reunion: mystery of the abyss | stop flirting omgg

i apologize for asking sm questions about ur john loves u au [i am in love with it and its been rotating in my brain] but LIKE can we get everyone's sexuality / gender identity 😭

never apologize for asking questions! i love answering them!

to start, airdorf made everyone canonically bisexual, so you've got that! even if that was a joke, most of the cast would be queer—though some probably don't realize it.

on the gender side, however, i imagine most of them are cisgender or not really questioning themselves—none of them really give binary trans person vibes to me, though honestly, tiffany probably isn't 100% a woman, and perhaps jimmy isn't 100% a man. they're still relatively feminine and masculine respectively, and don't mind being seen as a woman or a man, but if you asked them, they'd kind of shrug and go "well, what else would i be?" even though they're probably more people than woman and man.

amy definitely didn't come from a place where that would be seen well, so while she is Aware of the LGB, the T kind of evades her understanding until she's able to go to college and meet a broader range of life experiences. same with michael. i would like to see michael do spooky-themed drag; he'd adore that. make himself that monster he is in canon but cuntify it.

while they're probably cisgender, you can bet your ass gary and miriam be staunch trans allies. perhaps they'd still be kind of old school and use terms like "transsexual" or "transvestite" (this is the 80s, after all), but the spirit is there, and if you fuck with trans people, you're getting clocked in the head with a cane.

unfortunately, while john, lisa, and garcia probably do understand the complexities of sexuality and gender, unless it was the good or golden ending where they'd get to learn from their mistakes, they'd probably use some part of their acceptance as conditional, to draw people further into the cult.

amy's family is full of closeted queer queerphobes, we been knew, but if given the chance to grow up and not become fucked up little deer monsters, nate and jason would have tried their best to shake off their parents' bullshit. how much they would have succeeded is anyone's guess.

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I'm talking about "marigolds" by the author "colbub"!!! If you like Akechi and want to see more of him especially after you finish Persona 5 Royal you're gonna LOVE THIS FIC SM I love it because they make it with such perfect characterisation and they don't leave ANY room to mess with canon details and only build on it using their own imagination rather than wiping anything. It's not fully canon compliant, it's a time travel fic, but it's super duper well done and they deal with all the changes really really well!!! There's also a ton of OCs but they're written so well that you honestly start thinking of them as part of the main cast too tbh it's lovely I LOVE THIS FIC SM

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ITS SO GOOD THAT IT INCORPORATES OCS AND PPL STILL LIKE IT???? BRO LITERALLY SAVING THIS FOR LATER TY FOR THE GEM😭😭😭

I WATCHED NIMONA!!! As someone who read the original nimona webcomic when it was updating (roughly a decade ago??) and was rly impacted by it, I was so excited to watch the film and... they did a really good job!!! it was so beautiful i cried omg... it's def worth a watch!! (long ramble under the cut BWAHA spoiler warning)

...and it was rly completely diff from the original comic but im not complaining?? like its a v loose movie adaptation and the plot/setup was v diff but still v well done... like the comic and movie r both good in their own right... & i laughed and cried a lot... i was surprised at the extent of some of the changes but the emotional parts hit hard(my eyes r swollen from crying) and it was written v well... and visually it's just gorgeous... my jaw kept dropping at the beautiful lighting, and they brought the futuristic medieval setting to life so well i could cry😭

it's funny bc one of the main things i was afraid of was them changing nimona's backstory from the comic, bc even after a decade that's one of the things that stuck w me the most... i love nimona as a chara sm... I was so worried abt them changing it and... they ended up changing it completely... but it was actually really good?! like i cried so hard, it was well done... so I'm glad I didn't have to worry after all jdjfjd🥺 like they Did change it but both ver r good in their own right...

I understand that they had to rewrite the plot completely to fit within the time length of a single movie while still being a contained story, as is always the case w movie adaptations of books, graphic novels, etc which r much longer... Series have a chance to follow the source more closely but that just isnt the case w movies... and as far as movie adaptations go they did an amazing job!! I can rly appreciate both the comic and the movie as their own thing... and I rly liked some parts that were added to the movie, like ballister(blackheart)'s backstory in the beginning, and the addition of gloreth (and her relationship w nimona) was surprisingly compelling... And I really really love that they made Ballister and Goldenloin canon POC 😭😭😭 like that made me so happy!!!❤️‍🔥 When i first saw the casting of riz ahmed and eugene lee i was sooo happy, i was like YAYY IDC IF THEY LOOK WHITE IM GONNA HC THEM AS POC🥰 but the fact that i dont even have to hc bc its canon now... 🥹 SOUTH ASIAN/EAST ASIAN KINGS🛐... and they also didn't hold back with showing them openly as a gay couple... Even tho their dynamic changed a lot from the comic I rly appreciate that...

And there were things that I did miss from the webcomic, like the original setup with goldenloin and blackheart as staged nemesis, them being exes (and some time having passed since their graduation, so they're older, unlike in the movie when it just happened), etc. but the whole setup and plot and everything I completely understand why they had to change it to make it work/fit as a movie, so I get it... so not complaining there tbh bc they did what they had to do... But tbh... TBH... my one(1) complaint(/lh) w the movie... IS I REALLY MISS GOLDENLOIN'S BEAUTIFUL LONG HAIR😭😭😭💔 He would've looked so pretty with long golden locks in the movie artstyle, esp w the gorgeous lighting... glowing gold and flowing in the wind... And I think it would've fit perfectly well with the movie ver of his chara/lore too?? like the new lore of him being a descendant of Gloreth... I could imagine him growing out his hair and bleaching it blonde to fit the image/pressure of being a descendant of gloreth, and to look more flashy and heroic to the public (They did tone down his vanity a lot but im sure he still retains some of it... like he still has that pretty popular celebrity image)... And him having long hair doesnt contradict with him being asian too or the modern setting... modern asian men can and do have pretty long hair😭 Like he couldve still been Asian, just w long blonde hair... It doesn't contradict w his new personality either... And I wish they kept the golden color bc the white/silver makes him look less like a "goldenloin"... (i also love black/gold color combos personally lol)... And i just aldjskd can u imagine movie Ballister stroking Ambrosious's long hair affectionately... pls🥲 WE COULD'VE HAD IT ALL... canon asian madeleine cookie qkjdksdj... I also do miss his original stupid vain arrogant himbo personality from the comic, but I understand why they changed it (for one, charas like that might start out obnoxious but then slowly develop and gain depth over the course of the story, but in a movie's short length, there's less time to slowly grow on ppl so it'd be easier to make them more likeable from the start... so like i get it.) but I think it would've been perfect if they just kept his long hair even w his new personality😭😭 LIKE IT WOULDVE BEEN 100000% PERFECT THEN!!! So that's literally my one lighthearted complaint/dissatisfaction w the movie LMFAO... I'd be happy if ppl draw fanart of movie ambrosious w long hair... TTwTT i miss it sm DKDJZ /end rant OVERALL I HAD A GOOD time ^^ LMFAO