#the first few hints

[endversewinchester]

Last one of the day and guys. We’ve reached the gold mine.

I’ve been doing this re-read of the HP books specifically focusing on the marauders, and after voldemort’s latest rant about blood donations, Remus. By her own accord, he is coded about HIV positive people in the 90’s, and the stigma they faced.

Which. For someone as her. Means stereotypes. Which means and HIV positive man in the 90’s is queer coded.

I’ve been reading this book specially carefully not to miss anything, and other than the constant remarks about him being being poor, looking ill and missing classes due to his illness, there wasn’t much to suggest lgbt coding. Certainly not to the point where the director of the movie instructed the actor that played him that his character is gay. That is. Until now.

BUT FIRST let’s recap all the interesting bits of chapter 12.

Remus is, as he promised Harry, teaching him to handle dementors so that he stops fainting on sight. On top of that, he found it was a good idea to disclose he is listening to his mother’s death when he does, as that is his worst memory.

Now, that is a very sensitive topic for Remus, due to the friendship he shared with Harry’s parents.

And it doesn’t really get any better when Harry starts listening to his dead father either. Because this is a very emotional situation to Remus, he cracks. For the first time. And reveals a very important information: he and James were friends.

Now knowing that his teacher was friends with his father, Harry feels a lot more comfortable to make conversation with him. And so this follows:

Ouch. I know. But remember where I said it gets interesting re queer-coding?

Remus gets super defensive towards the idea he knows Sirius…. Until Harry clarifies that he means friendship only.

Don’t get me wrong. He is still unwilling to talk about the topic, and ends the conversation right afterward. But the fact he visibly relaxes once Harry clarifies he means friendship is very interesting.

Who relaxes when someone implies that they were friends with a mass murderer? Let alone the child whose parents were killed by said murderer? Someone that has something deeper to hide, of course.

At any case, Harry leaves. And the next time they meet, there’s some cute bonding:

And then, seeing as they’re both comfortable, Harry asks him what is under a dementor’s hood, which prompts the following explanation:

Harry would be satisfied by this. It perfectly answers his question. But Remus, perhaps too comfortable with interacting with Harry by now, shares this.

Harry wants Sirius dead because he is 13 and angry and didn’t really consider or know what he was proposing. Either way, it is a valid answer from someone whose parents were murdered by the person in question.

Remus too spent the last 12 years completely alone and in poverty over what he believes are Sirius’ actions. And yet, he clearly doesn’t agree that level of punishment is warranted. Even when it is being said by the son of the people he supposedly killed.

I think I know why you’re fine with Harry thinking all you felt towards Sirius was friendship, Moons. My question is… is it mutual? Stay tuned for more.

[caitlyn-kirammans]

SAILOR MOON S: Episode 6 - "Blinded By Love's Light" ↳ "True love is what needs to win. Love... love is everything!"

[usertoxicyaoi]

"I'll make a ton of cash, and leave this place."

TAIKAN YOHOU (2023). EPISODE TWO.

[14dayswithyou]

I’ve read the rules! o7

Sai i need to know. Did he even read the book angel gave them. I know he wasn’t reading it when angel texted them if we chose to not invite him over but did he read even the few pages they looked at

or was he just… buying time to think of things/wanted to look like he was interested in the book when they really weren’t

TRUST ME this is VERY important knowledge and no matter what you say i will only like him more 🫶

✦゜ANSWERED: He did not T_T lmaooooo

Realistically, he probably put it back on the shelf the moment Elanor arrived ^^; Part of me wants to say that he hid it somewhere amongst the shelves (because Angel touched this book... Their hands and eyes graced the cover... No one else deserves the luxury of touching it as well...), but I think he'd be too overwhelmed with Angel finally noticing him to give it much thought.

Ren had no interest in reading the book either, but he did pick a "flora" theme for a very specific reason — as opposed to stalling/trying to buy time..... >:3c

Without spoiling too much, it's the same reason why he sometimes comes across as clumsy (with his words) during conversations, talks a lot about AoG, lives in a stupidly expensive and gaudy apartment, stole another person's nickname and made it his own, sometimes comes across as pushy, mimicked another character's exact line, gave Angel a high-end luxury gift, and why the "X I V" clips in his hair correlate to specific letters in the— *I am forcefully removed from the stage*

[bigskydreaming]

Imagine if you were a gay or bi man who tried a certain firefighter show because of all the attention it was getting for one of its mains having a later in life bi awakening.....and between seasons you ventured into its fandom in search of material to tide you over til the next one. And you're greeted by a deluge of posts and fics that are just cheerfully homophobic towards one half of the newly out bi character's canon relationship on the basis of 'well he's not the RIGHT gay guy' and pushing the idea that actually its fine to cheat on him because Reasons and he's sexually predacious based on......behind the scenes implications people have divined like they're reading fucking tea leaves.

But don't get it twisted....this fandom, like all fandoms, really cares about representation!

Sorry not sorry, but we really need to kill this idea that fandoms are welcoming and inviting and inherently progressive when they're frequently insular and reductive as fuck. Every single fandom I've been in has had major trends of people doubling down on their own headcanons and fanon interpretations of the characters and willfully enacting trends aimed at running off people who like the 'wrong' characters (usually characters marginalized along one or multiple axes), like the characters in the 'wrong ways' or other bullshit.

Scott is a Bad Friend fics overtaking Teen Wolf fandom was not incidental, it was a FEATURE of the fandom, because the vast majority of that fandom did not want to share its space with anyone who had the nerve to like its main character. Survivors complaining about or criticizing the prevalance of rape fics in a certain fandom has in my experience always led to a reactionary UPTICK in those fics, with gems like 'this character can, will, must be raped' in the tags making it crystal clear that some of these fics exist because how fucking DARE anyone try and push forth a narrative not agreed upon by Fandom Main.

I could cite examples for so many other fandoms, with the commonalities always being that vast majorities in these fandoms are explicitly reacting defensively to being asked to be more mindful of fandom trends revolving around or exacerbating racism, homophobia, transphobia, rape or abuse apologia, ableism, etc....

With the most prolific fucking rallying cry across countless fandoms being "No the fuck we will NOT be doing that," because lolololol.....

Fandom is an inherently progressive space, didn't you hear?

[fisheito]

found a baby yaku amidst the Sketchbook-glitch-corruption wreckage..... wondering if he flipped skin tones between black and red and everything in between until he saw his to-be-grandparents (and started mimicking THEIR skin tone....... )

[myokk]

“Class, today we’re going to repot the baby mandrakes because they’re getting a bit too big for their current homes! Aren’t they cute?”

[jajanvm-imbi]

Hey remember when I said that this was the most frustrating thing about being a Helluva Boss enjoyer?

Yeah I was wrong.

The most frustrating thing about being a Helluva Boss enjoyer is explicitly stating multiple times that I like show and then get called an anti and homophobic and media illiterate when I complain about the direction it has taken.

I LIKE the comedy

I LIKE the animation and artstyle

I LIKE the more serious plotlines like the government agents plot and the Cherubs plot

I LIKE the themes of friendship and found family

I even like most of the songs!

And ofc the voice cast slays every time

But just because your show has angst and tears and drama and sad music doesn't automatically make it "good".

Just because your characters are queer doesn't automatically make them good or well written characters

This fandom is so frustrating to deal with when you want to express your more nuanced takes of it

This is probably gonna be the last post I make about this subject and about Helluva Boss in general, this shit is too stupid to deal with

[backpackingspace]

Do we think odysseus's thoughts are almost stuck in quick thought from how often Athena popped up into his head? Because I absolutely do

[obstinaterixatrix]

Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned. On day one at PICA, Molly discovers that--through some horrible twist of fate--her full-ride scholarship has vanished! But the ancient texts (PICA's dusty financial aid documents) reveal a loophole. If Molly and 9 other art students win a single game of softball, they'll receive a massive athletic scholarship. Can Molly's crew of ragtag artists succeed in softball without dropping the ball?

The author of the New York Times best-selling Check, Please series, Ngozi Ukazu, returns with debut artist Madeline Rupert to bring an energetic young adult story about authenticity, old vs. new, and college failure. It also poses the question: "Is art school worth it?"

I’ve been a huge fan of sakana since forever, and I like self-contained sports stories (the heated drama is peak, but I can’t stick with something super long) so I knew I’d love this graphic novel. and I was right.

I like the ensemble! The focus is primarily on the main character, but you get the sense they’re doing their own stuff in the periphery. wrangling a bunch of art students is a really funny concept and allows for a lot of personality contrasts.

it’s not a romance, but it does have romantic elements, and the love interest-type character is SO funny. there were several scenes with her that legit got a laugh out of me

super worth it, 100% recommended for a fun time. might give ex-art school students psychic damage

[jerrylewis-thekid]

For me this is the true story of their meeting. Dean was the guy who would have said that "lick it" and this story says something very important: Dean noticed Jerry first otherwise he wouldn't have noticed that Jerry threw the egg on own shirt. But Jerry protected Dean with the tale that he had seen him first and fallen in love with him. It was exactly the opposite. And anyway they BOTH told the newspapers while they were together that theirs was "love at first sight". And here he says something important, that is that he was sixteen years old and not yet married. And Jerry was famous for his incredible memory!

@fredandginger64 @justquicksshot @starryyide @kinkdaddykinard

@luzzarm @caruso101 @paanya @martinandlewisfanatic @sometimesiamhappy

[sherlock-is-ace]

watched the first ep of Dead Boy Detectives today, did anyone also think the dialogue was a bit clunky?

I don't mean it was unwatchable or anything i just feel like it didn't feel realistic the way they introduced the characters and world... It felt like the dialogue was for the viewer instead of an in character thing. We were gonna be introduced to a viewer surrogate within the first few minutes, there was no need to have the characters who already know how the show's world works spell it out for nobody... and then explain it again when Crystal showed up? idk it felt like something I would write (not a complient) 😅

[thatonefreemanversefic]

Hi chat, I feel bad for not posting anything super fic related (besides updates themselves, which I'd say are the most fic related I can get on here) so let me hit you with two things. 1. Knowledge of what's actually going on behind the scenes!! So, not only has this next chapter been KICKING MY ASS FR FR, but the ass kicking has inspired me not once, not thrice, but twice now to... no, I shan't be specific, I'll give too much away. Twice now, it's inspired me to make the same kind of change to how this chapter is going (aka things I didn't intend to focus on yet are now getting focus, which is good because I actually didn't know when or where to do that, so. yeah. Good.) Anyways the chapter itself should come out on time, no worries there, but it might be a little short. Or not, I don't know yet. The thought train is just struggling to chug along the tracks (which I KNOW won't be an issue for 8 because I am having so many thoughts about it. The demons are trying to write it before I even finish 7) 2. I bring you a doodle page I churned out just now, one edited to be easier to see and easier to read, the other completely raw in case that's more your style. Knowers will cry, others will not, and Benrey lovers will also cry because I butchered my boy (in my defense, it has been a long while since I properly drew any of these guys and I put all I had left in me into that banner so like. It'll improve soon gang I promise. Trust in the process) (I am SO good at counting trust)

Call me a doctor because my hand writing is SHIT.

[ct-hardcase]

reading old thr reviews out of sheer procrastination and I knew it in theory but ah. this is why the current comic run was thrown in continuity separation jail, to the point where avar can't even acknowledge ceret by name in totf when ruminating on the drengir, or elzar can't mention keeve when going over jedi patrolling the oz lmao

[sysig]

DAX is just so expressive ♥ (Patreon)

[bluebrine]

did not anticipate my like decade+ old FR dragon wishes to ever actually come true... like WHAT do you mean there's going to be a new modern water breed, that can't be real.... we all know that's nought but a ol' sailor's tale, 'aye............ /shakes head solemnly, takes a long drag on my pipe while looking to the sea beyond the horizon/