sassybobcat

"That's how we're gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love."

[userkanroji-deactivated20260401]

But I'm A Cheerleader dir. Jamie Babbit

[unaturalhistory]

Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith , Munich 1983

[depsidase]

[zedtron774]

Kawanabe Kyosai, White Heron in the Rain, colour woodblock print, Japan, 1880

[dresdencodak]

Doing a thing for a Pride thing.

[this-is-a-podcast-fanblog]

the benoit blanc movies show really beautifully how to write a queer character whose story is not centered around their queerness. it's shown that benoit blanc is gay married (to hugh grant!) it's shown that he participates in queer mediums like musical theater and fashion, but none of those things are ever explicitly remarked on. he doesn't have a big coming out scene because he doesn't need one; and the subtle details about him not speaking to his mother, the way he associates a church with homophobia, allows us to draw conclusions about how his family felt about his queerness without making that the sole conflict in his story. the conflict in benoit blanc's story is not that he exists in the world as a gay person, it's that he's always trying to wrangle a bunch of 30 somethings into not confessing to crimes they didn't commit

[theblackestofsuns]

Doom Patrol #37 (October 1990)

Cover by Simon Bisley

DC Comics

[bigfrozensix]

“Ariel sold her voice for legs just because of a guy“

Meanwhile Ariel with legs;

Ariel already loved the human world long before meeting Eric (you don’t get a collection like hers overnight) and when she finally got a chance to explore it, she took it.

Ursula made it more about Eric than Ariel ever did.

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

[atalana]

and i mean hell this has been talked about before in more depth than i can, but when people complain about how the ending was changed (the original fairytale does not give ariel a happy ending, she dies trying to protect the prince), i think about the fact that this was written by a gay man in the 1980s

and i think it’s entirely valid (and gives her an extremely strong connection to the queer community) to change the story so she doesn’t die because of who she loves

[starlitskvader]

Triton made escape a necessity. Once someone goes to the point of destroying your possessions in a violent rampage, there is no staying and sticking it out, there’s no safety. (And Ariel, even in Ursula’s lair, gave Triton more thought than he deserved at the time.) Nowhere in the ocean she could go and be safe. Everyone’s always ‘why don’t they just leave :|’ in abusive situations until the leaving is not something they find 100% worthy of approval.

Ursula made it about Eric. She didn’t have to. Ariel had to get out from under Triton’s thumb, it could have been literally anything. Ursula took advantage of a desperate victim for her own agenda. Realistic predatory behavior toward a vulnerable person.

And also

There’s always the ‘Eric didn’t want her until she was silent and meek’ criticism - FIRST OF ALL he started out looking for a woman who wasn’t silent, and second of all what part of the carriage driving bit (or any of her other actions on land) is meek, exactly?

People above have noted the queer subtext. Now, on the subject of Ariel being willing to leave her family, aside from the baseline ‘this is an abusive environment and she was not safe there’ angle I already mentioned, consider: Ariel’s father made it clear he would stop at nothing to crush and tear down who she was and replace it with what he wanted her to be. Now - what demographic might that resonate with? And given Ashman’s involvement, do you think that was a coincidence?

[tokidokifish]

there has been scholarly discussion about the idea that the og little mermaid story, where she dies at the end, was written as a queer allegory.

so taking that into account… there is something very touching about taking this story from hans christian andersen from beyond the grave and being like “things are different now. they get to be happy. she gets to live.”

[bedlamsbard]

you know the feeling of going through an actor's filmography and it's usually some combination of "I am literally begging you to be in better movies," "this is probably fine but not a genre I would EVER watch," "I saw that and have no memory of them even being in it????" and very rarely "wait this is EXACTLY my thing, how did I miss it????"

occasionally it is nearly ALL of one and very little to none of the others, and occasionally it is the horrifying combo of "in theory this is exactly my thing but my gods this is terrible." usually it's the full combo though. VERY rarely it is 90% that last one ("this is EXACTLY my thing").

[bedlamsbard]

if they're an American actor there's usually also a "oh that's where I know them from, they were a serial killer on Criminal Minds" thrown in there too

[bedlamsbard]

if they're not an American actor the number of times I have gone, "wait, they're BRITISH?" is a lot higher than you'd think. (often I have only seen them playing Americans or non-British characters.)

[themisconceptions]

a girl walks home alone at night (2014) dir. ana lily amirpour

[sophsun1]

Brooklyn Nine-Nine – 4.08: Skyfire Cycle

[violaobanion]

THE BRIDE (2026) dir. Maggie Gyllenhaal

[jnjo]

Taysa Jorge

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 1 day 20 hours

[somacruz]

i keep seeing this cut off but the preceding “yessiree” is vital to it imo

[7777777awawawa7777777]

i had to transcribe it

[spaceshiprocket]

Daredevil by Dike Ruan

[rosieandthemoon]

ruins of St Andrews Cathedral in Fife, Scotland