I know that compared to today, a lot of 18c writing seems romantic/sexual when it was just how friends would write each other. But I'm sorry, Voltaire takes Being Gay with the Homies to a new level. He even writes the suggestive parts in Italian like he did in actually erotic letters to Madame Denis...
"Je joins les sentiments de la plus tendre reconnaissance à un attachement d'environ quarante années, mais j'ay des passions malheureuses et la jouissance de l'objet aimé m'est interditte par ordre du médecin. Si votre belle imagination trouve quelque tournure pour que je puisse bacciar vi la mano quand vous irez à Montpellier ce serait pour moy l'heure du berger. E perche no? Un gran Re m'ha bacciato la mano, a me, si, la brutta mano, per incitar mi a rimanere nel suo palazzo d'Alcina, ed io bacciero la vostra bella mano con un piu grande e saporito piacere. Ah! signore amabile, signore cortese e bravo, la vita si perde, si consuma et la speranza ancora si distrugge."
— 7 September 1753, Voltaire to le Duc de Richelieu
[TR: "I combine the feelings of the most tender gratitude to an attachment of about forty years, but I have unfortunate passions and the pleasures of the beloved object is forbidden to me by order of the doctor. If your beautiful imagination finds some twist so that I can kiss your hand when you go to Montpellier, that would be the hour of lovers for me. Why not? A great King has kissed my hand, me, yes, this ugly hand, to incite me to remain in his palace in Alcina, and I kissed your beautiful hand with a more grand and tasty pleasure. Ah! amiable lord, courteous and good lord, life is lost, is consumed and hope is still destroyed."]
I italicized that parts that were in Italian
And here's what "l'heure du berger" meant....
Voltaire, do you want us to think you blew Richelieu? Cuz you're making it sound like you blew Richelieu. My guy, whyyy did you write kiss your hand in Italian
give me more fics where Eddie runs into Steve and Robin, running around after being drugged (and tortured) by the Russians at Starcourt. Steve, dopy and sweet and acting like dumbest puppy- and did i mention his face was beat in? Robin, flailing all over steve and giggling with him as they sway, more intertwined than humanly possible, eyes unfocused. and Eddie, faking calm as he tries to herd them to a bathroom and planning to kill whoever drugged his these loopy sailors that he’s been annoying all summer.
I hope u all like John Dory and Floyd’s dynamic as much as i do.
(Copied and pasted from twt)
This is definitely me spreading my John Dory and Floyd talk abt customers together a lot agenda bc they are the ones who serve the most. YOU CANNOT TELL ME THEIR ASSES ARE NOOOT TELLING EACHOTHER ABT NOT TIPPING OR CUSTOMER GOSSIP!!!
I actually am going insane i think abt them too hard THEY RELY ON EACHOTHER A LOT SINCE THEY BOTH HANDLE THE BRUNT OF THE CUSTOMERS ‼️‼️‼️ i like to imagine they engage in a lot more work conversations because of how comfortable they are working together similar to bruce & clay..
Sorry this post is just. John dory and floyd making conversation every second theyre not running orders. Idk how to demonstrate the euphoric feeling to turn to ur coworker like “man that guy sucked ass” “IK???” But thats them
+bonus
I think abt the fact that john dory is way older than floyd and branch in my au and probably the same age as their idols
my boyfriend is not any flavour of queer. he says he "wishes he was" because queer people "just seem to understand the world so much" by which i assume he means we by default actually consider society wrt sex and gender, but he is unfortunately both cis and het. he's checked.
he carries around a copy of "the little book of lgbtq" in his backpack at all times in case he needs to look something up.
a good chunk of his youtube history is queer history / queer media / 'what it's like to be x' videos. he thinks all of you with the less famous identities (ie not the L G B or T) are very cool and funky and hopes you have a good day.
he knows he's straight because he has kissed men on several occasions and was not into it sexually. one of those times was a gay dude who promised to buy him drinks all night in exchange for a kiss and my boyfriend is nothing if not a wee whore. one of the others was kissing his gay friend who was depressed about not being able to hook up with anyone, because he is a very sweet wee whore.
he would do it again because he is very neutral on the kiss itself (not into it, but not grossed out by it. it's just a kiss, innit) and because he doesn't want people to be so lonely and sad that they cry in the smoking area of the club.
JINSHI OHMYGAWD I'M ON MY KNEES HOLY SH1T HE'S SO BEAUTIFUL, PRETTY, GORGEOUS, MESMERIZING, ETHEREAL AND ALL THE THINGS THAT COULD DESCRIBE HIM GOD BLESS
(I'd like to see this in all the different versions it can exist please and thank you)
*noisily pulls up a chair* 🪑 do you guys ever think about what HunterCorp!Dean thought of Cas? Like he was already clearly of jealous of Dean Prime, with his cool shirts and rugged trauma, so he must have been like, ‘what! you have a hot angel sidekick too?! Lucky!’
And Dean would have just floundered and gruffly tried to shut him down like, ‘what’re you even talking about? Cas—hot…?’ *manly, sputtering deflection*
And then HunterCorp!Dean would be like, ‘oh?👀 so you’re not together then? Interesting. Very interesting…’ *slicks back his already over-slicked hair* *huffs into palm to check if breath stinks* *readies himself to make his move*
And then Dean would have internally combusted, obviously. because now he has to explain to his very queer alternate self to cool his jets and step away from his not-boyfriend because…. Because…. Well just to back the hell off okay that’s why!!! >:/
False Corpse and Supposed Defilings of a Collegue and Child
So, we all love misunderstandings and miscommunication. Obviously. So, Danny's ghost form is very much frozen at 14, and he is working with the Justice League on the basis of Ghostly MattersTM. He was able to make a duplicate of himself for class because he had to help the League with a very important matter with guidance from Vlad, but it was very much rushed and just outright died at the end after it got back.
So Vlad has to bury it, but someone sees him doing that. Anyone, really. Dash, Lancer, Val, someone not in the know. And Danny isn't seen for a while. The League do not think Danny is an immortal God, and "know" he's a dead trans boy from Illinois who wants to save people.
He makes offhand remarks about Vlad, and even if the two of them are on good terms now Vlad's actions seem outright despicable without context. Danny's used to Vlad's ridiculousness so he doesn't see him in that light and can't really conceptualize that it could even be considered.
"You know how it was, obsessed with me and my mom, despised my dad. Said I took after her."
"Oh you know, he made a daughter with me, not that I had a choice in it. I love her with all my heart, though."
"Yeah, he was a real fruitloop. Ranting about I would be his and all that."
This is very much concerning so the League, so they investigate, and the person who saw lets it slip. They also do spot Ellie, and she just chats with Danny's work friends she heard so much about. Doesn't outright say she talks with Danny still, or she knows him presently. Says how much she loves her papa, and hasn't seen her dad in forever. (A collective wince from the JL since, well, said dad is dead.) Mentions how Vlad's a bit stressed, probably from DalvCO contracts. They also see Vlad acting so goody goody with the Fentons, take that as you will.
Don’t think I ever quite said what my LGBTQ+ headcanons are for the boys, so these are my current thoughts! Always changing of course but this is what I feel most strongly right now.