Busarewski

[zhoufeis]

雨霖铃 ZHAN ZHAO ADVENTURES China, 2026, dir. Liu Hong Yuan. Episode 13.

[sorchacahill]

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

lie to me

[marshmallow-the-vampire-slayer]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Rupert Giles, The Quotable Librarian

[buffysummers]

Rupert Giles + 🔥 🔥 🔥 [requested by Anonymous]

[morweneledhwen]

Things are finally moving forward for Archives: The Nanyang Mystery, aka Southern Archives.

The current release date is rumored to be June 10, and, looking at the activity on their Weibo page, they really seem to gear up for release this time. (Don't disappoint me yet again, drama!)

There seems to be some discussion on how many episodes there will actually be in the end, with some people saying it may have been cut down to 24 episodes, so I guess we can only wait and hope for the best.

Personally, I'm just happy it's finally coming out. 🚢

Probably.

[nickyandmikey]

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

[nickyandmikey]

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

[irrelevantlyvalid]

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

[chokolattejedi]

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

[executeness]

I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

[ramshacklefey]

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

[jbbartram-illu]

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3

[eregyrn-falls]

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.

[slothful-rabbit]

I laughed so fucking hard at this

[paint-lady]

[thegaymertrainer]

A magical squeak indeed.

[busarewski]

Have some more Fang Yilun

[weepingwidar]

Marjane Satrapi (Iranian, 1969-2026) - Ecole des Filles 2 (Girls' School 2) (2020)

[churrotowns]

since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[imanutcase-10]

Then bring me luck

[thirddeadlysin]

the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work

[icantbearsedtothinkofone]

Hey Potato, cure my -ing cold so I can have a good time while away.

[dduane]

Here's the potato. Make what use of it you will. :)

[cangelala]

God I need this so bad for my Midterm so please let this work again for me.

[skwangmbyul]

I could use some luck

[lanadelreysghost]

in waiting on college acceptance letters. PLEASE GOLD POTATO.

[honey-on-your-tongue]

I figure there's no harm in trying lol

[busarewski]

Here, have a cute Yaoyao to make it through the day

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

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.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[natstarbuck]

Of course, we're going together

[spica-starson]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 雨霖铃 | Zhan Zhao Adventures (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Zhan Zhao & Huo Linglong & Bai Yutang Characters: Huo Linglong, Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang Additional Tags: Found Family, Fluff, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Hugs, Grief/Mourning, They are emotionally married to each other your honor, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant Summary:

“Headmaster,” called out a disciple. “There are two people asking for your audience.”

Linglong felt her smile slowly slip off her lips. Xiao Zhao had told her she didn‘t need to plead to the Emperor directly, not while he was there, and for that she was grateful. But what if he and the letter weren’t enough after all?

“Who are they?”

“One of them calls himself Ding Zhaohui—”

She froze.

“—and the man with the bamboo hat calls himself Zhan Rifei.”

(Or: the post-canon reunion we never got 😭🫶)