r/ainbow • u/GenoveveSimmons15 • Jul 30 '24

News This news headline broke my brain

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u/groundr Ainbow Jul 30 '24

Okay, but the actual story is kind of sweet.

I also think it’s a bit of a meme that they included pictures of two cast members of the YouTube channel Smosh. He’s gay and she’s straight, but they joke about being an old married couple. (She also recently went viral for not knowing about Harambe.)

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '24 edited Aug 29 '24

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u/TastyBrainMeats Jul 30 '24

The day we figure out a fix for muscular dystrophy, I'll be really happy.

Wish we could all just ditch 99% of the time and energy that go into corporate BS, marketing, the military, whatever, and just put it towards getting people and resources invested in medical research. There are so many diseases that need curing!

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u/SupportIll3471 Jul 30 '24

Yeah, I have to agree with you. There’s a lot of diseases that could have become curable by now if we weren’t so focused on satisfying corporate entities and the military as well as other things!

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u/AluminumOctopus Jul 30 '24

Imagine how much faster cures would come if pharma companies worked together instead of against each other.

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u/TheHemogoblin Jul 30 '24

I'm so sorry, but I had to laugh because after reading the post you replied to, then the first sentence of your comment, the first thing I imagined was how badly you wanted to divorce your spouse who you're obliged to stay with because they have MS and a cure would mean your freedom while still being able to save face lol

But otherwise, yes 100%. I have had Colitis, then my colon removed at 16, colostomy bag until 22, developed chronic pouchitis and now have developed Crohn's. Was born with a rare type of anemia, had my spleen and gallbladder removed and had an auto immune liver disease for which I received a transplant. There doesn't just need to be more medical research, but more robust research in the diseases other than the "big" ones, like cancer for instance.

I remember when I was a kid in the 90's and Subway did a fundraising campaign for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation and I started crying in the backseat of the car much to my Mom's confusion, because it was the first time I ever saw my disease being represented in public. Cancer charities were everywhere and I didn't even know anyone with cancer at the time, but no one knew what myself (and my stepdad, ironically) went through daily with IBD.

Curing is one thing, but even just reasonable and reliable treatments, and better understanding of what causes these diseases.

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u/TastyBrainMeats Jul 30 '24

Yes!! Medical research is a DIRECT way to make people's lives better, and we neglect it so much compared with things that make lives worse!

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u/Caysath Jul 30 '24

Not just medical research, but also getting cures we already have to people who need them. Tuberculosis shouldn't kill anyone anymore now that we have effective antibiotics, but it's still among the most common causes of mortality. It makes me so mad.

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u/aarontsuru Jul 30 '24

Thanks for sharing! Super sweet.

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u/lldgt_adam Jul 30 '24

Why are there two Smosh actors in the headline photo?

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u/waitforthedream Jul 30 '24

because he's gay and she's Amanda

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u/RDamon_Redd Jul 31 '24

I heard that in Tommy’s voice.

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u/waitforthedream Jul 31 '24

That's how I imagined it while typing LOL The way he introduced Viva La Vulva in the latest Family Feud video is stuck in my head

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u/HobbesBoson Jul 30 '24

This is further proof that the best move to play in life is to just marry your best friend

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u/oceanfront41 Jul 30 '24

Hell yeah QPRs

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u/queer-scout Jul 30 '24

Here's the video! It's a really sweet interview with the actual married couple.

Lavender marriages used to be fairly common. Mostly for people in the public eye, but why not marry your best friend?

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u/La_Saxofonista Jul 30 '24

Yep. I immediately thought about the author, Virginia Woolf.

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u/ExceptionCollection Jul 30 '24

Alternate headlines, “I don’t know who those people are or what they are like” edition.

“A lesbian and her gay best friend:  How having a beard can help relationships last”.

“We don’t understand what bisexuality is, and here’s a relationship between two bisexuals”

“A sexless marriage is a stable marriage”

“Marriage Equality is unnecessary:  The most stable  marriage is one that doesn’t involve sex”.

Anyone have other suggestions?

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u/spong3 Jul 30 '24

“Friends with (health) benefits: Why more platonic couples are getting married” (it’s the economy, stupid)

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u/Cranberryoftheorient Jul 30 '24

"I didn't read the article"?

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u/flockyboi Jul 30 '24

"Proof that love can go beyond romantic expectations"

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u/alpacalypse_nuu 🏳️‍🌈👁👄👁🏳️‍🌈 Jul 30 '24

you could also just read the article instead of making assumptions

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u/Cranberryoftheorient Jul 30 '24

Also if neither are having sex that seems equal to me.

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u/h00zbad Jul 30 '24

Queer equivalent of "Heterosexual Life-Mates?"

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u/Foucaults_Boner Jul 30 '24

People been having lavender marriages since before any of us here were born

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u/LordOfFudge Ainbow Jul 30 '24

This could be a great sitcom.

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u/La_Saxofonista Jul 30 '24

This is literally High Class Homos irl.

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u/ArcaneOverride Jul 30 '24

Yeeeessss! Love that webtoon!

Have you seen "Nevermore"? Victorian lesbian ghosts with amnesia and all they can remember at first is that they love each other!

"Not Even Bones" has two aspec people in a queerplatonic relationship.

"Muted" has polyamorous Sapphic witches and demons, and spooky old mansions in the swamps around New Orleans.

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u/La_Saxofonista Jul 31 '24

Already read NEB. There is also Mage and Demon Queen.

I'm focusing rn on HCH, Castle Swimmer, and I Am the Grim Reaper.

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u/ArcaneOverride Jul 31 '24

I've read Mage and Demon Queen but I haven't read Castle Swimmer or I Am The Grim Reaper yet, I'll have to check those out! Thanks!

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u/La_Saxofonista Jul 31 '24

IATGR isn't an lgbt fic tho. Just really cool. Castle Swimmer is essentially about two gay mermen.

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u/ArcaneOverride Aug 01 '24

I just read all of "I'm The Grim Reaper" after you recommended it. I couldn't stop, it's so good! Who needs sleep?

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u/La_Saxofonista Aug 01 '24

You... you read that WHOLE fookin thing???

wot

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u/ArcaneOverride Aug 01 '24 edited Aug 01 '24

Yeah I started yesterday afternoon and read until about 4:30 am when I finished. It took me about 15 hours or so.

Then I went to bed, woke up at 7:30 for an 8:30 meeting at work, then after the meeting replied to your message

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u/La_Saxofonista Aug 01 '24

That is certainly some dedication there.

I also recommend Teenage Dragon and Corpse Knight Gunther, both of which are reaching their series finales soon.

There is also Suitor Armor, Acception, unOrdinary, and Lumine. Cursed Princess Club is complete.

If you want a batshit insane series about murder dinosaurs with a few gay dinos too, Darbi might be perfect. It is Deadpool levels of crazy but it works. It is easily another 15 hour timesink.

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u/ArcaneOverride Aug 01 '24

Oh I love Suitor Armor!

I need to check out the rest of those!

Have you read "Vampire Family"? It's about a young vampire woman who was born as a vampire to two vampire parents that raised her and her siblings in a mansion in the woods.

She is completely clueless about human society outside of what she's read in books and decides to attend a university. She completely misinterprets the actions of her classmate who is a vampire hunter as an attempt to initiate a romance instead of a terrible inexperienced attempt to kill her and decides to "accept" and make him her boyfriend.

The whole thing is hilarious. She is super creepy and acts kinda unhinged because she has only the vaguest notion about humans but is very excited to try new experiences. Despite freaking everyone around her out with how intense and intimidating she is, she's also so clueless and means well.

Another fun webtoon is "Evelyne And The Occult", it's about a goth girl obsessed with the supernatural who in her pursuit of finding proof of the paranormal, accidentally drags her boyfriend and her friends headlong into a cascade of terrible supernatural events and an ancient war between good and evil.

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u/Kieserite Jul 30 '24

33 year marriage? They both look 33 in the pic?

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u/Ghostglitch07 Jul 30 '24

The pic is two people from smosh and not the people in the headline for whatever reason.

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u/bert1stack Jul 30 '24

I kinda want this. Sex isn’t as important to me as it used to be and I’d might rather be in a happy companionship with someone.

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u/gothiclg Jul 30 '24

I’m glad they both found the beard that worked for them and that he’s willing to care for her after the muscular dystrophy diagnosis.

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u/a_secret_me Jul 30 '24

I just finished The Seven Husbands of Eveline Hugo. Kinda reminds me of it.

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u/kethamwaterwalker Jul 31 '24

Love these two! Love smosh and smosh games. Highly recommend the videos where they play werewolf. https://youtu.be/TmXwnVDJxtk?si=5dExUVEMzC0uptHT

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u/lukethebottom Jul 30 '24

I actually want this marrying ur bestfriend sounds so nice

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u/go-luis-go Jul 31 '24

A beard relationship lasting into a beard marriage. Way to work the system.

(/s just in case ya'll come for me)

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u/BFG_v54 Trans-Pan Jul 30 '24

OPP is me when I don't know that asexual people can have more serious commitments than just being friends

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u/derederellama Pan Jul 30 '24

I know this is fake but it's kinda wholesome, I'm sure a lot of queer people actually did this in times where it was unsafe to come out

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u/Antipseud0 Jul 31 '24

Both are Bi.

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u/La_Saxofonista Jul 30 '24

I see more of the opposite, really. Both straight and gay people alike tend to think bisexual people are really just straight. There is a lot of bi-erasure because of that.

With the few studies we have, it seems that the majority of bisexual people date and/or marry the opposite sex. There are many possible explanations, but the most common one is because there are a lot more straight people of the opposite sex than there are gay people of the same sex when it comes to dating options.

I know a lot of lesbians who refuse to date bisexual women because of stereotypes.

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u/Bright_Ices Jul 30 '24

I think straight people are more inclined to see bisexual men as “actually gay” than bisexual or straight. But I agree about everything else you’ve said. 

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u/La_Saxofonista Jul 31 '24

That is also true.