#the queerest animal

[batwynn]

what? giraffes aren't even on the list of queerest animal?

My friend, there was a write in option specifically to have folks yell out their queerest animal icons. But, just to confirm and to give giraffes a fair chance:

[flipyeahaudge]

sk8 is one of the most thinly veiled metaphors for queer communities i have ever seen ever and it is wonderful

[srapsodia]

ghost trick really is such a great game I GET THE HYPE NOW I GET IT!!!! IM RIGHT THERE WITH YALL!!!!

[maeed2103]

“Stop making One Piece gay!”

The whole show is the found family trope

IT CANT GET GAYER THAN THAT.

[mechieonu]

listen man i'm gonna lay so much stuff on ya. life is too short to not have a queer reading of everything you engage with

[timemachineyeah]

Takarazuka Revue is so funny because it’s like we are a fine upstanding institution of good family values, like homophobia. Please ignore the lesbians making up the majority of people both on stage and in the audience.

Takarazuka Revue is like: we enforce only the strictest gender roles in our troupe as is right and proper, sorting them into the two genders: women who are women, and women who are men. How dare you suggest there’s anything queer about that.

Takarazuka Revue is simultaneously the queerest thing and the least queer thing to ever exist. Takarazuka bucks tradition and is tradition incarnate. Takarazuka is like

and then is like, “no homo”

and maintains itself as one of the most hierarchical artistic organizations in the world with intense control over its performers. This alternate reality where the talented (and lucky, and connected) few can gain the right to openly perform queerness in the one setting comphet capitalism has carved out for them as long as they follow a different even stricter set of rules for dress and behavior. It dissembles traditional gender by its very existence and so must reinforce it at every turn.

And yet despite being the product of a conservative capitalist railroad owner who only really sought to exploit women for entertainment aimed at men (and their hetero families) that remains loyal to those deeply normative puritanical roots, it was and is also one of the most liberating theater and media experiences of queer Japanese people for decades. You can tell from all the queer art about it, by queer people. By the fact that the audience who flocked to it were not (cis) men.

Trying to untangle the mutual influence of shoujo manga to takarazuka is even more difficult that trying to untangle something like the history of modern Broadway and Disney movies. We wouldn’t have The Little Mermaid without Little Shop of Horrors, but we wouldn’t have Wicked without the Disney renaissance, but we wouldn’t have Frozen without Wicked, and going back further to things like Cinderella and Rogers and Hammerstein and they are intertwined but listen to me. Takarazuka and shoujo manga, especially yuri, are more intertwined. And then so much western media has been inspired by shoujo anime. Rose of Versailles the manga was inspired by Takarazuka and then in turn was adapted into their most famous play which then in turn influenced so many more artworks. Uranus and Neptune are an otokoyaku and musumeyaku. Utena and Anthy (and honestly that whole ass show. The stairs?? C’mon). And all the works and creators THOSE works inspired.

We owe so much to Takarazuka but also if we tried to thank them for their role in queer history they’d be like “we’ve never been queer in our lives!!!!!!!!” and then say a slur to your face while taking your money. Incredible. Wish more people knew what the fuck it was and I could get fansubs.

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

imagine being a terf about snakes, some of the queerest animals on earth??? smh loser behavior

I know, right?

[angryshortstacks]

Observations from completing the Sunshine Court

Jean Moreau is the saddest girl in the world.

Jeremy is Richard Gansey III and I want more explanation on his backstory. Tell me how his mom sucks NOW!

Nora Your telling me Jeremy was never blonde? I don’t believe it. Your fucking with me

Jean is actually so funny. The drama of his descriptions. Like this man has the longest laundry list of trauma yet a sugary drink is the worst thing to exist ever. That’s very French of him.

Jean did have a crush on Kevin comfirmed (still holding onto blind hope that kerjean could be canon)

I think it’s safe to say the Trojans are the queerest team in the league. Cat and Lila are queens and I love lesbians, Xavier is a king who respects boundaries, Nb rep and polyamory. Nora you’re treating us.

The fact that Jean was so upset about their heights

Idk why sports anime mafia au is the best setting to explore indoctrination stalkholm syndrome and extreme trauma but fuck it where here, we ball, and I’m not okay

I always forget how unhinged Neil is and seeing him from an outside perspective did not help

Neil’s also a king who respects boundaries but like in an unhinged way

I too would put a hit out on a rapist if I had the means

Jean had a little sister 🥺 I will never recover from this knowledge

And We thought Neil had compartmentalizations skills, fuck me.

I never realized the symmetry between Neil and Jean and their twisted fate. I’m very glad that Neil got to have a part in this book and hopefully a part in jeans healing.

I need book 2 NOW Nora!

[dc-tournaments]

The List of Runners-Up

This is the list of everyone who made it through five rounds of tournaments only to get knocked out in the finale. Mainly tracked because I think this will be interesting data. Like with the list of winners, if you are viewing a reblog, you might want to consider checking the original post for edits.

The Villain of All Time: Poison Ivy | Dr. Pamela Isley

Worst Costume: New 52 Duela Dent

Queerest "Cishet": Blue Beetle | Ted Kord

The Incompetency Awards: Cluemaster | Arthur Brown

Fuck This Guy in Particular: David Cain

Most Unhinged: Young Justice

SexyWOMAN #Feminism: Death of the Endless

Super Animal Illegal Fight Ring: Krypto the Super Dog

Most Adorable Littlest Baby Heroling: Robin | Dick Grayson

Deadest Corpse: John & Mary Grayson

Transgender Swag Award: Alysia Yeoh

Platonic Soulmates Award: Dick Grayson & Donna Troy

Autism Creature Incarnate: Robin | Damian Wayne

Mental Stability Award: Blue Lantern | Saint Bro'Dee Walker

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

It's a little funny how I could immediatly tell you're TME because meanwhile that copypaste was used mainly at transfems speaking agaisnt transmisogyny and they took it as what that shit is: Sexual Harrasment, Transmisogyny and downright rape threating (forgot various lesbians and at least one child where victims too?) That has all of them rightfully angry. Meanwhile you're taking it as a silly haha joke about not fucking other trans men 😒

Not to shit on you specifically bc I get it's stupid and bizarre for someone who had nothing to do with the context. It's just... Damn, we trans women truly are alone by ourselves in the Queerest Website™ huh

Do you genuinely think I would have not joked around about it if they said tgirls?

I don’t take sexual harassment on this blog seriously because you people don’t know what I look like or what’s in my pants and I think the assumptions made are funny. An anon cannot stalk or do violence to me due to the level of anonymity I curate for myself online.

I’m not going to read your whole anime villain monologue, but I will say it’s weird for you to assert and insist that I was born with a pussy. Because I mean. There’s no way I can prove you right or wrong without breaking TOS and it’s weird that you’re this obsessed with it.

It’s honestly giving TERF energy, ma'am. Why are you insisting you know what genitals I have/had and also insisting that I have some inherent privilege based solely on that. Me telling you that infighting in the trans community is regressive isn’t indicative of me having a vagina, and you’re honestly a bit of a freak for acting like opinions and experiences are based on what your AGAB is.

Me not considering myself a victim of a rape threat just because someone spammed me with a sexually aggressive and transphobic copypasta on tumblr doesn’t mean I have XX chromosomes.

[zbdjjsjwjajba]

‼️BIG FUCKIN BSD SPOILERS‼️

but maybe it isnt idk actually

skk edits on pinterest r really funny now bc ull look in the comments and there'll be ppl saying "guys read the manga! u wont ship them anymore :)" whatever whatever

as if skk didnt kill each other in the queerest way possible

girl did dazai not drown chuuya while having flashbacks to their time together and then have his stupid little happy moment (which we all know was a lie bc thats dazais character?? hes a liar???)

and then when it was chuuyas turn to shoot dazai in the fucking noggin it was bc chuuya was under control and dazai was (again) having his stupid little gay dialogue moment (idk what asagiri is gonna do w the chuuya control thing if theyre gonna keep it like the anime or what)

AND EVEN IN THR EVENT THAT CHUUYA WAS TRULY A VAMP URE TELLING ME ITS NOT POETIC THAT DAZAI TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF SO MANY TIMES AND FAILED EVERYTIME AND WHEN HE DOES FINALLY DIE ITS AT THE HANDS OF THIS MOST TRUSTED PARTNERRRR????

anyway whatever ure gonna have to trust me when i say im not that major of a skk shipper in the first place,,, i can just see where the skk ppl r coming from bc these bitches r queer as shit

[mars-onthe-moon]

🚨HxH- Chimera Arc Spoilers - Neferpitou and Kite

Neferpitou: listens to Won’t Bite, will in fact bite.

Honestly had such a fun time designing an outfit for them. Will maybe try another with more non canon fits in the future. Pitou on the right is aesthetically based on the Egyptian lion god Nefertem, son of Bast - a cat goddess. Nefertem was associated with the blue lotus flower - water lily.

I enjoy drawing pitou androgynous and using they/them pronouns. In the manga the character is referred to as “he” and in the anime, “she” is used, though more often than not “they” is substituted. Shout out to this villain’s beautifully complex gender and to hunter x hunter for having the queerest coded characters I could get my grubby lil gay hands on.

[sheepinthebigcity]

my hottest animation take is that the queerest thing disney has ever made is eureka.

[twsthc]

TWST GENDER AND SEXUALITY HCS

thanks again for submitting stuff on twitter! i tried to include everyones hcs somehow but also keep it true to my own hcs. again this took forever so sorry for any writing/grammar inconsistencies

⚠️ warnings: i typed the word "transmascpilled" with a straight face, light chapter 3 spoilers!!

last updated: oct 6, 2023

HEARTSLABYUL 🥀

Riddle: Unlabled Questioning Asexual, Transfem (she/any)

because of her parents i think her identity was the last thing on her mind

after going to nrc they found out about... expression?! crazy i know

started to cautiously experiment with his identity, but isnt very open about it and is still figuring himself out.

Ace: Cupioromantic Bisexual, Cisgender (he/him)

is always getting "crushes" on people (he cant tell the difference between platonic and romantic love)

after pining for someone for like a week he gets a little "OHHH" moment

asked cater about it, got laughed at, and was directed to the lgbt wiki

despite this he can feel romantic attraction! he just feels very little. is deuce's qpp/possible romantic partner

Deuce: Pansexual, Gender curious (he/him)

hasnt really thought about his identity much but after some research (an Am I Gay Quiz) he realized he was pansexual

still figuring out his gender

type of fellow to say "HIS PRONOUNS ARE THEY THEM" /j

Cater: Queer, Transmasc NB Genderqueer (he/they/any)

@/heartslabyulian on twt explained it better than me but the resistance against his mom and sisters about "being like them" (feminine) is so transmascpilled

also i think theyre just having fun expressing themself like who cares? wear a skirt, dont bind, grow out and dye your hair, use fem terms, literally just go crazy

Trey: Cisgender Bisexual (he/him)

male/nb preference

pretty confident in his identity but isnt opposed to experimentation

SAVANACLAW 🥩

Leona: Unlabled, Intersex GNC Transfemneu (she/him)

lions are one of natures queerest animals

i think he wouldnt care too much about gender presentation

i was inspired by that gay lion in kenya (as well as the real lion king) and have come to the conclusion that leona kingscholar is bisexual (bangs gavel)

Ruggie: Pansexual, Agender/GNC Transfem (he/she/they)

read a fanfiction where ruggie used she/her and i havent been the same

expresses herself how she wants but doesnt really align with any gender

im conflicted if he would be agender or nonbinary SIGH

Jack: Panromantic Asexual, Gender curious (he/him)

still figuring out his gender just give him a minute

sex repulsed ace, hes really uncomfortable w the topic and thought of sex

all he knows is he likes boys alright

OCTAVINELLE 🐚

Azul: Bisexual, Intersex Transfem (she/he)

i think one of the reasons azul wanted us to get that picture from the museum so bad is not only cos hes self consious of his younger self but because he looked "more masculine" and he just really hated it

me when im in a depressed and self conscious competition and my opponent is azul ashengrotto [insert enel one piece shocked face reaction image]

Floyd: Unlabled, Genderfluid (he/any)

doesnt care for labels he just wants to have fun in the sun!!!

type of guy to go "im a boy but a girl but a Man but a pretty princess but also a mud eating warrior but also--"

just like me fr

Jade: Aromantic Asexual, Agender (they/he)

fucking battery

look i get its probably stereotypical to hc the typically "stoic" guy to be triple A but just hear me out: i dont care (also jade isnt even stoic he is such a silly guy!!)

its MY headcanon account and EYE get to choose which anime boy i project on

SCARABIA 🌞

Kalim: Lesbian, Transfem Genderfluid (she/he)

she has lesbian eyebrows okay?

always sliding around from fem to masc, his outfits often reflect how hes feeling

blink and she switches from ultra pink miniskirt sparkly frilly femme girly teengirl into a baggy pants oversized band shirt beanie wearing 7/11 mountain dew big gulp drinking Creature. seriously iconic

Jamil: Bisexual, Nonbinary (they/he)

they dont have time to worry about their identity

he has BILLS to PAY

but seriously they never got the time to do any self reflection when they were younger and after their OB they were able to fully come to terms with and explore their identity

POMEFIORE 👑

Vil: Queer Polyamorous, Genderqueer Transfem (she/her)

said this already on twitter but she/her vil is so real

figured herself out even before NRC

i dont have much to say about pomefiore as a whole tbh like theyre just Gay it just makes sense?

Rook: Pansexual Polyamorous, Agender (they/them)

this is the one hc i will never ever budge on

i cant explain myself. rook is just agender okay.

the panpoly bit is because he sees beauty in everyone and wants to share beauty with everyone (and he wants potential romantic partners to share beauty with each other as well)

Epel: Gay, Trans man (he/him)

also took an Am I Gay Quiz

asked vil about her identity and for advice on finding himself and stuff

he came out to leona as trans during practice and leona was like "okay? me too? now do 30 pull ups?" and epel was so happy

IGNIHYDE 💀

Idia: Bisexual, Nonbinary (he/they/xe/it ++)

i think lilia canonically uses he/they pronouns for gloomurai. im not fact checking this i will just saw someone on twt say it once and choose to believe

probably found out he was bi after playing an otome game

list of neos: xe/it/exe/cy/vi/byte/if/gore

Ortho: Experimenting (he/it/neos)

someone on twitter said ortho was that ""cringe"" baby queer who is constantly changing his identity and trying out different pronouns

and it reminded me of myself when i was 12 and named myself ""moth"" 😭 so its canon now

idia is supportive and uses his heaps of money to buy new pride flags/pins for whenever ortho comes to a new conclusion

DIASOMNIA 🐉

Malleus: Pansexual, Agender (any pronouns)

doesnt care about gender constructs, but in a way thats like "human gender doesnt make any sense so you can perceive me any way you want and it literally will not matter i dont care"

didnt even realize that going by different pronouns and wearing fem clothes was considered to be out of the norm until being introduced to human society

Lilia: Unlabeled, Agender (no pronouns)

again for fae gender isnt a construct as much as it is for human societies

id imagine lilia doesnt really mind using he/him pronouns after learning about those constructs but really doesnt care for them

Silver: Lesbian, Nonbinary (he/him)

when lilia took silver in, lilia didnt want to get too close to him, so lilia just used he/him on silver as a bitter reminder that silver isnt fae (contrary to raising silver without pronouns like he would typically for a fae child like malleus)

but then lilia got attached anyway LOL but the he/him stuck

kalim and silver are nonbinary lesbians in love

Sebek: Questioning, Questioning Nonbinary (he/him...?)

hes like "STUPID HUMANS AND THEIR GENDER" but at the same time is secretly questioning if its okay to use she/her pronouns, wear a wig, and put on makeup

because his dad is a human he got pronouns and grasped the concept of human gender constructs but was also able to experience his moms side of not caring about it

[yuukei-yikes]

hope you dont mind me asking this but since you seem very knowledgeable about the fandom and all i thought it was suitable

why is there so much ship content between sato kido and kano?? are they not adoptive siblings?? theres even some in semi canon (i think) contents like in anthologies too,, i mean not surprised it exists since weird people are in every fandom but its talked so casually here

with momo and hibiya too actually! because of the huge age gap you would think it wouldn't be such a casual ship but it somehow is?? as far as i seen anyways

oh man lollll nah i dont mind. fair question and it's much better to have an answer to this

im putting it under the cut bc it turned out kinda long and into a rant, and also to warn i mention the themes suggested in the ask (incest, age gaps)

basically it's no secret that in japanese media, incest and age gaps are widely normalized even today so just imagine in 2013 when kagepro was at its peak.

back then, kido and kano specifically were a WIDELY popular ship. here's the thing with the weird kano and kido (and seto too but mainly kano and kido) shipping, aside from what i said abt normalized incest and shit. kano and kido (and seto) being siblings is actually... sort of a spoiler? it's not revealed early on.

kano and kido are presented as 2 kids the same age living together and having different names. and they purposefully stop acting like siblings. SO it doesnt register until you get into their backstories. they're both adopted into the same family when theyre like... 7 or 8, and were friends before becoming siblings so people were able to use this excuse: "OHHH THEYRE MORE CHILDHOOD FRIENDS"

but like..... they live together as siblings for YEARS and to be honest im sure 99% of people watch the song mvs FIRST which u can binge in 1 afternoon and if ur watching with any sort of actual interest and attention, you WILL see kano and kido as part of the tateyama family in ayano's theory of happiness. not to mention the anime came out in 2014 which im also sure 99% of kagepro fans have seen. so to me that was always an excuse if it came from a very dedicated fan though i do understand it if it's from a casual enjoyer, like they truly didn't catch that they're siblings

when i joined the fandom i was 13, didnt know eng or japanese, and thought mekatrio childhood friends made total sense for some good 6 months into the fandom until I realised properly. a few months ago, i discovered a very close friend of mine had a kagepro phase in 2014 or something and told me he really shipped kano and kido and when i told him they're siblings he was like WHAT!!!!!!!

and another thing abt kano and kido. they're indubitably the queerest characters. THEY LOOK THE FUCKING GAYEST. there is Something abt pushing the gay characters together?? kido is constantly mistaked for a guy. kano the poor thing had ANOTHER popular ship going for him with ayano because people decided he is that way to shintaro because he actually had a crush on ayano. yeah. this was the fucking consensus with kano, shintaro and ayano. like i mentioned i DONT KNOW japanese and only ever read the translations of the novels and i also dont Know what jin was thinking when writing kano and shintaro. But. dear lord it reads fucking homosexual my dude. jin does this by accident a lot though. look at kido and momo. momo calling kido beautiful 1000 times but she's like Well as a woman i am jealous i wish i was that pretty. bruuuh ok anyways moving on Ill GET to jin again in a second.

like you said, semi official stuff like the anthologies are very heavy on this ship and also.... sorry, the manga which is an official media. is Heavily into this ship. for jin's stance on it, i am not sure. i do think he laughs it off but he NEVER intended to write them that way. in the seventh novel theres a whole bit where kido's telling kano you shouldve never hidden this from me im your sister we are family. even shintaro who is the pov ur reading from is like wow what a nice brother and sister AND THATS THE SECOND TO LAST NOVEL WHICH BY THEN THE SHIP WAS SUPER POPULAR SO TO ME THAT WAS JIN'S WAY OF REMINDING EVERYONE THEYRE SIBLINGS. personally i think jin truthfully intended to write kano and kido as siblings but doesnt care people ship them otherwise he wouldnt have had the manga written by someone who shipped them

so basically what happened. kagepro was confusing and people sometimes missed they are siblings. in japanese media its super normalized. it is 2013 so here it is also normalized in fandom spaces. fanart ensues, even official or semi official content teases it, and yeah. boom its popular

another big part of it was, EVERYONE GETS A PARTNER!!!! kagepro content has A LOT of Shipping Pieces if that makes sense. idk what to call it but like god, pixiv entries with 1 shinaya, 1 harutaka, 1 setomary.... and 1 hibiya and momo and 1 kano and kido. god awful. if any golden year kagepro fans follow me they will KNOW what im talking about.

now that i mentioned it. hibiya and momo. ough. idk man. people were properly weird with this one. because with kano and kido they at least made up a damn excuse. with hibiya and momo there was nothing. but the thing is, jin is entirely to blame here. absolutely fucking disgusting bro. unlike with kano and kido, with hibiya and momo he actively wrote it. in the third novel their chapters together or any of hibiya's chapters are actual fucking torture to read. i wont go into details if u havent read it but like there are Reasons i never recommend kagepro to people.

its good to give jin proper respect he IS the creator of my favorite characters ever in the whole wide world and the writer of the story that makes me the happiest ever in the history of life. but. that doesn't mean i dont hold him accountable for being weird as hell in his writing because he absolutely is

back in the early days of this blog i had my very own Gets Send Deaths Threats arc by some people who shipped these guys or people who were mad i criticized jin (i always suspected it was like. the same 1 or 2 people. with a lot of time in their hands) soooo honestly answering this activated my fight of flight a little bit but tbh i havent seen Any content here on tumblr (i do have everything blacklisted to hell and back) or gotten ANY rude messages here in years, so i think we're good👍

hope this was helpful and i hope ur not grossed out of kagepro though I'd understand. u kinda need a strong stomach not only for its themes but sadly kagepro does the gross anime thing animes do :(