#blackfee

[idealuk]

tylerjblackburn: 💦 (x)

chandlerlafee: I told you they would like this one!

#BoyfriendKnowsBest ... Still waiting on what his TV not!boyfriend soulmate will have to say about this. You know that he’ll also have an opinion.

ETA: Yup.

michaelvlamis: I’M VLAMBURNING UP OVER HERE!!!

ETA 2: O. M. F. G., I hadn’t seen the ‘good boy’ reply until just now, Tyler, geesus, S. T-F. U. before we all die of the heatwave that you’ve made here.

[idealuk]

(x)

It’s Tyler Young/Iliana Raykovsk/James Paxton/Elise Collins (no, I don’t have time to continue to look for similar videos of them, but trust that those do exist) all over again and we‘re not complaining. ... We just miss Philkas!

(Honourary shout out to Chandler!)

[idealuk]

Okay, so, technically, it has been over 24 hours, but look at this shit ...

... (it’s like he knows and wants our anger freshly fueled) ...

Let Alex Manes look more like this, you cowards, you KNOW that there’s a difference and it’s the one between Michael knowing that there’s other people on this planet and not knowing why he, or Alex, invest any money on clothing at all!

Want proof? This is what a certain little shit head said about the bottom 3 (posted together):

... And it would seem as though the real boyfriend has similar problems as the fake one because here’s what he said about the first picture (posted a day prior):

Why would any one deny these men?! Unleash the full hotness of ‘their’ man when ever possible! ✊🏽

[idealuk]

We should all be more like Jess (saying the following every day).

“If they allow Alex to look more like Tyler (you all know what I mean), the rest of Michael’s universe would cease to exist, and he’d be a speechless mess.” -@stydiaeverafter, me, and, basically, the entire rest of the fandom.

(Photo liked by Vlamis on Instagram)

In addition: Chandler, Michael, and Tyler, himself, are the only ones who should be touching that hair (scalp or facial and I’d amend this to include the other Michael if Mylex ever becomes a canon thing)!

Stop de-sexifying it/taking it off!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Leave the hair. Take the clothes!

[End of rant leftover from yesterday on Discord. Can’t promise that I won’t be back with it again tomorrow.]

[idealuk]

Vlamis ain’t slick!

🤣He’s out there in those Q&As (making telling Freudian slips like “Tyler and Maria” - he already has a man, Vlam, put your crush away and keep on worshiping Ariel - he should be more prone to saying A names), trying to sell the idea that Season Two makes it seem like it’s a toss-up between Alex and Maria who Guerin will end up with🙄 when we’ve already seen him kissing a random woman as part of his promised downward spiral in the leaked footage from NYCC, and we’ve been in disbelief that Maria would see him as a legitimate romantic prospect knowing that he has a past with her best friend who sticks up to their mutual other best friend for her - a past that is so not just a past - which is bound to become only more apparent, as well as how deeply its felt on both sides. She is not going to be down for giving him a pass on not making all of that clear up front or him kissing random women. He is not fooling any one! We know where the home to Michael Guerin’s heart is and a crash landing happened so he could make that cosmic connection.✨💞

[idealuk]

I was just about to feel very let down by ...

... no one telling me that Cara and Ashley have put rings on it only to do some re-con. to discover that they’ve just put ink on it, so now I’m just extremely mad, and feeling personally offended. Cashley and Blackfee are the most profound glow-ups whom I’ve seen among white/white-passing (Tyler👏🏽 is👏🏽 authentically👏🏽 of👏🏽 Native👏🏽 American👏🏽 heritage👏🏽) people and should be honoured as such.

[idealuk]

Yeah, ... I’m definitely already too far gone for their two characters, and this show in general.

I totally did a double fist pump in the air when I saw how Tyler and Michael both handled the ‘Is your date being an alien a deal-breaker?’ question in that SyFy Wire video. (Warning of an oncoming short multi-fandom inclusive rant) ... It’s so weird, though, because I was once used to being frustrated by Tyler’s presence interrupting the queerness on the one thing that I previously knew him from, and now his queer storyline is the one getting interrupted by straightness, and, ironically, by Riley Voelkel no less when I had just made peace with the idea of not getting to see her former character’s queerness (with her werewolf doctor WOC wife) being interrupted any more (also a slight added head trip to see her hooking up with her niece’s dead werewolf stepfather from that previous show who’s now a very alive, life-restoring, alien in such a scene on this show). This strange rant is convoluted, but, as I recall, Hanna and Caleb’s appeal/angst (that of all of the straight pairings on that show, really, but theirs, in particular, rubbed me the wrong way, because their chemistry was so genuine, and, yet, some thing was just blipping on my radar about them) was so obnoxiously straight that it eventually turned me off the show that all of my fellow queer female friends told me that I had to watch for the representation, and regrettably, and utterly illogically, put me off Tyler as a performer in the years that followed until now (Hello Again is definitely now on my list of things to watch, but watching Keegan in King Cobra wasn’t a breeze, and not just because of him, though he was a part of it, so it wasn’t just Tyler). The irony wraps around on top of itself with the knowledge of the facts: that Tyler and Ashley Benson dated each other off-screen, Ashley is now dating a woman, and Tyler is now dating a man. It turns out that those blips that I was feeling were on my, not to force labels on any one, bi/pandar. I was sensing my own kind (and, as if on-cue, “Home” by Walk Off The Earth and Steve Aoki comes on my iTunes as I type that - we’re probably each other’s kind of people if you understand the duel reasons why that purportedly random musical selection was amply, and comically, apropos) as they weren’t allotted the liberty and rein to explore what they would come to find to be true-to-life character attributes (if they hadn’t discovered those home truths already) on a show that was supposedly very pro-queer! It would have been so meaningful to see two opposite-sex canonically bi/pansexual characters healthily date each other back then.

... Spinning 180° on people, places, and things that one could never prior properly put in to words one’s justification for them putting that person off that entity is an ancient trend in humanity: the sudden reversal of adversity to one’s own qualities/preferences that they have/had problems accepting about themselves. It’s one that occurs in my life’s story fairly often. I’m just still more used to identifying shortcomings on my end in that regard vs. shortcomings from the other side. They weren’t Tyler’s shortcomings to be redeemed, but he did thoroughly redeem them when he, among other things, playfully flipped off Vlamis for playfully catcalling him at that photo shoot, and now I playfully Stan him (and Vlamis).

On to the dueling DeLucas, and Heigl/Mason-full-circleness, of it all really quickly: A small part of me wanted my gut to be wrong that this show would actually be really good, because I wanted our Season Five dance champion to be able to go back to “Grey’s Anatomy” and save us from this Andrew/Meredith/Link “*love triangle*” crap, but ... fuck it, this show is feeding me so well (so is “Grey’s” with Schmico ... and the fact we’re this close - just one character declaration away - from having each of the four current ducklings canonically respectively representing all four letters in LGBT ... have Dahlia be bi, hook her and Taryn up, you cowards!). Shondaland can go figure out an other way to fix that mess! I’m beginning to care a lot less that this might mean that we’re stuck with an other love triangle with an entirely different DeLuca!!! Let’s be real, how is this Maria going to get serious with this Michael with out realizing that he’s the guy who her best living friend has been The-Notebook-level in love with for at least the last decade, and how is this Michael going to look away from this Alex long enough for the time that it would take for him to get serious with any one else?! Alex Manes (not Whitman) was gone for ten years, came back ‘not whole’ (bull shit), and this Michael went from guardedly bragging about “Lotta’ casual sex” and earnestly clinging to this Alex in a passionately desperate kiss, to unabashedly letting this Alex know that The-Notebook-level love is mutual, to one-upping him by wondering out loud if his ‘control freak’ sister (or *spoilers* ... maybe) knowing about them would be so bad in as many episodes as steps named! And, say it with me👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽, Manes👏🏽, unlike Whitman😭 (who was Isabel/Isobel’s love interest until his death/her actual fiancé *maybe spoilers* came on the scene, whereas she’s already married in this one, and Alex Manes is gay)👏🏽, is👏🏽 not👏🏽 going👏🏽 to👏🏽 die!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 ... I’d say that this Michael and Maria still had a small chance of ever being serious in the foreseeable future if polyamory were still on the table, but, with Alex Manes being strictly gay, and Tyler saying that Alex is going to be learning how to not care so much about what his father thinks of him throughout the season, and, ... having watched this video while typing this, all (thank you, gorgeous Heather Hellems, for just ... every thing) of their reactions in it (even the one that Michael did in obvious jest), that’s not happening, and I’m now completely ridden of any fear that there will be any modern triangle that doesn’t have both Liz and Max in it this season. Shiri took that picture (that I now can’t find on her IG) as an out-of-context nod to us original-series fans, it’s from a flashback of a one-night-stand that happened ages ago (or both as one thing), or Hellems and Vlamis are too good at throwing red herrings. Want to know what I want them to do with Maria? Have Jenna in fact - either secretly or unknowingly - be Tess (if they’re going to be bringing her in to this version any way), have her get with Maria, solve two of the triangles, and my melancholy for the absence of seeing Riley kiss a beautiful black woman, and have both of the individuals “meant” to marry Isobel and Max (whoops, there goes those the maybe/original-series spoilers, #SorryNotSorry, because I want to jinx this plot point out of the possibility of being recycled) end up with humans of the same sex, with Isobel and Max ending up with non-Anglican humans, and Tess being that much Extra™, or just have Maria and werewolf doctor Kyle end up together, or have both Maria and Tess end up with werewolf doctor Kyle, getting the poly representation/ending all three triangles (by creating a healthy one with the so-called ‘leftovers’) that way, and Tess being ExtraExtra™.

Bonus bits of poetic irony: the last places I saw Brendan Fehr (original Michael) were on one show where his character and his boyfriend-turned-husband were service members, his man becoming a right leg amputee (in a stateside bus crash on the way home from serving overseas, so that’s double the irony, and I couldn’t make this up if I tried) and his character was also a doctor and an other show that prides itself on being one of the gayest things ever that has an “unkillable gay trio” (probably a quadro now as Robin seems pretty unkillable), Chris Carmack (Link on “Grey’s Anatomy”) had just gotten off of a long stint of playing a guitar-playing/singing gay cowboy before getting hired to play the new Head of Orthopedic Surgery (where they preform, among others things, amputations) to be in a completely hetero “*love triangle*” with the male DeLuca (he has a bisexual older sister who’s a sex specialist), the male DeLuca being Jeanine Mason’s character’s serious love interest since even way before either character worked at the hospital when she was on the show, while it’s Link’s Ortho Fellowship doctor who’s the (Korean/Italian) gay Adonis falling helplessly for the geeky, and (while also Italian by the actors surname) Jewish late-bloomer baby-gay intern who was a peer of Jeanine’s character with them being the ones reactivating the fandom, and you could very well describe Disobedience as a softer spoken expansion of the middle of The Notebook, right down to the portrayal of Rachel McAdams, and instead set at the center of an Orthodox Jewish community in London with the other differences being: McAdams’s character is the who’s ‘left behind,’ she’s a lesbian, she and her love interest, played by fellow Rachel, Rachel Weisz, grew up being friends with ‘the other one’ (*cough* like Michael/Alex/Maria *cough*), and she actually married ‘the other one’ (no, please, don’t full-circle with that part), but, as she’s strictly lesbianic and ‘the other one’s’ a man, it’s a romantically loveless marriage (they can’t go full-circle with that part with Michael being canonically bi, Alex is more the Allie/Esti character is this comparison any way, and they certainly aren’t going to have Alex and Maria get married).

... How obvious is it that I’m voracious for more queer representation in visual media, will watch all of it, appreciate it more especially when it’s sexy, smart, strong, a little-to-a-lot damaged, and diverse (I just want to see more of myself and those who I care about!), I like finding weird little connections in things, and that I am delusionally tired? I’m going to go watch the new episode and sleep. The moronic orange monster is being #TooMuch. I need #Happy and respite.