fckin. i've watched Tin Can Bros' masterpiece Spies are Forever a bajillion times. I've listened to the soundtrack a bajllion times. when my phone malfunctioned and I lost all the music I downloaded from my dad's giant folder of pirated mp3s, the fuckin Spies Are Forever soundtrack was one of the 3 albums that remained bc it was one of the only ones I'd actually bought. which means i listened to it over and over and over until I was able to get student-discounted Spotify (and tbh i do still listen to it over and over, just on Spotify).
and I JUST NOW realized that Curt's beard from the 4 years after Owen's death is a double entendre.
the only other queer person he knew in his line of work just fucking died. of course he gets a beard.
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happy pride.
back in the 50s there was a thing called the lavender scare. the mccarthy campaign began an investigation and mass firing of homosexuals in government work places under the explanation that gay people were more receptive to communist mind tricks and therefor a national security risk, ergo, might as well be a bunch of fascists as it is, starting a hideous snowballing of queer stereotypes that persist to this day.
one of mccarthys campaigning lines was that if you didnt vote for him, you were either a commie or a cocksucker.
along with that, it pushed it more into the public conscience that being gay was a mental illness, and/or that homosexuality was unhygienic, uncouth, unamerican. it was here that there were more big pushes for a "nuclear family," which of course worshipped the image of a (christian) cishet man and wife pair with at least two children; preferably a boy and a girl.
none of the claims about hygiene, about mental health, about soundness of mind or resistance to """commie mind tricks""" were ever backed up by any scientific evidence; it was all sensationalist, obviously. and many people suffered for it. people were ostracized, laid off, targeted- and not just for being gay, but simply being SUSPECTED. both gay men and lesbians came under fire for this exceptionally.
there were books written at the time, pamphlets, programs, on how to spot potential homosexuals. people were wild about it. plenty of times it wasnt even called homosexuality, it was "sexual psychopathy" and put on the same level as p*do and animal attraction.
its a good google trip. a good youtube trip, too, honestly. id highly recommend going and looking into the history yourself if you havent heard of or dont know much about the lavender scare. it makes a lot of what ignorant people regurgitate over and over again sound... echo-y. like damn did you blow the dust off that bigotry before you used it??? shits an antique.
and if thats a lot of words to READ, heres a start on that youtube trip of The Cold War (user) talking a bit about it. and you can listen instead of listen to me blab
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Who’s been telepathically asking me for more 3 of Everyone content
This time with Tom and ALSO??? PASTEL COLIN
Yea P. Colin has this funky thing about him where he’s the most picky vampire-computer in the world and Dusty World residents just have that PUNCH to em and he saw Tom first so
Dreamy Lamp is in on this too but in like a ghost hunters way. i wont elaborate
peak interaction
p. colin does have buttons i just forgot to draw the rest of him
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made the mistake of watching one of those fake emergency broadcast videos on youtube (specifically one based in quebec where a good chunk of the world was rapidly covered in 14+ meters of snow in the middle of summer) and even tho it wasn’t supernatural spooky scary it hasnt left my fuckin head and now i cant stop thinking “what if something like that happens. what if there’s a demon attack. what if there’s some kind of creature in ur hallway right now. what if a fuckin scp was real and your only warning was an emergency broadcast just like that”
I dont even believe this kind of shit is real WHY is my brain so fuckin paranoid about supernatural shit. lowkey it happens every night but it’s always worse when I watch something even slightly supernatural horror adjacent. why. I only even watched the stupid video BECAUSE it wasnt a creature/scp/supernatural horror based one and I thought I’d be fine :(
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