Queer-Baiting? In This 2000s Media?

Morseverse/CM/NCIS/Bones/9-1-1 Cal Any pronouns

[existential-flu]

I write fic sometimes!

Endeavour

Mirror Mirror - a character study of Jakes and Morse (scars, canonical child abuse, implied self harm, disordered eating)

Snowstorms and Soup - Jakes/ Morse/ Joan fluff, with hints of angst (no warnings)

November Ghosts - Jakes/ Morse but with no fluff, only angst (unhealthy relationships projection who?, alcohol abuse)

a coma in a classroom - me on my Morse has ADHD bullshit with added Russian (no warnings)

Lewis

The Phoenix - episode tag to Life Born of Fire (suicidal thoughts, blood, alcohol, references to drowning, religious themes)

Criminal Minds

flashes like camerabulbs fire in my brain - what if Spencer's addiction plot line carried on longer (drug addiction, exhaustion, hallucinations, seizures, PTSD, minor suicidal ideation)

a job that slowly kills you (bruises that won’t heal) - episode tag to 7x06, Emily and Spencer talk about their near-deaths (non-graphic discussion of death)

NCIS

now he’s just watching the backs of his eyes - Tim post-Paraguay, but a character study of his gradually building trauma (PTSD, exhaustion, mild self-harm, mild hallucination) on ff.net

a few dead, more gone (the rest well on their way) - episode tag to Judgement Day; anyone else think Tim was really put together given the major character death? (canonical character death) on ff.net

the child is grown (the dream is gone) - Jimmy’s pov during Extreme Prejudice (minor character death, bombings, vague autopsy stuff)  on ff.net

inside this place is warm (outside it starts to pour) - science bis! (only minor warnings)  on ff.net

they say you can catch it (but sometimes you're born with it) -  Ziva on family, blood and the way to lose both and come out of it with something better (blood, Ziva’s childhood, self harm, thoughts of death)  on ff.net

ain’t no grave (gonna keep my body down) - Tim on getting shot, loyalty and found siblings (major spoilers for s18, non-graphic injury, referenced shooting)

I'll tend to the flame (you can worship the ashes) - a little exploration of Tim and working through death (spoilers up to s14)

[migumii]

s3 is gonna be langdon and santos forced to play nice bc they don't want to upset mel. giving each other glares when mel turns away and then smiling like angels when she turns back

[riverofbrokensouls]

bear with me I am incredibly feverish right now

but trinity santos actively choosing not to go home when she knows she may relapse. trinity santos going out of her way to decompress in a healthy way, to make a new friend, when it would have been so, so easy to go home to that empty apartment and do something she'd regret.

to trinity (and to langdon, and to mckay), and to staying clean even when its fucking hard

she's so important to me

[existential-flu]

ok the writers will not do this but thinking about Buck, who's had his leg crushed and been struck by lightning and fallen out of windows and survived a tsunami and every other physical blow he's taken, being given painkillers for his new injury. imagine, you're a physical guy, so you do physical things and sometimes you're hurt but that's ok. and maybe some days you feel off and those days just increase in frequency with every blow you take until even they don't really register. and then someone gives you painkillers and pain you've learnt not to think about goes away.

[piedpip3rrr]

Criminal minds but it’s an adult swim show no one can remember

[lizznotliz]

constantly fascinated by the flashes of pitt fandom i see very, very occasionally on my dash about an entire ship culture that never even occurred to me. you people are shipping while you watch the pitt?! i'm over here feeling better about my own real life watching these people constantly fighting against the realization that they're about to have another Worst Day of Their Lives.

[this-is-a-podcast-fanblog]

the benoit blanc movies show really beautifully how to write a queer character whose story is not centered around their queerness. it's shown that benoit blanc is gay married (to hugh grant!) it's shown that he participates in queer mediums like musical theater and fashion, but none of those things are ever explicitly remarked on. he doesn't have a big coming out scene because he doesn't need one; and the subtle details about him not speaking to his mother, the way he associates a church with homophobia, allows us to draw conclusions about how his family felt about his queerness without making that the sole conflict in his story. the conflict in benoit blanc's story is not that he exists in the world as a gay person, it's that he's always trying to wrangle a bunch of 30 somethings into not confessing to crimes they didn't commit

[callumilottappreciationsociety]

cooper @ mick

REAL!!!!

this is one tv show where i can confidently say that most of them are neurodivergent

[sodiumpop]

the constant stating of "but it's carter" between the staff after first learning of his addiction is so heartbreaking honestly ,, prodigal son of the ER son-ed to close to the .. sun

[hotchnerbau]

underrated criminal minds duo

[eloiscbridgerton]

#garsantos REAL

THE PITT 2.01 – 7:00 A.M.

[cipheramnesia]

Leverage episode where they have to bypass security and burn the Gävlebocken

[cipheramnesia]

This would be part of a completely unrelated job in Sweden where burning the Gävlebocken only ends up being necessary by a hugely convoluted sequence of events, so that the entire episode everyone has to constantly remind Parker they are not here to burn the Gävlebocken, leave the Gävlebocken, do not be distracted by the Gävlebocken. Until we finally are rewarded with the delight on Parker's face as everyone on the team concedes that in fact we now must burn the Gävlebocken.

[officialmichaelnesmith]

[mobius-m-mobius]

Blanc and his Watsons 🔎💕

[baran-alhashimi]

[desolationlesbian]

Fascinated by House MD as a time-capsule encapsulation of mid-20aughts gender politics. in the sense that it is A) deeply, deeply misogynistic, B) surprisingly okay with gay people when depicted, C) obsessed with male-male relationships so intense that they verge on homoeroticism, and D) believes that the best way to defang C while synthesizing A and B is a sense of ironic detachment wherein any two men who are sufficiently close must constantly reference the possibility of their own gayness as a joke in order to establish that while gay people exist, the very idea of these two specific men being gay is so impossible as to be mocked as ridiculous. No homo via joke homo. The overwhelming sense is that the writers belive that neither House nor Wilson is capable of ever having a successful relationship with a woman or really anyone at all besides each other, but also the idea that House and Wilson could be gay is really funny and anyone who believes that is stupid, which must be reinforced by referencing it constantly. The queerbait of a bygone era.

[maschotch]

the first time i got into the cm fandom in 2015ish, the fandom was beginning to accept that all the characters are bisexual. the next time in 2020ish, the fandom was beginning to accept that all the characters are autistic. now in 2025 the fandom is beginning to accept that hotch and gideon were in a wildly toxic sexual dynamic with grossly disproportionate levels of care on both sides etc. the road to enlightenment is long