#to an audience of 0 people

[vanweezer]

reading be like what if there was a page you just stared at and didnt absorb anything from until you remembered. to do that

[abimee]

people probably want y/m or cassidy stuff but i want more of my alice in wonderland story. and so should you

[gottagobackintime]

I find it fascinating to witness the straight audience of any media not being able to pick up what the makers of the movie/show puts down.

It’s like when people reacted to the “You wear fine things well” scene in Our Flag Means Death with “aw, they’re such good friends” whereas the queer audience went “omg, this is happening”. We all had access to the same scene, we’d all watched the build up to that scene but the straight audience wrongly read it as friends/straight whereas the queer audience had suspected they were building up to a romance but this was the confirmation. Even the creator of the show was baffled that people were surprised that Ed and Stede fell in love. Because he thought they had made it obvious.

And as I said, we, the queer audience picked up on it. And I feel like the same thing is happening with Ted Lasso. Do I know that Ted and Trent will get together? No, I am unfortunately not a writer on Ted Lasso. But you can’t deny that there are clues pointing to it. But the straight audience barely pick up the fact that Ted and Trent like each other, be that in a platonic way or romantic way. I’ve seen several reactions to the last episode of season 2 and ONE of them included the scene where Ted reacts to Trent not being in the press room. All of them severely cut down the scene in the parking lot. One of the scenes most of us Ted/Trent truthers point to as a huge piece of evidence for it going canon. The parallel of them meeting in an empty parking lot, just like Ted and his ex-wife and Roy and Keeley. But because Ted and Trent are both men it couldn’t possibly mean anything. And Ted has an ex-wife and a kid so he can’t possibly be into men, as if there is no such thing as being bisexual. “But I’m pretty sure Trent has a family, he has a kid right?” So? He could be divorced, we also have no idea if his daughter has another dad or a mum. And the same thing applies to him, it doesn’t mean he can’t be into men (take also into account all of James Lance’s interviews, and his choice of shirt in one of them, friend of Dorothy anyone? He's the captain of this ship, we're just along for the ride tbh.)

Then we have the wonderful “I’m so not homophobic, in fact, you are homophobic because you think Ted is gay just because he likes musicals and has ‘feminine’ traits” um no… it’s the fact that he kind of acts in a way that an ally wouldn't. Yeah, he called himself an ally in that one episode. But every single person who is now out as queer who at one point considered themselves an ally because "I’m not one of them but I sure think they're neat" raise a hand 🖐️ (been there, done that. Was very into queer things before I realised I myself am one of them). What it always comes down to is "it's pandering", "it's tokenism" (having the main character on the show be queer wouldn't be fucking tokenism), "not everything has to be gay", "why can't men just be friends, there is a severe lack of male friendships on tv". And like the last one makes me go??? There are a MILLION friendships between men on TV. There are even multiple friendships between men in Ted Lasso. Beard and Ted, Ted and Higgins, Ted and Roy, the himbos and so on. Having Ted and Trent become a couple wouldn't really change anything because there are still friendships between men. They also claim that Ted is needed as the "straight without toxic masculinity" representation. As if Beard isn't right there. The man who has no problem going to an immersive show about the menstrual cycle. Has no problem with shrieking when he's surprised and so on.

I also like that if we'd get Ted and Trent together, we'd get two middle aged queer dads. Which isn't that common. It's not even super common to see people realising they're queer late in life on TV, and yet it happens every day. Because let's face it, most queer men on TV kind of look like Colin, and I don't mean that as a bad thing. And I'm looking forward to his storyline. But it's also nice seeing middle aged or old people finding themselves and being allowed to be who they are (see Ed and Stede from OFMD). Also would enjoy seeing people lose their minds when they realise they've been fooled this entire time. It'll be like Black Sails all over again.

I do not have any doubts about the fact that, had Trent or Ted been a woman and they saw Trent give up his career because of Ted's influence, they sure as hell wouldn't protest people thinking they'd become a couple. But because it's two men it's just delusional for some reason (homophobia).

What I'm saying is, it's clear that the straight audience has a hard time picking up subtext and clues that the makers are planting. Because they've never had to do that. Because they are always clearly represented. They don't have to look for minor side characters and hope that they might be queer. Because the main character is straight and most of the supporting cast too. When you've grown up with a lack of representation or with representation that is meant to be subtext, you'll learn to pick up on it. And you do look at media differently. I just wish that the straight audience could listen to us for once, without getting defensive and dancing around the fact that they are uncomfortable relating to a character that turned out to be queer.

[beepborpdoodledorp]

ok so body horror, cults, political corruption, multiple instances of genocide, at least two characters who struggle with alcoholism (which in and of itself is a censorship nightmare), Red Velvet saying the word ‘hell’ in numerous voice lines and a copious amount of other not-very-nice shit is allowed but actually saying the word ‘murder’ isn’t. ok cookie run 

[sn0wp1anets]

every component of my viewing experience has made me die laughing. why is the description that. it sounds like the summary of a hurt/comfort fic. purpled and ant being purpled and ant. stu and shane celebrating not last. someone leaving hate comments towards mcc vault and like 20 people replying with 'i liked it'. including shadoune? shane just also sounds really funny this video lol. also its posted on christmas mcc vault guy i hope youre getting the breaks you need

[quirkle2]

yaknow . ads obviously work, otherwise companies wouldn't put them everywhere, but i wanna know who in the fresh hell is falling for them. i don't think an ad, save for like,,, trailers for movies/games, has Ever worked on me. most of the time when i'm doing something and an ad interrupts me in any way i make a mental note to Not buy that product in the future outta spite.who is out here watching a febreze commercial and going Damn ur right guess im a febreze truther now

[plasterhound]

since im roleplaying as sisyphus w my computer while i try to do my comms im just gonna repost some stuff from twitter. heres a game that came to me in a dream 2 years ago i wanna make it someday

[l0v3c0r3e]

I hate when people pretend like a character has never done anything wrong because they all have

[dreadark]

yes i think kim namwoon's love for lee jihye is incredibly heartbreaking and it makes me very emo, no i don't think it will ever be requited lmao rip bozo

[hellwurld]

anons crazy 4 this one im not sorry. like truly calling it a ZERO out of TEN arc. u must be crazy im not sorry

[patchwork-passions]

albatross soup more like griffin soup amiright

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Are you ok? What happened?

Yeah I'm chilling lmao we just had a patient presenting with a condition I'd never seen in person and it didn't end well for them unfortunately

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

jsyk . if you ever get mad at traumatised people engaging with a completely sfw , non-k!nk / fe.tis.h related coping mechanism that sprouts from childhood abuse / neglect or just general stress, and label them a freak or bully them or anything along that lines, you're ableist, a complete cunt and i dont like you. this goes double for if you completely REFUSE to understand the concept of what the coping mech is and why its helpful. traumatised people dont owe you normalcy and we sure as fuck dont owe you an explanation 👍 and if you disagree w/ me you can piss off

[snekdood]

idk who needs to hear this but making fun of someone isnt... critiquing them....

[13threbagel]

I just realized that the arguments used on generative AI are basically the same as those used on NFT. They treat anything on the Internet as free to use and completely disregard the fact that copyrights exist for everything that someone made on the Internet.

Just because something exists in a public space doesn't mean it is in the public domain (free to use, copyright-free).

You'd think that's a no brainer but apparently not. And when they broke those boundaries, they just go, "Oops, it's already in the model/chainblock. You should have never upload them publicly/minted it first so you can keep the work to yourself."

sth sth demean human desire to socialize and part of that involve sharing things they are passionate about, aka the thing they had worked on to connect with other people. And taking it for yourself and disregard the original artist is insanely disrespectful sth sth

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