#YESSSSSSSSSSSSSA

[radiant-flutterbun]

MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE

FINALLY BOWS AND ARROWS

[meatpuppit]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSA

[gay-but-not-actually-gay]

Yesssssssssssssas #thegreatestbandever #brandnew #brandnewband #sciencefiction #1on200Billboard #200billboard (at Coram, New York)

[littleaxebad]

I WILL CRY

Was honestly just thinking about Salim and Jason and their approach to PDA.

With their religious backgrounds in their respective countries at the time they grew up in, we can safely say they probably have a lot of internalised homophobia/biphobia, and have learnt to be covert about their sexuality (if not just repressing/ignoring it altogether). Even growing up when I grew up (the last 10 years or so) I had learnt that I had to tailor my behaviour; how I spoke and walked and looked at people, in order to stay safe. The point is, you learn to hide it very carefully. Hiding is pretty much just a method of survival.

So when they first get together in Badra-Mandali, they slowly shed their own internal issues, becoming more emotionally close to one another. Late talks into the night. Sharing each other’s cultures. Easy touches and kisses. Probably the best sex either of them have ever had.

But in public, they are just two friends. They act like brothers, with backslaps and friendly wrestling, joking around together loudly. It’s like there is a complete dichotomy between home versus public. And they are both okay with it until one day Salim grabs Jason’s hand when they are out. And Jason recoils back. And it is just way too obvious how panicked they both look to any outsiders, so they rush home. Salim tries explaining that male friends do that in public all the time, but Jason is so angry and upset and scared. So Salim swears he’ll never do it again, and he’s afraid that they may have caught the attention of the wrong people now. It’s time to leave, for both their sakes.

I come from England, and I’ll take any opportunity to dunk on my country. This place is a hellfuck nightmare. But it’s definitely not the worst place to be gay in. And Salim misses his son, his son who has already called home multiple times to tell him that he’s decided to stay on and get a doctorate. So Salim and Jason leave for England. They can’t afford rent in London, because if you come from England then you damn well know you’ll pay approx £3000 per minute for an apartment with no electricity that is 2 square feet in London. So they move to Brighton, into a nice apartment by the sea. They get decent paying jobs and settle down, still just friends sharing rent to the rest of the world.

The first time Salim and Jason see two guys kissing in a pub, it fries their brains. Jason can’t stop gaping, while Salim puts his head down after glancing once, not daring to be caught looking. No one stops the men. They aren’t heckled. They aren’t harassed. They don’t get thrown out. The nice bartender even goes to chat to them, they are regulars.

A few weeks later, Jason takes Salim’s hand as they walk down the pier. They’ve both got expressions on like men being led out to be shot, but they do it anyway. And nothing happens. So they keep doing it.

And I want you to imagine how over the years they shed the shame and the fear. They meet people like them. They laugh their asses off when they realise they accidentally moved to the gay capital of the country. They kiss out in public all the time, especially during the pride parades that swallow the city in rainbows. Zain regularly takes the train down to visit his baba and his baba’s boyfriend. It’s not perfect, bigots exist anywhere in the world. But the corner they chose to settle on has a couple of old butches as their neighbours, a gang of queer students who learn Arabic from salim and make fun of Jason’s accent, a trans woman who smacks the first guy who tries to mess with the pair late one night. They are not alone anymore.

So they grow grey together, two old men who are forever in love completely.

Yeah I’m a massive romantic, sue me.

[dojizerker]

Sohaya + Monoyoshi Sohaya + Yamanbagiri Sohaya + Oodenta Oodenta + Maeda Recollections confirmed

[avant-garten]

hit up the thrift store today- ugly sweaters galore

[fandomsallaroundme]

teachers calling roll 15 years from now: john, samantha, julio (deep sigh)... sasuke

[jackwhiteisaesthetic]

YeSSSSSSsSssSsSa