#the erasure is STRONG

[bucksangel]

this was in the bio of someone’s tinder account that i just swiped left on. please tell me biphobia doesn’t exist.

#also just bc i’m not bi anymore doesn’t mean i’ll stop fighting to end the erasure #like it’s not ‘playing for both teams’ #it’s more like ‘i’m benched on both teams’ #the erasure is STRONG #lgbtq+ #lgbtq+ pride #bi pride #tw biphobia #𓆩♡𓆪 angel's thoughts 𓆩♡𓆪

[loustatdivorce]

okay but greg really asked ‘where’s all your kids, uncle logan?’ when he was roasting him but connor was literally. there. 

#connor erasure going strong in season 4 i see #txt #succession

[alyona11]

Thinking about how by becoming a better person Narvin progressively gets more tormented by his past mistakes and pretty cruel and unhumane things he did throughout the series. Yes, he became a better person but he has to constantly face the person he was when he sees how Time Lords destroy planets without any regards for the local population and nature, when he sees Ollistra mistreating Leela as a lesser being, when he understands that the situation that Lenaris and Helico got themselves into is the result of his past-self's carelessness and cruelty. You can see throughout War Room 2 how this guilt constantly affects his decisions.

Additionally, he absolutely sees himself as the reason why this whole war is happening since he unwillingly started it. Which makes him partially complicit in Romana and Leela's imprisonment.

I wonder how much more will it affect his rationality later down the line 🤔

#me being me #having a lot of thoughts about him #gallifrey #narvin #gallifrey audios #big finish #war room 2 #gallifrey war room #i do feel the whole wr2-1 situation with a planet gave Narvin a strong flashback to Erasure #at least it felt this way

[assassins-wasteland]

Happy Pride Month to my wife, Vetra Nyx

#reuploaded with the correct pride flag because someone on Reddit pointed out putting a lesbian flag on Vetra comes off as bi erasure #my bad gang #I’d never erase your bisexuality Vetra 🤲 #do you know how strong your WLW thoughts have to be to forget about bi/pan erasure? #Vetra nyx #mass effect andromeda #MeA #wayward is queer posting #I’m pansexual #mass effect #turian #turians #aliens #gaming #BioWare

[felinemotif]

actually i do have one issue with a dowry of blood but its less to do with the book itself and more a complaint towards the handful of reviewers who kept referring to it as a lesbian romance when both constanta and magdalena are bisexual. they have been bisexual the entire book.

constanta showed this once she laid eyes on hanne, the embroiderer who became a good friend of hers and who constanta said she could have loved, given the chance.

& magdalena was enraptured by both constanta and dracula upon their first meeting.

and if you don’t consider their affections and attraction to dracula to have ever been true, a fair criticism considering his manipulation and borderline grooming behavior, then their mutual and immediate desire of alexi should be enough proof that both of them are bisexual women (and alexi a bisexual man).

plus once they all won their own freedom, magdalena took on another male lover (fabrizio) and constanta took two more lovers of her own (henri and sasha).

i am scratching my head a bit because i don’t see how anyone could consider them to be lesbians without bisexual erasure. it’s just very strange to me that i’ve seen a number of people call this a lesbian romance when it’s very clearly not.

if you want to headcanon it that way, that’s of course fine. all the power to you. but that does mean erasing most of the epilogue (right up until the very last sentence) + rewriting constanta’s and magdalena’s entire history with alexi.

which is more than fine to do but i really don’t think it’s right to recommend a book to someone under the premise of it being a lesbian fantasy (which i desperately want more of) when that’s not the case.

#i know no one who follows me particularly cares abt this but i have really strong feelings abt this book #and even stronger feelings abt the reviews i saw beforehand #a dowry of blood #🐈‍⬛ #bisexual erasure

[woundedheartwithin]

Yakuza does this in every game, and I understand it’s because they don’t want to imply anything game worthy happened during the between game time skip, but it is very weird to me how these people who are supposed to be friends just never talk for three years. Like I’m about as estranged from my real life friends as anyone can be without actually not being friends anymore, but we still text each other semi-regularly. And I think that’s one of the reasons why Ichiban’s friendship with Nanba and Adachi is so beautiful and heartwarming, because they are really friends. They behave like friends and they love each other like friends are supposed to love each other. It’s the most realistic friendship I’ve ever seen in a video game, and I literally cannot get enough of it

#she speaks #yakuza #yakuza 8 #I still think a lot about Nanba and Adachi putting themselves between ichi and arakawa at Omi headquarters #like they were 100% ready to take a bullet for him #and nanba’s a coward so it meant even more coming from him #I’m not talking about the saeko shit going down in y8 because I’m holding off on having a strong opinion about it #so don’t worry this is not saeko erasure #I just don’t really understand what’s happening with all that and why lol

[ppeuppeuppeu]

why cant some acknowledge the possibility that before finally getting together, before daemyra endgame (understandable, they burned for one another from the start, the pair that was meant to be in finality), daemon and nyra might have actually loved their own partners (laena,harwin) within the 10 yrs. 🤔

#house of the dragon #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targaryen #harwin strong #laena velaryon #of course daemyra is endgame #that's a fact #i just cant stand harwin/laena erasure #they were significant #they were adored respected loved #not as much as how daemyra burns for each other #but they loved laena and harwin in their own ways

[burr-ell]

Honestly, imodna would be a good ship if the shippers/stans weren’t so damn insufferable. I also hate how they act like they are already canon and you can’t ship Imogen or Laudna with anyone else in the group. People got so mad when the conversation in the dust storm happened with Ashton and Laudna because people thought they were flirting. Or when on the first episode of 4 sided dive Marisha asked Robbie if Dorian’s crush was on Imogen, people got so mad at that! I also hate that they call them lesbians when THEY HAVE BOTH EXPRESSED HAVING FEELINGS FOR BOYS! Why can’t they be bi? Or Pan? I also hate how people read into Laura’s micro expressions/ movements, like last episode with the whole leaning shit “oh what was that lean Laura?!! Imogen wanted to kiss Laudna because look at Laura’s lean!” I dread the day that Imogen or Laudna fall in love with someone that’s not each other(especially if that person is a man.) because Marisha and Laura will harassed and hated because they didn’t give the people what they wanted.

oof. that's some frustration you really needed to vent, nonnie, and honestly i get it. full disclosure—my mutuals who are into imo/dna are all lovely, and none of them engage in this behavior. if imo/dna becomes canon, i'll be happy for (and potentially even happy with) fans like that. but enough shippers are doing things like this that it's becoming more and more of a source of frustration and friction as the campaign goes on.

i think a lot of fandom—in general, not just cr—still doesn't want to acknowledge that at the end of the day, they are looking at things like shippers, with a particular kind of confirmation bias. it doesn't make them necessarily wrong or right, but as easy as it can be to get swept up in it, i think it's important to take a step back every once in awhile and re-evaluate.

now admittedly, generally speaking, it takes a lot for me to get really invested in a ship; i usually only have one or two per fandom, even fandoms with tons of characters. i'm generally pretty passive about most ships if it's not the otp; like, vax/leth and pike/lan, for example, didn't need to be romantic endgame for me to enjoy CR1 (and honestly might have been more interesting to me if they hadn't), but perc/ahlia absolutely made the show for me and i honestly think them being together actively strengthens the narrative as a whole.

i say all that to say that for the most part, i very much consider myself to be along for the ride with respect to most relationships in most fandoms. if such-and-such pairing happens, great; if they don't, okay. and with CR in particular, it's such a long-form medium that i know going in that any romance is going to take a while, and most of them probably won't just reach out and grab me.

and as such, it absolutely baffles me to have seen shippers insisting, from the moment the characters first appeared in episode 1, that not only are imogen and laudna canon endgame, they're basically already together and just haven't admitted it yet. i feel this way about dor/ym and callow/moore as well—i saw a post making the rounds that claimed that all three of those ships are "not canon YET but let's be real" and like...why would you set yourself up for disappointment like that? because yeah! all three of those ships could be endgame! but they could also not be endgame. we're less than 40 episodes into a campaign that'll probably run well into the 100s.

i also fully agree with you re: the microexpressions and the cherrypicking, and i feel like a microcosm of this issue can be found in a conversation imogen has with orym early on—shippers latched onto the fact that imogen compares laudna's thoughts to music, something that finally brought her peace after the chaos of the world around her, and completely ignored the part immediately after where imogen says that the rest of the party also feels like that to her. i didn't even know that imogen said that about the whole party until i watched the episode, and to me it's an example of how shippers tend to warp canon interactions to suit a particular narrative in such a way that they become almost entirely divorced from their context.

and from the outside looking in, what confuses me about this sort of thing is like...didn't y'all already go through this? because if my understanding is correct, c2 ship discourse was full to the brim with beau/jes and wido/jest fans dissecting "laura's microexpressions" to prove that jester was for sure in love with our fave, really you guys we swear...and then not only was that not true, but jester also didn't even know about beau or caleb's feelings to acknowledge them at all, and from the actual words that came out of laura's mouth in various OOC moments like on TM, laura just...really really wanted to romance her husband's character in her dnd game and like, that's it. there was never going to be another romantic option for jester as long as fjord was on the table, and that was something that shippers always should have been taking into account.

laudna and imogen are canonically deeply important to each other. they love and appreciate each other very much. that love and appreciation could turn into a lovely romance with a great dynamic, and i certainly don't blame people for being invested in it. but it also could not be romantic endgame, and they remain friends or even get with other people. and as you said, fandom can and will turn nasty about their ships being sunk; we've already seen it happen. there's a certain smug, entitled undercurrent from that particular corner that i have very little patience with, and while i think there's something to be said for deciding to enjoy things in spite of the fandom and just be a cranky old curmudgeon shooing the wank out with a broom, i also understand the response of just "...aight, imma head out".

#the 'laura's microexpressions' thing is also why i really don't care for glasses!imogen #it's obviously not a bad thing in a vacuum but there's a tendency toward overriding specifically laura's choices and saying 'i know better' #such that even something as innocuous as glasses can be representative of a larger more frustrating problem #honestly i wonder if laura will even DO a romance this time around after two campaigns of her characters being reduced to: #a) the men in her life and then b) who she'll end up with #bc imogen has some strong vibes of like. arent u tired of being nice? don't u just wanna lose it? #like imogen reminds me very strongly of vex but specifically of the ways in which vex couldn't be unpleasant or unappealing #(mostly because vex puts up fronts to mask her flaws specifically from the party) #(while imogen is more trying to hide her actual powers and what they can do) #and i think some of that naturally comes from being a woman in geek culture on the internet as well as a woman in voice acting #but i feel like it might also come from her characters being constantly put under a microscope #and constantly told what they should and shouldn't do #and the second they make choices that make another better-liked character upset they're terrible people #like she's obviously a grown adult 40 year old woman but the constant scrutiny of your dnd choices has gotta wear on you a little bit #and yeah i didn't touch on this in the ask but. it has been 0 days since fandom did a bi-erasure #(the thing about having only 1 or 2 ships per fandom reminded me that out of all the dc comics ships i literally only care about dickkory) #(clois also has rights on account of dc can snort my taint and let two adults be happily married) #(i've had convos with friends who ship bbrae who are like 'but why would dickkory shippers dislike bbrae? they dont threaten you') #(idk man some of em just don't dig the vibe!) #cr discourse #cr wank #critical role #asks

[thisismisogynoir]

Currently watching Rebel Cheer Squad and loving it so far! I love the darkskin Black girl representation(with one of them even being in a relationship), I love the representation of an Indian lesbian, and I love the possible interracial relationship between a white girl and a Black guy. I think Clara, Leila, and Rumi are my favorite characters! I also love the plot and how interesting and mysterious it all is. And of course, cheerleading, hand me any cheer-related media on a silver platter and I will eat that shit up. Overall LOVE it. BUT—

Knowing Netflix’s trend with hating lesbians and Black women(especially when they’re both), and cancelling them when they don’t get a lot of airtime, especially with what just happened with First Kill, I would be disappointed but not surprised if Netflix cancelled Rebel Cheer Squad as well and that better not happen.

Everyone, please watch Rebel Cheer Squad! Show your support for diverse lesbian/WOC representation in media! And trust me, it’s a good show. You won’t regret it.

#black women #misogynoir #lavenique #lesbophobia #lesbian erasure #black girls #black female representation #black female characters #lesbian #lesbian characters #strong black heroines #netflix #black women deserve love #lesbians #i want lesbians and especially lesbians of color to get the positive representation that they deserve #and that’s on periodt #rebel cheer squad

[mylovelyrainblog]

the US is both unwilling and useless in reining in Israel’s colonization of Palestine.

The only hope to save not only Palestine but also any semblance of international order, seems to be in the Arab World. Either they can prevent one of their own from getting erased statehood, or we all live in the jungle now.

Israel was created on blood and injustice, and now it seeks to replace the entire land of Palestine and its people. Such evil at such a grand scale will not go lacking waves. Its effects will be long and broad. All on this earth is connected. No one can escape its effects.

#US is useless here #it’s an embarrassment #Is the Arab world going to stand up #The world is calling you #everyone’s eyes on you #Your own people are calling you #But maybe you want to lie down as well #israel #palestine #gaza #West Bank #colonization #occupation #erasure of statehood #the strong eats the weak #The murdering of international order as we know it #genocide and war crimes

[prince-arthur]

Happy 1989TV clowning day to all who celebrate

#go on blondie give us nothing #1989 taylor's version #the speak now erasure is so strong #go buckwild and announce rep tv instead #taylor swift

[bucksangel]

i hate how ppl will see a celeb who typically only dates the opposite gender and when they’re seen flirting with ppl of their same gender they immediately yell ‘queer baiting’ like… bruh do u not know that bisexuality exists??

#i just #it’s exhausting #having to see ppl argue over if someone is gay or straight #when literally bisexuals exist #the bi erasure is coming out strong #bi tag #lgbtq+ #𓆩♡𓆪 angel's thoughts 𓆩♡𓆪

[significant-ace-nnoyance]

just watched the school for good and evil and SOME NETFLIX WRITERS ARE ABOUT TO GET A VERY STRONGLY WORDED EMAIL TONIGHT BECAUSE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK WAS THAT

#started off nice and strong with the queercoded villain ‘men in makeup are evil’ trope 🥰🥰 #AND THEN THEY QUEERCODED THE ABSOLUTE FUCK OUT OF THAT FRIENDSHIP #but no it’s okay 🥰they added the word FRIEND like a thousand times 😃😃 so it’s ALL GOOD 😄😄😄 dw homophobic ga they’re NOT GAY #AND THEN SHE GOT WITH THE FUCKING MALE LOVE INTEREST AT THE ENF THAT SHE SHOWED FUCKING TWO SEC OF INTEREST IN #‘ she’s like a sister to me’ get out. LEAVE #SHE FUCKING TRUE LOVE KISSED HER BACK TO FUCKING LIFE BUT NO ITS OKAY ITS ALL GOOD BECAUSE IT WAS IN A FRIEND WAY U GUYS LISTEN ITS NOT GAY #NDBDJDJRJDKDJJEKDJFNJEJEJFJJRJE #THE FUCKING NARRATION SAID ‘BECAUSE THERED NO TRUER LOVE THAN FRIENDSHIP’ #which yes good message if it wasn’t being used for QUEER ERASURE YET AGAIN #I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING INSANE THE WHOLE MOVIE BECAUSE THEY WERE MAKING THEM AS IN LOVE AS POSSIBLE BUT STILL KEPT SHOVING IN THE CISHET #THE END???? THE FUCKING END?????? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK THAT WAS NOT PLATONIC #YES IT CAN BE THATS NOT WHAT IM SAYING IM SAYINH WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF HET LOVE THEY SHOWED THAT WAS FUCKING ROMANTIC AND IT WAS GAY #NOT TO FUXKING MWNTION THE QUEERCODING OF THE TEACHERS?????? I FR THOUGHT THE HEADMASTERS WERE GONNA KISS MULTIPLE TIMES ????? #LESBIANS WRITTEN ALL OVER THIS FUCKING MOVIE BUT NO ITS OKAY BC THEYRE ACTUALLY IN LOVE WITH MEN SO #GET THE FUCK OUT #kit slayed though what an icon <3 get it jesper #IM SO FUCLING PISSED U GUYS IM LITERALLY VIBRATING JUST SHAKING ON THE FLOOR OF MY ROOM RN /THIS/ CLOSE TO CRYING #THAT WAS FUCKING VIOLENCE DONE UPON MY GAY SOUL NETFLIX WTF #U BETTER BE PAYING ME FOR THAT OR SOMETHING I DID NOT DESERVE WHATEVER THE FUCK THAT WAS #THEY FUCKING DANCED TOGWTHER AT THE BALL OKAY????????????????? #THEYRE LITERALLY LESBIANS #🚪 U SEE THAT NETFLIX. THATS THE DOOR. GET OUT I NEVER WANT TO SEE U AGAIN #*switches on the dragon prince s4* #if ur still with me thank u skjskdkdjjd i had to scream about this to someone my whole family is oblivious of why i kept collapsing #personal #school of good and evil #more like school of GAYS #queer people help me out 😭😭

[chryzure-archive]

wait, HUH

#memorie.txt #erasure’s still going strong it seems… imagine making music for that long w the same person omg 😵‍💫 #i should listen to their most recent album!!!

[thetreetopinn]

Sources for Somerton's Plagiarism from Hbomberguy's Video (as much as I could get)

I went back through Harry's video, focused entirely on the sources James Somerton pulled from in the hopes of creating as much of a comprehensive list as I could--though my Google-Fu is not very strong. I did however find something I thought was forever lost and that made me very happy--specifically the magazine Midlands Zone containing the column by Steven Spinks that Harry poignantly used as an illustration of gay erasure... while Somerton uses it to sound like HE is waxing remorseful about the very subject.

This is not a complete list, I'm sure. For one thing, I was only able to attempt to pull sources that Harry himself mentioned in the video. Surely there's so very much more out there. I expect there to be a great deal more internet archeology to unearth just how much writing and culture Somerton has stolen like he's the British Museum of Natural History but for gay people.

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Harry's list of mentioned youtubers:

Alexander Avila - https://www.youtube.com/@alexander_avila Matt Baume - https://www.youtube.com/@MattBaume Khadija Mbowe - https://www.youtube.com/@KhadijaMbowe Lady Emily - https://www.youtube.com/@LadyEmilyPresents Shanspeare - https://www.youtube.com/@Shanspeare RickiHirsch - https://www.youtube.com/@RickiHirsch VerilyBitchie - https://www.youtube.com/@verilybitchie

Harry created a convenient playlist of videos by these and other people he wants to bring to everyone's attention.

Please give them your support.

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Midlands Zone Magazine - Column by Steven Spinks

After a great deal of searching, I found an archive of the "Midlands Zone" magazine, where you can read through past issues dating all the way back to February 2014. I have also found the issue from which Somerton took Spinks' poignant discussion of gay erasure: Overall archive Specific Issue - Pages 16-17

It will not allow you to download it, but you can read it exactly as it appeared in print form.

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My best effort to find the exact book or article Somerton lifted from to be able to get attention to the original writers

Tinker Bells and Evil Queens By Sean Griffin

The Celluloid Closet By Vito Russo Wikipedia article about the book Wikipedia article about the documentary My weak google-fu could not find where you can access the book or documentary. Check your local municipal or university library for book or documentary, or if you know a good source for one or both, please reblog with it added

Camp and the Gay Sensibility By Jack Babuscio

The Groundbreaking Queerness of Disney's Mulan By Jes Tom Personal site with links to social media accounts

Why Rebel Without a Cause was a milestone for gay rights By Peter Howell

Why "The Craft" is still the best Halloween coming out movie By Andrew Park

Opinion: From facehuggers to phallic tails, is 'Alien' one of the queerest films ever? By Dani Leever

Women and Queerness in Horror: Jennifer's Body By Zoe Fortier

[Pride 2019] We Have Such Sights to Show You: Hellraiser and the Spectrum of Queerness By Alejandra Gonzalez

Revealing the Hellbound Heart of Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' By Colin Arason

Queering James Cameron's Aliens (1986) By Bart Bishop

Demeter and Persephone in space: transformation, femininity, and myth in the 'Alien' films By David Greven

Fears of a millennial masculinity: Scream's queer killers By David Greven (Scholarly site, unable to access original work, offers a way to request a full copy of the text in PDF)

Queer Subtext in Stephen King's It - Part 1: 'Reddie' Character Analysis By Rachel Brands Rachel is the very unfortunate lady who found out she was being stolen from because she supported Somerton through Patreon and saw one of his videos early with her writing--lacking any form of citation or credit

How 'It: Chapter Two' Leaves Richie Tozier Behind By Joelle Monique

When Horror Becomes Strength: Queer Armor in Stephen King's 'IT' By Alex London

Why Queer People Love Witchcraft By Amanda Kohr

'The Favourite' Queers The Past And The Present By Giorgi Plys-Garzotto

(Wuko) Crush (Mako x Wu) By MoonFlower on YouTube

5 Terrible Movies With Awesome Hidden Meanings By J.F. Sargent

The Radicalization of Sexuality: The Queer Casae of Jeffrey Dahmer By Ian Barnard

Netflix's 'Dahmer' backlash highlights ethical issues in the platform's obsession with true crime By Shivani Dubey

The Possible Disturbing Dissonance Between Hajime Isayama's Beliefs and Attack on Titan's Themes Original Article by "Seldom Musings" (Author has made all posts not related to Attack On Titan private and has retired from the blog)

Everyone Loves Attack on Titan. So Why Does Everyone Hate Attack on Titan? By Gita Jackson

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The following people are otherwise named in the video. There are no direct citations of articles or books by them in said video. I am unable to guarantee that I have identified the correct individual.

Darren Elliott-Smith Michaela Barton David Church Claire Sisco King Amanda Howell Jessica Roy

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Telos announced and cancelled a film likely based on this book: The Final Girl Support Group - By Grady Hendrix

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I refrained from including certain sources.

First off only focusing on Somerton's work.

Secondly not including anything that might be visible enough to not require amplifying their voice (I cannot speak for all of those I have found links to, but journalism is frequently a thankless job).

Thirdly any source that is of a nature that is antithetical to the very existence of the queer community, such as the right-leaning source that didn't make it into Somerton's video, but Harry was able to identify as a source he had considered using.

If you feel I have missed a mentioned source--or you know of a source from material that was not covered in Harry's video--please do not hesitate to reblog with added details.

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Please share this information far and wide, and please add to it if you find more material that can be positively identified and linked to the creator/writer.

#hbomberguy #james somerton #Plagiarism #Queer #LGBT #LGBTQIA #youtube #Solidarity #gay erasure #Make them un-erased

[intcritus]

aizawa fights quirkless -- erasure is a powerful tool, but he's trained with both his capture weapon and his body to be fast, to be insanely strong even against mutant types. he has some strong legs and his core is also strong, he's wellbalanced in the way he trains himself.

#the man has thighs strong enough to snap your neck #( erasure hcs. )