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Cillian Murphy's face: reported to the authorities
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The weirdly competent Doctor
So! The Watchtower's Medical Bay is a hub of constant Activity. With the number of Heroes who work under the Justice League, there are always injuries, health check-Ups, and illnesses that need healing.
But with the amount of Variant Biologies that those Heroes have, it's always a guessing game as to how to help them best. Some Metahumans react positively to penicillin, but others react like it's their Kryptonite. Some Aliens have anatomy similar to Humans, others are so different you can't tell the Stomach from the Bladder.
So when they hired a New Doctor for the Medical Bay, they had to run him through an entire Course on Variant Biologies and how best to treat specific Heroes. It was long and difficult to remember fully, but it was necessary for him to know.
But then the new Doctor started correcting Them.
"Actually, Martian's react better to the Syrup of Eucalyptus Plants better than Penicillin, since Eucalyptus is very similar to a medicinal plant from Mars which they used in many of their antibiotics."
"I don't think just pumping double doses of sedative is the best way to calm down a Speedster, that could have adverse effects on their body. Perhaps try Psychic Intervention? Their minds move a Mile a Second, but if you can calm them down their bodies will follow suit."
"Of course you use Micro-Doses of Kryptonite to operate on Superman! What else would you do?! I don't know, maybe ask JLD to enchant your Equipment to make use of Kryptonian suseptiblity to Magic? The Kryptonite is just gonna give him Cancer!"
Of course the Doctors didn't take kindly to being rudely corrected by a newbie, and Fired him on his first day.
Then a few days later their usual Treatments don't work, and they decide to give those strategies the Quack Doctor gave them out of desperation.
And Lo and Behold, they work! Martian Manhunter is fully healed and feels much better than the previous times he has needed surgery. Apparently they used a different Antibiotic that worked better with his Biology. Which was incredible, how had they figured it out?
Another Doctor you say? One who was experienced on Martian Biology and Medicinal History? He would very much like to meet with the man!
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What do you mean you fired him for talking back?!
#Dpxdc#Dp x dc#Dcxdp#Dc x dp#Danny Phantom#Dc#Dcu#Danny is a Doctor#Danny is the best Doctor#He is more experienced with different biologies since he studied under Frostbite and worked in Amtiy for so long#He had literally operated on Martin's and Speedsters before#When Batman hears about this he's gonna lose it#They had a Doctor who had extensive knowledge on the biology if dead races and they FIRED HIM!?#For talking back!?#Sure he was a little rude about it but to be fair you guys were using Kryptonite on Superman to Operate#Did none of you consider his other Big Weakness? Magic?#Oh as men of science you don't value magic do you?#Well he does apparently so bring him back here Now!
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I often do think it is important to call myself a woman. In past I've had kids ask me "are you a man or a girl" and in hindsight I think these kids were quite perceptive of the world. Especially when you're in your 20s it's men and girls, I've seen students write pieces describing themselves as men, but their female peers of the same age they call girls, but I have also heard bisexual women say they like both men and girls. In past I've fallen into that myself and said that yeah I'm a lesbian I like girls, but do I? No I am in my twenties and I am actually only attracted to my fellow adults - women. It does feel more serious, less trivial, both to be and be attracted to women as opposed to girls, and that can be a bit uncomfortable to be faced with. It is also important to me as a butch. I am no longer a tomboy I am a butch I am no longer a girl I am a woman. I am a woman and women can be like me. I don't feel like I've succeeded enough at adulting to call myself a woman, but that doesn't matter. I am 25, and if the word bears other connotations so be it, that's not my problem.
#to be fair i have also heard men on their 20s say man feels too serious of a word to them#but idk like so much of our society infantilize women i wont do the same#but also like in group of friends i do hear both men and women call each other boys/girls like girl's trip/boy's trip evening with the boys#lunch with the girls etc like ofc theres many situations where those words are used past adulthood in a way that makes sense but still#musings#butch
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nobody wants mat carnally: the ongoing saga
#wotedit#wot#wot on prime#the wheel of time#mat cauthon#mine#poor mat jkdjfg#also: love and light to rand's utter confidence in his ability to pull top-tier men when the only other men who are into him are forsaken#to be fair he was just mad because mat was Mean to him#on every other day he does want mat carnally#and ishy was tempted! so it's not all strikeouts for our boy mat
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these two being in the same group feels like it should be statistically impossible
#actually just the two most stunning and bewitching men on the planet#it’s not fair#i can’t believe we get to look at them for free and often next to each other!#hwang hyunjin#lee felix#hyunlix#skz#stray kids
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i see A LOT of sad chilshi posts about how ohh senshi will live so much longer than chilchuck!! it's gonna be so sad. YOU'RE WRONG. (unless the wiki is wrong hacks coughs). CHILCHUCK IS 28. GIVING HIM AROUND 20-25 MORE YEARS SENSHI IS 112. In chapter 51, it's said dwarves live 2.5x longer than tallmen, and tallmen live for ~60 years. This means dwarves live for around 150 years. AT MOST. ON AVERAGE. SENSHI WOULD LIVE FOR 13-18 YEARS WITHOUT CHILCHUCK. In my opinion at least, that really isn't all that long (at least not for senshi)
#we have no clue how long they'll actually live this is just averages#i get everyone wants a little angst BUT CMON NOW#senshi would be sad for a little while but it's not like they don't grow old together#dungeon meshi#chilshi#let my old men be happy for once#also there's a chance chil could live a lot longer than 50 (to be fair that means senshi could also probably live a lot longer)#my point is i feel like their deaths really wouldn't be that far off from each other#under certain circumstances#chil might actually live longer than senshi
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shounen fans will suggest literally any explanation for characters' behavior other than queerness
#bolo liveblogs#blue lock#bllk#shidou ryusei#okay to be fair most people in this thread agree shidou is mlm but there's just enough people insisting he's turned on by#power and competence in the sport to make me insane.#you mean competence in other MEN?#and op's note about the bedazzled phone case has me in stitches like that's when you thought he might be gay for real?#not when he asked sae out loud if he could move in with him?
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I NEED TO SEE THEM GET DIVORCED. O ALMIGHTY WRITER WHY MUST YOU KEEP THE 500 PAGE LONG 10000 WORD DIVORCE SCENE FROM THE PEOPLE
Good things come to those who wait...
It's like marinating a steak. You gotta let it sit in the juices for a while so it's way tastier later. I can't open the story in the middle of those two freaks divorcing, that lacks context that would make such things satisfying to watch - but I will say the relationship is definitely falling apart. We're stewing in the toxicity of Retris and Pleome's relationship because it's a microdose of later horseshit. Lamprey is an introduction to the running themes of total misery.
They will break up, though. This is inevitable.
#retris is quite clearly trying to seek joy in the arms of other men lol.#we literally saw him prioritizing flirting with an internet stranger over texting pleo back#a little sleazy out of context but fair within context.#sovereignstuck#retris morage#pleome alrium#lamprey.ship#nekro.sms
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EXCUSE ME SIR???? I WANT HIS WAIST SO FUCKING BAD OMG DONT BE CUNTY WITHOUT MEEEE 😩
THE FIT IS ABSOLUTE FIRE AND HIS WAIST OH MY GOD SOUL AND JONGSEOB WHO? (I’m kidding btw I still want their waists) I WANNA BE HIM @13th-floor-in-moonstone SO GENDERRDRRR LIKE SIR SPARE SOME SLAY FIERCE CUNTY DIVA FOR THE REST OF US I’M SO JEALOUS I WANNA BE HIM SO I CAN HAVE A PRETTY WAIST OMGGGGG SLAYYYYY
#LITERALLY GAGGINGGGG#PUKING SCREAMING CRYING VOMITING GAGGINGGGGG#HIS WAIST IS WAISTINGGGG#SNATCHED TF UP ALL THESE OTHER MEN I CANT BELIEVE HE EXISTS WTF#and I only noticed him in the choco shake mv cause I thought he looked like yuta from nct and jin from ini#omggg he’s so gorgeous wtf#AHHHHH I HATE PRETTY MEN THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE PRETTY#ITS NOT FAIR#SLAYYYY#waker#ijun#waker ijun
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Doctor: Huh, is that who I am now?
Donna: It was never that far from the surface, mate.
Doctor: frowns Yes, it was! You know I used to be a woman. And that made people... assume all sorts of stuff. And - and pretending to be Graham's wife for five minutes was bad enough but - Byron? That was torture. Does the man ever stop talking?
Donna: Takes one to know one
Doctor: Oi! I just mean, there were all these men people assumed I would be into and I - and I just - I just wanted -
Donna: I know, darling.
Doctor: softly I just wanted Yaz.
Donna: I know. - There was one man, though, remember?
Doctor: No, there wasn't! I don't fancy the Master!
Donna: ...
Doctor: Okay, fine. But the Master isn't a man. He's like me! Flexible - uh - timelord gender and stuff.
Donna: Sure.
Doctor: So, anyway, I have always been primarily into wom-
Donna: What about Jack Harkness?
Doctor: - Jack doesn't count, everyone fancies Jack.
Donna: ...fair enough.
#Donna: can we also talk about how you were literally married to a man in Gloucester?#Doctor: How is THAT something that stuck to your brain?#Donna: I met you there. Shaun and I did the walking tour.#Doctor: Huh. - Was I any good?#Wild blue yonder#Donna Noble#Sorry I am just still hung up on the 'is that who I am now' comment#Because I feel like what they actually meant to say was the Doctor going I AM QUEER?!?!#as if they didn't just spend three entire series making heart eyes at Yaz#So it makes more sense to interpret it as 'Hang on I like men too?' but honestly even that is such a stretch?#Yeah sure 13 is very much not into men#(except for the Master)#(maybe Astos)#(possibly Swarm)#(obviously Jack)#But any other incarnation has been very openly into men?#Like 12 kept name dropping guys he fancied/was fancied by? Like that algae king and stuff. Also the Master#(Let's not talk about 11)#10 had a very intense thing with Harold Saxon AND Jack#Plus the number of guys he flirted with - among them Shakespeare#And I don't even have to talk about 9 whose first kiss on screen was with a man#To be fair it is mostly off-screen/casual and the Master and Jack#So like if we interpret it as above we can make it work at least#(But. Yes. Also: Lee!! Literally married a man. Even if that was only for staying undercover there were definitely some deep feelings there#and I am quite sure had they been purely platonic they would not have posed as married. But as siblings or best friends or something)#If we are being completely real the sentence is probably about the Doctor discovering they can find people hot now#But that actually wasn't there before I think?#So then Donna's comment makes little sense#Or no hang on - 12 found the dinosaur hot and all of them the TARDIS obviously#So maybe that's what it's all about actually
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any thoughts on how once again zelda was robbed of her agency because her "father figure" didn't listen to her? even if rauru was kinder to her than her father. and that she had sonia who was patient and loving for a little while before she died (just like her mother). i know rauru apologizes for his hubris but still, i wish we saw zelda be upset about it. and even if zelda was such a big part of the quest she still literally sacrificed her humanity once again because of someone else's mistake- because rauru literally didn't listen to the girl from the future that warned you that shit was going to go down. o know nintendo just loves putting zelda inside crystals and stones but i wish we got something better. even if it was her decision to become a dragon... did she have any other choice? it really just feels like they robbed her of agency again just like botw and the games before
i've been trying to figure out how to answer this one. because there are two ways i could analyze this plot point, either from a writer's perspective or an in-story perspective, but neither of those lead to me fully agreeing with your interpretation? I think there's definitely something to be said about zelda consistently being pushed aside in these games, but. well. ok let's get into it ig
from a writer's perspective, I do honestly have quite a bit of sympathy for the zelda devs as they attempt to navigate the modern political landscape with these games. The cyclical lore, though canonized relatively recently, holds them to a standard of consistency in their games in terms of certain key elements. one of those key elements is that there has to be a princess, and that princess must somehow be the main macguffin of the game. The player must chase her, and the end goal of the game must be to reunite the player and the princess. In 1986 this was an incredibly easy sell. women didn't need to be characters. players were content with saving a 2-dimensional princess whose only purpose was to tell them "good job!" at the end. but as society advances, that princess becomes a much more difficult character to write while adhering to the established overarching canon. (as a side note: i don't necessarily believe that the writers SHOULD be held to the standards of that canon. I think deviating from it in certain areas would be a good change of pace. but i also recognize that deviations from the formula are widely hated by the loz playerbase and that they're trying to make money off these games, so we're working under the established rule that the formula must be at least loosely adhered to.) Modern fans want a princess who is a person, who has agency and makes decisions and struggles in the same way the hero does. but modern fans ALSO want a game that follows the established rules of the canon. so we need a princess who is a real character but who can ALSO serve as a macguffin within the narrative, something that is inherently somewhat objectifying.
the two games that i think do the best job writing a princess with agency are skyward sword and botw (based on your ask, our opinions differ there lol. hear me out) in both games, we have a framing event which seperates zelda and link, but in both games, that separation was ZELDA'S CHOICE. skyward sword zelda runs away from link out of fear of hurting him. botw zelda chooses to return to the castle alone to allow link the time he needs to heal. sksw kinda fumbled later on by having ghirahim kidnap her anyway, but. i said BEST not PERFECT. botw zelda I think is the better example because, with the context of the memories, she's arguably MORE of a character than link is. we see her struggles, her breakdowns, her imperfection, specifically we see her struggle with her lack of agency within the context of the game itself. when she steps in front of link in the final memory, and when she chooses to return to the castle, those are some of the first choices we see her make almost completely free of outside influence; a RECLAMATION of her agency (within the narrative) after years of having it stripped from her. from an objective viewer's standpoint, this writing decision still means she is absent from 90% of the game and that she has little control over her actions for the duration of the player's journey. however I think this is just about the best they could have done to create a princess with agency and a real character arc while still keeping the macguffin formula intact--you're not really SAVING zelda in botw. SHE is the one that is saving YOU; when you wake up on the plateau with no memories, too weak to fight bokoblins, let alone calamity ganon. the reason you are allowed to train and heal in early-game botw is because SHE is in the castle holding ganon back, protecting YOU. When you enter the final fight, you're not rescuing zelda, you're relieving her of her duty. taking over the work she's been doing for the past hundred years. in the final hour, you both work in tandem to defeat ganon. while this isn't a PERFECT example of a female character with agency and narrative weight, i think it's a pretty good one, especially in the context of save-the-princess games like loz.
as for totk, you put a lot of emphasis on rauru not believing zelda and taking action immediately, which, again, from an objective standpoint, i understand. but even when we're writing characters with social implications in mind, those character's actions still need to... make sense. Rauru was a king ruling over what he believed to be a perfectly peaceful kingdom. zelda literally fell out of the sky, landed in front of him, claimed to be his long-lost granddaughter, and then told him that some random ruler of a fringe faction in the desert was going to murder him and he had to get the jump on it by killing him first. the ruler which this girl is trying to convince rauru to wage an unprompted war on has the power to disguise himself as other people. no one in their right mind would immediately take the girl at her word. war is not something any leader should jump into without proper research and consideration, and to rauru's credit, he DIDN'T ever outright dismiss zelda. he believed her when she said she was from the future, he allowed her to work with him and he took her warnings as seriously as he could without any further proof. but he could not wage an unprompted war on ganondorf. that's just genuinely not practical, especially for a king who values peace among his people as much as rauru seems to. as soon as ganondorf DID attack, giving rauru confirmation that zelda's accounts of the future were real, he began making preparations to confront him. remember that zelda didn't KNOW that rauru and sonia were going to be casualties of the war--she didn't make the connection between rauru's arm in the future and rauru the king until AFTER sonia's death, when rauru made the decision to attack ganondorf directly. I think the imprisoning war and the casualties of it were less an issue of zelda being denied agency and more an issue of no one, including zelda, having full context for the events as they were unfolding. if zelda had KNOWN that sonia and rauru were going to die from the beginning and was still unable to prevent it that would be a different issue, but she didn't. none of them did.
I think another thing worth pointing out with rauru and his death irt zelda is that rauru is clearly written specifically as a foil to rhoam. this is evident in how he treats both zelda and link, with a constant kindness and understanding which is clearly opposite to rhoam's dismissiveness and disappointment. consider rhoam's death and the circumstances surrounding it. He died because, in zelda's eyes, she was unable to do her duty; the one thing he constantly berated her for. Rhoam's death solidified zelda's belief that she was a failure, a belief which she KNEW rhoam held as well. his death was doubly traumatic to her because she knew he died believing it was her fault. Now contrast that to the circumstances surrounding rauru's death. Rauru CHOSE to die despite zelda's warnings, because he wanted zelda and his kingdom to live. rauru's death was not agency-stripping for zelda; in fact, it functioned almost as an admission that he believed her capable of continuing to live in his place. With him gone, the fate of the kingdom fell to her and the sages. he KNEW that he would die and still went into that battle confidently, trusting zelda to make the right decisions once he was gone. where rhoam believed zelda incapable of doing ANYTHING without link, rauru trusted zelda COMPLETELY with the fate of his kingdom. several details in totk confirm that when rauru died there was no plan for zelda to draconify, that all happened after rauru was gone. it was HER plan, the plan which rauru trusted her to come up with once he was gone. and I think it's also worth noting that zelda's sacrifice with the draconification parallels rauru's!! Rauru gives up his life trusting the sages and his people to be able to continue his work in his place. Zelda gives up her physical form trusting link and the sages in the future to be able to figure out what to do and find her. these games in general have this recurring theme but totk specifically is all about love and trust and reliance on others. zelda relies on link, link relies on zelda, they both rely on the champions and the sages and rauru and sonia and they all rely each other. reliance on others isn't lack of agency, it's a constant choice they make, and that choice is the thing which allows them to triumph.
The draconification itself is something i view similarly to zelda's sacrifice in botw--a choice she makes which, symbolically & within the confines of the narrative, is a demonstration of her reclaimed agency and places her at the center of the narrative, but which ALSO removes her from much of the player's experience and robs her of any overt presence or decisionmaking within the gameplay. again, I think this is a solution to the macguffin-with-agency dilemma, and it's probably one of the better solutions they could have come up with. Would I have liked to see a game where zelda is more present within the actual gameplay? yes, but I also understand that at this point the writers aren't quite willing to deviate that much from their formula. the alternative within the confines of this story would be to let zelda DIE in the past, removing her from gameplay ENTIRELY, which is an infinitely worse option in my opinion. draconification allowed her to be present, centered the narrative around her, and allowed the writers to reiterate the game's theme of trust and teamwork when she assists the player in the final battle, which i think was a REALLY great choice, narratively speaking.
In any case, I don't think it's right to say that zelda was completely robbed of her agency in botw and totk. Agency doesn't always mean that she's unburdened and constantly present, it means she's given the freedom to make her own choices and that her choices are realistically written with HER in mind, not just the male characters around her, and I think botw/totk do a pretty good job of writing her and her choices realistically and with nuance.
#as a note i do think that loz still has a LONG way to go in terms of defining female characters by their relationships with men#and i acknowledge that a lot of zelda's choices within these games are STILL made irt male characters like her father link rauru etc#BUT i still don't think it's fair to act like shes been completely stripped and reduced to a damsel because.. she hasn't.#she's a very nuanced depiction of a girl who is used to being dismissed and ignored and powerless#her initial response to that powerlessness in botw was to reject everyone. she got loud and mean and she tried to do everything alone#and she discovered that that wasn't the right way to get what she wanted. it didnt make her happy and it didn't win her anyones approval#what DID work for her was learning to rely on the people around her and work with them. she found solace in teamwork and family#which is why in the final battle she and link fight TOGETHER against ganon. neither of them can do it alone but they can together#the same thing applies to totk. she continues her own journey by finding others like her who understand her powers and can teach her#so by the time she DOES end up alone she has been given the confidence and skillset to figure out what she has to do#you get it. you understand what im saying#asks#totk spoilers#zelda analysis
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I don't understand the fandom stuff tbh I was in ONE fandom very briefly in 2013 during a period in my life so stressful I actually had a psychotic break and thought my partner was spying on my network traffic and then dropping hints about it during our conversations and the most drama we ever had in that fandom during that time was that some people thought the octopus-hybrid Spy that was originally from a Little Mermaid crack fic(?) was creeping into being taken slightly too seriously by certain members. and then a lot of our best people got hired away by Valve
#blog#tf2chan#tf2#i think when you start taking valve paychecks they probably make you sign something#that says “please dont draw those old men fucking each other anymore”#which is fair enough
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Legion's first three personalities; Cyndi, Jack Wayne and Jemail Karami. Wild to think that David used to only have three of these guys running around inside his head.
#marvel comics#x-men#legion#david haller#cyndi#jack wayne#jemail karami#I like this neat sub section of characters with DID having each personality have a different ability#though I will say Legion is probably the worse version of this#to be fair I only know two characters like this#the other is Crazy Jane who I think does it better#but that's just me#also I just wish the DID was more accurate in general#like why are so many of the alters “evil”
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My dad was very against me getting a dog and then IMMEDIATELY fell in love with her. Like he absolutely adores her. He started off like 'uggh I don't want to end up having to take care of it' and now he REQUESTS to babysit her every couple weeks or so just for fun. He will just sit there petting her and chuckling and saying "She just makes me laugh :)" to himself. He calls himself her 'grandpa'. The bond between an aging father and the pet he didn't want is probably the deepest love on earth.
#(I don't live with my parents but we are actively in each others lives so me getting a dog would inevitably affect them)#He literally keeps talking about how it's like having a grandchild come visit LOL (he's not the 'overly humanizing pets' type but just#the 'bond with dogs feels familial' type)#She LOVES him too she gets so excited when she realizes she's going to Grandpa House#She's very shy with strangers but approaches men roughly his age and size to sniff them and I'm pretty confident that she's checking to#see if they're him. Like she won't approach any other demographic.#I think she likes him SLIGHTLY more than me lol but it's fair because my parents' dog likes me SLIGHTLY better than them so#it balances out
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sobbing over the thought of mr reca calling you ‘my little starlet’ >.<
but he says it like my leetle starrrlet! 。゚(。ノωヽ。)゚。
#*throws a fit*#。゚(゚ノД`゚)゚。#i dreamt about him last night#it was a sleazy thing#in his trailer#anyway clearly i have a fucking problem#it makes me laugh too because like yeah obv he’s handsome and he’s got some white hair which is always a huge plus for me#but it makes me laugh because it’s like;;;; wow clari is that REALLY all he has to do/be??? a director/cinephile?????#yeah i guess i’m just That Easy#/super attracted to people who have the same passions as me#shrugs#oh well#could be worse!!!!!#to be fair it does seem like he has other traits i love in fictional men but yeah#the film bit clearly Got Me#girl loves film so much she loves anyone ELSE who ALSO loves film#bonus points if you’re a slightly sleazy slightly psycho old man <333#HAHAHAHA#the way griffin’s ‘baby i love you i miss you i can’t live without you’ song just came on shuffle#alright sunday i see you sit down#(the way i have this song saved to my favourites????? pathetic)#(i just love his voice so much leave me alone)#clari chatters#inky.reca
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Jamiegender scholars should we discuss the recurrant emasculation by older men
#oc#also very interesting how much of this comes from Roy if you read Roy as a closeted gay or bi man#I actually read a really interesting article about the sharp left turn in attitudes towards homosexuality in men's sports#and how in the 90's (which wouldve been the height of Roy's career) <10% of male athletes surveyed described themselves as 'pro gay'#compared to 93% in 2022#and how it's common for male athletes to kiss each other/share beds/outwardly express love for each other which didnt used to be the case#Roy was loved and valued his entire career for being angry and aggressive and soldiering through pain without help#('Your anger makes you the player that you are' Roy Kent will never leave on a stretcher' 'I played hurt all the time')#and Jamie (who he sees so much of his younger self in) is living in a much better world where that expection isnt nearly as heavy and I can#see the resentment there#I'm fine with him playing hurt I played hurt all the time. I had to suffer so should he. it's not fair it's not fair it's not fair#this makes NO sense im literally like a little girl playing insane dramas with barbies#jamiegender
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