eimagine being friends with david bowie in college in 1967 and hes on his facebook like โhey check out my new album dropped yesterday!!โ and you listen to the first couple songs while youre watching tv and you comment โhey pretty nice rock on bruvโ but you hated it but then 5 years later hes talking about being bisexual on the glen tracy show and you arent even shure if its the same person but yes! hes still singing about the same stupid shit like people kissing out on the road or whatever
drew Dirk Bogarde (fairly quickly, not like, the best I could do) for a joke with a friend and remembered i drew him when I first started drawing again around two and a half years ago - so now I have an unintentional before and after to measure my progress >:D
sayitwithsarcophilus replied to your post โof all the variants of homo-social/erotic...โ:
Maybe it becomes more bearable if you start finding the boats sexy as well?
โthat could work. i'd go crazy without the ability to take walks, but maybe i could think of that as being dommed by the boat. my big beautiful woman femdom boat girlfriend
of all the variants of homo-social/erotic colonialist adventure fiction, age of sail stuff is the most fraught 4 me because the fantasy of freedom and pleasure is constantly at war with just how much it sucks to be on a boat. like you can do all the flogging and communal bunking and intense male friendship and perhaps even gay sex in the world at the end of the day you still gotta poop on a deck. and then you gotta swab that deck. cowboys dont have to deal with that!
really also enjoy this for the potential of having accepted homosexuality be like, compulsory and restricting in the ways heterosexuality is in the setting rather than "everyone decided to be way more chill about relationships and reproduction but we still have monarchy for some reason" which imo is much less interesting.
would homosexuality outside of these confines still be seen as perverse? would heterosexual desire and behavior from someone whose family married them off to a same sex spouse be seen the same way? maybe!
I love me a pseudo-historical arranged marriage au but it always nudges my suspension of disbelief when the author has to dance around the implicit expectation that an arranged marriage should lead to children, which a cis gay couple can't provide.
I know for a lot of people that's irrelevant to what they want from an Arranged Marriage plot, but personally I like playing in the weird and uncomfortable implications.
So, I've been thinking about how you would justify an obviously barren marriage in That Kind of fantasy world, and I thought it'd be interesting if gay marriage in Ye Old Fantasy Land was a form of soft disinheritance/abdication.
Like, "Oh, God, I don't want to be in this position of power please just find me a boy to marry", or, "I know you should inherit after you father passes but as your stepmother/legal guardian I think it'd make more sense if my kids got everything, so maybe consider lesbianism?", or "Look, we both know neither of our families has enough money to support that many grandkids, so let's just pair some spares and save both our treasuries the trouble".
Obviously this brings in some very different dynamics that I know not everyone would be pinged by, but I just think it'd be neat.
The only reason the hippies' freewheeling spirit failed to take over the world was they lacked an iron willed dictator to fuse them into a single obedient collective
The only reason the hippies' freewheeling spirit failed to take over the world was they lacked an iron willed dictator to fuse them into a single obedient collective