#consider why

[raccoonboywrites]

A thirteen year old just followed my NSFW blog.

I blocked them, but I want you all to see this.

Look at the tags on their pinned post, and tell me it doesn’t worry you. Tell me it doesn’t give you a pit in your stomach.

Children are growing up in the world WE create. Choose what kind of world you want that to be.

[constant-merlin-torture]

Merlin Thoughts/People’s idea of male friendship

Ooooooohhhhhh I’ve been waiting to talk about this because I think about it SO much. Basically, I want to talk about how people always say that “Merlin and Arthur are brothers” and “stop trying to make everything queer” and “just because they hugged doesn’t mean they’re gay” and—you get the idea. Today I’ll be hitting the first point, and will be doing two and three in other posts.

Queer interpretation doesn’t invalidate male platonic intimacy

Fiction v. Real Life

Did anything actually change?

ONE:

To start off, queer interpretation is just that: it’s a different perspective on the same piece of art/whatever. When people try to say that there’s a crisis in male friendship because of queer interpretation, I struggle to see the reasoning. Why does someone saying that a pair on TV seems queer affect the way you see that pairing?

Really, it’s an inadvertent way for many men to accidentally invalidate their own friendships. When men in these intimate friendships become insecure because of a queer interpretation of that same sort of intimacy on screen, and when they try to tell queer people that they shouldn’t be speculating in this way, they give unwanted power to those who don’t want to wield it. All most people want is representation in the sparse land of English film and tv. So what if I think that Merlin and Arthur hugging in that way is gay as hell? You can still hug your male friend as a man in that same way and it not be queer (mind blowing). The point is, just because queer people are interpreting media in a queer way, doesn’t mean they’re trying to invalidate male intimacy and male friendship. And trying to say that there should be no queer discussion or interpretation is like saying that people can’t have any other opinion than a heteronormative one.

Want to also recommend that you watch AreTheyGay’s YouTube video on the “crisis of male friendship”. It’s so well crafted and I draw a lot from it!

part two sooooon. Stay along with me if you want to hear my bit on fiction v. Real life male intimacy!

also, let me know what you think, and if you want to hear about anything else specific. I know this is more serious than normal, but I really wanted to get it off my chest and discuss it. Follow for more thoughts but predominantly merthur hell and whatnot.

[transmechanicus]

Next time you need the help of law enforcement be sure to show them that post about beating police and them being racists demons and burning their vehicles etc. You do that, be bold and true your message.

You know eating boots is for the starving and desperate right? You don’t have to gorge on them 24/365 like this.

[lookoutsea]

you can be annoyed with the woobification of judaism on social media without pretending like it hasnt been proven and shown (in studies, surveys, etc) time and time again that out of all significant religious groups in the USA (disregarding other factors like age and race) jewish people far and away are the most supportive of lgbt rights/left-wing policies/whatever