#< any show with a queer cast

[awakefor48hours]

Shows you should save physically immediately

Over the Garden Wall -- It's being pulled from HBO Max on August 31 and knowing HBO, there's a chance it'll be pulled sooner. *I have now made a Google Drive of all the episodes of OTGW. Please, please, please, PLEASE, save these on a physical device.

The Owl House -- Disney has tried to bury this show many times (giving it a weird release schedule, cutting the budget, etc) and has even cancelled the show. Also, Disney+ is going to nuke their catalogue soon and I doubt TOH will survive*I have now also saved all the episodes of TOH. Click here for the posts with all of the episodes

Amphibia -- I know less about the behind the scenes BS than TOH but Amphibia was screwed over by Disney mainly by poor promotion. Also since one of the protagonist is openly bisexual*, like TOH, I really can't imagine this would survive.*Amphibia has also been saved. Go here for the post with all the episodes.

Steven Universe -- Cartoon Network cancelled Steven Universe and gave it a weird release schedule, it has also just been pulled from HBO Max.

Gravity Falls -- Once again, Disney+ is going to nuke their catalogue at some point in the future and between Wendy being canonically bi, Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland being in a relationship, and Alex Hirsch (being the amazing man that he is) constantly calling Disney out on their BS, I imagine that Disney would be more than willing to nuke Gravity Falls. *I’ve also saved Gravity Falls now go to the main post here to see all the episodes.

and most importantly

Every single show, book, game, fanfiction, movie, etc you've ever loved

We now know that at any moment's notice, streaming services can and will just nuke their catalogue without hesitation. If it's digital, it can be removed and there's a likely chance you'll never see it again.

So, please take some time to save anything you love on an external device. It could be a box set (it can be official or fan-made one), a USB, or anything.

If you have a physical copy of something, it's yours forever and no one can take that away from you.

*Edit because I’ve seen some confusion about this. Read this again, it’s “one of the protagonists” not “the protagonist.” Sasha is the one who’s bi, Anne’s sexuality hasn’t been confirmed.

Also in addition to this, people have reblogged this to say Steven Universe is still on HBO. Since I don’t have HBO, I’ve been going off of what people have been saying and I’ve seen it mentioned that HBO was taking off SU. You should still save it though.

*Edit 2 if any of the links here don’t work, check the original post as I might’ve changed/updated them. If that still doesn’t work, send me an ask or DM I’ll give them to you.

#toh #the owl house #gravity falls #steven universe #su #amphibia #over the garden wall #otgw #others you should probably save > #rwby #she ra #miraculous ladybug #the legend of korra #< any show with a queer cast #(and/or has been banned in another country) #you should save it immediately #top posts

[hephaestuscrew]

I'm not the first person to say this, but there really is something groundbreaking about the lack of romantic plotlines in Wolf 359.

Wolf 359 is a story aimed at and about adults. It's partly about what it means to be human. It's partly about how we exist in relation to other people. It's partly about interpersonal connection and understanding. It has character relationships at its heart. It features so many moments of love and care between characters. It takes place across just over two years of the characters' lives, with 61 episodes and a main cast that grows to a decent size.

And despite all this, the show doesn't feature a single canonical 'on-screen' romantic (or sexual) relationship. Perhaps that shouldn't be as rare as it is, but it's one of the many things that makes Wolf 359 special to me.

#Wolf 359 #w359 #Obvs there's Minkowski's husband and Eiffel was with Kate #but neither of those are focal points #and we don't actually hear Kate or Koudelka #Before Jacobi declared he liked the menfolk #there were a fair few people expressing frustration at the lack of canon queer rep in w359 #which I do understand cos that's something lots of people go to fiction podcasts for #and I do understand why it matters to ppl #but a part of me thinks that when you interpret 'queer' in that broader sense about questioning/ defying societal norms #there is something arguably queer about making a show like this #and deliberately not having a single canon romantic relationship between the main cast #For a show to ask 'what makes us human?' and not even vaguely put romantic love on the table as a possibility #that's queer to me #At any rate it's really refreshing #When I first started listening to Wolf 359 back in 2017 #there was a part of me bracing myself for a shoehorned-in romantic plotline #I felt like the question was 'who' and 'when' rather than 'if' #because that tends to be the way #It blew my mind when I realised this show didn't treat romance as a necessary ingredient #This is not to knock shippers for doing their thing btw #People can explore possibilities outside of canon #I'm just talking about how I feel about canon #And yes these are feelings I have as an aro person #but I do think it's valuable and refreshing in general not just for aspec people

[hyperfixation-hideout]

Nora: Turns out Weiss and I can’t make out at either of our houses cause both our families are germophobic :/

Blake: I think you mean homophobic?

Weiss: Oh, no, my father actually considers me to be a virus.

#rwby incorrect quotes #schneestorm #nordic winter #quinpost #nora valkyrie #weiss schnee #blake belladonna #snowstjorm #source: big mouth #judge me all you like that show has more queer rep than any other i've seen and i'll take what i can get #(they listen when they mess up and fix things... we even finally have an ace character!! And an nb!!) #though I do find much of the show not my thing... i'm a sucker for character development and creative storytelling ok #and big mouth shockingly excels in those areas once it became an ensemble cast #ugh i need more shows to watch fdhghj #anyway nora and weiss are in love send tweet

[wabblebees]

thought id update to say; i survived opening night!!! and not only that, it went REALLY fucking well, and people seemed to REALLY REALLY like it omfg... god this is so crazy

#i was literally holding the script in a bigass binder for almost the entire show (sparing only the parts where i had to BULLFIGHT) #(bc i needed two hands -- one for the cape & one for the banderilla.)(yall i had to learn how to BULLFIGHT TANGO & SWORDFIGHT. in TWO DAYS) #but the audience said afterwards it was like i wasnt even on-book; they hardly noticed it was there??!! #yall this is my real life rn. im failing my classes but yknow what?? #i can pull it together enough to emergency understudy in a highly physical show 2 days before opening even with a script ive never SEEN #and apparently we made people fucking CRY. HOLY SHIT!!! HOLY SHIT #this playwright is just. incredible. the script is INSANE. BEAUTIFUL & CLEVER & HILARIOUS & TERRIFYING & VILE & TENDER & TECHNICALLY PERFECT #and apparently our production is like. only the eighth time this show has EVER been produced. for real #but god EVERYONE should know about this playwright's work. fuck i actually think tumblr would really love her. holy shit. #maría irene fornés is her name -- she was a queer cuban-american playwright+director who made radical heartwrenching magical theatre #im so grateful to be doing this & SO fucking sad for the original performer im covering for... god. bc this is just such lifechanging work #this play is queer in EVERY sense. its off-putting loving repulsive peculiar passionate holy and GAY AS HELL. its real its farce its SO CAMP #((IRENE & SUSAN SONTAG DATED. SONTAG AS IN 'NOTES ON ''CAMP''' SONTAG. ITS FUCKING GORGEOUS.)) #its gorgeous its gorey its glamourous its also literally the first part ive played that i think might truly fit my casting type exactly lmao #which is INSANE. bc the character is literally just described in the script as ''ISIDORE: an androgynous clown'' LMFAO #but honestly what could be more homoerotic than 2 ''men'' locked in a room together dancing tango+talking abt beetles+stabbing each other #hmm. maybe its the fact that after i stab the other guy i call him ''saint sebastian'' and then we LITERAL ACTUAL GAY KISS #which is crazy bc we only practiced that ONE TIME before opening #and youd think this shit cant get Any Gayer BUT. IT DOES. bc my scene partner+the director are gay+together irl... and uhh. #ive literally been their third. like. more than once. #ISNT THAT FUCKING INSANE. THIS IS MY REAL LIFE?? THIS IS MY REAL LIFE #ANYWAY #so now im headed back out to rehearse more before we perform it again tonight lmao #i hope it goes as well as it did last night #that audience was fucking incredible i really hope the next two like it as much as they did🤞🤞 knocking on wood #so. if u read this far. u should go find+read ''tango palace'' by maría irene fornés. mwah okay bye #bee speaks

[crunchycrystals]

i follow pjo tags that im usually fine seeing on my dash and i keep seeing people posting about some Discourse thats popped up again since the comic con card photo things came out about leah and like. i guess i curated my dash well because im seeing literally none of that

#crunchyposts #pjo #pjotv #im not tagging this with a//abeth i dont want it in my tag for her #thank god i dont follow racists and am not on reddit #the amount of people on reddit i saw who were so disappointed in them not looking like the characters #i honeslty dont really understand the gripes with them not looking like the book descriptions like any issues i had went out thewindow when #i saw actual people attached to them #i like that ann/beths black!!!!! i think it adds a lot to her character!!!!! #i dont give a shit about percys hair color!!!!!!!!!!! ive seen walker act i trust him!!!!!!! #i really dont get why people are so disappointed with it????? i saw one person say bc they had an idea of what they looked like for years #but i mean. more representation for marginalized groups #ive thought a lot about lack of rep as a queer south east asian person i was just happy there was more of it for other marginalized people #i wouldve preferred an animated show but honestly i prefer this now bc i never wouldve gotten why annabeth works better if shes black #if it was animated and they changed the race of any of them the discourse (cough and racism cough) would be 10x worse itd be awful #but like an all white cast???? i wouldnt like that either #and you KNOW the shitstorm online if they changed any major character even if it wasnt one of the main 3 #anyways sorry long tags again i thought a lot about this get off my blog if you complain about any of the actors appearances i dont think w #should dictate what a childs appearance should be just for a tv show #edit actually extra thing here i think it would be kinda cool if rachel was still white so we could subvert that trope of poc love interest #being stepping stones before the main character inevitably ends up with the white main love interest #if they made it like extra clear that he was going to choose annab/th though to shut down any racism that might happen

[novelconcepts]

I just wanted to say thank you for fighting for Paper Girls - it means a lot to see that this show matters to other people as much as it does to me. I hope you know that we’re all thinking of you!

I can’t not fight for it. Every single time I think of how much love and work went into it—how Prime fought off a ton of other services for the IP, just to hobble it before release—how these kids KILLED their performances, only to be unceremoniously dumped not two months after dropping…flames. Flames on the side of my face. It’s the most underdog of underdog fandoms I’ve ever been a part of, and it feels rough as hell out here, but I genuinely can’t let it go.

#ask #paper girls #mostly the fighting is happening over on Twitter because it doesn’t feel like streamers look over here much #so if there’s any chance of being heard it’s over on the hellish bird app #but like. yeah. can’t fucking let it go. I’m furious at how thoroughly this show was failed #by Amazon. by the release date. by intentionally burying it under bigger shows and zero marketing. #and especially for the cast and crew who gave it their all on a five dollar budget and pulled out an incredible fucking show #I’m so sick of queer and POC female stories being let down and cast aside #especially when they are genuinely Good #I keep seeing all the negative hot takes about how it’s not coming back and like. who knows. I still think it’s worth fighting for #even if it’s the smallest I’ve ever felt in loving something. I still love it hard.

[canonqueercharacters]

The canon queer character of the day is:

Charlotte "Charlie" Lima from Degrassi, who is a lesbian.

#charlotte lima #charlie lima #degrassi #tamara duarte #lesbian characters #canon queer characters #canon lesbians #canon lesbian characters #lesbian #for being such a long-running show Degrassi heavily lacks any good-quality screencaps or photographs of its cast #screencaps and photographs taken while the cast is in-character that is

[constantvariations]

I get wanting to claim that Blake's bisexuality is confirmed canon, but if you compare how the show handles canon m/f attraction to Blake's sapphic attraction, the difference is obvious

Jaune: consistently flirts with Weiss, attempts to woo her with music, wants to ask Weiss to prom, seeks advice from his team on how to pursue her

Weiss: visibly affected when Neptune calls her a cute nickname, changes her opinion on fog machines to agree with him, tries to switch mission roles to be with him, asks Neptune to prom

Pyrrha: shows interest in being on Jaune's team multiple times, visibly upset after giving Jaune dating advice to the point Nora comments "practice what you preach," shoves her tongue down Jaune's throat without his consent before sending him to safety

Nora: rambles about how she and Ren aren't together in a tone that very clearly conveys she wishes they were, reluctantly rebukes Jaune when he assumes they're a couple, declares Ren is "her man" in V6, has that weird run-around conversation about feelings in V7, shoves her tongue down his throat without his consent

Qrow: tells a story where he's taken down by a "waitress's tiny miniskirt"

Blake (m/f): doodles Adam in her book, called "my darling" by him, blatantly said by Ilia to have been chasing after him

Meanwhile...

Blake (sapphic): has no visible reaction to Ilia's confession, holds hands with Yang, visibly affected by Yang's staring after cutting her hair, goes to a dance with her, only teams up with Yang during combat

Every single m/f canon attraction, requited or otherwise, is explicitly told and shown while any queer attraction is relegated to hints and implications. This is why it's difficult to believe Blake is confirmed when she doesn't follow the pattern that's been fairly rigid for 8 seasons now

People want the show to give her and Yang the same respect they gave the straight couples, and they so easily could in a single sentence, but they haven't. That's the biggest disappointment of all

#rwde #left out married couples bc its hard enough to remember the main cast and im at work so cant go back and check lol #also marriage is like the ultimate confirmation so no need to really bring that in #really hoping v9 has that conformation bc its been far too long theyve been hamming it up since v6 cmon guys #not entirely sure i should put adam stuff here but that my darling nonsense makes me laugh every time #its so obviously tacked on last minute #but its mainly there so showcase how even taurudonna got onscreen acknowledgment #also dont care abt any non show queer. if it aint in the show it dont exist #also also coco is literally based off a nazi so maybe not the greatest girlboss to rally behind

[scaryhaven]

Since Ted Lasso has yet to have any explicit lgbtq pairings, my hopes for Roy and Jamie becoming a thing are very low, but not nonexistent. The tension and build up is your typical enemies to friends to lovers storyline, and if they don't capitalize on that when it's sitting right in front of all our faces, it feels a bit cowardly. That's not to say I wouldn't be pleased with a friendship, there's merit in it, but I do worry that they're afraid to go there and instead will just queer bait in the future, but of course this is all just speculation. Does anyone genuinely think it's possible though?

#roy x jamie #i havent seen the show since the last one aired so my memory is hazy #but didnt they kinda just mention a gay character but theyre a minor char and its just very weak #as far as representation goes #it really does feel like theyre afriad to show a full on gay romance between any of the main cast #but i do love the show sm so id love to be proven wrong #like didnt keeley and rebecca have some tension too? but it didnt amount to anything #and once again im completely fine with just friendships but i feel like they really border on queer baiting #oh well lol

[miraculouslumination]

Honestly I think one of the biggest reasons I wouldn't want to try and publish through like a Company or whatever is because my series is so unabashedly Queer and I don't want any forces to try and tell me to "dial it back" or "make it less obvious" or whatever

#Jean mumbles #Celestial Stones is going to take me YEARS to finish #I know this and have accepted it #But whenever I do finish it - I want it to remain as true to the characters and my visions as possible you know? #And that just so happens to involve a lot of queer stuff #One of the characters is aroace and it puts tension one a blooming friendship of his #One of the characters has moments of flustered gayness because dammit why do they have to be so CUTE #1-2 of the cast characters uses neopronouns #All of them have some gender fuckery going on #And that's because that's how the characters are #I don't want to risk the messiness of their queerness being sanitized or tidied up in any way possible #There probably are some companies out there who are fine with that stuff #But if I ever was given an editor who then tried to dictate how I should portray my queer characters #''For the sake of any unprepared readers'' or whatever #I'd be like no <33 #Like we live in a world right now where so many queer shows are being cancelled for being ''too challenging'' or whatever #I'm not going to spend all this time writing five books in a fantasy world with furries and what not just to be told #That one of the characters being a ''bi lesbian'' is too controversial or whatever #I'm just rambling but if you made it this far thanks :}

[a-nybodys]

alright im gonna say it

if any of you were queerbaited by stranger things that ones on you

#likes yes pls talk abt how they treat the gay characters like shit #but if u thought they would get rid of the main straight romance that has been going on for the entirety of the show to start a gay romance? #or that they would make any of their main cast gay to pair with the openly gay characters/queer coded characters #then im sorry to say but you were living in a fantasy world #by all means ship what u want #but dont blame the show for u thinking they would make three major gay romances in stranger things in one season for main characters lol #anyway sorry about ur alt guy dying i liked him from the gifs ive seen #and also sorry wills pain is being used to advance a straight pairing #and that robin still doesnt have a gf :/ #but also........ mike has the personality of wet white bread sorry to say #i just dont get what u byler guys see in him #anyway i will probably not be watching s4 #thanks for coming to my ted talk

[demilypyro]

So I've seen a few too many people on twitter talking about The Kiss Scene from the new Scott Pilgrim anime. People saying it's fetishistic and indulgent, people calling it male gazey, etc. And while the kiss itself is certainly a bit exaggerated, I felt like writing a bit about why I disagree, and why context is important, like it always is. But it basically turned into an extended analysis on the metatextual treatment of Roxie Richter. So bear with me. It's a long post.

What really matters about this scene is not the kiss itself, but what precedes it. Not even just the fight scene just before it, but what precedes the whole anime series, really. And that's the Scott Pilgrim comic book, and the live action movie. Because in both, Roxie is a punchline.

She's a joke. Her character starts and ends with "one of the exes is actually a girl, I bet you didn't expect that." Jokes are made about Ramona's latent bisexuality, the movie especially treating it as funny and absurd, and her validity as a romantic interest is entirely written off by Ramona as being "just a phase." There's a fight scene, she's defeated by a man giving her an orgasm which implicitly calls her sexuality into question (come on), and the movie just moves on. It sucks. It really, really sucks.

The comic fares a little better. It never veers into outright homophobia like the movie does, and while the line about Ramona having gone through a phase remains, Roxie actually gets one over on Scott when Ramona briefly gets back with Roxie. But Roxie is still only barely a character. Like all the other evil exes, she's just a stepping stone towards the male protagonist's development. She barely even gets any screentime before she's defeated by Scott's "power of love." But Roxie stands out, since she's the only villain who is queer, or at least had been confirmed queer at that point (hi Todd). In a series that champions multiple gay men in the supporting cast, the single undeniable lesbian in the story is a villain. She's labeled as evil, made fun of, pushed aside in favor of the men, and then discarded. Her screentime was never about her, or her feelings for Ramona. It was about the straight, male protagonist needing to overcome her. And that was Roxie Richter. An unfortunate victim of the 2010s.

Fast forward to current year, and the new anime series is announced. Everybody sits down to watch the new series expecting another retelling of the same story, and.... hang on, that straight male protagonist I mentioned just died in the first episode. And now it's humanizing the villains from the original story. And there's Roxie, introduced alongside the other evil exes in the second episode, and she's being played entirely straight, without a punchline in sight. No jokes are made about her gender, no questions are made of her validity as one of Ramona's romantic interests. The narrative considers her important. In one episode, she already gets more respect than she did in either of the previous iterations of Scott Pilgrim. And this isn't even her focus episode yet... which happens to be the very next one.

The anime series goes to great lengths to flesh out the original story's villains and to have Ramona reconcile with them. And I don't think it's a coincidence that Roxie gets to go first. While Matthew Patel gets his development in episode 2, Roxie is the first to directly confront Ramona, now our main protagonist. This is notable too because it's the only time the exes are encountered out of order. Roxie is supposed to be number 4, but she's first in line, and later on you realize that she's the only one who's out of sequence. She's the one who sets the precedent for the villains being redeemed. She's the most important character for Ramona to reconcile with.

What follows is probably the most extensive, elaborate 1 on 1 fight scene in the whole show. Roxie fights like a wounded animal, her motions are desperate and pained. Ramona can only barely fight back against her onslaught. Different set-pieces fly by at breakneck speed as Roxie relentlessly lays her feelings at Ramona's feet through her attacks and her distraught shouts. And unlike the comic or the movie, Ramona acknowledges them, and sincerely apologizes. And the two end up just laying there, exhausted, reminiscing about when they were together.

Only after this, after all of this, does the kiss scene happen. Roxie has been vindicated, she has reconciled with the person who hurt her, the narrative has deemed that her anger is justified and has redeemed her character. And she gets her victory lap by making the nearest other hot girl question her heterosexuality, sharing a sloppy kiss with her as the music triumphantly crescendos.

It's... a little self-congratulatory, honestly. But it's good. It's redemption for a character who had been mistreated for over a decade. And she punctuates the moment by being very, very gay where everyone can see it, no men anywhere in sight. Because this is her moment. And then she leaves the plot, on her own accord this time, while humming the hampster dance. What a legend. How could anything be wrong with this.

#scott pilgrim #spto #scott pilgrim takes off #roxie richter #roxanne richter #scott pilgrim spoilers #spto spoilers

[bridoesotherjunk]

so I saw this article today

That says "5 years later, Sony still doesn't understand why it's biggest spider-verse hit worked"

And the article mainly talks about how the Venom films are self contained and don't try to be films in a cinematic universe. They have a clear identity. Yes, there is no Spider-Man in them, and that's okay because they knew what they wanted to do without him when they made the films. They even say at one point "the Venom films are not for everyone, but at least they know what they are"

This is something I personally have talked about many times. And I've seen other Venom fans talk about. And what I'm seeing MCU fans starting to say more and more now. The movies work when they have a clear story and identity and don't feel interchangeable or formulaic.

You could take any Disney plus marvel show or 'phase 4' movie and switch the characters around and the story would probably stay largely the same, or at least feel the same. We all know what I mean right? The characters all make quips like Tony Stark no matter if it is in character or not. They talk and act the same.

But the Venom films? You couldn't take Tom Hardy's Eddie and swap him with the mcu cast. He acts so differently than 90% of them, he wouldn't fit in. He's fucking weird and unhinged and is very much Tom Hardy's brain child.

.

Also the Venom movies worked because queer people liked them. The films were hugely popular with LGBT audiences but you didn't hear that from me 👀👀👀👀

#Venom #venom symbiote #symbrock #venom let there be carnage #sony #marvel #veddie #symbiote #venom comics #eddie brock #Movies #Sony listen to the fans please #Give the people what they want #The films were WEIRD #THAT'S WHY WE LIKED THEM #TOM HARDY WAS DERANGED AND WET AND WE LIKED IT

[j-psilas]

Will we ever get anything quite like Code Geass again?

I don't think it's possible.

Code Geass is Japanese nationalist propaganda disguised as a global political drama, disguised as a military mecha show, disguised as yaoibait, disguised as a teen melodrama, disguised as a high school romcom, disguised as a Pizza Hut commercial...

...except those layers aren't layers at all, but are instead comingled in a giant snake ball of insanity.

The lead writer, Ichirō Ōkouchi, only ever worked as an episode writer for other shows prior to Code Geass, and never took the helm of an anime series ever again. And it shows. [EDIT: Several people have pointed out his other lead writing credits to me. So I misread Wikipedia—sue me. I maintain that this guy is a better episode writer than he is a lead writer.]

The minute-to-minute pacing is impeccable from a mechanical standpoint, with tension and stakes rising to ever-higher peaks, balanced out by the slow simmers of the b-plot and c-plot. It keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat at all times. Meanwhile, the large-scale plot is the most off-the-wall middle school nonsense I've ever seen, continually surprising the viewer by pulling twists too dumb to have ever have been on their radar—and therefore more effective in terms of raw shock value.

"Greenlight it!" was the mantra of this anime's production. It must have been. It has, in no particular order, all of the following:

Character designs from CLAMP, the foremost yaoi/BL group in Japan at the time—for characters who are only queer insofar as they can bait the audience, and only straight insofar as they can be more misogynist to the female cast.

Speaking of the female cast, hoo boy the fanservice. We've all seen anime girls breast boobily, with many cases more egregious than Code Geass, but there's something special about it happening immediately after—or sometimes in the middle of!—scenes of military conflict and ethnic cleansing.

Pizza Hut product placement everywhere, in every conceivable situation. High-speed chases, light slice-of-life scenes, intimate character moments, all of it. Gotta have Pizza Hut.

The anime-only Pizza Hut mascot, Cheese-kun. He wears a fedora.

The most hilarious approximations of European names—which I would love to see more often, frankly. Names like, I dunno, "Count Schnitzelgrübe zi Blanquezzio."

A depiction of China that is wholly removed from any modern reality, with red-and-gold pagodas, ornamental robes, scheming eunuchs, and a brainwashed child empress. There's a character named General Tsao, like the chicken.

Inappropriate free-form jazz in the soundtrack, intruding at the most unexpected times.

A secret cabal not unlike the Illuminati, run by an immortal shota with magic powers, holding influence all across the world, at the highest levels of government. They matter for approximately three episodes.

An unexpected insert scene of a schoolgirl using the corner of a table to masturbate. She's doing it to thoughts of her crush, the princess Euphemia—because she believes Euphemia to be as racist as she herself is, and that gets her off. This interrupts an unrelated scene of our protagonist faction planning their next move, which then resumes as if uninterrupted.

Said schoolgirl, in a fit of hysteria, threatens to detonate a worse-than-nuclear bomb in the middle of her school. She then goes on to develop an even more destructive version of that bomb, and become a war criminal, in a chain of cause-and-effect stemming from the moment she finds out that Euphemia wasn't actually that racist.

A character called "the Earl of Pudding."

A premise that asks us to believe that the name Lelouch is normal enough that he didn't need to change it when he went into hiding as an ordinary civilian. "No, that's not Prince Strimbleford von Vanquish! That's our classmate, Strimbleford Smith."

The collective unconscious, a la Carl Jung, within which the protagonist fights his villainous father for control over the fate of humankind. After this is over, the anime just keeps going for about ten more episodes.

An episode in which a mech tosses a giant pizza.

A gay yandere sleeper agent who can manipulate the perception of time.

Chess being played very badly, even to the untrained eye. Lelouch frequently checkmates his opponent by moving his king. This goes hand-in-hand with the anime's crock of bad chess symbolism.

A fictional drug that can most succinctly be described as "nostalgia heroin."

Roller-skating mecha in knightly armor, and some of the most sickass mecha fight choreography that I've seen.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. This anime is what the average Westerner in 2006 thought anime was, and it was made in a confluence of factors that cannot be replicated. I've never had so much fun watching something that I found so... insulting. Repugnant. Ridiculous. Baffling. I love it sincerely.

Catch me cosplaying Lloyd Asplund at a con sometime, or maybe even the big gay loser himself, Lelouch vi Britannia.

#code geass #anime #lelouch vi britannia #rolo lamperouge #nina einstein #kallen kozuki #lelouch lamperouge #clamp manga #lloyd asplund

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Cary Grant (The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, Charade)—just the peak of old-school Hollywood sexuality. The glam, the suits, the gentle wit, the acrobatics, those eyes that always looked like they knew exactly what movie they were in and were laughing at the joke...

Vincent Price (Laura, Leave Her to Heaven, House on Haunted Hill, The Masque of the Red Death)—svelte, stylish, horrifying, beautiful, wickedly funny, camp and gorgeous and evil. he was an art connoisseur who advocated passionately indigenous art, he was an actual literal gourmet cook, he was so liberal he got greylisted during the mccarthy era for being too rad, he's my favorite muppets guest of all time

This is round 4 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

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Cary Grant propaganda:

"My Golden Age of Hollywood professor, who was very outwardly gay himself, put it this way: Even though Grant's sexuality was kind of an open secret in Hollywood, the public couldn't know in any real way. But anybody could see that there was a queerness about him, so he was casted for roles where he physically embodies his masculinity in a non-explicit but queer way. Bringing Up Baby is famous for the scene where Grant wears a frilly robe (pictured below, but what people don't always realise is that he plays kind of an awkward nerd in that movie. He's a hot awkward scientist in a grand robe!!! Hot!!! In The Philadelphia Story, one of my famous movies of all time, he plays C. K. Dexter Haven, a rich, sarcastic, supposedly abusive guy. And yet, what we see is this laid back, dandy-ish figure, who absolutely does not feel threatened when a woman he supposedly loves (Katharine Hepburn) starts having feelings for, and hooks up with another guy (James Stewart). He lets a drunk Stewart into his office and helps him get his job back! Obviously that is the script and not the actor, but the whole film, and that scene in particular, shows him having this very queer attitude of openness toward Hepburn and Stewart, which is only amplified by the casting of Grant and his portrayal of the character. Anyway, this is not an essay arguing for The Philadelphia Story to be considered a queer film, all I will say is: he's super hot in it."

The link to the above mentioned frilly robe scene from Bringing Up Baby: "I just went gay all of a sudden!"

last minute cary grant propaganda: the last few paragraphs of that new vanity fair article about him and randolph scott that just came out 2 days ago on cary's birthday where he calls it "gravity collapse" and "love at first sight" and says their souls touched and and and i'm actually sharing this mostly because it makes me emotional but also because a vote for archibald is a vote for love. this is my message. apologies for sounding mildly insane.

#vincent price #cary grant #round 4 #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old man

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Okay, genuinely, if you need some queer joy in your life and you haven’t watched it already, watch Yuri on Ice. Even if you aren’t usually into anime! Even if you don’t know shit about figure skating! Yeah, I know it’s seven years old now, but it still holds up! It’s just a genuinely wholesome, fun piece of queer media full of lovable characters, excellent music, and a world almost identical to our own except there’s no homophobia. Not a bit! Everyone is chill about folks being gnc too! There’s a scene where a guy talks about exploring his femininity and no one has any issue with it, not even the teen who loves to shit talk him!

I was also bracing myself for being queerbaited in the first half because it’s a sports anime and that’s just how this goes, but nope! It’s GAY gay. It’s a romance! It’s sweet and heartfelt and lovely!

There’s drama, but none of it has anything to do with the characters being gay. There is no villain. Hell, there’s not an unlikable character among the whole cast! There’s a cranky, shouty coach, but he deeply cares about his kids. There’s a little edgelord teenager, but he’s 15 and is treated accordingly by the story and characters. There’s one guy who’s a cocky bastard, but he’s not a bad person and gets some great character development later on. The biggest conflict is caused by, as usual, gay people not knowing how to communicate, but everything ends happily.

AND it’s got one of the best plot twists I’ve ever seen in anything.

Also there’s a scene at the end that’s one of the most romantic things I ever seen and I’m not exaggerating a bit. Seven years later and it still melts my heart.

I remember Con O’Neill talking about OFMD and calling it kind, and that’s how I feel about this show too. It’s kind.

Go watch it. Get the opening song stuck in your head. Watch two unhappy, lonely men fall in love while expressing their feelings through figure skating. ITS GREAT.

#yuri on ice #yoi #i needed to distract myself from worrying about the season finale of my other queer joy show