#dont lie everyone in that show is lgbtq

[taylors-fourth-cat-meow]

Its nice to see someone else immune to Mors BS, now if you dont like Amren after ACOSF there *chefs kiss*. Anyway, the reason I never cared for her is because she felt fake to me, like a girl in highschool that smiles in your face or makes comments like "ugh im so (insert flaw here) " just to get the people around her to say "no your the BEST! We all wish we were you!" for her to just smile. IDK I just was never really on the hype train with her even from MAF (bc of what she did with Cass & Az)

Hi anon!

Yeh mor does seem super fake and idk 2D??? It's like she only shows up when the plot needs it otherwise she isn't relevant to the plot. Actually she isn't needed at all?

It's just that idk maybe Sjm water Feyre to have a girl bestie? Which seems unnecessary cause Cassian cud have been her bestf too? Idk why she thought that this femmine support was necessary (tbh her character wud have been much more interesting if she was the catty sister in law cause DRAMA)

And yes she's the girl who came between two brothers GOD I hate that trope that's so fcking disgusting??? AND THIS HAS BEEN GOING OM FOT 500 YEARS?????????

DISGUSTING.

Plus the thing where she's bi but not bi? Like idk if Sjm even understands the meaning of it when she made Mor a lgbtq character. What even is her orientation? She like men and women sexually but romantically she's only interested in women (i don't remember the books well so forgive me for any mistakes)and idk doesn't like men as much and/or only likes them cause that's how it's supposed to be and sleeps with them to remind azriel she's not interested

And the way she has been stringing along Azriel for centuries??? Why? What's even th point?, If he's ur so called family why not set him free? Why hurt the one u claim to love?

Then there's her powers? she's claimed to be this legend who fought the war and idk evryone's scared by her name? BUT WHATS HER POWER? is she a lie detector like what? 'TrUtH iS mY pOweR' Idk how far that can get u as a warrior.

Also I am immensely irritated by the fact that she's blonde. I'm srry but if the illyarians are are brown? (Like so many claim the bat boys are ) how tf can she be blonde and white? ISNT SHE RHYSANDS COUSIN? I'm srry I fail to understand how people living in the same geographic region in the same country have different ethnicities and DIFFERENT RACES??? Like wtf? Illyarians and brown but everyone else in the nc is white I'm srry I just- it annoys me to no end. Okay yeh Nc is diverse I get it, so is my country, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN SEPARATE RACES? (I'm srry this deviated a bit.)

Basically, to sum it all up, I don't like Mor.

#ps i didnt like amren from the start #she shud have died in the end of acowar #she's an unnecessary waste of space #anti sjm #anti acotar #anon asks #anti mor #anti morrigan

[sporksaber]

Thinking about wednesday and other similar shows, they so easily go against all the things they claim to represent.

Like, the human character who works with the monster characters is always evil. The human love interest who says they dont mind/likes them being wierd always either has ulterior motives or leaves the second the monster character reveals they were holding back aspects of themselves.

The characters who dont fall in line with the normal monster characteristics always do by the end if the show. The characters who dont fit a label are always sucked into them. "We're a home for everyone, as long as you fall in line," is never disputed. If it is then the main character is blatantly shown to be an exception.

The human characters who are shown to openly accept monsters die. The characters who healthily express their own wierd qualities die.

The adults and political figures who lie and hide important information are shown to genuinely think it's for the best. If they're wrong it was an honest mistake. If they go way out of line in the decisions it's because they lost sight of what was important but will get back on track.

I think wednesday is worse though, because it constantly brings up being gay while not allowing any major character to actually show any hints of being lgbtq themselves, outside of enid's parents trying to send her to conversion therapy in between scenes of her making out with her zero personality boyfriend.

#netflix wednesday #enid wednesday #wednesday (2022) #its so flavorless #part of what sparked this is monster high g3 being about monster racism #and me being annoyed about that

[permanent-goblin]

Any Way the Wind Blows reaction and final thoughts

reaction to rest of the chapters:

OMG THAT BASTARD HOW DARE HE TURN SIMON INTO THE VILLIAN

thank goodness he is immune to magic now cause thats allot of spells being aimed at him

BLESS YOU PIPPA, PIPPA FOR THE WIN

ey look Jamie came around to richards

bruh honestly richards just getting jail time has me put off what if he gets out and he manages to do something else?

WE GOT A KISS FOR AGATHA FUCKING EY EVERYONE IS GETTING A PARTNER FUCK YEAH

im so glad the goats are okay

poor daphne, but look see they just wanted you to come home, it will okay, you’ll be okay

im glad for lady ruth, bless her

pfffffft baz judging nico

btw Nicodemus is prob one of my fav characters i cant explain why

oh hey how nice baz now you dont have to watch simon grow old you can grow old together

OMG IS IT HAPPENING

ITS HAPPENING

YES SIMON THEY IS SFAMILY

OH FINALLY

I KNOW ITS GOING TO BE ALLOT TO PROCESS BECAUSE YOU KILLED YOUR FATHER BUT IM SO GLAD YOU FINALLY KNOW

.....

BOY IMAT WORK HOW RUDE I HAD TO PAUSE EATING MY LUNCH BECAUSE OF CHAPTER 82

poor Penny, shepard cant stay, but you travel back and forth, ofc legally this time or i think shepard might ban you from flying

You’ll get there simon,one day, take each day as it comes

FUCKING AYY I CALLED IT AGATHA BECOMES THE NEXT GOAT HERDER YESSSS

Final thoughts:

So i  know i started this pretty late after its release but i never had the energy to pick up the books to read and i couldnt remember everything of the plot so i just got the audio books for all three of the titles and started over. im still so very much attached to these character and it will be a series i remember for my entire life. I didnt get my devneil ship but i got agatha’s surprise ship and then the best thing to happen was shepard and penny, they overshadowed simon and baz and that never usually happens in a book series that i started reading because of the gay characters. Carry On was one of the first LGBTQ+ book i had every read and so it has a special place in my heart.

i was worried i wouldnt like Wayward son, but it got good and then shepard appeared and it was like having a mor sociable newt Scamander in the party and i loved it. I loved the dragon and water spirit so much.

This book was also very good, i got really irritated everytime richards appeared but that just shows he was well written because i cant stand him. i wont lie fiona is kinda my least favorite character but i was always a big supported of her being a relationship with nico and im so glad it happened they even are getting married Pippa was wonderful when she game into play at the end and i was so proud of her when she did full sentence spell. i love this series im glad for rereading them it

now im going to post this before i fall asleep

#every way he wind blows #Carry On series

[chaoticfvckingdisaster]

So when Mels (Melody (River)) was trying to get Amy and Rory together, Amy said it couldn't work because Rory was gay. Rory looks at her surprised and says "I'm not gay." and Amy rolls her eyes and says "Come on, when have you ever shown interest in a girl?" Of course the following scene is adorable because I love them but the way Amy said that suggests Rory has shown interest in boys before.

Bi Rory solidarity.

#dont lie everyone in that show is lgbtq #just look at them #anyway #doctor who #dr who #11th doctor #eleventh doctor #rory williams #amy pond #amelia pond #the ponds #matt smith #melody pond #river song #dw

[organic-guacamole]

episode 209 spoilers below

I'm so late today but here it is

I love EJ, he's finally learning to be happy. I'm so proud.

Ms Jenn = every boomer during zoom calls, like jeez yes we can hear you stop shouting at me.

LOVE THE SUBTLE JOKE ABOUT QUARANTINE "these dark times" "you mean spring break?"

ah yes, remember when we thought covid was just gonna give us a longer spring break? good times

SEBLOS

damn the passive aggressiveness from Carlos and the absolutely over it tone from seb✋

CASWELL COUSINS!!!!! THEY'RE THE BEST!!!!

we needed more if this kind of goofiness for the first part of season 2 that only such an iconic duo can provide.

old old movies-

is it even that old, or is Nini being a gen alpha rn-

i choose to imagine EJ being scared of the movie and hiding in Ashlyn's shoulder while she keeps a straight face and then EJ pretending to be tough afterwards

aww redlyn are soulmates.... yknow, if gingers had souls

(please ignore me)

y'all saw how EJ's face *lit up* when Gina logged on? how dare you tell me he doesn't like her

ofc she's no damsel in distress, she's Gina porter, she's amazing.

so do we think she'd be the type to just glare at suspicious people? or bark at them

do they not know that Rini broke up? or is Ms Jenn just wanting Nini to suffer through her heartbreak to make her a better actress....

speaking of, why is Nini in the call? she's not in the show anymore. Unless she is, even after the rose and the song got cut, which would be so unfair to all those that auditioned properly before she even came back but whatever, she's the main character I get it 🙄

big red is a hero honestly, Nini better thank him for changing the subject like that

I can't-

i won't work you over the break-

this woman would 100% work her kids 24/7 if it was legal and idk how to feel about it.

YES GINA USE THAT CHARM

QUEEN

FRENCH QUEEN

SHE LEARNT FROM THE BEST (antoine obvi)

smh the airport lady, eavesdropping on Gina's call.

The way she was so happy to answer EJ's call, "eej"

I love them your honour.

EJ WITH PAINTED NAILS YES PLEASE

great now we need to see Gina, Ashlyn and EJ having a complete spa day and EJ getting really into it and Gina and Ashlyn take pictures of him when he's laying down in a robe with a mask and cucumbers on his eyes.

finally we get to see Gina's side of portwell

the way she considered it as flirting, this is the sign she asked for in episode 6 come onnnnn

no is Asher/jack really doing tiktok dances in an airport-

Ricky is me. I am burrito.

oh Lynne, sweetie, I'm sorry but the blonde hair is not it

is that even the same lady or-

THE BEAN

THE CHICAGO BEAN

THE BIG OLD METAL BEAN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY 😭

jetlag is my go to excuse for anything... I haven't travelled in 2 years.

"welcome to the Lynne and Mike gossip show. where we talk about our depressed son that we both neglect in certain ways! And now a word from our sponsor, Nord VPN..."

SO MANY CANDLES

WHAT DEMON IS LYNNE TRYING TO SUMMON IN HIS ROOM-

is Nina becoming social media obsessed EJ from season 1? AND SHE LIED ABOUT HAVING SONGS TOO PLEASE WHY ARW THEY RECYCLING THE SAME PLOT-

Gina smiling at the picture of her family on Instagram makes me so happy, idek why.

EJ's nails are so pretty, we needed to see it more (unless he had it on for the rest of the episode and I just.... didn't notice🧍🏽‍♀️)

oh not the tiktok kid✋

yes ma'am end this strange mans whole tiktok career

sir take a hint and leave

GINA NO DONT SAY YOUR LAST NAME HE COULD BE A HUMAN TRAFFICKER

Ricky, walking in style✨

weird kid, ok then Lynne, can't you see he's this close to the edge?

not all your fault baby Ricky, Nini sucks a bit more

RICKY YOU DIDN'T COME DOWN HARD ON THE SONG-

YOU ASKED WHAT IT WAS ABOUT AND SHE SHUT YOU DOWN-

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME YOURSELF

ok but the deleting comment thing was very bad

still don't know if I like Jack honestly

hmmm so Nini's calling herself Nini instead of Nina in her little egg seat, while trying to write a song without inspiration.... Nini, honey, Ricky was your muse, he inspired you to write all those songs, even if it wasn't good for the relationship.

that doesn't mean you gotta get back with him, or that you can't write a song that not about him butttt it'll take some time

the rainbow sticker in her box and her rainbow shirt-

anyways wbk she's not totally straight

Jack are you a criminal?

quick, Gina, check his ankle for a tracker

THE YES AND PRACTICE STRIKES AGAIN

the way Gina wasn't into it in episode 6 but she's used the technique twice now

stole her grandma's Pomeranian-

Jack where the hell did you pull that out from-

the fake crying killed me, that looks like so much fun though

anyone wanna raid a first class lounge with me?

wait so is jack not gonna go in with her?

wouldn't he go in too? help look for the credit card? SO CONFUSED

the first class lounge guy was so into the drama though, watch his face when they start arguing 😭

sorry to break this to you Kourtney, but you haven't even blocked the second act yet soooo...

take that as you will

I love how all of them are totally dissing the dance off

that's the most realistic part of this show tbh

shouldn't Nini have asked how she knew....since the start? why is the fact that her best friend has knowledge of a North high secret now dawning on her...

Howie is sweet honestly, at least he's trying to help. but I stand with Kourtney, don't take him back just because he sang an amazing song, and is giving you a heads up on what's gonna happen...

KOURTNEY IS ME TRYING TO LEAVE AN ONLINE CLASS

I hate school

ooo Nini's writing a song about bad internet connection 🤩🤩🤩

I never lie, except when I do-

son that is the creepiest thing you could say to a stranger that you've been "helping"

2 truths and a lie👀

he's an Ariana fan 100%

called it.

OLDER BROTHER-

WHAT-

free spirit? damn so brother porter was in that horse movie

so has she been kissed or not?????????

I feel like she's moved more than 15 times though so possibly

but then if she's moved so much, and before east high she never opened up to anyone, she's never been kissed then?? damn

same though Gina so let's be besties please

heartbreak president is a great song title idea, give Nini a call rn

but wait

is the no strings attached feeling thing about her telling Ricky she liked him? she thought she was moving away so she thought it'd be no strings attached???

guys I think I figured it out insert the "I've connected two dots" meme

THE DUKE SWEATSHIRT

IS THAT YOUR BOYFRIEND'S

OMG I LOVE I LOVE

NOT THAT I KNOW OF???

ma'am did you just kill me

yes you did

Lynne and Ricky have such a weird relationship

YES IT DID SUCK

TODD SUCKS

LYNNE SUCKS

yeah I get that you wanted Ricky to like Todd BUT THAT WASN'T THE TIME

right so we already know that Ricky was so desperate to keep Nini cuz he didn't want to be like his parents, and now Lynne's talking about this-

Richard needs a long hug

yes Lynne, it is your fault. thank you for finally admitting it.

YES DYE YOUR HAIR

BLOND HIGHLIGHTS RICKY WILL RISE AGAIN

"sometimes the best, last thing you can do for someone you love, is let them go."

gotta admit I teared up at that point

not me thinking big red was calling ms Jenn cupcake for a hot second-

Carlos please omg, you're at the "beach" and they're leaving for the pool?

also, why not just do the call from the hotel room please omg

"don't ask me"

"Carlos"

OMG WHAT HAPPENED

big red wants the tea

O M G

SEB IS JEALOUS

JEALOUS SEBBY IS MY FAVOURITE THING IDC

I'm surprised ms Jenn knew how to give Nini permission to screenshare tbh

So lily's been stalking the East high kids and spending time editing this video while she's supposedly in an immersion trip.... right

EJ and Ashlyn's picture is so chaotic, what even is happening there

"slacking off" bestie its spring break, obviously they're confident enough that they'll get it done in time so why not focus on your own musical.

jealous seb = sassy seb

please what if those guys Carlos is posing with are his cousins or something and that's why he's so confused about Seb

6 YEAR OLD EJ I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM

Nini saying she's obsessed with her ex, that's not weird at all 👍

I can just tell Matt had a blast harassing Julia with those puppets.

Jack please dont be like that, "yet"

chances are you'll never see eachother again 🥰

(honestly sometimes I really miss those friends I made on trips and stuff when we'd spend the day or week together, only to never see them again....those were the good days though)

Ashlyn and Nini should write more songs..... something better than this one at least

Nini: "im good"

cue the Tia Mowry (please I can't spell) crying gif

oh I forgot Ricky was in the show for a hot second

1. where did Gina get to film this without people being around

2. did she just... randomly change her clothes???

ok but the transition between Carlos and EJ

*chefs kiss*

now everyone shut up, EJ's singing

oh i think I'm pregnant

HIS MUSCLES

YES KOURTNEY

I love how big red and Kourtney went from being "the best friends™" to the couple in season 1, to kinda close themselves and having their own plots

sebby makes me so happy

props to biggies editing skills honestly

PORTWELL BEING SIDE TO SIDE I CANT

AND SEBLOS OMG

big red lives for the drama

"wow" so true Ricky

no he is not cute, stop it

"holding" ok that's kinda cute

yeah EJ's a lucky guy😌

jokes aside, it's not that hard to exchange numbers-

keep in touch if you want

ok I really like Jack now

if he comes back in season 3, maybe have him be LGBTQ+ ?

like the only out characters they have rn are Seb and Carlos and they're like the sterotypes, yk?

I'd love to see jack kinda break the mold

Ricky's breaking my heart

that song just hurts

the only thing

now I don't hate Lynne????????

HOW DARE THEY WRITE IN A PROPER REDEMPTION ARC FOR HER

UGH IM SUPPOSED TO HATE HER FOREVER

I mean I don't live her now but she's good

but honestly

"mom can I show you something"

IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL

THE PICTURE AND EVERYTHING OMG

I'm sobbing please help

Gina saying she's just waiting for the right guy and then EJ coming to the airport to pick her up late at night without her asking, offering to bring her back in the morning so she won't have to Uber, bringing her a granola bar (WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT SHE FORGOT TO PACK) and without expecting anything in return???

ms ma'am you've got a keeper right there

her smile at the end was so heartwarming I really can't.

this episode was great.

it felt really short but I liked it, great character development for Ricky, Lynne and Gina.

Cant wait for next episode to see more of EJ being the ideal boyfriend /hj

#hsmtmts #hsmtmts s2 #hsmtmts season 2 #hsmtmts spoilers #ej caswell #ricky bowen #gina porter #seblos #nini salazar roberts #jack hsmtmts #carlos rodriguez #seb mathew smith #kourtney greene #big red #ashlyn caswell #caswell cousins #portwell will be the death of me #guac's episode text blocks :)

[jazajas]

okay so i finished love, victor a while ago and i saw some other reviews and thoughts about it here so now i've got a pretty good list on my thoughts and feelings.

tl;dr: it has some issues, yes, but im gonna hold out and hope it gets better later on because the same thing happened with the first few eps, i wasn't that into it but then it got good, and nothing is ever great with the first season, because at that point we're getting used to those characters.

⚠️caution: spoilers ahead (im on mobile, i cant get an under-the-cut)⚠️

1. while a leah on the offbeat movie would have been amazing movie sequel (even tho i havent read the book yet, im just here for the wlw content) i am kind of glad we got this instead. mostly because I've seen book series where one movie was good, so they decide to do the rest, turn out bad (hunger games? divergent? percy jackson? the hobbit?) because so much was cut from the book-to-first movie writing, that other scenes wouldn't make sense to future movies if they had those in while cutting others. however, i am sad that i didn't get to make the choice of deciding whether what was cut was wrong etc. about future movies, but i'll take what i can get.

2. LGBTQ+ POC as a lead! that's amazing! as a ace/bi lantina that's close to home (it also is great that victor's from texas and so is ya gorl) and even then it's a mixed latinx family! i think pilar mentioned that at least the grandmother left Colombia and i saw the Puerto Rican flag in victor's room. also the salazar's are definitely from small town texas, even without knowing the name. (church barbeques, the use of the words "such a diverse city" in regards to atlanta)

3. a lack of actual lgbtq+ main storylines (so far) is kind of sad for a show like this. i was getting serious bi/pan vibes (as a lot of other people) from victor from the beginning, and when it was implied that victor was actually gay (while great, not shaming) as it has been brought to my attention, there was a lot of looking at a lot of straight relationship problems (please let us know more about benji)- edit 6/18: upon further consideration, it very much is a show about questioning your sexuality, I'm speaking about the other straight relationship issues, not mia and Victor's, its just the first season.

4. let us talk about cheating for a sec. never okay, in any circumstance. i feel sorry for mia that she saw victor making out with benji and the fact that he was doing any of that in the first place. victor made a choice to lie about the espresso machine and then kissed benji at the hotel and then when benji was fighting with derek, basically confessed his love and mistakes, then proceeded to makeout with benji after he broke up with derek, he built that grave and now he must lie in it. i get having feelings for a guy when you are in a relationship with a girl, and not accepting yourself enough to end that relationship but you really want it to work so you can be "normal". really, he should have told mia after he got back from the trip tho. i get being in highschool and doing stupid stuff and making dumb decisions, but for a show aimed at teens i think we should also remind said teens to make good choices even if we have to lose some realism within the character choices.

4. pilar and her decisions based off her brother pissed me off. because i honestly think that if she'd kept her mouth shut about what she knew or confronted victor about it in the first place we could have avoided a LOT of mess. did she not learn from snooping around her mother's business about her relationships that going behind a person's back doesnt end well? i did, however, like the pilar/felix friendship and was really kind of hoping that they'd get together during their coffee hangout (although now im glad that didn't happen) because they had a deeper understanding of each other. same with wendy/felix, although they do seem to much alike to work out in the long run but i still feel bad for wendy.

5. i don't know how i feel about lake and andrew, as people separate from each other. both seem to be the way they are from their upbringing (not confirmed why andrew is such an ass, but if his comment about his dad is anything to go by i bet it's got something to do with attention) but andrew seems to be less, idk, superficial? like he turned down mia because he didn't want to be a rebound, he didn't out victor, he actually stood up to early teasing the other dudes in the lockerroom were doing at victor (with teasing of his own obviously but that interaction had him on my nice list until much later). lake? lake. i honestly don't have an opinion of her? not really. i mean after hanging out with pilar i was hoping felix wouldn't go back to lake. is her name laken? i feel like her full name is laken. but they also played the "im only like this because my mom is really superficial about stuff and i do like the geeky nice guy but appearances" to "actually screw the norms im gonna makeout with him infront of the whole student body". i honestly thought she was gonna be bi because she kept hitting on mia when she was helping set up for her "date" and "big night" and there was one point where i saw her face fall at something mia said in relation to her and idk i was hoping she'd be bi (i figured early on that victor/mia wasnt gonna work and was like "oh mia/lake would be cute" but now idk.

6. okay on to the "big night", i have one word. NO. i didn't like the peer pressure into having sex. i agreed with felix when he said "your body your choice" but im also disappointed that victor made out with mia and when lake was talking to felix after victor left he didn't try to stand up for victor.

7. on to age gaps because i hadn't really thought of this at first. we'll start with benji/derek: WHAT GRADE IS BENJI?! because that determines my thoughts. if he's a sophomore that meant that he and Derek started dating benji's freshman year and thats eugh, don't do that, don't care if its a gay couple that shouldn't be happening because the maturity of the two characters is DRASTICALLY different (this is also a reason i am not a fan of cmbyn) but that would explain why they were so rocky. hoping the event at the gay bar was open to anyone not just for drinking, but not liking that fact that not one of the adults with victor were like: hey, this is a 16 year old, that's kind of wack when that dude was hitting on victor. that made me question some stuff. although i figure it might be making up for the lack of a gay bar scene in love, simon. but even then, in svthsa it's a restaurant with a bar that some people go to just to drink at, it wasn't just a bar, simon could be there but should NOT have accepted drinks from college kids, not matter how attractive.

8. i loved how bram and simon and their friends helped victor out though. i like how bram was like: hey i know my friends are a lot so here's a gay basketball league becaue there's no one way to be gay. i like how Simon talked about needing help himself just to help victor and how he said his friends were cool with it because it's a community. i like of justin(?) mentioned how being what his parents wanted was putting on a mask and pretending, not him doing drag. my favorite lines from that ep are: "and before you ask my pronouns are they/them/theirs" "'they're all gay? even that guy? he's like [insert really tall number]' 'yeah. you should see him in heels'" "or in simon's case: really unathletic" "and also because bram said that if i wore [the jean jacket] one more time he'd burn it". also katya was there. and the group hug too!

9. the back hand homophobia in relation to family is sad, but realistic and i sincerely hope his parents are kind enough not to be too harsh on victor because of it. anything they say that isn't positive or supportive of victor is bad but i hope they realize that there is more to him than that and that they can come to terms with it because it's not always that hard to be a part of that community and super religious. i am biromantic and catholic. and while there are some things i wont agree on my mom with, i know that it's more of a strike against God for kicking out gay kids from families than it is to be gay, because those parents were given trust by GOD to love those kids no matter what, and be good parents. so in the end, the parents are wrong and harmful and in the case of christians against jesus's teachings to love everyone.

10. this is fan speculation but dont think simon/bram are going through a rough patch? i honestly think it'd be a little cruel to the characters to have on of their actors be producing but then not have that relationship stay. and while it's not set in stone and obviously things happen in the real world, we have no proof script wise about there being a rift. all we have are bad photoshopped ig photos and scenes where two characters are never standing next to each other probably beccaue schedules never link up correctly for minor characters. who knows, maybe nick robinson was filming for a movie where is does have an even more major role than victor's gay guru in a series about victor so his filming time was around that. im gonna keep hope that things are okay.

11. that being said: we need more mainstream wlw content, because someone said it earlier and it really does seem to be catering to straight girls. i'll admit i did freak out when benji played call me maybe which is something i associated with him and victor but then kissed a guy because who wouldn't? we get that serenade and sweetness and then it'a ripped from us. but i did mellow out. if i flipped later it was because victor was making dumb decisions and i had to give myself a moment of compsure before i continued.

in the end, i'd say that there is a lot of growth this series needs to go through, but i also know that some people just aren't going to like it and i get that. but i also know that sometimes the best of stories have rocky starts, nothing is ever perfect from the beginning. and besides, further seasons are on hold until we figure out this covid thing, which means that you bet they're gonna be looking at our feedback. they saw what we thought before, they can do it again

i really did like it but we need more ACTUAL lgbtq+ relationship stuff from this series and better decisions on what we are teaching the younger generations, as well as what we want to focus on and realism within characters. i'm giving it an 8/10, because there is always room for growth and i really hope we get better things out of this than what we have been given in season 2.

edit: someone mentioned it really seeming like it was meant for Disney+ and i felt that. also to anyone who reaches the tags agter reading ALL OF THIS: i am sorry

#love victor spoilers #love victor #love simon #simon vs the homosapiens agenda #leah on the offbeat #simon spier #bram greenfeld #victor salazar #felix weston #jas rambles #i have opinions #and i am very tired #just like in general #like my current state of being #although i am tired of straight being constantly shoved down the thoughts of lgbtq+ people #and like the state of the world because people are bigoted a-holes #but like #it's nice that they upped the airing because they didn't want to conlfict with juneteenth #although now im questioning motives on why #was is out of support? or the want if making money #who knows #i sure dont #i hoped there aren't too many grammatical errors

[c4-weeb]

Hey, I know everyone on here doesnt like.....know me at all but I just want to get this off my chest. Cause what if someone else out there is going through the same thing you know?

. . . In reality I dont even know why I'm posting this. . .

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Not gonna lie I'm REALLY afraid to post this

But anyways welcome to my Ted talk lol

Tw: this is about sexuality and being confused about it and it's like my little breakdown over not knowing how to handle this... so fair warning lol

So....you all know how nurse rachet on netflix goes through a lot of lgbtq+ topics? Especially lesbianism and puts it together with religion telling us how sinful it is, while others think it's not and others think it's a disease..... I just.... I feel so confused.

Like am I asexual because I seriously dont feel any sexual attraction to people and I dont particularly care for intercourse. Like I'm on that spectrum of having little to no sexual attraction to any gender, but I have a very take it or leave it thing about sex. Like i dont want it, nor crave it, or need it. I dont get turned on by someone's looks but if I participate in sex I do it mainly for their pleasure but that doesn't mean that in the act I cant feel it and dont want any release of my own. I mean it's the human body, how can someone's body not react to it if done right?

But then theres bisexuality of where I've dated men and women before and I dont really care, as long as I like them as a person but I do still have my preferences in looks but that doesnt mean those preferences turn me on exactly. Just means I feel more comfortable and right to be with someone that looks or acts how they do and make me feel loved in the process.

Then there are times of where I wonder if I'm just a closeted lesbian trying to deny it when I just have such a big impulse to make out with another woman. Like I keep imagining having a woman kiss me deeply or when I hug another woman I think about how fitting it feels to hug their curves and how it feels right but I've been surrounded by my family during quarantine and having a ton of sisters it's weird. It's not like I'm attracted to them but its not like if I was hugging another lady and it not feel right. I mean plush skin, nice curves, and beautiful hair I can play with whether it's short or long.

. . . But it's so confusing I had to stop doing everything and just go in the bathroom as the lyrics "Oh hannah, I dont wanna be your friend I wanna kiss your lips" haunts my mind. Dont get me wrong it's a great song and it's just what I relate to right now. It's not influencing me to think these ways (at least i dont think, but again not the songs fault, nor the artist) but it's just what I relate to so badly right now.

My minds been buzzing for the last 2 hours over my intrusive thoughts and it's gotten to the point of where I understood why exactly the actors in movies, when worked up, splash water in their face.

At first I turned on hot water to wash my hands to make it seem like I used the bathroom but then, while hunched over the sink I felt the burning feeling of the water as it hit my hands. It reminded me of when I would turn the water on so hot it would burn my skin red when I was upset and wanted to punish myself or calm down my burning anger for what ever reason I had.....but as I had my hands under the scolding water I asked if this was sinful to think this way.

Then the question of "what would my family say if I showed up with a girl one day?" "How would they react?" And then more and more overwhelming thoughts over took my mind.

It got to the point I had to switch the water to cold and splash my face with cold water. In that moment I felt better for a second. So I did it again, and again,and again, until i felt like I was in a cold pool diving into the deep end, as the cold water engulfed my body in this pure calmness.

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Of course I still looked like a panicked mess with teary eyes as if I had just been told a deadline for a school project was tomorrow and nothing was done yet and I had a breakdown over it. (Might have happened more than I'd like to admit lmao)

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Other than that I just dont really know what to say now.... like just dont think you're alone if you're going through this too alright? One day everything will be clear (I hope lol). But if you have any advice I'd love some. Other than that this was just another stupid Ted talk I'm sorta afraid to post.

#lgbtq #lgbt rant #confused #guidance #ted talks #someone please help lol #coming out

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When She Calls Me Pretty, I Feel like Somebody

When she calls me pretty, I feel like somebody by skaterfiend

Metis, one of the last mages in Paris, while running away from her problems, dessided to help the beloved superheroes. she didn't exect to fall in love with the Miraculous team reject. Or to get a found family.

Words: 1219, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Original Female Character(s), Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Kagami Tsurugi, Alix Kubdel, Marc Anciel, Max Kanté, Lê Chiến Kim, idk like people from the show?, too lazy to tag everyone, just stay with me, Chloé Bourgeois

Relationships: Chloé Bourgeois/Original Female Character(s), Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Juleka Couffaine/Rose Lavillant, Marc Anciel/Nathaniel Kurtzberg, Ivan Bruel/Mylène Haprèle, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe, Max Kanté/Lê Chiến Kim, most are gonna be minor, but all are gonna be/gonna get together, ill die with these ships, sue me, Chloé Bourgeois & Everyone, Original Female Character & Everyone, Alix Kubdel/Kagami Tsurugi

Additional Tags: Lesbian Chloé Bourgeois, Chloé Bourgeois Redemption, Bee Chloé Bourgeois | Queen Bee, Chloé Bourgeois Needs a Hug, jesus she deserved better, fuck you thomas astruc, original female character is kinda? based off of me, i wanna escape reality sue me, i hate my life so i imagined myself in this stupid cartoon, dissociation is a bitch, gabriel agrest is a pice of shit, Bad Parent Gabriel Agreste, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir Needs a Hug, or two, Bisexual Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug Is Not Okay, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug Needs a Break, Bisexual Alya Césaire, Fox Alya Césaire | Rena Rouge, Bisexual Nino Lahiffe, Nino Lahiffe Knows, Turtle Nino Lahiffe | Carapace, Lesbian Kagami Tsurugi, Dragon Kagami Tsurugi | Ryuko, Badass Kagami Tsurugi, Queer Alix Kubdel, Gay Marc Anciel, Goat Marc Anciel, Gay Max Kanté, Horse Max Kanté | Pegasus, Bisexual Lê Chiến Kim, Monkey Lê Chiến Kim | Roi Singe, LGBTQ Themes, Identity Reveal, Mages, Alternate Universe - Magic, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Episode: s03 Ladybug, basically i will remake miracle queen, again fuck you thomas astruc, i know you didnt write it but how did you allow such bullshit to be shown to us, Lila Rossi Bashing, Lila Rossi's Lies Are Exposed, fuck lie-la, i will explain in the fic why she doesnt deserve a redemtion and chloé does, cockmoth is a pice of shit, Hawk Moth is Gabriel Agreste, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth Identity Reveal, No Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth Redemption, Enemies to Lovers, not realy more like hate to love, but idk, Fluff, Sharing a Bed, Team as Family, Team Bonding, Team Dynamics, Found Family, cause i hate my family, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, I need help, No beta we die like bad bitches, probably gonna be bad but i need escapism, idk how long it will be, just a bunch of kids figuring shit out, no realy why did master fu give miraculouses to a bunch of kids, age 16-17, not gonna write about 13 yo, This is probably gonna be violent, And a lot of swearing, rated T for violence swearing and triggering subjects, there will be warnings if the chapter is extra bad, noice enjoy i guess, wow thats a lot of tags, besically i need a way to control my dissociation so if you want you can come along for the ride, dont forget your seatbelts kids, cause its going to be a wild ride

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32411362

#AO3 Feed #FanFiction #AO3 Adrienette Plus #💚 #💖 #Adrienette Plus #Miraculous Ladybug #♧ #R:T #A:Skaterfiend #Reveal Fic #Witch AU

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My mum knew when I was really young that I wasnt straight. Not that she consciously recognised it. I was the child she constantly told that love was love. I could love whoever I wanted and that was okay. I was the child that was constantly told by my parents that gays deserved rights and that they would always love me no matter what. I was the child they excitedly told when gay marriage finally became legal.

I grew up repressed with severe internalized homophobia issues. To the point where to this day I still severely struggle with it.

My grandad doesnt believe in gay rights. He thinks it's a phase. That these people are ill. The village I grew up in was very Christian. Being gay was wrong. It was disgusting. Gay people needed serious mental help (ironically half the people my age that grew up there have turned out to be part of the lgbtq+ community).

I went to high school in the neighbouring city. Where everyone around me talked about how disgusting being gay is. The fear of a gay person in the changing rooms was talking about constantly. Gay adoption and marriage was considered wrong. Liking people of the same sex was considered disgusting and uncomfortable.

I was terrified everytime I had to get changed for pe. I was terrified to just look at other girls. And it didnt help that the majority of my friends were boys. I didnt spend much time with girls. The one girl I was good friends with- was suddenly the source of rumours. Everyone at school knew before I did. Talked about if before I accepted it.

She's gay.

I denied it. I didn't believe I was for a second. Did everything I possibly could to prove I wasn't. And yet for my last 2 years at school everyone made jokes about my sexuality. Told me I was gay and in love with my friend. (Maybe I was. Maybe I wasn't. I refused to process my emotions properly back then.) They joked about how I was only straight until I was horny. That I was so obviously gay. But it was a joke. A mocking thing that made me feel so horrific that I did awful, horrific things to prove everyone wrong. Things I have to live with, that i hate myself for. Just becaus every time someone suggested I might be gay, all I could think of was 'it's so wrong.' 'Its disgusting' 'its cruel to children to be raised by gay parents' '1 in 5 people are gay, I sure as hell hope it's never going to be me' 'nobody wants to be gay, it's an illness.' 'I cant be around gay people, they make me uncomfortable' 'they'll stare at you in the changing rooms' 'they'll force themselves on you'

I still cant share a bed with another girl without being terrified. I cant be in the same room as another woman getting changed - I havent had to deal with PE in a decade. Havent heard those whispers in a decade.

Every time I become friends with another girl I'm terrified of what will happen when they find out I'm gay. I can't connect with them properly.

And sometimes. Sometimes I just truly hate myself. I hate the fact I find women attractive. That I'd rather spend the rest of my life with a woman rather than a man. Sometimes, often, I still find that disgust curling up in my stomach.

It doesnt matter that I dont live there anymore. That I now live somewhere so open and so easy to accept everyone and anyone. It doesnt matter that I've admitted it to myself, my family, and my friends. That I tell people so easily, I'm gay.

I'm still terrified of what would happen if people from my home found out. I still hear their conversations. Their mocking words. I still feel the effects of their homophobia. And sometimes I still wish I could pretend I was straight.

I was lucky to be born into such an open and accepting family. But by god, I wish I'd been brought up where I live now. I wish I didnt lie in bed hating myself so much at times. I wish I could be at peace with who I am. Rather than wishing I could go back in time and somehow change myself.

I remember telling my mum I was gay, and her not understanding why I was so distraught. Because 'you should know by now I love you no matter what' - and I didnt know how to tell her society, my friends, our community, were all going to despise me. Hate me. Tell me I told you so. I told my dad minutes after he said he wished his daughters were gay bc he hated dealing with the heterosexual drama and boyfriends. He couldn't understand why I was crying, because he wanted gay children. He had told me my whole life he would always love me no matter what. I was free to love whoever I wanted. And I didnt know how to tell him the world made me feel like I was disgusting and wrong and my existence was even worse than that of rapists.

And my grandpa, who I dont get on with, who doesnt really like me, who I was sure hated the gay community (and he has since admitted that if it was years prior he would have disowned me over sexuality) emailed me to tell me he was proud of me, that being gay wasnt wrong and he had been wrong about how he felt about the lgbtq+ community.

My grandad still thinks I'm going through a phase.

My best friend came out to me in tears, telling me he wished he had known we were both struggling, so we could have at least had each other.

When I finally told my other friends. There was no 'I told you so's' suddenly talking about sexuality wasnt a thing. It was a taboo topic nobody wanted to deal with. The girl everyone joked I was in love with, slowly disappeared from my life.

It's funny until it's true. And that's when you really realise the jokes were really, truly jokes. They didnt believe what they were saying. They just enjoyed the rise they got out of you.

And when I think about being a teenager. Despite the fact its ten years long. The only thing I can truly remember is the internal and external homophobia. Everything else feels hazy. The good times. The bad. It's all a fog that's over-taken by the self-loathing that I still carry.

I wish I could tell my teenage self that it gets better.

I wish my parents would believe me when I tell them I dont blame them for living where they did. We couldn't afford to move. They loved me, they love me, and that's what matters.

I wish I hadnt spent so long chanting 'I'm not gay' before bed. Because I knew from the age of 13, and spent the rest of my teen years in denial. Telling myself I was wrong.

But then I see my sister. My sister who is 10 years younger than me. Who had a big sister come out when she was just 8 years old (I came out at 18, yet spent a further 2 years trying to prove I wasnt. I came out too early. But I figured myself out. Accepted myself more, with the help of my family, and my best friend). She has grown up with more progressive media. Has moved to a more progressive place. Hell, her school has an lgbtq+ club. She has one (1) straight friend. She came out as bisexual at 12. But the older shes getting she thinks that her male crushes were caused by heteronormality and she thinks she might be gay. And shes open. Shes proud. Shes unapologetic in who and what she is.

I think about my self hatred. My self-loathing. About my internalised homophobia. I think of every night I spent lying in bed thinking 'One in five people is gay, it's not me. It won't be me. I'm not gay.' And I look at my little, wonderfully, unapologetically herself, little sister. And I think, that every struggle I've ever been through is worth it. If she gets to feel proud of herself because I've come out. Because my parents had to move bc of me. Because I've done everything I can to support her. To love her. To pretend to love myself for who I am in front of her.

Every day I struggle, I think to myself she doesnt have to. I'm one of the last millennials. She's gen z. And shes not my kid. But theres such a large age gap that I feel that generational difference. And I can't have children of my own. And suddenly, I find myself understand what my parents mean when they say that their suffering was worth it whenever they see us gain something out of it. Making things easier for someone you love, for someone so young, it makes it almost feel like it was worth it.

That trauma is going to stay with me. But my coming out too early, is what had my sister questioning her own sexuality. And it happened early enough in her life. She was questioning it before she hit her teens. She told me she knew she liked girls before she hit ten. But she wasnt too sure what that meant. And she wa worried because biphobia in our family is bad. But the we moved away. And she was watching adventure time and steven universe. And I was suddenly openly accepting myself and flirting with girls. And making jokes about my sexuality. And she came out. So young. So proud. And my parents were accepting of her bisexuality (albeit worried about how the rest of the family would react). And I did what I could to support her. Buying badges and flags and taking her to pride. And now shes come out as fully gay and I'm so happy and hoe safe she felt her journey has been. That at 15 she isnt scared to tell her friends (and they're not afraid to tell her). At 15 she might actually have a girlfriend. And shes been to pride. Goes to pride.

And I am so, so proud of her.

I would love to go back in time and tell myself that it's okay to accept who I am. But I cant.

But my sister grew up knowing it was okay to accept who she was. And my coming out helped my best friend accept who he was.

I didnt have any lgbtq+ friends growing up (that I knew about). There were no clubs. No tv shows. My only support was my mum and my dad.

My sister has a club. She has our family. Her friends. Her school (no awful changing room comments. No snide remarks) She has an open and accepting community. I feel so relieved that she'll (hopefully, pls universe, be kind to her) never have the same experiences I did.

#this is a shitty rant #i dont know where my head is tonight #i guess im just depressed #and wanting hugs #and its that stupid anniversary coming up #so i guess im hating myself a little more #my sister just recame out last week #so maybe that also is playing a part #im so proud of her #i love her #ignore #long post

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" Hope is a dangeous thing" Michael Guerin's words of wisdom! He said it to Max and said it to Maria! But I really hope every single MALEX fan took it to heart cause it was really meant for US!

I dont care what people say in this fandom anymore. "I dont want to hear spoilers" " no spoilers" " you should tag your shit as a spoiler" NO IM NOT GOING TO! Ya know why?? Because Carina herself wouldnt have shown her shit if she didnt want SPOILERS OUT!! DUHH! And Im ranting because Im sick of the headgames with this show..it ridiculous..no wonder why people in this fandom are dropping like flies.

And Im sick and tired of the back and forth between M/M and M/A. Im sick of the headgames with the showrunner as well! One day its " Oh its Maria..shes his light" and whatever else is spewed. And the next its " Ohh Michael and Alex there journey is from darkness to light" and whatever other bullshit is spewed. Cause in reality its all Bullshit to keep Malex fans and Miluca fans to keep watching and fighting. If you ever cared to look at the ratings for season 1 they were abysmal. Only the first 2 episodes got over a million viewers. Which is horrible..but in full disclosure Theres only 1 CW show that has really any kind of following ( and hint hint its not Supernatural..That shows ratings are going down faster then a hooker on payday). Believe me I did the research. I dont understand why they are putting it after a tanking show if they want more viewers ( No disrespect to Supernatural, my daughter and husband love this show). But I digress..

The show runners know where there bread is buttered on this show and it is with MALEX fans. It even overshadows the Liz/Max shippers and Definitely over shadows Michael and Maria. Hell Vlamis and Tyler realized it pretty quickly..Vlamis made a sold out Merch line because of it. And they are the captains of this ship because they see the potential of how big it can be. Hell even the CW pr team figured it out! Thats why in the trailer we saw Malex and no Miluca?? Its not rocket science to figure this out!

So why now are the showrunners literally shitting on the LGBTQ+ community by taking away the only couple that represent that population on that show?? Then placating the community with "ooh Alex gets a new love interest" and the obscure and downright awkward " oh someone who Identified as straight in the beginning of the season will not be at the end". What a FUCKING FARCE! Like really?? As a community are we that desperate or obtuse?? Did nobody roll there eyes at this bullshit? Or am I the only one? We have a perfectly "cosmic" gay ship in front of us! Yes with baggage..no denying that..but thats the drama of TV I get it.

The reason is because the showrunners have no plans to make Malex anymore. There I said it and I SAW IT FIRSTHAND! In 2x01 Michael told Alex straight up they "were done" it was pretty cut and dry and lasted all of 2 mins...good to know Malex fans get two mins of heartbreak..that should tell you something. While Michael and Maria had 3 scenes..maybe more together. Granted they were not together at the end of 2x01 but According to Heather they will be trying to " ignite the spark between them" for the entire season. And that they're love is " exciting and blah blah blah".. No one gives a shit. Least of all me. But you can clearly see thats where its headed.

Also in season 1 there were some big hints too that I myself overlooked but they were glaring but subtle like the Max/Cam love scene intertwined with the Michael/Alex scene and the song playing in the background..that was telling... You dont see Max and Cam together. Or 1x12 prison scene " Cant love me" playing in the background and the words Michael spit at Alex..I dont think they were complete lies. Michael felt them on some lvl. And Alex's own words " Sometimes the world ends with a wimper, Guerin".. Those were all meant for Malex shippers as well.

And what about this "see if we can " be friends" or " we didn't even know each other" bullshit! I hate those lines..Like really?? Michael moved back to Roswell when he was 11..which meant that they went to school and living in a small town grew up together. At least for 7 or so yrs. They must have knew each other just for the simple fact of the Liz/Max dynamic..I grew up in many a small town i know this dynamic well. EVERYONE LITERALLY KNOWS EVERYONE! Maybe they didn't really hook up till the end of senior year. But they knew each other and I can almost bet that Alex admired Michael's protectiveness and Michael admired Alex's strength. And they also must have known about each others abusive pasts to a point..logic dictates that. And relationships have been built and survived on less.And if the showrunners wanted to make them " friends" for a time I could even tolerate it..tolerate being the operative word.

But no Michael's gonna "light the spark" with Maria..because in reality thats what the showrunners want. They dont give a shit about Malex working through their shit like logic adults would. And that's fine It just frustrates me that I was sold a lie..and every Malex shipper was too. Wake up fellow shippers and see it too. Or dont..Lies are comfortable like a warm blanket on a cold night. Everyone has some delusion they cling to..much like hope.

My last frustration with the ending of this ship will be that it is laid solely at Alex's feet. "He kept walking away", " He abandoned Michael for 10 yrs", "He left him behind", "I love him, I probably always will..but hes tied to all these horrible memories in my life. All the things his family did to mine. Coming back to him always feels like a crash landing" or the newest and deepest when Alex was giving him the file from Caulfield " Manes men did this to her".. Its always going to be Alex's fault. I wonder if Tyler knew the full extent of the way Alex was gonna be shit on. I dont think Tyler being openly queer himself would be ok with that kind of representation of the Gay community. Its pretty jarring... Honestly I can almost guarantee they probably " promised" him a more normal gay relationship with this new " character" Forrest. Whatever the case may be its still bullshit. Michael seems to hold no responsibility to it.

And Michael will still get the girl and be in his hetero relationship with Maria..because Im asking the question..is he really bi? Evidence in the show doesn't specifically back that up. The only man we see him with is Alex..I havent heard or seen him with other men. Even Michael himself said "Its just him..screws me up".. So maybe "Pan" is a better description?

So RIP Malex! It was good while it lasted.."cosmic" even..but the showrunners killed you off before you even got the opportunity to take flight! ( This is a rant about the showrunners and writers for the fake promise of Malex. I seriously have no issue with Maria or the actress per se...and if the showrunners wanted M/M they should have just started in Season 1 with them).

#roswell new mexico #roswell cw #roswellnm #malex #alex manes #michael guerin

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Something off my chest...just a rant via /r/atheism

Submitted May 08, 2021 at 06:56PM by CaptainBirthday (Via reddit https://ift.tt/3b9PrGc) Something off my chest...just a rant

Total atheist here pro LGBTQ.pro science. Some of my friends are liberal christians and they try to get me to take a second look at the Bible and not let the bad "christians" ruin it for me. Sorry not sorry-- my issue is the source material ....not the fandom.

So many liberal christians are lightning quick to say the Bible has been mistranslated and manipulated but they don't pause to consider that the majority of these shenanigans are to make it look BETTER.

The oldest and most reliable texts are still a book that commands stoning gays and atheists and even your own wife if you believe she isn't a virgin on your wedding night, outright genocide, winks at and condones slavery, treats women like cattle (on a good day, often it's worse) and Jesus shows up right on cue to say in Matthew 5 that all of this is absolutely fine and not one "jot or tittle" should be changed.

The rules change for sure and Jesus moves the bar up quite a bit but while things are different...he and the writers of the New Testament never actually say the old way was wrong or anything less than perfect.

The gospel story is essentially saying that man could not live up to gods law so Jesus had to die and take the punishment for us. Stop there...man couldn't live up to gods law---laws like stoning people for being gay. Man failed to enforce holy laws like this so Jesus came.

David says in Psalms that he meditates day and night on God's law. At the time of David writing this, there is no new testament so all he has is the law. Laws like how to sell your daughters as slaves (Exodus 20) and how to cut off your wife's hand if she injures a man's testes trying to save YOUR life (Deuteronomy 25 and 21)

So David, presumably a rapist (Bathsheba) who circumcises corpses for trophies, is called a man after God's own heart and has hundreds of wives and kills Bathsheba's husband so he can have her too.

The new testament doubles down on anti homosexual attitudes (Romans) and introduces hell to the story as a great motivator for loving God, this awesome character.

Yes you can cherry pick. Yes people have biases, but the absolute con of modern Christianity has no power on me. The slant goes both ways. Jesus is supposed to be God. If this is true in ANY way, then Jesus is guilty of laying out these laws. If Jesus really did break up a stoning for the woman caught in adultery, it's amazing the BALLS he has because the only reason they're doing it in the first place is because he/god commanded it in the first place and on dozens of occasions in the Books of the law, which by the way--Jesus never criticizes.

In the end you can say it was a different time and people were primitive but I got some questions for you:

When did genocide and slavery become wrong or were they always wrong?

Does god command these things and condone them in the Bible?

Was it good to do these things because God commanded it? If so, morality is relative and there's no real right or wrong in an objective sense.

One more for free-- stop saying we don't know what the original copies said. I see people on FB all the time saying that King James or someone else changed things.

King James lives in the 1500s. The Old Testament manuscripts are virtually Xeroxed for centuries leading up to this. New testament texts have some wonkiness for sure but the overwhelming majority of these were actually tweaked to make Jesus and his teachings appear BETTER.

Six years of seminary and 25 years of church y'all. I walked away from a lucrative (compared to a real job anyway) career in church and have a customer service job because I refuse to lie to children, others or myself about a disgusting book that should only be used for it's historic and aesthetic/poetic influence on the English language and art.

God is not real, and if there is a god, it's not the one in the Bible, and if you actually understand the Bible--this is very, very good news.

I love posts about this liberal Jesus who "hung out" with sex workers and was down with LGBTQ and BLM and I love those memes and posts because it pisses off Christians. But if you believe Jesus was real and was God, he commanded LGBTQ people to be murdered with rocks like a rabid dog in the street.

Your only move here is to say that Jesus wasn't god or somehow all the verses you don't like are fake and all the ones you do are real. Or that you have a super secret psychic connection to God and he divvies it up for you....or maybe as a long stretch you believe that God has improved and gotten with the times. If god got better over time then he wasn't god.

Everything you just read is my personal opinion, not any of my friends or family, just my own. And it has cost me everything...but along the way I have made a couple of friends and a wife and I can look myself in the mirror and not feel like a fraud trying to live a comfy life of pretending the Bible isn't dripping with ignorance, hate, lies-- and blood.

I know there are very progressive churches who are affirming to women and LGBT but they are doing so in SPITE of and not because of , the Bible which at best could support a kind of love the sinner hate the sin platitude.

The Ex Christians who are LGBTQ don't need a church to forgive them and "accept" them. They don't need to be forgiven. The backwards ass churches across America should be the ones seeking forgiveness for their war on culture and science that has made everything from Civil Rights to evolution, abortion access, pornography, and many other issues--as slow as it has been while secular countries have been far out in front for decades.

Rant over. Free your mind and other body parts. Be happy with life we know we have and love everyone. Treat everyone with kindness and humility. Run from religion and anything else that has all the answers. Question every thing.

P.S. I would love your comments but please don't hit me with the "it was a different time" or you can't compare modern society with ancient society. You can and you should. That's how we HAVE a modern society. And while people were more primitive back in the day, God is Eternal so he shouldn't be struggling with why slavery is wrong or stoning your wife, marrying 10 year olds or a million other things. If he can make animals talk and part the sea he can definitely tell people about the room temperature morality that would far exceed the one he props up in his word.

So choose God ain't real Gods real but the Bible isn't Gods real and the parts of the bible you like are real by sheer chance. Everything you dont like in the bible was out there by an outsider and corrupted, which is just what I said above with more steps lol.

Genocide. Slavery. Rape. Incest. Extreme patriarchy .child brides. Ethnic cleansing. Fairy tales. That's what the Bible is.

Change my mind

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the beautiful, luminous, inimitable @violaeade​ tagged me for 50 book questions!

1. What is your favourite book and/or book series of all time?

oh maybe everything leads to you by nina lacour! it just really gets to me

2. What is the longest book you have ever read? How many pages?

uhh idk what’s the longest harry potter book bc probably that? i dont... read books that long usually

3. What is the oldest book you have ever read? (Based on its written date)

ummm i think and then there were none by agatha christie? i dont keep track by time tbh but i dont read that many old books bc i tend to have trouble reading them

4. What is a book series that everyone else loves but you do not?

the raven cycle lol

5. What book or book series would you like to see turned into a film/ TV series?

oh god most of them? 99% of the lesbian ones for sure. percy jackson would make an excellent animated movie series imo. i’m clearly biased but tasu/teota would be great on screen. 

6. What is your favourite stand-alone book?

most of the gay ones i read are standalones and theres so many good ones... i already said everything leads to you but we are okay and you know me well are also extremely good! of fire and stars killed me as well. 

7. What is a book that you feel glad for not reading?

god. straight ones? ones that i heard are racist or homo/lesbo/bi/transphobic, but in general i’m picky abt what i read bc i don’t read that many books.

8. What is a book that you feel guilty for not reading?

i was gonna say i don’t feel guilty about not reading books i don’t like/don’t want to but that’s a lie- babe if ur reading this i am SO sorry i never finished the last chaos walking book

9. What is a book you have read that is set in your country of birth?

most of them lol that’s what i get for living in america. i read we are okay pretty recently which takes place in new york, the state i was born in, so that’s a bit more specific.

10. What is a book that you own more than one copy of?

i have 2 copies of redwall for no reason other than my high school library was selling one for a dollar so i bought it even tho i had it already. i have a couple copies of some of the a wrinkle in time books bc i got some of them as gifts a bunch. 

11. What horror book made you really scared?

omg i don’t read horror but that one skulduggery pleasant short story about bubba moon or whatever freaked me the fuck out tbh

12. What book do you passionately hate?

um i haven’t read enough terrible books to say i hate them that passionately? but i rly kinda hated trc. oh yeah i read the first c*aptive pr*nce book in hs on the recommendation of a friend and it just made me so uncomfortable the entire time i really. did not have a good time with that one and i wish i hadn’t read it

13. What is the biggest book series you have read? How many books are in it?

skulduggery pleasant! theres 9 books plus short stories i still can’t believe i read all those

14. What book gives you happy memories?

aw sabrina answered this with the flywheel by erin gough and i have to say the same bc she sent it to me for my birthday, full of annotations of thoughts and jokes she made herself AND got it signed by the author, and i’ve uhhhh never felt so loved in my life

15. What book made you cry?

oh the book thief for sure. everything leads to you made me cry a bunch while rereading it even tho its not sad? thos were love tears. that happens a lot actually.

16. What book made you laugh?

skulduggery pleasant! there’s so many good lines in that one. my dad used to always hand me a book he’d just read and tell me to read a certain chapter he found hilarious but i never read the whole book but he always found hilarious memoirs too.

17. What is your favourite book that contains an LGBTQ+ character?

lmaoo like all the books i read are gay? the abyss surrounds us/the edge of the abyss have really unique lesbian characters because they’re so angry and vindictive and dumb and interesting and DRAMATIC so that one gets a shout out

18. Have you read a book with a male protagonist? What is it?

what the fuck is that (ok i legit just finished reading when the moon was ours by anna marie mclemore tho bc my gf rec’d it and it was p good)

19. Have you read a book set on another planet? What is it?

does fantasy count? bc then of fire and stars. uhh chaos walking is on a new planet. a wrinkle in time involves other planets too! wow i’m crushing this one

20. Have you ever been glad to not finish a series? Which?

the raven cycle lol i thought it was a finished trilogy when i started the first book so i just never read the last one and i am so relieved

21. Have you ever read a book series because you were pressured?

not really? i don’t really feel pressure, i value recommendations from my girlfriend friends way more than things that are trending or popular. i’ve read a couple that i blindly picked from internet lists that i didn’t care for tho but that was really a while ago

22. What famous author have you not read any books by?

pretty much any author we were supposed to read in high school. any classic or even modern famous author i probably haven’t read. i’ve read like a dozen books ever

23. Who is your favourite author of all time?

tbh nina lacour is really up there. when i was really young it was definitely gail carson levine. i rly loved anne ursu’s books as well.

24. How many bookshelves do you own?

only one! and a bunch of boxes that i never unpacked after we moved like 3 years ago. my mom wants to put a big wall bookshelf in our house somewhere bc this one didn’t come with any like our last house did but who knows if that’ll happen.

25. How many books do you own?

are u trying to make me count?

26. What is your favourite non-fiction book?

ohhh i don’t read much of this genre. i always avoided it as a kid and i’ve been meaning to get into it more but i haven’t yet. i’m really looking forward to reading a sally ride biography tho

27. What is your favourite children’s/middle-grade book?

the chronus chronicles by anne ursu were my JAM in elementary/middle school omg. i also really loved the may bird series which i didn’t read until high school.

28. What is your next book on your TBR?

i’m about to start georgia peaches and other forbidden fruit finally! my gf bought me 10 things i can see from here and i love her so whenever that arrive i’m probably gonna devour that. i want to reread a wrinkle in time soon since the trailer comes out this weekend! plus a million others

29. What book are you currently reading?

i literally just finished when the moon was ours which felt like it took me ten years to read and i haven’t started another yet but it’ll be georgia peaches bc thats the other one i got from the library and i already had to renew them haha

30. What book are you planning on buying next?

um this old west lesbian novel called backwards to oregon! i’ve been craving westerns lately but as always i’m also craving gay content

31. What was the cheapest book you bought?

i used to buy a ton of old paperbacks, usually goofy looking sf or fantasy novels from library sales for dollars or quarters so definitely those.

32. What was the most expensive book you bought?

i can tell u the most expensive book i got for free was a beautiful bound collection of hg wells stories that i just got from some book at bea before it was bookcon lol

ones i actually paid for... do art books count??

33. What is a book you read after seeing the movie/ TV series?

nah i usually have no intention of reading the book if i watched the show/movie first

34. What is the newest book you have bought?

akdjghksjgh a lesbian western novella called from the boots up for a few bucks on kindle

35. What three books are you most looking forward to reading this year?

the rest of the gay books i’ve bought but haven’t read yet! not your sidekick and labyrinth lost, i’m VERY excited to reread a wrinkle in time and i also really want to read stone butch blues

36. What is a book you love that has a terrible trope? (Love triangle, etc)

crush by sr silcox has the cutest lesbian teen summer romance AND one them is secretly a rock star avoiding her fame bc her controlling dad was turning into HIS dream instead of HERS akdjghksdjgh its fantastic i adored it

37. Have you read a book in a different language? What was it?

oh no i’m dumb as hell

38. What is a book you’ve read that is set in a time period before you were born?

for some reason dave at night by gail carson levine popped into my head first? that was my favorite as a kid and i reread it all the time and i think it took place in the 20s or 30s with all that good good jazz shit

39. What book offended you?

hm not sure how to answer this one

40. What is the weirdest book you have read?

idk the may bird series was pretty weird. gone by michael grant? i read the first for a high school book club and i just could not get into it or understand it even a little

41. What is your favourite duology?

ditty the abyss surrounds us & the edge of the abyss !!

42. What is your favourite trilogy?

wow i really haven’t read that many trilogies esp ones i loved. i guess may bird or the chronus chronicles then!

43. What book did you buy because of its cover?

the maze runner! also bc i heard it was good but i hated that book so

44. What is a book that you love, but has a terrible cover?

honestly i can’t think of one rn

45. Do you own a poetry anthology? What is your favourite poem from it?

nope! i also hated poetry as a kid and have only tried to get into it recently. i have a book of sappho’s fragments and i want to get tracy k smith from the library but thats about it

46. Do you own any colouring books based off other books?

nope

47. Do you own any historical fiction?

thats possible

48. What book made you angry?

the maze runner really did?? for some reason and i don’t get mad that much but it just really had me steamin. sabrina also said grasshopper jungle and i’m inclined to say same lmao. i haven’t read it but seeing all the lesbophobia in not otherwise specified recently made me really mad and also upset

49. What book has inspired you?

aw inspired is a serious word to throw around. the miseducation of cameron post, idk if it “inspired” me but it was my first lesbian novel and that really did a lot for me.

50. What book got you into reading?

i think it was a wrinkle in time! or maybe roald dahl books before that, but a wrinkle in time was definitely up there, and maybe the shadow thieves by anne ursu

i’m tagging @reading-takes-you-places and @mywomensworld and anyone who wants to! i don’t talk to many people here but if you follow me and want to, go for it!

#boy this was so many questions and i really don't......read.............. #but ily babe ty for tagging me <3 #long post

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i seriously do not trust the people on this website with a sound financial decision

how many times does there have to be some huge scam for yall to realize what goes into making a show, starting up a convention or some other shit

how fucking obvious do the scammers have to be to make yall realize not everyone is on your side, some people will lie about getting put into conversion therapy and its fucking horrible, these people do not give a single fuck about any of you or any real issues that plague lgbtq people, they dont care about POC, they dont care about ANYONE, they just want MONEY, and they know that there are people on this website that are gullible enough to GIVE them money

people on this website are falling for the same kinda shit my GRANDMOTHER does, DONT TRUST SO EASILY

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Living a lie

One of the craziest things going on in my life is my one big secret... what is that secret you ask? Well im a closeted gay boy.

One of the craziest thing that comes with this is that i’m living a lie. Im pretending to be someone im not and i hate it. I hate i have to hide who i am under wraps, covered in the dark. I just want to break free from this, everyone should be able to know who i am right?

Not exactly, why? Well my family is the least supportive of this lifestyle. Whenever anything remotely gay happens in movies or TV shows, theres the usual hommophbic remarks covered in a joke but still expresses their distaste for the lifestyle.

When did i know? Well looking back there wasn’t an exact moment that I thought maybe i was different. I just liked boys and never thought about it until there were more gay characters on movies and TV. The first time i saw a homesexual being represented was Mean Girls (lol). Even then, there was the usual remark that he was gay. From there i knew that being gay was not ok. I looked at my family a found that in the even of an LGBTQ++ person is represented in any way on movies and TV shows there was the closed minded remarks.

I never understood why my family thought of the community like that. Why did they see them as these horrible people who do bad things. I never (and still cant) understand why this ideology became. Why are trans people mocked for being who they are, why can’t people love who they love without some closed minded remark? Why? Why? Why?! Why do i have to be included? Why was i born this way?

It so hard living in the closet because theres so many things that i want to share with my family, like the real resons why i dont have a girlfriend. Why i dont want to tell my sister or cousins who i have a crush on. I wish i could tell them everything, I really do. One day in the future i will be able to, but right now? I wouldn’t even dare.

Going through my life knowing i was something that most people hated grew on me. I couldn’t tell anyone anything about what was happening then i began to the worst thing anyone could do, self harm. I started to cut myself, at first just cat scratches then it moved deeper and deeper until i bled. Why did i do this? It felt like a weight being lifted but only for a short time until i needed to do it again. It was a cycle that kept going over and over. It offered temporary relief of what was going on in my mind. I did this with this issue being one of the many things. I felt like I deserved it because im just a faggot. Im just a faggot who likes boys. I deserved it because society said i did. But eventually something happened that ended it all. In short a drug sniffing dog found my blade in my bag at school and was ‘lucky’ i had scars. Then it went downhill from there. But I haven’t done it since, although i did have thoughts and nearly doing it but i made it this far.

One of the problems i have with me is that im the only one with a the last name Wagner, from my dad who died when i was very young. Im a bit sad that i wont be able to pass the name on. The Wagner line ends with me. I have sisters who also have the last name but in society there last names dont get passed on. Thats what im sad about, i wont be able to pass the last name on.

The one thing that always comes up when i think about it is that, why me? I wanna know the how’s and why’s im like this. Why am i the ‘chosen one’ out of my family? Why was i put here? Whats my purpose? Why do i do the things i do? Why do i act the way i act? I just dont know any answers to those questions. Why? Why? Why? I just want an answer. Why was i born like this? I never wanted to be like this and sometimes when i get real depressed i wish and beg and pray to be normal. I think that i would be better off as straight. Life would be easier for me. I wouldn’t have done things that not only left physical scars but emotional scars too.