Peter, v-logging with his phone camera: Hi I’m Spi- I mean, Peter Parker, and today we’re going to witness firsthand people’s reactions after they’re told they have big dick energy. Let’s go!
Peter: What’s up, Thor. Dude, I just wanted you to know that you radiate big dick energy today.
Thor: God of thunder in the streets, god of big dick in the sheets, I suppose.
Peter, checking to see if he’s still recording then proceeding to give a thumbs up: I stan so hard. Legends only.
Peter, bumping into Steve reading the paper: Cap! Ah, have a moment? Word on the street is that you have big dick energy. Thoughts?
Steve, choking on his coffee: I-I guess the serum did have… its effects…
Peter: Oh my god.
Peter, finding Bucky watering flowers: Hey, man. Love what you did with your hair today, may I enlighten you on the fact that you have, putting it modestly, very big dick energy?
Bucky, looking into the camera like he’s on the office: …Parker what the hell.
Peter, breaking into the sanctum: Wow doctor, looks like you got a super serious case of chronic big dick energy there.
Strange: Listen. There’s kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, electrical, even the vague concept of dark energy. But there is no big dick or whatever you just—
Peter: You’re no fun.
Peter, after buying a plane ticket and flying to Wakanda unsupervised: As king and black panther, your highness, your reign is supreme and so is your big dick energy.
T'challa, amidst a breakdown: Noo!!! Stop!! You and Shuri, I am begging you, please, I have no idea what that means!!!!
Peter, approaching Tony relaxing on a lounge chair: Now for The Man. The one and only, genius billionaire playboy philanthropist. Mr. Stark, are you aware you have big dick energy?
Tony, lowering his shades: Kid, I invented big dick energy.
Instead of making up shitty racist headcanons about Miles shoplifting join me in headcanoning him picking up ballet because he thought Gwen being a ballerina was super neat and it would help him in his spiderman job
I think the straightest thing about straights writing LGBT characters is the lack of labeling. The utter and full lack of labeling.
I mean, sure, there are people who don’t like labels. But… most gays like to use the word gay. To describe themselves, a situation or just everything, really. I’m an ace lesbian, I have no problem saying that I’m an ace lesbian when asked for my sexuality. I’ve known a bunch of bisexuals at this point and they all very distinctively use the word bisexual and not “I don’t limit myself” or “what’s the point of labels?”.
It pisses me off so much because I think that it can be traced back to the fact that straights never actually have to use their label. They are default. So they are not used to putting words to their sexuality. And thus, I don’t know, it makes them uncomfortable that others would? Like, I really don’t know, that’s just my best guess. Either way, it’s insanely annoying.
Like, watching the new season of Chicago Fire and absolutely being smitten with Emily Foster and from the disastrous introduction on I went “Oh my gosh, after they killed off the lesbian character seasons ago, are they finally bringing in a new lesbian character? Yes, please!” and then she’s shown having a date with a woman, but when her work partner asks her “I thought you talked about boyfriends before”, I thought “Okay, fine. Not a lesbian then. As long as I finally get some wlw in all this straightness” but instead of having Emily just say “Yes, I’m bisexual”, she has to go “Why limit yourself?”. Who talks like that?!
LGBT representation is great. It’s important. I’m always glad to see it. But a huge part of prepresentation are the labels too. They’re a very important part of our identity for many of us. Yes, there are people who don’t like labels at all, but if you look at American TV shows, you’d think every gay ever absolutely denies labels.
Most representation is just through visuals. Through us concluding.
I love Shadowhunters. But the lack of labels on that show is making me insane. I spent months assuming Magnus doesn’t define himself with labels, which is a logical conclusion considering he’s 800 years old so why would he answer to such newly coined terms. With Underhill and Alec it’s vagueing at their gayness but neither saying it aloud. Aline was alluded to being a lesbian, but we don’t use the term. And whatever the fuck that scene with Raphael and Isabelle was, it was so obscure I had to google and look up the book-wiki to understand that Raphael was talking about his asexuality without calling it asexuality.
I did not connect with Brooklyn Nine-Nine as a comedy show at all, but fuck did I love how openly the term “gay” was used, how Rosa actually had a full coming out storyline, repeatedly referring to herself as “bisexual”. It resonated as so real and proper, not like those straight-written awkward gays that act like they’re afraid of naming their own sexuality.
Just call the sexualities by their names. It ain’t that hard. Real-life gays do it all the time. Stop having your LGBT characters vague at their sexuality like it’s fucking Voldemort.
VLD Meta: Keith’s Homosexuality in Belly of the Weblum
Every time I rewatch Belly of the Weblum, I can’t seem to ignore how it’s all it’s about Keith being Galra and Gay. Nearly everything that said about Keith being Galra can be replaced with the word Gay and work.
“Go into the belly of the beast with the only GAY team member."
"I’m not GAY.”
“Well, you’re kind of GAY. You’re way more GAY than me. I’m not GAY, I’m straight.”
“Is anyone else in your family GAY? Do all you GAYS know each other? I know you’re all closeted but is there a handshake or something?"
"Look it’s bad enough that Allura [who I was with romantically in the OG] hates me because I’m GAY but can you just lay off?”
“Allura doesn’t hate you, you just need to give her time to adjust to the fact that you’re GAY.”
“Wow GAY Keith is way funnier than straight Keith.”
Meet-cute with an Alien he thinks is a Boy.
“Also he’s GAY.”
“What do you GAYS all know each other?”
Once Keith accepts himself, he’s “coming out” to meet Hunk.
Then we get Hunk teasing about Keith’s “buddy” and Keith is flirting with Hunk. We know Keith is flirting because it’s very similar body language to what we see Lance do, with the lean over and smiles. This is different than Keith’s body language before since he’s accepting himself.
You can’t just “turn” gay, you are Gay. This is the joke.
The fact is that everytime Galra is used, it can be swapped for Gay because it’s a double entendre. It’s sneaky, but the language of this episode plays on all the same tropes of “coming out” stories. Keith is out, he’s Gay and Galra and proud.
Sorry this is so enormous and likely clogging up your feed this morning. Before I forget, ”No one’s seducing a vampire” is still in production. It’s definitely a difficult adaptation (hello 12 panels of victorian bedroom), so it’ll be a while yet before I’m finished with that one. But anyhoo…
About the art: Chapter 62 was the second most requested portion of Carry On for adaptation into a graphic novel format. However, rather than pull swaths of text from the chapter, I decided to zero in on one little snippet:
(His cross is on the other side of the room now.; Snow took care of it himself this time.)
- Baz, Chapter 62, Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Given how Simon had used the cross earlier in the novel to drive separation between him and Baz, I like to think that taking it off himself was, in part, a romantic gesture - a symbolic dismantling of that last wall between them.
That said, artistically, I tried to evoke the sensation of falling in love. For this reason, I largely left words out of it and tried to render the format in a way that makes it feel like you’re… descending. The colors deepen. The panels get smaller. And the last page shows Simon and Baz falling into each other’s arms out of frame, with flames dominating the end shot. (*wink* See what I did there?)
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I loved drawing it. <3
PS: Baz’s hair is based on my husband’s when we were married. It’s short now, but I can live vicariously through Simon for a bit…
okay, so i’m not sure if everyone heard of what happened on the bachelor vietnam a few weeks back, but basically one contestant professed her love for another one on national TV:
at first, after the contestant minh thu professed her love for the other contestant truc nhu, they walked out of the show together:
but apparently afterwards, the bachelor quoc trung met up with truc nhu and convinced her to remain on the show, which pretty much broke hearts everywhere:
BUT i just found out that minh thu and truc nhu are officially together as a couple!!!