Yes We Need More Chaste Twee Baby Gay Romances Like Heartstopper And Yes We Also Need More Shows Where

Yes we need more chaste twee baby gay romances like heartstopper and yes we also need more shows where men fuck raw to express their love for one another like Élite and yes we need more toxic gays having hate sex like Interview with the Vampire and yes we need more incidental gay characters like the dads in cartoons like Owl House.

It's not a competition! It's a hoard and I'm like a gay little Smaug.

Sometimes 'critical media analysis' means accepting that things like:

"I love this [character/storyline/ship/whatever]/this thing brings me comfort/I connect to this thing on a meaningful personal level for extremely valid reasons,"

and,

"I hate this [character/storyline/ship/whatever]/this thing makes extremely uncomfortable/I connect this thing only to negative [people/relationships/whatever] from my life,"

can both be 100% true and valid at the same time, depending on the person.

Fiction is not morality, fictional people are not real people, and everyone brings their own perspective to a piece of media they consume. It's okay - even good! - to accept that not everyone will relate to the media you consume in the same way you relate to it, and that this doesn't mean that one of you is "right" or "wrong."

Sometimes all it means is that you'll probably enjoy different areas of fandom that explore different interpretations of canon, and that's okay, too.

tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies

Zuko: well, if I was the blue spirit

Zuko: AND I’M NOT

Sokka: *suspiciously and reluctantly crosses out Zuko’s name on his list of possible blue spirit suspects*

more people need to give lil izumi the attention she deserves

Every time I reread a bit of Spinning Silver, I notice new ways the Staryk king is 100% a panicking, highly reactive dufus who does not know what he's doing at any point in the book any more than Miryem ever quite does.

Miryem and the Staryk king are peak clown-to-clown communication; to the point that they come to understand each other on a deeply personal, cross-cultural level - enough to realize that they are actually well-matched in terms of their values and long-term goals enough to actually fall in love with each other - all while still completely missing like 90% of everything the other one is trying to say at any given moment.

I love them and I love this book so much.