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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 16 Bloopers

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Community (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dean Craig Pelton/Jeff Winger, Annie Edison/Original Female Character(s), Frankie Dart/Britta Perry Characters: Dean Craig Pelton, Jeff Winger, Annie Edison, Britta Perry, Abed Nadir, Frankie Dart, William Winger, Willy Junior, Ian Duncan, Ben Chang Additional Tags: Bisexual Jeff Winger, Emotionally Mature Craig Pelton, Drag Queen Craig Pelton, Jeff Winger Has Issues, Jeff Winger Character Study Kinda, POV Jeff Winger, Past Annie Edison/Jeff Winger - Freeform, Bisexual Annie Edison, Bisexual Britta Perry, everyone is gay basically, Greendale Community College (Community), Ensemble Cast, Jeff is hot for Dean, Jeff finally sees Craig’s Value (hot and good kisser), Bets are made, the lgbtqia name is used in vain, just to best city college tho dw, mushy videochats, they’re all fruity your honor, Post-Season/Series 06, Daddy Issues, Accidental Voyeurism, Masturbation, Shower Sex, Craig Fucks, Anal Sex, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Recreational Drug Use, Excessive Drinking, So many Craig Costumes, Denial of Feelings, Slow Burn, Jeff’s dad is a homophobic and transphobic asshole Summary:

“No.” Abed had asserted. “Craig is Craig now.” He had shrugged. “Like Steve Urkel or Jessie Pinkman. A character that was supposed to be written out but stuck around because audiences love him.”

Jeff had just sighed and said, “There are no audiences, Abed. Because this is real life.”

Abed had given Jeff a shrewd look. The kind he pulls out sometimes when he seems to know more than he’s saying but isn’t sure how to express it. After a moment of eye contact, Abed had shrugged carelessly. “I’m just saying that makes him a viable love interest now.”

Jeff struggles to imagine Season Seven but he’s figuring it out.

IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN HAWKINS

cinematic parallels

It’s Always Sunny on The Revenge… 2!!

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I know the joke about Izzy is "human dropped into a muppets movie" but the tragedy is that he's a queer-coded character from some 1940s or 50s popcorn flick dropped into a pride parade in a floating gayborhood & he flat out has no idea how to deal with it. We learn he's a great swordsman in the most homoerotic way possible when he uses his skills to cut open a man's shirt. We see him react more openly and with less inner conflict when Ed slaps him on the back and says "I need you here" than when Ed implies to him, a minute earlier, that he could be a captain. When he's part of an overtly queer scene where other characters get the romance & he just gets the subtext, Con O'Neill's body language stands out even more—go back to the scene where Izzy tells Stede that Ed adores him, the way he strokes his fingers down the curtain dividing him from Stede. There is literally no straight explanation for this choice, but there is also no explicit acknowledgement that the character is queer; in a different, older show or movie, that body language would be the acknowledgment. He imbues the character with the looks and pauses that you would see in, like, Ben-Hur or something, where everyone knew a character was gay but nobody could say it out loud. Keep in mind that in the comedies where these characters would exist, the subtextually gay man would sometimes be best friends with a Strong Leading Man who got the girl in the end.

We hear him say outright that there's no retirement for people like Izzy & Ed, only death, which is itself a hugely loaded analogy next to the title statement "our flag means death" when you consider our history & our use of flags throughout. And Izzy's so focused on pure survival that he ends up nasty, manipulative, violent—the only way men like him can survive in his mind, or in the genre he's from, if they don't have a Strong Leading Man best friend like, say, a Blackbeard to protect him from the narrative. When Ed starts to live in Stede's world, Izzy is both losing his subtextual boyfriend and also acting as though Ed's going to get himself (and Izzy) killed if he keeps going down this path.

I will never be sane over this. Izzy is a Celluloid Closet case study who's been dropped into a Logo TV original, and so much of the conflict of his character comes from his trying to use the coping techniques from that world (including techniques used by queer coded villains! He's not healthy!) in a world where these techniques are actively harmful rather than a way to survive.

modern au for no reason beyond putting dudes in outfits. no additional lore just vibes. i still don’t know how to draw rhys

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trade baby blues for wide-eyed browns / I sleep with your old shirts / and walk through this house in your shoes / I know it’s strange / it’s a strange way of saying that I know I’m supposed to love you

Our Flag Means Death // GINASFS, Fall Out Boy

in bed, the kiss, but with pirates

gay pirates set to mitski’s let’s get married cover? it's more likely than you think! [youtube link]

Lucius is in the walls hiding in Stede’s just-for-fun secret passageways but he physically can’t stop himself from being a passremarkable bitch and making biting comments under his breath and Ed (drunk, unhinged) is like “I am being haunted by Lucius his ghost will whisper mean things at me for the rest of my life it’s what I deserve. :(“

Jenkins: And then people being very afraid that we’re not going to do it, which is fair. I didn’t realize how deep that ran until, honestly, this week. After you watch the fifth episode, it’s very clear they’re almost going to kiss, and people either don’t believe we’re playing it or don’t engage with it when they’re writing about the show, that… I didn’t expect that. I thought it was quite explicit that they had feelings for each other. People are picking up on it, but they don’t actually believe that we’re going there.

Waititi: You’ve just got to just smash people over the head with it, I guess.

But there’s also been so many films and TV shows where a queer love story is subtext that never becomes text, whether that’s the filmmaker’s intent or cowardice from the powers that be.

Waititi: Yes, absolutely. Also, I think people probably don’t expect it to ever happen because they’re used to the Mulder and Scully relationships, where it’s just, “We’re never going to let you see this, even though it’s all very obvious what we want to do.”

Jenkins: We’re steeped in bromances, too — where bromance is the language of two guys together [on screen]. Take Butch Cassidy and Sundance. If you add one extra reaction shot into that movie, it’s a love story because it’s all already there. So I think we’re just [used to], “Yeah, it’s going to be bromance. Cool. These bros are really ‘bro-ing’ out and it’s ‘bro-tastic.'” And that can happen. But they can also actually be in love. We can do that.