I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief.

rb to have an extra gay 2026

meanwhile the irony of all the speculation and pressure around the heated rivalry actors’ sexualities is not at all lost on me. like you have a book series and then a tv show adaptation where “coming out is an active threat to your livelihood, which is precarious on the best of days and you will realistically only have said livelihood for like twenty years if everything goes ridiculously well” AND “even if you personally as a public figure are comfortable and willing to take the risk of coming out, you have to consider the impact of that kind of pressure and speculation on your loved ones, including your partner, who will have little shot of anonymity or privacy ever again, before you take that step” are MAJOR THEMES and people take that and go “so why aren’t these public figures who just want to do their jobs telling me every detail of the private lives??” Well, see, you’re not gonna believe this but

listen. the craziest thing is that the most aware and nuanced take on this that i've seen is one by straight hockey dudes with a podcast, who about the scott/kip situ in ep 3 said "this [coming out] is asking too much bc it could ruin his entire career and life" implying it might also be dangerous (!!!). i am paraphrasing them, but their awareness and understanding around someone wanting (or feeling pressured) to stay closeted to the world at large was top notch. meanwhile queer online spaces are opening full manhunts on this topic, and for what? to fulfill their personal curiosity and feel vindicated for WHAT. fuck that.

the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in a body that is so so so so tired

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

in the dukedom of gloucester. straight up “yorking it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. My claim to the throne.

watching 20 year old tv shows is all fun and games until you realize how far we’ve backslid on certain social issues

One weird experience of transitioning is failing at ur assigned gender role the whole time and everyone constantly deriding you for it but then u come out and it's like we lost a beautiful gender conforming warrior today. Must grieve for my wonderful child who pissed me off by being ugly and weird since day 1

"you can't even be butch anymore!" says cis woman who has mocked every butch woman she ever met

"let tomboys be tomboys!" they say about the kids they endlessly forced into feminine conformity