Reblog To Have Something Lgbt Happen To You This Summer

Reblog to have something lgbt happen to you this summer

Happy (belated) Birthday to Christian Borle!!

- Emmett Forrest from Legally Blonde the musical

my brain the past two months has just been *edward Teach born on a Beach* *he doesn't kiss nobody likes him* *he's a visual artist you can't cut the boy's little fingies* *cheers m'dears* *i'm not a Fucking Mermaid* *is that blackbeard // hmm? oh no I'm blackbeard* *m'Noses* *man for sale* *you gotta get rid of that babe I KNOW THAT BABE* *knives are knives meat's meat* *check out this fabulous booty I'm hawkin'* *you came back // never left* on a constant loop

What makes White Collar hold up so much better than other police procedurals:

It was part of the "pretty happy shows with gorgeous ensemble casts and a charismatic weird guy" USA network era but it somehow used that to be about stuff that is so REAL

What is justice? Is our system fair? Can you be a criminal and still be a good man? Can you be a good man and still work for the system?

The bad guys are rich assholes, and people defrauding families out of their homes, and unethical pharmaceutical companies. People manipulating energy supply out of greed resulting in blackouts which are showing *harming a dog,* aka how to show something is monstrous in a pg show written by a white person. Class exists in this universe in more ways than having a cardboard concept of a "rich guy."

The bad guys include police, FBI agents, prison staff, judges, senators. Those people cause real harm, obstruct justice, plant evidence, kill people. It's shown how the system protects them and harms regular people.

The harm that causes the main character to go from wanting to be part of the system, to subverting and working against it, is him finding out about an act of police corruption, brutality, and murder--and what's more, that if he became a cop, that's what he could become.

The harm that causes the main character to be outside the white picket fence is that the system failed his family after that act. What happened to Neal's mom? Why did nobody besides Helen step in? They had to check in with US Marshals, did nobody notice this kid didn't have an adult fit to parent?

So Neal turns to found family. And let's be real, heavily polyamory coded found family at that. But he keeps chasing the idea of a girl who will be everything. But he's got all this attachment trauma so he never does. But because found family is real family, even the people who freaking played the characters are still connected a decade later

you know me better than anyone has ever known me, and i dare say the same is true for me about you.

The niechest and yet truest gay experience I've had must be when I was around fourteen and downloaded a pic from White Collar of Diana and her girlfriend at dinner and then proceeded to hide it in the bottom of a folder in my gallery so my mom wouldn't see it