I do a lot of stuff and have a lot of strange interests. I recently turned 20 and still have no idea what it is that I want from life, but isn't that where all teenagers are c(X
This is a multi fandom blog as well as anything else I find interesting or worth sharing, and like I said before I have MANY interest \(^_^)/
I decided a long time ago I wanted to do streaming. I’ve been experimenting for a bit, afraid to really share it just yet but u know what. Fuck it, i don’t know what I’m doing. I’m just playing games. So if ur into gaming stuff (particularly management type games) I stream on Fridays at around noon. (Sometime earlier)
I love OFMD because it would’ve been so easy to make Izzy a flat homophobic villain who only hates Stede because he’s not masc enough. It’s the expected beats for a character like this! It makes sense for the main source of antagonism to come from a place of bigotry! But instead of taking that route, OFMD just sidesteps that completely.
The majority of queer narratives are steeped in trauma and homophobia the characters face. This makes sense because these are our stories of queerness. That pain is there. But it’s delightfully refreshing to see a queer romcom that doesn’t rely on homophobia as the obstacle keeping the couple apart.
It’s not that Izzy’s ashamed of being gay, that he hates femininity, or that he wants to mold people into a masculine ideal. He’s just a guy too invested in his job, a bit of a dick, and painfully, tragically in love with his boss who doesn’t love him back in the same way.
And it’s nice to be able to just have that. Knowing that if Stede was a woman and nothing else changed, Izzy would behave exactly the same way because it’s not about that. It’s not about systems of bigotry, it’s about interpersonal conflict and heartbreak. The range of emotions queer people can face. The way we can develop and destroy relationships between us from envy and trauma and miscommunication and simply being together at the wrong place in the wrong time.
OFMD could’ve taken the simplistic, easy narrative already pre-built into our assumptions, but instead it chose to give us something so much more than that.
I’m so glad we didn’t get the wide-angle naked writhing bodies shot for the Paris love making scene. Much as I’d like to see skin(of these men esp), focusing on close-up shots, their facial expressions and emotions made the scene so much more than a run-of-the-mill sex scene.
I haven’t seen this done much in hetero sex scenes and I’m glad they did it here. The long shots actually make a sex scene look very clinical and impersonal. This one was borderline voyeuristic… like… The viewer is intruding into a very personal and intimate moment of the couple, which is what making love is.
oh but how absolutely monumental it still is to have all these big and mainstream pieces of queer television right now. remember how excited you got when there was one character who said he was bi or gay only then to be killed or written off or treated horribly by both writers and the public. remember how hard it was to find queer shows and movie that didn’t make you hate yourself or so angry or scared. remember how seen you felt about that one queer kiss or that one coming out or within one particular character! yes, devastating sad queer pieces are important. fucked up queer stories need to be told. queer period pieces and dramas with unhappy endings too. but queer happiness, queer young and old love, queer cringe, queer joy- we deserve that too.
21st January 2022
Notes: 13
#im terrified#this was my unus annus resolotion from a whole ass year ago#yeah i tend to procrastinate#like for years#but here we are#two point hospital#is what im playing today#some other games i have#prison architect#raft#house flipper#idk why i feel safer in the tags#if ur got all the way here hello#anus annus#twitch#gamer girl#pfft ew#the context of that fraise feels like it changed#ok im shutting up now
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