Not to be a #hater but they rly did make the wrong Superboy bi (it should've been Konnnnnn)

HELLO ???????????????

To The Metal Gear Fandom

Okay so silly question but i see a lot of yall on here and you say all the homoerotic stuff in mgs is canon right? Especially otasune, bbkaz, bosselot. Not to sound like a hater but the first game came out in 1998. You know what age hideo Kojima was back then? 36 with a wife and kids. So what's his real purpose for making a whole game series about a buncha gay guys? That's what leads me to believe it's unintentional but idk. If he said why then lmk cause I dont get why he would? I've been thinking about this a lot recently because I've been seeing a lot of people saying it's deliberate. Anyone can answer btw my askbox is open because i Need an explanation. More in tags cause im insane.

ramblings on Li Ming (and Heart) and homosexuality

moonlight chicken has so many things to offer in terms of technical beauty and interesting themes but what i cannot stop thinking about is the different ways they approach homosexuality in the story.

we have Wen who has a rainbow flag on his desk and pictures of him and Alan on the wall. Wen, who openly flirts with Jim and has no qualms talking openly about his one night stand. Wen, whose step father knows about his sexuality and is close enough with him to discuss his love life.

Kaipa we don’t know too much about. But his mom knows and is supportive and some of the vendors and the chicken family seem to know. But if anyone was questioning in what reality this show is set with all the class discussion and corona featuring, his part of the story shows that homophobia exists and he is worried about how he fits in with his own family, the expectations of his mother and possible the awareness that he makes the family he has “different”.

Jim is arguably even more visibly gay than Wen in terms of what we see throughout the show. He opened the shop with his ex, they prayed at the temple together and even though he objected due to proprities sake eventually they loudly declared their love to each other and the whole neighbourhood knows. Wen somehow feels like he is living in the remnants of a bubble: his circle of friends seems very queer, his closest friend and the whole gym seem to be all part of that as well. This only might change now with him questioning his work and breaking up with Alan: some gatherings he won’t attend anymore apparently.

And finally, we have Li Ming. At school he doesn’t seem to open up to his classmates on most things and additionally is in the closet. While there wasn’t anything alluding to homophobic rethoric being spread at school we can see how the heteronormativity gets to him and feel that there must be good reason as to why no one knows. And it could just be how Li Ming is judging the situation based on vibes, we don’t know. His mother is or at least was homophobic but at the same time he is raised by his gay uncle who is surrounded by other gay people. And I love how it feels like this might have given him enough security to be comfortable with his own sexuality but how it also isn’t enough to shield him from the world at large.

With so many great shows coming out of Thailand and most of them getting more and more political it just feels so real and 2023 to me that Li Ming is part of a generation that knows who they are but still have to battle with the shadow that homophobia has cast way before they were born.

I am also an arospec Ryan truther he comes off as grey-aromantic or demiromantic to me

five years worth of anger

anonymous : Random anon time! headcanons on alhaitham and past relationships, if he’s had any, and the view on dating? is he just married to his books 

Relationships are nothing that Alhaitham has ever found himself actively seeking out, whether platonic or romantic, for he is a man who is perfectly content with being alone. All in all he finds the often disingenuous games played to gain favor with others to be frivolous and unnecessary, and as a man who prefers to be bluntly straight-forward he has no interest in participating in such rituals and would rather focus on his pursuit of truth and knowledge.

That said, he has nothing against relationships in general.

He is no haughty man that would think himself entirely above experiencing something like love or physical attraction and he would never insult those who seek it out actively, but with his unwaveringly difficult personality and refusal to associate with any who he does not find interesting he is very self-aware that he is not exactly one to be considered relationship material himself as he is already not one considered desirable to socialize with in general. It’s fine with him though, of course. Those who are unable to take his criticisms or wish only to be in his good graces or utilize him in some way because of his status as an intellectual and an important employee of the Akademiya aren’t of interest to him anyway.

In conclusion, Alhaitham is not closed off to the idea of entering an intimate relationship. It’s no anywhere near a top priority, but if he manages to find someone who he finds intellectually stimulating enough in the right ways to truly gain his attention that will be the moment he’d feel he’s met his match.

tl;dr he’s never been in a relationship but the right person could absolutely steal his heart and attention away from his piles of books ( sometimes )

more thoughts on greg that i’m only putting in tags bc it feels wrong to just make a post