#gaysails

[ithappensoffstage]

When you share the horror that we do day in and day out... you don't just feel close, you cling to each other.

[flintism]

god this joker is wild scene in the context of fashionista trapper. hawkeye being like "a joke should have FLAIR and STYLE" and bj in a corner of his deranged mind being like Fuck Trapper And His Preppy New England Sweaters

ASFHASFAHSFG bj literally being like “maybe trapper dressed better than i do but was he able to make you undress in front of the whole camp like i’m about to that’s what we’re gonna see”

[thealogie]

you respect JESUS but NOT US??!?!??

[hctirdle]

gaysails replied to your post “I wish we’d seen more than like 3 minutes of...” writers have explicitly said flint is homosexual. it's not interpetation

What the writers said would only matter to me if I was writing an academic paper on the contemporary real world implications of the character's sexuality, or sexuality in American entertainment in the 21st century, or something like that, which I'm not. Fiction writers have one shot at making their intentions clear, everything they say after their work has already been consumed and interpreted is at best interesting trivia to me. Death of the author and all that. Never met a horror fan in my life who preferred Stephen King's clearly stated authorial intent to Kubrick's "incorrect" interpretation of The Shining, for example, so having a different interpretation from what the writers claim is the "official" version is not only possible but pretty common.

I'm sorry if this comes off as a rant btw, I'm really not trying to argue with you and you really don't have to read my nonsense. I understand and respect that the creators saying Flint is gay is meaningful to some people for their own reasons. I’m not really interested in getting into conversations about representation because Western culture is not my own, I don’t watch American tv through that lens.

Within the historical context they talk about researching, it's completely irrelevant what we call him, there was no legal or moral distinction between gay, bi, and "basically straight but got caught experimenting" at the time. From a characterization perspective, none of the explanations I've seen make much sense to me. There's the "Miranda hit on him first and he didn't want to seem gay" angle, which assumes that he risked his precious career and the social standing that he worked his ass off to attain to prove his nonexistent interest in women to a woman already rumored to be an adulterer. Adultery was exactly as damning as homosexuality at the time, so the whole idea that Flint was afraid of Miranda telling people that he wasn't willing to assist her in cheating on her husband is bogus. This wasn't exactly an "all the boys are going to the brothel, best pretend I'm interested too" scenario. Nor was it a "since living as a gay man is not even an existing concept in this time period, I guess I could try to have a relationship with this nice woman" scenario, since Miranda was already married and anything they ended up doing would have to remain strictly private.

On the topic of brothels, it makes even less sense to me to claim that Flint was trying to prove his interest in women to himself because, again, Miranda was the single most dangerous woman for him to experiment with. Not that it's realistic for someone with Flint's background to have a sexual awakening in his thirties to begin with. To achieve that level of denial, you need the sort of privacy that was really not afforded to working class people before the 20th century. He'd have witnessed plenty of sexual and romantic relationships of all kinds as a kid, so the "he didn't even think it was possible to have a relationship with a guy" angle is also suspect. Idk where this weird meme comes from that early modern era Europeans were clueless or naive about sex and sexuality, but it was really not the case. For most of human history, having your own living space was a luxury 99% of people couldn't afford, so you'd end up regularly hearing/seeing your family and friends get off, as uncomfortable as that sounds to us now. Even if Flint just shared a room with his grandfather as a little kid, being in the navy would have been educational enough.

Of course they could have just ignored all that in order to make him relatable to a 21st century audience, because that's how historical fiction works. It's always a give and take between historical accuracy, trying to convey contemporary ideas and sentiments, and trying to hold the viewer's attention.

At any rate, I'm not deeply invested in convincing anyone how the story "really" went, so sure, Flint's officially gay (although I'm skeptical about anyone being able to state anything "explicitly" when it comes to something as controversial as "if a guy sleeps with men and women but has a preference for one over the other, is he gay or bi"). It's just a personal preference for the above stated reasons. If the writers leave me room to interpret things - and they left plenty in this case - then I prefer to make sense of the story and characters for myself, even if my headcanons deviate from the authorial intent.

[livepasthope]

gaysails replied to your post “gaysails replied to your photo “livepasthope: my shortlist” ...”

YOU SAID IT WAS A GREAT LOVE.... ONE FOR THE AGES.... BUT IF THE STORY'S OVER WHY AM I STILL WRITING PAGES?

MY TIME MY WINE MY SPIRIT MY TRUST, TRYNA FIND A PART OF ME YOU DIDN’T TAKE UP, GAVE YOU YOU SO MUCH BUT IT WASN’T ENOUGH....BUT I’LL BE ALRIGHT IT’S JUST A THOUSAND CUTS

[pirategf]

ANGELS IN AMERICA. THOTS PLEASE

HEAD EMPTY, MOLLY, HEAD EMPTY!!!

[lesbiangenkai]

mukuro and/or shizuru for the character thing

i gotta do both cause im gay and i love them

king mukuro 

How I feel about this character me watching yyh for the first time seeing mukuro like “i hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me” god she’s so. fantastic as a character, she’s both ruthless but calm and she’s also kinda funny?? like she loves to yap and be sarcastic while trying to maintain this mysterious badass vibe it’s so funny

All the people I ship romantically with this character me there’s two sides of me and one is like mukuro is a butch lesbian and the other side of me loves that one story about her birthday so much im like “who else is gonna love her so much they let her torture her abuser forever who else gets her like this???” so yeah i do like her with hiei, i think they have a good foundation and enough intimacy and trust between them to make it work. i also really like her with natsume like fuck chuu’s weak ass 

My non-romantic OTP for this character also hiei, platonic soulmate

My unpopular opinion about this character she’s not fucking abusive idk what people are smoking but LORD. enough 

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon. i just wish we saw more of her in general esp after togashi said he wanted to get more into her character. i also wish the birthday story made it into the anime cause it’s just aaaaah!!! 

shizuru

How I feel about this character lesbian icon!! first of all i just love everything about her the suits her voice her vibe everything. she’s just one of those characters thats cool without even trying 

All the people I ship romantically with this character botan & yukina, i’m always torn which i like more and i lean towards botan cause i think it’s adorable but i also think yukina/shizuru is really interesting 

My non-romantic OTP for this character i wish she interacted with kurama more cause i think they’d be like babysitters around yusuke it’d be so funny. also keiko and her being like sisters is really cute

My unpopular opinion about this character im not sure what qualifies as unpopular but that dumb shit with sakyo in the anime was awful. who approved that

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon. expand on the spiritual awareness!! have her be more active as an extension of the group! i want to see her using her powers more actively to maybe help people especially at the end of the series when they open up genkai’s estate to demons

[imaginingfromtheblock]

D'YOU FANCY BILLIE PIPER, SIR????