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levok

Mariliendre

This! The series of 2025 🪩 👠

27.04.2025

juantinarchive

Nuestra forma de hablar 🗣️

sageandred

I've learned

that people

will forget

what you said

people will forget

what you did

but people

will never forget

how you made them

feel.

[Maya Angelou]

pinaybelieber

“Henry’s mood turns dark and sour over morning coffee at the harsh reality of returning to London so soon, and Alex kisses him dumbly and promises to call and wishes there was more he could do.”

Chapter 7, Page 160

meg-is-just-another-fan-girl

Wille: I used to have a cousin named August but now I don’t

August: Stop telling people I’m dead!

Wille: sometimes I can still hear his voice

mobydyke

being an adult is just dragging urself kicking and screaming to things that you will enjoy and that will be good for you

mobydyke

clenching my teeth and muttering under my breath "you'll be happy you did it you'll be happy you did it you'll be happy you did it" as I physically force myself out the door to go Do Things

mobydyke

being very firm with myself every time I think about bailing and saying "no. you committed to this. it will improve your quality of life. you will enjoy it. now put on your big boy pants and go."

dancermk-deactivated20260112

I’m a little disappointed to see so much discourse, fandom competitiveness, and plain arguing going around at the moment in regards to queer film/TV. People complaining about too much sex, not enough sex, too cheesy, made for the hets, too happy, too sad, too realistic, too unrealistic, and a million other petty issues. I, for one, am a queer person in my 50s and I grew up with practically zero representation! Yes, we want to continue onwards and upwards with quality and varied shows BUT let’s be HAPPY we now have representation! Like, actual shows where the central characters are queer, not just a side character who gets f*cking murdered! There is room for all different types of representation - so enjoy the types you like, and let others enjoy what they like.

And on a side note: progress is progress and film/tv is a business that has to turn a profit! If some queer content is made to appeal to the straight community, and will also act as a means of reducing homophobia and increasing understanding, then that’s a good thing. That means in the future more and more content will include queer stories and representation. If only 10% (ish) of the population is the maximum target audience then shows won’t keep getting made!

There is a huge backlash all over the world right now - a “push back” by conservatives and religious groups that want to wind back the clock, and specifically the last decade of advances.

So stick together queers and LGBTQIA+ allies.

I’m super happy knowing I don’t have to wait years between content anymore. And I’ve loved all different types of shows over the last 5 years, for lots of different reasons!

Interview with the Vampire - is giving me the toxic, passionate gothic love affair I’ve always wanted. And addressing interracial relationships.

Heartstopper - is filling me up with pure joy and hopefulness for the future.

Shameless - gave me Ian and Mickey - unique, anti stereotypical gays with a tragic yet ultimately beautiful love story spanning 11 years

Lone Star 911 - is giving me TK and Carlos whose sexuality barely factors into the storyline! Yay!

Looking - gave me an authentic queer experience and an intoxicating love triangle.

Red, white and Royal Blue - gave me a sweet, cute romcom that allowed reality to be sidelined. Fun escapism!

Young Royals - had me captivated by first love and intense angst.

Fire Island - an underrated romcom that made me laugh so hard I cried.

Sex education - shoved the realities of sex in our faces and provided me with laughter and drama and a range of queer identities.

Gentlemen Jack -gave me historical lesbians with spectacular wit, and feminine power.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg- because there’s SO SO SO many more shows I could mention! Don’t at me because I didn’t mention YOUR favourite. This is my point! There is SO much great content it would take all day for me to include everything. This is just a sample - and that’s f*cking brilliant!!

So maybe we could all start posting/tweeting etc about what WE DO LIKE / LOVE / MAKES US FEEL LOVED AND SEEN and put down the device if we’ve got nothing nice to say.

Sending everyone a love filled week! 💜

yayimallamaagain

My first thought everytime I see any pic of Taylor Zakhar Perez as Alex Clarmont-Diaz

writer-and-thrasher

Something that seems to be going around a bit is the idea that Nick is constantly supporting Charlie (one-sidedly). He's standing up for him and fighting Harry and all of these things.

And maybe it's just me, but like, people seem to forget that they need different things. Charlie is out, so a lot of the bad stuff happening is loud and public. Nick calling out homophobia here makes sense. Besides the fact that some of Charlie's stuff is Really Big ™️. The bullying, the ED stuff, etc. Charlie's sense of self-worth takes a louder hit.

But that doesn't mean that Charlie doesn't take an active role in supporting Nick! When Nick isn't out, he's emotionally supporting him (reassuring him that there's no timeline, that everything will be okay, breaking his parents' rules about seeing him because he knows he's probably had a rough day). He's even willing to go back into the closet for an uncomfortable family dinner with Nick's dad.

Nick's support for Charlie is louder because it can be louder. But that doesn't mean that it's only Charlie being supported.

Different people need different things.

skam-in-every-language

Why is everyone sleeping on the Waterloo Road reboot? And how is no one talking about Preston x Kai (Pai?)..

Confident out and proud gay POC. Captain of the basketball team bisexual(?) suffering from anxiety, panic attacks and an eating disorder. If this isn't giving Nick x Charlie / Simon x Wilhelm vibes then I don't know what to tell you.

Please go watch this show.

The new season (Series 12) is about to drop on May 16th on BBC with all episodes available on iplayer.

totallyboatless

Truly surprised anytime i see someone upset that Jesper and Wylan don’t have a slow-burn in the show. I’m realizing this is a hot take, but I want more fast-burns. “Will they/won’t they” can be great, but it has to match characterization, and aging up the Crows would absolutely change how Jesper and Wylan get together.

Kaz and Inej make sense to slow-burn — they both have some level of touch aversion, extreme trust issues, and “I’m an island i don’t need anyone” syndrome.

But Jesper and Wylan? Jesper is fully sexually active in both the books and the show, but being sexually active in your 20s is vastly different than as a teenager. He knows what he likes and goes for it and has been doing that for years. Wylan is only like 15 in the books and super inexperienced - but he’s always had that secretly-confident, slightly-unhinged streak. In this alternate universe, he’s had an extra almost-decade for those traits to grow before meeting the Crows — he knows *so* much more about himself.

Wylan isn’t shy, he’s reserved. There’s a difference — it’s not a lack of confidence, his confidence is just quiet. Wylan hits me so hard as a relatable queer character because he plays the game of gently feeling out interest - when we meet him he’s sussing out if Jesper is still interested, and I imagine when they first met he did the “i’m going to signal to you i’m queer and hope you signal back” dance that happens when you’re trying to figure out if hitting on someone in a queer context will be received well or not.

But as soon as Wylan gets the go-ahead that Jesper is interested, he’s all confidence. He was just waiting for the explicit permission to go for it. Both times in the show when we see Jesper and Wylan start to get hot and heavy, Wylan is the one who initiates.

So in the show we have two sexually active adults who are attracted to each other, who aren’t afraid to go for what they want once they get a positive social queue, and who live in a super dangerous place with a “live fast, die young” mentality. Anything other than them jumping each other the first night they met wouldn’t make sense.

And then we get to see the meat of their relationship! The conflict isn’t “tension bc they want to bone” the conflict is “they need to learn to communicate and be on the same page and figure out if they can make this work” which imo is infinitely more interesting for these two characters.