#they were celebs

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Thing you might not have known, but yes, gladiators actually were made to promote/advertise objects in the arena when coming out. Seriously...they were celebrities in their era and product placement ads (live time) were a real fucking thing.

It's also why, contrary to the "popular take" of the thumbs down killing of gladiators, that was SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER and I Mean SUPER rare.

These were THE PEAK of entertainment back then. They were housed, fed, trained, paid sums, they were given whores, a lot of money went into them.

It'd be like taking your race track sponsored exoticar with legit major brand sponsors/deals and then going, DAMN, I LOST THAT RACE, FUCK IT, TOTAL MY CAR.

What?

Yeah, no. 9/10 gladiators survived their matches.

They also didn't fight all the time. We're taking 3-5 times a year. This overlaps a bit with pro boxer fights in a year 2-4.

This isn't even taking into account the myth of thumbs up/thumbs down. But...yeah.

[tariah23]

[sharkgirldick]

Some random guy online: Hey, wouldn't it be funny if I was a girl? Wouldn't it be hilarious? Like, as a joke. I would wear a dress and be pretty and people would think I'm beautiful. Haha, doesn't that crack you up?

Trans women: You say stuff like this all the time, maybe you're a woman? You could transition.

Dipshits, every time: HOLY FUCK can you people NOT? HE can pick HIS gender and clearly HE is comfortable as a MAN. He's joking anyway, he said so. Let people do what they want and don't pressure them!!!

Same random person: I'm a girl now. I realized all those jokes I made were covering up my actual feelings.

Trans women: ...

Dipshots: Wow! That really came out of left field. Of COURSE we support you, king. Haha, I mean queen.

[hamletthedane]

Imagine telling somebody in 1995 that one day, Snoop Dog and Flavor Flav would both be beloved American icons highly associated with the Olympic Games. With Snoop acting as an official NBC commentator and carrying the actual Olympic torch in his 50s.

They would look at you like you were absolutely insane. What an incredible world we live in

[homielander]

ohhh antony is carrying the show on his back 😭 https://x.com/screenrant/status/1805265919741989352?s=46

i don't want to discredit the work that writers do, especially in laying the groundwork for a character like homelander and crafting a compelling arc for him with every new season. and i'm sure they were very involved in the making of ep 4 as well, despite kripke generously giving credit where it's due here. however...

it is nice to know that antony starr has not only elevated the character with a superb performance but also made some pretty valuable contributions to the script :) obviously i'm biased but i think he is the standout of every episode. i'm throwing emmys at him

[reipx]

Bunhe and shizun’s frist kiss caught in 4K

[k-wame]

BARRY KEOGHAN ↳ But yeah, he's…Nah. He's just, he's a gorgeous person, honestly. ↳ 'SALTBURN' Press | Digital Spy · Dec. 2023

[charmac]

3x06 — Dennis' Dresses

5x03 — Paddy's Dollars

11x08 — Paddy's Wagon

16x01 — Inflatable Furniture

Dennis Reynolds — Failed Businesses

[fleursfairies]

i think its really funny when people say that it's unrealistic for will AND mike AND robin AND vickie to all be gay in the 80s cuz clearly they have never even looked back to the past. people in the 1900s were gay as hell! and heres some examples

james dean (1931-1955) bisexual !

marlon brando (1924-2004) bisexual !

rock hudson (1925-1985) very gay

leslie gore (1946-2015) lesbian

dusty springfield (1939-1999) lesbian

norma tanega (1939-2019) lesbian

(dusty springfield and norma tanega dated)

elton john (1947-present) gay

freddie mercury (1946-1991) gay

george michael (1963-2016) gay

david bowie (1947-2016) bi

crazy that david and elton were born the same year and george and david passed the same year

john lennon (1940-1980) bi im pretty sure unless yoko was lying for some reason

joan jett (1958-present) bi but google ai wants to argue with me about it

janis joplin (1943-1970) bi

whitney houston (1963-2012) bi?? maybe

debbie harry (blondie) (1945-present) bi (or ex bi LMAO)

billie holiday (1915-1959) bi

im lovin all the bi people

andy fraser (free) (1952-2015) gay

i do NOT like boy george at all but unfortunately hes an iconic gay artist and i have to add him (1961-present) gay 🙄

ray and dave davies from the kinks (1944+1947-present) ima just say that theyre both bisexual cuz its a bit confusing

art garfunkel (1941-present) bi. i just found this out like last year but ive always known in my soul. simon and garfunkel are like frog and toad or bert and ernie. you just know.

4/5 members of the b-52's are queer

little richard (1932-2020) gay

mick jagger (1943-present) bi? probably? idk but please go watch the mick jagger david bowie dancing in the street music video its the gayest thing ive ever seen

pete townshend (the who) (1945-present) pansexual

chuck panozzo (styx) (1948-present) gay

lou reed (velvet underground) (1942-2013) prooobably bi but google is giving me super confusing answers that are different since the last time i checked

morrissey 🙄 (this smiths) (1959-present) im diagnosing him as pan cuz all google says is "humansexual"

pete burns (dead or alive) (1959-2016) queer

jane wiedlin (the gogos) (1959-present) bi

june millington and alice de buhr of the band fanny are gay and nickey barclay is bi. (alice is one of my biggest drummer inspirations and i totally forgot she was gay)

neil tennant (pet shop boys) gay

katharine hepburn, ian mckellen, divine, rupaul, andy warhol, frankie goes to hollywood, soft cell probably, tab hunter, stephen fry, anthony perkins, cristopher walken, sal mineo, sister rosetta tharpe, billie joe armstrong, drew barrymore, jodie foster, fiona shaw, angelina jolie, etc

i have more but im tired

but these are just some people that are confirmed queer. i could go ooon and ooon and ooon about "not gay" people doing gay ass things

if you're going to make silly statements about the past please actually do a bit of research

not to mention the lesbians and the same sex kiss in the 1927 movie wings

[dollypopup]

one day fans will realize that treating real people like fictional characters and fictional characters like real people is, at the core of things, The Problem

[brainrotcharacters]

I committed the sin of not knowing about Patti LuPone before Agatha All Along can the fandom forgive me

[mulderscully]

thinking about bisexual erasure and how being bi is having to constantly remind people bisexuality exists, even to other queer people. i have a friend at work who is gay and knows i'm bi and sometimes a guy will come in and will talk about his wife when the guy leaves my friend is like "mhm, sure, wife." and i'm always like well... he could be fruity AND have a wife and it's gen like... he forgets that's a thing until i mention it? the other day a guy came in and said he used to date someone and used they/them pronouns and THEN talked abt his wife and my friend was like "aw he went straight." and i'm just like HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN? and it's shit like this from within our own community that makes bisexuals the silent majority. because it's exhausting and i just need people to remember we exist without having to remind them. i want people to see bisexuality as an option, not an after thought.

[mapletine]

they tried to put him on the cover of vogue

but his legs were tooooo long

been noodling around with a kitewing model x idol au and this is the result…

+ janky process gifs under cut orz

hi <3 these r so low quality forgive me

i have more sketches and ideas for this au should i drop them 👀👀

[cellphonehippie]

always an angel, never a god

inspo

[aniseandspearmint]

Yo all y'all new twitter and reddit refugees.

if an account has the word 'official' in it this does NOT mean it's really official. You can call yourself anything on here. There is no verification.

So like, remember to take things they say with as much salt as you can manage.

[doesnotloveyou]

when i was 12ish, my mom was showing in a western art show. our booth was right next to a nice old man signing autographs. all day he had a steady line of giggling old ladies who were much younger than him that's how old he was. my mom said "you don't know who he is, but that guy was FAMOUS in westerns" and i was like "westerns and old people are boring, but okay" and when I looked up his imdb later he wasn't in anything me or my friends knew, so i forgot about him

...this....THIS was the old guy I met

UM, YEAH. god bless those old ladies, they had great taste, i never should have doubted forgive me i was a child 😭🥺

(btw, he was a sweetheart, especially when the day got slow. i was reading a book and he asked me about it and I only remember he was kind)