#homphobic

[oldshowbiz]

1956.

Homophobic Paranoia in Lee Mortimer's book Around the World Confidential.

[merp-blerp]

I'm so done...

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[gayplantmother0]

Homophobes/transphobes don’t make sense

Me and my sister were arguing today because she was making fun of neo pronouns and somewhere in the conversation she said “being trans and gay are a choice.” And I was like “So you could have liked women or men, but you just chose men? You’re attracted to women? So you could have been a boy or a girl you just chose girl? You know there's a word for that.” AND THE LOOK OF UTTER OFFENSE ON HER FACE. The double standards are real people. 

[fatbitchez4life]

i like how half of my fandom is like "he's homophobic" and the other half is like "no he's gay"

[stickandthorn]

I know I’ve made jokes about Liam “angst” O’Brien, but in all honesty the fandoms unrelenting association with him and angst/tragedy really bugs me for a few reasons, and I’m gonna rant about them right now. (This isn’t calling anyone out, I know I’ve fallen into this too, it’s just general fandom mindset that’s come to really annoys me.)

Firstly, his characters are not as angsty as people say. Vax had a tragic arc and ending, no denying that, but he was a very fun loving and jovial person who was not meant to be angsty, he’s honestly so different from fanon interpretation it’s mind blowing. Caleb was very tragic character with a horribly sad backstory of course, but his story was about growth and recovery and healing, about moving on from tragedy and making a new, happy life while having and healing trauma, and yet the fandom once again boils him down to just his tragedy and honestly that really hurts his whole character.

And then people do this to his non angsty characters. I’ve seen people try to angstify Orym, who obviously has some tragedy in his past but absolutely no more than any other character. I’ve even seen one or two people try and angstify Buddy. Fucking Buddy, the dumb, sweet, friendly ogre. Wtf?

This also brings me to another point of mine, which is that Liam is not only not the only one who makes angsty characters, but sometimes he makes less angsty characters than everyone else, and yet his characters tragedies are far more emphasized than everyone else’s. Caleb has a very tragic story, but you know who else has a somewhat similar and also extremely sad story? Percy. And yet you don’t see Taliesin getting the Liam fanon treatment (though I have my own problems with how fanon treats Percy only as the dark, gritty, vengeful, tragic anti hero while his whole story is about moving away from that recovering from that mindset- but that’s a whole other post). Hell, Fjord has a really sad story too. So does Veth. So do so many characters. And in EXU? I’d say Dorian and Fearne and honestly Opal all of more tragic stories than what we know about Orym so far, and yet Orym is treated like this extremely angsty character (which he isn’t) who’s even more tragic and angsty than is party members. Which is. Huh??

And of course, another issue I have, is that tragedy is an inherit part of storytelling. Almost all stories must have conflict, and tragic backstories are so common because they’re such good tools for making interesting characters. Not only that, but the tragedy Liam chooses to explore is always complicated and deep, and usually well done. Like Caleb’s whole story, about a man recovering from trauma and horrific abuse and growing to find a new family, and then taking down his abuser without going down the revenge quest rabbit hole so many men get assigned to, is absolutely wonderful and complicated and deep and something you don’t see very often. But when you dumb it down to “oh, there goes Leema Obean, making yet another angsty twink character hahahaha” it takes away so much of the important parts of the story. Treating character tragedy as just “angst” becomes pretty condescending at a certain point.  These are just a few of my points about why I really dislike this fandom mindset, it’s not very coherent and this is just a ramble of mine, but here it is.

[yourlesbianmama]

Alright, wtf

I was playing a death match on cod and i see that one of the players in the enemy squad had as a tag the trans pride flag

(for those who don't know the game, basically everytime you kill someone or in other occasions the enemy will se your tag, wich is in most cases the country flag of the player, but you can pick pride flags as well)

So i decided to say hello to this person, and write "hello fellow queer!" and the word "queer" got censored in the chat, as if it was a swear.

Honestly i found this pretty obnoxious, why allow pride flags if you are still gonna treat the queers as a fuckig taboo?

[stfusaruh]

i just realized... i'm literally the lesbian hannah montana. i'm "straight" in person and on allll of my other socials. except for like 5 of my irls. that's wild.

best of both worlds i guess😌🙃

[oldshowbiz]

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