okay but.. willy wonka from the 2005 movie? lowkey fine. that man has SO MUCH bottom energy and you simply can NOT convince me otherwise.

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the most power couple ever !,!!

POV you're Adam

anyway read my fic it's very funny

If there’s one thing I know for sure, it’s that straight people will bend over backwards in order to pretend that lgbtqia+ ppl don’t exist.

Something LGBT+ occurs in real life, or online, or in books/tv/movies/other media:

LGBT+ People:

Straight People:

LGBT+ People:

EXCUSE ME IVE NEVER MET A STRAIGHT STEEL TYPE USER LIKE THERES STEPHEN STONE, COLRESS AND JASMINE!!!

implying you've met all 3 of these people. what the fuck is this groupchat

I find it fascinating to witness the straight audience of any media not being able to pick up what the makers of the movie/show puts down.

It’s like when people reacted to the “You wear fine things well” scene in Our Flag Means Death with “aw, they’re such good friends” whereas the queer audience went “omg, this is happening”. We all had access to the same scene, we’d all watched the build up to that scene but the straight audience wrongly read it as friends/straight whereas the queer audience had suspected they were building up to a romance but this was the confirmation. Even the creator of the show was baffled that people were surprised that Ed and Stede fell in love. Because he thought they had made it obvious.

And as I said, we, the queer audience picked up on it. And I feel like the same thing is happening with Ted Lasso. Do I know that Ted and Trent will get together? No, I am unfortunately not a writer on Ted Lasso. But you can’t deny that there are clues pointing to it. But the straight audience barely pick up the fact that Ted and Trent like each other, be that in a platonic way or romantic way. I’ve seen several reactions to the last episode of season 2 and ONE of them included the scene where Ted reacts to Trent not being in the press room. All of them severely cut down the scene in the parking lot. One of the scenes most of us Ted/Trent truthers point to as a huge piece of evidence for it going canon. The parallel of them meeting in an empty parking lot, just like Ted and his ex-wife and Roy and Keeley. But because Ted and Trent are both men it couldn’t possibly mean anything. And Ted has an ex-wife and a kid so he can’t possibly be into men, as if there is no such thing as being bisexual. “But I’m pretty sure Trent has a family, he has a kid right?” So? He could be divorced, we also have no idea if his daughter has another dad or a mum. And the same thing applies to him, it doesn’t mean he can’t be into men (take also into account all of James Lance’s interviews, and his choice of shirt in one of them, friend of Dorothy anyone? He's the captain of this ship, we're just along for the ride tbh.)

Then we have the wonderful “I’m so not homophobic, in fact, you are homophobic because you think Ted is gay just because he likes musicals and has ‘feminine’ traits” um no… it’s the fact that he kind of acts in a way that an ally wouldn't. Yeah, he called himself an ally in that one episode. But every single person who is now out as queer who at one point considered themselves an ally because "I’m not one of them but I sure think they're neat" raise a hand 🖐️ (been there, done that. Was very into queer things before I realised I myself am one of them). What it always comes down to is "it's pandering", "it's tokenism" (having the main character on the show be queer wouldn't be fucking tokenism), "not everything has to be gay", "why can't men just be friends, there is a severe lack of male friendships on tv". And like the last one makes me go??? There are a MILLION friendships between men on TV. There are even multiple friendships between men in Ted Lasso. Beard and Ted, Ted and Higgins, Ted and Roy, the himbos and so on. Having Ted and Trent become a couple wouldn't really change anything because there are still friendships between men. They also claim that Ted is needed as the "straight without toxic masculinity" representation. As if Beard isn't right there. The man who has no problem going to an immersive show about the menstrual cycle. Has no problem with shrieking when he's surprised and so on.

I also like that if we'd get Ted and Trent together, we'd get two middle aged queer dads. Which isn't that common. It's not even super common to see people realising they're queer late in life on TV, and yet it happens every day. Because let's face it, most queer men on TV kind of look like Colin, and I don't mean that as a bad thing. And I'm looking forward to his storyline. But it's also nice seeing middle aged or old people finding themselves and being allowed to be who they are (see Ed and Stede from OFMD). Also would enjoy seeing people lose their minds when they realise they've been fooled this entire time. It'll be like Black Sails all over again.

I do not have any doubts about the fact that, had Trent or Ted been a woman and they saw Trent give up his career because of Ted's influence, they sure as hell wouldn't protest people thinking they'd become a couple. But because it's two men it's just delusional for some reason (homophobia).

What I'm saying is, it's clear that the straight audience has a hard time picking up subtext and clues that the makers are planting. Because they've never had to do that. Because they are always clearly represented. They don't have to look for minor side characters and hope that they might be queer. Because the main character is straight and most of the supporting cast too. When you've grown up with a lack of representation or with representation that is meant to be subtext, you'll learn to pick up on it. And you do look at media differently. I just wish that the straight audience could listen to us for once, without getting defensive and dancing around the fact that they are uncomfortable relating to a character that turned out to be queer.

listen i don't think any buddie stan shipping bucktommy is a bad buddie stan, like that narrative is ridiculous. 

buck is finally in a safe, consensual, romantic and sexual relationship with someone who's basically vetted by everyone who matter to him, he's out and clearly happy, and we're not supposed to be elated about the representation and his character growth just because eddie's had a gf the whole season? you bet your asses we'd be exactly as excited about eddie finding the missing piece of his identity while scoring a hot, patient and understanding boyfriend while he's at it. buck being with tommy isn't away from buddie. it just isn't. stop making it an issue and guilt tripping people because you can't control the storytelling and its narrative. 

also the fact that so many of you are looking forward for buck to lose his newly found happiness just because another character doesn't have the same is just batshit insane.

let me repeat: buck being with tommy isn't away from buddie. it doesn't have to be one or the other.

Episode 45: Girl Talk

Disclaimer: Translation based on the ones done by @/bluesword9112 and @/jl8417 on YT.

-mercury

It’s less than worthless, my boy!

i don’t wanna hear any more hetero forbidden romance stories. we gotta stop letting the straights romanticize a love that can’t be while shitting on gay yearning and our rep when our love is actually forbidden and/or stigmatized worldwide

not gay media also not straight media but a secret third thing (wolf 359)

"Stop shipping Wenclair friends can be friends!!" ok but if Enid was a boy everyone would be shipping it hardcore and have no issue with other fans pairing them together

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

HERE, A LIFE FREE FROM SIN AWAITS

Chuck Tingle, beloved author of such absolute literary bangers as Gay T-Rex Law Firm: Executive Boner and Slammed In The Butthole By My Concept Of Linear Time comes a new story. A scary story. Camp Damascus is Chuck’s debut horror novel about a conversion camp heaven-bent on giving their campers hell 😇🔥

Drops July 18, 2023 from Tor Nightfire 😈

Burn it all down.

Cover art by Zoë van Dijk; Design by Katie Klimowicz

Check out the Official Cover Reveal on tor.com

mine fucking joined organized crime because he wanted to know if friendship was real

Y'all do not KNOW how much I love Hammond, from the moment I saw him appear I was head over heels. He is fucking HORRIBLE, he is so cute like omigoodness, I want to stretch his little cheeks and squish him. I forgot what he did, but he's a dick, such a little goober guy. He's so fucking relatable, I wanna play plinko with him, he's such a fucking loser, oh my god.