#bury your gays bad

[mono-chrome-me]

[ropebunnykant]

i fear the ending of agatha all along is once again making people confuse “i didn’t like the ending/the ending made me sad” with “that was bad writing”

[ysines]

somebody said alnst was an example of burying your gays bc theyre doomed and its like. no? that isnt what burying your gays is? at all? media literacy please come back i need you

[fasttiger]

guys can we please understand that

“this one creator on this show has one unpopular opinion about a relationship between canon queer characters”

is not the same as

“this show is bad queer rep”

[tardis-technician]

Donna Noble accidentally accepts an invitation to a gay bar in The Creeping Death. What more could could you want?

[anthyies]

i think criticisms of baru that are like. "the empire is too cartoonishly evil" loop back around to being funny because all of that... happened in real life

[sol-flo]

6/16 of the way through this anthology of queer horror and feeling rather 🧐 that it opens on a botched vaginoplasty and then women almost entirely vanish from the next five stories

[lesbos-crossings]

ofc everyone is entitled to their own opinions about the ofmd finale/quality of the season (which i think we can generally agree was facing pacing/funding issues)

BUT seeing all the different perspectives is so funny to me bc you can really tell who has lived through genuine “bury your gays” and queer-hostile writing like some of y’all gotta be JOKING

[cyberfunsupporter]

serious talk! i dont think it’s lesbiphobic to not like one lesbian ship… esp not if you have a pattern of liking others earnestly. and well to be honest. since a lot of people in this world hate lesbians or just fetishize them a lot of rep is actually badly written and i think the idea that lesbian rep can’t be badly written and we should instead just be grateful is so strange. the fight for rep resulted in the appearance so the fight should continue so we get something thoughtful and well written right? NOT SAYING ALL REP IS BADLY WRITTEN… i just think there are some instances where people would rather lie than admit the faults of the writing. but yk lmk what you think about this i guess

[atomicradiogirl]

the last time i gave a shit about the finale of a show was the magnus archives and it’s been almost 3 whole years and i’m still pissed off about it. this is the complete opposite of the loki finale. in 3 years i will still be dying on the hill that this is the best show finale i have ever seen.

[fanburgers]

Killing Eve’s Finale Spoilers (It’s Ass)

I don’t even care that I’m a year and a half late for this conversation, I just finished the KE finale with my roommate. All throughout S4, we had been so kind to the story. We had forgiven gaping plot holes, weirdly written one-off characters, main characters acting OOC, and even the existence of Pam. We even liked Season 3, I didn’t even think it was that bad of a dip in quality.

The series finale changed all of that. Those last 10 minutes were so bad, my roomie and I spent three hours talking about it and going back and forth, slowly coming to the same realization: nothing in Season 4 fuckin’ mattered at all. The born-again Christian arc that went on for Way Too Long? Pointless. Carolyn’s flashbacks? Pointless. Her quest to find Kenny’s killer? Super pointless. Pam’s entire character? A complete fuckin’ wash.

This finale has everything: character assassination, detrimental filler, jarring shifts in tone, a total anticlimax ending for the 12, and even a juicy dose of the Bury Your Gays trope, as basically every single queer character is killed. Game of Thrones had a better ending. The G.I. Joe reveal at the end of Rise of Beasts wasn’t as stupid as this. Rip to a great show, Killing Eve. It died when the pandemic hit and never made another season after 3.

Basically how it felt to watch Villanelle get fuckin ventilated with sniper fire that somehow didn’t hurt Eve even though any bullet fired from a sniper rifle should have pierced both of them from how close they were.

[agardenintheshire]

finished my life is strange replay and call me dr jack shephard the way i'm not able to let go of my bitchy blue haired pronouns using lesbian 💔💔

[brotherhoodoftheblade]

A character named Perseverance being doomed by the narrative is just extra inherently tragic, so I'll just be officially stanning him forever and a day now.❤️

[nopeferatu]

ugh now i remember why i dont interact w large fandoms lmao. people are throwing around the word "bury your gays" to describe the ofmd showrunners killing off izzy hands bc... he was old and queer? just like everyone else in the show??? the show famously centered around the love story between two middle aged male pirates? the show that features a nonbinary actor playing a nonbinary character who discovers their gender identity in the course of the first season? the show that prominently features polyamory? the show that included a PIRATE MARRIAGE between two guys? this is the show that y'all are saying is a "bury your gays" narrative? ok...🙄

[designernishiki]

hot take but. oda is honestly one of the most interesting prominent side characters in y0 to me. like. don’t get me wrong obviously i don’t condone his actions, but speaking as a character design guy, i think he’s got a whole lot of complexity to think about in his story and identity that people tend to ignore/overlook because he’s not a black and white “good” person. like no shit he’s morally fucked, that doesn’t mean his intense pining and crazed level of dedication to tachibana and the lengths all his guilt and repressed love for the man he saw as the best thing to ever grace his life drove him to aren’t interesting to think about– if anything it makes him more interesting. he was. really something

[transingthoseformers]

So this is actually cool as hell Misfire

I actually would be one of those Decepticons, because it's cool, and yes I know it would be part of the reason why I'd be the first to die in a horror movie. But. mISFIRE LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING AND SEEING

I'm seeing some sort of organic-forming process here, maybeeeee? Organic stuff is definitely in olved here, i only remember a bit of where this goes from this point on or well who they find, but i digress: Skin walls in the Decepticon symbol ship sounds fascinating