DruckSaschisi | Be My Light

Druck·Saschisi | Be my Light

BGM: Sei mein Licht by unheilig

"cracks are the only way to bring in the light" - max bernini

Do we really still need to have conversation on the topic “Is Isi non-binary?” Someone has been changing pronouns on her page and erasing the “non-binary” from their page for the second day in the row. 

*tired non-binary sigh*

I fucking love how Our Flag Means death has explicit, unabashed queer romance and character but ALSO has wall-to-wall metaphors and symbolism. We can have the kiss but we can ALSO read into the colors of wardrobes and whether a character wears gloves or not. We can read into the metaphor of Stede’s secret closet and letting Ed in, and ALSO have a fully fleshed-out storyline about a gay man in a loveless marriage telling his wife “his name is Ed.” We have the red silk scene in the moonlight, of gently handling a bit of cloth to represent a heart, and we have “what makes Ed happy is…you.”

We get all the subtle details of brief touches and meaningful glances, but not instead of explicit queerness—it’s that the unabashedly queer characters and story deserve that level of build-up and poetry.

Yes, I do in fact love the homoeroticness of-

*looks at smudged writing*

Steve Irwin and Geralt of Rivia