#queercoded lit

[lalaloobzy]

Do gay people even know about Birdy?

Once every couple months I remember these dudes and they take over my whole mind

I am BEGGING people to read or watch Birdy

I'm in love with queercoded old fiction. And these pictures don't even begin to show how queer it is. Not to mention it's one of the best portrayals of complex PTSD I've ever seen

There's a part where Birdy gets 2 birds specifically with the intention of having them mate and have babies and he names them Birdie and Alfonso after Al and himself. HELLO????

#anyway #al is a raging bisexual #and birdy (one of my top comfort characters of all time) is gay asexual and nonbinary!! #(headcanons only btw. its not canon but it SHOULD be) #be warned the story is somewhat disturbing. but its one of my favorites #first time i watched the movie i thought “i will never watch this again” #that was like 5 years ago and ive seen it 7 times now and read the book twice 😅 #its a lot. but i think more people should know about it #birdy #birdy 1984 #birdy william wharton #william wharton #nicolas cage #matthew modine #alan parker #80s #80s movies #queercoded lit #queercoded period piece #lgbtqia #birdy movie #birdy book #oh AND to make it even better the movie has a peter gabriel soundtrack!!! #thats how you know its a weird masterpiece #peter gabriel #movies stuff #birdy stuff

[zukkaoru]

how do i tell my mom she accidentally queercoded this character by switching their gender bc she didn't have enough boys to fill all the male roles for this play

#/nonserious question. i am NOT actually telling her #she wants me to look over the edited part of this scene to make sure it reads alright #and like yeah it's fine but MOM. YOU MADE HER QUEER. AND I CAN'T TELL YOU THAT #like okay i get that queercoding isn't obvious to people who aren't queer (and even people who Are. sometimes 😐) #so probably none of the homophobic parents who come to watch this show are going to realize #the character is a young girl characterized as a tomboy so like. basic character trope. that's fine that's normal #but as someone who is queer and took a queer lit class in college and defaults to reading things through a queer lens #i'm.... i'm not so sure you really made this character a girl. i think you accidentally just made him trans #anyway. i'm just gonna hope and assume the queer reading of this that is very obvious to me is not obvious to anyone who isn't queer 👍 #hello grace here

[crucible-memes-4-salem-teens]

#arthur miller #the crucible #classic lit #classic literature #classic lit memes #and by god he was not ready #poor man #i'll say it once and i'll say it a million times. he didn't deserve anything negative to happen in his life!! #none of it #i would say 'unproblematic icon' but that's not true and i respect that <3 #but also. i get the reasoning behind speeding up his refusal to work with the court and all as compared to real life #(irl it was his wife's being accused that made him quit) but like. it's so fucking gay out of context!! #yeah it might’ve been to keep the plot centered around proctor but. the queers (me) interpreted that in the gayest way possible #unintentional queercoding is so fun i love it #queue-cible

[ilistentogirlinred]

i want to write an essay over the holidays so i can do something other than stare numbly at a screen.

i want whatever is the least emotionally scarring lmao but i also want to do something that's one of my special interests so idk

my classmates all want me to write the dystopias one but then i'd have to reread and probably watch divergent

[enigmaticvariation]

oh my god also the fact that he had the audacity to make eleanor and theo, my favorite heavily queer coded gothic lit homoerotic girl best friends SISTERS?????? JAIL!!

#like I get the fact that theo was explicitly a lesbian in the show but WHY WERE SHE AND NELL SISTERS???? #like if you recognized the lesbian subtext present in the novel why did you make just one of them a lesbian and MAKE THEM SISTERS???? #enigma musings

[phe-purple-parade]

Just remembered when my hs lit studies class read Hamlet (that class was so fun, always had a laugh with those guys) and we chose roles 'cause we wanted to like act it out during readings (resulting in some hilarious moments, like when I had to drag my classmate 'off stage' after mime-stabbing him through a blanket another classmate held up)

Anyway I read for Hamlet because that's so gender (and no one else really wanted to lol) and I lowkey liked the girl who happened to be reading for Horatio (it wasn't a crush but I uhhh yk thought she looked good n was cool like she read Jane Austen and did her research project on how Audrey Hepburn influenced fashion n stuff and just,, I think if she had ever asked me out I wouldn't've declined but ultimately it was aesthetic attraction more than anything else. And she was v likely straight)

And so I couldn't really suggest that like,, Hamlet and Horatio are perhaps gay for eo or anything 'cause I wouldn't've wanted to make her uncomfortable or anything

Earlier that year almost our entire class agreed that Dorian and Basil from The Picture of Dorian Gray were gay and she was legit like 'oh, I didn't think of that' like this girl was surprised?? We're all here either outright saying 'they're gay harold' or generally agreeing but she just,, did not consider the gay subtext afjahdkfkl (our teacher was trying to palm it off with an alternative interpretation and like yeah screw amatonormativity and all but,, the context, man. Oscar 'The Homosexual' Wilde was definitely queercoding his characters during the repressed as hell Victorian era ok?? But this was a Christian school so.. but like. Legit one of the classmates I sat with wrote a Dorian x Basil fixitfic I can't). And I basically ended up saying to her 'your interpretation is totally valid.. but you're wrong' nOT THAT I MEANT TO SAY IT LIKE THAT BUT IT KINDA CAME OUT THAT WAY AND EVERYONE REACTED LIKE I'D SPAT A SICK BURN OOF NO GUYS I'M JUST NEURODIVERGENT

So yeah while I wished I was cool n confident enough, there was no way I could've made a flirty joke about Hamlet and Horatio with this girl (even tho I generally wanted to point it out)

#this girl read tsoa but didn't realise Basil and Dorian or Hamlet and Horatio might be a bit queer like girl what?? #anyway #in an alternate universe i would've talked to her more. probs still wouldn't've flirted but I would've tried to make friends w her or smth #i think most of the class understood that h&h were a lil fruity tho like we all saw what we saw #it's not like we even read most of the scenes w hamlet and horatio #hh idk what I'm doing here i gotta do stuff #also disclaimer im not saying they MUST be gay again i would like to punch amatonormativity in the gut. but like also I don't wanna be #insisting that they're straight 'cause i would also like to kick heteronormativity in the teeth #they can be both. they can be both queer and platonic best buds. both interpretations can coexist. but when ppl are trying to tell u it's #completely straight and trying to push ur queer interpretation aside?? no i'm allowed to assert an interpretation differing from yours #i wasn't out in hs tho so it's not like i had the backing of 'im queer and i want to interpret these characters as queer so let me do that' #although ppl did ask friends of mine if im gay which is weird like just ask me?? the answers still no (and it's true - I'm not gay) but if #if u don't already know whether im queer or not. perhaps u weren't supposed to know #high school was an interesting time oof #anyway oh my gosh i need to get off tumblr and do things and then go to bed!

[augustameretrix]

the ongoing discussion about whether sulemio is yuri or yuribait or a secret third thing only further convinces me that during most of gwitch development there must have been someone costantly going "bandai, about the main couple... are you absolutely sure of this? do we have the go ahead? is it green lit? can we go there? really? you sure? do we have permission? for real? do you swear?" and bandai waved it off "yeah yeah whatever just make it make money" and then at some point bandai went "you're doing WHAT? theres no way were showing that!" and thats how we got this weird queerbait-coded show that was supposed to be queer but its meant to be retroactively read as queercoded. never seen anything quite like this chimera before its honestly baffling

#its impressive how its queer queerbait and queercoded all at once #the witch from mercury #gwitch #gundam

[user-needs-new-hyperfixation]

So I’m not really expecting SherLiam to get more canon than it is already. I’m happy with how obviously romantic it’s been so far and hope it continues in that vein. Like I said here, I actually prefer it left a little bit vague -- no outright “I love you”s or kissing or anything actually on the page -- because I think that suits the aesthetic of the setting. And honestly, the confessions they have had are soooo much more romantic to me than something as bland and predictable as simply “I love you”. 

And like this post says, queercoding is not queerbaiting. I tend to prefer queer-coding (or even just romance-coding for straight ships) to outright text: I find a lot of textual romance tropes so boring and predictable that I like there to be a little mystery about things. Something left to the imagination. I don’t want creators to deny that a relationship is romantic or act like the audience is stupid for seeing it (looking at you, SPN 😒), but I’m happy with being given a bunch of chemistry and hints and obviously romantic speeches and allowed to make of it what I will. 

THAT SAID: In the unlikely event that YuuMori ever does pull a queerbait-and-switch and suddenly try to be like “Gay?! What gay?! There was never any gay here!”, we’ll always have chapter 67. There is no way to undo the romance of:

When I was nothing but cold and dark,

You lit a fire in me,

You brought colour to my world.

I didn’t know I had a heart until I met you,

I didn’t think I had a future until I knew you,

The world is beautiful because you are in it.

It’s my absolute favourite chapter so far (53 and 55 are right up there too). I just keep reading it over and over. It’s beautiful. 

#sherliam #yuukoku no moriarty #moriarty the patriot #chapter 67 my beloved #sherliam 'clarity' mmv when? #somebody with editing skills needs to get on that

[naruhearts]

I’m done keeping my composure.

Sorry, this will be a LOADED post! (And I’ll be repeating the points others have made)

for real, to everyone being nasty and telling heartbroken fans that “Dean was always supposed to die get a grip you’re just butthurt etcetera etcetera—” F you royally.

How dare you police the brutal feelings that’s been embroiling us since the Finale That Must Not Be Named aired. 

The show you think you all watched, the show you all believe was the same SPN from Season 1-4, changed at some point. Kripke wrote his original vision, put it to screen, saw it through in S5 as he intended, and closed the door on that era.

In 2008, Supernatural was adopted and inherited. As you know, there was a supreme paradigm shift post-Kripke era. The show FLOURISHED (we won’t talk about Gamble thanks). It evolved, transformed, grew beyond trauma-induced self-worthlessness and toxic masculinity and endless death and hegemonic social ideals and conservatism and repressive anti-revolutionary ideas. Castiel, the iconic favourite and beloved staple of the series portrayed by Misha Collins, was introduced in Season 4 as the core lead character, and he ushered in a brand new era of Christian mythos that SPN took advantage of. Longevity SKYROCKETED. Audiences were INTERESTED. SPN amassed an incredibly groundbreaking fanbase infused by non-nuclear principles. A massive subversive wave began, fighting the Status Quo of the times since 2008. It’s precisely why such an abysmal ending to a show of extensive Freud-Jungian metanarratively meta META complex stature and social POWER will render us totally and unbearably broken for years to come.

Point is, DEAN WINCHESTER NO LONGER WANTED TO DIE. HE WANTED TO LIVE. HE WANTED TO SIT ON THE BEACH, PLUNGE HIS TOES IN THE SAND, AND SIP UMBRELLA DRINKS WITH HIS BROTHER AND HIS BEST FRIEND. He said this in Season 13. And then, a season later, he told the ghost of his long-deceased father — the source of his deep-running trauma and the figure of self-reductive authoritarianism permeating his arc since Season 1 — after being questioned why he didn’t pursue the Nuclear Fam, that he already has his own: his brother Sam, his adopted child Jack, and Cas.

Dean’s best friend Cas. Oh god, Cas, who made his inevitably permanent mark on Dean’s soul beyond allyship. Castiel, renamed to Cas, God’s -iel removed by Dean. Dean, the human spark that lit the fire of pre-existing autonomy in the inherently rebellious angel who was, this entire time, the catalyst for free will in God The Writer’s puppet show. Their friendship set on goddamn fire. I can also write paragraph upon paragraph about my love for Cas while devastated tears stream down my face, but I digress—

Cas’ romantic love for Dean pushed our main Heart of SPN to love himself. Love is free will. Free will is also love. Of note, Cas’ love confession in 15x18 was supposed to offset something so vastly important and fundamental...to maybe (read: most likely) pull the trigger on SELF-TRUTHS in conjunction with free will. And The Great Anticipated Follow-Up to the episode penned by the passionate Berens should have included (read: seemed like it was going to be) Dean, closeted trauma survivor in love with his best friend, being given the opportunity to do it right: to SPEAK HIS TRUTH, and then that very singular opportunity was STOLEN so grossly. After poring over it for days, I refuse to believe we made their years-long story up out of thin air, spun it out of fantastical-delusional dream cotton candy, because we DIDN’T. IT WAS REAL.

As I said in another post: “I’ve just been feeling physically ill for the past >40 something hours with the terrible knowledge that 19/20 undid years of vital progression towards healthy interdependence, autonomy, and a positive endgame, where Sam, Dean and Cas close the ring of found family in final empowering self-fulfillment...where Dean, no longer repressed and set free, is able to use his words and speak his truth as a queercoded trauma survivor, henceforth confirming and self-affirming his own bisexuality since S1 by reciprocating — by telling Cas that he always loved him, too, loved him endlessly, which would have altogether divested Supernatural of its cult status and catapulted it into global worldwide significance as the longest running sci-fi genre show in American broadcasting history that actually dared to defy and, by proxy, empower LGBTQ2IA+ everywhere who found profound personal meaning in Destiel through VALIDATION,” — found themselves mirrored in Dean and Cas’ respective character journeys individually and as each other’s queer love interests.

THIS IS WHY DEAN WASN’T MEANT TO DIE.

THEY WERE SO ESSENTIAL, NOT JUST TO THE OVERARCHING STORY AND HEALTHY INTERPERSONAL THEMATICS OF MODERN SPN, BUT ALSO TO THE SOULS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD WHO FOLLOWED THEIR JOURNEYS, HOPED FOR THEM, ASPIRED TO BE LIKE THEM, TREASURED THEM, WEEPED FOR THEM, AND FOUGHT FOR THEM, LIKE YOU AND ME.

Heck, how could anyone think Sam Winchester had a well-deserved characteristic ending? He didn’t. Dean’s brother was shafted so badly. He stopped hunting when seasons ago, he had canonically accepted that he no longer wanted an apple pie life. He simply...turned the lights off in a resoundingly empty bunker and left — abandoning his dead brother’s room — never to return (he did return later to get the Impala, family photos etc, I mean this symbolically)...as if — dare I say it — Supernatural itself eerily told us, in the negative-spaced pitch blackness, that the organic show and the wonderfully complex, matured characters we’ve grown to love weren’t going to survive or be revisited...that it was all going to perish, and that they no longer gave a single shit about their own show, which, to me, is the worst cardinal sin, because how dare they throw Team Free Will, an immovable and indomitable and passionate found family they built from the ground up, a found family CHOCK FULL TO THE BRIM OF LOVE AND LIFE RAGING AGAINST THE AUTHORITARIAN MACHINE IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE FREE WILL, under the bus no matter who is to blame. Growth was stomped on.

Then Sam married a faceless wife who wasn’t his textually established (and deaf) love interest Eileen, named his son Dean Jr., and grew old miserably, still mourning the passing of his older brother, shaken and sombre. Back to square one. IT WAS ALL ANTITHETICAL, even OUTSIDE a shipping context, and I ripped my hair out at this point in sheer disbelief.

This 15x20 ending would have fit somewhere between S4-7. Now? IT DOESN’T FIT. IT’S A JAGGED PUZZLE PIECE THAT DOESN’T BELONG ANYWHERE. IT’S THE FOREBODING UNKNOWN STRANGER IN ITS OWN LAND, BOTH LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY. This kind of ending was basically an illogical, unsound cluster of metastasized cells that, to me, ruined the viability of previous seasons to sustain bold praise and respect and dignity and rewatches and classic nostalgia in such insidious ways.

Dean Humanity Winchester and Cas, after everything they’ve been through, were silenced and lost in death, ripped apart from each other, unable to love each other the way they deserved, because of disappointing, vile incompetency and homophobia. The greatest love story ever told, again obliterated in less than 60 hollow minutes.

You know what this tells your audience, CW SPN? Death without self-growth is the way to go, and no one is allowed to forge their own path to freedom.

HOW INSULTINGLY HARMFUL IS THAT?

I don’t think I’ll ever stop grieving.

We all deserve answers.

#fuck #my stuff #spn s15 #15x20 #sorry this was so long winded but i’m so #I think I finally wrote out all my frustration in this??? #i’m still broken but I do hope it gets better #ily all #my meta #fuck cw #fuck spn #deancas #destiel #excuse me for any sloppy grammar and weirdness and shit #I’m still emotionally wilding lol #the greatest love story ever told #narrative #character development #narrative cyclism #supernatural #destiel deserved better #jensen and misha deserved better #at the same time this all seems cathartic anyway :P #I sorta snapped because wtf WE AREN’T WATCHING THE SAME SHOW IF YOU BELIEVE DEATH IS THE ANSWER 😭 #I respect your opinion only if you’re respectful towards ours #but I’ve literally seen so many nasties out there #I’d rather have queue #long post for ts #I’M TEARING UP AGAIN #I’m ill

[akuutaguava]

FUCKI I CANT POST ANYMORE SHIT ANYWAYS I LOVE YOU TIMBLR AND THE PEOPLE ON TUMBLR HAVE A GOOD REST OF UR DAY

SHIT IM ACTUALLY NOT GOING TO SURVIVE WITHOUT WRITING WEIRD THOUGHTS

Ahahahahaha im gonna have to rant on insta i hate life good bye

Better idea: type on this post and this post alone lets see how chaotic this gets

I am queercoding rn

IVE BEEN FEELING HUNGRY THE WHOLE DAY TODAY AND THE MOMENT I CAN EAT I DONT WANT TO WHAT KINDA FUCKERY IS THIS

actually sobs ive seen so much i want to reblog

I hate this godamn limit whatthefuck

Now people will go back to this random post and can’t see my posts popping up every two minutes

FUCK YEAH CASAVA CHIPS :D

My thoughts need to be documented even when i cant post on here

This used to be a post abt me talking abt killjng peoples dogs but who knows anymore

SOMEONE HMSSAVE ME AH

I HAVE A LOT OF ACCOUNTS THAT I NEED TO POST ON WHATTHEFUCK

SHIT THESE CASAVE CHIPS ARE SO GOOD

Bussing bussin frfr

I hate the people who made me not be able to type anything here today shie, apollo, ghoul im talking to you guys /j okay dw

Tempted to go bald and really embrace the mental illness

My mandarin caused havoc on like seven people today lmao

It got everywhere holy shit

Actually about to fucjing cry i hate nkt being able to post shit whathefuck its only been a day but WHY

Found out one of shed eerans songs is like the most famous song in the world and i actually want to end my life oml

Im going to play bsd mayoi to distract myself from this sad fate

AXTUALLY SOBBING TUMBLR CAN YOU STOP PLAYING AND JUST LET ME POST SHIT

FUCK YOU TUMBLE

just kidding haha only joking ily bbgorl

Phobic? You think im scared

Parents will be like don’t do drugs and then make you want to do them

Boutta die im talking abt liking hot evil dilfs what has my life gone to without tumblr

Physically pained

Mentally drained

JESUS CHRIST I NEED TO SNEEZE BUT I CANT I ACTUALLY HATE THIS

Gender? Isn’t that a spice?

ACTUALLY FML MY COMPUTER IS 12% IM GOING TO CRY AL MY CLASEES REQUIRE A COMPUTER TODSAY FUYCKM

yet another day with a substitute who hates my guts for no reason (she has a reason) 

im probably going to go home i feel actually so sick rn 

WHATTHEFUCK I JUST SAW A MEME MY TEACHER SHOWED US IN IT WAS SHAKESPEAR GOING “i put the lit in literature” THATS IT IM JUMOING OUT THE WINDOW 

art = are

dost = do

doth = does

'ere = before

hast = have

'tis = it is

'twas = it was

wast = were

whence = from where

wherefore = why

nay = no

twas over yonder

LMAO FUCK TOU SCHOOL I’M LEAVING

OUT OF THAT HELL HOLE :D

Actually so happy i don’t need to do science now fuck yeah

GAH I FEEL LIKE SHIT LMAO

Im pretty sure everyone thinks im skipping fuck you guys im not

THE CICADAS ARE STILL HERE FUCK

I hate the invention of long hair we should all just cut off our hair my ling hair sucks

Stopped to say hi to the ants :D

What a great lifw we would have if we were all just… orbs floating through space

Now is not a good time to be walking on a bridge over a highway

We made it off the bridge without commiting ded :D

I hate walking slow holy shit

Time to go die in my bed because i can’t really post on here anymore and that makes me sad and want to die

IHATEYOUIHATEYOU GO DIE IN A HOLE

AHIT AHIT SHIT AHIT SHIR MMY PARENTS WANT TO WATCH BUNGOU STRAY DOGS HOLU SHIT THEY WILL ACTUALLY HATE IT AND ME AND EVERYTHING AND MAKE ME SELL ALL MY MERCH HOMY SHIT IM ACTUALLY GOING TO DIE WHATTHEFUCK SOMEONE HELP

I need another post for that but tumblr is a bitch

ACTUALLY FUCK I SLEPT FOR LIKE FOUR HOURS I WAS SUPPOSED TO FUCKING STUDY FOR TEO TESTS HOLY SHIT AHHHHHH WHATTHEFUCK SOMEENE AHHH NI U HATE NOT BEING ABLE TO POST HERE WHATTEHECUKDS 

I WOKE UP AND I ACTUALLY FEEL SO SHIT LIKE I FEEL LIKE NOTHING MATTERS AND THERES NO POINT IN LIVING SOMEONE GET ME OUT OF THIS HEADSPACE 

BRO THE ONLY THING THATS BEEN KEEPING ME GOING TODAY IS WAITING TILL 12 AM SO I CAN FUCKING POST SHIT I JAT THIS APP

I ALSO CANT EVEN FUCKING MAKE DRAFTS AND THAT MAKES ME WANT TO UNALIVE 

dont mind those last posts, anyways three more hours until you guys get mass chaos :D goodbye for now and i’ll see you when i can actually fuckin post

#this is a threat #feel threatened #stellas gone mental

[elucubrare]

current classic lit discourse is boring so i'm starting new stuff.

the dragon from Beowulf was justified, it was just surviving & Beowulf came to kill it for glory

Julien Sorel from Le Rouge et le Noir is queercoded

The Moonstone is problematic because it promotes opium use and not for anything else in it

The mill from The Mill on the Floss should have been better built so it could have withstood the flood, where's their infrastructure funding

#tragically i can probably justify julien

[write-nerdy-to-me]

Everytime I see you post something defending ‘imperfect’ representation I wanna start cheerleading. Hell yeah! Keep going! Everyone who doesn’t get it is now assigned homework: Knowingly consume one censored undeniably queer work in good faith and recognize it still has value even if not fully explicit. Bonus points if the fandom doesn’t fight about whether it’s canon. I promise it’s more palatable when you’re not constantly looking for ammo to win fights against antis and homophobes.

nonnie, omg, i so deeply appreciate this, you have no idea. 

i think part of the problem is that a lot of these people are growing up in a time -- because of the hard work of queer elders and queercoding like the hays code --where Being Queer can be their whole identity and not be shunned for it. for the most part. they don’t know the still-living history of queer people fighting to even have a right to exist in the same place. that’s not to say that’s these people’s faults, necessarily, that they don’t know. however, it does fall on them when they try to devalue legitimate queercoding and the like, as it wasn’t “enough” for them. especially when they’ve got, idk, other people who have studied queer theory and lit crit telling them, “hey, maybe, uh, don’t.” idk, maybe i’m just weird for listening to people who, like, have degrees in this specific thing.

i never want to try to come across as though i don’t want more queer stories or better representation -- of course i want that -- but i don’t think it’s fair to look at media from, hell, a decade ago and go, this isn’t queer The Right Way and therefore is not worth our time. like that-- that’s not how things work. how the hell do you think we got to where we are in the first place?

and saying that in order for a story to be deemed Queer Enough, lest The Straights(tm), antis, and homophobes won’t “get it,” is already fundamentally flawed. our stories don’t need the approval of people who willfully continue to misunderstand us. our stories are not for them and they’re not supposed to be.

the idea of “good representation” is... well, i see the point it’s trying to make, but it falls short. as i said in my other post, everyone’s idea of “good” “representation” is different. and that’s always going to be an issue, as long as we continue to disregard queercoding as inefficient and “queerbait.” 

queercoded stories are just as important as the ones labeled unequivocally queer from the start.

#anonymous #thank you nonnie!! #this is one of the nicest things to show up in my inbox #how many times can i say ''queer'' in one post -- the answer may surprise you djskdjs #not trying to say that queerbaiting isn't a thing tho #it's just typically used wrong in arguments and against the wrong people #this is a subpost at people who say ''if you want rep just watch she-ra'' #representation in media #queer representation #queer rep issues #queercoding #fandom things #nerdy replies #spn

[readingrobin]

Just want to let y'all know starting tomorrow is the first Pride Book fest, which is going to feature a slew of queer writers talking about various different topics in the field of queer literature, publishing, storytelling, etc.

Personally I'm looking forward to the panels on Storytelling and Queer Narratives in Comics and Graphic Novels, Queercoding of Monsters, Villains and Machines, and Geek Culture and Queer Joy.

These panels are going to premiere throughout the weekend and are prerecorded events that will be available to view indefinitely on the Pride Book Fest YouTube channel, which I'll give the link to here.

I can't wait to hear all the wonderful discussions and thrust even more queer lit onto my TBA!

#pride book fest #pride #pride month #queer lit #lgbtq books #queer literature #queer books #lgbtq community

[salt-water-sable]

Cruella is far and beyond my favorite of the stupid ass Disney reboots. The rest of this post is pretty much just spoilers: The soundtrack was great, we get found family like woah, me and my brother turned and looked at each other at the same point and go “you know I really hope she actually does make a Dalmatian coat” and she still got to be batshit crazy. It ran a bit too long, the dialogue was clunky in spots, and the cgi on the dogs was distractingly bad, but none of that was enough to really sink it in my opinion. And a big win, for once the villain who was queercoded by obsession with a clearly younger woman in the animated version wasn’t given a male love interest as part of her redemption. (this is a direct call out to Maleficent)

The costumes and aesthetics of the film were great as always, and this was the first time in one of these live action reboots that the ✨🥰 #girl-boss moments didn’t feel cheap, because it actually devoted a huge amount of runtime to relationships between women. And as a fun side effect you get to see a really cool battle that isn’t just a poorly lit fight scene between a cgi lion and hyena, and isn’t two women testing physical strength, but rather both doing an explicitly feminine thing in making and showing dresses.

I really enjoyed how it somehow managed to both make her a fairy tale protagonist, (yes her mother was pushed of a cliff by Dalmatians, her mother had to die tragically because that’s how the fairy tale formula works, good mothers die early) and also still a black leather wearing, heachmen leading, badass who renames her house Hell Hall and herself ‘Devil” because the one thing this film absolutely does right is make sure she doesn’t believe she’s somehow morally superior, she knows she’s a villain, and if you believe she had good reason to be that‘s your own fault. (take notes edgy villain character study movies)

I completely understand that this film won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but all in all it was mine, 7/10.

#cruella #cruella 2021 #cruella de vil #101 dalmatians #film review #why did my page just become me ranting about movies? #i know that’s what I like to do but I didn’t intend to let it soak into my art page #also don’t pay the extra money to Disney #I normally wouldn’t recommend pirating a movie I liked but this is Disney and if you have Disney + don’t give them the extra #But oh my gosh I need to geek out about how good the Dalmatian fur coat looked for a second #“You can’t throw enough money at something to make an actually good film #but you can make it look amazing” #Except the cgi lion king #that looked terrible #live action beauty and the beast and Cinderella looked great though #and so did the Mary poppins reboot actually #Although I haven’t seen the Mulan reboot yet I was busy...........doing other things #narrator voice: they were not

[vindictar]

i honestly do not like or agree with lit any of the characterizations of the characters in the current x books. its been a while since ive ranted about comics here so. some thoughts. ill try to stick to just the characters i write

illyana has been. well i like seeing her have a bigger role but whoever put her back in that fucking black costume with the boob window owes me a personal apology after she finally got to have a normal yellow and black jumpsuit in new mutants dead souls. frankly i think she should be on the excalibur team but her teleportation powers are too valuable of a plot device to ever let her do, ya know, actual magic

i don't hate how rahne or tabby have been written in their very few appearances. i didn't even GET boom boom at the hellfire gala. smh.

daken. hoo boy. i like that hes being treated like a real person and the fact that he is a victim of incredible abuse is finally being acknowledged but i dont really like how the entire journey to that point was just skipped and hes just a cool and sympathetic dude.

laura. love that she gets to be wolverine. love that she gets to be im a nonsexualized costume. dont understand the whole vault shit or her relationship with sync. wish she could actually interact with her family like we got to see in all new wolverine.

warren: i havent written him in a while and frankly @argenpluma has more or less said everything i have thought better than i could have.

bobby: sure is a straight man writing what he thinks a gay character should act like with zero acknowledgement to the trauma being closeted that long would give you but sure. i guess he judges rupauls and wears whatever he wore to the hellfire gala is.

jono: he was in new mutants like 2 times but i hope hes having a nice time hanging out with his old gen x friends :) sure wish he got to be a character that mattered again like back in gen x vol 2 but thats unrealistic.

quentin: this is not my beautiful son. this is not my beautiful house. west coast avengers gave me so much good quentin content and now... his chatacter has been reduced to a shitty incel instead of the queercoded anarchist that he was in his original iterations. i do not know this boy. also quentin's original mutant ability was super intelligence. why is he on the enforcement side of x force??? this miserable twink couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag

#and this isn't even getting into the actual premise disagreements i have with krakoa as a concept #which there are many #but im sure someone else has made that post #these are just my specific nitpicks on the characters i write here on vindictar dot tumblr dot com #( ooc tag. ) #hawky yells about comics #hawky reads comics #marvel critical #negative /

[ravenkinnie]

that post about what you could do a video essay about haunts me because I have no consistent interests like YES I love horror NO I could not tell you shit about frankenstein or lit theory, however I did spend two hours reading about the original ring movie and the absolutely insane book series it was based on. YES I love comics NO I don't know what the fuck is going on in dc currently, however I can tell you that one time they killed a queercoded hero by having him be bitten by a vampire that spread HIV. my knowledge about my interests has no structure, its just a collection of the most random and insane pieces of information I could find

#mine #fr tho look up ring books they are crazy