#i hate queerbaiting

[slayerchick303]

I hate how obvious it is that Disney is going to queerbait us again.

Doom is seconds away, and who is Mobius looking to for advice? Loki.

Mobius braces himself for the oncoming explosion that will kill them all. His arm extended towards Loki like he's ready to spring to protect him... even though Mobius knows it would be a futile gesture.

Loki and Mobius stand together ALONE IN THE FRAME. Two masc-presenting people, sharing their hearts and ready to die side-by-side. Just the two of them.

Loki and Mobius may as well be gazing into each other's eyes and holding hands. If they'd be a cishet-appearing couple, the show would have had them do so. I'm amazed that Disney didn't come up with an awkward way to force Sylvie next to Loki so they could have the obligatory heteronormative-appearing moment.

#i hate queerbaiting #it's so obvious this is what disney is doing #loki spoilers #loki #lokius #loki x mobius

[hersheyalmond]

No heterosexual explanation

#give us steddie #give dustin his two dads #bring eddie munson back #wasted potential #stranger things #stranger things 4 #steve harrington #eddie munson #steveddie #steddie #lgbtq #queer #i hate queerbaiting #duffle bags #muffin brothers #suffer brothers #duffer brothers #dustin henderson #steddie co parenting dustin

[cahootings]

“their relationship is too deep to be sexual” what’s deeper than dick in hole. please tell me

#people missing context this was about the wwdits show runners pulling a 2012-era queerbait #and was a joke #also if you're going to send me an anon asking me why i hate ace people. miss me with your homophobia thanks

[tolicandco]

redrawing another screenshot because it's good practice and because I'm a merthur whore let's be honest

#merlin #bbc merlin #merthur #merlin x arthur #arthur pendragon #merlin emrys #once again do not seperate #the homosexual tension is strong with this one #you know I sometimes really hate bbc for the queerbaiting bullshit they pull #intentionally #we could've had something great #but alas #subtext is all we will get #ugh

[irisivys]

something about the new popular shows seems awfully familiar to me hmmmm.....

#it's the beginning of a new era #an era without mass queerbaiting #also the way david tennant transcends time and is now a vital member of both trios #good omens #what we do in the shadows #our flag means death #supernatural #doctor who #sherlock #superwholock #also this is not hate i am/have been in the fandoms for all 6 shows and i have very fond memories of all of them

[pokemon1oadvanced]

If Loki is the only one who has his memories of the TVA and has to collect everyone from their original timelines, please have Mobius unabashedly flirt with Loki as he tries to sell him on jet ski’s.

I want Loki to turn red

#ever wrapped those thigh around one of these #you wanna take a ride #Loki #loki season 2 #loki series #lokius #mobius #mobius m. mobius #loki x mobius #jet skis #two old guys flirting #hate to say it but I think I’m being queerbaited #5 signs to know when a popular franchise is queerbaiting you #I will go down with this ship #if there’s no season three we ride at dawn

[retellingthehobbit]

(Link here) Picture me with a conspiracy stringboard, a copy of the Unfinished Tales, and several essays about how LOTR/The Hobbit are meant to be flawed translations of ancient texts written by biased authors, and gesturing wildly as I explain how we can reinterpret The Hobbit as a funky little gay metaphor actually. we can do it. I believe

#the hobbit #retelling the hobbit #bagginshield #lotr #lord of the rings #dont you hate it when your first crush is actually super problematic.... aint that just the way #this is queerbaiting because at this rate it wont be canon in my comic until 84 years have passed in real life #this is bury your gays because thorin will still die in the end #there are obviously huge changes in my version vs ‘fanon bagginshield’ #my version of Thorin is going to be a mix of book and film #somber and sympathetic like film Thorin #but a lot more haughty and self importsnt like book Thorin #just because I think it’s funnier

[voilaammayi]

us all, starting yet another one sherlock adaptation and telling ourselves it’s hope and not delusion to expect johnlock to happen maybe this time:

#sherlock & co #so yeah anyway when are we going for a group therapy to treat our delusional brains? #for the sake of our sanity I will hope nevertheless that this time we’ll be rewarded for our patience #with a fantabulous john and sherlock getting together #they’ll kiss and then I’ll want to kiss the podcast creators on the lips out of my eternal gratitude #one day I’m gonna lose my mind if yet another show dares to queerbait me in the fucking 21st century #don’t get me wrong this is not me hating sherlock and co because it’s doing great and I love it #it’s just me with a festering wound and ongoing trauma after lokius or rather the lack of it #john watson #sherlock #sherlock holmes #goalhanger #goalhanger podcasts #johnlock #sherlock and co

[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

[starburstcosmos]

are we all out of mofftiss trauma yet? can we do dracula daily but sherlock holmes and be normal about it? can we all listen to sherlock & co together 👉👈

#sherlock & co #sherlock holmes #dracula daily #i miss the joy i had for sherlock stories when i was still new to them. before i realised how i was being queerbaited and lied to and used. #anyways i hate how the bbc show ruined these stories for me and i want to experience them anew and be insane about them again and just #i dont want to be queerbaited and lied to and used again. and i hope that by listening to sherlock & co or someone starting a sherlock daily #i can have that experience again #anyways fuck you mark gatiss & steven moffatt. know your fucking fanbases better & dont treat them like shit for not being who you expected.

[voguewoozi]

can't believe people are still out here accusing real ass people of queerbaiting. at this point just admit you like forcing people to come out before they're ready because that's what the result of this continues to be. coming out to anyone isn't an obligation for any queer person and people shouldn't have to alter their behavior or personality or presentation just because you personally think they're cishet. that is literally your own personal problem to work on. keep it to yourself

#anyway i can't believe i actually saw - in my pride month - someone accusing onlyoneof of queerbaiting #and using gayness for 'clout' like. 1) if any of them actually came out it would probably end their careers. casually #like why do kpop fans constantly forget that queerness isnt a globally accepted thing #2) the fact that they even do these gay storylines in their mvs is insane to me and they already got so much hate for it #like literally what clout are you talking about. this was honestly a risky thing for them to do #and the only reason it paid off at all is bc they have a pretty big supportive international fan base #but otherwise libido literally could've been the end of it for all of them #3) despite getting straight-up hate instead of pretending like it didnt happen and trying to just move on they doubled down #like idk how ooo of all groups is getting ridiculed by gay people like you are sooo online like #meet a gay person from a different cultural background than yours im begging you #you can't say that gay people have to come out without compromising our autonomy #you literally sound like a homophobe forcing us to be categorized and this is why this mindset is not fucking safe #im talking again

[kingthunder]

I was just rewatching the bathtub scene and what I had forgotten was that Jaskier makes this face in reaction to Geralt saying "I will not suffer tonight sober just because you hid your sausage in the wrong royal pantry."

Tell me this isn't a "I'll show you where I'd like to hide my sausage" look.

#once again #there is no heterosexual explanation for this scene #nothing about it is straight #i hate it here i took the queerbait and i'm just flopping around like a landed fish #witcher #geraskier #the bathtub scene

[ineffably-graham]

mobius putting his hand on the small of loki's back like "its ok i got you bbg u aren't leaving me this time" was wild

#im foaming at the mouth #this makes me irrationally angry #the queerbaiting is so blatant PLEASE #i just want them to kiss tenderly #is that too much to ask #or maybe confront their feelings #i hate this show #disney is slowly killing my hope for the world #loki #loki tv show #lokius #loki x mobius #loki season 2

[fruitwaterz]

why jfabe is NOT!!!! boring and lifeless and proving that wrong, an informational thread discussing their relationship and dynamic, because honestly im getting tired of ppl saying their boring

contains s3 spoilers!

The relationship between JFK and abe from Clone High is something alot of people within the community discussed, especially before s3, being talked about more after s2's finale. Many speculated that the two would remain friends or even become more than that.

Now with season 3 out, we have a lot more things to work out with, specifically episode 3. It's something a lot of people are too afraid to admit, but jfabe/abefk would make the show a lot more interesting, rather than its repeatable joanabe plotline.

So, I'm here to talk about the inner workings of this pair, why their so interesting, and why they work out so much, whether platonic or not. If ur not a fan of jfabe/abefk, or heavily dislike the ship, I'd recommend turning away from this post.

Introduction, the who, the when, the why, the how...and their differences n similarities

So, we all know these two characters. JFK the beloved, Abe the hated. Something that many people picked out of the 2020 clone high fandom. But what if i told you that the beloved and the hated were truly meant to be together from the start?

What we already know is that they are the complete opposite of each other in many ways. JFK is meant to be a parody on 90s jocks from highschool movies and tv shows. Abe is the weak nerd who desperately wants to be cool.

JFK is buff and shorter, Abe is tall and lanky. JFK is a douchebag, Abe is the nicer guy. The list goes on and on. And they even have stuff in common, such as the fear of abandonment and the fear of ruining things.

But one difference i can note is that Abe is way more naive than JFK, JFK is portrayed as empty-headed, but not empty-headed enough to not realize whats going on. Of course, despite the differences, both characters make a really good team.

And this was even evident in s2 ep10, aka the finale, where they both realize that they make a great "duo of bros who'll remain friends for the rest of their lives". Jfabe shippers were FEEDING on this shit back then you have no idea

So with this stuff out of the way, it's time to talk about my favorite episode out of season 3.

Bible Humpers: A Much Needed Praycation

This episode revolves around JFK getting tired of having meaningless sex with girls and partying hard, and decides to seek out a new life when he and Abe discovers the prayer pals club, hosted by Lady Godiva. And at first, Abe is happy to see that JFK is taking on new opportunities.

"Where the slut goes, the wing slut follows."

But eventually, JFK starts straying away from Abe and his friendship, to the point of even FORGETTING about the broniversary that Abe had planned for the both of them (he literally baked a giant cake for him, look at me and tell me thats straight cmon now).

Seeing how Abe had already lost Joan and Gandhi, he didn't wanna lose JFK either, and does everything he can to make him happy and thats so clear. And even at the end of the episode, it's revealed that Abe even respected his choice on ultimately choosing celibacy.

He really does care a bunch for JFK, liking him for who he truly was (compared to JFK's other dates) and respecting his choices. And despite choosing celibacy over Abe, the two still remain close, which really tells you how great their bond is.

So something HAS definitely changed throughout the years, from them hating each others guts to potentially becoming clone highs next couple...which didn't happen, and I'm still petty about it i will admit.

But even if they didn't become canon at the end, you could really tell that some people who worked on this episode wanted them to be a thing, and that's a good enough sign for me that they could hopefully become canon in the next season if we ever get one (still petty though).

Let's circle back to season 1 again. I'm not making a jfabe thread without mentioning Litter Kills: Literally, which is another episode that jfabe shippers fed on. In this episode, JFK's close friend Ponce dies, and he's left to grieve over him.

And in this episode, we see a side of JFK that we never saw before. He starts wondering why the hell he's feeling all of these emotions, because he's a Kennedy, and he's not used to them. But Abe helps him realize that emotions like this are normal.

And even if the two hated each other, Abe apologized to him in the end and finally realized his mistakes. It seemed like Abe disliked him, yet he cares about him. Abe never knew what if felt like, because he hasn't lost a friend close to him.

So he starts berating Cleo for comforting JFK and was even aggressive towards JFK as well, believing that he was only doing all of this just to take Cleo away from him. That was all because he NEVER knew what it was like. But he finally understood.

He was sorry, but he felt like he couldn't do much to help because he didn't experience the same thing. So he just hugged JFK and held him...for a really long time.

But that was just enough for JFK, all he needed was comfort, and Abe chose to do that. So even at the episode, he couldn't help but ask JFK if he was alright. And by the next episode, JFK was already feeling better. All it takes is someone to tell you that its gonna be okay.

So what I'm trying to say is despite their own anxieties, flaws, characteristics, whatever, their PERFECT for each other. I don't like how people label them as "boring", when their so much more deeper than that.

Jfabe/AbeFK is one of my comfort ships for this exact reason. Their lore, dynamic and relationship goes beyond that, i don't ship them just because i think their cute, but because their interesting, and it may seem like im going insane over a white boy ship, but i truly, truly, from the bottom of my heart, love this ship to pieces, and hopefully people can see that through me. Thank you, clone high.

#clone high #analysis #clone high season 2 #jfk clone high #clone high 2023 #jfabe #abefk #clone high abe #clone high reboot #clone high season 3 #clone high spoilers #i GUESS the alternate title for this should be “in defense of jfabe/abefk” because some of yall needa hop off of a harmless ship #i hope this converts some of you i managed to do that w some mutuals on twitter #long story short jfabe is just a really underrated ship with interesting lore and potential and i never got why people hated it #so now that ur reading this watch the mr peabody and sherman show if you want another good history show to watch (shameless plug) #im so rabid about this ship someone hold me back. no one gets them like i do (except for like 5 people) #yes im the same guy who wrote that one jfk character essay and the jfabe queerbaiting essay can you tell i like them a normal amount #bai

[adumpofdumbstuff]

As if cutting the Lokius kiss wasn’t enough, Marvel just gave us Stucky shippers hell

I just watched What If…? S2E5, and I hated it.

I was expecting this, but now Marvel is just pushing Stucky erasure to the max with Bucky failing to turn Steve back, as it should be the other way around, and just essentially t trying to make a Steggy version of CA:TWS.

Also Bucky getting married and having kids is just… I am going to lose it.

Marvel… stop fighting. Give the fans what they want.

#also they mildly queerbaited nat and peggy in this #I am curious to know a few things #Janet didn’t go subatomic clearly. Was it Hank then? #marvel #mcu #what if season 2 #stucky #I don’t hate peggy #I just… idk #endgame enraged me enough #this is worse #SD I fucking forgot

[willgrahambf]

#we really saying hannibal was queerbaiting in the year of our lord 2022????? #some of u all need to remember that queer subtext has been an integral part of queer film history #we have not always lived in the era of rainbow capitalism where it’s possible to canonize everything #let’s not forget hannibal aired before gay marriage was even legalized #and as much as i hate bryan fuller i think it would do to remember that he IS a queer creator working within an unfriendly system #this was nbc after all and he slipped as much by them as possible #anyways….. #hannibal #img :this is my design: