#queer coded villains

I just saw some of @hjbender ghostheart stuff right beforehand and I hadn't considered them before.

And Johnny is like so, so dumb. Like... no braincells in his head.

So you got your dumb sweet noble (compared to a demon) hero and the witty (probably sophisticated) emo boy demon is reminded regularly of just how dumb Johnny is and experiencing every stage of grief realizing he still wants to get fucked by him.

Here we've got daddy issues galore, you know that's a praise kink right there, and he really wants Ghost Rider's hellfire inside of him...

"Buwahaha I know his weakness, I will manipulate his heart! Wait. He broke up with his girlfriend. I can't use that now. Now what...? I know, brilliant plan!" (You just played yourself.)

I love Leah x Maleficent so so so much!!!

Gonna nerd out about fairy tales for a bit:

In some versions of Sleeping Beauty Carabosse (evil fairy before Disney) helps the king and queen to be able to conceive a child. This in combination with Carabosse being a man's role traditionally in the ballet comes off with Maleficent always being very trans coded to me, implying some relations with Leah.

Plus, if Maleficent were to have assisted in the conception of the child, it gives more reason for her to be angry with Leah and Stefan for not inviting her to Aurora's christening, and want to take her away from her parents. If I were a fairy and someone didn't appreciate my gifting them with a baby, and wanted to exclude me from public life and being seen with that baby and them, I would be pretty miffed too. Especially if I had caught feelings for the dutifully married queen.

Up there with Ursula, scar, and cruella de vil

in the book, we have a whole minor point of tension where Kmicic can't help but almost shoot a retreating annoying messenger with a cannon because he's 💅🤷‍♀️quirky🤷‍♀️💅 like that (and a goddam Marty Stu since he suffers no consequences)

and that's why Kuklinowski, when it's his turn, says he doesn't feel safe as an envoy and wants someone to escort him in and out - leading to the "private" conversation with Kmicic at the end of which he's rolling down a hill on his ass

BUT. the movie omits this bit entirely

so, without it, what we get is that Kuklinowski enters the enemy fortress, encounters a handsome young nobleman half his age, and spontaneously decides to stay in his company for an extra minute

okay sure, we didn't ask but we ain't complaining thanks

It bothers me that in fiction, when there's a clear distinction between the "Forces of Good", and the "Forces of Evil", the Forces of Good are chaste, patriarchal, and heteronormative, and the Forces of Evil are sexually promiscuous, matriarchal, and sexually deviant.

And even modern works that seem to twist on this formula sometimes seem to just reinforce it. The Forces of Good are still patriarchal and chaste, but now they are depicted as also hypocritical and nasty, while the queer-coded, sexually deviant Forces of Evil are still villains, but with a sad backstory and reasonable motive.

I know that villains are more fun and all, but does the funny, queer-coded, sassy character have to be a villain all the time? If your character has a point, why depict them immediately as the villain?

I propose the opposite. The Forces of Good are diverse, happy, and sexually liberated, while the Forces of Evil are petty, always angry, and repressed as hell.

The heroes celebrate in a sacred orgy, while the villains gather together in a mega church to sulk.