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kujokomi · 5 months
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i fell in love with an androgynous punk girl
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decvyed · 23 days
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ty-bayonet-betteridge · 8 months
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Okay I just saw your post about transmasc Mike Walters and have some things to point out. When we first get Michael he is only wearing shirts when he has to otherwise he's shirtless (a common thing to do post top surgery). And I can't rember exactly where it was but there was a singular line about scars on their chest that made me double take for that reason. Do you have more thoughts to share about it? I'd love to hear them if you do.
i have ten million thoughts about transmasc Mike Walters
First of all - the name. In Episode 9 he has this whole thing about how Mike Walters isn't actually his name, how CANNONBALL was fooled. He talks about it with obvious pride ("Mike Walters - now that's a name.") Yet despite that, from that point on in the podcast, everyone calls him Mike Walters, without fail. This includes friends from before he started using it in the podcast. My personal headcanon is that he had another name in college and actually DID start using Mike Walters as an alias, but liked it so much he adopted it as his actual name. Note that when he's talking to Matt while at Glacier with Edgar, he notes that nobody called him that in college. (Now, this is specifically about the nickname "Mikey," but still.) He's very particular about the name too - putting a lot of stock into how it aligns with his personality. Michael, Mike, Mikey, M-Dawg, and MW all seem to identify with their names in a personal way. (Mikey even has a comment at one point about how "Mike" is the perfect name for his personality, almost as if he picked it.)
Then there's Michael and MW. You're absolutely right about Michael's shirtlessness - he's also deeply proud of his chest hair, which also screams transmasc to me. Furthermore, the ENTIRE cowboy thing to me seems like embracing the masculinity that was denied to him pre-transition. Might I also point out the line "I can give you tips, too, on relaxing so the voice gets lower and more gravelly"?
Mike seems oddly invested in the idea of seeming masculine, too - he explicitly seeks out masc4masc partnerships, which could be him seeking validation of the fact that he's seen as masculine.
I also want to point out that two of Mike's deepest, most ride-or-die friendships were with the two canonically trans characters in the show, Anne and Jam. Transfem/nonbinary/transmasc solidarity at its finest.
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yugotrash · 2 months
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can you elaborate why you think the "tehm" label makes no sense?
i'm a younger gen z gay who wants to make a tehm blog because i've spent the past few months lurking in gender critical spaces & have first-hand experience with the ugly sides of gender ideology. and i also empathize with the radfems.
definitely agree that all the prominent tehms on this side are disgusting, because:
1.) they're all millennials.
2.) they're all white anglo westerners.
3.) they're all porn/masturbation/grindr addicts.
4.) i get slight femphobic vibes from them. idk if it's intuition or something, but something tells me they are those toxic masc4mascs who like to shit on random gnc gays and rub their preferences in our faces. just a gut feeling.
5.) they are misogynistic as fuck.
6.) they are very selfish, insufferable and don't care about anybody but themselves. zero integrity, morals or beliefs. pathetic.
which is precisely why i want to make a blog and use the tehm label. to redefine what it means to be a tehm. they are the old generation, i am the new generation. i want to prove that we aren't all like them.
ok good morning let's do this.
first of all, "tehm", originally conceived by the gendies, makes even less sense than "terf". we're not excluding anyone, homosexuality isn't a political position.
i don't think this is a generational thing that makes the tehmmies unsavoury (to say the least), i was born in 1998 and i truly don't think the generations nursed on internet access are gonna save this for us. in general i think it's very misguided to ascribe politics to generational groups but w/e
they are not. i could easily name 4-5 members/orbiters of the tehm crowd that don't fit this description
this is true. focus on this.
i think i understand where you're coming from, but don't focus on this too much. i truly don't know or care to position myself within a masc-fem spectrum bc i don't think i (or a majority of gays) fit neatly there. plus, feminine men, while they don't deserve all the horrible shit they get, are not inherently more progressive. so many of them fall for the gender-id trap and become militant queer activists, past a point where you can attribute all responsibility to mascs who pushed them to it.
yes. focus on this
i think you'll find this is true of men in general, and has a particular intense variant in gay men.
assuming i'm at least a little bit older than you, with at least a year or two more experience in offline and online GC/LGB circles, i'd really caution you against doing something like "reclaiming the tehm label". these internet micro-identities do not serve you, they fundamentally don't matter to anyone beyond a few dozen chronically online freaks, you don't need this in your life. you don't need a blog for this cause. focus on proving you're not like them by the way you treat the women in your life and how you conduct your personal relationships with both other homosexuals and the world at large. i know it's easier and more fun to dick around on tumblr but then at least be aware of how insignificant that is if you're going down that route. if my blog got termed tomorrow the net impact on society would be zero, and this will apply to yours as well. hope some of that helps.
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i like the implication in that person's post that the trade off with amc studio heads for showing gay sex & romance is that one of them has to have short hair. like preproduction meetings where they're storyboarding sam reid showing ass & rolin is like yea so I'm thinking of adding a part right before that where jacob will suck on sam's fingers, and then the team of executives is like 'hm ok. but as a trade off for the inclusion of Fingers In His Mouth Thursday can we make this a little less fem by giving jacob period typical hair for a black man.'
also assad with his big beautiful bambi eyes & delicate exposed collar bones is. so butch. one of the 97 year old straight marketing executives is like 'we need to cast assad as armand for the masc4masc realness he can bring to the role'
amazing scenarios to imagine, truly what would we do without our most talented posters
i just think overall it's such a narrow view of what constitutes feminine and masculine, as if there is only one way for people to fit into these categories, as if they even are clear-cut categories and not a spectrum which most of us tend to shift around on through our lives
but also SO funny to me that they are upset about the actors not being pretty enough, like assad falls much closer to twink on the twink-butch spectrum than anything else lol
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mademoiselle-red · 1 year
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TC reread chapter 3, some thoughts
(Be warned: if you like Andrew, it’s best to just ignore this post and keep scrolling. I’m not a fan of this character and I don’t hold back on my opinions here)
Both Laurie and Ralph started their careers at the bottom of the army & merchant navy hierarchies despite having an “educated” accent. Another similarity and shared experience!
When Laurie asks to see his x-rays, the charge-nurse replied “I know what you are, reading your notes and getting half-baked ideas. Shakespeare says a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” This reminds me of Ralph’s story about Alec admonishing him for reading medical anatomy books. No wonder Laurie’s like: there’s nothing wrong with that 😤😤😤
“No one discussed what he had really felt; they took it out on other things.” Yep. True for like everyone in this entire book 😂
Poor Laurie, fighting the drugs because he nearly outed himself on that ship when he was drugged out of his mind, called Ralph a “dearie” and turned him down with a flirty smile 😏 (I wonder if he ever decides to call Ralph “dearie” again, perhaps while they are on holiday, lying on the deck of a little sailboat? “Yes dearie, I’m ready this time” 🤗)
Also, Laurie remembers finding Ralph’s concern for him on the ship “very flattering” and “reflected that he [Laurie] was filthy and unshaved”, and thus proposes “some other time” 😏👀 Like, Ralph is hovering over him, desperately hoping he might still make it out alive, and Laurie is lying there, casually revealing that he’s been considering the bearded man in front of his as a potential lover and decided that he can’t do it now because he hasn’t shaved yet and his leg is a mess 😅 (but also, an early hint that Laurie will be hesitant to date Ralph because he is afraid of being not good enough for Ralph 😭😭😭)
Love the water = queerness metaphor in this book. Laurie the champion swimmer, not wanting to swim because it is not allowed 😭
And after the surgery, Laurie is doped out of his mind, all inhibitions removed. The first we see this happen, he thinks about sex with the bearded captain (Ralph), the second time we hear about this, he recites queer poetry and invites a nurse to bed, and now he is rambling to Nurse Adrian about how “there was a man at school” with whom things would have been different from his failed relationship with Charles. Laurie’s horny-ness for Ralph is so sweet 🥹. And then telling her “it was all wrong the way they treated him” 😭😭😭
“Exit a quiet tidy patient […] enter, somewhere else, a young man with a lame leg and an unanswered question. Vital statistics have this new character something like fifty years’ expectation of life.” I like to imagine that with the stability of Ralph’s love, care, and companionship, Laurie will live to a ripe old age 💪
Laurie makes up a whole life story for Nurse Adrian, “bumpy tennis court […] a wire-haired terrier you couldn’t show” all based on her “schoolroom smile”. I write her as a repressed lesbian in one of my WIPs 😅😅😅
I love how Laurie gives Sandy a flirty smile out of pure boredom. He obviously delights in the expressing his queerness and in casually flirting with another man (as long as there are no social consequences for him)! Hilarious how he convinces himself later that he can live a chaste life. If Laurie had become a sailor like Ralph, he would absolutely go cruising in bars in foreign ports and pick up men with that dazzling smile of his. (Omg perhaps in an AU where it is Laurie who has an affair with Hazel and gets expelled….)
Also Laurie, just because you are masc4masc does not mean you can look down upon femme folks 😤😤😤
Poor Laurie crying under the covers after hearing Major Ferguson’s discussion with the visiting surgeon and understanding that he’ll be disabled forever: “Then he slipped down in bed […] soon he was able to blot his eyes on the sheet and come to the surface again” 😢
“You know, my father wasn’t faithful to my mother.” Thinking about Laurie’s abandonment trauma, and his tendency to abandon ppl before they can abandon him: Andrew prolly seemed like a “safe” choice because he seems to have no romantic prospects (he doesn’t even seem to have any close friends except Laurie). Meanwhile Ralph is popular in the queer community, he seems to have lots of romantic prospects, so Laurie felt like Ralph didn’t really need him for emotional & romantic fulfillment (until he read the suicide letter). After all, like Madge, he “was one of those that know what a man needs.”
Ugggghhhhh the book is so boring without Ralph 😩😩😩…..two more chapters to go….😫😫😫
“It was Nurse Adrian […] he felt at once that it was she all the time whom he had really wanted […] she had none of that awful knowingness; one could take one’s time with her, hesitate, and she would only be grateful.” She is innocent of queerness, has nice hands, fair hair, and BLUE eyes, and Laurie helps her with the washing up in the kitchen in the evening 👀. It’s a little sad how Laurie just replaces her with Andrew and abandons their budding friendship once he has found an equally innocent and Ralph-looking male version of her.
Also, I think the 1953 version of this chapter makes it more clear that Laurie feels very terrible and guilty about having killed people in the war. That is why he thinks it’ll be “embarrassing” to meet the C.O.s, whose hands are “clean” of blood. It is a crude metaphor, but both Laurie and Ralph have participated in both queerness and the killing, while Andrew has declared himself morally above acting upon queerness and killing Nazis. Although he “dirtied” his hands for a good cause, Laurie is feeling very down-beaten and guilty after Dunkirk, so it’s quite understandable that Andrew’s “clean” moral position seems quite aspirational and superior.
But I don’t find Andrew any more virtuous than the other characters in the novel. His moral “cleanliness” from standing above the violence is basically non-interference, doing nothing as people suffer. This doesn’t make him more virtuous or morally superior to those who were willing to get their hands dirty to take a stand against fascism. I think choosing pacifism when your country is under attack is really just choosing to escape into an illusion: the pacifist’s hands are clean indeed, but his boots are drenched in the blood of those who died because of his inaction.
Laurie and Andrew’s interactions are such fertile ground for finding Ralph/Laurie clues 🔎, like Andrew wearing a grey flannel shirt on the day Laurie first sees him. Ralph was also wearing grey flannel when they kissed in the study, on the last day Laurie saw him. And we later learn from the old photograph of Ralph that it was love at first with Andrew because Laurie recognized 19 year old Ralph in his appearance.
“The brush with Willis had fortified Laurie’s self-confidence.” Andrew’s social vulnerability and inexperience gives Laurie ample opportunity to provide protection and guidance. Like Ralph, he needs to be needed. He especially needs this ego-boost after losing both the war and his leg.
I know I’ve said this many times in the past, but I find it so telling that Laurie is jealous of the much older Dave for being Andrew’s mentor & father-figure, rather than any of the young Quakers, who’d make more reasonable romantic prospects for Andrew. He doesn’t want to be Andrew’s partner or equal, he wants to replace Dave as Andrew’s pederastic mentor.
In the 1953 edition I’m reading, Andrew whistles the Enchanter’s Theme from Swan Lake after Laurie mentions Tchaikovsky. The enchanter makes the protagonist mistake the black swan, the impersonator, for the white swan, his true love. Similarly here, Laurie does not realize that his sense of deja vu & love at first sight is because Andrew resembles Ralph, his true love.
The meeting with Andrew reminded me of that Twitter meme about how there are two kinds of ppl you’ll meet: those who are kind to you and those who are nice to you. Nice people are polite and considerate about all the little things, but unwilling to make any kind of personal sacrifice to help you when push comes to shove. Kind people may be a little blunt and severe when you first meet them, but genuinely care about your wellbeing and are willing to go through a lot of trouble to help you.
Laurie and Andrew are nice to each other, while Laurie and Ralph are kind to each other. Laurie will do anything for Ralph, once he knows what Ralph needs from him, but cannot ultimately bring himself to disavow his emotional truth & love for Ralph to let Andrew have his cake and eat it too. Ralph, however, is willing to sacrifice his dignity and happiness to give Laurie what he wants, while Andrew is unwilling to compromise his pride and moral dogmatism to understand and fulfill Laurie’s emotional needs.
Also, I will go into it in more detail once I get to chapter 15, but Andrew’s final letter to Laurie is rather rude and presumptuous. He thinks he can ask Laurie to disavow his love for Ralph and his own emotional truth, without offering Laurie anything in return, not even a continuation of their chaste friendship. Fuck off!
(This reminds me: I should write a fic where an older Laurie digs out Andrew’s letter from a box of his old things, reads it, and is like: “oh dear! I’m so glad he broke up with me. Saved me from so much future heartache. And now I have Ralph 🥰”)
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glitterock · 1 year
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if u don’t mind - what hav your experiences been like in nyc, specifically relating to butch/femme culture and dating? i’m a butch moving there soon (transferring schools lol) and even tho it’s not like anyone’s going to be starved of gay people there im curious if you had any specific experience or advice or anything for finding community that uses those labels specifically if you get me? ty 🙏
omg ok so butch/femme culture here is like kind of mid HAHAH most people here are masc4masc or fem4fem here in my experience BUT i have been able to find a little butch/femme community for myself here! i have a small group of butch friends who are also into butch/femme culture which is really nice! we r always starved for butches and mascs in general so you’ll probably do very well for yourself 😂 and if u need some friends hmu!!! as far as advice goes, if you’re into going out and going to events, we have a ton of lesbian nightlife and daytime events in general so my best suggestion for finding community is going to those! you tend to run into the same people frequently which is nice. if you have instagram, follow @daveslesbianbar, @dykebeer, @dykedrag, @the_cakeboys, and @gingersbar_brooklyn they always have lil events they do
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vamptoll · 1 year
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Ok, so, I like reading academic articles off of Google scholar in my free time because I'm a nerd, and I found one about Tumblr porn microblogging (there are a lot of articles about this- very established genre).
(discussion of transfemme/Gay Male identity below- very long analysis sorry)
But the article was... Shockingly bad? In an interesting way but so bad. So the thesis is- while western gays are very masc4masc, femme bottoms are a thing and we should respect it.(Again, this is a thesis I've seen plenty of times before- not a shocking post). But to prove this the author.... Looked at some Tumblr porn tag I've never heard of about "Men" who call themselves wives to other men. And I put "Men" in quotes because some of the posts were included and... This is just Sissy Porn? It's just "I'm a girl now b/c I do house work and that's girl stuff in a heterosexual context (also we're both boys but you can't ever call me a boy).
And the author can't say that because he wants to argue this is just dudes being dudes, gay men do this all the time (which fair enough, yes. You can call yourself a wife and still be gay). But many of the posts hyperfocus on gender transition as a DESIRABLE thing! Saying "I wish I could be an even better wife by getting a real pussy"... Is not gay dudes being dudes....
And I don't really care about the hyperspecificity of whether or not these random blogs are more sissy porn or more gay male porn- the real issue is that this same process of placing obvious transgender identities as homosexual is replicated in the article on obviously transgender non-Western identities.
The hijra and Travesti are both listed and those are not effeminate bottoms... the Travesti use hormones and inject silocone. The word itself is literally transvestite. Hijra meanwhile is just... Not even a little bit a sexual identity. Sure some Hijra have sex but the identity itself is more commonly associated with asexuality!
And now we get to my thesis, and the real reason for this post. So the article wants to talk about effiminite bottoms while not actually addressing that what we're actually looking at is just transfemme. And the reason WHY the author does this is the same reason why gay men in general don't view effiminite bottoms as a respectable thing- transmisogyny.
To do a very basic history- when gay men were getting respect in the post stonewall context, their main strategy of getting it was pushing out the fags, fairies, and trannies out and saying the anti-effiminate sentiment that is the primary reason for homophobia against gay men (In my opinion, this isnt an actual paper) shouldn't be thrown on them. And these identities have a massive amount of overlap, naturally. And now this author is just replicating the same violence, arguing that fags and fairies should get that sweet sweet respectability while ignoring and keeping away those bad awful trannies.
And why is it that we can't just say "There's overlap between these two?" Well, A) some people are deeply committed to whatever reason for a stable fixed queer identity- and fair enough I wouldn't want someone to analyze me as an effiminite bottom(for several reasons). And B) If we say effiminite bottoms have overlap with transfemmes... Then gay men become associated with trans women which is a net loss for gay men. So the author has to carefully dance around this because if he just says it outright, he knows he'll be ruining any chance for femme bottoms to get any respect.
Also the article ignores reblogs, and if you're doing a Tumblr Analysis, You HAVE to talk about the reblog function. Come on man, this is 101 stuff.
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feuqueerfire · 2 years
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Cutie Pie Live Blogging
I was really looking forward to this before it aired because of the concept and how high budget it seemed. I know a bit about what happened in the first few episodes before I muted the hashtags related to the show and from the general comments I’ve seen, it seems like it takes a while for situations to like... change or progress. An episode would come out and the discussion around it would be like the same as the previous 3 episodes lol (maybe with some excitement for nsfw scenes though). I hope me binging will make that not as noticeable and that I end up really liking this. I remember everybody loving the first few episodes though, so maybe watching them will bring my own hype and excitement again.
Episode 1 (May 25)
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I like Nuea and Diao’s friendship
Not to be shallow but to be shallow, how often does Zee wear suits in this? Suits do less than nothing for me, I just remember seeing a few gifsets of him in casual clothes in this show and I hope that happens often. 
Oh yeah, the rebuke of this ad. Sets the tone for how kinda melodramatic the show will be (’and then everybody clapped’ vibes) but I’ll let it slide because like it’s a criticism of media punching down queer people. do wish they explicitly mentioned dark skin isn’t undesirable.
I like Kuea, as Kirin being all cool and also when he’s being snarky in his head while being Nu-Kuea
Couldn’t escape the reducing women to villains/boy-crazy trope huh? All these men and the only interactions with women thus far have been the 2 servers who were speaking about Lian (so Kuea had to be sassy to them) and the business partner who’s also clearly moves on Lian. like goddamn let girls live 
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someone kick Lian, why is he needlessly cruel?
I don’t get why the show tried to make the Annabelle comment funny? It happens during a sad scene bro
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a secret House?!
Kuea and Diao are cute, once again
many flashbacks. tbh I don’t get the grandpa’s reasoning for this engagement lol
when this episode was released, i was surprised to learn that lian learns about kuea/kirin so early on
oh yeah, that dream sequence lol I just finished Cherry Blossoms After Winter and it had a similar scene to that too
Episode 2 (May 25)
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Dude even Kuea’s voice sounds different when he’s with his friends vs his parents/Lian. His voice sounds to nasally when he’s speaking to Lian but it sounds much more pleasant to me when he’s speaking with school friends/Diao
Naur, Diao coming in to take care of Kuea and also the flashback to him taking over cooking from Kuea ummm they’re very cute together. The day we get two cute, soft boys as the couple in a BL... we get plenty of masc4masc couples, how about fem4fem or just softer characters
broooo Kuea literally beginning Diao to marry him instead, why can’t they get together fr
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I remember people being confused about what Yi/Diao’s deal was and I too am confused about that.
So true Kuea, what is up with Yi and Diao? Why do they act to tough and mysterious? It’s just not my type
Bro, what’s up with the “doing it” conversation, how can you be 20 something and be so scandalized about just talking about sex. It’s one thing to be like I haven’t had sex/I don’t want to have sex/I’ll wait until marriage/etc but what’s up with being so blushy blushy about it
Why does Lian as so dang detached to Kuea goddamn. Like even if he’s unsure about Kuea’s feelings or wants to be better for Kuea, he’s so impersonal with him
Kuea and Diao are freaking cute
I like Foei lol
Zee has very pretty eyes and eyelashes
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I do like that New can sing, so Kuea’s singing is fine + the lyrics and song break make sense with the story.
Kuea’s really endearing
No like fr what’s up with Yi/Diao. What’s their relationship
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Not Diao crying his eyes out suddenly and Yi being unsure what to do. Did Yi kinda get teary eyed too? 
Perth’s character’s “You know my Thai isn’t that good”
lmfao Perth’s character and Kuea interacting, then panning to Lian watching them
Kuea seeing Lian everywhere T.T but also not recognizing actual Lian lmfao
Dang what does Perth’s character Jay have with Lian? Maybe Lian has contact with him because he knew Kuea would perform as Kiring at Jay’s club? I suppose he’s actually the one Lian called when he was like “save my usual spot” at the club
Bruh how is Lian able to just take a drunk, protesting Kuea out of the club with no resistance from the other patrons?
Me *handshake* Lian being very endeared by Kuea and his confusion
Also, I was waiting for Lian to show up in these casual clothes, he looks attractive in them + his smile
Ayo that last scene </3 Kuea T.T 
For that last car scene I was just thinking wow this is really well done but if I was reading a well-written and well-crafted novel/fic with this scene, it would’ve changed me
From the r/boys_love thread for ep 2, seems like they thought it was a let down from episode 1 but I think I enjoyed them the same amount. I didn’t find it to be too draggy, I liked the Kuea/Diao scenes and also part 4 with all the Lian/Kuea.
Also they spoke about how Lian maybe has sat at that table and watched Kuea as Kirin previously and that’s sooooo cute actually. 
Should I go through the people I follow’s cutie pie tags from when this episode was released to look through them? I kinda want to but I kinda wanna watch ep 3 too. hmm maybe I’ll just go through like 2-3 blogs.
Episode 3 (May 25)
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At first I was like aww Lian wiping away Kuea’s tears but now this kissing scene has been going on for too long like why do we need a minute of them making out like that when it’s supposed to be heartbreaking lol
What’s interesting is that the whole plot is that Lian doesn’t know the real Kuea but also, we see that Kuea doesn’t know Lian all that well either. Keeps thinking the Lian he’s met is sooo different from his Hia Lian that it can’t be him at all, doesn’t know how Lian wants to kiss him and that he loves him, doesn’t know why Lian acts the way he does etc.
Glimpses of Kuea’s engagement ring is so <333
Will they not show us the aftermath of Yi/Diao’s scene? I think I read that apparently Diao was pretending to cry to get Yi off his back and idk how I feel about that, so I hope they show it soon
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This is kinda funny and cute but also I’m like uhhh your relationship is on the verge of falling apart, is this the time for such fun
Wtf, I kinda find Mat or his character Yi cute in this scene
Getting to see the other best friends Yi and Lian spend time together is fun
Wait so the maid takes days off when she’s not supposed to but what does the mom not like about praying to the deities behind their house and what’s writing numbers on paper about? Maybe I’ll find some post that explains it
Okay, we get the confirmation that Lian’s doing all this to prove himself worthy of marrying Kuea but damn even his dad was like hey, talk to Kuea about your plans 
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Bro Jay’s caping for Lian so hard, why?
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Kuea and Diao are freaking cute bro they’re so cute with Kuea’s sorry for making Yi lose and make up lunch date and the sandwiches Diao prepared for Kuea
Oh, I thought this Nuer kid had a different love interest but I guess he starts off liking Kuea
But why did Diao lie?! It’d be easy to say he’ll be grabbing food with Kuea
I don’t like how authoritative Lian is. Him tryna order Kuea is annoying 
No but like I really don’t get what Lian’s plan is. I know he wants Kuea to live with him and I’d guess he wants Kuea to come clean about who he is but how are those correlated? In the preview for next episode, he tells Foei to make the house so nice that Kuea never wants to leave, which makes no sense like why would he want that? I don’t get it man. 
Episode 4 (May 26)
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The tone of this show really does throw me off like it’s serious but it’s silly
I really do have to turn my brain off to watch this because how are Kuea’s mom and fiance forcing him to live with his fiance even though he doesn’t want to agh
I think Lian and I both like it when Kuea has enough of Lian’s looming and just stands up and says what he wants lol. That one part where Kuea was actually the one moving forward while speaking and Lian was the one moving backwards 
aw, does Kuea refer to himself and Qilin’s papa? a motorcycle dad
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It’s funny how confident Lian and Yi each are about their standing in their own romantic relationships while being completely wrong 
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Killing me how people have been dying to know what Yi/Diao’s relationship is for the past 3 episodes while apparently Lian doesn’t even know despite being good friends with Yi lol
Kuea making the two stuffed animals have a conversation as him and Lian, cuteee
4-4
lol watching the car scene with Kuea silently crying while Lian ignores it just made I Knew You Were Trouble pop up in my mind “ No apologies / He'll never see you cry / Pretends he doesn't know / That he's the reason why / You're drowning”
girl what kinda blackbeard “don’t ever go to that room” vibes? He probably doesn’t have human bodies in there but rather something for Kuea because he knows Kuea’ll disobey? Maybe just something cute or like a Kirin memento to show that he knows it all actually?
Lian’s so annoying, what’s up with the “we’ll share a room” give Kuea choices or I’ll kick you
Like here’s the thinggggg it could be a good and fun game Lian’s playing if it didn’t hurt Kuea this bad. Tell him you love him and continue to play this game. You could even be like “hmm I think I kinda like you but maybe we should live together to see it blossom to love before we get properly engaged?” and we’d get the cohabitation but happier and it wouldn’t hurt so bad and we’d still have the conflicts of “I like Lian more than he likes me” and “I’m hiding secrets from Lian” and “Kuea’s not telling me everything” 
Also it’s beyond me how Kuea thinks Lian doesn’t know everything despite everything literally being on Youtube and also Lian stating he knows everything. 
Episode 5 (May 26)
5-1
Okayy they don’t have to actually share rooms
bold Kuea is always great, so he does still get shy or comply
loll Kuea also being tired of Lian putting his face so close and them just walking back and forth with mostly Lian looming
“A housewarming present ~From Hia” is actually really cute lol. A drumset that you know he’ll like behind a door you told him not to go to but you know he won’t listen.
The CCTV observing isn’t as cute though lol
5-2
The music that plays when Diao’s apologizing to Yi is the same was ep 5 part 4 in Bad Buddy after the fight, I’m pretty sure. That little episode was sooo much better than this, I wish they used a different song lol
Okay like Yi really doesn’t do anything to Diao or really even yell at him, so I’m confused why Diao doesn’t just tell him the truth about where he goes/what he does. If he doesn’t want to tell him at all, why doesn’t he communicate that?
5-3
Kuea thinking he’s tricking Lian but he’s actually the one being tricked ! cute
lmfao “Kuea, maybe telling the truth isn’t all that bad” - Diao 
Oh, Kuea’s singing the Tilly Bird song Just Being Friendly, which is fair enough but I also associate this song with Bad Buddy lol I do like this performance though because listening to the other people in the club singing is also freaking fun. Makes it more dynamic
What exactly does Kuea do that’s “naughty” except lying?
5-4
Lian knowing Kuea doesn’t eat ginger and so giving him the bowl without it before Kuea even says anything... murder attempt against Feu, I really nearly died, love shown through food >>>>>, arrow straight to the heart etc
Anyway, Zee in casual clothes for the 2nd time 
The cheek kiss + susunakrab + Foei combo is entertaining and cute
bro I hope the Nuer/Kuea scenes end soon lol The scenes with his other friends are fine
Episode 6 (May 26)
6-1
Is Foei’s actor in other shows? I might give them a try too, he’s entertaining
Buying the Keerati mansion? Why would Lian buy the mansion
Syn’s adorable lol so earnest
6-2
The friends pretending to be prim and proper computer engineers is killing me. Not all the humour of this show works with me (esp when I think it should be a more serious scene) but this one does
do I care about Yi/Diao... 
6-3
The Ai’Hia! is great
It just makes me :< because Kuea feels trapped and like he can’t do what he wants while Lian’s giggling by himself, thinking this is just a fun game
6-4
Rip getting mistaken to be brothers while on an awkward ass date to begin with
Kuea talking more and more casually with Lian even by accident is sooo cute and Lian’s slighted face
Their little talk in the garden was sweet. They’re both trying but still, the secrets :<
Why can’t they kiss while Kuea’s not crying about his insecurities and about Lian not loving him
ngl I did skip a few times because the kissing lasts so long but I really liked how Kuea was atop the counter and Lian having to look up at him. Also Lian kissing his shoulders and jaw
In the BL Babes podcast, they mentioned in the book reason Lian wants to be partners with Gemini in ep 4 or smth is because Gemini isn’t booming except on days when Kirin performs. He wants to make sure it doesn’t close because of the lack of profits on other days so that Kuea will have Gemini to come back to whenever he wants. That is soooo cute bro >.< Much better than the kinda possessive vibes in the show because it doesn’t explain his reasoning at all
Episode 7 (May 26)
7-1
They show the whole make out scene again? I didn’t rewatch most of it but I do think the rings on their fingers is attractive
Oh yeah +1 Lian’s casual clothes counter: 3
7-2
Tbh we don’t know anything about Lian, it’s either his official self or stuff he’s doing to impress Kuea, so this dancing goofy thing is probably one of the only truly Lian bits we’ve seen, along with the cooking
I don’t really understand Yi and Diao but I stopped caring and wanting to tbh. Skipped most of their kiss scene too
At least Kuea and Diao don’t seem to be shying away from the kisses and seem to be fairly bold, which I like
7-3
Destabilized Nuer after the eye contact with Syn is interesting
Boun is sooo attractive.
7-4
Queer rights speech!
Girl, this Never Have I Ever at the club with the owner of the club while you’re late 20s? Funny writing choice to get Kuea to reveal things
Bruh whyyy would Lian say “Never Have I Kissed A Stranger” with the intention of making Kuea drink bc he thinks Lian that night was a stranger ?! alksdfj doesn’t that make them look bad because Kuea’s been engaged to Lian since forever ?!
What is this declaration in public in front of their friends and if Lian has always loved him, then why did he say he didn’t in the first episode?
Anyway, as always, I like Kuea taking the initiative and being bold after Lian pulls away but I’m still fastforwarding the long ass kiss, so rip the friends who have to just... sit there. They seemed to like it though, BounPrem’s characters are cute.
I think my method of having as little critical thought as possible while watching this is the best way because the character motivations is not the writer’s strongest suit lol. I think they had some quite cute moments this episode and that’ll tide me over. 
Also, I haven’t watched anything with BounPrem except this and some tiktoks but Boun is seriously sooo gorgeous to me.
Episode 8 (May 26)
8-1
“I didn’t want to say [I love you] carelessly” but you said the opposite... said he didn’t love Kuea and that marriage doesn’t need love and they could live apart... I feel like they wanted the beginning to be SO DRAMATIC that it doesn’t align with the character or what he’s been saying since then
Here’s how I feel about this sex scene: I will not be watching all that but good for you. In between my fast forwarding, seems like the characters both really desired it and had fun and good for them. I am who I am so I liked seeing Kuea above Lian and kissing all over him. Also, as always, the glimpses of their rings is so good; like I’m not even into marriage like that but I guess it’s different when it’s gay
8-2
Lian puffing out his cheek for a kiss and the sniff kiss attack was cute
8-3
Nuer’s so sleek with the calling and then sniffing him
Foei’s first thought being like “oh I should punch him” “oh I should burn this” when Lian means much more mundane things by “sort out” is hilarious
I was kinda spoiled that in the novel Lian’s buying stuff because the Keerati family is going through tough times and he’s helping them out, so I’m not super suspicious of him even though he’s buying behaviour is suspicious
The Yi/Diao date would’ve been cuter if I cared about them at all. I’m more into the 3rd Nuer/Syn couple than them
8-4
What I don’t get is why does Kuea keep still worrying about whether Lian will like the real him when he knows that Lian was the one he kissed that night? So Lian knows he’s Kirin
Kuea and Diao are good as always, it’s just Yi/Diao is hard to care about
Kuea and Lian dinner meeting was so cute and domestic
Episode 9 (May 27)
9-1
Bro, Lian talking about how he wasn’t born rich and had to work as a kid etc is literally reminding me of immigrant parents’ stories to their children like why does it seem to fatherly i’m dead
9-2
Lian casual clothes counter +2: 5
Why did that scene speaking about queer rights need to be in the bathtub lol 
woahh Kuea coming down with his Automotive Engineering shirt and earring on
Feoi!
9-3
Honestly Nuer and Syn are kinda cutee. Their scenes are kinda not NuerSyn scenes cuz Nuer still looks at Kuea sometimes but then Syn looks at Nuer and it is, in fact, a NuerSyn scene
9-4
I don’t care about Yi and Diao anymore bruh let their scenes end I want more of Kuea being Kirin and how the main couple will deal with that. I wanna see Lian’s reaction and stuff man
Like that’s the main conflict of the story right, Kuea’s hiding something and doesn’t know how Lian would react. Shouldn’t they tie that up properly soon 
Oof, Kuea found all the documents where Lian’s taking over the Keerati family properties
Episode 10 (May 27)
10-1
Why did Yi buy Diao a dog while thinking he might be scared of them tf
Kuea’s gonna pay for food and delivery at the Pentagon? Why do they even do delivery, it’s a club. Maybe delivery works differently in Thailand
Yeah Kuea call your mom! Get her to tell you why all the deeds are in Lian’s name since she and your dad would’ve had to sign off on it! I don’t get why they didn’t explain it to Kuea from the start like lasdf
Dang, Kuea waiting for Lian to explain the documents on his own. It’s kinda like a reversal of how Lian was waiting for Kuea to tell him about Kirin/the house/racing/etc.
10-2
Girl, he saw you in your automotive engineering uniform lmfao
No but why are Syn and Nuer so cute to me. Everyone talks about being bored of the engineering guys falling for each other but I guess I’m not
Ooh, boundary setting between friends when Kuea tells his friend to stop joking about ~hot night with the fiancé~. Interesting to see
rip Kuea crying. I know in ep 11 Kuea rejects Lian’s public proposal and I guess that’s because this still hasn’t been cleared up by then?
10-3
No but for real though why did nobody tell Kuea anything?
Why am I :D watching the NuerSyn scene? 
This Yi/Diao scene was cuter than the last few
10-4
The love confession from Yi was... okay, though we still don’t know what he was originally gonna tell Diao. I fully skipped the nsfw scene though. Not even fast forwarding here and there the way I did for Lian/Kuea but just full skip forward because why are you wasting time showing this right now, there are 2 episodes left agh
Okayyy Kuea’s finalllyyyyyy calling his mom. I hope his mom actually tells him everything 
lol I just went and rewatched the NuerSyn scene from 10-3 because it was cute ! Sitting beside each other and the knee hold was cute ! I only care about them and Kuea/Diao friendship tbh (+ some Kuea/friends)
Episode 11 (May 27)
I’m like... dreading watching this lol I was kinda bored during ep 10 and I know there’s a rejection of a public proposal in this ep like what if I just skip this ep and go to ep 12 lol but I won’t 
11-1
So the call cleared up nothing
These supposedly cute scenes between KueaLian like ep 10 “be my boyfriend” and the happy scene here are like... not happy because we know Kuea’s just pretending and like agh. Reminds me of Dark Blue Kiss PeteKao where I wasn’t having a fun time during cute moments because of all the secrets
Why doesn’t he ask Liannnnnnn or why didn’t he tell his mom what he saw? Get an actual explanation instead of being haunted by those documents and decide to pretend they don’t exist and everything’s fine. Not to mention I still haven’t gotten a satisfying enough conclusion to the Kirin/Kuea’s secret identity arc because they still haven’t addressed it. Kuea still thinks Lian believes he’s in Computer Engineering for fuck’s sake.
Nuchy’s hardly there but at least she got to kick Ton’s ass about “are you annoyed because you’re on your period?” bs
No like why is it that this show is supposed to be new and have unique dynamics but it’s fucking up with the writing so bad that the engineering students’ antics + the 3rd couple engineering students are my favourite parts. Syn’s “I don’t usually go to places like that but if you go, I'll go too” > KueaLian and YiDiao’s sexy times where they’re hiding things from each other or being annoying. 
11-2
Foei kills me every time alksjf Drops the apple pen or whatever and is like “Khun Lian krab, could you get that?” alskdjf At least when he said it about the paper a few episodes ago the paper was actually on Lian’s side of the table. 
Yes! I was hoping we’d get another Lian with Kuea’s friends scene
aaaakkkkk. How do I feel about that? First the accidental kiss lol cringe but Nuer made it better with the “That wasn’t a kiss, this is a kiss” and kissing Syn properly buttttt why is it with all their friends just staring bruh? This show freaking loves PDA with an enraptured audience but it’s so awkward. I like how when Nuer pulled back, Syn stumbled a little chasing his lips.
Diao’s curfew being 9pm kills me because even I’m allowed to stay out till 11/12
11-3
I truly don’t get it, so Kuea still thinks Lian doesn’t know he’s Kirin even though Lian admitted to being that person that night? Or is Kuea like maybe Lian didn’t know what he was saying yes to
Okay, so they do discuss the land deeds documents here.
“Why didn’t you ask me when you same them?” Yeah bro, Kuea should’ve just been like hey what’s this?
So Lian’s gonna propose publicly after this whole ordeal?
Alright, I’ll watch the last part and ep 12 tomorrow lol I can’t watch the rest rn
11-4
Girl I don’t wanna watch this lol A public proposal is cringe enough but one where mans is rejected ?! Nope. 
Yeah I don’t get how we’re at last part for episode 11 and still Kuea doesn’t straight up tell everything to Lian and act like himself around him, rather much more polite and soft.
I’ve been watching most of this 4th part but especially since Lian started singing as watching 1 second, fast forwarding 5 secs, watching 1 sec, fast forward 5 secs
It’s such an awkward place to do propose brother. At Lian’s father’s very grand 60th birthday party where Kuea knows and is comfortable with like 2 people total. Also, the guests are like... business people too I’m assuming? Lian was just gassed up and introduced as the new CEO or whatever, taking his dad’s place in everything, and then gets publicly rejected? Gosh lol
“It’s better if we don’t” omg 
Anyway, skip skip skip I can’t watch this. Saw some glimpses of tears and walking away. Like I’m not even invested enough in the relationship or characters for this to be like painful or sad for me, just anxious and embarrassing. 
This comment under the part 4 video by Made In Busan kinda summed up all my thoughts: “This was hard to watch but expected. They lied to each other throughout the whole relationship. The only truth they ever told each other is that they love each other but everything else was an unnecessary lie. And like Kuea said in episode 9: "love is not just about the two of us, there are many factors involved". As a kid, Lian felt insecure about not being good enough because he was just an ice delivery boy and Kuea was from a wealthy family. As an adult, Kuea lied about his studies and his singing career because he felt that he was not fancy enough for serious, businessman Lian. Lian lies to Kuea about his family property and does stuff behind his back without telling him about any of it. At least the lies that Kuea told don't really affect Lian's life, whereas Lian keeping the Keerati property thing from him is a big deal that is tied to Kuea's inheritance and wealth. It's a mess and it's true that this is not how a relationship should be so it's expected that Kuea doesn't feel comfortable being engaged to him anymore. He just wants to be his equal and for them to be honest with each other. I totally understand him but I also wish I didn't have to see Lian cry in front of all his family and friends. I'm heartbroken for both of them. I hate public proposals LOL”
I wish the show just had better writing and character development lol. Like I don’t get how in ep 2 or something Kuea called off his engagement because he was upset and wanted to show everybody who he was and then in freaking episode 11 he feels guilty for keeping secrets and not showing the real him and so he rejects the proposal. 
Anyway, I’m not even that annoyed or upset because I knew it was gonna happen and the writing has been bad the whole show and I’m not invested enough, my feelings are mostly bored and yikes! 
Episode 12 (May 28)
People said episode 12 is a much better ending than expected considering where episode 11 left off, so that’s good at least
12-1
Doing all this in front of the guests, my gosh. This shit is the reason my mom is always like “pray we return with all our man-shomman (honour-respect)” before we go anywhere lmfao 
12-2
Like, couldn’t the episode 11 dramatic falling out be a little less dramatic? Because it’s being wrapped up easily and quickly here compared to how big I’d think the actual ramifications would be 
Anyway, this show could’ve been so much better if this conversation of them discussing Kuea’s alternate identity was discussed a few episodes into the show and we got to see them fall in love as their true selves. 
The Yi/Diao conclusion didn’t flesh out anything at all lol but it’s fine sure
12-3
Bro Syn and Nuer are sooo like average and common, so why do I find them cute >.< like they’re any and every side BL couple, so I’m not like super invested or anything, it’s just I like them the most out of the 3 I guess? Or maybe tied with KueaLian
loll Feoi with Yi’s personal assistant? 
I wonder how this show is affecting the viewers’ thoughts of gay marriage. There must be people out of the millions who are watching who don’t support legalization of gay marriage and I wonder if this’ll sway them? 
12-4
We get to see Kuea be more forward and open with Lian but why must it be sooo late in the show man
Lian continually thwarting Kuea’s plans to propose ?! lol
Kuea kissing Diao’s cheek and him getting getting shy haha
I know Lian’s pulling a little joke but just the thought of this couple having a second public proposal go horribly wrong is like aging me by 10 years. Had to pause and do some other stuff lol
Foei’s greatt
Me skipping the long ass confessions and marriage stuff because I really cannot handle that many sappy words. This show’s really pushing for marriage legality rights though and I really am curious to see if it has any irl effects (not that I’ll really be able to tell) and whether other shows will take a stance like this too. Like this show managed to say “yeah, sadly we don’t have all the rights” without veering off into depressing queer territory, so maybe other BLs might? I’d be curious to see
It’s true, the last episode is quite good. Wish some of this happened earlier so that we could’ve actually seen Kuea and Lian be themselves around each other without secrets. Throughout the show, Kuea flip-flopped so much between being forward or rebellious against Lian or being obedient and ”good”. 
So much of this show felt... filler and repetitive because the overarching plot wasn’t really moving. Wish it was 10 episodes, the Kuea/Kirin stuff was wrapped up in the first few episodes, we get to see them falling in love and we can have some small internal drama here too, maybe the land deeds drama, and finally 1 external drama in episode 9 that causes conflict but we still get to see that they love each other and will fight for each other, etc. Instead, the same thing was dragged on and on and on. 
Didn’t like Yi/Diao because their relationship wasn’t explained well and didn’t have much draw. I don’t like love interests like Lian and Yi, so there’s that - the actors are both quite beautiful though but still not enough to make me like the characters. Like Diao and Kuea’s friendship, as well as Lian and Yi’s. I liked Kuea’s friendship with his classmates too and how they interacted with each other, both looking out for one another but also being forthright when they didn’t like another’s behaviour. I liked Foei.
I think people really liked the makeout and nsfw scenes because apparently they had great chemistry and ease but I skipped through pretty much all of them, so that wasn’t a draw for me. I have to like the characters and be invested in the relationship to really like the more physically intimate scenes (exception: Y-Destiny Puth and Kaeng) but I didn’t like either couple like that. 
Astonishing that this show was supposed to give me some uniqueness, some new dynamics and characters and plot and setting, etc. Instead, I thought the engineering friend group was endearing and NuerSyn’s few scenes were the cutest even though it was sooo typical. Although, I did end up skipping through their kissing scene too.
I was impressed by New and his acting, so I hope he does well in his next series too.
My overall feelings about this series is: mild annoyance and mile boredom and mild enjoyment. 
Rating: 5.5/10
Tiktoks
Saved this before I watched the show and while I still had hope that it’d be good lol it’s from ep 1 while Kuea was waiting for Lian to be finished and played the airdrums to Lian looking on with “I love everything you do~” in the bg
this random NuerSyn (TutorYim) parallels to UWMA WinTeam (BounPrem)
“Hia?” “Khap”
Lian imitating what Kuea looks like when he’s mad
random video of Tutor “being jealous” of Yim with NetJames but actually I saved it because Yim just kept getting mandled by everyone
NuerSyn kiss in the club
Nuer and Syn looking over the project together and then the knees thing
umm look away, TutorYim dowry price negotiation @ the fans
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helenhuntingdon · 6 years
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Tbh, Scott’s storyline in Hollyoaks was a fucking excellent one that dealt with how specifically unmasculine gay men, more obviously gay men, are treated, by other gay men and by homophobic straight people, and by society entirely, and the toll it took on him, and how they turned a hated camp gay character into one who was suffering from being hated!!! That was just a really gr8 storyline guys!!!
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notcaycepollard · 2 years
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Every take on Israel Sadsack Hands I have seen slash said in the last three days:
I want to study him like he's a little bug in a jar
my favorite queer homophobe
YOUR HONOR HE IS A FREAK BITCH
I want to introduce distressing items into his enclosure and examine his reactions. Like enrichment activities for a tiger in a zoo but the opposite.
he needs to be pickled
the very definition of “I can make him worse”
I like that if I stepped too hard near him he'd lose his balance
I want to put him in a jar and shake it violently
Izzy's internalised homophobia 🤝 my internalised homophobia
he needs to have a shiny hat glued to his stupid fucking head
I love this sad garbage dead dove of a man
I want to smash custard pies in his ratfucker little face and make him die inside when people call him sweetheart
he's just neat, what can I say?
Izzy is a masc4masc simp
he is both the donkey and the tail to be pinned
if Izzy wasn't literally unbearable to witness as a person, yeah he'd be hot
I love this little rat freak with my entire heart but I do want him to get punched
I feel like izzy would listen to creep by radiohead
“I can fix him” why fix something that is perfect broken
I love him unironically
Izzy Hands is t4t representation
I think he needs to eat at least one more toe before he can have a redemption arc
no no he's hot you're right
the scrunkly
I waded through the sweet soft topsoil layer of ofmd fanfiction to find those nasty little izzy nuggets at the bottom
i ship izzy with mutiny
he was not upset enough about eating his toe. suspicious
izzy my beloathed
Izzy Hands has 68 mental illnesses and has been banned from most public places
izzy hands my babygirl <33
things that feel gay and homophobic at the same time
he's canonically divorced blackbeard
if he and Blackbeard slept together he would be so much less of an asshole
Izzy “pick me” Hands
obsessed with this little freak
I want to feed him the rest of his fucking toes
absolutely unhinged behavior from the jump. icon.
he is fantastic representation for us haters and I really appreciate that
we are all just scrambling around in this little fucker's head like a museum after dark touching all his thoughts and moving things 2 inches to watch him squirm about it
I want to pin him down like a butterfly and look at him under a microscope
quite fucked up! very good!!!!
I'd feed him the rest of his toes but he would probably like that
he's done nothing wrong ever
man is made out of 100% concentrated brat energy
he's my favorite character but I also need him to pay for his crimes
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woundjob · 3 years
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what sort of things do you see in wolfstar fics that make you think "this was written by a straight person"
i let this sit in my inbox all day bc i didn’t wanna answer it gkdndnf basically it’s less about certain things happening and more about the tone. the way gay men talk to eachother and interact with eachother is different than how we act with straight people for example or how straight people interact with eachother. if you aren’t a gay man you’re bound to get some stuff wrong on accident. that doesn’t make you a bad person or a homophobic person. most of the time it’s an honest mistake and no cause for alarm, it’s just a little frustrating every now and then
there are definitely some things that stick out to me as avoidable right off the bat tho. for example, people like to write homophobia in their works bc it’s the 70s and 80s even tho those years were some of the most important for gay movements and community as a whole. in those days, when it was far more dangerous to be out and proud, people did it anyway, and surrounded themselves with people who supported them, so it’s really weird to me when people claim there has to be homophobia as a main component in their stories. obviously, some of these are written by gay people interested in gay history and wanting to be realistic about it, but i think sometimes people just want to hurt gay men in their fics.
some other stuff that comes to mind:
- when both if them are super masc. it’s the 70s and 80s for crying out loud! masc4masc gay dudes are the most annoying people in the world and in a lot of gay circles, at least the cool ones, they really aren’t taken seriously. when a fic has remus and sirius being hyper aware of masculinity, it’s pretty cringeworthy. like why have u characterized this dude as the guy i have blocked on grindr for calling me a fag
- or when sirius is a womanizer or has only ever dated women before and is like weirded out by the idea that he’s gay (u don’t see this as much with remus) while it’s true that gay men struggle with internalized homophobia, especially back then, it’s a real pain in the ass to have to read about how much a gay character hates themself for being gay.
- when dom/sub roles leave the bedroom. like, when a bottom is sweet and innocent and precious uke and when a top is hypermasculine and stoic and whatever and they both act like a daddy and a baby all the time. you see this a lot with folks who have no sexual experience and no experience with gay people outside of the internet. very yaoi-brained
- that being said tho the opposite is also true. when people are so scared of fetishizing gay men they forget that we are sexually active at all. this is excusable with wolfstar because of all the trauma lol
anyway that’s all that’s coming to mind right now. i guess my main point is if you aren’t a gay man, you shouldn’t just assume you know what we want or how we interact with eachother based on fanfiction. or even really based on one persons word!! i’m not the spokesperson for every gay man after all, maybe other dudes would disagree with me. honestly, the best thing to do when you’re writing anything you don’t have experience with is ask someone who does. and if ur really unsure, pay a sensitivity reader!
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binxthecat0 · 2 years
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Quick question, do you think all muscular or fit gays are stuck up? I feel like they are.
I think most guys who want “masc4masc” or more masculine men are (especially those on dating apps), but who am I to judge? I’ve met a couple of guys who are fit and they’ve been nice to me. Would they date me? Maybe. I haven’t asked them personally. I’m too nervous around them lol. Although, I did have one guy that was fit tell me he wouldn’t date me because I’m “unhealthy looking” which bummed me out. But we’re no longer friends because he was very abusive and only wanted to be my friend so he can look good.
To answer your question honestly, I think most of the toxic side of the gay community are full of guys who care more about looks than the actual person. Stuck up? Maybe. Would their thoughts change if I were built like a god or a twink? Possibly.
But, I will say - especially from guys who I follow on Tiktok or Twitter - there are gay guys who are muscular or fit who actually care and put in the effort to date guys like me. I still have body dysmorphic problems, myself (which I can say the majority of the world does), but if they want me or want to get to know me as a person, then I’d actually love to get to know them. Tbh, yes I am attracted to fit guys, but I’m also attracted to dad-bods/bears and tall skinny guys. But I do find someone attractive once we share an emotional connection. (I guess you can say I’m demisexual)
I hope that answers your question.
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metalheadkells · 3 years
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In almost ever emgk fic that includes switching em starts out only topping and it isn’t until feelings get involved that they start switching roles, is there any scenario you can imagine where it would be the other way around, and kells starts out only topping?
oooooh very interesting question
i think it's bc em is generally considered to be the more dominant/more masculine of the two of them (which almost definitely has troubling implications lmajfghg we don't need to go there) BUT kells is very much a king of toxic masculinity as well LOL so i can see both of them in that position of "i REFUSE to bottom fuck you for asking hashtag masc4masc"
and also you can think abt it like, em has more experience and has had more time to work through his internalized homophobia and learn what he likes, and remembers exactly what he felt like in kells' position (first coming to terms w/ his sexuality) so is patient w/ him and lets him dictate what they do. he also still can't believe kells ever agreed to start sleeping w/ him in the first place so he's like "whatever you're comfortable with is more than enough for me."
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I miss Heir's Game so much. What are your thoughts about it?
PLS I JUST MISS THEM 😭
Actually I do think it’s fascinating the author talked about period typical masculinity and how both male leads are considered masc by their standards because I think that’s so interesting. Masc4masc kings
On one hand I recognize that all his friends literally just left but also pls bring his friends back he’s so alone he’s never had friends before being them back 😭
Miss Armando sm it’s not even funny
It’s literally so funny that the bad guy would usually be the homophobically gay coded villain in love w the hero except the hero actually is gay and has a bf so he’s just gay like..yes messy king we get it move on he’s taken
Needs more lesbians bring them back dgdgdggg
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BARD I know they got interrogated and stuff but were they killed?? Why put sm art about them if we never see em again??
The queen is such a dyke I’m sorry her relationship w her guard lady her husband sent away?? Ok dyke
The queen is an icon literally when she killed him..good for her
The lil Princess?? She should be gay I see you miss comphet.
I just miss them sm it’s not even funny
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About butch and femme, some of it confuses me. What if you're the most butchest (in how you look and act) lesbian out there but if you're not attracted to femmes then you're not butch? (And vice versa for feminine lesbians) And what if you're attracted to feminine women but not necessarily the ones who ID as femmes. How could you even tell if they're femmes (by this definition) or just feminine women? Also the lesbians out there who are fem4fem and butch4butch. Is that technically wrong?
I don’t think there is a single lesbian in the world who would be like “I date feminine women, not femmes though”, because well ... we love other lesbians, we can relate to each other because of both our same-sex attraction and our lack of attraction to men, so that scenario you mentioned is quite funny to me. Now to answer your other questions, yes technically the “fem4fem” and “butch4butch” lesbians are wrong, in the sense that they use these words wrongly. Those two lesbian identities are linked to one another, they cannot exist without the other. There’s a great deal of understanding though for the masculine lesbians who do that, because masc4masc lesbians are not numerous and they don’t do it out of animosity toward feminine women like feminine women often do it toward masculine women (which is more often than not the feeling behind “fem4fem”). Usually those who call themselves “butch4butch” feel rejected and alienated by feminine wlw because of their gender non conformity, so they feel better with a masculine girlfriend, they mutually recognize each other and love each other in their gender non conformity.
Whereas “fem4fem” lesbians will often just feel completely disgusted by butches (and stags/tomcats), which is something that definitely doesn’t make them femmes - who are defined both by their femininity as lesbians but also their attraction to butches - and something that translates some internalised lesbophobia as well. I hope this clarified the whole subject ! :) Xx
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