#queer coded good guys

[bowtiepastabitch]

Heaven's Not Homophobic in Good Omens, and Why That's Important

I need to preface this with, I am not trying to start a fight or argument and won't tolerate any homophobic or bad faith arguments in response to this. Cool? Cool.

This is in large part inspired by this ask from Neil's blog, which sparked some discourse that I don't want to get involved in but that brought up some analytic questions for me.

He goes on to reblog a question asking about Uriel's taunt specifically, clarifying that "boyfriend in the dark glasses" can just as easily be read/translated from angelic as girlfriend or bosom buddy. The idea is that an angel and a demon "fraternizing" is seriously looked down upon, not that heaven is homophobic. And that's super important.

We see homophobia in both the book and show, of course. Aziraphale is very queer-coded, intentionally and explicitly so, and we see the reaction of other humans to that several times. Sergeant Shadwell, for example, and the kid in the book that calls him the f-slur when he's doing magic at Warlock's birthday party. These are, however, individual human reactions to his coding as a gay man.

I am, personally, not a fan of heaven redemption theories for the show; no hate for people who want that it's just not something I'm interested in. I don't believe that heaven is good with bad leadership, or that God Herself remains as a paragon of virtue. To me, that's not in line with the themes and messages of the show. It's important, however, that heaven doesn't reflect human vices. Heaven can be nasty and selfish and apathetic in its own right without ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or racism. This matters for two reasons.

Firstly, we don't need the -isms and -phobias to be evil or at least ethically impure. In a world where we spend so much time fighting against prejudice and bigotry, our impulse is to see that reflected in characters whose motivations we distrust or who we're intended to dislike. While it's true that that's often the big bad evil in our daily lives, it can really cheapen the malice in fictional evil from a storytelling standpoint. A villain motivated by racism or as an allegory for homophobia can be incredibly compelling, but not every bad guy can be the physical representation of an -ism. Art reflects the reality in which it's crafted, but the complexity of human nature and the evil it's capable of can't be simplified to a dni list.

Secondly, and I think more importantly, is that for Good Omens specifically, this places the responsibility for homophobia on humanity. If you're in this fandom, there's like a 98% chance you've been hurt by religion in some way. For a lot of us, that includes religious homophobia and hate, so it makes sense to want to project that onto the 'religious' structure of Good Omens. It's a story that is, in many ways, about religious trauma and abuse. However, if heaven itself held homophobic values, it would canonize in-universe the idea that heaven and religion itself are responsible for all humanity's -isms and -phobias and absolve humans of any responsibility. Much like Crowley emphasizes repeatedly that the wicked cruelty he takes responsibility for is entirely human-made, we have to accept that heaven can't take the blame for this. To make heaven, the religious authority, homophobic would simply justify religious bigotry from humans. By taking the blame for religious extremism and hatred away from heaven and the religious structure, Good Omens makes it clear that the nastiness of humanity is uniquely and specially human and forces the individual to take responsibility rather than the system. Hell isn't responsible for the Spanish Inquisition, which by the way was religiously motivated if you didn't know, and heaven isn't responsible for Ronald Reagan.

This idea is perhaps more strongly and explicitly expressed in the Good Omens novel, in the scene where Aziraphale briefly possesses a televangelist on live TV. It's comedic, yes, but also serves to demonstrate that human concepts of the apocalypse and religious fervor are deeply incorrect (in gomens universe canon) and condemn exploitation of faith practices. Pratchett and Gaiman weave a great deal of complexity into the way religion and religious values are portrayed in the book, especially in the emphasis on heaven and hell being essentially the same. They're interested in the concept of what it means to be uniquely and unabashedly human, the good and the bad, and part of that is forcing each individual person to bear the brunt of responsibility for their own actions rather than passing it off onto a greater religious authority.

Additionally, from a fan perspective, there's something refreshing about a very queer story where homophobia isn't the primary (or even a side) conflict. The primary narrative of Good Omens isn't that these two man-shaped-beings are gay, it's that they're an angel and a demon. The tension in their romantic arc arises entirely from the larger conflict of heaven and hell, and things like gender and sexuality don't really matter at all. Yes, homophobia and transphobia are very real, present issues in our everyday lives, but they don't have to be central to every story we tell. There's something really soothing about Crowley and Aziraphale being so queer-coded and so clearly enamored with each other without constantly being bombarded with homophobia and hate. It's incredible to see a disabled angel whose use of a mobility aid makes no difference in their role and to see angels and demons using they/them pronouns without being questioned or misgendered. It's all accepted and normalized, and that's the kind of representation that we as queer people deserve.

#anywho that got real long #good omens #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #media analysis #good omens analysis #queer coding #queer representation #ineffable husbands #gomens #aziraphale x crowley #anywho happy valentines day #love my fandom #not beta read or majorly edited because I'm a busy guy with homework so lmk if there's any errors that need correcting (politely!)

[catiecriesalot]

My tl doesnt seem to get it so i guess I have to make a post. I dont ship zutara.

I SHIP ZUKKA.

ZUKO x SOKKA.

I LIKE THE FUNKY LITTLE GUYS TO KISS.

AU OR NOT I LIKE WHEN THEY GET TOGETHER AFTER HAVING A VERY ROMANTICALLY CHARGED REBUILDING OF THEIR NATIONS.

I LIKE THEM TO SEND LETTERS TO EACH OTHER AND I LIKE WHEN THEY MAKE DUMB JOKES THAT DONT QUITE LAND.

So so so so soo sososooooooo much.

#im physically incapable of shipping zuko x katara #i just cant do it #sokka is right there #sokka is the blue coded character you were looking for #goofy little guy whos actually really smart and deserving of love #both are just a little bit dumb and I appreciate that #zukko #reads so well as being queer too #like they could just kiss #sokka #ambassador of the water tribe #and fire lord zuko #its so good #zukka

[opens-up-4-nobody]

There is hope for humanity. I talked to two guys and their favorite naruto characters were rock lee (bc he's fighting in a way thats different) and orochimaru (bc he's cunty) and very clearly not jiraiya. Fuck jiraiya.

#the orochimaru guy hasnt watched since like middle school and never watched shippuden so im pretty sure he didnt get the implication #of orochimaru but like bro i get it. if orochimaru wasnt so ya kno sinisterly coded i would fucking love him bc hes so fun #and like soooo hilariously evil lol. the way he described it was: like queer coded ya kno like who is she? #and like same. shout out to those guys. my faith in humanity restored lol #ugh. they both also watch bleach. lets talk abt bleach for a million years. ugh. fucking so good. except not bc its fucking awful #but ya kno what i mean. its the nostalgia #unrelated

[snixx]

got queerbaited into reading a book by chatgpt. is this rock bottom

#girlblogging.pdf #apparently coding isn't the only thing that thing is ass at. fetching basic information is too #i mean i Wanted to read it anyway and i knew it wasnt queer before. idk why i let chatgpt gaslight me into believing i was making it up #whatever. neither the main character nor her best friend are textually queer or in love with each other. they're both pretty boy crazy tbh #but the mc is giving big aro vibes. like she's so done with her best friend every time she starts talking about men or crushes #also her crush on this guy is giving extremely platonic im not biased i swear #she just throws herself at him because she thinks itd be cool to date her besties crushs bff #so she could feel normal like her #they do have a cute friendship though. mc and the guy. also they start dating like 2 seconds after her bff dies so it's not really romantic #also theres a very cool lesbian who gets more pagetime than the guy and whos friendship with mc is super angsty so #w #its a really good book ok i just went in with really wrong expectations #like a sapphic hiaylm #but every day i grow closer to the great truth of my life that sapphic hiaylm will never exist #and i should stop looking for it and find the beauty in things for their originality and what they are #anyway in this case the lack of sapphicness did not detract from the book at all dont get me wrong #i just found it funny

[lesbaurinkos]

gay kevin and clay might be the gay couple but julian the fujoshi porcelain doll was the queer spirit of the show and now he is dead this show has no value anymore #riverdales7spoilers

#hope u guys have seen that horrible tweet otherwise this post makes no sense but thats ok really i think its funny without context too ^_^ #ive been compiling a collection of my favorite tweets on That Event in my phone since thursday night and god theyre all so good. #like we have entered a new era of Incredible Posting that we havent gotten since kylo ren died & his fans posted crazy shit #and its just all so amazing. i have a whole folder of the best ones #another favorite is i saw someone claiming he was a victim of MISOGYNY and his death was FRIDGING #LITERALLY THE SECOND COMING OF KYLO REN IS QUEER FEMME CODED OR WHATEVER. LOOOOVE IT #riverdale

[fridayiminlcve]

if i dont move to nyc or london or paris by age 27 what is the point of anything

#i looooove my city so much you guys like if i wasnt who i am (queer) rn i would be so fucking glad that i am in my current city but #i loooove art and history and fashion and stuff and this citymight be about second best for all that but its still soo crowded #people WILL judge no matter what you wear something cutesy and people dont shut up especially when ur 16 and tagging along with your mom to #the mall or something and everyone just stares and even among your classmates ive been complimented so many times #for my unique style or whatever (aka i have beaded shoelaces and wear lots of jewelery and absurd ass eyeliner) and theyre like oh #n******** is so fancy itni stylish bandi hai woh and its so attention grabbing but i dont want it to be a big deal !!! #i want to like 20 badges and wear insane makeup and dye my hair without calling much attention to myself!!! #of course i know that will change slowly as you go in to uni and meet ppl of your type instead of a bazaar market and youll pick ur own #friends who r like minded but considering this is india how many people can you truly find. #also my next two years are going to be spent in a college for jee and neet kids #you can wear what you want theres no dress code but you have to appear serious studious and simple if you want to be taken seriously #elle woods at harvard law type #i asked my mom to get an industrial & second lobe piercing and actual dyed hair and shes like turn twenty get into a good college then do #not bc she minds she allowed me to get my hair dyed at age 13 but to go in th college im going to there is SO SO much rigour #and if you dont show yourself as professional and shit they will keep you in lower effort self study classes instead of best of the best #i KNOW how difficult moving abroad is bc my family does not have that money i need to do it myself its so so expensive bc the money #itself has such a high value compared to here (you see americans cribbing abt 30$ hourly wage but here that is 2500inr) #2500 inr is as much as an expensive pair of jeans here. expensive clothes here r 30$ and in usa its 300$ . see the diffence #im changing topics so much but sometimes i do feel this place is suffocating #its a priviledge i have that i can even think about going abroad comapred to other indians but still #dp you get what i mean #and ik movies and all are very romanticised so it might not even be this way in western cities and just an idealisation but still #if things change around here then the entire question of going anywhere is out the window anyway #smalltown boy will byers moment #dni if you read all this and plan on replying unless ur a close mutual (close mutuals u know who u are) #also if someone says why would you want to go to usa uk paris when they colonised your country shut up <3 shut up very much <3

[halloweeninabottle]

Jeff Blim as Sweetooth in Holy Musical, B@man!

#holy musical b@man #sweetooth #team starkid #starkid #batman #jeff blim #gifs #queer cowboy #queer coded if you will #like all good villians should be #i couldnt find any gifs dedicated to this guy so im back at it again #okay bye

[kindleaf]

some of you have not yet figured out the difference between a headcanon with strong canon support vs intentional coding and let me tell you. nothing in just roll with it is the latter.

#text #you guys have got to stop giving them credit for this kind of stuff. good writing? sure. intentional queer coding? #NO?

[t3tr0m1n0]

i can't pretend i'm immune to coming away from a story with One Dude who's very particularly special to me but at the very least there's like 85% odds that he ends up transfemme in my brain

#and that's assuming i didn't choose the ''guy'' with nonbinary coding & take that to its logical conclusion instead #but the other examples are. i mean. sho minazuki & **** ***** & uh davey newsies #there's others too i think but i probably can't remember them. shrug #plenty of stories where i care lots about the women too or. don't really care about anyone Extremely so #the cast of fe14 is really unengaging. my most liked were (roughly) shura & rinkah. i thought they were neat when i was younger #and fe13 my only favorite is robin who's not got a set canon gender. yknow #in commoddities i mean violet's the tgirl right there but i do think drew's a he/him lesbian + rudy's got something going on #which isn't even getting into jean's she/they swag. guess this comic doesn't really count when lots of them already are queer #puyo puyo's got a good ensemble cast but other than eccolo no one's hooked me. i mean i like arle but not in a lot of ways she #is portrayed as & sig has the autism swag so i can't Not like him. i could see him transing her gender #the exception to all of the above is axel because while i like him a lot i don't like him So much that i'd trans his gender #c u thru the q #also sprach #i exclude from the contents of this post any of my ocs because that'd just be cheating. of course i like rosa & ashley & duncan &

[bonetrousledbones]

at this point i’m convinced folks saying “people ONLY want perfect unproblematic queer characters but I’M different and want them to KILL” are just making up guys to get mad at because who. literally genuinely who are the people that only want flat/”perfect” queer rep i haven’t seen a single one since like 2018 but i’ve seen like 6 posts like this in the past week

#trousled rambles #emphasis on rambles #maybe this is just specific to my dash but i keep seeing those posts #and every single time im just. jesse what the fuck are you talking about #i promise you are not going to get cancelled for making gay characters kill people/each other bc when has that ever been a problem dude #people criticizing a character's actions are not condemning the story they're just saying Hey That Guy Kinda Sucks In A Way I Dont Like #you are allowed to say That Guy Sucks In A Way I DO Like without making it a whole Thing. you will be fine i swear to you #there's also a difference between wanting perfect unproblematic characters and thinking some rep is harmful and bad #when you're character is one Bad Gay in a story full of different kinds of morality gays you are FINE #when there is one Bad Gay and the rest of the characters are Good Not-Queers + Tokens that is where the problem is #i'm glad you're able to recognize disney's hades as a cool gay character but he's still literally propaganda #people aren't silencing you by pointing that out & critiquing other queer/queer-coded villains through the same lens #homophobia in media didn't just magically poof away with steven universe man ppl are allowed to still be wary #pbbbthth rambled more than i meant to but u get it whatever

[brw]

sorry, i know i've complained about this before but it is genuinely enraging seeing these outraged articles and youtube videos complaining about them raceswapping wonder man like. i am possibly the only person who's enough of a freak to be doing a second readthrough of all of simon's appearances, like i KNOW this man. i know him well.

so to see a bunch of random people suddenly get super pissed he's portrayed by a black man is insane bc like sorry, where were you when i was trying to get into him?! there was NO content online that i could find, fucking NONE. there was an inactive CBR thread, random reddit threads, and a tumblr blog that archived in 2013. there was no community, no network of fans, no proper reading list, very few in terms of actual content for this guy. like sorry if you care so much, why didn't i see you around scrubbing the backlog of deviantart and old tumblr blogs to find more content? why was the main youtube stuff i could find before the show was announced reuploads of EMH clips and homophobic cosplay vids??

like man. don't pretend like you care this is clearly and transparently an excuse to be racist and antiblack. simon being cast with an actual talented actor who can perform in both cape shit and a wide range of other genres is literally the best case scenario you guys are just weird and racist! grow up!

#brieuc.txt #wonder man #mcu wonder man #sorry like... trying to find new art (dekal did a headshot sketch i'm SO hyped) n came across a stupid article and like. shut upppppp #like i am worried certain aspects of his character will be ignored bc he's such a d list character very few know or care abt his details; #the fact that he's jewish that he's heavily queer coded that he's suffered from abuse that he's from like 50s new jersey #but none of you guys KNOW that bc you're not actually fans or gave simon a second thought before now ur just weird n racist! shut up!! #mcu dudebros do not interact i will cultivate a good environment for new wonder man fans with my bare hands and blood if i have to

[lighthouseas]

no like literally not you reblogging tawog stuff the SAME DAY i literally thought about that show and wondered to myself, "what would tumblr think of this show."

FHFJDHFDHFH we are telepathically connected. clearly. and tbh tumblr would loveee tawog if more people watched it :( it's such a tumblr show fr

#it pained me to say “it's such a tumblr show” but it literally Is #meta narrative. queer coded characters galore. milfs. dilfs. weird guys to blorboify. really good episodes to obsess over. terrible episode #-to obsess over. the list goes on. #actually come to think of it. if tumblr was a show. itd probably be tawog 💀 #💌 #mutuals 💫 #tawog #bee.txt

[semiotomatics]

it is criminal that people are sleeping on Strange World

criminal

#reading abt it flopping in the box office is making me cry #its so freaking good you guys #the dialogue is simplistic but the story/theme/worldbuilding/aesthetic is SO GODDAMN GOOD #also the protag is queer as heck and i love him to itty bitty pieces #he flirts with a boy!! #and then his dad embarasses him the way only a dad can in front of said boy!! #he ''comes out'' to his big gruff manly grandpa and i held my breath waiting for the stereotypical homophobia #or at least the whole initial-surprise-then-pointed-acceptance-as-overcorrection that we usually have to be satisfied with #but no!! #they just treated it the exact same goddamn way as if he'd used she/her pronouns to refer to his crush #literally it was so normalized and i love it #there was at least one other queer-coded character (I'd argue 2 but the second is more debatable) and it was just #it was lovely #i didnt personally relate to the theme so it didnt tug at my heartstrings THAT much #but i went into that theatre severely emotionally compromised so i sobbed through half of it anyway lemme tell you #anyway please go see strange world #bring your friends #bring your children #bring your parents and your grandparents #bring your dog if you can get them in (make sure to still buy them a ticket tho!) #dont let Disney see this film as a failed experiment

[sailorsuit]

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#personal #no ability to stand right wing politics #i feel pretty demoralized by ppl at work lately #its not anything someone personal did #more like the general system #of people hating enby people #and I have to try and educate/stick to my morals while also not getting ousted at work #i hate being a palatable gay #i want to be myself more #i code switch so hard that its enfuriating #and they dont get that #they believe the right wing shit they see online #they dont notice the cuts that are made to make the person (insert guy who makes stupid arguements fucking OWNED statements here) look good #or how the person they are talking to is almost in tears #i just #i love my enby people and i love my community #and its so frustrating to hear strawman arguements about them being upset about misgendering #bipoc queer and woman and any mix of that are not allowed to be angry or feel anything #i am tired of educating others rn #its just #hard sometimes

[sovereignrat]

First Book Of The School For Good And Evil Series Spoilers

I need to calm my nerves.

Right. I just finished reading the first book and all I have to say is what the ever living fuck?

I cannot tell you how upset this book made me, I almost cried in some parts I was so frustrated.

I'm just so confused, why the hell would you queer-code Agatha so much to the point where, I was convinced that she was a canon lesbian, but then make a fall in love with a prince. Not only just a prince, but a sexist and misogynistic prince. A prince that was literally bullying her for the entire book up until the point where she miraculously finds her self-confidence and starts to change appearance to a more acceptable and palatable way.

I am flabbergasted, I am shocked and I threw this book as hard as I could across the room because of how pissed I was.

I cannot tell you how pissed off certain parts made me.

What makes me even more annoyed is that I know that Agatha and Sophie are for some god awful plot reason made out to be sisters.

What the fuck?! WHY? Why? Why would you do that? Obviously it's probably for the overarching story but I don't give a fuck.

Why would you do that? this character is so obviously queer coded like I can't even lie, I can directly quote from the book supporting this:

"Here in this safe, secluded world, the two of them would make their own paradise"

"Agatha gagged. Who could ever love boys?"

"She grabbed her shorn hair and flaccid robes. 'I'm- I'm-'

'Still a princess.'

Sophie looked at her. 'And the only we'll get home,' said Agatha, forcing a small smile. 'So we have to make this kiss happen.'

'We?' said Sophie.

'We," rasped Agatha.

Sophie hugged her tight

'We're going home, Aggie' "

"Agatha met Sophie's lucid, beautiful eyes."

" Agatha scowled. 'That's not my fault.' 'I think it's because deep down you don't want me to find love, Agatha,' Sophie said, voice calm.

'What? Of cour-'

'I think you want to keep me for yourself '

Agatha's whole body went rigid."

"She broke into a run and charged towards torture and death, wishing that someday she and Sophie would find each other in a different world, a world without princess, a world without pain......."

It doesn't even stop there.

There's a whole part where Sophie dances with her, in her evil form (this is really important and I'll tell you why later), to fucking love music.

Don't even get me started on Sophie sacrificing her life for Agatha and then Agatha bring her back to life with a true loves kiss, she revives her with a true loves kiss?????? EXPLAIN.

Now. Rage aside, let me get onto the more put together part of this post.

I want to pay attention to the whole running thing the book has that evil and the school for evil students have with how "shameful" and "disgusting" and "unnatural" it is when they love someone.

Do you know what that sounds like to me? It very much sounds like the type of things said and thought about queer people throughout history.

A lot of the evil students have loved and they were told it's shameful and wrong.

Not to mention multiple characters drawing the conclusion different=evil.

(This could also be seen in multiple different ways and I really wanna get into that at some point in time but this is not what this post is about and I've already typed a lot.)

So let me go back to Sophie being her in her 'true evil form' when she dances with Agatha.

This is important as it can so easily represent queerness. Going back to the fact that in this book, looking 'ugly' and 'disgusting' is paired with being evil, it kind of feels strange that Sophie and Agatha dancing together in a ballroom-type setting, with romantic music in the background, and Sophie leading the dance, filling in the 'male' role, while looking ugly and 'evil' . Sophie even initiates the dance, sinking to one knee and holding out her hand for Agatha to take, like what the princes do.

I'm just really frustrated that the sisters storyline and the true love bullshit between Agatha and Tedros is the direction this series is taking.

That Agatha is loosing her ability to call out the flawed way the whole system works and eventually even just ignores the blatant sexism and misogynistic views ingrained into everyone.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

And before anyone crucifies me and calls me a proshipper, I do not support incest and I don't ship Agatha and Sophie anymore because they are sisters. Even if it was a bullshit, unnecessary plot point pulled out of Chainani's creative asshole near the end of the series because god, what will we ever do if queer people, sapphics specifically, get actual good representation for once????!!!! I'm just confused why you go through all the trouble and effort of writing their relationship and other queer coded relationships in the series like that if you're just going to make them straight anyway?

What's the point.

And don't even get me started on the movie, that whole thing was just one big backhand to the face. The fact that they made the actors for Sophie and Agatha kiss fully on the lips in a dramatic climatic moment, with music and everything?

Also the casual fucking antisemitism in Sophie's transformation?

#It really upsets me #And some parts I couldn't tell were a social criticism or a genuine belief the author had #Wasted potential I say #And it's frustrating and shallow #Also #Fuck Tedros #I hate hate hate that guy #Sophie isn't any better but I digress #Dot is the best character in this book and we all know it #Dot 💔 #Queer coding (derogatory) #I will stick to my hc that Tedros/Agatha is comphet #It would've been so much more interesting for Tedros to be queer #I'm gonna be angry about this for a long time #sfgae #sophie of woods beyond #agatha of woods beyond #tedros of camelot #the school for good and evil #fuck netflix #And fuck soman chainani

[katakaluptastrophy]

Masterpost of TLT metas

This is mostly for my own reference, as tagging doesn't seem to guarantee something being findable on Tumblr...but if you like wildly overthinking lesbian necromancers in space, enjoy!

Overthinking the Fifth House:

What is a "Speaker to the Dead"?

Actually, Magnus Quinn isn't terrible at sword fighting

Imperial complicity: Abigail the First

Pyschopomp: Abigail Pent and Hecate

Did Teacher conspire with Cytherea to kill the Fifth?

What does the Fifth House actually do?

The Fourth and the Fifth can never just be family

Cytherea's political observations at the anniversary dinner

Abigail Pent's affect: ghosts and autism

Were the Fourth wards of the Fifth?

Abigail probably knew most of the scions as children

Magnus Quinn's very understandable anger

Fifth House necromancy is not neat and tidy

Are Abigail and Magnus an exception to the exploitative nature of cavaliership?

"Abigail Pent literally brought her husband and look where that got her" (the Fifth in TUG)

The Fifth's relationship dynamic

The Fifth's relationship is unconventional in a number of ways

The queer-coding of Abigail and Magnus' relationship

Abigail and Palamedes, and knowing in the River

Was Isaac the ward of the Fifth?

Did Magnus manage to draw his sword before Cytherea killed him? (and why he probably had to watch his wife die)

How did Abigail know she was murdered by a Lyctor?

Fifth House necromancy is straight out of the Odyssey

The politics of the anniversary dinner

Was Magnus born outside of the Dominicus system?

Overthinking John Gaius:

The one time John was happy was playing Jesus

Is Alecto's body made from John's?

Are there atheists in the Nine Houses?

Why isn't John's daughter a necromancer?

The horrors of love go both ways: why John could have asked Alecto 'what have you done to me?'

Why M- may have really hoped John was on drugs

What is it with guys called Jo(h)n and getting disintegrated? (John and Dr Manhattan)

John's conference call with his CIA handlers

Watching your friend turn into an eldritch horror

Why does G1deon look so weird? (Jod regrew him from an arm)

When is a friendship bracelet not a friendship bracelet?

Why did John have G1deon hunt Harrow? (with bonus update)

The 'indelible' sin of Lyctorhood and John's shoddy plagiarism of Catholicism

Are John Gaius and Abigail Pent so different?

What was Jod's plan at Canaan House?

John and Ianthe tread the Eightfold path

The Mithraeum is more than a joke about cows

When was John Gaius born? (And another)

John Gaius and the tragic Orestes

John and Jesus writing sins in the sand

John and Nona's echoing chapters

John's motivations

Overthinking the Nine Houses:

'No retainers, no attendants, no domestics'

Funerary customs and the violence of John's silence

Juno Zeta and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time

The horror of the River bubble

Every instance of 'is this how it happens' in HTN

Feudalism is still shitty even if you make it queer and sex positive

How do stele work?

Thought crime in the Nine Houses

The Houses have a population the size of Canada

What must it be like to fight the Houses?

You know what can't have been fun? Merv wing's megatruck on Varun day...

Augustine's very Catholic hobby (decorating skeletons)

Necromancers are not thin in a conventionally attractive way

Matching the Houses with the planets of the solar system

Why don't the Nine Houses have (consistent) vaccination or varifocals?

How would the Houses react to the deaths at Canaan House?

How does Wake understand her own name (languages over 10,000 years)

What pre-resurrection texts are known in the Houses?

Camilla and Palamedes very Platonic relationship

The horrors the Cohort found at Canaan House

Do the Houses understand the tech keeping them alive?

Overthinking House religion:

What do the Houses believe about death?

Was M's nun a Franciscan?

Cavaliership and arbitrary socio-religious structures

Ritual scarification

Sacraments and sacramentals

What did Silas think god wanted at Canaan House?

In defense of Silas

There's no such thing as a 'good' necro/cav relationship

Veiling and shaving in Ninth House cult practice

Tongue-in-cheek thoughts on Eighth and Sixth religion

A very long deep-dive on House belief and practice

Overthinking Harrowhark Nonagesimus:

'The meat of your meat...belonged to god' and 'that is how meat loves meat'

The horror of parental touch: Harrow, John Gaius, and Abigail Pent

Why is Harrow so obsessed with Abigail's hands?

Frontline Titties of the Fifth and transgressive necro/cav relationships

Harrow, Wake, and permeability of the soul in HTN

Bible studies for weird queer necromancers:

Epiphany: revealing god's child to the wider world

The Holy Innocents and the creche massacre

The Virgin Mary and Commander Wake

John Gaius and John the Baptist

Instantiating the Trinity and the Second Resurrection

What's the significance of Paul?

St Paul's theology of gender and sexuality and the House theology of cavaliership

Maundy Thursday: consuming another for eternal life

Harrow and the Harrowing of Hell

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