#I recommend it

[vonlipwig]

also tangentially related to my last post - someone i worked with years ago told me about this thing she always tried to do. she said that every so often, when she's with a friend, she let's a stranger 'overhear' a compliment. she'll go to the shop and, as she's walking away from the till, she'll say something like 'that cashier was so lovely, weren't they?'. or she'll wait until someone walks past and say 'gosh didn't they look gorgeous in that dress' or 'their hair looks amazing' or 'wow that person's tattoos were so intricate - beautiful'.

and it really stuck with me. imagine walking past someone and overhearing them say 'that outfit really suits them!' to their friend. imagine choosing to shine a little light into the world for no other reason than because you think it's a nice thing to do.

#i try to do it myself #i recommend it

[muddyhandss]

Shoutout to my favorite Larian Studios Character,

That one bearded guy with the shoulder length hair who used to be really close with a god until an incident regarding a bomb that could kill everyone made him leave but he still keeps mentioning the god whenever you want to talk to him- it's okay though because he has a magical emotional support animal he summoned that basically serves as his unprompted therapist until you inevitably, accidentally, romance him because he said he was hungry and you gave him something to eat after you were both kidnapped by someone that wanted to turn you into a monster.

Also his god tells him to die for the greater good at some point, maybe twice, but with your help he learns he's more than the powers his god provides in the end.

Gotta be one of my favourite genders

#Just finished Divinity 2 #I recommend it #ifan ben mezd #is somehow so similar but also so different from #gale of waterdeep #dos2 #gale dekarios #divinity 2 #bg3 art #bg3 tara #art #doodle #heh #I was tempted to give Tara a fireball... #The brainrot au if these two met... #divinity 2 original sin #bg3 #bg3 gale

[wellofdean]

I read your post about Supernatural being queer somehow from season 1 and I have two questions.

1. Don't you think it straight-appropriates the word "queer" to say it just means "not normal"? That argument seems disingenuous to me, and a lot of us want representation, and to see that word applied to explicit depiction of queer sexuality, and it's a cheat that they don't. Queer studies did start as the study of queer sexualities and the experience of queer people.

2. Are you saying that the makers of Supernatural intended for it to be "flesh on queer bones"? Do you think they intentionally sat down to tell a queer story?

Those are good questions my anonymous friend. Thank you for asking. Here are my thoughts:

To answer your first question: no, I don't think it appropriates anything. Here's why: firstly, if we're talking about sexuality and gender, it's queer 101 that no one owes anyone a justification of their queerness, and not everyone who is queer is interested in labeling it or making it legible to you, and they have no obligation to do so, and not doing so doesn't make them any less queer. Furthermore, some people who are queer are not interested in sex, so what about them?

All of that together is why, for me, the entire queer project is much more deeply about non-compliance with hegemony, and specifically with hegemony around gender roles, sexuality and to put it under a big umbrella, patriarchy, than it is about who you fuck. Those things extend into so many other aspects of life that I think you can easily talk about "queering" a very wide range of topics, and possibly? ANY TOPIC.

You are responding to this post, I think, and in it, I made a choice to talk about family and hunting, and our heroes roles and characterizations in that, and did not talk about gender shenanigans or sexuality, because my point was that even before we get to anything to do with it, Sam and Dean are immersed in a queered world in a fundamental, structural way. That said, I assure you that if you go back into season 1 of Supernatural, you will find LOADS that could be said about gender and sexuality, too. As well as other things, and a particularly important area, as @ironworked pointed out in the tags, is blue collar/white collar class issues.

As I said, the depth of queerness in Supernatural is actually dizzying just in terms of the story's BONES to say nothing of how they flesh it out. Queerness is about deviation from the norm. It's about rebellion and disobedience against hegemonic systems for the sake of personal authenticity and love.

Think about Cas for a minute. Cas's whole story is that he rejects his role in a hegemonic heaven. He rebels for love, and that is pretty explicit as early as season 4 when he tells Dean "We're making it up as we go". Fellas, that is THE QUEEREST SHIT EVER even if he didn't do it for Dean, and like... HE DID IT FOR DEAN. Cas did not have to tell Dean he loved him for me to know it, and for Cas to be a deeply queered character. When he DID say it, I wasn't the least bit surprised he was in love with Dean, because seriously, we been knew. I was only surprised I got to have the immense pleasure of hearing him say it and looking at Dean's face while he took it in. Jesus. I will NEVER RECOVER.

This is my perspective on representation in Supernatural: It's excellent, and I relate to, and feel seen by it as a queer person. Nobody needs to get fucked on the maps table for me to do the math that this is a queer story. It is very, very, very thoroughgoingly canonically queer in so many ways, and not all of them are to do with sex. I think some fans will only allow it to be called queer if dudes make out in it. I am not one of those fans.

As to your second question, I think there is a wealth of evidence in the filmic oeuvre of Eric Kripke to suggest that as an artist and a writer, he is concerned or maybe even preoccupied with masculinity issues and issues around family, and around the way patriarchy fucks men up. So, yes. I think he knew what he was doing and he knew that queerness was part of the mix. For fucks sake, it's a family of men who hunt monsters. That is very fucking on the nose. Do I think he kicked off Supernatural in 2005 planning a 15 year operatic queer romance between Cas and Dean? No. I don't think anyone planned for it to go as long as it did, and it's a matter of record that some things were influenced by fan response, actors' chemistry, different writers and showrunners' preferences and etc. What I will say is that when they had a choice to "straighten shit out" or lean into the queerness, they fucking leaned in, nearly EVERY TIME. Like, it's pretty amazing how consistently they lean the fuck in.

I'll admit -- I wasn't watching it with those eyes the first time, and I didn't give it much real estate in my mind when I watched it as it aired from 2006 to the end, but the last three episodes reshaped it for me and made me angry, and also made me need to watch it all again, this time with an explicitly queer lens, and BOY HOWDY let me tell you this: the Supernatch rewatch journey is a wild and wonderful trip to Queertown. It is legit more difficult to argue that Dean is straight than it is to argue that he is queer. There is a full on CORNUCOPIA of story evidence to support that read and relatively little that convincingly counters it on the straight side, and that starts right at the beginning, when they bend pretty baby Dean over a police car in episode one, and he smirks insouciantly in his lip gloss. Do I think everyone involved knew how that looked? Sexy, submissive and a bit gay?

YES I DO.

#supernatural #spn #dean winchester #Eric Kripke #watching with queer goggles #I recommend it #it's just queer yo #anti-trashnatural agenda

[lazybug16]

Reasons you should watch Everything Now:

Main WLW

The soundtrack SLAPS

Every character is interesting and complicated in their own way

Representation 🤌🤌🤌🤌 (also a lot of queer characters but no labels which I find really cool) And I think it's heavily implied that one of the guys is demi💜

It's funny AND angsty

The acting and cinematography are outstanding

⚠️ The story is about Mia who is anorexic and trying to get better, so if topics around that trigger you I would be cautious🫶🫶 stay safe!

#it is a heartstopper x sex education vibes lol #I would also add hertbreak high #but yeah #I recommend it #everything now #everything now netflix #everything now 2023 #heartstopper #sex education #heartbreak high #queer #lgbtq+ #anorexia #wlw #mine

[lizluzz]

Oh no. I just remembered something and had a horrible realisation...

It's the same ending!

#good omens #good opens spoilers #go s2 spoilers #staged #aaah I forgot how devastating the ending of staged was #i know a lot of people haven't watched staged #i recommend it #it's doing very interesting things #and Michael and David are always a delight together #Why are we in the Michael Sheen-David Tennant breakup era extended universe? #lizluz

[darkness-nova]

Arlecchino but furry because did anybody ask? no but did I do it anyway? yes this was a fun exercise

#arlecchino #the knave #my art #furry #anthro #furry art #genshin #genshin fanart #genshin impact #drawing characters and interpreting their designs into anthros is neat #I recommend it

[freshlypizza]

There's something about Normal Guys who are just trying to survive the end of the world..

(SPOILERS)

..but ultimately fail.

#this is for a very niche audience #my favourite genre of Guy #they make me so sad #if you havent watched You Me and the Apocalypse #i recommend it #paul matthews #jamie winton #jon matteson #mathew baynton #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #starkid #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #nightmare time #you me and the apocalypse #ymata

[stonelions]

recent commission for @bbutterguns !! dean getting a kick out of some C&H antics. thank you for your patience this one was soooo so so so so fun to do <3

#commission #still have a couple in the queue i owe #i am slooowly getting there #dean winchester #spn #sketch #drawing hobbes a bunch of times was like #deeply therapeutic #i recommend it

[argentinagp]

my hobby is typing a drivers name on getty images and clicking the oldest in the filter to find things like these:

#i recommend it #specially with old drivers #i also love pirating getty images #michael schumacher #formula 1

[13o7billionyearsinthemaking]

I had a vision, and I was bored

so yeah

#big engine brawl #modding #thomas and friends #ttte #thomas the tank engine #ttte humanized #ttte fanart #ttte thomas #friday night funkin mod #bgb is so good #i recommend it #no longer fnf fan but ive been waiting on this one for a while #the overlay still needs some polishing #this is just some personal fun #if you want the asset you can dm me #my mod edit art thing #other than thom humanoid is by the mod creators

[elenaferrante]

This is so niche but… if anyone read Elena Ferrante / the Neapolitan novels… matty is Taylor’s Nino Sarratore (derogatory)

#American friends #you can watch the tv show on hbo btw #if you’re interested! #I recommend it #hehe #(also the books are amazing so recommend those even more) #j says

[monkey-network]

If #lackadaisy could be more than a pilot, it'd be because I genuinely want more of this world. It truly appeals to one of my favorite periods in American history & seeing this finally come to fruition after knowing about it for several years warms this cold heart of mine 10 fold. It has that spirited dreamland appeal, I tells ya.

#Lackadaisy #lackadaisycats #cartoons #animation #i recommend it #kino

[the-sinking-garden]

i just read a nearly 232,000 word yeehan fan fiction in like, 2 days. i am going. insane. i need more

this might actually be the thing that convinces me to finally start writing fanfic

#yeehan #fanfic #cole cassidy #hanzo shimada #fanfiction #the fic is ‘hang the fool’ by AlmaMeDuele on ao3 #i recommend it #it used cassidy’s old name but there’s a browser extension you can get to automatically change the name #isn’t perfect and misses anything that isn’t exact BUT it works for the most part #the extension is IntereractiveFics #ao3 #the sinking garden posts

[acidbathcat]

do not come at me about psychopathy vs sociopathy i have literally read THE book on it written by the guy who invented the concepts. it’s very good. it’s called without conscience by robert hare.

#i recommend it #i also read a couple others but they weren’t as good

[silverfoxstole]

Three Doctors in New Zealand, 2013.

#paul mcgann #eighth doctor #doctor who #mcgann monday #colin baker #sylvester mccoy #nicholas briggs #it’s a nice little interview #i recommend it #lots of lovely close ups #thank you to the cameraman #my gifs

[kahixxi]

#mairimashita senpai #you got me sempai #manga #art #mangacap #manga boy #black and white #romance #manga cap #monochrome #characters #i recommend it #really awesome shoujo manga