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it’s bad again but every time it’s been bad before it’s gotten better again. it will get better again
hi so i will be talking about charlie & ocd & hospitalization at a later date bc i have. so many thoughts and have shed. so many tears. but for now i sleep
HEARTSTOPPER (2022 - ) I 3.06 - Body
Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)
I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.
On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.
But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.
And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.
When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.
Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.
solangelo is only “opposites attract” in aesthetics and nothing more but you guys aren’t ready for that conversation
shoves this at you all and runs away
tooru doesn’t know how to care about people. that was always — always — hajime’s job, despite the robust corners to his words. tooru smiled and no one believed him, and hajime glared and people trusted him. it began, after a while, to feel a little bit like the natural order of things. tooru snapped in two because he was bored or out of ideas or losing his balance, and no one batted an eye because it worked — because they won the point or the set or the match and his grades stayed even and they were going to get to nationals this year, they were, until they weren’t and he’s long been past cracked in half and hajime is in a different world — and tooru is supposed to know how to handle this by now. ; or: tooru runs out of athletic tape, his apartment is full of boxes, and everyone expects him to know what he's doing
Say what you want about Rick's writing choices but he cooked when he had each pjo book represent a myth and had each character represent a greek hero. I am not ashamed to admit that.
hey chat new longfic in the works it is titled Sakusa Kiyoomi Crams for Biology Test and is entirely unrelated to what i (author) am currently doing.
Are you on southern men swing dancing together tiktok?? Huh??? Because I AM
fuck ai and everything but youtube just rolled out this new feature where ai sorts comments into topics and I'm absolutely losing it at this
computer show me how to study without being obsessive. computer tell me computer please. computer
chappell roan & gerard way stage outfit parallels
chappell looks:
vmas, sept 11 2024 / hinterland, august 4 2024 / bonnaroo, june 16 2024 / hangout fest, may 18 2024 / coachella, april 12 2024
gerard looks:
corona capital mexico, nov 18 2022 / london, nov 2005 / detroit, sept 13 2022 / los angeles, oct 11 2022 (but first worn in nashville, aug 23 2022) / sydney, march 19-20 2023
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hi, does anyone have any ao3 sakuatsu fic recs with a big emphasis on found family?? i've been searching for a long fic that really drives home the importance of platonic relationships so if anyone has recommendations i will literally love you forever thank you :)
i especially love post-timeskip and msby4, and anything miya twins & kita if that helps !!