/wes/ - Western & Alternative Style

Thanks to nona from husbando thread I’m going to watch this series. I checked he has so little episodes of appearance (6 out of 26?), still giving a try. I’m so hooked up.

I remember it being everywhere in libraries back then, but did anyone actually read Heartstopper? If so, was it good? Was it actual western BL or just LGBT literature? I remembered randomly it existed today.

>>1229
I read the first volume and I thought it was really cute. I would consider it LGBT lit rather than actual BL though.

New cinematic for Noxus. Not much potential fujobait so far but I'm sure barafags are happy about the Darius vs. Trundle fight.

>>1211
oh the plushie are sooooooooo cute but with my currency it would triple the price…maybe in the far future i can get a hold of one, tho i doubt by then the arcane fandom will even be this alive anymore lol

>What did you think of Season 2?
I enjoyed it but I didn't like it as much as season 1.

>Favorite character?
Vi.

>Any storyline/plot you liked? One you hated?
Unpopular opinion, but I actually really liked the dictator Caitlyn arc. It was so interesting seeing her become all dark like that. I found everything having to do with the Black Rose boring.

>Any champion you want to see next in the series?
I don't know much about LoL, so I can't state specific champions, but I would love to see future series taking place in Ionia, Bilgewater, and Demacia.

>Favorite ship?
Vanco and Caitvi. I like Jayvik too, but I find it a bit boring.

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>>1224
I mean you can't blame them for not thematizing sexual organs on their official accounts. That aside the canon stance should be obvious as they shouldn't have sexual organs to begin with and everybody knows this. But it never stopped people from headcanoning everybody having a dick regardless. I fear it would be hard telling people that TFs had no sexual organs but that dick was still more canon than them being herms, you can either deny both or be silent on the topic.

I like dicks so I usually image the sex to involve them, opposed to be cable only. To be honest most herm fics I read described the hole so vaguely that I just imagine the gay hole when the text says "valve".

>>1225
unfortunately, not on my end.

I've been a fan of the Prime characters and valve is absolutely a vagina. A lot of artists will draw the clit, labia, every single fold as though it were a human vagina, and often there isn't spike stimulation. So it's just the top (male) and bottom (Starscream, Soundwave, Knock Out) with a graphic pussy. It would be different if the valve was like an actual valve but no. I have yet to find or read versions of the characters I could believe are two males.

>>1217
Not really? Basil isn't as outspoken as Henry but he basically spends the entire book lusting after Dorian. He's the painter of the portrait and totally-platonically appreciates his beauty "I worshiped you too much and now I'm punished for it." Henry is their bitchy friend who spends the entire first part of the book complaining about women but also poisons Dorian's mind to cynicism and vanity. Henry and Dorian have more in common with their ethics and ideals, but Henry also basically exits the novel for the second act since Dorian has alienated everyone including him. Both Henry and Basil are positioned as negatively impacting Dorian just in different way (through both positivity and negativity.) I agree Henry is the more proactive character, but Basil is the one who gets the 1800s love confession and as a fan of one-sided pining I'm here for it.

What I'm saying is I accept your ship suggestion as a valid option but Basil/Dorian is my preferred dynamic.

>>1216
Should I read the censored version and then the uncensored version?

>>1219
The censored version is longer since it's the version that was actually published as a novel, the uncensored version is the magazine run of it.

I've read them too far apart to know if you should read both or just one, but here's an article with a comparison of the text so you could decide which one to start with at least.
https://lithub.com/a-close-reading-of-the-originally-censored-passages-of-the-picture-of-dorian-gray/

I want to nominate Brideshead Revisited, for having pretty much canon homo in the 1920's. And I mean that as in 'The pretty boy is explicitly referred to as a sex case' and 'The mother in law knows exactly what the boys are doing as is ok with it as she sees it as the male version of LUGs . The gay part of the plot is also based off of the author's lover in uni.

The TV version just ran with 'They're homo, but we're not allowed to say it outright. But they're homo' and added a bunch of cute visuals, to translate the homoerotic writing to film.

It doesn't end happily and it's the most catholic book I've ever read, but I don't mean that in a derogatory way, it just makes more sense if you're familiar with catholicism as a philosophy.

Fuck the movie version. It can go hang. They fucked it up by a) Making Sebastian a brunette, and b) Despite it having the homo explicitly spoken of in this version, they treat it as a one-sided crush, and turn the homo into a love triangle with only one homo. >:( THERE WAS A RELATIONSHIP. THERE WERE TWO HOMOS DAMMIT.

Midnight Cowboy is a favorite of mine, having both a gay author (It was based on a book) and a gay movie director. Nothing is explicit in a way modern audiences expect, but honestly? Both characters deeply cared for each other and the story is filled with small hints here in there acknowledging how cowboys went from manly archetype to be perceived as a gay thing.
Dr. Strangelove also slightly amused me, kek, but it's very weak on It, just thought Jack Ripper to be very touchy with Mandrake and wanted to mention here.

>>1207
I had Midnight Cowboy on my to-watch list forever and finally saw it because of your post. What an incredibly depressing film, totally agree that the movie seems to be clearly pushing for the main characters to be subtextually gay with each other. Mainly the scene where Joe is asking Rizzo when the last time he had sex was and the scene where the woman asked if his "performance issues" was due to him being gay.

>>1203
Eh, it’s sometimes a thing in the west. Like with mha, western fans do use the name order often to indicate top/bottom.

>>1204
I know sometimes people do it with anime fandoms, but have never seen it for something like Sonic.

>>1205
I haven't either but I agree Shadodic would but the correct order even if we all call it sonadow. I can't image Sonic topping. Though every pairing with him Sonegg, Sonilver, ect uses Sonic's name first regardless of actual ship order.

>>1075
>>1069
i miss those little guys,hopefully they make a comeback in some form of media

50 people max know who these are, but the old Van Bueren Tom and Jerry shorts have the two sleep in the same bed and are very touchy with each other in a way that doesn't feel comedic like old Looney Tunes shorts. Not sure if I would recommend them or anything, I just don't have anywhere else to post about it lol.

>>1161
Same but I hope it's mostly black and white, the in color ones don't feel the same

>>822
Need a version where the file says "Yaoi"

They just surprise dropped the conclusion to the comic for Christmas.
https://www.teamfortress.com/tf07_thedayshavewornaway/

>>1189
Ok finally had a chance to read it and it's good, not great, but it's so nice to have this finally concluded. I feel like Valve is kind of trying to slowly step away from TF2 and have it be more of a Legacy game and the fact that this comic finally came out adds to my feeling that they're wrapping up loose ends. My vote is we get the Heavy update at some point next year. Or maybe I'm pessimistic and this comic is an apology for the bots, TF2 for 50 more years!

I kinda regret that the band never turned their image into a media franchise with comics, games, novels etc. Anyway, I never shipped anyone, though 2-D was my husbando at one point.

>Your favourite song?
Too many to name. I love the whole Plastic Beach album though.

How was there never a Gorillaz/Dethklok collab? I don't even think I've seen a fanmade crossover, be it art or fic. It seems like the most obvious thing in the world. Imagine what it would sound like. Imagine the character interactions.

>Your favourite song?
Too many to name but Tomorrow Comes Today still has a very special place in my heart for the vibes, the aesthetic, and most of all the ~*memories*~

>>1184
I couldn't see a Dethklok crossover working simply because their styles of music don't mesh and they both use satire in a completely different way when it comes to looking at the world. That being said I would kill for a Brendon Small feature on a Gorillaz song.