#‘oh you thought I was being homophobic

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

I’ve been highly confused as to why Michael “deeply openly thirsting on Twitter about David Tennant for half a decade” Sheen is half-in half-out the closet but apparently Wales is absurdly homophobic lmao what the fuck how is a country the size of New Jersey that much of a hater bruh we out number the shit out of you

#i thought googling ‘how to say gay’ in welsh would be funny but it just made me sad #i knew the uk in general had a problem with trans people but WOW it’s fucked up in wales like. there are 8 of you what are you doing #i feel bad now lmao #wales #my weird welsh hyperfixation has taken me places let me tell you #cymru #homophobia #gay #lgbt #lgbtqia #good omens #bbc staged #michael sheen #i thought he was just ‘oh i’m quiet about my personal life’ but that’s not even true like my man’s probably actually scared #what a fuckass country lmao awesome #uk politics #united kingdom #david tennant #what is it with this tiny ass island taking over the world and being shitty lmao and this is coming from an american #bisexual #<- bisexual gang gang feel bad you fuckin haters lol #yes the whole world is homophobic i know etc but it’s like outrageously bad out there apparently #stay mad that i think nationalism is dumb ‘how dare you ever have an opinion you american’ #you’re white you are not going to like where the power + privilege argument inevitably goes

[mamawasatesttube]

you guys i have so many thoughts about tdr. i have so much to say. like i don't want to be super mean but dude that comic fucking sucks and i can't lie i think it made me kind of homophobic actually

#my stance up to now has been that i don't really care about tim/ber but now that i have read this. dude... #it sucks that they gave a canon queer tim narrative to someone who uses homophobia as shock value and virtue signaling points #and who actively tears down characters who don't like her special little uwu flawless oc (kate im so fucking sorry) #there's no substance to this relationship i don't see why they even like each other #bc she keeps just stating oh they're perfect they make each other so happy but she doesn't like. show that at all #and i HATE the shock value homophobia like i cannot overstate how much i hate it #oh these random cops are homophobic (that's how you know they're BAD!) #oh bernard's parents are homophobic (that's how you know THEY'RE bad too!) #it's so hamfisted and it reads like such. cheap storytelling #especially bc tim as narrator doesn't even get to have ANY thoughts on his own queerness or seeing this homophobia in the world around him #and then she can't go more than two pages without being like BTW BERNARD IS THE BEST EVER AND TIM CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM #while against this ugly backdrop of shock value homophobia #there's no substance to this relationship. why do they even like each other. it just falls apart if you examine it at all #because she just is fundamentally incapable of writing either of them as people with character flaws #for fucks sake she can't even be consistent with tim's BASIC character tenets. ''i always dreamed of being batman'' false lmao #but then to follow it up with ''i never wanted to be batman i always wanted to be my dad'' #and then on TOP OF THAT to make the Only mention of Jack drake and his impact on tim's life ABOUT BERNARD AGAIN. #yeah sorry im a hater now. this was shit tier #rimi talks

[the-knife-consumer]

"Yona was just added bc Nintendo wants people to stop shipping sidlink!" Literally what the hell are you talking about

#yes nintendo is homophobic. no they do not give a singular shit about what their fanbase does??? what are you talking abouuuutttt #they literally dont care what people do as long as they get money??? like what #listen im upset abt yona having so many unanswered questions. mainly she came from another zora's domain #meaning she came from outside of hyrule. so that leads to a lot of questions. #but howww do you come to the conclusion that she was just added as a 'no homo' indicator #dont even get me started on the people genuinely unironically calling this queerbaiting. what are you onnnnnnn #'and oh but sidon said he used to see her as a sister! so its gross and wrong!' sidon literally thought out loud to links face abt how #had things been different and link had gotten married to mipha he would be his BROTHER IN LAW. SAID THAT OUT LOUD TO HIS FACE. so shh #imo. yona was added for one 'ohh wow exciting new character look at this' and two. as a way for sidon's trauma to be acknowledged #bc it was veeery briefely shown in botw. for like. a singular second if you snuck up on him at mipha's statue #but yona's defining scene in totk was her forcing sidon to confront that he wasn't being himself because of that trauma. and that #he needed to let go of the fear around it. if only temporary. because his people needed him. #so tbh?? sheis very important to the plot. she new mipha. admired her. knows why sidon still struggles with this and #how difficult and frightening everything becomes when he views the world through the lens of 'what if i lose someone again' #like. they added yona for his struggles to be spelled out to the audience even further #so to just boil her down to 'ewww woman gets in the way of my gaybies 😡😡😡'. hello. did you play the game. #do you even know who these characters are. quick gimme ten facts about sidons character that you didnt make up for shipping purposes.pronto

[hella1975]

hella idk what to send to you for aftg im either bored or annoyed and I don't wanna just say bad things about it 😭 like that's just rude and yall obviously like it I DONT WANNA BE SOME DEBBY DOWNER MDMWKEM

I looked at the anti aftg tag too to see if I could intermingle there and last I checked it was a mix of fans obsessed with the series and haters being just a tad harsh imo, so i couldn't even do that RIP. I'm so lonesome in what is maybe a whole group of people gaslighting me 😔👊

honestly ive said this before and i always have to tread a very fine line with it because this isn't me saying it's OKAY or like. promotable. but i do think to an extent that aftg's problematicness is actually an aspect of what draws people in a lot. like the characters and their reactions to things feel real for who they are, what they've been through and the environments they were raised in if that makes sense? and then you go in the anti-aftg tag and it's just again and again 'they said THIS thing and acted THIS way in response to THIS scenario and it was PROBLEMATIC' and like. yeah. outside of the internet bubble you're in people do actually do that. like that behaviour exists. it IS problematic, well done. you pointed at a wall and called it a wall. but like? in real life people - PARTICULARLY deprived, traumatised people that typically don't ever get therapy or community or someone telling them why something is bad - DO act this way. ive said half of my love for andrew is literally just because he took an awful backstory and let it make him a complete cunt and ive NEVER seen a character do it as shamelessly as him before. and yeah there's the argument for how it's never resolved in the book where nora ties it with a bow and points at the bad behaviour so the readers can go 'see, this is wrong' and we all clap, but idk it just for me feels that when people point at the aftg characters and go problematic! problematic! problematic! it's like they're missing the point a bit.

the point being? that we need to be putting WAY more heat on the author. i really dislike her and a lot of her writing choices and her insistance of using slurs that aren't hers to reclaim and just because it happened to make the characters feel just that bit more authentic i can still acknowledge that she CLEARLY wrote it without characterisation in mind and just added all that problematic shit anyway. like i never get why there's so little focus on nora's writing decisions and thousands of posts just fucking CRUCIFYING the characters themselves and 'let's explain in detail why this behaviour is Morally Reprehensible and they should be Locked Up Forever'. like if u want to focus on the characters so bad and pretend they're the sole reason why aftg is Problematic and Bad then why is it so hard to acknowledge that someone raised the way they were might have some misinformed, ignorant beliefs. idk lol

#but i do also think im prone to viewing these characters as TOO real and i understand there's a line to be drawn between media and reality #like at what point does 'life imitates art' become just a genuinely shit piece of media #and at the end of the day im fully aware which end of the spectrum aftg is on LMAO but this is my 2 cents #like ive met so many people that have said absolutely heinous things that the internet would eat them alive for #like homophobic sexist shit you name it they've said it and it IS problematic and uncomfortable to listen to #but i also know that while teenagers online that would call them problematic were busy claiming some new fucking buzz word to throw around #those people were actively just fucking trying to survive. like they weren't learning about why misogyny is bad #because they were fucking addicted to drugs or living through poverty or some shit like they had BIGGER PROBLEMS #like not everyone got the education or life experiences you got and while it's valid to assume someone saying horrible things #is horrible themselves there's also the times it's just genuinely a misinformed ignorant person #like they'll say 'problematic' things and i'll point out why it's bad and they'll literally go 'oh i never thought of that.' that's it!!! #like i have this childhood friend whose life has been an absolute circus start to finish like COMPLETE instability i wont even get into it #low and behold she had NO ONE educating her about things and one time i had to explain to her why having abortion rights was important #bc she just out of nowhere said she was against abortions. and i initially was outraged and disappointed that this came from her #but i didn't patronise her or shout i just explained my angle on why i think they're good and she was on side immediately #cause she always had bigger problems than researching ethics and no one to guide her so she just absorbed the first opinion she came across #and in a small town from a working class family that opinion is typically not the nice woke answer the internet demands #and with aftg particularly andrew bc he's the one who gets a lot of slack for being violent and generally unreasonable #you have someone who has literally not had someone treat him kindly a single time in his life and each new person is a genuine safety threa #like the average person just does not have to deal with that! ofc they have more time to decide their political and moral compass! #and that's so relevant to real life! popularity for the monarchy is highest amongst the working class! the people voted for brexit! trump! #the lower classes and marginalised simply do not have the resources that higher classes do #and someone fighting for survival is not going to be reading twitter threads on cancel culture in their spare time #so many issues in the world can be eased so much quicker by kindness and patient non-patronising education #than just. pointing and calling 'problematic' at anything remotely uncomfortable #idk where this came from its 2am i should go to bed and instead im ranting not even about aftg anmore this is completely it's own thing now #i feel like i worded this badly too im gonna wake up to anons in the morning accusing me of like. condoning spiking #also gloomy i am SO sorry you are the true victim of this i went ENTIRELY off piste on this one please ignore this 😭 #ask

[angeltism]

the pathetic wet cat energy is strong with this one (this one = me)

#➳ the fool speaks #last memory i have before promptly passing out last night was me. crying over timezones ?? uh #which i mean yeah timezones have done nothing but be homophobic to me actually. that's warranted i think #but damn 😭😭😭 really 😭😭😭 #me caring oh so much about timezones is probably an indicator that i am unfortunately more smitten with like 2 beings #than i thought i was. don't look into that statement. but ah. curses #you all need to stop living so far away i want to hang out /ref

[seaweedstarshine]

Eleventh Doctor Chronicles: Sins of the Flesh is really good. Really really good. Experience with certain attitudes can be so isolating, surrounded by people who won’t bother to understand the impact of growing up in that environment (because the world's so progressive now, right), and so — I'm so glad it exists. I also liked the discussion in the interview commentary about how being a monster and doing monstrous things are not mutually exclusive. Like most things, homophobia is pervasive because it is structural. Religious fervor is not inherently bad — “your god is love,” Valarie says to Lily — but as soon as hellfire is brandished around, it's used routinely to empower monstrous things, in a way that becomes unsafe to debate. Especially for young & dependent people who can't escape it.

Conditional love. Moral panics. Purity culture. Self-hate. Mob mentality. This audio. It's timely.

I appreciated what they said in the interviews about not only about the research, but the four rounds of sensitivity readings. I wish the TV show had that level of care sometimes…

#actually the whole Everywhere and Anywhere boxset is excellent #tw homophobia #valarie lockwood #eleventh doctor #so I listened to the second audio in a muggy headspace when it came out and comprenhended none of it and thought what. #then I listened again today and understood it perfectly and cried the whole way thru. I love Valarie's husband ngl #they SHOULD have a poly marriage with Roanna on Medrüth to add to the timey wimeyness. totally normal to the Doctor #the Doctor emotionally saying Rivers death breaks his hearts in the same episode where he says- #'she looks drained. I guess marriage does that to you'. honestly all of the yowzah refs in eleventh doctor chronicles are kind of gold. #and the first story!!!!!! Valerie's dead mother!!!!!! the Clara mention in the summary was fully clickbait tho #oh and the Doctor telling Valerie about the Ponds at the end? SCREAMING- he didnt tell Clara about the Ponds! #in other audio news im slowly gettin thru eighth doctor audios while working. Neverland/Zagreus/Scherzo were as great as ppl say! #the anti time arc made me finally love charley (and find her interesting) #words by seaweed #this post just lowkey a subtweet at rtd. no offense to rtd for always thinking hes right without consulting the groups he talks about #in ADDITION to the story being cathartic. Cybermen running gay conversion therapy is a *chefs kiss* concept. I'm so glad it exists #I might delete this post later its making me feel low key vulnerable *ramble ramble* #by the way I don't think religion is mostly or uniquely responsible for homophobia. #I think it's like any bigotry or hatred. plus religion is an easy way to claim that god is on their side for ANY hatred they have #which means religious homophobia is a form of homophobic abuse that's not only mental and emotional but spiritual as well #it hits different when they invoke god. the entity who made you the way you are #finally watched Barbie and cried because even tho the message was simple my parents will never understand it #my dad who thinks patriarchy is exaggerated and my mom who thinks god made women to serve men #I’m in my mid 20s now it’s fine. I feel so alone its fine #im fine :D or I wouldn't be subtweeting RTD :D :D :D #I should sleep I have work in the morning ~time to listen to some eighth doctor and charley in the divergent universe~ #why is 2024 busier than 2023 #anyway sins of the flesh was kinda surface level ngl but I don't think anything deeper would've worked as well #it got the emotional beats (and it doesn't need to be a complex argument to point out the hypocrisy long as the listener aint brainwashed) #the doctor telling the homophobe his hatred killed his daughter and he'll never be forgiven

[kyouka-supremacy]

bruh

#My life is such a joke #I got into bsd because I liked this girl. to later learn she was straight up homophobe #... and obsessed with Dazai #which is the funniest way I ever got into a fandom ever tbh. can you imagine liking bsd and BEING HOMOPHOBE like. how???????????? #On the other hand she disliked Chuuya so I guess that explains it... #Fast forward to a year later another girl from my dorm I'm hanging out quite a bit these days I really enjoy the company of asked me who– #was on my phone background #(which... I just realized... is exactly *precisely* the same way I found out the other girl liked bsd– #and started talking about it with her... Okay that's odd) #And I told her - super awkwardly because there's a huge huge stigma for people who watch anime here - #“ahah it's a character from an anime. bsd. don't bother though the anime is bad” #Okay. I thought it would have ended there #TWO DAYS AFTER THIS EVENING SHE. SHE COMES AT ME WITH “oh I actually watched a few episodes from the anime you mentioned!” #“I skipped through half of them though.” #“I really like the suicidal dude!!” #— #girl. #GIRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL #My life literally IS the biggest joke ever. HOW. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING. the chances????? #And the conversation happened while watching Sanremo which is exactly when I would use to talk about bsd with my other friend a year ago! #C'mon! It's such a joke! #Cmooooonnn I'm going insane over this #Whatever this new girl is super friendly and has such a beautiful beautiful smile I hope I can hang out with her more. #I'm sorry our schedules don't match a lot she always has meals super early... Uhm......... #random rambles #Kyotag stops being a magnet for Dazai stans challenge #It's funny a colleague from university who casually watched the anime too ALSO loves Dazai #I get he's popular and pretty but like. No actually I don't get it sorry #Also I'm usually super polite with people so I'm there like “Oh yeah 😄 His character is very... fascinating 😊 ”

[skrunksthatwunk]

man why are there so many lesbian posts like omg i love butches/look how cool i am as a butch!!! MEN DNI. like. I've been banned from my own dykery wtf

#how can you be butch thirst trapping and also not recognize that butches being transmasc is like. essential butch history #some of y'all need to get more gender weird in your understanding of lesbianism. you can be cis and gnc but im trans and im a lesbian lol #am i not allowed to connect with other lesbians bc of that #bc im sure plenty of them would say oh that doesnt count you're fine #which means they either don't see me as a real man or they haven't thought through the dni #but like even if you are accepting of lesbian men i wouldn't know that from the dni. so seeing that makes me feel like im NOT welcome #whether that was the intention or not #anyway like 1/5 of the posts in the butch tag i saw on a recent scroll through were like this and it annoyed me #i get not wanting random horny/homophobic straight dudes on your posts but i mean. a dni isn't gonna stop them anyway #but like. you're just excluding the queer men who're tryna engage with you. tis friendly fire without purpose #lesbians and men do not need to be in opposition. that's stupid. get over that #i am a woman! i am a man! my gender is complicated and I'd like to have that not be a Thing in queer spaces. thats all #most of these ppl are probably cool and fine idk. just like. think it over a bit is all #annoyed isnt quite yhe right word either? more like. mild sad bothered

[forabeatofadrum]

Happy El WooWoo Wednesday, Wet Beast Wednesday, and Tumblr also wants me to know that it is Wellness Wednesday. Thank you @whogaveyoupermission​, @artsyunderstudy​, @cutestkilla​ and @martsonmars​ for the tags.

I am still writing 3 fics at the moment when I have the time. Two days ago I realised that I am also girlbossing too close to the sun offline, not only online. Is this why Tumblr put a big Wellness Wednesday banner on my mobile dash? I might take a break from writing and what not for January, but don’t quote me on it. I know myself and a) I won’t have Ljubim te finished on time and b) I actually really, really want to finish my Carry On Prompt Fest textfic. I got pretty far in that.

Like I said, I won’t finish Ljubim te on time. Partially because I don’t really know where to next with the story, and partially because I am using all my Klaine braincells for [REDACTED] and when I am not writing Klaine, I am writing There’s nothing ironic about show choir, so have a snippet of that. Today’s chapter had Penny demolishing Simon. Tomorrow, it’s Agga’s turn:

Agatha turns around and she crosses her arms. She ticks her nails against her upper arms. She’s giving me an annoyed look. “I keep telling you I do not care much about the rivalry. Why do you? Simon said something about your mother…”

“Yeah,” I half-lie. Simon was very right about what he said, but it’s not the full truth. I want to appease my mother’s legacy, but I also want his attention.

“Well, would your mother be proud of you for picking fights over choir?” Agatha says sharply. I know she’s a friend, so unlike Simon, she doesn’t say it to hurt me, but it still stings.

“No,” I admit.

“Exactly, and you know it,” she says.

And okay, fuck, have some Ljubim te after all, under the cut with the tags and a meme. Hopefully it motivates me to continue this.

“There’s a rugby field called the Stanežiče Oval, but we can see further in March or April. Kurt, do you want to come along too?”

“To rugby?” Kurt sounds affronted, which makes everyone laugh.

“Hey, thought I’d ask!” Sunil says. Then he playfully elbows Kurt. “If you don’t come along for the sport, you can always come along to ogle guys in tight clothing and short pants.”

“Compelling argument, Mr. Kasun,” Kurt says with a smile, “I shall reconsider it.”

Blaine looks at the two of them.

Oh.

So.

Right.

“Wait, you’re gay?” Blaine blurts out. Both Sunil and Kurt look at him.

Thank you @1908jmd​ for sending me a link to the Stanežiče Oval. Yes, this part is for the Oval prompt.

I also just realised that both Simon and Blaine in these fics are alike. They keep thinking about Baz and Kurt. BUT NOT IN A GAY WAY!

You sure about that, boys?

Tagging @quizasvivamos @crissmastrees-and-candyklaines @coffeegleek @esperantoauthor @otherworldsivelivedin @caramelcoffeeaddict @sillyunicorn @bazzybelle @dragoneggos @raenestee @tectonicduck @nightimedreamersworld @urban-sith @thnxforknowingme @captain-aralias @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @takitalks @justgleekout @cerriddwenluna @wellbelesbian @tea-brigade @ivelovedhimthroughworse @moodandmist  @bookish-bogwitch @confused-bi-queer @facewithoutheart​ @aroace-genderfluid-sheep​ @ionlydrinkhotwater​ @1908jmd​ @special-bc-ur-part-of-it​ @larkral​

#tagged in #you know what is a great soundtrack for writing #splatoon music!!!!!!! #it is very upbeat #ink theory and wet floor my beloveds #but yeah blaine is really going to channel the 'i am uncomfy with my gay friend #because i can't help but feel bothered at the thought of him being with another dude oh NO AM I HOMOPHOBIC??' #wip wednesday

[bylertruther-moved]

it’s always been extremely weird and insulting to me when people make lucas so homophobic in their headcanons or fics... like, what in the world ever gave you the idea that he would be a bigot? please, tell me what the show has ever said or done that has given you that idea. lucas, like dustin, is another character that gets bullied specifically for something that is entirely out of his control: his race. he’s one of the few black characters on the show. he’s been repeatedly bullied, harassed, and attacked for being black. why the hell do you think he would look at will, his best friend, and bully him for something that’s also entirely out of his control, aka his sexuality? what makes you think that lucas would hate will when he’s known will for almost just as long as mike has? lucas is will’s second friend ever and considering how standoffish mike can be to newcomers and the anecdotes joyce told in season two, it wouldn’t even be a reach to say that will likely recruited lucas to their party. lucas and will love each other, support each other, and have remained the best of friends throughout the entire series, their friendship never once faltering. lucas has been shown to be kind, perceptive, and caring time and time again. why do you think that he of all people would become an aggressor? a bully? why do you think that he of all people is most likely to attack someone for the simple crime of being who they are? i know why, but just... why?

#lucas sinclair #i think of lucas who just wanted to find will lucas who didn't want to leave max out lucas who ALSO biked across town in the rain to #apologize to will and then ALSO apologized AGAIN explicitly because he wanted will to know that he regretted what he did and that will's #efforts weren't bad or uncool i think of lucas who is BEGGING his friends to PLEASE support him as he's always supported them #lucas who begs his friends to PLEASE come to his game lucas who sees that max is struggling and wants to help her in any way he can #but that never once pushes her or forces her or makes her feel bad lucas lucas lucas who has so much love and heart #and care to give to all of his loved ones because he just wants them to be safe and happy and loved #because he's black you think that he'd be a terrible person? because he's black you're willing to erase all of that and paint him as a bully #???????? what the fuck is wrong with some people in this fandom bro every time i read that it takes me right the fuck out #like are you even watching the show . i know the answer is no clearly not but like . what the FUCK #u bitches DISGUST me sometimes i swear bro #being a poc certainly does not exclude u from being homophobic but like. dustin and lucas are more likely to sympathize with #will than mike. canonically speaking. let's be fucking real. lucas got bullied for his race dustin got bullied for his disability #and will got bullied for being gay. all of these are things that you cannot help. things that you're born with. things that you can't change #what did mike get bullied for? oh. right. being a fucking nerd. big whoop. #y'all know how i feel about mike but with what has been shown to us explicitly it just makes no fucking sense and i'm tired of it #keep lucas's name out of your mouth if you're gonna disrespect him like that!!!!!!!!! #my posts #my thoughts #lucas

[daylightaftertherain]

ok rant warning lmao

I hate the ending of lgbtq+ movies where the queer kid somehow forgives their parent for being an awful human being just because "they were trying to protect you."

like. it doesn't fucking matter if you were scared of what they'd face, or if you wanted to protect them. you've become the literal first example of what your kid's going to deal with for being queer. you're not protecting them, you're being a parent who shoved your child's queerness back in the closet instead of just doing your best to support them. it shouldn't take a whole movie of your child thinking you no longer love them for you to go "oh no, I was just looking out for you." you don't get to give your child dirty looks and do homophobic shit and then say "no I supported and loved you all along I was just scared" because you clearly didn't.

and the worst part is the writers will add the "I 'wanted' to help you" line because that just means it was a choice to blow up at them for being queer instead of just, idfk, hugging them like a decent fucking parent??? telling them it's okay??? it didn't mean "throw them a huge coming out party," but you went and chose the homophobic route???

idk I'm just mad that every single film treats this like a heartwarming scene when it's just not.

#like i watched that really annoying sapphic musical with james corden in it with my mom #and i was fucking pissed by the ending #bc one of the girls' mother had tried to ban her from going to prom and was generally being a homophobic piece of shit #and then she had the audacity to go 'oh i was just scared for you and i didn't want you to get hurt' #ma'am you ALREADY hurt her #you spent an hour and a half of the film insulting your daughter and her girlfriend and the rest of the community #that's not protecting her #and my mom actually thought it was a good ending #so i spent like ten minutes trying to explain why homophobia is not excused by a parent 'doing their best' #because that was clearly not her best and furthermore it was a conscious choice she could've changed at any point #lgbtqia #lgbtqia+ #pride #queer

[mamawasatesttube]

you guys i have so many thoughts about tdr. i have so much to say. like i don't want to be super mean but dude that comic fucking sucks and i can't lie i think it made me kind of homophobic actually

#my stance up to now has been that i don't really care about tim/ber but now that i have read this. dude... #it sucks that they gave a canon queer tim narrative to someone who uses homophobia as shock value and virtue signaling points #and who actively tears down characters who don't like her special little uwu flawless oc (kate im so fucking sorry) #there's no substance to this relationship i don't see why they even like each other #bc she keeps just stating oh they're perfect they make each other so happy but she doesn't like. show that at all #and i HATE the shock value homophobia like i cannot overstate how much i hate it #oh these random cops are homophobic (that's how you know they're BAD!) #oh bernard's parents are homophobic (that's how you know THEY'RE bad too!) #it's so hamfisted and it reads like such. cheap storytelling #especially bc tim as narrator doesn't even get to have ANY thoughts on his own queerness or seeing this homophobia in the world around him #and then she can't go more than two pages without being like BTW BERNARD IS THE BEST EVER AND TIM CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM #while against this ugly backdrop of shock value homophobia #there's no substance to this relationship. why do they even like each other. it just falls apart if you examine it at all #because she just is fundamentally incapable of writing either of them as people with character flaws #for fucks sake she can't even be consistent with tim's BASIC character tenets. ''i always dreamed of being batman'' false lmao #but then to follow it up with ''i never wanted to be batman i always wanted to be my dad'' #and then on TOP OF THAT to make the Only mention of Jack drake and his impact on tim's life ABOUT BERNARD AGAIN. #yeah sorry im a hater now. this was shit tier #rimi talks

[spoofymcgee]

i am tired of being nice. i do want to go apeshit.

#day in and day out i am nice and friendly and diplomatic and polite #and i'm so fucking done with it #i'm tired to looking like someone who agrees with your stupid fucking homophobic opinions #i'm tired of my first thought being 'oh wait but look at it from her perspective ' #i'm tired of being fucking pg 13 #i am a PERSON #i am three words away from not being appropriate for your nine year old #'non standard family dynamics'. 'you get what i mean #dont you?' #no i fukcing don't maam #i am queer as fuck #i am listening to the indigo girls as you talk #i will. hopefully. have a nonstandard family dynamics someday soon. so fuck off and leave me alone #i just. i am so fucking tired. #rant #spoof.txt

[loveofmylouis]

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#i missed all of the discourse this morning but its still heavy on my mind #for someone to say that louis needs to do a certain thing in order to support or validate that queer community just really breaks my heart #im not going to get into it not being his responsibility or into his closet #but saying that completely invalidates all of the 'smaller' things he has done throughout the years that not only show his support for the #community but also shows he is proud of his own sexuality #i feel like some that weren't here at the time dont realize how big of a deal it was for louis to have a rainbow on his shirt at the time #it was huge for the gay fans it may seem like a small gesture to some but it was the opposite #even if he hadnt acknowledged a rainbow project or the flags during otb it was such an important thing to even happen #people wouldn't bring their flags to a show if they didn't feel safe and louis made everyone feel safe without even saying anything and i #feel like people ignore that #it's just so belittling to who louis is as a person when they say oh he needs to do this for the community because this other thing he did #wasn't enough #he didn't have to wear those rainbows when he was being painted as homophobic everyday #he didn't have to write and release otb that so so many queer people resonate with #even just pointing at a flag in the crowd or telling a fan thanks for the flag love he didn't have to do that stuff #but he still did and whether it was for himself or for his large gay fanbase its still so important #and if those gestures are too small for you or you think that he needs to do more to validate you i think that's more a fault of yourself #rather than a fault of louis #okay i just had to get my thoughts out I'm done #and to clarify i dont think any of these gestures are 'small' gestures i think they're all incredibly important #but some seem to believe they're not big enough

[homeforall]

Sometimes growing up is thinking you've finally unpacked all your internalized bigotry, and then you realize later that you had not in fact unpacked it, you just put it under a different label and now it's harder to identify.

#it is a never ending battle #its easy for me to realize “oh. saying gay people shouldn't marry is homophobic” #it's much harder to realize #“oh. a lot of my values are based in growing up in a Christian conservative family. and what i thought was feminism in middle school was #actually just bioessentialism disguised as progressivism“ #you really never know what you've internalized until someone confronts you about it. #all this to say #often times im not intentionally being exclusionist. im just stupid sometimes and haven't realized #home for posts

[blushweddinggowns]

Idea expanded, Rockstar Eddie falling head over heels for Bartender Steve working in a high class club type of joint. He sees him working one night and thinks God damn, he's hot. I'm taking him home tonight.

Except bartender Steve has developed a significant distaste for celebrities and rich people in general because of getting cut off from his homophobic parents for coming out and the general bad way many have treated him at work whilst sloshed. But lucky for Eddie, Steve doesn't recognize him. And even though he started off in a trailer park, the fame has gone to his head a little and he asks Steve out with the full intention of getting into his pants and never seeing him again.

But oh no, would you look at that Steve isn't easy. And what Eddie thought would be a booty call ends up being a ten hour date around the city where he has more fun than he even thought was possible. Just from talking with Steve about anything and everything, flitting to parks and museums. And Eddie doesn't even realize until he's back at his hotel that they didn't even kiss.

And they go out more and more, and Eddie likes him more and more and he finds out where the rich people hate comes from. And it scares him. So he keeps lying. Like an idiot. And he tells Steve a fake last name, he tells him a fake job (which is only half fake because he did used to be a tattoo artist) and he rents an air bnb that he pretends is his own place. And the lies keep getting more elaborate to cover up more lies. And he keeps refusing to meet Steve's friends out of fear that they'll recognize him. And he really just drove himself into a corner here because he is absolutely in love with Steve at this point but how the fuck can you have a normal relationship when you are pretending to be someone else?

Turns out you can't, and Steve finds out the truth despite his efforts. But the twist is, he thinks it's fucking hilarious. After a normal period of What the fuck reaction time he gets over it. But never let's Eddie live it down.

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6/27 Edit: Welp, now there's a fic.

Two fics actually. The other is by KikiZ on ao3 which is great if you're not looking for an explicit fic! Because mine will be. It's also a bit more introspective than what I got going on, and also thus far, hella romantic.

#steddie #steddie ficlet #steddie fic idea #that i am getting too interested in #rockstar eddie munson #steve harrington #eddie munson #just...ideas #we're just talking #steddie drabble #steddie fic #i just like the twist of avoiding classic angst #i find it very funny #all that work and stress and axiety #just for your boyfriend to call you a dumbass with affection #it...intrigues me #if I did write this I think a one shot basis could work #in theory #just in theory