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My mom asked me about this today, so I got to thinking on it. I got quite lengthy with this, I know, but I would love for your opinions/comments on this.

Looking this up online too, to see what others think, and reading comments on this one page I found right now, so you’ll see comments randomly dispersed through my rant here. xD)

Guys are brought up to be tough, butch, in control, etc. and so seeing a man surrender to another man is pretty hot to me.

I think maybe the reason for that is that I love a man who isn’t just a macho, tough guy; who is in touch with his emotions, er ..”his feminine side” as some put it (though I don’t like to use that), who can accept help from others without feeling any less of a man, etc etc. Ya know? A man who can do that with anyone else, male or female, is 10 times hotter in my book, and I guess I find it a little more courageous doing that with another man. Maybe because of how competitive men can be, always having to one-up the other guy and prove they are a bigger man er something.

Since usually they need to appear like they have everything in control, big man on campus, er whatever, I think it’s really sexy when they can let down their guard for someone else, regardless of who’s around and who is watching. A big thing is that most men are also taught from a young age you have to be straight to be manly, and conform to all those traditional straight guy things to be seen as a man in society. 

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Why do I find man-on-man so hot?

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[D28] Barrowman-ILove: 30 Day LGBT Challenge

Day 28 - Write a letter to someone. It can be a coming out letter or a letter regarding how you hate their homophobia or whatnot. You don’t have to send it.

Dear all the idiots who think I'm a freak for being bisexual,

It's not in my power, first of all, to stop my brain from telling me what to be attracted to. Even if it was, I wouldn't change a thing about how it works now because I am proud of my sexuality and frankly, I think bisexuals/pansexuals etc. make the world just a bit better because we have the ability to love on a greater scale. Well, actually, everyone has that ability, but most of us either don't have the balls to pursue someone of the same sex should we ever fall for someone that isn't of the opposite when we've always identified as heterosexual, or just don't understand that what they are feeling towards someone they always thought of as a good friend, is really love. 

I don't have to choose one gender or the other to be attracted to and that's it. Contrary to your beliefs on the subject, it is possible to like both men and women. I couldn't explain why it is my brain works that way, it just does, and it's not at all up to me. I do like men, but I like women as well. 

Now, honestly, I do like women more than I do men, and so it's definitely not an even split down the middle, but I don't have to rule out men entirely just because I am more partial to women. Just because one time I may have a girlfriend and then that doesn't work out and the next person I happen to be with is male, doesn't make me perverted and wrong.

It's not up to you who I like and who I don't and I should not have to choose a sex and stick with it. I will continue to pursue women, likely, because I am much more attracted to them, but if I happen to fall in love with a man first you've got no damn authority over me to tell me I can't be with him because he's a man and I said I am more into women, so in your eyes I can only possibly be a lesbian.

Because I can go either way, that doesn't make me a freak or a sex-crazed perve like I've been called before, it just means, I guess, in a way, I can see love more clearly for what it is rather than the package it comes in. If I love someone, I am going to go for it, because love is a human experience everyone should have. Gender is the last thing I would ever look at when it comes to the person I want to settle down with. If I fall in love with them as  a person, what genitalia they have really doesn't matter to me.

Sincerely, 

Me!!

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[D27] Barrowman-ILove: 30 Day LGBT Challenge

Day 27 - Your favorite LGBT blog/tumblr/site

I quite like LGBTLaughs, because I never get tired of having a good laugh. :-)

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[D26] Barrowman-ILove: 30 Day LGBT Challenge

Day 26 - Your favorite gay joke (we all need to laugh at ourselves).

This isn't a joke, but it's a funny, and that so counts! xD I got a real laugh out of this. I'm not really out yet, nor completely gay (I'm bisexual), but I should start tagging "gay" on the beginning of everything I'm doing to show how ridiculous the fact that "gay marriage" is such a big issue.

Now I shall gay watch my gay show in my gay PJ's whilst I eat my gay breakfast.

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Irregularly Sectioned GIF Tutorial

^ You are going to need the above template pieces for this tutorial, so I suggest saving these to your computer now before you start.

^ STEP 001 - Open your video clip in Photoshop CS5. 

^ STEP 002 - Prepare your clip for GIF'ing and add to it any enhancements such as lighting, colour, patterns, etc. (If you're interested to know, I have used Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation and messed with the Levels a tad.)

^ STEP 003 - Choose the selection of the clip you wish to use in your GIF and then Render (File > Export > Render Video) it. (I didn't change any of the settings on the Render window this time, but if you know what you're doing you can if you want to. Sometimes can help to reduce the file-size considerably.)

^ STEP 004 - Import (File > Import > Video Frames to Layers...) your clip that you just made. When the window pops-up after you've selected and opened your file, you want to make sure the Limit to Every...Frames option is checked. The default is 2 but I have changed mine to 4. Press OK.

^ STEP 005 - Open the template pieces now. Take the first piece (whichever you want to use first is up to you, but I'm going with the purple because it starts off with a bigger section first), Select the whole piece (Select > All) and Copy Merged (Edit > Copy Merged). 

^ STEP 006 - Then back to your imported clip, Resize (Image > Image Size...) it to a 500px.

^ STEP 007 - When you've done that, making sure in your Animation tab that the first frame is selected, and you've a New blank layer in your Layers palette beneath all the layers, then Paste (Edit > Paste).

^ STEP 008 - Select all layers above the template piece, and switch to Timeline mode in the Animation tab.

^ STEP 009 - Create a Clipping Mask (Layer > Create Clipping Mask) which will cut out the shape of the template beneath into your clip layers. Move and adjust your clip layers (make sure that they are all still selected) to your liking, Crop to fit the template (Height is 150px), and then switch out of Timeline mode. (I'm watching Queer as Folk as I put this together, so as I make these screenies you'll probably see that in the corner from now on because I am too lazy to minimize it and/or I forget to. xD)

^ STEP 010 - Set your GIF's speed and then Render (File > Export > Render Video) what you have up to this point, and then Open this new clip.

-  STEP 011 - Open your second clip and Repeat Steps 1 through 3.

^ STEP 012 & 13 - Open the second template piece (I used the purple) and paste it in a new layer. Then Open the second video clip you just made in Step 11 and arrange the layers so it's atop all the layers, the template piece is in the middle and the first video clip is at the bottom.

^ STEP 014 - Make sure the top layer is selected (Clip #2) and create another Clipping Mask (Layer > Create Clipping Mask).

^ STEP 015 - Move your second clip layer (the top layer) into position in the right-hand corner (and fill any spaces on the chance that your clip doesn't fit exactly, in a new layer underneath with the paintbrush tool).

-  STEP 016 - Repeat Step 10.

-  STEP 017 - Repeat Step 4 with the final rendered clip.

^ STEP 018 - Open the first template piece again, copy and paste it below all the layers of the imported final clip. Select all layers above the template piece, switch to Timeline mode and create another Clipping Mask. You should have the above result.

-  STEP 019 - Switch out of Timeline mode again and check your frame speed. Set your GIF to Forever, and finally Save your GIF for web (File > Save for Web & Devices...)

^ STEP 020 - Finito!! :-)

Hope this is understandable for you guys. It's 3AM where I am now, I am exhausted, but I wanted to finish this before I hit the sack. If there are mistakes I'll deal w/ them in the morning. G'night. *collapses*

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TOSHIKO: Communication's very tricky. The whole place could be wired. We don't want you chattering away to us and being overheard. JACK: But I want to monitor you at all times.  MARTHA: So? ...I don't need contact lenses. TOSHIKO: You need these.  [ ... ] MARTHA: Oh, I'm a camera!  JACK: As Chris Isherwood once said to me when we were cruising the Kurfurstendamm.

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I think it's ridiculous that people actually think that seeing gay people on the streets, on television, in movies, is really going to influence their children to "become" gay...

...or think that it's okay to be. First of all, it is, there is nothing wrong with being gay, so who gives a fuck if your kid is told that? Oh no! You're child is going to turn out to be a more decent, accepting human being than you are - the HORROR!!

Secondly, if seeing gay people really does influence your kid and make her/him think s/he is gay then ..so what. If they really aren't gay then they'll grow out of that, and if they are..they are. Who gives a shit, as long as they are happy.

I don't want children, but for the sake of my rant here, let's pretend that I do. Okay, so I'm sitting at home waiting for my son to come home from school. When he does I ask him how his day was and if he made and friends and he says "It was good. There is a cute boy in my class that I like. He's nice." I would look at him, big smile on my face and say "What's his name?" as simple as that.

I wouldn't encourage or discourage his attraction to boys or girls, I would treat it equally because I want him to be able to make the decision for himself when it's time whether he likes girls or boys (or both). I wouldn't tell him "Oh dear, Hun, you shouldn't like him, because boys shouldn't like boys," just as I wouldn't tell him "Oh that is so awesome!" I, as a parent wouldn't want what I say in that moment to affect his thinking negatively in any way so I'd be sure neither to praise or put him down for it, but just go along with what he wants.

I wouldn't want to praise my son being gay, and not for the reason you might think. There is nothing wrong with being gay, and if my kid was I would make sure he knew that and that I'll love him no matter what. But, I wouldn't want him thinking that if I praised so much that he is for sure gay because I responded so happily about it or he needs to be this way from now on to make me happy, if it turns out just to be a phase, ya know?

Even though I know your sexuality is something that can be discovered pretty early (I have a couple friends who knew VERY young - Ex. my friend Deannah knew she was a lesbian (well, didn't know there was a word for it, but she says her earliest memory of a crush on someone else was around then, and distinctly remembers it never happened with the boys) at the age of 6ish-7. Her parents didn't want to believe that because she was so young and was "probably confused" but she never "grew out of it" like they hoped because she really is a lesbian. She's never been attracted to men.) - I'd not want my son swayed at all by my thoughts or views.

I'd like him to be able to figure out on his own what he wants and hopefully then he'll have developed no fear to bring a boy/girl home to meet/see me. I would want my son to know there's no need for him to be "closeted", so to speak, with his mother.

If I do have children, having my kid come to me without worry, with a boy/girl that they like, to meet me would be such fulfilling moment for me as a parent. Never would I want my children to be afraid to come to me for anything thinking that I would love them any less.

I actually think it's very important for children to see gay couples just as much as hetero couples. Just as I think it's important for a child of same-sex parents to still have contact with that of the other sex which is not raising him/her. If a child is being raised by two women I think it's still necessary to have a male figure in his/her life, not because I think a child should only be raised by a man and a woman (because I don't, that's complete bullshit) but because I think having contact with both sexes is ..well.. important for the child so when s/he grows up s/he'll be comfortable around them both. (I'm probably not making sense, lol, sorry, bad at explaining things.) 

Seeing gay couples is good, and I would say crucial, because I would want my child to see that people come in all shapes and sizes and being different is not a bad thing, and I would make sure s/he knew that they should never try and change themselves because the world says they should. They need to be who they are, and no one else. Some people won't like it, but fuck 'em all. Not everyone is going to like you, and there's no avoiding that, but it's your life and you shouldn't have to live it as someone else to make others happy, when you're focus should be making yourself happy.

Seeing couples, not only gay, but any couple, that are in love is always a beautiful thing to me. Like it's just them an the world. I often wish for that, and should it be with a man or a woman, it shouldn't matter, cause it won't for me, and it's my life; no one else's business. I would want my child to feel the same in that regard, and go after someone for love, and not simply because they are the gender the world expects/wants them to be with. 

I've seen gay women couples out holding hands, as well as men, and of course a lot of straight couples, and as I see it, to me, in each instance I see the same thing - LOVE. It's beautiful. If they are happy then good for them. Just because it bothers you to see, doesn't give you the right to tell others they shouldn't be together. Stay out of their fucking business and focus on your own love-life, is what I say.

So, overall, I think gay couples should be portrayed in the media more, and I really hope I live to see that day. I was in no way influenced to "become" gay, by seeing gay couples. Firstly, you don't become, you either are or you're not, it's not a fucking choice, dammit. Second, I grew up in a Christian, dominantly homophobic home and I was raised completely by heterosexuals. Not once did I see a gay couple, person, or even hear my parents mention it; probably because they figured if they mentioned it I would be all like 'Oh my god, I totally want to be like totally gay mom and dad!' O_- lol. I didn't even know anyone who was gay until high-school (mainly because I didn't/don't get out much), and I've known since I was 12 or possibly earlier that I was bisexual. Being around straight people didn't influence me to think I was straight, or want to be, and so the same goes for the reverse. Being around gay people is not going to make you gay. You either are gay or you're not. Homosexuality is not a fucking contagious disease.

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MARTHA: So, Jack asked me if I could get you a UNIT cap to wear. IANTO: Did he? Well, red is my colour. MARTHA: So am I right in thinking that you and he...? IANTO: We ... dabble. MARTHA: Yeah? IANTO: Yeah. MARTHA: So what's his dabbling like? IANTO: Innovative. MARTHA: Really? IANTO: Bordering on the avant garde. MARTHA: Wow. IANTO: Oh, yeah.

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JACK: No, we don't know enough about the workings of that place. Too many things could go wrong. MARTHA: Unless you were to put a medic in there. Someone who knew what to look for.  OWEN: Yeah, but I can't do it. They know me now don’t they.  MARTHA: I know it's hard to believe, Owen, but I wasn't thinking of you.  JACK: No way.  MARTHA: Come on, Jack, I've been in worse places and you know it.  JACK: Okay.

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JOHN: Six of us, three locations. That’s simple. Two people per canister. JACK: Excuse me, I give the orders. JOHN: Well, give some, big boy!

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My Top 8 Jack/Ianto Moments [S1] ↳ It's insanely difficult to pick, since I pretty much love all scenes that showcase the two of them together, if only just sharing brief eye-contact, but here are some favourites of mine from the first season.

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OWEN: Jack, can I have a word? Listen, I know you're big buddies from way back whenever, but you can't just send her in like this.  JACK: Trust me. She's more than capable. I'd rely on Martha if the world was ending. In fact, I did.

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yea, any excuse to re-watch this scene. i'm pathetic, i know, but i never get tired of it. focused on their faces a lot more for this, which was fun. :-)

never can have too much Janto ..er, at least i can't. ;-)

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Torchwood Season 1 Bloopers

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tryin to find new ways to gif to get as much into it as possible and get around that damn limit.

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