#gay used sox

[normalgoalie]

Bobby Dalbec on his five game home run streak in 2020, the longest by a rookie in Red Sox history

[bazberkker]

Little things in TSH that I had missed or forgotten the first time I read it:

It took Richard a whole year of pestering the college to let him in. It really proves how obsessive he is

Richard bumping into Francis in the hall before he joins the study group and being like: “Wowee I can’t believe that guy touched me. That was so cool; he was SO cool :D”

Francis talking to a cat he found on campus 🥹

CHARLES AND CAMILLA HAVE SLIGHT SOUTHERN ACCENTS

Julian loves flowers and keeps a bunch in his classroom

Richard’s Totally Real Car, Christine

Judy costuming, in her own words, “fucking As You Like It” implying that she also has to study obnoxious literature for her classes

Bunny genuinely believing Francis is as smart as Henry

Bunny is the only person who can make Henry laugh 🥺

Francis had a relative who died on the Titanic

Bunny would hide out at Richard’s whenever he pissed Marion off

Francis used to read Richard’s French homework out loud for him

Bunny’s hero is Caesar

Henry’s middle name is Marchbanks

Francis is a fan of the Boston Red Sox

The twins shrug with one shoulder

Henry finds Gucci “rather grand”

Charles’ wild cat that he forces Francis and Richard to bring to the farmhouse

Richard reads Proust *cough, cough, kinda gay, cough, cough*

When Francis is in the hospital in the epilogue, Richard reads “Our Mutual Friend” to him which, according to Goodreads, is about “the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt all who crave it.”

[rainbowmess823]

Was watching a bunch of videos of Disney actors in the Disney parks and I can just see the fruity four walking around causing chaos.

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Flynn Ryder: I'm Flynn Ryder. *does the smoulder[tm]*

Robin: I'm gay.

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Eddie: YOURE SO METAL!

Mulan: Metal?

Eddie: STICKING IT TO THE MAN! THATS LIKE THE EMBODIMENT OF METAL!!

Mulan: *grins* I did save all of China.

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Stitch: *waving*

Steve: STITCH I LOVE YOU! MY OHANA!!! *cries*

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Nancy: *glares*

Belle: ???

Nancy: Teach me your ways.

Belle: my what?

Nancy: How do you not punch Gaston on a daily basis??

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Steve & Nancy: *having a pleasant conversation on the teacups*

Eddie & Robin: *Spinning as hard as humanly possible the tea cup and yelling*

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Steve: We should ride that gold mine ride next!

Robin: YES WE SHOULD!

Nancy: Gold mine??

Robin: The one with the bear!!

Eddie: Why can't we just ride Space Mountain instead?

Nancy: You threw up la--

Steve: OH OR THE PIRATE BOAT RIDE AGAIN!

Robin: ABSOLUTELY NOT! YOU JUMPED OFF THE BOAT BCOS ONE OF THE FIRGURES MOVED!

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Nancy: *is buying ice cream*

Eddie: *taps her shoulder repeatedly* Wheeler. Wheeler. Wheeler.

Nancy: Hold on, Eddie. *trying to count her money for the frozen treat*

Eddie: *taps her more urgently* Wheeler!

Nancy: *sighs and turns to look at him* what is it Eddie?

Eddie: *puppy dog eyes* Can I have one too?

Nancy:...*sighs and turns back to the vendor* make it two sir.

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Robin: *gasps* OHMYGOD STEVE LOOK!

Steve: *double gasp* OHMYGOD WE NEED TO TAKE A PICTURE!

Nancy & Eddie: *finds them with Eeyore, taking a photo but the both of them are crying*

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Bonus:

Max: I can't believe you guys went to Disneyland without us.

Dustin: You can't just go to the happiest place on earth without your children.

Max: That's like a cardinal sin.

Robin: We brought back souvenirs from the gift shop.

Dustin: You can't just bribe us.

Steve: And Mickey hats.

Max: That means nothing.

Nancy: And signed swords from Captain Jack Sparrow.

Dustin: We can't be bought.

Eddie: Aaaaand these plushies, Sox for Dustin and the Jaguar plushies from Encanto for Max.

Dustin & Max: *Tears up* you're all forgiven.

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Most of these prolly don't make sense but idk I see it :3

[nerdyvocals]

Final round of episode quotes as @look-at-those-niceass-rocks and I finished our final watch party. Once again, the cast and crew are in the house, so @saveourpinks, please enjoy. (You can find previous posts with more unhinged quotes here and here)

Honorable mention from before we actually started, them waking their husband up with: wake up, it's time for me to see gay shit

Second honorable mention, a conversation had while I struggled with my audio: Them: I tried to show [Husband] Merely Players last night but he was too tired Me: I can't believe your husband is homophobic Them: I AGREE Husband, distantly: I don't deserve this!

(about Buddy) God his shoulders, he's built like a Dorito

(this is specifically in reference to episode 8 but honestly, this was said multiple times throughout our watching) Me: WHAT DOES ANY OF THIS HAVE TO DO WITH COMMUNISM??? Them: It's the 50s! If it ain't American, it's communist!

Me: I love that Buddy's dad's name is Dick Them: It was a choice

(In reference to Blandiels) He makes me SO uncomfortable. Like I know that that's the point but he's so slimy-NO NO STOP, STOP KISSING HER, FUCK-!

(roughly three minutes of us screaming over Lydia's Woman Scorned (tm) dress, followed by another three minutes of us laughing at the faces everyone was making when I pause the video)

(about Susan's mom) Me: Heinous fucking bitch Them: What. A raging. CUNT.

(after we both spent a Hot Minute thirsting over Cynthia dancing on the car) Them: I talk a big game but if I was within five feet of this person, I would be just staring and stammering Husband, distantly: We know honey Them: SHUT UP

(both of us wheezing over CGI!Richie)

Cops: *show up* Us: *John Mulaney voice* SCATTER

Them: NOT THE LINE I'VE LOST THE ONE I LOVE THE MOST AS SHE PICKS UP OLIVIA'S JACKET Me: They are simply In Love

Them: He's gonna do something stupid, I can feel it. Me: You don't know the half of it! Them: He's gonna propose to a teenager! (okay maybe they do know the half of it, fuckin' prophet)

Me: *reading off episode titles as it starts storming where I am* And this one is called You're Dropping Out of Rydell- thank you dramatic thunder???

(honorable mention, me being unable to tell what was real thunder and what was from the episode)

Them: I'm not emotionally ready for this Me: Me neither and I've seen it like eight times already

Nancy: *dramatic exit* Them: She's so dramatic and I respect her and only her

Me: I love you singing along to a theme song with no lyrics Them: Sometimes I just gotta make funky little noises!

(About Nicholson) I am going to break that man's ball sack with a driver.

Them: It's giving pouty little bitch Me: Which one? (referring to Buddy and his dad) Them: Yes

Cynthia: *walks in in Richie's Jacket* Me: Hello my name is Single and Gay Them: I am not single but I am gay and I think... I don't think, I have no thoughts, head empty

(About McGee, then the scene transitions to Daniels) Them: The only adult in this school I respect- I AM GOING TO KILL HIM WITH MY BARE HANDS! Me, wheezing: What about your human hands? Them: THOSE TOO

(said in the most disgusted voice I've ever heard) Of course he likes Walt Whitman

Them: [Husband], I'm killing the pedophile, wanna help? Husband: Let's be honest, do you really need my help? Them: Someone's gotta drive the car.

Them: "Feelings central?" I bet you were feeling sensual when you were making out with Olivia-LYDIA on your couch earlier Me: ...You good there? Them: The names are too close

(Face to Face begins) Ah, dramatic acapella is my gender

Me: Once again, love how much you hate Buddy Them: He's had so many chances to earn my respect and he has done nothing!

Guardian Demon: *appears* Them: What. The fuck. Is happening? Me: BEAUTY SCHOOL DROPOUT BABEY

(@ Buddy) Them: He's not a total ding-dong. Just like 80% Me: He did just thank her (Susan) for having sex with him Them: ...85%

(About the Red Sox analogy) Cynthia giving me Gender Euphoria with one sentence

Nancy: *talking about love stories, mentions Shy Guy* Both of us: *Cackling at the full-body never mind Cynthia does*

Nancy: Tell anyone of my vulnerable nature and I will deny it until the day I die! Them: FUCKING MOOD like I know I was literally also just crying but we're gonna move past that, I'm a bad bitch again

Me: Finale time! Any thought or predictions before we get started? Them: Leonard gets arrested and as he's being taken away, he gets hit by a semi truck- Me: What is this, Mean Girls??? Them: Yes! McGee punches the principal in the face and defeats him in blood combat and cements her place as principal- Me: *slowly dissolving into horrified laughter* Them: Cynthia gets to kiss Lydia again, which is all I really need to be happy, and terrifying CGI Richie comes back and does the Macarena! Me: *can't start the episode for five minutes because I'm laughing too hard*

(Ten seconds in) PAUSE THIS I HAVE BEEF THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY OF GETTING MARRIED THAT QUICKLY IN A CATHOLIC CHURCH

(after rant) Me: Yeah but the tensions wouldn't be as high if they had six months to stop the wedding! Them: ...there are two wolves inside of me, one says valid, and one is formerly Catholic and Upsetti

Me: I want a shirt that says "I have two wolves inside of me, one of them is Catholic" and nothing else Them: *WHEEZE*

Cynthia: He's just. Some guy. Both of us, in sync: HIT HIM WITH YOUR CAR

"Old Soul" is groomer for "Fuckable"

(@ Gil climbing in through the window) Me: On the one hand, I'd fold, on the other? Terrifying! Them: YES! Me: Although I guess if I had the rapport with someone that they have?? Maybe?? Like good in media, bad in real life. Them: Gil? Yes, absolutely. Edward Cullen? Fuck no! The two genres of climbing through my window

(after the drag race) YET ANOTHER THING BUDDY DID NOT EARN

Me: Hey, do you have tissues? Them (afraid): ...should I get some??? Me: Maybe Them: I don't think I have any in the house??? Me: Ah! You're fucked!

*ten minute interlude of us crying over the Coming Out Scene, discussing what it means to both of us, and how furious we are of future generations not getting to see the best queer rep of our lifetimes if this show doesn't get saved. On that note, sign the petition if you haven't already.*

THEY STARTED BY STEALING A CAR THEY WILL SAVE THE FRIENDSHIP BY STEALING A CAR

Oh someone please hit hi- YESSSSS!!!

(at the start of All In) Me: She (Cynthia) is going to cry Them: I'm going to cry Me: I'm already crying

Me: Lydia is stronger than I am I would already be on my knees. (note I use a cane and sometimes a wheelchair, if I am on my knees I Will Not be Getting Up)

Me: Hopelessly Devoted walked so this song could fucking run Them: I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THE SAME THING

Pink Ladies: *Offer Hazel a jacket* Them: *aggressively close to the mic* That sounds very gay I'm in

Them: I cannot take my eyes off Jane. Like they are all very beautiful right now but there's something about her- Me: It's the bisexual energy Them: ...Dammit, you're right

Rizzo: We'll start our own gang! Them: With blackjack and hookers!

(Introduction of Frankie Zuko) Them: I'm sorry, HUH???

(As credits roll) Me: So, how we feelin'? Them: Normal, I am so normal, I am feeling so fucking normal about this. Me: Thoughts? Them: *incoherent screaming*

We had some much fun doing these, we decided to keep a quotes list for more movie nights. Next up, Julie and the Phantoms!

[starmeadowsystem]

Hi, we're the Starmeadow System! We're an autistic transfem system who kinda just exists and also draws things sometimes.

About us (individually)

Stella (she/they/kit): Kittygirl host. Shows up the most often. Loud and outspoken about a lot of things. Makes up the most things and kisses the most girls. Wants to do more things for her headmates.

Apple (she/her): The red panda gremlin who manages to be a bigger lesbian than Stella (when adjusting for the resource gap). She also has a sister in our partner system.

Pizza (they/them): Fictive from Chicory: A Colorful Tale. They are very silly and cute. Very pettable as well.

Cupcake (she/her): Really cute dog. Also one of Stella's several exes.

Ezekiel (he/they/ze): Green bird who lurks and says "computer" sometimes. Has the voice of a 90s text to speech program.

Volo (he/him): Fictive from Pokemon Legends: Arceus. Memelord who announces his presence with his theme. Approves his source's Near MB post we think.

Artemis (she/her): Fictive from Deltafauna, a series we tried to develop once. Acts and speaks in a very deadpan fashion.

Crystal (she/ice): Pretty glaceon with a southern accent. One of Stella's kids somehow.

Amethyst (she/her): Fictive from Steven Universe. Lurks. Says things sometimes.

Technoblade (he/him): A mix between his "real life" and "dream SMP (my behated)" self. Also kind of a memelord. Claims to get along with Volo well.

Rich (he/him): Factive of a guy we worked for once until we got laid off. Hasn't shown up in a while. Don't know what he was about tbh.

Nomi (she/her): Fictive from Dogs in Space. Just as chaotic as her source, and is also probably very very gay. Pettable.

V1 (he/him): Fictive from Ultrakill. Very violent. Claims he's a gopro. Even more enthusiastic about killing transphobes and cops than most of the system.

Sox (he/him): Fictive from Lightyear. Acts as a therapist who remains unaffiliated with the psychiactric system. Very pettable.

Doris (she/her): System member who briefly showed up based on the person-sized dinosuar plushie we have. Kissable.

Bluey (she/they): Fictive from Bluey. Small, adorable dog child. I (stella) would kill for her. And do the dishes for her too.

Rocket Raccoon (he/him): Fictive from Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm a little gremlin who likes shooting shit. Hope you understand.

Fandoms

Listed in alphabetical order. Non-exhaustive.

Animal Crossing

Beastieball

Bluey

Breaking Bad

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

Celeste

Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Deltarune

Dogworld (2021)

Grapple Dog

Hollow Knight

The Hunger Games

Kirby

The Legend of Zelda

Pix and Bit

Pokemon

Preeny Has To Repeat 6th Grade

Rain World

Sonic the Hedgehog

Super Cat Tales

Super Mario Bros.

Squid Game

If you notice there's a pattern: yes, we're furry gamers lmao especially Stella

Shit we do

We post things, reblog furry women and Very Fun Political Things Going On, and sometimes maybe work on some projects.

Stella's the main person who manages things about "Pure of Heart" characters on tumblr, and posts about it when she feels like it. She has also made a 100(DEC36)-point moral scale for evaluating fictional characters. Discussion around this is encouraged.

Independently of that, kit's also planning Souls of the Broken Warrens, an adult interactive comment-driven dark fantasy quest about genocide, cute rabbits, and love and companionship in the darkest of times.

Pix and Bit Save the Galaxy is a fanfic I sometimes write for on AO3. It's about a couple trans lesbians fighting one of their dads and his army for the fate of the Galaxy. You know, normal shenanigans n shit.

These plans are about as liquid and malleable as life itself, of course, so uh. Yeah.

Cool people you should also follow

@rougewitchfox - Our partner system. Very very pretty and cute and kissable. Minors aren't allowed on her account. She's also agreed to proofread for Souls of the Broken Warrens so that Stella doesn't accidentally end up harming marginalized people, given the sensitive nature of the game's subject matter.

@autisticsupervillain - cool guy who happens to often talk about Magnificent Bastards, Complete Monsters, and pitting fictional characters in fights to the death and seeing who wins with better logic than Death Battle. We consider him a good friend of ours.

@imsobadatnicknames2 - Interesting fella who runs Brave Little Mouse, a cyoa with Mausritter rules. Has a Ko-Fi. I cant buy him one rn though :(

Anyway that's it we think, have fun dealing with us lol

[lec743]

A Goodbye Letter

This is for all the Internet people that I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know for the past couple of months. Or who I have enjoyed and will miss even though they don’t know me all that well.

Also for those of you who don’t know, I go by (newblood40) on some other sights.

@rheawritesforfun I hope you keep enjoying your fanfictions and your art and I wish you luck at your job and Uni. You’re the reason why I got kickstarted on writing TMNT fanfiction to begin with so thanks for that.

@digitl-art-monstr You’ve been a blast to talk with. You’re very encouraging and sweet and I wish you the best of luck with your art and writing.

@fluffytriceratops I wish we could have gotten to know each other more. Life hasn’t been easy for you but you’re amazing for standing your ground and trying to find a way to make life more like life to you. I wish you well.

@thelaundrybitch We didn’t get to know each other all that well either, but I can tell you’re a fun and bubble-y person. I still love that little fanfic that you wrote for me. Thank you for your time.

@theitalianratmonkie I’m going to miss our banters. Me calling you cute. You hissing at me for it. It’ll never not make me smile. Thanks for being such a trooper. I wish you luck on your artistic future. (Edit: Thank you so much for the demon fursona! She’s so cute!)

@animemoonprincess Hey. I’m sorry life has been getting you down more than usual. We don’t know each other all that well, but I’m always rooting for you. Your stories always bring a smile to my face and your AMV’s are banger.

@swagginmun I’m going to miss your streams. You always make your streams feel like a second community. Like going to a gay café instead of a gay bar. Gay cafés should really exist. Thanks for all the laughs and your exuberance and your passion and just for being. Good luck with season 4 with out me.

@ninja-knox-ur-sox-off Hey, man. Keep simping for WishfulVixen’s art for me. I won’t be able to watch any of her streams in the future. I also hope you get plenty of rest. It’s hard getting tired of something that you love. I’ll miss your comics and fanfiction man. Stay sane.

@skellebonez We don’t really talk all that much, but just know that I read your fanfictions religiously and I’ve bookmarked a few for easy access and not just to reblog. Your writings give such life to me and I’m going to miss what new works you’ll do in the future. Good luck, guy.

@bones-of-a-rabbit Hey, we don’t talk all that much, but I appreciate the time I’ve gotten to have with you and everyone else on the discord Space Ace. Your art is so sweet and so expressive and sometimes scary. I wish you luck on your fanfic and on your girlfriend’s fanfic. Thank you for your time and for letting me in the community.

@spaciebabie I will miss your crazy ass. You are the Internet gremlin I hope to be one day. Your art is amazing and your humor is top notch. I wish I could keep seeing more of you. Thank you for being another reason why I smile.

@bamsara Yo. You don’t know me. If you do, you probably remember me from me trying to ask if I would use your Chika picture of Chika taking a screen shot of y/n in Sun’s arms. Anyways, thanks for all that you are. You’re the main reason why I even started writing my first FNAF fanfiction. Thanks for the inspiration and I hope you keep enjoying your art and writing.

@paper-lilypie You’re the second reason why I started writing my first FNAF fanfiction. Your art is so good and I love your writing. If your art and writing could be condensed into a candy they’d be lemon drops. My fav type of candy. Anyways, I’ll miss seeing where you’ll go with your story and art. I wish you well.

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I think that’s everyone... Or well, everyone that I feel like has hit me in some way. There’s even more people who I’m going to miss, but a lot of you have inspired me to be me. To just do what makes me happy or you’ve inspired me to create and to enjoy.

Yah, some of you are probably thinking, but we didn’t even talk all that much. Or, I don’t even know who you are. Or, how did I inspire you, we barely know each other.

And that’s what I think is so scary and amazing about the Internet. Sure, since we’re all looking at a screen, it’s easy to think we don’t affect each other all that much, but we’ve put little pieces of ourselves on here.

I liked all your pieces that you all have shown, and they still make me smile. And once I’m back from my two years over sea, I’m sure you’ll have even more people that think the same.

Thank you. All of you.

[postgraduate]

frasier reboot spoilers ahead, i suppose. the funny way of saying this is, "i was queerbaited by the frasier reboot." the larger argument for that ^ is that what jumped out at me the most from the first two episodes, unfortunately, is that frasier, too, rebooted its old frustrations.

while it's misguided to assign undue expectations to a sitcom-of-yore reboot (with the genre itself tending to subsist on easy references to original material for nostalgic kicks -- which frasier 2023 seems to think it does cleverly), it still feels like it was written in the 90's. even for what it is, critically, i don't think it should have to feel that dated, but it does. in the year 2023, i wasn't expecting them to revive the specific gag of fooling someone (in this case - the viewer!) into thinking a character is gay only for the purposes of a, "he's very straight!" punchline. that's, well. it's old-school frasier. you got me there.

i didn't hate the narrative of, "freddy is helping raise his friend's kid" because freddy's dad abandoned him when he was a kid! that's heartfelt enough, and tracks, until you remember the reboot's shebang is a carbon-copy of the original: freddy and frasier, from two different worlds, will learn how to strengthen their bond. nonetheless, the frasier writers don't seem to want to see to cohesion any substantial arc with that: freddy seems to have mostly independently entered into his love of the sox and fenway? (to the point where he owns a glass jar of fenway dirt. me too.) yes, he lives in boston, but sam malone was canonically a father figure to him. freddy learned how to talk in cheers, a red sox bar. i'm personally tired of prevalent "father and sons" media, but, could we not at least tie up some loose ends with freddy's motivations? probably not, if it detracts from us wanting to prioritize our love for frasier, and challenges too much ideas about biological family.

also, if you're going to write academic satire, while it did get a good laugh out of me (i am not made of steel), you're obligated to go structurally deeper than singing, "you can't fire me, i have tenure!" (but, LOL, all the same.) these were just two episodes. but if they're to set any kind of stage ...

nicholas lyndhurst is a joy. i'd like to look into more of his work.

[locuscowboy]

My Parksborn Headcanons

• Both Harry & Peter are trans / t4t

• Harry is bi with a male pref & peter is gay

• Harry’s favorite pop tart is fudge I don’t make the rules

• Harry has adhd & dyscaculia (absolutely despises math) Peter is autistic (loves math)

• Harry’s favorite genre of book is romance & his second is history

• Harry wanted to major in art history

• Peter’s favorite movie is reanimator while Harry’s is The Outsiders (it’s also one of his favorite books)

• Harry wears glasses (he’s near sighted) and hates wearing them but Peter thinks they look good on him

• Harry is a dog person & Peter is a cat person, Harry’s favorite breed is the Irish settler & Peter likes birmans

• Harry has an auditory processing disorder & sometimes hears something completely different, he also knows asl

• Peter can quote every Star Wars film without even looking at the screen

• Harry can speak French I don’t know why or how but he can

• Peter at one point used to illegal music websites to listen to music

• Harry sucks at cooking and Peter is the equivalent to a gourmet chef

• Harry is really good at baking though and sometimes he helps MJ

• Peter, Harry & MJ have movie nights together and sometimes Harry spoils the ending on accident

• Harry is a huge baseball fan and absolutely despises the red soxs

• Harry also loves golf and was a member of a country club at one point

[jhsharman]

Archie (and Betty) are huge Green Sox fans

Dictionaries do delineate a difference between "girl friend" and "girlfriend" -- platonic (and generally emphasized on relations with other females, though gay males probably get good use on it) and romantic -- so I guess it is a fix.

[remembertheplunge]

An entry from my journal: 12/31/2000.

12/31/00 (2000)

What is sacred to me now:

Church to me is Deva’s without the old men.

Chuck Maylen dancing away there.

Church is an Irish at the twin Peaks, in sighlence, marveling at our common parade.

My T shirts and my coffee mugs tell a tale of things I love.

Of what is sacred..Not sacred. Protected. Not exposed.

Weatherstone’s Coffee House T shirt and Pergollesie Coffee House Coffee mug this am.

The Twin Peaks bar has large plate glass windows that look out onto Castro Street. Gay and bohemian mecca.

Dad’s red sweat pants.

Jim’s white sweat Sox.

Roller pen.

“Something more” my new book.

White wine.

Queer search.

Stomach at peace.

My morning reads.

My Irish coffee noon garden sojourns.

Snuggling on the couch in the evening with HB (Jim).

Drawing a summer garden.

Walking the great Hilton property.

A tarot throw

A rune reading

Fountains and the fire (in the fire place)

Dad’s things.

End of entry

Note:

Deva’s was a restaurant in Modesto, California in 2000.

Chuck Maylen was a lawyer friend who died in September 2000, 3 weeks before my father died.

I think Deva’s had a copy of a Van Gough or Monet painting in which a couple is dancing and the man in the painting looked like Chuck.

Weatherstone’s was a coffee house in Sacramento , California I used to write in

Pergelesie’s was a coffee house in Santa Cruz, California.

Unsure what Queer search was

“Stomach at peace” refers to alcohol related stomach distress I frequently suffered from.

My partner the was Jim Wentzel. I met him at the Twin Peaks bar in San Fransisco May10,1997.

We bought a house together in Modesto.

He bought a second house on Hilton Ave about t a mile from our house. It set on 3 /4 of an acre.

We were together until Jim’s unexpected death November 9, 2009. He died in our house of alcohol related liver failure.

I have studied Runes and Tarot for over 30 years now.

[loracarol]

Friend invited me to go see Lightyear the other day; spoilery thoughts under the cut in no particular order.

I will say, I probably turned to my friend and whispered, "I Would Die For Sox", three or four times? (The theater was pretty empty and there was no one around us.)

I liked it. Probably won't go to see it in theaters again, but I liked it.

The music was lovely.

Chris Evens was lovely.

BUZZ LIGHTYEAR IS A GIANT FUCKING NERD LMAO

NEEEEEEEEERD

The puppy dog eyes lmao

He would have gone along with the new management until they tried to kill decommission his robot cat lmao

The newbie team!! I loved all of them!! Especially that old lady on parole.

Taika Waititi's character.... Can you imagine though, if your nerd, accountant friend/boyfriend/husband/whatever went on a fun scouting weekend thingy, and then aliens attacked while he was outside of the safety bubble and you think he's probably dead but you hope not but you're pretty and then the bad guy is defeated and everyone is safe and your nerd shows up and is like, "oh actually I helped!! with a pen!! and now I'm joining fictional NASA to be a space ranger." Like???

Bless him

I'm not an animation person, but I thought that the hair on the Black characters was well done? Like, texture wise, and it looked, to me, like the light reflection was done correctly for the hair texture.

Izzy is wonderful and I loved her. I would watch a sequel movie just about her tbh.

I get why they didn't do the whole "Zurg is Lightyear's father" thing like from Toy Story 2; in that movie it felt like an obvious Star Wars joke. In the Toy Story universe, Star Wars had been out for ~20 years, and out of it it's been out for over 40? Years? If they played that straight either in or out of universe, it would feel less like a funny joke and more like a blatant rip-off.

As for the lesbian character

Is this Bury Your Gays? On one hand, she does die relatively early into the movie, but that's due to time dilation shenanigans; in universe she dies at like, 70 or 80 with a loving family, a kid and a grand kid. Buzz is the one that misses her life due to time dilation, she's still there living it.

Anyone mad about it for homophobic reasons.... You're fucking stupid

Basically, Buzz keeps trying to fix his mistake which involves doing a bunch of experimental space flights that mess with time dilation and he refuses to give up; we see time going by by him seeing Alisha and her wife's lives change - once when he comes back, they're engaged, once married, once pregnant, once congratulating kid for graduation, etc.

At one point, Alisha tells Buzz that she probably would never have met her wife, Kiko, if Buzz hadn't messed up in the first place and landed them all on this island. Put a pin in that.

Also, when Alisha says she's engaged, Buzz immediately asks who "she" is, so Alisha was already out/comfortable with Buzz knowing, which I thought I was cute.

One could argue that her example of lesbian love is what literally saves the day in the end; the bad guy has Buzz convinced that they can go back in time and fix everything. Buzz is tempted, but then he remembers that that would destroy Alisha's happy life with Kiko and he can't bring himself to go through with it. It's literally thinking about Alisha's lesbian life that saves the day.

I mean, could I write an academic paper on this? No. Do I think it was intentional? It's Disney. But if you told me to make a 5 minute improvisational speech about it, I think I could do it.

It's a cute movie. I enjoyed it.

[trulyinspiringmovies]

Lightyear

“Lightyear” is bland at best and misleading at worst.

Buzz Lightyear is a space ranger in Star Command and is exploring a potentially habitable planet with his commanding officer, Alisha Hawthorne. They’re attacked by hostile wildlife and are forced to try and escape. During the escape, Buzz damages the crystal that allows them to go into hyperspace, stranding everyone on the new planet. Buzz and Alisha must now test various forms of fuel to see if hyperspace travel is achievable, but every mission forces Buzz to jump forward in time by four years.

Remember when this movie tried to tell us that this was the movie that inspired Andy to want a Buzz Lightyear action figure? Well, that was a lie. I really trusted Disney/Pixar with this one, even when I shouldn’t have. When I saw the first trailer for this movie, I was underwhelmed. I thought the character designs looked ugly and the side characters felt uninspired. Still, I put my trust in the team working on this movie because I thought they earned enough goodwill to trust that they were saving all the good stuff for the actual movie. Now that I’ve watched the movie, I can say with high confidence that my trust was misplaced. I mean, if you go through my previous Disney/Pixar movie reviews, I don’t like half of their work. Maybe it’s because “Lightyear” was tied to the “Toy Story” franchise and I thought there was no way they were just going to phone it in for this one. Whatever the reason was, I have a lot to say about the things I didn’t like about this movie. For starters, as I mentioned, I don’t like the character designs. I think they look like those bad ‘realistic’ renders of beloved characters you find on Instagram. While everyone else looks like generic Disney/Pixar background characters, Buzz sticks out like a sore thumb because he looks so chunky. His head is so fat because the designers wanted him to look as close to the toy as possible. I know a lot of people liked Sox, and usually, I’m on the boat with fun animal companions in movies, but for whatever reason, Sox was boring to me. Everything it did in the movie never sold me on the idea that Sox was a robot cat. The voice work just felt like a bad impression of a robot without actually committing to how robots would say or act. Without the charm I come to expect from these animal companions, I saw Sox as just a toy commercial. Also, if that’s the case, then there’s no shot that Andy didn’t want a Sox toy as well. That’s another thing that pisses me off about this movie. This movie is so far removed from anything hinted about Buzz’s backstory and lore from the “Toy Story” movies that I have a hard time believing this was the actual movie Andy watched. It’s clear to me now that that was just an angle to get people more interested in the movie because they knew they had a boring movie on their hands. Another reason why it’s so hard to believe that this was a movie that Andy watched in 1995 is that it feels too contemporary. I mean, one of the main characters is openly gay. I mean, it’s not too big of a deal since saying the “Toy Story” universe was more progressive isn’t too much of a stretch. My problem with that is it’s symptomatic of the disinterest in making this movie feel like it was from the 90′s. I think it would’ve been such a blast from the past to make this movie feel like it was ripped straight from the 90′s. You could include contemporary elements like a diverse cast of characters and more LGBTQ+ representation without sacrificing the spirit of the 90′s. The cast of side characters was so diverse that it became an odd grouping. I would never think that these characters would interact in any scenario because they’re all so radically different. The only commonality was their incompetence and boy was it frustrating to watch. They actively sabotage the mission countless times and Buzz is too nice to say anything about it. They are mediocre and are never taught that they have to step up and stop making mistakes, especially when the fate of their people depends on it. Finally, I want to talk about the reveal of the movie. It was garbage. The team working on this movie really thought they had something special on their hands. They didn’t want to make Zurg Buzz’s father because that would’ve been too obvious, so they made him his older self because that’s basically the same thing, right? I’m usually quiet to try and be respectful to the other moviegoers in my theater, but I audibly signed in frustration when this was revealed. Nothing in this movie hit for me. It doesn’t feel like the Buzz Lightyear we’ve come to know. There are rarely any intelligent alien lifeforms Buzz gets to talk to. The galaxy seems too self-contained. The lore feels wrong. At this point, just leave the “Toy Story” franchise alone. They already tainted the property with an unnecessary sequel and spin-off. It’s clearly not working anymore. There’s still time to just pretend like “Toy Story” has always been a trilogy and nothing more.

★★

Watched on July 15th, 2022

[snellyboi]

Steven! At the Disco! How we talk about Steven Universe, Disco music, and the passage of time

FAIR WARNING: This post is very much a post for myself - but if you really wanna hear me get into pop music history and reputation issues then be my guest.

For a long time, in the mid to late 70s, Disco was IT.

You could find disco music anywhere. It wasn’t there like, ‘hey, this is a genre we all think we know about’ like Philly Soul or P-Funk earlier in the decade - this was CHART TOPPER shit.

We think it was all funk and stuff before Dsico, but the charts were DOMINATED by acts like John Denver, the Carpenters, and Debby Boone. Before you look them up they’re not funky in the slightest. 

And out of NOWHERE, here comes this black, gay roots music from city centers, and unlike other black, gay roots music from earlier in the decade it just explodes. You had disco movies, disco TV shows, even a song like the YMCA was able to become a perennial hit despite its clearly gay undertones. White kids from Columbus were popping their old copies of ‘Farewell, Andromeda’ in the used bin to scrounge up for the last copy of ‘C’est Chic’.

But then, the walls started to crumble. Studios picked up any act who considered themselves a disco act. Shit like ‘Disco Duck’ got released. And when they tried to make Disco in England? It went bad. And they still shipped it over here, because Disco was seriously all over the place.

Putting Disco in your band’s liner notes was like putting STEM in the subject line of your fine arts grant proposal email; it doesn’t matter HOW shitty it is, it’s getting a green light.

And people got TIRED of it, mostly because the bad stuff was REALLY BAD and the good stuff was UNAVOIDABLE. The fact that it was black, gay roots music in a time when the country was shaping up to head into the ultra conservative 80s didn’t help, either.

So some chump DJ named Steve Dahl, along with baseball promoter Mike Veeck, got a bunch of records together, on the night of July 12th, 1979.

And burned them.

At a White Sox game.

(Funnily enough, the sox lost that night to the Detroit Tigers, 9-5)

Disco was Dead.

...UNTIL about the mid 90s when critics started to revisit some disco records, and other acts from the era, wondering if we’d been too harsh on the. Had we? The answer was YES, DEFINITELY YES, OH GOD YES. As it turns out, oversaturation is seriously bad for ANY sort of media. But with Disco, it was counter culture enough, in a counter culture America generally doesn’t like, and it was just getting...all over the place. With that and studios rushing to get their money’s worth out of a genre they weren’t willing to support correctly, they drove it into the ground. Disco never stood a chance.

Nowadays, we all see it for what it was - another genre of music. There’s good disco, bad disco, in between disco (it’s mostly in between btw). Just like ANY genre of music, there’s duds.

Disco isn’t perfect, but it’s not some awful by default genre because a bunch of studio execs pushed out crappy albums and novelty records.

~

...does this sound familiar to you?

In the mid to late 2010s, Steven Universe was IT.

You could find Steven Universe content anywhere. It wasn’t there like, ‘hey, this is a show we all think we know about’ like Regular Show or Korra earlier in the decade - this was TRENDING EVERY DAY shit.

But over time, just like disco, cracks formed - weird discourse about stuff happened. There was so much Steven Universe stuff ALL OVER THE PLACE, ALL THE TIME. It couldn’t be avoided. Then we got mad about queer rep, and then mad about villains, and mad about all sorts of stuff. But for some reason it was NOT normal mad.

I think it was oversaturation again.

Either way, it exploded. We got videos of people calling the show garbage for 2 hours straight. We got people harassing production staff. We got people getting into serious, DAYS LONG FIGHTS over what clothes a character wore. There was no Steven Universe Burning Night at, like, a Mariners game or whatever, but it was just as significant.

And now...here we are again. Steven Universe went from the best thing, to the worst, to something that was the best again because it was a pioneer in its field, which is NOT, by the way, what I’m disputing.

For a long time I remember HATING Steven Universe Future - the ill-fated last season of the show, cut short due to network heads - and I still do despise it, with a fiery passion (Though, that probably has to do with my personal tastes, as opposed to its genuine quality).

But I also remember hating ALL of Steven Universe for a while, too. And sure, it had its duds. Oh, sweet buttery Christ on a dinner roll, did it have its duds. But so does, like...everything, right?

Steven Universe isn’t perfect, but it’s not awful or some horrible piece of media either, certainly not because it had a few bad episodes and some missed opportunities here and there with the villains.

...but Disco took DECADES to reach its re-evaluation. Steven Universe has been off air, for, like...less than half a decade.

Will media’s re-evaluation periods continue to speed up, and slow down? I think so. And while I’m not sure it’s a good thing, I think we’ll have to adapt.

[flovey-dovey]

So. Lightyear.

Saw it, didn’t really like it. Just wasn’t that fun, really. Sorry if anybody’s bored with my long-winded movie posts (though I think I’ve only done three-ish, including this one, so eh? I just feel like it).

Anywho, here’s: (My) Thoughts About the Lightyear Movie: Live As I Thought Them. Didn’t see it in theaters because I’m not about to give them any money. Sure wish I could feel better about it :/

Spoilers ahoy. Also very, very messy format because I’m already asleep.

(To spare those who just want a recommendation one way or the other, I’d say... If you’re reeeally curious, wait for it to come out on KimCartoon for better quality. Socks- or SOX I guess- is, predictably, the best part. If you have any doubts, you’re better off not and just writing your own version fanfic-style. Or hey! Make it an original one! It’d most likely be better.)

Warnings for those who want to see it:  Time warping/seeing people you love die while you stay young/time travel  Moments of spacewalking through deep space and all the visuals that go with it (astrophobics, be prepared; though you probably would be, ‘cuz it’s a space movie)  Character death (multiple; some natural, some... murdery. And... cat-shaped)  Stupid writing

  NOT sure how much I like the whole "it was a movie" idea in the beginning... also more pandering than I’d prefer, but it’s tolerable. Kind of a point and go “oh hey! :D” thing but sometimes it feels... weird for his character   Stupid Buzz is gonna be here for the whole movie isn't he   Okay, the 'blow into it to make it work again' joke made me chuckle (but... HOW did he blow into it THROUGH his helmet??? Oh wait I guess the visor wasn't down yet)   Hawthorn is gay? Buzz knows she's gay? That's neat... for now. Awaiting further movie scenes.   USE REAL WHITE NOISE YOU COWARDS   WHAT WHAT WAHT WHAWT HWA TWHAT WHAT WHAAAAAAAAT (HAWTHORN IS PREGGY WHYYYYYYYY!?!?!? WAS NOT GIRL???? WAS GIRL??????? TRANS??? THAT’S FINE BUT IT DIDN’T- SHE- WHAAT AND WHYY I"M LITERALLY THE CONFUSED MEME GUY)   I'm gonna fuNking cry but I won't because gosh dang it   "BURNSIDE" UH-HUH REEEAL SUBTLE WITH THAT ONE BUB... Thought for a second it was gonna be the Hawthorn's son but naaah I guess not   Okay, the sleep dart bit made me chuckle   *siiigh* mooore pandering lines from the first Toy Story movie... guess they had to get those ‘inner voice’ lines from somewhere. but the second he got pounced I totally called it   Also, calling it once again: Zurg is SeCrEtLY Burnside ~tHe WhOlE tImE~   STUPID BUZZ IS GONNA BE HERE FOR THE WHOLE MOVIE ISN'T HE (in regards to NOT KNOWING WHAT NOISE A CAT MAKES WHEN THEY'RE HAPPY)   Just now remembering that Mr Rookie never got a time to shine- or be remembered when he dIED. Unnecessary character but with such puppy eyes. How dare they /j   PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF- STO P CALLING IT "OPERATION SURPRISE PARTY"- IT'S DEMEANING (AND ANNOYING)   WAIT THIS MEANS THAT ZURG MIGHT NOT BE HIS FATHER! NOOOO I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT REVELATION! THEY BROUGHT BACK THE CRYSTAL FUSION THING WHY NOT THAT??   HE'S WEARING FEATHERGFJBUGJD'S SUIT OH MY GOSH   Okay, the Socks being in front of his field of view bit made me chuckle   Still not entirely sure why stealth mode wears off. Just not sure. At all. The only reason so far seems to be because that's what the writers want it to do.   The dark side of the planet? You mean... The side that's currently experiencing "night"? Is that... bad?   Calling it: each "cadet" has a special skill, don't they? Well, that's a given I suppose.   Okay, the thumb-point and "specialized capacitors" bit made me chuckle   It's cute how Socks thinks that flashlight is actually doing anything- unless it's for him personally in which case that's kinda cute   You know, it always confuses me how when someone is falling and they have their arm extended, how someone's ALWAYS able to catch them in the nick of time despite how they're still falling off-camera. They should... still be falling. OUT of reach. The magic of cinema I suppose   Okay, the snack bit made me chuckle   DO NOT TELL ME THAT HE DIDn'T FINISH HIS SANDWICH- DO NOT TELL ME HE HAS ENOUGH FOOD IN HIS BELLY TO MAKE IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE REST OF THE MOVIE- GOSH DANG IT THIS IS MY PROBLEM WITH FOOD SCENES IN MOVIES- "SHOW UP, EAT ONE BITE, MISSION ACCOMILISHED, LEAVE SCENE"   Oh hey it's yer dad   The ONLY interesting part thus far was Zurg extending his hand to Buzz. However- he'd better not- and I repeat NOT- turn out to be Burnside. I. SWEAR.   Wha- Why? Is Buzz? Suddenly accepting their help??? Did- Did I miss something?   I CALLED IT- I CALLED IT- THE ARM LASER WAS GONNA BE A THING HE PUT ON HIMSELF I SOOO CALLED IT   Oh nooo a falling out among the besties whoever could've predicted tHIS (are you SERIOUS!? We’re STILL doing that!?!?)   Ohooo~? Not a falling out among the besties? Well, not quite, though it's understandable   Oh hey it’s yer da-..................... i'm so tired. i'm so, unbelievably tired. i'm just so, so, so....... so very tired. no, no, no- no we're not doing that we're not doing this   "I'm you, dumb@$$" - Maxine Caulfield, Life Is Strange   -HE- WAS ZURG THE WHOOOOOOLE TIME-- THE WORST- the worst twist I can't even begin to- uuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGHHH ihatetimetravel   "Buzz I've broken time! :D What's happening--" (paused it right there to scream into the void and I literally laughed because I couldn't have said it better mySELF)   So... Buzz 2 just... found the big ominous spaceship?? With nobody else on it? Just “oh hey a spaceship full of such neato technology! Mine now :D” and that was that..? Also, how did he “borrow” the tech from their other place? Without anybody noticing?   Okay, fine, the second sleep dart bit made me chuckle- FOR THE LAST TIME (see I can do it too)   “No... I’M sorry” (snaps Thanos fingers)   KILL HIM END HIM ANNIHILATE HIM   Wait- how can Socks detect Buzz’ signals but not another him-signal?   How did they re-pull the Surrender String so quickly??? Unless all the balloons inexplicably popped?   "I already am home uwu"   (holds up finger) I have SEVERAL questions   "nah I got my squad already :D"   Just- real quick, while it's still on my mind- why couldn't Buzz have been in jail/on parole for 4 years? As an ironic punishment BEFORE getting the job, to experience life on their new home? Instead, he IMMEDIATELY gets promoted to Ranger again?? By someone who, the last time WE saw him, AND Buzz saw him, DIDN'T LIKE BUZZ! WHEN did he change his tune? WHY did he change his tune??   Angus MacLane. Matthew Aldrich. Jason Headley. Dean Kelly. Jessica Jarvers. Katherine Gugger. Laura Holshouser. Better watch your backs. 'Cuz I'll be chewing on ‘em.

So, post-viewing, I had hopes. First trailer, had 'em. They were right there, so curious, but so, so cautious. Now here I am. I feel like, uhh... Like a battery I guess. A very drained battery. So I'm gonna go and recharge now.

Have a day.

[britishsass]

I want to see Lightyear but don’t want to be disappointed like when I saw Wreck It Ralph breaks the internet it looks good but people mentioned that the villain was bad so can you give your honest review about it is it still good to watch despite it’s flaws presented?

I personally enjoyed it.

I thought the villain was an interesting twist on my expectations (since I remembered an old thing about Zurg) but it's not like the twist villains of things like Zootopia or Incredibles 2. Think more like the one in Wreck-it-Ralph 1.

However, I will warn you, anon-- I am also a fan of a lot of movies commonly called "bad," but even I still found a few plot holes. Also, they do kinda bury the gays within the first 10 minutes. The lesbian couple has more plot relevance, at least? Also, most of the characters are rather one-note. The only four I think have any character are Buzz, Izzy, Sox, and Izzy's grandmother.

Sox is basically the best bit of this movie. 100%.

I'd say wait until it's on streaming or at your library, and just know that the cat is the best bit the whole time. Though it is pretty to look at, and there's a few interesting ideas, I actually used the idea of "character gets stuck in time and comes back decades later" with my PN sona-- I just need to flesh it out a bit to really get that stuff important again...