Disney, my Dad, and the Very Bisexual T-Shirt
Jun. 15th, 2025 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravenna_c_tanSo, between Pride being yesterday here in Boston, and Father’s Day being today, I thought I’d tell you a story today of what Being Queer in the Nineties was like, and also (another) story about Dad.
To be clear, being queer in the 1990s was definitely not always a joy. But in this case… well, you’ll see.
When I was in my early 20s, my parents decided to take me and my brother on a cruise vacation. This was exciting for a number of reasons, not least because my parents were awesome to hang out with. It was always fun to spend time with them and my brother, who was then 16 and had at that point gotten into the Grateful Dead. (Jerry Garcia was still alive, then.)
If you’re new here, my Dad was a Chinese-filipino immigrant who came to the States to be a doctor (and send money home to support his 9 younger siblings). Mom, meanwhile, was born in rural upstate New York, spent her teens in Florida, and then moved to NYC after college. Mom was the one who raised my brother and me to be the progressive humanists we are, while Dad often seemed a little bit baffled by “American” attitudes.
Also, it was our first time on a cruise ship.
( Read the rest of this entry » )Mirrored from Cecilia Tan.
fic: natmad
Jun. 10th, 2025 09:11 pmnerakrose_ficarchiveChapters: 1/1
Fandom: Afdeling Q | Department Q (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Assad/Carl Mørck
Characters: Carl Mørck, Assad (Afdeling Q)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, New Relationship, Mutual Pining, canon divergence fordi Assad kom ikke tilbage til Afdeling Q men er hos bagmandspolitiet, og ja. pining. selvom de allerede er sammen. fordi de ikke kan finde ud af at være sammen., traumatised detectives in love, rating er M pga halvfærdigt blowjob i første halvdel
Summary:
De kan ikke blive ved på denne måde. Assad kan ikke blive ved på denne måde. De lange dage og sene aftener, begge to på arbejde - i samme bygning, adskilt af et par etager og nogle lag mursten - som om de bare venter på at den anden giver op. Hvad venter de da på?
delphiUntitled Ouizzy Neighbor AU by
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Relationship: Frenchie/Izzy Hands
Medium: Gifset
Length: 3 gifs
Rating: SFW
My Bookmark Tags: romance, happy ending, getting together, constructed reality, au: modern, domesticity, nature
Description:
In the first gif, Izzy wanders out into a field and happens upon Frenchie, who's sitting alone and obviously having a bad time alone with his thoughts. In the second, the two men are each in their houses, looking out the window at each other's places. In the third, they've finally come together, Frenchie handing a wary Izzy a cup of tea.
I am such a sucker for constructed reality graphics and vids, and all the ways a little tactical harnessing of the Kuleshov effect can bring us the crossovers, AUs, and visual adaptations we crave. I've got a few from this same creator to rec, but I'm starting with this Neighbor AU that imagines a modern day Frenchie and Izzy living next door to each other in the country and catching each other's eye.
First off, I just love how it's put together, from the progression of running into each other by chance, then scoping out each other from their houses, to finally coming together for tea. But I also love how the choice of sources colours the story being told here. I'm pretty sure the Con O'Neill clips are from Vengeance Is Mine and the Joel Fry ones are from In the Earth. These are both harrowing movies where the actual characters are going through some awful things. I appreciate how those scenes get recontextualized here into something cozier that nonetheless paints a picture of both characters having gone through some rough times.
You can easily imagine that this modern Frenchie has just as many terrible things locked up in that little box in his head as his 18th century counterpart had, and that this Izzy has just been through an emotionally and/or physically traumatic breakup with Ed, and now here they are, a little bruised and cautious but finding some potential comfort and love in their own backyard.
What's Making Me Happy Today: Cloudward, Ho! ep. 1
Jun. 5th, 2025 12:39 pmdelphi( Some Notes About the Premise (Moderate Spoilers) )
I'm looking forward to seeing where the campaign goes from here! Anyone else watching or planning to watch?
