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They should do an episode of ghosts where Robin goes to space and the captain is gay. That would be nice.
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.)
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Happy Anniversary AISA!
Happy birthday to my story And It Starts Again. It's been one year since I posted this madness, and it has gotten way more attention than I ever thought it would, especially since it was my first fic on AO3!
I appreciate all of those who have read and loved my silly little story.
As for the sequel, it is definitely in the works. It's official name is Again, Those Scars.
Until next time...
BYE!
Assigning (some) BBC Ghosts characters songs with no explanation (Based on my playlist), to feed my hyperfixation.
Captain: War of Hearts-Ruelle, Little Miss Perfect-Taylor Louderman, Let me Down Slowly-Alec Benjamin
Allison: Vampire-Olivia Rodrigo
Fanny: Labour- Paris Paloma, Nymphology-Melanie Martinez, Family Jewels-Marina and The Diamonds
Thomas: Average-Sushi Soucy, The Knife in my Back-Alec Benjamin, Cry Baby-Melanie Martinez, The Lakes-Taylor Swift
Kitty: Candy-Robbie Williams, The Family Jewels-Marina and The Diamonds
Idk why this comment was so funny to me
War movies that I personally recommend
1917 (2019)
Anthropoid (2016)
Flammen & Citronen (2008)
Napola (2004)
The Pianist (2002)
Idi I Smotri (1985)
Schindler's List (1993)
Nanjing! Nanjing! (2009)
Der Hauptmann (2018)
13 Minutes (2015)
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very very rough wip (ik all I do is post wips keke ⚰️)
Captain,,, my sweet moonchild,,,,,,,, ༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽
Just had a thought after watching Ghosts season 3 (all for the fist time, it’s not readily available here in Aus, cheers to @patcaps for making them all available!)
Maybe the whole “Captain cheering up Kitty” scene is what made her have him as her father in her flashback?
I’m not sure if these eps are in the right order for this as I’ve only watched them once but found this interesting.