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#ennis...

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I loved A Strange Way of Life so, so much. Every frame and every word is perfect, the design and costuming are perfect, the performances . . . . I could on and on.

The only problem is that people keep describing Silva and Jake as queer cowboys, and yet we have been denied again!

Silva owns and operates a horse ranch. Jack and Ennis were working sheep. There are no cinematic queer cowboys; there never have been!

You know what we need? More movies about queer couples and livestock. Just keep doing it until you get it right.

#just a pedantic thing: the word cowboy originated as a derrogatory term for someone who tends to cattle and/or horses #under that strict definition silva is a cowboy and you can assume ennis is a cowboy too considering he is a ranch hand #rodeo riders are also referred to as “rodeo cowboys” so jack is also by definition a cowboy #the only person who isnt a cowboy in the list is officer jake. he's what old western folks would call a Law Man lol #anyways most of these people are indeed cowboys and are therefore part of the queer cowboy niche #still brokeback posting

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This is a strong contender for my favorite exchange I’ve ever seen on the internet

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'gender transition won't make you happy, only Jesus will' is not only an extremely annoying thing to say but i think probably a violation of James 2.16

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i hate to be that guy, but the idea that gender, sex, and sexuality are ontologically pure concepts that can be rigidly defined if we simply police our language enough (our english language, because of course) is—i cannot stress this enough—a total waste of time. you may as well spend your afternoons teaching a brick how to swim

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why do you think a lot of historians don't think that alexander (and, by extension, other people in history) was gay? sorry if this is worded strangely by the way

Anon I’m not yelling at you I love you but I have to yell because everyone on tumblr spreads such bad misinformation. NO HISTORIANS THINK ALEXANDER WAS STRAIGHT. NOR ANY OTHER OLD TIME GAYS. LITERALLY NONE. THIS IS A MYTH PERPETUATED ON TUMBLR AND IT ISNT REAL STOP BELIEVING IT IM LOSING MY MIND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay. Now that I am. Calm. Sorry. Even tho plenty of historians were homophobic back in like last century — no one currently writing, period — they still could not DENY that Alexander who kept a MALE CONCUBINE , FUCKED MEN. Even the MOST homophobic ones were like “it was his worst vice” but they couldn’t DENY it. NOBODY EVER sorry normal volume nobody ever denied it in the whole history of the world never. Never. No one. That is fake. People who say that do not know what they are talking about.

On the OTHER hand , historians will say that for example Hamilton was “straight” because there IS NO DEFINITIVE EVIDENCE OTHERWISE. no, a few gay letters are not hard evidence. YES, male friendship mores were WAY DIFFERENT in old times, and it’s WAY too much extrapolation to assume from a few gay sounding TO US letters that he was fucking that twink Laurens. That is BAD METHODOLOGY. that is not homophobic it is BAD METHODOLOGY. you cannot publish that kind of thing cuz it’s simply not got enough evidence. I don’t care if they probably were, there is EMPIRICALLY NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE.

Okay. Also. Last point. l hate the misinformation on this hell site. Last point.

Gay and straight were not labels that existed until the late 1800s. Historians do not write about sexuality in terms of gay and straight because gay and straight did not exist as we know them to people prior to the late 1800s. We can only judge how people in history had sex based on their actions. If a historian says Alexander wasn’t gay or bi it isn’t because they’re saying he didn’t fuck men. It’s because they’re saying it’s extremely reductive and bad scholarship to ascribe modern definitions of sexuality and modern sexual mores to the ancient world. When we’re just hanging out and talking one on one or casually, no problem saying gay and straight! It helps us conceptialize how they lived! It’s something we understand. But in a PAPER you are trying to PUBLISH, you CANNOT say that because it misinterprets the workings of their society.

Okay. Thank you. I hope this clears things up for every dumbass who makes those posts and misinforms my innocent fellow classics people who are new and do not know. I hate y’all. Not you anon. Y’all who peddle this ….. homophobia nonsense. Stop it

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How do I be cool like Jesus Christ

Be kind

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i have been SOOOO exhausted lately... but i cannot rest ....

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#cats yearn for the ruff

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Whoever invented "open in app" links that redirect you to the app store instead of actually opening the app even when you already have the app installed on your phone should be involuntarily turned into a beanbag chair

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#ohhhh i fucking WANT HER SO BAD #WHY IS SHE SO HOT #SHES ALWAYS BEEN SO HOT BUT BUTCH ANNE??? ANDRO ANNE??? #I'M GOING INSANE

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Japanese Endorsement of Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire

The Godzilla Double Feature in 109 Screen X locations in Japan started last night where they were showing Godzilla Minus One and Godzilla X Kong back to back with an intermission, which was a genius move that I need to happen here in the States immediately.

But anyways, the reviews from the Japanese viewers who are seeing GxK for the first time are some of the best I've ever seen (excuse the machine translations):

I don't know about you, but someone telling me "it was a silly movie made by an idiot and it was very good" is a ringing endorsement and would get my butt into a seat faster than anything else. 🤣🤣🤣

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at my sketchbook. straight up “drawing it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. Nothing

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You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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