#himbo/lesbian solidarity

[homosandhomies]

everyone please take a moment to appreciate tara sitting on nick’s shoulders

[pixiatn]

Au where that pretty pink shirt girl that sits next to will is his "straight" friend who's the only person who he actually told he's gay

Basically she's the 'Steve' to Wills 'Robin' cause will deserved atleast ONE cool new Cali friend

EDIT: one of my friends pointed this out but at the roller rink there was a guy kinda mesmerized/checking will out right behind him, so he's in this now, I'm finna call him Luis

[sunsetsharkblog]

Another Caitlyn character bit I love is her friendship with Jayce and what that tells us about her. There’s a lot of plaintext and context clues that Caitlyn is pretty socially isolated, struggles finding common grounds with her peers because of her social status, and we see her trying really hard with forced smiles and “I don’t know how else to contribute to the conversation so I’ll divulge trivia” with the other enforcers. And with Vi and in the undercity we see the focused mission future-sheriff side of her, and the kind and thoughtful altruistic human that she is and one day I’ll write that essay about both of their How It Started How It’s Going arcs but original point:

With Jayce we get the glimpse of what Caitlyn is like when she’s affectionately relaxed, because she knows the other person well enough to act like this around them. There’s no caution or awkwardness, just the straight forward genuine. And what I love about what it shows of her character?

Like, yes, the twisting his arm because of the hat tap is textbook sibling teasing back and forth, but afterwards when Jayce tells her he gets to give the speech, something important to him, what’s her reaction?

“Lol. Lmao, even.”

This is how Caitlyn shows affection with someone she considers a close friend! She doesn’t say “congrats” upon hearing what for Jayce is big news, that she must certainly know is big news, she says “fr? are they nuts?”

And she does this again when he tells her he became a councillor, immediately laughs and insults the idea of it. Oh they made you a councillor? Of what, the Idiots With Hammers division?

And Jayce just brushes it off because that’s just their thing. He knows that Caitlyn doesn’t find joy in politics and that the big news happening to him sounds absolutely dreadful for her, and that she’s not actually insulting him or his news; this is just how Caitlyn shows her affection. Her love language is negging the shit out of you.

I’m certain season2 is gonna be a whole lot of tragedy, but I do hope we get to see this side of Caitlyn again.

[starport-rodeo]

Now presenting everyone’s favorite duo: awkward lesbian and her comfort himbo

[jomarchswritingjacket]

every lesbian needs a himbo bff it’s a scientific fact

[wordsmith30]

Okay, so I was completely thrown by Paul trying to kiss Ellie the first time watching The Half of It (2020). It just felt so out of left field and I was just like, “Dude! What are you doing?” He’d literally just gotten together with Aster. How did he all of a sudden like Ellie?

Even Paul asking her if there was someone else was so shocking because it’s like: “You dummy! Aster!” (And it’s funny because not only did that question apply to Ellie, it applied to him as well. The dialogue in this movie was so on point.) He and Aster were a thing now. That’s what all of this had been for. But on the second watch, I realized that Paul’s feelings for Ellie had had a natural buildup and progression.

Truthfully, he was never in love with Aster and he and Ellie both knew it. Like Ellie said, they had nothing in common and the person that Aster had been corresponding with was not Paul. He was never going to convince her otherwise because he hadn’t even been privy to half the conversations Ellie and Aster were having (nor was he really interested). He was quite literally “hid[ing] behind other people’s words.” Ellie was the one carrying that relationship.

It was only through his bonding moments with Ellie that Paul began to understand what love actually was. He had a much easier time talking to her during their ping-pong sessions; he asked her about herself and her family; he actually listened to and understood the metaphor she explained to him about Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit; he listened to her sing at night when he took out the trash. He helped her find clothes that suited her and saved her from embarrassment at the talent show, showed signs of jealousy when Trig called Ellie “hot”, and let her crash at his place when she drank too much at the senior after-party. I think the letters he found in her bag afterwards were what solidified things for him: Ellie had initially dismissed and rejected his taco sausage, but once she tried it, she started writing to all of these food critics to get his name out there. (And we know Ellie’s a fantastic writer, so she made his chances ten times better.)

Ellie had invested so much time and care coaching and training Paul to give him even an eighth of a chance with Aster, despite knowing he was “probably gonna crash and burn.”

While he did get a second date (again, because Ellie saved his butt), his in-person dynamic with Aster did not improve and Alexxis Lemire noted the disconnect in that scene where Aster gives Paul the painting after her day (read: date) with Ellie. She was looking for that pensive, insightful person from her letters and kept coming up blank.

Later, Paul was much more interested in knowing that Ellie was going to be at his football game than Aster. When Ellie said that Aster had wished him luck, the first thing he did was ask Ellie if she was coming. And though he waved at Aster in the stands, he paid way more attention to Ellie, even becoming so distracted that she had to signal for him to pay attention to the game.

Then, instead of meeting Aster afterwards like he’d promised, he went to find Ellie getting Yakult from the vending machines. He didn’t seem the least bit upset about Aster walking in on their almost-kiss because his crush on her was gone. He’d developed feelings for Ellie while Ellie had fallen for Aster.

While Paul did in fact love Ellie, I think he confused platonic love with romantic love and wrongfully assumed that Ellie felt the same way for him. Heck, even Ellie’s dad thought they were together!

But I think the sweetest thing ever was Paul admitting that he loves Ellie platonically when he accepts that she’s gay. He doesn’t say, “I never want to be the guy that stops being friends with someone for loving the way they want to love.” He says, “I never want to be the guy who stops loving someone for loving the way that they want to love.”

He accepts Ellie for who she is, accepts her feelings for Aster, and opens up the floor for their joint confession about the letters.

Good on you, Paul Munsky. Good on you.

[idkimtiredanddumb]

STEVE THOUGHT ROBIN COULD DRIVE BUT STILL DROVE HER TO SCHOOL I AM NOT TO BE TRUSTED NEAR OPEN WINDOWS

[likelytowritesomestuff]

Zoro: I'm not scared of anything

Nami: you still owe me 100000 Berry

Zoro: I'm scared of one thing

[kingrichardiii]

while "holding out for a hero" would be a cool vecna-rescue-song for steve, there's another bonnie tyler song that already means more to both him and robin: "i need you now tonight, and i need you more than ever, and if you only hold me tight, we'll be holding on forever"

[agrebel18]

the coming out scene with Steve and Robin made me so happy :)

[scoobydoomidnightblue]

After Robin and Steve became friends, Robin’s slightly superior braincell combined with Steve’s to become one, arguably pretty good braincell in the right circumstances. When they’re together, it’s perfect and they can accomplish some pretty crazy shit. Unfortunately since they now share one braincell, it gets passed around a lot so each of them often get stuck in moments when they do not possess the braincell. That happens to Steve more often, since Robin usually has the braincell when they are not together. When Steve has the braincell, he’s great but Steve tends to lose the braincell when he has it, leaving them both a mess until they can retrieve it, but they can only do that when they’re together.

[frogtennant]

Jesus Christ when did this happen

[noticeablygeese]

would syc and Jett fight or would they bond over liking women

They’d fight then bond

[on-wednesdays-we-eat-the-rich]

I've finally fulfilled the prophecy.

I'm a lesbian who is best friends with a himbo.

[deanmartinofficial]

i miss my coworker :( he is getting a new job at the end of the summer and hes like my bff

[miamiweisz]

Pride Month Celebration Week: Day 4 - Dynamic

↳ Robin & Steve (lesbian + himbo solidarity)

Ew, gross! Don't say boobies!