#they sent the showrunner (herself out queer irl and married with a kid) out to say the obviously TOGETHER women who had 2 CHILDREN TOGETHER
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I think the show has a good narrative set up to dodge around Disney censorship while also telling an emotionally satisfying story.
If the core thrust of the season is for Agatha, "the covenless witch," to heal the primal wound of that rejection/trauma and have a coven again, then there's already something delightfully queer about that as a journey toward growth, yeah? An all female coven is kind of inherently queer and socially stigmatized due to that.
And if, at the same time, Rio turns out to have been trying to help (in her oblique way) and she and Agatha still clearly have feelings for each other -- sexy feelings, both passionately aggro and otherwise -- then that can be the great queer subtext that plays into that resolution and allows for us to spin things off further in fanfic and fanart.
It sucks that Disney is a monopoly and that artists have to work within their boundaries in order to have a job, but I think there's the potential to play with those boundaries and still do something good with BOTH explicitly canon queer characters and queer coding/intentional subtext for the main character.
That is what I see as a very real possibility, given both the narrative so far and the limits I'm aware of from Disney. Is it my ideal? No. But we do not live in an ideal world and the artists are not working under the conditions they wish they could. It is what it is.
#agatha all along#agatha all along meta#it would be better than the way Disney treated the coven and lesbian love on The Acolyte... where in response to reddit bro & youtube hate#they sent the showrunner (herself out queer irl and married with a kid) out to say the obviously TOGETHER women who had 2 CHILDREN TOGETHER#weren't together#that's not something she ever would have said if she had a choice about it and wasn't bound by an employment contract and NDAs etc#it was imo censorship and an abuse of power by an employer against a marginalized employee#this is the kind of boss artists working for Disney have to deal with!!#i'm engaging in full knowledge of how Disney corp behaves#and i refuse to call whatever artists are able to snaek past that bs 'queerbaiting' it doesn't fit this current political and economic#and cultural environment in the US
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