#I didn't know they were all married

[statementlou]

hello :) could you maybe explain a little bit how dan wootton blackmailed louis?

ugh sorry for taking a while to get to this. The problem is I feel like the only two ways to answer this are by spending a week and a half of full time labor sifting through old posts and evidence to get every detail right and lay out an airtight case, or to halfass something very serious, and so I felt a little stuck. So since I can't seem to find a good halfway point, apologies but here is the half assed version, if you want to get into it more I invite you to do your own deep dive or talk to other people, but here's how I remember things. Louis has almost never on video explicitly said things about Larry not being real and/or anything negative about fans and their theories (mostly the opposite), up until the last couple years when he obviously decided to make a major change he didn't talk about Freddie much at all let alone saying he was his kid, honestly not that much about Eleanor even; except for in two major interviews with Dan Wootton, each of which lined up with a serious traumatic Tomlinson family event that they managed to keep out of the tabloids until the very end (Jay's illness and Fizzy's struggles with substance abuse). After the fact of those events a lot of small things that didn't make sense at the time came together to look very much like Louis traded those interviews (and those answers) for having his family's private matters kept private. Story trading of this kind is a publicly known real thing that happens, and there were various clues that suggested he was being leaned on about those stories to lend legitimacy to the idea that it was something that happened in these cases. Given what we know about Dan Wootton and how he operates even before the recent flood of information and even more now, I think it's more than likely that he has been holding the threat of outing Louis (as he has done to many other public figures) over his head for over a decade, and has used his family's tragic struggles to get Louis to dance like a fucking puppet for him and I will REJOICE at his downfall when it comes whether it is now or 20 years from now... because someday it will, he has made too many enemies to stay above it forever

#I did start to try to deep dive before I realized it was too much #but I was reminded that when Louis was doing txf as a judge while fizzy was struggling #many people thought he had been pressured somehow into it; later when we knew what had been going on people were like #oh maybe he just wanted to be close to home to deal with fizzy stuff or somethng #but also: keeping fizzy stuff quiet would potentially be the info we didn't have at that time that could answer that q too of what they use #given the DW🤝simon jones🤝simon cowell cursed connections #(for the newbies: simon jones aka DWs bestie is Louis' publicist for no apparent reason even now long after he has gotten free of the rest #of the modest/syco/simon cowell shitshow) #anyway another example of story trading in our fandom is zayn's baby sister's teen pregnancy #which was known to the fandom early on but kept super quiet by respectful fans- during this time Z did some unprecedented actual interviews #for no obvious reason #and then iirc pretty much the day she turned 17 a very lowkey article reported on her marrying her bf and mentioning a pregnancy #but as if it was recent not like 7 months along #and even when she gave birth soon after it was all kind of... glossed over and around and not reported until a little later #blah blah blah #I felt like it was weird to talk about this for some reason but when I thought about it #I don't know if it matters. Like maybe talking about him not being a dad and being gay or whatever at all is bad #but assuming we're doing that anyway. why not talk about the struggles around that #and the creeps holding it over his head #dan wootton

[pollyna]

I want an au where the Dagger Squad - execpt Bradley - doesn't know Mav is married to Admiral Kazasky and they see them kissing once and only once and, because of the alcohol and the euphoria, the immediately perceive the whole thing as in Admiral Kazansky is cheating on his wife with Maverick and they have to stop it. Mav deserves better. They make a presentation and the whole material for a serious and fair intervention while Bradley dies inside because he cannot laugh out loud. The day they finally decide to talk with their captain, they drive to his house, Omaha has even cooked Mav's favourite cake, and they're ready to spend all day to let the man see reason.

The whole things lasts exactly two minutes because the moment Mav opens the door and asks what they're going there, Bradley breaks down and cries for how much he's laughing.

"The think Admiral Kazansky is cheating on his wife with you" is what he tries to say after having regained enough air to breathe. When it's Mav's turn to laugh everybody is so confused because that's not a laughing matter!

"Tom, babe, you should come in the living room! We're about to experience Merlin and Slider's intervention 2.0, but this time isn't going to be about us not fucking on the kitchen table!"

(And so, all twelve Daggers spend the afternoon explaining to their married captain why he shouldn't be kissing his Admiral husband and why he deserved better. That only conclude in Mav and Ice giving point on how to make the presentation better and randomly interupring one and other to make sneaky comments and innuendos that are as subtle as a brick. It's a funny afternoon!)

#pete maverick mitchell #the dagged squad #tom iceman kazansky #they don't know they were married!!! #ice kisses mav for like ten minutes longer than usual that night and the conversation gets a little heavy bc he has to be sure mav knows- #-how much he loves and appreciates him and how grateful he has been all these years they spend together #mav kisses him back bc dumbdumb i wouldn't have married you twice if i didn't know that #icemav #mavdad #ppst tpg: m #tom iceman kazansky lives #top gun: maverick

[pansyfemme]

thinking about an ask i got when i was 14 that has stuck with me forever because it was like. accusing me of lying about having bi4bi parents. why would that be anything even remotely interesting enough to lie about

#its cool and it made me rlly open to queerness at an early age bc even tho i didn't know my parents were bi- #anyone old enough to understand that they had lives before they got married and had kids would be able to read them pretty easily. #they had a lot of queer and trans friends too so i grew up knowing about everything #i was just a kid and didn't rlly.. think about the fact my parents had had other partners before eachother much and it never really totally #came up what the genders of those partners were. it wasn't a secret it just never rlly came up #my parents are now both of the mindset of the fact that they both still identify as bi but they don't feel the need to bring it up a lot #because theyve been married for 23 years. its not all that important anymore in their day to day lives

[gnomeboops]

me (starkid fan) 🤝 my sister (henry danger fan)

joey richter from MY SHOWS is in HER shows as well??

#the climate of attitudes towards joey richter in my household is very very funny #because my sister didn't know his name #so i went to see him and darren and lauren in the palladium and i didn't bother saying who they were because i know she doesn't know them #or i thought i knew anyway #and then at some point she was watching henry danger and i just had to point him out and go Hey i've seen him live #i pulled up the photos and everything it was a bit of a shock moment #well not for me i knew this since my starkid discovery because i thoroughly went through everyone's imdb pages #but she certainly didn't #my mum calls him 'that moustachey bloke' since she forgot his name after the concert #bless her she had to put up with me going absolutely insane with basically no prior knowledge of these people #she googled them all and went 'you know lauren lopez and that moustachey bloke are married?' as if that wasnt the first wedding in the worl #but yeah everyone in my family has a wildly different perspective on joey richter specifically and i find it absolutely hilarious #starkid #henry danger #in a shocking turn of events tumblr user gnomeantics has shared a large amount of useless anecdotes in the tags #gnomeantics original 🌟

[thehuntyhunties]

god i JUST realized. ghost hunter AU leopika would absolutely get married for health insurance purposes (they have been dating longer than their chaotic low-budget ghost hunting internet show has existed) and then COMPLETELY forget to tell anybody because they wouldn't think it's relevant

#ghost hunter au #leopika #text #like gon and killua know because they brought them to the courthouse as witnesses #and probably a couple other friends know?? i can imagine that if they're bothering to do it they'd bother with a party about it afterwards #but the vibe i'm getting is that they just. date for Years and it straight up doesn't occur to them to bother getting married #until they realize that it'll resolve some sort of insurance situation and make all that easier #and then they just. never announce it. or mention it to most people. kurapika still calls leorio his boyfriend out of habit and everything #it's EXACTLY like how their viewers didn't know they were dating until maybe 3 years into the ghost show #have you ever seen two people who love each other SO MUCH and also simply Do Not Care about it bc that's kinda this situation

[icarusbetide]

hamliza but little women au where alexander is the rich boy who gets to live recklessly, angelica is his best friend, and eliza is the sister he actually loves and ends up with WHO SAID THAT-

#i love this au because it flips some things but keeps the key components -> alex finding a family in the schuylers even if he's rich #i know this is veering towards angelica x hamilton which i don't personally think was likely for the historical figures #but they were delighted with each other so if he didn't meet eliza first and angelica wasn't married who knows right? #anyways hamliza endgame #unfortunately my fav problematic 18th century couple #trying to figure out laurens in all of this aoiehfihoaf #sorry my boy there will be a lams version to this trust #alexander hamilton #angelica schuyler church #amrev #hamliza

[puppy-steve]

had my stepdad's funeral today (not my current stepdad) and hoooooo boy the abandonment issues are in full swing :)

#not a single mention of me in his obituary - as if the 15 or so years where he raised me suddebly didn't matter anymore - #- bc he and my mom were no longer married. all his current step kids were listed though :) (along with their partners/spouses) #i didn't even get to sit up front with everyone. i sat in the very back of the room in the very last row. #and you know what? i really fucking needed the comfort of my step brothers #like i was 10 again and they were the only ones standing between me and him when his temper got ugly #i got it at the end at the cemetery where we all three hugged really tight. but i still would've liked to sit beside them. #it was just like i was sort of overlooked the whole time - which in fairness i havent actually been his stepkid in 10 years #but. idk. it still hurt. #bc i also noticed it with my own parents #people are always shocked when i tell them that yes - this is my dad and this is my mom #bc they know their Other Kids. not me. #it's like a friend said: sometimes it's not the middle child that's forgotten. it's the eldest. #ok sorry rant over ive just been stewing over this all day #cj talks

[arsenicflame]

back on my 'ed just casually dropping in conversation that he and izzy are married, actually' bullshit

#when the crew act all shocked about it hes like 'what??? you didn't know?? thought we were kind of obvious to be honest mate' #'yeah yeah happily married for what; 25 years now izzy?' '28 Ed' (exasperated but affectionate) 'wow time flies when youre having fun' #all i want is happily married blackhands is that too much to ask?? #there is so much potential there... too many fics where they are Unhappily married or ed forgot or they didn't realise they were Married #give me happy #nyxtalks #ofmd #izzy hands #israel hands #blackhands #edizzy #ok so like. if u wanna play it with canon. maybe they aren't happy happy. eds totally flirting w this other dude and izzy is pissed #because they Talk about this usually. but they have been happy they love each other they can work this out #anyway we are all in agreement over other-woman stede so im contributing this #i just. want rhem to be happy #a certified nyx post

[lunarhobbits]

i find it really funny that allan and midge - canonically married in barbie lore, there was a wedding set and everything - are both in the barbie movie yet have nothing to do with each other and are reflective of completely different eras of barbie (early 60s and early 2000s, respectively)

#idk something about that felt very right to me #bc pretty much no kid playing with barbies is gonna stick to Barbie Lore #they're gonna mix and match different eras #different styles #different clothes #one day midge and allan are married the next allan is forgotten #the next midge is sidelined and allan is playing sidekick to ken #they have kids together and yet they don't have to always be bought together #and ofc they can be redressed and repurposed as different people! #this post was partially brought to you by memories of me playing with my friend's barbies as a kid including 2000s midge and allan #but we didn't know their names or their backstory or even that they were connected! sure midge had the magnets and the baby barbie doll #but other than that? they were just two of many options of barbies #they were all in the barbie bin and we fished out whatever we were using #and we used them however we wished. in a mix-and-match way. and only recently did i even find out my friend had allan #truly there is only one allan bc everyone forgets about him #barbie #barbie spoilers #i guess? #allan barbie #midge barbie

[arklay]

MR. & MRS. WESKER 🤍

i was able to commission the lovely @rcehb-art on twitter for this piece of diana and wesker during their strange after-the-fact reception for their very private wedding. i am just so in love with this and how it turned out, and i can't thank rc enough !! she is so kind and amazing to work with and i can't recommend her enough if you're looking to commission artwork ♡

#commissions. #oc: diana #pair: ewskers #or should i say drs. albert & diana wesker 🖤 #i literally haven't stopped staring at this since receiving the final product !! & just the whole process was so much fun & i loved seeing #it all come together 🥺 i'm just aaaaaa i adore this sm !!! also okay i think i have talked about this on here before but these two didn't #actually have like a ''wedding'' but they eloped then a bit after that alex & the birkins found out they had gotten married without telling #anyone (they knew they were engaged but yeah there were no wedding talks so to speak) so then they sort of pushed them to have some sort of #reception at least & celebrate things kinda...like they thought he would've made a big deal out of things but these two aren't all that #fussed with the idea of weddings or marriage in general (there's a lot of lore here i swear. especially on diana's part like some of you #know) so they were very private about it all !! but yes here you can see them gossiping & talking shit about umbrella employees 🤭 #also this goes without saying but pls don't use or touch this at all as it's a commission & diana is my oc !! i didn't think i would need to #say that but precautions now after things that have happened on here & unfortunately made me less active...diana is very very special to me #so yeah :] and ofc never repost art that isn't yours !! that being said please go & support rc !!! she's amazing & all of her art is so so #gorgeous & she's just the absolute sweetest & a beloved mutual of mine 🤍🤍

[mariemariemaria]

I can't believe they killed off jenny lee's boyfriend wtf

#call the midwife #i really thought that they were gonna get married and all #like i just assumed they would. can't remember if they ever mentioned his surname but i guess it wasn't worth lol #i really don't know how i avoided spoilers for this lmao this must be an iconic british tv death #also guessing i don't need to tag as spoilers bc the episode is 10 years old lol #tbh it makes sense bc i guess jessica raine wanted to leave the show and the real jenny lee did leave midwifery #but still. weirdly tho i think this is the first episode i didn't cry at??? usually im bawling by the end. i was really just in denial tbh #i thought it was gonna be declared a mistake right up until the funeral scene lmao

[iloveyouitisruiningmylife]

i met a real life girl today who knew what patriarchy meant

#i mean we didn't meet today she's from work the cool kpop one #but she gave me some formats to make and the client firm had like 5 ppl and all of the same family so we were trying to figure out how they #they were related #and on their aadhar i saw that on women's aadhar before the address they write w/o (wife of) #and i told her oh i figured it out they are married and these are their kids and she was like ooooh how do you know #so i told her this and then i said 'kitna patriarchal hai na women ke aadhar mein likha hai wife of but men mein toh nahi likha husband of' #and she was like HAINA??? maine bhi yehi socha like women are their own persons too koi property thodi hai apne husband ki 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #THE RELIEF istg feminism is real after all and women aren't all like ew barbie

[spring-lxcked]

wait coming back just to add that i was thinking abt the generational element of the af.tons just being a fucked up family line and i'm. fine. i swear i'm f

#—— ✧ ooc » #˖ ✧ headcanon » ( the demon to his demons ) #william's partially a shitty father because of who he is but also partially because of his own upbringing #tries to escape it but either overcorrects or falls into it anyway #terrified of becoming his parents and both passes and fails to escape becoming them #geninely honestly despite everything wants to be better then them and can't and won't #and his parents were shit to him and jayne because they were following social roles #didn't necessarily want kids but It's Expected & although william would never admit it they instilled that in him #& he DID want kids but in many ways the family he tries to build initially is The Stereotypical American Dream #suburb house white picket fence small town wife and three children both sons and a daughter etc etc etc #doesn't let this idea go until late-stage and by that point he's already unintentionally destroying it anyway #i know i made a haha funny joke abt his ideal fam of henry & the son he loves/hates & 2 robot children #but unironically him realizing that he can & should choose what/who he wants BECAUSE he wants it/them #would have solved so many problems if he'd realized it earlier #not all of them but lmao #(not implying that he didn't love elise/mrs. af.ton but he didn't go into or HANDLE the marriage how he should have) #(everything was about appearances not abt actually being prepared for like. Married Life.) #(very much thinks 'okay i'm married. hard part's over. no more effort required' & obv ends up divorced because of it) #(which to be clear he is prone to in ANY ship if they're not willing to beat him over the head w/ reality HARD) #there's SO much more to say abt this like it's very complex but i'm gonna go chill and then go to sleep lmao

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok’s Children

#[REDACTED] family shenanigans #yeah I switched the birth order around so Asil's the third born instead of the last #Also her marriage status is 'complicated' because she's currently contractually married to a ferengi woman and there's drama as to whether #it's real or not (she got contract-married to her over the course of a case) #All of Tuvok's children care deeply about each other and get along well for the most part v_v #they have a bunch of different idealogies and opinions etc but they all respect each other a great deal #Sek #Elieth #Asil #Varith #an inside joke between them is how humans typically only pronounce Sek's name right on the first try 'If their tongue doesn't slip' #Sek is really making up for all his siblings in the 'give me grandchildren' arena #Elieth met Ione Kitain while working and the two of them hit it off right away but they were both engaged #One day he caught word that she was going to get married and he immediately flew to Betazed and went to see her. One conversation later and #they were engaged instead v_v (his family found it DEEPLY embarrassing - everyone else who hears it finds it terribly romantic. #Except the spurned groom of course~) Elieth's betrothed dissolved their bond without fanfare since she kind of didn't want to marry him #uhh Varith has one of Mollie's puppies (grown now) which Mark gave him and she acts as sort of a service dog ! #And Sek took care of their mother when she fell into a depression for a period of time after Voyager was lost #Also - I personally wanna know how they all reacted to that holonovel the doctor wrote about Voyager #hhehee like they meet him in person and Sek's like 'Ah. The Hologram who slandered our father.' #bea art tag #st voyager #st voyager art #star trek #Everyone should have their own little Tuvok family in their minds...!! Each one is precious and good~!! #OH ALSO #Sek is the oldest but shorter than all everyone but Varith (and T'Pel)

[the--highlanders]

I've been thinking a lot about this whole RTD thing and I guess what I keep coming back to is.

he wrote Jack kissing Nine in 2005. at a point in time where he must have known that having a same-gender kiss on a 'family show' was going to attract some pretty open vitriol - I mean, it probably still would now, but even more so back then. he must have known that any homophobic commentary around that would have reached the ears and eyes of vulnerable people, and would have hurt them. he could have opted to make a different writing decision - just had them shake hands, or nod to each other. anything at all. but he stuck with it and had them kiss. maybe knowing that showing that kiss on tv would do good, even if the backlash would do bad.

I do believe he's made the decision not to carry over Thirteen's clothes out of a place of genuine concern. and I do think it's heavily influenced not just by the levels of rabid transphobia in the UK at the moment, but by his own experiences as a gay man who has lived through a lot of very serious homophobia and transphobia. I believe he's wanting to spare people the pain of that backlash. and I can't blame him for that. maybe there's no right choice here. someone's always going to get hurt.

but I just wonder what the effect might have been if he'd stuck with it, just as he did in 2005. knowing that there would be backlash, but choosing to put a male actor in clothes designed for a female actor anyway. I have no doubt that there would have been people who laughed, or raged, or threw out all sorts of horrific things. but if he'd gone with it, and never made a joke of it in the show, never had a comedic moment or written any character commenting on it, just treated it as if it were as normal as any other regeneration costume carry-over -

maybe it wouldn't have changed anyone's minds. the people writing transphobic headlines and takes on social media probably wouldn't have picked up any nuance from the show, or have been effected by it treating the whole thing as if it were normal. but it would have /been there/, like Jack kissing Nine was in 2005. just there, in the show, normal. we've never gotten anywhere without vitriol and hatred and criticism following along. and I can't shake the feeling that it would have mattered, just like it did in 2005, if he'd taken that risk.

#other #dw negativity #<- again for filtering #idk!!! maybe i'm sticking my neck out for saying this #and i really do sympathise and agree with him/uk people who are saying he was right #that sort of vitriol could do a lot of damage #but if we have to wait to show a male actor in a female actor's costumes until there's not so much hatred #how long do we have to wait? #and how do we ever get rid of that hatred if we're too afraid to show anything? #like i'm a queer australian ok #and idk if non-aus people know this #but a couple years ago we had a plebiscite on marriage equality #(like a referendum but not politically binding. parliament didn't have to pass it even if people voted yes) #the no campaign was VICIOUS. it was nasty. people were abused and physically attacked #the right of queer people to marry and have relationships and live openly was discussed in the media #and all that hatred did a lot of damage. it hurt a lot of people #but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have held the vote #and we won in the end #now this isn't a marriage equality vote this is a silly scifi tv show #but i think you can apply the principle #images are powerful. images carry weight #yes it would have hurt but maybe there would have been a little bit of hope in there too. a little bit of normalisation. #anyway if you want to discuss/rebut this nicely go ahead!! happy to hear other people's perspectives #just be nice thanks <3