#Queer Up the Volume

[gabrielokun]

[starstruckodysseys]

aughhh hello???

[honkytonkulus]

the sound of my hand sloppily stroking your cock after I’ve gagged and slobbered all over it >>>>>

[daddysropepuppy]

turn ur volume up pls !

[dragons1re]

I got to be the prettiest boygirl at the party last night, DJ-ing rocks man.

It was a nice little adult prom being run as a fundraiser for the community theatre-that I am a charter member of. I had a very good time.

I was able to get people laughing and dancing! I got to see queer couples dance together! I saw so many beautiful dresses!! The food was pretty good-apparently the alcohol was too, I don’t drink but my ginger beer was fantastic. Parties are so fun!!

(Being queer in public is so fun. I looked awesome, and so did everyone else.)

[finexbright]

for fuck's sake the reason harry isn't doing much promo for my policeman isn't because he's a queerbaiter or whatever but because the one time he did speak about the movie he said something so profoundly gay and hashtag relatable about hiding your identity and sexuality and the yearning that comes along with it that everyone was confused how this 'straight' man knew so much about being gay

[ilonacho]

highlights from today nwn

[dog-beast]

found out the lab i work at is closing at the end of the year. it's been 2 weeks since the regional VP gleefully informed us of this and i am still trying to process it. what do you mean i'm losing my job in 3 months? you can't do this to me i love my job. i love the people i work with and you're telling me i will never see them again? what the fuck man.

[artthoufruity]

WAIT

BYLER HAS BEEN QUEERCODED SINCE THE START

[gabrielokun]

[asterdeer]

watching a well meaning video on why """queer rep onscreen is getting worse""" and i have typed out three long rambles and then deleted them but i do just keep coming back to "there's no such thing right now as 'too much x kind of queer content' because there's one x kind of queer-centric show." like no heartstopper isn't bad rep and it's not the problem because it doesn't have sex in it. no god-awful gay christmas romcoms aren't the problem because there's one of them now. no fluffy digestible queer media isn't the problem because they're taking away attention from ~real, gritty, nasty queer stories~, that's just. how audiences are. stop putting the blame on individual stories that do One Thing for there not being stories about Other Thing. it's not those stories' fault. god. not every queer story has to be about or for you, nearly every queer story is a win for someone because There's Just Not Enough, Period

[itsclydebitches]

Clyde, it would be my honor to make a Apollo prophecy with you.

The highest display of love to a mutual.

We will weather whatever the Gods throw at us together, friend! XD

Okay wait, not to take my own memeing seriously... but we've kinda already gotten this? Granted, comparing any two shows will inevitably lead to a wealth of differences, but think about the framework: two characters of the same gender, heavily coded as queer and in love, face a crisis where one of them is (presumably) killed and sent to a Very Bad Place. There are similarities between SPN's Super Hell and RWBY's "Don't fall" void, in that the latter is heavily implied as not just a death, but a horrific one. Ambrosius isn't shrugging at the possibility that one of them might fall with a, "Eh, it would suck to leave this world early, but that void leads to Remnant Heaven! :D" There are similarities between SPN's choice to reconnect Dean and Cas in actual Heaven (even if we don't see that) and the inevitability of Blake finding Yang in the Wonderland. There are similarities in the sacrificial nature of the death, even if in RWBY's case the sacrifice was for her sister rather than the love interest.

The two most significant differences to my mind are that a) Cas' death immediately follows his admissions, whereas RWBY hasn't had even a one-sided confirmation yet, and b) that in SPN this occurs towards the very end of the show, whereas RWBY presumably has at least two more Volumes. So it's by no means an exact comparison, but there are #vibes here that I think are worth acknowledging. Oh look, another coded-but-not-explored pair of queer characters is dealing with a horrific "death" that doesn't actually remove them from the narrative because the rest of the cast has a personal relationship with Gods/the afterlife/alternate universes, thereby allowing the writers to indulge in that removal without committing to it given the inevitable backlash. I'm still not on team "RWBY is queer baiting!" because I think there's a lot of nuance here, as well as the influence of the term's original definition, however, if we start comparing RWBY to other shows, the lines become more blurred. Why is SPN's "Cas, not for anything, but the last time someone looked at me like that I got laid" a problem without a confirmation, but Blake's blush and the hand-holding without a confirmation isn't? Is it just because RWBY hasn't gone on as long? (Even though I think that quotation is from Season Five.) Is it only because RWBY doesn't treat the coding as a joke like SPN does? Is that was keeps the hope alive: that if creators aren't encouraging their audience to laugh at the idea of this couple, then it's considered proof that they'll commit to it? For me personally, there's a huge divide between the two. Queer baiting--or it's more complicated cousin we've seen in recent years--doesn't have to be followed by a criticism/joke. It's entirely possible that RWBY will continue to imply without committing or, like SPN, commit in the final hour so they never have to write the relationship itself. It exists only in the gaps of the show and fans' imaginations.

I feel like Apollo has been tossing soft balls for years that we've been able to dodge up until now, but that doesn't mean he hasn't been playing the game 😬

[hongluboobs]

hongsang becomes more insane to me the more i read red chamber bc i keep noticing little things that make me want to explode. did you know mirrors are a pretty heavy motif in red chamber? Bao-yu flat out has a mirrored self in the text (i’m not there yet but i know that)

I don’t know if it’s even in a ship way but i keep noticing connections. They’ve both got a lot about being controlled/trapped and false contentment with that situation in their stories (this will find its way to canto 8. please) and the fact that it was THESE TWO to get the dimension shredder egos makes me want to explode

the more i look into these characters the more things i see that are paralleled and similar. The pretty art also helps lmao but i need to know their issues

[motherdanger]

AU where CHRISSY WOKE UP and joined the gang in the Upside Down to fight Vecna! 💥

She doesn't need weapons—you think she kicks high cuz of cheerleading? Murray's got competition. Also, Max lent the shirt, and Eddie made the bandana

[starvels]

yet again thinking abt how actually a/b/o is the MOST gender-is-inherently-nonbinary everyone-is-intersex narrative possible and yet! y'all cis floosies have managed to somehow make it so terribly heternormative and cisgender lmfao

[tbcanary]

comics will be like “tragedies always begin long before the first scene is ever played… they are born often enough of actions taken in purity, be it in intention or emotion… done more often than not for the best of reasons. but all tragedies end the same way.” and expect you to go on with your life.