possibly a bean bag cave

| she/her | Luca haas adorer | platonic connabeth truther 💌 | My art fight 🌝

[abiamantha]

why would you ever deal with any emotion in a logical way / when you could have the option of absolutely losing your mind?

Conan Gray

[goblinparty]

Last night I was talking to my boyfriend, and I couldn’t think of the word ‘library’, so I said ‘book ranch’. He thought it was hilarious and started making up alternative names for ‘librarian’.

“Cowbook! Like cowboy! No…Readcher? Like Rancher? No, fuck this is hard…”

and just now I heard him yell “BOOKAROO” from the other end of the apartment in the most triumphant tone of voice i’ve ever heard

[sasquapossum]

“Howdy, pardner. Name’s Tex. Biblio Tex.”

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[pruwinkle]

boyfriends

[pruwinkle]

nom

[pruwinkle]

our first kiss on a summer night

[lookatthe-stars13]

guys i finally did it if you want to join the luca haas tumblr community it’s right here

i procrastinated on this bc lowkey i have no idea how communities here work (the last time i used tumblr was 2022 mb 😭)

[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

[juliawvicker]

Losing in love isn't shameful. But if you lose yourself, that's when it gets ugly.

[natdeviantrat]

girlboss of the year

i really do love her. get your bag, know your worth, tease them for being gross and affectionate, keep your promises

[thelitaeffect]

Look at this cute cutie smile

[hughungrybear]

Show vs Novel

This also happened in the novel. Well, some couple have rings. Other couples have bracelets. These two have earrings.

Unfortunately, just like rings, it is soooo fucking easy to spot, especially for those who are naturally nosy, when it looks like two people are wearing matching items. Even something as inconspicuous as a goddamned earring.

[pipkrakes]

wow so fang chi upgrades from 'therapist who should lose his license' to 'therapist who should actively be in jail'

[scarefox]

need more men to think that way

[scarefox]

this show is killing me with scenes like this

it still always indirectly questions their feelings for each other as real, if it's maybe just a side effect of playing these characters after all and it could wear off when they finish the job.

[scarefox]

Leopard and cat kitty coded ? yea, sure. I can see that

[scarefox]

damn, that's so weird seeing them interact outside of their roles especially after that last scene 😶

[scarefox]

Ooooohhhh them disagreeing and arguing with the director for the first time about the characters motives and actions, the characters they got so attached to. ah, that kinda hurts with all the context too 💀

I am on their side too. Fang Chi wouldn't do that... the whole jealousy and victim blaming part didn't make much sense for him either imo. Not after the whole part where he talks about male victims who get forced to feel pleasure during assault. Man he's a therapist trying to therapy the guy while accidentally falling in love. Why would he retraumatize him?

But then there is also still the unaddressed drunk-hookup elephant in the room between the actors 🙃 Those parallels are still here, especially the part with the photos. In that sense it's not Fang Chi but Zhen Xin who that part of the script applies to. And the irony is crazy. Once again insane writing from the show. We are back with the guilt.