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1. models healthy consent practices!! oh my goodness!! asking to kiss, double checking that consent is enthusiastic, being honest about moments that lacked consent (see: b*n h*pe and imogen asking out nick). later in the books we get even more amazing examples of consent being an ongoing conversation!!

2. the teenagers act their age!! they’re awkward, they’re confused, they’re unsure of themselves, they are PLAYED BY YOUNG ACTORS!!! it’s realistic and beautiful and doesn’t set unreasonable expectations for viewers like almost every other show about high schoolers

3. SUPPORTIVE PARENTS!!! all of the parents we have met so far have been loving, supportive, compassionate, and patient. it’s so nice to have multiple queer and trans characters who are embraced by their parents and their friend’s parents from the beginning. and tao’s mom is an icon.

4. safe people and places!! the characters have trusted adults like mr. ajayi and mrs. singh and safe places like the art room that they can go to when things are rough. it models healthy support network building and healthy coping skills!!!

5. all the ways you can come out and be out!! it tells a beautiful “coming out isn’t always easy and it’s never the end of the journey” story without making coming out seem like a disaster waiting to happen. yes, charlie was outed - and people still jumped to his aid even before nick came around. no one pressures nick to come out (a major story arc some of y’all clearly didnt pay attention to) and they tell him it’s fine if he doesn’t know what to label his sexuality if he even wants to label it at all. 

6. LETTING. BOYS. CRY. oh my god it’s so refreshing to see a show where boys get to cry instead of punching walls. and not once does someone tell them crying makes them less masculine. no one tells anyone to stop crying. they’re allowed to be emotional and it’s wonderful.

7. affection. i adore the way this show portrays all the small ways you can say “i love you”: a homemade picture frame, buying your apple juice every day, waiting until you’re ready, taking you to the beach, bringing over cookies for movie night, bringing their dog to the date to cheer you up, running over in the rain, punching someone in the face for you. 

Remus Lupin must have gone absolutely FERAL the first time he saw that

Buy Bowie Records at the first store, a new book in the second and get fire Whisky in the middle

- the crown has gone. I think they’ve gone back in time and they’re going to do it all over again

- look! The arm chairs are back!

- AHA! My dad has moved from the Good Spot on the couch. I shall claim it.

- “I wonder who decided to have the coronation so long? Someone much be against a short coronation”

- “I wonder what percent of Lady Jane Grey’s reign was taken up by her coronation.” He’s just started getting into horrible histories. I’m very proud

- “I wonder if there’s the coronation version of eloping?”. I think he’s bored with all the pomp and circumstance (tm). Fair. I am to.

- oh. Dad moved because he was turning the tv off. It’s 9:30 pm, and time for nine year olds to go to bed.

Well. It’s been a good run, everyone!! I’m not going to watch the rest of the services, because honestly I don’t care enough if Junior isn’t here to chat with. And TikTok will give me the recap of any drama tomorrow.

Let me tell you all the reasons that won’t work

1. Because people are entitled to keep their private lives private

2. Because in literally any other job, your employer cannot make you say what your sexuality is

3. Because some people like to remain unlabeled, even in their private lives

4. Because some people don’t know what their sexuality is, and may never know

5. Because sometimes people think they know what their sexuality is, and it changes down the line

6. Because it leads to “only straight actors should play straight characters” which leads to less opportunities for queer actors (because there are less queer characters)

7. Because all actors are constantly pretending to be attracted to people they aren’t attracted to irl

For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.

This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.

Mercutio: why would you stab me like that?

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Mercutio: Awww, are you sister shook?

Benvolio: No, stop.

Mercutio:Sister stop.

Benvolio: uhhhGGGGHHGHG

Mercutio: What, am I making you sister sad?

Benvolio: SHUT UP!

Mercutio: Sister shut up? No thanks, I’d rather be sister slapped than have to be quiet.

Benvolio: oh my fUCKING FUCK YOU CAN FIGHT ME

Mercutio: Why are you trying to sister start a fight? I’m just being my sister self!

Benvolio: I’m going to sister strangle you if you don’t sister stop and be sister silent right this sister second

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Mercutio: So they don’t have peanut butter on middle earth but they have wEEPING ANGELS-

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Benvolio: Pop quiz! What’s 3,487 divided by 9?

Romeo: *anxiously starts singing the national anthem under their breath as an answer*

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Juliet, to Benvolio, about Mercutio: Why would he bite your thighs again?

Romeo, spitting out his milk: He did whAT now???

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Mercutio:

Benvolio:

Romeo: that sounded ominously gay.

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Mercutio: I hate walking into a library and just seeing an old man butt-naked. I think I might be going to the wrong kinds of libraries.

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Mercutio: you don’t know my life. Maybe I /did/ get a haircut.”

Benvolio: Did you?

Mercutio: no

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Benvolio, dragging Romeo to the party: look me in the eye and tell me you’re not going.

Romeo: I’m not going.

Benvolio: yes you are.

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The nurse, yelling: I’M NOT A VERY LOUD PERSON, OKAY???

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Mercutio: I think I need a pregnancy test.

Benvolio: ...but...?????

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Mercutio: I was listening but tell me again, because I wasn’t listening

Romeo: I’m not mad but only because you just almost quoted the lego movie

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Mercutio: the gay rubs right off.

Benvolio: oN wHaT????

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Mercutio: do not touch my butt!! you broke my heart!!!

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Tybalt: ARE YOU AFRAID OF CONFRONTATION

Romeo, panicked: I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

Tybalt: CONFRONTATION!

Romeo: AHHHHHHHH

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Tybalt and Mercutio, passing by each-other: *in almost perfect unison* Bye, nerd.

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Mercutio: I hope y’all have a yee-haw Wednesday!

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Benvolio, to Mercutio: try to keep your clothes on.

Mercutio, undressing (in a dressing room): that’s now what you told me last night.

Romeo, choking: *unintelligable*

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Mercutio: Mom said it’s MY turn on the stripper pole!

Tybalt, who has climbed a lamp post, and is being forcibly shaken down by Mercutio: I-...what????

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Merctio: eEeEeEwW tHiS iRoN pIlL tAsTeS lIkE iRoN

Benvolio, gasping dramatically: really????

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Mercutio: too tall to be a hobbit, quack quack

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Mercutio: I have runneth out of fucks

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Romeo: I’m a hot mess!

Mercutio: you’re a spicy disaster, now get back out there.

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Benvolio: You’ve only read two [full] books? [Ever]?!

Mercutio: i’Ve ReAd ThReE

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Mercutio: they told me not to do anything dumb and I was like “okay” but I lied

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Romeo: I’m too rich and busy for Hurricane Katrina-

Mercutio: mORE LIKE HURRICANE TORTILLA

Benvolio: I hate both of you.

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Mercutio: now give me 100 bucks.

Benvolio: I’ll give you a high-five?

Mercutio, tearing up: that’s worth 1,000 bucks in my mind!

Benvolio, also tearing up: bro!

Mercutio: bro!!!

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Mercutio, slapping an ocean encyclopedia: HOW MANY FISH ARE THERE??!

Romeo, panicked: so many????

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Benvolio: have fun, be safe, wear a seatbelt

Mercutio, rolling his sleeves up, on his way to fight Tybalt: thank you, I will not.

—alternatively—

Mercutio: have fun, be safe, wear a seatbelt

Benvolio, on his way to take a shower: thank you, I will not.

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Mercutio: Old McDonald needs to shut his white priveleged mouth

Romeo: E-I-E-I-Oh snap

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Mercutio: I don’t think my gatorade is a bomb, thank you, Debrah.

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Romeo, vaguely sad: Not only was he deprived of his gravy; he was deprived of his mashed potatoes, which were covered in salad dressing.

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Benvolio: I’m having a sugar low :(

Mercutio: awwww, shoot, man. want a packet of salt?

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Benvolio: “Save The Turtles” says the one with the shell necklace

Mercutio: And I oop-

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