#and also I don't want to rain on anyone elses parades ya know?

[guardian-angle22]

I thought it was just me, the promo made me so uncomfortable. If there's a lot of stuff like this in the ep...

Nah, you're definitely not alone. I've been stressed and uncomfortable since they uttered the words "serial killer" in the promo on Tuesday. I'm used to this dumb wee woo fire show providing me with ridiculous fire calls and weird medical emergencies, not serial killers ripped straight from a criminal minds episode.

Similar to any other storyline I don't care for but can recognize other people are excited for, I'm trying to focus on being happy that people in fandom who really wanted Carlos whump are getting that to the 1000th degree with this.

but like, I've seen that promo auto-play on my feed at least 8 times already 🙈 and I know I'm going to have to figure out how to navigate around gifs and posts about this episode for at least a week after too and all of that added together just stresses me out even more. like do I just filter out Carlos' name for a week? how do I even avoid it?

#anon answered #i'm probably not gonna post too much more about this though cause I really don't want my blog to be full of this #and also I don't want to rain on anyone elses parades ya know? #thats not what I'm about usually so I've been trying as much as possible to keep any negativity I have to myself or off my main feed #also if I had a dollar for every time I referenced criminal minds since tuesday id be rich #negativity discourse all the bad words

[ingravinoveritas]

Saw a twitter meme that's like '"straight actors shouldn't play gay characters" do you want [x] to be unemployed?' And I can't help but think Michael Sheen fits that. I don't have much else to add to this I just thought it'd be funny to send. I don't really follow either of them too closely to ever add much to the conversation so ya know.

Hi, Anon! Yeah, I’ve been seeing that meme going around lately (see my most recent reblog for a version involving David), and I’d have to say the same thing here that I did there. I don’t think the meme quite works with Michael because while the presumption is that he’s straight, the reality is rather different.

(I know you said you don’t follow either he or David too closely, so I invite you to check out my #david is lowkey bi and michael is highkey bi tag to read the many posts that I have written on the subject.)

What I will say here, however, is that where with David, he has not actually played a great number of explicitly queer roles and it’s more his own queer energy that we are seeing on screen, with Michael, he has played numerous overtly queer roles AND his own queer energy informs those roles (and vice-versa).

I’ve written previously on my blog about how the queer roles Michael has played all seem to represent different parts of himself, perhaps even at different places in his own journey with sexuality. In particular, Aziraphale has seemed to me to be the middle-aged version of Miles Maitland--the realization of who Miles wanted to be when he was young, and who (perhaps like Michael) he felt he couldn’t be because of society and the hateful intolerance around him. It’s taken Aziraphale a lifetime (or a millennia) to find himself, but Aziraphale knows who he is, even if he doesn’t specifically label it or announce it to the world. So I can’t help but feel like there are certainly some parallels there with Michael’s own life.

Which is then why I am not sure how to feel about memes like the “straight actors” one on Twitter. People assume Michael and David are straight because they’re currently in relationships with women, which ignores everything Michael has ever said about his attractions to men, and perpetuates the longstanding tradition of erasing bisexuality. But it also ignores/dismisses the idea that some actors use the roles they play to explore their sexuality and become more comfortable with it because they have had so few opportunities to do so in real life.

Imagine putting that piece of yourself into every role (which is something Michael has said, that he plays himself in every role) and having people still not see who you really are because of their preconceived ideas about sexuality. Michael is a lot more obvious about it than David (who I do think has felt like he has to hide in particular because of being in Doctor Who, which is a whole other conversation), but as obvious as Michael is, people are still calling him straight, and I think that’s really interesting, as well as a bit sad.

So yes, those are my thoughts on the Twitter meme. Not trying to rain on anyone’s parade, of course, but wanted to do my best to put my complicated feelings about it into words. Thanks for writing in, Anon! x

#anonymous #reply post #michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #meme #david is lowkey bi and michael is highkey bi #i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now #david is definitely more subtle than michael #but he knows how to speak volumes without saying a word #bisexuality #thoughts #discourse