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Diva down

did you know its national moth week? Happy national moth week!

i am always a little bit thinking about the hail mary as a haunted house. yao and ilyukhina of course, but stratt’s vague but undeniable presence too. and ryland’s own entirely unknown past. his own invisible self. eventually rocky’s crew too, and their memories

a basic tenant of the haunted house is that you can never leave. its hotel california right? you can check in any time but you can’t escape it. the grief follows you. you can’t just walk out the front door. the spaceship-as-haunted-house is a fun literalization of this, because you literally cannot leave. you can’t pretend you’ve walked out the front door to a shiny new untraumatized life, free of the burden of grief. you’re stuck! you’re trapped with it!

I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.

on an even more basic level than that, also, I simply just think some of y’all NEED to learn how to interact with media and storytelling without ships and fandom in mind. like if not being able to write fic about two men kissing is genuinely going to be a dealbreaker for you I think that’s actually something you need to work on within yourself because at that point I think you’re no longer really interacting with art and themes and narrative so much as just kind of playing with toys. which is, like, fine I guess. have fun. but it wouldn’t kill you to disengage from that from time to time. especially if would allow you to actually appreciate rich and deeply moving cultural stories from communities of color that you desperately need to learn how to see as human

This is my post but you can have some of it if you want. I don't mind sharing. :) smiles

he's literally so kind and no one ever talks about it

I'm nice

Frankly, I think companies presenting basic health and consumer safety information as "boring," "uncool," and "not worth your care" should carry a hefty fine based on the revenue that company generates

The lameo gay crap we're legally forced to tell you: You may die of diseentary