I've said this before but I think one of the reasons scum villain occupies such a unique niche of queer representation is because it's one that interrogates society's expectations on gender and sexuality, but within a world where there's no strict ramifications for queerness. Instead the expectations and constraints on queerness are carried solely through Shen Yuan's internalized issues, which are so deeply set they motivate many of his decisions within the book, but aren't enforced by any direct outside forces in PIDW. It's a great critique on how the effects of internalization can persist even when someone isn't in an environment where they're being directly oppressed, and how it can take years and years to unpack and unlearn.
Ever since I was a little girl I always wanted to get hit by a car in a way that would make me a lot of money
LGBTQ acronyms are so complicated these days. what the fck is mdzs
it's crazy that people can consume the same media yet come away with vastly different & wrong opinions. not me though because i'm always right
What really bothers me about the way some people talk about Succession is the way they never allow for any grey area or complex characters.
Posting Hannibal related memes until they save Hannibal, day 705.