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catchers… don’t forget to flirt with your pitchers!

dodgers bucktommy for the fabulous @geddyqueer ⚾️

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Franz Kafka diary

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"everyone experiences [symptom]" how many times does it have to be explained that it's often about the frequency of the symptom, not the symptom itself

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Drinking coffee (will make my heart do flippetyflops) while I wait for my potato wedges (will make my insides feel heavy for a couple of hours) to finish cooking. I shouldn't be in control of my own diet.

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All these people saying ‘shut up that joe and nicky didn’t kiss! Let gay relationships just be wholesome! I’m gay and you don’t need to see them tongue to know they’re in a relationship! stop objectifying gay characters!’ you don’t get it. Youre entitled to your opinion but I don't think you get it. It’s about the Vietnamese antagonist being demoted to henchman so a well-known white blonde actress can be the main antagonist (an original character) instead. It’s about another original character being introduced whose only contribution is to be the wise asian man trope. It’s about the toning down of the two most disgustingly romantic characters to the point where they barely touch eachother, when they were previously on screen spooning in bed, holding eachothers faces, and yes, kissing. Specifically kissing in a van surrounded by homophobes that they then murder in some pretty top tier comedy. 

I’m not upset because i was wanting to get my rocks off. Im concerned because these were decisions that were made, and in the era of almost every movie needing corporate board approval, you need to question why these decisions are being made and who’s making them. Why can’t we show our two gay characters kissing in their only intentionally romantic scene together? Why can’t the vietnamese character be the main villain she was originally set up to be? Why has the new asian character presumably spent his immortality amassing knowledge, and not fighting like everyone else, with no explanation?

At the end of the day it was a bad movie. Plot holes everywhere, rough acting, Madame Webb style dubs. But I still think it’s important to acknowledge the slideback that’s happened here and it's okay to be upset about it.

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It's punk to be a good person 🦸🏻

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Tan was so real for this

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I know there's like 0 possibly of marvel ever letting Peter Parker officially be queer, but what about Johnny? Do you think it's possible that he could be confirmed as bi/pan at some point?

Johnny Storm exists in the weirdest canon sexuality grey area known to mankind. Is he constantly referred to as gay? Yeah. Is there evidence that several high profile Marvel creators think he's queer? Yes. Marjorie Liu confirmed that the intent in her run in Dark Wolverine was that there was a sexual relationship between him and Akihiro. Kurt Busiek retweeted an article I wrote that explicitly discussed the homosexual subtext of Johnny's character. Dan Slott reportedly wanted to write Johnny and Wyatt in a romantic relationship, which is believable if you look at the beginning of his run, but was told no. (Slott's written gay relationships before in Amazing Spider-Man, so I wouldn't find this so surprising.) And John Byrne wrote this:

(FF #251) John Byrne I desperately want to study you in a lab.

But is Johnny canonically anything but 100% straight? No, not officially. Marvel, the conglomerate, officially views Johnny as heterosexual, and if the Dan Slott thing is true even recently blocked an attempt at having Johnny come out. If this is true, it's most likely because of the new movie, because let's be honest, corporate Marvel does not care about Johnny Storm on the same level it cares about Spider-Man or the Punisher or Iron Man.

Because let's be honest. This goes deep. And it's been going on a long time. The above John Byrne panel is not the only example. There is a long-running thread of homophobic comments targeting Johnny running through 616 canon.

(Hulk vs Thing: Hard Knocks #3) "Light in the loafers" is slang for a gay man, for anyone who doesn't know.

(Dark Reign: Zodiac #2. I don't recommend reading this, by the way, not even if you're going deep down the Johnny Sexuality Well, but for the record Johnny, despite not being canonically gay, literally gets gaybashed in this comic.)

(FF #151) Does it get more blatant than a character named "Mahkizmo" referring to Johnny as "an effeminate"? Someone get me Gerry Conway on the phone, I need to know what he was thinking when he wrote this. (I know what Gerry Conway was thinking because Gerry Conway is a very good and very intentional writer.)

Then there's Ben's repeated teasing about Johnny's "crush" on Spider-Man, referring to them as "love boids" and so on. This is friendlier than the above comments, but then, if we assume Johnny is queer, Ben would know about it. He certainly knew what was going on with Johnny and Akihiro.

(Daken: Dark Wolverine #4) "Got what he came for, right?" Real double entendre here, since "what he came for" is both a weapon from Reed and, clearly, sex with Johnny.

The posing here is not subtle, even before you factor in that Marjorie Liu, who co-wrote this series along with Daniel Way, confirmed on social media that the relationship was meant to be read as sexual. (So you can probably add Way to the list of writers who think Johnny is queer, too.)

In fact, I'd say that Liu and Way depict the whole family as knowing about Johnny's sexuality and about the relationship.

(Daken: Dark Wolverine #4)

So if Johnny is in the closet, the way this issue frames it, he's only in the closet to the public. He's not in the closet to his family.

(Deadline #1) "All right, Storm, who were you with last night: Britney? Christina? Eminem?" in reference to Johnny getting caught "with a bottle in one hand and a blonde in another." So he's not doing a great job on that front, either.

Then there's Johnny's tendency, despite the perception of him as a womanizer, to look incredibly uncomfortable when he's kissed by a woman -- even a woman he purportedly has romantic interests in. Take, for example, the following panels:

(FF #562) He certainly is just standing there while Psionics, his one-time bad girl fling, kisses him and invites him to come see her again. Which he doesn't do, by the way. The next time he sees Psionics, she'll kill his close family friend Alyssa Moy right in front of him. Great!

(FF #259) Literally running away from Sharon Selleck. Now, we can say that he just wasn't attracted to her, which is true -- he was very ardently pursuing her roommate, Julie DeAngelo. Except.

(FF #263) That's certainly some kind of posture when she kisses him, and of course as soon as she kisses him, he's "over her."

There's more examples of this, too, where Johnny has a pre-existing connection with a woman only for him to completely freeze up or lean away from her when he's kissed, with no follow through on his part. (This is part of the reason I personally headcanon him as gay and not bi, but that's besides the point.) And it's a totally separate issue from the other longrunning thread of him being kissed as a form of assault. Which also happens. Like a lot. "Johnny Storm" and "consent issues" are basically synonymous at this point, which again is really interesting if we're looking at this from the perspective of Johnny and sexuality, since most of these incidents involve women as the perpetrators.

(Most. Not all. Dark Reign: Zodiac definitely implies some things, and I think it's interesting that Akihiro initiates his connection to the Fantastic Four by shooting Johnny through the thigh with an arrow.)

I've mentioned this before, but again, for a character who has the reputation that Johnny has developed, both in and out of universe, it is deeply bizarre that he does not have sex scenes. He doesn't have them. Peter Parker has sex scenes. Kinky sex scenes! There is zero doubt in my mind that that Peter Parker is attracted to women. I can't even show you Johnny Storm having vanilla missionary honeymoon lovemaking that fades to black. Whenever they want to show you he's had sex, it is always in the aftermath, and he is rarely having a great time about it. What's up with that, Marvel! I know, but do you!

Then there's Unstable Molecules: Fantastic Four, which exists in a metatextual area -- it's a fictionalized account of the "real people" who inspired the Fantastic Four, the story of four people rapidly barreling towards a disastrous dinner party that would be witnessed by two comic book creators. And it's Johnny is definitely queer.

(Unstable Molecules #3) "Johnny, it is the fiery night, and you are a holy flaming flower." The extras for Unstable Molecules even include a love poem written by the beatnik who calls him "a holy flaming flower" that is definitely supposed to be about Johnny.

So that's the grey area. You have all of this content that either implies or occasionally outright states that Johnny is not straight. But according to Marvel, the actual publisher and company, Johnny is straight. Personally, I don't like saying things are canon if they aren't explicitly 100% confirmed canon, but the wealth of evidence here is so substantial that I make an exception. It's just a matter of when Marvel the actual company is going to admit it.

(Fantastic Four: Marvel Snapshots #1)

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“At a military academy” THAT LITERALLY THE Dragon Academy.

Okay but highkey the audio description for the httyd rtte kind of… sucks? Im only like 4 episode in, but theres already been multiple points where they use the wrong pronouns for dragons (y’all think Meatlug is a HE), misidentify generic dragons of the same species as the gang’s main dragons (not all Deadly Nader’s are Stormfly!), and its no calling changewings “giant dragonflies” despite Hiccup literally yelling “Changewings!” moments before. Truly weird….

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They called a sheep a lamb. A SHEEP. Thats like such a consistent httyd thing

Okay but highkey the audio description for the httyd rtte kind of… sucks? Im only like 4 episode in, but theres already been multiple points where they use the wrong pronouns for dragons (y’all think Meatlug is a HE), misidentify generic dragons of the same species as the gang’s main dragons (not all Deadly Nader’s are Stormfly!), and its no calling changewings “giant dragonflies” despite Hiccup literally yelling “Changewings!” moments before. Truly weird….

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HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLE CALL A SWARM OF NIGHT TERRORS A SWARM OF BIRDS. YOU LITERALLY ALREADY CALLED THEM CORRECTLY EARLIER WHY WOULD THERE BE BIRDS.

Okay but highkey the audio description for the httyd rtte kind of… sucks? Im only like 4 episode in, but theres already been multiple points where they use the wrong pronouns for dragons (y’all think Meatlug is a HE), misidentify generic dragons of the same species as the gang’s main dragons (not all Deadly Nader’s are Stormfly!), and its no calling changewings “giant dragonflies” despite Hiccup literally yelling “Changewings!” moments before. Truly weird….

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Okay but highkey the audio description for the httyd rtte kind of… sucks? Im only like 4 episode in, but theres already been multiple points where they use the wrong pronouns for dragons (y’all think Meatlug is a HE), misidentify generic dragons of the same species as the gang’s main dragons (not all Deadly Nader’s are Stormfly!), and its no calling changewings “giant dragonflies” despite Hiccup literally yelling “Changewings!” moments before. Truly weird….

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Okay but I’m rewatching the how to train your dragons tv series and just got the Race to the Edge seasons on Netflix. And im watching with audio description on and lmao the narration just literally saying “Handsome Snotlout shoots from a catapult.” Like um ma’am where did that adjective come from that sure was Specific whatttt

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Can’t stop thinking about @screamlet ‘s politician!tommy. bodyguard!buck next perhaps?

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azula's cold read on sokka during the day of black sun raises questions. she figured out that he's the strategic one, that's easy, he just figured out her game and the two twelve year olds listen to him right in front of azula. but how she locks onto sokka's guilt complex of people he loves getting hurt and that somehow being his fault, even when it's not? because he feels like he failed to protect them? which WE see in the swamp and the serpent's pass, but which azula has no established reason to even know exists? QUESTIONS.

MAYBE azula learned about it from suki, like she implies happened (she certainly learned sokka's name somehow), but azula was already lying about suki giving up on sokka, and I doubt suki would blab anyway. azula is twisting suki's strength of character into this vulnerable, weak little thing that she broke, which sokka is prone to believing out of his own fear and anticipated grief, but which isn't reflective of reality. no way was it suki. we all know she gave that girl a run for her money.

so, not suki. but then how did azula get sokka so spot on?

answer the first, from the fortune teller: sokka's life is one of pain and misery, most of it self-inflicted. it's written all over his face.

answer the second: azula is a people person.