ZENDAYA, JOSH O'CONNOR And MIKE FAIST In CHALLENGERS (2024, Dir. Luca Guadagnino)

queer rep is "wait... I like boys? but... I am one..." meanwhile queerbaiting is "I need you to tell me that my life was worthwhile, and... I need you to tell me that you love me"

i'm only three episodes from the end and the dynamic between house and wilson makes me crazy because what they actually get out of their relationship is the reverse of what almost every other character thinks it is.

initially, other characters and the audience all see their friendship as one where wilson perpetually enables house. house is needy, wilson likes to be needed, it's a cycle. house and wilson themselves frame the relationship as such on multiple occasions. and this is definitely part of of it! house likes having someone who will stay with him no matter what, wilson likes helping, but the main core of their relationship is actually the opposite.

wilson is someone that house will set aside everything to care for, will do anything for. house pathologically burns bridges to keep everyone at a distance and prioritizes himself, but when it comes down to it, he'll put wilson and wilson's happiness over his own. he risks his pride, his mind, his life, and his career for wilson repeatedly.

house is someone that wilson actually feels comfortable wanting and needing something from. this is a man who is so terrified and revolted at the thought of people seeing him vulnerable that he opts to nearly kill himself with chemo to avoid that, but he lets house be there. house is the one person he lets take care of him.

the core of their relationship, the point of their relationship, is that they can drop their respective "i don't need anyone else to be happy" / "i need to make everyone else happy" masks. house gets to be needed, and wilson gets to need.

my friend's homophobic family gc:

@chicklover6969

Piracy can’t be stealing if paying for it isn’t owning.

Ink: Waterman Inspired Blue

Loustat only works if they are both pathetically down bad for each other. If I have to read one more fic where Lestat is madly in love with Louis but Louis only tolerates his existence, I will lose my mind. That is nowhere near the type of dynamic they have.

the painting and will’s love for mike being used as a device to further mike and eleven’s relationship is literally sickening to me i’m actually distressed

the thing that gets me about about barbie is that barbie land wasn’t even purposefully a matriarchy, barbie land came about because of the way little girls were playing with their barbies, it wasn’t created by mattel it was created by the people using the toys, so the fact that the barbies ignored the ken’s and had girls night every night wasn’t because they had some bias against him, it was just an accurate depiction of how kids play with barbies. I had some ken dolls as a child and they were essential to the plot in the sense that of course my barbie has a boyfriend because that represented the world i saw around me, but also he didn’t have any purpose in my dream world because i was only interested in what the girls were doing because they represented me and how i wanted to be, I wanted girls night every night I wanted the girls to be president and austronauts and not because of some inherent feminist idea but because I was a girl and I wasn’t thinking about boys, ken was an accessory. this movie wasn’t made to change the world but it showed a different perspective than what we usually see which I thought was fun. Men don’t have to be the centre of all our stories and its not even because we hate them, sometimes we’re just not thinking about them

normalize not knowing anything about yourself. like who’s that guy lol

DESTIEL IN EVERY EPISODE → 4x22 lucifer rising

whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

He's a 16 year old Edwardian ghost. He's gay. He's oblivious. He's in love with his best friend. He's got internalized homophobia. He's occasionally a woman. He's been dead for 70 years. He's never felt more alive. He is the kindest man you'll ever see. He is destined for hell. He has no rizz. Everyone wants him carnally. Edwin Payne really is THE most character of all time no one is doing it like him