#it’s not because I think they’re bi

[captain-mozzarella]

Inspired by this post

They’re so in sync <3

#I am NOT sorry for it being way too fast I am EEPY #also you might be wondering #why pink and purple? #it’s not because I think they’re bi #( they’re both ace in my heart) #( obi is biromantic and Cody is Demiromantic<3) #but because I sketch in pink purple and NEON green #be glad I took away the green lmao #codywan #star wars the clone wars #clone commander cody #obi wan kenobi #cc 2224

[turtleblogatlast]

Don’t think I ever quite said what my LGBTQ+ headcanons are for the boys, so these are my current thoughts! Always changing of course but this is what I feel most strongly right now.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #rise donnie #rise leo #rise mikey #rise raph #donnie and leo’s sexualities being practically swapped was unintentional but it works way too well #same with mikey and raph tbh it was a happy accident #anyway I kinda hc raph as the type who doesn’t care about physical appearance just if you fight lol #Mikey’s more than happy with friends and family #Donnie is a BIG romantic but he needs time to sus a person out fully before he gets the hots for them #leo meanwhile isn’t keen on romance unless it’s with someone he grows to really really REALLY trust #I could go on and probably will later (knowing me) but it is late and I am tired haha #turtle art tag #curious as to what everyone else headcanons #the only one of these I’ll defend forever is Bi (female-leaning) donnie and trans leo #all the others can change over time but I really like where they’re sitting right now #I hope these are the right flags too because it was kinda hard to find them #went looking for transmasc flag in particular but I couldn’t find a solid agreed upon version 😭 #ngl a big part of why I hc mikey as aro is because of a pun #my phone often misspells aromantic as aromatic and- and you get it- because aromatic herbs and- and Mikey is a chef do YOU GET IT #note that while I hc leo as bisexual (male-leaning) I still think he’s prob closer to demi in that as well just not as far into the spectrum #if that makes sense #headcanons are fun and hard to narrow down at the same time alas #I made this in like an hour can you tell djjdjd #I drew them all from memory so if there’s anything wrong…shhh #and if you’re wondering for April and Splinter #Both are Bisexual (female-leaning) but April is also Panromantic #I almost wanna make Splinter demiromantic too so Big Mama’s betrayal hits just a bit harder

[eileensdress]

Ok you cannot tell me it’s not a little bit funny that twn writers got so sick of geraskier somehow being the main ship that they FINALLY made someone a little fruity

#im all for representation and i think it’s completely correct that jaskier is bi #i feel like it’s a pretty well-understood thing that most bards Are Not Straight #but i also think it’s really funny because they’re 100% trying to get geralt/yennifer to interest people #and they realized jaskier is the ONLY THING in the way #its just funny as fuck to me that their version of damage control post-cavill is ‘make it all a bit gayer’ #someone in the tags mentioned yennskier also being more popular than yenralt and GOD youre so right #everyone wants them to just fuck the bard and not eachother #the witcher #witcherposting #jaskier #geraskier #geralt of rivia

[byeler]

i actually really think people that are SO vehemently against the idea of bi mike need to examine why. not people that simply prefer gay mike or think the show is leading up towards gay mike but if you would genuinely be upset if we got canon bi mike you have some unpacking to do

#yes i have a preference but guess what!!! i will be more than happy with either because mike is a character i love #and i love what his story is leading to #i actually don’t think the specifics of his sexuality are deeply rooted in his narrative. i’d be happy if he remains unlabeled #mike does not have to be gay for mileven to not work out. #they’re not working out because they’re a bad fit for each other regardless of sexuality #mike could be 100% straight and mileven would still not be right for each othwr #anyway. if you would be actually angry at having a bi character in stranger things. you should think on that a little bit more

[starkidlabs]

Creepy guy liking all my posts on Instagram and commenting “U always look so beautiful” etc. etc. Why is my life like this. I want to die.

#this is a third person from the two men I mentioned earlier this week . although this guy is still substantially older than me. #although unlike the other 2 older guys I am genuinely freightened of this person in some ways #he is fine to talk to in person a little but quirky but his Instagram/Facebook really freaks me out #he’s still into creepy pasta well into his 30s and he seems to get obsessive over women #I think he’s bi (although on other ocassions he’s said he’s only into men) yet whenever he breaks up with a girl he says he’s never dating #women again because they’re all crazy #he also really fetishes women in a weird way - he’s the type to do those weird duets with hot women on tik tok (the ones you find on cringe #accounts) and he finds a woman he knows vaguely irl and posts multiple images of her to his Instagram stories #saying that he’s their biggest fan and in love with them essentially #also his most recent story is about how he needs to be with someone because he has a really high sex drive and can’t stand with not being #without a partner #like that’s just a really fucking weird thing to put on your story #and what did he do after that? he started liking all my photos and commenting hearts under them #why can’t a normal person be interested in me #why am I thrust into these situations #I feel like I’m going insane

[greenvillainredemption]

Broke: Alma is homophobic

Woke: None of the characters are homophobic

Bespoke: It’s a catholic town in the early 1900s girl everyone is homophobic

#encanto #my words #this is a joke I am bi. or lesbian idk. I’ve always known I like women nbd and I find guys cute sometimes but male genitals make me puke #POINT IS I’m not tryna be homophobic out here lol I just think I’m funny #also there’s a lot of different interpretation when it comes to a kids movie #like yeah it’s in the 50s or something but it’s also disney so like canonically i don’t think anyone is actually homophobic at least not #openly. because disney #but also if ur an adult wanting more realistic fics in real 50s rather than disneyified 50s it feels out of place to hc characters as openly #gay and nobody else says a thing about it #like its all about how accurate u want the setting to be idk #also this post is mostly a response to homophobic Alma headcanons because like why her just cuz she’s old?? #pathetic. in today’s time they’re all old (or like dead I’m not doing math)

[no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist]

Ok so like. Film adaptations of books are not universally bad things on principle. I’m definitely not saying that it’s impossible to produce a good one. But at the same time, film and the written word are different mediums that aren’t necessarily suited to telling stories in the same way.

For example, in a book, especially a highly character driven one, you get to directly see and read a lot of a character’s thoughts. And this has a huge impact on your experience of the story. And sure, you can convey this in a somewhat similar way with a voice over in a film adaptation, but depending on the scene being adapted, this doesn’t always work great or feel natural.

And that’s not a bad thing. It just means that it doesn’t translate to film well because film is a different medium that tells stories in a different way. And there certainly are books that translate well to film. But to be honest? A lot don’t. Especially not in a way that even comes close to touching the original that it is based off of. And that’s fine. Plenty of amazing movies and TV shows wouldn’t translate well into books and most people wouldn’t really want or expect them to.

So no. I really don’t think that “achieving” a film adaptation should be seen as a goal the way it seems to be for a lot of books and I think that seeing this as a goal is often doing a huge disservice to the original work. I think that books that are well served by film adaptations are the exception, not the rule, and that most of the drive to produce film adaptations of popular books is driven by the urge to squeeze every last possible bit of profit out of every single creative idea ever rather than like. I don’t know. Actual appreciation for the source material and a genuine wish to understand it in a different light.

#I am not entirely sure where this came from but thank you for coming to my ted talk I guess??? #ok no I know exactly where this came from #shadow and bone netflix 🙄🙄🙄 #I’m tempted to make another post applying it specifically to sab netflix but idk #book adaptation #film adaptations #this is also why I don’t really want a secret Shanghai adaptation #it might work for tvd if they did a really good job #but I don’t think it would really work for flf because of how internal a lot of stuff is with some of the characters #like I’m sure a passable adaptation would be hypothetically possible #and sure. maybe it would get more people to enjoy the story #but I just really don’t think film would be an effective way to convey a lot of flf without losing really important parts of it #especially if you look at what makes your perception of Rosalind change from tvd to flf #I could make a whole separate post about this honestly #also from what I have observed film adaptations tend to lose nuance and exacerbate issues present in the books they’re based on #and while I don’t really think Orion fits the promiscuous bi stereotype exactly #I think a film adaptation would likely end up losing the nuance that makes him not fit it #ok I could probably talk about this forever but I am going to have impulse control and stop now

[zappedbyzabka]

“Come on, Nicky-boy.”

(Shootfighter 1993)

#The referee was stressed LMAOOOO #Man was frantic #Cannot get over how he cuts through the two beautiful woman to get in Nick’s face just to say ‘Now it’s me and you. Nicky boy’ #AFTER watching Nick talk to the brunette like this :} omg. i’m like so happy for them haha :} darling I do not want to kiss your brother— #I think the girlies should date purely because they’re wonderful and called each other girlfriends <3 #ruben patterson #ruben x nick #Sorry that I’m bi and like gayness smf #william zabka #Michael bernardo #Cheryl my angel

[seilon]

sorry I will not shut up about this show But. I just. wanted to mention how fucking cool it is that ok ko has a major bi character in it (a bi man at that) that has important on-screen romantic relationships portrayed with both a female partner and a male partner and neither is considered less legitimate than the other. his orientation isnt pointlessly called into question or suggested to have been faked or changed for ending up with a man when he was previously with a woman. It’s just natural, and so one doubts that he was once romantically interested in/involved with carol just because he ended up with boxman. and I think that is very cool and something I feel like I super rarely see with bi characters– when bi characters are represented I feel like it’s pretty common to only have them shown romantically involved with one gender or another and it’s more of a side note that they also like people outside that gender, or they’re portrayed as “confused” or god forbid suggesting their feelings for someone weren’t really real because they ended up with someone of another gender (not to be confused with comp het; in that case the individual isn’t bi and that’s different). And so having a children/family show that has two solidly bi characters first of all, and one who’s a grown adult who’s had established relationships with two genders on screen is just honestly really cool and I appreciate that so much

#kibumblabs #ok ko #ok ko spoilers #also I emphasize that he’s a Man in that first part because bi men are doubted so fucking often over their orientation and hardly #openly represented on tv– let alone childrens tv– at all. I’ve been told irl that bi men don’t actually exist and that in the end they #end up gay or straight becuase that’s what they Actually Are. #which is obviously fucked up on many levels and blatantly false #so yeah like!!! seeing a grown man who’s obviously not ‘confused’ and who isn’t questioned over falling for a woman then a man is just!!!!! #it’s very good it’s very good it’s very good #i love the purple bisexual snake man so much <3 #long post #professor venomous #ok ko let's be heroes #there’s also no obvious coding of the queer characters in queer relationships to fit them into a masculine or feminine role if that makes #sense which is also cool. #like you don’t see red or enid and think one is in the Woman’s Role and one is in the Man’s Role– they’re both just. themselves. #same goes for pv and boxman; both are just. dudes. weird mutant dudes but dudes. with some traits more masc some more feminine because #the people making the show understand that how those traits are distributed does not matter #i feel like I was gonna say something else but I’m forgetting what it was so oh well

[mishtershpock]

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#right so #firstly: oliver stark i love you please never stop #the way he talks about buck is so nice!! not to mention always reiterating that the show was queer before bi buck was confirmed #secondly: oliver stark i love you but please stop!!! #lmao. ben affleck smoking jpeg #i completely understand his reasoning behind what he says about tommy #he can’t confirm or deny anything and changes are he doesn’t even know anything. just like before #when he was waxing poetic about natalia and buck’s future #i just do not like the whole narrative of tommy being a perfect queer elder who can do no wrong and is there to guide buck through this #it’s a disservice to his character. and to buck’s #and to eddie’s if you really wanna go there #tommy is the perfect first boyfriend because he’s got experience. right? that’s what we’re saying? #experience does not equal perfection #and like i said the other day. it suggests eddie is not worthy of being a queer love yet because he has no experience #they hadn’t written the final episodes yet for a reason. they’re posting positive b/t posts on social media for a reason #they’re testing fan reactions to decide what to do with b/t. sorry but i genuinely think that’s the reason #and this characterisation of tommy as perfect and ideal for buck and they’re smitten etc #a second ben affleck smoking jpeg #i have nothing against tommy or b/t together or multi shippers. nothing at all #but i sweaaarrrrrr #if i lose out on the ship who have 6 years friendship and a history of getting through neg and pos experiences together #coparenting and saving each others’ lives. literally and figuratively #being so intrinsically linked to each other #not to mention oliver and ryan’s chemistry #if i lose out on that because people can’t stop screaming about tommy on social media #i will implode and take this place with me #especially because focusing on buck’s lovely new perfect relationship will probably mean that eddie is pushed aside #with a shitty storyline they put no effort into. wait what who said that that’s crazy #i agree that bi buck isn’t about eddie (it’s not about tommy either) and potential queer eddie isn’t about buck #but i’m so done with people saying we can’t hope the two storylines come together in the future. why is it suddenly bad to want buddie

[victoryshowers]

every time someone has discourse over whether jack harkness is bi, omni, or pan an angel dies

#he’s been referred to as all of these it doesn’t matter #he’s not even keen on labels himself #i honestly don’t think it matters and if people call him bisexual it’s not a big deal because they’re not wrong #as omni is under the bi umbrella #do i wanna tag this #jack harkness #sure

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.

Long-winded interpretation under the cut!

Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.

You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)

The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.

Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.

And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.

For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.

“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!

Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.

To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.

And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.

Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #rottmnt leo #rise leo #rise don suave #rottmnt don suave #I lied I’m back to ramble because I’m just #so bad at keeping my mouth shut #or uh #not typing word vomit #anyway- yeah this is my personal interpretation #I believe Leo was legitimately mesmerized by Don Suave’s powers…in the beginning #but even the series’ creator says it was ‘at least PART of what was going on with Leo’ so #idk it’s something that’s been on my mind and I was wondering if anyone else felt the same?? #may delete this later who knowssss #pleaaaase feel free to disagree I just like to talk lol #but yeah sometimes I look around at how much media has LGBTQ+ rep in it now and it honestly makes me emotional?? #(we always always ALWAYS could use more but) #we did not have even a crumb of this as kids #but also like most of that rep is new properties #and I just was thinking about what that could mean #idk man idk #once again please don’t take this as facts it is VERY MUCH NOT #man I was looking around for good images to use and found jack all #anyway tho did you know Donnie often has bi colors around him and Leo is often dressed in the colors of the trans flag- #okay anyway back to the caves I go this comic won’t draw itself #I gotta spray myself with water any time I go to type long winded essays because they’re not great for the mental health fr

[mintharasthrone]

straight women sometimes act like the only thing that’s hard about being a lesbian is finding a partner and dating not the oppression. like the brunt of a lesbians’ problems has zero to do with you not being able find a decent man. that’s why they causally say they wish they were a lesbian because they have never once payed attention or cared about what we go through and what they or their men make us go through

#and it’s ironic because they’re going men are horrible but what if you payed attention to how men are horrible to lesbians?? #but they will want you to listen to all their complaints about men and then get upset if you think he’s awful or should dump him bc she #deserves better #don’t get me started on the i wish i was a lesbian comments #most women in the dating pool like men and centre #and think you’re a trial or something to pass the time for the real thing #there is immense pain and trauma no bi woman and straight women will go through #but they dc #some of them cause it #and like even our dating scene is an oppression topic because of their misogyny homophobia and male centring to support the tra movement #like i’m not escaping them and you choose to date them #like lesbians obviously don’t date men but no one said you had to be in a relationship to be happy #but now all of you even in liberal movment don’t stop trying to force men on us or correct us so how do we have it easier #we can’t even find friends or community #you have the whole damn world

[phoeeling]

I don't even know where people are getting the totally-canon "implied bisexuality" from.... like maybe I'm dumb but I didn't catch any of that in the show???? Like I'm not against either of them being bi but everyone acts like it was confirmed in canon and I feel so lost lol. It just feels like they're grasping at straws to justify their ship being "queer" (as if that has anything to do with why most people don't like it....) and so they can call anti-huntlows biphobic or whatever.

It’s from this, I believe. Hunter sewed a sweater with a rainbow that has what looks like toned down colours of the Bi flag? And Willow being pan comes from the star by her head having the same colours as the pan flag, despite different shades.

Which I think is reading a little into it, because they use like the exact shades and colours for the Bi flag (and the Lesbian flag which I think appears as a sticker?) in that episode. And again, the people who do the design for things like the sweater Hunter sewed, who would’ve put the rainbow there, don’t necessarily pick out the colours used for those designs. Colour design is a separate job.

#asks #anti huntlow #imo it’s kind of lazy to ‘imply’ sexuality with something easily missed. #you know why we know luz is bi? because it’s actually shown Very Clearly. #I’ve talked about this on my spop blog before but I also don’t think we’re really at the stage of representation #where we can have bi characters in m/f relationships and have them be deemed as Super Progressive Woke Rep #because (esp if it’s not showcased they’re same-sex attracted) it’s just going to read as a straight couple #people who are ✨ against the gays ✨ aren’t gonna give a shit about what they assume is a bunch of hets #I’m not like saying you can’t have bi characters in m/f relationships. that’s fine! but let’s not act like it’s making this huuuuge impact #because we all know the ‘impact’ would be bigger if the couple was same-sex (I.e toh getting fucking cancelled for luzmity)

[elrondsscribe]

Also … am I tripping, or did both the novel and the musical hint that Patrick isn’t being entirely honest with himself about how Not Gay he is?

#american psycho #and like #we could read the way luis carruthers is written as problematic #the gay man hitting on the Very Straight friend who won’t take no for an answer #or we could read luis as essentially like patrick #they’re both entitled wealthy white men who feel entitled to that sexual/romantic gratification #but I think there’s a reading of bi or even gay patrick somewhere in this text #EDIT: alternatively we could read luis as genuinely reacting with confusion because patrick really has been sending mixed signals #bi patrick headcanon

[romeowho]

I started Chicago Med, and i’m sorry am I not supposed to believe that Connor and Will are gonna be endgame bc the elevator scene in 1.12? I honestly thought they were about to fuck or something

#chicago med #i’ve convinced myself that Connor is bi #but I think it’s because he has daddy issues #but he has the craziest chemistry with will and i’m convinced they’re gonna make out at some point #connor rhodes #will halstead #?????????? #rhodestead