you know who’s gay? paul the real estate novelist who never had time for a wife and davey who’s still in the navy and probably will be for life
New headcannon: everyone in that song is gay except the Piano Man who has no idea he’s playing at a gay bar and the staff and regulars have a betting pool on how long he’ll take to finally figure it out. So far John is ahead.
“The manager gives me a smile ‘cause he knows that it’s me they’ve been coming to see” also implies that the Piano Man is possibly an incredibly attractive but oblivious himbo, and if you listen to the rest of it imagining that, this all fits a little too well.
this makes too much sense. Also, the full quote is “Now John at the bar is a friend of mine. He gets me my drinks for free. And he’s quick with a joke or to light up your smoke. But there’s someplace that he’d rather be” Yes, your bed, he wants to be on your bed honey, that’s not a joke, he is flirting with you.
Lighting another man’s cigarette is some old-school gay cruising.
seeing a lot of takes recently (and this was popular during john green’s time here too) that adults who make content targeted towards kids or teens are automatically, not just cringe, but suspect? which is such an insane thing to believe because like…..who else would be writing books for 8-year olds? other 8-year olds? learn to just admit you don’t like someone or their work without implying they’re a pedophile, my god
Fucking thank you!
Reminder that one way to isolate minors for more easy abuse is to teach them to fear and suspect all other adults. Because adults are supposed to be responsible for helping kids in trouble, and many of them will do so given the chance. So if you want a kid to “accept” (be unable to escape) abuse, then you don’t want them to have any other trusted people to describe what’s happening to, because then you risk those adults interfering.
Don’t trust anyone preaching this philosophy.
The safest kids have a wide, trustworthy, safe social net, with lots of options for someone noticing if something is amiss if something is infact amiss.
I’ve recently seen people say, across social medias, that they automatically distrust anyone who’s going into nursing, teaching, social work, etc. I’m starting to think that all of this “abusers gravitate toward positions over vulnerable people!!” talk may have done incredible harm without nuance.
Your big life and world philosophy cannot be unmitigated, completely unprocessed anxiety and trauma. You’ve just turned “all people of x type/group bad” woke. No good will come from always searching for ways to validate your crippling trust issues.
