#queerbating

[ibreathhere]

So let me get this straight, in April 2024 this happened,

yuri !!! on ice: ice adolescence, movie got cancelled buy ungrateful Mappa studio, who would be dead if not for the gays and girlies money. 

Shinichi aka Conan and the magic thief Kaito are cousins, so they can't kiss or hold hands despite years and years of hints and sniffing each other and looking in the eyes.

Supernatural insider revealed they queer coded Dean and Castiel relationship from the begging to attract the gays and girlies, but it got too real so they even had to cool them down, and we still got queer bating somehow.

People are evil.

[doyoulikedem]

gm byler nation!

just dropping in with a reminder for if you're ever having byler doubt!

just think about this for a second:

the duffer brothers would have had no reason to acknowledge/confirm or even establish will's love for mike (and therefore byler, by extension) if not to have a confession/confrontation included in the next season of the show.

if they had pretended the romantic tension between mike and will hadn't existed in the first place then yes, it would be queerbating, but they might have been able to slip away with it (legally, maybe not emotionally) whilst still maintaining a shred of plausible deniability.

but now seeing as they have acknowledged will's sexuality and the object of his affections (😏) and managed to boost byler to be equally, if not more popular than the "true" canon ship, they now are obligated to acknowledge it in the show, especially as they talk about season 5 focusing on will coming into himself more.

now if we put two and two together, we will remember milkvan's . umm. ?issues, and the amount of season 5 bts we've got of each pair respectively up to this point, with mike and will seeming to almost always be together, as well as their promises of being a "team" this season, and realise that if a confrontation has/is going to happen, wouldn't the bts we're getting look a little bit. idk. different??

i, for one, highly doubt that the duffer brothers would have will confess and then be turned down by mike (because come on.

a) what type of representation is that even &

b) why would they even include that? it would just be useless and take away from the mainplot of the story &

c) not acknowledging byler at this point would be blatant queer-bating. as was touched on before.

d) mike is also in love with will, they just can't come out and say it as not to spoil the ?surprise? and spark any controversy before the release of the new season.)

and seriously.

the history that would be made with such an iconic romantic subplot?? hello??????. they can't let all of their plotting and parallels and hints and hard work go to waste. they wouldnt.

therefore, the confrontation must have gone.. *shocked, stunned gasping* .. well???? for byler????

i am SHOCKED.

anyways.

byler doubt? don't know her 💗🌈

byler endgame!!

[nylanotthere-2]

Me when I was watching that fucking Teen Wolf movie and Thiam was not canon:

[lifelover4life]

me, watching in horror, as another obviously queer character gets into a heterosexual relationship because the writers are scared of making them gay: No. No, no, don't kiss hi- awh. No! No. No!

[daisyymay]

We all know too well the damage caused by the queerbating but every piece of queer media today it's fast and direct and in your face I miss the unresolved sexual tension, the eye fuck, the dance around each other, the 12 years pining

[sun-ni-day]

"They're queerbating!" and it's just two same sex characters sharing a deep spiritual connection and emotional and physical intimacy, becoming an integral part of each other's life.

Girl, platonic love exists.

Stop devaluing it.

P.S. I'm not talking about shipping - your headcanons are yours, go off, no one is stopping you. Just don't accuse creators of doing something they didn't do.

[i-oooo]

Spoilers for Wednesday, episode 5:

Can we please talk about how Enid is obviously a lesbian trans girl and that her mother literaly wants her to go to conversion therapy aka "Summer Camp" to be more like her brothers? (Because we all know that she is one of those Boy Moms™️ who would never accept that her runt of the litter is a girl).

I was happy to see Enid's father supporting her in the end of episode 5. But honestly, it's not enough to show up for your trans kid when your toxic co-parent isn't there to hear it. That will still rip a wound that is very hard to mend.

Esther Sinclair is probably emotionally abusive to the entire family including her spouse.

.

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Why put Enid in a Lesbian Sunset flag sweater if not Lesbian?

Why make her hair blonde with pink and blue tints if not trans?

Enid is purposely queer coded and if that doesn't track with her actual identities, then we have a word for that: Queerbating.

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Credit, all 3 photos: Netflix

[forkaround]

I just started My Journey to You because of a gifset of two women fighting very gay-ly. In the show there is banter between the Male Lead and his Bodyguard where ML says 'Are you going to be my bride?'. Now, they might not have intentionally queerbaited (if we can even call it that) but even if they had it would not be the same way that USdramas queerbait. In a Cdrama I know I'm not getting the gay no matter how many hints they leave. Same with Kdramas. So they can go as hard as they want but I know, going in, it's never going to be there. On the other hand USdramas are malicious with this. With USdramas I have hope. And every time they don't get together it feels like a slap in the face. Especially since the straight romance they write isn't good anyway. I started Till the End of the Moon for the same reason - A gifset of girls. But the straight romance both these girls get, the depth of character in both masculine and feminine traits that both these women get makes me satisfied with the show. On the other hand, Women are treated so horribly on USdramas - flattened and boring that the most important and interesting thing about them becomes their potential queerness. Same with Little Women. It's queercoded but I won't be disappointed if InJoo and Do-il got together because all the female characters are so well crafted and well explored that it feel like a feast.

I've admired USdramas for a long time. They were the better alternative to Indian Dramas. But they don't got shit on Cdramas and Kdramas. Now of course it doesn't apply to every show out there. But I'm picky no matter what country it is. And so far Cdramas and Kdramas have better writing overall.

[kittcattastrophe]

Have you like just discovered rizzoli and isles?

Nah babe, I've been queerbaited by these women since the year of our lord 2010.

[tickles-my-cockles]

Honestly screams queerbating to me

[threeimagineryboys]

I think queerbaiting is unlawful.

Netflix is targeting LGBTQ+ viewers with byler thumbnails, and during s4 promotion they were hinting about byler all over social media and in interviews.

So if Byler doesn’t happen in season 5 (it will happen, it just has to)  I think we should sue Netflix just like those Ana de Armas fans sued Universal for using her in the ´Yesterday´trailers but cut her out from the film. 

If Byler doesen’t happen I WANT MY MONEY BACK. 

Honestly, I think Netflix should also be sued for cancelling good shows with queer representation. I think a little lawsuit would perk Netflix up a bit don’t you think?

[whathehe11]

Merlin and Arthur (Merthur) is the gay version of Scully and Mulder (MSR) from the X-files. I’ve said what I’ve said.

[mytranssnakes]

Queerbating: " A strategy by which writers and networks attempt to gain the attention of queer viewers via hints, jokes, gestures, and symbolism suggesting a queer relationship between two characters, and then emphatically denying and laughing off the possibility. Denial and mockery reinstate a heteronormative narrative that poses no danger of offending mainstream vieuwers at the expense of queer eyes. "

- Judith Fathallah

[arthur-is-tired]

Honestly Jesus is pretty problematic for queerbating when his fanbase is so openly homophobic... Smh... He has a huge platform and won't even speak on it...

[exquisite-peculiarity]

Apparently there's drama for the Swifties rn, but this applies accross the board- You realize a human person having friendships isn't queerbating you, and taking it personally when they don't have your sexuality is, in fact, a you problem?