#they are best friends in the gayest way possible

[irlnorthshaw]

they are so best friends in my head

[respectthepetty]

I LOVE THESE LAPIS LADS SO DAMN MUCH!!!!!!

Faifa is ready to die before he makes someone else uncomfortable, so thank goodness Wine is always around to remind Faifa that he will actually die if he continues to try to make everyone happy.

And then Wine gave Faifa the thing he wanted in the first place but was willing to sacrifice because Faifa is always thinking of others and now it's time someone thought about him!

I also appreciate that his Black Brooder brother, with his Green Guy boyfriend in tow, immediately went after him once he found out he spent all night out with his mentee.

So now Gun's even asking what they possibly talked about for hours all night long while Yellow Yal Arm is trying to play bad cop and get to the bottom of this.

But he is too cute for that negativity.

He is a lover, not a fighter, and he knows the best Blue Boy in all the lands would never hurt anyone, especially Wine, which is why Arm tasks Faifa with bringing our dark Blue Boy out of his shell.

So Faifa decides to do it in the kindest gayest way possible by simply being nice to the guy. Pete got Vegas that way, so it obviously works with even the toughest cases.

Maybe that's why Arm keeps wearing blue; he wants to be a Blue Boy since they are just so great, but I can't really think too much on that because Red Rascal Arc is . . . well, existing, shirtless.

And this is the proper reaction to witnessing that man, exist, shirtless. Both. Both are the proper reaction.

But crying in a Texas Roadhouse is not the proper reaction to eating with friends, mostly when your buddies are filming content. However, this feels true to a dark Blue Boy.

Because it's what dark Blue Boys do. Just being depressing. Crying in showers. Crying in the Garden of Olives. Crying in his sleep. Crying in the club. Crying. All the time.

So I actually think it was smart that light Blue Boy Faifa ran to his dad to ask about how to heal a broken heart since his dad is also a dark Blue Boy who was so depressed after their mom left him that he vowed to never love again, yet he seems fine now, right?!

And Faifa does not need the judgement of his brother and brother-in-law in this situation! But I love that Faifa was like, "break up with each other then I can ask for your advice" and it looked like Yotha was legit going to punch him for even putting that curse into the air.

Because Faifa is the BEST Blue Boy, yet he thinks he is not capable of loving someone else, when he, in fact, will be the BEST at loving Wine (and I think he is going to be heartbroken about it, but I'm not there yet), so I need his brother to support him in this effort!

Faifa is so good at loving Wine that he runs to the bar even after he said he wasn't going simply because Wine asked him to, and as much as I want to be upset that Arc and Arm keep playing color games with me, I noticed Arc has a teeny tiny bit of red on him.

And the back of Arm's shirt is yellow, so I am not mad at them! Also, this entire section of the episode was hilarious since Arc was big mad his man was telling Wine love was dumb, and at the same time Yotha, who is drunk just like everyone else, connected the dots that his brother was trying to help out Wine. I loved it!

But these two color-coded toxicitos entered the scene just in time to give Wine a gay crisis in the middle of the drunk scene of a BL.

Faifa grabbed that boy and shuffled him off to the bathroom so quickly because Klao and Arc both were looking at that kid like he was going to say some homophobic shit, BUT BABY IS GAY! This was excellent! I'm living my best life!

And we immediately get treated with Faifa rubbing Wine's back and trying to soothe him. I LOVE FAIFA!

But not as much as I love Wine at this exact moment pinning Faifa to the wall with his hands around Faifa's neck as he has a whole breakdown about being gay and fearing everyone will hate him.

WHICH PROMPTS HIM TO KISS FAIFA!!!! AND FAIFA KISSES HIM BACK!!!!!

Faifa, you're in trouble, bro. You're already lost in the deep blue boy sea. You don't know what heartache is about to hit you because you only know that Wine broke up with his girlfriend because he likes guys. But you don't know he broke up with her because he liked her brother, and we have no idea what that brother spoke to his parents about since Wine ran away before Toey could say, and . . .

These bars are giving me bad vibes, so you are about to have some competition that you don't even see coming (out) because her brother probably came out to his parents and Wine is going to be a mess about it.

Yeah, hold your little Vino Baby while you can, sir. Cuddle him before the narrative screws all of us over.

Because this man is so unpredictable that he logged into his ex's YouTube account just to mess up her algorithm so he could get his camera back. He is a genius, but also, petty. That's a dangerous combination, Faifa.

Look at Faifa. Look at him. Look at my Best Blue Boy in all the universe. Look at how chill he was seconds before Wine called him and he dropped everything to run to him and comfort him. LOOK AT WHAT A KING LOOKS LIKE!

I LOVE FAIFA! I LOVE THEM! I LOVE THIS!

Faifa has the perfect words to make Wine feel safe, and the way he looks at Wine is unbelievably soft, but we all know what this means when we still have six episodes left in their story, right?

We're fucked.

Because now the show has plenty of time to show us that even though Faifa said that Wine makes his heart flutter, Wine will struggle with it since Faifa treats everyone special, and for Tor to make his appearance since it's seemed very important that Tor spoke to his parents.

But I could be completely wrong, and we are just going to ride this wave of happiness until the very end.

Or drown trying.

[victimsofyaoipoll]

Finals

Propaganda Under Cut

Sakura Haruno

Her husband is gay and her author doesn't know how to write women. So many people say she's the worst but she. DESERVES. BETTER!!! Save her from this franchise.

My baby girl my bestie my best friend. She committed the crime of um being written by kishimoto who both doesn’t know how to write women and somehow writes men in the gayest way possible specifically naruto and sasuke. Like the thing is naruto and sasuke ARE gay and also she gets so much hate for the crime of kishimoto writing her one dimensionally in love with sasuke. I know her personally she is a butch lesbian to me just trust me she’s in love with Ino and has a lesbian thing going on with Karin okay just trust me. My everything. She needs to divorce the loveless lavender marriage she’s in 

What is there to say, even? The OG Threat to my 90s anime brain, the only woman I've ever hated with such a passion she made me turn away from the color pink. I used to write fics with my friend where she got left behind on purpose so our OCs could join the Naruto and Sasuke team instead. I loathed this bitch until I was 16 and realized the author simply couldnt write women and decided it was time to make peace with Sakura. It is not her fault she's vaguely written and obsessive over Sasuke. She deserves better. Sasuke and Naruto still should be together and Sakura shouldnt be with Sasuke but I no longer believe this because I hate Sakura, it is because I love her. She deserves a spouse who will actually put in the time to treat her like the hero she is.

Misa Amane

she gets treated in-canon the way fandoms treat female characters that Threaten an m/m ship. it's like, "oh why don't you go sit in the corner and be pretty, misa, while the Men have intelligent conversation and pretend they aren't ten seconds from fucking each other, doesn't that sound nice?" it's infuriating. and MAYBE it's better now but i remember her getting treated the same way in fanfiction too, like we all need to do just as badly by our female secondary characters as fucking tsugumi ohba, but with the added insult of making her be alternately oblivious of the relationship between light and L or actively trying to sabotage it—incompetently, of course, because god forbid misa be allowed dignity or moments of cleverness.

she's one of the first characters I think of when I consider old school fandom misogyny. The annoying bitch and clingy crazy gf allegations were AFTER HER ASS. She's also a lot more intelligent than people gave her credit for, but most seem inclined to take the Very Biased word of our unreliable, narcissistic narrator and his homoerotic arch nemesis and claim that just because she's bubbly and into romance that she's also a complete moron. Which is blatantly untrue. Everyone was afraid of Misa girlbossing too hard. Killing people and devoting yourself to the deranged twink of your dreams even though you know he'll never love you back??? Having a hardcore goth aesthetic and being so Hot even literal Death Gods are into you?? God forbid women do ANYTHING!

Not only is she the victim of yaoi culture, she is the victim of early 2000s misogyny by an author that wanted to introduce a girl character because he knew his male rivals were getting too homoerotic. She is a goth bimbo icon who portrays what I think is one of the few callouts for stan culture and what parasocial relationships can do to both the stan and the idol. The fact that she is a toxic fan of Kira and also hot, funny, sociable is tragic in its own way, which I think the author did try to touch on but was too misogynistic too really get through. Of course, she was reduced to villain status by the fandom and anime alike because she got in the way of the supposed romance in their psychological horror anime

[newtkive]

pixels [newt x reader - modern text au]

ch. 5 - everyone's gay

THE GLADE

[ 12:05 PM ]

tommy: hi guys :3

minho: don't piss me off

tommy: WHAT???

I JUST SAID HI

y/n: hi tommy

minho: great now im pissed

newt: hey guys

y/n: WTF DID I DO??

newt: don’t have to do much to piss him off

minho: -_-

what so now im mean??

tommy: well at times you can be rude

y/n: YEAH? WTF you told me my face looks like a foot the other day

minho: and that foot would have fungus

tommy: lol 🍄 🦶

y/n: WTF THOMAS

gally: he cooked with that

y/n: i’ll cook u on a pike shut up

gally: is it bc im 6’5”?

minho: bro wanted to brag about his height 🤨

y/n: i still don’t believe he’s that tall until i see it with my own eyes

newt: can you guys chill out

minho: no fr im meditating

y/n: can we talk about how newts name is newt again

tommy: y/n stop

be respectful of other cultures

minho: what culture????

british white man????

newt: my parents hate me i get it

y/n: doesn’t ur sister have a normal name

newt: ig

it’s sonya

minho: 💀💀💀💀

old lady ahh name

newt: u literally have a crush on her die

y/n: WOAHHHH

tommy: HEYYYY CUSSER

newt: cusser ??

tommy: yes you cussed

newt: i just said die

tommy: biggest cuss word of all time

newt: you make my head hurt like in the realest most tangeable way possible

minho: so like a real headache

y/n: u do that to me minho

minho: bro’s mad she has a goated best friend ?? wtf

y/n: and who’s this goated best friend???? bc it ain’t you

minho: -_____-

tommy: it’s me :33

y/n: ^^ literally

minho: ok newt ur my best friend

newt: i don’t pick best friends

y/n: what

minho: what

tommy: what??

y/n: well why not

newt: because of situations like these

y/n: it’s ok guys he didn’t say me bc he doesn’t want to hurt ur feelings 😂😂

minho: me when im a liar

tommy: well of course it’s me

im always there for newt

some even think we have a relationship that’s more than friends at times ❤️

minho: woah woah woah there

newt: it’s true

tommy: see im his best friend

newt: no not that part

this old woman at the library told me she ‘supports us’ when tommy came to visit the other day

y/n: and that woman was me

newt: you are quite old

y/n: WHAT UR OLDER THAN ME

tommy: kind of hurt right now :/

minho: you’ll get over it

we all know im his bestie

y/n: yeah. gay best friend

minho: oh so gays an insult now nice i know where u stand

screenshotting this for when you get famous and i have to expose you

y/n: omg you think i’ll be famous awww <33

tommy: it’s ok she’s a bit gay like all of us

i give her the pass

minho: who is all of us

tommy: you heard me

im gayest but.. easily swayed ;)

newt: the fuck are you talking about

minho: ok bisexual twinkatron 5000

y/n: a bit gay??? last person i dated was a woman im a box muncher more than you guys

newt: box muncher is fucking crazy

minho: newt you’re supposed to like,..,., say how you do it too

newt: why would i say that

minho: girls like that quality in a man

y/n: what are you even talking about

newt: i don’t like you minho

tommy: yaaas you love him

newt: not sure how i feel about you either

tommy: 😞☹️

minho: dont care didn't ask plus ur british

alby: Hey y’all

newt: there’s my best friend hey buddy

minho: WHAT

y/n: WHAT

tommy: AWWWW

alby: The fuck

Uhhh hey close friend of mine

newt: wow.

minho: see how that feels?

not so good

y/n: i can show you smth that feels good 😛

tommy: :////

minho: WTF?

newt: HUH

alby: girl..

y/n: KIDDING EW EW EWRWEWEWW SORRY IM SORRY OLEASE

im gonna BARFFFFFFF

I WAS JUST BEING SILLY AND RELATABLE

minho: ok now that’s just rude

newt: valid reaction to a preventable circumstance

minho: bro said cum

tommy: ??

minho: cirCUMstance 😂😂🙏🙏

alby: This is why you guys have no partners

tommy: omg partners so inclusive ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷

y/n: I’m so sorry for my actions. I’m ashamed over what I did and said. It was vile, inexcusable and inappropriate. I am so sorry. Please forgive me.

alby: Not the apology tour

minho: ok well it wasn’t THAT bad

newt: no that was needed actually

tommy: you sound like a kpop idol in a scandal

y/n: if i was i’d say

Take care and try not to catch a cold! Fighting!

tommy: too accurate

minho: aw hell naw twice’s 13th member

y/n: damn you know the amount of members

newt: you say that as if he doesn’t have a poster of them above his bed

y/n: oh……

minho: OK ENOUGH

IM GOING TO BED

y/n: ITS THE AFTERNOON

newt: just let him go be with his poster

alby: He’s cranky he needs a nap

newt: that one unemployed friend at 12 pm on a tuesday

minho: shut

tommy: a nap sounds great right now

y/n: true i got 5 hours of sleep

newt: more than me

minho: bro always has to complain

newt: i complain? look at your texts

y/n: i can get you to sleep real fast

newt: who me or minho

y/n: EWWWW DONT MENTION MINHO

minho: IM RIGHT HERE

alby: Notice how she didn’t get grossed out about Newt

Interesting

minho: i know bro is geeked

y/n: im just being silly!

tommy: i’ll show you silly

:P !!!!

newt: wtf is that

im not geeked im locked in

y/n: stop talking like minho i swear

tommy: that’s me being silly :PPPP

y/n: girl… do me a favor

tommy: ok what is it?

y/n: click the button on the side of ur phone real quick

tommy: oh it locked the screen i think i pressed the wrong button? im confused

y/n: no no that’s the right button

now put the phone down

and walk away

newt: now who’s sounding like minho

-

heh.. hey.. (read that like the tiktok audio of that one lady walking into a party u know what im talking abt?!) im so sorry ive been away so long and making everyone pull their hair and wait in agony and anticipation bc u love my story (manifesting). i miss writing so im gonna try and keep up this time. also i didn't tag anyone bc idk who does and doesn't care anymore LMAOOO lmk if u wanna be tagged in the next chapter tehe

[ashintheairlikesnow]

Decided to read Brideshead Revisited for the first time and

1. This is the gayest book I have ever read. This is not subtext common to the time period, this is Evelyn Waugh slamming us against a window going LOOK AT HOW FUCKING GAY THESE DUDES ARE, LOOK, LOOK AT THE GAYS

2. Anthony Blanche is amazing. I can hear exactly how he speaks in my head perfectly. One of my best friends was very much the American Anthony Blanche and reading him telling Charles a story about pretending to be a girl friend of his on the phone with an older man made me go text my friend.

3. I suddenly have a burning need to know when exactly the term "invert" or "inverted" as a casual way of referencing homosexuality fell out of favor

4. Sebastian having a wildly religious family that he avoids whenever possible despite having a connection to and love for them he cannot shake off is such a deeply relatable feeling

5. Seriously. I was led to believe this book had "queer subtext" but I have yet to find any text that isn't the time period equivalent of shouting GAY from a rooftop.

[catofadifferentcolor]

Terrible Fic Idea #87: Percy Jackson, but make it MCU

Look, I didn't want to come up with yet another crazy PJO crossover, but here I am. Because instead of just coming up with the lightest, fluffiest, gayest PJO romance possible - which is what I wanted - I had to turn it into an MCU identity reveal fic too.

Or: What if post-ToA Percy Jackson was Peter Parker's caseworker following Aunt May's untimely death?

aka the I would stay forever fic

Just imagine it:

Tony Stark first meets Percy Jackson in the ICU of Metropolitan General the day after Peter and his aunt are caught in a terrible subway accident. May dies on scene. Even with his advanced healing, Peter is badly injured and taken to the nearest hospital - where it quickly becomes apparent he's Enhanced. It takes about 24 hours for the news to make its way to Tony, who immediately storms the hospital with the intention of taking Peter back to his Tower to heal-

-only to be told Peter's not going anywhere by the social worker assigned to the case.

This is remarkable for many reasons, not the least because the social worker is an unassuming, overworked 27-year-old wearing Finding Nemo socks and a faded Save the Oceans t-shirt. That the case worker - Percy Jackson - stands his ground in the face of Iron Man's wrath is even more remarkable, but Tony is forced to admit the kid has a point: he can't just let someone without any obvious connection to a minor walk off with said minor, particularly when that minor is Enhanced.

It takes Tony a couple days to get his ducks in a row, proving that he is not only able and willing to take in Peter, but is the one his aunt wanted to take care of him in the event something happened to her. During that time he has JARVIS research everything he can on Percy (lives in a Central Park penthouse owned by his long-time boyfriend, a successful music producer; volunteers for a NPO started by his best friend dedicated to restoring the wild; brief stint as the youngest ever on the FBI's most wanted, etc), but finds nothing to suggest he's anything other than a social worker trying to do what's best for his charges.

Percy becomes a semi-regular fixture at the Tower. At first it's just business, checking in on how Peter is doing and facilitating the foster care/adoption paperwork. Later it becomes something akin to friendship, with Percy being utterly unimpressed by Tony's fame but remarkably charmed by his inventions and philanthropic efforts. (He also comes to have strong feelings about the Rogues and their actions during the Civil War once he learns of them, helping Tony to see their betrayal for what it is. This alone makes him one of Rhodey and Pepper's favorite people.)

This goes on for quite some time - though I see this as happening post-CACW, we don't jump straight into the Infinity War, with there being several years wherein the Accords are ratified, the Rogues found and tried for their actions in the Civil War, and for the most part allowed to return to the Avengers on a probationary basis - until Thor finally arrives with news of Thanos' impending arrival.

Only Percy happens to be visiting when Thor arrives and the Avengers naturally have questions after Thor addresses him as Prince Perseus.

The truth of Percy's identity comes out in fits and starts (demigod son of Poseidon, saved the world a couple times, ascended to become God of Heroes, Natural Disasters, and Poison as well as Patron God of New York City; has been dating Apollo since he was fourteen; yes, is actually a social worker, albeit one who takes cases across the country to protect demigods and Enhanced), which is not helped by Thor (who can't help but comment on what he knows of Percy's heroics) or Apollo (who shows up after Percy texts an SOS but can't help but talk up his boyfriend either.)

The Infinity War still happens, albeit rather differently than in canon - perhaps Thanos turns out to be a disgruntled child or sibling of Gaia out for revenge, justifying Greek/Roman interference? But the details don't really matter as much as the identity reveal.

And... that's really all I have with regards to plot. But there should be a lot of character moments leading up to the reveal that hint at who Percy really is but which don't form a coherent narrative until the truth is revealed.

Bonuses include:

The softest, fluffiest romance possible for Apollo and Percy, with the pair more or less falling head over heels at first sight at the start of TTC, having their first kiss at the party at the end of the book, and dating throughout the rest of the Titan War. Apollo goes absolutely batshit insane when Percy goes missing at the start of HOO and breaks out of Olympus to crash the Senate meeting at the end of SoN and check on his boyfriend, and eventually gets made mortal for helping too much during the Giant War. The broad strokes of ToA occur with Percy fighting at his now-mortal boyfriend's side, and Percy ascends to godhood when Apollo regains his. There's some tension (Zeus is not happy about his firstborn son's choice of lover, fearing overthrow; Poseidon fears Apollo will end up breaking Percy's heart, but softens after Percy ascends and his chance of becoming a flower diminishes; many CHB campers think Percy's mad for dating a god, etc) but for the most part it should be as fluffy as circumstances allow.

Percy having been really obvious about his background, but in ways that seem reasonable ("How did you meet your boyfriend?" "I was at a really bad party when a friend ended up calling her brother to pick us up early. I fell in love with his car and then with him.") or like jokes ("Those sea turtles really seem to like you." "I like them too." "I guess they're kind of cute." "Excellent conversationalists too.") until the full truth comes out; and

Thor attempting to make up for blowing Percy's cover in dramatic (and hilarious) ways. This should include the gift of at least one native Asgardian water plant ("Dude, have you never heard of invasive species?") and end in a bakery's worth of Asgardian baked goods.

And that's all I have, though given the way this has been living rent-free in my head all week there may be more. As always feel free to adopt this bun, just link back if you do anything with it.

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[radiantidiot]

I wanna see some of your headcannons tbh. Either game works.

(Pls, if thats not to hard. If you don't mind)

Ok so I answered a similar question here, but I'll expand on some stuff and say new things here.

D'arce is a lesbian, Le'garde is her comphet. She was originally gonna be lesbian, and there was a piece of concept art you've probably seen of her with the ghost women, in my heart she never stopped being lesbian.

Le'garde knows this, and finds it useful. In my heart he's gay, this is partly due to the fact that he's based off of one of the gayest possible people, but I think one of the reasons he keeps her around is she deflects suspicion. He can't be gay, look at this child of Alll-mer he is likely together with.

I might have said this before but d'arce and Samarie are the same person to me. Not really a headcanon, more just like vibes. Two lesbians who feel such a profound emptiness, but have found someone who fills that emptiness. And upon finding someone who makes the emptiness go away, they're willing to do terrible, terrible things to keep them in their life. Samarie out of love, but D'arce out of like religious devotion (insert three paragraph rant sky Le'garde Alll-mer symbolism, I've ranted about it before tho so I'll spare you the repeat) but she interprets this devotion as love as well.

(This one is fully stolen from modern man traditional medicine, one of my favorite fics ever) Daan has a hard time being close to people. I think his childhood plus the creepy ass arrangement with the baron have kinda made it impossible to be like intimate with anyone in any way that doesn't feel like a performance. I think he kinda sees sex and intimacy as like a favor or a transaction, cause that's all it's ever been to him. The background option that teaches loving whispers is also implied to be like prostitution so like......

Abella would have loved factorio. This is like 100% projection cause I love factorio and I love abella, but I really feel like she would have liked it.

Uh cahara uh beautiful pretty man uh I forgot what I was gonna put here

Karin is homophobic. There's a very real chance this was on the last post too but I don't remember lol. This one's kinda Canon, based on what she says at the train if you're playing as daan, but it's especially funny cause in my heart she's bi.

Enki is ace. He crashes the game if you try and make a marriage with him. He could just refuse, but in my brain he accepts and then exerts what little control over the game he has to hurt the real human playing the game by making them lose their save. This one's got the stamp of approval from my ace best friend.

I would love to hear your head canons as well! This is mainly directed at herta, but random passerbys are also encouraged to give me your head canons!

[camelspit]

Alvar Vacker by @aurenflare

Quinlin Sonden by @let-them-sing-of-others

Definition of a sexyman: An often pathetic and/or evil man who is sexy (but perhaps not in the conventional sense)

Propaganda:

Alvar Vacker:

"he's SO pathetic!!! he literally became evil because his younger brother is prettier than him. he commits so many evil acts and somehow fucks up every single time. he almost dies on several occasions. he was stuck in a pod of troll goo. then he decides to fake his death and hide out in humanland, where he immediately decides that pancakes, cable tv, and korean skincare are his new best friends." @arsonistblue

"HE'S HOT?? HE LOVES PANCAKES?? SEXY??? HE WAS EVIL THEN HE WASN'T THEN BOOM HE WAS AND HE'S A LIL PATHETIC MAN <33 VOTE FOR MR PANCAKE™" @siennamakeschaos

"alvar has it all 😌 he's sexy AND evil AND pathetic. so pathetic. the most pathetic man alive possibly. nothing has gone his way and i can't say he's dealt with it well but u see. that only serves to make him more of a sexyman. VOTE ALVAR !!!!!" @aurenflare

"hes SOOOOOOO skrunkly simply how could you resist. has three girlfriends buckets of charm and a banging ability but he turned evil just because he was jealous of his little brother. got chopped up and gooped but he keeps trucking on pathetically. he deserves the world and also to die but most of all he deserves YOUR vote for sexyman <3" anonymous

"No but if Alvar doesn't win. Y'all he was BORN to Tumblr sexyman. He has orchestrated terrorism and violent attacks on 12 year olds. He hates his little brother for being cooler than him. He's canonically insanely hot and he's TERRIBLY unethical with this power because he had three girlfriends who didn't know about each other. He manipulates his little brother's ex best friend into giving him affection. He desperately wants to be loved and he can never get it. He loves pancakes. He wants to be just a guy but is pathetically hungry to receive his abilities back when he gets the chance. He gets thrown away by a terrorist organization he believed cared about him. His family actually loves him but he's so broken by the belief that they don't that he can never receive it. Did I mention he likes pancakes" anonymous

"f slur (lovingly)" anonymous

"I am a very sexy man. Ergo, I should be keeper sexyman" @alvarthethiccpipecleaner

"He’s gay and so very very stupid." anonymous

"he's just. he loves pancakes??? and skincare??? and he's so absolutely pathetic. there's like four pages in legacy where in between every thing he says, sophie's like 'he looks sick and pathetic lol' so yeah vote this pathetic hot evil man for kotlc sexyman" anonymous

"Alvar has two sides: evil scar-covered villain bent on killing siblings and cute soft boy older brother figure who likes pancakes. Both would be valid to argue for sexyman status but the combination is what makes him exceptional. Also he canonically had three girlfriends (and ruy let's be honest), like this dude is so hot in-universe it's not even funny." anonymous

"look man im not even an alvarhead but you gotta admit hes pretty funny. hot enough to get three girlfriends and yet so insecure he joined a terrorist organization because he thinks everyone likes his little brother better. keeps on failing at everything. got goop’d. etc." anonymous

Quinlin Sonden:

"lost cities biggest gayest divorcee-that-was-never-even-married-to-begin-with… hes cool" @necromycologist

[shelly-vision]

I peered into the alternate dimension where the Revenge cast got a second season yesterday (as in I spent multiple hours just thinking about what it would be like and how I’d do it) and man I wish I lived in the universe where premerge cast of Revenge got a lot of focus, Dakota got treated for her mutation, Jo got to be the main villain she so desperately deserved to be, her and Brick’s rivalry was a main plot point, Staci had more character traits than just being a chatterbox, Dawn and Anne Maria became best friends but like in the gayest way possible where since it would’ve been the early 2010s they wouldn’t been able to overtly gay but it’d still be the most obvious thing possible and this is my own made up universe so it can be what I want, and Brick and Anne Maria were the finalists, and I put a weird amount of thought into this because my Total Drama brainrot never leaves me alone.

[sebastianravkin]

Another Book Recommendation for 2024

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Seems obvious and possibly pointless for the Tumblr audience, but hear me out.

CONTENT WARNING: mention of dark moments in LGBTQ+ history.  If you would like to avoid, skip Point #1.

The below notes reflect a discussion concerning the book Good Omens I had with a group of my undergraduate interns over a couple of lunches last semester.  Given that they all loved the show, I had assumed they had all read the book.  Not all of them had, and for those that did, their knowledge of when the book was originally published and an understanding of its historical context was surprisingly limited.  I thought that others may be interested in these points, and so am sharing them here.  

1) *SKIP TO AVOID CONTENT WARNING* To understand the impact of Good Omens when it was published in 1990 on the LGBTQIA+ community, it helps to understand the cultural environment at the time of its publishing, at least in the United States. 

The book came out towards the end of the height of the AIDS epidemic (1981 - early 90s).  I can not stress enough how terrifying this was for the LGBTQIA+ community to live through.  People were afraid - of dying, of watching loved ones die, of being separated from their loved ones as they died, of being ostracized, of being denied medical help, of being attacked and beaten.  While there was a short fluorescence of nominal acceptance of the LGBTQIA+ community during the 1970s, the societal response to the AIDS epidemic was a huge step backwards.  People became cruel(er), whether out of fear or ignorance or opportunity.

Good Omens came quietly onto the scene during this time, providing an alternate universe in which a gay-presenting angel (and his gender-fluid demon friend) could live in a world without the AIDS crisis.  At the same time, this angel did live in fear of his world literally ending, and really would like to have just gotten back to his comfy chair and his Regency silver snuffboxes.  Escapism reading at its best, really.

In addition, the book was published in 1990, so before many of the cultural moments that helped lead to social change but are now taken for granted.  Such as . . . .

-Freddie Mercury died of AIDS in November 1991 (which, by the way, means there was a very short window of time where people were reading Good Omens while he was still alive).

-Sir Elton John came out in 1992

-“Don’t ask, don’t tell” became official policy of the U.S. Military in 1993 (finally repealed in 2011)

-the establishment of LGBTQIA+ centers on college campuses surged in the mid-1990s

-Ellen came out on her show in 1997

-Will and Grace first aired in 1998

-Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998 (the Federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act bearing his name was not passed until 2007). 

2) The book is queer coded for 1990.  As queer coded as the show is for current times. 

I have heard multiple comments from GenZ students along the lines of ‘there is nothing queer about the book’, and I have read commentary that Neil Gaiman caved to fan pressure in modernizing the script for the show. But I have also heard comments from GenX peers, including one of whom said “it was the gayest book I read in the 90s”. I have highlighted 15 passages in my teaching copy of the book that would have been queer-coded in 1990, 12 of which would go unnoticed today as far as I can tell based on discussions with many of my Millennial and GenZ students. 

It is important to keep in mind that the vocabulary of the 1980s and 90s relating to the LGBTQIA+ community was exceedingly limited; Mr. Gaiman and Sir Pratchett worked within this limited vocabulary, and were working within the stereotypes of the times, to portray Crowley and Aziraphale. And readers are meant to love them. Possibly more importantly, the derogatory comments concerning Aziraphale come from unlikable characters, and so the reader not only ends up feeling defensive of the angel but also does not want to be associated with those who hold negative opinions of him. I can think of few better ways to create social change. 

In terms of the show adaptation, whenever I watch a movie or show based on a book, my first concern is whether or not the adaptation makes me feel the way the book did. I am not an artist, so I do not know how one translates the written to the visual and I do not envy those attempting to do so.  But I do know that successful adaptations are almost never a one-to-one translation. What I can say in this context is that, to me, the show does feel like the book in terms of its themes, its humor, its timely social commentary. So whyever and however Mr. Gaiman updated it, I would argue it was successful. 

3) It is my understanding that Good Omens is the first book written by cisgendered heterosexual males for a general audience that portrays a gay-presenting character and a gender-fluid character as main characters in a positive light that does not end in a tragic way.  This is huge.  This is Captain Kirk and Uhuru’s kiss huge. 

Historically, LGBTQIA+ people rarely get positive representation in mainstream media. Rather, LGBTQIA+ characters in literature were often portrayed as villains in early writing, and are often used as comedic relief in more recent work. When there is a sympathetic main character, their story usually ends in tragedy. While tragic stories are very much a reality for many LGBTQIA+ people, it is incredibly important to also have stories that do not end in heartbreak or death.  And it is also incredibly important for LGBTQIA+ characters to be part of the norm in main stream story telling as this leads to broader social acceptance. Good Omens provided LGBTQIA+ readers with a sense of belonging in the greater world, while ‘normalizing’ the happy existence of LGBTQIA+ people to a broader readership.  This type of representation, presented by heterosexual white cisgendered male authors (at the top of the power structure in 1990) is a key moment in the slow but steady grind leading to social change.

In summary, read the book. Whether you are a fan of the show or not, and regardless of your generation, this book has a lot going for it. Above and beyond its importance to the LGBTQIA+ community, the book includes broader commentary on religion, good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, and identity in general. The menacing humor of Gaiman and the loving satire of Pratchett is a combination that is unequaled. The book is funny, thought-provoking, well-written, and has a lot of great characters above and beyond a particular angel and demon (who are only in about 1/3 of the book).  And as you read it, understand its historical context, and love it for the role it played in getting us to this cultural point in time.

[our-queer-experience]

Not the anon who sent the ask about queerplatonic breakups, but I felt it deeply, so I'm going to send a very long… Confession? Or maybe a vent?

This was years back. I'm not even sure the concept of QPRs existed at the time; if it did, I certainly didn't know about it, and neither did the other person, even though both of us would talk about how "friend" wasn't enough to describe us.

After an abusive relationship with a man whom I allowed to do whatever he wanted with me and more, I met this straight guy through a shared hobby. I will call him my, for the sake of simplicity and anonymity, "friend" Theo.

Theo and I quickly became close, realizing how much we had in common outside the hobby. We'd have deep personal conversations until the sun arose through chats and calls, and we did everything together and went together everywhere: If one was somewhere, the other was never too far behind. When we weren't together, we sent to each other things we knew the other would like to see, or related to the hobbies we shared together, and of course sometimes the gayest "bro" memes we could find as an in-joke. People sometimes assumed we were a couple (which didn't come without its good dosage of homophobia—Contrary to popular belief here on Tumblr, homophobes are just seeing two faggots when two men are too close. They don't make you questions.) and, no matter how much we denied that anything physical/sexual/romantic was going on, it seemed very few people were convinced we didn't actually have the hots for each other at the very least.

(Note: He knew I was aromantic and asexual: I learned about what those words were shortly after meeting him, identifying as bisexual before it, and having thrown myself into relationships I shouldn't have to fix myself in a "fake it until you make it" kind of way. He was an openly loud 'ally' very comfortable and safe with his sexuality, which is why he was fine doing all kinds of stuff.)

It was amazing to love someone and be loved in return so much, but it was actually very scary at first. No, not just scary, it was fucking terrifying. I had (have) never been this loved and in this way, never had been able to be this open and vulnerable with another person, talking about things I'd never told a soul—which also meant I reacted embarrassingly about it at first. I actually panicked about developing a crush on a straight friend like all my gay friends had suffered so much about. Fortunately, I quickly realized before doing something stupid that I was just extremely emotionally deprived, and Theo happened to be the first person who gave an actual shit about me in ages. Even though things didn't end well, I feel that my "friendship" with Theo healed a wound I had carried for years I didn't even know I had.

Years went by, and we pulled a lot of antics that would be interpreted as romantic but weren't for us, we just liked doing things as dramatically and extra as possible. It was an in-joke, and we made it clear since the start, but we also genuinely loved each other, so why not use Valentine's Day to gift your not-boyfriend the one game he wanted so much, but maybe present it first with a bouquet of flowers and a card with the corniest, worst pet name you could think of? We always got some good laughs about that kind of thing.

Theo was always very adamant about how moving together meant we'd have to be three: him, his girlfriend, and me, and that if the girlfriend didn't accept the arrangement then we'd be two because he'd break things up. Our "friendship" was that important. And, in the case of him never finding someone, we could get married if we hit 40 and were single (like Ted and Robin's pact), for the benefits and without our relationship changing.

Unfortunately, a few years in, shit hit the fan: I went through a chaotic time, and several personal tragedies that are not relevant to this ask. At that moment, I needed my best "friend" that was always there for me to carry myself through the worst time of my life… but I ended up being on my own.

To be fair, he had been acting strange and distant for a while. I tried to bring it up and meld things, whatever was it that I had done wrong, but it was always somehow me "overthinking things", and he was just "too busy" now that he had had to move and adapt elsewhere for work related reasons. He would cancel plans on me more often than not (including the ones he started), leave me on read, didn't message me unless I did first, never asked how was I doing, seemed uninterested when I talked about myself, and never seemed to have time for me. The only times he seemed to remember me was so he could vent about something in a completely one-sided conversation. It made me feel used: suddenly he treated me like all of those girls that learned I wasn't straight. I was the emotional support gay, the therapist, a pet.

He denied it, but I went from a priority to a secondary character in his life, proven by the times he'd cancel on me because he "was busy" just so I saw pictures of that same day in social media later, either partying at a famous place or meeting with friends I didn't know. And I know some people are going to think now "He totally fell for you and panicked!", but I highly doubt it. I mean, I knew him for years. He actually had two girlfriends through the time I knew him: I even encouraged him to try his luck with one of his crushes, and it went well. It didn't last much though, that's true.

I choked on all the bitterness and resentment I gulped down as I kept trying to accommodate to plans that more often than not didn't come to fruition, as I tried to talk about this and this other thing for Theo to not pay attention and prove so minutes after. I started to pull away. I'm not sure if he even noticed until a lot of time later.

At one point, as I was struggling with my never-ending misery and bad luck, Theo, who actually knew what had happened recently, started spamming me with calls so I picked it up: he wanted to vent again about some nonsense. I couldn't take it anymore. I cut him off, told him everything I had been keeping to myself about his "busy status", told him to go fuck himself and find someone else to be his therapist.

Among all the excuses he put, not even once did he apologize. And so, I did the only thing I could have done: I told him I didn't want anything to do with him anymore.

Blocking him gutted me.

Through the years, mutual friends would tell me sometimes that "Theo sent his regards and wished you a Happy New Year" and the like, but I never responded to the sentiment or tried to unblock him. I couldn't forget it. I couldn't forgive it. I still can't: even if he appeared at my door today and apologized, asked to be "friends" again, I just can't do it. I can't place my trust again on him like I used to.

And then, a few weeks ago, I opened Facebook. I actually don't even use it anymore, but I couldn't help myself: yes, I checked on Theo… who has a girlfriend now.

Theo, with a girlfriend. Heterosexual. The expected outcome. Me, single, alone. Aromantic asexual. The expected outcome.

I still don't know why it hit me so hard. It's difficult sometimes, with the way I was raised, though I have gotten better at it.

Maybe it's because I realized why is it that he stopped trying to "communicate". Maybe it's because being replaced by a woman, for him to get a "normal" relationship and forget I existed, was always my greatest fear deep down. Maybe it's because I realized this relationship is not only gone for good, but the dream had always an expiration date. Maybe it's because there's no space in that picture for me, even if I wanted to. Maybe it's because he looked perfectly happy without me, a defective something who can't even be called a man, unable to feel any kind of romantic and sexual feelings and unable to do anything beyond a peck without recoiling in disgust. Maybe it's because I've watched all my friends following the expected script for the past years: finding someone, getting married, some having kids,… One that I can't do.

I don't know anyone IRL who is asexual or aromantic. My queer friends won't understand, because he wasn't my boyfriend, or will misinterpret it, talking about how I was and am still so obviously in love, whatever that is supposed to be; My straight friends, I'm not even out to them, so why bother.

Besides, I have no right to complain, right? Because I was the one who broke things off so, according to the rules, I would be "the dumper", right?

I couldn't and still can't talk about what I lost, about how it feels to long in not-love for the memory of a person that doesn't exist anymore.

- 🐆 (Is the leopard emoji already taken? I've seen people doing that but this is the first time I send an ask)

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[st4rd0lly]

begging you on my knees to elaborate on sleepover with perv fem skk scenario. i need them carnally in the gayest way possible. please.

EHEHE I’M SO HAPPY PEOPLE LIKE THAT POST <3

it starts off when dazai of course, invites you to a little sleepover at chuuya’s place <3 you three are all good friends of course, or well maybe you’re good friends with both of them, you’re not sure how they feel about each other (>‿◠) and you agree because who wouldn’t want a girls night with their favorite girls? you show up at chuuya’s place which is a lot nicer than you were already anticipating, i mean the place is huge and her room is so nice ! her bed is big enough to fit all three of you <33 dazai teases her if she ever gets lonely in her place, wrapping her arms around chuuya, pushing chuuya’s arm between her big chest with a tanktop that is cut way too low, revealing some of her lacy bra <3

she notices how your eyes flicker there and at chuuya’s face that was tinted pink, but both of their eyes flicker to you and for a moment you feel your heart skip a beat <3 chuuya pushes dazai’s face away, scoffing and telling her off for making fun of her but that’s when chuuya moves closer to you, pulling you onto her lap and wrapping her arms around you possessively

“ yeah even if i was lonely, i would rather take that than be around a bastard like you. i’d rather be alone with this pretty doll right here. ”

you can feel her tits pressed against your back, her voice right beside your ear. you never minded how touchy or affectionate these two got with you, it was never uncomfortable and you knew that if you told them to stop, they would. and for some reason right now, you didn’t want them to stop at all, no matter how flustered your face was getting <3 so dazai moves closer to you, leaning over you with her chest close to your face as she pouts and whines that chuuya can’t always keep you to herself

they absolutely know what they’re doing to you <3 so when you wake up in the middle of the night, catching them fucking each other and using your clothes to get off, moaning your name and hearing the lewd squelches of their cunts.. you try your best to be sneaky and slip your hands into your panties, hoping they wouldn’t notice you (they do)

[freddiemerqwerty]

At some point, this will indeed have to be a zine but for now it is a tumblr post.

I recently started taking low-dose testosterone, and sharing this process with a few friends and people in my community. It has been wonderful so far, really the best decision I could have made for myself at this point. However, something I didn't expect as a part of this process was the opinions people now have on my asexuality (and aromanticism, as I explore it).

I have heard things like

"Oh, you're asexual and on t, that won't last long" "I knew someone who was ace and on t, now they're the gayest man I know, just wait" "I know you say you don't want to be anything but asexual, but be open to the possibility that it gets better" "You won't hate sex once you're on t" "You're ace? Oh, well...sex is going to be something you'll enjoy, you'll see—oh and masturabation—that'll be fun for you to learn about for the first time"

I have many feelings about comments like these, but I want to start with the most personal which is...I didn't realize how many people have an opinion about what the body I exist in is meant for.

Ouch! Ick!

And not that I owe anyone my sexuality, but for the record: I have a sexuality, it's just not directed at other people—masturbation's cool, kink is cool, I read gay erotica almost exclusively, I used to want to be a sex therapist and still work with one, I currently work at a job where I talk about things related to sex most days. Pre-testosterone, and currently on it, I've got a pretty low libido, and I'm fine with that changing if it does, but I don't want a sexuality for more than just me—that's my jam.

If my sexuality does change with t, that's just life and the fluidity of things. But where I am right now, I like being asexual. I don't want that to change, even if my libido does. And as I look at comments like these, in a culture like this, I realize how queer that desire is.

In a culture of compulsory sexuality, asexuality is undesirable. Like transness, like disability, like illness, when asexuals interact with medicine, there is the assumption that this process will involve "making things better" in some way—in this case, a process of no longer being asexual.

I would be lying if I said I didn't internalize this. That I don't think often, for all of my identities: "what if ____ could fix me?"

But this isn't livable, it isn't even genuine. It's sometimes excellent as a fantasy (as my most-read Ao3 tags would let you know). But it is not a loving, restorative place to live our lives. If I live in the scarcity of not being allo, I will have missed the richness found in being ace. If I spend my life wondering when I will be someone else, I will never see the someone I already am.

It's so hard to hear my community so casually say "I'll be better someday". I am with you today.

[victimsofyaoipoll]

Round 2

Propaganda Under Cut

Annabeth Chase

I feel like fandom is kinda split on her with percabeth shippers loving her but any m/m shipper I've seen does not like her, really. She is my bae tho <3

Percabeth antis grind my gears so much because they never hate Percy, nono, even though he's arguably done more questionable stuff than Annabeth. Not everyone who hates her is doing so because of a mlm ship— the Perachel stans claim that Annabeth is a misogynist. However, basically everyone that isn't trying to ship her boyfriend with Rachel is trying to ship him with Jason, Nico, or her old friend Luke. They make her out to be this horrible abusive girlboss(derogatory) that she's simply... not. She doesn't insult Percy for having ADHD just because she's highly intelligent. She doesn't physically abuse him, and doesn't lay a finger on him outside of training. She's really devoted to him in a non-anti-feminist way. They just hate her for 'getting in the way' of Nico's convoluted attraction to Percy, or Jason's close friendship with him, or Luke's rivalry with him. But those relationships all flourish the way they were intended by the author: non-romantically. It's not Annabeth's fault for being intelligent or capable or jokingly snide or determined or any of those non-stereotypically-feminine qualities. She's just out here existing and people hate her for not being a man. Sorry for the rant.

She's canonically in a relationship with Percy Jackson for most of the books they're in, but he often gets paired in canon with other male characters, such as Nico di Angelo or Jason Grace. In fan fiction (especially yaoi focused ones) she's characterized as being a stuck up know it all, but she gets into plenty of shenanigans in canon and can be pretty goofy and sweet!

Sakura Haruno

Her husband is gay and her author doesn't know how to write women. So many people say she's the worst but she. DESERVES. BETTER!!! Save her from this franchise.

My baby girl my bestie my best friend. She committed the crime of um being written by kishimoto who both doesn’t know how to write women and somehow writes men in the gayest way possible specifically naruto and sasuke. Like the thing is naruto and sasuke ARE gay and also she gets so much hate for the crime of kishimoto writing her one dimensionally in love with sasuke. I know her personally she is a butch lesbian to me just trust me she’s in love with Ino and has a lesbian thing going on with Karin okay just trust me. My everything. She needs to divorce the loveless lavender marriage she’s in 

What is there to say, even? The OG Threat to my 90s anime brain, the only woman I've ever hated with such a passion she made me turn away from the color pink. I used to write fics with my friend where she got left behind on purpose so our OCs could join the Naruto and Sasuke team instead. I loathed this bitch until I was 16 and realized the author simply couldnt write women and decided it was time to make peace with Sakura. It is not her fault she's vaguely written and obsessive over Sasuke. She deserves better. Sasuke and Naruto still should be together and Sakura shouldnt be with Sasuke but I no longer believe this because I hate Sakura, it is because I love her. She deserves a spouse who will actually put in the time to treat her like the hero she is.

[wailingbuck]

putting ur best friend in ur will is NOT weird but, like in all things, eddie did manage to do it in the gayest way possible

[muffythemuffin-bp]

BEHOLD, a really good idea imagined in my head but really poorly executed and 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 ...

This sucks so much oml 😭

🥲

Story time bcuz I'm a tiny bit better at writing!:

Our scene opens up with nugget ranting about his problematic relationship with Lola...

"Like, dude. Every time we go on a date, I need to spend all of my damn money! How is this even possible??"

"... Can't you just break up with her?"

Max blurted out.

"It's not that easy! Besides, what are my parents gonna think..?"

"The way that this has been going is like you wanna stay! Geez, you can't stand up for yourself anymore?!"

He looked to the side.

"Yeah right... So what now?"

Max then thought, he had to think of the stupidest plan ever to get his boyf- I MEANT best friend and break up with that crusty musty dusty woman... when Max had the perfect plan!

He grabbed him from the "shoulders" and said with a loud voice

"Nugget, I have the GAYEST idea EVER!!"

Later that day...

Lola was sitting on the bench, bored as day while scrolling through her phone; waiting for her beloved "boyfriend", Nugget to show up for their date...

She recognised his scent and didn't even open an eye! Then spoke with a giddy voice.

"Hai nugge-"

Once she opened her eyelids she immediately shot an eye at the other's gesture. She was confused and suspicious... She got off the bench, moving closer to them as Lola spoke in a disgusted yet aggravated tone

"Oh.. I see you brought your buddy Max to our DATE."

She got off the bench, moving closer to them as Lola spoke in a disgusted yet aggravated tone

He answered smugly.

"Yeah, thought my..."

As he was about to finish that sentence, he trailed down his hand towards Max's lower area and gripping it! Sending the other into shock. Max put his hand on his mouth, looking at Nugget with utter surprise, he never expected this to happen... it wasn't according to the plan!!

"Friend, could tag along!"

Lola immediately knew what was going on...

"You don't even have to say it, f@ggöt!"

The male's eyes shot wide open, feeling the quilt of his actions. Lola screamed in anger as she left the scene, shedding tears.

Max knew that bitch was playing all this as a fake thing, unamused.

"Lola, wait!"

Nugget tried to stop her but it was too late, Max grabbed Nugget's shoulder, catching his attention and turning him around as he then rested his hands on his shoulders, gaining Nugget's full attention.

"Let her go, okay?! She was fake all along and I bet those tears were too!..."

Nugget stared at him in disbelief.

"Yeah, right. Like you know her-"

"STOP BEING SUCH A BRAT AND LISTEN TO ME!"

Nugget was shook, he didn't know what to say so he remained silent..

"I had a relationship like that too! It sucked, yeah; and I had to realise that!! I let her go with a thought in mind, "if she uses me, I'll let her go. And some day someone that actually fucking cares will love me back!"! You understand?!"

Nugget just stood there, realising many things as he processed everything in his mind, piece by piece..

He calmed down and spoke with a soft voice of his.

"I guess you're right man, I gotta let her go."

He silently smiled as Max hugged him

"Glad you finally freaking understand, hah."

They both pulled away as Nugget thought and spoke,

"So, wanna head over to my place? We can have a sleepover if ya want, parents are out for a vacation."

"Sick!"

Max agreed, as they started making they're way to the gedagedigegagedaio thing's place...

The end~

Even if I write this it's still cringe 🥲😔✨🦅