busy leaving my marx

For years, I’ve thought about Ash and Eiji while listening to the song Soltane Ghalba by Aref. This song expresses transcendent love, a love that I’ve seen so beautifully conveyed through Banana Fish.

I wanted to thank my dear friend @gradeofexecution for being my lovely Banana Fish buddy and for inspiring me to make this edit :,)) Go read her work on ao3. Her BF fics will have you sobbing..

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So, after slaving away and having no life for the past week or so, I’ve FINALLY finished my epic analysis of queerness in Code Geass (complete with links to clips from the series to back up my claims, which is fun).

Premise: Using queerness as a lens, I analyze Suzaku and Lelouch as Othered queer rebels and how the homoerotics of their relationship is at the center of a series that inverts our gendered, political, moral and ideological expectations

Disclaimers: I’m not going to try to prove Suzaku and Lelouch aren’t straight by citing every homoerotic scene between them. I’m using queerness as a tool to analyze the series because, as it turns out, queerness explains A LOT. I back up all of my claims, but instead of assuming everyone is straight until proven otherwise, I get a lot more done with the opposite assumption.

The essay is VERY LONG. I broke it up into sections so you don’t have to read it all at once. It’s also written on a college level, so while it’s super gay, it’s also super academic. After this, my tone get very serious/formal (even about pimping Suzaku’s ass, which is, you know, the beauty of the thing).

Obligatory spoiler warning! (for anyone whose life is still incomplete)