#queer delights

[thenearsightedmicroraptor]

Happy pride month time for queer delights!! I've got a total of one true family member left that I haven't disowned (my mom, shoutout to my mom!!) today we went on a trip and she had made sandwiches and she came with me off the road to look at all the million beetles and bugs I found. Small social circle is so so worth it, I love spending time with people who will be weird with me. I took pictures of bugs and she took pictures of trees!

^ some highlights

[moderndaypandora]

i recognize that simon and edwin meeting and parting in hell is narratively very good and provides closure for all. but imagine if simon had agreed to try and escape with edwin. and charles doesn't have time to really question it, because anybody who likes edwin is aces in his book and it's hell, they need to leave. (edwin, out of courtesy to their third companion, puts his plan to confess on hold until they've escaped.)

suddenly the edwin harem of "supernatural boys who all hate each other but are attracted to that negative rizz" gains another member, and at some point edwin is going to have to mention that simon was the boy who sacrificed him to hell.

the chaos. crystal's bitchy commentary. charles going from friendly smiling to clutching his cricket bat. niko's whispering "200k slow burn schoolboy rivals to lovers" with heart eyes. it'd be chef's kiss good. edwin fleeing to his books and praying that nobody, but especially not the cat king, finds him because there has been SO MUCH emotion already. hysterical.

[sunderwight]

Good Omens pulling the trigger on Aziracrow in actual factual live action canon while What We Do in the Shadows showrunners dither about the appropriateness of workplace relationships in their serial killer vampire orgy show is like watching Grandpa hit a button to activate nitros on his scooter and go whipping past the former street race champion to cross the finish line.

[fernisfat]

i am once again full of soup 😌

[beaft]

watched the first dr who special episode and while there were a few lines that made me cringe, i do think a little bit of cringe is a reasonable price to pay for seeing a black trans girl get a starring role in the longest-running and arguably the most famous sci-fi show in history

[queeringclassiclit]

Enjolras & Grantaire

from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

[thirddagger]

Showed my partner the pilot of X Files. About fifteen minutes in, he went "do they have sex?" and about ten minutes later he asked "is he gay? Are they both gay? Does he help her realize that she's gay? Is he a queer elder? Is she an egg?" and like yes all of that is true you have the spirit you see the vision 💕

[uncanny-tranny]

What to say to somebody if they have a queer identity you "don't agree with":

Nothing

No, literally. Nothing.

[haomnyangz]

Thank you all for fulfilling our high school lives. I hope you're being fulfilled, too. Are you guys ready? Before we get to the final song, I'd like to take this chance to remind you all that prom is your last chance - to express your feelings to the one next to you. I know that many of you are afraid. I get it. I've been there. It's not easy, as some people are just beyond our reach. I want to dedicate this song to everyone who needs courage. MY SCHOOL PRESIDENT (2022) DIRECTOR; AU KORNPROM NIYOMSIL

[thenearsightedmicroraptor]

Haven't written any queer delights bc I was busy drawing furries so to catch up I'm gonna kickstart today prematurely bc we ARE going to a queer meetup which is gonna be great, HOWEVER, my current queer delight is that we grabbed some baked goods from a grocery store and we're now chilling at the train station having a little munch, and my wife is currently sitting EXACTLY like scout tf2 at the end of the meet the team video where he's beat the shit out of that heavy and taken his sandwich and i am enchanted

[queer-ship-tournament]

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

Finals ongoing

Your Competing Ships Are:

Tara x Darcy - Heartstopper

Nora x June x Percy - Red, White & Royal Blue

Nico x Will - Riordanverse

Magnus x Alec - The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Alex x Henry - Red, White & Royal Blue

August x Jane - One Last Stop

Simon x Baz - Carry On

Tao x Elle - Heartstopper

Nick x Charlie -Heartstopper

Kit x ty - The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Helen x Aline -  The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Thomas x Alastair -  The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Benedikt x Marshall - These Violent Delights

Jesper x Wylan - Grishaverse

Tamar x Nadia -  Grishaverse

Shara x Chloe - I Kissed Shara Wheeler

Ari x Dante - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Andrew x Neil - All For the Game

Eric "Bitty" Bittle x Jack Zimmerman - Check, Please!

Laurent x Damianos - The Captive Prince

Ronan x Adam - The Raven Cycle

Kieran x Mark x Christina -  The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Patroclus x Achilles - The Song of Achilles

Nina x Hanne -  Grishaverse

Diana x Gwyn -  The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Evelyn x Celia - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Mateo x Rufus - They Both Die At the End

Luc x Oliver - Boyfriend Material

Aziraphale x Crowley - Good Omens

Simon x Bram - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Bree x Sel x Nick - The Legendborn Cycle

Blue x Red - This Is How You Lose the Time War

Propaganda is highly encouraged! Tag me in it and tag with #the-queer-ship-tournament if making a separate post.

xx

[pariaritzia]

Ranveer Singh and Tota Roy Choudhury performing kathak, an Indian classical dance form typically performed by women, in ROCKY AUR RANI KII PREM KAHAANI (2023)

[trollprincess]

The actual sexualities of the Bridgerton siblings if Netflix and the people a little too devoted to the books wouldn’t have some kind of heart attack:

Anthony: Straight. Terrifically, fantastically straight. Every cell in that man’s body is heterosexual, with the exception of the one brain cell he shares with his brothers, which has to shift gears constantly depending on who needs its powers most at the moment. Anthony is so straight it’s impressive he didn’t impregnate Kate just by looking at her. Which is not a straight trait. It’s not an anybody trait, it’s literally fucking impossible, but if anyone could do it it’s those two.

Benedict: Bisexual as fuck. I would say pansexual but who taught this man how to sit in chairs?

This motherfucker is so bisexual he kind of hit on his own brother ten minutes into the new season. He is an absolute disaster of a human being. He has no idea if he’s flirting with 95% of the people he’s flirting with. Bi. As. Fuck.

Colin: Fluid. “Tracing freckles with your fingertips,” my ass. That man traveled to seventeen cities in a handful of months presumably banging anyone who sat still long enough. That said, I think if asked, he’d tell you whatever sexuality you wanted to hear. Or whatever he was feeling at the time. Or whatever sexuality he has on his itinerary for when he’s in Cyprus. Who gives a shit? He’ll be leaving in two weeks. Sure, whatever, I’m straight today, but don’t place any bets on Tuesday.

Daphne: Just a smidge bisexual. On the Kinsey scale, there’s just a scintilla of wiggle time between Simon and, like, that maid she made out with one time.

Eloise: Lesbian. Oh, she’s so into girls. That’s not to say that her future husband (here unnamed for book spoiler reasons) is not a perfectly lovely person who’s fantastic in bed. But also, she’s a lesbian. If she were alive today, she and Cressida would have been dating for six months before she realized that when you move in with a woman, share the same bed, and sometimes have sex together, you’re probably dating. Or delusional. Or both! These ARE the Bridgertons, after all.

Francesca: Demisexual. Introvert, on the spectrum, call her what you will, but Francesca’s only having sex with you if you dig past her hyperfixation with her pianoforte and correctly interpret her silence into English.

Gregory: Asexual. Only because it makes his ending in the books even funnier.

Hyacinth: Omnisexual. That woman will try ANYTHING. An. Y. Thing. Hyacinth likes a challenge. And she also likes to BE the challenge, which makes for an interesting dating life. Yes, yes, she’ll marry a cis straight guy eventually, but until she is the Jack Harkness of Mayfair and may God have mercy on whoever tries to stop her.

[lucky-numberme]

Recently fell in love with @zebsfloppyears ' Kalluzeb work and HAD to draw a little something for my favorite piece. gay love and sci-fi horror, what's not to love?? anyways, read The Depths here

[ID: A fic art illustration stylized like a comic cover. In the foreground, Zeb and Kallus are kneeling. Kallus holds his forearm— which is raked with claw marks and coated in green kolto slime. He turns to look at Zeb, expression vulnerable and eyes glowing the same color as the slime. Zeb looks at Kallus, one hand outstretched to his face and his expression a mask of concern. Behind them, Sabine is in a stormtrooper suit, holding a blaster up cautiously and eyeing the surroundings dubiously. Chopper is next to her and faces the contents of the center of the frame: an empty kolto tank, glass walls shattered and green kolto dripping down the sides. Ezra (also in a stormtrooper disguise) approaches the tank, holding his lightsaber aloft and looking intently into the dark. The center tank is filled with the words 'The Depths' and at the top of the image, the author's AO3 name 'DownToTheSea' is visible. The darkness behind the tanks is populated with faint, glowing eyes. End ID]

[stressedoatmeal]

To everyone to kept recommending me These Violent Delights by Micha Nemerever bc it’s ‘hehe queers comitting crimes’ I’m gonna get you. (Mostly applies to the book talk ppl but some on here as well.) This is not the foxhole court or summer sons or the raven cycle. This is fucked up. These are two CHILDREN in a highly codependent (I know we love to use that word but it’s not a cute lil adjective to describe a friendship) and ABUSIVE relationship. I am at 33% and you guys cannot be doing this. Either you knowingly described it like that for shits and giggles or I have genuine concerns on what grade level you last graduated. (Coming from someone who dropped out junior year and got her GED at 20) do not get me wrong. This book is beautiful. It is gut wrenching and sad and an interesting look at truly codependent relationships. (We keep forgetting that codependency, by definition, is abuse) I am not dogging on this novel. I highly recommend it!! And I’m only 33% into it. But this is not ‘you are nothing.’ ‘You’ve always said you want nothing.’ This is so much more upsetting and triggering than aftg or summer sons. If anyone needs trigger warnings lmk and I’ll make a list. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. I’m gonna fuckin get u booktok girlies. Andrew Minyard and Jean Moreau would be so disappointed in you, genuinely.

[laurasimonsdaughter]

I found a new fairy tale to add to my little hoard of queer folktales!

The Princess of China

Albanian folktale, published in 1879 by Auguste Dozon, translated by Robert Elsie.

[Cw: Cross dressing used as deception, but never maliciously.]

This tale follows a Prince and his friend the son of the Grand Vizier. The latter dresses and presents as a woman on two separate occasions. Once to meet the princess of China and tell her his friend is in love with her, once to pretend to be the princess, so he can go get married in her place while she runs off with the prince. Then this happens:

When the son of the Grand Vizier arrived, he was led to the house of the groom with all the pomp and ceremony of a royal wedding. It was the custom there for the sisters of the groom to spend the first three nights with the bride, but the three sisters could not agree which one of them was to go first. The queen, the groom's mother, decided that the youngest daughter, whom she loved the most, should spend the first night with the bride. After the first night, the youngest daughter fell in love with the bride and begged her mother to let her spend the second night there too. The second night, she realized that the bride was actually a young man and said to him, "Tell me the truth, are you a man or a woman?" "I am a man," he replied, " and then told her the story of what had happened. She saw that he was very handsome and said, "I'd like to marry you but I don't know whether you want me." "Oh yes, I do."

They escape the court together, catch up with the prince and the princess of China, and both couples get married.