#and I say that as a bi person

[gay-otlc]

Actually I think we should talk about how incredibly fucked up it is for sapphic women to say shit like "I'm no better than a straight man 😔" when attracted to a woman in a way that isn't 100% pure and wholesome, or act like men's attraction to women is inherently dirty, predatory, or objectifying.

#like i mostly get impacted from this as a straight trans man #and the way people- even my friends- have acted like my attraction to women is now morally worse since i came out as trans #but this also affects like. bi/mspec men? it's shitty to shame them for their attraction to women! #and even cishet men. acting like objectification or predatory behavior is just inherent to male attraction to women #let's shitty men off the hook because 'they can't help it' or whatever #or victim blames anyone abused by a cishet man because 'what did you expect from being in a relationship with him' #yeah so like. sapphics stop saying this challenge #transhet #anti-transmasculinity #again i'm tagging because that's my personal experience with that sentiment but it has a ton of other issues too #antimasculism

[royalarchivist]

Mine: Refer to me however you want!

Mike: Yeah, for me too. I think I use all pronouns too.

[They high-five and fist-bump each other]

Mine:

[via @barbmine]

#Mine #Barbmine #Mikethelink #Mike #I LOVE THEMMMMMMMMMMM THEY'RE SO FUNNY #Mine funniest person alive fr #also YOOOO LETS GO?????? #I didn't know Mike was ok with any pronouns #and Mine too??? that's awesome! #Also for those who don't know: Mine is Mike's wife! #They're both bi #They're so cool I wanna have a silly sweet partnership like this someday *clenches fist and stares off into the sunset* #As per usual: not a native Portuguese speaker so can't translate the full thing #please feel free to hop in with translations and/or corrections! #Though I'm pretty confident about these. Wouldn't post it if I wasn't #I'll be real idk how to translate viado LMAO #It's like. Not what google translate will tell you it means #idk imo I think ''homo'' sounds right but ONCE AGAIN: I'm not a Portuguese speaker #Poor Mine I laughed when she first posted this image ages ago and I replied to her saying it gave me a good laugh and she was like #''WAIT I PROMISE IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT GOOGLE TRANSLATE SAYS IT MEANS'' #it's all good Mine I'm bi too I am not phased lmao #I don't personally use that word but I do not care when other queer folks use it

[redysetdare]

I think queer stories would be better if people stopped assuming that queer representation hinges on if two characters are romantically involved at all. Like the moment you accept characters as being queer without needing romance to prove said queerness then i think we'd find ourselves with a lot more unique, nuanced, and interesting queer stories. but by limiting queerness to only romance you are stifling queer stories.

#text #queer #lgbtq+ #lgbt #lgbt+ #lgbtqia #lgbtqia+ #you can't get mad at the idea of cookie cutter queer stories while also saying that it's 'queerbaiting' if two characters dont kiss. #this isn't just in reference to aspec identities or gender identities either #I think a character can still be valid gay representation without ever kissing someone to prove it #a bi person doesn't need to kiss both boys and girls to be valid bi rep #there are more ways to express and share queer identity that dont require a love plot to be tacked on to validate the queerness #don't relegate the queer experience to only love stories. they can be so much more than that. #romance mention

[hualianschild]

JINSHI OHMYGAWD I'M ON MY KNEES HOLY SH1T HE'S SO BEAUTIFUL, PRETTY, GORGEOUS, MESMERIZING, ETHEREAL AND ALL THE THINGS THAT COULD DESCRIBE HIM GOD BLESS

(I'd like to see this in all the different versions it can exist please and thank you)

#lets all thank maomao fr #a bi person's (me) weakness is an androgynous man dressed as a woman #I'M NOT KIDDING WHEN I SAY I GASPED SO LOUDLY AND MY MOUTH IS STILL OPEN HE'S SO BEAUTIFUL AAAAAA #the apothecary diaries #jinshi #kusuriya no hitorigoto #maomao

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Am very much for bi representation. Need more canonically bi characters in film and TV. Bring us positive bi representation that is not weird porn-adjacent sexualization for male gaze-y dweebs.

Stede Bonnet is not bi. Dude is gayer than Liberace on a Friday night. Super fucking gay. Let him be gay.

I’d also say it’s quite IMPORTANT to his characterization that he’s gay. He’s not just married to the wrong woman. He is not attracted to women. He doesn’t want to be with women and that’s confusing FOR HIM. He thinks there’s something broken about him because he cannot make it work with a woman. That’s inherent to his characterization, and it highlights the damage that compulsory heterosexuality does to both partners in a marriage like that. Saying that he must be bi because he was married is entirely misunderstanding the thematic use of his marriage.

#OFMD #our flag means death #stede bonnet #I am saying this as a bi person btw #ofmd meta

[drangues]

henclair not realising that theyre not so straight by saying not so straight stuff that not even will would say

#bi dustin and bi lucas r smth so personal to me #but also the hc that they say way more gayer stuff than will is so funny to me #will the first time it happens: im going crazy #henclair #will byers #dustin henderson #lucas sinclair #artush #ok this is my last post for now i promise

[bylrlvr]

LETS GO MENTALLY ILL GIRLSBOSS BISEXUALS (max mayfield) LETS GO HIMBO BISEXUALS (steve harrington) LETS GO REPRESSED BISEXUALS (mike wheeler) LETS GO UNDERAPPRECIATED BISEXUALS (lucas sinclair) LETS GO HOT MILF BISEXUALS (joyce byers) LETS GO

#continuation of my LETS GO LESBIANS post #theyre all bi your honour #and i say this as a bi person so now its a universal truth. no you cant argue w me /j #lucas sinclair #joyce byers #mike wheeler #max mayfield #steddie #steve harrington #byler #jopper #lumax #stranger things

[moeblob]

Sorry I forgot Hanneman suggested Byleth undress after they show up with a different hair color. And I miss Hanneman. And also while swapping between Houses and Hopes and seeing Hanneman pop up to help in a Hopes paralogue is just devastating since he doesn't ever actually join you at all and I am denied my old man rights.

So I had to draw this. Thank you for understanding.

#fe three houses #byleth #hanneman von essar #i like that Byleth just kinda stares at him and he realizes WHAT HE SAID and the implications and is like #step back uh forget that I said that #like man so zoned in on research he blurts that out and has to backtrack mentally to AH socially bad to say that my bad #if i need to tag this as anything lemme know even though it is a conversation in game basically (minus the marriage) #also if you have never married hanneman i genuinely enjoyed his s support and was VERY surprised and hes just #honestly one of my favorites overall in 3h ?? and im still bummed i cant play as him in thropes like thats just mean #also i think if byleth was like oh well if its awkward to see someone undress randomly #then marriage would solve the awkwardness this is truly the best deduction #which is really funny that i can see it happening with both leths despite my hc of them #with fyleth as bi and myleth as ace i think both would just be like AH cool we can avoid awkwardness by marriage #and hanneman just wants to go lie down in a ditch because he said something like that #and and byleth doesnt even know about religion while working at church school they dont know about school regulations #that wasnt really on their mind to check ok just saying you could tell byleth no to something #and then they just go oh school policies i understand unfortunately #and the person is like no we just meant its frowned upon to do archery practice in the tea garden its not technically illegal just dont??

[tomwambsgays]

roy was asked to fill in for ted at the press conference without any talking points or anything (based on this)

#ted lasso #roy kent #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso fanart #my art #my animation #the moment roy sat in front of the press this meme instantly popped in my head #idk if anyone has already done it but here's my version lol #i was too lazy to draw the crowd so i animated this single frame instead...... #yeah for some reason that's easier actually #anyway pls dont make a big deal out of this lmao #I Know He Wouldn't Say That but this is my swamp #personally i think he's bi

[politicalprocrastinator]

Christopher Eccleston did not kiss a man on the lips for you bitches to say that the doctor used to be straight

#the biphobia popping out after this ep is so telling icl #“10 was straight 11 was this 13 was that” the doctor has always been gender fluid and bisexual i hope that helps!!! #and that kiss is textually romantic as well he literally confessed love to the doctor and kissed him and the doc reciprocated!!! #that was the second ever on screen kiss between the doctor and another person first ever in the new series #and you bitches have the audacity to say he was straight before dt mentions fancying isaac newton??? grow up!!!! #anyway some of u are rly showing the biphobia by even declaring that he's “now gay” bitch he been bi he always been bi and will always be bi #dw #doctor who #dw spoilers #david tennant #rtd2 #christopher eccleston

[secondbeatsongs]

diversity win: this AI decided that Dipper Pines is gay!

#gravity falls #gf #dipper #dipper pines #stan pines #id in alt text #stanley pines #it got the stans confused #but that's okay #personal #also #what did stan say the other day?? #I want to know #what did he do that made dipper suddenly want to come out to him #did he come out to dipper? as what? bi? trans? #stanley pines could easily be either of those things

[lastoneout]

Any pain I have from seeing youtubers I liked ruined is healed by seeing my favorite bisexual youtuber VerilyBitchie shouted out fr if you're bi(and even if you're not) you should watch their stuff it's fantastic!

#hbomberguy #I say if you're bi bcs seeing a bi person make content like that is SO validating and it helped me embrace my sexuality #in ways I never had been able to before

[erros429]

ok so. marcille stans. very curious (and i do Not want discourse so please don't start any fdjhskfjh)!! please tell me your thoughts in the tags :)

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #marcille donato #farcille #polls #personally i don't even have a headcanon dfkshfkhf #on one hand i understand people who say she's bi or pan b/c she's expressed attraction to men before #but i also understand the folks that say that it's comphet (specifically b/c her succubus was a fictional man dkjfhsajkfh)

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.

Long-winded interpretation under the cut!

Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.

You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)

The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.

Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.

And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.

For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.

“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!

Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.

To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.

And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.

Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #rottmnt leo #rise leo #rise don suave #rottmnt don suave #I lied I’m back to ramble because I’m just #so bad at keeping my mouth shut #or uh #not typing word vomit #anyway- yeah this is my personal interpretation #I believe Leo was legitimately mesmerized by Don Suave’s powers…in the beginning #but even the series’ creator says it was ‘at least PART of what was going on with Leo’ so #idk it’s something that’s been on my mind and I was wondering if anyone else felt the same?? #may delete this later who knowssss #pleaaaase feel free to disagree I just like to talk lol #but yeah sometimes I look around at how much media has LGBTQ+ rep in it now and it honestly makes me emotional?? #(we always always ALWAYS could use more but) #we did not have even a crumb of this as kids #but also like most of that rep is new properties #and I just was thinking about what that could mean #idk man idk #once again please don’t take this as facts it is VERY MUCH NOT #man I was looking around for good images to use and found jack all #anyway tho did you know Donnie often has bi colors around him and Leo is often dressed in the colors of the trans flag- #okay anyway back to the caves I go this comic won’t draw itself #I gotta spray myself with water any time I go to type long winded essays because they’re not great for the mental health fr

[yardsards]

so marcille's succubus totally looked like that general from daltian clan right

#eliot posts #dunme #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dm spoilers #marcille donato #i lean towards the general being a woman but marcille might ALSO be bi unrelated to that #i think option 2 is the least likely bc i think the succubi can see deeper than that? but it's a take i've seen others say #(does compulsory heterosexuality even exist in the culture marcille is from? it seems to exist where laios and falin are from but idk) #i really wanna know about how queer ppl are treated in this show's universe overall #like there's no christianity presumably so no ''being gay sends you to hell'' BUT there is the expectation to get married and have children #the only explicitly stated gay person we see is otta but characters are too distracted by the halffoot thing to comment on the gay thing

[sohotthateveryonedied]

this just in: detective williams is officially tim’s fairy gayfather <3

#nice to see that tim hasn't lost his habit of forcibly making people his dad #also is it bad that i wish they'd just brought back dick's old partner gannon malloy from bludhaven and used him instead #personally i love the trend of the batkids using each other's friends as hand-me-downs and stealing them #also it would have been cool to see malloy again #say he transferred to gotham and made detective it would have been so cool #soho speaks #tim drake: robin #tim drake: robin 1 #tim drake #red robin #robin #idiot duckboy #dc comics #batfamily #batfam #batman #batman and robin #bi tim drake #gay tim drake