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THE BOROUGHS (2026)
truly an angel, the most beautiful 💜 (for @jung-koook 🌌)
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Bill Pullman as James Harvey CASPER (1995)
DEATH IS MY BUSINESS AND BUSINESS IS GOOD!
(Bloodless + playlist under the cut! Also tap/click for better quality lol)
The problem with getting all my media info from this site is that I don't know what anything with gay characters is actually about because any plot discussion I see is constantly drowned out by posts talking about how gay they are.
I bet The Black Flag has a fascinating story, but all I know is that they're pirates and gay.
I've seen hints that The Locked Tomb is intricate and fascinating, but all I really know is that they're space necromancers and gay.
I assume this new hockey show is like, a sports story? Or a romance? Maybe interesting plot happens? All I actually know is that they play hockey and are gay.
Yes I could look this stuff up if I was actually interested in consuming the media, I'm not saying this is some kind of major problem with media or anything. Just a random observation that I, someone who doesn't actively go looking for new media, have noticed that I get less fun hooks to motivate me to look for queer media, because the random stuff I see about something like Severance or The Good Place (both of which I did watch and loved) is about fascinating plots and mysteries and interesting philosophical conundrums, whereas all I see about anything with queer main characters is Look How Queer It Is. Which is great for the media landscape in general, it's wonderful that queer media is more and more mainstream, but an entirely neutral factor of any specific individual show and not much of a hook.
to be fair, all you really need to know about The Locked Tomb is that they're necromancers and they're gay
That doesn't sound right because people have told me that tlt is fantastic and "all you need to know is that they're necromancers and they're gay" is a description of the most bland, pointless tokenistic bullshit it's possible to write. So unless the tlt fans are lying about the quality (which I very much doubt), that can't possibly be all you need to know. If somebody advertised The Good Place as "all you need to know is that she's bi and she's dead!" or The Murderbot Diaries as "all you need to know is that it's genderless and a security consultant!" then I would track them down, break into their houses and punch them in the face for their disservices to good media.
#i remember trying to hunt for more stories like murderbot once#stumbled across a list that was like#heres a bunch of books with canon asexuals#turns out it only mentioned murderbot as one that “doesnt count” since mb never like explicitly uses the word#its as if perfectly defined queerness is meant to be its own measure of quality
That's the most exhausting thing I've ever heard.
Genuinely, I understand why we've ended up in this place when it comes to describing/recommending queer media - for so long, there was so little of it that, when it came to word of mouth, the presence of queerness was itself the primary basis of recommendation. If the work also happened to be good, then so much the better, but the baseline, redacted-for-ease-of-transmission signal boost was simply This Is Gay. And when there wasn't much on offer, that worked! We were desperately trying, not just to see ourselves in stories, but to prove that there was a market for more - that queer audiences would show up for queer content, even if the genre was outside our usual bailiwick. But the more queer works are published, the less useful this rubric becomes - and to further complicate matters, the rise of trope-centered marketing for romance in general and queer romance in particular, which often borrows terminology common to tags on AO3, has trained readers and creatives alike to frame stories predominantly through the lens of character dynamics. Which, to be clear: there's nothing wrong with this in and of itself! If you want to either give or solicit recommendations based on, say, grumpy x sunshine but make it gay, I'm not about to harsh your vibe. And particularly when it comes to romance, where the character dynamics necessarily constitute the backbone of the story, it often makes sense to do so. But there's a very salient difference between romance as genre (where the romance is the story) and romance as device (where the story contains romance) which, particularly when it comes to queer books, is frequently erased by these conventions - which results, as OP rightly points out, in queer stories with other loadbearing themes, philosophies and plots being, if not technically misrepresented, then certainly undersold in terms of all that they're doing. The Locked Tomb series, for instance, is, indeed, about gay necromancers. It's also a purposefully anachronistic science fantasy mindfuck that plays explosively with humour, voice and genre from book to book while still remaining, in essence, a sequence of locked room mysteries. By which I mean: Gideon the Ninth is a locked room mystery where the room is God's laboratory and the mystery is what the fuck he was doing down there; Harrow the Ninth is a locked room mystery where the room is the narrator's body (and also, at times, the space station she's inhabiting) and the mystery is how she ended up that way; and Alecto the Ninth is a locked room mystery where the room is the personality that forms in the absence of memory and the mystery is God's secret past, with the necessary caveat that God here is not meant figuratively, but in fact refers to a literal, actual, walking, talking character who is also just Some Guy. It's about the intransigent nature of bodies, the fuckiness of personhood, the eternally compounding sin of pride, niche millennial humour and the gothic, philosophical splendour of toxic lesbianism (in space). It's got a lot going on! And, sure: it's shorter and simpler to sell it as just gay necromancers, to say nothing of the fact that this description will still hook a lot of people. It's not inaccurate; it just presumes that this is the most important thing anyone could want to know about the book, and that won't always be so! Look at it this way: if you're already shopping in the LGBTQ section of the bookstore and ask an employee for a recommendation, and they pick something off the shelf and tell you, "Buy this, it has two boys kissing!", that's vastly less helpful in context than if you'd walked into a store without an LGBTQ section and asked for a gay book rec. You see what I'm saying? It's a scarcity mindset that we've carried over into (comparative) abundance, and it's no longer serving us well. Gay is not a plot or a genre by itself; it's a component to be explored through the lens of plot and genre - which means that, in order to talk about one, it's also worth discussing the others.
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EMMA SOFIA as Skimbleshanks CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL
randomly decided to look up "I NEED THE WHOLE STADIUM TO JUMP" in the search here and i'm glad there are at least 30 other army with the same thought
I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.
I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.
At least give me a fucking transcript.
Couldn't stop looking at him during the concert...
You didn't kill anyone for those? No. I haggled.
MACKENYU as Roronoa Zoro ONE PIECE: 2.01 "The Beginning and the End"
the sun that comes out after the rain ⛅
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Coquette, 1895 by John Bond Francisco (American, 1863–1931)
i think being proud of where you come from is one of those things that becomes fun the more specific you get. like "proud to be english" bad rancid vibes. makes you sound like the kind of person who rants about immigrants. "proud to be from yorkshire" better vibes. i cannot deny the yorkshire cultural heritage. "proud to be from pocklington" absolutely fucking hilarious please never let anybody kill your pocklington pride.
i love the USA: weird vibes. dont trust that.
i love muskegon michigan: you are experiencing a kind of personal joy that i can and will not take from you
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