a concept: future jake and amy having a kid BUT amy goes into labour on halloween and jake has to figure out if amy is cheating him out of the heist or if he’s actually about to have a kid
bold of you to assume she didnt plan to get pregnant exactly 9 months before halloween so that its actually both
bold of you to assume it wasnt jake who planned to get her pregnant exactly 9 months before so she’d be thrown off by contractions
bold of all of us to assume Holt didn’t pick an exact date to compliment them both so they’d have validation horniness so that jake AND amy were in disadvantage during the heist
Holt: your heteronormative lifestyle choices will bring about your demise
In one episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine, they talk about how trans people have it difficult in prison. In the very next episode the sentence “Nothing is more attractive in a woman than the clear absence of a penis” is uttered.
It’s almost like B99 is a show made by liberals for liberals and its progressiveness is entirely performative.
Just want to point out since the post kind of glosses over the fact that the last sentence is uttered ironically by a gay character who is trying to pass as straight to distract a guard at a women’s prison. The running joke is that he believes straight people are transphobic and homophobic, so when he tries to pretend to be one, he acts that way. The joke is, no one around him acts like what he’s saying is off, making further commentary on how transphobic and homophobic our society is.
I feel like this is a really important point to clarify.
Look, I understand that we HAVE to be careful when we enjoy our media. Because literally any show could make a misstep and fuck it up. They could try to make a girl character gay by saying she ‘loves pussy’. They could have a dude in a dress for comedic effect. I’m sure I could come up with other obvious things but I don’t want my brain to go down that path.
And yeah, for a moment or two that joke did make me a touch uncomfortable. But acellura has a point here, the reason Holt would ever say something like that is precisely because he’s attempting to pretend he’s a member of the lowest common denominator (which he’s simulatenously awesome and terrible at). And let’s not forget last season they had the AMAZING line about the transphobia in Ace Ventura.
B99 isn’t always completely perfect (it is, ironically, just shy of 100% perfect) but it’s also trying WAY harder than a lot of shows out there. Always be critical of the media out there, but also don’t shame people for enjoying it I guess? I dunno.
you know what’s entirely performative?
nitpicking ambiguous moments in an extremely progressive show instead of taking on genuinely regressive tropes that are still being played unironically on a whole bunch of other ones.
like, game of thrones added extra bonus rapes, and you want to talk about holt pretending to be transphobic? really?
“Dammit Diane, what are you doing after this?” // ”Dammit, what are you doing after this Gerald?”
Then saying “I’m gonna die alone” by the end of the episode when I don’t recall anything regarding Sophia or Amy in that ep.
Pimento: “White guy, svelte, thick brown hair, piercing blue eyes…I don’t know I guess you could consider him classically handsome? Is that weird to say?” Jake: “No. I mean – is it? No – I don’t think so.”
“Not gonna lie, that turns me on a little bit” – to Holt after Holt was threatening/competitive /// “God you’re being so mean. Do it more.” – To Amy, after she was being rude/competitive (side note Jake also has a mean kink lmao)
Thinking the annoying ass close partners were “awful, for sure…all tall and beautiful”.
Honestly he’s out here appreciating men’s looks constantly and he does it way more than Terry or Charles do.
Talks about the perp being hot and when Amy said “I’d like to bring him to justice” responded with “We all would”
Being wayyyy too into his “Rosa coming out as bi” speech that he had just on the ready.
Does puns, finger guns, and wears leather jackets on a regular basis.
This Iconic Look™:
tl;dr Jake Peralta is bisexual and doesn’t actively know it yet and if he’s straight so am I and that’s unrealistic lmao so b99 chop chop make it happen k thanks love you guys byeeeee
You know I’m so grateful that brooklyn nine nine has completely averted the trope of men who hate being married, dont really like their wife, or see getting married as being trapped. In the main cast. In the main case there are two men that are married, and one man in a domestic partnership. All three of them are portrayed as being absolutely devoted to their partners, and all of the characters love their relationships.
And then there is jake, who is engaged, and so in love with amy that he literally shouts it to the sky. He is 100% involved in the wedding planning, not because he “has” to but because he loves it and enthusiastically cares, and his greatest fear is that he will in some way fail as a husband in some way.
Brooklyn nine nine gets so much recognition for its diversity, as it should, but I have never seen such positive portrayals of masculinity on tv before.
Hearing about the cancellation and immediate revival of Brooklyn 99 like
Pass Through Fire 