#'i think I'm bi wait no I'm definitely straight no wait maybe I'm gay no I'm not but maybe or maybe-'

[lockandkeycake]

Whenever Leo's got dating woes he goes to Will, and by extension, Nico. You'd think he'd ask Piper, but they've been a bit awkward after Jason died. Reyna isn't really a help either, though she tries. Hazel and Frank are a no-go too because that whole situation is still weird. Leo is still scared of Percy so absolutely not going to ask him. Which leaves Will and Nico, much to Nico's chagrin.

[dwobbitfromtheshire]

I feel like if Steve had performed CPR on Eddie while Nancy drove the RV back to the hospital and brought Eddie back, Eddie would be bragging about Steve kissing him and Steve having a crush on him. He'd be an absolute menace about it.

"It wasn't a kiss. It was CPR!" Steve would yell.

"Sure, Stevie, and I'm sure everyone in here believes that," Eddie would wink at him from his hospital bed. "I've seen Nancy, I'm definitely your type."

Robin's laughing about it along with everyone else, thinking it was just a joke for Eddie, and she could tell that Steve wasn't actually hurt by it because if he was, Robin would kick Eddie's ass.

"This is a kiss!" Steve exclaimed and slammed his lips to Eddie's before quickly pulling back. "What I did was breathe air into your lungs. . . What?"

"Oh," Eddie breathed softly as he touched his lips.

Robin's eyes were wide as she looked at Steve like everyone else did. Okay, she knew about her best friend, but she did not think he would do that.

"Steve, you just kissed Eddie," Dustin said.

"Oh, shit, I'm sorry. I didn't really think about it because everyone pretty much knows about me. . . ," Steve said. "And they're cool with it."

"No, harm, Steve. It's just a kiss between friends. I kiss Jeff all the time. He thinks it's funny," Eddie said, laughing. "I don't actually think you're gay for me, Steve."

"Well, no, I'm not gay for you," Steve said.

"Yeah, I know, I just said that," Eddie scoffed. "You need to get your hearing checked, man."

"I'm actually partially deaf in one ear," Steve replied and Eddie sighed, looking guilty.

"HI, I'm Eddie Munson. Sometimes I put my giant ass foot in my mouth," he said, holding out his hand, and Steve took it, smiling in amusement. "Sorry, man."

"It's alright. No harm," Steve said, grinning. "While, I'm not gay for you. I am completely bisexual for you."

"You're what?"

"Bisexual."

"What?"

"BI - SEX - UAL," Steve sounded out. "Jesus, now who's the deaf one?"

"Okay. I don't know what that means. Wait! Hold on! I think I can figure this one out," Eddie said. "Okay, so if bilingual means that you speak more than one language, then bisexual must mean. . .Do you like more than one sex?"

Steve grinned, tapped his nose and pointed at him.

"Wow," Robin said with wide eyes.

"Give him a break, Robin. He's on a lot of pain medication," Dustin said. "He got there, didn't he?"

"So, if bisexual is a thing that means that me checking out Jeff's ass wasn't because I liked his jeans!" Eddie exclaimed.

Steve scowled and crossed his arms, scoffing as he turned away from Eddie.

"Jeff," Steve said angrily. "He didn't kiss you back to life."

"I thought you said it was CPR," Max said.

"Eddie, man, I think you're making Steve jealous," Lucas said.

Eddie grinned at Steve's back, and his eyes landed on his ass.

"You know, whenever Jeff and I used to get high in the back of my van, we'd get really handsy with each other. Now that I think about it, that wasn't very straight of me," Eddie giggled. "Maybe when I get out of here, I should ask him out."

Steve whirled around with his hands on his hips.

"Are you fucking kidding me, right now, Munson?" Steve asked and Eddie laughed.

"Lucas is right. You are jealous," Eddie said. "Me and Jeff never did any of that. Baby, the only man I want to get handsy with in the back of my van is you."

"Really?" Steve asked.

"Yeah," Eddie said.

Steve leaned down to kiss him, Eddie welcoming it gladly.

"I'm not sure if I say 'aww' or try to burn the image of our babysitter getting felt up by our dungeon master in the back of his van," Mike scowled.

Robin rolled her eyes as she started to push everyone out of the room. It was just in time too because she's pretty sure her best friend just got goosed.

"Eddie!"

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30 for the writing ask?

30: describe a fic that almost happened, but then didn't.

Whilst away from my computer and therefore all my WIPs, I started a little one shot titled "Who the Hill?" and actually the premise is easier to explain by just giving you what I wrote for the fic before I abandoned it lol!

The bass thud of the club rattles Jason's sternum and thrums through his organs pleasantly as he surveys the rest of the room from his spot in the corner. He's not really looking for anything in particular, just too in the habit of counting exits and tracking glasses to stop even when he's just here to be around other people having fun.

Then he sees Tim - or well maybe that isn't Tim - or no that is absolutely, definitely Tim - but probably Tim's not the right name for the spike and chain adorned person leaned against the bar with the dark, expressive makeup, the short, black skirt, and the high heel boots.

Then he's caught staring and (Not?) Tim's eyes go wide in what looks like fear and ah shit, there's no way he she was ready to come out to him, but hey, he can be cool, he can roll with this and make sure she knows he's not gonna be a prick about it.

Tim watches Jason approach with absolute dread, because he never, EVER wanted to have to explain the whole 'hi, I'm bi and I love the way my ass looks in a mini-skirt' thing to the most depressingly unavailable straight guy he's ever met. He braces for simply the most awkward 'so is this a sex thing?' conversation ever held between two vigilantes.

Instead though, Jason surprises him, "Sorry for putting you on the spot like this, but can I ask for your name?"

Tim blinks and realizes that between the makeup and the breast forms there's a very good chance Jason has no idea who he is! In fact he probably only intended to chat up some cute goth girl, and if he can manage to play along right he might get out of this with his secret intact!

He pitches his voice up a bit and hopes to god that feminine cadence and the loud music carries him, "Carolina, but you can call me Carol if you like."

"Cool! I dig the spikes by the way," Jason smiles like Carolina's name is some beautiful treasure he's been allowed to glimpse and the dread comes right back up as Tim realizes that he's somehow going to have to find it in himself to turn Jason down.

He ought to do it right now. He ought to tell Jason he's an awfully polite guy but she's already late to go home and dropped her phone in the harbor and is currently walking out the door-

[That paragraph's phrasing was inspired by this song hehehe]

But right now Tim is a weak, weak man, who chooses to pluck at Jason's jacket flirtily, "Thanks, I dig the leather and the white streak! You dye it like that?"

Jason gives him the most adorable deer-in-headlights expression back, "Uh, it's um, it's actually a cold brand? You can kinda see the scar around it if you look close."

"Wait like, liquid nitrogen and metal- deliberately?"

"I mean I dyed it the once, but then uh..." He trails awkwardly with a shrug, "I like it. Nice not to have to do anything more to keep it there. Kinda annoying it doesn't keep any other colors, but, ya'know." Another awkward shrug.

"Huh," He'd always assumed Jason just came back with it, but it being an injury instead actually makes a lot of sense? Was it really deliberate though or was he just saying that? "That's pretty fuckin hardcore."

Jason smiles again, feeling warm at all the compliments, and then internally panics.

Tim Carol is flirting with him probably?! That was not- did he say something weird? How did he come off like... And even if he did how the fuck is he supposed to handle this??

She's a girl, and he's very gay.

It feels sort of awful and cruel to think that he might fall out of love with her just because she changed a few words and her shape. Are human hearts really so fickle that the same person in a different cloth cannot be loved the same way?

At the same time though, Jason has historically been a solid six on the kinsey scale and he's sadly gotta admit the boobs are really not doing it for him. But maybe the above the belt feelings will stay? Is that how this works?? Or maybe he can just kinda... Coach himself through moving to a kinsey five???

He nervously fidgets with his hands and tries looking at her legs. He usually really likes Carol's legs and wants to do all kinds of things with them, and legs are things most people have regardless of gender... He attempts to force himself to focus on all the same features he usually likes, but it's just not the same with the heels and the skirt. The spark is gone.

This is so fucking stupid. He's stupid. This isn't how anything works and he should know it, and maybe he even does know it...

He just can't bring himself to give up on this, though. He's never had a crush reciprocate anything before, and now the world demands that he breaks both their hearts over basically nothing?!

He can't and he won't and he fucking refuses!

[Lots more awkward and not so awkward flirting flipping between their perspectives. Tim enjoying the power trip of turning Jason into a nervous mess just by being fem, thinking it's newly realized attraction that Jason can't normally feel towards him, and Jason panicking about whether or not he can be attracted to her at all. This goes on until they leave so Tim/Carol can catch his/her taxi]

Tim glances out at the road, and prepares to rip his own heart out by giving him a fake number, "Hey, um, I kinda ordered a taxi like before I even went out, so... text me?"

"Yeah sure, I've still got your number, and I'll see you back at the cave tomorrow anyways."

Tim, half turned away, goes rigid, "When the fuck did you figure out who I am?"

"What? Who the fuck else would I think you were?"

"A woman!"

"But like, you are a woman though??"

Tim stares at him, baffled, until the taxi driver leans on the horn and he decides to have this conversation on the way home. He grabs Jason by the wrist and hauls him into the car.

Jason hiss-whispers, "Wait are you in disguise right now? Did you just fucking use me for a case?!"

"No!" Tim hisses back while slamming the door shut behind him, "No, it's unfortunately infinitely more stupid and embarrassing for me!"

"Then...?" Jason gives him a confused gesture to spit it out already.

"I'm a crossdresser. My name's not any different. I'm not a woman. I'm sorry, I swear I didn't mean to lead you on, I just didn't know what the fuck to do when you came up to me asking for my fucking name."

And that's as far as I got before I abandoned it!

The problem I had with it and the reason I'm never gonna finish it is because there's not really a way to resolve the core tension/conflict that would be satisfactory to me. I need to emphasize here that I don't care about trying to find some kind of """"morally correct"""" way to end it, I just mean personally satisfying for me; any of the possible ways to end it would be morally fine, they just also all make me feel bad lmao

So like obviously the original resolution to the miscommunication was that Tim was a cis dude who just happened to be into dressing up in girly clothes and enjoying men's attention that way. That part on its own would be good, but it does mean that the moment of resolution from Jason's perspective comes out to being "Oh thank goodness you're not trans/not a woman/not a trans woman" and I don't feel great about that. Again, not a morals thing, it'd just leave a bad taste in my mouth.

My second idea was to have Tim realize he might be non-binary/a woman via Jason treating him like a woman and being so accepting of her. As a gay trans man who likes to cross dress in order to enjoy men's attention, this would give me bone dissolving levels of dysphoria!

There was also the problem of how to resolve Jason's sexuality.

As a gay man who spent many, many years of my life attempting to convince myself I was bisexual, any version of making Jason bisexual would give me bone dissolving levels of dysphoria! But like sexuality dysphoria instead of gender dysphoria. It would also eliminate an important source of narrative tension and character motivation.

The traditional version of keeping him gay would mean that Jason turns Carolina/Tim down altogether, which would break Jason's heart, and break Carolina's heart, and break my heart, and also turn the reveal into "it's a tragedy that you're trans/a woman/a trans woman". Infinite pain for zero gain!

I'd actually love to have Jason simply want to try being sexually intimate with an enby/woman Tim and have him decide he likes it even though he's still gay and still not attracted to Carolina/Tim at all. The experiences of sex having ace folks and people who have sex with people they aren't attracted to are really interesting to me and I'd love to explore that - if there was a bit more room to explore it right. This is a tiny one shot. I don't feel like I could properly convey that without putting in way more time and effort than I have to spare on this side project.

I MIGHT someday be convinced to finish this for a few different reasons, but for the forseeable future it won't be worked on. I have SO MANY PROJECTS that are better, more interesting, less awkward to handle, and already half published, like I got better things to do lol, so for now this is the one that got away.

In the meantime though: Please steal this!! If you find the premise interesting, especially if any of the versions that would give me bone dissolving dysphoria appeal to you, please take my words and write more onto them! I'd love to see some version of this finished someday, and I don't mind if someone (or several someones!) end up doing it instead of me, just lemme know if you do and throw a lil bit of credit my way and it's all good :3

[superspecial-awesome]

s0 queerosexual hcs. for pride month

basically my interpretation of the cast in this regard is that theyre a bunch of annoying queer teenagers who will never discover this about themselves because they live in 1990s japan and all think there's only gay and straight and that being the former is grounds to be beaten in the streets

Yugi: the only one who has his shit figured out. transmasc and bi and he plans on taking that to his grave. he has a strong preference for women though so that part never really comes up. "attracted to every woman ever and one guy i met at a gas station six years ago" disease. also bonus points anzu knows he's transmasc and helped him figure out binding and shit

Miho: huge lesbian but "oh no it's just that girls are objectively more attractive than guys everyone knows that, i just haven't met the right man yet, besides every girl wishes they could date women instead that's why bakura is so popular it's because he looks like a woman." I also like to imagine that in an ideal world, she'd fuck with genderfluidity

Bakura: aroace and agender transfem. he gives me he/it/any vibes. I think partly due to The Mega Autism he never really understood the deal with traditional masculinity so he feels disconnected from manhood as a whole and would be a lot more comfortable being able to exist as something entirely detached from gender. I also think the swarms of girls at all times made him view women as some sort of other species entirely and he's got a lot of deep-rooted misogyny going on about it, but tbh anzu and miho could fix him. and make him into the vague girlthing he always was

Anzu: Idk what label to slap onto her but I don't think physical appearance or gender plays any role in her being attracted to people at all. maybe like demiromantic asexual. but i dont think demi is the term im looking for. definitely ace though.

Honda: "WOW I LOVE BEING A MAN I LOVE WOMEN AND RULES AND ORDER I DON'T AT ALL FEEL LIKE I'M CURSED TO FIT MYSELF INTO A BOX THAT'S TOO SMALL FOR ME" and he believes that wholeheartedly and then wonders why he needs to constantly prove himself over things that don't matter to avoid his mental health crumbling to dust. I don't think he's trans though I just think he needs to chill out. also he's bi and poly and the single most useless hopeless romantic ever.

Jonouchi: bi but i think his refusal to accept that as a possibility has made him very aware of a lot of other things he has going on psychologically. like his homophobia has somehow made him a more self-aware and chill person. "honda put his hand on my shoulder for more than 0.5 seconds and my entire nervous system took a screenshot does this mean im g--wait no im just touched starved huh i wonder if that has ever impacted my poor decision making in the past." also him being used for the cartoon standard "guy wears girl clothes and likes it" joke is grounds for me to hc him as genderqueer. I could absolutely see him getting really into fem presentation.

Yami Yugi: gay gay homosexual gay

Kaiba: transfem in the super dysphoric way but will absolutely never find this out because any time she becomes remotely aware of something bothering her about herself she just looks in the mirror and says "no." i also wanna say arospec and aspec but idk she's fully either. i think if i wanted to give you an accurate idea of how attraction works for her i'd have to pull up the homestuck quadrants and i'm not joking.

Yami Bakura: agender is a way that's like "dude I'm a ghost in a ring who cares." If you called him a she he'd be like "what" and then after you got two words into explaining he'd go "nvm I underestimated the amount of shit I don't give about this." His sexuality is no time for dat goku

[tsunflowers]

list of which precures I think are lesbians

nagisa: we see her suffering from terrible comphet. one day she will see herself as bi honoka: lesbian hikari: I don't know her :(

saki: doesn't know she's bi yet. probably will swing more towards girls once she figures out mai: lesbian michiru: I think she would go on a date with a boy to gather intel and feel nothing but if she went on a date with a girl she would feel something kaoru: I can't imagine her crushing on anyone but maybe that'll change

I feel like I still don't know the yespre girls well enough but I do think karen and milk are both lesbians

love: bi but completely oblivious to romantic overtures from any gender miki: I could see her dating another girl one time but she's mostly straight inori: ally setsuna: lesbian

tsubomi: probably bi or lesbian but the idea of romance in real life is still kinda scary erika: girl who calls her friends her girlfriends and it makes tsubomi uncomfortable for reasons she doesn't understand yet itsuki: bi but around the end of the series and immediately after she'll explore her interest in boys more bc she never thought she could express that before yuri: lesbian

hibiki: lesbian bc if she dated a boy she'd be letting us girls down kanade: bi ellen: I just can't imagine ellen having a crush on anyone bc it's been so long since I watched the show ako: still too young to be interested and also the examples of romance she's seen are hibikana and whatever her parents have going on so she's sort of down on the whole concept

miyuki: well her crush is peter pan. I think she's not interested in romance in real life. maybe she will be someday, maybe not akane: I remember shipping her with nao but somehow it's funny to me to say she's straight. she did have a crush on brian yayoi: like miyuki she's more interested in fictional romance. if she dated someone she would expect it to be like in anime nao: bi. she's like makoto sailor jupiter where she thinks boys dont like her bc she's too tall so she has to date girls reika: lesbian

mana: canonically straight rikka: canonically into mana. lesbian alice: I think she's still working on developing her own self-image outside the expectations of her family, who would certainly want her to marry a man makopi: disease where instead of brain you have princess marie-ange. lesbian aguri: still at the age where she thinks romance is something that happens in a movie where a prince rides in on a white horse

megumi, hime, yuuko, iona: bi

haruka: lesbian minami: lesbian kirara: bi towa: bi

mirai and riko: lesbian kotoha: I don't see her ever being interested in romance due to her whole thing

ichika: bi himari, aoi, yukari, akira, ciel: lesbian ciel flirts with guys but it's like when a gay man jokingly flirts with a woman. no real interest

hana: I don't have a strong feeling for her. wait she was into homare that one time. bi saaya: I don't have a strong feeling for her either homare: I think homare's straight actually emiru: lesbian lulu: no interest in boys, ever. lesbian

hikaru, lala, elena, madoka, yuni: lesbian I don't know if they have lesbians on lala's planet though

nodoka: I think for most of her life she was like "romance is something that happens to other people" so she hasn't spent time figuring it out yet chiyu: bi hinata: bi asumi: doesn't have those feelings which is good bc can you imagine asumi trying to date

manatsu, sango, minori, asuka, laura: lesbian

yui: bi but oblivious, like love kokone: lesbian ran: bi amane: lesbian

sora: lesbian. replace every time she says hero with lesbian mashiro: she definitely thinks she likes boys but I'm not sure if she does tsubasa: his curse is that if he hangs out with anyone his own age ageha will keep elbowing him and raising her eyebrows and he has to be like "it's not like that!!" so he doesn't know what it is like yet ageha: I feel like she does kind of have straight girl who calls her friends girlfriend energy elle: I dont know what to say about elle due to her situation

komugi: lesbian in dog years iroha: I think bi but hasn't explored it at all bc she's told herself it's not important yuki: lesbian cat mayu: lesbian human

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Hi Gina. It just hit me that if Harry was bisexual he would have CO at the beginning of his solo career because there is 0% chance that his team wouldn't have capitalized off it - they capitalize off everything else so why not that? Lol. He would have been encouraged to CO and it would have been a huge boost to his image because he would have appealed to women, men, straights and gays - everyone. He did seem ready to CO after 1D, and when he recorded Medicine the media was reporting that it was a bisexual song and it was his CO... but something changed and the articles were then buried. There's been plenty of times he could have CO as queer, easily with Medicine or even Lights Up. He wouldn't have lost any fans, he would have gained them. They've been pushing this ambiguous image for the whole of his career when it would have been easier for him to just CO as queer, he would have gained more from that. But the fact that he hasn't done it by now when he's had multiple opportunities tells me that he's not in the closet because he's bisexual, it's because he's gay. Being gay isn't as appealing to women (obviously) and he would lose a lot of fans. Although other musicians and actors who have CO have all said that it was worth the career hit, and nowadays it isn't quite as career damaging as it was before. I don't think Harry is in the closet necessarily for privacy reasons because you can CO and still have a private life. I don't know why people take that comment as gospel while dismissing everything else he says. To me it's just a reminder to the gp that he has a private life that is different to his public life. Maybe his closet is more down to the fact that he doesn't like lying and he does it sparingly, which is why he doesn't do many interviews and the ones he does around promo are usually so scripted. So him CO as queer or bisexual wouldn't feel true to himself as a gay man. So maybe he's waiting until he can CO with Louis or another man and not half assed do it. I'm not saying he'll never CO as queer/bi as that is an easier option considering how many beards he has had, but him not doing it much sooner could be down to it not ringing true to him.

Hi sweetheart. I think when he started playing Medicine in concert in 2018 there was a definite push from his team to mark it as a “bisexual anthem”. There were too many articles in major publications at the time for it not to have been syndicated.

Maybe that was seeding an outing that didn’t happen, or maybe they were using the fact that Harry was never going to address it directly to fuel speculation. That way he doesn’t lie, he doesn’t come out, but he’s piqued the interest of queer fans and people who think he’s closeted, still maintains the interest of straight/bi women, and anyone who refuses the idea of him being queer will dig their heels in and battle everyone over it. Voila! Very little risked, very few fans lost, lots of people talking about him, he gets to dress and behave a little more flamboyant when he wants to because now maybe he’s bisexual, and his private life stays private.

As for whether he actually is bisexual, I personally don’t get that impression, but it doesn’t matter to me. He’s somewhere on the spectrum of queer. That seems really clear to me.

And why hasn’t he come out? I don’t think we can possibly guess and I really don’t think we should, TBH. Only he knows what he wants to do and why he’s doing things the way he is. But even if he never discusses his sexuality or who he’s dating, it would make such a difference to see the end of him having these embarrassing PR relationships. But that’s the fan in me talking. His team may feel differently. 🫤

[blazethecheeto]

What are your LGBTQ+ Arrowverse headcanons?

i've been waiting for this question my whole life.

ARROW

Oliver Queen - trans (ftm), straight

Felicity Smoak - trans (mtf), bisexual

Laurel Lance - demiromantic, straight

Roy Harper - trans (ftm), straight...but he's definitely experimented before

Thea Queen - bi curious, like roy

Rene Ramirez - bisexual

Rory Regan - asexual, gay

Black Siren - lesbian

Dinah Drake - lesbian

Mia Smoak - pansexual

Talia Al-Ghul - trans (mtf), straight

Slade Wilson - asexual panromantic

FLASH

Barry Allen - aromantic, heterosexual (will i go into detail? maybe next time but oh my god)

Caitlin Snow - asexual, biromantic

Killer Frost - bisexual

Khione - aroace

Cisco Ramon - trans (ftm), pansexual

Iris West - bisexual

Eddie Thawne - bisexual

Lisa Snart - trans (mtf), bisexual

Wally West - nonbinary, pansexual, uses he/they

Harry Wells - trans (ftm), aroacespec

Ralph Dibny - controversial take but that is a repressed gay man

SUPERGIRL

Kara Danvers - bisexual (i'm pretty sure this is canon?)

Lena Luthor - pansexual

Mon-El - pansexual

Winn Schott - bisexual

Brainiac-5 - agender (and canonly pansexual, right?) uses an array of neopronouns, he's very fascinated by them

Cat Grant - she couldn't care less (queer)

Sam Arias - bisexual

Livewire - lesbian

Andrea Rojas - all i know is this bitch definitely dated lena, i'll leave it at that

Nyxly - pansexual

LEGENDS OF TOMORROW

Leonard Snart - pansexual, uses he/they

Kendra Saunders - queer, uses an array of neopronouns

Jefferson Jackson - bisexual

Zari Tomaz - bisexual, uses she/they

Charlie - (i'm pretty sure this is canon but-) genderfluid, pansexual, uses she/he/they

Rip Hunter - bisexual

Astra Logue - bisexual

(this might be the show of bisexuals guys)

Spooner Cruz - asexual, lesbian (probably canon)

Nate Heywood - take a wild guess. bisexual

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to recap, i slap the trans label on the characters i love, there are so. many. bisexuals. in this universe. i'm pretty sure i missed some so if i remember any i'll update it here. thanks for asking, i think you got more than you wanted, anon 😭

[mostautisticsinner]

Please tell me about your Rodya and Faust trans headcanons. I have no particular guiding questions just go apeshit.

AHH OKAY... Youll notice i have more for Faust than Rodion but is not a matter of preference I was just pondering trans Faust all lastngiht

I thiink. Rodya adores her given-name but goes by Rodya because, more feminine version of Rodion. She doesn't mind either one is just kinda Eh and the other she likes

I think she's exclusively T4T in part for safety reasons... She's had her experiences of going out with guys and gals and them finding out she's trans and making her fear for her life whether or not there Was any danger in the first place so it's just much Easier to go out with people who Get Her. And partially she just thinks other trans people are automatically hot (And shes Right)

She's had top surgery and is so proud of it. Wears so many push-up bras. Shows cleavage just to go Hey !!! Check This Out

Maybe has had her Adam's apple shaved down, hasn't had bottom surgery and does not want it and also doesn't tuck

Not to Project or anything but she gets nervous when she's by women who are shorter than her Because she's worried she seems like a Gargantuan Monster. Used to try and make herself smaller but Gregor loves how tall she is for one so it makes her feel better abt it.....

Faust has been a little more nervous all her life than Rodya, who realized she was a girl pretty early on and lived her life as a girl so chill but Faust has gone thru so many identity changes. Went from "Okay I'm a feminine guy. Other guys like feminine guys so maybe I'm bi? I don't like topping at all so maybe actually I'm gay? Okay well I had sex w Yi Sang once and it sucked. Am I straight??? Wait. Hold On."

Shes a very solemn person but very much did cry when she realized because it made SO much sense but also thats SUCH a big change and she's heard what Yi Sang has gone through before she even realized she was Also trans etc etc

She always liked sweaters and would wear them or suits all the time but when she got top surgery her suits would NOT fit. Like the sweaters were a tight fit but she could atleast actually wear them. Also they hide her Adam's apple , Something she doesn't want to bother to get surgery to remove But is still self-conscious about regardless

She tucks + Wants bottom surgery but is a little antsy about it

She kind of sort of got boobs because she wanted to be able to dress masc without being read as a man and rather as a butch lady #BUTCHFAUSTPROPAGANDA

Speaking on the Not wanting to change it very much WAS a shift going frm being perceived as a Genius in her field Such a good inventor and a Lone Wolf too Etc to being asked over and over by assholes if she needs help while doing repairs on Mephistopheles (Even though she's more capable than. Most everyone)

She's a little wide and buff but isn't too self conscious about it .... She likes it. Also definitely helps to be strong to slang her whole Sword around

[cindysnuts]

trigun stampede i just finished it and have so many thoughts but i can't possibly process them all so here's a more easily sharable sexuality hc list:

(oh and minor spoiler warning too)

Vash is like ace. he doesn't necessarily crave sex from any humans but could definitely be coaxed into it and fully enjoy it. if his physiology allows for that, i guess. Can probably experience romantic attraction too, but in a demiromantic way. Just demi overall

Nai: also ace but would NOT want to carnally enjoy a human. he'd hate it. has no romantic love for any human. for a plant maybe.

Meryl: idk i'm very gay and don't think about women's sexuality much, but probably bi. she could be straight but idk she has a special something I think. has been following around vash for long enough that she has a strong attachment to him. but is it love? probably. romantic love though? hmmmmm she'll have to figure that one out herself. i would like it more if it wasn't, or if she wasn't the only one... but we'll have to wait and see. she's close to Rem in Vash's mind... so no telling about that one.

Roberto: Old man, definitely straight, has definitely seen it all, has definitely made out with a man. didn't do much for him but them again what has? shared a cigarette with a man once though and it changed something about him permanently. so make what you will

Nicholas: ohhhh bitch. now this is the guy that inspired the list. he's still so young but so tired, he's seen so much. he loved that boy. catholicism has its ways though. not only does he bear that cross for the people he's hurt but for the people he's loved too. all are sins in the eyes of the cross in that way. only ever loved one man but that was enough. seeing straight into Vash's soul though... his vulnerability... his scars he's taken for loving... well let's just say this undertaker had something stir. definitely not love though. no he could never love again. monsters like him can't have love. so he definitely can't love Vash, and he didn't love Livio. or so he keeps telling himself. making that cross a little heavier. not all burdens are beared consciously.

Livio: ah yes, the little boy who fell in love with Nico so hard that he followed him to hell, to be an undertaker. a love so deep it's gonna tear them both apart. definitely gay.

Bluesummers: ah now we're on to the fun ones. these guys don't have the narrative weight to be wrapped in heavy metaphor that I don't wanna disrupt yet, so I'm a little more free with their speculation. this guy seems like he serves Knives like a god, but with that level of devotion who can tell the different kinds of love apart???? me, i can this bitch is flaming literally like f slur.

Zazie: not human, literally a hivemind, so I dont think sexuality really fits them at all. like literally i dont think they even have sex to reproduce?? so sexuality is a no lol. um that said they're also nonbinary cause they literally do not have human sex characteristics let alone human genders. unaligned evil enby you love to see it.

Rem: for catholic metaphor reasons i think she would have to be straight but she's a lesbian its why she didnt marry or have children of her own no i will not be taking questions at this time.

William Conrad: despite having two names that should make me personally feel insane he is instead a beleaguered straight man. he is a Priest, after all.

Ludia and Brad: again, straight probably for catholic narrative reasons, like Wolfwood's sexuality wouldn't be as big a burden if everyone was just gay. that said they are dyke 4 fag pair bonded permanently no i will not be taking questions at this time. actually since they live on the ship outside of the reach of the church maybe they could be gay and have it work narratively... hmmmmm.... homos

Gosef: gay asf you seen his little bowtie??

Prof. Nebraska: transgender mad scientist just loves his son.

Chuck Lee (goon from ep 1 had to google his name): straight subscribes to a space egirl's space twitch channel and buys her used space socks in a cringe fail incel way but he's supporting space swers so we kinda stan in a cringe fail way.

[stormyoceans]

damn why everything about puentalay is sad if you think about it more than for five seconds (like they literally died wtF)... I'm not same anon, hope you don't mind if I'll tell my opinion. i headcanon talay as overthinther and someone who doesn't easily trust people. so i think he needed alcohol to relax and finally try to be close with someone.. and even then he wasn't fully in the process you know. his head was still working. so i headcanon that talay didn't go all the way with his previous partners before he decided to stop and focus fully on his dream to become colourist. so (maybe it's just me liking to see how partners experience something together for the first time) puen was the first person to eat talay out. idk i like how you describe it so i think it was out of this world experience for both of them.

puen on the other hand... especially when he was inexperienced he was driven by emotions. and easily caught feelings for his costars/people he worked with. and i think he would let do anything his partner would have asked him to do. but he wasn't lucky, he wasn't on the same wavelength as his partners. they didn't let him cuddle after or even if they hugged him they didn't stay the night. so he always was alone in the morning. something like that. so for puen 'i wanted to wake up and see that someone was waiting for me' is the feeling he experienced with talay for the first time

gay talay and bi puen is canon in novel (in the novel there's scene where talay comes out to puen) <3

HEY ANON JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT MARRIAGE BECAUSE YOU'VE BASICALLY READ MY MIND WITH SOME OF THOSE DETAILS!!!!!

LIKE!!!!! PUEN BEING THE FIRST PERSON TO EAT TALAY OUT IS ACTUALLY ONE OF MY FAVORITE HEADCANONS!!!!! because, see, i do think talay has had some drunken one night stands in the past, but i think all of them were very... im not sure if 'performative' is the exact word im looking for ;;;;;;; what i mean is that i feel like the sex talay got out of those was always the kind that focused on getting each other off as quickly as possible, with orgasm as the goal to achieve at all costs, which isn't intrinsically bad, but in his case it never allowed him to really explore pleasure and what he might have wanted. like you said, at one point i can definitely see him just going through the motions, drifting out of his body and back into his head despite the alcohol, and that's why he eventually decided to stop. maybe this is why im so into the idea of puen taking his time to explore talay's body and taking him apart until talay is a shivering incoherent mess under him, because i like the idea of talay finally having a partner he can connect and communicate with, someone he trusts enough to let himself go and help him find out what he likes and dislikes

i also think that before meeting each other, love and sex have always been two very distinct and separate things for both puen and talay, and not necessarily because of their choice. especially in puen's case, i think he often went looking for love but only found sex. AND I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT PUEN WANTING TO WAKE UP AND SEEING SOMEONE WAITING FOR HIM UNDER THIS LIGHT AS WELL BUT NOW I AM AND IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE AND I FEEL LIKE WALKING STRAIGHT INTO TRAFFIC ABOUT IT. because i can see it so well!!!! puen always waking up to an empty bed afterwards or to people leaving and asking them to stay but always getting the same answer: it's been fun but im not interested in more. this would also explain why things went so disastrously bad with talay in episode 4, because he actually fell in love with talay and didn't know how to act, his only experience with anything remotely close to romance coming from his roles as an actor and one night stands that never went anywhere. now he gets to wake up to talay lying next to him every single day of his life, though, and that's all that matters

ANYWAY I HAVE LAY'S IN MY CUPBOARD JUST SAYING

[castlebyersafterdark]

"I also thought it was funny and really odd that that one ask specifically mentioned lesbians being uncomfortable with byler having sex. WHY? No one is forcing them to have sex with a man if they watch it! It won't make them straight. People tend to like sex in general regardless of their own orientation. I'm sure there are lesbians around here who support the ship and the rep it brings and want it to be a good story too."

Wait, let me clarify what I meant by this! Of course there are many lesbians here who support the ship and the rep it bring and want it to be a great story. I wasn't trying to attack lesbian Bylers at all! This was also more of a side note and not the main gist of my ask/theory.

By uncomfortable, I just meant that some people are uncomfortable with characters they aren't attracted to having sex, in the same way that, like, straight guys are uncomfortable with male gay sex scenes, but less so with lesbian ones. This is in no way universal, but I can't imagine that isn't a factor for some. Think of it this way: there's a cliché of straight girls being into MLM ships for sexual reasons (the fujoshi steotype), but this does make sense cause there's a baseline of attraction there. If that train of thought holds, it could go like:

straight guys liking straight ships but being fine with sapphic female ships (if they care about shipping at all)

bi girls and guys liking straight ships, WLW ships, and MLM ships

lesbians liking WLW ships but being cool with straight ships if there's a focus on the woman

gay guys liking MLM ships but being cool with straight ships if there's a focus on the dude

Of course, things are NOT that simple at all. People can, and very often do, like ships outside of what they're attracted to. Many people just like good stories and attraction plays zero role in what they're into. Even in fic, lesbians have written some of the best spicy MLM stories. Things aren't black-and-white. There are lots of asexual and aromantic Bylers, since Tumblr attracts people who are different!

BUT, for some Bylers, when it comes to sex I can imagine them being like, "I support it, & good for them! But I just personally don't wanna see it." Or maybe they don't mind if there's a sex scene in the show, they just don't wanna discuss hyper-specific questions related to male sexuality. And that would make sense! I wouldn't blame them.

I've definitely seen some people who are anti-spicy byler specifically because they think it's weird that people are fantasizing and going way outside the bounds of what is canon and what will be canon.

Beyond that tho, yes, you're 100% right. Age and generation play a huge role. Gen Z is sadly sex-negative in many ways. BUT, if fandom is majority female, we can't discount the Heartstopper effect.

Pushing lesbians aside, there are straight female Bylers who love Byler because of how cute and adorable the boys are, like in a boyband sort of way, right? But they don't like the idea of them having sex, not just in a hypothetical freaky headcanon way, but like at all. Because it would "corrupt" them, or something of the sort.

Perhaps making that specifically gendered isn't fair. I'm sure there are lots of young men who are sex-negative too. And Steddie is, like you said, largely female as well, and they're extremely pro-smut. But I feel like the fandoms are completely different. Most Bylers aren't Steddies, and most Steddies aren't Bylers. Steddie is entirely fanon, and the people who are attracted to Steddie are mainly here because it's hot. There's also the element of, "They're older, so it's moral."

The people who are attracted to Byler, on the other hand, are often attracted to its canon status and its "adorable wholesomeness," if that makes sense? They skew younger and are way less comfortable with sex in general. Byler is about blue and yellow color coding, Taylor Swift lyrics, Miwi's first meeting, fruity lip glances, and hand-holding. Byler is a twee concept entirely divorced from real lived experience.

I just find it hard to imagine that if the fandom was completely reversed and largely comprised of queer males, who might relate more directly to Will and Mike's experiences beyond just general queer and romantic relatability, it would be AS sex-negative?

Just because gay and bi guys are way more likely to directly understand male sexuality and see it as normal, plus they're likely to find Finn and Noah attractive (just like bi girls and straight girls) already do, so that adds in that factor too. But it becomes less of a museum exhibit and more of a, "that could be me" kinda deal.

Again, I could be completely wrong. But, like, explicit gay male sexuality on screen, especially in a coming-of-age context is so rare. And I feel like queer guys would be like, "Hell yeah! Byler sex!" You know, like in the same way that straight guys have historically been into sex scenes in films, like seeing Rose's boobs in Titanic, for example. But Internet fandom as a whole is overwhelmingly female and AFAB, so I feel like there's not really a way to test this theory.

Another great viewpoint where I don't have too much to add because you broke down some great points, thank you for coming back to elaborate!! Very thorough read of the fandom as a whole, I see a lot of your points. And spot on with the last two paragraphs. That's not all of the emotional and interest and appeal, but I can say it's definitely accurate to an extend for partially the mindset as to why I and others do find this ship so engaging and interesting. A coming of age story like this is super rare and one portrayed with all these other cool genre elements is just suuuuper cool, to put it as simply as it gets.

[llycaons]

lot of fun opinions on that homophobic shonen protags poll

the debates over yusuke rage. he was openly transphobic on screen, but is also friends with kurama so..hm.

#but I can't believe yusuke has votes when he canonically kissed his bestie#he's a transphobe not a homophobe

obviously there's overlap but! much to consider. he's also someone who grows up a lot during the series and is notably more chill as an older teenager. he definitely said slurs as a 14 yr old tho

ichigo is barely developed but his series is full of stereotypes of gay men as overly concerned with appearance, evilly effeminate, and sexually predatory. 'he has gay friends' says one tag but um citation FUCKING needed! wait shit

#ichigo doesn't understand but he's got the spirit you know? like he thought uryu was gay and tried to be supportive

oh fuck this might have actually happened. okay maybe ichigo isn't the worst but I'm leaving up my earlier thought bc im not a coward

#ive never seen bleach but that guy looks like he'd be an iphone user

ichigo actually predates iphones! but this is not relevant to the discussion

also the tags calling edward a smug atheist bastard vs. his 'love is love' edit lmao

#who the heck slandering Edward Tho!? This boy ain’t give a crap about homo he got better things to worry about. you go little atheist boy.#He the bane of the military existence for a reason that he works for that only keep him around because he good at alchemy. KNOW THE SERIES.

first of all the way this is written is insane. second of all what does being homophobic have to do with being the bane of the military?!

WAIT THERE'S MORE

#who the fuck is calling edward elric homophobic???? yeah he's an annoying atheist but he's so so antifa

PLEASE HE WORKS FOR THE MILITARY

The amount of people saying "edward isnt homophobic" is so funny. The "love is love i see no difference) meme is not the actual edward elric hes a libertarian military brat. Get a grip #''hes so antifa'' you gotta be smoking dick

LIBERTARIAN EDWARD ELRIC

I see why people call yusuke and naruto bi or gay but edward I never really saw it...his friendship with ling seems very hetero to me. fma always came off as a a very cishet series (lest we forget arawaka's 'men are muscular and women are va-voom' doodle + the heteronormative nuclear family ending). and deku and ichigo too I think they're just straight kids

#also izukus homophobia comes from his bully being a fruity bastard

scream?

'most of these protagonists would never be homophobic' I think you've wildly overestimated the average early 2000s 15 year old shonen boy ngl

#kirito vouldnt care less about anything but his friends/harem#he dropped fighting to live out his little nuclear family fantasy#being homophobic isnt on his radar

wow I wonder if having a nuclear family fantasy would predispose you to certain regressive ideas about gender roles and sexual orientation. it's not like most people consciously make an effort to Be Homophobic it just arises from a set of assumptions and stereotypes you're exposed to in a homophobic society....I feel like the person who wrote this may be stupid. this guy is sweeping the poll currently and at least half of the tags that mention him fucking hate him so it sounds like he's a piece of shit. some people are defending him saying he's bi tho. tbh I didn't even think people liked sword art online, famous harem incel incest fantasy about a chronically online gamer boy, in the year of your lord 2024 anymore

back and forths about deku. as a more recent shonen protag he seems less hateful to me but he also seems very het and the author is nasty so. hm

#wtf voted Luffy? he would never. he's literally a pirate

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE PIRATES CAN'T BE HOMOPHOBIC. like I agree but also what an argument, it's kind of nice to see luffy so low since I liked his vibes in the live action but WHO IS VOTING GON??!!!!! you're saying gon is more homophobic that YUSUKE??!!! I don't think gon even knows what homophobia IS and if he did he'd think it was messed up! not a single tag here is disagreeing so maybe they were mistaken votes

goku struck me as foolish yet well-meaning which is what everyone is agreeing.

#also. Goku is aroace spectrum in my hearth. just throwing that out there

god I wish I lived in a world where that meant he wasn't homophobic.

naruto seems to be a mixed bag bc he almost definitely is gay (even tho some ppl in the tags are like umm it's only POSSIBLE) but nobody can agree if he ever stopped being internalized homophobic about it or if he's a more 'confused but he's got the spirit' kind of deal

yuji ranks very low, which also makes sense bc jjk is a newer series and most shonen in the mid-00s had a lot more homophobia in general than they do now. he seems like a decent kid, tho I never finished s1. the pink hair makes him seem chiller than most

kagome is getting mixed reviews but mostly landing on the not homophobic side. having seen nothing of inuyasha I cannot comment. some tags saying she's a fujoshi some saying shes bi some say both

lots of people saying lucy fairy tale so I'm obligated to mention her but idk shit about that show except it looked kinda misogynistic so if she WAS homophobic I'll give her a pass/s

#kirito is the only answer here because everyone else is gay

im sorry but edward and ichigo are like some of the straightest guys in shonen like please

and FINALLY arguments about whether death note should be included, since it was run in shonen jump. it's not a purely action/fantasy series, so that's probably why it was left out, but it WAS targeted towards teenage boys so I guess it would technically count. anyway everyone is saying light would win by a landslide if he was listed

thanks for coming to my breakdown I will probably revisit this in a week when the poll ends

[stellardeer]

Orientation discovery is like I'm bisexual. wait maybe I'm not, I just think everyone should be. Do I even like anyone? I'm gonna start saying I'm asexual because I think it's funny. Wait, wym asexual is an actual orientation? Oh, I guess I'm not that, I'll just be straight then. Wait wym not everybody thinks women are hot actually? Okay I guess I'm definitely bi then. Wait actually I hate sex, I'm asexual, don't touch me. Wait actually maybe I only like women, but I've never dated any so it's hard to tell. Maybe I'm a lesbian. But I have a boyfriend? Wait actually I really like my boyfriend, maybe I only like SOME men and I'm cool with that. I'll just say I'm pan because I really like CMYK palettes. I'm definitely poly because I just like everybody all the time. Am I lesbian? No, I'm pan. No, I'm gay. Wait am I even a girl, can I be a lesbian if I'm not a girl? Oh wait, I've been with women now, and it kinda feels the same, maybe I really am ace. Wait actually maybe I just think sex is boring and my lack of libido does not actually diminish my attraction to my partners? So still pan then? Wait, I might be aromantic too because I just found out that loving all of your friends and partners equally is not necessarily a universal experience, and also I hate acts of romance in general. Wait, actually-

[yanderepuck]

I'm still not over the new HS au that my head came up with and how clueless Leonardo is

Leonardo: *turns to Theo during science lab lecture* I think I'm gay

Theo: no shit

Leonardo:

Leonardo: how

Theo: you don't stop staring at my ass in gym

Leonardo: ..... how'd you notice

Theo: I didn't, you basically just told that you do

Leonardo:

~~~

Leonardo: okay...I think I'm gay

Comte: *in Leonardos bed room*...go on

Leonardo: I don't find girls appealing. I mean I can look at a girl and see that she's hot, but that's it.

Comte: what about the girls you've dated

Leonardo: I liked them as a friend, that's it, nothing more.

Comte: hmm. Okay. Yeah, basically the whole school knows your gay

Leonardo: WHAT

Comte: yeah. It's kind obvious

And then Leonardo is like, Damn I wanna kiss a guy, and tries figuring out who else might be gay...or at least bi

WAIT, LEONARDO ASKING THEO AND THEO IS SO FUCKING CONFUSED BUT HE LETS HIM AND THEN THEO IS LIKE "WAIT. WHAT. WHY DID I LIKE THAT"

But then Leonardo is walking away like "hmm, maybe I should kiss a guy that isn't straight" and goes to find Napoleon, meanwhile Theo is rethinking his sexuality.

Leonardo: hey Napoleon, can I kiss you

Napoleon: what. What for?

Leonardo: well, aren't you bi?

Napoleon: yeah, and?

Leonardo: I think I'm gay but I want to kiss a guy to see if it's different than kissing a girl

Napoleon: I might be bi, but right now I'm straight for Jeanne

Leonardo: okay.. but can you still-

Napoleon: okay fine we can kiss

One little make out session later

Leonardo: yeah... definitely different

Napoleon: damn you're a good kisser

16 year old Leonardo being a clues gay is what I live for right now

~~later that day~~

Vincent: how did your day go, Theo?

Theo: *still thinking about Leonardo* gay

[imagineacoolusername]

hey! sorry if its a bit much

5,6,12,18,20,24,25,44,49

love ur blog, really appreciate u for answering!

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS ARE MAKING ME SO HAPPY WHDJSWDH <333

5. favourite adult?

i think joyce maybe? but i also really like hopper and alexei and mr clarke. but yeah, joyce <3

6. favourite episode of all time?

omg. okay, maybe the battle of starcourt. i cried so much with that episode?? but i really liked it, i think that one's my favourite

12. favourite quote?

oh man, this i really can't chose, there are so many that i love

i've been thinking for a good 3 minutes and i still can't decide, maybe when the russians were torturing steve and he was like, trying 5o convince them to free him for ice cream? idk

18. what’s your opinion on season 4 so far?

I'M SO EXCITED AND HAPPY BUT SCARED ST THE SAME TIME DISNXJSEK

obviously i really want to see byler, but also willel being adorable siblings, and eddie, and erica and everyone, and the plot seems really good and aifuwnxiej i can barely wait anymore

20. favourite emotional moment?

either the byler fight or hopper's letter. i cried so much with the latter, it's almost embarrassing xd

24. opinion on the new characters eddie, vickie and argyle so far?

i absolutely love and admire eddie and argyle. if any of them dies or turns out to be evil i'll have a hard time accepting it. plus the actors made me love them even more

and tbh i don't have an opinion on vickie, as i barely know anything about her. i just hope she doesn't break my baby's heart

25. favourite mike/will scene?

literally every scene where they're together xd

maybe the movie scene? or when mike bikes in the rain to apologize to will, that gets me every time <3

44. what are you going to do in the wait between volumes 1 and 2 of season 4?

oh man. I'll probably be studying for my uni entrance exams, and once i'm done with those i'll be back to fangirling here :)

also depending on if byler is canon in vol1 or not, i'll be crying in my room or making little gay drawings of them :)

49. do you think mike is gay, straight, bi or other?

that boy is definitely gay. i started off assuming he was straight, and then i was like, hmm, maybe he's bi? but now i'm convinced he's gay

sorry these took so long to reply! hope you have a great day! <3

[gregorygerwitz]

Okay, I'm a little more awake now, and I still have Jay questions, so hi, I'm back with a specific thought. What does Jay's journey look like with discovering his sexuality? When did he start to realize it? Any significant events that helped him on his way?

Okay I'm finally settling in to answer this... after you've gone to bed. but it's fine. My answer hasn't really changed since I chatted about it with you this morning.

Jay's journey from "I'm definitely straight" to "wait, no I'm not" has a very simple moment of cause to effect, and that moment is the undercover sex club adventure in season 2. I've always loved that scene when he and Erin are walking in, just that

"this is a sex club. people have sex inside."

The absolute bi panic he has through that entire episode is *chef's kiss* and I definitely think that was a major turning point for him. He'd always had girlfriends, at one point he had a wife, and maybe the idea of potentially having a relationship with another man never really occurred to him until he walked into that sex club thinking "I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me" and then it did.

I mean, I think because my bisexuality is something that I project onto Jay, his journey kind of mimics mine in a sense? At least in my headcanons for him? Especially here. Growing up, I only had the options of "straight" or "gay" there wasn't an in between option that I was aware of until I was away from home at age 18. If Jay also didn't know about a middle ground, and he's always been in relationships with women, then the only logical conclusion is straight. And his best friend is queer, but Mouse doesn't exactly belong to the middle ground for him to have that point of reference for what it looks like, either.

And then he walks into this club, where people are moving around and doing whatever they want to whoever they want. And he finally has this moment of "oh, I'm attracted to this and that" and that's kind of his moment of awakening, so to speak, where that realization hits and he understands himself a little better.

also the mental image of him just walking into Mouse's apartment and with no warning and just immediately "hey, how did you know you were gay?" with no lead up whatsoever just popped into my head and I think I will hold onto it forever