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starry-bi-sky · 27 days

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i need to get this out of my head before i continue clone^2 but danny being the first batkid. Like, standard procedure stuff: his parents and sister die, danny ends up with Vlad Masters. He drags him along to stereotypical galas and stuff; Danny is not having a good time.

He ends up going to one of the Wayne Galas being hosted ever since elusive Bruce Wayne has returned to Gotham. Vlad is crowing about having this opportunity as he's been wanting to sink his claws into the company for a long while now. Danny is too busy grieving to care what he wants.

And like most Galas, once Vlad is done showing him off to the other socialites and the like, he disappears. Off to a dark corner, or to one of the many balconies; doesn't matter. There he runs into said star of the show, Bruce who is still young, has been Batman for at least a year at this point, but still getting used to all these damn people and socializing. He's stepped off to hide for a few minutes before stepping back into the shark tank.

And he runs into a kid with circles under his eyes and a dull gleam in them. Familiar, like looking into a mirror.

Danny tries to excuse himself, he hasn't stopped crying since his parents died and it's been months. He rubs his eyes and stands up, and stumbles over a half-hearted apology to Mister Wayne. Some of Vlad's etiquette lessons kicking in.

Bruce is awkward, but he softens. "That's alright, lad," he says, pulling up some of that Brucie Wayne confidence, "I was just coming out here to get some fresh air."

There's a little pressing; Bruce asks who he's here with, Danny says, voice quiet and grief-stricken, that he's with his godfather Vlad Masters. Bruce asks him if he knows where he is, and Danny tells him he does. Bruce offers to leave, Danny tells him to do whatever he wants.

It ends with Bruce staying, standing off to the side with Danny in silence. Neither of them say a word, and Danny eventually leaves first in that same silence.

Bruce looks into Vlad Masters after everything is over, his interest piqued. He finds news about him taking in Danny Fenton: he looks into Danny Fenton. He finds news articles about his parents' deaths, their occupations, everything he can get his hands on.

At the next gala, he sees Danny again. And he looks the same as ever: quiet like a ghost, just as pale, and full of grief. Bruce sits in silence with him again for nearly ten minutes before he strikes a conversation.

"Do you like to do anything?"

Nothing. Just silence.

Bruce isn't quite sure what to do: comfort is not his forte, and Danny doesn't know him. He's smart enough to know that. So he starts talking about other things; anything he can think of that Brucie Wayne might say, that also wasn't inappropriate for a kid to hear.

Danny says nothing the entire time, and is again the first to leave.

Bruce watches from a distance as he intercts with Vlad Masters; how Vlad Masters interacts with him. He doesn't like what he sees: Vlad Masters keeps a hand on Danny's shoulder like one would hold onto the collar of a dog. He parades him around like a trophy he won.

And there are moments, when someone gets too close or when someone tries to shake Danny's hand, of deep possessiveness that flints over Vlad Masters' eyes. Like a dragon guarding a horde.

He plays the act of doting godfather well: but Bruce knows a liar when he sees one. Like recognizes like.

Danny is dull-eyed and blank faced the entire time; he looks miserable.

So Bruce tries to host more parties; if only so that he can talk to Danny alone. Vlad seems all too happy to attend, toting Danny along like a ribbon, and on the dot every hour, Danny slips away to somewhere to hide. Bruce appears twenty minutes later.

"I was looking into your godfather's company," he says one night, trying to think of more things to say. Some nights all they do is sit in silence. "Some of my shareholders were thinking of partnering up--"

"Don't."

He stops. Danny hardly says a word to him, he doesn't even look at him -- he's sitting on the ground, his head in his knees. Like he's trying to hide from the world. But he's looking, blue eyes piercing up at Bruce.

Bruce tilts his head, practiced puppy-like. "Pardon?"

"Don't." Danny says, strongly. "Don't make any deals with Vlad."

It's the most words Danny's spoken to him, and there's a look in his eyes like a candle finding its spark. Something hard. Bruce presses further, "And why is that?"

The spark flutters, and flushes out. Danny blinks like he's coming out of a trance, and slumps back into himself. "Just don't."

Bruce stares at him, thoughtful, before looking away. "Alright. I won't."

And they fall back into silence.

Danny, when he leaves, turns to look at Bruce, "I mean it." He says; soft like he's telling a secret, "Don't make any deals with him. Don't be alone with him. Don't work with him."

He's scampered away before Bruce can question him further.

(He never planned on working with Vlad Masters and his company; he's done his research. He's seen the misfortune. But nothing ever leads back to him. There's no evidence of anything. But Danny knows something.)

At their next meeting, Danny starts the conversation. It's new, and it's welcomed. He says, cutting through their five minute quiet, that he likes stars. And he doesn't like that he can't see them in Gotham.

Bruce hums in interest, and Danny continues talking. It's as if floodgates had been opened, and as Bruce takes a sip of his wine, it tastes like victory.

("Tucker told me once--") ("Tucker?") ("Oh-- uh, one of my best friends. He's a tech geek. We haven't talked in a while.")

(Danny shut down in his grief -- his friends are worried, but can't reach him. When he goes back to the manor with Vlad, he fishes out his phone and sends them a message.)

(They are ecstatic to hear from him.)

It all culminates until one day, when Danny is leaving to go back inside, that Bruce speaks up. "You know," He says, leaning against the railing. "The manor has many rooms; plenty of space for a guest."

The implication there, hidden between the lines. And Danny is smart, he looks at Bruce with a sharp glean in his eyes, and he nods. "Good to know."

The next time they see each other, Danny has something in his hands. "Can you hold onto something for me?" He asks.

When Bruce agrees, Danny places a pearl into his palm. or, at least, it's something that looks like a pearl. Because it's cold to the touch; sinking into Bruce's white silk gloves with ease and shimmering like an opal. It moves a little as it settles into his hand, and the moves like its full of liquid.

Bruce has never seen anything like it before, but he does know this; it's not human. "What is it?" He asks, and Danny looks uncomfortable.

"I can't tell you that." He says, shifting on his foot like he's scared of someone seeing it. "But please be careful with it. Treat it like it's extremely fragile."

When Bruce gets home, he puts it in an empty ring box and hides the box in the cave. He tries researching into what it is. he can't find anything concrete.

Everything comes to a head one day when Danny appears at the manor's doorstep one evening, soaking wet in the rain, and bleeding from the side.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc prompt #man i just really need more dpdc stuff where danny and bruce have a good relationship. like man i NEED it. like i need to see these two #bonding together. and not in a cracky 'oh danny is a distant friend/cousin/etc' stuff but like. active participants in each other's lives #or as active as can be in this case. i neeeeed these two getting along and caring about one another #this idea came to me like last night and hasn't left since nd it was driving me up the wall to think about both positively and negatively b #i neeeded someone to hear about this or i was gonna implode #danny is the first son #tried to just get the general gist of the idea down but i definitely thought of the idea that bruce lowkey suspects vlad for having a hand #Vlad allows Danny to sneak off because he thinks Danny is alone. if he knew Bruce was there he'd be piiisssed and would put a stop to it #Sam and Tucker are alive they just got ghosted for a bit by danny bc he was in Major Grief and didn't wanna socialize. He couldn't go to #them because he didn't wanna put them in danger via Vlad.#oh that thing he handed Bruce? Yeah that's his ghost core. I have a headcanon (that isnt always applied) that ghosts can take their cores #out of their bodies at will and painlessly and without issue. and its common practice actually to do so bc they can be a not insignificant #distance away from said core before problems start to act up. and its common for ghosts to leave their physical cores at their lairs for #safekeeping because as long as the physical core is fine: so is the ghost. they can reform if their body gets destroyed. it also acts as a #fast travel sometimes. where they can reform at their core in an instant. its not inspired in the slightest by SU but i do see the overlap #most cores are pretty small for safety sake: its harder to hit if its small. and they're pr resilient too but its better to be safe than #sorry. so yeah. danny essentially gave bruce the physical embodiment of his soul and indirectly said #'if anything happens to me at least i'll be safe with you'#danny doesn't know he's batman btw #starry rambles.#was gonna go into danny becoming a vigilante beside bruce but im sleeeepy so i'll do that in a reblog. he's gonna go by nightingale if #anyone is interested. stereotypical but to be frank it is a *good* name imo. has a good amount of syllables and consonants to it #and the bird theme. and since its part of an ancestral name it has even more backing for it being bird-y without being meta

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otaku553 · 6 months

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I have an agenda.

Long hair teenage sabo.

#one piece #sabo #you cannot convince me that he did not have a long hair phase #like if he grew out his hair to hide his scar he has to have tried more to hide it more thoroughly #I found a fic recently that followed sabo’s growing up in the revolutionary army and it was really really good #I want to see more amnesiac teenage sabo acting awkward around his peers because even back on dawn he had only two friends #more of kids being insensitive and asking about his scar which even he has no idea how he got #and koala and him being antagonistic towards each other #and them slowly becoming friends #anyways I’m so. I tried going onto YouTube to see if there were any good video analyses of sabo #and like yeah I can see why sabo would be a divisive character #but I also completely forgot that there are one piece readers who have not an ounce of media literacy #or respect for female characters #something something ‘sabo is like an oc insert because he exists so distant from everything and just in time to replace ace’ SHUT UP #or ‘favoritism towards sabo because he has a hot girl following him around and more hot girls in the revolutionaries’ I AM GOING TO GO INSA #KOALA IS HER OWN CHARACTER AND AN EXTREMELY INTERESTING ONE THAT DOES NOT EXIST JUST TO BE EYE CANDY OFF OF SABO’ ARM #SABO IS AN AMAZING CHARACTER IN LINE WITH THE THEMES OF ONE PIECE AROUND FREEDOM AND EQUALITY

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loving-jack-kelly · 9 months

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i think spot admires jack very deeply and looks up to him a lot but would rather be stabbed to death than ever say that out loud. btw. i think jack respects spot and everything that he's done more than almost anybody else in the world but would rather be set on fire than admit it. also.

#i think race is long suffering and good at convincing both of them to be more normal around each other #i think spot worries that jack looks down on him because he's younger #and jack worries that spot doesn't respect his leadership because his approach is so different #when really spot sees jack and understands that jack is doing exactly what he does but in a different way #and jack sees spot and sees a young person who stepped up and did better than he feels like he could have ever done at that age #they both know there's mutual respect there. they refuse to acknowledge it because it's hard. it's scary.#why admit there's more than raw nerves and an understanding to be left alone when they can stay as they were and not have to change anythin #race is like guys be best friends you'd be so good at it.#and spot is like no i need to be distant and aloof so he sees past my age and respects me as I am (he already does)#and jack is like no i need to be tough and unsocial so he understands I'm not just a friendly niceguy leader (he already does)#anyway a personal fave hc of mine that at least used to be fanon if it isn't still #is that jack and spot knew each other in the refuge and spot is several years younger than jack #i think like. 3-5 years younger.#newsies #spot conlon #jack kelly

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thegayneurodivergentagenda · 1 year

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A boss and a Babe, Between Us and Ai Long Nhai have taken the "rich soft top with Immense Patience(tm) with Awkward Outloud power bottom who gets shy when complimented" trope and wrapped it up in fancy cars and idiot NON oblivious (I'm looking at you Pat) friend group who are just happy to be there. And I love them for it.

Cher, Team, Nhai : I'm always making jokes and poking people half heartedly but I'm also incredibly sensitive to people's emotions and I would die for my friends and I would very much like to be held and told that it's okay to cry

Vs (or with)

Gun, Win, Ai: I'm in love with sunshine and the sunshine is also the biggest idiot known the mankind. Neat.

#a boss and a babe #between us #ai long nhai #Gun and Ai could be distant relatives. The hotel business probably connects Win in this mess somewhere.#cher team and nhai are best friends in all universes #they probably talk about games and food #teamwin #guncher #ainhai

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bones-of-a-rabbit · 1 year

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One day, you comes across the staffbot in the abandoned theater.

There is a fine layer of dust to them, just as there is on everything else in the room. You are hesitant to even walk in, at first. You climb the stares from stage right, approaching with enough time to let them back away if they wanted to. They don't. You come up so you are face to face with them. Though frozen in an empty, static pose, their eyes are dusky, lifeless. You stare for a while. It's odd, seeing your reflection like this.

You take the time to lower their suspended hands to a more relaxed position. You straighten their hat and adjust the front of their vest, dusting off the shoulders. You stand, looking at them for a while.

You don't check as you leave and carefully, noiselessly, close the door behind you, but you know their head turned to follow your silent departure. Both you know it will be a long time before you return. Hopefully, they do not blame you. No one ever likes coming to a silent theater to look upon the long-cold corpse of themselves.

#small moments #short fanfic tidbit #fic tidbit #story tidbit #fnaf fanfic #fnaf x reader #after everything was fixed #readerbot au #repairbot reader #staffbot readre au #tw dead body #tw death mention #imagine a distant slightly slowed or out of tune but still soft and sad but soothing music box lullaby over this ok #thats the vibe #how could one ever explain what its like to meet the death of the best friend youve never known #to come across the only one that might have been like you long after they are cold and still #a loneliness untouchable unknowable i think #you leave flowers beside them. fix their hair and lay their head more comfortably #and then you must carry on #and so you do #sad fic #hurt no comfort #sort of #idk i just been having some vibes n brain itch #rlly wanna get back into writing #ok goodnigt now lol love u guys

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scarletiswailing347 · 1 year

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saw a vampbo and got inspo for my banquet au lol

this is meant to be platonic but i cant really blame anyone for seeing it as romantic considering *gestures* yknow

btw grian's reply isn't just exaggeration, vampires in this world...lowkey work like viruses lol, i mean it's not an exact comparison obviously but it's pretty close

grian is an endian which is different from enderians in that it's specifically the species of those bitches from the end credits. he was originally gonna be a watcher but my story changed too much for it to make sense since, from what i know of the watchers, they're a lot more active than the creatures in my story -- hence i made the endians which are more like observers rather than watchers

the thing about endians is that, as passive as they are, they are extremely powerful and can one hit kill most creatures including vampires

now here's where the virus-like qualities of the vampires in this universe come into play, vampires are pretty much entirely powerless against endians...unless they suck their blood -- this is cause, once vampires suck a creatures blood, they rapidly develop defenses against that creature and, to some extent, other creatures of that species as well, making it theoretically possible for them to become completely unkillable against a specific species

of course they're gonna have to be careful how much blood they drink at a time cause if a vampire is too weak to handle an endian's blood they'll just die from lifeforce poisoning essentially lol, but endians have a lot of lifeforce in them so they only really need a little anyway to be satiated

the fact that endians have a lot of lifeforce make them very attractive to vampires and what stops most vampires from pursuing them is the fact that they'll most likely just get killed trying to do so (being powerful doesnt necessarily mean having a lot of, if any, lifeforce btw)

grian has been burned this way before when a certain vampire betrayed his trust and used his massively increased resistance against him and pretty much any other endian he encountered, luckily he didn't reach the point of full immunity and was killed once enough endians banded together to kill him

this incident caused an even bigger rift among vampires and endians and a lot of endians p much became kill-on-sight when it comes to vampires, grian also got banished for "being foolish enough to ever trust a vampire to such an extent"

so yeah grian letting mumbo suck his blood is a Pretty Big DealTM

#grumbo #hermitshipping #< i mean Not Really but well *gestures* yknow #c mumbo #c grian #hc banquet au #au #txt #mine.art #you could say that the endians seem a little ooc considering how kind they are in the credits #and i say i like drama and angst lol #(also it's very much the minority of endians who are specieist and they're generally too passive to do anything anyway)#oh yeah grian's feelings about the endians is a bit complicated #on one hand they're his people #on the other hand they exiled him for... trusting his friend #i mean that's pretty messed up #regardless his exile has gone long past involuntary lol he never wants to see any of those bitches again #well except jimmy but That's It #it's a small and incredibly distant community so it's pretty easy to do just that lol #and you can tell that The Incident was a Huge deal considering multiple endians actually Did Something Together #also for anyone wondering yes sam is in fact the certain vampire referenced #i wanted to reference as much of the hermits past series as i can considering they're all p much nigh immortal in this au #certain exceptions being for those hermits who are new to the whole being nigh immortal thing like iskall and wels #although i'll still try to reference as much as i can lol

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someobscurereference · 6 months

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fate bad end where laslow dies is like. your name is Leo and your lover just shut the fuck down. Outwardly he's still wild and loud but it's very noticeable that what little of himself he offered to you is no longer here. He shies away from your touch. His tongue no longer weaves a single truth. You should know him better than anyone else in this world but he's purposely shutting you out. You never really knew Laslow, but when he died you think Odin died with him.

(referencing this post)

Leo would probably take a long time to notice this because his brother and sister have also just died tragically and his only other family left has refused the crown, forcing him to take the throne that never should have been his. So Odin pulling away at first makes sense or wouldn't even be noticed. Or Odin would be there, physically, and Leo wouldn't notice the emotional distance or the things he is hiding until he has begun to slowly come back to himself. Which is already much too late.

#leodin #fe14 #same for camilla and selena #camilla would be alternating between sobbing and destroying dummies so much during this time #and the agonizing decision to have to pass the crown to leo #that severa would be there comforting her #and if the things she's saying seem distant and empty? well that's how camilla feels anyway #so it makes sense #yeah xander's retainers are dead but XANDER and ELISE are both dead so that's the focus #both for the siblings and for the kingdom #and if sometimes odin and selena just stand near each other and don't say anything for a long time #but hold hands or look at flowers that remind them of their dead friend #and consider each other the only pieces of home they have left #well who is to say #my text #asks #death tw #character death tw

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itsame-ariana · 5 months

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Lil adventure time post:

Don’t come at me yet read first. Am I the only one who gets kinda sad and bummed out every time we see shermy and beth in an ep? (which I know was literally twice but just bear with me)

Not anything wrong with the characters I actually really like them and I think they have a cute dynamic and are fun. I love when people make comics of them etc

Just- knowing that it’s the future of Ooh and seeing how different everything was- like how their world is kind of a reminder that all of the characters we love except bmo are dead- (including possibly pb and marceline even though they were supposed to be immortal together forever 😭)

And also for example seeing in f&c how divided Ooh seems :C

And I know the whole point is that things end and change but “everything stays- ever so slightly” and it’s okay.

Which is actually a really nice message and sweet- but like even if the message is good and the characters are fun and reminiscent of the ones we love;

It just a still makes me a bit sad, you know?

I guess now im in my older teen 16/17 yr old philosophical existencial adventure time arc and no longer my 13 year old silly goofy arc. Me and Finn twinning frrrrr

Anyway thanks for coming to my Ted talk I continued some thoughts in the tags

#especially stuff like the fact that it’s been so long that bmo can’t rember Finn’s name #but they still call him their best friend #but like they’re all alone with that little robot heart #bmo stuff has been so sad lately fr #different conversations #I actually love shermy and beth but also they make me so sad #shermy and beth #adventure time #distant lands #fionna and cake #bmo #adventure time finale #come along with me #literally the exact feeling the music hole was talking about #finn the human #fionna kin #I guess im in a bit of a silly mood 🥲 im vibing tho

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a-lonely-tatertot · 8 months

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seeing a post with a time stamp that says 3 years ago and you just have to sit down for a sec. like god so much has happened and yet it feels like yesterday

#tater rambles #kotlc #<- ig it applies #HI THIS IS ABOUT SPICY FORBIDDEN GATORADE #smth smth how the night changes and how many ppl in those posts are #deactived inactive or just distant #like. ill tell somebody ab then and be like. yeah we were really riding the high of 2020 lockdown but it was really #just a bunch of mostly kids who were queer closeted lonely whatever latching onto a bunch of stuff #that was so utterly ridiculous and yet it still echos today #2020 kotlcblr u will always be famous i remember telling mellie kotlcblr will always feel like home or smth #anyways i was reading the posts while calling a friend and was like. wow this fundamentally changed me as a whole person thats crazy #a stupid post with a gif of molten glass has affected me in ways i cant name #even three years later i still look at those and wanna cry cause its been so long but it doesnt feel like it #ive never wanted to return to a time as badly as then even if it was covid and closeted and depressed we made a little family #sorry im being poetic ab a tumblr fandom again (does this weekly)

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that-foul-legacy-lover · 6 months

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oh my god what happened?? are you alright? do you need any help?

alright i will preface this by saying that physically, i am COMPLETELY FINE. please don't worry about me too much, i promise i'm physically okay and it's not that bad

the rest is under the cut not for length but in case people want to skip past it (warning for people being unpleasant)

so the short story is that someone i thought was an online friend suddenly sent me a pretty awful DM before blocking me. they said a lot of genuinely hurtful things which wasn't really good for my mental state since they preyed on a bunch of my insecurities, and i thought that i could trust this person. i'm doing better now thanks to my irl friends, but recovery is a process as usual. i'm not sure if you can really help apart from being emotional support, but your concern is appreciated nonetheless <3

#not brainrot #anon #btw if anyone wants me to put any trigger warnings just tell me and i'll get right on it #and people WONDER why i have trust issues especially with people online #they also had the gall to bring up my Foul Legacy addiction which is just so low #in case you haven't noticed i'm not the most confident person in the world and this whole debacle made it worse #it was also very out of the blue i kinda spent the first morning in shock #nor was it accusations it was just 'lol here are all the reasons i hate you' so that's. nice.#guess they've been holding onto these feelings for a long time. wish they could've been a bit kinder about it #not to mention that some of the stuff they said was straight up untrue #but my irl friends helped me a bunch so big thank you to them #anyways if i seem distant to people online these types of situations are why #i know this isn't a SUPER bad thing to happen from an outside pov but i sure didn't feel good after it #just a tad sad #unpleasant things #uhh dunno if i'll post anything else today but we'll try

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the-hopeless-haze · 1 year

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I just wanna say something because I think people’s views of things are warped. Like in a world where STILL only 1 out of every 5 movies have an lgbt character … and everyone’s life has at least one lgbt person in it. like it’s 2023 and people are judging media from like 20 years ago and not giving it the credit it deserves for even getting us to this point.

We can rightfully criticize House MD for many things but the fact that in 2004/2005 in S1&S2 they had multiple patients of the week that were gay or bi (not implied either way). And no one used it as a joke or a punchline (except the mafia one but it was mostly house being an asshole per usual “he’s not gay but certainly delightful” and the point at the end of the episode was his brother was an asshole for not accepting him) and part of the main cast that was bisexual. But to me like having the patients of the week be in gay relationships and it be normalized and no one say anything about it being odd IN 2005, almost 20 years ago, did a lot. Like these patients are supposed to be from a slice of life perspective like their lives got disrupted and ultimately I’m glad they didn’t have it always be from a straight perspective and that it wasn’t treated any differently than a straight person.

Also a lot of people like to badmouth Glee and yes it was terrible for bisexual representation but the fact that we got a teenage boy kissing his boyfriend on network tv in 2009 before gay marriage was legalized was again… a huge step. And that was actually a pretty diverse cast regardless

I just think that people need to put stuff in perspective with older media ESPECIALLY ones that were trying to do something. Of course they fell flat by today’s standards but it was 15-20 years ago, they should because we should try to be better. And fun fact they’re still better than 80% of media out there today because 80% of media doesn’t even bother to have any representation at all

#lgbt #lgbtq representation #lgbtq #lgbtqia #house Md #glee #idk like house and glee suck in a lot of ways but glee especially made so many kids feel safe #and I would say house being able to joke about himself being gay and be that secure in his sexuality (whatever you believe it is) is good #that statistic was wild to me like how can we say anything about representation #for the record I don’t think necessarily that every movie should have a main character who is gay or bi or trans #(although why is it ok if they’re straight)#but like I said everyone’s life has at least ONE lgbt person in it #whether they’re their best friend or a distant acquaintance they exist #so to have it only be 20% of films is disgusting #we’re a long way from good. but house was doing better than some shows today sooooo #do with that what you will

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