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daughterofcoul reblogged onemoremistake:
Idris Elba reveals the story behind the name of his production company ‘Green Door’ [x]
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fy-merlinxarthur reblogged merlinfanartrecs:
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mumblingsage reblogged shonagon-chan:
I’m going to need people to stop pulling scenes out of movies in which two straight male characters make eye contact for two seconds or exhibit any display of genuine affection and using that to say that they’re ‘obviously gay for each other’.
Say it with me, people.
Displays of affection between men do not make men gay.
Displays of affection between men do not make men gay.
Displays of affection between men do not make men gay.
Being gay makes men gay. Relating genuine affection between men to homosexuality is the patriarchy shitting out of your mouth.
yes good.
PERFECT.
Urgh. I’m having problems articulating why this bugs me so much.
While I think that in this case the OP is meaning that the displays of affection between men is seen as feminine and thus gay [as a slur], it bugs me because I like to slash stuff. I like to slash stuff because I am under represented within popular media [although represented more so than gay men] and taking two characters with limited interaction and pairing them together and drawin’ silly things with the two of them makes me happy.
It’s a way for me, personally, to counteract the limited character portrayals within popular media. I like the subtext! I wish it were actual text but for now these small glances and headcanon’s have to do and if two dudes are affectionate and I could potentially see them ending up together in my head then fuckin’ awesome.
First I think it is worth noting that the OP is himself gay, unless I’m getting my wires crossed. Apologies if I am.
So I kind of agree with both the OP and the above commentary at the same time. On one hand, I do rather like slash relationships in fiction and I often ship pairings that are not canon and either completely invented or drawn from subtext. Also, I am concerned that some people reblogging this will be doing so because “it’s possible for men to be friends stop making them gay!!!!!” which is not a valid criticism of the slash community (although there are many valid criticisms, I should note) please sit down.
ON THE OTHER HAND, what the OP is outlining is my essential issue with a lot of the narratives I see people slashing. The basic formula seems to be “two cis white guys with lots of heavy subtext” and that’s also kind of. Well, if the subtext had follow-up in canon, it might be a different story, but to me a lot of it strikes me as.. baiting people who the authors of these narratives know will go for the subtext while simultaneously screaming “NO HOMO” because god forbid we have actual queer relationships in popular culture.
THE BOTTOM LINE IS, I think that liking slash relationships in fanon is perfectly well and good and a good way to cope with inadequate representation, but it should NOT be conflated with ACTUAL adequate representation, and that is something a lot of people are guilty of. They tend to act like strategic writing in popular narratives is the same thing as actual queer representation, and that is not the goddamn case.
this yes good
All of this! Because all of this clearly spells out the problems I have with the “slash community” (yaoi community) and ALSO what I love about the slash community.
The short version, for me, is that I hate it when straight people fetishize gay people. There are a lot of slash/yaoi stories I won’t and can’t read because it’s not about two characters, it’s about HOW HOT TEH GAY OMG LOOK THEY WILL DO ANYTHING. And, it’s not representation.
On the other hand, I LOVE a good story about gay characters (whether they’re canonically gay or not) because to me, love is love. You can take two straight characters whose love isn’t canon, and pair them up. Just because it’s not canon, doesn’t make it not fun to write/read. In Inception fandom you get some Arthur/Mal and some Eames/Ariadne - nothing in canon confirms that (or even suggests it,) but it’s fanfiction. But my personal favorite is Arthur/Eames, and nothing in canon confirms that, either.
So: I hate it when stories fetishize homosexuality, but I love when stories are written about two characters who are gay - because love is love, right? That goes for canon AND fanfiction.
^I love everyone commenting here and I don’t even know most of them.
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i-aint-bovvered reblogged accio-hiddles:
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One of my requested books has arrived, so I thought: ”I should go pick up A Single Man at the library.”
Good thinkings, self.
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jokseenkin reblogged sirarthurconandoilies:
The Middle Ages was a very exciting time in Europe.
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Cute omens
HEY LOOK IT’S US
you can’t see either of the book covers but the one on the floor is the (prop) Nice and Accurate Prophecies
the one Renn is reading is actually Good Omens
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i-ambic reblogged tacticalnymphomania:
How Good Omens was not written.
It is impossible to look at this picture without smiling like an idiot.
oh nope
right in the feels
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eldritchjoy reblogged formaldejekyll:
Today I had a lecture about belief/religion and the lecturer asked what we believed in and some guy shouted “Sherlock Holmes” and then some other kid shouted back “Richard Brook was innocent” and they glared at each other across the room and then the lecturer just carried on with a slightly concerned look on her face.
