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"Will is painting a lot, but he…he won't show me what he's working on."

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“grindeldore is my comfort couple” AND WHERE’S THE COMFORT 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Going through a Dead Poets Society phase rn

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke as Neil Perry and Todd Anderson

Dead Poets Society (1989) | Dir. Peter Weir 

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YOU’RE BACK I DIDN’T KNOW YOU WERE BACK

(i’ve changed my url and pfp, i was the-veirdo and we had almost matching pfps)

Hi!! And yeah lol I'm back, there was so much school stuff and I kinda just didn't have a lot of time. But I should be somewhat active now!

(and ok ty for letting me know)

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I'm sorry I just spam-liked; I love your blog though :D

No it's alright! And thank you :)

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i think i’m funny sometimes

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Hello I’ve been gone for a bit cuz of school but I am back now!

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Reblog if it's okay to invade your ask box.

Always

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What do you think of me?

👀 I stalk you

🤔 I don't know why I follow you

🤩 I'm a fan of you

🤮 You make me sick

🙄Yo annoy me

🤓 You're really smart

😭You make me sad

💗I love your blog not you

💖I love you not your blog

💞 I love both your blog and your content

💔 I don't love your blog or you

🐦 I'm following you

🐤Were mutuals

🥀Were friends

🌸We don't talk

🕸️We've talked once

🍎We're on chats together

🍏We talk alot

🍻I want to talk to you

🍫Stop talking to me

🍭 Follow me?

☕ Un follow me

👶 I see you like a child

🧓I see you like a mum

💍I'm in love with you

🎶I like your music taste

🧲 I'm attracted to you

❗I don't know you

❤️ You deserve happiness

🧡I care about you

💛 I love seeing you on my dash

💚You sometimes like my stuff and I love you for it

💙 I'm concerned about you

💜You amaze me

🤎 I want to know you better

🖤 I admire you from afar

🤍 I have a crush on you

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this is how blaine looks at his crush

this is how he looks at sebastian

now i’m not saying anything but… yeah 

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They are so chaotic and dramatic.

I love them so much.

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queerbaiting with coldflash/olivarry

Alright. Let’s begin. So obviously, we all know CW infamously likes to queerbait. If you don’t know what queerbaiting is, it is the practice to hint at, but then to not actually depict, a same-sex romantic relationship between characters in a work of fiction, mainly in film or television. One super famous example of this is Destiel, the pairing between Dean Winchester and Castiel from Supernatural. It’s so bad, from season four till presently, there’s been more queerbaiting than CW can get away with at this point.

In the Arrowverse’s case, they do this a lot with Olivarry (Oliver Queen and Barry Allen) and Coldflash (Leonard Snart and Barry Allen).

Before we get into Olivarry and Coldflash, I wanted to say something about Tommy Merlyn and Oliver Queen. Tommy gets impaled saving Laurel from a collapsing building and Oliver gets there in time to talk to him for a bit before he dies. We have a whole lot of face cradling, crying (which Oliver doesn’t do often, especially so early into the show) and self blaming. Tommy dies in Oliver’s arms, which is a very common romance trope.

Now, onto Coldflash.

Their scenes are very queer-coded. They stand unnecessarily close to one another (and they’re supposed to be enemies! Jeez.) For example:

Yeah. They’re literally set up like potential kiss scenes but that doesn’t happen. They’re so painfully close for no reason. There’s so much tension in their scenes but nothing happens.

Even better example of queerbaiting - Olivarry. This one has a lot to talk about. It may not be the most popular Barry Allen or Oliver Queen ship, but there’s definitely a lot here. If you asked me, Olivarry is to the Arrowverse what Destiel is to Supernatural - CW’s main queerbait.

So this is already pretty established, what with this famous line Barry tells Felicity before he leaves Starling to return to Central City:

He doesn’t deny it. He literally doesn’t. He just smiles shyly and looks away.

[ALSO this is highly irrelevant, but the episode Barry first appears in in Arrow is titled ��The Scientist’, which is a name shared by a popular song by Coldplay. The lyrics include lines like ‘You don’t know how lovely you are’, ‘It’s such a shame for us to part’, ‘Questions of science, science and progress do not speak as loud as my heart’ and references ‘Running in circles’, where Barry later gets struck by lightning and gains the ability to run fast.]

We also have a lot of unconditional support for each other, even when their actual significant others are not on their sides.

Oliver: I’m always here for you.

Oliver: You can always talk to me.

Oliver: I’m not going without [Barry].

Barry: We’re not leaving each other.

Barry: I’m not leaving you.

Barry: Wherever, whenever.

(Very similar to Destiel quotes, like Dean to Castiel: “I’m not leaving here without you.”)

We also have a lot of scenes with tensions, a sense of underlying hidden meanings and staring (especially on Barry’s part.)

Tension includes (but is not limited to):

And Barry simply can’t keep his eyes off that man.

Barry, honey, I love you, but this is becoming a problem.

They’ve used many similar tropes for Destiel and Olivarry - the longing looks, the eyefucking, unconditional support for one another, the way their scenes are done, their old-married-couple arguing, always putting the other before themselves… There’s a lot more I could cover in depth, but I don’t have the time to. I might write a more comprehensive one on both Destiel and Olivarry when I get the time.

And let’s not forget the iconic moment when Barry said “damn” while checking Oliver out. At his own wedding. Bartholomew Henry Allen.

So yes. The queerbaiting is awful. They’ve been using Olivarry to queerbait since the beginning - just like they did with Destiel and Supernatural - to draw in viewers. It’s horrible.

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We were ROBBED of a Matt and Mike friendship

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↳𝐒𝐢𝐱 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐚 (𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟓 - 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏)