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@lesbians4brad
hello community fandom. if the community movie:
has no trobed reunion but jeffannie isn’t endgame- we refuse to acknowledge the movie’s existence
has no trobed reunion and jeffannie is endgame- we riot
has a trobed reunion but jeffannie is endgame- we cherry pick canon
has a trobed reunion and jeffannie isn’t endgame- party at my place
this just occurred to me: ian grimm = jeff winger = brad bakshi but brad bakshi =/= ian grimm but ian grimm = brad bakshi, you feel me?
Mythic Quest + text posts part 22
when i want to cry, i remember that episode of s6 community where all the emails of the sustain greendale committee are leaked and think about how no one (except one minor comment from annie) mentions abed at all. this probably implies abed isn’t the type to rant about his friends in email, but i like to think it’s because they all saw hundreds of unanswered emails to troy in varying levels of despair and desperation since he’d left, and even though it had been however long since troy had left, some emails were far to recent for it to be a thing of the past. and they knew it was better left untouched because abed had never been very public with his grief and all of them knew the situation, even frankie who didn’t personally know troy but knows how it feels to email someone over and over again and know they will never respond because that’s what she does with her dead sister. so even in all their anger and annoyance at each other they leave him be, pretend there was nothing heinous in his leaked emails, and all try to swallow down their pain of the acceptance that even as troy grows further and further into their past, abed will never ever be able to let him go :,)
oh yeeees i hope carol's promotion was a promotion to more screen time
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i think i'm just about ready to snap and start unhinged yelling about generational neglect in the queer community
young queers hate anyone that isn't young.
i wish it was more complex than that. it's always couched in some other argument of course, about how times have changed or how old people are inherently more conservative or how "outdated" language is "offensive", rich out of touch boomers etc, but it's just a distraction. new young people enter the queer community and want it all to be fresh and new and sexy, they want to be the trailblazers, the first generation really pushing back, the first true radicals. after all, if the previous generations had done it right, they'd have defeated bigotry and oppression, right? so they must have been fighting wrong. they must have been bad queers - sorry, bad LGBTQIA+'s. so they should shut up and let us kids fix it.!
of course there will be black and white photos of "elders" and a sort of performed reverence for "history" and us "always being here", but only as history, never as contemporaries, as members of our continuous community that we should actively listen to. the voices of those that came before are only revered once they're dead and they can't argue back at teenagers wildly misreading and rewriting their lives... or maybe even worse, the fresh queers might discover their revolutionary new praxis system has actually been done before!!
the excuse i hate most though?
"we lost a whole generation to AIDS"
i am so fucking sick of hearing this, absolutely sick to my stomach of it. because we didn't! i am not at all going to minimise how horrific the aids catastrophe was to our community or how many it killed, because i have heard first hand stories of people that lived through it, who lost friends and families to it.
but that's the point. they lived through it. many queers did! depending on where you are, most queers did!
we have a living, continuous, unbroken line of queers spanning back all of living memory who we could truly embrace as elders of a community, to care for and learn from, so that we don't have to stumble through alone, but we don't. a "queer elder" is someone like me apparently, 35. i keep having people in their early 20's tell me how thankful they are for my "wisdom", like bitch, there are 60-80 year old queers out there, ready to tell their stories! they will know a fuckton more than me, and all of it is still relevant!
when i was in my 20's, and i was lucky enough to learn from some of them at the rare events where they were welcomed; 50yo's setting up casual evenings for anyone and everyone to come and talk and share stories and learn from each other. i had a therapist once that was a grumpy old dyke that came out in the 70's, and while we often had friction in our opinions on mental health strategies, her experience was invaluable for me untangling a lot of internalized hatred and self loathing. it broke my heart one day when she just straight up said "people would rather pretend we'd all died from aids though, than have to listen to what we've got to say".
but even in the decade since then, it's got worse and worse.
everyone i know my age who once had an active and thriving social network in the queer community has withdrawn into isolation. we live in small pockets with few friends. there's no space left for us. all ages events and gatherings are organised for the fresh and young, and they complain if we're there - we being anyone who dares to be a little wrinkly and saggy. any event that has a minimum age, 30+, 40+, 50+ etc, get flooded with hate for being "exclusionary", or "hoarding resources" like community is a 4X game. teenagers complain about "creepy old predators" having picnics at midsumma carnival. people in their 60's are told to go kill themselves for daring to use the same language they did 40 years ago - ironically right in the middle of the aids crisis that supposed cost us all our elders. horizontal ageist violence in the queer community is some of the nastiest emotional vitriol i've seen, and i've been hate crimed (:(:
so we withdraw into eternal loneliness, looking for scraps, being told our names and flags and core identities are as hurtful as the weapons of the oppressors. told we should either ovverhaul our entire experience of being queer to fit in with what's acceptable in this 3-year cycle of new identities and symbols, or stfu and go away.
but there's this pervasive fear and hopelessness you see among young queers, talking about how high our suicide rates are, talking about losing a whole generation to aids; because when we're made invisible, what are the youth supposed to think other than that we've got an expiry date, and they won't live past 29?
the elders are here and they need love and support too, or the cycle will just repeat, and those fresh sexy young queers will also grow up and be discarded, again and again.
and i'm so, so tired of it.
its kind of a theme in the show that characters parrot negative things about themselves that have been said to them by others (brad calling himself fat and a pussy, poppy saying that she didnt believe in herself bc of ian) so i wonder if we’re gonna get an episode about the things that jo said about herself when she was in the mocap room.. i wonder whos been saying those things to her
brad bakshi best moments
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rachel and dana are really boring characters yeah but theyre so much more fun/enjoyable to watch when they have a scene without the other like… rachel and cw, rachel and ian, dana and poppy, dana and brad of course idk i was less bored by them in those scenes
Okay so let me get this straight, Abed:
Was seemingly the ONLY person very concerned that the rat he'd trained, cared for and bonded with went missing and was in danger of being killed
Would rather let a whole college campus go without internet than risk baby birds coming to harm
Brought the study group together in the first place just by being friendly and inviting people
Spent his whole life obsessed with film and TV and used these as a framework to learn things about people and relationships that didn't come naturally to him
Put so much work into his friendships that he had charts about them and could predict and imitate their behaviour to a disconcerting degree
Had a psychotic break when his mother didn't come to see him at Christmas
Loved his best friend so much he actually saw lava on the floor when he was planning to leave, and still made the sacrifice of jumping into said lava in order to move past this and let said friend have his own life
Stayed in a room for 26 hours without sleep or toilet breaks because a friend asked him to
Knew said friend would be interested in forensics seemingly before she did
Unknowingly stopped Chang's evil plan just by inviting him for doughnuts, after everything he did, without showing any judgement (not saying this was a wise decision, but it was undeniably kind)
And yet, everyone, frequently, including Abed himself sometimes: Abed is emotionless, robotic, and doesn't care about people and relationships, everyone just caters to him all the time
???
I mean *looks at how the real world treats autistic people and others who don't show their emotions in conventional ways* it tracks but it still hurts
we need to start normalising pronoun nonconformity as a way to be GNC. i think cis people should fuck around and use whatever pronouns they like too.
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[Video: a construction worker shoveling dirt as children on the other side of the fence yell “YAY!” every time dirt is moved.]
Often I am struck with the child like desire to just dig a hole. Kids love to dig holes.
Kids have a pure admiration for blue collar workers. Garbage truck drivers, construction workers, fire fighters, etc. They appreciate and respect these people more than grown ass adults do.
Cause kids see big trucks and machines and the awesome people that know how to use it. Their mentality is “Parents don’t let me play in dirt and this guys gets PAID to play in dirt”
And that’s a good thing. We need to hold on to that and foster it in kids. That all labor is valuable and that there is no shame in doing it.
This is taught OUT of kids. And thata the problem. Dont destroy or undermine the admiration for the diggers and garbage guys. Cuz they keep us goin! I’m always grateful to the guys in the garbage truck and the people working behind the orange barrels on the highway.
Aaa, an excuse to post one of my favorite pictures on the internet!!
the plot of mythic quest as i understand it
brad’s love language so obviously being acts of service but having to frame it as though a favour is being owed because he doesnt want people to get too close to him *throws up*
danny pudi study ya
i need to talk about how in love with sue i am . sorry but that accent is always top tier for me and the slightly crazed look in her eyes is mesmerising <3 we love a girly who is one negative comment away from snapping
