#queer-coded

[frankandrac-au]

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[unicornbeck]

Identity

I've struggled for a long time to feel legitimate claiming space in the queer-o-sphere; I pass as cis-het, and there's not a flag yet that accurately represents my particular patterns of gender expression and attraction. But I finally figured something out, and I wanted to share it here, because I think it's the closest I've come in a long time to stating something unequivocally true about myself: More than I am queer-coded, I am Kermit-coded. I identify with that calm, loving, wry, frank, kind center of the Muppetverse, the eye of a particularly fuzzy hurricane of zany chaos: Kermit the Frog.

[billythesquid]

surprised by how many gay people there were in a play from 1952

[delightful-to-be-read]

The Winter Book - Tove Jansson

Book 1/105 in the Currently Reading challenge

I started reading this in 2018. My friend’s daughter told me that was the year she was born, as she sat next to me in the pub reading her own book.

Two jobs ago. A different house. Never heard of COVID and wouldn’t for some time. I hadn’t met the friend whose daughter was born in 2018, who I think of as a long-term friend. My workload was far less intimidating and the cost of living (and the cost of fun) far, far lower so even though my salary must have doubled in that time, I can afford to do less and am often too tired to do it. Back then, most of my reading happened on trains going to see friends or do fun things every weekend. Now, when I visit my parents, I get my Dad to drop me off for a slow train for the reading with train-snacks and train-wine time.

K and I did live in London. I remember the last book I read before we moved to London actually. Instrumental by James Rhodes. I remember this because it was the one and only book I read that year.

The Winter Book is a collection of short stories about winter in Scandinavia - not, I think, collected by the author. I don’t know how autobiographical it is, but it’s often told through a child’s eyes, so the stories have a magical, unreliable narrator. They’re living a cosy, harsh, exciting life. A life of art and beauty and storytelling - stories about storytelling are abundant.

Art and landscape feed her imagination until there’s a palimpsest imaginary world overlaying the shared one. Not a particularly friendly one. Maybe all children have one.

I can’t read Swedish or Finnish, but as far as I can tell, it’s a cracking translation. Her experiences seem strange to me. They have a monkey and nightly spontaneous parties. But who am I to say that all parents didn’t behave like that in Finland 100 years ago? Whether they did or not, everyone seems happy.

I didn’t think there was any great mystery about why I put it down. I often don’t read short story books all in one go. I didn’t this time (I read Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries alongside, which I hadn’t known was set in Iceland and was a very interesting juxtaposition). It is an intense book and it seemed to take me much longer to read than most books three times its size. I don’t even remember where I put it down and I’m not sure which bits I was reading or re-reading. What I do know, because I knew my younger self very well, is that I would have been absolutely swept away by it and I feel sorry for her that she got distracted by the new Rivers of London book or whatever because she missed out.

[tinsin]

For the record, darling, I'm not a queer-coded villain, I'm a villain-coded queer. Anything criminal that occurs isn't my doing, but I do so appreciate the confidence you have in me, dear.

[kirbeezz]

mythology question because im writing a paper rn

[smmywinchester45]

That tracks

Have you ever wondered whether or not you’d be canonically queer if your life was a story? Look no further. This quiz will tell you your canon queer status. 

[ergodyke]

Lesbian Subaru ads from the mid 90s/early 2000s

[joanofexys]

queer themes in x-men my beloved. Angel binding his wings. Bobby’s parents asking if he’s tried just not being a mutant. Nightcrawler and catholic guilt. The existence of cherik. Everything with Scott/Jean/Logan. Mystique and Destiny.

[inkbotkowalski]

This gifset FINALLY made me watch the movie. And this scene is just after West drapes a blanket ("and himself") over Dan, and then makes him a sandwich!

(apparently, there's an earlier cut of this movie and a later one, more true to the script; thankfully I saw the latter one which has this scene in it)

(don't be like me and DO check the warnings for this movie! There's a scene towards the end I wish I'd known about in advance so I could leave the room in time)

RE-ANIMATOR (1985) dir. Stuart Gordon

[cheezy-whizz]

[carsweirdness]

that is me. in the flesh with my lovely queer-coded ass and nice hair.

[adena-unspoken]

I love this show <3

[tenderandmild]

He caught him!!

Ever since I saw this brokeback sonadow tweet I’ve been insane about them in the tragic queer cowboy movie

[easeinjazzout]

hits him with the beam text transcript in alt (boy do i hope i did it correctly)

[cthulhum]

does anyone realize how crazy it is to have the actor of a mostly headcanoned queer ship say the fans were never crazy and they were right all along after 10+ years of everyone just absolutely going nuts over the said queerbaited ship