#only liam

[chaoticneutraltor]

#REAL #one direction #niall horan #louis tomlinson #harry styles #zayn malik #liam payne #my greatest talent #ot5 #the only men ever

[lewdo]

F1 drivers along with Sebastian Vettel launch the Buzzin' Corner biodiversity project at the Japanese Grand Prix

Photo Credit: Mark Thompson

#right i’m only tagging my faves #lewis hamilton #lando norris #oscar piastri #alex albon #george russell #yuki tsunoda #lance stroll #esteban ocon #charles leclerc #zhou guanyu #liam lawson #sebastian vettel #pierre gasly #f1 #formula 1

[raceweek]

smth so incestuous, mildly traumatic and possibly violent about this section of the grid

#pierre who was teammates with yuki who is currently teammates with liam who was teammates with alex who replaced pierre as teammates #with max who is now teammates with checo who replaced alex #carlos the one who got out early the only one to escape the joint fate lmao #singapore 2023

[raining-anonymously]

i still can’t believe there was a phineas and ferb episode where a man hunted perry and doof for sport with the implicit goal of murdering them both and keeping them as trophies

#this sounds so fake but it really happened #it was so high-stakes and genre-defying out of nowhere 😭 #pnf #primal perry #heinz doofenshmirtz #perry the platypus #agent p #dr doofenshmirtz #dr. doofenshmirtz #liam mccracken #phineas and ferb #there was a c plot about carl and major monogram stuck in a vent #the a plot was about baljeet and baljeet and baljeet and several other baljeets ganging up on buford #meanwhile doof and perry are ABOUT TO BE KILLED??? #wild ride #great character moments #‘wait i only hired you to TRAP perry the platypus not to—‘

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

one thing that the (four oldest) gallagher’s have in common is that they’re all ugly criers. love that

#if only the writing for carl and liam was better then i could say this applies to all six #but idk #and also the ugly crying is literally just because the actors/actresses are insanely talented and are able to portray raw emotion #shameless #fiona gallagher #lip gallagher #ian gallagher #debbie gallagher #no idea what this is i just need smth to post LMAO

[hibiscussoupbowl]

#art #teen wolf #thiam #illustration #liam dunbar #theo raeken #colors #hibiscussoup #what shouldve happened in the elevator scene #i love them ur honor #i kinda dont like it bc of the second one #but liams hair made me keep going #pls tell me im not the only one whos insane for them #i also have more drawings that i havent posted yet on here

[ryuusea]

happy 3.14 π day 🥧 more based on the remains school au pls I need more of that au it’s so funny

smh sherly figures out his teacher’s fave pie but can’t figure out how to pass his math exams

#only sherliam could motivate me like this for math #yuukoku no moriarty #moriarty the patriot #sherliam #ynm sherlock holmes #liam james moriarty

[maddyscrsideblog]

Feeling extremely validated rn

#the only thing better than people in general enjoying my hot scary wizard art is liam o'brien enjoying my hot scary wizard art

[suaimhneas-gairid]

Critical Role, Campaign 1 Episode 85 - A Bard's Lament

Husbands 💞

#i assume this moment has been giffed many times before #but i only saw it recently #and it was beautiful and touching #in an episode that made me feel so many things #i love this show so much #i love these boys so much #sam is a god damn genius #anyway #fr tho lemme squeeze in there #like it was a touching moment but let's not pretend we don't see the straddling #critical role #critical role husbands #sam riegel #liam o'brien #vax'ildan #scanlan shorthalt #campaign 1 #c1 spoilers #c1e85

[softbean]

Caleb Widogast as one continuous line

#critical role #caleb widogast #critical role fanart #frumpkin #mighty nein #somehow I’ve only done Liam’s characters in this style #it’s fun and relaxing hahaha #I can’t not take my hand off the line sometimes cuz procreate distorts my lines into a shape

[deramin2]

I don't know how to really express this except to come across as a "kids these days" scold, but so much of the criticism of queerness in Good Omens would simply not be a thing if kids these days watched more 20th century queer media. Or more complex indie queer media in general.

People seem to want a show that's like the straight stories they grew up with but gay. Or the gay fanfiction they grew up with. But that's not really the tradition it's coming from. First off the novel was released in 1990. Queer film classics of the time are Dead Poet's Society (1989) and Torch Song Trilogy (1988). The TV miniseries Tales of the City (1993) wasn't made until 3 years later and it was so far out there it never had a huge audience. Philadelphia (1993) is also 3 years out and was basically the first big studio queer film. The first fluffy queer Hallmark-style romcom wasn't until Big Eden in 2000, a full 10 years after publication.

Queer stories from the time it was written were about complex and often fraught relationships between people who the world was trying to force apart. There is an incredibly strong tradition in queer films of relationships with no guarantees they will work out both in the face of their personal baggage and the weight of the world. Take a film like Torch Song Trilogy that's about the two great loves of Arnold Beckoff's life over 9 years and how homophobia shapes them. Both externally (especially Allen) and internally like Ed struggling with his bisexuality and being terrified of being publicly out. Written and starred in by Harvey Fierstein, who identified as a gay man at the time and only came out as nonbinary last year.

The Boys In The Band (1968 play, filmed 1970 and 2020) was a monumental moment in Broadway history where finally there was a play about gay men in their own words where no one died and very strongly showed that homosexuality doesn't make people miserable but homophobia sure does. But that homophobia also throws their personal lives into constant turmoil and none of them are in happy relationships, although Hank and Larry are devoted to each other in their own fucked up way.

"Relationships are complicated and hard to make work and sometimes a struggle against the odds" is an aesthetic of classic queer film making. Partly it was influenced by the Hays Code (although independent films were not bound to it), partly influenced by the rampant queerphobia in society at the time that was inescapable. But it's also an aesthetic choice to resist the banal and unrealistic relationship depictions of straight media. There are actual stakes to the relationship. Queer people were actively resisting a world that said "Romance is seeing someone across the room and instantly falling in love with each other and little conflicts happen along the way but ultimately they're destined to be together and everything is happily ever after." Recall that "stalking as romance" was a completely inescapable trope in 1980s straight romance films, and every goddamn movie was being turned into a romance film.

So queer people in film and television when they can make what they please have a long tradition of saying instead "People don't always realize the feelings they've developed for a queer partner right away. They may have reasons for denying those feelings that are both a reflection of the cruelty in society and of their own insecurities. People struggle with where they belong and their relationships reflect that. Loving someone doesn't mean they don't also drive you crazy and you might fight with them constantly. But that doesn't negate the love or that feeling that even if things aren't okay, they're better with that person around. But maybe that person can't stay around. The world may be against you. And also maybe you don't just want that one person in your life. Soulmates is a very flawed model. Sometimes the strongest love is a struggle with yourself and the world and your person. You have to overcome yourself first. Happily ever after is a lie. You may be happy for a while, and hopefully for a long while, but everything ends. And you have to be ready to love again. Also your platonic bonds are just as important and life-altering as your romantic ones. Sometimes those platonic bonds include fucking if you want them to. Real life isn't a bunch of platitudes and world-altering moments, it's daily work to better yourself and the world around you. Especially when things just fucking suck. But also remember to have fun and fuck the haters. People who don't support you can eat rocks and you should yell at them more to shut the fuck up."

That is a fundamentally different outlook on what a "good relationship depiction" looks like. Personally, I thought I hated romance movies and then I started watching queer romance movies and discovered I love them and watch them all the time. Because it turns out what I hated was relationships being shown that had nothing at all to do with reality and privileged incredibly toxic ideals. Finally there was complexity, there were stakes, and there were people who had to truly want to be together enough to fight the world for it and not because they happened to be there. There were people actually talking out their problems and looking for resolutions. (And sometimes that resolutions was "I can't fucking deal with this bullshit anymore and I'm out.") For the first time it felt real.

I'm an aroace trans gay man. Nothing about relationships or being in relationships has come easy to me, and the whole paradigm of straight patriarchal romance depictions makes absolutely no sense to me. It's completely alien. Queer romance stories actually feel human.

And that's the tradition Good Omens is coming from, even as it's being retold in 2019-2023 and hopefully beyond. Gaiman's work has always been based in that queer media paradigm. (I've been remiss and daunted and haven't read Pratchett but from what I do know his work also seems to sit more in that world view.) It's a beautiful cinematic tradition and it's baffling to me that people would resist it instead of embracing it for being honest.

And that's when I turn into a crotchety old man complaining about the youth not connecting with the history of their beautiful culture and instead begging for assimilation into a shithole allocishet media landscape that doesn't actually want them except for their money and has nothing at all interesting or valuable to say. But it's very funny (annoying) to me when people claim Good Omens is someone against queer culture when it's so thoroughly bathed in the best of queer media's storytelling traditions and what people are asking for is straight media with the serial numbers filed off. Like, stop being boring please and know literally anything about the culture the adults in the room lived through and were influenced by. The world didn't begin in 2015.

EDIT: I also want to add that in straight media arcs are linear. Traditionally in queer media arcs are cyclical. Queer media very often depicts people going around in circles relearning the same lesson over and over as they inch towards it sinking in. But every time they go through the cycle they gain just a little bit more enlightenment and slowly move towards a better place. From the comments this is an immensely important distinction. People don't actually have cathartic moments where suddenly all their past bad programming is shed and they saunter forward a new person with none of their old baggage. In reality people fall into the same patterns over and over even though they have had every opportunity to learn better. "People magically get better" is a trope of straight media that's an outright and frankly dangerous lie. Again, Good Omens follows the queer tradition not the straight one and it's depicted 6,000 years of that cycle. The world didn't end, and the wheel keeps turning, as it always has and always will. That's so fundamental to queer storytelling traditions I forgot to even mention it.

#good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens spoilers #go s2 spoilers #good omens discourse #queer media #queer history #discourse #I have been a crotchety old man against the youths since middle school to be clear #if you don't know where you've been you have no hope of knowing where you should go next #I didn't sit all the way through deeply homophobic Brokeback Mountain or Tár just to hear people complain that honest rep is bad rep #This is also why I'm a critchety old man about most Critical Role Shadowgast haters #Liam and Matt have not only watched but copiously reference older queer media and Shadowgast is so clearly that tradition

[sparring-spirals]

Everyone in this dirty laundry is the perfect level of acquainted with each other where they can throw extremely specific and accurate accusations at each other and expose all kinds of unexpected secrets about one another, and you still get so much indignant shrieking as guesses are proved wrong and new information is revealed. its perfect.

#dirty laundry #dl spoilers #dropouttv #not cr #d20 #'hes only ever been in ONE FIGHT AND ITS HIS ONLY CLAIM TO FAME' 'YOU'RE WHY I EAT PISTACHIOS????' #you're agile! you're reckless! im agile and reckless :) #'WHICH ONE OF US IS ADDICTED TO ACAPELLA AND SINGING.' #'you just give off sad boy energy' #'ive seen your knuckles.' #dropout #anjali bhimani #aabria iyengar #liam obrien #sam riegel #cr cast #d20 cast #exu cast #????

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

watching Liam O'Brien do a spectacular fantasy!German for dozens of episodes has impressed me so much and yet nothing could have possibly prepared me for the man starting to sing, of all the songs, "Laurentia, liebe Laurentia mein"

the immersion! if you reached to the very back of my memory there'd be like ten folk songs there and this one, which we used to have to sing at 7:00 in the morning on choir retreats while doing squats and other silly little workouts, would definitely be there. it's a silly ditty you've heard somehow exclusively in childhood, it's a little game song for children. If all else was tainted by your later life that song would probably survive, it's perfect

#it's also a really dumb song that you can use to make people learn the days of the week and probably the only one he knew but still!!! #like yeah the accent work is great #he's basically dead on on everything EXCEPT 'Scheiße' which is hilarious to me #but the overall mannerisms and stuff like the song is outstanding #and yeah the bar for foreigners doing a good german is... low #the bar for actual germans getting to play people that *feel* authentically german in foreign media is also low #but even outside of that i'm just delighted with caleb #(except for the name maybe that seems kinda out of keeping with the rest of what was established as zemnian) #critical role #liam o'brien #caleb widogast #the mighty nein #german

[time-passes-byy]

*Record Scratch*

Travis: Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here... 😮‍💨 and so am I.

#'... well it all started when liam wanted to play dnd for his birthday.' #lol it's okay travis #sams ads only last around 10 minutes #and take away 2 years of your life #but luckily that's all! #critical role #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers

[formulahuh]

as a society i think we’re really sleeping on this face liam makes

#think of the meme potential!!! #there are no thoughts behind those eyes <33 #also i KNOW he’s made this face a lot but this is the only picture i have so if anyone has any more please send them my way!!! #liam lawson

[liamobrienlove]

Frumpkinvision.

              ---------- requested by @samuraiko

#liam o'brien #marisha ray #caleb widogast #beauregard lionett #frumpkin #the mighty nein #critical role #critical role cast #my gifs #i hope you like! #number 5 the little smirk that i only saw after finishing #what a smirk #i'm killing someone queue please