#tw // homophobia

[memessaga3257]

[kaiaden]

Ninjago Instagram

Me when I open a comment section on Instagram to comment on a funny Ninjago reel:

I hate the internet

[linddzz]

genuinely the funniest reply that could ever be left on a post about Viktor wanting to dominate that himbo

[sassysagas4554]

[edwinspaynes]

Erasmus & Eleanor Payne

Lots of people have been sharing their headcanons of what Edwin's parents were like in recent days. I've thoroughly enjoyed reading everyone's takes - there are so many interesting thoughts! And I wanted to add my headcanons to the pot, too.

TWs for period typical homophobia.

Pretty sure that everyone knows that Edwin's family was well-off. His dialect is very upper-crust, and the rules of etiquette that he follows are also Society Rules.

I think that Edwin's father was a cold man in general. Not a mean or cruel man to most people, but a terse and unsympathetic sort. He likely had some political influence due to his wealth.

But in any case, I think he would have been cold to Edwin if Edwin were the son he'd wanted, but he staunchly Was Not that son. Edwin's father was a military officer, and I think he would have found Edwin's mannerisms and general demeanor to be unacceptable. So I think he would shame Edwin and make him feel like shit, and this would make Edwin shrink into himself and look as he did in the flashback. I think everyone talked to Edwin this way, but his father's voice was the loudest in his mind.

I think that when Edwin disappeared, he was genuinely largely relieved. He was embarrassed to have a kind, quiet, emotive son that did not share his Manly Interests and who everyone lowkey knew was gay, and he didn't have to raise him anymore and be ashamed.

On the other hand, Edwin's mother did care about him. She disliked that he caused people to whisper about him, and she did her fair share of shaming him - but she loved him in a way that her husband didn't. He was, after all, her son. She wanted him to be well.

And I think it would be interesting if losing him broke something inside her that was never fixed, but it wouldn't matter. Because her place in the world as a woman of her status and time meant that she should not care about her shameful son so much, and her husband reiterates to her that this is a good thing. That it was an act of God. And she's not brave enough to stand up to the world or to him, not even for the sake of finding her child.

She cared, but did it matter? Did her lingering affection really matter for anything when she let everyone slap this label on her child's disappearance and failed to look for him in an attempt to save face?

I call them Erasmus and Eleanor, btw. For science

[isabella4325]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[not-alpharious]

I really hope that when Space Marine II comes out they let you choose Titus’ pronouns just to fuck with this guy specifically

[roadhogsbigbelly]

this is like 99 percent of lgbt discourse online right now lol

[blairelythere]

"Teaching kids about gay shit is grooming and desensitization"

alright, what about the hundreds, if not thousands of homophobic and transphobic jokes I had to hear as a young, impressionable kid? how is that not desensitization and grooming?

[draw-the-squad-like-this]

Draw your OTP like this

[memessaga3257]

[lylahammar]

btw this is a downer but important: project 2025 plans to criminalize pornography, and defines all queer affirming content as such, so a lot of trans creators might have to delete a lot of videos in the future in order to protect themselves. Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints) posted on Patreon about how this is a threat to her career, and she might have to take down a lot of her channel. If you have any comfort content that's made by queer (especially trans) creators, now is a good time to download it for your personal use just in case.

[redditreceipts]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskLGBT/s/T2Q5yURfiL

😐

"Hey guys, I'm a woman only attracted to other women. What do you call that?" (Needless to say, the people in the comments called her transphobic for assuming that people with female bodies don't have penises lmao)

[sassysagas4554]

[phddyke]

Hazbin Hotel is actually healing my inner ex-Christian so hard.

No joke, I nearly started cheering when Lute called Charlie and Vaggie’s love “vile and blasphemous” (and then burst out laughing when Adam immediately followed it up with “Hot as fuck though”). I know that may sound weird considering that I am, in fact, a lesbian, but here me out:

Seeing Christians being explicitly homophobic onscreen? It validates me. It makes me think “Oh yeah, I’m not crazy, Christians are that hateful!” And, call me crazy, but I think homophobia being tied in with villainy is a good thing. Neither Adam or Lute are supposed to be good people; they are very obviously the villain, and that establishes their behavior as bad. Someone on Twitter said that Lute gave them religious fanatic vibes and I couldn’t agree more.

And here’s the thing, too: it’s explicit homophobia, not some dumb metaphor. There’s no way to take it as anything else. And I really need that. I need to see Christians being explicitly homophobic onscreen in the same way that other people need and create worlds where homophobia doesn’t exist.

But me? I want my pain and suffering acknowledged. I want the harm that Christianity does acknowledged. Homophobia is real and the religious kind doubly so. I related to Vaggie so much in that episode; I felt her trepidation about going back to Heaven. Felt like a good metaphor for escaping a fundamentalist church only to be forced to visit again.

And Viv is not afraid to explicitly point this out and criticize them. Like, yes! Say it! They are hypocrites! They don’t care about people being better, they only care about punishment! They maimed one of their own and left her to die because she spared a child! They’re homophobic freaks! They would never see the good that Angel does and how he’s improved and is wonderful, they only see that he’s a drug addict and a sex worker and think he’s worthless for that even though Jesus broke bread with sex workers and people considered the dregs of society. (And of course Angel is gay on top of that.)

And another thing: not only did the Adam line make me laugh, but the second homophobic Lute line about “he blew his shot like the cocks in his mouth” cracked me up too. It reminded me of the pilot where Katie Killjoy said “I don’t touch the gays” to Charlie, which is a line that made me laugh for 4+ years straight. When I told my brother that was the funniest homophobia I’d ever heard in media, he very wisely said, “All homophobia is funny if you think about it.” And you know what? He’s right. It is funny, because it’s so fundamentally goddamn stupid, so let’s give characters ridiculous lines so everyone can laugh at how idiotic they and their beliefs sound.