#positive gay rep

[baby-xemnas]

tbh its great that bepo is a bear because we can get PDA like this

and noone bats an eye

this could never happen with a pair of human characters. let alone pair of male human characters.

[honeybadger-who-gives-a-shit]

Not enough people are talking about Mr. Loverman on bbc. This show has:

Two elderly black men in love

Tale about internalized homophobia

Caribbean culture in England and in Antigua

Family dynamics and intergenerational relations

Great acting

A touching story

Is based on a book (I haven't read it yet, but I heard great things)

I won't tell you more because I don't want to spoil it.

Granted, it's not a perfect show, but it is sweet and you should definitely give it a try.

[sandinmybed]

okay yeah im only 25 and i grew up with so much more queer representation than people even just 5-10 years older than me but GOD what i wouldnt have given to have people like chappell roan or heartstopper and its cast to look up to back then! imagining my 12 year old self watching that show... i would have cried my little heart out tbh idc if its a bit saccharine sometimes. and i can't even imagine what chappell roan would've done to me. im so happy young queers have these things but god imagine

[forkalamari]

reading frankenstein for school and hoooly shit i NEED to make ship art of clerval and frankenstein PLEASE

[apprentice-s]

what are everyone’s thoughts on the allura ships

[greyangelpain]

ACE KAL-EL ACE KAL-EL ASEXUAL SUPERMAN!! 🧡💛🤍🩵💙

[the-lesbian-orpheus]

I love and cherish by edits and stuff of my dramatic high fantasy guys, my minecraft guys, my silly little monsters, my dramatic sci-fi guys, my animated guys

But can we please also normalize making edits and stuff of like regular ass sitcom guys

Like where are the badass edits of Rosa Diaz, the crush edits of Tahani al Jamil, the ship edits of David and Patrick, the comfort edits of Chidi Anagonye

I say this as a person who lives in fantasy and whimsy content

I feel like we deserve both

(Ps I rambled a lot about this in the tags so maybe check them out :3 👀👀👀)

[jrueships]

momma cat teaching baby cat how to walk is so jaren and gg coded

[denkies]

THE NEW BUDDY DADDIES EPISODE WGA3GWGUAHEJAHAJFA

[neopronouns]

I'm not sure how much you know about Welcome to Night Vale, but could you make a gender related to being a Desert Bluffs citizen?

queued!

[maxellminidisc]

Rewatching I Love You Philip Morris again for the first time in literally YEARS and it's so funny seeing people in the tags call it niche. I remember being a kid and people making a huge deal out of it because it was these 2 relatively well know and respected actors playing gay extreme leads and also there was the whole dramatic delay with getting the movie distributed in the US cause of the content and because of legal issues with the original distributor.

[princessnijireiki]

no offense but I think past a certain point a lot of people's need for the literal "representation" of their exact lived experiences on screen and in media in general is just another symptom of our ever increasing social alienation. Like you're seeking the wire mother :/

[mojo-yous]

I know some people criticize ‘standard’ queer rep in media but to me, where I live, in real life, people aren’t just gay in the open. It’s scary, and to see anyone at all being queer in mainstream media makes me tear up. Let’s not forget that there is a huge disconnect between irl and fictional people, having casual gay people be themselves and be in relationships without it being a THING is hugeeee to me and lots of other people who don’t have any of that in real life

[mxdotpng]

you see theres positive gay rep, right? where they are good, genuine representations of gay people in real life. and then theres negative gay rep, where any net positive that could have been gained from them is immediately taken away by their mere presence. this is kahaku to your eternity

[hampterguts]

i love the transformers idw comics so much not just bc they're rlly well written but bc where the hell else am i going to get lgbt rep like this. every she/her is trans. one of the main cast is a gay man that used to perform undergound warcrime lobotomies on pows, its ok tho he stopped doing that. but he still sometimes sticks his needle fingers into people's brains to fuck with their memories(still warcrimes). if the person is alive he stabs into the brain thru the back of the neck but for corpses he goes thru the eyes specifically. yeah he's married to an archivist who purchases snuff footage. he's trying to collect every existing recording of the 4 million year war. they are so cute together. dont ask me how they met I'd have to trigger tag it

[dizplicity-draws]

Happy asexual awareness week!

I wanted to celebrate with these aspec icons 🖤🩶🤍💜

Characters and their canon sexuality explanations under the cut!

From left to right:

Peridot - Steven Universe: canon asexual aromantic. Peridot was confirmed to be aroace by Maya Peterson, a storyboard artist for the show. She said in a post on Twitter, “She’s not about fusion. She’s the ace and aro rep.” And true to her words, in the episode Log Date 7 15 2, peridot was shown to have a disinterest in fusion in a scene where she backed out of fusing with Garnet. I know fusion isn’t a direct allegory to romance or sex, but as an aspec person, this scene was super relatable. Also, my personal headcanon is that she is in a queer platonic relationship (qpr) with Lapis :)

Perry the Platypus - Phineas and Ferb: canon asexual. Perry was confirmed to be asexual by Dan Povenmire, a co-creator of the show. He confirmed this in a comment on TikTok, where someone asked “Hey is Perry part of LGBTQ+”, to which he replied, “Does asexual count?” Some believe he only said this because he didn’t like the idea of Perry being shipped. But that doesn’t mean we can’t still claim him!

SpongeBob - SpongeBob SquarePants: Canon asexual. In 2002, Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob said, “I always think of [the character] as being somewhat asexual.” Technically, this was not said as a positive reference to asexuality, but in order to deny that the character was gay. However, Nickelodeon later posted a pride month post featuring a few lgbt+ characters and SpongeBob was included. A lot of people, including myself, chose to believe this was meant to be in support of SpongeBob being canonically asexual.

Zim - Invader Zim: This one is just my own headcanon, but I wanted to include him because he’s a character that’s very important to me and, as an ace, I have always related to. Also, it’s shown in episode 3, Parent Teacher Night, that irkens reproduce by cloning rather than any natural means. And while I know that doesn’t really prove anything, I think it does add to my headcanon :)

Alastor - Hazbin Hotel: Canon asexual aromantic. Vivziepop, the creator of Hazbin Hotel first confirmed Alastor as being ace when she posted a drawing for national coming out day in 2018, which featured Alastor holding the asexual pride flag. Later, she confirmed during a Q&A that he is canonically asexual. During season 1 of Hazbin Hotel, Rosie, Alastor’s friend, jokingly calls him an “ace in the hole.”