#straight to the pub

[mightymizora]

I know this is very old disk horse but it always baffled me when people critique games with all the main party being bisexual as being unrealistic when I do everything in my power as a bisexual to only ever hang out with other bisexuals.

#it was especially baffling in DA2 which was set in a city? The first thing you do when you move to a city is find the queers #to me? The Hanged Man was a queer pub #that's why all the gays are there #also I have straight friends and other LGBTQIA friends this is a generalisation it's just that the majority of the people I hang with are b #it just is what it is

[amarriageoftrueminds]

thinking about how they had to age up comics Bucky to avoid the gay connotations

and despite villainizing him still had to pair him & Steve off with women while they’re sneaking off to meet each other

and had to give Steve a girlfriend to de-gay his reunion with openly-gay Arnie Roth...

And then MCU Steve is SO obsessed with Bucky that they had to give them beards every time they're alone together in public, and then had to cut down on their screen time together, keep them physically separated in frame, forbid one character from even mentioning the other, separate them in time, and kill one of them off.

And I'm just like

Guys.

You do realise that actually straight characters wouldn't need all this 'fixing', right??

#stucky #steve rogers #bucky barnes #MCU #chris evans #sebastian stan #mcu meta #meta #steve meta #bucky meta #stucky meta #no one's feverishly cutting scenes and saying 'we need to cast a random nameless female to hang on starlord's arm #cuz otherwise his entire arc is just a gay love story and it'll be trending all over twitter' #mindblowing how Tony is IN THE MOVIE joking about holding Rhodey's dick #and yet ZERO steps had to be taken to prevent THEM from being read as an Epic Gay Romance for the Ages or w/e #but Steve & Bucky merely sit on adjacent pub stools and suddenly it's *GayPanicStations* 🙄💅 #STRAIGHT CHARACTERS DON'T NEED TO BE *ACTIVELY PREVENTED* FROM COMING ACROSS AS QUEER #CUZ IT WOULD SIMPLY NEVER BE AN ISSUE IN THE FIRST PLACE??? #kevin feige bursting into the writers room to derail their script #because steve briefly touched bucky's shoulder while they were alone together... #...and now 3 entire movies worth of fragile atwell-ass-kissing compet has crumbled like a shitty dry cookie #if that's all it took it's because they're fucking gay kevin

[blamemma]

me because it’s easter bank holiday weekend so I have to be a social warrior and I’ve just done the everything shower and now I need to do the post everything shower routine but I’m just a girl who wants to rot

#between now and Monday I am simply never free #I’m not built for this anymore #clock out of work tomorrow and then straight to pub? why the fuck did past me think that was a good idea

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

Grocery shopping with Limp Bizkit. Need them to pick anything up for you?

#sometimes I pull themes for my tumblr posts straight outta my ass and this one is definitely one of them. #i know this one is random as hell lmao but it's Saturday and guess what?... I'm updating my grocery list rn so there's my dumb inspiration. #You've got Lee at a local bodega #Wes is confused as hell at the table salt selection at Publix. Wes while you're there pick me up a pub-sub will ya. thx boo! #and Fred is at some boujee ass grocery store with nice floors and neatly arranged products on the shelves. #side note... how do think each one of them would respond to being asked to pick up feminine hygiene products? #honestly the background of Wes' pic could easily be swapped out for a pad and tampon aisle and the facial expression would work the same #Lee forgot about your request because he got distracted by potatoes #Fred had to facetime you while in the store because he forgot what brand you wanted and he didn't write it down like you asked him to. #Limp Bizkit #nu-metal #DJ Lethal #Wes Borland #Fred Durst #down the rabbit hole

[qcomicsy]

Jason with a 5 o'clock shadow wearing a cap and a winter vest makes me go feral

#it's so painfully straight but somehow makes me want do blow him in a pub bathroom #q rambles #nsft #tw nsft #if you saw this no you didn't #MDI

[hella1975]

first exam on wednesday 🚬😔 that jeff bloke was right it’s never over

#‘that jeff bloke’ im in love with him actually. no one listens to him like i do #exam on weds THEN EXAMS THURSDAY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NO BREAKS. KILL MEEE THAT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL #saturday exams full stop should be illegal but at least it primes itself perfectly for a catastrophic piss up #esp bc my friendship group this year is all econ students so we’re all fully gonna spill out the exam #and go straight to the pub like im not even going HOME #me and my best mate on my course have a tradition where we get shots after the last exam of a season #and we choose three mystery shots for each other and we HAVE to do them consecutively #it’s a dangerous game. oh hella of saturday night live for both of us bc i am in the TRENCHES rn 🙏🏼 #hella goes to uni

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

It’s so funny to me that like half the recipes in the Paddy’s cookbook are just straight up poison in the actual show, like commit to the bit and add some cough medicine and bath salts for flavouring, cowards /j

#paddy’s cookbook #paddy’s pub cookbook #iasip #always Sunny cookbook #text #anmmbposts #I’m surprised there’s not a recipe for straight up green paint 😭 #I really want to try the one that’s just Blue like just Blue but I’m allergic to half the ingredients #though perhaps that will give me the authentic being poisoned experience

[jekyllnahyena]

My friends got me a squirtle onsie as a late birthday present. I fucking love these guys so much.

#we have our yearly village harvest feast again aka lets get abdolutely dhitfaced beyond reason for five days straight #and they gave to me after weve already started drinking in the local pub? i wanna call it? #and then we went to a different location and i wore it for tge whole night till i went home at like. 5 am #i shall now drink my konterbier because im very much nof sober and i do not want to deal with a hangover thank you #but yeah #i got shitfaced at the village party dressed as a fluffy squirtle #life is good

[malcolmreeds]

im like 70 pages into moby dick and this is like ..... the gayest book ive ever read, herman melville i have Questions

#ishmael is like haha queequeg says were married but in his custom it just means were very close friends uwu #bestie you embrace and touch foreheads and spoon every night together and still share a bed even tho theres more rooms in this pub #i think by any custom youre just straight up married??????? #you keep referring to yourself as husband and wife in the matrimonial bed for christs sake #anyway i am so compelled #personal

[xslytherclawx-writes]

I'm calling you again on your telephone and all I ever get is another stupid busy tone

#los campesinos! #this song has it all #this is unrelated to the straight edge posting bc by god do these guys drink haha #gareth used to work at a pub if i'm not mistaken

[prisonhannibal]

working in food service or nightlife is like oh shit I need to fit rent into my alcohol budget

#txt #me after going out to a pub after work every day for three weeks straight at my old job

[lonely-night]

sometimes I wonder do I not look gay enough lmaooo

because my coursemates just assumed I have a boyfriend when I said yes I'm in a relationship lol

#rambling tag #i mean gurl really? #i basically ask my other gay coursemate to go to a gay pup together in front of them #were they thinking its just me the straight girl and her gay bestie going out ??? lololololol #its mlm and wlw solidarity #*gay pub

[oatbugs]

i am actually terrified xoxo

#ok yk how i ended up going to sweden to a family friends house and staying in an empty w a futon in it #the family friend in question is actually a really ridiculously clever translator/linguist/author/journalist/etc #genuinely shes so smart . but also shes like . super introverted and the whole house is constantly silent i can hear someone sighing #through a closed door . and the door to my containment cube TM is in the living room and i am constanrly living in fewr #of making any noise . also forgot to take UK-EU adapter w me so i literally cpuld not study which is the entire reason #i came here . to run away from my parents constantly screaming at each other etc. anyway theyre actually lovely ppl but i am so afraid of #like . using up their food etc . that i rejected it for a while . which is dumb as fuck bc straight up rejecting to eat smns cooking #is actually rly rude in my culture . but i still feel guilty. and like im not even here w my own money (i dont have any of that left xoxo) #anyway we had a convo abt languages and i realised my persian is so shit rn its so . shameful of me. she also told me to learn german #(bc philisophy) and i told her i kind of am kind of and she said do u find it a mathematical langauge ? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN #WHAT DO U MEAN . LIKE IK ROUGHLY WHAT SHE MEANT BUT LIKE WHAT WAS THE RIGHT ANSWER #when i responded she just smiled and said nothing for 10 seconds i feel like my whole personality was being judged for that response #anyway @swedes ur consensus culture is actually so fascinating #empty cube** first tag #every moment i am living in fear . still 100x better than being home lmao #the way i didnt sleep for 3 days . xoxo #anyway linköping bitches r like lets do smth crazy and go to a pub at 7pm order 2 entire beers chat cordially and split the bill before 8pm #heart emoji everyone here js rly sweet

[apollo-cackling]

not trying to be mean but honestly any sentiment that's like "[non-Traditional form/genre of literature*] raised my bar for queer representation so much I can't ever return to Published Books because it's all bad straight stuff/straight people writing queerness/etc" is kind of distasteful to me now. they're there. there's literally plenty** out there now if you just look.

[edit: I want to clarify that I don't think published books are inherently better than any other forms of literature and that I'm not trying to say people should always aspire to have a media diet of only 100% Published Literature (the assumptions inherent in which create a false dichotomy anyway bc plenty of published queer books I've read are fun romps whose themes are incidental to the main goal of being fun)

I just dislike the sentiment I've seen around that mainstream queer stuff is either just subtext or written Inauthentically because it's just. untrue. and it cedes ground to queerphobic people saying the only ground queer stories can occupy is artless smut/popcorn trash with no meaning (which isn't a bad thing to be in and of itself, but it's hardly like queerness can't be artistic)]

The Darkness Outside Us came out last year. Ophelia After All came out this year. The Honeys came out this year. the second book of Burning Kingdoms came out this year. Zachary Ying came out this year. Delilah Green came out this year. This is Why They Hate Us came out this year. And that's just the few on my 'anticipated of 2022' GR shelf (+ The Darkness Outside Us because goddamn that book was good).

it's completely fine to be dissatisfied with how the publishing industry (/mainstream media but I'm mostly read so) is! I also have many gripes with it! but it just feels distasteful to demean Published Books on the whole as if it (/other mainstream media but again see above) is a monolith and diminish the the very queer queer books by queer - gender and sexuality - authors (Ocean Vuong, Akwaeke Emezi, Victoria Lee, CB Lee, Ashley Herring Blake, Shaun David Hutchinson, need I go on?)

it's mostly a massive pet peeve of mine but it just feels kinda. lazy? obviously if something like this's post date was like 2010 or if it was a situation where access not awareness is the problem etc that's a different situation but like. most of the posts/tweets/etc I've seen of this are recent and most of them have the tone of "it's perfectly safe for me to read/watch queer media I just couldn't find any" which

I really started reading queer books in 2020ish. I googled 'queer fantasy' (because I like fantasy) and found a bunch of different booklists, took a few recs and just started there. I found lgbtqreads. I followed a few queer folks on GR (once you look through a certain type of books' reviews a few common names start popping up) and noted down the books they were reading and now I have a bunch of queer books that I need to get around to.

I just. if you're into books there's plenty of queer books literally right there (and recently enough big publishers have started publishing them that they're appearing in libraries too). it's not a dichotomy. you don't have to read Published Books if you don't want to but it's not all straight there goddammit. and this isn't even bringing up self-published books

#*fanfic，d/nmei (chinese bl) etc #<- to avoid maintagging #**still not a lot on a percentage basis of total books published (aside from self pub) yeah publishing industry bad but still plenty #in general I dislike the idea that any category of media is inherently anything #also the phrase 'd/nmei raised the bar for queer stories for me' is a bit funny to me bc. these are webnovels. most of them 80+ chapters #and like from what I've seen most of them are either 100ish or 300ish chapters #I don't think they've really gotten popular until recently either too so I doubt most folks have fully read more than two lol #imagine if I watched bloom into you and said 'anime changed queer stories for me' lol #the specific post I saw that got me to put this into words was this one post on the d/nmei subreddit about how reading western quote 'BL' #feels off compared to d/nmei bc they felt like badly written wattpad fics and unrealistic wrt queerness which I was side-eyeing pretty hard #eh it bothered me for a few reasons. some of them I think are fair - the ones I made this post for #some of them I'm not sure is fair which is why they're in the tags #specifically that the specific post reminded me of the stereotype of the straight girl completely uninterested in the messiness and #complexities of queerness or exploring queerness at all (unless it's aestheticised suffering) and just wants to see pretty boys together #but I'm not sure how fair that is because I'm not transmasc and I'm not mlm lol #anyway yea lol #my rambles #queer stuff #media #10n

[swiftstigmata]

turning off four weddings & a funeral midway through the scottish wedding so I can pretend gareth doesn’t die and charles marries henrietta duckface instead. he would’ve been happier

#.txt #hot takes straight from a pub in 1995 xx

[egyptianking]

🤠

#do you ever have to leave a social event that you had previously been enjoying #bc youre suddenly swallowed by a eave of sadness? #like it was probably bc the pub we were in was the last place i ever saw my aunty #but it just made me so sad #and just across the field sad like i felt so ugly and insecure and just sick of myself #had to get a taxi straight home