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And that's the end of my positive Die Kaiserin posting because I fucking hated the Ludwig Viktor side plot of episode 4.
Ludwig Viktor, Franz Josef's youngest brother, was queer. He is often referred as gay in books, but it's important to keep in mind that the way we understand sexuality today was completely different to how it was understood in the 19th century. The labels we use would mean nothing to someone born 200 years ago, and even today, a lot of people don't feel confortable in a single label (without even going into detail on how these things change according to culture, age, class, and so on).
As for Ludwig: allegedly he showed homosexual tendencies since he was young. He also lived with an actress for many years; the nature of their relationship is unknown, maybe they were just friends, maybe they were lovers. He was involved in a same-sex scandal in 1904. He also propossed marriage to his cousin Sophie in 1866. Was he gay? Was he bi? We can't know, and honestly I don't think it matters that much. What's important is that by all accounts, Ludwig Viktor's scandalous lifestyle was an open secret tolerated by his family. He was a privileged man, and he took advantage of it to live life as freely as he could.
Die Kaiserin had already hinted at his queerness in season 1, and in episode 4 of season 2 we see young Ludwig developing a crush on another boy:
I thought oh that's cute! But then his mother Archduchess Sophie sees them holding hands and we get this:
The writers of Die Kaiserin had the chance to have a positive queer storyline in a period drama, something rare. Instead they gave us homophobia and religious trauma for the next twenty minutes. This was a choice, and I hate it.
This storyline isn't finished (I hope so), so I'll wait to see how they handle it for the rest of episodes. But this decision made me incredibly upset.
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I added subtitles, feel free to add what's missing!
this is collaborative soo it has many of your ideas from the previous post :)
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Mer!Mike and Aquarist!Will for pride month cuz I didn't do mermay lol (also a lil hint of buff byers cuz I can't help myself. Do you know how heavy a person is when they're wet? And with a huge fucking tail??)
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Dawson’s Creek | Stranger Things
Side by side parallel, this show is known as one of the Duffer’s favorites. There is a lot of references to it in the show.
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Based off this post that I saw a few people reblog saying elmike
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INTERESTING a storyline that ppl say would be impossible for Mike bc of x y z and yet here is Jack Mcphee in Dawson's Creek living his forced conforming lifestyle, dating a girl and denying his sexuality, having a mental breakdown in his nuclear family front hallway and everything...
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So ur telling me that I posted this and Noah liked. What the FUCK YALL😭😭😭 So in conclusion the voice is real and Byler is endgame goodnight
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This is a tiny comic strip based on my prediction on how Stranger things season 5 might turn out (SPOILERS AHEAD OFC)!
Ever since I came to learn that Will probably would have a major role in the next season, my head has been filled with so many theories and concepts and I just couldn’t help but draw them out lol I absolutely adore Will Byers.
I personally think the Mind flayer has a mind of its own and is a separate being from Vecna. Vecna created it as one of his soldiers to fight for him and bring him preys- is what I think but I could be dead wrong lol. And just like how it controlled Will in the past, what if Will's hidden power allows him to control the mind flayer in reverse? That, if, Will has any power in the first place of course. These are my mere imaginations hehe let me know what ya'll think! 🦋
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I missed them, though hope things are going well. These images scare me a bit.



Chance Hurstfield as Danny Dixon in A Million Little Things 5x03 In The Room
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