[yesterdaysprint]

The Saturday Post, Piedmont, Alabama, June 2, 1888

[voidpostings1]

[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.

[introvertsnation]

@introvertsnation

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[xmargaritax]

[musicalhell]

The French word for "purr" is "ronronner," which I think is important to know because it is objectively the best word in any language.

[xmargaritax]

This is the best thing I’ve learned

[the-unflappablewolf]

Who would you trust more?

total stranger in a star trek shirt?

total stranger in a star wars shirt?

Voting ended onFeb 25

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

[beardedmrbean]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[oldshowbiz]

[xtiffanyracks]

The Loop 🌀

[xmargaritax]

It’s so easy

[bimbo-asian-gamer]

I wonder if this is in your future?

[irishangeleyes2nd]

Pretty simple.

[sin-aestheticx]

no more looking respectfully; only leering perversely from now on

[crikeyoryland]

i don't have a type but if alex horne selects a diverse group of five comedians then it's at least one of them every time

[ladylingua]

the new york times has such a great series of elevated butter noodles, if you ever want a super fast easy dinner that still feels grown up and you can emulsify pasta water + butter together basically the sky is your limit

ya got

gochujang butter noodles

peanut butter noodles

chili crisp fettuccine alfredo

miso butter noodles

any one of these + a bag of salad or whatever vegetable side you find easiest/cheapest, and you've got yourself a full meal that tastes far above the effort you put in.

[xmargaritax]

Those peanut butter noodles were my most-repeated meal of 2024.

[fakearchivist]

Jenny Holzer, "Signs", 1988.

[nohoperadio]

If you see a photographer in town pointing their camera this way and that, it's important that you stare at them quite hard, to balance the subject/object currents flowing through and around their aura. You don't have to stare at someone sketching a drawing but try to throw them a few conspicuous little glances just to be safe.