#garbage straight garbage

[darkwood-sleddog]

No offense tumblr, but even without ad-free users should be able to hide potentially triggering material from advertisements pushed to their dashboards.

[blorb-el]

out of context, extremely pure panels

wf 240, "how do you kill a superman?" 1976, script bob haney, pencils dick dillin, inks john calnan,

[hoofpeet]

Tha garbador.... I can't imagine Emmet voluntarily adopted a trubbish while wearing exclusively entirely white clothes so ..

[shiqqy]

Men will create the demand for porn and prostitution, traffick women into it, groom women into it, exploit hypersexuality in female victims of csa, convince young women that letting men use their bodies is empowering and glamorous so that they promote the same idea to other women, literally create the entire culture that churns out younger and younger women wanting to make money on OF and then have the nerve to be like "females are such degenerates"

[longelk]

its pride! kaycee is the only character i head canon as caring enough to label her sexuality. not that it matters cause no one wants her

[yeetlegay]

Not for nothing, the representation of Porsche’s bisexuality means a lot to me as a bi person who didn’t figure out my identity until my early 20s. The journey that he goes through in the first half of the show, from a presumed straight man to a bisexual man in love with another man, is written and acted with so much empathy and grace. Porsche’s feelings about his identity and presentation of self are allowed to be confused, hesitant, and complicated without him being homophobic or misogynistic. The result is a more subtle arc of self-discovery, but such an important one. Porsche may not have deep-rooted internal prejudices but he still exists within oppressive structures that shape all our lives whether we want them to or not. Even though he doesn’t deny or dislike his feelings for Kinn, he does quietly struggle sometimes with the discomfort of being queer in a world that sees queer as “other.”

I think part of why this hits so hard is Apo himself. Now I don’t really follow the actors very closely and I try hard to separate the art from the artist, so I don’t want to place too much weight on this. But I do think Apo really brings a particular level of empathy and nuance to Porsche’s identity that deserves appreciation. Apo has spoken a number of times about how much he struggled with homophobic treatment in the Thai film/TV industry through the course of his career. He was often asked invasive questions about his sexuality, made fun of for the way he dresses and presents himself, and demeaned for being feminine or not masculine enough. It seems to have been a key factor in his decision to leave the industry (and even Thailand) entirely.

To be clear, he’s never made any public statement about his sexuality or gender identity, and it’s no one’s business to presume or ask about how he identifies. The problem was that, regardless of how he actually identified, homophobia had a big impact on him personally and professionally. Homophobia (along with all other forms of hate and violence) doesn’t hurt just queer people—it hurts everyone, because it confines and regulates people’s lives/bodies, and punishes deviations, big and small, from the norm.

Apo has some pretty incredible gender vibes to be honest. Something about his mannerisms, his face, his fashion choices, his presentation, just strikes keen envy in my nonbinary bisexual heart lol. And he brings that nuance into Porsche’s character so beautifully. Porsche gets to be tender as he is tough, someone who cares for his loved ones and shows affection without being demeaned for it. He’s allowed to be this strong, tall, muscular guy without it being prescriptive of his internal feelings and personality and how he presents in his voice and mannerisms. No one (least of all him) is policing his body and gender in the way queer people, particularly queer men, so often deal with. He gets to just be.

The freedom in that, for me at least, feels like a revelation. I feel loved when I watch Porsche, because his journey as a bisexual man isn’t rooted in his own repression or external prejudice. Even when he identified as straight, he didn’t behave or present in a way that was engineered to convey heterosexuality or even masculinity. He was already comfortable in his skin, and figuring out his sexuality was more of an internal journey than one centered on his body and how the world perceives it.

Obviously there’s nothing wrong with identity crises/questions/discoveries that do involve repression or homophobia (mine certainly does, thanks Catholic school 🙃). But I think it’s really neat that Porsche’s arc doesn’t, because it brings up questions that often get buried under the avalanche of homophobic/misogynistic/transphobic shit that unfortunately we so often have to wade through to come to our own queer identities. And that’s why I mentioned Apo’s experience, because I really think that as someone who’s had such a hard time in the industry in the past—precisely because he does step outside rigid gender norms—he really gets how homophobia shapes a person’s understanding of their own body. And consciously or unconsciously, he created in Porsche a character who could be free, for fucking once, of that heavy weight around his neck.

So basically, I hope he knows how much that means to a lot of people, not just me. And I hope that playing Porsche has given him some amount of comfort or healing or validation. He gave homophobia and misogyny a massive middle finger through this character, and I hope that and his continued outspokenness about his experience make everyone think twice before policing people’s gender and bodies.

[socksandbuttons]

ALEX HE'S DEAD

MY MAN but in all honesty we kinda already had this feeling. AS ATTACHED I AM... killcode hubby dead...

But i was almost right with how bloodmoon is reacting. Not satisfied at all.

Killcode absolutely tore through what had to be said about them as hurtful as it was.

[deltoravivisection]

I wrote a joke into the dream sequence of Shifting Sands where Lief hallucinates everyone with their anime designs... I don't like looking at this I feel queasy.

[cowboybeeboop]

can I offer you an unfinished Eddie doodle in these trying times?

[ocarina-of-memes]

Hit him so hard I gave him short term memory loss lmao

[awesomechocolatesauce]

I'm tempted to be extremely petty, to the point where if I see a comment on a video that says something like "Team Ethan" or "I stopped watching after she dumped Ethan", I'll just reply with "Who?!" Because that's the lasting impression he had left on me.

[sevensistershigh]

another one

[hoofpeet]

I have drawn Ingo getting possessed by at least 3 different ghosts at this point

[queerautism]

I think I'm just feeling particularly personally uncharitable towards the whole James Somerton situation because my abuser definitely used suicide threats as a weapon when I was a child

[timetravellingkitty]

Hey booktok fun fact, there are wlw books other than The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

[emily-mooon]

60s spy au Nordegrim anyone?