the wasteland

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

tagged by @letsdosciencetoit and @sierranovembr, thanks pals. as per usual with this one, i'm making it an open tag because i have no idea who if anyone has any interest.

the only thing i've been capable of writing recently is my tommy/omc fic which will eventually come back to b/t but! i love my guy, give him the fairytale whirlwind romance i beg of you. at some point, tommy will tell buck that he needs to chill out about his ex husband because "i wouldn't be the guy who's capable of making it work for you if he and i hadn't loved each other". ANYWAY. have some whirlwind romance. context: tommy is moving up to washington to be with his man.

They're watching the sun set over Lake Shasta and handing a bottle of beer back and forth when Jack clears his throat.

"I want to ask you something crazy," he says.

Crazy's their stock in trade, so Tommy just hands the bottle back and waits.

"When we get home, there's a couple days after Liv gets back and before I have to go back to work."

"Yeah?" Tommy prompts. He doesn't think he's ever seen Jack nervous like this before. Even so, it comes as a surprise.

"Wanna get hitched?"

"What?"

"Married. Tie the knot. Put a ring on it."

Tommy laughs. "You're—you're actually serious, aren't you?"

"Yep. I spoke to Liv about it before she left for New York. If we get home before 3p.m. Monday, we'll have time to go get a license. Three day waiting period, so we could all go to the courthouse on Friday. Now her birthday's passed, she could even be our witness."

Tommy looks at Jack, at the bottle hanging from his fingertips, at the salt and pepper beard that's been coming in for the whole drive and thinks, my husband.

Jack misinterprets his silence and says, "Or we could do something less crazy. A license lasts sixty days. Or even less crazy and we can just —"

Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who was murdered on the first day of Pride month as well as Indigenous History Month. He died protecting his trans husband. Homophobia and racism aren’t marks of the past, and this is a heart breaking reminder of that.

And honestly, I'm a romantic, I was as happy as anyone that they came out as a couple, but I don't care for the way that people act like they're making it their entire brand when they specifically said they weren't going to do that and that nothing was going to change, and when I actually watch things like the podcast they really haven't changed much but I think the aspect of their creativity has been lost in exchange for clicks about their relationship, and I used to really enjoy the fandom space when people had to actually discuss the content rather than solely about their relationship.

but, and ive said this before, i dont think they’ve turned into a couples channel, they’re just more free to talk about things and it naturally comes out now.

I’ve been dying to say this but haven’t but I don’t like the four seasons video. it was the first time I felt like they were doing lowest common denominator YouTube thing, and I didn’t fully believe it wasn’t all staged. I don’t think all their creatively has been lost — they spent a lot of time putting the hard launch podcast together, and i think they’re set is one of the coolest podcast sets ive seen. as much as I miss the gaming channel (which honestly is weird of me to say because I didn’t really watch their gaming content until after the hard launch lol) I also get them wanting to move away from that. but I do wish they would do more new things more frequently. Dan and Phil Are Dating Other Boys was soooo good (even through the second hand embarrassment lmfaooo) but I don’t feel like we’ve gotten something like that again and I wish we would!!!

Im really enjoying the podcast and I look forward to it every week but it’s not perfect. they do still move through topics pretty fast to get to uninteresting segments. like this week, Phil Richard’d too early, right in the middle of a topic I was enjoying. Which was especially annoying because this Pride episode, they got a bit more serious and I liked hearing them talk about their experiences with Pride and being closeted in a space that feels more casual than a 45 minute essay video about those topics. but it ended so quickly just to move on and I wish we could just stay still for a few more minutes.

All this to say, I agree with OP but I also understand and pretty much enjoy what they’re doing now except for some caveats but those caveats do stand out a bit. Idk about the phandom experience all that much. Even though I started watching them in 2022, I feel a bit like a post hard launch person because I didn’t jump onto dnp tumblr until then so ive been trying to wrap my head around being here in the first place as a pretty anti rpf person (in the sense of I don’t like rpf but I like, get it, within reason).

no idea if any of this makes sense, I literally just woke up.