Tbh, it really does say more about that person that it’s all they could think about, but they’re not ready for that convo. (This isn’t a “oh he must be closeted then!!” -although, it’s certainly interesting Kyle🤔and you may want to rethink your complete straighness- It’s a for some WIERD fricking reason, straight cis people seem to have to is sexual hangup over anyone LGBTQ2S+.) They see a gay couple hold hands and immediately ahh look away it’s too sexy! All I see is how they have sex!! They see a transgender person and immediately “WHATS IN THEIR PANTS THOUGH!?!?”. Its frustrating.
I work with someone who also watches The Last of Us. I asked him what he thought of episode 3. He said “I saw a lot of two hairy men having sex.” I was really disappointed to hear this response, as I was hoping to gush about how much I liked the intimacy and vulnerability and how it broke my heart the way only true art can. All he saw was two dudes smashing, which wasn’t even shown onscreen. There was no panting, no thrusting, no movie-trope just-out-of-view sex scene. There is only a brief moment of seduction which tells the audience the characters are going to have sex, followed by a cut to some time after it has already occurred. My colleague’s take is informed by the same bias that causes deranged parents to berate school boards for discussing the existence of non-straight and transgender people in class. They think gayness is sexual in a way straightness is not. He saw roughly 2 minutes of 2 men being emotionally vulnerable, which led to offscreen sex, and all he could take away from the masterfully-crafted 60-minute love story was that 2 hairy men had sex. Deeply disappointing. Anyway if you haven’t seen it yet, it’s really great and I highly recommend watching it.
With vanilla extract being a meme, I wanted to share some black history of Edmond Albius a black slave who revolutionized vanilla pollination.
He used a technique he learned of pollinating melons to polinate the orchids to create the vanilla beans. Vanilla was rare and a luxury mainly due to only being able to be pollinated by its natural pollinator in Mexico.
unfortanely, he didnt receive any money for his discovery despite being called the main man who revolutionized pollination, he died in poverty...
If you see me commenting on something you made and had thought long dead and buried, I'm sorry. I just hate to see something born of joy fade away. I just wanted you to remember that it brought you joy in the day it was made, and no matter what, it still sparks joy in the viewer.
It's not right for things made with love to die in darkness.
Maybe its a fic you haven't touched in 10 years out of shame. Maybe it's some drawings for something you don't like anymore. But when you made it, when you put the work in, when you mixed the love in your heart with an idea in your head and made it into art, you made the world brighter. And people move on from things, I know, thats normal, but that brightness remains. And so often it gets overshadowed by new joys and cringe and the rust of hindsight.
But if I can bring a little of it back, if an author gets a comment email from AO3 on something they haven't touched in years, and smiles?