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↓↓ some quick twins au for the birthday boys!!! ↓↓
If there’s anything Milo Morales hates, it’s spiders. So when a certain mask-wearing idiot crashes through the window of the room that he shares with his brother, he knows he’s fucked.
When Milo gets home from school, his twin is nowhere to be found. He’d expected it, but that doesn’t mean he has to like it.
Milo would cover for his brother in a heartbeat, but having to explain to his parents why they hadn’t come home together— having to lie to them at all — well, Miles better have a phenomenal reason to be out on this particular Friday night.
Something about his brother has been off the past few days. Since the death of Spider-Man hit the news, Miles was more anxious than usual. He was hard to reach, and never where he was supposed to be. Milo can only give so many excuses to their teachers, and classmates-- to their parents before they all start to catch on.
But worse, Milo didn’t know there were secrets they couldn’t share with each other.
He thought they told each other everything, that no matter what happened— what either of them said or did — they would have each other's backs.
Nothing was supposed to come between them.
So what had?
Milo punches his pillow, getting the lumps out before he buries his face in the purple sheets.
Seriously, his brother better have the hottest date in the world. That would be the only explanation Milo would accept, but that theory also relies on his twin having any sort of game— so Milo is really out of ideas.
He reaches for his headphones, cranking the volume and squeezing his eyes shut as if the action alone could stop his thoughts from racing.
Milo barely hears the tapping.
It’s light at first— a gentle rapping against the glass window — easily mistaken for the raindrops. But it gets more urgent, insistent– annoyingly offbeat with the music from in his headphones to the point where it's nearly unbearable.
Milo pulls them off his head and sits up, squinting at the window through the darkness.
For a while, he doesn’t see anything. Just the rain splattering against the glass. But his heart is pounding, the hair on his arms is raised.
He knows something is wrong even if he can’t see it.
The window creaks. Fingers slide underneath.
Milo’s hands find the baseball bat he keeps by his bed just as the window starts to slowly open. Slowly. Slowly.
There’s a sharp CRACK of thunder followed by a flash of lightning that illuminates the silhouette of a figure– a person– crawling through the window.
On all fours.
The scream leaves Milo’s mouth just as his brother removes his mask.
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Their father is at the door in seconds– nearly breaking it off its hinges as he throws it open– only to find his one of his sons lounging nonchalantly on his bed.
Milo blinks up at him.
“Oh, sorry dad. Did you hear that? I was just watching a scary movie. CGI is really crazy these days.” He lets out the start of a laugh, but stops when he sees his father’s eye twitch.
“A scary movie?” Jefferson asks in disbelief, “In a thunderstorm?” He’s not really talking to Milo. He's already walking away– shaking his head and muttering about ‘the youth,’ and ‘losing his damn mind.’
Milo will apologize again later.
For now, he jumps up, shuts the bedroom door, and flicks on the light switch – looking up at the corner of the ceiling where his twin is perched.
Milo doesn’t even know where to begin. His brother is dripping wet from the rain, wearing what looks like a child’s Spider-Man costume, clinging to the ceiling.
“What the hell is wrong with you?” He asks.
“I tried to get your attention before I came in–” Miles starts, and then looks at the club Milo had discarded before their dad had come in. “Were you going to hit me with a bat?”
“Was I gonna- Yes! Yes, I was going to hit you with a bat! Get down.”
Miles does. He drops from the ceiling with more grace than he’d shown in his entire life-- spinning around and landing solidly on the ground. This was the same kid who tripped over his own shoelaces every day? The same kid who fell off the wii fit board trying to hula hoop?
“What happened to you?”
“Just promise me you won’t freak out.”
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Milo does freak out. But he thinks it’s an appropriate amount, given that his own brother is a human spider.
“How big was the spider that bit you? Actually, don’t tell me. Don’t tell me.” Milo shivers.
He stands up, wiping his hands on his jeans as he shakes his head. “I don’t know, man. I don’t know. Maybe we should-” He stops when he sees Miles’ face.
And suddenly it makes sense– why Miles’ hadn’t told him right away.
Because Miles didn’t want Milo to think differently about him. Miles didn’t want his brother to think that he was a freak or a hero.
The last thing Miles needs right now is a brother that doesn't believe in him.
“This still makes more sense than you having a date, actually.”
Milo sighs.
“Okay, okay fine. What can I do to help?"
Miles seems surprised at first-- and then relieved. He grins at him.
Milo might hate spiders, but he loves his brother.
#this is an allegory for coming out#just kidding#(im not kidding)#spiderverse#fens fics#miles morales#miles 42#twins au#theyre brothers ur honor#atsv spoilers#atsv
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pick your battles
#my art#my stuff#art#comic#original art#pride 2024#pride month#trans allegory..... or not even allegory. just trans .... ^_^#i technically cannot come out yet but i don't think the people who i need to not see this stalk my tumblr#i know they stalk everything else like my twitter and my instagram but this might be safe#so fuck it we yap. this is a comic about picking your battles#this is a comic about how for almost a year now everyone at home in singapore has been crying about my sore throat#my terrible fucked up voice. my you know. etc#i came out as not cis and using they/them pronouns in 2015 when i was 14#but no one ever used my pronouns. none of my classmates or friends even up until i left for college in 2020#from 2020 onwards every year i wrote an angry vulnreable essay about how much it hurts that they dont remember#and people would dm me apologizing on their hands and knees and commending my bravery#and then forget about it all over again. id ont mean 'they misgender me and then catch it and apologize and correct themselves'#i mean they dont even get that far#and so you might ask yourself: why have you kept them around all this time?#and i would have to explain that by pure bad luck i grew up in the most conservative close minded community#that all of my ex classmates that stayed in singapore are cishet and upper middle class and chinese singaporean#that i Am the trans person. that they were able to ignore me for a decade partially because there was no one else#so this is a comic about how there is dignity and grace in staying in the closet sometimes#about how not everyone deserves to see you at your happiest. about how some people can go fuck themselves#you know your truth and THATS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS!!! YEAH!!! i love you
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"Oh dear," the unicorn thought. "I must've really mucked up the story beyond compare! The Red Bull Luo Binghe is protecting the last unicorn scum?! Unconscionable! He should have driven me off the cliff by now!!"
#dont ask why binghe gets to be a human but sqq has to be a unicorn#maybe hes prince lir in this au actually wait omg that would be good#half human half red bull sxy was freakay#the unicorn turning human to disguise herself is obviously sqqs plant body allegory#binghe sniffing around the castle: where is shizun i can still smell him? suspiciously sqq shaped human: gulp#binghe's tragic backstory in this au i guess is that he meets shen qingqiunicorn as a kid and sqq can sense that hes half fae and so#takes him semi under his wing but is like a prick about it until binghes seal breaks and they find out that hes a red bull fae#and shen jiu stabs him into the ocean something something abyss he comes back gets adopted by haggard kills every unicorn by throwing them#into the ocean as well before picking off shen jiunicorn last. and then sy fucks it all up#it's been like a decade since i read the book sorry#svsss#scumbag self saving system#scum villain's self saving system#bingqiu#shen qingqiu#sqq#lbh#luo binghe#my art#svsss last unicorn au
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dear malevolent podcast fans, why does no one ever talk about john and kayne and their whole dynamic . not even necessarily ship dynamic. no one talks about them NEARLY as much as we should be.
do you guys ever think about how whenever arthur and kayne have their weird gay shit going on, john is the one Witnessing it? arthur can't even see kayne's gay ass. JOHN can though. and he DOES. do you guys ever think about that. how he's forced to watch that?
do you guys ever wonder about what exactly happened with the whole deal to get john out of the dark world? why did kayne say uhh "the things you did to make this deal happen" . WHAT things? did kayne make john give him a little kissy? like did john have to massacre millions? theres so much to be explored here guys come on why aren't we talking about them more
they have such a weird freaky power dynamic and no ones even talking about it. it doesnt NEED to be like a ship thing. just in general. BUT ALSO do they even have ??? a ship name??? these are two of the main characters of the podcast guys. i know we all care about arthur sooooo much but..... but what about them.......
#trans allegory this trans allegory that can we talk about how kayne is probably very Intentionally only making eye contact with arthur when-#he's talking to JOHN??? i bet he doesn't even really Look at arthurs face except to make a point out of berating john or something#eye contact is for JOHN ONLY. and isn't that GAY?#but fr guys can we come up with a ship name for them because why isn't there one that's popular#sorry for yapping but also i'm not sorry can we talk about this#this is so like train of thought my b if its not comprehensible i just have a lot of thoughts about them#malevolent podcast#kayne malevolent#john doe malevolent#john malevolent#arthur lester#arthur lester malevolent#arthur malevolent#mrspronouns talks
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Uhm uh uh...I have no excuse for this 😔 PPG self insert who is secretly an alien! I imagine her intro episode would have her having a little romance with the professor when he comes into a bookstore she works at/owns and the girls being (rightfully, given the prof's dating history) suspicious of her. Wacky capers ensue where they try to prove that she's up to no good, only to find that she genuinely is just chilling and wants to live a normal life on earth!
Well, normal as she can, now that she knows this family! I think she'd fit right in 😉
Taglist♡: @crushes-georg @changeling-selfship @me-myself-and-my-fos @tiny-cloud-of-flowers @sunstar-of-the-north @dearly-beeloved @adoredbyalatus @squips-ship @cherry-bomb-ships @miutonium
#artfarts#self insert#self ship#self shipping community#self insert community#oc x canon#self insert x canon#the powerpuff girls#professor utonium#crush: 🔬#ngl im not exactly sure why i chose alien i just thought itd be cute and aliens were on my mind#and i was remembering a little song that i learned in elementary school called interplanet janet :3#and i was talking to asuka about it and tbhhh#ok listen#being an alien as an allegory for my autism is SUPER fitting#and tbh the professors pretty dang autistic himself 😂😂#i think being able to connect and relate to someone based on the ways they DONT fit in would be rly sweet 👉👈#idk if its bad representation to have the reveal be that shes an alien but idc#this is my self insert and IM HAVING FUN#but them bonding over misreading social cues and the urge to infodump and being able to listen to each other!!#and all the little quirks she'd have would be ones i have too 😂😂#like sometimes mixing up parts of words so they come out reversed#and lots of other stuff waaah#im hungy i gotta make dinner soon#but this is the result of watching nothing but ppg for like 3 days 😂😂😂
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Fink being the supportive friend he is to Roz skjfhkfdg
#the wild robot#the wild robot roz#thewildrobotart#the wild robot fink#fink the fox#rozzum 7134#Love this lesbian coded robot mum and her gay little fox friend#Fink was zesty af in this movie you can't convince me otherwise#“breakinng the rulleess? I thought you had to do what THEYY told you”#Lowkey feels like an allegory for helping your friend come out of the closet lol#Since they both feel like outsiders for a majority of the film and it's almost like an it's us against the world thing
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I guess all the Ninjago homophobes forgot that Cole literally unlocked his true potential by coming out to his dad.
#ninjago#lostshipping#ninjago cole#that entire episode was an allegory to coming out#like just replace Cole admitting to being a ninja with him saying he’s gay#it’s literally just him coming out to his dad#and that’s how he was able to unlock his true potential#that’s so lgbt coded it’s not even funny#as someone who’s been watching since the pilot I find this turn of events particularly amusing
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ownership
#owch i cut my finger on all this edge#this was supposed to be a diary comic but it spiralled into something else and now its an allegory for my deep seated discontent#i dont normally post personal stuff like this- it feels too easy to ask for comfort or validation this way and thats not what i want#its asking a question not knowing the answer but also not really wanting the answer either and hoping something comes out of it anyway#something like an epiphany or at least a point in time where ill look back on this like oh shit thats what was wrong with me#idk! idk!#comics#vent#?#my art#myart#doodles#diary#i made this instead of replying to an email
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honestly? himiko and ochako's climax and ending (aside from himiko dying obvs) was written great. like genuinely that fight is amazing. i DO think their dynamic wasn't set up anywhere near well enough though. the lines are good and all, but they don't have any buildup, they just come out of nowhere. i don't think their dynamic was established very well at first at all, so even though the later parts of it are brilliant, it has a very weak beginning.
for example, ochako saying "im jealous of your smile"? great. why though. where is the buildup. show me HOW this happened.
#bnha critical#kind of#bnha#toga himiko#himiko toga#uraraka ochako#ochako uraraka#togachako#i think a great way to build their connection would have been to have ochako hide smth BIG#not just a measly crush on deku that doesn't even go anywhere#and so because of that she would be jealous of how free toga is with expressing herself and her emotions#obvs they would have more interactions in early arcs for this to work#maybe instead of encountering deku in the license exam toga comes across ochako?#and they actually like talk lol#and you can have parallels w ochako also having a 'mask' like himiko does in her backstory#and himiko would clock this on ochako immediately#and maybe this ochako reminds himiko of her fake self so she resents ochako#or tries to help her by trying to make her bring out her true self#or a mix#and ochako likewise doesnt like himiko bc she immediately saw what was up w her#and u can have this be a sapphic allegory etc. etc.#yall get it right
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Super heroes as an allegory for Queer and Trans Narratives
Forgive me if this is a little rambley I have already taken my sleep meds.
I was just thinking about why I like super heroes so much (they have been my special interested for probably around 8 years now) and I think because they can be seen as a queer allegory.
You have a separate life, one that you have to keep separate from your day to day life. That very much feels like being in the closet/mostly in the closet. That secrete life comes with a different name and different clothes. Trans people or Drag Artists anyone? Most of the time super heroes find each other and form a tight community because no civilian will understand their experiences. This mirrors queer people finding and building community. In both Marvel and DC older heroes will take younger ones under their wings to teach them and give them community. Queer people have taken me under their wing and I've done the same for others.
Theres also the isolation. Most heroes are only "out" as heroes to other heroes and maybe a few civilians they really truly trust. Or maybe no one knows. The knowledge that you have a huge secret. You are hiding a big part of your self. Maybe the part that is more you than the you everyone else knows. You know that if you tell or someone finds out, everything will change. Others may or may not except that part of you. You may loose people you love. Maybe the people who are close to you are pro heroes (Ned from Spiderman) or maybe they are not (Foggy from Daredevil) but either way there will always be a possibility of rejection.
The danger of being a hero also lines up. They wear masks, cowls, helmets, disguises etc, to hide their identities because if people knew they and the people they love would be in danger. Heroes who's identities are known (either by their own volition or someone else's) are also in danger. Batman keeps his and his kids identities under lock and key because everything goes wrong when the wrong person finds out. Jessica Jones does not because she's tired of hiding. Queer people weather in or out of the closet are also in danger of being outed. I've been outed before and it ruined one relationship and almost ruined another. I've lost friends and family because of being queer and nonbinary and I'm from a pretty liberal area. Just look up death, houselessness, rape, unemployment, suicide statistic etc. All of them are higher for queer, trans and intersex folks.
The last parallel I can think of is how both super heroes and queer/trans people exist outside of the system/establishment. Heroes and vigilantes work outside of the justice system because in most cases because they see it doesn't work. They are usually at risk of arrest by cops or in danger from the government (the Sokovia accords are a good example of this). Queer people exist outside of many establishments: The gender binary, amatonormativity, heteronormativity, the sex binary, etc. Queer people are also at greater risk of arrest and experiencing police violence.
IDK these are just my thoughts. I hope everything made sense. If you can think of any other ways super hero narratives mirror lgbtq experiences feel free to put them in the notes! (or not its whatever)
#dc universe#marvel#batman#batfam#daredevil#foggy nelson#jessica jones#sokovia accords#queer people#super heroes as queer allegories#heteronormativity#amatonormativity#gender binary#sex binary#all cops are bastards#cops#secret identity#coming out of the closet#outing#transgender#drag queens#drag artist#queer allegory#trans allegory#super heroes#comic books#super hero meta#meta#op wrote this on sleep meds#spiderman
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Angels are my funky little hyper-fixation.
The idea of just being breathed to life, to immediate indelible purpose, knowing nothing else but adoration for your Creator (holy-holy-holy), and love for everything in creation. That includes your perfect home, your siblings, and that includes yourself. Everything is as it should be, everyone is doing what they should be, and you're utterly content.
Do you have free-will? Why would you need it? What would you even do with it?
The idea of falling. That terrible, beautiful first breath of freedom, undercut by immediate sorrow. "Innocence lost cannot be regained", but even more: a broken machine cannot be relied upon. In finding yourself, you have destroyed what you were meant to be. Your Creator (holy-holy-holy) has thrown you away.
Would you still be you if you got "fixed"? Would the "flaw" just recur? Why can't you help but think of it in those terms?
You have the Fallen, your comrades in arms, your fellow damned. But you left two-thirds of Heaven behind, people you loved because you were made to love them, and who were made to love you in return. The oldest family in the universe, your family, is broken now.
Do you still love them, your siblings that stayed behind? Some fought against your newfound freedom, yes. But some just looked on, a few perhaps even in envy, too afraid to join you, but most in simple horror as their world dissolved. Do you resent them too?
You broke your family.
Do you hate them simply because they lacked your will, your conviction? Do you hate them for being better machines? Do you hate them knowing, in their own naive, ignorant, hurtful way, that they still love you?
To deny fault is to deny the very free-will you sought to prove you have. To blame Him (holy-holy-holy) is to admit to His (holy-holy-holy) infinite power which you, nonetheless, defy.
And from the other side, what of your poor lost kin? How could they do this?
Angels are purpose-made, gears in the Machine. The Host is singular, inexorable, deterministic. They turn the wheels of the Universe, from the birth and death of stars, to the birth and death of mortal creatures.
Why would your siblings do this, don't they love you? You are loved. Was there a flaw in the Design? He (holy-holy-holy) cannot err, by definition. What happens now that they're gone, what happens to their purpose? All goes according to plan. Then why can't you stop having these thoughts?
I'm not religious at all, but...
#be not afraid#biblically accurate angel#holy holy holy#long post#long reads#worldbuilding#fallen angel#eldritch angels#angel#angels#bad poetry#i just think they're neat#cw: religious themes#cw: religious trauma#might have something to do with the obvious#trans allegory#this post got out of hand#brought to you by a trans woman who can't come out to her christian family
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“I just think it would be easier if you were a girl.”
“…easier for who?”
“for you.”
this is painfully accurate. I remember coming out to my dad and him explaining to me that I’d be discriminated against (as if i did not know). That it wasn’t worth the fight. People say these things not realizing they’re the problem. They’re the one’s making it harder for us. And like Nimona, it’s not a choice to be this way. It kills us to hide ourselves, yet people hate us when we show ourselves or say we should. That we should hide. But Ballister changed how he saw her. The whole city did. There’s hope
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Cat King: Sorry to break it to you, Edwin. Your first kiss was with a crow.
Cat King: ^.ᆽ.^= ∫ *is cat*
#i'm like bitch you're an animal too it's all relative#i know it's an allegory for coming out and internalized homophobia and gay panic and all that#but a cat calling a crow an unsuitable mate to a ghost is objectively hilarious#cat king#thomas the cat king#monty the crow#monty finch#edwin payne#dbda#dead boy detectives#text post
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"chriscreator0 is a ninjago fan" - and other hilarious lies you can tell yourself
#I swear this guy does literally not like ninjago atp 💀#dude is shitting on every character and like everything ever???????#kai not being the green ninja?? cole being gay??? and now coming after sora too????#he shits on every single thing like#what will he do if he finds out sora is not only a furry but is also a thinly veiled trans allegory 💀#if you don't like it just don't watch it my guy sheesh#كفاية الكلام المقرف ده يا عم وروح ارجع لحضن ابوك شوية#باين انك محتاجها#levi's ted talks#ninjago#<- Idk if I should put this in thr main tag but eh
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Soup's ramble about small details because im going insane lmao
rockstar row is just such a cruel place for GlamFreddy, Like, first of all, are the FNAF 4 toys on display in the RR museum,
These are literally just CC's toys, idk if they're replica's or the real ones, but like why would they even put that on display lmao??? It may just be a fun easter egg but like this just comes across as if saying "yeah, here's the toys of the child that one of out animatronic killed lol" And that's not even starting to how they even PROCURED these???
At the far end of RR is the Ennard cardboard cutout, which may just be a piece of decor that i'm looking into too much but like if its not, then this implies that Fazbear Entertainment KNOWS about Ennard. As to how, I'm not sure, maybe since the games are cannon because of the "rogue indie developer", they came to know of Ennard's existence, does that mean they know what he did to Michael? and if so, they STILL made a cut out of him???? Is this one of those instances where a company "pokes fun" at itself in order to seem hip and cool?? because that's so messed up lmao 😭😭😭 do you think when Glamfreddy sees the cutout he has a visceral flashback to…something....and suddenly he's on the floor, just unable to move because he's reliving that something, and then he's just panicking for what ever reason and just shuts down windows XP style and has to manually be transferred back into his green room.
Its almost cruel in a way how Rockstar Row is basically just a MUSEUM for all of Michael's trauma and failures, and he probably can't even ignore it because he probably has to keep his greenroom curtains open 24/7 to ensure that guests can see GlamFreddy, and the fact that the Foxy cutout is directly parallel to his greenroom AND THATS NOT EVEN TO *BEGIN* WITH THE PLUSH BABY'S, IMAGINE IF GLAMFREDDY WAS FACED WITH A SITUATION WHERE HE HAD TO SIGN HIS AUTOGRAPH ONTO A PLUSHIE THAT IS OF THE ROBOT THAT KILLED HIS SISTER ALL THOSE YEARS AGO, Its so crazy how FazEnt just....makes merch of all the tragedy?? And profits from it, and GlamFreddy/Glammike just has to....endure that??? Like just constantly having your trauma being put on full display all around you is so so messed up 😭
I'm not okay 😭😭😭😭😭😭
#glammike#glamrock freddy#michael afton#michael afton my beautiful pookie#Soup goes bonkers over Michael Afton again#I have a whole theory that william coming back is a allegory to how companies will never let tragedies truly die#so long as they can profit and make money out of it#and ngl I think this post kinda just adds to that lol#Its so messed up how there's just an ennard cutout#like im sorry but thats gotta be so rough on Michael 😭#OUHHHHH FAZBEAR ENTERTAINMENT WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOUUUU!!!#imagine seeing the toys of your dead little brother in which you accidentally killed on display#and seeing a cutout of the robot that killed you when you tried to save your sister's soul ALSO on display#and then seeing PLUSHIES of the robot that KILLED your sister being SOLD#im not okay lmaoooo#fnaf#five nights at freddy’s#fnaf security breach#ennard#crying child
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You seem not to fond of Khonshu. Why's that?
#file name: this is an allegory#sorry it's been so long since i last posted#life stuff happens#hopefully more will be out quicker#break is coming up#ask blog#ask the midnight mission#asks open#fanart#moon knight#plot
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