People coming onto the tag to be like “there’s no secret episode you guys are crazy” is funny to me because imo there doesn’t even NEED to be a secret episode for a Conformitygate reading to make sense
That’s what’s cool about the theory: it works in multiple capacities
I don’t necessarily believe in a secret episode even though it would be so cool (unless it makes things WORSE) but I don’t think you even need to believe there’s extra content to be able to analyze all of the details that don’t add up
Also as someone who is actually delusional in her personal life I just want to say: analyzing a television show does not make you delusional. Film and television analysis literally have classes dedicated to them. Looking at props, set design, writing discrepancies, color grading etc.? That shit is there for a reason and some of us just have brains geared toward analysis in the first place.
Anyway there’s a lot of hate so I just wanted to encourage you guys to keep being creative, I know I’m going to keep thinking about it too and my fingers are crossed for some good news today.
PLEASE I’m begging you to go vote episode 7 10/10 on imdb! I know it’s not perfect (I myself hated the coming out scene) BUT currently we are sending the message that queer storylines should be pushed away. I myself thought review bombing would be a good thing, but I was wrong.
I know our intentions are good but we as a queer community need to defend queerness in modern media against fascist like Elon Musk who hated on the coming out scene.
Lmao so I wanted to find a way to explain my theory about Max getting powers too and that Mike will have to defend against them being controlled by Vecna like a metaphorical three headed dragon I—
This monstrosity I made is unreasonably fkn hilarious to me wth 😭
(Obviously witholding final judgements until the finale, but at this point:)
If I had a nickel for every time a five-season Netflix show ended with a group of teens facing a conformist hivemind villain and saving the day by overcoming their respective traumas and realizing the power of queer love,
then I might be able to quote Dr. Doofenshmirtz from the hit 2011 animated film Phineas and Ferb, Across the Second Dimension.
Joan Cusack has never appeared in a film that she did not steal.
And as for Debbie, I will always repost my stance on her end.
I’ve said it a million times - if Debbie had listened to what the Addamses were saying in response to her tales of woe, she’s have realized that they understood completely. She had found her people, and was too wrapped up in herself to realize it.
If they could have, they’d have burst from their bonds, hugged the stuffing out of her, bought her a Bentley (and a vintage Ballerina Barbie) and declare her an Addams.
She could spend the rest of her life trying to kill Fester, and he’d love her all the more every time she tried. And the rest would keep offering helpful suggestions. “No point in trying poison, Debbie my dear - he’s been putting strychnine on his cornflakes since was seven”.
I’ve not been well over the holidays so decided to mock up how i’d illustrate PJO instead lol - all in lorem ipsum so I don’t get in trouble with the big mouse!
"I just really wanted to explore both of those characters and I wanted to do it in a way that I hadn't really seen before, and also just like as a queer person I want to make queer art and that's what I'm drawn and that's what I'm interested in. So I kind of had these two different ideas, it was like one idea was that I would write a book about this rebellious first kid who's like figuring out that they're queer and what does that mean for their like political aspirations; and the other was about you know sort of a member of the royal family under all of this pressure to carry on this legacy and like what does that mean if they're gay. Um-And I'm just like kind of weighing these two different stories and deciding where I wanted to go and then I just kind of had this moment of like What If I didn't have to choose and it was the same story because they fall in love with each other? And-Um-You know in a classic bisexual fashion I was like I'm gonna have both, so I did!"
"It was really important to me that Alex was explicitly bisexual because like, you know, I really wanted the representation of like this bisexual character and then it was important to me that he was also Mexican like he is in the book and that he was played by a Mexican actor. (..) It was really important to me that, um, I didn't want any, I didn't want Alex or Henry, no matter how their stories were translated to the screen, I didn't want either of them to have any type of, um, like shame or resentment towards themselves for being queer, it was really important to me that the stakes of their lives and their like inner conflict was much more based on like the circumstances that they're in. It's like they don't hate themselves for being gay-or for being bi-they just wish that it was easier to be who they were in the world that they live in."
"..Taylor embodies that so beautifully. (..) I think he's just killer in that role. And Nick, I mean, if you like turned me upside down and shook me like he would fall out my brain as Henry (..) doesn't have blue eyes but they sure are sad eyes and that is exactly what they need to be."
"I see myself in Alex, tremendously, I'm very much in Alex, I relate to him so much, uh, truly, I think he's the most like me of all my characters."
"I very much would love screenwriting to become part of what I do, I'll say it that way."
BTW for everyone interested: Red, White & Royal Blue: Collector's Edition Henry PoV bonus chapter by Casey Mcquiston : https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/752528941905018880?source=share
+ also queer history/facts from RWRB(Alex engaging with queer history)(thank you SO. MUCH. CASEY MCQUISTON!!)-GREAT POST here on tumblr!!-many links here, lots of information! (Waterloo Vase, Stonewall, SCOTUS decision 2015, Walt Whitman, Laws of Illinois 1961, The White Nights Riots, Paris Is Burning, THAT David Wojnarowicz photo 'If I Die Of AIDS-Forget Burial-Just Drop My Body On The Steps Of The F.D.A' https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/757305651356729344?source=share (I encourage you to research more about David!!) , Thisbe & Pyramus, The V & A, James I & George Villiers and MORE!!) https://www.tumblr.com/yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere/757308307835895808?source=share (Learning about things referenced in Red, White & Royal Blue, thank you @ elipheleh)
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