#but he IS queerbaiting

[helenamayhathaway]

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#one thing that i hate about the mcr fandom is that gerard way can do something ''openly queer'' like wear gnc clothes #and now the record is changed forever that gerard is gender non conforming and openly queer #when he has never publicly said his sexuality ever #and i support him wearing whatever he wants more than you know #it makes me so fucking happy #but he goes out there and is pulling off these great outfits and he's applauded as being openly queer and for NOT queerbaiting anyone #but then harry styles does the same fucking thing #wears gnc clothes #wears dresses #wears skirts #wears whatever tf he wants #but he IS queerbaiting #and i don't get it??? #like Gerard has never opened up about his sexuality #and neither has harry #we all just assume gerard is queer because he has those vibes #and i guess some people assume harry is straight??? #even though he does not have those vibes??? #i just don't get why we have to pit anyone up against each other #why can't we let two people dress however they want #because it's also gatekeeping clothes #like just by saying a man can't wear ''womens clothes'' you're literally being... you know.... homophobic #the thing you're trying to claim harry is being #clothes are clothes #remember when everyone was excited that jaden smith wore a skirt because that's what he wanted to wear! #but harry styles even if he is straight can't wear skirts because only queer people and girls can wear skirts #so i guess let's just gatekeep clothes now #i'm over it #i hate this fandom #i love gerard

[aesthetic-uni]

Misha Collins is the funniest straight man ever. He’s the only person to arguably queerbait in real life. He had to come out as a straight. He was told by WB to just stay bisexual. He’s living every homophobe’s nightmare scenario but the only difference is that everyone actually loves it for him

#misha collins #also don’t argue about me about the queerbait thing I know he didn’t it’s just a fucking joke #anyway back to the funny #more straight people should honestly be like him #keep ‘em on their toes #or something #I know nothing about this man or supernatural #but I adore him #have y’all seen his feud on Tiktok with icaruspendragon? #btw someone should check on her #but it’s hilarious #I hope he loves the rest of his life by just adding fuel to the fire that is his life

[heyimboredtalktome]

if this isn't the face of someone looking at a person they are deeply in love with then idk what is thank u for coming to my ted talk

#loki #if he looked at mobius any more lovingly #mobius could just spontaneously combust or something #like #just look at those eyes #he looks so content 🥹 #crying sobbing screaming #queerbait so good it actually gives u hope #UGH they're so cute #lokius #loki laufeyson #mobius m mobius #mobius #loki season 2 #loki series

[lovehours]

everyone has commented on this scene already but i just need to talk about how insane it really is. wilson giving up after trying to find furniture he’d truly love because he’s never really gotten attached to the places he lived before even with his previous partners… which is why he’d just let them do the decorating. he was opting more for comfort than actual care for the homes he would live in.

but this time he got something only house could use. something he knew house would enjoy. i love how he just affirms that he does let others define him... but it's house specifically who does so. like this is the guy who helped ruin all of his marriages after the first one (low-key ruined wilson's attempted reconciliation w/sam later too)... house is the most important person in wilson's life. no matter how much the things around them change, they’re a constant in each other’s lives and wilson is more than okay with that. the fact that he used furniture to communicate that is so... its just so them idk how else to describe it

i can only imagine the gay ass smile wilson had on his face as he picked the organ out and thought about house’s reaction when he’d come home and see it. just crazy. they really should have fucked here

#just finished rw this ep and i need to talk ab it somewhere so here we are #as if them moving in together and that 'everyone thinks we're gay' ep wasn't bad enough... then they dropped this #idk man houses queerbait is just insane this season #side note while watching this clip i noticed wilsons fond ass smile as house looks at the organ... hes SICK!! 😭 #hilson #house md

[luigi-core]

what if i ended it all right now.

#THEY KNOW WHAT THEYRE DOING #THEY KNEW WE WOULD EAT THIS UP FR ‼️ #they saw how much of a reaction we had to the homoerotic chin grab #so they decided to feed us another sexually charged snippet #as a little treat #it’s not queerbaiting but that doesn’t mean i cant still get mad that they won’t end up together in this movie #wdym the mario movie isn’t just about these two i refuse to believe it. #i love how twinkified luigi is in this movie like he’s so girlypop and for what 😭 #luigi #bowser #bowuigi #super mario bros #smb #super mario bros movie #mario movie #mario movie trailer #GAY #GAY PEOPLE REAL

[number1abbasupporter]

fame au where james is constantly accused of queerbaiting like he doesn’t go on dates with his boyfriend on the weekend

#i was watching a video abt queerbaiting #bc i love youtube btw #but anyway obv it would b a secret that he’s dating reg #but he would so get called a queerbaiter #i feel it in my bones #marauders era #marauders #james potter #regulus black #jegulus #james x regulus #regulus x james #starchaser #sunseeker

[mindfogs]

i can't believe the show about characters being gay and problematic won't let the characters be gay and problematic

#yes this is about nandor and guillermo and the latest interview #i mena it's fine i won't tell the writers how to write their show #but also it felt so much like they were preparing them to be the next pam and jim #don't be mad at me for sowing what YOU planted #the show is still queer and gay and amazing but i feel kinda “queerbaited” ngl? shipbaited? #just the reasoning being he's his boss like the characters haven't canonically done worse #AND them not being in such unbalanced position anymore #foggy thoughts #still love the show #just a little disappointed #maybe it's just easier for the continuity idk #nandermo #wwdits

[jenmisukke]

LOKI SEASON 2 SPOILERS

i think I've seen this film before

#this scene has me insane #it's such a crazy scene to write act and shoot? #like what am i supposed to think it's about? #it's just INSANE #HE'S ABOUT TO CONFESS #loki #loki season 2 #loki spoilers #loki season 2 spoilers #lokius #queerbait the hell outta me I'm ready #tenrose #johnlock

[lesspopped]

unintentional subtext is not queerbaiting. intentional subtext is not queerbaiting. queercoding is not queerbaiting. queer themes are not queerbaiting. queer themes in works by cishet creators are still not queerbaiting. writers of any gender identity/sexual orientation seeing fans pick up on queer themes and intentionally playing up those themes as much as they can get away with are not queerbaiting. chemistry between actors is not queerbaiting. chemistry between actors who then decide it’s more interesting that way and lean into it is not queerbaiting. a real cishet person behaving in ways that do not perfectly and completely fit with your idea of what cishet people of their gender are supposed to be is not queerbaiting. I am going to scream

#this post is dedicated to the star trek posts I have had to see with my own two eyes calling garashir (!) and kirk/spock (!!!!) queerbaiting #and to the people in spn fandom who reinvented gender essentialism when misha collins said he was straight by accusing him #of having spent 10+ years queerbaiting i.e. not conforming to their highly circumscribed mental image of heterosexual masculinity #I know I am far from the first person to complain about how we should have the word 'queerbaiting' taken away #until we learn how to use it responsibly but oh my godddddddd it's so annoying #jules.txt

[nightmanatee]

SO MOBIUS WAS THE ONLY ONE TO WAIT FOR LOKI? LET THE TIME PASS? EXCUSE ME WHILE I'LL SCREAM CRY AND THROW UP

#oh god he's gonna wait for him #oh damn #lokius is giving queerbaiting:( #the last ep proved it 10 times #lokius #loki #loki season 2

[t4tmetalsonic]

How it needs to go:

Sonic sacrifices himself to save the shatterspaces

While he's fading away, Shadow tries to save him

(The world is already saved, he doesn't need to do this if he hated Sonic. He's doing it because he cares)

Shadow makes it just in time, but doesn't realise. He thinks Sonic is gone, that he's dead (and so do we)

He says some corny sentimental shit like "come on Sonic, you can't die here. You were right, I DO need you" because who's gonna hear, right?

Sonic wakes up. He heard, and cracks some stupid joke about it

Shadow punches him

(And then hugs him)

#look this is the bare minimum of what i want. but it's POSSIBLE #shadow saying some sentimental bullshit is v important. bc this is our sonadow fuel #the hug also BECAUSE it calls back to sonic's hug which he didn't reciprocate before #who's ready to be queerbaited lol!!! #sth #sonic #sonic prime #sonic prime spoilers #sonadow #<- yknow. #fenn.post

[atorionsbelt]

“jamie can’t take his eyes off the love of his life.”

…yeah. they will pay for this (please keep going)

#royjamie #jamie tartt #roy kent #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #op #brett is allowed to queerbait me anytime idc #did phil go to the colin morgan school of acting because this is srs gay yearning and longing #he said what if i just gave you the most devasting look of craving your And only your love #and then roy said ‘i love (you) it.’ i know what you are #jamie was so nervous for him to enjoy the gift i actually wanted to die #i am having a completely normal reaction to all of this! #roy x jamie #jamie x roy #jamieroy #stills

[jakeperalta]

words I think we should ban from the internet unless you can pass a test to prove you know what it means and will use it correctly: gaslight, queerbait, nepotism

#there are definitely others i think these are probably just the biggest three offenders #people will be like [one character has a different understanding of a situation] 'they are gaslighting!' #or [male celebrity wears nail polish] 'he is queerbaiting!' #or [celebrity had a middle class upbringing to rando parents] 'they're a nepo baby!' #words have meanings!! for a reason!!! #talking

[hooliganarachnid]

Hey, so with the Loki season two finale airing in like four days, a show featuring a currently heavily implied romance between a dark haired immortal being who played a role in human history searching for his purpose and a just some blond guy—I feel like marvel has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever, three years and four days after destiel was made canon and promptly executed on live television.

#do you see the vision? #because I do and it is in like 4K #Lokius cannot be queerbait I REFUSE #just….loki and mobius standing in a room alone #after mobius finaly remembers (because he better mr fiegie I’m in your walls) #loki does some speach about searching for his purpose—finaly making things right #and the reason why he put his life on the line and became the god of storytelling to save the universe was his friends #or specifically one very important friend #and he says it #he finally says it despite all his loved ones seeming to leave—because he has already lost mobius once #he knows what that feels like and he can’t watch him leave again #and mobius just smiles and says it back #like he should #like he has wanted to for a long time #lokius #loki season 2 #mobius #loki #destiel #november 5th

[topaziraphale]

"Stop saying Crowley won't help Aziraphale in S3 he'd go back to him in a HEARTBEAT and nothing would stop him" I get it no one likes the idea of Crowley being bitter after what happened for a long period of time but like can we at least acknowledge that he's currently going through probably the most emotional pain in his life since falling? Can we agree that he's opened his heart entirely - something you couldn't pay him to do unless the world is literally ending and he's desperate - to Aziraphale, and got shot down? Can we understand that he did it AGAIN only to lose Aziraphale again? Not that what Aziraphale did isn't without Crowley's own shortcomings (hiding the truth of Heaven's cruelty from him) but like,,,,

The appeal here isn't Scorned Crowley Doesn't Love Aziraphale Anymore, or Never Wants To Help Him Again, the appeal here is Crowley learning enough self respect to not just walk back right to Aziraphale like nothing happened after Aziraphale has had a pattern of consistently refusing him. Going years ping-ponging between "We're not friends I don't even know him" to "That's what friends are for right?" and "We're friends, why would you even say anything?" and "Friends? We're not friends. We are an angel and a demon!"

Like I get it, Crowley is a heartbreakingly forgiving person. Of course he's gonna forgive Aziraphale, I'll be surprised if he didn't forgive him by the time he walked out the bookshop door, but gdi he could at least grant himself the luxury of being at least a little irritated for longer than however long it takes to make a globe and some books float and angrily cry out to God in his flat. But due to the change of pace and dynamic that is establishing part of the conflict for Season 3, I just really like the idea of him for ONCE prioritizing himself and being like "Okay, fine. We'll get back at it when you're ready, then," instead of just taking Aziraphale back like his words and actions meant nothing to him, when clearly they have an effect on him.

What is Aziraphale going to learn if Crowley just accepts what he did so quickly, like he always has the entire time they've been friends? Idk maybe I'm just projecting too much darkness on their dynamic but I mean, if the pattern of Aziraphale pushing Crowley away/disrespecting him one day and then being fine with his friendship the next + Crowley never stopping to be like "Hey, that's not cool, at least give me a little credit" or smth was fine all along and will continue to be fine in the future, then why, after 6,000 years of being friends and loving this demon, can Aziraphale still not accept that Crowley is just fine the way he is, and instead got excited to promote him to an angel in a heartbeat once the opportunity presented itself? You can't blame all of it on Heaven when Aziraphale has demonstrated his free will/defiance to Heaven so many times. Or, I don't know, I guess maybe we can? Maybe I'm just craving too much angst to the point where I'm letting it cloud my analysis of canon. Idk.

#derpy speaks #good omens #good omens 2 #no i dont think crowley is gonna ever hate aziraphale for what happened but he's allowed to be angry #he's allowed to be done with it all. he's allowed to be exhausted. just look at his face when he drives away. #meh. idk. but i dont know how i'll feel if crowley just INSTANTLY accepts aziraphale back in a situation involving #idk - ''hey help me stop the new apocalypse'' #at least. without like. SOME pushback? it can even be something small like ''are you SURE you want ME to help you? do you really need me?'' #doesnt have to be a straight refusal but i'd like SOME kind of action to show that crowley is putting his foot down for once #he deserves that self respect #do NOT reply saying that im insinuating that aziraphale is actively malicious or doing it on purpose. #everything he has done up until now is his own complicated response to all the trauma and guilt he's been through #but despite that crowley is STILL allowed to be upset... it's messy. i can write a whole paper about how this whole thing #is just unfortunate on both ends. again. we didnt get queerbaited we got communication baited 😭 #but help me out here. am i just too fandom-brained to have these expectations from the story? #is there something obvious im missing that is making me sound like a complete asshole here? do i need to get my head out of the gutter? #someone please explain it to me if so because whatever it is‚ i can't find it #not queued

[wolfpoets]

what is with the like - fear of criticizing tv shows all of a sudden. if you're a loyal fan of a tv show and you put time effort and money into engaging w media? you get to have Opinions about it. on the internet, even! where others can see!

#seeing people dance around 'well this doesn't mean wwdits is queerbaiting but it's still -' #brother queerbaiting is not even the issue rn. that quote was straight up homophobic. #the showrunner who has laszlo and nadja fucking onscreen every five seconds & still presents them as The Ideal Couple #straight up said he doesn't want to sully nandor & guillermo's ~ friendship with gay sex. #(you know. the friendship where nandor fucks guillermo over constantly & never apologizes for anything.) #not even touching how this show uses gay sex as a punchline to most of it's jokes but never actually validates queer intimacy in any way.