#No more queerbaiting

[garbagefireboy]

i just started sk8 the infinity and if this second season isn’t gay i will be calling my lawyer

[martinsharmony]

I was there too. I hear this.

it's incredible that tumblr fandom went from DESPERATELY trying to see ANY sort of queer love in the shows we liked, to having shows—high budget, well-made, interesting, mainstream shows staring known actors—that are ABOUT queer love. explicitly, without argument. and just ten years later.

i saw (and reblogged) a post about how GO, ofmd, and wwdits are the new superwholock and i havent stopped thinking about it. cuz i was there, i was in the trenches back in the day. i was there when the writers and actors made fun of us for seeing on screen chemistry and perfect stories to set up romances. they all humored us then shat on us and saw us as a joke. a bunch of weirdo faggy teens that don't think two men can just be friends.

and now look at us. we're seeing the on screen chemistry and it's REAL. it's ON PURPOSE. these ARE romantic stories about queer people. we're not projecting or have wishful thinking... it's TRUE!! it was written and directed and edited and acted that way in earnest. i will take NO SHIT regarding these shows and people's love for them.

and do you know WHY these shows are being made now? these well thought out, feels-real, non-pandering queer stories? it's BECAUSE OF WHAT WE DID ten+ years ago. a lot of queer media never got the green light to be made because execs don't think there's enough of an audience. that more people will dislike the gays than like them. and we've shown them that that's unequivocally untrue. the outcry we had for all those years, the reviews we left, the statements we made, the backlash, it gave show runners ammunition to say "hey. people will watch this. they will like it. let us make it."

[lavendervalleyexpress]

Disney: you can make your movie R-rated but their relationship can’t be explicitly gay

Ryan: oh don’t worry this is a totally platonic road trip buddy comedy

The movie: The poster says, “best friends come together”, there’s a meet cute ugly at a bar and Logan immediately assumes Wade is there to hook up with him (so does the bartender), Wade calls him honey badger, and angel baby, their road trip song is a rock ballad about being lonely and wanting to meet someone, the second act has the classic romcom miscommunication/fight, they’re having a heated fight to one of the most iconic love song duets ever, Wade says, “the Honda Odyssey fucks hard too bad you don’t” and Logan says, “oh we’re just getting started”, after that there’s a shot where car they're in is rocking back and forth for hours and then it cuts to them asleep the next morning, there’s a line about Wade having Logan’s dick in his mouth (spoken by Ryan’s daughter), there’s a scene where they’re looking at each other longingly through a window because they think Wade is about to die (even though Logan hated him yesterday), Wade is very clearly staring at Logan’s abs after his shirt explodes then makes him put on a shirt after he sees other people also looking, they save each others lives by holding hands to a Madonna song about blowjobs, Logan starts walking away until Wade calls after him and he stops like he’s about to turn around and run back and kiss him but the camera cuts off before he does, Wade introduces Logan to Al like a nervous teenager introducing his girlfriend to his mom, and the last shot is their masks sitting next to each other in their ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT

Disney: ok we have notes

Ryan: no.

The movie: *makes $1,000,000,000*

[frogcroak]

"If anything had been different, I might not have had my life with Barley. I have been happier than I could ever have imagined a cat could be."

why bother with endless border conflicts and the risk of starving when you can have a peaceful life with a roof over your head?

[charmac]

Mac and Dennis not having sex.

[anyrei-snarks]

Look, shipping-wise I don't care if something is canon or not. We write fanfic for everything and I think every ship (canon or not) is free to be shipped and to be enjoyed.

BUT

I want to make a statement with my vote here! I'm sooooooo over being queerbaited by shows. I haven't watched Supergirl but I'm a big fan of Katie because I've watched Merlin. I'm also a destiel shipper and used to queerbaiting by CW so I feel your guys pain of being dragged along, getting some breadcrumbs now and then with the hope for one day being canon.

So my vote is going to the two cute gay bunnies here for being a CANON Gay love story that has to hide (at least in the series not the books) because of actual lgbt censorship in the origin country.

go wangxian!

AO3 Top Relationships Bracket- Quarterfinals

This poll is a celebration of fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

[castielsprostate]

breaking the sign in two by how hard im tapping it

[aesthetic-uni]

Misha Collins is the funniest straight man ever. He’s the only person to arguably queerbait in real life. He had to come out as a straight. He was told by WB to just stay bisexual. He’s living every homophobe’s nightmare scenario but the only difference is that everyone actually loves it for him

[redysetdare]

I think queer stories would be better if people stopped assuming that queer representation hinges on if two characters are romantically involved at all. Like the moment you accept characters as being queer without needing romance to prove said queerness then i think we'd find ourselves with a lot more unique, nuanced, and interesting queer stories. but by limiting queerness to only romance you are stifling queer stories.

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

It’s awesome! I love supernatural, but one of its flaws was the bizarre way they dealt with Destiel, including actors telling fans to stfu about it.

the OMFD KISS™️©️®️ felt like such a triumph. 🥰

I saw two humans in love, not two men. It transcended that.

no more BS. They’re in love. Period. NORMAL!

David Jenkins really gets us!

Bravo to Taika and Rhys who performed and developed the characters with such skill.

i saw this tweet ( @forpiratereasons ):

i immediately started sobbing. i truly can’t put into words how special Our Flag Means Death is to me. but, i’m going to attempt it anyway.

i was trying to figure my sexuality during the height of my fandom days. being mocked by the cast and creators of shows that were actively queerbaiting us, only to have them try to make us sound stupid when we called them out on it. it really did not help. it fucking sucked.

i had to spoil OFMD for myself about half way through, because i couldn’t handle a show doing that to me again, and in 2022.

instead, i found a show that not only follows through, but whose show runners, cast, and crew celebrates the queerness surrounding it. embraces the fandom. loves the show as much as we do.

that is so fucking special to me.

[heyimboredtalktome]

if this isn't the face of someone looking at a person they are deeply in love with then idk what is thank u for coming to my ted talk

[divorceblogger]

oh you get it

[emotsper]

if ichisaki and anhane can get it then why cant they give shzai a turn. cmon. cmon. cmon

[ourflagmeansheartbreak]

YALL SHUT UP I CANNOT DO THIS ANYMORE😭

The real reason nothing happened between them 😭

[atomicradiogirl]

whenever i think about how sara hess, a lesbian, wrote the most queer episodes that could have aired on network tv in the 2000s, i explode. how do you write “you’d be surprised what you can live with?” and wilson literally proposing to house in public as a joke and neither of them mention it again, toxic lesbian patients that literally mirror house and wilson, house buying flowers for wilson to prove cuddy likes him (sureeee), and thirteen having one night stands with women to cope with her terminal illness and having to deal with one of her one night stands dying as well, HELLO????

[shyshitter]

do you think steve carlson knew what he was getting into when he agreed to make music with the #1 most unhinged deangirl heller jensen ackles. like did anyone prepare him at all. when they were recording watching over me, did he know it was about castiel or did jensen use the dead friend excuse, leaving steve to find out about his contribution to the destiel community through convention leaks. do you think now he just assumes half of jensens songs are about spn or do you think he holds out hope his creative partner is somehow. normal