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ruefle:

• “Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
• “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t…

I always thought that what Russell T. Davies did in Doctor Who was extremely ground breaking in a slightly more subversive way than what it looked like. It never occurred to me that it was too on the nose, what he did brilliantly was introduce incidentally gay characters obviously as well as some more in your face ones. One of my favourite stories is Gridlock, there’s an elderly couple of ladies who are together and it just sort of passes by and that’s the way - softly, softly. That’s how the revolution happens as it were, you just become aware that people are incidentally gay. I think when the day comes that you have a big detective show where the first half hour was this man at work and he’s a maverick and all the usual things and then we went home and his boyfriend says, “Are you alright?” it was just a thing, then something would have genuinely changed. I think the problem still is it becomes the issue. I think the thing with gay characters is that it has to be an issue as opposed to being part of everyday life, which of course we all know is what it is.

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Mark Gatiss, on gay representation on television (via adoringuncertainty)

“A big detective show” eh, Mark? The detective going home to his boyfriend? Your ship is showing.

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Sherlock, in 2030, when they do the re-make, will be about two men.

It will be much like it is now, but no one will make a big deal about it, and when they hold hands, no one says anything about it.

I want the first interpersonal relationship scandal to be when Mary comes into the picture, everyone is more upset that Dating Mary might be considered cheating and an issue for the long time casual couple than they are with ANYTHING else about it.

Because I hope we become a society that lets people have their own lives, and accepts that some people DON’T do sex, and some people do the same sex, and some people don’t do ceremonies, and some people don’t do strictly monogamous relationships, and it is ALL good.

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thedailywhat:

Infectious Happiness of the Day: Social experiment aboard a Berlin U-Bahn train: One passenger starts laughing, ostensibly at something she sees on her smartphone. Soon, the entire car is rollicking like a bunch of carefree children.

Then, just like that, you are too.

[telegraph.]

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