Various Queer Things

Fraser takes drag very seriously. He's done research. He wants to learn how to be better - for next time!

He even got himself passion flower perfume :)

For @allofthebeanz

that's... not how it works. you can't guarantee that your work definitely won't squick anyone. what do you think you're saying?

"squick free" someone writes on their wholesome family fic about married characters expecting a baby.

I read it and am extremely squicked.

You do not know what squicks other people. "Squick" is not a category of elements, it is a description of a reaction.

Squick is literally a personal thing, you literally cannot know what squicks another person.

Same goes for triggers, by the way. You can't guarantee something is trigger-free because literally anything can be a trigger because the human brain can be weird like that sometimes.

No no, actually there's a perfect way to write an absolutely squick free fanfic! Plenty of writers do it successfully every day!

Here.

Blank documents squick me out because they remind me of all my unstarted writing projects. :/

guys. c'mon.

oh my goddd

Okay, for anyone ACTUALLY unsure and wanting to learn: "squick" is an old fandom term. It means something that grosses you out or makes you deeply uncomfortable, but doesn't give you as intense negative reactions as a trigger. They are incredibly personal, though often times, just like with triggers, you can tag relatively common squicks.

For me, mpreg is a squick. It makes me deeply uncomfortable, but it doesn't send me into a panic spiral, a deep depression, or make me angry like reading about eye trauma does.

My cousins in Lannister, ‘squick’ didn’t even originate in fandom.

Also useful to note that ‘squick’ is specifically used to mean “this isn’t for me, personally” without adding a moral judgement to it. A simple easy way to say ‘no, thank you but you do you’. Unlike ‘cringe’ which has negative connotations. Squicks are also more than just uncomfortable.

Daddy kink makes me uncomfortable

Degradation squicks me out

Hand trauma is a trigger

First known usage of "squick" was in 1991. It's not some new term that was made up for this post.

And if you want an actual definition and etymology, here. It’s also in the Oxford English Dictionary but that’s paywalled so less useful to link.

I don’t have Spotify so I can’t participate in the fun memes but on the plus side I get to smugly say, “I don’t have Spotify,” when people ask

Why, I call upon the minstrels of my keep to play a tune! My beloved oud players, my bedeviling mandolutists, and my five angelic castrati.

fraser styling his hair in the American Woman montage sends me

I Saw the TV Glow (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun

thanks for answering (from my sideblog now)-- and everyone who has an interest in queer cinema, go check out this blog!

favourite character: elizabeth swann         ↳ pirates of the caribbean trilogy

Shoutout to my man Dr. James Barry for being the coolest guy ever, sexy, transgender, doing lots of good things for the medical field, and having the patience to not spring out of his grave and beat the shit out of the bitchass wikipedia editor who wrote "He possibly could've done this [transitioning] to enter the medical field"

Spartacus: War of the Damned | The Dead and the Dying

do you ever become obsessed with a character and you just go "of fucking course its that one" at yourself because you are so incredibly predictable

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | 1.04

louis de pointe du lac got these men acting unwise

what's your "if I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone but there would be signs" thing? mine is getting a fully green kitchen

Friends, enemies, whoever: there is a massive, money-soaked rightwing voter suppression effort targeting social media users who identify as progressive and/or are seen as potential Democratic supporters. Let's all keep that in mind, okay? Let's not make accidental unpaid operatives of ourselves, all right?

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