color-palettes:
“Distorted Reality - Submitted by sirmanking
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color-palettes:

Distorted Reality - Submitted by sirmanking

#D090B3 #471B46 #230D2E #81ACD5 #F7E0F1

iliadette:

bliss-bliss-bliss-bliss:

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Fanfolks today need to remember how important The Premise was.

Y'all have heard of The Premise, right?

See, historically there have always been people who saw an extra layer of gayness on certain pairs of fictional people (you just thought of several), and people Back Then even wrote their own fanfic (or as they were called at the time, “pastiches”), but the first widespread queer fanwork to really define the fanfiction genre was KIRK AND SPOCK. Kirk/Spock. K/S. The very first slashfics.

Why this work was vastly, overwhelmingly written by straight women is a discussion for another time, but it was, so that’s the main perspective I’m gonna consider here.

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How do you - a statistically middle-class, 30+, stay-at-home wife and mother - how do you write slashfic ao3-style in the 1960’s before the internet?

Carefully.

Through letters with friends, phone calls, pen pals, and sometimes - sometimes - clandestine meetings of small groups. Whole novels were written communally, round-robin style, by sending typed or handwritten additions chapter by chapter to each other. These were all underground, some deep underground; even the early Trekkie fanzines of the time wouldn’t touch them.

And keep in mind, few of these stories were explicitly even sexual! But they were all about a very, very close relationship between two men. In the 1960’s.

Guess how cool everyone else was about this.

Actually, for their part, Gene Rodenberry and the other writers were fine with it, saying that they had deliberately written the characters to be two halves of a whole, and if you wanna read it that way, yeah sure, go right ahead. Shatner and Nimoy took it all in good humor, and seemingly still do, each guy basically gesturing to the other and chuckling “I mean, who wouldn’t?”

But elsewhere there was vicious backlash against The Premise, and not just within the fandom. This was still at a time in the US and UK when various “sodomy” and “decency” laws made no distinction between homosexual sex acts and just, like, directly lighting another man’s cigarette with your cigarette in public. (That, sadly, is not a fucking joke.)

It was probably the closest some suburban cishet women came to understanding the pain of being in the closet. They had to protect this secret from their friends and family at all cost. There were cases of divorces where women lost custody of their children because their writing had come to light.

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Can you imagine having such a burning desire to write for your OTP that you were willing to lose everything over it? Even if you were never caught, you still had to be willing to wait weeks, months, to receive a letter in the mail that you had to carefully intercept, read in secret, and then add your own chapter t, also in secret, and then send off, perhaps never to be seen again.

These people were goddamn heroes, and they laid the foundation for the world we live in today. A world where we can read, write, comment on, or share - in a matter of seconds! - literature about two background characters from two different franchises enjoying a really specific kink involving vacuums or something. And that’s objectively amazing.

Raise a toast to our fanfiction elders, who simped in the darkness so we could simp in the light of day.

This is important and should have more notes.

incorrect-woy-quotes:

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top-fictional-unhinged-women:

Round 8.5: Anthy Versus Lord Dominator

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Who is top girl?

Anthy Himemiya (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Lord Dominator (Wander Over Yonder)

Anthy: Dark and vengeful, serious trust issues

Lord Dominator: “She doesn’t want to rule the galaxy: She wants to destroy it! Man, that’s evil.”

(Haven’t seen RGU or much Wander. If you want a better description, put in the reblogs.)

vote for Dominator, she’s the EPITOME of “character who is gay and has no romantic chemistry with anyone because of how fucking insane they are”

What if we put Wander, Sylvia, Hater, Peepers; Darth Vader, The Joker, Screwy Squirrel, and Kim Kelly into a blender, used the resulting sludge to make an unhinged punk lesbian who wants to kill everything for Unhinged Happy Fun Time, gave her ADHD, and made her op with the power of love (for murder & destruction & mayhem)
this is genuinely a fair chunk of how she was convieved i;m not joking

She also has a killer villain song ❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗

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also it’d be insanely funny if this freak actually won this matchup LBR

#she once caused a three car pileup (or more specifically 2 cars and a bus) using nothing but a leather jacket #she beat the shit out of every single villain in a wholeass galaxy for A Single Ring Pop #(none of the villains knew they were all gunning for a dumb piece of candy eXCEPT HER! she Really wanted to pummel everyone for an candy) #she had a great time also she was Not normal about getting that goddamn ring pop (seen above) (she's a really realyl excitable person) #she reacts to critical alarms going off on her ship the same way floridian's react to major hurricanes bc she thinks she cant die (she can) #in the original script for S2E33 The Night Out she made a gayass "I HARDLY KNOW 'ER!" joke about fingerblasting and-- #-it scared Disney S&P so shitless that they shot down nearly Every Rewrite outa the fear that they were all still lesbian sex jokes SomehowALT
#she survived a near-successful assassination attempt by stealing the elemental power they tried to kill her w for herself #..and then immediately made a corny-ass pun about it bc she's an insufferable (/posi) amalgam of nerd/meangirl (and goth/jock/punk) #she violently kills her (SENTIENT) bots if they disappoint her (& when she's bored) but also she talks to them & stores confetti in the big ones #confetti and balloons #for when they desperately need to spice up their inability to match her boundless enthusiasm (or show any emotion to her ever) #hilariously she doesn't actually like the confetti and balloons #if given the opportunity she does not hesitate to steal candy from a baby and then immediately shove it in a passerby's hairALT
#relentlessly tormenting her favorite victims is just what being an extrovert is to her (she's just Like That.) #i cannot stress enough. that she is just Like That #she's too wretched to ever have any friends but she's completely unaware that she's lonely bc she's high on the thrill of the kill 24/7 #literally just. balls to the walls happy hyper bubbly on average (except for when something's being dull and/or pissing her awff) #she has destroyed NUMEROUS galaxies #literally has SUCH a weakness for barrenness & bleakness that evry time she sees a celestial body just Exist she NEEDS to slap it to pieces #//And the only thing in this entire post that's a hc and not a verifiable fact is me saying that she has ADHD (I'M RIGHT THO)ALT

alysongreaves:

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im yelling

bucksboobs:

cir-c:

bucksboobs:

Yes we need more chaste twee baby gay romances like heartstopper and yes we also need more shows where men fuck raw to express their love for one another like Élite and yes we need more toxic gays having hate sex like Interview with the Vampire and yes we need more incidental gay characters like the dads in cartoons like Owl House.

It’s not a competition! It’s a hoard and I’m like a gay little Smaug.

the normalization of porn in mainstream media is a weird take to have

Normalization of gay desire and yes, even gay sex, is paramount to gay liberation actually.

redbuddi:

redbuddi:

few things piss me off more than a design that is clearly pandering to the male gaze but is so cool that you can’t help but love it

this post is dedicated to my homicide wife kumanomi

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yelibun:
“ Reading a stranger’s diary from the 1970s
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yelibun:

Reading a stranger’s diary from the 1970s

doublism:

bro are you seriously skipping labia day at the gym