Letty got out of her car, Brian leaned against his and gave her a look. "What's up?" She asked. "Stay away from Dom, I see how you look at him, he's taken" He pointed at his wedding band.
"I didn't know you were married until last night and.... I'm don't swing that way" Letty admitted. "Hector told this life isn't kind to people like...us"
"You're gay" Brian smirked. "Guilty" Letty laughed. "Same here, I forced myself to date women, met Dom, next thing I know we got married"
"Aww" Letty cooed. "He wore a tank top to our wedding, Leon didn't stop teasing me for two months"
Letty went to answer but a cop car pulled up, Brian reacting by backing away.
"Martinez! Put your hands in the air!" "She didn't do anything!" Brian yelled.
"It's okay Brian, go" Letty sighed.
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"Did you have to arrest me in front of a suspect?" Letty rubbed her wrists.
"We had to make it look real" She rolled her eyes and plopped down on the nearest seat
"I don't know if Toretto is behind the highjackings, he didn't trust me until last night. Brian O'Connor is his husband, very loyal, would take a bullet for him. Mia Toretto is his sister. Vince, Leon and Jesse, no last names given to me, are also loyal to him" Letty said.
"We've got ourselves a cult of thieves" An officer scoffed. "Not a cult, a family. Also I need a new car, the Eclipse is fucked" "I'll see what we have"
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Letty pulled up with a completely trashed Supra, hopping out of the tow truck. "This is your car" She announced.
"My car?" Dom laughed. Brian leaned against his Nissan skyline and cackled. "Maybe you could just this across the finish line dawg" Leon also laughed.
"No faith" Letty said. "I have faith, just not in this piece of shit"
Brian laughed again. "Pop the hood" Letty pointed. Jesse did and rambled about car nonsense.
Letty looked smug. "Okay, I'll take back what I said" Dom said. Brian wrapped his arms around Dom's torso.
Jesse whooped. Leon nodded in approval and helped push the car inside.
"He owns you now" Mia muttered to Letty. Letty looked at Dom, slightly worried now.
car advertisements feel unrealistic these days. you're telling me you're twenty years old and driving what appears to be one of the cars in the president's cavalcade? "Be individual"? if you were really individual you'd drive my gay nissan stanza with the cracked windshield until you killed yourself
rating the batfam’s gayness based on their costumes pt.1: dick
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disclaimer: in this post i am NOT speculating and/or predicting the sexuality of any character. only ranking how i would place them based on their costumes. this is just for fun and is not to be taken seriously AT ALL.
lets do this.
1- straighter than a plank
10- homofuckingsexual
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- right off the bat the sharp shoulder armor is telling me gay.
- but the aggressively large knee armor says straight….
- wait…is hand…omg. limp wrist.
- limp wrist=gay. so in conclusion= it gay
9/10
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- the d stands for ‘dude who likes dudes’
- hitting ur head on a rock is the most gay death istg he can’t even fall straight.
- he’s basically in spandex flying around like peter pan…
- it’s homo
8/10
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- called me a slur, burned my pride flags, and ran me over with his 2002 nissan sentra while wearing a super straight t shirt
- literally a frat boy but not even the cool kind
- who willing goes by ric anyways?
- homophobes that’s who.
0/10
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- oh fuck the hold this costume has over me.
- from the red accents to the little spiked sleeves.
- it’s possibly the most gay costume on this list.
- like new 52 tim on gay steroids.
10/10
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- oh god it’s a fa-
- apologies i was just in shock by the amount of gay in this costume.
- like steampunk with some added gothic vibes
- goggles? gay. pointy armor? gay. bird? gay.
9/10
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- MILF (man i love fingerstripes)
- the fingerstripes are the converse of the glove world
- which means they are gay
- and so by proxy the whole costume is gay.
9/10
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- contrary to popular belief i don’t think this one is gay.
- it’s literally just a 80’s disco vibe
- it’s an ally that kisses all the homies goodnight.
- okay maybe it’s more unlabeled than straight…
7?/10
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okay let’s calculate… 52/70
which is roughly..74%
which means grayson gets to join the alphabet mafia!!
Or as I like to call it, High-speed Head-on Collision Simulator 2022
Kia ora, friends!
This is gonna just be a short one this week due to ongoing mental and physical health issues, but on that front I have some news: I think I’m slowly but surely getting better!
But anyway, I wanted to talk a little bit about Need for Speed Unbound this week because I have been playing it a lot over the last few weeks (when I have had the energy) and I can’t think of a game in recent history that has made me rage quit and want to throw my controller so many times but still is able to pull me back in. I love a good arcade racer; my favourite series in this genre is obviously Forza Horizon (and to a lesser extent Forza Motorsport, which I am still excited for in October), but I have been known to dip into Need for Speed now and then. This latest entry, launched last year, recently came to Xbox Game Pass, so I decided to check it out.
My first dive into this game was via Xbox Cloud Gaming and y’all, that service is great for some games, but for a game as fast-paced as Need for Speed Unbound, I absolutely do not recommend it 😅. Playing it this way, I was constantly crashing into things that I didn’t see because the frames fell out, so it didn’t take long for me to decide to make some space on the tiny Xbox Series S internal storage and download the game to play locally. Once I got that out of the way, I started to have a blast… for a while. My TV, which was 1080p, died a couple of months ago, so since then I’ve been using a TV I borrowed from my sister, which is 720p, and let me tell you, again for a game like this, it’s… a less than optimal way to play. Once I started getting into faster and faster cars, I started crashing into things again. A lot. This isn’t a failure of the game itself, I don’t think, I’m just playing it in a really stupid way 😭.
Apart from all the technical stuff I just mentioned, Need for Speed Unbound is really fun. I think my favourite part, though, has been customising my character, as well as the paint/wraps on some of my cars.
I wish I had more pictures of the different outfits I’ve had my character wear, (I haven’t had the time to go back to the game before writing) but I still really like this look. And oh boy do I love that car. It’s one of the cars the game gives you in the beginning, a Nissan GT-R from I want to say 1997 (or thereabouts), and it’s fast, great at drifting, extremely hot, but the best thing of all: I made it look queer and non-conforming as fuck.
The game limits what you can write on your cars, I assume because it’s possible other players could see it, so it wouldn’t let me write ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ or ‘bitch’ or ‘fascist’ - those first two are kind of bonkers considering the amount of queer representation this game contains, but I digress. So I substituted ‘fascist’ with the succinct ‘fash’, and instead of ‘basic bitch’ I wrote ‘basic beach’, which the latter is honestly kind of better anyway.
The racing is fun, though frustrating sometimes thanks to the game only giving you a maximum of retries per in-game 24-hour period, but what really stands out to me is that there is so much queer representation here - like way more than I’d have ever expected from a Need for Speed. There’s one NPC racer you meet and race against named Justicia who is from Mexico and is openly transfem. There are signs around the city that say things like ‘love is love’, or simply have the pride flag on them. And as you may have noticed on my car in the pictures above, you can just put the pride flag and trans flag all over your car if you want - and not just that, they have every single type of pride flag I could think of, which blew me away. Seriously, more games need to be this open about supporting queer communities. There’s also a bunch of representation for people all over the world - the music in Need for Speed Unbound includes tracks in Arabic, Japanese, Spanish, French, and a few I couldn’t nail down just by listening, and it’s honestly super refreshing.
Anyway, that’s all from me this week. Sorry if it feels a bit like it was put together at the last minute because, well, it was, but I wanted to make sure I had something for you.
Thanks so much for reading, y’all, I appreciate it. As always, if you have any comments or questions, hit me up on the social links at the bottom of the page, or flick me an email! If you want to read more stuff from me, you can check out my Letterboxd reviews! This week I reviewed Robot Jox (1989), which I believe may have inspired some of the aesthetics of things like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Pacific Rim.
Stay safe and warm out there (or safe and cool, if you’re in the northern hemisphere!) y’all, and I’ll talk to you all again really soon. Ka kite anō au i a koe. 💚