Lake (beyond_belief) @ AO3. Queueing right now: The Terror, True Detective: Night Country, Top Gun: Maverick - it gets real miscellaneous up in this joint. Forever reblogging: Ben Affleck & Matt Damon, Star Wars, Generation Kill, Star Trek, the woes of adulthood. Old lady in internet years. Brad Colbert/sadness is still my OTP.
jopson fixing crozier's hair while he's sick and jopson fixing his own hair when crozier comes in to care for him and crozier fixing jopson's hair when he finds him dead
hair and the caring for it as a motif for the relationship they share. caring for each other's hair as an act of intimacy and love, mutually acted upon. and the tragedy of crozier only returning jopson's love once he's gone and it's too late
Gentle reminder here that there are elder queers out there. Real elders, people in their 80s and 90s who survived, who are here. You can get there, old age does exist for us.
I know an old lesbian couple who have been married since the moment they legalized it. One woman can hardly walk anymore but she loves Hallmark ornaments, so her wife supports her against her walker during Christmas so she can look at them more easily.
I know a transgender man who started transitioning only 10 years ago at 60, and he's brilliant and funny and brings his grandchildren by to get sweets.
I know an asexual woman who, beamed and told me she absolutely loved not having a husband, and that she "never once regretted not getting married. I never felt that way about anybody! Why force it?" She lives with her parrot and loves salsa dancing.
Our elders exist. So many of us have been wiped out and erased on purpose, but we're here. And that means you can get there. When you're old and grey, when you're retired and done, there will be people who will love you and will care for you.
"You are my loved one, Harry," said Bridgens. "The only man or woman or child left in the world who cares whether I am alive or dead, much less what I may have thought before I fell or where my bones will lie."
Peglar, still angry, felt his heart pounding inside his chest. "You're going to outlive me, John."
"Oh, at my age, and with my infirmities and proclivities toward illness, I hardly think..."
"You're going to outlive me, John," grated Peglar. He shocked himself by the intensity of his voice and Bridgens blinked and fell silent. Peglar took the older man's wrist. "Promise me you'll do one thing for me, John."
"Of course." There was none of the usual banter or irony in Bridgens' voice.
-> 3/∞ CHARACTER DYNAMICS in The Terror
similar topic but it's so funny to me when people are like "you can't ship these people one of them is the other's father figure!" as if wanting to fuck a father figure isn't the only joy left in this life