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aveline-amelia · 8 months

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Jim Moriarty and bi erasure in The Sherlock Fandom

So I saw someone making fun of Moriarty/Eurus by claiming Moriarty is the gayest character in the show and that Jim even asked Mycroft how he wanted him in TFP, all, of course, in obligatory OUTRAGE CAPS LOCK.

Which is why I feel the need to make the distinction between saying "he's gay" in a "he's so into men" vs "he's so not into women" way. That requires acknowledging both asexual and bisexual erasure. No matter how flamboyant Moriarty is and how many sex references to men he makes, none of that is proof of homosexuality until:

Moriarty makes a definitive statement on his sexuality we are supposed to believe. (I'm gay)

Someone else makes a definitive statement on Moriarty's sexuality that we are supposed to take at face value and believe. (He's gay)

The Powers That Be make a definitive statement on Moriarty's sexuality and the way he was written and portrayed (Moriarty is gay and was written and portrayed as such).

Not all statements on sexuality are clear and definitive, such as Irene saying she's gay but admitting to attraction to a man in the exact same statement and having bisexual coding (both parties separately, male and female clients).

Or John saying that he's not gay but then never clarifying he's straight or not attracted to men.

And we all bring our assumptions when observing potential clues or statements regarding someone's sexual identity.

For example, Harry Watson could be bi but we assume she is a lesbian and we are mostly likely meant to assume that and at that she is probably a butch lesbian or somewhat GNC due to a usage of a masculine version of a name (Harriet -> Harry).

This could be wrong. She could be a feminine bisexual woman who prefers to be called Harry and just happened to fall for and marry a woman.

We don't know the sexuality of the innkeepers in THoB but we assume they are gay men. We assume Raul and Kenny Prince are gay men.

Moriarty refers to his role as Jim from IT as "playing gay" yet he gets flirty with Sherlock in the next sentence. This could all be part of an act, but I do believe reading Moriarty as a straight guy who just likes to mess with people is inherently heteronormative.

Some see Moriarty as a queercoded villain, and some see him as a genuine example of LGBT representation. Maybe not necessarily good representation, but that is subjective. But I do wish people would consider all options before they claim such regressive and potentially harmful opinions as fact.

Headcanons are fine! Claiming something is canon when it is not is different. I am still not over the "confirmed heterosexuality" comments regarding Mycroft and the whole bunch of "straight/het Mycroft" jokes.

And that is coming from someone who believes the Lady Smallwood scene was indeed heteronormative, albeit for different reasons than most people, I believe. But that's a topic for another day. No, seriously, I'll get there.

It's one thing to claim you do not believe a character is bisexual if you don't. It's another to deny bisexuality as an option when it is oftentimes the only option that takes all the evidence into account and does not require stretching the truth or ignoring tells.

Also Moriarty could have had Mycroft on that desk right there until he begged for mercy twice and that still wouldn't have been proof of either of them being homosexual men.

#i apologize for that last reference #i needed to inject some me into this serious post #sexuality in sherlock #sexuality headcanons #headcanons #jim moriarty #mycroft holmes #eurus holmes #euriarty #i guess...#heteronormativity #tw biphobia #tw bisexual erasure #tw homophobia #bisexual #bisexuality #bbc sherlock fandom #bbc sherlock fandom critical

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chillguy42 · 1 month

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#fiddauthor #gravity falls #stanford pines #fiddleford mcgucket #fiddleford hadron mcgucket #been rewatching gravity falls and got a little bit inspired #this is the first and probably the last time im making gf doodles but i cant tell for sure #i apologize for making killing stalking reference i couldnt help myself jdjdideej #my art

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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 1 year

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(loosely) that scene from potc... its so Them i think...

#apologies for the low quality scribbles i simply couldn't be fucked!! <3<3<3 #and they're a lil funky.... i havent drawn em in a while....#but geez. man. oof. ough #the potential of the pining + Names ouagshashjafkanvfla #THE RITUALS ARE INTRICATE #scribble salad #franklydear #welcome home #ever since finding out how they call each other by last names my brain has been Mush over that #the layers!!! the potential for development!!!#what would the transition to first-name-usage look like #i feel like they're gonna be on first name basis Before they actually refer to each other by their first names #and maybe frank will call him eddie first.... maybe....#leaving eddie to be the one maintaining a sort of 'professional' distance #but in the process making their interactions Way more intimate and emotionally Charged than they would've been otherwise #its about the suspense... about the 'am i allowed to know what your name feels like'....#the 'i want nothing more than to know what my name sounds like in your voice'#receiving your mail and waiting for the time he finally allows that little distance to be closed with one simple syllable #or delivering the mail and waiting for him to open both doors w/ hand & name #both an allowance and a confirmation and an answer and a promise wrapped up in one little word #Im Just Speculating & Rambling at this point #OUGH FRANKLYDEAR <3<3<3<3 #i cant wait to watch them really go Through the Horrors while falling in love #bc when nothing is real or certain what else can you cling to but each other #so abnormal about them....#wh has opened my eyes to the inherent romanticism & pain of mail carriers #they will always come to your door but they will also always leave #and the gifts they give you are always from someone Else #all you can hope for are those Moments where your fingers brush as they hand over letters #where the only true words between you are the ones hidden away in ink and belonging to neither of you

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uncharted-constellations · 12 days

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Cdiverse i love u unironically

#tloz #princess zelda #link #cdi zelda #faces of evil #wand of gamelon #art #my art #redesign #loz redesigns round 2 #i cant explain the airpl-ine! bit you just have to understand the vibe #i had to decide between the crop top and the mini skirt and the mini skirt won out #but i added magic cloak so the cuntiness equals out #i am still counting the third cdi game as seperate but that one is wildly unfinished because i cant get their posing okay #also yes this is the link i refered to as gayer than a court jester in my discord message post from last year and i will not apologize #i mean look at him #if anybody has zeldas official royal dress in their closet its him

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killjoy-prince · 7 months

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House M.D. but it's when a character says the name of the episode

#house md #prince's talk tag #flashing #repitition #so as i was watching this show i noticed they'd say the episode title in the episode #so i wanted to see how many times they did it #the people on livejournal who made transcripts of the episodes are my saviors and without them this would of been so much harder to do #thank you all for your service and i hope wherever you all are you're having a great day #sometimes they would use a variation of the word like in the episode poison they would say 'poisoned' or 'poisoning'#i did not include those instances #there was an instance in 'merry little christmas' where they do play the song in the show #but since ella fitzgerald was not a character in the show i did not include it #where as in the episode 'joy to the world' the students are singing it in the concert so i did include that #i apologize for the tonal whiplash when you get to that part but it did make me laugh #one of the times kutner says 'locked in' is overshadowed by the POTW's voice over but i assure you he says it and thats why its in there #out of the main characters from the one who said the title the most to least are #House > Foreman > Wilson > Chase > Cuddy > Adams > Cameron and Taub > Kutner > Thirteen and Park #this took a bit to do lolol its probably been done already but i wanted my own #there is a chance im missing some on technicalities but idc. im fine with this #there are two more i wanna do but with a character saying another character's name but ill do that some other time #EDIT: When I was making this video I was unaware that the Pilot episode went by two names: 'Pilot' and 'Everybody Lies'#Basically everywhere I looked the first episode was only referred to by 'Pilot'#which I found weird bc i remember seeing somewhere that the last episode was paired with the first episode in terms of title #but i couldn't find hard proof so I decided to leave it out at the time #well i checked again last night and yea the pilot IS also called Everybody Lies so I updated the video #I also think it goes well with the fact that House does say 'Everybody Dies' in the finale so another reason to fix it #AND he says it without Wilson while he and Wilson say the title of the pilot sooooo yea hehehehehe

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campbyler · 12 days

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no worries if not! but perchance would we be able to get a wip wednesday?

#enjoy #🔪

#sorry for taking one million years to write this i have been in the trenches for the last two weeks #the mariana trench to be specific #for reference i moved back in w my family 1.5 weeks ago and therefore have been actively fighting for my life every single day #getting 10.2 out has unfortunately been lower on my list of priorities than i would like #so apologies for constantly pushing it back!#but considering my embarrassingly high cry count of the last 12 days i think im doing very well #asks #a cruel wednesday with you

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aquared · 10 months

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my bad

#itchy always rummages through my cupboards ……… but he’s always rummaged through my cupboards for the last time …#/q #i think of things that make me laugh a ton #i hope you guys get the reference #homestuck #the felt #die 06 #crowbar 07 #itchy 01 #sorry for that absolutely abysmal crowbar side profile btw /hj #the more i look at it the more it looks better but i’m gonna apologize just in case

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jamiethebeeart · 2 months

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I don't know where all these Spinaraki shippers came from in the last few months but hello hi welcome thanks for being here I love that y'all are here

#spinaraki #spinneraki #shuichi iguchi #shigaraki tomura #mha spinner #mha fanart #bnha spinner #🙈 i accidentally gave then sunset eyes but i dont have the heart to change it #(no seriously - the more of you that pop up the happier i get)#also!!!! theres been like 4 or 5 new spinaraki playlist on spotify since i last looked im BARKING im so excited to listen to them all #also apologies for my apparently just shy of 8 hours playlist on there but ive no regrets #if you ask i can defend each and every song that I've included there with references #honestly kind of wishing someone asks me to defend them #mha jbee #anyways 😭 this drawing makes me go “they were just kids” like agdhdkfkglglg 21 is so young #anyway i cant believe the manga this year (i assume thats why so many ppl started shipping them) its just so!!!!#people said we (shippers) were delusional and that shigaraki never felt anything special for spinner but wow! manga said we were right 😭#i mean!!!!!! they were friends 😭 they played together 😭 Shigaraki dedicated his last message to specifically spinner 😭

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ohmytiredheart · 5 months

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I think it would be so funny if "Chester" became a lil sentient and devious and started talking directly to Sam. And it would be even better if he opened with "Hello, Sam."

#maybe even throw in a little “apologies for the deception”#i would shit myself #the magnus protocol #tmagp #chester #jonathan sims #idk sam's last name #i forgor #and im afraid to leave the app to look it up because I dont want to lose this post LOL #tma reference

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seagull-scribbles · 1 month

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This is more an allegory for what's wrong with my soul

#hazbin hotel #husk #hazbin husk #drawing meme #at con last weekend an artist I bought from said they love how I draw Husk and they bought a print #I bought a husk Keyring off them dw we bonded #but I just kept thinking about it and the very first time I tried to draw husk I tried to copy vivzies style and couldn’t #and so I’ve always just had fun doing my own #but I realised it’s been six months and I’m a lot more familiar with vivzie now so I should try again #and so here I have spat out this little number #I cba with the shelves of bottles #apologies #but yeah I know I have a more furry style but #it’s so fun seeing them side my side #and yes I know my canon style one is a bit wonkey but unless you out it by the reference it’s fine #I wish I drew them arguing with eachother ahahaha maybe if I do another #anyway enjoy #I can not tell you how often I forget how skeleton like husk is in canon cause in my head he has fluff and a primadoral pouch and is chunky #just cause I think tall a slender and shirt and stout is a more dynamic and insteresting contrast for when he is with angel

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wanderingmausoleum · 6 months

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X-Men '97 - Episode 3: "Fire Made Flesh" The Bat Woman - Albert Joseph Pénot (1890)

thought this was a neat reference :)

#x men 97 #xmen #madelyne pryor #jean grey #??#goblin queen #apologies for the quality of the screenshot its the best i can get atm lmao #i truly do not go here i just cant resist the urge to point out references i havent seen anyone else mention yet #post marked mature just in case bc the last time i posted classic art with even less artistic nudity than this tumblr tried to kill me #speaketh

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minuutti · 2 years

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call me little sunshine

#trying this again because tumblr tags didn't like me the last time #i'm having a lot of fun learning to paint digitally and he is such a fun reference #so apologies for another ghost post to mutuals who don't care about them. i hope you bear with me on this one<3 #and apologies for the double post. tried linking to the reference and apparently tumblr hates citing your sources idk #my doodles #the band ghost #papa emeritus iv #cardinal copia

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waywardstation · 2 months

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Almost back home!!! I’ve been away for two weeks and I haven’t had good internet connection. Looking forward to getting back home.

I’ve been quiet cause of it, so how about a shop/merch update!! The products from my shop have already gone through a round of proofs this last week after I placed the order (as some files had gotten mixed up). I’m hoping the products finish their manufacturing and are shipped to me within this next week or so!

I’ve ordered extras of everything to put up in the shop as “in stock” after I send out my preorders, also ordered a few items as samples. They had a higher MOQ (minimum order quantity) so if they turn out well, I’d like to do a giveaway with some of them!

#I know I’ve been kind of quiet in general lately too apologies for that #gonna be honest and life has been pretty rough lately #general TW I reference death below #two incidents happened a few months ago regarding almost losing brother and losing a cousin to horrible situations #and it’s really been very difficult to deal with and has brought on a lot of haze and mental dullness or inability to focus #and tbh even months later it’s still been very difficult #it’s why I’ve probably come across as closed off or absent these last few months #so just explaining that #I’m still overcoming it but I believe I’m doing better now #I have been unable to mentally pull myself together enough to successfully create any content like fics or art #though I’m trying very hard #it is getting easier too. I have written a lot more on vacation than I’ve mana fed to write in a long time #I still love and appreciate PLA and submas so so much that just hasn’t been able to manifest in content creation lately #but it has manifested in buying merch haha #when I get home I may just show my collection #I am still alive in this fandom #if you’ve read this far thank you #and thank you for sticking around while I’ve been quiet!!

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m4ndysk4nkovich · 6 months

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the way that in mandy’s first ever scene she stands tall and walks and speaks with such confidence, but by her last scene she seems embarrassed and more timid. free my girl she did nothing wrong