Something about Magneto/Erik and Professor X/Charles being a gay love story just works. Because there’s no way you watched X-Men: First Class (and every movie after) and didn’t see the heart eyes they was throwing at each other!! I’m a child of divorce😔

I was wondering if the reverse of "sapphoandherfriend" existed where people look at two characters that are ACTUALLY just really good friends and nothing else, something like to "theymustbegay", or something like that...

But then I realised that's just tumblr...

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

okay since celibacy always sweeps. I'm rigging this one sorry celibacy soldiers

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

I have been seeing posts about how a certain frame in the TF2 comics should make heavy and medic hug so-

i think im having a stroke

(raven neil au) im having so many thoughts about them all the time

I bet andrews brain never shuts up, like sure obviously also in the sad traumatised way, but that medication didn’t make Andrew “Jean. Hey, Jean. Jean Valjean. Hey. Hey. Hello” Minyard think all of that hilariously unhinged nonsense but only made him speak it out loud, all I can imagine is anyone looking at a blank faced Andrew and wondering what ominous thing he must be thinking and it’s literally just “Neil josten, number 10, jos-10, cannot be a coincidence, Neil josten fortune teller perhaps?”

t4t dykes true love 4ever

slimecicle on his william wisp era

in light of slimecicle trending on twtter

Just watched Jons tgwdlm watch party and in the last 5 minutes he was like “yeah I think Pauls probably bi” SIR YOU CANNOT JUST DROP THIS INFORMATION ON ME??????

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ppl will really say shit like "astarion can't be attracted to women just look at the way he behaves" with their whole chest like they're not blatantly stereotyping gay men and erasing vast swathes of bisexual and pansexual men when they do that.