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Little, Broken, But Still Good

@femmedplume / femmedplume.tumblr.com

Home of your friendly neighborhood Stitch. Lover of writing and cats, intermittently in need of a fainting couch. Commissons open, check out Instagram.com/lesmars_art. Tolkien side-blog @brannonlasgalen
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We did one scene. A big big scene, a sort of six or seven page scene. With lots of the cast in it. And what we always do is have a, what we call a crew show, where it’s been rehearsed, for most of the morning, and then we show it for the crew before we actually film it. And we did this particular scene and at the end there was a silence. And then everyone just burst into a round of applause. It was extremely affecting and strong stuff, so. Very exciting.

Mark Gatiss, SDCC 2016 x (via cupidford)

#sherlock#sdcc2016#fodder post#and also for me
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I don't ship them.
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“THESE TWO ARE CANON SHIP IT YOU HOMOPHOBE”
Thank you!
I am a gay male. Likely I’m one of the oldest users on tumblr. I’m 74. Yes, young readers seventy four. I have been with my partner Carl for 47 years now.
Please know that while we both know technology very well, we are also trying very hard to remember, and use correctly, the new dialogue that has grown. So, if any words appear here that are not considered correct…it is not because I refuse to use them. It’s because I haven’t heard them. Or seen them. Or am emotional enough while writing this that I simply use “old fart” words.
We have both been through it all. The hiding because it was illegal, the fear and pain of the loss of fifteen different friends and acquaintances from A.I.D.S. The times when you literally (not virtually) could not walk the streets without meeting someone that had a sign, or a pamphlet that declared A.I.D.S was God’s way of “ridding the earth” of homosexuality. We lived through the burning of homes, and clubs, and bars. We lived through the beating deaths. I lived through a beating that nearly lost me my right eye and left me completely deaf in the right ear. Carl lost several jobs because “he must be…” or “we know.” We lived through hatred that was terrifying and sickening and unimaginable to some today.
The hatred is still there. The overt and the subtle. Things are, however better (it’s a terrible word, I know). Carl and I married. We debated making it very public, but decided on a personal ceremony. The photos are filled with our friends who are 90 and…well…have a few pages stuck together, to new friends who are young enough to be our grandchildren.
Carl and I are in a variety of fandoms. Yes, we are trekkies-we bought our first color television just for Star Trek. Now Carl loves Supernatural (and thinks it’s gone so far down the crapper that they’ve actually made Naomi an Alien). I like Teen Wolf and we both watch Sherlock.
The opening statement made by the anon is so, so true. And to us, it is a new form of hatred. I read fanfic and write it. Carl and I both enjoy all forms of fanworks.
Here’s the kicker… Neither of us is a Sherlock/John shipper. We both see Sherlock and John as two men who have a very unique and incredibly strong friendship. Here’s the irony: I have been called a homophobe for not shipping Sherlock and John. I received hate messages in my (now deleted) Sherlock blog when I answered ‘do you ship Johnlock?’ with the single word ‘no’. It was oddly amusing: “Homophobe”, “die cis scum!”, “go kill yourself”, “you must be a lonely, fat, hag”.
When straight people go out of their way to “prove” that John and Sherlock (and other fandom characters) are gay, and do so with the cry of “if you don’t ship it, you hate gays!” It is an ironic form of hatred and, in a way, homophobia: These straight people are so determined to show that they aren’t homophobic, that they fail to see how damaging their fetishization and “look at how accepting I am!” is. That, queers can actually see a friendship between John and Sherlock (and any other fandom characters). That seeing a friendship, and not shipping John and Sherlock is simply that… Seeing a friendship.
When you demand, dear straight people, that others ship Johnlock, and demand that if you don’t “ship” you are homophobic… You are the one that is showing intolerance and hate: Your quest to prove that you’re on “our side” only proves your ignorance, your desperation to been seen as an ally, and the fact that you don’t actually see queer issues, or respect those that are queer.
You only want to see two guys have hot (or painfully bad, and painful, considering the how…painfully it is written the majority of the time) sex.

Read it; learn things. 

Ok so y’all know by now that I don’t watch TV and barely even know what “shipping” means but I’ve got mad respect for my elders and this guy knows what’s up with gay fetishization by straight folks.

Wish the OP’s URL was on this post. Wanna follow. And give him a great big hug. And a high five for being right.

This man is my fucking hero and I can only hope to be as great and eloquent as him some day.

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THIS. This is what I've been saying! 

#fandom#spn#teen wolf#sherlock#shipping#gay fetishization#LGBT Rights#fight homophobia
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ppl who act like john being devastated by sherlock’s death means that he was in love with him like……….have u never had a friend before. please make a friend.

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It's interesting because this reaction, "Oh, that one male character showed emotion towards that other male character--they MUST be gay," is actually a deeply misogynistic response. Our culture associates everything bad with being female, including the fact that women are supposed to be "more emotional" than men. From misogyny springs homophobia, part of which is this perception that ALL gay men behave in a singular fashion: that is, more feminine than straight men.

So whenever a man steps outside of the patriarchally approved alpha-male narrative (like enjoying dancing, or cooking, or showing emotions, especially crying,) society is quick to label him--and any other male who doesn't immediately disdain him for these behaviors--as gay.  Which, of course, is code for "not cisgender enough" or "too feminine"--as though having feminine traits automatically decides someone's sexuality.

NEVER MIND that SO MANY gay/bi men are not remotely effeminate. 

NEVER MIND that straight men have shown over and over again just how emotional they can be, and that expressing emotions or having deeply felt friendships is not solely the purview of womankind/gay/bi men.

NEVER MIND that the majority of ALL of our deeply emotional relationships in our lifetimes--regardless of sexuality or gender--will be friendships and family relationships, and so it's perfectly logical to assume that some of those will be just as important and formative as a romantic/sexual relationship.

And of course, NEVER MIND that these individuals have mostly self-determined as straight, which the supposedly liberal-minded fandom society should be in favor of supporting. You know, a person's right to decide who/what they are without having to bend to your personal perceptions of what they should be? 

Never mind that. 

John's devastated because he saw his best friend commit suicide? Gay.

Cas and Dean look each other in the eye for 3 seconds during high stakes/awkward moments in their lives? Gay.

Derek and Stiles argue and don't get along, then eventually become friends? Gay. 

So, fellas, learn the lesson. If you care about your male friends, you're gay. If overwhelmingly dramatic circumstances bond you and your friends together, it's not the foxholes you shared that makes them important to you...it's because you're gay. If you cry? Gay. If you hug another man? Gay. If you LOOK at another man, even to share your very justifiable feelings of "WTF" in any given situation? SO. GAY.

Meanwhile, of course, the ACTUAL gay/bi characters on TV are all but ignored. Because it's not as much about representation as it is about maintaining those oppressive patriarchal standards of male behavior. (And also fulfilling our sexual fantasies of "forbidden love.") Like, almost nobody's shipping Danny and Ethan (Aiden?) They're an adorable, sexy, out-and-proud gay couple--but they are not even close to the pivotal gay ship in the Teen Wolf fandom. Kurt and Blaine? Piper and Alex? Not as important as Destiel or Cap and Bucky.

Not that the LGBTQAIP community doesn't participate at all in these conversations, or ever ship two hetero characters for the sake of feeling represented. They do, and the fact that they even have to says something really disgusting about the lack of representation in media. It's analogous to how POC have to "racebend" their favorite characters...because too few of them are ever written that way originally.

And not that Fanon shipping of two characters by taking them completely out of context shouldn't be allowed or enjoyed. It should. It's lovely and fun. 

But to insist that canon hetero males in media have to be completely, insanely no-homo-cisgender in order to "justify" their same-sex friendships as platonic is ALL kinds of homophobic/misogynistic.

And it's an especially odd reaction considering the huge intersection between those who INSIST canon hetero characters are gay/bi because of their non-cis approved behavior, and those who stand up for a person's right to say "I'm pan/genderqueer, here are my pronouns," or a straight man's right to wear dresses, without being judged.

The same people who laugh at straight guys who pretend they can't tell when another guy's hot, because "god how dumb are straight guys that they think we'll think they're gay because they recognize another man's attractive"? These are the people who insist that Dean Winchester enjoying wearing his girlfriend's pink satin panties is clear and incontrovertible PROOF that he's gay/bi.  

It's this kind of hypocrisy that leads to the straight male "no homo" behavior. Because men who aren't gay/bi, and don't want to be mislabeled--BECAUSE NO ONE LIKES BEING MISLABELED-- know they will be if they deviate from their macho behavior. 

Of course, it's not okay to mislabel/misgender people. Unless they're straight but ever-so-slightly not cisgender men. Or hot. Then it's totally cool. /sarcasm

YOU don't get to decide where someone else falls on the sexuality/gender spectrum. THEY do. And if they say, "I'm a straight male, and this is how I behave with my friends," might we not do better to say, "Ah. I didn't realize that straight male friendship and gay male love behaviors had things in common. I've learned something new about the universality of human behavior," than to shout "GAAAAAAAAYYYY"?

TL;DR - There are gay/bi men who love each other romantically, and straight/bi men who love each other platonically. Both types of love share certain characteristics. There is room for both types in our understanding of human behavior. 

#sherlock#teen wolf#spn#a rare rant from your local Tumblr lurker#misogyny and homophobia within fandom
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This GIF right here? This is BEAUTIFUL.

This is a fan-made GIF of Van Gogh's Starry Night. It takes the image and enhances it, changes it, gives us a different way of looking at the classic. You know, kind of like fanfiction/shipping does for TV shows and movies and books. Thing is, we all agree that this ISN'T the original painting. This isn't Van Gogh's work, nor do we know if this GIF is something he'd enjoy or be horrified by. IT IS AN INTERPRETATION OF AN ARTIST'S ORIGINAL PIECE, INSPIRED BY THE FACT THAT THE ORIGINAL WAS AWESOME. IT IS NOT THE SAME AS THE ORIGINAL. 

Now, the GIF-maker was obviously inspired by Starry Night; perhaps they're even a Van Gogh fan. But while they most certainly have the right to pay homage to/reinterpret their fave painter in any way they please, the original painting itself belongs to everyone--but most importantly, to Van Gogh himself. It's his brainchild, his genius we are so fortunate to partake in. We're lucky that he kept painting despite general public dislike of his work--which, in the modern day, we could liken to negative fan feedback--or we would not have this masterpiece.

Now, if the GIF-maker were to somehow travel back in time to show Van Gogh their work and insist that "This is better, why don't you make it like I want it and if you don't I hate you forever and I hope you kill yourself"--well, that would not only be sad, sad foreshadowing, but also A DICK MOVE. 

The above example?  It relates quite well to the reality that fanfiction/shipping is NOT the same thing as Canon. No matter how much you might want your particular fan ship to be Canon, until and unless the actual artists creating the show/book you're inspired by decide that's what THEY want to do with THEIR ART, well--it just isn't. IT'S YOUR INTERPRETATION. And no matter how many like-minded individuals appreciate that interpretation, IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE ORIGINAL. 

Now. If you were to berate/threaten/tear down the artist(s) that create your show/book inspiration for not reworking THEIR original art to suit YOUR particular tastes, that is also--you guessed it!--A DICK MOVE. 

Still, THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN'T ENJOY BOTH the Canon and everyone's fan-made reinterpretations, right? 

TL;DR - Fanon =/= Canon, and that's okay. There's always room for more art! :)

(Props to whomever made the GIF, by the way...anyone have a source?)

#fandom#van gogh#art#rant over#SPN#teen wolf#Harry Potter#percy jackson#Sherlock
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