#they could all be bi or pan

[qpmuseluvr]

being aroace in a qpr with a bi person is so funny like They Should make a Show About This

[toffyrats]

oops i tripped for a third time and dropped my les mis lg bbq community hcs

[purpurussy]

I feel like the "dan is bi" anon is trolling but just in case they're genuinely confused: yes dan said in BIG that he loved and felt attracted to his high school gf (although he also made it pretty clear that they did not have sex so idk where anon is getting the idea that he has slept with "multiple women" 💀), and he alluded to his attraction not being confined to a specific gender in the part where he talked about labels, but you're completely taking all of that wildly out of context and missing the point of the whole video by calling him bi. I feel like this is probably the part that's frying their brain:

(shoutout to the legend @goldenpinof for this transcript!)

But firstly, imo it was very clear from BIG, as well as other stuff he's said over the years, that he just doesn't like labels. Which I find very valid, it took me a long time to figure out how to label myself. I still don't know what my gender is lmao but I started saying "bi" for my sexuality because it's a widely-used term that gets the point across. And I think that's the thing here: he came to the conclusion that the labels "gay" and "queer" are the best descriptors of his identity, which do the most accurate job of approximating something extremely psychologically complex and multilayered and nuanced in a simple everyday term that gets the point across to other people.

Obviously words mean things and it doesn't make sense to just pick a label at random (like for example it wouldn't make sense for me to identify as a lesbian, since I definitely feel attraction to men as well as women and everything outside the binary, and am interested in acting on that attraction at times, so I wouldn't be conveying accurate information to other people if I used the label lesbian for myself) but a label is just supposed to serve the task of conveying relevant information to other people (if a lesbian feels some kind of abstract attraction to dan and phil, that doesn't mean that the alphabet council needs to immediately revoke their lesbian card!! Since the word "lesbian" still does a perfectly good job of conveying relevant information to other people. Likewise if a straight dude has a fun little gay dalliance with his college roommate, but has absolutely 0 interest in men beyond that incident, it wouldn't be remotely necessary for him to start calling himself bi if he didn't want to, because what would be the point in that if he's only interested in women? Like if he told a gay dude who found him attractive that he's bi, only to backtrack... Do you see what I'm saying here?). It's perfectly valid for Dan to use "gay" and "queer" as umbrella terms that in his opinion do the best job of describing him, out of the language that's available. If he's like essentially a kinsey >5 and decided to just round it off to a 6 at this point, who are you to tell him he can't lmao

(shoutout to the legend @goldenpinof for this transcript!

Human sexuality is often way too complicated to boil it down to a single label in a way that doesn't erase any of its nuance, and I feel like this is something he's struggled with in the past, especially with him being a public figure. He's mentioned multiple times that feeling like he had to choose a label was a factor that prolonged his decision to come out.

And this is not even getting into the impact that his trauma from his childhood and also from spending a chunk of his formative years in the public eye probably had on the way he identifies or the way he chooses to label himself. It clearly took so much courage and strength for him to finally be able to call himself gay/queer please have some respect for our brave troops

Ultimately the point is that he uses the labels "gay" and "queer", not "bi", and it really shouldn't be difficult to respect that. It's also not biphobic for him to choose not use the label "bi" (again speaking as someone who uses that label). It's just that he feels "gay"/"queer" are better descriptors for him and nobody gets to determine that except him!! :) He wants people to know he's gay so he calls himself gay and that's that on that.

There are definitely people on here who are way smarter and more well-educated than me who would've done a much better job eloquently discussing this topic without rambling all over the place but that's my take (if anyone would like to add to this please do so, I'm always open to learn more about topics like this. And I'm also not saying that the way I see it is the only objectively correct opinion, but anon is definitely wrong so 💀). Thank you for coming to my ted talk

[tracle0]

Feast your eyes! My pride stars :)!

[kingmakerpod]

It is very, very hard to establish queerness through subtext because sometimes that can be very hard to pick up, especially when there's no visual info to go on. We got a comment on the YouTube upload of Chapter 12 that timestamped this conversation:

and they said something to the effect of "Is Mandel trans? If so, this scene goes hard."

[accirax]

Did you know? The letters in LGBT actually stand for Leden G Bwhit Tnico

[kookykuni]

Was trying to make something vaguely DBDA-esque, except it started looking more like a bi skull, so I tried adding the magnifying glass, except I forgot to draw it in a different layer and now I think it looks weird so I have basically created my own personal hell.

[automaticsoulharmony]

TimKon QPR you’re so right ( @nebul4-t )

They just act like that

Everyone, EVERYONE assumes they like each other, little do they Kons Aro and doesn’t actually fuck with that shit

Tim did like Kon for a brief period of time, then realized it was a cover-up cause he didn’t understand intense platonic love

[sirenium]

You're a lesbian if you feel like one. You're a lesbian if you also like men. You're a lesbian if you ARE a man. You're a lesbian if you're also aro. You're a lesbian if you're also ace. You're a lesbian if you're aroace—

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Thank god Sasha was confirmed bisexual, otherwise people would hc her as lesbian solely and exclusively because she's kind of a bitch.

[shapelytimber]

I saw your Luke post and I have an idea. No gender aro ace. Otherwise no gender pan. Hope this helps you out :3

I mean they would be named Luke so gender would have been funky no matter what kfkdld all the others have weird ass names that can be interpreted as androgynous, and then you have Luke :)

So ok I like the no gender ! And they can be ace bi romantique or something. But the question of how would they look, what would be different, how to shift the vibes while still feeling like Luke- still herculean to me djkdldo

But thank you for your contribution :) I'll be keeping it in mind !

[wered0gs]

shiki w top scars,, ?

also !! mini coming out i guess gbfdkgbs i think i'm bisexual

[danothan]

I like to think of halbarry as two gay men who haven't come to terms with their sexuality and complete denial bc of their trauma and bullying

like what you said in flashpoint paradox where in that timeline he got the support system and no trauma I think

I think it makes sense to me them being gay than bi/pan. etc

oh this could not have come at a worse time, i’m drawing the most bisexual halbarryisms in the world rn 💔

[sunsetzer]

Listen all I'm saying is that if we do get a ff6 remake and nobody is queer I'll be at least a little bit disappointed.

[feelingthedisaster]

new rarepair: kayleigh day and coach (jackie) lisinski

[invinciblerodent]

Listening to the new episode of Vows and Vengeance, I think I finally settled on a concept that I'd like to play for a Taash romance

I was rotating a few different ones in my head (originally wanted another dwarfette, but.... including my Warden, that'd be my bloody fifth lol), but, it having been revealed that she hates the undead and the only background I don't yet have a character for being the Mourn Watch... it's like a dude just sprung from my head fully formed like fuckin Pallas Athene

Like, you know how somehow characters are less named, and more they just... kinda introduce themselves? So this guy is Marcus (which I think works quite well with "Ingellvar", it sounds nice- I think someone once said that "Ingellvar" means something like "guardian of Ing", pairing that with a Latin "dedicated to Mars" would work for the background I only just now read quite nicely) (speaking of, yet another foundling, putting a pin in that), and he'll be a tall and scrawny, young, accident-prone necromancer- his feelings on that matter would definitely take too long to detail lol.

Not only is he going to probably look like a kind of weird-looking Victorian street urchin you immediately want to feed warm soup upon meeting (or, on the other end, insufferably pretty and dainty but sopping wet nevertheless), I'm thinking that he'll also need to be pulled out of mortal danger pretty much constantly (in part because I always suck at mage gameplay and find it annoying, so I'm giving myself some room to fail there lol). He's definitely a guy they pulled as Rook more because of his academic prowess and magical knowledge, rather than his combat abilities.

But, he will take one look at Taash, and immediately fall ass over teakettle.

(I mean ffs, she's tall, she's strong, she's beautiful, she weighs at least twice as much as him, her biceps are the size of his head- what's not to love, honestly. Is he unsure whether he's scared or horny? Absolutely. But if there's one thing he's down for, it's finding out.)

(kind of laughing already at the thought of her needing to very patiently explain to her prettyboy magical savant that the reason they can't do cowgirl is that she would absolutely and inevitably snap his pelvis in half.)

(I also quite like that it would in no way be a "touch her and you'll be sorry" type of an MF ship, but rather a "touch me and she'll make you sorry". Very "you've hurt me? oh, you're so fucked. Oh man, RIP, I'm almost sorry about what's gonna happen to you. I can perform your last rites right now if you like, you'll need them".)

......... That gives me one character for each background, and the opportunity to double up on one, if I happen to think of something for Bellara after all, and just say that my Lords of Fortune character only uses Laidir as one of her many aliases. (I had been meaning to do that anyway, I want her to be Orzammar-born, and that name doesn't sound very dwarfy.)