#like not so much the “no anti” ppl so far since they haven't made a fuss about it before

[royalberryriku]

*Google searches how tf to make layouts on Tumblr/ make spaces between text in bios*

#personal #vent #kinda? #not really more just complaining and laughing at how I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to this sort of thing #maybe i have to change it when on desktop #bc I can't find the option to edit anything like that on mobile rn #oh well #maybe later ig #gonna leave up the extra bits so I don't have to feel anxious about ppl feeling betrayed or personally offended over neutrality w/ fandom #like not so much the “no anti” ppl so far since they haven't made a fuss about it before #but in case also since you never know #but ngl mostly “no proship” ppl can be pretty funny w/ neutrality and not in the humourous type of “funny” #some of yall are chill and idm where ppl sit #as long as no one forces me one way or the other bc I don't like that we don't do discourse of that sort here no thank #like unless its a genuinely important psa or just an opinion I agree with?? gonna avoid bc that's painful and a miserable way to fandom™ #It's really so more of the extreme viewed ones see I don't do labels and am chill with whoever as long as they're nice ppl #so no one has unrealistic expectations of me or try to force the matter bc I've now made it clear: neutrality and vibe corner = no drama pls

[5hitp0stn4tion]

y'all, i'm loving the amount of older queer rep i've been getting the past few months.

like don't get me wrong, i love captain holt and raymond (b99) and cam and mitch (modern family) as much as the next person but it always seems like queer representation over the age of 30 is just lacking from film and entertainment.

(^look at my b99 boys being so domestic I LOVE IT GIVE ME MORE)

and not to mention the wonderful number of older queer characters that have graced the screen over the past few years: annelise keating (how to get away with murder), chiron (moonlight), ma rainey (ma rainey's black bottom). but they all seem to be lacking long-standing stable relationships and comfort in their sexuality, and societal welcome, respectively - just my opinion.

but the fact that i've gotten 3 beautiful queer older couples has got me grinning every single week. i love my life.

first is obviously mr 'kentucky-fried foghorn leghorn drawl' and his wonderful house husband who bakes. yes, i'm talking about benoit blanc and his partner, phillip.

the domesticity of playing among us in the bath tub while your husband/partner bakes for you - probably banana bread or sourdough, if we're being period accurate - is what i aspire to have in the future. i love it. also the fact that they aren't over the top, they're just living their lives together how they want to is amazing. i need a prequel film where they meet and fall in love and phillip makes fun of blanc's stupid accent. thank yew.

(also idc if you disagree but blanc is the bottom in the relationship. i said what i said.)

the second is ed and stede from our flag means death. now, i know that ofmd aired like a year ago on hbo max, but i only started watching it recently since it just started airing on bbc 2.

i haven't finished the show yet but the budding relationship between ed (blackbeard) and stede is absolutely adorable and i love taika waititi and rhys darby which only makes the show better.

(i'll have a more articulate answer when i have finished watching the show, i promise.)

last but not least, is the absolute FUCKERY that is bill and frank from the last of us.

WHAT THE HELL CRAIG MAZIN? DID YOU INTEND TO BREAK THE HEARTS OF 6.4M PPL, BECAUSE IF YOU DID, YOU SUCCEEDED.

the fact that in the middle of a pretty dark tv show about the apocalypse, death, and dictatorship, we got the most beautiful short film about gay love makes me so happy. bill and frank survived the aids epidemic as two young gay men in america in the 80s, only to be struck by a fungal pandemic, only to meet each other because frank fell into bill's trap, and yet they still lived a happy life together, growing old together.

the fact that craig mazin let them live their lives in their little town, full of love and fulfillment, despite the apocalypse that's raging outside their window, is beautiful. they had the opportunity to fall in love and have a healthy relationship, free of all the homophobia and anti-gay policies that were still around in the early 2000s.

craig mazin you have broken me, i love it.

if you want to read a pretty decent article about the lack of queer rep in film and media, here

thanks for reading, if you made it this far :) comment anything i should watch

#gay media #queer representation #queer stuff #queer #lgbt representation #tlou hbo #tlou show #tlou spoilers #blackbonnet #our flag meets death #ofmd spoilers #benoit blanc #glass onion

[tomatoluvr69]

11, 18, 19, & 24 <3

I just answered 11-- essentially my answer was solo backpacking!!! I'd love to return to some of the islands designated National Seashores down south-- haven't been there since 2019 i think and that's some amazing camping. wild_horses.mp3

18. A memorable meal this year?

I was very lucky to have an apartment in the 2021-22 school year with a roommate who is a very gifted improvisational home chef-- tons of astounding meals we cooked together (& that they cooked for me...haha...). Another memorable meal was my Chicken Of The Woods vegan schwarma I made in sept after finding a ton of it while hiking. That was pretty astoundingly good...also the morels we ate in the spring...and also memorably bad, but infused with good memories, was the meal my best friend and i made when he came over on my last night in my apartment after graduation, made of the stupidest shit I still had around. It was like instant ramen, one of those super mid TastyBite vegetable curry packets, and some truly unidentifiable gnarled old root vegetables from the winter harvest at my vegetable farm job haha. It was...it was slop is what it was

19. What’re you excited about for next year?

I'm moving back to the area where I want to college right around the new year. I'm very excited to be back among a communtiy of friends-- I love my hometown so much but the connections I've had here in the past have long since either faded with age or moved far away & while I do perfectly well alone, I'm so excited to live with close friends again, ppl who are very similar in lifestyle to me re: anti-consumerist counterculture type stuff as well as just like the pure love & connections we have. And also I start a pretty incredible full-time teaching position that's downright perfect for me in August, I'm very excited for that. Pretty much a dream job, at the expense of anything even remotely resembling a work-life balance LOLOLOLOL.....(cries)

24. Did you keep any New Year’s Resolutions?

College was extremely hard for me. It took me quite a few extra years of taking time off & basically recovering, then going back for another couple semesters, wash rinse and repeat... I was in a very dark place around New Years, and iirc my resolution was basically just to forgive myself for getting through it any way i could manage haha...and i would say i did that somewhat....lol. I have some much more concrete ones this year!

#asks #ask games #i know dropping out is stressful...but trust me when i say it WILL work out for you!!! <3