An Undirected Mind

does that character “radiate heterosexuality” or do you just not like them. do they really not read as queer to you or do you just not like them. are you sure they’re straight. or do you just not like them.

i do think saying that a character a lot of people read as queer is straight and can only be straight just because you, personally, don’t like the character is homophobic. i do think that if you butt into a conversation and start equating them being uninteresting or boring or evil or ugly to you with them not being allowed to be queer is homophobic. that’s really fucking weird. stop doing that.

why do you think queerness needs to be earned. why do you equate queerness with morality or attractiveness or your personal investment in this character. even if you think the correlation is positive, you’re still saying that if someone doesn’t meet this standard you’ve set, then it’s okay for you not to see them as queer. i do not trust you if you assume people you don’t like are straight or cis. why are you assigning value judgements on people’s identities.

do you ever see someone get so far into fanon of their favorite character that they forget the core conceit of that character

reblog and tag a character you like in concept, but the execution could have been better

any conversation about who could play odysseus well (as opposed to the obvious terrible choice matt damon) is inane, in my view, because it’s already been done and served by toby stephens of maggie smith’s son fame in an acclaimed yet underwatched show black sails under the name james “flint”-

i know that in role model/the long game troy and ilya mostly bond over secretly being nicer and softer and gayer than people realise, BUT i choose to believe that one day (maybe post the stanley cup the centaurs win with the power of friendship) the team all goes out to the club and there’s throwback edm hits playing and troy and ilya’s fuckboy party personas activate like fucking sleeper agents and they have the biggest night of their lives together

i want them slamming shots and downing beers, i want them jumping on tables and dancing when levels by avicii comes on, i want them carrying luca haas on their shoulders, i want footage of this night to hit twitter and someone to be like “why do i feel like this video called me the f slur 😕” and for everyone else to be like “excuse me harris is literally in the background on the clip and he has never been so turned on in his life”

at some point during high school i drew a centaur girl with large breasts because i wanted to draw a character that looked like me, and my biofamily got real upset about it. "why are they so large" because mine are that large. "wouldn't that make it hard for her to run" interesting that you think that but keep trying to make me run. "don't draw things like this, it's morally bad" ok i and my apparently inherently pornographic body will just be over here trying to avoid being looked at

this is not to say porn is bad, tbc. i just wasn't a fan as a teenager of being treated like it was impossible to look at bodies like mine non-sexually. frankly i'm not a fan of it now either lmao. i keep kind of thinking about how so many female protagonists are canonically flat or small-chested girls/women who textually wish they had larger breasts, but i can't remember the last time i encountered a protagonist with large breasts where that fact wasn't meant to be sexual. what is up with that dynamic and how do i destroy it

it's like... in order to be accepted as a woman, the character has to desire the idealized form of The Perfect Woman (or if she's a #feminist, reject and detest that same idealized form, but the focus on it is often still there). but in order to be a non-pornographic protagonist, she can't attain it. the moment you have a large enough chest you don't really get to be a normal character anymore, you have to go to sex world. idk. probably someone better read than me has written some sort of papers on this. idk what search terms to use though

i genuinely love that the way k.a applegate resolves the issue of needing the alien on the team to be able to drop plot crumbs without totally solving everything for the human kids is by making aximili-esgarrouth-isthill a jock who only tangentially paid attention to when his teachers were explaining, like, the andalite equivalent of how to find the cosine of a triangle, and now he's in an astronomically rare circumstance where the fate of an entire species depends on him remembering how to do that. and he's cold sweating trying to recall the answers to homework problems he didn't do. and also he's always lying.

ax is literally experiencing like if you got teleported back several hundred years and everyone was expecting you to explain the precise mechanisms of how cell phones work to them and if you don't come up with a sufficient explanation they're all going to die. And he's not enjoying it.

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