#this is not queerbaiting

[not-that-syndrigast]

"athelnar is queerbaiting"

Absolutely not. You must have NOT watched the show.

Media literacy is at an all time low but come on! Ragnar told Athelstan he loved him, straight up in the face and people will still say "he meant it as brothers/friends" how about the time he asked Athelstan to sleep with him? Can't remember him asking Rollo or Floki that!

In my opinion, it just proves that some people are homophobes. Yes, Ragnar was also married to Lagertha and later Aslaug, but there's this funny thing called Bisexuality and Ragnar was not all that known for never cheating.

Sure, he wanted kids, but if you seriously think he wasn't absolutely in love with Athelstan and only wanted these kids because of the way he was raised, in a culture where having children to remember him and make people remember him is everything!

Just because they never kissed of intercoursed (on screen, atleast) doesn't mean their relationship wasn't canon. He intercoursed with Aslaug multiple times, doesn't make them be all in love and shit but hell was Ragnar in love with Athelstan

#vikings #vikings headcanons #ragnar #ragnar x athelstan #athelstan #This is NOT queerbaiting #They are literally canon #It's homophobic to say anything else #If you just say they are not in love to write X reader fics #Surprise that's homophobic

[caytofalltrades]

day 184842838 of wishing people would stop ringing the queerbaiting bells on a show that hasn’t even finished yet

#yes this is about stranger things no it isn’t queerbaiting #I’m beginning to think anyone who says that hasn’t seen anyACTUAL queerbaiting before #you DO NOT KNOW what’s coming and even if you did #it is not queerbaiting #it seriously isn’t #stranger things spoilers #nothing about this has been queerbaiting you all just wanted something really hard thatwasn’t going to happen #i don’t even think there’s a 0% chance for b-ler there was just a 0% chance for it to happen this season #like seriously you have to chill out #this is not queerbaiting

[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

[annabethisterrified]

#lowkey (minus any queerbaiting bc let's be so for real rn) #ARM SCENE?????????? #harrow the ninth

[blessyouhawkeye]

i do think merlin and arthur had the perfect dynamic. an episode would end with arthur being like merlin you're my closest friend and confidante and the greatest man i've ever met. and merlin would be like i'd kill and die for you we are two sides of the same coin. and then you'd start the next episode and it would begin with arthur smacking merlin upside the head and calling him an ugly peasant and merlin calling arthur a fat idiot.

#and it was like that every episode for five seasons straight. and it was beautiful. #wonderful queerbaiting everyone big fan no notes #merthur #merlin #bbc merlin

[ayo-edebiri]

HOUSE M.D (2004 - 2012) I 8.20 Postmortem

#house md #house #houseedit #byaurore #usersugar #tuserrachel #userallisyn #nessa007 #tuserpris #userlaro #userzo #tuserhan #usercallie #userelio #usereena #useriselin #userkam #tuserpolly #tusercora #usersavana #tuserrobin #userines #we don't make queerbait like this anymore

[annabylers]

Because some people seem to have forgotten.

#kit connor #a real person can't QUEERBAIT

[haveyoumetmythief]

Me: It is Perfectly Normal to struggle while doing visual tasks in the dark, and fumbling while plugging in my phone is a neutral act. It has been over a decade, can you please just-

The Thing Inside My Brain:

#autobiography #superwholock #bbc sherlock #alcohol cw #alcoholism cw #benadryl cucumberpatch #also the rats canonically gay and theyre using him for queerbaiting purposes

[cthulhum]

does anyone realize how crazy it is to have the actor of a mostly headcanoned queer ship say the fans were never crazy and they were right all along after 10+ years of everyone just absolutely going nuts over the said queerbaited ship

#supernatural #dean winchester #spn #destiel #castiel #deancas #misha collins #im 20 i have been Experiencing supernatural and johnlock since i was 12 and merthur since wayy before that i have fought Wars #this is crazy #i love u hannibal i love u 911 (if u make eddie gay) #for the love of god by 'mostly headcanoned' i dont mean that it was never intentional #i am aware that they put the subtext in on purpose #they knew what they were doing #but my focus here is on the actor actually saying it because like #if its not mostly headcanoned then y was the entire cast denying it for years AND YEARS #like do yall not remember what jared and jenesn used to say #there have been many many many instances where the cast has made us feel crazy/stupid for saying anything abt destiel #im just saying TO ME its crazy that actors and creators talk so openly about these things now !!! again i was raised on merlin and sherlock #ok also im confused on the queerbaiting part #everyones saying its queer coding and not queer baiting but cant they be true at the same time ? #im not being dumb on purpose i swear im just confused #like yes dean is very much bi coded and their relationship is queer coded but if the creators deny everything #and we only get a last minute confession after 11 years #that doesnt count as queer baiting ? #someone smart explain this to me 🙏

[modernbaseball]

My dear friend said 'would you like to see a video of a butch and masc woman' and I said sure and he sent me a video with femme alt girls I am going to kill him actually

#this is queerbaiting i think. #personal

[sharlinefreire]

sometimes what you need to get out of a deep depression is to start shipping a fictional couple that encourages you to read fanfiction until 3 am.

#this is my life i guess #shipping culture is my life style #unfortunately i love queerbaiting im sorry #fanfiction #johnlock #hilson #destiel #cherik #ineffable husbands #tomgreg #butchie #jwight #lawrusso #stony #finnpoe #spirk #merthur #hannigram #benthan #nandermo #swanqueen #romangerri #sydcarmy #chefs kiss #stormpilot #i ship SO MANY couples i know i have a problem ok

[ladders101]

gay rep is like “kyaaaaaah!!! i like a boy but… i’m a boy >////<?!?!” meanwhile queerbait will be “it’s not a game for me troy. i’m seeing real lava because you’re leaving. it’s embarrassing and i don’t want to be crazy, but i am crazy so… i made a game that made you and everyone else see what i see. i don’t want it to be there either, i swear. i want you to be able to leave, but i don’t think the lava goes away until you stop leaving”

#who up thinking about geothermal escapism .... #nbc community #community #community nbc #abed nadir #troy barnes #trobed #Btw since people are bringing this up in the tags i don’t consider trobed actual malicious queerbaiting this is just the meme format !!

[yuri-luver69]

NO breakup hits as hard as it does in a queer tv show about two middle aged men who go through a horrifically tragic divorce when they were never dating in the first place

#bonus points if it got cancelled #bonus BONUS points if it was queerbait! #bbc sherlock #sherlock #hannibal #nbc hannibal #and of course: #good omens #gomens #good omens 2 #ineffable divorce #supernatural #destiel #i know crowley and aziraphale aren't “men” im just bunching a ton of ships up

[wren-kitchens]

im annoyed and a little pedantic so can i just say as a blanket statement

queerbaiting is when the promotion for a FICTIONAL STORY intentionally hints towards two characters having a romantic relationship, without any intention to follow through in the show, in order to get queer people watching without discouraging the homophobic enjoyers of the show

queerbaiting is NOT:

a celebrity who you think is queer because theyre gnc or they have a 'vibe'. that is a real person and they cannot queerbait

two friends of the same gender pretending to flirt with each other for fun. those are real people and they cannot queerbait

a show with two characters of the same gender who are canonically friends that YOU PERSONALLY think would be better in a relationship. that's not bating, that's shipping, and subject to opinion

there are more but those are the main examples of people misunderstanding what queerbaiting is and being mad at something that isn't actually a problem

#the general rule if youre unsure is to ask yourself 'is that a real person i think is hinting that they are queer' and if the answer is yes #then that cannot be queerbaiting because thats a human person #apparently this is not a known fact anymore but even celebrities are human and have human emotions and human experiences #so sometimes their experiences appear to match yours and if your experience stems from your queer identity then often you can assume that #the celebrity in question is also queer #you may be right but you're probably wrong because you do not know that celebrity and have no way of knowing if they do not explicitly say #also its none of your business #anyway im annoyed at how many people dont know what queerbaiting is anymore #no jimmy solidarity and joel smallishbeans are not queerbaiting because they are FRIENDS and they are allowed to interact with each other #however they like because they are FRIENDS and they are not even remotely trying to hint that they themselves are queer or something #queerbaiting #queer #lgbtq #wren wrambles

[the-woman-upstairs]

Cressida going from calling Eloise a “radical ruffian” to listening to her rants about women’s rights oh we are so back.

#to be clear: i do not CARE if it’s queerbaiting i’m still gonna have fun with these two #bridgerton spoilers #bridgerton #i am an expert in shipping non-canon ships whatever happens will not be enough to put me off how cute they are #eloise x cressida #creloise #eloise bridgerton #cressida cowper

[prokopetz]

See, I actually agree that Destiel is probably the more iconic gay ship, but all of the reasons that it's iconic are terrible. This is a show whose writers were so dedicated to queerbaiting their audience that they no-homoed a dying love confession. That's surely an achievement, but it's not one to be proud of!

#media #television #supernatural #fandom #shipping #queerbaiting #death mention #supernatural spoilers #spoilers