#queer joy movies

[radiosandsilences]

I am begging everyone to go watch fanfik on netflix. it’s this polish movie with an mlm romance and a trans man main character and honestly the whole thing was just queer joy

#I also think the main relationship can be seen in a very aspec/qpp way and it warmed by heart #fanfik netflix #fanfic netflix #queer joy movies

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)

I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.

On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.

But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.

And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.

When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.

Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.

#love simon #simon vs thsa #simon spier #spierfeld #bram greenfeld #my experiences #meta #the importance of queer joy #heartstopper #becky albertalli #my mom also watched rwrb with me last year when it premiered #and let me tell you that was interesting sitting in the room with her for an r-rated romance movie like that

[what-shitfuckery-is-this-ew]

Watching two asian gay guys take down the model minority myth and a transphobic society with their small genderfluid child wasn't on my bingo but damn I'm glad that it exists

#nimona #nimona netflix #2k #1k #my post #nimona film #ambrosius goldenloin #nimona 2023 #nimona spoilers #nimona movie #ballister boldheart #ballister blackheart #lgbtq community #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt pride #queer #queer community #pride #genderfluid #queer pride #queer poc #queer movies #transphobes #transgender #trans joy #trans rights #Ballister and Ambrosius both being different types of Asian was really important actually

[thundergrace]

I guess this isn't surprising....

And I guess neither is this...

#stephanie hsu #eeaao #i actually quite love that Joy's queerness #well gayness pretty sure she's a lesbian #is a huge part of the story #yet so subtle that you forget it's driving half the conflict #if you take it away #you have no movie #her mother cannot accept her and it has destroyed their relationship #that is the movie #everything everywhere all at once

[who-knows73]

Ok I just watched Nimona (which is really good by the way) and I don't really have any major critiques or anything but I do want to praise the movie for being so openly queer. Its not just a throwaway line or a quick less then ten second scene of queerness. I don't want to really spoil anything so I'll keep it vague but the fact that one of the characters is gay and him and his partner kiss and say I love you multiple times on screen, in the forefront of the shot is so important to me. Them being in love actually adds to the plot and gives it more depth than just playing them off as friends ever could have.

Also Nimona in my eyes is an allegory for being trans and I will die on that hill, when you watch the movie through a queer lens its literally so queer. Plus at the end of the movie in the credits there's a shot where she spits rainbow fire and it turns into a heart shaped tunnel kinda thing out of the progress flag colours.

There's also this in the credits which if you look at all the crossed out words, the one right on top of the word 'lot' at the bottom is boy which also leads me to believe that Nimona is kinda intended to be interpreted as a trans character but maybe I'm reading into things.

Bonus: This is the very last line of the movie and I just think it's really funny that they end it with a cut off curse word.

Double bonus: Throughout the movie, there are multiple of these anarchy symbols inside hearts instead of circles and at the end of the credits right before the Netflix logo pops up she draws one. So to conclude things, not only is Nimona a metalhead but she's also an anarchist and I love her for that.

#if you're not already sold on this movie the end is FULL of queer joy #nimona #nimona netflix #nimona film #nimona 2023 #queer stuff #lgbtqia #lgbtq #queer #trans #transgender #gay love #gay pride #gay couple #gay guy #gay man

[burning-ink1]

There‘s something so beautiful about growing up queer in the closet, with such a lack of media representation and people actually consuming queer media, and then being a young adult and seeing people of all sexualities and genders love shows and movies such as Heartstopper, Killing Eve, Red White Royal Blue, etc.

Like, we still have a long way to go, but no matter how many homophobic laws get passed all around the world, we are here and we are queer, and I love it.🫂

#growing up queer #lgbtq community #rwrb movie #red white and royal blue #killing eve #heartstopper #queer media #queer joy #My little lesbian heart aches for more wlw rep but still #we are getting there #out and proud

[sunshinelore]

Nicholas Galitzine has a sadness in his eyes that you only see in Eastern European gay porn

#nicholas galitzine #red white and black #rwrb on prime #prince henry rwrb #rwrb movie #rwrb #rwrb spoilers #red white royal blue #alex claremont diaz #henry and alex #henry x alex #henry hanover stuart fox #lgbtq #lgbtq shows #lgbtq movies #queer #queer movies #queer characters #queer joy #lgbtq representation #lgbtq community #lgbtq books #lgbtq pride

[thedreadpiratebonnet]

I love the joy around sex in RWRB though

Like the smiles in their first hookup, and when they fall to the bed before they ~make love, and the giggling and giddiness in the hotel room—it’s really lovely to see

#red white and royal blue #RWRB movie #RWRB #and I say this as someone ace who has zero interest in sex irl but it’s still so nice to see that joy #like it’s not the only piece of media to do it but it still feels refreshing??? #and just the thread of queer joy there is throughout the story even with Henry’s struggles?? idk

[notabeanie]

You know. There are a lot of things you could say about the original scott pilgrim comics, and I find myself profoundly uninterested in saying most of those things. But there is one thing I will say and that is that for all the whatever you wanna say about it I still find the way Brian Lee O'Malley writes women pretty compelling and I think it genuinely changed my life for the better.

Like ok this doesn't mean that much in 2023 because the world is different now. But like imagine it's 2008 and you're 15 years old and you still think you're a girl because you won't figure out that you can be trans for like another decade and a half and up to this point your entire context for gender roles has been the cast of fucking Friends, and someone has given these comics to your brother who is Not A Reader in a desperate bid to get him to Read Something and he remains Not A Reader but you are a voracious little bottomless pit for words and for neat pictures and so you're like ok maybe this mine now.

And you open it up and here are all these girls that are WEIRD. Girls with spiky hair and punky boots. Girls who wear tracksuits almost exclusively. Girls who are surly and don't care if you like them. Girls who have ex girlfriends. Girls who disconsent to sex. This seems normal now, but in 2008??? This was RADICAL.

And not only are there all these weird girls, but the weird girls are DESIRABLE. They're the dream girl. They're the competing love interests. They have exes who are billionaires and movie stars. The main character is melting into a puddle of pathetic goo left and right for all these women who are so decidedly not traditionally feminine. Like these are not Zooey Deschanel "look I have big eyes and brown hair haha aren't I quirky" women these are "we defy the bounds of traditional womanhood and we don't care what you think about it but we will still kick your ass" women.

And like do you know what that can do to to the psyche of a 15 year old whose main gender role model up to this point had been the Totally fucking Spies?? Huge. Enormous. The blasted landscape of gender is unrecognizable as any semblance of what it once was.

Not to mention that thanks to BLOM's art style, people of all genders are drawn basically androgynous and squarish. Sure there's a little tiddy but nobody is stick thin or hourglass curvy or with huge breasts busting out of blouses. It's not exactly body diversity sure, but these are normal ass looking women with completely rectangular legs and they still get to be sexy and wear leather and lingerie and fishnet stockings and be rockstars and dream girls and that was really fucking cool, to me, in 2008.

When I was a senior in high school I got a pair of big fuckin boots and some tights. In first year university I cut my hair like Ramona Flowers' with safety scissors in my dorm room in Toronto. I clomped down Bloor Street past the old Honest Eds and all these hyper local references directly from the books (it was Canadian! Nothing was ever Canadian!) and it felt like I could do this. This was a kind of girl I could be. Scott Pilgrim had opened up whole new vistas for gender expression that I had not previously even known were possible.

Like maybe there was a little roughness around the edges. But there was goodness there. It did good. It helped. It changed me. For a new generation who are looking at those books and can't imagine why they meant so much to someone I just wanted to explain.

#scott pilgrim #scott pilgrim takes off #also do not fucking get me started on my obsessive fucking headcanon about Ramona being trans #or about the class politics! #like the bad guys are billionaires and movie stars and the good guys are line colds and Amazon delivery workers. #and also for a closet bi trans kid was there MAYBE a bit of a power fantasy about being an ordinary guy #who was somehow inexplicably popular and got to date a hot punky queer girl?? #yeah like. probably. #And ​like was I *emulating* Ramona Flowers or did I want to *kiss* Ramona flowers? #Yes. #like I'm not saying it was perfect but it sparked joy

[runarelle]

Lately been feeling the weight of amatonormativity.

#aromanticism #aromantic #poetry #yeah this is a little sad. #usually i take joy in my queer identity #but sometimes i just feel sad. #my friends send me pictures and movies and poems and gifs and its all fine and good. #my friend talks like they expect me to relate. #i cant i cant i cant. #i feel like i am being left behind somehow. #please dont come at me with something about me being aphobic. #image text in alt

[birches-and-hawks]

i love how movies are going away from

'here, learn about the sufferings of this underrepresented group in media'

to

'here, learn about the joys of this underrepresented group in media'

#you're so not invited to my bat mitzvah #ive literally never seen or heard of a movie that was just so jewish that wadnt focused on the struggles of jewish people #and that can also be a me problem but #also a media problem #and this is also about other stuff like #seeing casual queer media where its not about queer pain #like heartstopper is just a cute silly queer coming of age romance #i also saw the blackening recently #and that was also just a black comedy horror #and i love when peoples experiences as minorities are not just about the pain ls but also the joys #i want more of the joys #but also its sad it took so long to get here #movies #netflix

[awestruck-atrophy]

there’s so much queer joy in the end of red white and royal blue. not even just the end, but the whole thing. this was incredible. i want to kiss this movie and tuck it into bed and AUGH mindset and life changing fr

#red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #queer joy

[rewritingcanon]

andromeda tonks and ted tonks and nymphadora tonks and druella black are the only ones who can even come close to an eeato au with evelyn and waymond and joy and gong gong

#i could never actually Make it because eeato is genuinely too perfect to even touch it is my fav movie ever #i have watched it 7 times and cried every single time that is MY movie #so my fav piece of media combined with my biggest fixation.. #its all fun i know eeato is too peak for hp characters but i find similarities in my hcs of the tonks family #which is why i luv them SOOOO much #and also nymphadora tonks is extremely OP in my opinion & would kill men with mega sized dildos #i also hc as queer (with tulip 👀) so it works!! plz guyzzz #whos deidre tho #harry potter #hp #tedromeda #marauders #tnt hp #druella black #ted tonks #andromeda tonks #tulip karasu #tonks and andromeda #hphm #andromeda black #eeaao #everything everywhere all at once #evelyn wang #waymond wang #joy wang #jobu tupaki #gong gong #hogwarts mystery #rewriting #i could yap about this for a very very long while

[starredforlife]

NOBODY ELSE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE GAY IF I CANT ALSO BE GAY AT THE SAME TIME

#IM KIDDING I LOVE QUEER JOY ITS BEAUTIFUL. I ALSO JUST WANNA KISS JUST ONE GOOD MOVIE KISS 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 #star’s thoughts #someone bought me a drink for losing a game of pacman tho so I think that reinforces my loser butch swag maybe a little somewhat

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

lonan and harrison fanfic where all they do is watch movies & throw popcorn at each other

#my brain NEEDS THIS NOW #all of this is prompted by me seeing the ‘ppl who say why are you buying a physical copy just stream it need to jump into a hole’ post #<< paraphrasing I can’t remember what it said exactly lol #a couple days ago #AND SINCE THEN IVE HAD AN INSATIABLE NEED TO GO TO A THRIFT STORE AND #BUY A WHOLE BUNCH OF DVDs #anyway does anyone remember how I discovered that something loner & harrison have in common is a love for movies #WELLLLLLLL now that I need to write cute fluffy scenes of them actually being functional I need to figure out which #they are canonically into film noir BUT WHAT ELSE #last week I decided I wanna watch every single movie referenced in current joys songs (not an autisric choice at all) #so 80s & 90s here I gooooo #BUT RECOMMEND I NEED TO LIVE LIKE THEM #but also why is them having something in common so cute to me like are they not a COUPLE?????? #also I’m tired & been watching movies instead of writing because my brother left me his GIANT TV #BUT I CANT FIND ANY THAT ARE MY VIBE PROBABLY BECAUSE IM BAD AT LOOKING #AND QUEER MOVIE RECS PLS IM IN DESPERATE NEED OF GAY

[spookymakesstuff]

babe wake up new Kensona just dropped!

(pose references used in process from mellon_soup on pinterest)

#digital art #my art #art #trans artist #queer artist #lgbtq #trans joy #barbie #barbie movie #ken #the barbie movie #kensona #kenergy