and we have sex. he definitely noticed im not a girl during that (its pretty hard to miss lol) but he didnt stop so we kept going for a while

after we were done he and i passed out on the couch in a kind of awkward position, we both woke up in the morning and i think thats when he realized im me, but he didnt seem to freak out even though hes straight?? or at least i thought he was straight. but we had sex again in the morning and then when my friend woke up we all had breakfast and i went back to my friends room and we hung out more and got high again. while we were though i accidentally spilled the beans to my friend, and they FREAKED out on me and said that i was so gross for doing that, and they cant believe that it happened, stuff like that. they kicked me out of their room and their dad had to drive me home because i was shaking bad from it. but while their dad drove me home i was super pissed and mad and not thinking straight (haha) and so i tried to convince their dad to take a detour so we could fuck again. and he was like, okay sure, so we did?? but now i feel horrible for doing it knowing that it grossed my friend out so much, but i really like their dad and he seems to like me too, and i want to keep banging him :(

What are these acronyms?

[petbrain]

this is fucking disgusting. seriously. what the actual fuck. i bet theres no bigger issues to address in the school system /s.

weird thing is i havent seen anyone having issues with children "displaying animal behavior" outside of the US and a couple european countries. as if it wasnt already clear, this is a ridiculous strawman to distract voters from actual problems, it's a brand new boogeyman to hate since it's not all that socially acceptable to be homophobic and racist on television to gather popular support anymore (not that it doesnt happen anymore, we all know it still does, theyre just not as upfront about it anymore).

yall when children play on their cellphones: I CANT BELIEVE... 😡 KIDS ARENT ALLOWED TO BE KIDS ANYMORE... 😭 THEY DONT EVEN PLAY OUTSIDE... 🤬 THEYRE ALWAYS ON THEIR SMARTPHONES... 💔

yall the very minute children try to have fun in real life:

[demadogs]

As a film student what would you say is the strongest Byler proof that was 100% intentional?

oh this by FAR. 1000%. after volume 2 when we were all still in our confused/disappointed/doubting stage this was the number one thing i kept coming back to.

every other byler evidence could have a shitty half-assed explanation except for this one. people try to rationalize everything else like how at rink-o-mania he said “we’re friends! we’re friends.” and try to say its proof of him friendzoning will or that he couldnt say he loves el because “his parents never say it” or shit like that but THIS??? there is literally no other possible meaning to framing mike perfectly inside the closet. WHILE HE DOESNT KISS HER BACK AND KEEPS HIS EYES OPEN.

the closet perfectly divides their kiss, showing that the conflict dividing their relationship is the fact that mike is in the closet. (which is also why i believe mike is gay, not bi, bc then this frame wouldnt make sense bc he would still like girls so the closet itself wouldnt be whats dividing the relationship, just his feelings for will). if there was just a visible closet in the background of this scene i could see how one would argue that it was unintentional but you dont just accidentally frame someone this perfectly without there being a reason.

this is actually what convinced me byler was happening in the first place. when s2 came out i shipped byler and thought it was cute but after s3 i saw someone point this out and i was like “wait holy shit theyre really doing it”.

i love this shot i think its brilliant.