This Gave Me Such A Funny Idea

Secret santa replacement for @mirineii :D

Tumblr de saturated it… its usually more colorful :(

Edit: changed the saturation a bit, hopefully its better now? Og version below

Tumblr just deleted an incredibly long draft of a summary for an AU i made when i tried to edit it...

Brb imma go. Cry or sth. /lh

I just started watching the amrican adaptation of bbc ghosts and i fucking hate it.

Especially Isaac. He replaces the Captain as the new gay character who's in the military. However, unlike the Captain, being gay becomes his whole personality. Every joke turns into "oh, haha, get it, he's feminine because he's gay!!!".

The reason i loved the Captain so much, was because he WASN'T a stereotypical depiction of a gay man. He technically fit male gender roles (strong, authoritarian, stern, fit, literally in the military) despite being queer. Sure, there's jokes about him finding men attractive, but they are the same as the jokes about Thomas's crush. He doesn't get turned into some stereotypical caricature of a gay guy. He has a couple moments like that, like when he played the fairy godmother, but he doesn't constantly get portrayed as feminine just because he's gay.

Isaac however? Any joke related to him is tied to him being gay. Even the military stuff. He finds out that Hamilton is way more famous than him, and of course, the thing that bothers him the most it that there's a musical about him. (get it? Because obviously gay men love musicals. And girls like pink and boys like blue.) Hell, even when he sits, he does exaggerated fem poses.

Especially with the American adaptation, it just feels like they turned an amazing depiction of a queer character, with a personality outside of their queerness, into a very flat and stereotyped one.

I don't mind fem depictions of gay men. There IS gay men, who behave exactly like Isaac. And, this is a comedy show that relies on stereotypes: all ghosts are some sort of stereotype.

However, I'm sick of media trying to frame it as "gay man = feminine". There's so, so many queer characters who are portrayed as inherently "different". In so many shows, lesbians are always butch and gay men always feminine and it's framed in a way that suggests that they are gnc BECAUSE of their queerness, and not in addition to it, and i hate it.

Its just a way to enforce gender roles despite queer identities. Because if a woman likes other women, that must mean shes similar to a man, right?

What about straight gnc characters. Why do we rarely see cishet characters break gender roles, without it being depicted as something bad? (the few examples of gnc characters in popular media that i can think of, are like, guys who out on a dress and got made fun of because of it.)

Can we please stop with the whole "boys are blue, pinks are girls and queer people are gnc!" shit? It's really annoying. And it frames queerness as something different, something that fundementally changes/affects a person's whole personality. Like seriously. Do you not think that the depiction of "same gender attraction = your whole personality is different" is really really fucking weird? I know that it has historical context and everything, because many gay man do behave stereotypically feminine (either as a subtle hint at their queerness, or just because they are already a "deviation" from the norm, so why not say fuck you to the whole system and live your life however you want?) but. But please please please stop pretending like queer people are inherently different from cishets. That just gives people an excuse to be homophobic.

(feel free to add your own take, im sure there's plenty of other interesting perspectives on this that are different from mine, but be nice about it! I wanna have a discussion, not an argument.)

Just wanted to share some of my fav cards:

OH MY GOD MY HERMITCRAFT TCG CARDS ARRIVED!!! IM GONA CRY

Silverbloodsmp!Clay cannon design :D

This is what he currently looks like in the lore but...

Let's just say some events will change his appearance soon :]

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Hermitaday 2024 Masterpost

Normal promts

Day 1: Beef / Day 2: Xisuma / Day 3: Zedaph / Day 4: Keralis // Day 6: Jevin / Day 7: Mumbo / Day 8: XB / Day 9: Skizz / Day 10: Stress / Day 11: Pearl // Day 13: Cub / Day 14: Doc / Day 15: False / Day 16: Wels / Day 17: Etho*/ Day 18: Joe // Day 20: Gem / Day 21: Bdubs / Day 22: Iskall / Day 23: Tango / Day 24: Cleo / Day 25: Impulse // Day 27: Grian** / Day 28: Scar / Day 29: Hypno / Day 30: Joel / Day 31: Ren**

Color coding: Animations, Finished pieces, sketches/flat colors/wip

Special Sunday promts

Day 5: TFC

Day 12: Friends of Hermitcraft (s2 Empires SMP Scott)

Day 19: Fav alternative Hermit (s7 Mumbo)

Day 26: Groups & Collabs (Joel, Etho, Iskall)*

Additional stuff

*The finished Etho fanart is here, the finished group fanart is here

**Might make AUs inspired by these, I'll post more info about that soon!

Zedaph, 2min later: "OW! It kicked me instead of working :("

Zed, i hate to break it to you, but i think it's called the Kicky sticky for a reason...

Zedaph: "Only a little bit of pain, but the pleasure you receive from Sticky Kicky is well worth it if you ask me!"

Plsss this sounds so wrong, but also just confusing out of context