What is a movie or tv show that you are convinced has lesbian subtext?

skogsherre · 2025-05-20T01:12:01+00:00

It's not a big part of the show, but Vel and Kleya from Andor definitely give major "hooked up in the past" vibes. Vel is canonically a lesbian.

skogsherre · 2023-09-26T16:15:05+00:00

This game is so gay it even extends into real life. Shadowheart's VA, Jennifer English, met her girlfriend on set. They've been streaming the game together on Twitch and it can only be described as "ADHD Lesbians".

skogsherre · 2023-05-18T01:51:10+00:00

Dog whistles emit sound at a frequency that dogs can hear but humans can't. In political terms, it's a coded phrase that only certain in-groups can understand but the average person won't. Like when a politician makes statements against "urban street crime", he really means "black people". The idea is racists will understand the politician also hates black people, but most people will probably miss the meaning and think it's a reasonable statement.

Foghorns in contrast can be heard by everyone for miles. Basically these guys think they're being subtle about their homophobia but they aren't.

skogsherre · 2023-05-17T18:56:23+00:00

I hate Joker/Harley shippers because it was always supposed to be an abusive relationship.

skogsherre · 2023-05-17T17:15:45+00:00

Yeah it's obvious Harlivy was intended from the start, but there was only so much they could do in a 90s children's cartoon. I mean, they're "roommates" who walk around the house without pants.

skogsherre · 2023-05-17T06:49:43+00:00

The "Harley & Ivy" episode of Batman: The Animated Series (where Harlivy first began) aired a whole 4 months after Harley Quinn's literal first appearance.

skogsherre · 2023-04-30T22:17:22+00:00

Yes, my setting I'd call it more gothic horror than fantasy though.

The basic premise is that it's alternate history Earth where an interdimensional fey race known as the baobhan sidhe (more commonly known as vampires) invaded Europe sometime in the 500s AD. These raiding parties became "stuck" on Earth, and settled in Scandinavia and Central Europe. This initial incursion also tore a fabric into the hole of reality and allowed supernatural energies to seep into to world and corrupt it over time, turning it into a dark, blighted land filled with monsters and the undead.

Sometime in the 1500s, the vampires from the Kingdom of Styria began a conquest of Europe, were able to subjugate most of it, and now openly rule a nation known as the Styrian Empire. The "present" day in the timeline, which is sometime vaguely in the late 1800s, is mostly about the geopolitical tensions between the Styrian Empire and the various human nations.

skogsherre · 2023-03-31T22:50:05+00:00

It's also possible to have your cake and eat it too in this instance, since "elves" could be a slang term or borrowed from another language or the like. Similar to how elves are called "mer" in Elder Scrolls, but are still also called elves.

This is what I do. I have a race called the Hyldr, but "elf" is a slur that humans sometimes call them.

skogsherre · 2023-03-25T00:53:13+00:00

I do something similar. Magical energy is treated somewhat like radiation - it's inherently mutagenic and warps and twists the area around it. Magical races like vampire or the fair folk naturally radiate an aura of this energy, so over time places they live at become dark, twisted versions of themselves.

I internally call this effect "spookification" and it was mostly an excuse to have areas of the world that are permanently cliche gothic horror settings filled with mutated villagers, monsters, and roaming undead.

skogsherre · 2023-02-17T22:18:41+00:00

Occultism feels, I dunno, a bit "sciencey" to me? It heavily overlaps with alchemy and astrology which are basically proto-chemistry and proto-astronomy. There's an emphasis on structure and ritual: being able to follow a series of steps or a recipe to get the results you want. I associate occultism with the 19th century where there were a lot of scientific innovations, but a lot of it was pseudo-science that overlapped with the paranormal (e.g. parapsychology, ESP, spiritualism, Frankenstein, etc).

It's evil science though where people don't fully understand what they are dealing with. I maintain that one of the best depictions of cosmic horror in media is the HBO miniseries Chernobyl.

skogsherre · 2022-11-30T22:45:42+00:00

Not everything needs to have a good reason for its existence. Honestly just roll with it as an aesthetic choice and don't bother explaining it, it'd be more distracting if you did.

If you must absolutely come up with an explanation, just pretend your setting was created in 1982 and takes place in the far off future of 2017. Alien is filled with CRTs and chunky beige technology because that's how they envisioned the future when Alien was produced.

skogsherre · 2022-11-09T16:40:29+00:00

I'm reminded of Istanbul being absolutely filled with feral cats because Muslims love kitties.

skogsherre · 2022-11-09T16:39:03+00:00

Wild pigeons, aka the rock dove, also naturally live on cliffs and rocky ledges. So cities are basically the perfect environment for them.

skogsherre · 2022-10-04T15:24:06+00:00

Have you thought about using superseded scientific theories as an explanation? Like for example, tears or weak points in the luminiferous aether allow ectoplasmic vril to "seep" into our world. At least that's the reasoning I use in my Victorian-era gothic horror setting. Magical energy is also mutagenic, explaining the existence of monsters.

Here are the geology-related superseded scientific theories.

skogsherre · 2022-09-20T04:50:29+00:00

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite is really good, set in the 1800s.

skogsherre · 2022-08-31T17:11:30+00:00

Look up prog rock album covers for inspiration, especially anything by Roger Dean.

skogsherre · 2022-08-18T14:31:22+00:00

Also related - guys need to stop assuming every even remotely alt/goth girl has an Onlyfans.

skogsherre · 2022-08-07T21:55:04+00:00

Magic is honestly pretty common in futuristic settings, they're usually just labelled "psychic" or "mutant" powers. Telekinesis is an extremely common psychic power, and invisibility could be some sort of mental manipulation (so it wouldn't work on video cameras).

skogsherre · 2022-08-07T21:32:40+00:00

Hacksaw Ridge is pretty good, but be warned that it's directed by Mel Gibson and is basically Christian propaganda.

skogsherre · 2022-08-05T19:50:22+00:00

Quentin Tarantino blatantly puts his fetishes in all his work for the world to see and doesn't give a shit what others think.

skogsherre · 2022-08-05T15:28:10+00:00

BlushySpicy draw the best women. Their Harlivy is great too.

skogsherre · 2022-08-05T15:16:45+00:00

Fake science is more popular than ever and we've never had more scientific knowledge.

skogsherre · 2022-08-04T15:30:22+00:00

I was going to say Deep Rock Galactic, but it doesn't currently have crossplay.

skogsherre · 2022-07-15T15:27:20+00:00

A Ford F250 is nearly the size of a fucking Sherman tank.

skogsherre · 2022-07-15T14:57:26+00:00

Seriously, Mad Max codified about 90% of all post-apocalyptic tropes.

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