elio / oliver

[seaemberthesecond]

Unfortunately, a lot of people's idea of feminism does not hinge on women are autonomous beings who deserve equal rights and opportunities, but instead on women are beautiful and precious objects that should be treated well which is not actually the same thing. At all.

[therobinswayne]

i'm not too well versed in the history of the words and the gay culture going all the way back, but i wonder if there's a reason that lesbian is an identity when no other sexuality really seems to be. you would never say i'm a gay or i'm a bisexual, but saying that you are a lesbian is the typical grammatically correct way it's said. i'm (personally) bi, but i was thinking about the fact that lesbian is seen as a 'dirty' word to some people who literally are lesbians but will call themselves sapphic instead, despite not being attracted to men in any sense. and like do what you want with your own labels, i'm not trying ot police anyone, but why do people think lesbian is some dirty word? and i wonder if it's because you have to identify yourself with it. if you're sapphic, you're sapphic. but if you're a lesbian, you're a lesbian.

[eloiscbridgerton]

BONUS: Trinity letting Mel's hair down

THE PITT 2.15 – 9:00 P.M.

[lexevazion]

An AU where Stan is pronounced dead as a John Doe in the 80's and Ford doesn't find this out until 2012, but with a twist.

Stan isn't dead. He didn't even fake his death, someone just did it for him and called it in. He has no idea that his parents thought he was dead, or that no one told his twin about his supposed death. He just assumed his family (nor the people that actually wanted him dead) didn't ever bother to look for him again and eventually found a somewhat stable life.

Ford, desperate and grieving, used the magic mailbox to send a letter to what he thinks is his brother's grave. He's sure in for a surprise when Stan calls him a day later.

[kim-tey]

two normal guys being normal co hosts of a normal show

[eesttm]

- "What's with all the rubber ducks?" - "Well, it's sort of a secret, but we can tell the story."

[x]

[canadianno-gravityfalls]

I made these doodles of the twins' parents ages ago and never posted them so

Joseph and Emilie everybody 🫡

[n1-adora-fan]

DO THEY WANT ME DEAD???? I CANNOT BREATHE THEYRE SO FINE

[therobinswayne]

pretty pls come back from the war i miss u and ur spiderman fic (/lh, obvi no pressure lol)

im so sorry i got really into the summer i turned pretty and ive been head first into that for like. months. it is still on the docket i swear. i know its been like a year ignore that

[bightmarks]

As someone only really familiar with Greg Davies through Taskmaster can you say more about his other comedy and work vs his Taskmaster persona re: queerness? Your last post made me curious!

I cannot overstate the degree to which Greg’s non-TM comedy is lately laser-focused on communicating the following:

he is old

he is huge

he is romantically and sexually attracted to well-kept men over 40

in his earlier comedy, his queerness is more about him constructing himself as both non-threatening to women and sexually pathetic, as a comedic juxtaposition with the way his height confers a kind of unearned masculine virtue

but as he gets older imo he’s just being himself in a less self-conscious way, and who he is is a theatre nerd whose genuine teenage hero was Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and he flirts with other men because it’s funny but at the same time it’s not really a joke

his character in The Cleaner only dates women, but he straighforwardly expresses sexual attraction to multiple men, and when a kid asks him if he’s gay, he says no but doesn’t say he’s straight

he flirts with a particular category of male guest so consistently on Never Mind the Buzzcocks that Noel Fielding and Jamali Maddix make targeted jokes about men who are his type (in a supportive way, not a homophobic way)

on Taskmaster he does plenty of flirting with male contestants (and Alex), but he’s noticeably less effusive and camp, especially in the earlier series, and unlike on NMTB he doesn’t often make jokes that reference queer club culture

genuinely if all I had to go on was NMTB, I would assume Greg had been out for decades, I seriously can’t get past how queer he is on that show and how straight the Taskmaster seems by contrast

[therobinswayne]

something something alex horne something something evan kelmp something something wanting to be useful and praised but also being so uncomfortable with being praised at all something something dedicating yourself to someone platonically without thinking about the Implications and then falling in love by accident something something. i dunno. is there anything there

[dropoutsource]

[ghostlyeris]

god it must be so delightful to be given the opportunity to torment your players with pyrotechnics

[jacky-rubou]

You know how sometimes people theorize/headcanon that West Coast Tech wasn't actually that great of a school and Backupsmore wasn't actually all that bad?

sometimes i just feel like that's a way for fans to brush off how Stan breaking the project and costing Ford his ticket to West Coast Tech really hurt him. Like, while a big part of Ford's feelings about it were focused on the betrayal aspect, we can't just ignore how much harder Backupsmore must've been for Ford. There has to be real impact from Stan's choice to not tell Ford about the accident and a less optimal school is a good way to do that.

We're told that Ford had to work twice as hard in Backupsmore and that's rough. He's probably going full sleep deprivation into every class and pushing himself so hard in that kind of environment that it ended up making a counselor suggest therapy. It was probably not a good time. And making this school the only school he had after Stan lost him that golden opportunity really gives weight to what Ford lost.

But making West Coast Tech appear to actually be awful would only justify Stan's decision to hide his accident from Ford to ruin his chances of going there to the audience. Which is... less than acceptable as a moral. There needs to be real consequences behind every character's decision, both good and bad. It literally removes the severity of the consequences of Stan's decision to just say the school Ford wanted to go to was 'bad, actually' and the school he had to go to instead was 'the best'. Like there's less reason to be upset with Stan if he'd prevented Ford from going to a crappy school and pushed him into a good one, you know? at least on an audience level.

Anyway, i don't mean to dump on anyone's parade here. If you want to believe in West Coast Tech being a bad school Ford would've suffered more in and/or Backupsmore was a better school for him to go to outside of just meeting Fiddleford, be my guest. i'm just sharing thoughts here.

[embraceyourdestiny]

The best part of mismag2 is just how much they all cuss and say fuck

[embraceyourdestiny]

It’s literally so fucking sad and chilling that hoggle died and there’s Zero mention and we don’t see coggle grieve. When did they die?how long after magic went crazy? Before the school broke? Or after? Did coggle let their twin die for magic to “survive” (or themselves) or were they forced to let them go / betrayed by the other islanders and found out after hoggle didn’t come to dinner one night? I have to know and it’s haunting that I never will

[dimension20memes]

When he set the timer my heart broke.