top: polnareff and jotaro’s blink-and-you-miss-it 90s trip across europe mentioned in pt 5 (jotaro is in college and reads his sick marine biology textbooks to pol while he writes papers in the car)

Bottom is toddler jolyne and dad jotaro’s day at the aquarium, she somehow gets soaking wet anyway

i physically cringe whenever i hear/read someone going like ‘yeah in ancient greece/rome men were bisexual bc they had relationships w/ both men and women during their lifetime so i’m totally going to apply terms that only became widespread in the west by the late 19th century to refer to societies that existed 2000 years ago’

like nO you fUCK

lonelymountainthrush:

i think it’s important to recognize historical lgbpqa+ folks (im cis so i have no say in how trans ppl see their icons) but it’s also kinda messy to push our modern framework for sexual n romantic orientations backwards into history onto ppl who aren’t here to confirm or deny

u can say “this person was not heterosexual” p safely from ppl’s journals n stuff but more specific than that i think it’s rly divisive for ppl to be fighting over whether someone was bisexual or pansexual or homosexual when they aren’t here to be like hey umm…what