Dead Boy Detectives Fandom, Can We Just Call The Ship Of Charles And Edwin, Dead Boyfriends? I Am Tired

1: lovefool - the cardigans

2: kiss and tell - idkhowbtfm

3: angel eyes - abba

4: navigating - twenty one pilots

5: dead! - mcr

6: hot to go - chappell roan

7: paint the town red - doja cat

8: of all the gin joints in all the world - fob

9: talk to you - ricky montgomery

10: knee socks - arctic monkeys

tagging: @shitwheresfoxy @wavygrayvy

@quuixotics

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Rules: Shuffle your "On Repeat" playlist and post the first 10 songs, then tag 10 friends!

Rush - Troye Sivan

I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany

Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan

Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan

Sharks - Imagine Dragons

Talk Fast - 5 Seconds of Summer

De Shelby (Part 2) - Hozier

Guess - Charli xcx, Billie Eilish

so american - Olivia Rodrigo

Where Did The Party Go - Fall Out Boy

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happy Thursday the 20th

this is the one i’m writing presently !

“Well that’s probably not good. Jim thinks to himself, gulping.” - she spock my jim till i spirk

(NOT THE FINAL NAME LMAO I JUST CANT TAKE THINGS IN MY DOCS SERIOUSLY)

presenting... random titles in my google docs for star trek fics im writing (+ a line from the fic) without context

Jim blinked. “Spock, I’m not about to pimp you out to these guys.”

Uhura was the first to get it, eyebrows hiking up in delight and surprise. “Oh my god, Spock you dog!”

"Just what the hell are you doin' to him, Jim?"

"Nothing he didn't ask me to!"

McCoy rolled his eyes. “Oh please,” he scoffed. “Bring out your whips and chains and do your fucking worst. Really? That’s the bargaining chip you went for? Newsflash, moron, he’s not gonna—“

“You’re alright darlin’” The endearment slipped from his lips faster than he could process it. He tensed, waiting for a sharp retort. It never came. Instead, he felt Spock’s chest rumble slightly against his own, a deep thrum that made him bite his tongue to keep from laughing with glee when he realized where it was coming from. 

Spock was purring.

The reaction to this season could be summarised as:

Fandom decides to be deliberately obtuse about how stories and three-act-story structure works.

Guys, even YouTube videos explain how stories work, will tell you this magical phase:

The couples often break up in the second act.

Remember the homework Neil sent about watching P&P? Okay, think very hard and remember... What happened in the second act of that story?

It's not queerbaiting, you are just allergic to conflict, honestly.

I literally work teaching children and yet I think the kids are less obtuse about things than this fandom. And if I am talking to you are it's because I am repeating, many times, that you need to cool off and think before you go for your pitchforks to the writers for obeying basic rules of storytelling.

beautiful women named daniel howell are dming me on instagram

you see me smiling at my phone like a giddy little lovestruck schoolgirl. you ask me if its a boy thats got me smiling like that. i nod and show you my phone. there is a 62 year old man on my screen

this morning is brought to you by me thinking about Captain James T Kirk while listening to Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl.

Y’all I love the dynamic in episode 5 so much…

One of the reasons I love ofmd is because Ed and Stede are both repressed in ways that are inherently exclusive to queer men but in completely different ways. It makes the way they learn from each other so interesting and informs what they need from each other.

Stede’s able to present himself in a way that reads as queer by modern standards his whole life because of his aristocratic status, but he doesn’t want it. (And yes modern standards matter in a historical fiction show that has lines like “ew, lame” 😂). His whole life he’s been blamed by everyone in his life for not being “man” enough, not being able to even fake it till he makes it. The fact that his queerness is worn on his sleeve at all times with only the virtue of period typical straight obliviousness keeping him hidden makes it so he almost kind of has a “been there done that” attitude about it. After all, it only ever lead to bad things.

Meanwhile Blackbeard is the exact masculine ideal Stede thinks he (himself) should be, and he doesn’t want that. Ed’s the perfect definition of a “real man” but it’s something he was forced to hastily toss up like a wall for defense decades ago without actually considering what makes him feel like himself. He lights up at the promise of colorful fancy clothes, he likes being soft and kind of ridiculous, he wants to be the one who’s wooed by someone he likes. But he can’t ever really have an outlet for those things because he accidentally became the literal poster child of traditional masculinity. (It’s the classic “ran into the closet so hard you broke through the wall and don’t even know where tf you are now” lol)

So what happens in episode 5?

Ed let’s Stede “save the day” instead of him which culminates in a ship on fire (peak swash buckling), and Stede let’s Ed stand under the moonlight and basically hear that he’s pretty.

i have an addition to this post but cannot for the LIFE of me find the original so im attaching photos here

he’s the worst man ever invented but of course, his breasts are sublime