#old queer

[buntress]

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『 ✿ ⋆｡˚ 』 Old Queer

[PT :: Old Queer]

✿ Overview ✿

A blankqueer label // stance for queers who are too old for this shit. It believes that queer // mogai discourse and infighting is stupid and harmful to the community at large and that as long as you aren't harming anyone do whatever the hell you want. One doesn't have to be a specific age to ID with this term, just share the general sentiment. The emoji code is 『 🪻💚 』

✿ Stances ✿

What Old Queer Is ::

Pro MOGAI // Xenogender // Microlabels

Pro Mspec // Contradictory labels

Pro Endogenic // Non-Traumagenic systems and Anti-Syscourse

Pro Queer Education and Research

Pro going outside and becoming active in your irl community

Pro Recovery Paraphilia // Anti-Contact harmful paraphilia

Pro Kink at Pride

Pro Reclamation of slurs

Against the idea of Cluster Abuse ( NPD abuse, BPD abuse, etc)

Anti-Harassment, live and let live.

Pro fucking with bigots for fun

Pro harm reduction

Pro Therian // Otherkin // Alterhuman // Transspecies

What Old Queer isn't ::

Pro Radqueer

Pro TransID

Pro Xenosatanist

TERFs // TIRFs // Gender Crit // Gatekeeping

Exclusionary

Minors in kink // NSFW spaces

Tagging :: @radiomogai @io-archival @redacted-coiner @genderdenied @mimiscoiningcafe @discrophy @dsm--v @kiruliom Simplified flag + color meanings below the cut!

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✿ Design Meanings ✿

Shades of purple and blue-green because the colors purple and green are some of the oldest colors to represent the queer community

Yellow lines to represent queer joy

White to represent unity

Violets because, once more, it is one of the oldest queer symbols we have. While violets originally held a meaning for sapphic love, here it is to represent educating yourself further on queer history to understand your community better.

The lacy top and bottom lines to give it kind of a "grandmas lace" feel, making it feel older!

[idratherbewrong]

Finally saw Love Lies Bleeding. And wow.

So many thoughts.

I find it interesting many people loved Lou & Jackie’s relationship. At first I left a little sad it wasn’t more romantic. (But I’m squishy like that)

Then I as I drove home in silence I realized how they managed to perfectly portray a toxic/codependent relationship. . .

Dare I say something similar to what I’ve experienced. I was Lou. . . Easily ready to do what ever it took to make my partners wants/dreams happen.

Whether that was buying a pack of smokes or picking them up from a party at 3 am. Not to mention letting them live with me rent free.

I was terrible at setting boundaries and this led to us having a lot of ups and downs. It was unhealthy and yet we thought we were thriving.

So thanks Ross Glass for calling my 21 year old self out.

———

No but really as weird as this movie was I’m so glad we got something for the queers. Maybe we won’t all love it but it’s progress towards more representation. There’s all types of queer people this is just the story of two. (Also I’m gonna have to buy it, so i did in fact like it 🙈)

Ps the set deck, music and shots were immaculate.

[vilecemetery]

david bowie talking to princess diana in the audience at live aid in 1985, with elton john seated in the background.

[afinestoutlove]

Finally watched this show. Straight through in 3 days and it has killed me. It's everything I needed to see and hear when I was a teenager. I honestly don't understand the people who say this show is just for kids, a lot of queer adults need this so badly just to remind us we didn't deserve what we went through.

oh this scene is so beautiful and poignant

for the ones who didn't have role models and people around them to let them know it was okay to be gay

[kensatou]

good thing from jp twitter this week is queen of old man yaoi michiru sonoo discovering the term old man yaoi

update: somehow it got impossibly more wholesome

quick translation: おかえり: welcome home あ 終わった 終わった: ahhh, it's over! it's done! コーヒー? お茶?: coffee? tea? コ~ヒ~ ありがと: coffee, thank you~ ネクタイレア★★ ネクタイ取るレア★★★★: seeing him with a tie on, rarity level ★★, seeing him take a tie off, rarity level ★★★★ にあうな~: it suits him~

also please do follow: AraigumaSha: sensei's twitter account marureviere: maru, who does such valuable work highlighting bl manga for an international audience

[ameba-from-space]

[loneridingghost]

[remnantglow]

LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF

I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older queer science fiction book I've managed to track down, consisting of just over 200 titles with LGBT characters/themes & by LGBT authors, spanning over a century (1880-2000) 🚀

The database can be filtered by representation, subgenre, whether the book is currently in print, and more; additionally, it includes my own ratings & brief thoughts on the ones i have read, if anyone needs a suggestion on places to start! (or feel free to shoot me an ask for a more personalized recommendation)

[yellenabelova]

The Old Guard (2020) // The Old Guard 2 (2025)

[nbjetsam]

Vampire Princess Miyu !!!!

[gaywebcorenostalgia]

2000

[digitaldogpark]

the one where cheerilee knows

[elletromil]

So I do a lot of book suggestion with my public libraries because, well, I'm a big reader and I can't buy all of the books, no matter how much i might want to.

Anyway, it always completely baffles me when, with series - especially when its in ebook form where you can see fairly easily on Libby whether or not there is another installment after the one you're currently reading - *I* have to suggest the next book for it to be picked up.

And not in a 'why is the librarian not buying it' way, but rather in a 'why are people not asking for it????'

For exemple, I've been reading a series of like 5-6 books total. I suggested my library get the first ebook, suggestion got accepted, i read the book and liked it well enough. About 10-ish people were in the hold queue. Of course that doesn't mean they actually liked it but whatever.

I suggested the second book, and because of the nature of ebooks reservation, some people got to read it before me. Ok fine. I read it, about 6-7 people are on the hold queue when i finish it.

Guess what? No one asked for the third book.

For EVERY book in the series, i had to ask for the next one and i'm just...

For people to read it before me, they had to have an alert on the book so they would know when it becomes available at once. Cuz obviously I have those alerts, but even just checking 5 minutes after the notification, there would be at least 2-3 people with a hold on the book already.

And its not even a 'oh, the library will get the ebooks at a certain time every months/few months so that's why it wasn't available yet'

I finished the second to last book of the series recently. It had been available since like october-ish. I had actually started back then, but since I'm not a fan of reading ebooks, I couldnt finish the book in time, so into the hold queue I went.

I know that public library. I know how often they get their ebook. If anyone had asked for the last book, it would be available already.

It wasn't.

Do people not know they can suggest books? Is the process too obscure for them?

Anyway, there is no point to this post except to say, my good peeps, you can make books (or dvds or games or whatever kind of item your public library offer) suggestion! You usually can do it online!

If you can't find where exactly, usually just googling 'purchase suggestion' or 'reccomand a title' with the name of your public library will get you to the right page

And if you're still not sure, you should ask your librarian, they'll be happy to tell you how!

[angelmaking]

belly of the beast

[turboeasteregg]

I'm 49, born in 1974, and confirm all the above. Having missed the book (I know! -- listen, I'm very lucky I got Anne McCaffrey and Ursula Le Guin and Douglas Adams) I watched the first season of Good Omens in late 2019 because my twitter friends were buzzing about it, and I adored it, but I thought of it as "my secret little gay love story show" and I really thought I was reading all the subtext into the story and acting choices and that the whole thing would inevitably be dashed, so I kept the whole thing to myself -- I closeted my love for the show. I didn't even seek out the fandom -- it felt far too beautifully fragile to engage any further.

So, with no awareness that season 2 was a thing, and no lead up except my own reading of the first season, I actually watched season 2 with bemused, fond, detachment -- I couldn't believe, even as I watched the story unfold, that they were seriously telling this story so clearly. I watched, and kept my emotional distance, in preparation for the inevitable rug pull. Guyz, I was watching a story about trying to get two women to fall in love with each other and assuming I was getting effing PUNKED the entire time.

So my reaction to the last episode was like my emotions about it were a volcano erupting beyond the horizon -- feeling the ground rumbling underfoot, and glancing around with quickly growing concern trying to figure out WTF is going on and how much danger am I in here, and if it's this loud here what the hell is it like over there....?! I was just....so emotionally self-distanced in self defense.

So yeah, I'm still honestly waiting for it to sink in that this is the story, REALLY, seriously, yes, it's not just my secret little queer love story only in my head, it's actually a love story, out loud, on purpose, hells yes.

And yeah, I've been sauntering vaguely towards the sounds of the volcanic eruption over the horizon ever since, cuz damnit I gotta see this with my own eyes. I need to actually look at it.

The Importance of Good Omens to an Old Queer

There are so many things about the whole Good Omens experience that make an old queer very happy:

In the story:

- It’s about a couple who love each other, who are by social standards definitely not supposed to love each other.

We exist.

- They have loved each other since before history/time began.

We have always existed.

- They needed to hide their love, even from themselves, for millennia, or risk death.

We hid.

- They come to a safe spot where they can acknowledge their love without fearing for their lives. They can expect to be treated like any other couple.

We don’t always need to hide now.

In the story of the story:

- The book was written in the’80’s, when Aziraphale’s and Crowley’s relationship simply could not be told as a love story if the goal was to have any real chance of popular success.

- It took almost 30 years for it to be adapted for the screen and in that time things had changed so much that it is unequivocably a love story, with huge popular success.

In reality:

- The author and the actors are outspoken supporters of LGBTQ+ rights.

- Michael and David clearly utterly adore each other, and freely show it. Just decades ago such open affection between two men would have caused rumors that could have ended their careers.

Finally, and this one kills me and makes me so, so happy:

- There are MANY younger fans for whom a lot of the above will absolutely not hit as hard.

They grew up in a different world than I did.

[fluffytimearts]

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