[randylastname]

Been listening to audio recordings of Jack Wolfeus and oh my god it's just intensified my need to see him live, but I can't go to America 😭😭

All of you who already saw him/have tickets to see him are so so lucky, I'm praying he comes to play Orpheus in the West End next.

[lesmiserabelles]

dónal finn as orpheus / west end live 2024

[misunderstoodtomato]

[keikomivra]

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES S1 | EDWIN + CHARLES

Charles, I'm in love with you. You don't have to feel the same way. I just need you to know.

[itolerate]

hand over heart

[rylandsgrace]

[glowingghosty]

it's incredible that tumblr fandom went from DESPERATELY trying to see ANY sort of queer love in the shows we liked, to having shows—high budget, well-made, interesting, mainstream shows staring known actors—that are ABOUT queer love. explicitly, without argument. and just ten years later.

i saw (and reblogged) a post about how GO, ofmd, and wwdits are the new superwholock and i havent stopped thinking about it. cuz i was there, i was in the trenches back in the day. i was there when the writers and actors made fun of us for seeing on screen chemistry and perfect stories to set up romances. they all humored us then shat on us and saw us as a joke. a bunch of weirdo faggy teens that don't think two men can just be friends.

and now look at us. we're seeing the on screen chemistry and it's REAL. it's ON PURPOSE. these ARE romantic stories about queer people. we're not projecting or have wishful thinking... it's TRUE!! it was written and directed and edited and acted that way in earnest. i will take NO SHIT regarding these shows and people's love for them.

and do you know WHY these shows are being made now? these well thought out, feels-real, non-pandering queer stories? it's BECAUSE OF WHAT WE DID ten+ years ago. a lot of queer media never got the green light to be made because execs don't think there's enough of an audience. that more people will dislike the gays than like them. and we've shown them that that's unequivocally untrue. the outcry we had for all those years, the reviews we left, the statements we made, the backlash, it gave show runners ammunition to say "hey. people will watch this. they will like it. let us make it."

[magicinavalon]

Thinking of Dream trapped in the fish bowl and replaying the "you need not have come to my defense" memory in his weaker moments to remember there is someone out there who would

[uncommon-etc]

This is a friendly reminder that every time Neil Gaiman gives us fictional immortals whose relationships are strong enough to endure for literal centuries despite never being overtly romantic or sexual in nature, and the fandom goes absolutely feral over it, asexuals everywhere become more powerful

[andreas-hangout]

every so often i think about the relationship between dream and hob gadling. and like. it’s so… i mean. you have this immortal, millenia-old entity and a little fucker who only achieved immortality because he was joking around and death just so happened to pass by and grant his wish. but what gets me about their relationship is like… beside the other endless and his servants in the dreaming, morpheus doesn’t have anyone who sticks around for as long as he does. he’s immortal, and so human lives are very, very fleeting to him. plus, with how aloof dream is, there’s no way he didn’t feel lonely, sometimes. and he plays it off like he’s totally fine with it. 

but then there’s hob. hob, who actually cares about him. hob, who century after century after century honored his promise to meet dream again. and like. even if we read it in a platonic lens, it’s still… so fucking beautiful. even though he doesn’t show it and even gets angry at the idea, morpheus also cares about hob.  they’re friends. lovers, if you want to see it like that. they have a bond. a bond that, so far, dream didn’t have with other humans. even nada. he’s intrigued and fascinated by cheeky fucker hob gadling, and hob is also fascinated by him. then they befriend each other, through the centuries. unless he explicitly asks death to take him, hob will always be there for dream. and dream will always be there for hob. for eternity. 

and y’all. Y’ALL. that shit makes me cry. 

[nicolodigenovas]

Just. Dream granting Rachel a quiet peaceful death, also for Johanna’s sake. Dream holding John’s head as he gently lowers him on the bed despite everything that just happened. Dream smiling softly when dreaming Jed says he’s the Sandman. Dream endlessly fascinated by Hob Gadling’s stubborn desire to live. Dream, with indescribable emotions in his eyes when he takes a moment to look around the old Jewish man’s house and finds a photo of his days as a musician, Dream who gasped when he heard a melody he hadn’t heard in centuries. Dream, almost dying, finding the strength to warn John: “You’re hurting the dreamers.” Dream who has so, so much love for humanity, despite the hurt they inflicted on him, and only has to remember it exists

[phoenixes-and-wizards]

kinda confused over the people calling dream “cold” and “emotionless” because hELLO did we even watch the same show? he literally cries over jessamy’s murder, even chooses to stay captive far longer than he has to, all because he couldn’t forgive her murderer. he grins from ear to ear when he finally sees lucienne’s lovely face again, whispers her name like a prayer, clasps her hand tightly and takes a moment to let go because he’s clearly missed her as much as she’s missed him. he holds grudges like nobody’s business (see: nada). he hesitates to get close to matthew because he doesn’t want another bird to die on his behalf again. he’s just as heartbroken as cain and abel when he has to reabsorb gregory, and is definitely amused when he meets jed walker. and don’t even get me started on his arc with calliope and orpheus. because even in the short amount of time we see them interact, dream is nothing BUT feeling. he seethes with quiet anger over the woman he once loved being used and discarded like a common plaything, he practically begs her to let him help, and at the end, when all is said and done, it’s revealed that he’s still in the process of grieving their only son, so much so that he can’t even talk about it just yet, even after thousands upon thousands of years, and in this essay i will

[kinghazycrazies]

Why are my three favourite superheroes the unbelievably sad ones

[rehabmoharam]

SIR????

[deanskitchen]

i'm literally going to bite someone like dean didn't look away. he stood there and let cas tell him what a good loving man he is and he didn't interrupt and he didn't look away and he LISTENED and REMEMBERED and let those words change his view of himself all while being scared out of his fucking mind he didn't. look. away.

[bookshelfdreams]

oh but I adore how everyone in this stupid pirate show is just a guy

I haven't seen ppl talk about it much but. the absolute lack of shredded abs. people show tummy and cleavage and there's not the barest hint of muscle definition anywhere

obviously some of them are very fit but it never leaves "works a physically demanding job and happens to be naturally thin" territory

and guys are fat! guys have bellies and rounded shoulders and chubby cheeks and imperfect teeth and thinning hair and are styled weirdly (that's a whole different post but the crew especially look so unprofessional styled it's great)

and they are still all hot! they are hot and desirable and find each other hot and desirable and I love that

I love to see it! nobody in this show looks like they had a personal trainer. and not just the side characters, not just a token fat guy - obv Taika Waititi is the most beautiful man you've ever seen and that little bit of tummy pudge spilling out of his crop top made us all lose our collective minds. but it's everyone else too; and it's not the extend of it either. no other show would have let black pete within 10 feet of a romance arc, much less been this sweet and sincere about it

this show is so comfortable with the human body in all it's glorious imperfection and I am in love with it

[orionsangel86]

So much about this show is groundbreaking, but the fact that they chose actors of all different shapes, sizes, and ages, and then even when those actors were already very attractive - see Vico and Taika for example, they kind of made them LESS attractive to fit this characterisation of kinda grubby pirates. I'm still awed over the decision to keep Taika's grey hair for his wig rather than just putting him in a fully black wig and beard (which would have been more historically accurate since blackbeard was no older than 35 in 1717 ) because the show isn't afraid to shy away from this idea that older people can still find love.

I adore the fact that there isn't a single traditional "CW style" overly attractive model young person with chisled cheekbones and abs for days like something out of an abercrombie & fitch advert and yet they still allow these characters to find love, and to find queer love at that.

I love the fact that even the women like Spanish Jackie, Evelyn Higgins, and even Mary Bonnet, aren't played by stick thing 20 somethings. They are still beautiful women but they also don't fit the "CW standard" as I like to call it.

Because I fucking hate that "CW standard". People don't look like that in real life so why should they in the media we watch? Why shouldn't the short bald slightly weird pirate with a lisp get to fall in love? Why shouldn't the kind hearted black pirate with a big belly also find romance? Its so beautiful and the more I think about this show the more I find myself tearing up at a creative team that actually put thought and care into their creation beyond what old white executives think is hot and what sells.

This show was so desperately needed. In an age where young people are killing themselves over whether they look "yassified" enough on their instagrams, where we are obsessed with filters and layering makeup on our faces like we're icing a cake, and obsessing about thigh gaps and the perfect "slim/thick" ratio. Where young men are suffering severe depression all because they don't have influencer style muscles, and in an age where love is cheap and easily dismissed by a simple swipe to the left, along comes this silly pirate show, that shows us that even the outcasts of society can find family, and acceptance, and love, and fucking hell, its beautiful.

[alientrashpanda]

The show wasn't queerbait, we have a canon non binary character played by a non-binary actor, the main love interests are middle aged, there was no 'coming out', it was just a pure love story. The cast is posting fancams and love their characters and show so much. I am still in pure shock. This is the best timeline.