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Favourite almost queer characters:

(Characters who were originally intended to be queer, going to have thier sexuality explored, or intentionally written as or acted as queer, but it never ended up on screen.)

Rafael Barba and Sonny Carisi - Law and Order: SVU - Gay/Bisexual

Chandler Bing - Friends - Gay

Emily Prentiss - Criminal Minds - Lesbian

Sam Seaborn - The West Wing - Queer

Spencer Reid - Criminal Minds - Bisexual

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cliché but classic trope: when the person who almost died wakes up in a hospital bed, looks around and sees the object of their affection sleeping uncomfortably in the chair next to them because they haven’t moved in days.

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Saw this on Reddit: ORIGINAL POST

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Interesting how antis insist anything on AO3 is CSEM yet they don't call the police. It's almost like they know deep down that there's nothing worth reporting on there.

Oh but anon, they do alert authorities. The cybertip line, which is supposed to be for alerting the FBI in the case of real cyber abuse (of which creating CSEM definitely qualifies) has been especially clogged up by false tips within the past few years, and it is almost certainly because of the rise of antis.

It was a bit ago by now, but I remember a post that was floating around where an anon claimed to have reported someone to the cybertip line for writing a sex scene between two fictional characters who were consenting adults. Of course, the user wasn't in any danger, any competent agent would dismiss a tip like that as soon as they realized what it was actually about. Instead, assuming the anon wasn't bluffing, the consequences of that false tip fell onto the abused children who may have been raped again in the time it took for agents to sift through the false tips in order to get to the real ones. Plenty of lawyers have even gone on record to say, "Stop reporting cartoon drawings as CSEM! They do not count! You're just making it harder for us to help real children!"

Not only that, but antis have already gotten in trouble for spreading real CSEM, both to try and "own the nasty proshitters", but also sometimes because when some of them see stuff like that, their first instinct is to put it in a public callout post, which further contributes to the exploitation of the child in said illegal content that they liken to that of an abused anime character.

But yes anon, Archive of Our Own is a very famous public website. The fact that it can be everywhere on the surface web in plain fucking view for this many years without the FBI so much as batting an eye should be proof enough that written fiction cannot be CSEM, but of course, antis don't have fucking brains, so they can't figure that out to save their lives. They just keep saying that AO3 is full of "child porn" and the government just like...hasn't noticed yet, somehow.

You see what happens when you act like fictional abuse is the same as real abuse? Not only does it make you treat fictional characters like real people, it also makes you treat real people with flesh and blood like they matter just as much as a fake construct in a story that doesn't actually exist.

People who play GTA V have no trouble understanding this distinction. That's why jumping cliffs with your car and running people over in that game is funny instead of deeply traumatizing.

Sorry, anon. Can you tell that I'm angry? I'm a little angry.

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Reblog to send care packages to our troops on the front lines (ao3 volunteers) in their fight against this eminent threat (DDoS attacker).

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EPIC

Photo from Portland Pride 2019 © The Oregonian

[Photograph of a man dressed as Captain America, from behind with his shield on his back, waving a rainbow-striped American flag]

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I died when he said shitballs.

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY 2022, dir. Rian Johnson

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Hard agree.

the bi!Eliot serves in The Walk In The Woods Job

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Eliot's face when he sees Hardison in screen but no one is looking at him yet:

Eliot's face when people can see him:

He smiles so softly when he see Hardison! But as soon as the group realize hes there he shifts back into grump mode and teases Hardison with the "Dorks in Space" crack because that's what he does but secretly he was so excited to see Hardison!! I HAVE FEELINGS!

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Friendly note that this means he thinks about me when we're not in contact. 😊😊

This just in, Mix has (once again) confirmed that he is a lovely human.

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eliot being all “VIDEOGAMES AREN’T SPORTS” and then immediately adopting these gamer kids <3

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Hi I want an episode of leverage redemption where the children Eliot bonded with in the first series come back. And it turns out he kept in touch with every single one of them as like a mentor figure and wrote them college recommendations and got some into cooking school. And just kept an eye on them and made sure they were okay.

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I JUST NOTICED that they swap the colors that they're wearing in that last scene. Eliot in army green and Paul in that denim blue.

ALSO, Eliot looks so cute during that scene

boyfriends

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I can't possibly be the only one low-key shipping Eliot and Paul, can I? The way Eliot grieved him and could barely whisper his name. The "WE were family" as an answer to Harry's question about Paul's surviving family, even though we've never heard of Paul before despite there being years of this show. The way he was so offended and hurt by Paul keeping that secret from him, shouting "You couldn't tell ME?" Emphasizing the 'me,' as if he frequently thinks about them in an 'us against the world' way where he should be Paul's exception because Paul is his. The naturalness and fierceness of the way they hug it out as if they are used to falling into each other that way, when we *know* how long it took Eliot to grow into hugging Hardison and the others. And a final scene in a private patio by romantic candlelight where Eliot is definitely giving off vulnerable and flirty vibes while talking about their future (at the same exact location Briana was using as a romantic date night locale just an episode earlier!).

I MEAN, COME ON.

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The Sexiest Man Alive! - (2022)

If Steve Rogers was on that cover of People Magazine. ❤️

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also while i’m ranting about gender i always see debate about whether girls are rewarded for being tomboys or not and it’s like. actually girls are rewarded for mirroring whatever the situation demands of them. girls can’t be too prissy and refuse to play in the creek, but girls also can’t show up to girly events covered in mud. girls can’t have makeup art as a hobby or else they’re superficial, but if they never wear makeup they’re a slob and dumpy, etc. it’s not that girls are universally rewarded or punished for being tomboys, they’re rewarded for bending over backwards to always be exactly right for any given situation and punished for breaking those boundaries. so yes a classically pretty girl who cleans up nice is rewarded when she can ALSO be a tomboy. but a girl who is a tomboy all the time is definitely punished for never being able to achieve that prerequisite feminine side. this debate is over now thanks