#Concept evaluation

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[fy-kwoneunbi]

180805 Kwon Eunbi at Concept Evaluation © daylight do not edit, crop, or remove the watermark

[rocketpunch-updates]

180805 Rocket Punch Juri at Concept Evaluation © hanabira do not edit, crop, or remove the watermark

[hatosaur]

it's pretty implied that ellie never came out to joel in the proper sense. she lets him assume that she's into men, gives him the false satisfaction of "seeing" her "crush" on jesse, does not correct him. she's fairly confident in being gay in public for others to see and having others close to her know; so why not correct him? why dodge the topic?

was it out of fear? could it be that she never broached the topic despite being close to him in the early years because of the possibility of his reaction being negative? that she was afraid that out of all things that could force them apart (further apart after they split), him reacting badly to her being gay would be the worst?

what about at the dance? would she have been as wound up as she was if the moment hadn't been an encounter with a vicious homophobe? maybe she would've still snapped without this context, but why is she immediately on the defensive against joel after he sticks up for her?

what about the porch scene? why did she refute his question of dina being her girlfriend so insecurely, looking away, nervously and quietly stumbling over words? why isn't she mean about it? why doesn't she get defensive at the question? why did she lash out again when he expressed acceptance?

i think these scenes revolving around her queerness indicate it as such; that ellie never told joel for fear of a response, that she lets him think what he wants because that's the easiest way for it to be. then, when she's ready to face off against a homophobe, because that's the way things are, that's what she can expect, and joel defends her, she lashes out.

it's such a clear juxtaposition of support and hatred between joel and seth, and being faced with joel's acceptance is too much, makes her turn to the anger she'd been holding onto and reinforce what she thinks is true -- that she doesn't need him. and in the fallout, as her regret dawns on her, so too does the realization; he was protecting her, like always, without hesitation, over this thing she was always afraid he wouldn't accept her for.

in the porch scene, joel chooses his words wisely, and asks if dina is her girlfriend -- not "so you're gay?" or "why did you never tell me?" or "how long has this been a thing?" -- with such a casuality that it seems to throw her off. it's like ellie can hardly get the words out. she refutes the idea, fumbles for each following part of her response, is tense. she wasn't prepared for the question.

and when he finally asserts his support for her, in as explicit terms as he can, you can see ellie become emotional, touched for a moment but overcome, before she launches into the defensive again, exactly like at the dance scene -- meeting his kindness with hostility as a way to cope with her emotions.

and then, in response to her basically saying her life doesn't matter, he affirms that it does.

so he's now affirmed two things that ellie has doubted: that he accepts her being a lesbian, and that her life matters. a conflation of the two, in ellie's mind, may have come after; and after that, her olive branch.

and yeah, him affirming these things for her is fully in the context of his overwhelming parental love for her and her complex feelings about being the cure, but within a queer subtext, it means more. it's such a familiar thing to slink around loved ones and hide being gay/queer for fear of any type of response, and lying by omission in conversation just to keep that state of peace, of normalcy. ellie, with all her brutishness and bravery, falls into it like anyone else, because even while mad at him, she valued that response from him.

a lot of people seem to think that the approach to ellie's queerness is nonchalant, that it's just some unrelated thing about her, but i think that it holds more weight in the narrative that what is explicitly spelled out. it's subtle but it was a deliberate choice to place her queerness at the center of the confrontation. i think that's why ellie's relationship with dina took center stage in the story, and why so much time is devoted to just them -- because her being queer matters to her character, but in a way that perhaps only a queer person can see, analyze, and appreciate (without being blatant enough to anger certain other fans).

[aroaceleovaldez]

emo Nico x scene Will Solace...

[somethingsluttier]

You should really get a pet monitor to watch me when you’re not home. Make sure I’m behaving, being a good boy for you.

While you’re out with your friends, you can watch me fucking my ass waiting for you to get home and play with me. Maybe you’d even show them what your cute little pup is up to and laugh with them about how adorable it is that I’m so desperate for your touch.

I’d never be able to tell when you’re watching me. When I’m inevitably too horny to control myself any longer and I reach for my soaking wet cunt, you can scold me through the intercom. “Who told you you could touch my pup’s pussy?” you’d ask sternly. I’d jump, startled by the sound of your voice, before disappointedly moving my hands away from your property. I’d look into the camera lens and apologize for misbehaving, legs still spread giving you and (unknowingly to me) your friends a nice view of my swollen, dripping pussy and fully-stuffed asshole.

[boatemboys]

i dont like this as a screenshot

[revletter]

S-tier fashion choice... And yes, I see what you did there.

[unopenablebox]

theres a post going around like "if you think slow burn fanfic is unrealistic, just wait till you hear about my real life, where i met someone on a tour and we spent all our time together and cuddled and went out for picnics and talked for hours while staring into each other's eyes and then never said ANYTHING or even HELD HANDS........... for TWO WHOLE WEEKS!!!!" (... "then after a month he sent me a letter saying he'd been in love with me the whole time.")

and like. i'm sorry. two weeks? two weeks is your example of 'an astonishing and ridiculous length of time for two people with an intense emotional connection to spend knowing each other without admitting romantic feelings?' two weeks? two weeks.

[electric-rabbits]

I'm reading Unmasking Autism and not to self-diagnose but something's wrong

[lorelune]

sometimes i am tempted to get into queer discourse on main but i abstain. shut my mouth and keep my goddamn peace <3

[lilacautomatic]

The ironic part about tone indicator tags is that they completely fuckin suck to use as an autistic person actually

[rocketpunch-updates]

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[ghoul-haunted]

the other thing a specific subset of spn fans struggle to deal with is the authoritarian-pro cowboy cop-conservative manifesto overtones the show has in it's subtext, but those are also the same people who tell you to skip the first couple of seasons. so.

[anurarana]

That man is not a father. That twenty-two year-old is definitely not a father figure to an eighteen year-old what are you guys talking about 😭

[anonymusbosch]

seen at a museum I thought missed its mark:

"take action" graphic which puts 'design and make a zine' on equal footing with 'open a language café for refugees' as actions Everyone can Take, and which has things like "start a community fridge" instead of "donate to a community food bank"