tommyoliverr:

Rowdy meeting Gillian and Maggie Favor headcanons:

• Maggie just thinks he’s so damn cool and wants to be just like him (”No,” Favor says, sternly) follows him around endlessly, getting underfoot, insists on getting a hat just like his
• Gillian blossoms into an Awkward Preteen With Her First Crush, Rowdy is oblivious, Favor contemplates murdering him
• Rowdy was the youngest of his family, hasn’t interacted with children for a long span of time in ten thousand years, especially kids raised back east, consistently misjudges how far in their development they are (”Well, you’ll be learning to read right about now, right?” “I’ve been able to read for years Mr. Rowdy.” “Ah.  Great.”)
• Rowdy has to be specifically told that although Maggie may think its cool, he is not to let her hold his gun, ever.
• During whatever Incident is happening, Rowdy is knocked unconscious, cue the girls dragging him by his long fucking antelope legs to safety, inadvertently bumping his iron skull and yet more things
• “Daddy told us all about you, Mr. Rowdy!” “Oh really?  What kinds of things?” “Well I for one think you look handsome, no matter what he says!” “He what” 
• What Do Girls Even Like, Anyway?  Frogs?  Should I Give Them Frogs? a novel by Rowdy Yates with sequel Only Some Girls Like Frogs

Fantastic, and hilarious, especially the seventh point. Love the fourth point to pieces. Can see the sixth point so well.

P.S. Once upon a time I had a (rather naive) go at “Rowdy Meets The Girls”. It’s on AO3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/10951290

sybilius:

mcicioni-blog:

Saw it today. The reviewers mostly agree that it’s “funny, heartfelt, and truly touching”. Maybe I was on a parallel universe, because imo the film I saw was full of cliches, devoid of any real social context, and sugary enough to give me diabetes.

Opinions and disagreements most welcome, provided they are expressed politely.

@mcicioni-blog, still haven’t seen it but I appreciated this candid critique of it linked from a friend of mine who is trans. 

That said, it’s nice that LGB viewers can get something that’s fluffy. Too often stuck with the short end of the stick there as angst fodder, I guess. 

Thanks, @sybilius and @sexymonstersupercreep. I agree both with the view that LGBTQ viewers should get happy endings and fluffy recognition, AND with the view that the gayness accepted in the film was an implicit put-down of feminine men. But I can’t help comparing this Hollywood product with God’s Own Country (which has a joyful, fluffy ending, but also a very strong social context and rejects cliches)

annevbonny:

steinberg was really out there making a show that not only examined colonialism and white supremacy but masculinity itself and the gross relationship men have with power in general and like he also made it gay. the whole thing. a feminist gay icon thanks

starrose17:

worf:

i’m the employee who took this pic

We all thank you.

Very very much.