#babes they're gay

[crowned-clown-rising]

"Eldarya is straight and for girls" Shut up this is Eldarya for me fyi.

[inkskinned]

love when men cry about body hair bc "it's hygiene" and yet 15% of cis men leave the bathroom without washing their hands at all and an additional 35% only just wet their hands without using soap. that is nearly half of all men. that means statistically you have probably shaken hands with or been in direct contact with one of these people.

love when men say that women "only want money" when it turns out that even in equal-earning homes, women are actually adding caregiver burdens and housework from previous years, whereas men have been expanding leisure time and hobbies. in equal-earning households, men spend an average of 3.5 hours extra in leisure time per week, which is 182 hours per year - a little over a week of paid vacation time that the other partner does not receive. kinda sounds like he wants her money.

love that men have decided women are frail and weak and annoying when we scream in surprise but it turns out it's actually women who are more reliable in an emergency because men need to be convinced to actually take action and respond to the threat. like, actually, for-real: men experience such a strong sense of pride about their pre-supposed abilities that it gets them and their families killed. they are so used to dismissing women that it literally kills them.

love it. told my father this and he said there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. a year ago i tried to get him to evacuate the house during a flash flood. he ignored me and got injured. he has told me, laughing, that he never washes his hands. he has said in the last week that women are just happier when we're cooking or cleaning.

maybe i'm overly nostalgic. but it didn't used to feel so fucking bleak. it used to feel like at least a little shameful to consider women to be sheep. it just feels like the earth is round and we are still having conversations about it being flat - except these conversations are about the most obvious forms of patriarchy. like, we know about this stuff. we've known since well before the 50's.

recently andrew tate tried to justify cheating on his partner as being the "male prerogative." i don't know what the prerogative for the rest of us would be. just sitting at home, watching the slow erosion of our humanity.

[arohuacheng]

what people don't get about hualian is that they're literally like. jock and alternative art student. xie lian lives like a frat boy (mattress on the floor and nothing else in his room, no standards for his own well-being, can't cook and ends up eating what could be classified as biohazards) and is really enthusiastic about fighting as a hobby. meanwhile hua cheng rocks up to the function in his cunty little outfits every day of the week, bells on his boots and the red eyeliner slayed, obviously has taste but is soooo in love with his boyfriend who only ever wears cargo shorts and the most fucked up questionable hoodies you've ever seen. hua cheng wants xie lian to have nice things but it's always like. "babe i promise it's no trouble can we please get you a bedframe??" nd xie lian is obviously so enamored with his cool alt boyfriend who wears skirts sometimes and never misses a beat on a bitchy comment that's just the way it is. basically if your hualian concept doesn't have hua cheng as the hot goth gf you just don't get it

[suchawrathfullamb]

I love how anti-shippers are like "we are just trying to analyze without fantasies!! we like being neutral and REAL" as if the fucking creator of the show and both fucking actors haven't confirmed that hannigram is canon and that the cliff fall was not a rejection but will realizing how much he loved it and knew he would never go back to his normal life. Hugh and Fuller literally SAID that.

You're just homophobic. And media illiterate. "How am I homophobic, I am queer!!" no offense but unless you are a child, this sounds incredibly dense, one does not exclude the other.

Society's pervasive norms and biases can influence anyone, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. This can happen without them fully realizing it, as it's deeply ingrained in societal structures.

And it becomes homophobic when individuals dismiss or invalidate these representations simply because they don't conform to explicit heterosexual norms. This dismissal disregards the complexities and nuances embedded within media portrayals of queer relationships, often due to societal constraints or censorship inhibiting the full portrayal of LGBTQ+ narratives. It also fails to acknowledge the creative ways in which creators navigate these limitations to depict queer relationships, resorting to subtleties, metaphors, or implicit cues.

It also sounds dense when you say "I'm queer, there's no heteronormativity for me!!"

Even individuals within the LGBTQ+ community can inadvertently perpetuate heteronormative beliefs due to the overwhelming presence and reinforcement of these norms in society.

Heteronormativity's pervasive influence can cause individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation, to conform to these expectations, often without conscious awareness, due to societal conditioning and normalization.

It is insane that you'd aim at being a "source of critical analysis" as if shippers aren't actually a reliable source when you are incredibly ignorant when it comes to media.

You claim Hannigram is "ambiguous", when it is not.

Understanding media literacy involves recognizing the limitations imposed by societal norms, censorship, or heteronormativity on how queer relationships are depicted in media. It requires the ability to interpret and appreciate the subtleties and metaphors employed to convey these relationships, acknowledging that the absence of explicit representation doesn't negate the validity or importance of the queer narrative being portrayed.

Why insist that something isn't real/canon if it's already confirmed exhaustively by those who made the show? It's a losing game, and you look like a crazy conspiracy theorist trying to prove the Earth is flat.

[naruto-is-baby]

[stannussy]

Might be a little obsessed with them as of late

[extraaa-30]

[tantamounttoflirtation]

"He left us his broken heart 🥺🥺" baby that is a CORPSE

[introspectivememories]

yukierre is just the worlds longest game of gay chicken and they're both losing. badly.

[namisweatheria]

Polyamorous fans 🤝 Aro fans

Feeling alienated by fandom separating all the characters into Typical Romantic Pairings instead of splashing around in all the joyous canon connections between all of them that are explicitly counter-cultural and not-defined by normalized terms

[chaotic-aro-incarnate]

People being confused on the hell does alpha/alpha work in Pit Babe..... like besties we're all in the gay drama fandom, we know how that works. Just cause they've got special scenting powers doesn't mean that gay sex doesn't exist

[wdapteo]

why is no one mentioning how hot they look on the dapc merch photoshoot??

[sparatus]

leans into the mic so close im almost swallowing it.

saying a character with canonical interest in m/f relationships is actually just gay is still biphobia.

i can't believe im still seeing these takes in 2024 but here we are. biphobia isn't just saying a canon bi character is gay or straight it's also saying a canon straight is 100% gay actually and that canon fling was just a beard or they were confused or compulsory het, bi people exist, we are here, we are not any less queer, you're still being biphobic, go fuck yourselves

[butdotheykiss]

cher and boss really out here being like 'i'm so comfortable with you i could kiss you to prove it' and then did

[roguetelepaths]

I'd tolerate Dayoun a lot more if more people who wrote/made art for it acknowledged that Weyoun is there as the official representative of an occupying superpower, not Damar's slutty little boytoy. Like. That dynamic is not what everyone seems to think it is

[a-stitch-in-time-and-space]

if I did make a single poll it would be “whose death was the worst writing”

tasha yar (tng)

tora ziyal (ds9)

jadzia dax (ds9)

hugh (pic)

icheb (pic)

and it’d be chill, because while someone would win the overall worst, we’d all come together to be like “yeah these were fucking terrible”