Theoretically Straight

by Amy Bailey

“Then stop pressuring me to go to church with you!” Grace demands, recoiling away from Mom’s touch. “I told you I hate it there!”

oh fuck 2 pages i and i already relate too hard

“You may be an adult,” Dad cuts her off, unrelenting. “But when you’re living under our roof, you respect our rules. You know that.”

bruh

“So, is that a rule now? That if I’m here, I have to attend church every Sunday?” Dad hesitates, but only briefly. “Maybe it should be.”

i’m screaming what the fuck bro this is straight out of my life

But really, I shouldn’t even be considering the idea of skipping church. Just the thought of it causes that old familiar twist of guilt to curl in my stomach as I drive.

the more i read the more dread i feel

Wren asks, sliding in beside Freddy with their lunch bag

HOLY SHIT THEY/THEM PRONOUNS IN LITERATURE

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go thumb through police reports from a lady calling the cops about her husband fucking an inflatable goat on the front lawn. Isn’t love a magical thing?”

here i was thinking this was YA because there wasn’t really any language and then THIS sentence comes out of nowhere and gut punches me. i love it.

“Subtitles are timeless. American dubs are notoriously bad, and Japanese voice actors are just superior.

i like harrison

You can’t sit here and tell me that Matt Mercer isn’t a fantastically talented voice actor.”

good point

Dubs are just as good, if not better than subs nowadays,

put my two cents in this conversation between two imaginary characters, I’m not a sub purist per se, but I definitely think that the sub is often a little little bit better than the dub just because the style of anime, I feel like doesn’t really fit with English voices. A lot of character actions, and the way they speak is very reminiscent of an over exaggerated subculture that Japan has kind of created within anime itself, and it doesn’t always translate to English very well.

“You may be too young now, but at some point, you’re going to face a moment where you have to choose to fight for what matters to you. You won’t want to ‘suck it up’. You won’t want to compromise. You won’t care about keeping the peace. If you believe in something enough, it won’t even be a question in your mind: you’ll fight for it.”

ding ding ding!

2spooky5me

do people still say this??? LMFAOSODIDN this comment is giving 2014

but they got the moniker Spookies after they decided to go all out decorating for Halloween one year and then got too lazy to take all the decor down.

i ADORE this

“My pronouns are actually they/them, Kora. Just so you know.”

i mean all the power in the world to them but i’d already be so nervous talking to a friend of a friend’s mom? and calling her by her first name? let alone correcting her use of your pronouns which are probably not super common considering this is a small town in Georgia and wren already knows that theo / his family are religious. just yikes.

I’m confusing spiritual energy with something else. It just happens to feel eerily similar to what it felt like to have a crush on Sienna, to be attracted to Sienna, or to be close to Sienna.

the combo of religious trauma and internalized homophobia is soooooooo shsksksjsjdjjsakshzxRAHHHHHGGHHHHH

o_o

me too oliver

troll AO3,”

noooo don’t be mean to fanfic authors they work so hard

I can’t be gay. I’m—I’m a Christian. It’s supposed to be a sin, isn’t it?

ARRRGHHHHHHDHSHXJXJZKZJ

I remember Grace bringing it up in an argument with Dad once, too. Something about how the Bible verses that Christians choose to demonize homosexuality are shaky at best,

DING DING DING

“BL? Isn’t that some sort of Brazilian plastic surgery?” “That’s a BBL,” I correct him

HELP IM SCREAMING

They don’t exactly adapt to things very easily. So far, when it comes to me, they’ve freaked out about my choice in major, my nose piercings, my hair color, and most recently, my refusal to drag myself to church every Sunday. They might completely lose it when they learn that at least two of their three children aren’t straight.”

oop—

“Seriously? Are you just supposed to feel bad about everything you do?” “Basically,” Theo agrees with a half-hearted chuckle. “Anything that’s not righteous, at least. Which is practically all the things I do on a daily basis.” “That sounds kind of impossible.”

ding ding ding!

Beastar–he’s

pretty sure it’s Beastars? with an S? also, furry

“If it doesn’t convince Dad, it doesn’t matter. Mom believes whatever he tells her to believe.”

OOP—

Shaggy and Dragon Ball Z crossover shirt referencing a meme

ULTRA INSTINCT SHAGGY? HELLO?

Well, there you have it, folks! Let it never be said that you can’t find love in a haunted basement!”

that’s the real takeaway from this book

I haven’t really felt close to God in a while. I don’t really talk to him much anymore, and I feel like he hasn’t talked to me, either.

oh shit they stopped capitalizing it