a simple rake

Richard gadd pioneering a genre of gay tv previously unseen outside of my dead dove ao3 bookmarks just wasn't something i ever considered could happen

half man is both one of the most unpleasant stress inducing shows ive ever seen in my life but also makes part of my brain that hasn’t been activated since i watched nbc hannibal for the first time at 16 light up like a firework display

the setting of half man is under discussed imo. im no expert in glasgow gothic but the show's scottish identity strikes me as important. glaswegians are some of the most ridiculed people in the english speaking world and particularly in the 80s/90s it was infamous for it's high rates in poverty and violence. that there's a prestige show airing on the bbc, showing the community in earnest, (that isn't a sitcom or a police procedural) is pretty notable by itself. coming from a similar background, i know that there are certain types of normalized crime that celebrate machismo, and so a lot of ruben's expression is informed and encouraged by the culture around him. as is niall's, it's really compelling to me that niall can't seem to conceptualise a life where he is openly gay and scottish, that his freedom hinges on emigration. and yes a big part of him wanting to move to oxford is to move away from his immediate circle of perception, but like i don't think it's a coincidence that the only openly gay man as of episode 3 is a brown immigrant. the gentrification involved in a shift from glasgow to oxford is a pretty sensitive area, that you can't have a scottish success story without settling down in england first. gay iconography, at least in early 90s britain, being associated with this kind of posh lifestyle that doesn't coincide with those in the estates, excludes glaswegians from a relatable queer identity. his ma's gay and his girlfriend's woke so there is literal proof under his roof that this is a life that's possible, but that the jury would like a thug more than a fag is a reflection of how homosexuality is viewed as an outsiders sport. i expect that when we see niall and ruben in contemporary scotland, there will be a reflection of how that mentality has drastically changed over the years and how queerness is recognisable across classes and counties. i don't know if this is something they'll ever tie together/make explicit in the text. but it's there. to me.

I’m so pro abortion I feel insane hearing any other take on it

Even lefties I know will eventually concede to some situation where they think it’s right to force someone to carry a child against their will as if that’s not one of the most inhumane and cruel situations to put someone in regardless of any other factors

has anyone noticed that after the porn ban of 2018 tumblr was essentially killed from the mainstream and everyone flocked to other social media sites like twitter and meta. then those sites got enshittified to where twitter became Nazi Central and meta sites had an entire meme around getting “zucced” aka mark zuckerberg himself would ban you for saying a no-no word like fuck. and then the mainstream shifted to tiktok where infamous toddlerspeak sentences like “he got unalived by a pew pew” were born because if you once again say a no-no word like kill or gun or any other word that isn’t corporate i mean kid friendly then the algorithm will bury your post into the ground. and somehow we’ve come full circle and tumblr is now the most bearable social media site because although we can’t have female presenting nipples we can at least talk to each other like adults. has anyone noticed that at all or is it just me and the flaming skull

big shout out to tumblr for being the first major site in like two years to implement an ill-advised "feature" nobody wants, likes or respects that doesn't involve AI

THE FENG SHUI OF THIS WEBSITE IS FUCKED

things are getting so so stupid. honestly just let me buy tumblr

fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die