#lesbian subtext

[celluloidrainbow]

QUEEN CHRISTINA (1933) dir. Rouben Mamoulian The wise and peace-loving Queen Christina has ruled Sweden since the age of 6, when her heroic father died in battle. Pressured to marry her cousin Karl Gustav and produce an heir, the queen slips away incognito and ends up at a country inn, where she meets and falls in love with Antonio, a Spanish envoy on his way to the palace. However, Count Magnus, himself in love with the queen, does not approve of her foreign lover. (link in title)

#lgbt cinema #lesbian cinema #queen christina #queen christina 1933 #us cinema #lgbt #lesbian #lesbian subtext #trans subtext #usa #lgbt movie #lesbian movies #us movie #lgbt film #lesbian film #us film #lgbt media #lesbian media #queer cinema #north american cinema #greta garbo #rouben mamoulian #john gilbert #1933 #1930s #30s #30s movies #30s cinema #30s film #1930s movies

[cordialsilence]

I just read an article arguing that basically everyone in the Barbie movie is gay and:

I’m glad that there are like minded individuals in the world

And it’s not because she didn’t show interest/end up with ken Barbie just has insane chemistry with Gloria also the berkenstocks but the real question is did Margot Robbie know was she aware she was playing a lesbian

Here’s the article if anyone wants it

#barbie #the barbie movie #barbenheimer #barbie movie #barbie spoilers #movies #ken #pride #lesbian #lesbian subtext #undertones of gay #gay #queer #queer coded #allen is so queercoded #barbie 2023 #barbie is a lesbian #Barbie is so gay #margot robbie

[cherryqueenoftarts]

Lucy is so clearly stressed about her upcoming marriage even if some of her affliction is somehow tied to Dracula's arrival. I think this is canon, really. She's doing it because she's supposed to, because her mother is terrified of what will happen to her if she doesn't marry well, etc. She may genuinely like Arthur, but we've little evidence that she loves him the way Mina loves Jonathan.

Learning that Stoker was, by his own admission, very attracted to Walt Whitman, I think it's possible* he actually intended for Lucy and Mina to be in love. Mina is actually less likely, despite her admiration for Lucy's beauty and sweetness, because she's so obviously in love with Jonathan. I think Stoker has her go on about how lovely Lucy is as a way of reinforcing it to the reader, rather than to say Mina is in love with Lucy. Mina, I think, is a "good girl," and her devotion to Jonathan is proof of that. Which isn't to say we shouldn't have our own head cannons.

*possible, but tbh, I think it's unlikely. A lot of men of previous centuries could look at the Ancient Greeks and say m/m love had its place, but women were so often condemned for the slightest sexuality of any kind. I don't think being open to m/m love would automatically make Stoker open to lesbian love.

Anyway, all this to say that I have this feeling that Lucy is in love with Mina. And that's a huge part of why her engagement messes her up so badly. And, in addition, I think it could work within what I know about Stoker's conflict over his attraction to men (which, I'll be the first to admit, is limited knowledge). Like, maybe he imbues Lucy with all his own inner turmoil about forbidden love. I do think he did it to an extent with Jonathan (in the scenes we noted were homoerotic with Dracula, as well as Jon's forbidden attraction to the wives). So Lucy is troubled, and

[spoiler ahead please stop here if you don't like spoilers]

[sorry, idk how to do the break thingy I see on some posts]

[this spoiler concerns Lucy, you have been warned]

[it is a Big spoiler]

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[okay don't say I didn't warn you]

Lucy will be corrupted by Dracula and ultimately she will die. Fits perfectly with the homophobia of the time as well as whatever internalized homophobia Stoker was carrying around. I can see her being in love with Mina and wishing she could escape her marriage as fatal flaws that make her susceptible to Dracula, in Stoker's mind. This is speculation. I know about her fate from movies, but I've never read the book and I've only recently read a little about Stoker. I welcome any comments clarifying things if you know more about it, or giving your opinion. 🙂

#dracula #dracula spoilers #lucy westenra #lucy is my blorbo #jonathan harker #mina murray #mina harker #homoerotism #gay subtext #gay love #lesbian love #lesbian subtext #kill your gays

[s-aint-elmo]

they named it izutsumi

(ID in alt text)

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #izutsumi #marcille donato #falin touden #farcille #doodles #mine #when ryoko kui drew modern au farcille as the owners of catzutsumi do you think the domestic lesbianism subtext was on purpose #personally it drives me crazy <3 #the cat is meant to have izu's patterns but i liked it better without the grayscale so pls visualize it for me #yeah i had to sit like that for reference. yeah i frankensteined pictures of my cats from my camera roll for those cats. all in a day's wor

[wistfulwatcher]

As for myself, I gave birth to a healthy baby girl. The creature spared our lives, and in return I honored her with my absolute silence. Some things, no matter how magnificent they are, are best left alone. And as to whether I'd ever see her again, the answer is yes. But that's another story.

LILY & THE MERMAID in SHE CREATURE (2001)

#she creature #shecreatureedit #filmedit #mine #edit #* #shipping was free #otp other #otp #THIS THANKSGIVING I'M THANKFUL FOR UNEXPECTED INTERSPECIES LESBIAN MOMS #this was truly SO GAY how is this the one sebastian project that didn't include girlkisser!carla??? but the subtext was still chef's kiss #so anyway i had to make this set before i could do the watching for carla or it would have just been lily/mermaid gifs 🤭 #and carla looks SO GOOD she needs a set to herself #also like i genuinely loved this as a movie! it was engaging and i actually jumped once which is rare

[alicentsgf]

nothing is more subtle or more heartbreaking to me than alicent in the wedding feast scene. and half these shots dont even follow her, they follow viserys shes just in the background, (which just perfectly sums up the way alicent and her desires are stifled by viserys/his wants just btw)

so shes just watched whatever it was that was happening between daemon and rhaenyra. salt in a very fresh wound. and as far as i can work out was literally tearing up over it (if we look at the screenshot above). but then people are screaming and pushing and shoving and alicent instinctively gets up before anyone else at the table even does, still looking like shes about to cry the whole time, right up until the moment she realises its not just pushing and shoving - theres a fight happening exactly where rhaenyra was just a moment before, and suddenly her expression changes to this shot of her blatantly worrying about rhaenyra:

"but lydia, how do you know shes worried about rhaenyra? she could just be in shock at seeing the fight and concerned in general."

because its spelled out for us the next time we see her:

this shows us pretty obviously alicents only really interested in where rhaenyra is. this is a tv show, they don't show someone's reaction to something just for the sake of it and alicent is the only person we see react to rhaenyra being safe. she even appears to relax at the end, as if relieved.

this very clearly sets the stage for alicent's refusal to accept any physical harm to rhaenyra - so we can understand why she feels so much guilt and self-loathing over slicing open rhaenyra's arm, and why she is so adamant about protecting rhaenyra in episode 9 even after everything she and rhaenyra have put each other through. just as rhaenyra has a desire to reconcile with alicent she cant shake, reaching out for her even in moments when shes been given no reason to hope (like at the council in episode 6 and dinner in episode 8), alicent has this desperate need to make sure rhaenyra's safe, even at times when she has no intention of reconciling with her. even when shes at her most hostile, harbouring enough resentment to show up to rhaenyras wedding wearing a declaration of war, alicent still cant stomach the thought of rhaenyra being physically harmed. and it doesn't seem to be an aspect of her characterisation thats going anywhere anytime soon.

#the subtext is subtexting ! #thats a useless lesbian if i ever saw one #hotd #alicent hightower #rhaenicent #rhaenyra targaryen #hotd meta #hotd thoughts #just look at her face #fuck #i have tried to make this post 10 times. its been gathering dust in my drafts #because i literally cant express how insane alicent in this scene makes me #also i feel this explains why i have such an issue with the post-birth scene. it goes against alicents #characterisation as we've been led to understand it otherwise #for her to be largely unaffected by rhaenyras pain

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

One thing about Andor is the fact that this entire town hates cops so much. Cops come to town and the townspeople immediately start doing everything in their power to harass, annoy, inconvenience and slow them. Both in solidarity for Marva who they love, and just bc they don't want cops in their town.

This show hates cops so much. This show hates the prison industrial system. This show hates fascism and authoritarianism. This show peels back the layers to show you a Normal Day At Work At Fascist Inc. This show has well intentioned cops, bad intentioned cops, and robot cops who don't care either way, and all of them do harm all the time. This show says that cops will endanger people on purpose and make dangerous mistakes. This show says that community and solidarity are the way to stand up to empire.

Cannot believe the mouse company allowed this to happen

#that's not even to get into how good the writing is #how much it trusts its audience #its nuanced characters #its subversion of the Girl Boss trope in Dedra #its subtext #its reliance on good writing and interesting dialogue and good plot rather than explosions to hold our attention #its quiet moments #its kickass lesbians #and have i mentioned its nuanced characters #andor series #andor

[ansheofthevalley]

It's so funny bc I thought I was DONE with GoT/ASOIAF (at least until TWoW came out), and Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik had to center the Dance around a Yuri fallout basically, and my content-starved queer heart couldn't resist that shit.

You give me a princess who struggles with gender roles, more specifically, the ones that are set to her as a woman and the ones set to her by being heir to the throne. A woman who's walking the line between her duties. She is a woman with no true freedom, even though she's a Princess and next in line for the throne, always having to live up to the expectations set by the men around her.

Then, you have her former "best friend," who's been groomed by both her father and the King used as a pawn in political games, and ended up isolated as a result. She's also an extremely religious woman who's been repressing her true desires before she even realized what those desires really were. She's a woman with no true agency, even though she's Queen.

And to top it all off, they had a great relationship. They were there for each other. They confided in each other. And then, their relationship fell apart because of the ambition of the men who were supposed to have their best interests at heart but only had theirs guiding their actions.

They grow apart and are pitted against each other. Each of them defends their family fiercely, which, of course, causes conflict because, again, the men who should be taking care of them are selfish bastards. Then, for the briefest of moments, they manage to get close again. Not like before, because too much has gone down between them. But, of fucking course, Viserys has to die, but not before speaking about an ambiguous prophecy about who's to sit on the Iron Throne (too many Aegons, man), and of fucking course that opens the gates to a civil war, which, of course, takes 0.1 seconds to go from bad to worse and then all Hell breaks loose, making it impossible for these two women, who had once been the closest two people could be, ever to reconcile.

So yeah, Condal and Sapochnik have me hooked on toxic, doomed-by-the-narrative Yuri.

I'm just here for the ride.

#sorry for rambling #i just had a to lot to say y'know #hotd #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #rhaenicent #i know a religious repressed lesbian when i see one #also... #i didn't go through eight seasons of got without learning about subtext #AND THE QUEER SUBTEXT IS THERE I TELL YOU #dance of the dragons #asoiaf #my thoughts

[tortoiseguy]

I think people are too obsessed with "canon" and trying to use source material to justify certain readings of the characters that were intentionally placed there by the author. You'll have characters very obviously written to be gay with so many allusions to the fact in their behavior and story themes and people will be all pissy it isn't "canon". As though having that arbitrary title slapped on will make the reading any more valid.

Like idk man I think if the writer puts a bunch of obvious gay sub text in their story, then maybe it being gay is already canon. Having the writer of the cool media you enjoy officially saying "ya its gay btw 😉" doesn't make your queer readings any more valid than they already are.

#this post is about marcille and falin in dungeon meshi btw #i saw a lot of people talking about events in the story as though they somehow disprove the fact that marcille is VERY OBVIOUSLY a lesbian #like its not even subtext that marcille is in love with falin its straight up how her and falins relationship is written #you dont need ryoko kui staring at a camera saying marcille and falin are dating for it to be true #dungeon meshi anime #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi marcille #marcille donato #falin touden #fandom #vi and caitlyn also have this problem of the fact that its not said explicitly makes the fact that theyre obviously written to be romantic #disappear suddenly

[notaplaceofhonour]

gay gAY GAY!!! 💖💖💖

#they’re so cute 😭 #the sapphic subtext has always been there but this DLC has really been serving it up #pearlrina #pearl houzuki #marina ida #pearl #splatoon #side order #splatoon 3 #splatoon spoilers #side order spoilers #queer #gay #lesbian

[celluloidrainbow]

LA RELIGIEUSE (1966) dir. Jacques Rivette France, 1760. In exchange for a boarding fee, the spiteful aristocratic mother of the unwilling 16-year-old nun-to-be, Marie-Suzanne Simonin, shuts her up in a convent. As a result, forced into taking her vows, innocent Marie-Suzanne resigns herself to her fate and promises poverty, chastity, and obedience to God. Three mothers superior (Madame de Moni, Sister Sainte-Christine, and Madame de Chelles) treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses by the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot. (link in title)

#lgbt cinema #la religieuse #la religieuse 1966 #french cinema #lgbt #lesbian #france #lgbt movie #french movie #lesbian subtext #lgbt film #french film #lgbt media #queer cinema #european cinema #denis diderot #anna karina #liselotte pulver #micheline presle #1960s cinema #60s movies #60s #1960s #1966 #60s film #60s cinema #1960s movies #1960s films

[sualne]

hii! honeslty just curious, I read/watched kuroshitsuji AGES ago and I don't think I've finished the manga anyway, does grell go by she/her?? I vageuly remember ppl headcanonning them as enby though iirc in canon he's a guy?

Your tags peaked my curiosity, I haven't seen any Kuro content in a hot minute, but I remember it being the absolute must watch in my peak anime watching years lol And I absolutely loved the manga's artstyle

in canon grell is a trans woman, yana toboso has said something like "grell is a man with a woman's heart" ages ago and sometimes around 2014/16 had tweeted something about wanting to be more careful with her representation of people like grell in the future, don't quote me on that thought because i only read that tweet once and only remember reading a shitty screenshot of a translation of that interview where she allegedly said that.

i can however show you this:

it's from a bonus chapter (after chapter 108) about the popularity polls (it's a very convoluted non canon chapter) but it's one of the most blatant example of her being trans.

there's also the way she constantly refers to herself as a "young maiden" ect. idk how it goes exactly in the og but in french they translated it so grell always refers to herself with feminine terms while everyone else misgender her including the narrator. she very consistently reaffirm herself as a woman through every single ones of her appearances, like it's a thing she very much does, every single time she's on screen.

i haven't watched the anime in forever (cause it's kind of a disgrace and insult to the manga lol) but if i remember properly (which i mostly likely don't) they did omit/lowkey censor some of grell explicitly going "i wish i had been born a woman/could have been able to carry children" when she first properly introduce herself as a shinigami & the other half of jack the killer. (the anime also really did lean a lot more into the pervert queer caricature whereas in the manga she's given a bit more dignity, especially the further the story goes. though that might be my own impression and maybe it didn't change that much i just love her a whole lot).

also because i have to, please forget the anime (the first two seasons that is) and read the manga first and foremost because oh boy, what a disaster the anime is (nostlagia and atmosphere wise it's entertaining, i really love the op & ed, but it just, i just cant man it doesn't even compare to the manga at all). only watch book of circus -> book of murder -> campania movie -> the new private school arc that's coming soon (idk what they called it) after reading the manga.

#undescribed #she's my problematic girlie and i love her so much. there's subtext too for her transness but that goes in spoilers territory. otherwise sh #'s been VERY blatantly trans since her introduction it baffles me ppl refuse to accept it (not noticing it is fine cause when i was a kid i #didnt really get it because i didnt know trans ppl where a thing but one day it all clicked into place yknow) #unrelated but it kills me that sebastian is only a transphobe because it's 'historically accurate/what a good butler of his position #should be' he only says that because 1 he's a bitch 2 he doesn't like grell 3 he gets a kick out of playing the good butler role #i hate/love his stupid fucking ass i need to punch him so bad. he's so annoyingly funny i can't stand him. he's just awful and having a #grand time what an ass. back to queer ppl there are other in the story like nina hopkins being a lesbian (HEAVELY implied) and doll's whole #thing. it's one of my favorite manga ppl should give it a try just dont look at the anime pretend it's not there pls

[mothvalkyrie]

gamers. i have finally played Heaven Will Be Mine and can confirm that it's really fucking good (please play it)

#if you're following me bc of signalis i would highly recommend it. also it was like $4 on sale when i got it #it's got space lesbians again #and giant mechs #also the trans themes are. extremely present #like not even subtext really these bitches trans of gender (good for them) #i'm noticing a slight pattern in the games i enjoy lol #hwbm #heaven will be mine

[kalosbian]

ivy isn't lesbian coded btw y'all just have an aversion to the word "headcanon" and like to ignore that m!alear exists and has the exact same dialogues with ivy that f!alear does

#sophie says things #mostly talking about twitter stuff really #also the ''ignoring that m!alear exists'' thing? im not making that up #back when we got summer ivy in feh someone on twt made a post about her talking about alear #and they were like ''gay ass'' #and they hid any replies that pointed out that m!alear exists and ivy is ''just as in love with him as she is with f!alear'' #and also a month or two before that someone Else made a tweet implying that it's homophobic to ship ivy with diamant #saying that ''you might as well be shipping heather and leon'' #and then they made a follow up talking about how ''there's obvious lesbian/gay subtext'' (there isn't) #on that note diamant isn't gay coded either #but this isn't about him it's about ivy since i see it with her more often #anyway. if you want to hc ivy as a lesbian go ahead im not stopping you #but like. she's not Coded as such

[spirit-meets-the-b0ne]

Spring breaks loose, but so does fear He's gonna burn this house to the ground

#listen I didn't ask for this okay #it just happened and it just so happens the song is them #HOTD #rhaenicent #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #ivy #I don't wanna hear anti anything to any of this #listen it isn't my fault that this song is so for them okay #I WAS ROBBED A SAPPHIC DISASTER I AM LEFT WITH THESE SUBTEXT CRUMBS BORDERING ON QUEERBAIT THAT I SHOULD BE ABOVE #leave me and my lesbian mothers alone

[wereoz]

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cannot BELIEVE that jesse eisenburg had his own homoerotic monster ‘my best friend is a vampire’ style movie…….. if i had a nickel i’d have 2……..

#jesse eisenberg #cursed 2005 #my posts #this post mentioned #my best friend is a vampire #with rsl where the vampire = guy subtext is SO obvious 😭😭 #that his parents actually think he’s gay and read educational books and deliver and honestly lovely speech at the end?? #so. recommendation….. it’s bad but. there’s a girl who’s the love interest and yet comes off so hard as a lesbian so. #AND SHES IN BAND!!!!!