i like sailing myths and superstitions because most of them can be boiled down to "if the ocean doesn't like you it will chew you up and spit out your bones. and if it really loves you it will swallow you whole and keep you forever. good luck 👍"
best use of the underwater filter on this app
The Birdcage (1996) // dir. Mike Nichols
festival of carrot make us all right mind and sight
one aspect of Ilya's character I don't want to lose sight of is that in spite of it all he chooses joy in his life in numerous small ways. some interior part of him knows that fully committing to path of self-hatred would result in his family winning: his self-hatred is what they want. and he, absolutely crucially, comes to the conclusion that they are wrong. they are wrong about him and he decides in numerous ways every day they he will not give them the satisfaction of destroying himself. (s/o svetlana for helping him see this at pivotal points in his life)
at some point — well, realistically, at various points throughout his journey because we forget and realize again; that's how it goes — he surrenders to the fact that he deserves love. that he can let himself have a sunny morning with Shane and that it can go without punishment. that he can have this love, with Shane.
Do we have to do the "hahaha fans of the new canon m/m show must all be loser babies who've never watched anything darker than that particular canon m/m show in their lives so it'll be hilarious to recommend prestige tv with m/m lololol coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb amirite" thing all over again? I didn't love it initially but it's even stupider now. IWTV, Black Sails, and The Terror aren't secret media that only you and your friends love. They've probably already watched them.
Y’all need to stop with this “actors can only play characters that match their identity categories down to their astrological sign” shit cause there’s still some straight actors I wanna see take dick
why does wanting affection feel so absolutely disgusting and embarrassing. that’s what I wanna know.
heated rivalry has really intensified the shitty takes from f/f fans who don’t know how to actually look for, create, or support the media they want lol. there’s literally so much live action GL available online already (please watch these pilots so the shows i want to see most can actually get picked up).
or if you are weirdly insistent on having a western show, you could just, i don’t know, go to a bookstore and buy a f/f romance book instead of pretending like heated rivalry just dropped out of the sky fully formed instead of being optioned for a series because the books were already bestsellers.
there is genuinely so much f/f literature out there that you could be reading instead of complaining about m/m books getting adaptations. you will not get a yuri heated rivalry by complaining about heated rivalry. you will only get a yuri heated rivalry by supporting f/f writers like Tasha Suri, Malka Older, Caitlin Starling, C.L. Polk, Micaiah Johnson, Aliette de Bodard, Emily Skrutskie—and these are just the ones off the top of my head. and these are just speculative fiction writers because there is enough out there that i can afford to be picky about the genre i read! just read a book. literally just go to a library, go to a bookstore, and open up a book. read a fucking book. just read a fucking book. you won’t get a book adaptation if you don’t read the fucking book. just open it. and read it.
but also you can literally watch live action yuri for free on youtube right now!! there are millions of people already doing it which is why it’s so weird when white tumblrinas act like asian GL doesn’t exist. like you are making yourself look an absolute ignorant fool when you ignore its existence. thailand will absolutely have a sports GL out before north america does and you will all still be sitting here arguing about whether lesbians experience homophobia or not.
people asking for heated rivalry yuri and then straight up admitting they wouldn’t even watch it and then wondering why there’s no heated rivalry yuri. but also there’s already 1 william lesbian sex tv shows out there??? and there’s already countless fucking gifsets of them??? you could literally just look at thai GL gifsets why are the thai GL gifs invisible to your eyeballs????
I'm mostly into historical/fantasy stuff, so I went looking and found a selection of historical GL someone put together on MyDramaList! Seems like a good place to start.
I know one show won't be for everyone but we do already have a lesbian sports tv drama. A League Of Their Own came out in 2022! It has multiple canon f/f pairings. It has four butches and a trans man. It has a canon pairing with a huge height difference! You love those, right? And if you prefer subtext you can go all conspiracy theorist with me about how Maybelle is definitely straight but also definitely fucked her butch roommate.
Take my hand. Let's watch historical baseball yuri together.
I loved when “Drift Compatible” entered pop lexicon cause we were in DESPERATE need for a way to platonically express “one of us to the other is as a limb to a body; we are a left and right feet of a dancer; we do not need to speak because any one word inspires an exchange of unspoken words that conveys a full conversation in which a mutual conclusion is determined in an instant”. Huge win for the QPRs out here
I also really love that the movie explicitly shows that drift compatibility can be any form of relationship. Two brothers, three brothers, husband and wife, father and son, two friends who have lost everything to the same enemy. It isn’t about the way you connect, it’s about the connection itself. And of course, that connection lets you put boots to asses and kill alien monsters together. Because the power of human connection can change the world or something.
Half the people on the internet for some reason
what was your biggest childhood dream?
to be understood!!!
