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Queer Indian Media: A Compilation

(Now also including stuff from south asia in general! Because I cannot help myself)

A couple of days ago, @impala124 sent @lurkingshan an ask about the lack of discussion about Queer Indian Media in fandom spaces. I wrote about it here, @neuroticbookworm here, and @waitmyturtles here (both of them have excellent points, I highly recommend you read their posts!). It's become quite apparent that people are willing to watch and engage in discourse about queer Indian media, it's just that the lack of popularity and accessibility makes it harder for people to start. So, I've decided to make a list tracking all of the queer Indian media I know of, and hopefully also any meta/discourse about it, which is an idea I've had floating in my head for months now.

This list is by no means comprehensive, so if you have recs, send them my way! Text me on DM, send an ask, tag me in your posts, whatever. And though it's not possible for me to watch everything on the list, I will be slowly going through as many of these as I can and writing about them, as well as hopefully finding more stuff and easier to access versions for the ones that are harder to access right now. This post is going to be a slow work in progress, but I'm hoping to update it regularly. So, if you'd like me to keep you updated, let me know through the tags/replies and I will tag you in future posts!

I've tagged the people who've recommended certain shows alongside each show. Everything on here is available online. The hyperlinked titles lead you to the media itself, meaning that it's available for free online with subtitles. Other details will be mentioned separately. If you want to watch something but can't access it, DM me and I'll see if i can help you.

(The list was getting too long so I've put all of the recs under the cut)

livsoulsecrets

Nightwing #91

I love them more than anything 😭😭

Also you can definitely tell Dick was raised by Bruce cause he sees the “I’ve obsessively checked in on you for days” as a proof of love

#birdflash #dick grayson #wally west #dcu

look-peach

i'm so happy we're getting to see this version of peach. so happy and secure in his love for thee that he never hesitates to verbally and physically express it. so obviously adored by his husband that he wants to make sure he knows he is too and doesn't even try to or think about hiding it. he is just so openly in love

#peach and me

rascheln

THIS & THAT

Don't Ask Me About Anything Edition

#lowkey fire #skz #stray kids

mochlus

Disney is doing crazy things in the japanese mobile game sphere rn

mochlus

you may be familiar with disney twisted wonderland, the gacha game in which various disney villains are used as direct inspiration for handsome anime boys. well that game was so successful that disney is trying to do it again but this time they're just animeboyifying whatever

here's mickey, goofy, donald, and chip & dale. yeah they turned mickey & friends into anime boys. they're an idol unit or something. they're technically not anime boy versions of the source characters, they have different names. mickey's guy is "Neo Michel". not michael, michel, like he's french. chip & dale are "Ruska Moncrief" and "Ranka Monk", they have different last names, they're not brothers anymore so that they can be yaoibait instead, anyways this post isn't actually about these guys I'm just setting the stage for the actual humanizations I wanted to show you

They also did monsters inc. And. Well it's obvious from the designs who mike and sully are. but you will also notice. the blonde one on the left. with glasses. monsters inc is kind of famously about just the two guys so they didn't really have a lot of other non-villain characters to take anime boys inspiration from, I guess, so, well,

Yeah it's her. they made an anime boy version of the mean receptionist slug. her name is roz btw, as all of boygachagame twitter has become extremely aware of in the past 3 days as we speculated prior to the release of the full image who tf the third guy was. the anime boy's name is "noah slugger". at this point no parody of the types of things gacha games will make gijinkas of will ever be able to live up to what disney is officially spending their own real money on designing

#right so this is hysterical #disney #<-i guess??

airplanned

We all agree, right?

AI to write your novel is wrong

A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay

derinthescarletpescatarian

Only if you specify in the contract that the demon can't use chat-GPT

athenadark

I've been thinking about this - and why asking the demon is also a bad idea

Tartini was a composer and violin teacher and no one respected him, he was generally broke, and he started having weird dreams in which the devil asked him to teach him violin

despite being catholic tartini agreed - although everything told him this was a bad idea

so he taught the devil violin in his dreams and when he had taught him everything he knew the devil offered him payment, he played an original composition in his dream

Tartini woke up weeping and struggled to write it down

we have a historical version of "couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, this is just its tribute", and the song he wrote down made him "Sonata in G Minor, aka the devil's trill" it's usually played by 2 violinists because it's evil difficult,

now imagine you make a deal with the devil to write your novel, he writes it but only lets you read it in a dream and you have to transcribe it from memory the next day.... 150k of the best prose and plot you've ever seen in your life and you have to remember it

chatgpt is evil, but that's just mean

themanedwolf

This brings a whole new element to my understanding of Devil Went Down to Georgia

disterbia

checkyourasianbias

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#spiderman

turtlesocksv2

people gossiping about which parent your temperament resembles most + guilty older brother getting passed over as heir for the younger brother who can handle it.

close enough, welcome back Theerapanyakul brothers!

turtlesocksv2

ok @29daffodils i shall expand my thoughts. I SWEAR that i've made a post about this before that i can't find BUT.

Me and Thee is CLEARLY Kinnporsche Fanfiction. and it's amazing. I absolutely 100% believe that someone at GMMTV who knows Mile IRL saw Kinnporsche and was like. "Mile is a mafia boss? Mile Phakphum? That silly nerd??? Lol. Lmao even." and got struck by inspiration lightning.

This is all about the show, b t w, i have no knowledge of the books and do not intend to acquire any. And many of my points are filming decisions.

not ONLY in Me and Thee are there very basic vibes based looks similarities between Thee and Kinn. (sorry Pond but not everyone can achieve Mile's Eyebrows) not ONLY do we get Our Bestie Deutsche Bank Sex Pool prominently in the trailer. we ALSO get Thee buying GMMTheeV to make tv series. and we ALL know the Kinnporsche funded by Mile lore, right? Ok. so that all is the FOUNDATION we are working with.

we also get, in no particular order:

Peach and Plub's backstory is like. sooo Porsche and Chay coded. Like. come on. no explanation necessary.

( Peach. Porsche. Kian. Kinn. Rome. Vegas. COME ON.)

superficial visual similarities with Mok and Arm. bodyguard with glasses!

Thee is an amalgamation of Kinn and Tankhun. Rome is an amalgamation of Kinn and Vegas.

Thee's dad is LITERALLY PLAYED BY GUN THEERAPANYAKUL HIMSELF Ex Piya (and apparently we were ROBBED of Ex and Bible speaking English to each other in Kinnporsche!)

"People say I'm more like my mom" vs "People say i'm decisive like dad and Kian is like mom."

vegas pants in the pool vs rome silk pajamas on the grass crimes against fashion.

older sibling (tankhun, Thee) getting passed over as mafia heir because dad decided they didn't have the stomach for it and giving it to younger brother (Kinn, Rome). older sibling feels guilt for putting younger in that position.

main character's fuckass friends having weird relationship shit going on in the background that no one wants or understands (TayTimeTem vs AranTawan)

You see the vision now, right? It's all there!

29daffodils

OP it's like you've done a whole phd lmaoooooo

NGL i haven't rewatched kpts in forever and completely forgot tankhun was supposed to be heir , i, quite literally, vanished him from existence!

peach/plub being parallels to porche/chay!!! never saw it coming, in my defense though, I was way too into vegaspete that i forgot everything else lmao.

the only thing I do remember while watching MAT and PAM is “can gun theerapanyakul stop traumatizing his kids for once? ” 🤣

#oh this is hysterical actually lol #me and thee #kinnporsche

namtan

is thee hiring assistants or running a matchmaking service

#me and thee #romemok #peach and me #williamest #emibonnie

my-rose-tinted-glasses

Pride Month Tag Game 🌈🏳️‍🌈 Koisenu Futari Edition

#koisenu futari

boomer-mythology-destroyer

#side note: momos dont always look like that! some places in india they look a lot more like that jiaozi #food

prokopetz

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

calloutnevvegas

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

revretch

….. Didn’t know most of that

iamthekaijuking

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

revretch

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

bogleech

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

assuming-dinosaur

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

is-the-post-reliable

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Flamingos can survive in high altitudes, hypersaline conditions, and caustic lakes.

Source: ‘All flamingo species have evolved to live in some of the planet’s most extreme wetlands, like caustic “soda lakes”, hypersaline lagoons or high-altitude salt flats.’

They can survive water so alkaline it burns human skin.

Source: ‘More than a million lesser flamingos breed in Tanzania’s Lake Natron, for instance, a lake fed by hot springs with water so alkaline that it can strip away human skin (one pioneering flamingo researcher named Leslie Brown spent months in Nairobi General Hospital after burning his legs wading out to observe where the birds nested).’

They can drink water at near-boiling temperatures.

Source: ‘They can drink water at near boiling point to collect freshwater from springs and geysers at lake edges. If no freshwater is available, flamingos can use glands in their head that remove salt, draining it out from their nasal cavity.’

The lakes they inhabit can freeze overnight, and the flamingos can survive once it thaws in the morning.

Source: ‘The birds may seem to epitomize the tropics, but they also live in the Andes, 15,000 feet above sea level, where they rest on lakes that freeze around them overnight.

“You’ll see them sitting there like snowballs, frozen on ice,” Dr. Arengo said. “And as the temperature warms up, they thaw out, fluff themselves up and go about their business.”’

The photo is indeed from Lake Natron, taken by photographer Nick Brandt. The content of the lake chemically preserves animal corpses that die there. You can see more photos of this here.

It is also true that 75% of Lesser Flamingos are hatches on Lake Natron.

Source: ‘The lake’s landscape is surreal and deadly—and made even more bizarre by the fact that it’s the place where nearly 75 percent of the world’s lesser flamingos are born.’

Some species of Flamingo eat cyanobacteria or algae.

Source: ‘Flamingos have very specialised diets. And their food is responsible for their famous pink colouration. The two species in Planet Earth II eat a lot of floating microscopic algae, which contains carotenoid pigments, the same types of chemical that make carrots orange. These pigments turn their feathers pink, orange and red – without them, flamingos would be white.’

adaginy

… @todaysbird ??

todaysbird

yeah they’re just like that

juney-blues

information that is also important

#flamingoes #fun facts

gifsettings

movies i watched, 2026:

everything everywhere all at once (2022)

#everything everywhere all at once

lastoneout

glasses - johnathan coulton // in this corner of the world - dir. sunao katabuchi // no choir - florence + the machine // up - dir. pete docter // romeo x juliet - dir. fumitoshi oizaki // wolf children ame and yuki - dir mamoru hosoda // le lit - henri de toulouse-lautrec // garden - noah gundersen // everything everywhere all at once - dir. daniel kwan and daniel scheinert

#omfg #johnathan coulton #in this corner of the world #kono sekai no kasumi ni #florence + the machine #pixar up #romeo x juliet #everything everywhere all at once

unwelcome-ozian

bloody-m4ndy

Fucking thank you!

The infuriating part is that people apply the pop-psychology definition of "trauma-bond", but apply the actual psychology judgement of it, as in, "obviously bad, duh, everyone knows that".

The number of times I've been given shit for my relationships being "trauma-bonds" specifically cause I date fellow disordered people for the mutual understanding, is fucking astonishing.

b33viemm

[image description: flyer clarifying the meanings of various psychological terms, cut in two, which says "pop psychology" on the left and "actual psychology" on the right.

In pop psychology, "trauma bonding is when you're bonding with someone over shared trauma or similar past experiences." In actual psychology, "A trauma bond refers to the situation where someone develops strong feelings of sympathy, loyalty, dependance, and attachment towards their abuser."

In pop psychology, "Gaslighting is when someone lies to you, questions you, or disagrees with you over what happened." In actual psychology, "Gaslighting is an abuse tactic where you are manipulated to question your reality, memory, or sanity—not just a disagreement over what happened."

In pop psychology, "Being triggered means that something makes you uncomfortable or annoyed." In actual psychology, "A trigger is something that causes a sudden increase in symptoms—like flashbacks in PTSD or compulsions in OCD. Its not just a source of general discomfort."

In pop psychology, "Intrusive thoughts are random impulses you might want to act on; e.g. wanting to do something unexpected like dye your hair pink or eat cake for dinner." In actual psychology, "Intrusive thoughts and unwanted, involuntary thoughts that go against your real value and desires. You dont want to act on them, and them coming true would be your worst nightmare. They can be very prominent and distressing in disorders like OCD and PTSD."

End description.]

#psychology

clonedroids

Because I feel like kids of color don’t hear it enough: domestic abuse is not a part of your culture.

A lot of us were raised with the idea that “its normal for wives/children to get hit! it helps them learn– only white folk don’t get beaten when they misbehave”. That’s not true, white people aren’t the only ones who deserve a safe and abuse free environment. Black and brown people can and do have loving families.

If you’re in a situation where you are enduring abuse and people use your culture to justify it, I want you to know that what they’re telling you are lies.

dragon-in-a-fez

as someone who studies this: statistically speaking, child abuse (including “spanking”, because all forms of hitting children are abusive) is pretty much equally prevalent in households of all racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. so yeah, don’t let people use the “culture” excuse on you, but also, don’t believe others are experiencing it less just because it’s less normalized in their culture to talk about it. we all gotta work together to fix this shit.

probuccalfat

the highest recorded wet bulb temperatures in the world occur in india, jsyk. in odisha, they’ve hit 34.6 degrees celsius. the human survivability limit is 35 degrees celsius but the body faces significant risks, potentially fatal risks, even at 30 degrees as it starts failing to cool itself, like i’m talking organ failure levels of risk. climate change isn’t coming to peak, it’s been in the global south where you can’t see it or feel it.

probuccalfat

imagine temperatures that high and humidity as high as 75%—you make more heat than you can ever cool. your sweat cannot evaporate fast enough. you literally boil alive. heat deaths in india are underreported and they already hit the thousands. there is no plan, for a nation of almost 2 billion people. no plan. nothing.

colddraftt

Modi denied climate change for years. Now, as heat deaths mount, his government offers branding instead of protection.

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