solarcat: marauders4evr:guineveire:i-am-mishafuckingcollins:princesstrumphump:semenjolras:my
solarcat: marauders4evr:guineveire: i-am-mishafuckingcollins: princesstrumphump: semenjolras: myshinytardisandme: i can feel the sexual tension okay wait how can you even reblog this without pointing out that after this musical number (which contains the lyric “I’ll show you how I swing”) they are shown to be wearing each others’ clothing with no explanation WHAT. Troy is so worried that Ryan is going to steal Gabriela. I don’t think it ever dawned on him that he was after his best friend. every time i tell my friends that they’re shipped and they act like it’s ludicrous, i show them the clothes switch and they start to question life OH MY GOD… This is why High School Musical 2 is secretly the best queer romance Disney ever made, okay. Look past Troy’s ridiculous problem of the month, people. Here you have Ryan, whose only friend is his sister, who spends the movie ditching him and making him feel sad and alone and ostracized from the rest of his peers (note: Ryan is heavily, HEAVILY coded as gay, if you were unaware of this. He likes sparkles and showtunes and is a bit of a mama’s boy–in the cutest way possible. He always wears hats that match his outfit, and his strained relationship with his father can be summarized by the fact that Ryan wears his hats on an angle, and his dad always straightens the hat. Ryan is as gay as the Disney Channel was allowed to make him, y’all). Then you have Chad, whose BFF Troy spends the movie ditching HIM. Chad is not exactly sad and alone because he’s part of the larger clique of friends in the HSM series, but is def overly focused on how things should be, and has a lot of preconceived notions about the world (and particularly about Ryan). Gabriela invites Ryan to the staff baseball game (yay, friends for Ryan!), Ryan challenges all of Chad’s preconceived notions about him (which are VERY coded to be about masculinity and queerness, with the whole dancing/sports dichotomy), they figure out (though the most ridiculously non-heterosexual baseball game/song-and-dance number ever filmed) that they actually have a fair amount in common, were wrong about each other, and in fact like each other. …And then they presumably have sex in the locker room, after which they decide to wear each others’ clothes and share some fries. And then at the end of the film, when Troy finally gets done wangsting about his privileged white boy problems and he and Chad make up and get to be BFFs again, it’s basically “oh right and also Ryan is my boyfriend now” – you can tell this, because Troy’s face goes “Why are you here– OH, okay, WOW, well, that’s cool, hi!” in the space of about two seconds.This video cuts out all the leadup and all the other stuff, but this is the Legendary Baseball Scene’s musical number: https://youtu.be/jlrdoREsbzAIn conclusion: HSM2 is very, very awesome once you start ignoring Troy’s ridiculous problems and start watching it for the background gay romance. *THUMBS UP* GO WATCH HSM2. You don’t even need to have seen the first one!! (Like, it helps? But you don’t really need to.) -- source link