like idk it just seems actually nefarious to take one of the very few widely known instances of queerness in older history being a symbol to show queer people that we've always existed and aren't alone for CENTURIES and taking away the queerness from it. like. i know some people say that ''the queerness isnt important in the book" which i mean in my opinion i could go off for 10k words in an essay as to how basil's love for dorian is integral to the story BUT EVEN APART from that its really just. having a real explicitly queer character in such an old and widely regarded classic novel is HUGE for queer history and this is just. literally like. its 2024. why are you doing queer erasure to DORIAN GRAY
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Belos: I’m going to raise Luz as my daughter and ensure that she remains pure and loyal to me.
Also Belos: I’m going to let the 7-years-old clone of my brother take care of her I’m sure he’ll be able to do that.
you joke but thats LITERALLY his entire thought process at first. he's so isolated and arrogant that he couldnt possibly comprehend the idea that luz wouldnt see him as her father despite the fact he literally told hunter he was going to be her older brother and never once encouraged hunter to see him as anything but an uncle.
i attribute this to the fact that philip is an orphan who only ever knew his blood brother as his only caretaker, so he sorta took having a brother for granted and didn't realize that was something you could want rather than something that just Is.
(also caleb was the only person philip ever truly knew + loved and even well into his 300s he never once picked up a child psychology book and realized that Perhaps His Worldview Was Skewed Because Of That.)
he literally like. could not comprehend the idea that you could even choose your own family outside of like. being adopted by someone. thats the other thing with him being so annoyingly christian in this AU, he was taught that your blood family (esp yr parents) is always the most important thing in your life & you should always be grateful to them no matter what.
(this is another factor into why he keeps making grimwalkers. in his own twisted viewpoint, it's him giving caleb another chance. and another. and another-- at least in this specific characterization of him.)
philip thought that him adopting luz would mean she would immediately be eternally grateful to him and call him father and the whole nine yards. but he forget to actually express that expectation until it was too late (aka until he heard her call him uncle for the first time)
honestly, hes not MAD about it. he's just sorta :( about it bcus hes not actually insane and can still logically think like "she did say she had just lost her real father to an illness its perfectly reasonable for her to not want to replace him" (he doesnt think it outloud but he also enjoys living thru her vicariously
but also later on as she gets older it gets to a point where he's like "ok its been years now why isnt she trying to replace him yet" bcus he thinks its a normal + healthy part of the grieving process to replace the person you lost (figuratively or, in his case, Literally)
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how do you think DI! Leon is gonna be?
AAAAA I completely forgot this was in here and I am so sorry 😭 But after seeing the newest trailer (obviously just once because I am totally normal) it has possessed me something FIERCE out here!
➻ Oh you know he's definitely gonna be rearranging my- *shot*
➻ Anyway! I was thinking on this in particular for a long time but I had a feeling he's gonna be serious but still crack some jokes every now and then with his dry humor. So very glad to see that stuck!
➻ Obviously much like Chris, done with the shit, but putting up with it better than in Vendetta.
➻ Which speaking of, I NEED to point out how much healthier he looks! It provides a sense that maybe he found a new sense of hope after Vendetta that convinced him to take better care of himself! Proud of him!
➻ One word.
➻ Dilf.
➻ And he fucking knows it too.
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rewriting vivienne's personal quest if its the last thing i do
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I NOTICED A HUGE FUCKING PLOTHOLE WHILE WATCHING MCD HOLY SHIT
Okay so— Levin and Malachi are both 18/19 in Season 3, cos 3-4 years have passed. They are 15 in season 2, because they were trapped for 15 years in the Irene dimension.
Season 1 (at least in my head til I noticed this) would have been over a span of 4-5 years.
THEY WOULD NOT BE FIFTEEN THEY WOULD BE TWENTY JESSICA YOU STUPID WOMAN-
So now I have to make it they were stuck for TEN years because some woman doesn’t know basic math
I can excuse many plot holes but this one— this one has infuriated me and I don’t know why
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