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daisiesonafield-blog · 8 months

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#Louis queer coding #queer coding #queercoding #triangle tattoo #gay triangle #gay symbolism #28 official programme #28 clothing #shapes become language

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sentientsky · 5 months

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(oh newspaper archives my beloved)

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trans-luis-serra-navarro · 5 months

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Knowing me I’m gonna absolutely make this into a longer post but like. Isn’t it just SOOOOOOOO SILLY AND SO GOOFY that Luis bestowed the role of Sancho Panza onto Leon even though they’d only JUST met

Like,,,, Don Quixote isn’t just a book Luis loves a lot- he bases his ENTIRE MORALITY on his own ideas of what Don Quixote means and what the messages behind it are. He SURROUNDS himself with chivalric ideals and so, obviously, he holds that book and it’s characters VERY near and dear to him- hell, he doesn’t even let Ada or Ashley in on just how much this damn book means to him!!!!!!! The other scientists who he worked with during his time with Los Illuminados also called him Don Quixote, but realistically, how much would they have known of Luis’ deep-seeded love for that novel??????

So like. Clearly. There is NO WAY IN HELL Luis doesn’t understand the impact of Alonso (Don Quixote himself) and Sancho’s relationship. He ABSOLUTELY understands the importance of it and how vital to the tale each other are and how intrinsically intertwined they are in each others lives and how one would quite literally have not survived without the other and how they’ve gone through hell and back for each other (in Alonso’s eyes LITERALLY) and how Sancho was there for him when his illusions of fantasy finally faded away

So. Like. Luis picking Leon to call his Sancho HAD to be purposeful right????????

He HAD to have understood the weight of his words and the weight of his decision. Maybe Leon didn’t quite understand at first but Luis????? Luis knew DAMN WELL that Don Quixote and Sancho Panza’s relationship went further than two people who just happen to be on the same adventure. Luis picking LEON to be his Sancho was PURPOSEFUL.

He’s not just any old chum he happens to he stuck with; Leon is a man who fully encompasses EVERYTHING GOOD Luis believes in in the world. Leon is EVERYTHING his chivalric ideals want him to be. He’s an inherently kind and caring and selfless human being and he’s everything Luis wants to see in himself. He saved him from certain death and now they’re connected more by just the circumstances of their situation- they’d go through hell and back for each other and they HAVE. He wants Leon not just to like him but to LOVE him. Because Leon sees past his actions; he sees past his mistakes and up until now, nobody has ever given him that privilege. Just like how Sancho still believed in Alonso and still believed that there was worth in his fantastical delusions.

So how does Luis express this gratitude without just straight up saying ‘I love you’????

By using language he understands and is comfortable using, of course.

By projecting a story that has meant SO MUCH to him onto the both of them.

And GOD. THATS SO POIGNANT TO ME. HES TELLING LEON HE LOVES HIM IN A WAY HES BEST AT AND MOST COMFORTABLE DOING. HES SAYING ‘I LOVE YOU’ IN ALL OF HIS ACTIONS AND PROJECTIONS. WHICH MEANS MORE THAN THOSE THREE WORDS EVER COULD. HES USING HIS OWN LOVE FOR THAT BOOK TO PROJECT HIS LOVE ONTO THE PEOPLE HE CARES ABT GODDAMNIT‼️‼️‼️

(ALSO SIDENOTE THIS DOESNT JUST APPLY TO LEON!!!!! THIS APPLIES TO ASHLEY AND ADA TOO!!!!!!!!!!! HE PROJECTS THIS SAME LAMGUAGE ONTO THEM AS WELL, JUST NOT TO THEIR FACES!!!!!!!!!! HE SHOWS THEM KINDNESS AND LOVE IN HIS ACTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!)

And I think on some level Leon knows this too. He probably hasn’t analysed Don Quixote from every angle possible like Luis has, but he knows- in those final actions, when he takes up the mantle of his Sancho and confirms to Luis that, yes, he WAS a fine knight, he WAS his Don Quixote- I think he knew exactly what Luis had been trying to say to him this whole time. Just…. Using words that best describes it in his own way.

#human language is cool man #also there’s just. Yknow. the inherent queer coding of Don Quixote and Sancho that can’t be ignored HDNSHSNSHDNDJDJ #like it’s a GAY BOOK #but even that aside love doesn’t have to mean strictly romantic!!!!!!! I’m talking abt it in a broad sense!!!!#he loves Ada he loves Ashley!!!!!!!! he’s so full of love and these people for the first time love him back for who he is!!!!!!!!#so he uses lamguage he can exprwss himself with to explain it!!!!!!!!!!!#luisposting #serennedy #serrenedy #serrennedy #luis serra #luis sera #luis serra navarro #leon kennedy #leon s kennedy #ashley graham #ada wong

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hellofeternity · 8 months

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ORV transcends language | how ORV is kind to readers (1.1k words)

the difficulties in analyzing text are already numerous without a language barrier, the way one word can mean 5 things and when you put it in a sentence suddenly it can mean 50 things and put that sentence in a paragraph? go further and put that paragraph in a page? construct a whole world around it, weave it into the fabric, and suddenly you are painting with words.

ORV is a daunting text, it calls and references so many mythos world wide, greek, roman, indian, chinese, japanese, it plays with meaning and intent and uses gaps in our knowledge like weapons, making us extrapolate our own meaning between the sentences, it is a tome of knowledge when it comes to histories and philosophies it feels at times like I will never understand all these things inside it.

One of the difficulties of reading a translated text is that when we analyze a text the authorial intent weighs very heavily in our minds, sure we can immerse ourselves in the world but once we start picking apart at the threads we hit a wall pretty soon when we start asking ourselves "what did the author mean by this?" however in a translated text there is an obvious gap, a game of telephone, did the translator actually capture the authors intent? or are we just reading the translators perception? sadly I don't know korean, and I cant say I have the drive to learn it, as such I know there will forever be a side of ORV that I will never be privy to - however I am bilingual and had the pleasure of reading two translated versions of ORV, an English translation and an Arabic translation, I didn't finish reading the said Arabic translation but a couple things stood out to me when I briefly did ORV is very kind to readers, following along in other stories can seem confusing at times, the pacing might be too fast and you might miss some details in a characters actions, the wording might be too vague and ah damn 20 pages later you realize you don't actually know why the characters are doing what they are doing. A big writing adage that you will see a lot is "show dont tell" and it holds merit, but ORV doesn't subscribe to it, because ORV shows AND tells. ORV built a world around readers and reading, and it makes sure that there is clarity every step of the way on what is happening, first by starting out as a homage to the isekai genre, and not deviating too much at the start, making the readers feel at home in a worldview they are familiar with, systems, leveling, videos games etc, and when it starts deviating it explains things with clarity that no matter how bad the translation is you understand the general intent, and secondly by being VERY blatant about the names of things and having a built in "story" system that is built on common story tropes and names the themes for you! take for example "unbroken faith" and "Blade of faith" both of these are two translated versions of dokja's sword. I will never know which one is closer to the original authorial intent, but I can tell you something, dokja's sword is symbolism to the faith he is wielding. (CH386 vague spoilers) or the entirety of "the great war of saints and demons" being about the concept of good and evil fighting and how kimcom aren't just above being good and evil, they are both. By using story tropes that we are familiar with to explain the complexity of situations in a simple forms you no longer have to worry about losing you readers understandings through language barriers. Every story in the world in every language knows what good vs evil is, every language has the words to explain them. and therein lies the beauty of ORV. But of course this isn't to say translations don't matter, it does speak to the strength of an original texts clarity when it accounts for the big things by making them simplified, but when we get down to the nitty gritty it starts to lose form take for example

"Tell me, you fool. If I continue to regress, will I ever get to meet you again?"

this person here has a great write up explaining the translators thoughts behind this specific line

but it has spawned a lot of debate in the English speaking fandom, as to the strength of its translation, I remember when I first saw someone claiming that its a mistranslation and "you fool" isn't part of the original, my first thought was "and so?" I do not mean to be dismissive to the original text, but I do not exist in a space where I can appreciate it in the original korean, I do not exist in a worldview where I can understand the historical implications of a lot of the characters, and even when I try to research it in English sadly the resources do not exist yet and its even more laughable to think of finding these things in Arabic. (Goryeos first sword doesn't have an English wikipedia page as a clear example) a lot of people have issues with the most popular English fantranslation of ORV - and I can understand why, being bilingual I have a lot of opinions on how a lot of things SHOULD be translated most of the time, and have done my own translation work but as I sit and think about this popular translation I cant help but just feel love for it, it might be lacking to some, it might be inaccurate at times to others, but its just enough for me to paint the gaps in the text with my perceptions, the words used are tied to my affections the Arabic translation of ORV is clunky, it is messy, it doesn't have as much grace as the English translation of ORV does, the words barely string together cohesively, but it has enough clarity, enough intent, and enough love for its readers, to catch their hearts, their attention and their energy

and so I want this to be the first post on this blog because, the author is dead here, not because I buried them, but because the tower of babel fell down a long time ago, and all we have is rubble and each other. a lot of the analysis on this blog will try to be respectful to the korean original wherever it can, however my words will be coming from an anglosphere perspective, and build on other English reader's perceptions of a text translation that a decent amount of people don't think is adequate, but just like ORV is kind to us, we can be kind back, I will quote the most popular version because its what connects us together, and while the authors intent might be lost, we can share our own meanings with each other, and build our own intent from the rubble.

#orv meta #orv #orv analysis #r1864 #a big wall of text for me to go lol orv is queer and yjh is trans coded #but this is tumblr so everyone knows that already #also I still don't actually know what naming convention is correct I've seen many discussions about this #I just go with what is most popular for ease of understanding and ease of reading #also i find the naming thing very funny in english and latin letters because there isnt nearly this much drama about it in the arabic scrip #I just assume its like any other language that doesnt use latin and we are just trying to break english to sound out letters they dont have #i do like how dokjas name sounds like its splitting in the middle in the correct pronunciation 'dok-ja' adds to his duality #and i am sad that gets lost in the latin script sounding

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talons-and-teeth · 4 months

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Your Taste, Forever on My Tongue

Pairing: Elain/Lucien

Rating: M

Summary: Elain's office is running a Secret Santa event that coincides with the launch of the new website which she's leading on. She happens to get allocated the last person she could ever think of getting a gift for.

Merry Christmas, @makememakesense ! It's me, your Secret Santa!

Thank you so much being so lovely and giving me so many ideas for this AU, I really hope I got it (somewhat) right!

Thank you also to the @acotargiftexchange organisers for giving me this opportunity. This is my first ever fic and I've been so nervous about it, but I'm so glad to have done it for such a joyful community. Special thanks goes to my wife @mmiscbutterflies for helping me brainstorm and bring my 'Love, Actually' vision to life, and generally talk me down from the proverbial ledge when I became anxious/was not in the right headspace to write. Love you always.

Read on AO3 here

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Elain was late.

Not her usual, sorry I’m late-I couldn’t resist-there was a new cafe I just had to try on the way- late, but a fuck me-I slept through five alarms-maybe I spent too long watching reruns of Bake Off-or was it the bottle of Sauvignon?- tardiness, which left her cursing profusely while she tripped over her tights, slapped on eye cream and was out the door.

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kingslionheart · 6 months

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If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. That's why bad things happen to me. It is about the sins of my father. And my sins.

#I WILL GIF THIS ENTIRE SCENE BECAUSE IT HASN'T LEFT MY MIND SINCE I HAVE WATCHED IT YESTERDAY #david's performance was something else here #no one portrays christian guilt as this man does #he nails it every single time #and the way this character is SO alfred coded is making me cry even more #i will totally make parallels between aaron and alfred some day soon #but for the whole time it almost seemed like he was portraying alfred and it hit me SO FUCKING MUCH #the similiarities are so obvious #i fucking see you david #i saw what you were doing with the body language #and the fact that aaron is canonically queer??#i already saw alfred TOO MUCH during the scenes and then this one scene happened and GOD #i died a thousand times #anyway the target audience of this gifset is ME #you are welcome #my gifs #the burning girls #aaron marsh #reverend jack brooks #david dawson #samantha morton

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sapphicsparkles · 7 months

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I am taking the word "abuse" away from the internet until y'all learn what it actually means

#and incest #and queer coding #and stockholm syndrome #i'm tired #please stop throwing around buzz words and mental health language to create a morality argument for anything you don't like #and to validate that you're a “good queer”#not like the other queers #the one the cishet system can pat on the head

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floorpancakes · 1 month

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read that bravern interview snippet and immediately remembered how funny these proceedings are

#like they want you to know they know you know its fruity #but they also use really conspicuously vague language #and sometimes that act of sidestepping is deeply funny #like why are we playing around at this we all know these characters r fucking...#like theyll specifically ask questions abt love then detach it so its talking abt one character #or theyll describe characters bonds and suddenly theyll be grasping at straws for synonyms for love that wont alert the guards #its kind of sad that these things tend to be a lot more cautious and awkwardly put for queer characters #but at the same time its so funny as someone thats been in a lot of fandoms w predominant canon or almost canon ships #where suddenly all the staff get together in a room to brainstorm ways to say 'theyre fucking but like we gotta put it in code or else' lmao #idk

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kraniumet · 2 months

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every single tony scott movie is queer coded. i don't think every action 80s movie is, and i actually don't think rambo is that gay. commando is pretty gay, that is not a new take. as far as queer coded villains go, mark l. lester, who directed it, has spoken openly on it. the lethal weapons movies were written by shane black, who some people (me, for the first time right now) have described as "only ever making homoerotic christmas movies". beverly hills cop 2 was directed by tony scott. the issue isn't top gun having a normie amount of male gaze mistakenable for gay longing, it's people not drawing gay erotic beverly hills cop fanart. so we agree on that.

#top guns visual language is actually quite peculiar #what these movies have in common is not the form the queer coding takes but the propaganda for the usarican military cop industrial complex #we may belive it was just the virulently sexist 80s idolizing the male form when in fact there was 3 or 4 extremely prolific #directors and screenwriters of the era who's art consistently reads “some flavour of closet case”.#very “people thought freddy mercury was straight”-adjacent #and most importantly. ridley scott directed several movies in the 80s and none of them are gay.#blade runner has a gay character (roy batty) but it's not a gay film. so the closest we get is Legend '85. black rain '89 is like a tony #scott movie but without that genuine sprinkle of weird issues #paul verhooven does make gay movies but almost exclusively about lesbians. etc #post shortening nanoha #i don't watch good movies btw not lately

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dkettchen · 1 year

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not me adding literal buddhist monk shaolin masters to my very short list of ppl I’ve ever strongly related to the philosophy/mentality/approach to life of oh boy

#anthony padilla #buddhist monks #philosophy #trans #Idk what this says abt me for any of you who don't know me that well yet lmao #but it is fascinating to me at least that between the discipline of language learning since childhood #my shonen protagonist energy and slight megalomania #and my nonbinary trans thoughts about physical change and self improvement etc etc etc #despite coming from such vastly different backgrounds (not just culturally just in the like- I'm a queer artist n educator n stuff #and they're literal monks in an organised religion/belief system)#we have still somehow arrived at so many similar not only beliefs but also just like ways of living and discipline and worldview #something something outsider perspective that queer people will be more prone to due to being an eternal minority in any part of the world #while ppl like monks/nuns take up the lifestyle they lead in order to alienate themselves from the rest of society for religion's sake #something something the historic connection between ppl who dedicate their life to religion (monks/nuns/priests/etc) and the queer community #and various cultures where genderqueer ppl's role is/was that of religious leaders #something something maybe in a changing world that is not as religious anymore we can still be advisors and wise ppl to consult #like I think that's literally the conclusion I've arrived at for my pitch to the feminists is #you will never truly manage to include us as equals for sheer numbers reasons so you might as well use us and our skills and insights #for the gender lib movement in other more distinct ways that neither need you to fully equate us to you nor to limit us to your part of it #pay the transfemmes to teach y'all coding karlie kloss can't do it all on her own #and pay me to come teach you abt transmasc inclusion and internalised misandry and the terfs #and you'll find plenty of use from having us around

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yoursonlucifer · 1 year

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I cannot stress enough how gay the girls from turning red (2022) are

#this is the movie of all time #turning red #tag for when i write posts #like i dont even have the language to describe how queer coded and weird they are

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angstics · 2 years

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it’s interesting that in media discussions of my chem queerness, people never talk about the heavy pro-trans / anti-gender roles messaging from gerard and ray especially 2013 onwards. for some reason, they only hit on the party poison dubiously nonbinary tweet? like, is identity the only point of relation one can make?

#mcr #theyll hit on the stage gay theyll hit on coded language like Emo and Outcast and Flamboyant #but not ‘transgender kids have to be fearless’#it’s all so important to understand WHERE all these queer kids come from. and no one cares to figure it out

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boysnberriespie · 1 year

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Honestly sometimes I really hate how pigeon holed Good Representation has become because sometimes I want to write queer characters that just wouldn’t describe themselves with specific terms because it’s not how the character thinks and operates in the world

#like yeah I can use language that indicates this queer identity without explicitly saying it #but we’ve kind of gotten to a point that queer authors can’t write implicitly queer characters #because in the absence of concrete proof they Must Be Cishet #this brought to you by the fact that I’m struggling with a character from an old work of mine #who I would describe as asexual #but who wouldn’t describe himself as such #and honestly while he does often use quote unquote coded language for that #it doesn’t come up That Often #because this is a work where he’s struggling with the death of his father who was completely absent from his life #so it’s a book mostly about family and understanding people #and like it’s important to me that he also doesn’t really understand himself fully #or at least doesn’t feel the need to internally search about himself #at least maybe not until the end of the work #and so he wouldn’t in the set narrative I have #ever describe himself as Ace #(to be fair though this work is complicated by So Much more than just that 😭#this is also something where I’m trying an experimental thing where the main character doesn’t verbally speak At All #although he is the narrator #so it is something I’m taking so long to write because I have myself many challenges)

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astraltrickster · 2 years

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A lot of people on this website need to learn that progressive theory doesn't exist to give you pretty compassionate-sounding language to justify your existing biases or to let you promote your personal blorbopinions as a moral imperative; it exists to help you UNLEARN those biases and recognize that people can and SHOULD be allowed to resonate with something for different reasons than you

#serious tag #fandom #guess who saw MORE people using fictional characters to justify their own biases with 'progressive' language AGAIN #listen to me #if YOU want to headcanon every gnc 'male' character as a trans woman #if YOU want to headcanon every character you relate to as a kinsey 6 #if YOU want to headcanon any specific character archetype as ace #because thats what makes YOU feel good and seen and validated #FUCKING GO FOR IT #do it!#thats LITERALLY what transformative fandom is FOR #but if youre going to insist that this is DEFINITELY VERY SPECIFIC coding of YOUR read and NO ONE ELSE'S #and use that to say that OTHER QUEER FANS with OTHER QUEER HEADCANONS #in a microcosm where a piece of fan work gets maybe 1% of the fandom's eyes on it is considered a RESOUNDING success #are a bigger threat to you than these absurd mask-off attacks on queer rights going on in MULTIPLE countries ALL OVER the globe #or perhaps even worse #that someone not sharing your blorbopinion is PART of those attacks #or if youll scream until youre blue in the face 'WE NEED REPRESENTATION! WE NEED REPRESENTATION!'#but then the MOMENT you get any kind of positive queer media #whether big or small #you find some way to claim it's suuuuper problematic #(usually by evoking stereotypes with extra steps #often while calling that piece of media 'stereotypical'....)#step away from the keyboard and realize #the queerphobic one is YOU

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pridewrite · 2 years

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Prompt: Polari (#pw21)

Polari is a mixture of Italian, Romani, London slang, backslang, rhyming slang, sailor slang, and thieves' cant. Later it expanded to contain words from Yiddish and from 1960s srug subculture slang. It can be traced back as a slang/language as far back as the 16th century, and it was adopted as a form of communication by some of the UK LGBTQ+ community in the 20th century. Some words are still in use today!

Prompt: Written in Code (#pw alt21)

Polari itself is a code, but there's been lots of codes used over the years. Cyphers were used for a lots of things over the years. Did you ever make up a secret language between friends? Learnt to write shorthand, or had a secret knock?

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meid4 · 2 years

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When stranger Things s4 vol.1 came out, I liked to see people reacting to the first episodes. And, I noticed that some of them were so sure that Eddie was going to be a bad guy. Mostly, because of some vibes or a feeling. They couldn’t really describe it.

And I think that it IS kinda funny because it's literary Eddie’s whole story : people thinking that he is up to no good because he looks like it. Just like citizens of Hawkins, they just see, a guy : who fails school, lives on the “bad side” of the town and who is a drug dealer. Also, he is clearly queer and neurodivergent coded.

They kinda have the mindset of people of Hawkins. And unlike them, we (the watchers) KNEW that Eddie didn’t kill Chrissy, that he is innocent, in the FIRST episode. Still, people are suspicious of him.

Of course, it’s mostly subconscious because they have these stereotypes with how “villains” are usually portrayed. But I think it's interesting.

Could it be that I didn’t antagonist Eddie because : I’m queer and neurodivergent ? Maybe. Because I was never good at school ? Possibly. Because I grew up with people who didn’t always have money enough ? Probably.

But, I think that people who DID really expect that Eddie was going to be one of the bad guys, need to think of why they had this thought. Because these people are, possibly, also the ones who could “kinda see” why Jason was so sure that Eddie killed Chrissy. (Even after seeing his friend floating in the air and snap).

“Yeah, but Chrissy was his girlfriend, he loved her ! This is why he was so obsessed with killing Eddie, he wanted to avenge her”

Yeah, no, if you think that this is the only reason… You didn’t understand his character, AT ALL !

#stranger things 4 #stranger things #st4 volume 2 #st4 vol1 #st4 vol2 #st4 #eddie munson #neurodivergent #queer coding #queer #jason carver #chrissy cunningham #thoughts on stranger things #english isn't my first language #meid4

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