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deathbycoldopen · 8 months ago

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I find it really hilarious how old tv and movies (and not even that old tbh) will have the QUEEREST fucking storylines and then in a panic slap some bioessentialist comphet dialogue on top like that’s going to cover up the gay

I guess the no-homo intern has a much longer, prouder history than I realized

#this is about star trek tos btw #this episode I just watched made me want to dust off the old destiel tin hat and sharpie SPIRK across the front #and the episode wasn’t even amok time #like!!! zephram cochran just had a century-long love affair with a blob of gas #and then got uncomfortable when the enterprise crew pointed out that it was love!#kirk gave a whole speech about a logic-based alien being not being able to love a human man properly #and the alien changed into a human!! to love properly!!!#while the enterprise crew were completely willing to accept that the blob alien COULD love cochran properly!!#they slapped some dialogue about the alien being a woman and gender being somehow a universal constant (lolololololllll)#but this episode all but screamed ‘love is love’ and drowned out all the rest #simultaneously queer and homophobic #such fun

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