#queer storytelling

[fru1typunch]

I like the new type of queer tragedy in storytelling.

I like that the heartbreak isn't death, or disownment, or conversion. I like that we don't see queer characters being robbed of a happy ending because of their queerness. I like that queerness isn't what their story is about.

I like that the heartbreak is miscommunication, or separation, or anything besides death. I like that queer characters aren't robbed of a happy ending and instead have an unhappy second act before their story ends. I like that queerness isn't what the story is about.

They may be fictional, but they feel real. They may be imagined, but the struggles aren't. They may be fantasy, but this time the fantasy is the setting and not just the concept of being queer itself.

They aren't torn apart because of bigotry or fear or hate. Those things don't really matter or exist in the new queer tragedy. They're torn apart by love and its high highs and low lows.

I like that queerness isn't what the new queer tragedy is about.

Cheers to the new less tragic queer tragedy (even if the in-between makes us cry).

#queer #queer media #queer story #queer storytelling #queer romance #queer fiction #good omens #good omens 2 #give me season 3 or give me death #neil gaiman #david tennant #michael sheen #why? love. #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens s2

[chaosandwolves]

I swear to god you all better watch Red White and Royal Blue

I don't care if you don't find it to be deep queer storytelling

It's a rom com! We've been crying for years to get them! And now we have them!

What did you expect?

If anything it's just like a het rom com and that's a good thing!

The sex scene is filmed like a het sex scene.

That's a good thing!

I get that it might not be the queer liberation and depth you want but we need to have movies like this.

Especially if we want ppl to understand that being queer is normal.

Like, yes it sucks, but sometimes you have to feed it bit by bit to ppl to make them understand.

And if you come at them with profound deeply queer storytelling they won't watch it

And come on, it's fun! It's a fun movie!

We can and deserve to have both sorts of storytelling

#rwrb #red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #Queer storytelling #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor

[stagefoureddiediaz]

dude I am SO happy you mentioned the orpheus connection in your last (brilliant) costume meta. I've been saying this! the orpheus parallels between eddie begins and buck's coma are so clear to me (the water! the lightning! chris's voice calling them back!) and I didn't even THINK about the fact that eddie can't look at buck in the hospital. kissing your brain fr (I also can't help but to think of that line from portrait of a lady on fire - the characters are discussing orpheus and the choice to look back or not is described as "the lover's choice or the poet's," and the fact that eddie doesn't look is him is him making the "lover's choice." spiraling) thank you for the truly amazing work that you do!!

Hey Rowan

I'm so happy to have more members of the orpheus parallels club!!!

I hadn't even thought about the connection to Portrait of a lady on fire!!!! Its such a great film - I'm a sucker for a period drama and a beautifully done queer one is so rare that I tend to get over excited by them!! - anyone who hasn't seen it really should watch it! And yes the poets choice or the lovers choice - such an epic line and with so much in it - I think I'll join you in the spiralling further!!

💜💜💜💜

#kym answers things #Rowan asks #portrait of a woman on fire #film rec for anyone who hasn't seen it #911 on fox #911 fox #queer storytelling #the orpheus connection #the lovers choice #buddie

[dekleinekapitein]

I had a random thought yesterday when thinking about various ttrpgs and it is this:

Our Flag Means Death is basically a Thirsty Sword Lesbians game!

- it’s inherently queer

- the core of the story is relationships, not lore or history (which is also why those don’t matter for why people judge it is good)

- the progress is measured in the emotional development arcs of the characters

And now I really want to try running a TSL game that is OFMD inspired.

#our flag means death #thirsty sword lesbians #ttrpg #pirates are so queer #queer storytelling #powered by the apocalypse #emotional resonance

[rainymonday126]

For decades we have been told that if we want to see queer/women-led/poc stories on TV, we need to write them ourselves. So, a whole generation of storytellers—writers, showrunners, cast, production, etc.—bravely stepped up and said, "Yes, we will tell these stories, and we will give them the respect they deserve." And the fans supported them! With their time and hard-earned money! The holy grail in the media industry!

But for what? When networks and streaming platforms continue to gatekeep our narratives, we lose no matter what.

At the end of the day, it was never going to be enough to just have people willing to tell our stories, we now have to beg for the opportunity for those stories to be heard.

There has to be something better than this...

#warrior nun #renew warrior nun #save warrior nun #avatrice #sister beatrice #ava silva #queer storytelling #lgbtq

[deramin2]

Just thought of the parallels between Good Omens Season 2 and queer cinema classics Torch Song Trilogy (1988). Trying to be vague. But it's the inherent lack of certainty to queer love stories where straight romance prizes inevitable destiny and eternity. I could also point to Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997), Spoiler Alert (2022), Bros (2022), Naz & Maalik (2015), Moonlight (2016), The Boys In The Band (1970, 2020), Cloudburst (2011), and many other queer films.

Especially where coming out of the closet and possible or real rejection are concerned. But also the reality of relationships between very different people who want different things but are also stubbornly in love with each other despite everything that should be between them. And the reality that is constant work with constant choices that overwhelms people at times.

Naz & Maalik might be the best parallel for the conflict at the end of Good Omens Season 2 because religion and disownment is a direct part of it.

I hope to get into what I mean more directly after Sunday, but if you know you know and I don't want to lose this. Good Omens is so clearly entrenched in the history and styles of queer media. Straight media would not and could not tell this story.

#good omens #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 #go s2 spoilers #queer media #queer storytelling

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[gunclebk]

that time i was an advice columnist. I’ve worn many hats and also had a lot of different jobs. I think more jobs than hats which fortunately fit better. Having good hair to fall back is fortunate.

#advice columnist #hack of all trades #queer storytelling #autobiography

[powerbottomblake]

dungeon meshi is soooo fucking great especially when it hits its stride and all characters have come into play bc it's just like

laios: I want to eat all the fucking monsters i want the monsters carnally

marcille: EATING MOSNTERS???? UNHOLY. UNCOUTH. DISGUSTING. anyway here's all the dark magic and necromancy i've got on the backburner to bring back my dragon-digested gf and also i plan to find a way for everyone to live forever at the cost of my very soul if need be

kabru, normally, in a normal tone he's rehearsed 42000 times in front of a mirror: I'M NORMAL. I'M SOOOO FUCKING NORMAL. I'M THE MOST NORMAL GUY AROUND AND I'M NOT CONSTANTLY PLOTTING ASSASSINATIONS FOR THE GREATER GOOD

senshi: I have all this trauma abt being the sole survivor of the fantasy equivalent of the franklin expedition but that's not important what really matters here is eat yer goddamn veggies or so help me

and the best part is that none of them are straight

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #I guess?? for anime only watchers?? #I love kabru so much. ND masking at its finest #also there's such idk. casual queerness to the whole story that really makes it very dnd-esque #'but it isn't confirmed!' i need y'all to exorcise the part of your brains that needs a kiss for a storyline to be actually queer #this story slaps of casual queercoding AND textual homosexuality like. namari isn't getting hit on on the reg by the one twin textually for #y'all to act up #the way marcille's most significant relationship is farlyn and whaetever kabru and mithrun have going on #liberate yourself from the shackles of Canon Kiss and start approaching the text based on the storytelling of it i beg you

[casperolivervo]

Using vampirism as an allegory for experiencing trauma and moving forward forever changed really makes writing far more fulfilling for me. This is why I love playing in horror! ✨️

#queer horror #horror writer #vampire #vampire the masquerade #vampires #vampire oc #gay horror #horror podcast #horror comedy #trans writers #trans artist #gay artist #gay authors #horror #halloween #vamily #VTM #my posts #storytelling

[doks-aux]

How to Craft the Perfect Story:

Make a guy

Make him gay

Give him problems

Put him on a boat

#the queer on boats cinematic universe #Our Flag Means Death #Black Sails #The Terror #Aubrey-Maturin #Master and Commander #Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World #storytelling #fiction #doc watches tv #doc watches movies

[yardsards]

the marcille-falin-laios dynamic is like the barry-lup-taako dynamic. to me.

#eliot posts #taz #dunme #the adventure zone #dungeon meshi #i wonder how much overlap there is in these fandoms. i feel like it's a decent amount? #since both of their demographics are like. queer dnd enjoyers who want a mixture of lighthearted and emotional storytelling

[novalizinpeace]

What do you think of Catnap and dogday ship?? (Sorry I'm curious) and what happened after dogday got trapped by catnap? Is like the game where he lose his legs?

you can see the answer to the last question in the last post of the christmas event, where is show that Nell is still alive, just without a leg and a arm

now, about the ship

isn't the first time 'm in a fandom were the sun/moon parallel exist, and sometimes i hc them like siblings (like with the daycare attendant) and sometimes like lovers (like with Wukong and Mac). Now, I see them like sibling 'cause i relate them a lot with Celestia and Luna from MLP, but if you want to think about them as a couple, go for it! I'm nobody to tell you work to work a Hc.

But yeah, is you're hoping to see some of this ship in my draws/au, go look elsewhere, 'cause it not my cup of tea.

#'m sadly don't making any queer couple in the cartoon version #'cause i'm keeping the idea of how i think Play.co would had write them #but again #that is in MY storytelling #go make whatever idea you have in mind #smiling critters #smiling critters arg #ask #nova

[pigdemonart]

Guau, ella es bisexual, i didn’t know that!

Vico and Fátima being little disasters, as usual. In ENG and SPA of course, tho imho the dialogue is always a little funnier in Spanish B^]

Imagine Fatima’s surprise when seeing that the captain of the baseball team from her old high school, is now being cunty at the supermarket???? The nerve. The audacity.

In reverse, imagine the horror of being openly queer but NOT knowing if the girl you’re interested in is Aware or even remotely Okay with your

💖gender thing.💖 How to even begin to explain???

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#los brujos #victor #fatima #comic #someone pay me to write and produce queer romcoms #i think i would do relatively ok #anyways my fav here are fatimas expressions #and of course fatima trying to grapple with what pronouns to use for Vico #lindo or linda fuck it — linde!!! #spanish gendered adjectives and nouns are ass but can at least be used for storytelling purposes

[aethersea]

devastating to go into the tag for an obscure vampire movie I've been quietly obsessed with for years to find mostly gifsets of minor characters (played by big-name actors) and review blogs saying they didn't like it :(

@ everyone who made a post saying "I liked it :)" I am blowing you a kiss. everyone who made a lovely gifset or photoset of the cinematography I am tipping my hat. that one poster that said "bro did y'all just miss the Entire Message about class and race or???" I am shaking your hand with enthusiasm there was SUCH a message about class and race

anyway everybody should watch Night Teeth and revel in glitzy flashy modern vampires in LA with me

#finx rambles #night teeth #vampires #apparently the marketing heavily overemphasized megan fox (she has a bit role. she's in like one scene) #so that one's not on the fans #but I am sad about all those people fuming bc it didn't have a poly ending #girl this is hollywood? what did you expect? #invent it yourself? that is what fandom is for?? queer reads have always been about discarding endings and living in the liminal?? #(side note I love queer readings of fairy tales. fairy tales class was so fun. god I need sleep or something my brain is on SUCH tangents.) #frustrated by that one post saying 'the vampire-slaying gang leader spends the day after a catastrophe befalls #trying to get his shift covered at work? unrealistic' #bro he's working class. he's poor. he's gotta put food on the table. do you think your job cares about your personal tragedy #this is in fact part of the Themes At Play wrt class. believe it or not. #sad also about those reviews that are like 'eh it was mid' but I've never needed critics to agree with me and I'm not about to start now #I did think the gifmakers would be on my side though #the lighting in this movie??? #that whole opening sequence in the credits with the storytelling done through reflections in cars at night? #the color choices??? the lighting??!?!?!?!

[ennaih]

Not Every Film I Watch In 2024

12. Good Grief (2023)

#good grief #good grief (2023) #2024filmgifs #my gifs #queer film #i didn't love that as much as i thought i would #but i liked it a whole lot #every character was so rich and had their own life #which i wanted especially for our friends of colour #and i knew Dan would be conscious of that #and he was #Himesh Patel's performance was so wonderful #i need to see him in more stuff #and of course Ruth Negga was excellent #the grief stuff didn't feel particularly profound #but i did like the brain as a muscle thing #and i remember when Redmond died #how shocked and distressed i was for Dan #i hope he makes more films #and i know he'll evolve as a storyteller #he's so dear to me #i recognise so much of myself in him #it's such an odd thing #i FELT that paint alone line so much #like yes same i want the same thing for me