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me 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 doing college work last minute

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we need more narnia fics fr

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If i post this again this year, will it happen now??🙃🙃

Fingers crossed🤞🏻

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okay but imagine a narnia fic with the reader being from our time and the pevensies and caspian just being highly confused at what they were on about and dont even get me started on outfits because they were from the 40s/ “medieval” times, our fashion would be a scandal! if someone is talented enough to write this please do and tag me in it

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every other fandoms would react to the pg going up to 16 like "oooh spicy stuff sexy time" and the soc fandom goes "KAZ IS GONNA RIP SOME EYES OUT EVERYONE GET POPCORN" and i love that for us

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Dark Academia is so aesthetic and all that until you really have to study for your exams.

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i think season 2 of shadow and bone will cure my depression 🥲

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fun facts about sharks

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I've been thinking a lot about queerness lately and I keep getting stuck on how deeply I want it to be normal. I want little girls to come home excitedly telling their parents about a pretty new girl in school that they have a crush on. I want young boys to have their first kiss with another boy and be able to tell their friends about it. I want them to be impressed and slap him on the back and say congrats. I want to bring home a woman to my family and have my father give her that whole fake threatening, "you better be good to my daughter" speech before offering her a handshake and a beer. I want people everywhere in the world to be able to hold hands in the street and not even think twice about it, not have to feel afraid, not have to feel like they're making a statement. I want so desperately for the world to catch up with something that so many of us already understand as normal. I don't want to be merely tolerated, and I wish pride wasn't necessary. I wish that having confidence in myself wasn't a revolutionary act.

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having parallel scenes of one of the boys talking really fast falling into despair saying he doesn't wanna lose the other as the other slowly gets closer to him, caresses his face and then kisses him at the beginning AND end of the series......... yeah

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So I binged all of Heartstopper the day it dropped and just finished watching the whole thing again, and I don’t know if anyone has talked about this already, but I want to talk about it, so. I’ve never seen a closeted queer character be treated with as much respect as Nick is in this show. 

Time and time again closeted queer characters have their being in the closet treated as them being ashamed, inauthentic, or cowardly. A lot of times, them being in the closet is painted as a burden on their out partner or correlated with them being a shitty partner. Maybe I’m wrong and there’s tons of shows that don’t portray closeted characters in this way, but it’s the only way I’ve ever seen them written.

Early on in Heartstopper, I was bracing myself for more of the same. It opened with Ben as the shitty closeted partner to openly (albeit against his will) gay Charlie, and while emphasis was placed on the issue being Ben treating Charlie poorly and not him being in the closet, I was worried, especially when there’s later a clear comparison drawn between Ben and Nick both wanting to keep the relationship a secret. I was really, really hoping the narrative wasn’t going to demonize Nick for being in the closet, but I was keeping my expectations low.

And then the show did the exact opposite of everything I’m used to. A few examples off the top of my head in no particular order:

Charlie from the beginning clarifying Nick is nothing like Ben when Nick looks guilty about the commonality

Tara telling Nick he shouldn’t come out before he’s ready

Nick apologizing for pulling back from a kiss when someone bikes by and Charlie telling him not to be sorry

Charlie continuously checking in that Nick is telling people about them because he wants to and not because he feels pressured to

Charlie being conscious of PDA with Nick to make him comfortable

Tao telling Nick Charlie would never force him to come out and shouldn’t

Nick talking to Charlie about possibly being bisexual before he’s sure and Charlie being supportive of that

Nick coming out entirely of his own accord with people he trusts solely because he feels comfortable

No big or public coming out at the end to solidify or validate the relationship, no guilting or shaming Nick for not telling people yet, no framing like Nick being closeted is burdening Charlie, no framing like Nick wasn’t being true to himself by not being out and proud

AND all of this was accompanied by giving a balanced view of coming out from different perspectives, such as how Tara feels unprepared and overwhelmed by the ramifications of coming out. The show acknowledges both how coming out on one’s own terms can feel really good and how there’s also pitfalls to be considered. The narrative treats Nick figuring things out, accepting his identity, and slowly coming out as as valid as Tara and Darcy being openly queer to their whole school.

I’ve never seen a closeted queer character be validated like this and it almost made me cry. Heartstopper represented coming out in all of its nuance and complexity, and watching Charlie be completely and unwaveringly supportive of Nick’s journey with self-discovery and coming out really got to me. There’s a strong impression left that Nick is able to feel comfortable and happy coming out specifically because he was given so much space and support to figure things out and come out at his own pace, to who he decided, entirely because he wanted to and thought it was the best decision for him.

In the first episode, this show said “Being in the closet is okay–what’s important is how you treat people,” and it stuck to it, because Nick is in the closet, but he’s also openly friends with Charlie, he sticks up for him, he’s physically affectionate, he looks out for his feelings, he’s patient, he gives genuine apologies when he’s screwed up, he tells Charlie exactly how much he means to him.

So many movies and shows give teenagers the impression they need to know who they are and come out asap in order to live truly as themselves, that they need to be out in order to be good enough to date someone who’s out. Heartstopper called bullshit on that and instead sent the message that self-discovery and coming out is difficult and complex and wonderful and can happen in any timeframe. I’m an adult with years of experience coming out, but I’m so so glad and grateful that this generation of teens gets queer content targeted at them that validates their journey no matter what it looks like, where they are in it, or how long it takes.

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underrated Heartstopper moment: Nick's little smile after Darcy puts "we're such meddling gays and I love it" on the group chat because yeah. the feeling of being surrounded by other queer people for the first time and being able to make jokes about it knowing that you're in a safe space. knowing the people around you Get It for the first time. finding a place where queerness is lighthearted when it feels so overwhelming when you first discover it. its such a specific queer experience and I felt so seen in that moment.

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i can't believe the mcu is gaybaiting with fucking Chris Pratt of all people, that is so fucking funny..... i hope he cried into his pillow every night while filming

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if ur fictional crush wouldn’t murder someone in your honor, you need a new fictional crush

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I just want someone to look at me the way Taika Waititi looks at Andrew Garfield

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would like to pop my little head off for a moment and shake all the crumbs out of it like you would an overused toaster