#queer media tropes
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Queer-coded villains are one thing, but the ones that really perplex me – and I've seen multiple instances of this, mostly in pre-2000 media, though with some later examples – is when the baddie has all the surface-level signifiers of a queer-coded villain, but instead of doing anything particularly gay he just conspicuously admires his wife, and the text of the film makes it clear that this is meant to be understood as deplorably unmanly. Like, fellas, is it gay to not hate your wife?
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Can we talk about the found family trope and queer-coded/canonically queer characters? Because there is a ton of overlap between these two.
In their stories, the queer/queer-coded characters no longer have a supportive family for a number of reasons (Hiccup refuses to kill dragons, Johnny wants to be a singer, Nimona is a shapeshifter, etc). A lot of times these reasons are things that ‘other’ them from people around them, thereby furthering the queer allegory.
And this lack of support is what drives these characters to form/find a found family made of more people who are like them. People who will treat them with the love and support that their family should have. It pushes them into the found family trope.
The prevalence of found family in queer and queer-coded story lines serves to make them more relatable and realistic but it’s also heart breaking that familial rejection is so common that this trope does make it more realistic.
#found family#found family things#trope talk#found family is so common in queer literature#and media#queer coding#httyd#toh#percy jackson#sing#sing 2#nimona#avatar the last airbender#avatar the legend of korra#the dragon prince#tlou#supernatural#six of crows#batfam#spiderman#the witcher#the 100#the owl house#how to train your dragon#just something i noticed rewatching nimona again#personal opinion#ao3#fanfiction#amphibia#assassination classroom
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the fact that people still use the "no one would talk to a friend that way" "no one would grieve for someone like that if it was just platonic" etc arguments to prove a ship is canon is so annoying to me. yes i get it, we got queerbaited hard but where does it say that romance has to be higher than a friendship or no one said friends couldn't also be lovers or vice versa....? i normally say "popular media tropes that usually are for romance" when i talk about fiction but pulling a blanket statement like "NO ONE talks to a friend that way" is so invalidating to so much of our queer experiences. the beauty of queer friendship literally lies in the emotional fulfilment we get from our friends in a way that i don't normally see in cishet friendships for whatever reasons. so idk it's just been bothering me to see these kinds of posts every now and then. "you wouldn't do [x] for your friends" i would actually. i would sell my soul for them. i would kill for them and kill myself for them. i would do anything for my friends that i would do for a partner. the "proof" for a ship doesn't have to be by invalidating their friendship. also like aren't most of the ships so powerful when they're also each other's closest friends? do y'all not think of your partners as your best friends?
#sorry for the rant#i know that popular media tropes have changed our mindset on romqnce#it wasn't a thing in my country but now the dating scene is so westernised that it's the same here#im not saying people can't experience romance or friendship differently#in the context of queer people specifically i've noticed that most people struggle to differentiate between platonic and romantic feelings#and often feel a mixture of both or somewhere outside both#it's intense! Regardless#I'm also trying not to invalidate romance or people that experience it totally separately from friendships#but i genuinely wonder#do you stop being friends with the person you're dating#how does thay make sense#them not being your bestest friend?#anyways I'm aroace and in a qpr#maybe i'm just a little sensitive#but queer people also talking in a very heteronormative of looking at romance also confuses me#are we really putting a tag on how much someone grieves???#first of all human relationships dont work that way!!#there's no need to place them in different positions#it's not a competition#every relationship is unique to the two people involved in it#only they can categorize their relationship not outsiders
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Queer media really just always be like ✨HANDS✨
She Makes My Heart Flutter (2022) | The Eighth Sense (2023) | The Eighth Sense (2023) | My School President (2022) | Fragrance of the First Flower (2021) | GAP The Series (2022) | A Time Called You (2023) | Moonlight Chicken (2023) | My School President (2022) | Dangerous Romance (2023)
Gif creds: @damnthosewords @tomystars @forcebook @firstkhao @gabrielokun @weiwuxian @liveasbutterflies @mantrisanu @bevioletskies @liyazaki
Part 2/? (Part 1)
#yeah sure sex is cool and all#but have you ever lightly brushed the hand of your beloved in passing like you’re the main character in some Victorian romance novel???#poetic cinema#it’s all about the hands folks#my oh so favorite trope of the queer cinematic experience#she makes my heart flutter#the eighth sense#my school president#fragrance of the first flower#gap the series#a time called you#moonlight chicken#dangerous romance#wlw media#mlm media#bl drama#gl drama#queer cinema#you guys can have a little homoerotic gif set…as a treat#sapphic#pride#my post#lgbtq ships#it’s about reaching out into the void even when you’re so so afraid and feeling someone reach back#and that’s what love is really all about isn’t it?
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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
#alnst#alien stage#theyre doomed and happen to be gay#they arent dying cuz theyre gay or gay because theyre dying#theyre gay bc vivinos has a history of producing queer media#and theyre doomed because alien stage is a tragic story that will most likely have a bad ending#they are both but the causes of being both are unrelated to each other#and burying your gays in its actual uses makes gay characters “more expendable” than straight ones#but in alnst the focus is on gay characters and their deaths are the groundwork and plot of the series#there is no expendability#and they arent being removed from the plot in the way burying your gays is meant to do#sua and ivan are still very important characters despite death that get good attention from the series?#and the gay characters (mizisua and ivantill) are more important to the story than the “straight characters” (hyunaluka)#if alien stage is an example of the bury your gays trope its doing a really fucking awful job at what that trope is meant to do#they are gay people who happen to be dead#its not related and it isnt homophobic they just happen to both be true and coexisting#gay people can have tragic storylines without being discriminated against
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gay people be like: commit an act of violence to separate yourself from your previous life and run away with me <3
#truly the greatest trope i keep running into in queer media#does hannibal count as queer media? eh.#tma#hannibal#im scared of the ofmd fandom so im not main tagging it but. yknow.#voidposts
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I survived Buffy and Faith. (BtVS)
I survived Dean and Cas. (SPN)
I survived Olivia and Alex. (SVU)
I survived Sherlock and Watson. (Sherlock)
I survived Bucky and Steve, AND Sam and Steve, AND Bucky and Sam. (MCU)
I survived Clark and Lexa (t100).
I am currently surviving Will and Mike, Steve and Eddie, AND Nancy and Robin. (Stranger Things)
I have suffered through: queerbaiting; "everyone experiments in college"; queer coded? - they must be the villain!; "the inherent tragedy of gayness" (repression, AIDs, violence, hatred); girl-on-girl male fanservice; "pray the gay away"; and, most personally painful, "bisexuals aren't real, they just need to pick a side". (I mean, I am though?)
I have been fully and irrevocably traumatized by having to watch my beloved queers be buried over & over & over.
I have literally spent three-and-a-half decades in a toxic, abusive relationship with (not so) queer media.
Upon recommendation of multiple queer friends, I (skeptically, cynically, borderline angrily) watched their so-called "GAY PIRATE (affectionate)" comedy, and was gobsmacked.
Our Flag Means Death gave us: well-rounded characters that are 'no-room-for-guessing, even-your-deeply-repressed-insufferable-republican-uncle-can-see-it queer! Multiple queers with disabilities! Neurodivergent queers! A genderqueer pirate so slay I lose my breath every time they are on screen! Sex between mlm not reduced to 1) tittilation or 2) the raunchy punchline of a mean joke! An unapologetic celebration of Found Family! Drag treated with respect, and as a catalyst for openly queer joy! A fabulous gay wedding! And that's not to mention the loving, romantic, complicated, vulnerable, beautiful relationship between the two male protagonists!
I saw it. with my own two eyeballs. for the first time ever. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
I assumed everyone must be as thrilled, honored, and overjoyed as I am for all the rep, positivity, and LOVE.
I was wrong.
It breaks my queer little heart that so many people on this glorious hellsite are furious, indignant, and quick to cancel the characters, the actors, the writers, and the showrunners for not being spoon-fed perfect queer characters in perfect queer relationships for perfect queer rep in ACTUAL queer media that exists! In canon!
It hurts to be vilified for being a fan who refuses to condemn the show and for loving concerningly imperfect and deeply-flawed queer characters.
I am sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, LOVE WON. We won. Please stop coming into my house (blog) and pissing all over my rainbow parade.
#our flag means death#ofmd#about me#please just let me have this#blackbonnet#gentlebeard#queer media#meta#cancel culture#things cancel culture has killed#queerbaiting#queer tropes#bury your gays#queer representation#izzy hands apologist#edward teach apologist#ofmd meta#drag#love wins#love won#long post
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what is it with the gays holding pinkies at the movies? first we had Jude and Connor on The Fosters, then it's Nick and Charlie in Heartstopper
#i love this little trope but where did it come from?#the fosters#heartstopper#nick nelson#charlie spring#nick and charlie#jude and connor#q attempts social interaction#queer#queer media
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Peak media trope is where the heroes have the same type of queer coding the villains do.
#tropes#media tropes#villain tropes#hero tropes#queer coding#lgbt#queer#oh your villian is an androgynous posing pretty boy#well so are the guys about to kick thier ass
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I just remembered they devoted a whole scene to Mike and Will burying a dead body for no reason other than to poke fun at—
#byler#they said cliche gay tropes#we raise you mocking those tropes subtly through the plot#like did they really need to devote a whole scene to burying a dead body?#they could have left dude laying anywhere#could’ve just stored him in one of the trunks in the junkyard#it wouldn’t have made any difference#fucking argyle joked about just writing their names on the makeshift gravestone#the scene was treated like a joke instead of them seriously needing to bury the body for safety reasons#it was a way to joke about how many viewers think Will is going to die#and follow the same trope every gay main character in mainstream media has before#where YAY they give us a gay character and get some brownie points from queer fans#only to kill the character off to appease the homophobes who make up the majority and would rather not have to actually watch a queer story#and the duffers are essentially saying#lmaooooo fuck that#and having it be both Mike and Will most prominently in this scene…#another fuck you to those saying that this love story is unrequited like every other story before it#they’re laughing at y’all!!!#y’all as in ppl that are predicting the most cliche ending to the story#like do you think they would poke fun at a trope that favors straight characters over gay ones…#only have a storyline that does just that?#the correct answer is no
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Remember in the Raimi Spider-Man movies when Peter discovers his spider powers because of his attraction to Mary Jane? And Uncle Ben dies because Peter wanted money for a car to impress Mary Jane? And all three movies end with the villain kidnapping Mary Jane to force Spider-Man to come fight them? You know how this trope of a male hero whose sole motivation is the female prize which must be won through heroism is so ubiquitous and commonplace in pop culture as to be called the ultimate cliche? Keep that in mind for the next time someone tries to tell you three seconds of footage of a queer couple holding hands is "forcing it down our throats."
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Dracula, 2020, dir. Jonny Campbell
SE01E01 The Rules of the Beast
#i have... so many things to say about the trope in media depicting unhealthy relationships#particularly horror media#of reapropriating a nickname given by an intimate partner by a malicious third party (gay lover)#in order to try and skip ahead in the queue of emotional development#looking at you reanimator#horror aesthetic#horror tv#dracula 2020#horror quotes#queer fear
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A STORY CAN BE A QUEER STORY WITHOUT ROMANCE. A STORY CAN BE A QUEER STORY EVEN IF IT CONTAINS TRAGEDY. A STORY DOES NOT HAVE TO FOCUS EXPLICITLY ON A NEATLY RESOLVED ROMANTIC PLOT IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE TELLING A QUEER STORY. JUST BECAUSE A STORY IS NOT A COOKIE CUTTER ROMANCE WITH A DYKE COPY-PASTED INTO THE ROLE OF THE MALE LOVE INTEREST DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS NOT A QUEER STORY.
#I'm biting#no media literacy on the dashboard tonight#personal#no a story written by a queer woman containing tragic elements is not 'bury your gays trope' because one of the queer characters dies#literally almost every character is queer you would be hard pressed to find a character that *isn't* queer
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Since it’s Pride Month, thought I’d say I am very proud to write queer fiction with practically no coming out subplots. Never thought coming out was that important for my characters especially since they live in a more accepting world than ours. Theres nothing wrong with coming out stories, but I find them very overdone to the point they almost come off cringy or lazy. Writing a queer character doesn’t have to focus on their oppression or their struggles with identity. Queer people can simply exist as they are. I think that does a lot more for our representation than focusing on our coming outs.
#artists on tumblr#original character#oc#fantasy world#lgbtq writing#practice writing#queer writers#queer oc#writers on tumblr#writerscommunity#tropes#writing tropes#lgbtq#queer media
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SHUT THE FUCK UPPP WE ARE COMMUNICATING NOW I LOVE YOU AND WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS YOU ASSHOLE is such a trope tbh
#trope#tropes#mlm books#wlw books#queer media#this is about all hail the underdogs as well as k#I love romcoms so much but something about real fucking couples that aren’t perfect and bicker and fight but have enough trust in each#other to know that you can get through it and one mistake is not end all be all is so comforting and it is just like true romance to me#like yes this sucks. you suck sometimes. but I love you so we will figure this out even if it takes an hour of talking or a day of spending#it apart or 5 years of therapy or the rest of our lives of me showing you how much I care#wolfstar#shameless?#I’ve never watched the show but that seems to be their vibe#ian x mickey#jupeter#the penumbra podcast#snowbaz#snowbaz core#my ocs#I love my girls
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They don't, but they do when it's always random ones constantly for straight relationships on screen, at moments where they're inconsequential or lazy/thoughtless, and queer ones just get cut out or censored and shown as little as possible.
#media#film#film and television#movie tropes#tropes#romantic tropes#lgbtqia#lgbtq community#lgbt#queer representation
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