#he’d just say ‘the gays’

[bonebrokebuddy]

The inherent homophobia of a 2010s cartoon male protagonist <3

#this post is about ninjago #but could honestly apply to nearly any 2010s media lmao #i feel like kai would call me a slur #but if I just called him ‘gay boy’ I’d instantly shatter his psyche and it’d be more effective than any words he could ever say to me #i could just imply that sleeping in the same room with his friends is gay and he’d have a breakdown #bones speaks #I’d not win in a battle of fists but I could in a battle of wits

[ickypuppi3]

my favourite thing about stranger things fans is that they’ll convince themselves the only homophobic person in the show is the guy from california (who’s never done anything remotely homophobic) and that all of the people who were born and raised in a small town in indiana would be more accepting than said guy

#fandom wank #i’m just saying #if anyones gonna use a slur #… #it’s literally canon #like let’s evaluate the situation #oh and that everyone’s gay #apart from this guy #insane people #neil to billy: fag #st fans: so billy hates gay people #like where did that come from 😭 #pulled out their asses just like everything else i swear #steve: you’re a queer #st fans: omg ally!! #‘billy would call me a slur’ #billy literally wouldn’t care he’d just be pissed off that you’re talking to him

[mcybree]

Scott's relationship with Jimmy and Pearl is interesting to me

Scott's LL and DL dynamic with Pearl is a bit clearer, where they both loved each other in LL while in DL Pearl began with love for Scott (why wouldn't she?), but Scott didn't share that love for her

Scott also clearly shows that he didn't like Pearl in DL, publicly rejecting her and spreading the story that's she's crazy

With Jimmy, it's interesting because... while I'm pretty sure Jimmy loved Scott, I am however not sure Scott loved Jimmy.

Scott tries to paint the picture that they were perfect together, but that just doesn't line up with how he behaves when it comes to Jimmy For example he extended sympathies to Tango in DL for being teammates with Jimmy, I don't think you would do that if you actually enjoyed being teamed with him in 3rd life

Now, the thing that gets me is that with Pearl, Scott tries to make up to her, because he saw he was wrong. With Jimmy, he still clings to that image of 'the perfect relationship' of 3rd life

I think at least, idk, I'm not Scott, I don't know what's going on inside his brain

I do wish I could understand Scott's motivations sometimes, I love him but he is so confusing to me

Anyways, sorry for writing a lot without actually making a point, I just need to share my thoughts with someone who has a similar 3rd life FH interpretation as me

Sidenote: I use the word 'love' here as the broad term for it, so when I say that Pearl and Scott loved each other in LL, I do not mean they loved each other romantically

hello hello so I dont actually have a lot to add to this bc I think a lot of us are all on the same page about this already buuuuuuut I do have some thoughts on this:

“Now, the thing that gets me is that with Pearl, Scott tries to make up to her, because he saw he was wrong. With Jimmy, he still clings to that image of 'the perfect relationship' of 3rd life”

There’s a few reasons for this (pearl is better at the game than jimmy, scott doesnt see the inherent worth in people and therefore scott doesnt really see jimmy as like. a person) but a really interesting angle to take on this is to examine the difference between how Scott views his platonic and romantic relationships. Granted this is a lot more speculatory than strictly citation based, the only things I’m citing here are Scott’s two perfect jimmy after life endings where the roles are very clear cut despite jimmy not really being. Like That. As well as Scott’s weird fixation on jimmy in particular in DL and beyond (but particularly how he goes about it in limlife + SL as DL is more just outright bullying than weird flirting).

While Scott is still weird about Pearl too sometimes, Pearl is more often the one to bring it up first and most the time I think Scott likes to pretend he doesn’t give a shit about her anymore. Because Scott puts romantic relationships up on a pedestal, he has more rigid expectations about how his relationship with Jimmy was supposed to have actually been like, so in retrospect he’s a lot more willing to glorify it and romanticize what they had than he otherwise would be. He needs to cling on to this whole hopeless romantic with a tragic love schtick as part of his identity or else he dies even though the only genuine human connections he’s made in his entire life have been platonic. He just likes the appeal of being a romantic in theory because he values dedication and loyalty in a way that resonates with the stereotypical storybook romance.

#that.blue.mf #asks #as for the rest of the ask: yeah I agree with you scott dgaf about him until after he already died and even then the funeral was performati #—ve. not because scott didnt care about jimmy. okay well he kind of didnt. but he also did. #but its because he’s mourning someone who he’d never even really let himself get to know beyond haha thats jimmy hes incompetent lol #so he’s trying to say words and honor him but when you line up what he says with what we actually know #he’s just #saying words #hes just saying words #even the montage of “all their best moments together” is somewhat played for a joke with the last clip being of jimmy dying in dare to flar #he tried so badly to grieve him as a person because he *was* grieving. but he’s more grieving what could have been #the person he might have just lost. if he’d just let himself slow down and enjoy the quiet moments they couldve actually been something #but alas. Scott is the gay reincarnation of every grandpa whos only joke is hating his wife.

[runninguplenorahills]

Oh the urge to block everyone who posts something I don’t agree with🕺

#‘mike is completely oblivious to his own feelings’ blocked #‘buff byers canon’ blocked #‘mike had an actual romantic crush on el’ blocked #‘hopper is will’s real father’ blocked #‘will isn’t jealous at all’ blocked #‘will plays sports’ blocked #‘mike is so clumsy’ blocked #‘mike realized that he’s gay for the first time ever at the end of s3’ blocked #‘will would say no if mike asked him if he’d still love him if he was a worm’ blocked #i’m literally blocking y’all for the dumbest shit #it’s not personal #it’s just that your takes suck lmao

[focsle]

In all the journals you've read, what are your favorite stories?

Oh William Abbe’s is absolutely my favorite journal as a primary source for the stories he shared. He had his flaws made plain in his writing, like all of ‘em, but he also really focused on the social world of the whaleship which is what I care about.

He gave everyone nicknames. Once members of the crew tried to stir up a fight between a man named Charger (known for his slow movements) and Raw Eggs (known to be a chronic prank-farter and had such terrible eyesight that he once said the rising moon was a lighthouse), saying they’d give Charger a shirt if he fought him. When Charger reached down to grab Raw Eggs, Raw Eggs caught his hand and just started vigorously shaking it with a grin as if they were making introductions, thus diffusing the entire fight.

Abbe would sit on the hatch during idle hours in the watch, telling everyone stories by weaving together the plots of different books to make his own and everyone, including his superiors, would gather round to listen.

There was also this whole game he had going on with the captain’s wife aboard which I was reading like a straight up soap opera…I was on the edge of my seat.

Another story I like is when wet-blanket Charles Nordhoff signed on a whaler, and at one point they heard an eerie sound below the waves while they were all sitting in the focsle. All the men were like ‘ohhh it’s a ghost!!’ and Charles was like ‘it’s not a ghost; it’s a humpback whale’. And they were all like ‘no it’s a GHOST and it’s coming from YOUR berth so that means something terrible is going to soon befall YOU’ and others were like ‘share my bunk Charles because you have a ghost in yours, don’t sleep there’ and he was like ‘it’s a whale ghosts are fake’ and then they were all like ‘you don’t believe in GHOSTS? Do you even believe in GOD?’ and then everyone hated him because he didn’t believe in ghosts.

And I love whaling wife Azubah Cash raising her baby, who was born during the voyage, saying that the little whaler’s first words were ‘deck’ and ‘cap’. When he grew up he became a sailor too, at least for a little while.

#also I didn’t include Wm Abbe in my Gay Whalers Ask Answer because I didn’t want to concretely impose a sexuality #on someone when technically every instance when I was like ‘hm’ also had plausible deniability of the language of the time #but taking all those instances on a whole made me…..feel that that man was likely Not Heterosexual #the only time he expressed an interest in women (eg: captain’s wife) was if they had social clout that could benefit him #he described his crewmates in ways that he never described women…I knew who he considered handsome (he’d say as much) #and he described their appearance In Depth with a rather preoccupied focus on legs & body hair #he described himself on multiple occassion as playing another man’s lady at a dance #I JUST GOT VIBES MAN…in that ask all the examples I give to the plausible deniability of language come from one man who is Mr. Abbe #ANYWAY…. #asks #anonymous #awhalin

[nothingweirdhere]

bro i’m 🥺😭💞💞💞

#godddddd i love when he calls me baby #it does things to my brain chemistry istg #especially because he doesn’t say it often. that and ‘i love you’ are only used on special occasions #(when he’s being especially sappy or sometimes when we’ve been arguing 💀) #and fuck ok i didn’t rlly think he’d say happy valentine’s back? #like i was trying to kinda play it off as a bit of a joke just in case #because technically we’re just fwb? but it’s… a lil bit more complicated than that i think #he once described his feelings as ‘not romantic but something close to that’ so like #good enough for me lmao #aNyWaY tldr i’m gay xD #not sure i’ll see him this week tho which is a bit tragic but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what can u do #jx.img

[ipso-again]

I‘m a "Ted Wheeler doesn’t give a shit about Mike kissing boys, as long as he does it behind closed doors" truther.

#is he homophobic? #Yes #he’d definitely say some shit like 'don‘t flaunt it in front of the neighbors' #but if he walks in on byler kissing in the living room? #he just pretends he doesn’t see them #byler #mike wheeler is gay #stranger things #st4

[delta-piscium]

strongly believe Eddie and El would just get each other, sure they’re opposites on the surface but they have a lot of similarities with being misunderstood and viewed as monsters etc, also their autistic swag would bring them together

#like El often needs other to lead the conversation and explain things and Eddie would do that #he’s a stroy teller he struggles not to do that #El is the type of autistic where she’s doesn’t talk a lot and gets to the point and Eddie is the type to never shut up and ramble and #like he’ll speak in exaggerated similes in a way that works for El because he explains it’s a comparison and doesn’t say it literally /is/ #also I think she’d see him jump on tables and wave his arms around and get in peoples personal space and be so fascinated and learn that #that is okay #like her two closest people are 2 angsty teens who can not express an emotion that isn’t sarcasm or disdain #and her brothers are one reapressed gay kid in love with her bf and one guy who’s high like always and avoids his girlfriend #El meeting Eddie who shows emotion in such a large way without hesitation and doesn’t hide even though people give him looks etc #she’d be obsessed #we talk about Will and Eddie and yes he’d love him but like so would El and I think Eddie could genuinely help with how others looks at her #like she’s treated as a freak as well and he’d just be like ‘you don’t have to make yourself smaller because of it and you don’t have to #bottle everything up until it explodes #dels stranger things thoughts #my post #stranger things #eddie munson #eleven stranger things #eleven hopper #el hopper

[piqued-curiosity]

Fruity, limp-wristed…I still can’t wrap my mind around how these have become silly terms for people to use without knowing the homophobic origins. How did anybody look at them and think yeah, that’s totally fine to call people and use as a joke! Instead of acknowledging them as offensive terms that should be done away with?

#every time I see it I’m filled with rage #and I always want to confront the person #but because they can just identify as TQ+ and act like it gives them the right to act like this #my words have no weight #even a gay man couldn’t say ‘hey I’m part of the group these terms are used against…please don’t use them’ #because he’d just get told ‘oh it’s fine because I’m a she/they demisexual panromantic fairygender!!’ #or ‘I’m a gay man too! 💁‍♀️’ #it’s so frustrating!!!! #I hate the people who think this is okay so so much #and I hate that it’s practically inescapable online #my post

[designernishiki]

You asked for a fic rec so I’ll toss this one at ya: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46767358?view_full_work=true Stick through the formatting for the characterization, tone, and really the whole vibe of this fic. I haven’t been able to get the bathroom call between Daigo and Majima out of my head for weeks since I read it with how naturally it all flows. My own little Daigo characterization booklet to review when I feel like I need a refresher on him.

so I may have stayed up until 6am reading this (would’ve slept earlier but I couldn’t stop reading it) and hgggahaghhhhaggahshhhhhhhh that was one of the most well-characterized fics I’ve ever read what the fuck. like the differences in how each character speaks (both tone-wise and in differing levels of authenticity) and how they speak to specific others (the daigo and majima dyanmic specifically- how they actually take into account how long they’ve been working really closely- SO good), the mental anguish and chaos vs the overwhelming emptiness of being daigo dojima but no longer The 6th Chairman Daigo Dojima……….I could keep going but I think you get it.

tbh I’d been wanting to write something exploring a similar set of dynamics/situation (post-kiryu’s fake death, interactions with haruka, daigo, and/or majima specifically, reflecting on his shortcomings while acknowledging the heavy Grief left behind) but now I’m like. well I still could but this was so well written in regards to daigo and haruka that, as far as something between those two goes, I don’t feel the need to.

thanks for the recommendation! my brain is broken now (affectionate)

#rambling #fics #fic rec #there’s a little bit of minedai in there via flashback but I don’t know if im gonna put this in my minedai tag cause it’s really #not tecccchnically a minedai fic. it’s just. a daigo-centric fic/study more than anything #my favorite more lighthearted moment in this story is daigo talking to haruka in Okinawa after like 3 years and hearing about her #‘situationship’ with yuta and how it’s just more convenient to tell people they’re a legit couple and daigo’s immediate response on impulse #is just. ‘that must be nice. I mean that you can do that. if it were two guys or two girls or something you wouldn’t be able to do that.’ #or something like that and simultaneously sweating because he has no fucking idea why he’s saying that and can’t find a way to abort #my only critique is that I was hoping he’d come out to her (probably on the scene after that where it’s just them sitting on the deck) #and it wouldn’t even have to be a Big Thing it’s just. it felt like it was leading up to that (whether coming out on purpose or on accident) #but ah well #don’t get me wrong I think she could probably figure it out on her own based on the fact that daigo’s never had a girlfriend to her #knowledge and is in his 40s + that weird little gay tangent he went on earlier out of the blue #if anyone could pick it up though context clues and hints it’d be haruka and akiyama The Investigators. and oh no. looks like that’s #exactly who he’s stuck with #id love to see an update cause of this oh mannnn #(if anyone could pick it up it’d be those two + also majima but I kinda figured at this point majima would almost certainly already know #they seem like they have a mutual (possibly unspoken) recognition of one another on that front. based a little on what daigo says about #‘when kiryu says jump you say how high’ and majima floundering a little before admitting ‘you know I can’t resist those big #brown puppydog eyes…’ like i know that’s not too on the nose but it’s enough of a casual acknowledgement to Me that it feels… idk it just #feels like they Know. it just makes sense. and I hope they do cause it’d feel a little less lonely and terrifying to be gay in that world if #that were the case. yet another thing making it feel like majima’s a way more viable parent figure to him than kiryu fr fr…… #anyway I could keep going forever so I should probably stop #I’ve never considered how daigo would interact with akiyama and now they’ve got me intrigued. I really hope they update this with something #daigo #I really think a chunk of this fanbase (particularly The Queers) understand daigo as a character better than rgg studio does. and cares more

[tragedykery]

it’s sooo fucked up that boromir’s last words were “I’ve failed.” literally sooososo fucked up

#lotrposting #it’s interesting how the scene in the movie & specifically what boromir says differs from the book tho #I mean they made it more dramatic for the film obviously but also the speech in which he essentially accepts aragorn as the/his king #while in the book he specifically calls the people of minas tirith his Own people; not aragorn’s #elli rambles #also fun fact I watched the fellowship of the ring with my brother a few days ago #and after boromir’s death scene my brother (who normally thinks shipping is stupid and I always try to make everything gay) #said ‘okay yeah I ship them now’ #and he seemed pretty serious? so gay win 🌈💖 (getting my brother who is occasionally homophobic by accident (often either bc he wants to #annoy me or just by virtue of being a thirteen year old cishet boy)) to ship two guys #anyway. I’m not even especially fond of the lad (he’s. fine. shrug. good for showing the power & danger of the ring even on good people) #but this is soo evil to me. he redeemed himself through fighting for merry & pippin (or at least if you see it like that) but his last #thought was that he’d died in dishonour and as a failure #he couldn’t withstand the power of the ring and couldn’t return to protect his home #also aragorn choosing to keep boromir’s betrayal a secret so that it wouldn’t tarnish gimli and legolas’s memory of him… #tolkien

[are-we-really-doing-this]

Head fisting himself goes crazy I can already imagine it bro

Right??? With his long lanky arms and shit bro, he’d get super concentrated and probably call everyone into the room like ‘hey guys look at this neat trick I just figured out!!’ when he got it in

#he’d say it’s not gay but it’s not like he has a problem with that he just thinks it’s funny and is genuinely impressive #like the jar man #and he’d be correct

[seilon]

it’s really funny to me how at this point kibum has implied in every way humanly possible that he’s gay EXCEPT for outright saying the word itself. like good god the unspoken forbiddance of saying The G Word in kpop is so absurd at this point what are we doing here

#at least he got to sing juice by lizzo without changing the pronouns. that was satisfying #hearing him go ‘somebody come get this man- I think he wanna be way more than friends’ and etc??? #rejuvenating. #but for real. let this man out of the damn closet the door is made of GLASS it is TRANSPARENT #SM do you even know how successful he’d be as the first openly gay Big Label idol just fucking PRIME for a western debut??? #like im just SAYING popular queer western artists would ABSOLUTELY collab if he released the gay club banger of the century over there #sm I know you don’t care about people but think of the PROFIT at LEAST #bxjffjdndndjdjdkd anyway. I’m not wrong #kibumblabs #shinee #key

[mirrorballdazai]

fuck being the bigger person, the mature one, the one who tries to do the right thing — that shit destroyed will byers, it’s time for us to be insufferable

#and when they say oh you ship them just because they’re gay #you say yes i hate straight people #when they say oh but mike has always been in love with el #you say well i’ve been with your mother every night since last year but here we are im as gay as ever #just be obnoxious and have fun guys #if you think you’re being mean #just think that richie tozier would act like this #and he’d be a byler 100% #byler #will byers is gay #mike wheeler is gay #stranger things is gay #byler tumblr #delusional byler #anti mileven #platonic mileven solos tho

[exopelagic]

honk shoo.

#but yeah sleepy. #i have so much to do these next few days I’m gonna die #meanwhile I just wanna see my friends #the good thing is that some of the busy things involve seeing my friends but goddamn why are almost all of them hard #also YES I’m going to be dumb and gay again bc a) why shouldn’t I b) nobody can stop me #I’m being dumb and gay again. #now seen The Guy twice since I’ve been back and he’s very cool #still feel like I’m being insane god idk what I’m doing #I hope he comes tomorrow bc he can’t make the meeting which means he won’t be on committee which sucks bc he did want to #OH but I did mean to tell him there was one role he could go for and have a good shot at that I think he’d be good for #only problem is if he doesn’t come tomorrow I can’t tell him in time bc I don’t have any way to message him other than email #(which feels slightly creepy bc I only know it bc secretary and he’s never explicitly said his surname so it’s just inferred from the list) #idk. the thing that gets me is we are very much friends now. like early stages of friends but we keep talking at hockey #and importantly he keeps coming To Me which keeps surprising me bc he does it more than any of my other friends #but I guess I’m also coming to him kinda a lot too. self awareness falls when around cute boy you get how it is #god it’s so unfair why is he like this #I finished getting my skates off before he did yesterday which gave me a very good opportunity to Look while he was talking #and have it not be weird and he’s just very pretty. he’s got a rlly nice nose #i always feel insane pointing out noses it’s the Draw speaking bc I use noses as a focal point and they’re fun to draw #tbh it’s unlikely I will say someone does Not have a nice nose but idk let me have this. it would be fun to draw is maybe what I mean #and I hadn’t noticed before bc the like bridge? and uhh like. base? idk nose words but they don’t match #the bridge is super long and on the thin side w a bump like mine but the like bottom is much rounder and wider and I don’t see that mix much #he also just has rlly nice hair it’s super curly and he’s in that like weird light brown purgatory where it’s all different colours #like it’s mostly light brown but some bits look rlly dark and some especially at the ends is like almost blonde and it changes w the light #god he also keeps doing this dumb fucking thing where he’s trying to skate while squatting all the way and it’s ridiculous #he looks like a spider folding in on itself and the worst part is he can fucking do it #he’s gotten so good at skating recently and I have a feeling he lives somewhere with an ice rink bc I’m sure he’s better than he was novembr #yeah I also got to just stand and watch him play yesterday and it’s so incredibly horribly unfair #anyway I’m too fucking gay and I will not let him escape me again tomorrow I Will get his instagram or smth bc I swear this man #luke.txt

[keenestpeach]

I just know if watts was around for the nudist case they wouldn’t have even had to ask him to go undercover He would just already be there with his tits out

#murdoch mysteries #llewelyn watts #he’d wax philosophical on the constraints of modern society as represented by wool coats #and then hum and say plus I like the breeze on my balls #to make up for the lack of Gay Flair his suit usually provides he just has a lot of bracelets #like a 2006 scene kid #im right and you all know it