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[oldmabeuf]

the iconic red party

[albertserra]

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[innerchildabortionclinic]

it's unrealistic as fuck that none of the wealthy perpetrators in columbo episodes I watch are attempting murder-suicide to escape consequences when they're alone with columbo on a boat or something and he's onto them

[innerchildabortionclinic]

#petpeeve

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[deckh4nd]

The Road Back Home - FJ McMahon

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have to dress in this style for the rest of your life!

(you do not have to follow the beliefs associated with the style if that style has associated beliefs. The wheel curse does not affect anything like that.)

Do you like it?

yes!!

it's okay I guess

no

NO.

I dress like this already

results/other/unsure

Voting ended onAug 6

[thelatecaptainpierce]

[prokopetz]

Something I see getting overlooked a lot when discussing queercoding in historical media is that in many cases it's not evidence that the writers secretly shipped it; it was aimed at straight dudes specifically to freak them out. Depicting a male villain as sexually interested in a male hero reads as horror to the cishet male audience. Like, Venom didn't spend years and years being blatantly characterised as Spider-Man's creepy stalker ex because Marvel's writers were all closeted yaoi fans. That was meant to be scary – which of course doesn't mean you can't read it differently, but don't give them credit they don't deserve!

[beansterpie]

ok so like. I keep seeing posts about how grace and rocky's relationships in phm is so lovely because it's not romantic-- people claiming that romance between the two would have been predictable and uninteresting, because a relationship like theirs ending in a romance is The Done Thing in movies and I-- really just have to laugh.

Uh no. A movie like this with a male, human protagonist who forms a friendship with an extremely non-humanoid alien who was basically assigned male by the narrative would not.... would not likely end in a romance between the two. Lol. Lmfao. If it DID end with a romance between the two, my mind would have been actually blown in the theater. And I guarantee that most people leaving said theater would have been weirded out by it. Because human characters forming romances with non-humanoid characters in fiction is usually used as an indicator that either the human character is a weirdo, that the relationship is unnatural and strange, or that we're supposed to laugh at the relationship. There are definitely exceptions, but by and large that's how that trope appears in fiction ime.

So grace and rocky's relationship ending at a deep friendship is vey literally the expected outcome. I'm not saying that as a bad thing, I love their friendship and how important they are to one another and I love this story, but a human and a non-humanoid aliens relationship staying within the bounds of 'friendship' isn't somehow more subversive and progressive than if it had included romance.

To be clear, I'm all for aro/ace headcanons for grace, and I totally get why this story in particular attracts those headcanons, but acting as though people who ship grocky (specifically eridian!rocky and human!grace) aren't in their own way participating in something subversive feels a little disingenuous.

And this is reflected in the numbers! On ao3, Grace & Rocky as a platonic relationship outnumbers Grace/Rocky by about three times. And even MORE telling, Grace/Simon (from Iron Lung) is over double the number of Grace/Rocky fics. If grace and rocky's relationship is so beautiful because of the absence of romance, then why does that not extend to the ship with two human dudes that doesn't involve the alien?

I'm 100% sure that tons of people who love aro/ace grace and platonic grocky are earnestly engaging with the fact that their friendship is framed as the most important relationship in, at least, grace's life, especially because the movie seems to pointedly subvert any romance between grace and stratt, which I would argue is the much more expected place for a romance to happen.

But I'm also 100% sure that the popularity of the aro/ace reading, or at the very least the popularity of platonic grocky, is due to rocky being a rock spider alien. because unfortunately, a lot of people just find the idea of shipping a human with an eridian off-putting because they're lame and boring.

[aliosne]

Steps bravely up to mic I think it’s important not to ignore the genders involved

Putting aside transneutral/transfem readings of Grace or the issue of Grace gendering that rock spider in a way that would make it Kinda Gay, stories where a romance arises between a typically attractive human male and a distinctly Other/“ugly” romantic partner are few and far between.

I have been Thinking a lot about Beauty and the Beast/Eros and Psyche for not wholly unrelated reasons, and one of the things that stood out is how often women are told that it’s necessary and noble to learn to love someone who is “ugly,” who is rude, who hurts them, confines and controls them. How the noble heart of a maiden can see past the exterior to the prince within.

While on the other hand, when men are shown falling in love with a nonhuman character, it’s often either Conventionally Attractive Woman but With Horns Now OR it’s passed off as a joke in some way. He’s a freak. Going against the 100% natural inclination of men to fall only for the physical, and only for the narrow band of thin abled cishet white (enough) femininity that obviously all NORMAL guys prefer. If she’s dangerous, it’s presented as something to tame, or as more like a kitten hissing and spitting. She can’t control him! That would be ludicrous.

I don’t necessarily wish they’d made Ryan Gosling fuck that rock. Im perfectly capable of making that happen on my own, and also I do very much appreciate a story that doesn’t involve romance. But it would have been subversive to have a male lead fall for a hard, lumpy, grouchy little freak that doesn’t have any fuckable holes, whatever my buds are doing on here. Even if he’d looked at Rocky and gone “ah yes a girl” it would be subversive. Men don’t get to love the beast.

[beansterpie]

YES!! You, you get me.

I didn't get into the gender element in my post but 99% of monster/non-human romances being configured as a (usually white, almost always cishet) woman and a non-human man has always driven me nuts. So yes, on this layer as well, I do think grocky as a romance is definitely subversive!

[transgayhawkeyepierce]

I feel like a lot of h/c writers will write the 'hurt' characters in the way they do in part because they think that vulnerability is virtuous, and we should teach the audience it's okay to be vulnerable. To them it's even more delicious when they getting the cold, reticent character to open up, since that's definitely the character that needs to be hugged the most. But to me, it just comes off as if the character's spirit has been completely broken and everything that made them like likable just gone. Like, people love these characters because of their will, their determination, their coldness, their cruelty, their strength, their mischief, their independence, etc. Not because they are sobbing mess.

[transgayhawkeyepierce]

This goes for how Hawkeye is portrayed in some fics as well. Hawkeye is an extremely willful and self realized individual; and in the show he remained that way, even in his insanity

[transgayhawkeyepierce]

I feel like a lot of h/c writers will write the 'hurt' characters in the way they do in part because they think that vulnerability is virtuous, and we should teach the audience it's okay to be vulnerable. To them it's even more delicious when they getting the cold, reticent character to open up, since that's definitely the character that needs to be hugged the most. But to me, it just comes off as if the character's spirit has been completely broken and everything that made them like likable just gone. Like, people love these characters because of their will, their determination, their audacity, their cruelty, their strength, their mischief, their independence, etc. Not because they are sobbing mess.

[ozziyo]

lord help me it's so serious i can't stop drawing them. ref under the cut

[bunnybaum]

🌸🌼🌸🌼

[transgayhawkeyepierce]

To people who were describing MASH in as being a "time loop" and the characters, "trapped in the narrative", you all need to play Pathologic asap, since those are actual themes and things going on in that game

[springjamz]

i still draw when i can & sometimes he appears in my sketchbook …

[transgayhawkeyepierce]

Update on the AC situation. I got myself a portable AC and it works just fine. It's over 100 here so just in time.

[03pilot]

[thelatecaptainpierce]

the first thing you learn'll be the last thing to go

Cold at Night - the Mountain Goats