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Cale Henituse (nee Kim Roksoo- god that is so funny to say it like that) and his experience with love is undeniably Queer.
I mean that in an extremely positive way as part of the Queer community. LGBTIA+, if you use that acronym. I'm not going to specifically assign a specific gender, sexuality, or romantic leaning to Cale during this conversation either. As a character in a novel he is made by and of the author and the reader's meshed experiences.
So let's visit the beginning of his story. (Spoilers for the novel, if you haven't read it.)
Kim Roksoo was a (so far unnamed) kid whose body was stolen as a very young child by The White Star and 'infected' with his curse which was maintained by the God of Death. His mother, clearly depicted as loving him, is not enough to save him. His soul then traverses into another universe and is born again. His parents love him there too. They die too.
Kim Roksoo grows up in a world where everything he loves falls away. Something about his being is unexplainably repelling those he thinks of with love in whatever way it can manage. Simple job opportunities as seen with his social workers all the way up to stripping others of joys until they abuse Roksoo as seen with his uncle. If nothing else works, death is their end instead. Similarly, it can be read further that even things he loves are taken from him via a deliberate lack of worldly possessions and later marveling at the taste of food once he transmigrates. This is not just Beacrox being an excellent chef- even a simple fruit he picks has him drooling at the taste. But, we're getting ahead of ourselves. Roksoo has yet to become Cale.
The apocalypse happens. This doesn't appear to be Roksoo's fault, exactly, but it certainly trails all the damage it can after his specific place in it. By the age of twenty, whether he admits it or not, Roksoo is clearly under the impression that this lack of love is his fault. Something about him has made this happen. His love. His thoughts are shaped by this guess, and for some reason, it works. It works until he can't help but feel safer and settled with Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Jung Soo.
And then the curse sees he has loved again, that he has BEEN loved for so long, and decides they have to die. At this point, GoD has noticed and decided to nip the problem in the bud. Not by removing the curse from a child long abused by it. Not in fixing the system when it would cost him something he doesn't want to spend.
Instead, he offers Choi Jungsoo and Lee Soohyuk a chance to live... If they let Roksoo die. But, of course, they love him. You don't just let death come for someone you love if you have a say. They say no. And they both die for it. Roksoo carries that weight without crying but is unable to ever forget. To forgive himself. Not even as Cale. Not even when he knows they chose it.
Team One is the team that has never had a single death under Kim Roksoo's watch, isn't it?
At this point, you may be asking what in the fresh hell any of this has to do with being Queer. Being Queer is to have society put a crowbar between you and everything you love. Especially those that love you regardless. It can feel like loving yourself is a stigma that follows you your whole life. If left alone, without support? It shapes the very way you think about yourself and others. Love comes at an unbearable cost unless you throw yourself through three different hoops of obscurity and try not to look too hard at it. And fixing that way of thinking takes years and miles and each kind touch you could ever give.
Any reader would at least eventually agree that the way Cale thinks is intentionally contradictory and even deceitful... but to who? He is absolutely certain that Choi Han is the protagonist. There is no one who should be reading his thoughts at any point. He doesn't know yet that there was a curse, especially not that it's gone now. But subconsciously, it protects him.
(He has, in some way, just lost his whole world again. And he is convinced if he can't bury the love deep enough, it's just going to keep happening.)
But this is where the change that makes this far from a doomed gay narrative kicks in. Also, the real beginning of the novel. Roksoo wakes up as Cale. He wakes up healthy, well-off, and beautiful. Loved, as well, not that it is communicated well by any party at that point.
"It's worth a try."
To Cale though this is clearly more than 'worth a try'. This is his new Life. He loves being here. While burying his love under the layers of contradiction in his mind he grabs every opportunity at friends and family with both hands.
His story is a long one full of ups and downs as he tries to heal. Slacking, I believe he calls it, undisturbed peace where he can pretend to coalesce. But his heart only mends when he is surrounded by people who have grown to trust and love this frankly pitiful man who works himself to the bone for peace. And love. And acceptance for all. And pixie dust.
There is so MUCH about Cale that can reflect anyone in the queer community that has nothing or little to do with his misery. The transition from a body that made him viscerally uncomfortable even though many would view it as peak manhood to a body he quickly and gladly labeled as Making Anything Look Good (even himself) and promptly losing all muscle mass to maintain this idea of his ideal presentation to the world? That's body euphoria gang. It's also bucking gender roles.
The ability to categorize so many people as beautiful and lovely and good while not once hitting on or thinking of them sexually or romantically gets him in the aro and the ace community's back pocket. Hell, it can also slip him right into the bi and pan groups too. And of course, many people love the idea of him being in love with Lee Soohyuk and Choi Jungsoo at the same time, happily adding Polyamorous to that list of possible roles. (Especially considering Gender Anarchy Polyamory, which is invested in the idea that you love how you love and live with who makes you happy even if it's never more than a strong platonic bond. Even if you don't ship the three sexually, they were planning to spend the rest of their lives together on a farm. Without anyone else. That's love too.)
He just... His experiences are so lived by the community once you remove the dragons and the demonic army. Especially the way he has held on for so long in a world that just seems to hate his love. Even when clearly the people in it, individually, want him to stay and be loved back. And the fact that one day he finds himself waking up to a world that while still full of hate and vitriol in places, clearly loves him back? Learning how to trust that. Isn't that what we all want?
So yeah, I said at the start of this I wasn't assigning Cale an identity, but you know what? Cale is Queer. Even if you believe or the author believes he is straight and cis and romance inclined, he has lived this experience of love being punished, so he is ours.
#Suga Rambles#TCF#Long Post#Queer Character Headcanon Stuff#off my rocker onto my soapbox let's go#Cale isn't even my favorite character in this series but I love him too so I'll fight for him I'll meta all night
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if you see a male character kiss a male character, you assume they are gay.
if you see a female character kiss a female character, you assume they are a lesbian.
if you hear a character say they don't feel like their gender, you assume they are trans.
so why do a-spec characters have to jump through so many loops?
a character saying they've never had a crush or don't want a relationship or that they don't understand romantic love is so often ignored or used as fodder for other queer or autistic headcanons (reinforcing stereotypes that aroace people are secretly gay or always autistic)
why is it that our stories are always "up to interpretation"? why do we have to wait for the words aromantic or asexual to be said to be taken seriously? why is it that even when characters say they don't want relationships, fans will scream and cry about sex/romance favourable aspecs and qprs?
when it comes to gay and trans characters, even the likes of bisexual lighting is often treated as though it canonises their sexuality. for aroace characters, even the most explicit coding possible is swept under the rug in favour of other "interpretations"
i'm so tired of fighting for representation just to have it ignored and minimised by fans. let characters be aroace. please.
#obviously there are a ton of circumstances where the qpr and sex/romance favourable is completely fine#but when characters explicity say they dont have sex or dont want relationships it feels so hollow#fandom is fandom and there is nothing i can do to stop you shipping or writing smut or headcanoning or whatever#but please just think it through. the characters aren't real but there are so many geniunely harmful ideas doing stuff like this reinforces#rhi rambles#aroace#aromantic#asexual#a-spec#a spec#aspec#aro#ace#aspec representation#asexual representation#aromantic representation#lgbtq+#queer
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got bored, nekoma ship wheel + sexuality hcs (explanations under cut along with empty templates in case anyone wants them)
FUKUTORA TIER
This is self-explainatory. They're basically 90% of my account. If you go to the fukutora tag its just me talking to myself because no one else has posted in it since 2022
LOVE
Kuroken - I have specific opinions on Kuroken because I'm a fan of unrequited Kenhina in highschool. Don't get me wrong, I still like how most of the fandom portrays them, but I much prefer them getting together after the timeskip when everyone's settled into their new jobs. I also really like it queerplatonic, as much or even more than romantic.
Inushiba- Idk man they're just silly, no deeper reasoning. Funny guys doing funny things with a cute height difference
LIKE
Kuroyaku/Levyaku - Honestly I like these two about equally, i think they're both shitpost-able and that's my top priority for a ship. My gf likes Levyaku so i lean towards them but i've seen some good Kuroyaku art too so i can be won over. I'm a firm believer that Kuroo and Yaku were each other's first kiss
Fukutoraken - I think Kenma being a serial third-wheel is infinitely funnier but i dont mind it, as long as fukutora aren't separated i'm chilling. Kenma getting dragged along despite not being part of the relationship is my ideal for them tho, also i think Kenma being Tora's unwilling wingman/the recipient of his sexuality crisis rambles is hillarious
Anything else i'm neutral on or haven't heard of
#i only included the stuff i've seen so if I left out some rarepair that you're obsessed with feel free to preach it to me#my ears are opened to most dynamics expect any ship that separates fukutora because they're my everything#thinking about them with anyone but each other makes me an evil bitter person i'm sorry#aside from them if the art/writing/analysis post is good enough i can have fun with most things#my other favorite hq ship is tsukkiyama btw they're my ogs#I may not know what to do with the first year sexualities but i DO know that they're all queer#because the ONLY cishet character in all of haikyuu is tanaka#nekoma#haikyuu#haikyuu headcanons#ant's rambling tag woo#this is technically my art but i don't think she deserves the tag
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a pet peeve of mine is when ppl/creators say asexual when they mean aroace, i know its expecting a lot of the average person but man i wish people would use the word aromantic more i cant help it
like i totally adore aro, ace, and aroace characters yes more please but i just wish people would use the correct terms cuz then people will ship these asexual characters romantically and people will get mad at them or (ive seen it more rarely but) people will write aromantic characters having sex and people will get mad at them like babes they are two different things! a person can be both absolutely but i, as an arospec person who is not asexual in any way and feel stupid amounts of sexual attraction, am here to tell you that you need to differentiate sometimes like ill give you a handy guide
arospec/aromantic = not feeling/rarely feeling romantic attraction
acespec/asexual = not feeling/rarely feeling sexual attraction
aroace = both
there are combinations and complexities and each real person is going to describe themselves differently, but stop acting as if people with romantic headcanons for ace characters or sexual headcanons for aro characters are bad people because theyre not
#honestly imo i think any headcanons for any characters are fine#cuz fandom is not canon and will not ever be#and you can easily block ppl/tags you dont like#but some stuff people get mad about is just nonsensical to me#and the ways terms are used even by creators who just clearly#havent done any research into aro and ace identities is even worse#anyways this was kickstarted by a couple things ive seen around#but i finally figured id just make this post#aromantic#asexual#queer stuff#devo speaks
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hey guys am i allowed to say on main that i dont like metadad . am i gonna get beaten up for saying this.
guys i think we all took the term found family too literally and now everythings flattened into a boring nuclear family. guys can we stop. hello . is anybody there
#text#it was kinda charming at first but it feels like everytime i try to look at the mk tag its always the same shit . guys. guys.#we can do so much more w/ their dynamics than just dad and son ugh its so . ughhh.#every since i realized i was like . really really aroace. ive started to grow a bit of a distaste for shipping culture#this is relavant i swear. iwanna talk about metadede#like ok in fandoms right. theres often#the enforcement of specific roles onto characters for a simplified understanding of them for memes and drawing ideas#we want gay rep but we dont quite have it canonically so we make our queer headcanons seem more legit#by giving a char a same sex partner. ok easy we did it. gay people are real now#and we get awesome art and its wonderful bc people are wonderful#but its like . the relationships themselves feel flat a lot of the times.#metadede never seems to be about dedede. its about mk having a boyfriend. bc we need him to date someone.#and im not like . mad at anyone about this. i participated in it back in the day. but like.#ok so. gay hcs are the most popular in most fandom things bc its easy; hot; and sweet#but things like aro or ace hcs? its just. they. how can you depict that in a single framed drawing of a char?so theres none at all.#its not even that i actively hc chars aroace its jsut this is my world view; how i default to reading chars#maybe this rant in the tags is unrelated after all.#but idk. ive got lots of thoughts about things.#anyways as ceo of meta knigth im right about everything#i can talk more about metadad stuff specifically if people want
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Closeted trans women vibes
#fujimoto ponyo#ponyo ghibli#ponyo on the cliff by the sea#ponyo anime#ponyo movie#closeted trans#in the closet#closeted#closeted queer#trans woman#trans experience#trans rights#transgender#transblr#trans things#trans tumblr#trans pride#trans positivity#trans people#trans stuff#trans femme#trans feminine#trans girl#trans headcanon#trans joy#trans journey#trans community#trans character#transfem#studio ghibli movies
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my visceral reaction to the doctor doctorwho kissing a guy after spending most of the epiosde flirting with him is suggesting to me that i possibly need more queer media in my life rather than just. thinking it in my head.
#doctor who spoilers#dw spoilers#no but really though. i Know there is so much queer stuff out there but a lot of it doesnt appeal to me & i'm not reading nearly as much#as i used to#idk ive just seen so few on screen queer kisses for characters i actually really loved and cared about#or kisses in general but whatever#and yeah rouge might only have been there for one ep (so far) but thats the doctor!!!! the guy gender neutral i spend most of my time think#thinking about!!!! and headcanoning as queer!!!!!!!!!!!!!#anyways
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In Young Avengers, Loki explains that Asgard doesn’t have “sexual identities”, just “sexual acts”.
Since Asgard does not share Earth’s view of sexuality and gender, I like to think Loki started using the labels bisexual/genderfluid after her time spent on earth around other queer humans. She discovered those labels, decided they fit her, and chose to use them for herself.
I also think Loki would find earth’s view of sexuality/gender interesting, especially with how different it is from Asgard. She would probably find some aspects of it annoying/pointless too lol
#there’s probably queer asgardian characters who wouldn’t use human labels for their sexuality/gender#even if they were familiar with earth’s customs#but loki enjoys some stuff earth has to offer and maybe sexuality/gender labels are one of them#loki#loki comics#headcanon#tangyyaps
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quick summary of my headcanons for zed
#projection hours#but i also just like to headcanon characters on aro and / or ace spectrum#zedaph#aromantic#trans#mauv's work#aro stuff#queer stuff
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needed to gif this scene because how Lee Woods jumped onto that guy with the best smirk ever was so hot, he should do it more often tbh
#lee woods#james spader#2 days in the valley#lee woods gif#lee woods gifs#james spader gif#james spader gifs#2 days in the valley gif#gif#gifs#gifset#i fucking love lee woods he is my bisexual chaotic boss king#(ik he is not canonly bi but in my headcanon and AUs I already spoke about with a friend he is bisexual)#(it is spader's energy he somehow gived most of his charas such queer energy#literally making them all queer in my headcanons with my spader buddy)#but lets get bavk to the hot stuff that is lee woods#he deffinetly enjoys toying with people like that#and they way he treats the women in bed oh god dont get me started on how he throws her onto the bed and used the ice on her nipple i am#fucking reborn#but yes this man is kinky and has many kinks#i bet he has a glove gun and syringe kink#and loves to be in controll#he is very possessive of that blonde girl#he doesnt want to share#oh and idk about you guys but i always have different height headcanons of the characters an actor plays (if the height is not given) soooo#sooo i picture lee woods to be this very tall commanding guy who likes to be in charge and shows it#in my headcanon he is 185 cm tall (i need him to be this tall in my headcanon ok#i csn dream)#but the way he was mostly recorded while sitting with his co stars or with shorter ppl or alone on the screen or in angles which make him#look tall makes me have this headcanon of a very tall lee woods
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hi entirely out of pocket, ignore if you want:
you post about Roy and Jamie a lot with the Ted lasso show and honestly I have no idea what’s going on other than maybe soccer? And gays
so my dad was watching the show, and I recognized the people from your gifs and stuff so I said, “oh is there a character name Jamie?” Bc that was the only character remembered
and he laughed at me so hard. He repeated how the show was called Ted lasso and there’s no Jamie character and I was like. But there’s a character name Jamie right????? so I’m not sure what’s going on but he seemed to find it funny so you might as well and maybe I’m getting a head of myself and these are all different shows.
I still don’t know if “Jamie” is in Ted lasso
😂😂 Yes, Jamie Tartt is indeed a character in Ted Lasso! He is one of the soccer players.
Here he is holding champagne and hanging out with Roy and Keeley right before they totally had a threesome:
I don't know if your dad was confused or pulling your leg. But thanks for sharing!
#jamie tartt#roy x jamie x keeley#roy x jamie#ted lasso#maybe soccer? and gays#XD#(or#maybe soccer? and queer people#I'd say#to encompass the variety of canon queerness#plus my headcanons#in which most of the characters are bi)#anyway#great stuff#asks#toasty replies
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@katkastrofa, circa 40-ish hours ago: Hey, what if our newest bunch of OCs adopted a baby from one of the other brothel girls who knew she couldn’t afford to raise one? That would make for some fun shenanigans :D
Me, with a notoriously non existent sleep schedule, instinct of self preservation or concern for my poor wrist: Alright, bet. Watch how fast I can make you fall in love with this hypothetical baby >:)
Daneli as a gentle and loving caretaker-turned-adoptive-mother is something that can be So Personal, actually, and originally I was going to leave it at this quick sketch, but then I got carried away thinking about what this child will grow up to be like raised by this little gang of misfits, so…
Here she is!! A little older and so, so beautiful, I need more of her in my life immediately, she’s way too precious
And, because I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t also add a sapphic element to this absolute cinnamon roll, a small crack ship that I’m only half serious about for when she’s a little older still:
All in all, we may be getting impossibly far from canon, but I for one already cannot get enough of sweet darling Kumisai <3
(I fully drew three pieces from scratch in 9 hours I cannot feel my brain or my hands anymore send help)
#my art#artists on tumblr#the legend of korra#original characters#jinora#wow. nia drew a canon character? what is this?? who was I replaced by???#but joking aside. a small explanation for this crack ship#originally it was me editing my timeline and realising that Kumisai would be around 14/15 during book 4. the same age as Jinora#so my mind immediately went 👀👀👀 and I decided to go for it#since in sotrl I sorta implied Jinora had a gay awakening by watching Suiren. so.. why not go all out and make her another baby queer?#no offence to Kai. what they had was rather cute tbh. but it felt kinda out of nowhere and just added for the sake of parental drama#plus she was a young girl meeting someone her age for the first time. of course she got a crush#doesn’t mean she has to stick with it you know?#anyway. as for how they would meet. Midori could introduce them :D#Kumisai is Daneli’s daughter. who’s a friend of Summiya’s. who’s Zaheer’s sister. who’s Midori’s uncle. who’s friends with Jinora#and spirits know Jinora deserves to act her age a little more often. she has way too many responsibilities on her shoulders#so maybe Midori would think that a friend her age would do her some good#and don’t even try to tell me these two wouldn’t be absolutely adorable puppy crushing on each other. look how cute Jinora turned out here#might be the first time I’ve drawn her? not sure. maybe I did before but it was A LONG time ago. 2019 ish#but okay. enough rambling about Jinora. back to Kumisai#I don’t really have too many headcanons about her yet. but she’s probably rather happy and carefree#having a large support system as a result of being raised communally#I think she considers Daneli her mom and the others are her aunties. auntie Shezan in particular is a notoriously bad influence :)#and maybe one day she’d get to meet her bio mom. but only if that’s something both of them want. not sure yet#I feel like she’s rather disconnected from her water tribe heritage since everyone around her is Earth Kingdom. save Phailin who’s half FN#but she still has small hints of blue in her clothing. the colour matching her beautiful eyes. maybe she is curious about her bio dad a bit#since unlike with her bio mom no one knew him and can’t tell her anything. that’s bound to come as a natural curiosity at some point right?#maybe that can be part of her story when she’s an adult. trying to find her bio dad. but ultimately it doesn’t matter that much#because Daneli is her mom and the only parent she needs <3 I’m really just throwing out suggestions here to fill the tag space#kaaatttt come discuss all this stuff with me I waited all night for you to wake up >:) distract me from my grandma’s tv watching
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If that byclair canon anon is talking about that one line from lucas on the line when they say he was hinted at to be bi I'm going to lose it
#that was about him realizing that black people can also be attractive!#stop purposely misinterpreting stuff#being queer is not the ultimate minority experience and you shouldn't be viewing everthing through that lense#some characters are straight and that's fine!#and you can have headcanons that are supported at all#it does not matter#idk#byler#< target audience#lucas sinclair#should i be tagging him?#i guess its about him
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Am I the only person who’s uncomfortable calling a group consisting of one canon lesbian and three characters who are at no point indicated to be remotely queer in the actual show “the fruity four”?
#and no neither steve eddie or nancy are queer coded you just don’t know what queer coding actually is#I’m a bi4bi stancy truther but I’m able to recognize that that’s just my headcanon#saying that they’re queer coded is giving the duffers way more credit then they deserve#it also implies steddie and ronance which is very annoying since it’s apparently just supposed to be#in reference to those for characters in general#which is kind of isolating to anybody who doesn’t ship ronance and steddie#stranger things#stranger things fandom#stranger things fandom meta#and yes I have reblogged posts calling them that but only because it’s so ubiquitous in the fandom that it’s almost impossible to avoid#st fandom#st fandom meta#fruity four#st4#robin buckley#steve harrington#nancy wheeler#eddie munson#anna talking about stuff
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I love when a female character only gets aroace and lesbian headcanons. It's like the fandom looked at them and said "It's girls or nothing."
#i know this sounds specific#but i can think of multiple characters who this happened to lmao#headcanons#queer headcanons#lesbian headcanons#aroace headcanons#fandom stuff#just off the top of my head#toph beifong#mami tomoe#wednesday addams
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I know I prolly have at least one or two people in my periphery who have trans sans headcanons so enjoy this
#I dont typically engage with queer headcanon stuff because I think it doesnt add much to the actual character or analysis side of things.#but this is sans so being funny IS the substance
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