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i-dont-know-nor-care-go-away · 2 years

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pride flute day 3

history hates lover

I'm mad rn so u guys get another sad one. idk I'm just tired of the constant homophobia I have to see everyday bc where I live sucks

rn I feel like "Neil banging out the tunes" but gay idk why ?

if u have an idea 4 a song tell me bc I'm running out of ideas

#pride flute #tw mentioned homophobia

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deardesmond · 1 year

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About The Cat

Affinity For Food

Desmond is a baker at heart, after his own father's heart with the secret desire to open a bakery one day. Oh well, he'll have the money one day. This extends to breakfast foods and anything doughy and breaded!

His favorite breakfast food is sunny-side-up eggs and a frappuccino is his drink of choice, otherwise, he has his coffee plain. His favorite food in general is mackerel and he loves the smell of sizzling fish on the fryer. Coffee overall is his favorite drink, and at night, warm tea to wind himself down.

Desmond once worked as a barista, and ever since has considered brewing his own coffee and drinks one of his many hobbies. Even with his busy schedule, he sets up time every morning and night to be able to do so, and experiments with flavors on the weekends. He even sometimes puts his recipes online for money.

Nature, Take Me!

Desmond won't admit it, but he is secretly quite fond of nature, wanting a break from the modern life he is used to and just wanting to unwind. That being said, he tends to feel out of place in more naturalistic environments. Outside of reading, he often does not know what to do with himself without the aid of technology.

Still, when he can find himself entertained enough by his other hobbies or slows down enough to take in the beauty all around, Desmond is able to reconnect with himself for the unusual peacefulness and quiet.

Desmond's dream life would be to own a cozy cabin in the woods, leaving it to run a bakery in the day and returning to write in the night. "All the poems I could have written", he often muses to himself at the end of a long workday. His fancy type writer is still waiting to be dusted off by the touch of his paw.

Life Isn't Half As Good Without Friends

Desmond comes off as asocial, but he loves having connections. Having someone to talk to when the desk work is slow or the museum is empty makes working all that more bearable. He doesn't mind "worthless" conversation, and will happily chitter with his coworkers about whatever will pass the time.

Although a diligent worker, when no one is around he isn't above texting someone or checking the state of his reviews. He may write snippets and ideas in his note app, though he believes said writing is crummy when not in the right environment (which typing on the phone is not). He refuses to show this notes to anyone except his future self and those he is deeply close to.

Through his journey, he has meant many people and remained acquaintances with them over the phone or through email/letter sending. Ironically, one of these people includes Cy's (@maple-autumn-rain) mother, Desmond having dropped into Maple Wood a year or so after Cy moved out. He worked at the cafe, taught by Cy's mother where he learned the recipe for the perfect buttery roll. Cy's mom was beyond thrilled at the announcement of their engagement, having already accepted Desmond into the family.

I Was Busy Thinking About Boys

Desmond's gaze lies on males, something his mother has always disapproved of. In her head, she had a very clear image of his future. He would follow her own path, running the company, becoming married, having a child, and raising them to eventually take his place. So, she often sabotaged his relationships, something Desmond noticed in his late teens, and yet he was powerless against it, eventually giving up on the pursuit altogether.

In adulthood, besides a few flings here and there, Desmond decided to focus on work above all else. Although he enjoyed the idea of love, he never saw it as applicable to his day-to-day life. Not until he settled down and was able to have a long-term career and housing.

Romantically, however, he is a grey romantic (demiromantic by some standards), rarely having any romantic interest in anyone except a specific few. He is currently paired with @maple-autumn-rain's character Cy, who he later marries in our narrative.

#tw mentioned homophobia #my oc no touchies thank you #my animal crossing persona #images undescribed

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pinkeoni · 10 months

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Oh. “Zombie Boy” is a homophobic nickname

I guess this should’ve been pretty obvious. I mean, Will is a confirmed gay character, who is walking around town and having a mean nickname constantly hurled at him. Clearly there is some queercoding in that.

But does that mean that the nickname is homophobic in universe? If that were the case, why not just call him homophobic slurs in the first place?

The nickname Zombie Boy always was kind of strange to me as well. Why make fun of a kid for coming back to life? Wouldn’t that be a cool thing? Maybe it’s a little odd, but why be so mean about it?

Unless it’s not the only thing they’re making fun of him for

TW for discussion of rape below cut

To understand the intent behind the Zombie Boy nickname, we need to go back to Will’s dissapearance in season one. Our boy Troy lays it out pretty plainly what everyone in town thinks happened to Will.

Not just that Will was killed, but clarified as “killed by some other queer.” The emphasis on sexuality adding an implication to his statement. What Troy is really trying to say is that Will was raped and then killed by a gay man, otherwise why bring up sexuality at all?

And to be fair to Troy, that is kind of what happened.

But of course the town doesn’t know this. The story that was told is that Will only got lost in the woods. That was the story published in the Hawkins Post, so that’s what everyone believes, right?

This is the version of events that Lucas tells Max, and he is immediately met with skepticism from her. Lucas then tells Max not to ask Will about it because he’s very sensitive about it.

I’m not saying that the town believes that there is something supernatural going on, but rather I’m thinking that the people of Hawkins at least suspect that there is something about Will’s disappearance that is not being talked about openly. Let’s not forget that the “Zombie Boy” note that Will receives in his locker is a desecration of the news article sharing his story.

So here’s what the town initially believed happened: Will was kidnapped and raped by a gay man before being thrown into the quarry.

And here’s what the town knows: Will went missing and was found in the woods before being hospitalized. He is very sensitive about the topic and doesn’t like to talk about it. After being released from the hospital, he is now occasionally pulled out of school early for doctor’s appointments—

Oh.

I mean, it is any coincidence that all of this is happening while Reagan’s name is plastered all over town? Is it just a coincidence that the anniversary of Will’s disappearance falls right on Reagan’s reelection day?

And just to cut through all the shit and stop being vague, I’m talking about the AIDS epidemic of the 80’s, and yes I think that part of the town believes that Will has it.

I recently read a post from @emblazons that struck me with just how laden the AIDS metaphor is in season. To quote the post as best I can, there is something described like a disease attacking Will’s body and slowly killing him, and the Reagan administration government scientists are trying their best to prevent the truth from spreading and view the possible death of a queer person as a non-issue.

Starting to think about it through this lens, a “zombie” is the perfect metaphor for how Hawkins now views Will. He isn’t technically dead, but they suspect he has a disease with an incredibly low life-expectancy at the time, so he’s essentially a walking corpse.

The nickname doesn’t start and end at simply making fun of Will for having a disease. What do zombies do? They try to bite and turn other people into zombies.

The town doesn’t just see Will as someone who has been infected by someone else with an illness, but as someone who has been infected and is going to spread his illness around.

The rhetoric regarding queers as people who spread disease and kill continues in season 4, when we see Eddie reading the article that links sodomy with satanic practices, violence and murder. We then go on to see the entire town blame Eddie and his group of “satanic” outcasts for spreading death in the town. This attitude is certainly not lost on Hawkins, and the show doesn’t shy away from showing it.

The way that characters in the show use and react to Zombie Boy match this as well. There is a certain level of vitriol that comes with Zombie Boy, and the nickname is what leads Jonathan and Will into their extremely coded conversation about being a freak.

If Zombie Boy is an intentionally homophobic nickname, then does that mean that in this scene she's actually saying...?

So I actually don’t think that Snowball Girl is being intentionally homophobic here (although, saying what is essentially “Hey f*****, wanna dance?” is still CRAZY)

I think it’s less realistic if the entire town is in on this conspiracy and more believable if say, the nickname was started intentionally as a homophobic jab by some of the townsfolk, but is ambiguous enough to be picked up by more naïve kids like Snowball Girl who may not realize the actual meaning behind it. It may seem like it’s only about his ressurection on the surface, but when you peel back the layers you see just how offensive it really is.

Using a vague nickname is also very intentional by the Duffers as well. If they wanted to be subtle about Will’s sexuality before later confirming it, then having a more ambiguous moniker rather than just having the entire town call him an evil queer.

Even if the town really is just making fun of him for coming back to life and nothing else, and there isn’t actually this rampant rumor spreading across Hawkins about Will spreading disease, the heavy coding and intention from the writers is still be there.

#also not mentioned but note: those girls staring at Will as he is leaving for his doctors appointment #even if it is purely metaphor #its still a metaphor for homophobia!#will byers #stranger things #byler #<- target audience #tw rape

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victoriadallonfan · 2 days

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“Local Moron Who Denies Nazi War Crimes and Associates with Nazi Apologists Upset that People Call Her a Nazi Apologist.”

Remember who JKRowlings friends (aka homophobes, transphobes, and fascists) are:

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battybiologist · 5 months

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James Somerton is a misogynist piece of shit, but the way he speaks about lesbians is an infuriating betrayal of the queer community.

Legally, lesbians were and are treated on the same level of bad as gay men. Gay panic doesn't and has never excluded them, same as convertion therapy, same as anti-sodomy laws, same as police brutality, and many more I could mention.

And socially? Women as a whole are already persecuted, so add homophobia to the mix, and I doubt that'd lead to less discrimination than what gay men suffer from. And that's not even getting into how shittily trans lesbians are treated

But frankly, we all know why he said that. The section where he misgenders Nate Stevenson and Rebecca Sugar and throws them under the bus really says it all: it's because, in his fucked up mind twisted by misogyny, there was more "lesbian representation" in media.

The kind of representation where they're demonized, dehumanized, and erased, where their deaths and hardships are treated shallowly and without a hundredth of the compassion spared for their straight leads, where they're fetishized and objectified for the sole eyes of straight men, sometimes all of the above at the same time.

Fuck this guy.

#james somerton #lesbophobia cw #misogyny cw #homophobia tw #misgendering mention #transmisogyny mention #trans women are women #trans men are men #trans people are people #terfs can go die #just putting those last four tags because tumblr started recommending me terf tags for this post

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wawa-consumer · 4 months

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my theory about the cut oliver/felix kiss

... is that it's an extended version of the maze scene. oliver kisses felix, who shoves him away and calls him a f*ggot.

this would seal his fate twice and make oliver slightly more sympathetic for killing him.

#oliver quick #felix catton #cattonquick #tw slur #homophobia mention #saltburn spoilers #saltburn #barry keoghan #keep in mind i am completely pulling this out of my ass and have no proof this is true. completely unsupported theory #i'd be happy to be wrong tbh

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wildflowercryptid · 1 month

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sometimes, i think about the extra bit of depth alex's romance is given when you date him as a guy and i just gotta. stare at the ceiling for a bit...

#i think his heart events are nice either way but like... there's some extra flavor given to when your farmer's a guy #like him admitting that the farmer is the only other guy that he can be vulnerable around #or how admits that he tried denying his feelings for the farmer at first bc of his own internalized homophobia #and probably some external homophobia too #since george will tell the player that he wasn't sure about alex and them being together bc of his own biases #but seeing how happy alex was with them makes him rethink his views #idk i just really like his heart events i wish ppl appreciated them more #i also think it's interesting to see the game acknowledge homophobia and how it'd actually affect the queer relationships in town #it's definitely nice that the town is pretty damn accepting especially a majority of the romance options' families #but it feels more realistic to have those little bittersweet truths mixed in there too i like it #sorry i've got sdv brain rn so i'm thinking about it a lot #stardew valley #mj.txt #tw homophobia mention #sdv spoilers

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chronicpainstevetruther · 5 months

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Steve's dad once told him that smoking weed can make you gay. Part of Steve wonders if this is true since he always thinks really gay thoughts while buying weed from Eddie Munson.

#steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #tw homophobia mention #tw steves dad

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pigeoninabowl69 · 14 days

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Do you think when homophobes are litsening to lgbtq+ artists they go: "...well yeah they're gay but...I eventually learned to separate the music from the artist"

#somewhat shitpost #tw: homophobia mention #music artists #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq+#lgbt+ community

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angellic-critique · 7 months

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I remember when I had hipe for Hazbin hoping that angel dust would be properly handled and written with care towards drug addiction/abuse and general themes about overdosing within the pimp/street community but the more I realize they really so not give any fucks about why the Demons died or why they even want to be redeemed. I'm calling it now that angel dust is only going to he a gay stereotype and severely mishandled due to his depiction in the pilot mainly hinging on his crude labels instead of, yknow the glimmer of hope about drag kings going through abuse in industry. :/

#anti vivziepop #fucked up #helluva boss critical #hazbin hotel critical #angel dust critical #abuse mention #drug abuse #tw drug abuse #tw abuse #homophobia

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destielmemenews · 8 months

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Laura Ann Carleton was 66 years old.

Carleton, who preferred to be called "Lauri," did not identify as LGBTQ herself but spent time helping and advocating for everyone.

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