Quiet, They Said. Gentle, They Said. Romantic Even.

Queer stories with religious symbolism? Delicious

Okay but actually Bildad the Shuhite was one of the worst Crowley looks (something about the sunglasses with That Beard) but I think that’s what makes it so attractive

I think there’s both a stereotype and an expectation in the queer community that relationships must move fast. You met each other yesterday and now you’re moving in together. You’re having sex on the first date. You’re getting married after one week of dating. People are allowed to do whatever they want, but this feels like too much pressure for me. It’s also making it a lot harder to figure out if I’m demi or just… scared

I overheard a conversation in a coffee shop today, so I just wanted to take this moment to remind everyone who may be struggling with this as we kick off pride month (or at any other time)

You are not selfish for being who you are and doing what makes you happy. Your parents are selfish for expecting you to be the person they want you to be.

Simon is an inherently fruity name. Simon Snow. Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Simon from Young Royals.

It worked /:

putting this gif under a box propped up with a stick in order to capture bisexuals

Some people relate to Crowley through sarcasm, or an unnatural ability to look stylish at any (most) given moment, or crippling self doubt, or being so in love with your best friend that you can’t see how much they love you back.

Personally, I relate to Crowley because my hair is red and my car caught on fire.

Actually Aziraphale has so many diaries because half the pages are just drawings he did of himself and Crowley

Pretty much nailed it

OFMD Characters Based on What I’ve Seen From Gifs Because I Haven’t Watched The Show Yet:

- Blackbeard: looks scary but has a marshmallow center maybe? Insecure, should be protected even though he’s a big scary pirate. Shaves his beard later and I’m already sad about it.

- Fancy Man: big silly goober. Blackbeard is in love with him and he returns the feelings but it takes him longer to figure it out because he’s a big silly goober. Mega nerd.

- Pathetic Mean Little Bitch: one sided feelings for Blackbeard maybe? Embarrassing little man. I suspect he’s just pathetic enough for me to like.

- ‘Move I’m Gay’: has a lot of good one liners? Doesn’t think he’s cute but has decided to act cute anyway. Good character.

- Fancy Man’s Wife: deserves better.

- and like a million other characters I don’t remember

- I think there’s a seagull?

While we like to joke about Izzy being in the wrong genre, I would argue that there are in fact at least five distinct genre universes in the world of Our Flag Means Death, and all of them have different rules.

Stede Bonnet, and his crew when they’re around him, live in a Muppet movie. I didn’t come up with this analogy but it’s so accurate. Insane physical comedy and comedy-action where no one really gets hurt. Mild peril but you know everything is gonna work out. Terrible puns and sight gags, but room for sweet, genuine emotional moments too. The rules of time, space, probability and logic will bend for a good joke.

Izzy Hands is in a grimdark action/drama where if someone gets stabbed in the gut they will behave normally and fucking die. (Probably slowly and painfully, of sepsis.) Crucially I think Izzy also lives in a genre where you can only be subtextually queer, and violence (done for or with or to each other) is the only acceptable form of intimacy between men. This is why being forcibly dragged into Stede’s world, where everyone is busy having silly low-stakes misadventures and being gay and emotionally available all over the main text–and seeing his Subtextual Boyfriend go into this world and love it–sends him round the twist.

The British, Spanish and other imperialist militaries are in a Master and Commander-style naval adventure where they’re the heroes. This is why they all take it completely seriously when Stede (unintentionally) kills Badminton and takes hostages, even though we can see that he bumbled his way into it ass-backwards. This is also why Stede is so shocked to get actually for real stabbed aboard the Spanish ship. (“Did you mean to do that?”) He didn’t realize until that moment that he’d stepped into a different genre. The stabbing is one of the first Surprise Genre Switch moments we get and in retrospect it’s very important for setting up that in this world, the threat of getting hurt or killed is very real–which we need to understand to know that there are real stakes much later, when Stede almost gets executed by the British.

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