#straight baiting

[turn-tabled]

Straight-baiting as its finest.

#broke back mountain #more like i broke some ass mountain #straight baiting

[poppin-fandoms]

I love thinking about the fact that Stranger Things canonically straight baited everyone in season 3 with Stobin LMAOO

Willing to bet Mileven is straight bait as well idc

#anti mileven #anti stobin #straight baiting #stranger things

[pinkiefemme]

Being a high femme is a blast because nothing brings me more joy than embodying a typical alpha bro’s dream girl and being the epitome of “traditional” femininity but then turning around and dedicating my whole life to being gay and ignoring men

#I love straight baiting sm #lesbian #sapphic #femme lesbian #tradfem #traditional femininity #high femme #stone femme

[darlingjmiller]

so. you’re telling me that in the 2000s

this episode aired and millions of teenage girls DIDN’T go crazy?

with THAT jawline?

and that SMILE??? those big brown eyes??

i'm sorry??

[gifs by @perotovar]

#absolute girl bait #straight up 2000s pretty boy and yall slept on him #absolutely criminal that he had to wait another 15 years to be noticed #who thought #yeah lets obsess over dicaprio and damon #when pedro was right THERE #pedro pascal #pedrito #touched by an angel #ricky hauk #perotover gifs #useroaks #ppascal #darlingpedro

[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

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

I'm going to have it so that next time you scroll your favorite tag, some absolutely hideous and insane s*icide bait pops up tagged in leetspeak so your blacklist doesn't catch it

#tw suicide mention #like i put the tw in there even if i put the WORD and this was a detailed fucking description #it was so gross #granted it was bait sent to a person from an anon. which is horrible ofc for the person it was sent to #but it wasn't a good idea for that person to tag their response with their usual tags for a common fandom #maybe they were freaking out and upset and didn't think about it (fair) but i still. wish they hadn't tagged it. #(if you ever get awful anons like that btw you can block them straight from the inbox like you can block their ip address) #and before you say anything about my asterisk. that's so i don't get shadowbanned the full word is in the tw in the tags. #a blacklist would catch it.

[communistkenobi]

i know its my own fault for reading a review of the zone of interest from the new yorker but if you come away from this film thinking the victims are "silent" like. there is such an intense focus on visual depiction when people say shit like this about the moral framework of movies, as if the only way to communicate to the audience that its bad the nazi family living next to a concentration camp (which is constantly visible throughout the film) had servants is if you showed them trying to escape or poison them lol. the negative reviews I've read of this film seem to behave like they're watching a silent film, as if the sound design is like a trivial stylistic flourish and not the main narrative driver of a 100 minute movie. the film is depicts a family living beside an industrial death camp and these reviews treat this as if the audience still needs someone to turn to the camera and say by the way we condemn this. when we show the nazi family literally talking about lebensraum and settling in the east that's a bad thing btw. the beautiful garden is not an endorsement of fascism

#also 'no room for rabidness' just straight up lying! the wife threatens to gas one of the servants #anyway i know im taking the most obvious bait imaginable but jesus christ. #you are like exhausted by the time this movie is over. the sound design is like the central driver of this film and it is horrifying

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

NUzi: exists

My 2017-2019 Starco obsession:

#Murder Drones #Liam Vickers Animation #Glitch Productions #Star vs. the Forces of Evil #Star vs the Forces of Evil #SvtFoE #Kung Fu Panda #Tai Lung #NUzi #Uzi x N #N x Uzi #Biscuitbites #Starco #It's like poetry it rhymes #Trusting them to handle NUzi a lot better tho #I can do without being baited until literally the last three episodes again thanks #Straight From the Dragon's Mouth

[itwasaseven]

with the way that will's love for mike is written in the script with such detail, precision, and intent (will blushing, his eyes glistening and welling up, them locking eyes), it would be so cruel and nonsensical to have mike simply reject him. i'm not saying that mike OWES will anything, but i am saying that all this build-up has to lead to something big (perhaps subverting the general audience's expectations, since most people believe that will's feelings are entirely unreciprocated).

unrequited love stories happen irl all the time, but in fiction? people want a happy ending for their favourite characters. the fact that they placed so much emphasis on WILL'S perspective in particular shows that they want the audience to root for his happy ending.

#byler #byler endgame #mike x will #mike wheeler is not straight #byler canon #mike wheeler i know what you are #ALSO IM SCREAMING SODOSOSOSOOSOSORHFJDJDJD ARE YOU KIDDDING ME THE DUFFER BROTHERS WERE GIGGLING WHILE WRITING THE SCRIPT CMON LMAOAOA THEY #THEY BETTER BE PULLING THE GREATEST STRAIGHT BAIT OF ALL TIME BECAUSE

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

The walking dead managed to get me so invested in hetero couples it's not even funny. I love these freaks.

#this epsiode gave me a fucking HEART ATTACK by the way #I'm so sure Rick is gonna die and then they did me like that. you fucking kidding me? TWICE. twice they've done that same bait and switch! #''show em getting literally eaten from the inside out then have it be something else. It'll be so funny. Ok do it again the next season'' #speaking of being shockingly invested in straight people #gnashing my teeth for just a crumb of Caryl over here #what happened!! did I miss something? I thought they were together! #just a situationship I guess?? #the walking dead #also I think this is the first time I've heard Rick actually laugh beyond a nose-exhale

[makorragal-312]

Season 2 Buck: "At least when I date someone, I date them."

Season 7 Buck: "I'm keeping my options fluid."

#911 #911 abc #911 on abc #911 s7 #911 season 7 #911 spoilers #911 7x04 #evan buckley #911 buck #buddie #911 buddie #bi buck #bisexual #he's bi mom #I'm sorry #but you cannot have this man say such gender neutral lines and expect me to believe he's anything but straight #this is literally the way I talk when im on the topic of dating and love #the bi coding to bi confirmation pipeline is so fucking strong #please don't let this be bait #and even if im tripping #game recognize game #and this man is looking oh so familiar #excuse my manic posting #im just posting out my anxiety #but where's the lie

[coldlikethestars]

one thing i love about realm of the elderlings is that it probably appears like a standard fantasy series from an outsider stand point.. robin hobb was like hey read my books they are so normal they have dragons in it!!!!! So a bunch of Fantasy Dudebros start to read rote only to slowly realize that at its core this series is actually about the most insane homoerotic relationship in literature

#what kinda next level accidental straight baiting

[purrpickle]

I love how Ava is completely insulted when Beatrice suggests she's helping Miguel because she was taken in by him being "easy on the eyes".

In fact, aside from enjoying his company and that he always orders water at a bar, followed by "he's actually fighting against Adriel!", and then him actually helping fight against Adriel, Ava is not interested in Michael at all and never responds to his possibly-being-interested-in-her dialogue.

It's all in Beatrice's head, and I love that.

#straight-baiting at its finest #avatrice #warrior nun #ava silva #sister beatrice #michael salvius #warrior nun spoilers #the ship/show that keeps on giving #not that the samaritans don't actually fight against adriel #just the difference of before coming clean and after coming clean

[fatalize]

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury is turning out to be more like Revolutionary Girl Suletta, huh

#mobile suit gundam: the witch from mercury #gundam #witch from mercury #revolutionary girl utena #once they said they settle things through duels i was like lol just like utena #then jeturk was being a jerk (ha) to miorine and i was like lol this is like saionji and anthy #and then i was like it's not that much like utena tho. i'm just kidding around #and THEN at the end they pull a 'whoever wins the duel is engaged to me btw :)' WHAT #i knew from the start this looked yuri bait-y #but never did i think they would just straight up lift from one of the most iconic yuri series of all time #like damn okay you have my attention now lol

[thefirstlioveyou]

i laugh a little harder each time i read a “youre gonna be so disappointed when you watch s5” or a “can’t wait for you people to realize how crazy and delusional you all were this whole time!!” or even a “if you think mike is gay you don’t know him at ALL 😡.” like holy shit you guys are about to witness and endure the biggest straight-bait ever.

#is straight baiting a real thing? i hope one day #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #stranger things #just yapping

[coockie8]

SHUT UP NOT THE FUCKING CORSET SCENE

Ya know the way you blush and like moan when someone puts a corset on you???

#I wear corsets which is a huge part of why this scene gets me #I didn't act like this even the first time I got cinched lmao #this is straight up intentional shota bait #this is fanservice #and if you disagree you simply do not actually understand what fanservice is #Black Butler #sebaciel