#queer baiting

[piper-124]

Queerbaited so hard my homophobic dad was upset about byler not being cannon

[axle-hates-zucchini]

this is not to say that ST fans don't have the right to be angry about this cuz that's valid but I'm just so numb to queerbaiting in media at this point I just expect it from most shows now

[thats-the-strangest-thing]

Everyone say thank you Maya 💙💛

+ could have been Ronance ❤️🩷

[notmelsheen]

Am i a cute cow? 🐄 💕

[swiiftiesluhvs]

a byler edit i made- tiktok doesn’t like it so i hope that tumblr will show it more love

[anduroid]

im actually so convinced ross duffers ex-wife was the mastermind behind stranger things and byler and those two fuckers just took credit for everything.

thats why this volume felt half-finished, filled with plot-holes, and no emotional payoff esp with byler because when she divorced his ass they were left scrambling to throw together a last volume with no prior planning.

like this ENTIRE season didn't even feel like the stranger things writing style. less details. less smooth transitions. less 80's music intertwined. less emotional beats. less clever one liners. dude. just pure horseshit.

[maxmayfieldswalkman]

if it’s queerbait…i’m never watching a show again. maybe that’s dramatic, but i can’t do it anymore. i can’t keep having my feelings messed with because i want something as audacious as representation. i’m sorry, but i don’t see myself in the random 35 year old gay guy that i’m told im supposed to see myself in simply because he’s gay, and i don’t see myself in a lesbian in a show fhat i have nothing in common with simply because she’s a lesbian. it would be nice to see representation to other aspects of the queer experience, and if writers want to keep playing with queer people’s emotions because it gets them views, im not doing it anymore, at least until a show is done and i know what im getting.

god fucking forbid a girl want to see herself on screen just like every straight person gets to.

[monsterkill--er]

o no not that?

I really don't know what to say other than naming the lingerie store, where Will and Mike have their gay panic, "Lovelace" is wild—actual, bona fide proof of this show queer coding.

Ada Lovelace is one of the world's first computer programmers, a theoretical mathematician that paved the way for Turing's code-cracking enigma (Will's presentation in S4, more proof of them understanding what queer coding is, using irony).

She's daughter of bisexual poet Lord Byron, by the way, who spoke in queer codes throughout his letters using abbreviated Latin. Robin, the queer code cracker, speaking pig Latin is even funnier sadder now.

pic from @kaypeace21's post