#just objectively very attractive

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

aromantic spectrum awareness week? well, that makes perfect sense. i think agent phoenix (aromantic, romance repulsed) should absolutely be aware of solaris (demiromantic, romance neutral) rapidly approaching their location. to kill them. violently.

[spurgie-cousin]

scientology is such a good example of how being rich doesn't mean you're smart, like i think it's so important to remember how many wildly rich idiots there are out there.

someone really looked these people in the eyes, told them an elementary school level sci fi story, and they were like sounds good, here is my entire life and millions of dollars forever!!!

it's one thing if they were born into it but John Travolta? Idiot. Tom Cruise?? Such a moron that he found a way to weaponize that stupidity

[darcyolsson]

truly did not expect to come out of my tmi reread a hardcore jimon but i should have known that the second i started ironically shipping them it was over for me

[gay-otlc]

Transmascs are literally the hottest people alive

[saintlesbian]

hm. having a mini gender crisis in the middle of my shift again

[catominor]

there needs to be pages of description of how sexy c. martinus and l. furius are in the book also

[astraltrickster]

I guess I'm on a Somewhat Serious Internet And Fandom Culture Things kick today but

Fandom really, really needs to get better at sitting with the fact that sometimes people don't neatly fit into specific queer labels and that's okay - people in general need to get better at this, really, but this post is specifically about fandom.

There is a bi/gay cusp (I'm on it, hi), there is an allo/gray-ace/ace cusp, the pan/ace overlap is more significant than a lot of people think ("and when everyone is attractive, no one will be"), the GNC/nonbinary/trans cusp is something that has been examined in depth through queer history (please read Stone Butch Blues), while not all intersex people consider ourselves inherently queer our existence very much highlights the inherent problems of framing any and all of these concepts in such rigid binary-based terms, the list of gray areas goes on and on and they even blur into each other -

But I'm not here to talk about that, exactly; I'm here to talk about how a lot of fandom is...superficially okay with this fact in theory, but show just how superficial that awareness and acceptance is when it comes to fictional characters.

If a character is confirmed to be queer, it's not "queerbaiting" to not put a specific label to it. It is not "being wishy-washy and cowardly and refusing to commit," nor is it inherently "making a joke of it". Telling an unlabeled but explicitly queer story does count as representation. It is capable of letting people - out, closeted, or somewhere in between - see themselves reflected with no caveats; people who cannot or do not want to neatly label themselves deserve that as much as anyone else. It is capable of showing people who don't share that experience that, yeah, this is just how some people are - which, some of you are clearly the ones who need to hear it.

Sometimes definitely-not-cishet-but-otherwise-unlabeled is a temporary state. Sometimes it isn't. Headcanoning it as a temporary state in a specific character is one thing - that's perfectly okay! That's 100% fine! Using such characters for self-reflection and self-exploration, well, that's a major part of why fiction exists in the first place! Saying that their queerness doesn't count until they say your specific label out loud, or attacking other fans for not sharing your specific headcanon, on the other hand, is an entirely different beast and very much not okay. It's hardly different from calling an endgame same-gender romance "not real" because it wasn't your OTP.

Your already-confirmed-queer blorbo does not need to be confirmed as [insert specific label here] to "own the queerphobes". The fact that shitty people ignore and erase unlabeled or cusp cases (or mspec people or nonbinary people, for that matter) does not make it right for you to join them in doing so.

[ahappydnp]

I haven’t felt attracted to dan since I was like 18 and still thought I was str8 (I’m 25 now) but yh that clip of him sweaty and rosy cheeked talking about getting naked…what the hell. That’s kinda hot sir and it feels WRONG. Need to go look at my gfs boobies pls excuse

anon you are incredibly valid and i hope touching your gf's boobs helped <3

i call phil my final comphet boss battle because from age 18-27 he was the only man i could convince myself i had it bad for. tbh sometimes he still confuses me. man is pretty

[girlscience]

last night sucked. today was not great. i just don't know why i can't get past this. i thought i was doing better, except i must not be because i fully cried in the kohls dressing room and i haven't done that since i was like 12. i just want to LIKE my body. i don't even need to love it. i just want to look and the mirror and think "yeah that's me :)" i just want to be content. i am so tired of looking in the mirror every day and forcing myself to just take a deep breath, sigh it out, and move on. i am tired of avoiding looking at myself in the shower. i'm tired of only feeling comfortable in clothes that hide the entire shape of my torso. i don't need to be smoking hot. i don't need 6 pack abs and the fucking gills on my ribs. i don't need to be skinny. i just want to be comfortable. and i'm not. i haven't been since i hit puberty. and i'm fucking sick of it.

[hex-maniacal]

Need someone to cook for in the morning after I rail their brains out 💔 need my bestie moaning in the bedroom AND the kitchen

[blurglesmurfklaine]

you ever have moments when you look in the mirror like “damn. I really be Ugly ugly”?

[heich0e]

is it like a physical attraction? that he's doomed by the narrative? that he tried to live righteously until the very end?

and if i tell you that there's nothing i find sexier than a man at his lowest point, what then?

[farragoofwires]

don' dweeblog

thinking dreamily about a cuddy ask a manager fic.