#the homoeroticism of gay chicken

[daguerreotyping]

Carte de visite of two ladies embracing in the throes of passion and/or ennui, c. 1860s

[olderthannetfic]

This may be a touch grass moment but i also am not sharing this on my dash :D

It's surreal people falling for Deadpool & wolverine queerbaiting while at the same time hating that people ship two male best friends.

Cause like d&w point is that the are bros but... also....maybe... they are like bros who fuck. And the whole marketing was around that and like it feels like everyone treats it as a haha moment.

While when someone is shipping two men who are 'best friends' suddenly its a reach and you're looking too much into things. And queercoding is not a thing anymore suddenly.

--

Well...

Deadpool has long been able to get away with canonically referring to the homoeroticism of comic books because he's played for laughs and he's always meta and weird. I haven't seen the latest one, but having Deadpool movies do yet more of this is no surprise.

Queercoding is indeed a thing. If you watch The Celluloid Closet, it talks a lot about the history of this and the kinds of either subcultural markers or negative stereotypes that are usually involved.

But most epic, heroic male best friends are intended as non-romantic. They don't have nods to cis gay culture like the things discussed in The Celluloid Closet. They don't engage with common negative stereotypes seen in villains. They just care deeply about each other.

Fandom reads this as significant subtext. In a BL manga, it would mean something. In cis gay culture, the most you'll usually get is "Yeah, they're hot, and they should fuck about it".

How we read subtext—whether there is subtext—depends heavily on your exact culture and discourse community. (Like, the actual meaning of "discourse community", not the fandom wank meaning.) It's easy to think someone is reaching when they say something has subtext or is near-canonical if you come from a totally different culture with a different set of assumptions. That can be true even if you like the idea of a ship or wish it would become canon.

If someone enjoys Deadpool's gay chicken vibes but yells at Stucky shippers, they're a jerk. They're not necessarily a hypocrite though.

[sladerobinweek]

Is it possible to see(have a list of?) the other suggested prompts (which aren’t in the final pick) from the form which just closed so that we can use some of them for the free day? I hope this is no bother! ^^

I can do that! See under the read-more for the full list (only editing done is some filtering into lists I did initially, and the removal of winners) of all submitted prompts:

SladeRobin Week 2024 Submitted Prompts:

"I'm tired of hating you.”

"I never said I was the good guy."

"This isn't what it looks like."

“I won't fail you.”

“We are all pretty.”

“You should smile more.”

“I don’t like penetration.”

“It’s yours, take it.”

“Make me.”

“Let me help you.”

“You don’t have to stay.”

Premature Ejaculation

Mutual Noncon

Weapon Insertion

Orange Pirate Boots Kink

Murder Kink

Lingerie

Chastity Devices

Surprise Heat

Pleasure Whether They Like it or Not

Undernegotiated Kink

Frottage

Aftercare

Orgasm Denial

Male Squirting

Coming Untouched

Arkham-verse

Flashpoint Universe

Babysitter AU

Ravager Lives AU

Bachelor AU

Olympics AU

Shifter AU

Trucker AU

Dragons AU

Football Coach/Cheerleader

Killer/Detective

Assassin/Royalty

Soulmate-Identifying Marks

Omegaverse Same Dynamic

(Robin) Using Deathstroke’s Sword

Rose Finds Out

Robins compete to fuck Slade first

Contract on a Batkid

Slade claims the Bat pack

Lion!Slade

Slade + 2 Robins

Batman!Slade

Slade’s Past

Meta Inhibitor Collar

Accidentally Wore the Same Outfit

Shaving Other with Straight Razor

Grocery Store Meet Cute

The Inherent Homoeroticism of Men’s Sports

Crushing on an In-Law

Baseball

Dragon 

Wish

Mirror

Cats

Stray

Trust

Misunderstandings

Courting

Captivity

Competitiveness

Ownership

Galas

Princess

Holiday

Smoking

Fever

Babysitting

Betrayal

Sparring

Choking

Crying

Drunkenness

Gay Discovery

Dynamic/Power Swap

Age Reversal (or, young!Slade/older!Robin)

Bad Guys Win

On-Again Off-Again Relationship

Political Marriage

Accidental Relationship

Gunpoint Wedding

Hurt/Comfort

Outside POV

Fake Dating

Accidental Baby Acquisition

Hanahaki Disease

Established Relationship

Identity Reveal

Identity Shenanigans

Love Potion

Daddy Issues

Playing Chicken

Knife to the Throat

First Time

Texting Miscommunication

Pushed to the Brink

Second Choice

Reluctant Hero

Secret Meeting

Hidden Talent

Costume Swap

Impersonating One Another

Civilian Hookup

Tracking Device

Guard Dog

Old Wounds

Opening Up

Shared Trauma

Old Sins Resurface

Son/Daughter Issues

Daddy’s Business Rival

My Best Friend’s Dad

Super Soldier Stamina

Unexpected Mercy

Pain as Punishment

Hunt for Sport

Tag Chaser

Lesser of Two Evils

Unlikely Savior

Messy History

Cottage in the Forest

Surprise Kid/Pregnancy

Baby Fever

[grahamkennedy]

top 5 succession scenes? 👀

1. The Kenstewy cellar scene. Incredible acting by Arian Moayed. Seeing Stewy's heart break in real time is so ouchy and I love pain.

2. Tom stealing Logan's chicken. There's nothing deep there I just think the comedic timing is stellar, I actually lost my shit with laughter the first time I saw it.

3. Kenstewy hug. When Stewy closed his eyes during it? 👌

4. Shiv breaking down finding out that Logan is dying. Every Emmy award to Sarah Snook please

5. Kenstewy bathroom scene. The homoeroticism was off the fucking charts, they should've had gay sex in that bathroom.

[notsocheezy]

Brain Curd #70

Brain Curds are lightly edited flash fiction - practically first drafts - posted daily and sometimes written with the express intention of being terrible… but, you know, in an endearing way. This is a continuation of Brain Curd #69, so read that first. Please enjoy.

Gregory took the trays from the counter. He was sweating. He made his way back to the table as slowly as he could, hoping the thoughts might get bored and drift away. Or at the very least, he hoped the conversation could move on to something other than vague homoeroticism.

He set the trays down and the others dug in. He took his steak quesadilla from the pile and tore a piece off.

“So anyway,” Harry said, chewing on a nacho chip. “We need to decide right now if we’re gonna get an apartment together or live in a frat house.”

“Aren’t we supposed to live in the dorms the first year?” Gregory asked.

“Fuck that, man. I’m not eating that dining hall slop.” Harry squeezed the stacker into his mouth like a tube of toothpaste and began ripping the remaining tortilla to shreds with his teeth, swallowing it without chewing. He always ate like that.

“I hear initiation gets pretty intense at frats,” Mutt added, crunching on a taco. “My cousin had to have a whole keg of beer before they let him in.”

Gregory swallowed. “I don’t think I could drink that much at once.”

“I didn’t say they made him drink it…”

Gregory’s eyes went wide. “You mean…?”

“They stuck a tube up his butt.”

“Damn, bro.” Harry took a sip of Baja Blast. “I could never have anything up there. That’s the wrong way, man, wrong direction.”

“I bet I could do it,” Gregory said without thinking.

The others stared at him again.

“I mean, I’m not afraid of a challenge.”

“Yeah, okay,” Harry said dismissively. “You go ahead and let Samuel Adams fuck you in the ass, I’m gonna do something else. They gotta give you options, right? The point is to embarrass you, not to scar you for life.”

Mutt replied. “My dad told me that in Phi Beta Kappa, they used to make new initiates streak across the whole campus at midnight.”

“Damn, bro. Wouldn’t you freeze your balls off doing that?”

“Guess not, since I was born like five years later.”

“Unless you’re adopted.”

Mutt threw a chip at Harry. “Fuck off, man.”

“What? You don’t look anything like your parents, bro.”

“Greg-O,” Mutt banged on the table. “What do you think?”

“Hmmm. I never really thouuught about it…”

“He looks like he’s from Iceland or some shit, right?”

“No I don’t!”

“Yeah, Harry, I don’t think Mutt’s adopted. Him and his dad both have the same chiseled, cleft chin.”

Mutt blew raspberries Harry’s way. “Told you, dumbass.”

“Whatever.”

“You know, uh…” Gregory hesitated. “My father always told me that to get into his fraternity, he had to win a tournament.”

“What kind of tournament?” Harry asked, suspicious.

“Gay Chicken.”

Harry choked on his soda. “What?”

“And it was really involved, too. Like, one match went on for a whole day. They had to go to class and everything.”

“Are you telling me your dad made out with another dude in the middle of a fucking psychology class?”

“Pretty much.” Gregory took a bite of chalupa. “He won, though.”

“I wouldn’t want to go up against you in a game of Gay Chicken, man. I bet it’s in your genetics or some shit.”

“You’re a fucking baby, Harry.” Mutt took a Cinnabon Delight from the box. “I bet I could win a game of Gay Chicken against anyone.”

Harry scratched his head. “Is that something you should be bragging about?”

Mutt took a bite of his Cinnabon Delight. The creamy filling leaked out the other side and landed on his chest. He made eye contact with Gregory and refused to break it. This, Gregory recognized, was a challenge. And he was determined to win. He practically leapt across the table to lick it off Mutt’s chest and the two began passionately making out. Harry looked like he was going to throw up.

The Taco Bell workers begged for them to stop, but it was no use. Both were determined to win, and both had foolproof methods which sadly are likely to get this blog in trouble if I were to go into too much detail. Some say Gregory and Mutt are still playing Gay Chicken to this very day. Though it’s mostly Harry who says so.

[nekhcore]

inventing a new kind of gay chicken with my friend where i make tons of jokes about the homoeroticism of tanking and the sexual tension between main and off tank but whenever they say “let’s do it. let’s co-tank” i immediately back off because “noooo tanking is scaryyyy”

[woodohwanedandproud]

OP tags: #there are so many examples of them flirting i struggled to pick just a few #look at them #ds knows exactly what he’s doing and jw loves it #also the progression of jw’s reaction is so good #look at him trying to be all affronted to begin with only to end up looking smug when ds calls him a prince @siegedeacon #its growth #and by growth we mean hjw telling lds he's not gonna be flustered and distracted by the flirting anymore #and i love lds's fond proud little smirk after that's also a little bit sad because he enjoyed that era in their interactions #its OK yall can keep the sexual tension and just add some undying devotion to it #its not a bad direction to go in @cafedecanela #hilarious when dongsik stops flirting when he actually catches feelings #joownon cant flirt for shit #but he's worse #he's honest @nilamarthiel #flirting as an intimidation tactic to intimidation as a flirting tactic and round and round it goes in an oroborous of homoeroticism @citrinekay #they don't know the meaning of subtlety lol #god i love them @nilamarthiel #the best mistake dongsik ever made was play gay chicken as an intimidation/irritation tactic with a repressed young queer with daddy issues #and also a slutty javert complex #they are both unhinged and deserve each other @polytropic-liar #I'm not normal about them but on the other hand they are so much LESS normal about each other so who's the real winner here @faifromthewild #these are actual quotes from the drama @suuho #how do you fall in love? harder than a bullet could hit ya. @b1uetrees #genuinely headache inducing #and they're all oblivious about it

Lee Dong Sik and his perfectly successful attempts to flirt with get under Han Joo Won’s skin

+bonus Joo Won flirting back

[blorbocedes]

Would love to hear your thoughts on Yukierre because folks have such different ideas of their dynamics and I feel like you might have some spicy takes

hmmm my yukierre hot takes....

I know we give Charles the Catholic guilt cultural appropriation pass for being a Ferrari driver but the real trad cath guilt ridden poster boy is pierre, sexy satyr mr tumnus looking, gasly who has a Cross necklace and does the sign of the cross before a race

I have to respect the thottery 4 jesus

Pierre is also in the business of denying himself things he wants, he talked on the podcast about how he used to have croissants everyday until he was 18 cause it's his ✨Francois Culture 🥖🇫🇷 but then after the motorsport diet restrictions made him count every calorie :( Yuki has a complete opposite approach towards pleasure, which is that he indulges in it. He has a good steak, a big rice dinner, even called a croissant good for mental calories (so true bestie!!!) 🥐

However, pierre is also the one instigates the sus shit; like saying yuki has tasted everything except French girls, how he has so many girls in his dms saying yuki is so cute and he just needs the confirmation to set them up...... which is 🤨 why do u want to get ur coworker laid . and why do u want to be involved in that process of setting it up 🤔 the whole "haha let's go to the movies I don't do this with guys btw but maybe I'll make an exception for u 😳" like WHO asked Mr Gasly. But then he is haunted by not leaving room for the Holy Spirit and gets spooked 'haha don't misunderstand/don't make it weird guys haha also yuki you can't come to my house, remember last time you tried to sleep with me'

Yuki isn't suffering from fatal conditions like Catholicism and being a former Redbull driver, so he can play back easily and unphased, 'I thought you weren't gonna tell them about that' 'having boyfriend girlfriend feelings 🥰' 'I want to go to your house' while pierre is having a breakdown trying to backtrack from the gay chicken because he always breaks first (coward)...... what does it truly mean to be liked by Pierre Gasly 😔

Why are you looking at him like that!!!!! you are NEVER beating the allegations sir!!!!

this isn't relevant but yuki is one of the few on track who has thunder thighs which I'm a big fan I hope he never stops wearing schoolboy shorts

also, the way alonso goes 'yuuki :D' makes me believe yuki has that same twinkle for chaos in his eyes, and I love a bitch on the grid.

tldr: what happens when you put a repressed French Catholic and a Japanese zoomer with no fear of god or calories together

[il0vetofu]

I would think it was a series about two men and their weird found family children while they kept denying their homoeroticism/relationship and continuously failing because no one thinks there’s not anything there, going so far deep into it that they become the ‘gay chicken, we’ve been married for 14 years, if he doesn’t back out I’ll actually start thinking he’s gay’ reddit post (especially in that lavender/periwinkly/purple shirt).

you wouldn’t believe this was one of the most intense medical dramas

[ofide]

btw i see quinton reviews is getting popular here and i’d like to say that i’ve been following him for years but i’ve never forgiven him for not picking up on the homoeroticism in the end of time. “it’s stupid why does he” they’re gay. i know it’s stupid but he bleached his hair in a bathroom and he’s gay and he ate a whole chicken and he saw that his ex boyfriend liked humanity more than him so he turned every single human into himself. that’s the angle you’re approaching this from

[kissingcullens]

Because I'm a fool, I'm watching SPN D//stiel clips on YouTube and Jesus Christ, this is rough- the aggressive homophobia/homoeroticism is making me want to die lmao...

im just super fascinated by queer-baiting as a topic, I truly am..

i feel like these shows that are super macho AND queerbaity are such an interesting phenomenon; it's like... "intricate rituals" 🤪

and it's fascinating to me that, to straight people, these kind of scenes read so much differently.

Like/ I remember watching the RDJ Sherlock, and the BBC Sherlock, with my parents, and to them all the gay jokes are just that; jokes.

Flirting with taboo/ laughing at the inherent absurdity of "ha ha ha he's like, in love with his best friend! (But obvs not really) Hilarious!" Or "oh people assume they're a couple! That's fucking top tier comedy!!"

I feel like, to some extent, queerbaiting might be less about courting lgbt viewers (while having no intent of actusl inclusion ofc)

...and more about straight people's amusement and titillation at viewing "gay chicken" between straight men... ?

(and just the enjoyment of mocking, homophobic humor in general lmao)

[eldestdaughterdeans]

actually the more i think about, it’s like culture at large was playing a game of gay chicken. there was a lot of like pantomiming homoeroticism that was played for laughs, but taking it at face value (as a threat to heteronormativity or as an earnest expression of queerness) meant you were the deviant thinking gay thoughts.

early seasons spn homophobia is actually so crazy because they literally do not look gay. hamfisted gay jokes when the characters look straight as hell. "you look the type" they literally don't. is the thing

[seoksjin]

gay chicken is basically how much homoeroticism can you tolerate from your fellow bro before you giggle and/or run away

Oh! Thank you for explaining me 😅

[howdywrites]

Happy Storyteller Saturday! Why a western? How did you to this interesting genre? Having seen it around for a while😂

Happy STS to you, too, my friend! ❤️

I love westerns lol I grew up watching them with my papa. I’d sit in his lap and shell pecans for him while John Wayne was on screen. I also grew up, and still live, in Texas. One of the most yeehaw states in the US lol

So I guess it’s kind of in my blood? I love the aesthetics. Hot deserts, snow capped mountains, dangerous rivers and wildlife. Outlaws coming from all walks of life. Women taking back their agency. Tragic backstories. The inherent homoeroticism of living in the middle of no-where with your partner.

‘Westerns’ as a genre is kind of dying. Most of the western themed books I’ve read have only been published as historical fiction understandably. I, for one, think the gays and POC should take over the genre and give it new life! Because the wild west didn’t belong to just heroic white men - so why should the genre?

ANYWAY that’s my soapbox LOL I just really want a lesbian cowgirl to throw me over her shoulder and raise chickens with me.

[bisummers]

please give us a rundown on your thoughts while watching it :)) if you'd like

oh man i suck at these but hmm jennifer’s body:

- i did not expect it to be so blatantly gay. like, i knew they kiss cause i’d seen the scene gifs here, but i fully expected it to be gratuitous (especially cause thats how the movie was marketed back when it came out) and i was kinda floored by the vulnerability and the depth of the homoeroticism. it was not baiting but blatant and it made it so much more enjoyable.

- the whole thing just really took me by surprise and i found the storyline really interesting. example: the fire at the bar was such a wtf moment! seemed so fucking surreal. the way it was shot fucked wt my head

- but also like everything leading up to that is so gay! wear something cute! the looks! the hand holding! the furious defending from the dudes!

- i am a huge scaredy cat so em watching this was a lot for me!!!! especially the first time we see her possessed.. when jennifer shows up in needy’s house and does that whole chicken fridge scene... so gross so scary

- i fucking live for the btvs/juno/10thingsihateaboutyou quick-quirky speak and the dialogue did not dissapoint

- adam brody being evil was so random lol 

- i mentioned this in the tags of one of the post i made but the fact that the only thing keeping jennifer alive was her friendship with needy and once the necklace comes off and and that love is broken she is able to be killed?? poetic cinema!!

- the school library having an occult section adhsfklks i wish that were me 

idk what else its been a few days but yeah! the ending was satisfying! would watch it again even though it would only be during daytime and probably while not alone at home lol what are your favorite things?

[tache-noire]

men can play gay chicken in the ring and in pretapes even while fully clothed because male homoeroticism is a joke to the primarily straight male audience, but women can only play gay chicken while in the ring wearing sexy gear because female homoeroticism fuels a voyeurism fetish for the primarily straight male audience. do you understand.

if female friendships were valued and treated as enduring and complex like men's are and people weren't so weird about women hanging out without men involved, we wouldn't have such garbage women's storylines

do you understand.