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greelin

*does the sign of the cross with the limpest wrist imaginable*

fandom-man

scholarlypidgeot

@moethh don't hide this in the tags

shes-unforgettable

This is my new favourite image ever

fairycosmos

for about a month in the early 2010s people used to say things like climate change is real and gay people deserve rights. does anyone remember this

naidje

remember when Laverne Cox was on magazine covers and people were talking about the "transgender tipping point" and we were actually hopeful for about a week

frogmood

500 years from now there’s gonna be some film historian who’s entire career is built off of searching for a copy of goncharov

rainstormyday

and they're never gonna find it cuz they fucking took it off poob

rosieandthemoon

I am cordially inviting all of you to post this in the comments/reblogs of any and every Al post you come across, on any platform. Especially useful for accounts who “teach” people how to use Al.

east-south

maybe they don't like being called names. have you ever thought about that

redstonedust

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

melanqueerly

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

phinarei

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.