So I’m in a musical for my community theater trope, it’s “All Shook Up” (basically a shakespeare comedy mixed with Elvis songs), and something that helps me kind of get into my role better is drawing the character…

I play Dean, and he is such a silly guy to me…he just trails behind his mom and then his gf like a lost puppy and his swagless vibes have bewitched me body and soul…………..

heartstopper episode 6 thoughts

-queer people 🤝 pirates of the caribbean

-the amount of taradarcy we get this episode is everything to me

-also i love that alice has another cameo as one of the profile pictures that comments on tara's instagram post

-last remaining braincell jokes are such queer friend group jokes and i can't explain how or why

-darcy's as forgetful as i am, and im also an absolute lesbian. i need to start carrying anti homophobia cheese

-✨oh look, guess i'm gay now✨

-nellie just chilling on the blanket as nick and charlie be really gay: 👀

-nick's figuring out he's bi storyline is so refreshing, i feel like so many bi people felt so seen

-i need more of nick and tara being besties in season 2 i love them

-"oh my god we found another one" - my friend group getting bigger and gayer since lockdown

-i also love that this show understands that the token straight friend is a more accurate trope than the token queer friend, we gays flock together before we even realise

-the scene where nick tells charlie he told tara and darcy about them is honestly one of my favourite scenes, the staring beforehand, the way charlie's so proud of him, the hug!!! and the lighting is just so <333 this scene is so fucking pretty i love it

-can we appreciate that nick wears the same hoodie charlie borrowed on the snow date pretty much every time he goes to charlies house after that

-charlie's little happy dance <333

-an underappreciated moment is the smile on nick's face at darcys "we're such meddling gays i love it" message, he's just so happy to have other queer friends who understand him

-milkshake date scene my beloved

-nick's little "yeah!" and the way he smiles at charlie this mf is so in love

-the awkward silence when tao goes over to them 😭

-OKAY NICK TELLING ELLE IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SCENES. the way Charlie looks at him so proudly after nick says triple date, he knows what he's gonna say and he's just so happy, then nick's completely-in-love smile at charlie and elle's reaction and ugh their friend group is everything to me

-"aww i love you too!" not like that tao, ur so oblivious

-FUCK THE LESBOPHOBES IN THE ORCHESTRA I WANNA KICK THEIR SHINS IN

-how no one catches on when charlie's literally holding nick's hands teaching him to play the drums and they're right in the sunlight, they rly don't understand subtlety at all

-"i just like being with you" CUT TO CHARLIE EXPLAINING HIS DREAM GUY TO TORI IN EPISODE 1 AND LITERALLY SAYING SOMEONE WHO JUST LIKES BEING WITH HIM

-the taradarcy scene in the music room makes me cry, i love tara so goddamn much. it's also so refreshing to see lesbian characters call themselves lesbian and talk about the stigma around the word rather than just ignoring it

-flirting with her is also one of my fav soundtrack pieces!!

-**gets interrupted kissing girlfriend** "homophobia!!" this show got queer humour right

-was tao really so far behind he didn't see nick and charlie holding hands or is he really that dumb and oblivious

-NICK AND CHARLIE SMILING AT EACH OTHER RIGHT BEFORE THE CONCERT STARTS THEY'RE GONNA KILL ME

ok random ‘things I like/my preferences in fandom’ sorta post, I guess?

I like Akira/Akechi most. The dynamic just makes me go [brrrr]. I like fics where Akira is flirty and Akechi is flustered and I also like fics and ideas where Akechi is forward with his intentions and Akira doesn’t know how to handle this. 

(My hc is still that Akira is gay but only comes to understand this through the year because of how he lacks any real attraction to the girls who try asking him out. Other takes on this are just fun, though, including “enjoys flirting with girls but just for the fun and everyone knows there’s boundaries and it’s not serious” ideas. Not gonna lie, I was half tempted to say he was aro as I was watching through until I just went “yeah no, this kid is so very into Akechi.” It’s the understanding of what you are through the lack, guys.)

Futaba/Yusuke is my secondary pairing that I like purely because I read it in a fic once and it started to make me think about it and then I started looking at it in canon and then I watched through Strikers and went “oh wow, these two have a lot of chemistry” and when I say the pairing helped me survive the lack of Akechi, I’m not kidding. `I love them because they’re weird together and being able to be weird together is something I think brings both of them comfort. Helps that they’re basically my secondary favourite characters after Akira and Akechi!

As for the others? 

I kinda default to Makoto/Haru because of fics, but also because they have good chemistry in canon (both the games, and Mementos Mission) and also... the idea of them just having those opposite-and-complimentary ways of understanding and showing emotion and intelligence just makes me feel like they’d fill in each other’s gaps. 

Ryuji and Ann are kinda ones that are... interesting? Because I multiship them. 

I like Ann with Shiho but I also like her with Ryuji and tbh, I kinda like all three of them together in some way, shape, or form (Ryuji going “this is my girlfriend, Ann, and this is her girlfriend, Shiho” or just, all three of them connected to each other).

I like Ryuji with Ann, but I also... kinda like him with others as well? I read a fic recently where he’s into Makoto and that worked for me (even if I have no idea if I like the ship in general, and up until I read that one thing, I didn't like it at all). I’ve read really sweet things that pair him with Sumire, too. 

My only real thing with him is that I see Ryuji as the kinda... token straight guy of the PT? Even with anything I’ve seen people referencing as evidence for him being bi, he vibes as token straight guy with a heart of gold to me. It’s kinda funny that I could probably see him with any of the girls his age (some might need more swaying to get me on side than others, but I feel like I could be swayed) way easier than I could Akira, whose in-game reactions to dating made me go “that boy’s gay. good for him.”

In your next gen fic what are their sexualities?

so ones that i'm v solid on are wyatt➝gay / kat➝lesbian / henry jr.➝bi / pj➝bi. oh and parker➝ace and then probably biro but i haven't fleshed that out yet. oh and tamora➝straight Probably bc i feel like i need one token het. for melinda i have melinda at the moment thinking she's straight between u n me that's probz not true but i have no idea where she's gonna land i don't necessarily have anything planned for her. same for baby peyton like i literally have nary a thot she might be straight or she might be pan or she might be a lesbian. idk! which leaves chris and chris is the one i've really decided The Least on bc like. like i feel like when you meet him like he really vibes like a straight guy but then once you're like close with him you're like bro r u gay but like honestly i don't think chris like. cares. for lack of a better term. like he really doesn't care what sexuality you think he is but i also just don't think he cares enough to label himself i think the world has kind of labelled him straight because like. it just has. and i don't think he fully adheres to that but i also don't think he has any need or desire to sort that all out i think if u asked him what his sexuality was he'd just shrug and chase the subject

and then as far as non-canon characters dency is queer and dove's bi as is warren sheridan is straight as also The Only Straight Character in that entire au bc warren's bi jenny's queer keyboards is pan luz is bi and monica's a lesbian. minor characters in next gen kat's gonna get a girlfriend soon who is. she's either gonna id as bi or gay. pj has a boyfriend and he's pan and his grandmother knitted him a pan pride sweater <3 melinda's roommate ale is. either bi pan or queer. same with her whitelighter effie but also effie might just be a lesbian i really don't have much planned for her as far as personal life goes but as she gets more fleshed out i'm sure i'll figure it out. i think that's everyone i've also got another character who is a bi guy who's slated 2 be introduced soon. oh shit i forgot bianca! bianca is bi. the only time chris has a label in my brain is when i refer to them as bi4bi.

Can you tell us more about Reid and Bri? Like their dynamic and maybe how they got together??

Toby, have I mentioned lately that I appreciate you??? Yes, I can absolutely say more about them— I love Reid and Bri, and they’ve sort of become my token wholesome long-term M/F couple in this OC-verse. (I would say they’re the “token straights,” but since Reid is bi, that’s not even true. The actual token straights are Maggie and her boyfriend, but I haven’t introduced him yet, and he doesn’t even go to Kiersey, so... okay, anyway.)

Yes. Thank you. The Kiersey-verse means that I can elaborate on things I would’ve felt self-conscious talking about before, and for that I am very grateful.

Let’s hop under the cut and I’ll tell you how Reid and Bri met, and some stuff about their dynamic, et cetera. (And as a general note, you can always ask me anything about my OCs!)

SO. Reid and Bri. We’ve seen them together in a fic once, but it was this prologue, from Sp*ncer’s perspective, and poor Bri only got to say, like, one line. Reid on his own is someone we’ve seen a lot more extensively, at least in comparison to Bri. He’s become a heavy player in all things to do with Quinn’s freshman year theatre experience, but he’s also come up in other places now— like this ficlet where you get a glimpse into his friendship with Cole.

So there’s that. We know Reid. We know he has a girlfriend. I will now rewind back to their freshman year and tell you how they met.

First of all, Reid is from Wisconsin and Bri is from Missouri, which I guess isn’t crucial for you to know but just felt like information I should provide. They didn’t know each other before college, obviously. When they get to Kiersey, they don’t meet right away; I think they wind up meeting around halfway through the fall semester of their first year, or maybe even later than that?

The way they meet goes like this. I think the drama club likes hiring art students to help design their sets, and that year, for the fall production, they need a backdrop painted. Bri isn’t a theatre person in the strict sense of knowing much about drama, but she did help paint sets in high school because she was an art kid, and she had the drama teacher for English class, and probably got recruited. When she sees a flyer on campus advertising help wanted, and learns that they’ll pay her to do it, she signs up and winds up painting for them.

Reid is in the fall play that year, because he pretty much dives right into the drama club as soon as he’s on campus. Freshman Reid is a hilarious thing to imagine, because he wasn’t a leader yet but definitely still was a ham who loved to make people laugh and attract attention.

So Bri is painting the set onstage, with probably at least a few other people helping with sets, and Reid is headed into the theater to, I don’t know, pick something up or maybe just to mess around, and he comes into the house being super obnoxious (he’s probably singing something), and then—

Reid walking down the aisle in the theater: tonight the SUPER TROOPER lights are gonna find me SHINING LIKE THE SUN— (notices there are people onstage doing something) Oh, shit— sorry, Art Students!!!!!!!!

In the end, Reid goes up and starts obnoxiously interviewing the Art Students, and that is how he strikes up a conversation with Bri. He thinks she’s cute, and so he starts flirting, and he’s funny so she kind of digs it, and by the time someone chases him away because Reid they’re making the set and they need to concentrate, he’s dead set on seeking out this Art Student (yes, he did learn her name during that interaction) because she’s cute and he wants to keep talking to her.

He winds up showing up for the next set-making session, and by the end of that, he has her number. The rest, my friends, is history. They date all through college, and I told you about how he tries to break up with her during his angsty self-deprecation hours in their post-college life (if you’re confused, click here), but on their general dynamic.........

Reid loves Bri because she’s creative and compassionate and free-spirited, and Bri loves Reid because he’s authentic and caring and he makes her laugh. This is a broad over-simplification, but you get the picture. They’re very mutually supportive of each other— she goes to his theatre shows, and he goes to her art shows...... and yes, obviously there’s more to a relationship than supporting each other’s hobbies, but I think because they’re both art types, that’s an important thing for them.

Reid’s entire life is like, *Bri does something* THAT’S MY GIRLFRIEND!!!!!!!!!!

Anytime any minor inconvenience happens in my life, I keep saying, you know who wouldn’t treat me like this? Reid Burke. And it’s now a meme among certain individuals who shall remain anonymous in this post, but it’s true, because Reid is a really fantastic boyfriend. His number one mission in life is to make Bri smile, and he absolutely succeeds at it.

Bri feels a little like she needs to keep track of his chaos sometimes, and thus refers to watching Reid at parties as “boyfriend-sitting.” Drunk Reid is harmless; he goes from wanting to start a rave to wanting to do nothing but cuddle Bri and tell his friends he loves them in about three seconds flat.

Drunk Reid: I fucKING love you Jhiron

More sober Jhiron: fuck off

Drunk Reid: :’) he loves me too

Uhhhh......... what else. I can’t remember where I said this, but they wind up having three children. Reid definitely passes his sense of humor down to them. I cannot express how important laughter is as Reid’s love language.

Bri is straight, and we know that he’s bi. She’s a great ally. Also her parents hate him. LOL. They think he’s a bum who’s never going to get a job. It’s a good thing he proves them wrong.

Hm. At Kiersey, they get breakfast together every morning; it’s their thing, which is why you saw them having breakfast in the dining hall in that one Sp*ncer fic. Now don’t mind me while I cry imagining them cooking breakfast for their kids. Why am I emotional?

I can... write something with them, if there is demand for that? You guys know the drill; I’m always open to your ideas and suggestions. And also, thank you, Toby, for asking. I don’t really play favorites with characters, but Reid has a special place in my heart.

VALENTINES DAY SPECIAL

Below Her Mouth, 2016 (dir. April Mullen)

WARNING SPOILERS AND LOTS OF SEX TALK AHEAD TREAD WITH CAUTION

HEY Y’ALL we interrupt the regular programming for a special feature!!  i always like to do a lil valentines day special viewing for the sake of being festive and for once ive actually gotten some dating action in my life so i was in the mood to watch some sweet romance and then review it for ur reading pleasure (emphasis on the PLEASURE ehugeguehgehgeugeghe) (assassinate me now i deserve it)

to preface this, i am VERY gay.  well uuhhh bi but a very GAY bi u know??  basically i curse my attraction to men every waking moment of my life.  ive known about this since my last few years of college and am out to basically everyone whos important, and a lot of my friends are lgbtq+ so u know its official and everything.  i dont really claim to be a Gay Expert  cause i actually am still lacking a lot of uuhhh physical experience if u catch my drift HOWEVER like a true scholar i have done my fair share of research.  which mainly includes watching really shitty lesbian movies and mocking them (and every so often watching a rare Good Lesbian Movie and crying A LOT). 

if u are of sapphic inclination as well then u probably already know the kind of reputation lesbian romance movies have overall, the prime examples of which would be movies like Room in Rome and Loving Annabelle.  these movies all seem to have one thing in common, and its that the directors and writers have no goddamn clue about how to write a convincing and authentic lesbian romance.  u also always get the sense that the male gaze is the one being prioritized cause theres always PLENTY of gratuitous sex and the romance part itself is uuhhhh never really developed well or thoroughly enough at all.  these movies are usually about a straight girl who discovers her affinity for the feminine when she meets a total stranger and suddenly cant stop thinking about how much she wants to bang her.  and then in-between all the banging they somehow find the time to fall madly in love with each other but the straight girl just CANT cause shes STRAIGHT or she has a FIANCE or her PARENTS wouldnt approve or whatever the fuck the conflict of the day is and either it ends with them never seeing each other again or with the straight girl coming to terms with her not-straightness and ***follow her heart*** or whatever

really the only lesbian movies i can recall actually enjoying would be Pariah (PLEASE check this movie out its so heart-wrenching and beautiful and its like a majority-black cast!!!) and Blue Is the Warmest Color (this one i loved at first but the more i reflect on it the more problems i find with it, ESPECIALLY with how much sex is in it).  and then The L Word is a stellar tv series up until like the last few seasons which are trash but otherwise it was a great watch for me, especially while i was still figuring things out.  i feel like there are more that ive seen that were pretty good but i cant think of them at the moment WHOOPS LOL

so with Below Her Mouth i was apprehensive but hopeful going in, although i had heard rumors that it was Real Bad.  and u know i shouldve listened to those rumors and not bothered with this movie cause WOW its bad!!!  script is TRASH, acting is TRASH WITH FEBREEZE SPRAYED ON IT, and it looks like an artsy pretentious film student shot it.  natalie krill had maybe one good acting moment in the whole 90-minute run time and erika linder is really really hot and those are the only two good things i can think to say about this

fuck ok uuhhh i guess ill talk about the main characters cause OH WOW theyre basically two walking talking cliches.  jasmine (yes her name is jasmine that totally doesnt sound like the name of a character in a porn at all) is our Token Straight Girl who has a fiance and is a fashion editor.  she first sees our other romantic lead while working on the roof of a house next door to hers.  shes ur typical Lesbian Romance Movie Butch, too cool for school and unable to commit to anyone ever and is kind of an asshole but somehow this is supposed to endear u to her.  oh and guess what her name is.  just guess.  ill give u a few minutes.

DALLAS ITS FUCKING DALLAS HOOWEE WHAT A SHOCKER

the first thing we see of dallas, and this is also the first fuckin shot of the movie, is her uuhhh scissoring her girlfriend???  humping her?????  i really dont know what shes trying to accomplish but shes clearly not having any fun while doing it and her girlfriends like “i love u” and shes like “im moving out bye” and thats it

real compelling i know

so jasmine and her bff manage to stumble upon the lesbian bar in town (which dallas calls a girl party???  why??????) where dallas meets her and proceeds to be completely and utterly creepy in ways ive only ever seen men be which is the first indicator that the person who made this movie, april mullen, is maybe not gay at all (or maybe she is and just has horrible taste?? idk man).  but somehow the creepiness is a real turn on for ol’ jazzy and they start making out IMMEDIATELY but then jasmines like “i have a fiance gotta go!!!!” and yeets herself out of the situation

but of course this is a lesbian romance so u know they meet up again and proceed to have like half an hours worth of steamy gratuitous porn-style sex.  there was a lot of strap-on action involved and a lot of bizarre scissoring that i dont even think i can call scissoring cause it was more like they were just weirdly bumping their vagoos against each other and somehow that was getting them both off.  like sometimes the sex scenes in this movie bordered on tommy wiseau levels of weird. 

oh and of course the fiance finds out about this secret love affair but WOW do they really do this in the most dramatic and unintentionally hilarious way possible.  he literally comes home early from his business trip and walks in on dallas going to town on jasmine with a strap on in the bath tub, like theyre ferociously going at it.  i swear to god i felt like i was watching a comedy at times with this movie

piggybacking off of that, jesus christ this script is bad.  ooooohhhh its so bad.  dallas is given the cringiest tough guy lines, like shes drinking beers with a friend and the friend is like “oh man i gotta catch up to u” and, hilariously, dallas is like “you cant catch up cause nO oNe WiLl EvEr CaTcH mE” and i almost choked on my own saliva.  oh god wait heres another zinger, so when she first meets jasmine shes like “do u come to girl parties often (again why the everloving FUCK is she calling it a girl party????)” and jasmines like “i don’t come at all” and the next thing to come out of dallas’s suave sexy mouth is “TeRriBLe NeWs CaN i ChAnGe ThAt FoR yOu” OH my GOD

and good god shes so creepy.  like some of the shit she pulls is borderline sexual assault.  her and jasmine are just at a bar chillin and dallas reaches down and im like “oh ok shes gonna like put her hand on her knee classic move” but NOPE OH NO she just makes a beeline STRAIGHT for jasmines crotch IN THE MIDDLE OF A BAR!!!  THERE ARE PEOPLE AROUND!!!!!!  OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

at one point after another round of passionate lovemaking dallas brings jasmine back to her house and theyre in dallas’s truck and they just??  slap each other???  for no reason?????  except for True Love i guess????????????

jesus.  just.  this was an experience.  i would say dont bother watching it but i did at least have fun making fun of it so if thats ur sort of thing knock ur socks off, its on netflix.  but wow this basically fits the stereotype of a lesbian romance movie PERFECTLY, and when u really break it down its just a fancy porn.  i wouldnt even say its a porn geared towards actual wlw cause theres so many elements about the sex scenes that reminded me of the kind of lesbian porn thats made for straight men to jack off to.  0/10 BAD BYE

well shit ok i hope u all had a great valentines day!!  im gonna go start a roofing business in the hopes that i end up working on a roof of a house thats right next to a really hot straight girl with a fiance so i can try to finger-bang her in the middle of an occupied bar wish me luck!!!!!

OP has a lot to say about transwomen that isn’t so nice, so let’s try this again!

HOMOPHOBES INCLUDE:

Ben, who emphasizes when asking “How do you view lesbian and gay relationships” in That Tone TM. He calls things gay if they’re too colorful, and as a put down.

Breanna, who ships and fetishized her cute gay #itscalledyaoi ships but won’t be friends with lesbians because she’s afraid they’ll hit on her. She wants a Token #GayBestFriend like “cool” girls in tv shows.

Marissa, who will kiss girls when she feels lonely to make her boyfriend pay attention to her because “it’s sexy”.

Josh, who thinks lesbians are “hot” in porn but doesn’t actually think they’re real or should have rights or get married; actually no woman should have rights so he gets a misogynistic award too!

Bethany, who drinks in lesbian bars and makes advances on couples to film when she gets a threesome and sends it to her boyfriend. She also likes to send nude snapchats of herself to the other lesbians and bisexuals from work to prove she’s sexy. She doesn’t use labels like “single” or “taken” or “straight” or “gay” so no one else should when it’s convenient for her self esteem issues.

Christopher says lesbians are just girls who don’t think they’re worthy of a guy and just need to work on their issues because they’ll find a good man when they “stop acting so gay”. He likes to stalk his first dates for a few weeks before he decides they “aren’t worth the trouble” and hovers over the next girl.

Michelles step-daughter came out before she went off to college and insists she only stop by for short visits on the holidays so the rest of her conservative family doesn’t find out yet. Down the line when they do, she’ll say nothing when her family members are rude to her step-daughters girlfriend and calls it “a scene” when her husband defends his daughter. When her son comes out a year later, she’ll break into tears and do everything in her power to prevent him from seeing his boyfriend.

David thinks domestic partnership and “straight marriage” are the same. As an EMT he has refused boyfriends/girlfriends to ride in the ambulance because they’re not really family. Gay marriage is against god.

James calls his son a lady killer at the ripe age of two months. He says he’s not a homophobe because “I have family who’s gay”. He just “doesn’t understand it” and never wants to talk about it. “It’s kind of gross when you really think about it.” He says “no homo” a lot.

Lisa has tattoos of bible quotes against sins and sinners. They’re on her Facebook and Instagram. Being gay is against god. She’s on her third marriage - the first two fell apart because she cheated; but it’s okay because she wound up marrying the guy she cheated with. She tells her church to pray for her gay brother.

Selina had gay friends in high school. She was an “ally” in a LGBT group in high school that was 90% straight, cis, white boys and girls. She thinks she knows everything there is to be gay, bi, and trans because she’s had friends of each and has helped stood up for them in school. She also voted republican, and refuses to talk to her family because her brother is trans and her mother who has been single for 20 years has realized she’s gay. She won’t talk to any of her former high school “friends” because she “is tired of the drama, they said I was a bad friend” because she never actually went to any events or helped stand up for them. She admits later she knows it looks good on her college application and believes “everyone’s soooo obsessed with diversity”.

Karen found out one of her daughters friends is gay and anytime she came over, she would send her home early from parties and sleepovers and lie to her parents about her misbehavior and rudeness so she would supposedly get in trouble. She has bible quotes on her daughters wall and crosses everywhere.

Franks daughter has been struggling with money and has moved back in, but when she can’t hide her secret anymore because it makes her feel guilty and she comes out to him, she’s kicked out and isn’t able to talk to him about anything; their relationship down the line is never the same.

Justin says he doesn’t hate gays, but anytime one of his friends does anything not manly enough he’ll throw “fag” at them. Tranny isn’t a slur, nor is pussyboy; and only gay guys show any form of emotion.

Charlie refuses to call one of his childhood friends by their new name and pronouns because they haven’t “really transistioned”. You can’t really be trans* if you don’t change your voice, bind, and have an operation.

Dillan supposedly is a good alley. In one of his friend groups he and his best friend are the only two straight people. He also thinks pride is a bit ridiculous, gays being able to get married now is totally equal to the “straight marriage” despite what his friends say, and doesn’t fully recognize different sexualities of the couples because “does it matter if she’s bi if she’s dating a guy?” And “does it matter if you’re pan if you’re dating another girl”? He also believes lesbians will always be virgins because “real sex is a penis penetrating a vagina”.

Danny refuses to recognize any non-straight non-cis characters in tv shows or in rpg games with his friends. When he stopped being invited , he argued he was totally okay with “all that gay agenda stuff” but didn’t understand why it needed to be talked about all the time or why his friends wanted to play gay or trans characters.

Melissa wants to upset her parents, so when she finds out the person she’s been flirting back and forth with is “not just a lesbian, but a trans guy too!” they start to date so her parents can be disappointed in the fact the “boyfriend” she’s talked about is “really a girl” and panic when they find out. When they break up, she sends her friends to send equally hateful transphobic, biphobic, and homophobic slurs via voicemail and text message.

Wait, do I send just a name or a name and a number? Because you know I want all of them for Cobalt, Rina, Turq

I was gonna do the latter anyway XD

Cobalt (he shares all this with Turq so no need)

1: sexuality headcanon 

heteroromantic heterosexual

my token straight guy <3

(azureus is demi though which it'd be nice to picture cobalt as sometimes)

2: otp 

CoRi my beloved 💙💚

3: brotp 

Ruby and Cobalt!!!! They're the shounen anime best friends ❤💙

4: notp 

Literally him x any of the lesbians, ESPECIALLY Rose

5: first headcanon that pops into my head 

He likes chewing ice, it's a good stim for him

He'll occasionally just make himself icicles for him to chew on, but if he's not up to it he tries chewing mints

But nothing hits as well as just chomping on pure ice

Also this one's Turq-specific but I HDC that Turq actually has longer hair than Cobalt, it's not a huge gap but enough to be noticeable when his hair is down

6: one way in which I relate to this character

Feeling isolated from your friends because you swear you've done something extremely wrong,

7: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character

The scene where he actually gets Found Out in one of the worst ways possible 😬

8: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?

His personality is a cinnamon roll but out of context he sounds like a problematic fave 😭

Rina

1: sexuality headcanon 

Biromantic bisexual! She and Ruby are bi-buddies 💙💜❤

2: otp 

CoRi! Again! 💙💚

3: brotp 

Her and Blaze! They have the vibes of The Girls™️ with them, they love playfully teasing each other, and they both know when to hold each other back

4: notp 

Rose and Jay tbh :T

This one isn't a EW WHY WOULD YOU SHIP THAT notp but, I also don't like imaging Blaze and Rina in a relationship :T I really don't wanna imply there's a love triangle between Cobalt/Rina/Blaze, nor would I feel comfortable with Rina ditching Cobalt for Blaze. Then again I'm in the process of giving Blaze her own girlfriend so that might shoot up to a harsher notp solely because "Blaze would never cheat on her gf!!!"

5: first headcanon that pops into my head 

I think she's this weird mix of hippie/cottagecore

She probably does yoga on the weekends, bakes homemade bread, and heck she already grows herbs in her garden

Though also toss a motorcycle into her aesthetic too and you'll get Rina lmaoo

6: one way in which I relate to this character

..........in all honesty Rina is one of those characters who I make because they're so different from me eidbwijfowjfjdk

WE BOTH LIKE WOMEN?? I GUESS???

We both like turquoise and blue in some certain way but she's the one able to fuck it

man she's literally meant to be the opposite of my self projecting oc i do Not relate to her at all wodnwknfnd

7: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character

Honestly from how I'm plotting her, I'm really worried she's gonna be too much of an asshole to stay likable throughout Arc 2 >:T I have the gift of hindsight to know she can be a real dick to Jay and I'm not smart enough to balance out her assholery with Good Character Writing

8: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?

Looks like a cinnamon roll, is actually problematic fave wifbwknfjwjf

I think she'd definitely be one of the more morally ambiguous Paladins in Arcs 1-2, since her thoughts end up messing with how she acts against the villains

Also said assholery with Jay 👀;

Friday Night Fights #4

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Warning: unedited and I forgot how to use tense consistency.

“A picnic,” I declared, breaking the silence.

“What?” My friends looked at me, waiting for an actual explanation. They were fairly used to me just spouting out incoherent phrases without any context at this point, though.

“We should all go on a picnic. Like, full checkered blanket, woven basket kind of bullshit!” I said.

“Ah, yes, five gays and their token straight friend by the lake with a giant basket. I’ll go, but, like, if someone falls I’m leaving you there.” Aspen replied.

“Even me?” Joshua asked, pouting slightly.

Aspen glared at him. “Yes, even you babe.”

Joshua grumbled a bit about something or other, I didn’t really catch what it was.

“I just need to clarify something. I’m the token straight, right?” Steven asks.

We all look at him like he asked us who we were dating. “Yes. Yes you are. The one straight guy in the entire team.” Rose said.

What even was Steven’s face at that? He looked extremely confused. “So, Rose is bi, Emma is bi, Aspen is non-binary-”

“Agender,” Aspen interjected.

“Aspen is agender, Joshua is pan, and Isabella is gay?” He asked.

“Five out of five, dude! Good job. I’m glad you listen to us during Pride,” Joshua clapped Steven on the back, appearing from his place on the couch.

Steven jumped a bit at that, but we were all used to Joshua’s random teleportations. “It’s Pride right now. You’re wearing Pride shirts. I’m pretty sure Rose has been wearing only red, blue, and purple ever since Pride started.”

Aspen put their head down. “Damn it.”

“Curse the parade being today. Anyway, after the parade, we go to the lake and have a picnic. I stand with my girlfriend that this is a wonderful idea and nobody will fall.” Emma says. She says the last words with a pointed look at Aspen.

“And if one of us does fall?” Rose asked.

“I refuse to let it happen.” I say.

“It still might happen!” Rose says.

“Then we deal with the consequences like adults.” Emma says.

“I don’t think we’re adults. We’re not grown up enough to be adults.” Joshua reasons.

Emma opens her mouth to protest but closes it.

“Yeah, we’re teenagers pretending to be adults. Hey, at least we get to beat people up.” Aspen agrees.

“I don’t. Not anymore.” Joshua sticks his tongue out at Aspen, smiling.

Aspen sticks their tongue out back, grinning.

Steven puts his head in his hands. “If we don’t get to Pride soon, we’re gonna be late. I appreciate the fact that you guys are having a moment, or whatever, but being late to the parade will probably crush your gay hearts and I happen to like one of you, so hurry up!”

I considered it for a moment. Yeah, it probably would. We were surprisingly fragile for heroes. “If we don’t go now I’m making all of us go,” I warned.

“I know for a fact you can’t do that,” Emma pokes me.

“I can try,” I poke her back.

Steven groans. “Again, I like the moments, very gay, but we need to get to the parade.”

I pretend to think for a second. “I think it’s extra gay points if we have gay moments at the gay parade.”

Aspen, Joshua, and Emma nod. “You seem to be right. Let’s go.”

“Finally,” Steven groans.

We all pile into Steven’s car, as he is the mom friend of the century with a minivan and a ton of Pride stuff in the back.

We get to Pride with way too much time to spare, during that time Aspen makes way too many puns, Rose makes pride flag illusions at passerby’s request, and Emma appears to be getting stuff for the upcoming picnic. I just sit and watch the passerby, still astonished at the fact people gather together to celebrate just being who they are unapologetically and happily. It is ruined by the Christian ‘protester’ shouting Bible verses at us, but such is life. I’m happy and with those I love, and that’s all that matters.

Sorry, Netflix.

Alex Strangelove is trash.

“Spoilers” under the cut....? Not that you should care; don’t watch this.

Ok.

This movie is just bad.

Why do these “Teen LGBT movies” feel the need to give the main lead such AWFUL friends? I’m not talking regular awful. A friend who PULLS OUT HIS DICK IN PUBLIC when you suggest you *may* be Bisexual to “Prove” to you that you are not? Oh, I’m sorry, not wanting to look at your best friends dick (in puBLIC!!!1) means you can’t be attracted to men at all. Got it. Your dick is just that magic, I guess

Same friend: “Do you listen to Panic at the Disco at night while jerking off to pictures of Vampires? No? THEN YOU ARE NOT BISEXUAL!!!”

Sigh.

Same friend: hurling insults at the school’s token “Gender Queer” (played for laughs) person and exclaiming loudly about how “no one is straight anymore” and how “people are transitioning into god knows what”.

AND THIS “FRIEND” IS NOT TREATED AS A VILLAIN OR A BAD GUY - IN FACT, HIS ENTIRE “B” PLOT IS ABOUT HOW HE STALKS THIS GIRL SINCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - SENDING HER CREEPY PICTURES OF HIMSELF SHIRTLESS - AND THEN YEARS LATER IT TURNS OUT SHE SAVED THE PICTURES AND OH LOOK THEY GO TO PROM TOGETHER and also he is somehow a good friend or something.

It’s just a bad movie.

It’s one of those MANY, many “Teen LGBT” movies where the entire thing is about “Finding Yourself Cliches”. He has the perfect girlfriend who is both super quirky and adorable and perfect but also smart and hot and basically perfect - bUT WhY WonT hE HAvE sEX wiTh hER??? - and meets basically the EXACT SAME PERSON but with a penis and now EVERYTHING CHANGES! Up is down, left is right, etc. etc.

.....but surprise! Main Lead and Same Sex Love Interest only have like 2.5 scenes together (where quirky “Totally Not Just Your Current Girlfriend But A Male Version” do quirky things together and flirt - He introduced him to the B-52s! How QUIRKY AND HIPSTER!!!!) before the SSLI is G O N E until the last scene of the entire movie. Cause he is just a device, not a person.

The rest of the movie is just BAD TEEN ANGST as the lead tries to stick his dick in as much vagina as possible to get rid of gay thoughts, ruins his relationships with his ~beard~ (er, girlfriend), best friends and family by holding all those emotions inside and lashing out. DRAMA!!!!!

It ends in a terrible prom scene. That alone is bad enough.

The “Drama Club Kids” are weird, flamboyant stereotypes.

The main lead’s hair is weird.

Everyone is just awful.

This script has been sitting in a drawer for a good 10~25 years. It seems to take place in 2018, but apart from some weird lines about how everyone is all “fluid and questioning” it is VERY dated. It’s one of those movies that is clearly written by someone in their 40s who has a lot of anger about High School and wants to mock children for it.

Of the parents we see, Girlfriend has “Mom Dying of...Cancer? Questionmark? Did I skip over that part?” and Main Lead has “Stern Dad Who Thinks He Should Apply To More Places Than Just....Yale? Something Pretentious?” and “50s Housewife Mom With Two Lines”.

Main Lead is clearly into his girlfriend at the start of the movie - his fucking name is “Truelove” and when he meet cutes her (she is drawing an octopus and he likes them, too...or something) all these insane heart effects show up on screen. We get no sense of him not liking her apart from the fact he is scared to have sex - and even that seems to be explained by the fact she has had multiple boyfriends and he is a virgin and is scared.

When he meets this quirky boy, he is obviously into the boy, too. So he thinks....”maybe I am bisexual?” ....and I’m thinking, yea, probably, that is like, a thing that people are - not just vampire loving Panic at the Disco fans.

But then he falls into a pool while high off licking a toad and remembers being called a fag as a kid and then now he’s actually just full 100% gay. Confession: I skipped a LOT of that scene so it might have not been that, I could not handle this part.

WHY. NOT. MAKE. HIM. BI.

They downplay the existence of bisexuality SO HARD and openly mock it multiple times, but they make this lead out to be VERY BISEXUAL! He loves this girl, but oh wait this guy comes along and maybe he wants to make out with him, too? Not that he loves that guy, cause they spend NO TIME TOGETHER.

I’m actually paused at the end of this movie because I can’t watch the last fucking bit of the movie it is so bad.

This is just a bad Love, Simon. And I didn’t even think Love, Simon was all that good. But man..........it at least is cute and genuine.

They end the movie on coming out clips on youtube. Because the shallow frame of the movie is that he has a youtube channel about....animals? He likes animals or whatever. It’s stupid. Alex DOES NOT EVEN COME OUT REALLY.

Ok, so yea, he comes out to the girlfriend and then they time skip and I guess he is “out”? But this is N O T a coming out movie. It skips that part almost entirely. I wonder how coming out to “pop out my dick to prove you are not bi” friend went?

Don’t.

Watch.

This.

Movie.

Fucking hell, Netflix....

HOW IS THIS 92% ON ROTTEN TOMATOES????

Also the Same Sex Love Interest is named “Elliot”. I feel like that is just such a basic gay guy name at this point. Every SSLI is named Elliot.

Also, the bad friend makes a terrible NAMBLA joke. Of course.

OH! And the SSLI got kicked out by his father for being gay and it is a throw-away line that is NEVER addressed - like, it’s just a thing that happens to queers, so we gotta throw that in for some character identity....? What? Also, he graduated high school and now....does....what...?

SSLI lives in the family home of his best friend! Who we NEVER SEE AFTER THE 2 MINUTE INTRODUCTION SCENE because, lol, why even bother right?

Whole side-plot about what school he is getting into. Entire teary-eyed scene with his rejection letter. AND THEN NOTHING! NO RESOLUTION!

Not a lot is resolved, TBH. Prom scene, kiss, done. Thats a wrap?

I need to stop.

This movie is bad.

When Queerness Is Cultural Capital, Lesbians Go Broke. June 27, 2017 There’s a video going around social media this Pride month: the ABCs of the LGBTQA. It says “those six letters will never be enough…” while smoke in every color of the rainbow swirls around a multicultural dance troupe. The video, produced by an expensive gym franchise, is further proof that Pride has been fully co-opted by identity capitalism. A is for ally, aka a straight person who identifies as woke. E is for exhibitionist. H is for heteroflexible. K is for kink. What I learned from this abecedarian of narcissism is that LGBT didn’t include enough people, so we added literally everyone else. We are witnessing an interesting cultural trend of inclusion so radical that it demands a catchall (I know I don’t have time to list out those 26-to-infinity letters): queer. What this viral Pride season commercial illustrates is that queer identity is about more than who you love or fuck. There’s no requirement to be homosexual, just to be open-minded. This whole thing is less about “labels” and more about the lifestyle attached to sticking a “Love is love” sign in your front yard. How did we get here? How did queer go from a slur, to a political slogan, to an identity, to this purposefully impossible to define denotation of the in-crowd? This marketing campaign? And where do lesbians fit? Do we get to sit at the cool kids table? Or should we return to our camper vans where we won’t inconvenience anybody with our folk music and our boring monosexuality? Cara, the former etymologist at Autostraddle, writes that queer comes to us from Old Scots, and its first recorded use was in an insult competition. Before 1508, its Old High German antecedents referred to strangeness or eccentricity. She writes, “According to the OED, “queer” first showed up on paper in 1508, in a transcription of “The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie.” Flyting, very popular in early 16th-century Scotland, was a public entertainment in which bards “would engage in verbal contests of provocative, often sexual and scatological but highly poetic abuse.” Whether as an insult or a synonym for not-normal, queer was only ever used to cast out those people deemed freaks, to bully anyone gender non-conforming, to rally the mob for a game of smear the queer. When the queer reclamation project began in the bullhorns and on the picket signs of gay liberationists, the purpose was to strike back against heteronormativity. “We’re here, we’re not like you, and we don’t want to be.” Or how about, “We’re here, we are what we are, and you don’t get to define normal anymore.” Judging by the mainstreaming of the term, queer is hardly considered derogatory to many in the LGBT family. Reclamation projects are not always so swiftly accepted. Women who’ve tried to reclaim “slut” (eg Slut Walk, slutshaming) have not successfully ended rape culture or the virgin/whore dichotomy. The difference between unsuccessful reclamation projects like “slut,” and wildly popular projects like “queer” is the degree to which not only the word can be normalized, but also the people who it is used to describe. It reminds me of that Weezer song, “everyone’s a little queer…” See “queer” as a term has become an umbrella that accommodates not only the type of sex you have and with whom, but also how you identify the sex you have, how you identify your personality, your aura, the ineffable je ne sais queer that may or may not be related in any way to your sexuality, or even the way you present yourself to the world, but simply some deeply held, internal feeling. You don’t actually need to share a common oppression or a common romantic or sexual behavior. You don’t need to share the common experience of gay bashing, having your Christian parents disown you, or any kind of homophobia. You also don’t need to share the experience of getting sweaty palms and weak knees when Rachel Maddow is on TV, or when K. Stew shows up in your Instagram feed. You don’t need to weep all through Carol because it’s the first time anyone made a mainstream movie about lesbians where nobody died in the end. That’s cool; I mean there is no homogenous experience of being gay, and not every lesbian shares with me those experiences I just described, so why should I mind that I have literally nothing in common with the genderfluid individual marching next to me at Dyke March, other than we both have short hair and only wear eyeliner when the mood strikes? The reason I mind is because queer, in functioning as a catchall, serves to obscure what it is about my life, my community, my partners, that I needed to learn to be proud of in the first place. Because for me and all the other lesbians I know, figuring out your sexuality is hard enough, but the real work is in accepting yourself, demanding acceptance from others, being willing to walk away when that acceptance is denied. Lesbians are women, and women are taught that we’re supposed to be sexually available objects of public consumption. So we spend a lot of time saying “No.” No, we won’t fuck or partner with men; no, we won’t change our minds about this; no, this body is a no-man’s land. Lesbian, straight or bi, women are punished whenever we try to assert a boundary. Queer as a catchall term makes it really hard for lesbians to assert and maintain this boundary, because it makes it impossible to name this boundary. The inherent boundary-less nature of queer as its meaning has morphed from an insult to an identity has not necessarily made more spaces for gay and lesbian people so much as moved the furniture around. I’ll give you an example. I recently moved to a new city and was hoping to start a group house to save on rent. I joined a Facebook group called Queer Housing. I made an ad looking for queer roommates, and what I got was a whole lot of messages like “I’m a cis guy and my nonbinary femme girlfriend and I are looking for a house where we can enjoy watching Ru Paul’s Drag Race with other queers.” OK. I was kind of hoping for a house that looks more like the group house in Dykes to Watch Out For than the episodes of the Real World where the token bisexual makes out with a heteroflexible girl while the guys egg them on. One where we have a common culture, common interests, and common cause politically. Meanwhile, lesbians (people who are, legal or not, discriminated against in housing, suffer with fewer job prospects and tend to make less money than straight men, will have one less cheap housing option because the str8s are in here taking up space. Oh but A is for Ally in Queer Land, right?). Yet again, space created by and for people marginalized by their sexuality is colonized by people who enjoy all of the benefits of heterosexual privilege. It’s really hard to talk about privilege — who has it and who doesn’t — in the paradigm of queer theory, because one’s self-perception is the basis of one’s standpoint, rather than one’s membership in a broader social class like man, woman, gay or straight. I witnessed a woman in a heated Facebook argument weaponizing her queer identity as the standpoint for why her word on queerness and queer rights should be the last. A gay man asked “does your queer identity include sleeping with someone of the same sex?” She responded angrily that her queerness was spiritual and deeply personal, and that she didn’t need to share the many ways in which she was queer. That’s fine, although no one asked you for a play by play of how you reach orgasm. While my lesbianism is also deeply personal and spiritual, it’s impossible for me to hide behind “well I don’t need to tell you in what ways I’m a lesbian.” I can’t walk down the street without some man telling me that I look unfuckable. I can’t hold my sweetie’s hand in public without some man yelling “Why don’t you let a real man try? I could fuck you straight, girl.” It was a choice to come out, but I come out again every day. I could pass for straight if I would let my hair grow a little longer and stop wearing such practical shoes, but as soon as people see the way I interact with the women in my life, they know. I don’t want to indulge in “binary thinking,” in setting up a dichotomy between homos and heteros. Of course I know for some people, sexuality is fluid, and for others, it is very fixed throughout their lives. Many straight people have confusing crushes or days of experimentation, just like gay people do. Lots of people find themselves all sorts of places on the Kinsey scale. Goddess knows I was all over the place before pitching my tent in Dykesville. Yet, queer is not exact enough for me. Maybe there have been parts of me that dabbled in polyamory and BDSM, but those parts are subcategories of my specifically lesbian experience. So who cares if every letter of the alphabet is celebrated during Pride? What do I lose when lesbian is lumped in with queer? Well, for starters, political cogency. Last I checked it wasn’t the kink bars or the swingers parties that the cops raided in the 1950s, it was the gay bars, and anyone caught there could be roughed up, thrown in jail, raped or molested by cops and guards with total impunity. When Mike Pence advocated for conversion therapy as a Congressman, he wasn’t targeting those people who like to be ball-gagged or beaten during sex. He and his cronies are coming for those of us who want to live that gay lifestyle (with and without ball gags). Theresa Butz didn’t get to explain the infinitesimal nuance of her identity to the man who raped and murdered her for having the audacity to live with her girlfriend. The violence that lesbians experience is specific to being lesbian, and the culture that lesbians enjoy is specific to being lesbian. Both ends of this, the good and the bad, are the stuff a movement is based on. Queer identity and queer culture both stop short of speaking to this lesbian experience. These days when I hear someone call themselves queer, I just assume that their sexuality is too complicated to understand without a liberal arts degree. Honestly, I don’t care. I only need to know what labels you use if we’ve both swiped right, or when I’m sending out the invites to the potluck where we plot the overthrow of the heteropatriarchy. It does annoy me though, that everyone who has ever watched “lesbian” porn, or had an asymmetrical haircut, or read The Ethical Slut is demanding a rainbow participation badge. It means the market for selling not-normal, edgy, cool-ness is bigger and more profitable to lifestyle brands. It means anyone who is not-normal, edgy or cool has something to sell. It’s actually OK to let your freak flag fly without calling yourself queer or joining our parade. You can be proud of the fact that you’re not the kind of person who would slur a homo in public, the kind of person who wouldn’t bat an eyelash when you see Abby Wambach kiss her girlfriend in the stands. Ally, exhibitionist, heteroflexible, kinkster, and so on, your pride is not the same as my pride. It’s OK that I’m different from you. It’s OK that you have more in common with straight people than with LGBT people. Then again, I probably just don’t understand the personal and spiritual aura of queerness you carry deep down."