#they didnt queerbait

[vroomvroomwee]

#they didnt queerbait #but at what cost? #goodomens #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #good omens 2 #good omens season 2 #aziracrow #goodomenss2 #goodomenss2spoilers #ofmd #ofmd 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ourflagmeansdeath #ourflagmeansdeathseason2 #ourflagmeansdeath2 #our flag means death

[stardatez3ro]

ive been watching bbc sherlock the past couple days (i know .bbc sherlock .in year of our lord 2024 .i dont wanna hear it) and its been eating my brain like a parasite .help me

#an irl friend started watching it and dragged me down with her #JOHN WATSON IS JUST LIKE ME FRRRRR #I LOVE HIM SO MUCH #anyway this show is fuckign crazy .the queerbait of it all holy Fuck #i knew it was bad but i didnt know it was THIS bad .john and sherlock need to make out viciously on screen #ticketts thoughts #sherlock holmes #bbc sherlock #john watson #<- mentioned

[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

[n7punk]

what's the worst thing you watched and kept up with (at least for a while) because you were gay and begging for scraps? mine was probably pretty little liars

#what was her name? emily? whatever it was i was a simp for the lesbian character on PLL #and put up with three seasons of fucking Nonsense for it #words and things #i say 'probably' because there are worse shows i watched for various girls that i had crushes on over the years #but thats a different kind of simping. i didnt watch them for girl kissing i watched them for a girl who i knew was probably straight #gay #lesbian #bisexual #<- yall got it the worst half of these things were subtly biphobic too #oh god does anyone remember that show where the MC was a succubi but didn't know about monsters #so she thought she was just a freak and was always on the run until the monster world finds one of her kills and hunts Her down #and she ends up. idk working at a monster bar and helping her Monster Cop boytoy hunt runaway monsters? or something? #listen what i remember from that is how badly i wanted her and her simp (female roommate maybe?) to fuck instead #and i swear they queerbaited me a little. but i might have just been delusional tbh

[decolonize-the-left]

Queerbait? No babeyyy thats queerplatonic

#sorry they didnt end up romantically together but that relationship isnt NOT queer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #TLDR queerbait doesnt exist anymore #no im tagging who this is about lMao

[wolvesofinnistrad]

The interviews with Oliver where hes like "if Tim didnt offer me Bi Buck is was just gonna go rogue and play it that way myself" Mr stark i am kissing you respectfully on the mouth i love you

#911 abc #oliver stark #finding out he wanted it for so long and didnt wanna say anything so wr didnt get our hopes up or call him a queerbaiter ohhhhhh #mine #evan buck buckely

[ima-super-natural]

I'm so disappointed I finally watched the "gay angel" show everyone had been telling me was "so queerbaity" since like 2015 only to find out the ship only exists because the only other male to ship the main character with would be incest and the characters themselves actually have no tension at all.

#supernatural thing not actual gay angel show thing #i didnt expect to be anti destiel but COME ON #THEY HAVE NOTHING #im genuinely starting to think you guys dont know what queerbait is #fandom critical #anti destiel #please don't smite me for this i just got here

[mihai-florescu]

gay rep be like “kyaaaaaah!!! i like a boy but… im a boy >////<?!?!” meanwhile queerbait is like “You pretended to get close to me, pretended to grant my wishes, all while preparing to betray me at the most effective time. You estimated when i would love both you and fine deeply, when i most certainly would not wish to part ways with you... and then you'll fade away, as if you were nothing more than a mirage, abandoning that which could have survived if given only a single drop of water. The moment that i yearn for you and pine for you - the moment that i realize i've fallen in love with you - you'll disappear from my hands. Just like the bluebird of happiness... By your separation of what was once a unison, you are dealing me a fatal wound - just as if our souls were entwined within the same form. Congratulations! Just as you wished, you've accomplished your revenge, Hibiki Wataru of the Five Oddballs! I was so happy I had also forgotten - just like those other foolish people. But you're right, the one who called you my enemy was me, myself. You are my enemy. You have been from the moment we met, to this very second." "...Is that your interpretation? Even though you have been closer to me than anyone else during this past school year? This is a great shame, Eichi."

#i wrote this all by hand btw wiki didnt let me copy paste for some reason #i also dont think wataei are queerbait but i saw this format as a f.yolai post a few days ago and i Had to make a wataei one #enstars #wataei #ensemble stars

[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

[redvelvetcupcakes21]

I sincerely wish and hope Tim is a petty man because the buddie fandom has gone too damn far.

Stop harassing and bombarding the actors and crew with buddie questions.

It's becoming too much and it's taking away focus from an ensemble cast/show.

I say this as someone who likes buddie and has posted in tag because it was fun. But i KNOW that buddie is not the show.

To all the die hard buddie stans, take it down a few notches and have a seat. 911 is not about this fanon couple- I don't care about the hints, foreshadowing, theories, and parallels to other canon ships yall found- fucking enjoy the show and keep your fucking rants/complaints away from the actors, writers, and crew.

Because yall toxic buddie stans are gonna make it miserable for the rest of us fans.

#911 abc #911 on abc #buddie #buddie stans #its not queerbaiting just because you didnt get the couple you want #and i know its not every one in the buddie fandom

[night-dark-woods]

#my post #polls #i know we are missing wh13 oitnb and poi. off the top pf my head. #but firstable person of interest is better than this poll. #second. it didnt get The Fandom Migration that these did of the BNFs. #this is also live action tv shows. i know that AT>SU>LOK>SPOP>TOH is there. and also rwby. #and warrior nun for live action. but this is about the rise and fall of queerbaiting babey!

[nymph1e]

#teen wolf #supernatural #sterek #destiel #listen i know sterek wasnt actually comfirmed #more like heavily implied #but im memeing here #and before anyone says that teen wolf didnt queerbait yes it did #however the queerbait was more in promo of the show than subtext in the show

[sardonicheir]

the thing thats disgusting me the most about all this is david jenkins saying that izzy was like a "father figure" to ed. because like where??? idk i cant put my thoughts together too well rn but like. theres always been a very clear power imbalance on ed's side with ed being izzy's boss and all. in season one izzy states multiple times that ed has always been a brilliant sailor and fighter and he was honored to work for him, when he (presumably for the first time ever) threatens ed he gets the tables flipped on him almost immediately, he suffers continuous abuse at the hands of ed, etc. and that to me makes it impossible to place izzy in a mentor/father figure role because a father figure is supposed to have strength and autonomy and its only after izzy has been freed from ed that he gets to experience those. idk its such an odd and mischaracterizing statement that david (from what he said) based his entire decision to kill off izzy off of. not to even mention him teasing edizzy and steddyhands all throughout his interviews for the season to then turn around and say izzy was a father figure all along? mf did u forget u had this father figure sing the soundtrack to the main couple's first time literally two eps ago?? im so so disgusted

#ofmd #izzy hands #david jenkins #its impossible to have queerbait on a queershow #whats this then😭 #tbh i didnt think it was possible either but here we are #david fatherzoned him #he deserved better on so many levels... #ofmdspoilers

[lokisasylum]

SO.... at which point do we stop looking at "COPYING" someone's ideas and concepts as "cute" or call them "Parallels" instead of PROBLEMATIC?

OBSESSED even.

#and during Queen 'Like Crazy's anniversary month too? #DISGUSTING #Jimin baby please leave that company #he's so gross and obsessed with Jimin my god #first he started copying the way Jimin used to dress #now he's copying his mv concepts? Like we didnt have enough with payolaking? #don't let that distract you from the fact that he openly queerbaits too

[sonknuxadow]

please tell me people are joking when they say sonic prime is queerbaiting with sonic and shadow. that is not whats going on here please be serious you guys just see sonic and shadow interact in any way and become unable to turn your shipping brains off

#and even if it is a joke its still kinda annoying because people get the definition wrong all the time and this sort of thing isnt helping #queerbaiting is when they On Purpose hint at characters being gay just to appeal to gay viewers with no intention of making it official #NOT ''these characters read as gay to me but thats not what the writers were actually going for'' #NOT ''my favorite ship didnt become canon'' #(whatever happened to just liking a ship without expecting for it to become canon anyway) #you can think sonic and shadow are gay if you want to i literally do not care #unlike most other sonic and shadow interactions i can definitely see why people think some of their scenes in sonic prime are gay #but i highly doubt the writers were intentionally trying to hint that theyre in love like . come on. #nothing they do is inherently romantic whatsoever some of the sonic and shadow moments that get labelled as gay #are things sonic does with his other friends too and people dont freak out nearly as much in those cases #why is it always the so/nadow obsessed people who are annoying about this stuff #like sonic and knuckles are gay as hell but i never see people accuse sega of queerbaiting with them

[bahoreal]

just like. ive been in fandom for a long time and up until recently queerbaiting was just. the standard. it was exactly what i expected from good omens - queerbaiting and implied nudge nudge wink wink their relationship is sooo intense its like no other friendship and that's it. theyre besties. so that they just. they went there, they did that. its like playing golf every single day for a decade and always missing the fucking swings until this one time and its a hole in one. neil gaiman i adore you. it would have been easy to take the safe easy way and leave it just implied. and the way it was so beautifully written and crafted like all of it is a love story, all of it is a beautiful slow burn, the care and the attention that went into it? its more than i could have asked for

#like i dont like the genre of a lot of comminly loved lgbt media like straight romance or god forbid anything set in high school #i want middle aged people falling in love pls x im only 25 but im a middle aged man at heart #good omens #good omens spoilers #wait i realise my first tag doeant make any sense fhshhs i mean straight romance like just romance the genre without any external plot #and for everyone whos like 'it was queerbaiting cos they didnt get together' YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THAT WORD MEANS