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Caracalla asking about Geta. Gladiator 2 | deleted scene

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I’m so in love with them I’m sorry

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So I’ve kinda made some drawings for keychain of Gladiator 2? I’m not that good with this but… idk if someone likes it~

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎆🎆 ((technically for the ancient Romans the new year began in March, with the arrival of spring))

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Tybalt my beloved

Tybalt In Every RetJ Prod

Happy birthday, @aki-draws-things 💕

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Today’s topic: Representations of Queerness in “Interview with the Vampire” (AKA: Evil Gay Vampires) 

Let me begin by saying I LOVE Lestat and Louis—obviously (what’s not to love?)—and I love the fact that these two beautiful boys are a couple. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t like the film or the books half as much if they weren’t queer. #Loustat forever. And Lestat is my bisexual KING. 

That being said, it’s important to think about how LGBT people are portrayed in film, literature, and pop-culture as well as the ideas, messages, and stereotypes that are conveyed in media. I really LOVE the 1994 movie directed by Neil Jordan (it’s one of my favorite movies ever), but I do think it, like so many films in the 90s and still today, aligns queerness with “darkness,” “evil,” and “deviance.” Let me explain. 

At the beginning of the film, we meet Louis. He is introduced to the audience (regardless of his actual sexuality) as a heterosexual man in a heteronormative relationship. He is a widower devastated by the loss of his wife and child. (This is a change from the novel, in which Louis is grieving the recent loss of his brother. It’s almost like the film intentionally made Louis “straighter.”)

Then enters Lestat, an evil bisexual vampire, who seduces Louis (our previously/seemingly heterosexual hero) and convinces him to become his immortal “companion” (a word that is used over and over in the film, in regard to Louis’ relationship with Lestat and Armand, but we know they really mean “boyfriend”). Louis’ becoming a vampire is linked to his entering a same-sex relationship. Lestat turns him into a vampire, and he also “turns him queer.” Furthermore, the “deviance” of queerness—going against societal expectations and heteronormativity—and the darkness and evil of “vampire nature” are paralleled.

Throughout the film, Louis tries to resist the temptation of killing, and he tries not to give in to Lestat, who constantly urges him to embrace the “immoral” and “unnatural” life of being a vampire. Louis resists his bloodlust for as long as he can, but eventually he gives in and starts killing people. Coincidentally (or not so coincidentally), this coincides with Lestat and Louis making a vampire baby together and starting a vampire family… i.e. they have sex, enter a steady/long-term intimate relationship, and raise a child together. 

Aside from Louis and Lestat’s queerness being linked to deviance, evil, and impurity, their union ultimately ends with chaos and disaster: their daughter Claudia is discontent (and mentally deranged) as her fathers fail to “raise her right” and they also fail to bring her happiness. Claudia attempts to murder Lestat, who she resents and hates, and she ends up dying herself. Louis is left devastated, alone, and “empty,” and Lestat too ends up heartbroken and alone. 

When Lestat and Louis reunite years later, Lestat wants to give their relationship another try, perhaps believing they can help each other heal after all of the pain and suffering they have been through, but Louis refuses. The filmmakers present Louis’ rejecting Lestat as a bittersweet moment but the “right” decision. 

In conclusion: queerness and the “evil” of being a vampire are linked in this film. Louis is the “good vampire” who tries to resist his bloodlust (and his actual lust) and not to give in to his queerness. Meanwhile, Lestat is the “evil vampire” who embraces his vampire nature (and queerness) without regret. It is a very old, very common, and very harmful stereotype that LGBT people are dangerous, predatory, and psychopathic. (We see it again and again in movies: Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Outlander… pretty much every horror movie featuring a gay character.) Lestat—I love, love, LOVE Lestat–but he could, arguably, fit this stereotype: the evil gay vampire who preys on innocent little straight boys and turns them gay.

Again, I’m delighted that Louis and Lestat are queer and that they are a couple (honestly, that’s the best part of the movie and books), but I also think its important to be mindful of the way LGBT relationships are portrayed in film, literature, media, and pop-culture. It might seem trivial (it’s just a movie, right?), but these sorts of things have real lasting impacts on the way LGBT people are viewed and treated in real life.  

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VIVIAN WARD in PRETTY WOMAN (1990)

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hih

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“Then suddenly... Heroes were real!”

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I love that thing that birds do with their head, you know, like this

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maybe I’m late to the party but I was reading bnha team up missions volume 1 and when they team up with hawks, he takes them to a restaurant afterward

and I saw this and I thought, huh, that restaurant looks familiar. well that’s because

which means !! this panel in team ups !!

*AGONIZED ENDHAWKS SCREECHING*

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I'm having feelings over Hawks's jacket being really warm with fur-layer, like you can easily think from that he's a person who's cold all the time, and the fact he's combined with Endeavour, who's already big enough to hug and warm him, but he also has fire powers, so he really can warm him up, it's just...so good, how little character design can show or imply how compatible they are.

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beauty and the beast but make it endhawks <3

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comfort🌻🌻🌻

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Just when I thought Deku couldn't possibly feel any more pressured than he already does to beat AFO, chapter 304 burst through my expectations like the fucking Kool-aid man.

This boy just cannot catch a break. He's been pushing himself hard since that very first day on the beach. He started with a pretty clear path he wanted to follow, but it's gradually narrowed over this last year. And now he's reached the point where he can't diverge from it even if he wants to.

Before now there was always the option of passing OFA on to someone more capable, and we know he's considered it with Mirio. As much as it would hurt, there'd be at least some sense of relief. A heavy burden, lifted.

The other successors understood their place as just one part of a greater team. A life and death relay race where the goal isn't getting to the end the fastest, but rather strengthening the baton as much as possible along the way.

The fourth survived the longest, excluding AM, by using this strategy. The predecessors could focus on doing all they could with the power they had. The ultimate goal was getting OFA to the future. As long as it exists there is hope.

The freedom of passing it on was a safety net to fall back on. When Deku accepted the quirk, it was with the understanding that he, too, had the power to transfer it, even without consent. Keeping it was a choice.

But now? Now he can't even die without putting countless lives at risk. Can you imagine that pressure?

You're the last leg of a centuries long death-race and now, if you die, you not only nullify the efforts and deaths of your predecessors, but potentially leave millions of people stuck in a war they can't win? Imagine if there was only one weapon capable of preventing mass death, destruction and suffering, and it was tied to your small, fragile human life?

Deku's it, now. If he dies, he's essentially taking hope itself with him. He's leaving the world with less than he entered it with.

At least failure was an option for the others. Even if it meant their death, they could rest easy knowing they'd done their part by getting that metaphorical baton to the next runner.

When he agreed to take OFA, his goal was to become a hero who could save anyone. New goal?

Don't die before you kill the most dangerous person who has ever existed.

My boy did not sign up for this 😭

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It’s Descendants2 and it’s Huma so Harry’s devoted to Uma and he support her as canon but it’s Yandere in subtexts. He try making Uma see the bright side of being the top dog on the isle to cheer her up but he’s also desperately trying to remove Mal out of Uma’s mind at same time. He supported Uma’s plan for the escape because he also was willing to go to Auradon if there’s a choice but not to mention that he cannot bear with the idea of Uma going somewhere he doesn’t tag along. Harry hate Ben because he’s the king of prissy land but he hate Ben more after Uma asked him to leave Ben and her alone. In every moves Harry does there’s deep possessive intentions that he cannot let Uma see, and everyone but Uma has seen it when Harry’s eyes flashes red. And nobody has warned Uma about it because who want to risk so much? Uma knew that her first mate is sometimes clingy and whiny, over protective and emotionally unstable, but they never were her concerns that sometimes random people she had a belief conversation goes MIA. She does have much more important things to care, such as Harry whine over the scratches on his arm that claimed to be from ally cat.

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Whenever Midoriya and Mirio are hanging out with Eri , Deku probably talks about Bakugo here and there , but as we all know , Deku only calls Bakugo “Kacchan” , so she doesn’t know him as Bakugo . Eri just thinks Kacchan is his real name and now that’s all SHE calls him too adjsktv ,,, One day when Bakugo crosses paths with them , Deku and Eri happily exclaim “Kacchan !! ☺️” at the same time and it takes everything in him to pretend that wasn’t the cutest goddamn thing he’s ever seen